45 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestOfficer Shimada gets closer to uncovering the truth about the incident from a year ago.
Tatsuya Fujiwara plays a talented detective who trades hardened criminals for troubled teenagers. Placed in an unruly public junior high school, he gets to work contending with the many problems it faces and uncovers some more serious ones. While the detective tries to operate in the hard-line way he knows best, he finds himself confronted by a skeptical and fiery teacher, played by award winning actress Yoko Maki.
Acting
Fujiwara's exasperated sighs deserve their own Emmy.
Writing
Cases that actually respect teenage complexity.
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Ryuhei Shimada
Yoko Maki
Ryoko Asamura
Yuki Yamada
Hiroki Saegusa
Sayaka Yamaguchi
Kaede Mizuno
Katsumi Takahashi
Kijima Toshifumi
Rio Asumi
Kaori Ogawa
Yuki Izumisawa
Toru Shibata
Yuya Endo
Masahiro Okabe
Kenta Suga
Kiyoshi Niizu
Takuma Otoo
Hiroaki Abe
Chisun
Sawada Atsuko
Sakura Kiryu
Tomoya Oku
Ichihara Kenta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan's 'school police' (shōtō keisatsu) are real municipal positions, often underfunded and mocked—this series finally takes them seriously.
Fujiwara and Maki previously played toxic lovers in 'The Kirishima Thing'; their combative chemistry here is deliberate revenge casting.
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