Aibou: Season 1

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Drama: Aibou: Season 1
Romaji: Aibou: Season 1
Japanese: 相棒 Season 1
Director: Seiji Izumi, Toshio Ohi, Hajime Hashimoto
Writer: Yasuhiro Koshimizu, Hakaru Sunamoto, Takeharu Sakurai
Producer: Yasushi Suto
Network: TV Asahi
Episodes: 12
Release Date: October 9 - December 25, 2002
Runtime: Wed. 21:00-21:54
TV Ratings: 13.1%
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Tokumei Gakari (Special Mission Task Team) – is not considered as important as it might sound. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and so-called as the “oversized garbage dealer”. Ukyo Sugishita (Yutaka Mizutani) is a head of this Tokumei Gakari. As people rumor that anyone who worked under Ukyo eventually leaves the office, he is called “the grave keeper of human resource”. However, there was another reason why people call him in this name. When Ukyo fist transferred to this section with his secret mission, all of his direct reports died mysteriously. Somehow, the police have sealed this incident from further investigation. Ukyo's present partner is frank, ardent man Kaoru Kameyama. (Yasufumi Terawaki) Though they of the type that is completely the opposite don't get along, Ukyo and Kaoru will solve the truth of the cases.

Notes

Related titles (drama series):
1. Aibou: Season 1 (TV Asahi / 2002)
2. Aibou: Season 2 (TV Asahi / 2003-2004)
3. Aibou: Season 3 (TV Asahi / 2004-2005)
4. Aibou: Season 4 (TV Asahi / 2005-2006)
5. Aibou: Season 5 (TV Asahi / 2006-2007)
6. Aibou: Season 6 (TV Asahi / 2007-2008)
7. Aibou: Season 7 (TV Asahi / 2008-2009)
8. Aibou: Season 8 (TV Asahi / 2009-2010)
9. Aibou: Season 9 (TV Asahi / 2010-2011)
10. Aibou: Season 10 (TV Asahi / 2011-2012)
11. Aibou: Season 11 (TV Asahi / 2012-2013)
12. Aibou: Season 12 (TV Asahi / 2013-2014)
13. Aibou: Season 13 (TV Asahi / 2014-2015)
14. Aibou: Season 14 (TV Asahi / 2015-2016)
15. Aibou: Season 15 (TV Asahi / 2016-2017)
16. Aibou: Season 16 (TV Asahi / 2017-2018)
17. Aibou: Season 17 (TV Asahi / 2018-2019)
18. Aibou: Season 18 (TV Asahi / 2019-2020)
19. Aibou: Season 19 (TV Asahi / 2020-2021)
20. Aibou: Season 20 (TV Asahi / 2021-2022)
21. Aibou: Season 21 (TV Asahi / 2022)
22. Aibou: Season 22 (TV Asahi / 2023)
23. Aibou: Season 23 (TV Asahi / 2024-2025)
24. Aibou: Season 24 (TV Asahi / 2025)
Related titles (movies):
1. Aibou: The Movie | Aibou gekijo-ban (2008)
2. Identification: The Case Book of Mamoru Yonezawa (2009) *spin-off
3. Aibou: The Movie II | Aibou Gekijo-ban II (2010)
4. Aibou: X-Day | Aibou Shirizu X DAY(2013) *spin-off
5. Aibou: The Movie III | Aibou Gekijo-ban III (2014)
6. Aibou: The Movie IV | Aibou Gekijo-ban IV (2017)

Cast



Yutaka Mizutani	Yasufumi Terawaki	Sawa Suzuki	Saya Takagi	Ittoku Kishibe
Ukyo Sugishita	Kaoru Kameyama	Miwako Kameyama	Tamaki Miyabe	Koken Inoda



Atsushi Yamanishi	Seiji Rokkaku	Kazuhisa Kawahara	Ryosuke Otani	Takashi Yamanaka
Rokuro Kakuta	Mamoru Yonezawa	Kenichi Itami	Shinsuke Miura	Keiji Serizawa



Ryuji Katagiri	Ryo Ono
Kanji Uchimura	Teruo Nakazono

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Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	10/09/2002	16.3%
02	10/16/2002	11.8%
03	10/23/2002	12.5%
04	10/30/2002	9.4%
05	11/06/2002	13.2%
06	11/13/2002	13.9%
07	11/20/2002	12.6%
08	11/27/2002	11.9%
09	12/04/2002	15.2%
10	12/11/2002	12.9%
11	12/18/2002	14.2%
12	12/25/2002	13.0%
Average		13.1%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

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Dolores Sanchez Sep 14 2017 8:30 pm Love the program. Story line is good and so is the acting. Don't always know when it will be on. How do I fine a schedule?

Sammy Harris Aug 28 2011 10:12 pm Great show. Where can I find subtitled version

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