is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on
TV Asahi
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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
police
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inspector assigned to the fictional of the
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department 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,
Roland
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appears as a
host.
''AIBOU'' is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station
KIKU 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
Yasuharu Hasebe, It stars
Seiji Rokkaku.
Cast
*
Yutaka Mizutani as Ukyo Sugishita
*
Yasufumi Terawaki as Kaoru Kameyama
*
Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Takeru Kanbe
*
Hiroki Narimiya as Toru Kai
*
Takashi Sorimachi as Wataru Kaburagi
*
Saya Takagi (Ikue Masudo) as Tamaki Miyabe
*
Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto
*
Yoko Moriguchi as Mari Koide
*
Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera
*
Sei Matobu as Etsuko Usui
*
Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami
*
Atsushi Yamanishi as Rokuro Kakuta
*
Kōji Ishizaka as Mineaki Kai
*
Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura
*
Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Onoda
*
Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki
*
Yukie Nakama as Miyako Yashiro
* Yukiko Shinohara as Reon Izumo
* Ryo Ono as Teruo Nakazono
* Satoshi Jinbo as Haruki Okochi
*
Takaaki Enoki as Yahiko Kusakabe
* Ryuji Katagiri as Kanji Uchimura
*
Seiji Rokkaku as Mamoru Yonezawa
* Takashi Yamanaka as Keiji Serizawa
Video game
A
Nintendo DS
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game called ''Aibou DS'' was published by
Tecmo
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in March 5, 2009.
References
External links
*
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
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