A new live-action TV drama adaptation of The Kindaichi Case Files mystery manga, based on the original story by Amagi Seimaru, will start airing on Nnon TV in April 2022, and Shunsuke Michieda, a 19-year-old member of Johnny & Associates’ boy idol group Naniwa Danshi, is set to play the protagonist Hajime Kindaichi.
The live-action drama series first aired in 1995, and in all of them, boy idols from Johnny & Associates have played the role of Hajime Kindaichi – Tsuyoshi Domoto (Kinki Kids / 1995-1997), Jun Matsumoto (Arashi / 2001), Kazunari Kamenashi (KAT-TUN / 2005), and Ryosuke Yamada (Hey!
JUMP), who played the fourth ‘Kindaichi’ on TV, so much that I wrote my own resume and sent it to Johnny & Associates.