Daitokai Series Explained

Genre:	Detective drama
Director:	Toshio Masuda Koreyoshi Kurahara Tōru Murakawa Yasuharu Hasebe Keiichi Ozawa
Starring:	Tetsuya Watari Kei Satō Akira Terao Joe Shishido Masaki Kanda Sei Hiraizumi Kaku Takashina Akiko Nishina Yūsuke Takita Yusaku Matsuda Yujiro Ishihara
Narrated:	Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Opentheme:	Masato Sugimoto (Part 2)
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese
Num Seasons:	3
Num Episodes:	132^[1]
Executive Producer:	Yujiro Ishihara
Producer:	Masahiko Kobayashi Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Camera:	Mitsuji Kanau
Runtime:	45 minutes
Company:	Ishihara promotion NTV^[2]
Channel:	NTV

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.

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.

Cast

Daitokai Tatakai no Hibi (31 episodes)^{[6] [7]}

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Yujiro Ishihara as Takigawa Ryuta (Baku-san)
• Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa
• Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
• Isao Tamagawa as Mitsuhiko Ishiki
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bousan)
• Kōjirō Kusanagi as Goichi Takagi
• Akira Terao as Akira Hidaka
• Masaki Kanda as Kōji Kujō
• Joe Shishido as Junichirō Matsukawa
• Sei Hiraizumi as Akihiko Okubo
• Hiroko Shino as Naoko Miura

Daitokai Part II (52 episodes)^{[8] [9]}

• 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)^{[10] [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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 渡哲也が"特別解説"する「大都会」 芸能ショナイ業務話 . iza. 4 April 2016 . November 15, 2019 .
2. Web site: 石原プロが58年の歴史に終止符…「自分の作りたいものを作る」から生まれた映画、ドラマ、歌 . msn.com. November 15, 2020.
3. Web site: 大都会とは . kotobank. November 15, 2019 .
4. Web site: 大都会 Part 2 . BS11. November 15, 2019 .
5. Web site: 渡哲也『大都会』秘話を熱く語る「優作にお説教されてましたね」 . sansponews. 4 April 2016 . November 15, 2019 .
6. Web site: 大都会闘いの日々 . Ishihara Promotion. November 15, 2019 .
7. Web site: 大都会闘いの日々 . BS11. November 15, 2019 .
8. Web site: 大都会 Part 2 . Ishihara Promotion. November 15, 2019 .
9. Web site: 大都会 Part 2 . Amazon. November 15, 2019 .
10. Web site: 大都会PART3 . BS11. November 15, 2019 .
11. Web site: 大都会part3 . Ishihara Promotion. November 15, 2019 .