AIBOU (相棒, Aibō, Partners) is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on TV Asahi on June 3, 2000. It has been adapted into six films: AIBOU: The Movie (2008), AIBOU: CSI Files (2009),[1] AIBOU: The Movie II (2010), AIBOU: X-DAY (2013), AIBOU: The Movie III (2014) and AIBOU: The Movie IV (2017).
| AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo | |
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 The logo for Seasons 1-7 | |
| Also known as | Partners |
| Genre | detective fiction |
| Created by | |
| Starring | Yutaka Mizutani |
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| Composer | Yoshihiro Ike |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 22 |
| No. of episodes | 423 |
| Production | |
| Production company | Toei |
| Original release | |
| Network | TV Asahi |
| Release | June 3, 2000 – present |
The drama features Ukyō Sugishita (杉下右京) , a police inspector assigned to the fictional Special Missions Unit (特命係, Tokumei-gakari) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partners as Kaoru Kameyama (亀山薫) from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, Takeru Kambe (神戸尊) from 2009 to 2012, Tōru Kai (甲斐享) from 2012 to 2015, and Wataru Kaburagi (冠城亘) from 2015 to 2022. In Season 15 Episode 3, Roland appears as a host.[2]
AIBOU is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station KIKU under the name Partners,[3][4] and in Los Angeles by the station Japan Hollywood Network (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.[5][6][7]
Seasons
edit| Season | Episodes | Debut | Ending |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Season | 3 | June 3, 2000 | November 10, 2001 |
| 1 | 12 | October 9, 2002 | December 25, 2002 |
| 2 | 21 | October 8, 2003 | March 17, 2004 |
| 3 | 19 | October 13, 2004 | March 23, 2005 |
| 4 | 21 | October 10, 2005 | March 15, 2006 |
| 5 | 20 | October 11, 2006 | March 13, 2007 |
| 6 | 19 | October 24, 2007 | March 19, 2008 |
| 7 | 19 | October 22, 2008 | March 18, 2009 |
| 8 | 19 | October 14, 2009 | March 10, 2010 |
| 9 | 18 | October 20, 2010 | March 9, 2011 |
| 10 | 19 | October 19, 2011 | March 21, 2012 |
| 11 | 19 | October 10, 2012 | March 20, 2013 |
| 12 | 19 | October 16, 2013 | March 19, 2014 |
| 13 | 19 | October 15, 2014 | March 18, 2015 |
| 14 | 20 | October 14, 2015 | March 16, 2016 |
| 15 | 18 | October 12, 2016 | March 22, 2017 |
| 16 | 20 | October 18, 2017 | March 14, 2018 |
| 17 | 20 | October 17, 2018 | March 20, 2019 |
| 18 | 20 | October 9, 2019 | March 18, 2020 |
| 19 | 20 | October 14, 2020 | March 17, 2021 |
| 20 | 20 | October 13, 2021 | March 23, 2022 |
| 21 | 21 | October 12, 2022 | March 15, 2023 |
| 22 | 20 | October 18, 2023 | March 13, 2024 |
| 23 | October 16, 2024 |
Films
edit- "AIBOU: The Movie" (2008) directed by Seiji Izumi
- "AIBOU: The Movie II" (2010) directed by Seiji Izumi
- "AIBOU: The Movie III" (2014) directed by Seiji Izumi
- "AIBOU: The Movie IV" (2017) directed by Hajime Hashimoto
Spin-off series
edit- "AIBOU Series: Yonezawa Mamoru no Jikenbo" (2009) directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, It stars Seiji Rokkaku.[8]
Cast
edit- Yutaka Mizutani as Ukyo Sugishita
- Yasufumi Terawaki as Kaoru Kameyama
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Takeru Kanbe
- Hiroki Narimiya as Toru Kai
- Takashi Sorimachi as Wataru Kaburagi
- Saya Takagi (Ikue Masudo) as Tamaki Miyabe
- Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto
- Yoko Moriguchi as Mari Koide
- Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera
- Sei Matobu as Etsuko Usui
- Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami
- Atsushi Yamanishi as Rokuro Kakuta
- Kōji Ishizaka as Mineaki Kai
- Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura
- Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Onoda
- Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki
- Yukie Nakama as Miyako Yashiro
- Yukiko Shinohara as Reon Izumo
- Ryo Ono as Teruo Nakazono
- Satoshi Jinbo as Haruki Okochi
- Takaaki Enoki as Yahiko Kusakabe
- Ryuji Katagiri as Kanji Uchimura
- Seiji Rokkaku as Mamoru Yonezawa
- Takashi Yamanaka as Keiji Serizawa
Video game
editA Nintendo DS game called Aibou DS was published by Tecmo in March 5, 2009.
References
edit- ^ "Partners: Csi Files".
- ^ "ドラマ『相棒 Season 15』の感想・レビュー[562件] | Filmarks".
- ^ "Partners 10". kikutv.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
- ^ "Partners 13". 2019-01-04.
- ^ "Tv asahi Buyer's Catalogue".
- ^ "UTB Los Angeles premieres record-setting Japanese drama Hanzawa Naoki". 2014-03-17.
- ^ "Home".
- ^ "六角精児、16年間レギュラー「相棒」降板したワケ 水谷豊から「気持ちわかる」と" (in Japanese). Sponichi. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
External links
edit- Official website (in Japanese)
- Official video game website (Japanese)
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo at IMDb
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