Monsters (Japanese TV series) explained

Genre:	Crime Mystery
Screenplay:	Mitsuharu Makita
Director:	Katsuo Fukuzawa Shunichi Hirano Yuki Osawa Yasuharu Ishii
Starring:	Shingo Katori Tomohisa Yamashita
Endtheme:	"Monsters" by The Monsters
Composer:	Shingo Katori Tomohisa Yamashita
Num Episodes:	8
Producer:	Akihiko Ishimaru Masanao Takahashi Kenzo Abe
Runtime:	54 minutes
Company:	Toho
Network:	Tokyo Broadcasting System Television

Monsters is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS, starring Katori Shingo and Tomohisa Yamashita.^[1] The series aired in Autumn 2012.

Cast

• Katori Shingo as Heihachi Hiratsuka
• Yamashita Tomohisa as Kosuke Saionji
• Emi Takano as Kanako Yanagihara
• Tomoya Warabino as Kanji Takakura
• Daisuke Kikuta as Hayato Kudo
• Tatsuya Hino as Junichi Fujisaki
• Tomoya Shiroishi as Shuji Hara
• Yasukage Hinaka as Koji Kitagawa
• Makoto Ohtake as Wataru Kenmochi
• Kenichi Endō as Hajime Kaneda

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Ratings

Reception

A review of the series praised the comedic dimensionl of Kenichi Endo's acting performance.

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2017043/full/ . ja:柳原可奈子、山Pの彼女役で初ヒロイン!「ドッキリじゃなくてひとまず良かった～」 . 2012-09-24 . 2017-12-23 . oricon ME inc . Japanese .