Ryosuke Nakamura
Director
Box of Goblins (2008)
Specials
Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.
Released Oct. 8, 2008
Episode 23 min
17+
Genres: Animation, Anime, Anime: Historical, Anime: Psychological, Anime: Supernatural, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Keywords: tmdb.based-on-novel-or-book, tmdb.police, tmdb.buddhism, tmdb.kidnapping, tmdb.blackmail, tmdb.detective, tmdb.journalism + 13 more, tmdb.supernatural, tmdb.murder, tmdb.unrequited-love, tmdb.religion, tmdb.post-war, tmdb.seinen, tmdb.neo-noir, tmdb.japanese-mythology, tmdb.anime, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.shinto, imdb.anime-animation, tmdb.psychological
Production Companies: Madhouse
Network: Nippon TV
S0E1 - The Case Files of Atsuko Chūzenji: The Case of the Spirits in the Boxes
In 1953, after the events surrounding the Musashino dismemberment case, Atsuko Chūzenji reflects on her participation in the investigation. She recalls how the descriptions by the witnesses who reported seeing a white-gloved man reminded her of Kubo and how strange Kubo's story "The Woman inside the Box" was. She also recalls her earlier investigation of a murder of a man by his wife and wonders why she is drawn to bizarre and violent stories. She concludes that writing about them is a kind of act of purification.
May 22, 2009, midnight
Network: Nippon TV
Episode Runtime: 23 min.
Season Runtime: 299 min.
Released: Oct. 8, 2008
Last Air Date: Dec. 31, 2008, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-MA / 17+
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