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The Phantom Beauty of Kobe Rokko

Name: The Phantom Beauty of Kobe Rokko
Genre: Mystery, TV Movie
Released: 1989-08-26
Duration: 91 min

1989 · 1h 31m · Mystery, TV Movie

Skip it—this obscure TV movie's intriguing premise (a detective meeting his doppelgänger through an art photographer) gets buried under a lack of critical traction and zero audience scores. Unless you're a devoted fan of Japanese mystery TV movies or the Kogoro Akechi character specifically, there are better ways to spend your evening.

Plot

While out for a stroll, the famous detective Kogoro Akechi enters a museum and encounters a woman staring at a poster of someone who looks exactly like him. The woman is the renowned art photographer Fujiko Maiya...

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