AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
AIBOU 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, AIBOU: CSI Files, AIBOU: [The Movie II], AIBOU: X-DAY, AIBOU: The Movie III and AIBOU: The Movie IV.
The drama features Ukyō Sugishita, a police inspector assigned to the fictional Special Missions Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partners as Kaoru Kameyama from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, Takeru Kambe from 2009 to 2012, Tōru Kai from 2012 to 2015, and Wataru Kaburagi 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 under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.
Films
- "AIBOU: The Movie" directed by Seiji Izumi
- "AIBOU: The Movie II" directed by Seiji Izumi
- "AIBOU: The Movie III" directed by Seiji Izumi
- "AIBOU: The Movie IV" directed by Hajime Hashimoto
Spin-off series
- "AIBOU Series: Yonezawa Mamoru no Jikenbo" directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, It stars Seiji Rokkaku.
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 as Tamaki Miyabe
- Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto
- Yoko Moriguchi as Mari Koide
- Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera
- Sei Matobu as Etsuko Usui
- Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami
- Atsushi Yamanishi as Rokuro Kakuta
- Kōji Ishizaka as Mineaki Kai
- Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura
- Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Onoda
- Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki
- Yukie Nakama as Miyako Yashiro
- Yukiko Shinohara as Reon Izumo
- 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