BOSS

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BOSS

Details

• Title: BOSS
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Detective
• Episodes: 11
• Viewership rating: 17.0 (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-16 to 2009-Jun-25
• Air time: Thursday 22:00
• Theme songs:
  • Opening theme: Alright!! by superfly
  • Ending theme: My Best Of My Life by superfly

Synopsis

This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. In fact, her assignment in the U.S. was really a demotion after she ruined her career track over a man. So why was she chosen as the boss of the new division? Even though the detectives are talented, they all have some kind of issue or flaw, and they are considered to be the "problem children" of the police force. In the end, the division's true purpose is just to isolate these problematic detectives. --Tokyograph

Cast

• Amami Yuki as Osawa Eriko
• Takenouchi Yutaka as Nodate Shinjiro
• Tamayama Tetsuji as Katagiri Takuma
• Toda Erika as Kimoto Mami
• Mizobata Junpei as Hanagata Ippei
• Kichise Michiko as Narahashi Reiko
• Kendo Kobayashi (ケンドーコバヤシ) as Iwai Zenji
• Nukumizu Youichi as Yamamura Keisuke
• Shiomi Sansei as Onoda Tadashi
• Hasegawa Hiromi (長谷川博己) as Kawano Akio
• HILUMA as Mori Masao
• Mitsuishi Ken as Tanba Hirohisa
• Aijima Kazuyuki as Yada Kenzo
• Maruyama Tomomi as Ikegami Hiroshi

Guests

• Takeda Tetsuya as Nogaki Taizo (ep1,11)
• Nakamura Yasuhi as Kojima Fumihiko (ep1)
• Minemura Rie (峯村リエ) as Noguchi Yoko (ep1)
• Asari Yosuke as Fujiwara Masaru (ep2)
• Nomura Hironobu as Inoue Kosuke (ep2)
• Sakai Wakana as Higuchi Yukari (ep3)
• Kanai Yuta as Kaneda Toshihiko (ep3)
• Nanaeda Minoru (七枝実) as Mikami Hiroaki (ep3)
• Kawamura Aki as Sato Miwa (ep3)
• Nakamura Yuri (中村ゆり) as Komiya Naomi (ep3)
• Yamada Takayuki as Tajima Shingo (ep4-5)
• Sakata Naoki (坂田直貴) as Kubo Naoya (ep4-5)
• Miura Ryosuke as Takeda Hiroyuki (ep4-5)
• Miyahira Yasuharu (宮平安春) as Tokudaiji Yuto (ep4-5)
• Kanno Atsumi (菅野篤海) as Ono Shigeru (ep4-5)
• Shiraishi Ryona (白石涼那) as Egawa Tsugiharu (ep4-5)
• Yamazaki Katsuyuki (山崎勝之) as Egawa Yuki (ep4-5)
• Nonaka Isao as police station employee (ep5)
• Sakoda Takaya (迫田孝也) as police station employee (ep5)
• Tanaka Emi (田中えみ) as a police officer (ep5)
• Mitsui Zenchu (三井善忠) as a chef (ep5)
• Shida Mirai as Ishihara Yuki (ep6)
• Mizusawa Nako as Saori (ep6)
• Matsuda Satoshi as Masuoka Tsuyoshi (ep6)

• Nishiyama Mayuko as Ninomiya Natsuko (ep6)
• Tomita Yasuko as Takamine Hitomi (ep7)
• Hino Seiji (日野誠二) as Yasuda Hirofumi (ep7)
• Koichi Mantaro as Togo Hidenori (ep7)
• Sato Rika (さとう里香) as herself (ep7)
• Okamoto Rei as herself (ep7)
• Kawashima Akira (川島明) as himself (ep7)
• Tamura Hiroshi (田村裕) as himself (ep7)
• Konishi Manami as Nishiyama Nanami (ep8)
• Kudo Shunsaku (工藤俊作) as Tanimoto Takashi (ep8)
• Eto Jun (江藤純) as Koba Osamu (ep8)
• Matsuda Kenji as Muto Akira (ep8)
• Namase Katsuhisa as Nishina Wataru (ep9)
• Koga Mitsuki as Nishina Keisuke (ep9)
• Harada Kenji as Kashiwabara Naoto (ep9)
• Uematsu Hiroshi (植松洋) as Kashiwabara Hideo (ep9)
• Onoue Hiroyuki as Masuda Kiyoshi (ep9)
• Sato Yusuke as Naito Masafumi (ep9)
• Goto Yasuo (後藤康夫) as Machida Takashi (ep9)
• Sorimachi Takashi as Takakura Ryuhei (ep10-11)
• Tsugawa Masahiko as Oyama Genzo (ep10-11)
• Ishigaki Yuma as Ikegami Kengo (ep10-11)
• Kosuda Yasuto (小須田康人) as Suzuki (ep10-11)
• Kamio Yu (神尾佑) as Sayama (ep10-11)

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Hayashi Hiroshi (林宏司) (ep1-6,8,10-11), Nishihara Kota (西平晃太) (ep7,9)
• Producer: Murase Ken (村瀬健), Misao Reiko (三竿玲子)
• Director: Mitsuno Michio (ep1-2,4,8,11), Ishii Yusuke (ep3,5,10), Hoshino Kazunari (星野和成) (ep6,9), Narita Takeshi (ep7)
• Music: Hayashi Yuki, Sawano Hiroyuki (澤野弘之), Wada Takashi (和田貴史)

Episode Information

Case	Subtitle	Scenario	Ratings (Kanto)	Ratings (Kansai)	Ratings (Nationwide)
1	The Strongest -- Within Certain Reason -- Around 40-ish Female Detective Who Becomes the BOSS of a Team of Peculiars!	The Strongest, Around 40-ish Female Detective Becomes the BOSS!	18.1	?	?
2	I Want to Know... A Crime in the Name of Curiosity The Around 40-ish Female Detective Runs!	I Want to Know... A Crime in the Name of Curiosity	15.1	?	?
3	An Enemy of Women Can Never Be Forgiven!!		15.2	?	?
4	Sorrow's Revenge Seeker		15.8	?	?
5	The Showdown! To the End of Sorrow's Revenge	The Showdown! Conclusion of Sorrow's Revenge	18.0	?	?
6	An Angel? Or A Demon? The Girl Prodigy's Crime		15.8	?	?
7	Woman vs. Woman's Psychological Warfare		17.2	?	?
8	Gunshot Grief... A Past That Cannot Be Erased.		17.1	?	?
9	A Secret Face That No One Can See...		16.9	?	?
10	The BOSS is the Suspect!? Final Case ... The Most Formidable Opponent	The BOSS is the Suspect!? The Final Case	17.4	?	?
11	The Shocking, Extended, Conclusive Special... The Limits of Betrayal		20.7	?	?
Average			17.0	?	?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Awards

• 61st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama
• 61st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actress - Amami Yuki
• 61st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor - Takenouchi Yutaka
• 61st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Directors - Mitsuno Michio, Ishii Yusuke, Hoshino Kazunari, Narita Takeshi
• 13th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Spring 2009): Best Actress - Amami Yuki

Notes

• In episode 11, the attorney's name on the business card that Osawa Eriko hands over is Mamiya Takako -- a character that Amami Yuki also portrays in the Fuji TV drama series Rikon Bengoshi, Rikon Bengoshi 2, and makes a small cameo appearance in Kiken na Aneki.

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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Winter 2009	Fuji TV	Summer 2009
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