Official Website
www.ytv.co.jp/tokubou
Broadcast
Thursdays, 11.59 p.m. – 12.54 a.m. from 3 April 2014
Station
NTV
Story
This world is full of vermin. Wrongdoings by ordinary people run rampant. Food mislabelling, high school girls’ compensated dating, businesses that exploit employees, law-evading drugs … … There is a fearless man who keeps on fighting despite lamenting about the high number of cases. He is Superintendent Asakura Sohei of the Community Safety Bureau’s Special Crime Prevention Division at the National Police Agency. Because the Special Crime Prevention Division, which is also known as Tokubou, only has two persons Asakura and his sadistic boss Kano Miyuki, even the police do not know what it does. On the outside, it seems like an easy position, and Asakura appears to be a mediocre person. However, evil that is not brought to justice is his enemy. When he finds crimes where arrests are difficult under normal procedures or bad people for whom arrests do not do justice, he would emotionally humiliate these bad people and rehabilitate them in the name of “corrective enforcement”. Tokubou’s mission behind the scenes is to exterminate these vermin which everyone wants to eliminate, but have little choice except to let it go unchecked. The vermin this time is Minegishi, the owner of a tremendously popular restaurant where high class French food can be eaten at bargain prices. Meanwhile, a male customer Yoshioka, who had eaten at the restaurant, is found dead the next morning. Tsuji Keiichi and the police of the jurisdiction determine that he died of illness, but Asakura shows up and presses on with the investigation. It is soon found that Yoshioka’s cause of death is allergy to soya beans even though he did not eat that at the restaurant. This leads to suspicions of food fraud. Asakura who plots an undercover investigation, sends Tsuji into the restaurant under the pretense of training as a disciple.
Characters
Ihara Tsuyoshi as Asakura Sohei
A counsellor of the Community Safety Bureau’s Special Crime Prevention Division at the National Police Agency. Rank: Superintendent. He has a self-deprecating personality. He would keep lamenting “Ah, I want to die”, his own melancholy about the misfortune that has come into this pest-ridden world and helplessness against the pestilence, but undergoes a complete change when he finds bad people. He uses all sorts of methods including the emotional humiliation of these bad people who have not been punished by the law by binding them with ropes in the name of “corrective enforcement”.
Matsushita Kohei as Tsuji Keiichi
A rookie police officer of Toyoshima Police Precinct he is very diligent and sensible. Because his name is short and easy to remember, he is made to do things for Asakura Sohei.
Takuma Takayuki as Kashiwagi Yukio
The Chief Superintendent and Kano Miyuki’s boss. He cannot stand the outstanding Miyuki and is secretly scheming to keep her head down.
Adachi Yumi as Kano Miyuki
Asakura Sohei’s superior. A counsellor of the Community Safety Bureau’s Special Crime Prevention Division at the National Police Agency. Rank: Senior Superintendent. A graduate of Harvard University. She is harsh on Asakura and works him hard. But she actually has feelings of love for him. Because of her assertive personality, she gets on the bad side of bosses who want to save their own skin.
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