Specialist
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Details
- Title: スペシャリスト
- Title (English): Specialist
- Genre: Police, suspense
- Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Special 1
- Format: Tanpatsu
- Viewership ratings: 19.4%
- Broadcast date: 2013-May-18
- Air time: Saturday 21:00
Synopsis
At the exit of the Shiga Central Prison located by the banks of Lake Biwa, stands a lone man who had just been released from the prison. He is none other than Takuma Yoshito, a man who had been convicted of a crime he didn't commit. 10 years ago, Takuma was trialed and found guilty of rape and attempted murder and was sentenced to 15 years jail. However, 10 years into his sentence, the victim woke up from her coma and was able to confirm that her attacker wasn't Takuma. So, Takuma has been exonerated from the crime and is now a free man. Takuma is actually a topnotch criminal profiler called specialists in Japan, and at the time of his arrest, he was attached to the Kyoto Prefectural Police. Takakura Kiichiro, the deputy of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, comes to greet Takuma to inform him of his reinstatement to the Special Investigations Task Force.
User/Viewer Ratings
Cast
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Takuma Yoshito
- Minami Kaho as Anekoji Chinami
- Ashina Sei as Matsubara Yuiko
- Hiraoka Yuta as Horikawa Kohei
- Satoi Kenta as Inokuma Sachio
- Saito Takumi as Kitamoto Masaki
- Osugi Ren as Takakura Kiichiro
- Enami Kyoko as Anekoji Sae
- Miyatake Mio as Anekoji Akane
- Konno Mahiru as Muromachi Miyako
- Nakamaru Shinsho as Higurashi Yusuke
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Todayama Masashi
- Producer: Ido Takashi (井圡隆), Funatsu Koichi, Nishi Yuya (西勇哉), Meguro Masayuki (目黒正之), Wasano Kenichi
- Director: Shichitaka Go
- Music: Yokoyama Masaru
Special 2
- Title: スペシャリスト2
- Title (English): Specialist 2
- Format: Tanpatsu
- Viewership ratings: 16.1%
- Broadcast date: 2014-Mar-08
- Air time: Saturday 21:00
Synopsis
Someone has been going round sticking alphabets and numbers on the intersections in streets of Kyoto. Each time a sticker is discovered, soon a crime will take place at the intersection on which it was stuck. Yoshito and Chinami, together with the special task force, have to find out the significance of the stickers in order to prevent the next crime from happening!
Cast
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Takuma Yoshito
- Minami Kaho as Anekoji Chinami
- Ashina Sei as Matsubara Yuiko
- Hiraoka Yuta as Horikawa Kohei
- Satoi Kenta as Inokuma Sachio
- Saito Takumi as Kitamoto Masaki
- Osugi Ren as Takakura Kiichiro
- Enami Kyoko as Anekoji Sae
- Miyatake Mio as Anekoji Akane
- Konno Mahiru as Muromachi Miyako
- Nakamaru Shinsho as Higurashi Yusuke
- Kamikawa Takaya as Sagami Wakahiro
- Kurotani Tomoka as Yoshino Sumika
- Maeda Beverly as Kiyotaki Etsuko
- Hasegawa Hatsunori as Onchi Yukihiko
- Nadaka Tatsuo as Demizu Noburo
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Todayama Masashi
- Producer: Ido Takashi (井圡隆), Funatsu Koichi, Meguro Masayuki (目黒正之), Wasano Kenichi
- Director: Shichitaka Go
- Music: Yokoyama Masaru
Special 3
- Title: スペシャリスト3
- Title (English): Specialist 3
- Format: Tanpatsu
- Viewership ratings: 14.8%
- Broadcast date: 2015-Feb-28
- Air time: Saturday 21:00
Synopsis
Kubota Shu is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene.
Detective Yoshito (Kusanagi) with the special investigation unit goes to the crime scene to investigate. There, Detective Yoshito realizes that he made the old toy about 10 years ago when he worked at the public relations divsion of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. Detective Yoshito decides to solve the case by himself and without the help of his partner Detective Chinami (Minami).
Cast
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Takuma Yoshito
- Minami Kaho as Anekoji Chinami
- Ashina Sei as Matsubara Yuiko
- Satoi Kenta as Inokuma Sachio
- Kamikawa Takaya as Sagami Wakahiro
- Tokui Yuu as Omiya Toshiro
- Konno Mahiru as Muromachi Miyako
- Tanaka Yoji as as Zeniya Enzo
- Miyatake Mio as as Anekoji Akane
- Hiraoka Yuta as Horikawa Kohei
- Enami Kyoko as Anekoji Sae
- Osugi Ren as Takakura Kiichiro
- Kaname Jun as Muto Hisashi
- Doguchi Yoriko as Hoshida Mitsuko
- Takada Sho as Teruya Isamu
- Yuge Tomohisa as Amaya Yusaku
- Kunihiro Tomiyuki as Sawada Atsushi
- Yamashita Yorie as Minami Kayoko
- Dan Jiro as Amaya Takaharu
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Todayama Masashi
- Producer: Funatsu Koichi, Kawashima Seiji, Meguro Masayuki (目黒正之), Wasano Kenichi
- Director: Shichitaka Go
- Music: Yokoyama Masaru
Special 4
- Title: スペシャリスト4
- Title (English): Specialist 4
- Format: Tanpatsu
- Viewership ratings: 12.1%
- Broadcast date: 2015-Dec-12
- Air time: Saturday 21:00
Synopsis
Yoshito (Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to investigate. The case revolves around the kidnapping of a costumed performer. His plays a non-official character of the Arashiyama area, located on the western outskirts of Kyoto. Nobody takes the kidnapping case seriously, but Yoshito says the case could be real and it might be related to a crowdfunding site.
Cast
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Takuma Yoshito
- Minami Kaho as Anekoji Chinami
- Ashina Sei as Matsubara Yuiko
- Satoi Kenta as Inokuma Sachio
- Konno Mahiru as Muromachi Miyako
- Tanaka Yoji as Zeniya Enzo
- Hiraoka Yuta as Horikawa Kohei
- Enami Kyoko as Anekoji Sae
- Osugi Ren as Takakura Kiichiro
- Miyatake Mio as Anekoji Akane
- Takahashi Hitomi
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Todayama Masashi
- General Producer: Yokochi Ikuei
- Producer: Funatsu Koichi, Kawashima Seiji, Meguro Masayuki (目黒正之), Wasano Kenichi
- Director: Shichitaka Go
- Music: Yokoyama Masaru
Season 1
- Format: Renzoku
- Episodes: 10
- Viewership ratings: 12.55%
- Broadcast period: 2016-Jan-14 to 2016-Mar-17
- Air time: Thursday 21:00
Synopsis
Yoshito (Kusanagi) is transferred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department from Kyoto. He is assigned to work in a department that doesn't even have a name. A young female detective, Maria (Watanabe), begins to work with Yoshito. Maria’s uncle is the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency and she seems to have another secret.
Cast
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Takuma Yoshito
- Minami Kaho as Anekoji Chinami
- Ashina Sei as Matsubara Yuiko
- Wada Masato as Nogata Nozomu
- Natsuna as Azuma Maria
- Hiraoka Yuta as Horikawa Kohei
- Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Takido Hiroki
Guests
- Ishida Hikari as Shinguji Akiko (ep1)
- Matsuda Kenji as Kondo Tatsuyuki (ep1)
- Toyama Toshiya as Yokouchi Mikiya (ep1)
- Kinto Yoji (金藤洋司) as Shinguji Naoto (ep1)
- Ishii Masanori as Baruyan (ep1)
- Nakagawa Mao (中川真桜) as Kimihara Sayaka (ep1)
- Yoshimi Yukihiro (吉見幸洋) as Sayaka's doctor (ep1)
- Inoue Jun as Kimihara Kanefumi (ep1)
- Yajima Kenichi as Yamabe Kazuyuki (ep2)
- Kanai Yuta as Kyono (ep2)
- Tsuji Tsutomu (辻つとむ) as Itano Tomoyuki (ep2)
- Abe Tomoko (阿部朋子) as Itano's wife (ep2)
- Aijima Kazuyuki as Renjo (ep2)
- Hinagata Akiko as Tsuijoka Masumi (ep2)
- Tsuruta Mayu as Niwa Natsumi (ep3)
- Haba Yuichi as Azuma Kimiyaki (ep3)
- Makio Yusuke (槙尾ユウスケ) as Bake-chan (ep3)
- Mashima Hidekazu as Yahashi Soichi (ep4)
- Harumi Shiho as Izawa Fujio (ep4)
- Kakuta Akihiro as Toku (ep4)
- Yamada Yusuke as Kase Nobuyuki (ep4)
- Kono Yoichiro as a homeless (ep4)
- Kurauchi Hideki as a pawnshop owner (ep4)
- Iwasaki Udai as Shunkan-kun (ep4)
- Natsuki (夏月) as a cabaret girl (ep4)
- Toya Katsuyoshi (外谷勝由) as a taxi driver (ep4)
- Kamio Yu as Fujimura Takeshi (ep5)
- Kataoka Reiko as Komiyama Tsukiko (ep5)
- Hirooka Yuriko as Fujimura Takeshi's manager (ep5)
- Tonesaku Toshihide as Makabe Shunsuke (ep5)
- Yamazaki Daisuke as Takeda Kengo (ep5)
- Yada Akiko as Amamiya Kaoru (ep6)
- Kikuchi Kinya as Kuwahara Takehiko (ep6)
- Hiraoka Takuma as Watanabe Jin (ep6)
- Fuke Norimasa as Manager Sugisaka
- Matsumoto Minoru as Kaoru's stalker (ep6)
- Ueda Mayumi (植田麻友美) as Watanabe Reika (ep6)
- Suzuki Ryujin as Onicchi (ep6)
- Sato Momiji (佐藤もみじ) as Kaoru's old friend (ep6)
- Hamura Junko as Lavier Music office staff (ep6)
- Hakamada Yoshihiko as Yamamoto Shigefumi (ep7)
- Ikeda Masanori as Takazawa Kenichi (ep7)
- Aizawa Rina as Torizuka Fukiko (ep7)
- Koyanagi Yukimi as Baba Sayuri (ep7)
- Yamamoto Takeshi (山本剛史) as Minato Shuuichiro (ep7)
- Izumi Soji (和泉崇司) as Ayuhara Takumi (ep7)
- Suzuki Ikko (鈴木一功) as a swindler (ep7)
- Anami Atsuko as Narita Kiwako (ep7)
- Hari Sakiko (羽里早紀子) as pregnant woman (ep7)
- Sanada Mikiya (真田幹也) as Araki (ep7)
- Kuroiwa Tsukasa (黒岩司) as Kajimura Hayao (ep7)
- Siberia Bunta (シベリア文太) as Inoshika-san (ep7)
- Shimizu Shogo as Oshiro Shigeo (ep7)
- Yoshida Saya as victim (ep7)
- Kameoka Takahiro as scammer (ep7)
- Inoue Waka as Anzai Keiko (ep8-9)
- Ishiguro Hideo as Koike Tomohide (ep8-9)
- Oikawa Nao as Makise Terumi (ep8)
- Nagumo Yusuke (南雲佑介) as Gunji Kisaku (ep8-9)
- Enomoto Yuki (榎本由希) as Takano Tomie (ep8-9)
- Yuzo (ゆうぞう) as Uo-chan (ep8)
- Ikeda Wataru (池田わたる) as Kasagi Koji (ep8)
- Tanaka Yoji as Zeniya Enzo (ep8)
- Konno Mahiru as Muromachi Miyako (ep8-9)
- Yamamoto Yusuke as genuine Keiko Tomohide (ep9)
- Ohuchi Atsuwo as a doctor (ep9)
- Enami Kyoko as Anekoji Sae (ep9)
- Kamikawa Takaya as Sagami Wakahiro (ep9)
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Todayama Masashi, Tokunaga Yuichi
- General Producer: Yokochi Ikuei
- Producer: Funatsu Koichi, Kawashima Seiji, Meguro Masayuki (目黒正之), Wasano Kenichi
- Director: Shichitaka Go, Oikawa Takuro, Hosokawa Mitsunobu (細川光信)
- Music: Yokoyama Masaru
External Links
- Official site
- Official site (Specialist 1)
- Official site (Specialist 2)
- Official site (Specialist 3)
- Official site (Specialist 4)
- Official site (Specialist 2016)
- Japanese Wikipedia
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