Endimion Takayama

Complete [J-Drama] 33pun Tantei

Title: 33分探偵

Title (romaji): 33pun Tantei

Also known as: 33 Minute Detective

Format: Renzoku across two seasons

Genre: Comedy, mystery

Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Air time: Saturday 23:10

Theme song: Secret Code by KinKi Kids

Season 1

Episodes: 9

Broadcast period: 2008-Aug-02 to 2008-Sep-27

Synopsis

Kurama Rokuro is a private detective. He is a detective story aficionado, and a mystery geek. He believes in ghosts and UFOs. He hates the sight of blood and dead bodies. Actually he has a sharp insight and a creative imagination, but his reasoning is always just a guess. When he wrongly accuses people of a crime, he sends them a gift with a note "I'm sorry about the mistake". His mission is to use all up the airtime (33 min.) to solve a quite simple case which must be settled in 5 min. His wild guesses and imagination increase the number of suspects, and his ambiguous reasoning turns the cases upside down. Can he finally discover the offender?

Cast

Domoto Tsuyoshi as Kurama Rokuro

Mizukawa Asami as Muto Rikako

Takahashi Katsumi as Police Inspector Otawara

Totsugi Shigeyuki as Detective Motegi

Sato Jiro as the judgment official

Nonami Maho as Ai (assistant to the judgment official)

Kojima Yoshio (小島よしお) as the informer

Season 2

Title: 帰ってさこせられた３３分探偵

Title (romaji): Kaette Kosaserareta 33pun Tantei

Episodes: 4

Broadcast period: 2009-Mar-28 to 2009-Apr-18

Synopsis

33 Minute Detective (a.k.a. 33pun Tantei) returned for a four-episode sequel in 2009. In the popular series, detective Kurama Rokuro, whose crime-solving skills are a tad on the slow side though. In every 33-minute episode, the mystery and the answer will be apparent in the first three minutes, but Kurama will spend the next 30 stoically bumbling through false leads and erroneous conjectures, making for an enjoyable and tongue-in-cheek alternative take on the detective comedy.

Cast

Domoto Tsuyoshi as Kurama Rokuro

Mizukawa Asami as Muto Rikako

Sawamura Ikki

Takahashi Katsumi as Police Inspector Otawara

Totsugi Shigeyuki as Detective Motegi

Kojima Yoshio (小島よしお) as the informer

Sato Jiro as the judgment official

Nonami Maho as Ai

Complete [J-Drama] Koshonin

Title: 交渉人

Title (romaji): Koshonin

Tagline: The Negotiator

Genre: Detective, mystery

Broadcast network: TV Asahi

Air time: Thursday 21:00

Season 1

Episodes: 8

Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-10 to 2008-Feb-28

Theme song: Ogon Soul by Shonannokaze

Synopsis

In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan police's special team, known by the abbreviation SIT (Special Investigation Team). The SIT doesn't get into action after a case but heads to the site just as a crime is being committed. They are on the front-line of risky missions, facing off against criminals; tenaciously conducting negotiations with criminals. As a result of the rigid police hierarchy that can curb the conduct of negotiators, the SIT is also a male-dominated society controlled with strict discipline. There is one female negotiator, Usagi Reiko, who bravely fights at the frontline. She is isolated in the male world of the SIT but courageously fights against crime as well as her organisation.

Cast

Yonekura Ryoko as Usagi Reiko

Jinnai Takanori as Kirisawa Keigo

Takahashi Katsumi as Katayama Kazuyoshi

Sasano Takashi as Sumida Kohei

Suzuki Kosuke as Hasebe Kunio

Kakei Toshio as Kizaki Seiichiro

Yasu Megumi as Mimura Rumiko

Takaoka Sousuke as Amari Yusuke

Shirota Yu as Mariya Kyosuke

Osugi Ren as Takabayashi Shizuo

Ibu Masato as Mikio Kudo

Nakayama Megumi as Sugawara Yumi

Komoto Maki as Yamamoto Midori

Takachi Noboru as Hasumi Yoshiki

Hayashi Tantan as Usagi Mio

Abe Ryohei

Guests

Takasugi Ko as Takemoto Haruo (ep1)

Kyo Nobuo as Sakuma Yuji (ep2)

Takizawa Ryoko (滝沢涼子) as Kaori (ep2)

Mizukawa Asami as Miyahara Yukiko (eps 3-4)

Yamashita Yorie as Sakai Kazuko (eps 3-4)

Hiraga Masaomi as Kaai Mitsuo (eps 3-4)

Uchikura Kenji (内倉憲二) as Izuta (eps 3-4)

Harada Kana (原田佳奈) as Sekiguchi Mamiko (eps 3-4)

Inoue Waka as Sayuri (ep5)

Yamaguchi Miyako as Motohashi Yoshie (ep5)

Okada Masaki as Motohashi Kazuma (ep5)

Saito Shota as Taguchi (ep6)

Daito Shunsuke as Iizuka Yoshihiro (ep6)

Tanaka Kei as Kitaoka (ep6)

Hiraizumi Sei as Noguchi Kosuke (ep7)

Kihara Minoru (木原実) as Mochizuki (ep7)

Araki Hirofumi as Sakai Takashi (ep7)

Kuranuki Masahiro as Nakamura Ryuichi (ep7)

Takahashi Mitsuomi as Asakawa Masaki (ep7)

Otaka Hiroo as an investigator (ep8)

Mary Takeyama (竹山メリー) as a reporter (ep8)

Special

Broadcast date: 2009-Feb-28

Air time: Saturday 21:00

Synopsis

Negotiator special revolves around SIT (Special Investigation Team) as they work to prevent crimes as they happen.

Cast

Yonekura Ryoko as Usagi Reiko

Kakei Toshio as Kizaki Seiichiro

Takaoka Sousuke as Amari Yusuke

Sasano Takashi as Sumida Kohei

Suzuki Kosuke as Hasebe Kunio

Takachi Noboru as Hasumi Yoshiki

Osugi Ren as Takabayashi Shizuo

Ibu Masato as Mikio Kudo

Shirota Yu as Mariya Kyosuke

Yasu Megumi as Mimura Rumiko

Hayashi Tantan as Usagi Mio

Nakayama Megumi as Sugawara Yumi

Komoto Maki as Yamamoto Midori

Takahashi Katsumi as Katayama Kazuyoshi

Jinnai Takanori as Kirisawa Keigo

Guests

Kazama Morio as Yuzuhara Keiichi

Kazama Shunsuke as Senuma Akio

Hara Sachie as Nozaki Natsuno

Nakahara Takeo as Shinomiya Kyusaku

Ebisu Yoshikazu as Sakazaki Tatsuro

Season 2

Episodes: 9

Broadcast period: 2009-Oct-22 to 2009-Dec-17

Theme song: My Style by Denda Mao (傳田真央)

Synopsis

The new season opens with a string of deadly incidents involving guns sent to various people by someone known as "Summer Claus." The weapons seem to be part of a batch of 27 stolen guns, and so far 14 of them have been given out. Now it's up to Usagi and the rest of the SIT to recover the remaining 13 before there are any more casualties...

Cast

Yonekura Ryoko as Usagi Reiko

Kakei Toshio as Kizaki Seiichiro

Sasano Takashi as Sumida Kohei

Tsukaji Muga as Sakuraba Kenji

Takachi Noboru as Hasumi Yoshiki

Takaoka Sousuke as Amari Yusuke

Yagami Ren as Oji Hayato

Jinnai Takanori as Kirisawa Keigo

Shirota Yu as Mariya Kyosuke

Hayashi Tantan as Usagi Mio

Yasu Megumi as Mimura Rumiko

Nakayama Megumi as Sugawara Yumi

Nagaike Natsuko as Sayama Aoi

Asano Yuko as Yumisaka Fumiko

Osugi Ren as Takabayashi Shizuo

Ibu Masato as Mikio Kudo

Takahashi Katsumi as Katayama Kazuyoshi

Nagano Satomi as Shibata Shizue (ep1-2)

Okuda Tatsuhito as Sato Genta (ep4)

Amada Reki (ep8,9)

Movie

Title: 交渉人 THE MOVIE / 「交渉人 THE MOVIE〜タイムリミット高度10,000mの頭脳戦〜

Title (romaji): Koshonin The Movie / Koshonin: The movie - Taimu limitto kodo 10,000 M no zunosen

Title (english): The Negotiator The Movie

Tagline: The Negotiator

Genre: Detective, mystery

Broadcast period: February 11, 2010

Synopsis

¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) and the SIT members are called in to break the stand-off. When Reiko goes into the shopping mall to negotiate, an explosion suddenly occurs. The hostages panic and run, while the criminals are able to blend into crowd of people and escape.

A few weeks later, Reiko is at the Haneda Airport to go on a vacation. She then spots Yusuke Kimoto (Kento Hayashi), a man who was one of the hostages at the shopping mall. Reiko remembers Yusuke's bizarre behavior and her instinct starts kicking in. She decides to follow the man and boards the airplane that Yusuke is taking. Shortly after take-off her instincts prove correct. The airplane is hijacked ...

Cast

Ryoko Yonekura as Reiko Usagi

Toshio Kakei as Seiichiro Kizaki

Takashi Sasano as Kohei Sumida

Muga Tsukaji as Kenji Sakuraba

Ren Yagami as Ouji Shuto

Yuu Shirota as Kyosuke Mariya

Megumi Yasu as Yumiko Mimura

Tantan Hayashi as Mio Usagi

Natsuko Nagaike as Aoi Sayama

Masato Ibu as Mikio Kudo

Katsumi Takahashi as Kazuyoshi Katayama

Takanori Jinnai as Keigo Kirisawa

Noboru Takachi as Yoshiki Hasumi

Megumi Nakayama as Yumi Sugawara

Takashi Sorimachi as Shinya Nakagawa

Kento Hayashi as Yusuke Kimoto

Hiroki Narimiya as Shuji Sawaki

Toshiro Yanagiba as Toshihiko Kano

Isao Hashizume as Shugoro Kurihara

Masahiko Tsugawa as Keiichiro Midokan

Guests

Complete [J-Drama] Bloody Monday

Title: ブラッディ・マンデイ

Title (English): Bloody Monday

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Action, suspense

Broadcast network: TBS

Air time: Saturday 20:00

Season 1

Episodes: 11

Broadcast period: 2008-Oct-11 to 2008-Dec-20

Theme song: Over the rain ~Hikari no Hashi~ by flumpool

Synopsis

After a biological terrorist attack kills off the population of a Russian town; Japan's Public Safety Special Third unit, code name THIRD-i, believes that the terrorist organization responsible plans to unleash the same virus known as Bloody X into Tokyo. Subsequently, THIRD-i recruits the help of genius hacker Takagi Fujimaru to find out what happened in the Russia. However, as Fujimaru becomes involved, he soon finds out that he is in over his head and that the terrorist groups influence reaches not only his school but even the police. Fujimaru must now rely on his skill as a hacker to unravel the organizations sinister plot and find out the truth behind "Bloody Monday."

Cast

Miura Haruma as Takagi Fujimaru (Falcon)

Kawashima Umika as Takagi Haruka

Newspaper Club

Sato Takeru as Kujo Otoya

Fujii Mina as Asada Aoi

Tokunaga Eri as Anzai Mako

Hisano Masahiro (久野雅弘) as Tachikawa Hide

THIRD-i

Tanaka Tetsushi as Takagi Ryonosuke

Matsushige Yutaka as Kano Ikuma

Katase Nana as Hosho Sayuri

Ashina Sei as Minami Kaoru

Yoshizawa Hisashi as Kirishima Goro

Nakahara Takeo as Sonoma Takao

Kubota Masashi (久保田将至) as Kudo Akira

Anan Atsuko (阿南敦子) as Sawakita Miki

Kudo Shunsaku (工藤俊作) as Okita Koichi

Harada Kana (原田佳奈) as Nakagawa Saori

Saito Ayumu (斎藤歩) as Kamata Junichiro

Terrorists

Narimiya Hiroki as J (Kanzaki Jun)

Kichise Michiko as Orihara Maya

TET as Demon Joichi

Yamaguchi Ryuto (山口龍人) as Bluebird (Ando Ken)

Takito Kenichi (滝藤賢一) as Shirota Manabu

Taniguchi Shota (谷口翔太) as Kobayashi Daisuke

Nagakura Daisuke (永倉大輔) as Tanabe Ryo

Tsuneyoshi Rie (恒吉梨絵) as Arimura Nozomu

Abe Marie (安部魔凛碧) as Miyamoto

Tozawa Yasuaki (斗澤康秋) as Nishida

Kojima Koichi (児島功一)

Kaneko Takanobu (金子貴伸)

Officials and Police

Hamada Akira as Yasuoka Keitaro (Chief Cabinet Secretary)

Nakane Toru as Osugi Kenichi (PSIA Chief Director)

Kokubo Joji (小久保丈二) as Ikeda Katsuhiko (Chief of Detectives)

Ryu Raita as Kujo Akihito (Minister of Justice)

Hotaru Yukijiro as Detective Funaki

Ozaki Usoh (尾崎右宗) as Detective Iba

Others

Shimada Kyusaku as Kamishima Shimon

Jinbo Satoshi as Shikimura Sosuke

Nomaguchi Toru as Ishikawa

Saeki Arata (佐伯新) as Asakura

Namiki Shiro as Hikage Kiyoshi

Miyazawa Miho (宮澤美保) as Tominaga Kyoko

Yananaka Atsushi (山中敦史) as Kurosaki

Watanabe Shiho (渡邊志穂) as Murakami Anri

Takeshima Yasunari (竹嶋康成) as Sada

Mihara Iona (三原伊織奈) as Ishikawa Matsuko

Wada Satoshi (和田サトシ) as Yoshioka Keisuke

Seki Keisuke as teacher

Eguchi Noriko as Yasuda Yukiko

Oyamada Sayuri as Yamamura Yoko

Season 2

Episodes: 9

Broadcast period: 2010-Jan-23 to 2010-Mar-20

Theme song: Zanzo by flumpool

Synopsis

Whereas the first series dealt with a deadly Russian weapons-grade virus, the new season is set two years later when an aircraft bearing a new kind of nuclear weapon threatens Tokyo.

Cast

Miura Haruma as Takagi Fujimaru (Falcon)

Sato Takeru as Kujo Otoya

Kawashima Umika as Takagi Haruka

THIRD-i

Takashima Masahiro as Hagiwara Naotaro

Matsushige Yutaka as Kano Ikuma

Ashina Sei as Minami Kaoru

Yoshizawa Hisashi as Kirishima Goro

Nakahara Takeo as Sonoma Takao

Mikami Kensei

Akita Makoto