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Synopsis

So Takakura (Oguri) witnessed his father's murder at a young age. Pledging to catch the killer, he grows up to become an elite cop in New York City, where the criminal lives. His character is cool-headed and disciplined, yet adapts well. Because of major drug dealings, he gets sent to Tokyo to conduct a joint investigation with the Japanese police. There, he gets teamed up with Maruo Kudo (Mizushima), a detective from a special investigative division. Kudo is a hot-blooded fighting expert due to his earlier days as a delinquent, but he makes a strong impressionReviewAsianSeries - Laur
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with his stylish appearance and is always interested in going on group dates. His personality, interests, and investigation methods are completely mismatched with Takakura's, but the two somehow work together to crack the case they have been given. With the appearance of a woman who apparently lost all her memories yet seemed to be greatly linked to the murderer of Takakura's father, the story of the worst, yet the best, partnership between the New York elite and the Japanese detective begins...

Cast

as So Takakura *

as Maruo Kudo * Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yuki Matsunaga * Ryo Katsuji as Keiichi Horikawa * Mikihisa Azuma as Mashiko Reiji * Kotaro Shiga as Mitsuo Suzuki * Asami Usuda as Maki Tanaka * Rie Tomosaka as Yuri Nishioka * Kensei Mikami as Hiroto Kaizaki *

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as Shigeo Kamata * Haruna Kawaguchi as Karin Takakura * Takuya Yoshimura as Shota Nakatani * Yoshiko Tanaka as Kyoko Takakura * Nene Otsuka as Misa Maijima *

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as Kozo Otomo * Takeru Shibuya as So Young * Manami Bunya as Yuki Young

References

{{s-end 2009 Japanese television series debuts 2009 Japanese television series endings Japanese drama television series Fuji TV dramas Television shows written by Yûichi Fukuda