Trick

1. Mother's Fountain: Clairvoyance

Jul 7, 2000 · 47 min

Struggling financially, and months behind with her rent, magician Naoko Yamada responds to an advertisement from Professor Jiro Ueda. He is offering a reward of ¥300,000 for anyone who can convince him of their supernatural powers. Naoko aims to collect the cash by trickery, using skills that she has learned throughout her career as a magician. However, Ueda will only pay out if Naoko helps him to uncover the mysterious secrets of The Mother's Fountain, a religious cult.

2. Mother's Fountain: Through walls

Jul 14, 2000 · 47 min

Naoko and Jiro rescue Miwako and flee, but Jiro's car runs out of fuel. They are forced to seek refuge in a house owned by a hunter called Aoki, but Big Mother and the cult know precisely where they are.

3. Mother's Fountain: Mother's death

Jul 28, 2000 · 47 min

Left with little choice, Naoko and Jiro return to the cult's headquarters. Naoko is compelled to shoot Jiro to prove her beliefs, and she receives a chilling prediction from Big Mother.

4. Whole Village Vanished: All the villagers disappeared

Aug 4, 2000 · 47 min

Jiro and Naoko are enlisted by the police to find out why the entire population of a village has disappeared. When they arrive, they meet the sinister Miracle MItsui. Can Mitsui make Jiro's head disappear?

5. Whole Village Vanished: Missing Village... Resolution Guide

Aug 11, 2000 · 46 min

As Naoko, Jiro and Yabe unravel Miracle Mitsui's elaborate web of deception, a much more sinister truth begins to emerge.

6. Women who kill with pantomime: The secret of the teleportation murder

Aug 18, 2000 · 47 min

Miyuki Kurosaka claims that she can kill using psychic powers. Naoko and Jiro don't believe it but then bodies start to pile up.

7. Women who kill with pantomime: Surprising remote murder trick

Aug 25, 2000 · 47 min

Kurosaka mimes another murder and a third man dies. Satomi makes an impromptu visit to see Naoko and Ueda is inspired to solve the case by watching his favorite TV show.

8. Clairvoyant man

Sep 1, 2000 · 46 min

A man claiming to be a clairvoyant is charging exorbitant prices for his good luck charms. Naoko and Ueda must find a way to expose his deception.

9. Kuromon Island: The real culprit killed him

Sep 8, 2000 · 46 min

Naoko speaks to her dead father. Two men from Kokumon island, her mother's old home, contact Naoko and insist that her spiritual powers are needed there. Meanwhile, Ueda experiments with an aphrodisiac.

10. Kuromon Island: The real culprit is you

Sep 15, 2000 · 46 min

Naoko goes to Kokumon island to marry and her new husband reveals some alarming details. Ueda turns up in pursuit of the treasure on Kokumon, but when it's discovered, neither he nor Naoko get what they expected.

1. Six Graves Village: The six graves

Jan 11, 2002 · 46 min

A hotel owner approaches Ueda, concerned that one of his guests dies on January 11th each year. Ueda and Naoko travel out to the hotel at Six Graves Village to solve the mystery.

2. Six Graves Village: Routed warrior's riddle

Jan 18, 2002 · 46 min

The villagers of Six Graves believe that the deaths which occur each January 11th are caused by vengeful spirits of wounded warriors. Naoko and Ueda are not so sure about that.

3. Six Graves Village: Song of Mystery & 100% Infallible Fortune Teller: New Mystery

Jan 25, 2002 · 46 min

The first half concludes the "Six Graves Village" story, in which the mystery is solved. The second half begins a new story, "The 100% Accurate Fortune Teller". Kenzo Abe approaches Ueda to help him solve the mystery of a fortune teller whose predictions are accurate. Woe betide those who ignore her warnings.

4. 100% Infallible Fortune Teller: Time Gap

Jan 25, 2002 · 46 min

Yoshiko Suzuki, the fortune teller, seems to possess extraordinary powers, even to the point of being able to warp time itself. Naoko and Ueda remain unconvinced.

5. 100% Infallible Fortune Teller: Mystery Solved

Feb 8, 2002 · 46 min

Naoko is dared by Yoshiko to drink a glass of water, with a 33% chance that it contains poison. The mystery of Yoshiko's power is solved.

6. Psi-Trailing: The Man Who Always Finds the Missing

Feb 15, 2002 · 46 min

Yamada and Ueno are approached by Mr. Okamoto. He wants them to check the psychic abilities of Mr. Fukami of the Parapsychology Academy. Fukami claims to be a psi-trailer, someone who can trace missing people. Three years ago, Okamoto's fiancee got into a strange taxi and was never seen again. Three other women also went missing around the same time. Once Fukami brings his powers to bear, the bodies of three of the women are quickly discovered, but not Okamoto's fiancee.

7. Psi-Trailing: Missing Person Found

Feb 22, 2002 · 46 min

Okamoto falls to his death, apparently killed by spirits of the dead, but his death reveals a clue. Yamada uncovers a web of secret family ties, debts and deception, but will she be able to claim the 10 million yen reward?

8. Child Who Punishes the Guilty

Mar 1, 2002 · 46 min

A young boy appears to be able to call on God to damn people. Ueda is asked by Emi to investigate her cousin's death. This was apparently a result of God's judgment after she asked the boy to punish her cousin following a minor disagreement. Ueda, smitten by Emi's charms, is unable to refuse. But when he approaches Naoko to assist him, she is already involved in an investigation of her own.

9. Child Who Punishes the Guilty: Solution

Mar 8, 2002 · 46 min

Naoko is suspected of murder. Photographs that she took show evidence that link both her and Ueda's investigations. The true cause of "God's damnation" is revealed. And is the lovely Emi all that she appears to be?

10. Final Chapter: The Sorcerer's Forest

Mar 15, 2002 · 46 min

Yamada and Ueda are approached by a construction manager from Kisamura village. There are plans to construct a major highway through the woods near Kisamura, but no-one leaves those woods alive. A sorcerer from the Southern islands is reported to live there, so Yamada and Ueda must investigate.

11. Final Chapter: The Mystery of the Sorcerer

Mar 22, 2002 · 46 min

People are dying violently and everyone is growing mysterious hair from unusual places. Who is doing the killing? Can it really be the sorcerer? As the body count starts to rise, it falls to Satomi to solve the mystery.

10. Final Chapter: The Truth of the Sealed Spirtual Power

Dec 18, 2003 · 60 min

Yamada is taken to a remote island. Pressured to reveal a secret word said to unlock a sealed door, she becomes entangled in a mystery connected to something her mother brought from her home island of Kokumon-tou.