AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
	Title card
Also known as	Partners
Genre	detective fiction
Created by	TV Asahi; Toei;
Starring	Yutaka Mizutani
Opening theme	Rendez-Vu by Basement Jaxx (Pilots)
Ending theme	Promised You by Zard (Pilots)
Composer	Yoshihiro Ike
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	19
No. of episodes	362
Production
Production company	Toei
Release
Original network	TV Asahi
Original release	June 3, 2000 –; present
External links
	Website

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).

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, 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 on. 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 (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Seasons[]

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

Cast[]

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
Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera
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
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

References[]

^ "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".

Video game[]

A Nintendo DS game called Aibou DS was published by Tecmo in March 5, 2009.

External links[]

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[1] "Partners: Csi Files".

[2] "ドラマ『相棒 Season 15』の感想・レビュー[562件] | Filmarks".

[3] "Partners 10". kikutv.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.

[4] "Partners 13". 2019-01-04.

[5] "Tv asahi Buyer's Catalogue".

[6] "UTB Los Angeles premieres record-setting Japanese drama Hanzawa Naoki". 2014-03-17.

[7] "Home".

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