Shūchakueki Series

, also known as Morimura Seiichi no Shūchakueki, is a Japanese long-running prime-time television detective drama series in Japan that first aired on TV Asahi in 1990. Based on Seiichi Morimura's Ushiokeiji no Jikenbo series.
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi played the lead role in the first four episodes, Tsurutaro Kataoka has been playing the lead role since the fifth episode. Masanao Ushio is a detective of Nishi Shinjuku Police station, his nickname is Moo-san. He solves incidents with his great insight and intelligence.
Some episodes have aired on KIKU with English subtitles. The DVD box was released on November 8, 2023.

Cast

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Masanao Ushio
Gen Kimura as Hirabayashi
Tsurutaro Kataoka as Masanao Ushio
Kumiko Okae as Sumiyo Ushio
Akira Nagoya as Sakamoto
Taisaku Akino as Sakamoto

Episodes

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Masanao Ushio (1990-94)

1. Shūressha ; Susumu Kurobe as Onaka Kazuyuki, Naoya Makoto as Detective Haraguchi, Tadashi Yokouchi as Mogami Hideyuki
2. Shūchakueki ; Tōru Minegishi as Mizuma Tasuhiko, Eiichiro Funakoshi as Kurasaki Shinya, Hiro Komura as Miyasaka Yukiko
3. Shikeidai no Butai ; Yoko Moriguchi as Igusa Mamiko, Kenichi Endō as Iba Hiroshi
4. Ao no Jūjika ; Yu-ki Matsumura as Nagumo Hirotada, Takako Miki as Yabuki Asako

Tsurutaro Kataoka as Masanao Ushio (1996-now)

5. Hokoriaru Higaisha
6. Ningeno no Jūjika
7. Machi
8. Mado
9. Eki ; Kei Ishibashi as Aoyama Sachi, Momiji Yamamura as Tsutsumi Yoshiko
10. Murder of a Flower-Viewing Guest ; Minako Tanaka as Nagasaki Minako, Takanori Higuchi as Nagasaki Shinsuke
11. Murder Credit
12. Yako Ressha
13. Satsujin no Funin ; Satoko Takemoto as Ashita Megumi
14. Sabaku no Anshō ; Naomi Hosokawa as Michiyuki Yumiko, Masanori Ikeda as Kanda Naoya
15. Sabaku no Eki
16. Kabe no Me
17. Muteki no Yoin ; Takami Yoshimoto as Erimura Tazuko and Shizuko,
18. Hakon no Jōken ; Mami Nomura as Satomi Masae, Satoshi Jinbo as Nakanishi Mitsuhiko
19. Shisha no Haitatsunin
20. Sabaku no Kissaten ; Ryoko Yuui as Obana Fujie, Bengal as Jibiki, Takeo Nakahara as Inaba
21. Aku no Jōken
22. Satsujin Doumei ; Atsuko Sakurai as Takabayashi Yuko
23. Shisa-ji ; Kaori Takahashi as Niki Seiko, Hiromi Nakajima as Yanagawa Naomi
24. Shūchakueki ; Noriko Aoyama as Mikami Junko, Yuko Takayama as Miyaji Yukiko, Masahiro Komoto as Mizuma Tatsuhiko
25. Tochū Gesha Suru Onna
26. Satsui no Honryu ; Natsuki Harada as Izawa Miho, Kazuya Takahashi as Chiba Ryugo
27. Akuno Tamashii ; Sayuri Kokushō as Kawana Megumi
28. Zankokuna Shikai
29. Umbrella of Goodwill - Murderer on a Rainy Night!! A Husband was Murdered!? ; Riona Hazuki as Yamano Kyoko
30. Murder Credit - Victim's Pandora's Box!! Unsolved Murder Under the Lake... ; Sei Matobu as Munakata Ayuko, Gamon Kaai as Okamoto Hiroshi
31. Murder of a Flower-Viewing Guest ; Kanan Nakahara as Kunugi Shizuka, Yasufumi Hayashi as Nagasaki Shinsuke
32. Satsui wo Hakobu Kutsu ; Jun Hashizume as Shimojo Tamotsu, Yōko Ishino as Shimojo Kanako
33. Garasu no Mihitsu ; Tomoka Kurotani as Ayane
34. Koya no Shoumei ; Reiko Takashima as Sekikawa Kyoko, Shunsuke Nakamura as Yamana Isao, Hideko Hara as Wakita Fuyue
35. Kishibo no Matsuei
36. Yuki no Hotaru ; Yoko Moriguchi as Eiko Izumida, Maki Miyamoto as Shimamura Masako, Ichirota Miyakawa as Izumida Yozo
37. Teinennonai Satsui ; Toshinori Omi as Iba Teiji
38. Jugatsu no Tulip ; Rie Mimura as Kitano Eiko, Sei Hiraizumi as Tashiro, Moemi Katayama as Kono Megumi