Daitokai Series
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| Daitokai Series | |
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| Genre | Detective drama |
| Written by | Sō Kuramoto(First season) |
| Directed by | Toshio Masuda Koreyoshi Kurahara Tōru Murakawa Yasuharu Hasebe Keiichi Ozawa |
| Starring | Tetsuya Watari Kei Satō Akira Terao Joe Shishido Masaki Kanda Sei Hiraizumi Kaku Takashina Akiko Nishina Yūsuke Takita Yusaku Matsuda Yujiro Ishihara Isao Tamagawa Shizuo Chujo Kōjirō Kusanagi Takehiko Ono Go Awazu Hiroshi Yagyu Ryuta Mine Shunsuke Kariya Asao Koike Munenori Oyamada Masato Hoshi Junichi Takagi |
| Narrated by | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Opening theme | Masato Sugimoto (Part 2) |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 132[1] |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Yujiro Ishihara |
| Producers | Masahiko Kobayashi Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi |
| Camera setup | Mitsuji Kanau |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production companies | Ishihara promotion NTV[2] |
| Original release | |
| Network | NTV |
| Release | January 6, 1976 – September 11, 1979 |
Daitokai (大都会, The Big City or Metropolis) was a popular prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1976 to 1979[3] for a total of 132 episodes and three seasons, each with its own story arc. The lead star was Tetsuya Watari.[4][5] The drama won popularity and was followed by Seibu Keisatsu.[6]
Plot
[edit]Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.[7][8]
Cast
[edit]Daitokai Tatakai no Hibi (31 episodes)[7][9]
- Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
- Yujiro Ishihara as Ryuta Takigawa (Baku-san)
- Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa
- Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
- Isao Tamagawa as Mitsuhiko Ishiki
- Shizuo Chujo as Otokichi Kagami
- Kaku Takashina as Yonezo Maruyama
- Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bousan)
- Kōjirō Kusanagi as Goichi Takagi
- Go Awazu as Haruo Hirahara
- Akira Terao as Akira Hidaka
- Masaki Kanda as Koji Kujo
- Joe Shishido as Junichiro Matsukawa
- Sei Hiraizumi as Akihiko Okubo
- Hiroko Shino as Naoko Miura
- Hiroshi Yagyu as Kiuchi
Daitokai Part II (52 episodes)[8][10]
- Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
- Yusaku Matsuda as Isao Tokuyoshi (Toku)
- Kaku Takashina as Yonezo Maruyama
- Masaki Kanda as Sotaro Kami (episode 14-52)
- Ryuta Mine as Iwao Kamijo (Saru)
- Go Awazu as Haruo Hirahara (episode 1-13)
- Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bōsan)
- Shunsuke Kariya as Hyosuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
- Asao Koike as Tsutomu Yoshioka
- Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa (episode 1-8,19)
- Yūsuke Takita as Kiyori Yamamoto
- Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
- Yujiro Ishihara as Goro Munakata
- Mitsuko Oka as Nurse Kyōko Yoshino
- Munenori Oyamada as Tsutomu Takei
- Isao Tamagawa as Tamotsu Kajiyama
Daitokai Part III (49 episodes)[6][11]
- Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
- Akira Terao as Jiro Makino
- Masato Hoshi as Isao Torada
- Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bō-san)
- Kaku Takashina as Yonezo Maruyama
- Ryuta Mine as Iwao Kamijo
- Shunsuke Kariya as Hyosuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
- Yujiro Ishihara as Goro Munakata
- Junichi Takagi as Otokichi Kagawa
Insert songs
[edit]- Part II
"Hitori" by Tetsuya Watari.
- Part III
"Higure Zaka" by Tetsuya Watari.
References
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