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Inspector Kenmochi the Murderer File 4 - S1-E22

Stupidity: The denouement in this episode does not make any sense. Two characters (the lawyer, the victim's sister) are suddenly present on the scene for the climax, but they were never invited and if they were at the hospital in the corridor right at that moment, Busujima could not sneak by Kenmochi's room. Later Kindaichi gingerly explains the rest at the other crime scene, which is in a different building somewhere else in the city - and they are all physically there, even the patients in their hospital gowns and slippers, it's not a dramatic rendition.

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Continuity mistake: David Chiang chases the man in a purple dress at the 1985 Hong Kong Marathon. He fires a warning gunshot; if you look at the guy in the back of the pick-up that the criminal is about to hijack, he lets go off the bar twice in two different shots. (00:02:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Marisa tries to save the hero by telling an old lady to move her car, the window is all the way down looking in, an inch raised looking out. (01:23:05)

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Stupidity: Ramon's tail is strong enough to practically pancake a big limo, but at the same time David is hit by it, thrown against a solid brick wall, and is completely fine. (01:22:20)

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Continuity mistake: When David opens the manhole to get in the sewers for the last time for the big finale, he is wearing the same blue sneakers he was wearing at the hospital, but as he goes down the ladder he is wearing black boots. (01:19:10)

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Continuity mistake: The gatekeeper lets Marisa and David in; the position of his clipboard changes between shots, and so does the position of the other hand, quite more noticeably so since it's off the button column, then on it suddenly again. (01:17:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the humorous bit with Marisa showing up at the gates of the party, her hand is on the window frame or on the steering wheel depending on the camera angle. (01:17:35)

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Visible crew/equipment: The vindictive alligator demolishes the bad guy's car; in the shot where the tyre flies off, you can spot the jack under the car. (01:17:05)

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Continuity mistake: The woman next to Slade when he's at the BBQ at the party holds her glass up, down, up in different shots. (01:14:40)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the party, Mr. Slade has a bunch of steak on the grill, but just two of them when he turns towards the mayor with an angry face. (01:14:30)

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Character mistake: When Marisa leaves the diner, you can see the door has a "Push" tag. However, the door opens inwards, and in fact to go outside she has to pull. (01:08:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the sour ending of their 'date', Marisa throws a bunch of bills on the table. David's shadow on the wall moves between shots, but he did not. (01:07:45)

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Other mistake: When Henry Silva is trapped in the jaws of the animal and screams asking for help from his indigenous sidekick, the beast is hardly crushing his body, more like holding it in place with no damage to his clothes or blood, and then turns it around between shots. (01:06:00)

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Other mistake: The alligator baits Col. Brock through a feat of chinese shadow puppetry certainly quite unlikely for the intelligence shown in the rest of the movie, and inconsistent with the movements he's capable of, not to mention the fact that he would have needed to perfectly abscond covering himself in trash bags super-fast, flawlessly, silently. (01:05:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Marisa Kendall talks with her obviously arteriosclerotic mother on the phone, she holds the receiver in different ways between shots. (00:59:45)

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Revealing mistake: After the unmissable scene of a very excited Henry Silva appraising alligator dung, there's a small intermission showing some news on the TV. The "tv" is a literal cutout of a television that frames the footage. It's not even cut properly, the lines are jagged and not smooth. (00:52:50)

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Continuity mistake: A guy tries to sell a baby alligator to the protagonist. He approaches it holding the lid of the shoebox in his right hand, but in the reverse shot he's holding it in the left hand. (00:49:40)

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Continuity mistake: When the kid tries to pry the phone off his drunk mother's hands before leaving to challenge it to a knife fight, the hand position on the cord changes between shots. (00:46:00)

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Other mistake: David is trying to locate the beast through a map of the city - for some reason, since he already located it before. Problem is, the movie is set in Missouri but the map he's looking at on his bed is a map of Los Angeles (you can even read "Granada Hills"). Similar mistake a few minutes later in front of the sewers; you can easily read "Monterey Park" to the right of a different map he props against the wall. (00:37:15 - 00:38:35)

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Continuity mistake: David is looking at the book about alligators; he holds it with the fingers at the top corner, but in the reverse shot the fingers are not visible in that spot. (00:35:00)

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