The Court-Appointed Defense Counsel
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User Rating
Current user rating: 50/100 (2 votes)
Profile
- TV Show: The Court-Appointed Defense Counsel (International English title)
- Romaji: Kokuhatsu~Kokusen Bengonin
- Japanese: 告発～国選弁護人
- Director: Meiji Fujita
- Writer: Hiroshi Takeyama
- Network: TV Asahi
- Episodes: 8
- Release Date: January 13 - March 3, 2011
- Runtime: Thursday 21:00
- TV Ratings: 10.3%
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Attorney Sahara (Masakazu Tamura) works as a public defender. Sahara keeps fighting for the truth regardless of money. He stands stands up for the weak without having regard for his own safety. Junko Tanaka is the younger sister of Sawara's deceased wife. She supports Sahara and his daughter financially and emotionally. Sahara's only daughter is Tsuruko. She is a member of an international volunteer doctor organization. Tsuruko is engaged with Kengo Sato (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi). Sahara works with Kenji Tsuruoka (Yoshimasa Kondo) & Hiroshi Tomita (Toshinobu Matsuo) at his law firm.
Then one day, a married woman is accused of killing her husband who is the president of a major construction company. A mysterious woman interrupts the case, which is related to a world wide magnate. A powerful man in the financial world knows the secret of current government. Attorney Sahara must now step in to defend the woman accussed of killing her husband ...
Cast
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| Masakazu Tamura | Miki Maya | Saki Aibu | Yoshimasa Kondo | Toshinobu Matsuo |
| Takuji Sahara | Junko Tanaka | Tsuruko Sawara | Kenji Tsuruoka | Hiroshi Tomita |
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| Tomomitsu Yamaguchi | Isao Hashizume | Yumiko Shaku | Mitsuru Hirata | Akira Hamada |
| Kengo Sato | Masaya Okabe | Reiko Kishida | D.A. Motomiya | Congressman Fujio |
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| Tae Kimura | Yukiya Kitamura | Hiroshi Fuse |
| Namiko Akahori | Norio Yamagata | Yuzo Akahori |
| (ep.1-2) | (ep.1-2) | (ep.1-2) |
Additonal Cast Members:
- Makoto Kitami - Det. Yoshio Sasaki
- Sana Kawashima - young Tsuruko Sawara (ep.1-7)
- Kazuyuki Aijima - Shingo Nakata (ep.1-2)
- Yo Yoshida - Yoko Nakahara (ep.1-2,7-8)
- Akemi Omori - Shizu Fukuda (ep.1-2)
- Mikijiro Hira - Masanori Asai (ep.1-2)
- Manabu Hamada - ep.1-2
- Sachie Hara - Ayaka Yoshizaki (ep.3)
- Masato Wada - Yasuyuki Okamoto (ep.3)
- Yasufumi Hayashi - Tatsuo Furukawa (ep.3)
- Ryoko Yuui - Yoko Furukawa (ep.3)
- Masanori Ishii - Shuhei Nakata (ep.3)
- Takeshi Masu - Prosecutor Yamabe (ep.3)
- Mie Suzuki - clerk (ep.3)
- Mayumi Wakamura - Netsuko Shimizu (ep.4-5)
- Hiromi Iwasaki - Masako Endo (ep.4-5)
- Sarutoki Minagawa - Masaru Higuchi (ep.4-5)
- Miyako Yamaguchi - Yasuko Nanbu (ep.4-5)
- Shinsho Nakamaru - Yonezawa (ep.4-5)
- Shun Sugata - Tadakazu Kawabe (ep.4-5)
- Daisuke Yamazaki - Tanaka (ep.4-5)
- Kenichi Sakuragi - Watanabe (ep.4-5)
- Shiro Ito - Naokazu Shimizu (ep.4-5)
- Ryoko Kuninaka - Yukiko Miyazaki (ep.6)
- Hiroki Hasegawa - Takao Inoue (ep.6)
- Yuki - Yoshie Tashiro (ep.6)
- Reiko Tajima - Haru (ep.6)
- Yoshizumi Ito - judge (ep.6)
- Etsuko Ichihara - Matsuko Ishikawa (ep.7-8)
- Masahiko Nishimura - Yanagida (ep.7-8)
- Naoki Ohama - Naoya Higuchi (ep.7-8)
- Taro Omiya - Prosecutor Iwashita (ep.7-8)
- Nikichi Kondo - detective (ep.7-8)
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Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
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| 01 | 01/13/2011 | 11.9% |
| 02 | 01/20/2011 | 10.2% |
| 03 | 01/27/2011 | 10.3% |
| 04 | 02/03/2011 | 10.5% |
| 05 | 02/10/2011 | 10.3% |
| 06 | 02/17/2011 | 9.6% |
| 07 | 02/24/2011 | 9.0% |
| 08 | 03/03/2011 | 9.8% |
| Average | 10.3% | |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
