An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.

• Central Arts
• Toei Company
• Kyôhei Shibata
• Misako Tanaka
• Masahiro Motoki
• Emi Wakui
• Tetsuo Kurata
• Masatoshi Murakami
• Toru Minegishi
• Ryuji Katagiri