Limited series · Fuji TV
Surname Confidential
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jiro Sato
Yomoda Makoto
11 eps
Ai Hashimoto
Suzuki Asuka
11 eps
Yuma Yamoto
Ueyama Shingo
11 eps
Kaito Nakamura
Ikeda Kizuna
11 eps
Kyoko Saito
Gunji Aya
11 eps
Rui Tsukishima
Yomoda Otoha
11 eps
Misa Shimizu
Yomoda Satsuki
11 eps
Yuki Saito
Koterazono Michiru
11 eps
Bando Yajuro
Ibuse Kokichi
11 eps
Hidekazu Chinen
配信者・晴矢
1 eps
Suzuka Ohgo
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Surname Confidential actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Surname Confidential reads strongest on Serialized, Tension and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
A legendary detective duo secretly married to each other must hide their relationship while investigating a string of murders that entangles their pasts and threatens to tear both their family and partnership apart.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Ayako MizunoProducer
- Ichiryu ObaraProducer
- Kosuke UtayaProducer
Writing
- Yajima KoichiWriter
Direction
- Akira TanakaDirector
- Shin HiranoDirector
- Keita KonoDirector
Where to watch
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