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{{for|the 2013 drama of the same name |[[Kaibutsu]]}}
[[File:Kaibutsu2025.jpg|thumb|340px|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==
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;Hatano Police Station
;;Public Safety Division
*[[Yasuda Ken]] as Togashi Hiroyuki <small>(Police Officer)</small>
*[[Mizukami Koshi]] as Yashiro Manato <small>(Police Officer)</small>
*[[Mitsuishi Ken]] as Mori Heizaburo <small>(Chief)</small>

;;Life Safety Division
*[[Irie Jingi]] as Eno Yu <small>(Police Officer / Shoko's younger brother)</small>
*[[Tsubokura Yoshiyuki]] as Kasuya <small>(Chief)</small>

;;Police Affairs Division
*[[Fujimori Shingo]] as Tadokoro Mikio <small>(Police Officer / Hiroyuki and Shoko's childhood friend)</small>
*[[Riju Go]] as Akiyama <small>(Station chief)</small>
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;Others
*[[Gouriki Ayame]] as Matsuda Rinko <small>(Yakiniku restaurant owner)</small>
*[[Matobu Sei]] as Endo Shoko <small>(Police Headquarters First Investigation Division Detective / Hiroyuki and Mikio's childhood friend)</small>
*[[Saotome Taichi]] as Igarashi <small>(Prosecutor)</small>
*[[Kote Shinya]] as Yanagi Tatsuo <small>(Liquor store owner)</small>
*[[Kubo Shiori]] as Yanagi Mio <small>(Tatsuo's daughter)</small>
*[[Hashimoto Jun]] as Nakahashi Yohei <small>(Construction company CEO)</small>
*[[Takahata Atsuko]] as Tadokoro Kayo <small>(Prefectural Assembly Member)</small>
*[[Watabe Atsuro]] as Yashiro Masayoshi <small>(National Police Agency's Deputy Commissioner General / Manato's father)</small>
*[[Itose Nanaha]] (糸瀬七葉) as Togashi Kotone <small>(Hiroyuki's twin younger sister)</small>
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==Production Credits==
*'''Original work:''' JTBC TV Series by [[Kim Soo Jin (writer II)|Kim Soo Jin]]
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Maekawa Yoichi]]
*'''Producer:''' [[Matsumoto Taichi]] (松本太一), [[Aoki Yasunori]], [[Motonobu Katsunori]], [[Kozoe Dai]] (河添太)
*'''Director:''' [[Suzuki Kosuke (director)|Suzuki Kosuke]], [[Ikezawa Tatsuya]]
*'''Music:''' [[Ohmama Takashi]], [[Saiki Tatsuhiko]]

==Notes==
*Japanese remake of JTBC TV Series ''[[Beyond Evil]]''.

==External Links==
*[https://www.wowow.co.jp/drama/original/kaibutsu/ Official site]
*[[Wikipedia:ja:怪物 (テレビドラマ)#日本版|Japanese Wikipedia]]

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