"Keiji Ou!" started on TV on April 8 (Mon) , 1996 and ended on September 23 in the same year. It has 25 episodes.
Yakusho points out two reasons why he decided to appear in this serial TV drama:
one reason being that there were many well-known movie directors, such as Kon Ichikawa, Eiichi Kudo , Koreyoshi Kurahara, and Yasuo Kirihata; and the other reason being that there were excellent scenario writers.
His role in this drama is that of 40-year-old Kentaro Sawaki, a police detective,who detests
the organization of the police, and tends to go his own way, like a lone wolf. As a result, his position is still that of an assistant police inspector, while his colleague Majima has been promoted to an inspector.
Yakusho fans used to look forward to this drama once a week: each time Yakusho showed a slightly different characterization of Sawaki, as indicated by the directors. Viewers were able to see various aspects of Sawaki: angry, hard-boiled, soft, lonely, sympathetic and affectionate.
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