Shiki: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 inhabitants. It is a village which is connected to not even a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the corpses of 3 persons are found. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as normal occurrences. However, in the days following, the villagers die one after the other. Is this mere coincidence, an epidemic, or something else entirely?

Series details

• Title: Shiki
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery
• Premiere date: 2010-07-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-06-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 20 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 12557
• IMDb ID: tt2016670
• TVDB ID: 172941

Cast and credited roles

• Tōru Ōkawa — Toshio Ozaki
• Kazuyuki Okitsu — Seishin Muroi
• Wataru Takagi — Tatsumi
• Kouki Uchiyama — Natsuno Yuuki
• Haruka Tomatsu — Megumi Shimizu
• Sasaki Nozomi — Ritsuko Kunihiro
• Haruka Nagashima — Kaori Tanaka
• Izumi Sawada — Yasuyo Hashiguchi
• Nobuhiko Okamoto — Tooru Mutou
• Aoi Yūki — Sunako Kirishiki
• Keiko Kawakami — Akira Tanaka
• Kōji Ishii — Tomio Ookawa

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-07-08; final listed air date 2011-06-22.

Source and licence

Adapted from Shiki on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.