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09/10/2002 Drama, Crime, Mystery 1h 51m
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Overview

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

Top billed cast

  1. Yutaka Mizutani

    杉下右京(Ukyō Sugishita)

  2. Takashi Yamanaka

    芹泽庆二(Keiji Serizawa)

  3. Kazuhisa Kawahara

    伊丹宪一(Kenichi Itami)

  4. Atsushi Yamanishi

    角田六郎(Rokuro Kakuta)

  5. Ryuji Katagiri

    内村完尔(Kanji Uchimura)

  6. Ryo Ono

    中园照生(Teruo Nakazono)

  7. Mitsuhiro Oikawa

    神户尊(Takeru Kambe)

  8. Satoshi Jinbo

    Haruki Okouchi

  9. Rokkaku Seiji

    Mamoru Yonezawa

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Current Season

Season 24

 2025 | 19 Episodes

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Reviews

A review by Patrick E. Abe
Written by Patrick E. Abe on 2018-07-17
I first saw "Aibo/Aibou" (Partners) somewhere about 2002 or 2003 on KIKU TV. Unlike the "horde of detectives" approach seen in other Japanese "Cop shows," this one featured just two. Broadcast in Japan starting in 2000, it began with an air of mystery at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters building.

Who was "Inspector Sugishita" and why was he assigned to a tiny office/former storage closet of the Financial Crimes department (Section 3) of Tokyo's MPD? Enter a roughneck, "Sgt. Kameyama," kicked out of his precinct to "Special Missions," a two-man office. Anglophile Sugishit...read the rest
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Status
Returning Series

Original Language
Japanese

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