Fearful Phone Calls

Operation: Mystery, episode 4

Information

Airdate

October 6, 1968

Directed by

Akio Jissoji

Written by

Mamoru Sasaki

Special Effects Directed by

Toru Matoba

Continuity
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Fearful Phone Calls (恐怖の電話, Kyōfu no Denwa) is the fourth episode of Operation: Mystery.

Synopsis[]

One night, a call came to the Takiguchi household. Reiko answered the phone for her father, but in an instant, her father's body burst into flames, turning into a charred corpse! Later, another spontaneous human combustion incident occurs right before Reiko's eyes. Maki confines Reiko to an anechoic chamber for intense interrogation.

Unable to bear it, Misawa takes Reiko outside, but at that moment, Maki's intuition leads to a decisive conclusion!

Cast[]

Shiro Maki (牧史郎, Maki Shirō): Shin Kishida (岸田森, Kishida Shin)
Kyosuke Misawa (三沢京助, Misawa Kyōsuke): Homare Suguro (勝呂誉, Suguro Homare)
Tadashi Matoya (的矢忠, Matoya Tadashi): Yasumi Hara (原保美, Hara Yasumi)
Hiroshi Nomura (野村洋, Nomura Hiroshi): Seiji Matsuyama (松山省二, Matsuyama Seiji)
Saori Ogawa (小川さおり, Ogawa Saori): Reiko Kobashi (小橋玲子, Kobashi Reiko)
Taizo Machida (町田大蔵, Machida Taizō): Akiji Kobayashi (小林昭二, Kobayashi Akiji)

Guest Actors[]

Reiko Takiguchi (滝口令子, Takiguchi Reiko): Hiroko Sakurai (桜井浩子, Sakurai Hiroko)
Telephone Company Official (電話局係官, Denwa-kyoku Kakarikan): Kikuo Kaneuchi (金内喜久夫, Kaneuchi Kikuo)
Okajima (岡島): Eiji Muto (武藤英司, Muto Eiji)
Old Lady at the Tobacco Shop (タバコ屋の婆さん, Tabako-ya no Ba-san): Sue Mitobe (三戸部スエ, Mitobe Sue)
Ogawa (小川): Shunichi Minato (湊俊一, Minato Shun'ichi)
Mizuno (水野): Hiroya Morita (守田比呂也, Morita Hiroya)
Apartment Complex Caretaker (団地の管理人, Danchi no Kanrinin): Tetsuo Mizoi (溝井哲夫, Mizoi Tetsuo)
Reiko's Father (玲子の父, Reiko no Chichi): Shigeo Nakahara (中原成男, Nakahara Shigeo)

Home Media[]

Operation: Mystery Volume 1 features episodes 1-5.
Operation: Mystery Blu-ray BOX features all episodes except 24.

Operation: Mystery Episodes
Operation: Mystery	1. Man Through the Wall \| 2. Man-Eating Moths \| 3. White Face \| 4. Fearful Phone Calls \| 5. The Grim Reaper's Lullaby \| 6. Vampire Hell \| 7. The Woman With Blue Blood \| 8. The Shining Street Killer \| 9. The Strolling Head \| 10. Radio Waves Summoning Death \| 11. The Jaguar's Eyes Are Red \| 12. Fairy Tale of Fog \| 13. Gallows of Ice \| 14. Good Night \| 15. 24th Year of Revenge \| 16. Kamaitachi \| 17. The Phantom Grim Reaper \| 18. The Dead Whispers \| 19. Bat Man \| 20. Murderous Circuit \| 21. Beauty and Pollen \| 22. Endless Rampage \| 23. The Cursed Jar \| 24. Mad Humans \| 25. I Will Buy Kyoto \| 26. The Snow Woman
Operation: Mystery - Second File	1. Zeus Trigger \| 2. Showa Koji Gento \| 3. Man-Eating Trees
Operation: Mystery - Mystery File	1. The Blood Sphere \| 2. Ground-Crawling Queen \| 3. Beautiful Girl Creeping in Darkness \| 4. He Who Peers Into the Abyss