AIBOU (相棒, Aibō; Partners) is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on TV Asahi on June 3, 2000. It has been adapted into six films: AIBOU: The Movie (2008), AIBOU: CSI Files (2009), AIBOU: The Movie II (2010), AIBOU: X-DAY (2013), AIBOU: The Movie III (2014) and AIBOU: The Movie IV (2017).
The drama features Ukyō Sugishita (杉下右京) , a police inspector assigned to the fictional Special Missions Unit (特命係, Tokumei-gakari) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partners as Kaoru Kameyama (亀山薫) from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, Takeru Kambe (神戸尊) from 2009 to 2012, Tōru Kai (甲斐享) from 2012 to 2015, and Wataru Kaburagi (冠城亘) from 2015 to 2022. In Season 15 Episode 3, Roland appears as a host.
AIBOU is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station KIKU under the name Partners, and in Los Angeles by the station Japan Hollywood Network (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.
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Films
"AIBOU: The Movie" (2008) directed by Seiji Izumi
"AIBOU: The Movie II" (2010) directed by Seiji Izumi
"AIBOU: The Movie III" (2014) directed by Seiji Izumi
"AIBOU: The Movie IV" (2017) directed by Hajime Hashimoto
Spin-off series
"AIBOU Series: Yonezawa Mamoru no Jikenbo" (2009) directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, It stars Seiji Rokkaku.
Cast
Yutaka Mizutani as Ukyo Sugishita
Yasufumi Terawaki as Kaoru Kameyama
Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Takeru Kanbe
Hiroki Narimiya as Toru Kai
Takashi Sorimachi as Wataru Kaburagi
Saya Takagi (Ikue Masudo) as Tamaki Miyabe
Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto
Yoko Moriguchi as Mari Koide
Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera
Sei Matobu as Etsuko Usui
Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami
Atsushi Yamanishi as Rokuro Kakuta
Kōji Ishizaka as Mineaki Kai
Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura
Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Onoda
Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki
Yukie Nakama as Miyako Yashiro
Yukiko Shinohara as Reon Izumo
Ryo Ono as Teruo Nakazono
Satoshi Jinbo as Haruki Okochi
Takaaki Enoki as Yahiko Kusakabe
Ryuji Katagiri as Kanji Uchimura
Video game
A Nintendo DS game called Aibou DS was published by Tecmo in March 5, 2009.
