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Box of Goblins

Japanese · 魍魎の匣

Created by Ryosuke Nakamura

2008

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.

First aired
8 Oct 2008
Episode length
23 min
Also known as
Mouryou no Hako, Mōryō no Hako
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Writer
Sadayuki Murai
Cinematography
Shinichi Igarashi
Music
Shusei Murai
Editors
Naoki Kawanishi, Satoshi Terauchi
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 13 episodes

  • Season 1

    2008

    The story follows a series of bizarre murders of schoolgirls who have been dismembered and stuffed into boxes. The private investigator hired by a missing daughter's mother joins forces with an antique book seller and others to unravel the murder spree.

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