AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
AIBOU (相棒, 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),[1] AIBOU: The Movie II (2010), AIBOU: X-DAY (2013), AIBOU: The Movie III (2014) and AIBOU: The Movie IV (2017).
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo | |
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Also known as | Partners |
Genre | detective fiction |
Created by | |
Starring | Yutaka Mizutani |
Opening theme | Rendez-Vu by Basement Jaxx (Pilots) |
Ending theme | Promised You by Zard (Pilots) |
Composer(s) | Yoshihiro Ike |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language(s) | Japanese |
No. of seasons | 18 |
Production | |
Production company(s) | Toei |
Release | |
Original network | TV Asahi |
Original release | June 3, 2000 – present |
External links | |
Website |
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, 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 on.
AIBOU is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station KIKU under the name Partners,[2][3] and in Los Angeles by the station Japan Hollywood Network (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.[4][5][6]
Seasons
Season | Episodes | Debut | Ending |
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Pre-Season | 3 | June 3, 2000 | November 10, 2001 |
1 | 12 | October 9, 2002 | December 25, 2002 |
2 | 21 | October 8, 2003 | March 17, 2004 |
3 | 19 | October 13, 2004 | March 23, 2005 |
4 | 21 | October 10, 2005 | March 15, 2006 |
5 | 20 | October 11, 2006 | March 13, 2007 |
6 | 19 | October 24, 2007 | March 19, 2008 |
7 | 19 | October 22, 2008 | March 18, 2009 |
8 | 19 | October 14, 2009 | March 10, 2010 |
9 | 18 | October 20, 2010 | March 9, 2011 |
10 | 19 | October 19, 2011 | March 21, 2012 |
11 | 19 | October 10, 2012 | March 20, 2013 |
12 | 19 | October 16, 2013 | March 19, 2014 |
13 | 19 | October 15, 2014 | March 18, 2015 |
14 | 20 | October 14, 2015 | March 16, 2016 |
15 | 18 | October 12, 2016 | March 22, 2017 |
16 | 20 | October 18, 2017 | March 14, 2018 |
17 | 20 | October 17, 2018 | March 20, 2019 |
18 | 20 | October 9, 2019 | March 18, 2020 |
Cast
- Yutaka Mizutani as Ukyo Sugishita
- Yasufumi Terawaki as Kaoru Kameyama
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Takeru Kanbe
- Hiroki Narimiya as Toru Kai
- Takashi Sorimachi as Wataru Kaburagi
- Saya Takagi (Ikue Masudo) as Tamaki Miyabe
- Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto
- Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera
- Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami
- Atsushi Yamanishi as Rokuro Kakuta
- Kōji Ishizaka as Mineaki Kai
- Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura
- Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Inada
- Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki
- Yukie Nakama as Miyako Yashiro
- Ryo Ono as Teruo Nakazono
- Satoshi Jinbo as Haruki Okochi
- Takaaki Enoki as Yahiko Kusakabe
- Ryuji Katagiri as Kanji Uchimura
- Seiji Rokkaku as Mamoru Yonezawa
- Takashi Yamanaka as Keiji Serizawa
References
- http://jfdb.jp/en/title/2092. Missing or empty
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(help) - "Partners 10". kikutv.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
- "Partners 13". 2019-01-04.
- "Tv asahi Buyer's Catalogue".
- "UTB Los Angeles premieres record-setting Japanese drama Hanzawa Naoki". 2014-03-17.
- "Home".
Video game
A Nintendo DS game called Aibou DS was published by Tecmo in March 5, 2009.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Official video game website (Japanese)
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo on IMDb