400 detectives. One exhausted man. The most realistic cop show you've never seen.
Season 6 • Episode 10
LatestThe First Investigative Division is the star unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Jun'ichi Ōiwa, the head of the division, leads around 400 elite detectives. He has an extremely heavy responsibility: attends initial investigations at the scenes of all brutal crimes that occur within the metropolis, decides on the course of action of the investigations at the same time as he directs many investigation task forces and gets into investigations himself at the critical phase. However, Ōiwa is definitely not a superman. Amid his suffering, Ōiwa overcomes this grave responsibility and is quite simply a "life-size hero" and "ideal boss" to his subordinates.
Acting
Takashi Naito's quietly devastating performance as tired dad energy incarnate.
Writing
Anti-sensationalist crime stories that respect detective work as craft.
Production
Authentic Tokyo locations making the MPD feel lived-in for 67 episodes.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'ideal boss' trope in Japanese workplace dramas reflects post-bubble economic anxiety and nostalgia for stable corporate hierarchies.
Despite 67 episodes, the series maintains remarkable continuity in depicting real MPD organizational changes throughout the 2010s.
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