54 minSeason 1 • Episode 9
LatestAn eight-year-old boy goes missing at a shopping mall. At first it is treated as a kidnapping but the boy’s body is discovered the next morning.
Ishikawa Ango is a very capable detective that lives only for his job. One day, while investigating a crime scene, he gets shot in the head by the criminal that was still lurking about. Ango gets thrown over that line that divides life and death but, though he dies, doctor's are able to reanimate him and he pulls through. Yet, the bullet remains stuck in his head as the operation to remove it is very dangerous. Shortly after, he goes back to work and soon realizes that he's now able to see and talk with the recently departed.
Acting
Shun Oguri's hollow-eyed exhaustion is *chef's kiss*.
Direction
Bleach-bypass cinematography makes grief look gorgeous.
Writing
Cases start procedural, end somewhere existential.
Shun Oguri
Ango Ishikawa
Munetaka Aoki
Yuma Tachibana
Haru
Mika Higa
Kenichi Endo
Takuji Ichikura
Arata Furuta
Akai
Kenichi Takitoh
Suzuki
Toru Nomaguchi
Garfunkel
Kenta Hamano
Simon
Saori Watanabe
Hashizume
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Kaikou
Takeshi Masu
Kunita
Toshiyuki Kitami
Shigeharu Kamogawa
Nao Omori
Chikao Ando
Kumiko Ito
Miyuki Sawada
Tomomi Maruyama
Ichio Murakami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan's yūrei (ghost) tradition rarely mixes with police procedurals; Border helped spark a 2010s wave of 'supernatural detective' J-dramas.
Episode 5's vending machine scene — where Ango buys two drinks for a ghost — became a fan shorthand for the show's lonely heart.
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