is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on

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on June 3, 2000. It has been adapted into six films: '' AIBOU: The Movie'' (2008), ''AIBOU: CSI Files'' (2009), '' AIBOU: The Movie II'' (2010), ''AIBOU: X-DAY'' (2013), '' AIBOU: The Movie III'' (2014) and ''AIBOU: The Movie IV'' (2017). The drama features , a

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inspector assigned to the fictional of the

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and his partners as from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, from 2009 to 2012, from 2012 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2022. In Season 15 Episode 3,

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appears as a

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. ''AIBOU'' is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station

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under the name ''Partners'', and in Los Angeles by the station Japan Hollywood Network (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name ''AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo''.

Seasons

Films

* " AIBOU: The Movie" (2008) directed by Seiji Izumi * " AIBOU: The Movie II" (2010) directed by Seiji Izumi * " AIBOU: The Movie III" (2014) directed by Seiji Izumi * "AIBOU: The Movie IV" (2017) directed by Hajime Hashimoto

Spin-off series

* "AIBOU Series: Yonezawa Mamoru no Jikenbo" (2009) directed by

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, It stars

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Cast

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as Ukyo Sugishita * Yasufumi Terawaki as Kaoru Kameyama *

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as Takeru Kanbe * Hiroki Narimiya as Toru Kai *

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as Wataru Kaburagi *

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(Ikue Masudo) as Tamaki Miyabe * Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto *

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as Mari Koide *

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as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera * Sei Matobu as Etsuko Usui * Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami *

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as Rokuro Kakuta *

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as Mineaki Kai * Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura * Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Onoda * Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki *

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as Miyako Yashiro * Yukiko Shinohara as Reon Izumo * Ryo Ono as Teruo Nakazono * Satoshi Jinbo as Haruki Okochi *

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as Yahiko Kusakabe * Ryuji Katagiri as Kanji Uchimura *

as Mamoru Yonezawa * Takashi Yamanaka as Keiji Serizawa

Video game

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game called ''Aibou DS'' was published by

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in March 5, 2009.

References

External links

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Official video game website (Japanese)
* 2000 Japanese television series debuts Japanese drama television series TV Asahi television dramas Detective television series Television shows set in Tokyo Works by Takeharu Sakurai Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in fiction Japanese detective television drama series {{Japan-tv-prog-stub