Massage Tantei Joe

TV Mini Series
2017
30m

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Mitsuko Baishô, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yuichi Nakamaru, Masato Wada, and Fuka Koshiba in Massage Tantei Joe (2017)

Young, exceedingly shy and introverted Tokyo massage therapist Joe gets dragged into various murder enquiries against his will, and solves them through studying suspects' pressure points; th... Read allYoung, exceedingly shy and introverted Tokyo massage therapist Joe gets dragged into various murder enquiries against his will, and solves them through studying suspects' pressure points; therefore becoming known as "massage detective Joe". Meanwhile his mysterious elderly boss m... Read allYoung, exceedingly shy and introverted Tokyo massage therapist Joe gets dragged into various murder enquiries against his will, and solves them through studying suspects' pressure points; therefore becoming known as "massage detective Joe". Meanwhile his mysterious elderly boss might have plans for his future. Light-hearted comedy.

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7/10

A series like this would NEVER get greenlighted in the U.S.A...

And that's too bad. Because it's pretty darn funny, weird, and warm-hearted all at the same time. It takes a certain kind of mind to create a socially anxious detective who ferrets out the guilty party by giving all of the suspects a massage. Each episode has a "pressure point identified" and "mysteries are unraveled" by the timid Joe who takes on a whole different persona when doing his work. The interesting thing is that Joe is actually the "straight man". Everyone else around him provides the comedy. There's his overzealous female co-worker who kind of plays Watson to his Sherlock, two additional (and odd) therapists, their mysterious boss, and a couple of cops who would give Abbott and Costello a run for their money. I'm not confident in its universal appeal but I enjoyed this series very much.