Bringemovies
← Browse TV Shows
The Kindergarten Detective
TITLE DETAILS

The Kindergarten Detective

2015-01-16 · 50 min / episode · ★ 10.0

Mystery · Drama · Comedy

Shinichiro Hanasaki, a former detective with the police department, is currently engaged in running a nursery called “Smiling Garden.” He wishes to help poorer families and single parents by offering very low fees for childcare, but this leaves the nursery struggling financially. To replenish the budget, Shinichiro decides to open a private detective agency at night.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Creators
Hibino Akira
Production companies
TV Tokyo, Creators' Union
Countries
Japan
Status
Ended

Top Cast

Tomomitsu YamaguchiTomomitsu YamaguchiHanasaki Shinichirou
MackenyuMackenyuKamose Hitoshi
Tomoka KurotaniTomoka KurotaniSasari Risa
Shunsuke NakamuraShunsuke NakamuraYamauchi Ren
Kaga TakeshiJojima Kosuke
Hiromi MinoshimaHiromi MinoshimaKizu Suzuna
Yasuko TomitaYasuko TomitaSaotome Mugiko
Rai TakahashiShimizu Masato
Hiroki TamuraKeiji
Miho ShiraishiMiho ShiraishiNozoe Nami
ChisunChisunHasegawa Tamaki
Yasuhisa FuruharaYasuhisa FuruharaWakisaka Shohei
Daisuke KikutaDaisuke KikutaGoda Yuichi
Nagisa MatsunagaNagisa MatsunagaBeppu Izumi
Saori HaraHatakeyama Hitomi
Kumiko FujiyoshiKumiko FujiyoshiKakehashi Sayoko

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Seasons & episodes

Recommendations

The Mysteries of Laura
★ 7.2
The Mysteries of Laura2014Mystery · Drama

Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective balances her “Columbo” day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soon-to-be ex-husband — also a cop — who just can't seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to admit she has her “hot mess” moments in this hilariously authentic look at what it really means to be a “working mom” today. Somehow, she makes it all work with the help of her sexy and understanding partner, and things becomes even more complicated when her husband, ironically, becomes her boss at the precinct. For Laura, every day is a high-wire balancing act.

The Missing
★ 7.2
The Missing2014Mystery · Drama

A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.

Diagnosis: Murder
★ 7.1
Diagnosis: Murder1993Mystery · Drama

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

77 Sunset Strip
★ 7.2
77 Sunset Strip1958Mystery · Drama

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

Galileo
★ 8.2
Galileo2007Mystery · Drama

Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
★ 8.0
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?2019Mystery · Comedy

The Mystery Inc. gang solve bigger mysteries while also encountering many memorable celebrities.

Jonathan Creek
★ 7.6
Jonathan Creek1997Mystery · Drama · Comedy

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

High Potential
★ 8.3
High Potential2024Mystery · Drama

Morgan is a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.

Sister Boniface Mysteries
★ 6.5
Sister Boniface Mysteries2022Mystery · Drama

First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off.

Republic of Doyle
★ 7.0
Republic of Doyle2010Drama · Comedy

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Baretta
★ 6.5
Baretta1975Mystery · Drama

Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

Barnaby Jones
★ 7.0
Barnaby Jones1973Mystery · Drama

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".

Death and Other Details
★ 6.6
Death and Other Details2024Mystery · Drama

How do you solve a murder in a post-fact world? Especially when sailing the Mediterranean on an ocean liner filled with the wealthy and powerful. Everyone on board is hiding something… but is one of them a killer? That’s what the world’s once greatest detective, Rufus Cotesworth, and his protégée, Imogene, aim to discover.

Death Valley
★ 6.6
Death Valley2025Mystery · Drama · Comedy

Thrown together by the murder of John's neighbour, John and Janie are an odd, yet hilarious duo with opposing instincts. Every week, they get to the bottom of gripping murders, with various stunning Welsh locations providing a backdrop to their investigations.

So Help Me Todd
★ 7.3
So Help Me Todd2022Mystery · Drama · Comedy

Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.

Grotesquerie
★ 7.3
Grotesquerie2024Mystery · Drama

A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
★ 7.5
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo2002Mystery · Drama

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

Banacek
★ 8.4
Banacek1972Mystery · Drama

Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.

Top of the Lake
★ 7.0
Top of the Lake2013Mystery · Drama

A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

Bosch
★ 7.9
Bosch2015Mystery · Drama

Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, stands trial for the fatal shooting of a serial murder suspect. A cold case involving the remains of a missing boy forces Bosch to confront his past. As daring recruit Julia Brasher catches his eye and departmental politics heat up, Bosch will pursue justice at all costs.

Similar titles

Hinterland
★ 7.2
Hinterland2013Mystery · Drama

Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.

Poster unavailable
★ 8.0
João Juca Jr.1970Mystery · Drama

Your Forma
★ 6.2
Your Forma2025Mystery

In 1992, a viral encephalitis pandemic led to the creation of "Your Forma," an invasive brain-implanted device that records all sensory data. Special detectives called "Cyber Investigators" dive into this data to solve crimes. Prodigy Echika Hieda, isolated by her talent, is paired with Harold, a humanoid "Amicus." Together, they uncover the world's deepest secrets.

Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
Not rated
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen1979Drama

The struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch. Takeshi Hayano originally belonged to the Traffic Division but was transferred to the First Investigative Division of Daimon Police Station as a rookie detective. His first case is a drug-related murder, during which he ends up missing a "key witness" pursued by his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division. Feeling responsible, Hayano becomes depressed. Investigations, daily life, and relationships. Each episode features a variety of cases, including robbery, arson, disguise, kidnapping, fraud, and split personalities. Hayano investigates the cases together with his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division (Chief Ushiota, Chief Detective Sugaya, Detective Yazu, Detective Maehara, Detective Hazama, etc.).

City of Burns
Not rated
City of BurnsMystery

Shen Yan, a detective, teams up with unlikely allies to solve a series of murders linked to stolen sacred artifacts. As they follow a trail of clues, they uncover a decades-old mystery that holds the key to stopping the killer.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
★ 7.8
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!1969Mystery · Comedy

Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and the talking dog, Scooby-Doo, travel on the Mystery Machine van, in search of weird mysteries to solve.

Witches of East End
★ 7.3
Witches of East End2013Drama

The adventures of Joanna Beauchamp and her two adult daughters Freya and Ingrid -- both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches -- who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island's secluded seaside town of East Haven. When Freya becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces Joanna to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches.

Garde partagée
Not rated
Garde partagée2022Comedy

This sketch series explores with humour the touching daily lives of part-time parents and their realities and desires as they share custody of their kids.

Playing Nice
★ 6.9
Playing Nice2025Drama

Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?

Columbo
★ 8.1
Columbo1971Mystery · Drama

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Police University
★ 7.7
Police University2021Drama · Comedy

A young hacker who has never wanted anything out of life goes to a police academy to figure himself out — and help a cop take down a gambling ring.

The Ghost Busters
★ 7.0
The Ghost Busters1975Comedy

The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences. Only 15 episodes were created. This series reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in roles similar to their characters in F Troop. Tucker played Jake Kong, and Storch played zoot suit-wearing Eddie Spencer. The third member of the trio was Tracy the Gorilla, played by actor Bob Burns. The series was unrelated to the 1984 film Ghostbusters.

Inspector Rex
★ 7.2
Inspector Rex1994Mystery · Drama

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Fargo
★ 8.3
Fargo2014Drama

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Unknown
★ 8.4
Unknown2024Drama

Wei Qian, thrust into adulthood after losing his parents, faces turmoil when his adopted brother Xiao Yuan confesses feelings, challenging family bonds and emotions.

Go East
★ 6.2
Go East2024Drama · Comedy

During the peaceful Daming Dynasty, Yuan Mo, a commoner from Changle City, encounters A Shu, a refugee from the Yanle Kingdom attempts to sneak in at the city gates. This conflict leads to Wang Kunwu being punished for failing to oversee his duties as a border general. As a consequence, Yuan Mo is inadvertently pulled into the Four Square Pavilion, where he forms a team with A Shu, Wang Kunwu, and Yuchi Hua. Together, they confront complex diplomatic challenges in their quest for justice and patriotism.

Stalker
★ 6.7
Stalker2014Drama

A pair of detectives investigate stalkers in Los Angeles. Strong and focused, Lt. Beth Davis is an expert in the field of repeated harassment, driven by personal experience of being a victim. She heads the LAPD's Threat Assessment Unit, which investigates cases of stalking -- including voyeurism, cyberharassment and romantic fixation. The history of recent transfer Jack Larsen -- whose personality and questionable behavior have been an issue in the past -- may help him in his assignment to her team. Her other detectives are young but eager Ben Caldwell and deceptively intelligent Janice Lawrence. Together they try to stop situations from spinning out of control -- and to keep their personal obsessions at bay.

Rainbow Prince
★ 8.3
Rainbow Prince2022Drama

It is the story of Prince Zeyn, a young and audacious prince who is destined for a path filled with adventure, soul searching, and true love. His journey leads to magical moments, new relationships, and the most challenging decision of his life -- the decision of his heart over his duty as the future king of Zurbania. Prince Zeyn has to differentiate his reality from fantasy. What is more important, his responsibility to rule a nation or his true heart's desires? Can he find a middle ground or will he be forced to make the ultimate decision?

Mirage Pavilion
Not rated
Mirage Pavilion2023Mystery

In Guangling City, the Magic Mirror Pavilion, run by a mysterious woman in red, grants wishes in exchange for a single thought. As rumors spread, Qian Xia, head of the Jingxie Division, investigates a murder case that leads her to the pavilion. Alongside Man Zhu, the wife of the pavilion owner, Qian Xia uncovers dark secrets behind the wishes and faces the complexities of power, fate, and love.

Black Bullet
★ 7.5
Black Bullet2014Mystery

A near future, where humans have been defeated by the viral parasites named Gastrea. They have been exiled into a small territory and live in despair, side-by-side in terror. In this world trapped in darkness— Rentaro, a boy living near Tokyo and member of the "Civil Security"—an organization specializing in fighting against the Gastrea—is used to accomplishing dangerous tasks. His partner is Enju, a precocious young girl. They fight thanks to their peculiar powers until one day, when they receive a special assignment from the government. This top secret mission is to prevent the destruction of Tokyo... Set in a near future, this thrilling heroic-action story... starts now!

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.