Hero (2001)

Original title

ヒーロー

Genre

drama television series, Japanese television drama

Country

Japan

Length

2 seasons, 22 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rebellious prosecutor in Tokyo breaks the rules to fight for justice. He works outside the system while clashing with his more traditional colleagues.

quirkyenergeticunderdogdeterminedlightheartedproceduralcharacter-drivenuplifting

What happens

Hero is a Japanese drama series that first aired on Fuji TV in from January to March 2001. Following a television special and a film adaptation, Fuji TV aired a second series called Hero 2 in 2014. Both series starred Takuya Kimura as a renegade public prosecutor in Tokyo. The original 2001 series achieved unusually high ratings, with over 30% audience share per episode. It was the highest Japanese TV drama ratings record in 25 years (average audience share over the entire series was 34.3%). The feature film entitled Hero: The Movie which reached #3 on the 2007 top-grossing film chart in Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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