Daitokai Series

Daitokai (大都会, The Big City or Metropolis)　was a popular prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1976 to 1979^[3] for a total of 132 episodes and three seasons, each with its own story arc. The lead star was Tetsuya Watari.^[4][5] The drama won popularity and was followed by Seibu Keisatsu.^[6]

Daitokai Series
Genre	Detective drama
Written by	Sō Kuramoto(First season)
Directed by	Toshio Masuda Koreyoshi Kurahara Tōru Murakawa Yasuharu Hasebe Keiichi Ozawa
Starring	Tetsuya Watari Kei Satō Akira Terao Joe Shishido Masaki Kanda Sei Hiraizumi Kaku Takashina Akiko Nishina Yūsuke Takita Yusaku Matsuda Yujiro Ishihara
Narrated by	Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Opening theme	Masato Sugimoto (Part 2)
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	132[1]
Production
Executive producer	Yujiro Ishihara
Producers	Masahiko Kobayashi Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Camera setup	Mitsuji Kanau
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	Ishihara promotion NTV[2]
Original release
Network	NTV
Release	January 6, 1976 (1976-01-06) – September 11, 1979 (1979-09-11)

Plot

Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.^[7][8]

Cast

Daitokai Tatakai no Hibi (31 episodes)^[7][9]

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Yujiro Ishihara as Takigawa Ryuta (Baku-san)
• Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa
• Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
• Isao Tamagawa as Mitsuhiko Ishiki
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bousan)
• Kōjirō Kusanagi as Goichi Takagi
• Akira Terao as Akira Hidaka
• Masaki Kanda as Kōji Kujō
• Joe Shishido as Junichirō Matsukawa
• Sei Hiraizumi as Akihiko Okubo
• Hiroko Shino as Naoko Miura

Daitokai Part II (52 episodes)^[8][10]

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Yusaku Matsuda as Isao Tokuyoshi (Toku)
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Masaki Kanda as Sōtarō Jin (episode 14-52)
• Ryuta Mine as Gan Kamijō (Saru)
• Gō Awazu as Haruo Hirahara (episode 1-13)
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bōsan)
• Shunsuke Kariya as Hyōsuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
• Asao Koike as Tsutomu Yoshioka
• Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa (episode 1-8,19)
• Yūsuke Takita as Kiyosato Yamamoto
• Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
• Yujiro Ishihara as Doctor Gorō Munakata
• Mitsuko Oka as Nurse Kyōko Yoshino

Daitokai Part III (49 episodes)^[6][11]

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Akira Terao as Jiro Makino
• Masato Hoshi as Isao Torada
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bō-san)
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Ryuta Mine as Gan Kamijō
• Shunsuke Kariya as Hyōsuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
• Yujiro Ishihara as Doctor Gorō Munakata

Insert songs

• Part II

"Hitori" by Tetsuya Watari.

• Part III

"Higure Zaka" by Tetsuya Watari.