Miss Sherlock (HBO Asia, 2018)

Tokyo, two women, and the first case moved to the present.

The partnership survives any city and any casting, so test it in Tokyo with Holmes and Watson both rewritten as women.

You have seen the British versions and you want the same partnership in a city and a language you haven't seen it in.

What it keeps and what it changes

Keeps: the consulting detective, her partner, and cases the Tokyo police cannot close alone.
Changes: the city, the century and the genders: Yuko Takeuchi is Sherlock and Shihori Kanjiya is Wato Tachibana.

Whose story is it?

both women’s, the detective and the partner who has to keep up with her.

How much time does it ask?

One season of eight episodes, about 47 minutes each, in Japanese with English subtitles. In the US it is sold by the season on Fandango at Home and Apple TV.

HBO’s first Japanese-language original.

Where to find it

Buy the season — Fandango at Home

Other ways to get it: Apple TV · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch

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More versions: Sherlock Holmes, Granada Television (1984–1994) · Sherlock (BBC, 2010–2017) · Sherlock Holmes (2009) and A Game of Shadows (2011)