Kaibutsu (WOWOW)

Kaibutsu

Details

Title: 怪物
Title (romaji): Kaibutsu
Title (English): Monster
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Police, Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Suspense
Episodes: 10
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast period: 2025-Jul-06 to 2025-Sep-07
Air time: Sunday 22:00
Theme song: TBD
Related TV show: Beyond Evil (JTBC, 2021)

Synopsis

25 years ago, a college student, Togashi Kotone disappeared from her family's yard, leaving only the first joint of her finger. The case remains unsolved till this day.

In the present, Kotone's twin elder brother, Togashi Hiroyuki is now a police officer working under the Public Safety Division in Hatano Police Station. One day, Yashiro Manato, a career police officer who graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo gets transferred into the same division.

The two do not get along, but on orders from their chief, they paired up and received a call to search for an elderly man with dementia.

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Cast

Hatano Police Station

Public Safety Division

Yasuda Ken as Togashi Hiroyuki (Police Officer)
Mizukami Koshi as Yashiro Manato (Police Officer)
Mitsuishi Ken as Mori Heizaburo (Chief)

Life Safety Division

Irie Jingi as Eno Yu (Police Officer / Shoko's younger brother)
Tsubokura Yoshiyuki as Kasuya (Chief)

Police Affairs Division

Fujimori Shingo as Tadokoro Mikio (Police Officer / Hiroyuki and Shoko's childhood friend)
Riju Go as Akiyama (Station chief)

Others

Gouriki Ayame as Matsuda Rinko (Yakiniku restaurant owner)
Matobu Sei as Endo Shoko (Police Headquarters First Investigation Division Detective / Hiroyuki and Mikio's childhood friend)
Saotome Taichi as Igarashi (Prosecutor)
Kote Shinya as Yanagi Tatsuo (Liquor store owner)
Kubo Shiori as Yanagi Mio (Tatsuo's daughter)
Hashimoto Jun as Nakahashi Yohei (Construction company CEO)
Takahata Atsuko as Tadokoro Kayo (Prefectural Assembly Member)
Watabe Atsuro as Yashiro Masayoshi (National Police Agency's Deputy Commissioner General / Manato's father)
Itose Nanaha (糸瀬七葉) as Togashi Kotone (Hiroyuki's twin younger sister)

Production Credits

Original work: JTBC TV Series by Kim Soo Jin (김수진)
Screenwriter: Maekawa Yoichi
Producer: Matsumoto Taichi (松本太一), Aoki Yasunori, Motonobu Katsunori, Kozoe Dai (河添太)
Director: Suzuki Kosuke, Ikezawa Tatsuya
Music: Ohmama Takashi, Saiki Tatsuhiko

Notes

Japanese remake of JTBC TV Series Beyond Evil.

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