AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000)

Original title

相棒

Directed by

Izumi Seiji, Aso Manabu, Oi Toshio, Yoshino Seisuke

Cast

Mizutani Yutaka, Terawaki Yasufumi, Kawahara Kazuhisa, Katsube Nobuyuki, Komoto Masahiro, Takeno Isao, Namase Katsuhisa, Watanabe Noriko

Genre

drama television series, Japanese television drama, detective television series

Country

Japan

Length

24 seasons, 461 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A highly intelligent police inspector works in a special unit of the Tokyo police. He solves complicated crimes with a series of different partners over many years.

proceduralmysteriousmethodicalwittysteady-paceddetective-likecerebral

What happens

AIBOU (相棒, Aibō; Partners) is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on TV Asahi 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 Ukyō Sugishita (杉下右京) , a police inspector assigned to the fictional Special Missions Unit (特命係, Tokumei-gakari) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partners as Kaoru Kameyama (亀山薫) from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, Takeru Kambe (神戸尊) from 2009 to 2012, Tōru Kai (甲斐享) from 2012 to 2015, and Wataru Kaburagi (冠城亘) from 2015 to 2022. In Season 15 Episode 3, Roland 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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