Thursday, September 27, 2012

Takizawa Hideaki & Watari Tetsuya to work together in drama SP "Akutou"

Takizawa Hideaki and Watari Tetsuya will be working together in the FujiTV drama SP "Akutou" (Evil Gang) which is due to be shown on 30 November at 9pm. This is the third time they are working together since 2005's NHK Taiga drama "Yoshitsune" and TV Asahi's drama SP "Kokuchi Sezu".

In this drama SP which is based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner Yakumaru Gaku's novel, Takizawa plays Saeki Shuichi, a former police officer who now works as a private detective in Watari's investigation agency which specialises in tracking down the criminals at the requests of victim families. Having suffered the same fate as these victims when his elder sister was raped and murdered while he was a junior high school student, he can empathise with the victims' families who want to track down the criminals who hurt their family members. On the other hand, Watari plays Kogure Masato who was acquainted with Saeki when the latter was still in the police force and was the one who asked Saeki to join his agency.

Co-stars include Toda Keiko who plays Someya Nobuko, Kogure's advisor at the agency, Kaname Jun as Saeki's investigation target after he was released from jail when he completed his sentence for murder during his teens, Osugi Ren as Saeki's father and Okuda Eiji as the lawyer who defended the killer of Saeki's sister in court.


Source: Sanspo

2 comments:

Reiko said...

First of all, I'd like to thank you so much for posting the latest info on Takki's latest drama to air this month. *dies*

I've been a huge fan of him since 2006, and he's been my bias ever since in JE. I've also been a big follower of all of his dramas Takki's acted in, and am very much looking forward to watching this newest one of him.

For a long while, I really thought that Orthros no Inu would've been the last one Takki will ever star in and there were rumors thinking Orthros would've been his last...at least for a long while w/his acting career. Thank goodness, he'll be acting in another one again.

All along, I wondered what this drama was all about. I've only had little info to the synopsis from certain friends but, nothing really explaining fully.

Thank you so much for all your info here. :) Can't wait for this new drama to air! XDD

Chiaki said...

Hi Reiko, thank you for leaving your comment. Glad to know that you found this piece of news interesting and useful! ^__^