Taiyō ni Hoero! (1972)
- Original title
- 太陽にほえろ！
- Genre
- police television drama, drama television series
- Country
- Japan
- Length
- 1 season, 718 episodes
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Japanese police procedural that follows detectives working in a station during the 1970s and 1980s. It features a rotating cast of cops who solve different crimes each episode.
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What happens
Taiyō ni Hoero! (太陽にほえろ!), literally Roar at the Sun!, was a long-running prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1972 to 1986 for a total of 718 episodes. The lead star was Yujiro Ishihara. It also helped further the career of actors such as Yūsaku Matsuda and Kenichi Hagiwara as well as Hiroshi Katsuno and Masaya Oki. It was a police procedural set mostly in a police station. It was one of the most popular and iconic detective dramas in Japanese television history. A sequel was aired from 1986 to 1987, airing for 12 episodes. It was one of the first shows to air on the then-fledgling Nippon Television Network System (NNS). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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