A single murder told five different ways, each detective seeing a completely different crime. The joke isn't that one version is right, it's that the genre itself is a lie we keep believing. Made in 1964 by someone who understood that animation could be a thinking tool, not just spectacle.

A man has been murdered, and a whole lineup of investigators steps in to crack the case. A classic private eye, a computer scientist and even a figure modeled on James Bond each set out to solve the crime and identify the killer. Makoto Wada, a versatile artist, made this short animated mystery, and Masao Yagi wrote the music. In 1964 it received the third Oofuji Noburou Award at the Mainichi Film Awards.