Fuji TV's popular drama series "Furuhata Ninzaburo" features detective Furuhata Ninzaburo, played by the late Masakazu Tamura, using his outstanding powers of deduction to solve the complex tricks of criminals plotting the perfect crime. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series' first broadcast in 1994, two episodes are being broadcast each day during Fuji TV's "Happy Hour" rebroadcast time slot from 1:50 to 3:45 pm on weekdays (Kanto local, available on TVer and FOD). Here we introduce the fourth episode of the second series, which aired on June 6th and featured Takuya Kimura. This episode is not available for streaming, making it a rare opportunity to see it only on terrestrial TV.
◇ Episode 4 of Season 2 "Red or Blue?" (June 6th, 2:48pm - 3:45pm)
This is the fourth episode of the second series, which aired in January 1996 (first aired on January 31, 1996). The cast includes Tamura, Kimura, Masahiko Nishimura, Dai Kanai, and others. The script was written by Koki Mitani.
Isao Hayashi (Kimura), an assistant professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tenjin University, plants a bomb on a Ferris wheel at an amusement park. At that time, Hayashi loses his bicycle key and is forced to cut the chain when he is caught by a security guard (Kanai), and Hayashi bludgeons the guard to death.
The next day, the police receive a call from the amusement park where Hayashi had made the threatening phone call, and ask Hayashi, a bomb expert, for help. As the time for the bomb planted on the Ferris wheel that Imaizumi (Nishimura) was riding on approaches, Furuhata (Tamura) pulls a counter trick.