Title: 相棒 Title (romaji): Aibou Also known as: Partners Tagline: The Only Two Special Mission Officers Format: Renzoku Genre: Action, mystery Broadcast network: TV Asahi Episodes: 19 Broadcast period: 2004-Oct-13 to 2005-Mar-23 Air time: Wednesday 20:00 **Synopsis** Special Mission Task Team – is not considered as important as it might sound. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and so-called as the "oversized garbage dealer". Sugishita Ukyo (Mizutani) is a head of this Special Mission Task team. As people rumor that anyone who worked under Ukyo eventually leaves the office, he is called "the grave keeper of human resource". However, there was another reason why people call him in this name. When Ukyo fist transferred to this section with his secret mission, all of his direct reports died mysteriously. Somehow, the police have sealed this incident from further investigation. (TV Asahi) **Cast** Mizutani Yutaka as Sugishita Ukyo Terawaki Yasufumi Suzuki Sawa Takagi Saya Kawahara Kazuhisa Otani Ryosuke Yamanishi Jun Rokkaku Seiji Yamanaka Takashi (山中たかシ) Kishibe Ittoku Katagiri Ryuuji Nishimura Masahiko Takenaka Naoto Kimura Yoshino Kitaro Masana Bokuzo Okada Kohki (ep4&5) Takaoka Saki (ep7) Yoshino Kimika (ep9) Haruki Misayo (ep10) Ueda Koichi (ep11) Takeno Isao (ep13)