Odoru Daisousasen

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Odoru Daisousasen

Details

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Toshirô Yanagiba as Muroi Shinji

• Title: 踊る大捜査線
• Title (romaji): Odoru Daisousasen
• Also known as: Police Investigation Headquarters / Rhythm and Police / Bayside Shakedown
• Genre: Mystery
• Viewership ratings: 23.1%
• Episodes: 11 episodes, 3 specials, 4 movies
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 1997-Jan-07 to 1997-Mar-18
• Air time: Tuesday 21:00
• Theme Song: Love Somebody - Oda Yuji with Maxi Priest

Synopsis

Odoru Daisousasen is a Japanese drama, with some comedic moments. It originally ran for 11 episodes, and has spawned several TV specials and four full-length theatrical movies.

Oda Yuji plays a character named Aoshima Shunsaku, an ex-computer salesman, who decides one day that he wants to be a detective. He soon becomes a detective at the Wangan Police Station where he encounters various cases and deals with the police bureaucracy.

Specials

• Odoru Daiosasen ~ Nenmatsu tokubetsu keikai Special (1997-Dec-30)
• Odoru Daiosasen ~ Wangansho fukei monogatari shoka no kotsuanzen Special (1998-Jun-19)
• Odoru Daiosasen ~ Aki no hanzai bokumetsu Special (1998-Oct-6)
• Odoru Legend ~ The Fugitive, Kijima Jouichirou / Odoru Legend ~ Toubousha Kijima Jouichirou (2005-Dec-10)

Cast

• Oda Yuji as Aoshima Shunsaku
• Yanagiba Toshiro as Muroi Shinji
• Fukatsu Eri as Onda Sumire
• Mizuno Miki as Kashiwagi Yukino
• Ikariya Chosuke as Waku Heihachiro
• Ono Takehiko as Hakamada Kengo
• Satoi Kenta as Uozumi Jiro
• Kondo Yoshimasa
• Yusuke Santamaria as Mashita Masayoshi
• Kobayashi Susumu
• Kitamura Soichiro as Kanda

Special Cast

• Shinohara Ryoko
• Hashi Ryugo
• Hakamada Yoshihiko
• Hosaka Naoki
• Nakayama Jin
• Tsukayama Masane

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Kimizuka Ryouichi
• Director: Motohiro Katsuyuki, Sawada Kensaku

Episode Summaries

Episode 6: Stake-out...Her Love and the Truth
This episode starts off with a singer, Shinohara Tomoe, being given the honory command of the police station for the day. At the same time Waku and Aoshima are voluntold to help on a stakeout of a potental drug trafficker. They start to set up shop in an apartment outside of the suspect's apartment, but are interupted by one of the other apratment dwellers, where Aoshima quickly starts making up stories about why he and Waku are in the apartment. Meanwhile back at the station, everyone is lineing up to get an autograph from Tomoe. When we head back to the stake-out Waku starts to talk about the one case that has plagued his career. His partner tried to go after a suspect alone and ended up being stabbed. A woman enters the apartment and the duo realize it's Yukino the girl from the first episode. Later on we are told that she is also a suspected drug smugler, something that Aoshima refuses to believe it; Aoshima gets a call from Muroi who needs help in a case involving a mudered salesmen, Aoshima believes that there was a side-deal going on and tells Muroi to examine the accounts of the victem and a recent account. Their meeting is ended when Muroi gets a call. A parcel is delivered to Yukino's apartment when the police inspect the parcel they find two cans of coffee with little packages inside, which tests confirm it is pot. She is taken to the station where she tells Aoshima that she was looking after the apartment for a friend from L.A, who she has seen or heard from. Her boyfriend, Iwase, is a pot dealer and tried to get her to smuggle drugs from him. We find out that Natuska, the girl who owned the apartment was caught at the airport, but that Iwase got away; so they take Yukino to the main headquarters. Aoshima gets her to hit him so he can arrest her for assaulting an officer and keep her at Wangan Station. The episode ends with Aoshima walking back to office determined in his course of action.

Epsiode 7: Time Limit 48 Hours

Episode 8: Goodbye Beloved Detective

Movie Adaptations

• Bayside Shakedown : The Movie (10/31/1998)
• Bayside Shakedown : The Movie 2 / Bayside Shakedown 2: Save the Rainbow Bridge (12/20/2003)
• Negotiator Mashita Masayoshi / Koshonin Masyoshi Mashita (5/7/2005)
• Suspect Muroi Shinji / Yogisha Muroi Shinji (8/27/2005)

Notes

• Both Bayside Shakedown movies include the entire cast in the original series. Bayside Shakedown 1 was the highest grossing film of 1998 and in 2003 Bayside Shakedown: The Movie 2 became the highest grossing non animated film in Japanese cinema history.

• In 2005 two "spin off" movies were made. Both spin off movies do not revolve around Oda Yuji's character, Aoshima, nor do the movies revolve around the Wangan Police Station. However, they revolve around two characters from the series, Mashita and Murori.

External Links

• JDorama.com
• IMDb.com
• Odoru-Legend.com

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Autumn 1996	Fuji TV	Spring 1997
Konna watashi ni dare ga shita	Tuesday 21:00	Souri to yobanai de