Limited series · TBS
Tsui no Hito
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Tsui no Hito actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Tsui no Hito reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
Sosuke Shie, a former detective turned funeral director, and Kotaro Soyogi, an overworked elite employee who’s lost touch with himself. After the sudden death of Soyogi’s mother, their paths cross, and together they confront mortality in their own honest and unconventional ways.
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