Daitokai Series

Daitokai (大都会 シリーズ, The Big City or Metropolis)　was a popular prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1976 to 1979[3] for a total of 132 episodes and three seasons, each with its own story arc. The lead star was Tetsuya Watari.[4][5] The drama won popularity and was followed by Seibu Keisatsu.[6]

Daitokai Series
GenreDetective drama
Written bySō Kuramoto(First season)
Directed byToshio Masuda
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Tōru Murakawa
Yasuharu Hasebe
Keiichi Ozawa
StarringTetsuya Watari
Kei Satō
Akira Terao
Joe Shishido
Masaki Kanda
Sei Hiraizumi
Kaku Takashina
Akiko Nishina
Yūsuke Takita
Yusaku Matsuda
Yujiro Ishihara
Narrated byKiyoshi Kobayashi
Opening themeMasato Sugimoto (Part 2)
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes132[1]
Production
Executive producerYujiro Ishihara
ProducersMasahiko Kobayashi
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Camera setupMitsuji Kanau
Running time45 minutes
Production companiesIshihara promotion
NTV[2]
Release
Original networkNTV
Original releaseJanuary 6, 1976 (1976-01-06) –
September 11, 1979 (1979-09-11)

Plot

Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.[7][8]

Cast

Daitokai Tatakai no Hibi (31 episodes)[7][9]

Daitokai Part II (52 episodes)[8][10]

  • Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
  • Yusaku Matsuda as Isao Tokuyoshi (Toku)
  • Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
  • Masaki Kanda as Sōtarō Jin (episode 14-52)
  • Ryuta Mine as Gan Kamijō (Saru)
  • Gō Awazu as Haruo Hirahara (episode 1-13)
  • Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bōsan)
  • Shunsuke Kariya as Hyōsuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
  • Asao Koike as Tsutomu Yoshioka
  • Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa (episode 1-8,19)
  • Yūsuke Takita as Kiyosato Yamamoto
  • Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
  • Yujiro Ishihara as Doctor Gorō Munakata
  • Mitsuko Oka as Nurse Kyōko Yoshino

Daitokai Part III (49 episodes)[6][11]

  • Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
  • Akira Terao as Jiro Makino
  • Masato Hoshi as Isao Torada
  • Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bō-san)
  • Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
  • Ryuta Mine as Gan Kamijō
  • Shunsuke Kariya as Hyōsuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
  • Yujiro Ishihara as Doctor Gorō Munakata

Insert songs
  • Part II

"Hitori" by Tetsuya Watari.

  • Part III

"Higure Zaka" by Tetsuya Watari.

References
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