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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo( 2002)

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Overview

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

    Series Cast

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      Yutaka Mizutani

      杉下右京(Ukyō Sugishita)

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      Takashi Yamanaka

      芹泽庆二(Keiji Serizawa)

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      Kazuhisa Kawahara

      伊丹宪一(Kenichi Itami)

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      Atsushi Yamanishi

      角田六郎(Rokuro Kakuta)

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      Ryuji Katagiri

      内村完尔(Kanji Uchimura)

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      Ryō Ono

      中园照生(Teruo Nakazono)

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      Mitsuhiro Oikawa

      神户尊(Takeru Kambe)

    Current Season

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    Season 23

    2024 | 19 Episodes

    Season 23 of AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo premiered on Oct 16 2024

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    A review by Patrick E. Abe

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    Written by Patrick E. Abe on Tue Jul 17 2018
    I first saw "Aibo/Aibou" (Partners) somewhere about 2002 or 2003 on KIKU TV. Unlike the "horde of detectives" approach seen in other Japanese "Cop shows," this one featured just two. Broadcast in Japan starting in 2000, it began with an air of mystery at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters building. Who was "Inspector Sugishita" and why was he assigned to a tiny office/former storage closet of the Financial Crimes department (Section 3) of Tokyo's MPD? Enter a roughneck, "Sgt. Kameyama," kicked out of his precinct to "Special Missions," a two-man office. Anglophile Sugishita...

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    Facts

    Status

    Returning Series

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    Type

    Scripted

    Original Language

    English

    Keywords

    • japan
    • detective
    • police
    • government conspiracy