Air Dates: October 5, 1986 until September 27,1987 on NTV, Sunday nights at 9:00 pm
Director: Toru Murakawa, this episode's rating was 21.0%
Subs were once again done by GEO9875, this was one huge project to do so will give a huge thumbs up for doing the subs and hope the recaps gives the series it's proper justice.
Main Cast: The first two get the most screen time by far but the other four main characters are also very key to this drama. The setting is the Minato Police Station in the Naka ward of Yokohama and the station is part of the Kanagawa prefectural police. If you enjoy J-Pop songs then this show has some superb tunes, most know I'm a fan but do prefer the music from the 80's. Plus there's no beating the hairdos of women from that era! This series also goes by the name of....
Hiroshi Tachi as Toshiki Takayama.... You'll see him referred to as Taka often in the screenshots. He's about a 35 year old man who is an investigator of serious crimes and the gangsters go out of their way to avoid him! Takayama has a bit of a 'cool persona' about him and is an ace with guns, he's the partner of Oshita but seems they didn't start working closely together until the first episode. While both are aces with guns their methods also get them in hot water with their superiors but the pair usually come out on top at the end as far as solving cases go.
Kyohei Shibata as Yuji Oshita.... About the same age as Takayama but looks younger. During the first episode Oshita blurted out he's got a bit of a shady past and it surprised many he became a sergeant. He knows how to pick a lock and some other methods criminals use, sure we'll find out more as time goes on. Like his new partner Takayama he is quite adept using all guns, unlike his partner Oshita isn't much of a 'people person' as Takayama is the one who often interviews witnesses, criminals or others.
Atsuko Asana as Kaoru Mayama.... Member of the Juvenile Division which shares the same office as the Investigative Unit which Takayama and Oshita are a part of. Karou has gone out to crime scenes with the detectives but they never let her get in on the real action. However she is a tough woman who used to be a regular officer and knows how to use a gun well. Beginning with the fourth season she became goofier than ever which has been annoying.
Toru Nakamura as Toru Machida.... Not a rookie but hasn't been an inspector for all that long. Machida is the best fighter in the unit and also the women swoon over him but he does have a girlfriend which he said in the first show.... that may have been a lie.
Shizuo Chujo as Takuzo Kondo.... Chief of the Investigation Unit, smart man but seems to be more concerned on what he'll be having for lunch! But at one time Kondo was feared by the Yokohama gangsters and has been on the force for thirty years. Five years ago before coming chief Kondo had killed a Yakuza thug which is one reason he's so feared.
In the third season the roles of Yoshi and Tanaka have become much larger, will add them in for season four. In the two screenshots below Yoshi is on the left, Tanaka is right next to him.
Previous recaps: There's 51 episodes but they were divided into six seasons, there was no break between them. Season one was episode one to nine, second season was ten through eighteen and this third will run from the nineteenth until the 26th episode. Now we're up to season four, that will be episode's 27 through 35.
Oshita's main job is of course to get the original list back but that's easier said than done, there's no evidence against the Kohyei Kaiun gang so the Minato police couldn't make a raid. That's where Oshita came in, he needed to get close to the Kohyei Kaiun gang and especially their leader Makoto Sekigawa to gain access to the list of narcotic agents. Will have to say Oshita was just a so-so gangster, he looked the part but Sekigawa was very leery of him and why not as he knew the police would be after the list. In the middle two screenshot above is a man named Nishijima, he looks like a thug but wasn't. He's a top officer in the Osaka prefecture and was sent to Yokohama to take over the case from the Minato station. The chief Kondo was at first furious with the order but relented as he thought if there's any screwups then they will take the blame. Meanwhile Oshita remained on the case, his regular partner Takayama had been working with Yoshi, aka Papa, and the pair had been keeping Oshita under surveillance. The object wasn't to get a copy of this narcotic agents list as it may have been tampered with, the original was needed but it's been kept hidden in a safe. Bad news for Oshita as the real Yappa no Masa has told the investigators another agent from Osaka will be arriving to help Oshita out, if this man named Kawashima meets Oshita then the whole case is doomed! So you can see above that Kondo has ordered Oshita off the case but he's refusing to abandon it and wanted to finish what he began.
Takayama was an even worse gangster than Oshita was and soon his secret was revealed, that's all right above. The Minato chief Kondo had ordered Takayama to drop the case, he was livid when he heard what was going down as the Osaka officer Nishijima had the Kohyei Kaiun office under surveillance. Him and his troops invaded the Kohyei Kaiun office though not in a very professional way but least they saved the lives of Takayama and Oshita. Instead of knocking at the office door or perhaps sneaking in the prefect police came in with their guns blazing, there was such bedlam Sekigawa and his gang were able to flee out the backdoor to safety. Needless to say Takayama and Oshita were furious with Nishijima and couldn't be have found a better way to nab the Kohyei Kaiun gang? After that debacle there was no way Takayama and Oshita were going to drop this case, for now they kept pretending to be gangsters from Osaka. Their new plan was to meet up with one of the gangs that were thinking of purchasing the list from Sekigawa, Seagull(Kamome) was a Yokohama clan so their office was the next destination for the two heroes.
No need to worry about that for as usual Takayama and Oshita have devised a plan, Sanae can stay behind for the meeting. Right after this deal Sekigawa would be traveling to Nagoya and Kyushu to hopefully sell more copies of his list. Though he did know Sanae it had been twenty yeas since Sekigawa had seen her so odds are high he wouldn't remember what she looked like A stand-in would be used who was the Juvenile Unit investigator Kaoru, the last few episodes have been much better for her screen time has decreased! She'll stand in as Sanae, her assistant Suzue will be her associate with other Minato detectives waiting in the wings. Twenty million yen had to be brought to this meeting and of course the station didn't have it. So in secret Takayama, Oshita, Karou and Suzue spent an hour creating fake cash and it didn't look too real to me. The chief Kondo knew something was up with his unit and knowing his two best detectives Kondo knew they were planning on bringing Sekigawa's gang down. Kondo went down to his bank and withdrew.... the twenty million yen needed from his severance fund! That's the second time in this series he's done that and he must have a lot of confidence in Takayama and Oshita. Just before Kondo went to his bank Sanae had called the station, Kondo answered and she told him the meeting would he held a half later than originally scheduled. So by then Kondo knew what devious mischief was going on, why tell his unit to cease as they never listen to him!!!!
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