Chi no Wadachi

Official Website
www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/wadachi

Broadcast
Sundays, 10.00 – 11.00 p.m. from 19 January 2014

Station
WOWOW

Story
The dead body of Kagawa Tsuyoshi, a former Tokyo Metropolitan Police detective, is found at a park in Shinjuku which is under the jurisdiction of Shinjuku Ushigome Police Precinct. Vowing to avenge their ex-colleague, the Criminal Investigations Department including the First Investigative Division’s Usawa Minoru, his superior Kaito Keigo and Sakagami Toko of the Special Investigations Team, who has offered her cooperation, launch an investigation. On the other hand, it is because the victim is a former detective that the Public Security Department feels uneasy about the situation which could shake confidence in the police organisation. Sono Kohei makes his subordinate Shimizu Tatsuya get down to the bottom of the matter under a cloak of secrecy. The Public Security Department believes that maintaining confidence in the police organisation is linked to law and order. If a case is found to be damaging to the police, they will not rule out letting it go unsolved. Meanwhile, with the support of Toko, Usawa learns that Kagawa had created a document right before his death and inserted the data into a memory card that he shipped to a former colleague Kushiwakura Atsuru in Yamagata Prefecture. The Public Security Department which has been keeping tabs on the movements of the Criminal Investigations Department by using a large number of personnel, eavesdropping devices and cameras, also finds out about this and moves to recover the card. Usawa heads to Yamagata in order to get hold of the card first. However, it is Kushiwakura’s wife who appears at the appointed time. He is told that she cannot get in touch with her husband who went out in the early morning.

Characters
Tanihara Shosuke as Usawa Minoru
Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Investigative Division, Criminal Investigations Department. Rank: Assistant Inspector. Although an excellent detective, he is willing to use aggression and violence. His only daughter has died and he has been at odds with his wife since then.

Harada Taizo as Shimizu Tatsuya
Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Public Security General Affairs Division, Public Security Department. Rank: Inspector. He moved to the Public Security General Affairs Division after he was suspended as a detective. During his days as a detective, he was a good senior to Usawa Minoru but … …

TAO as Sakagami Toko
Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Special Investigations Team, Criminal Investigations Department. Rank: Inspector. A former subordinate of Kagawa Tsuyoshi who detested the Public Security Department. She has remarkable hacking skills.

Takashima Masanobu as Sono Kohei
Head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Public Security General Affairs Division, Public Security Department. He is very proud and superficially polite. He values Shimizu Tatsuya’s ability and gives him an important position.

Hashizume Jun as Kubota Tsutomu
Head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau. A person who is aware of the fighting within the organisation.

Tauma Shin as Kaito Keigo
Head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Investigative Division, Criminal Investigations Department. He was also Shimizu Tatsuya during his days at the precinct.

Tanaka Ken as Uchida Kazuhito
Deputy Commissioner of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. He is watching for an opportunity to be the next commissioner.

Satoi Kenta as Kagawa Tsuyoshi
A former detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Special Investigations Team, Criminal Investigations Department. His dead body was discovered at a park in Shinjuku.

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