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Top Knot Detective (2017)
Directed by Aaron McCann, Dominic Pearce
“The greatest 90's Japanese samurai series you've never heard of”
Comedy, Action · 1h 30m
In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning roughly Deductive Reasoning Ronin), it was soon known in the West as Top Knot Detective. The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.
Cast
T
Toshi Okuzaki
Sheimasu Tantei / Takashi Tawagoto
Masa Yamaguchi
Kurosaki Itto / Haruto Kioke
Mayu Iwasaki
Mia Matsumoto / Saku #2
Kuni Hashimoto
Leiji Nishizaki
I
Izumi Woods
Saku / Izumi Himura
D
Des Mangan
Des Mangan / Narrator
T
Travis Johnson
Travis Johnson
Nobuaki Shimamoto
Detective Oshiro
Yoji Tatsuta
Host / Old Man
O
Oscar Harris
Timestryker / Ninja / Self
L
Lee Lin Chin
Lee Lin Chin
S
Seiji
Guitar Wolf
Crew
- Director
- Aaron McCann, Dominic Pearce
- Screenplay
- Dominic Pearce, Aaron McCann
- Director of Photography
- A. J. Coultier
- Editor
- Steven Aaron Hughes, Dominic Pearce
- Producer
- Lauren Brunswick
Details
- Release date
- 2017-04-01
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, Action
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- Australia
- Production
- Screen Australia, ScreenWest, SBS