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Credited cast: | |||
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Yûji Oda | ... | Shunsaku Aoshima |
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Toshirô Yanagiba | ... | Shinji Muroi |
Eri Fukatsu | ... | Sumire Onda | |
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Miki Mizuno | ... | Yukino Kashiwagi |
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Chôsuke Ikariya | ... | Heihachiro Waku |
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Sôichirô Kitamura | ... | Wangan Police Station chief Kanda |
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Takehiko Ono | ... | Kengo Hakamada |
Kyôko Koizumi | ... | Manami Hyuga | |
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Kenta Satoi | ... | Jiro Uozumi |
Yûsuke Santamaria | ... | Masayoshi Mashita | |
Toshio Kakei | ... | Kentaro Shinjo | |
Daisuke Ryû | ... | Ohbayashi | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Kuniyasu Atsumi | ||
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Shigeru Kôyama | ... | Tokyo Metropolitan Police Station vice-chief Toshiaki Yoshida |
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Jun Oda |
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down. A corpse is found in the river, then the Police Commissioner is kidnapped, leading to the Metropolitian Police Department to take over the investigation which is led by Murai. Will he be true to his pact with Aoshima and co-operate with the local police? In the meantime, the murder investigation leads to a morbid web page and a deadly chat room in cyberspace... Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
I liked the characters and the style, so I believe the setup really had potential. But unfortunately they didn't make much out of it. Another reviewer called it "directionless". I agree. It just meanders along without any suspense, the story is totally unexciting. There is some subtle humor but that's all.
I'll still check out the second part though, maybe I'll like it better. (Probably not.)