MONSTER
Monster • MONSTER
TV · 2004 · 74 eps · Finished · Score 8.8
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Thriller
Themes: Crime, Seinen, Detective, Philosophy, Ensemble Cast, Fugitive, Primarily Adult Cast, Memory Manipulation, Noir, Conspiracy, Twins, Revenge, Urban, Adoption, Foreign, Police, Male Protagonist, Orphan, Amnesia, Dissociative Identities, Travel, Politics, Medicine, Historical, Suicide, Guns, Primarily Male Cast
Studios: MADHOUSE
Synopsis
Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a renowned Japanese brain surgeon working at a leading hospital in Germany. One night, Dr. Tenma risks his reputation and career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy over that of the town mayor who had been planning to support the hospital financially. A string of mysterious murders begin to occur soon after the operation, and Dr. Tenma emerges as the primary suspect despite no incriminating evidence. A doctor is taught to believe that all life is equal; however, when another series of murders occur in the surgeon's vicinity, Dr. Tenma's beliefs are shaken as his actions that night are shown to have much broader consequences than he could have imagined. Leaving behind his life as a surgeon he embarks on a journey across the country to unravel the mystery of the boy he saved.
Voice Actors
- Hidenobu Kiuchi as Kenzou Tenma
- Nozomu Sasaki as Johan Liebert
- Yuuto Uemura as Johan Liebert
- Mamiko Noto as Anna Liebert
- Tsutomu Isobe as Heinrich Runge
- Mami Koyama as Eva Heinemann
- Hideyuki Tanaka as Wolfgang Grimmer
- Junko Takeuchi as Dieter
- Nobuyuki Katsube as Roberto
- Kazuo Kumakura as Akanbou
- Kouichi Kitamura as Helmut Wolf
- Masashi Hironaka as Christof Sievernich
- Nachi Nozawa as Franz Bonaparta
- Nobuo Tanaka as Petr Čapek
- Takayuki Sugou as Rudy-Ulrich Gillen
- Hisayoshi Suganuma as Jan Suk
- Ryuusuke Oobayashi as Fritz Vardemann
- Michio Hazama as Hans Georg Schuwald
- Tomokazu Seki as Karl Neumann
- Hikaru Tokita as Karl Neumann
- Kyouko Hikami as Lotte Frank
- Yoshito Yasuhara as Otto Heckel
- Ichirou Nagai as Julius Reichwein
- Shuuichi Ikeda as Martin Reest
- Hiroaki Hirata as Jaromír Lipský
- Shigeru Chiba as Gunther Milch
- Wataru Takagi as Gustav Milch
- Rikiya Koyama as Peter Jürgens
- Hiroshi Arikawa as Richard Braun
- Kazuko Yanaga as Blue Sophie
- Atsuko Tanaka as Helenka Novakova
- Akio Ootsuka as Milan Kolacsh
- Masaru Ikeda as Udo Heinemann
- Takehiro Murozono as Adolf Junkers
- Yasuyoshi Hara as Dr. Becker
- Kinryuu Arimoto as Gross
- Tomohiro Nishimura as Karl Brandt
- Kiyonobu Suzuki as Max Steindorf
- Masaaki Yajima as Hartmann
- Naoko Kouda as Elna
- Ikuko Tani as Petra
- Shirou Saitou as Joushi
- Keiichi Sonobe as Schone
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Heinz
- Yumi Hikita as Pionyr
- Akiko Yajima as Wim Knaup
- Eiji Hanawa as Herbert Knaup
- Houko Kuwashima as Viera Černá
- Katsuhisa Houki as Messener
- Yuji Mikimoto as Michael Müller
- Chikao Ootsuka as Mikhail Ivanovich Petrov
- Mari Mashiba as Milosz
- Ryuuji Nakagi as Weissbach
- Youko Soumi as Turkojin Shoufu
- Yousuke Akimoto as Jacob Maurer
- Banjou Ginga as Rosso
- Aya Endou as Inge
- Katsuhiko Kobayashi as Dr. Schumann
- Osamu Saka as General Manager
- Sayuri Ikemoto as Charlotte
- Kazue Komiya as Lunge no Tsuma
- Ikuya Sawaki as Mintach
- Aya Ishizu as Lunge no Musume
- Yoshiyuki Kaneko as Niwashi
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Keiji A
- Taiten Kusunoki as Bodyguard
- Kumiko Takizawa as Ayse
- Iemasa Kayumi as Gunther Goedelitz
- Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Karel Ranke
- Taimei Suzuki as Kronecker-kyouju