Preview of "Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki" (Drama SP)

Title: Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki 巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的 (Great evil does not go to sleep The target of the prosecutor)
Official website: here
O.A. Date: 4 October 2017 at 9pm
Broadcast by: TV Tokyo
Original novel by: "Hyouteki" by Mayama Jin
Scriptwriter: Kaneko Arisa
Cast: Tamaki Hiroshi, Katsuji Ryo, Hagiwara Masato, Hada Michiko, Takizawa Saori, Nakamura Shunsuke, Tanaka Tetsushi, Kurokawa Tomoka, Honda Hirotaro, Tamura Ryo, Shiba Toshio, Iwaki Koichi, Okuda Eiji, Natori Yuko

Supporting cast line-up of TV Tokyo drama SP "Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki" announced

The supporting cast line-up of TV Tokyo drama SP "Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki" starring Tamaki Hiroshi had been announced. The SP will be shown at 9pm on 4 October.

In this latest SP based on the novel titled "Hyouteki" by Mayama Jin, public prosecutor Tominaga Shinichi (Tamaki) will be investigating a big-name female politician Koshimura Miyabi who is the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare on allegations of receiving bribes. Koshimura is highly regarded to be on the path to become Japan's first female prime minister and known as a driving force to push forward reforms in social welfare. Tominaga then sets out to investigate the case while faced with various obstacles in the complicated world of national politics. Natori Yuko will be playing the role of Koshimura while Tominaga's superior Hase Kiichi i.e. the assistant director of the prosecutors department will be played by Okuda Eiji. Tominaga's admin officer Igarashi Tetsuo will be played by Hagiwara Masato while the director of the prosecutors department Iwashita Nozomi will be played by Hada Michiko. Other co-stars include Takizawa Saori who plays Tominaga's colleague Fujiyama Ayumi and Tamura Ryo who plays Tominaga's father Kazuo who is a wagashi master in Kyoto.

Katsuji Ryo will be playing a news reporter Kanbayashi Yuta who is bent on investigating Koshimura's bribery scandal and exchanges information with Tominaga in their journey to overcome the strong evil forces. This will be the first time in 9 years since Katsuji and Tamaki are working together after 2008's NHK Taiga drama "Atsuhime". Katsuji admitted that he was feeling nervous when he met Tamaki again and joked that this was because the latter had become more good-looking now. As for playing a reporter for the first time, he commented that he wondered how he could look convincing as a reporter but it sort of came naturally when he started filming his first scene of doing a sudden interview of Koshimura.

Other co-stars include Iwaki Koichi who plays Koshimura Shunsaku, the husband of Miyabi and the president of her family's brewery business "Yuki no tsuru shuzou", Nakamura Shunsuke who plays Gakuden Kyohei, the president of medical consulting company JWF which had given bribes to Miyabi and Tanaka Tetsushi who plays Tojo Kensuke, Kanbayashi's boss at the newspaper company. Kurokawa Tomoka will play Otsuka Yuki who is Kanbayashi's colleague and also a reporter while Honda Hirotaro will play a former-prosecutor-turned-lawyer Miyazaki Hozumi who exposes JWF's bribes to Miyabi to the prosecutors' office.

Sources: Sanspo / Oricon

Tamaki Hiroshi to return in TV Tokyo drama SP "Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki"

Tamaki Hiroshi will be returning in the TV Tokyo drama SP "Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki" (Great evil does not go to sleep The target of the prosecutor) to reprise his role as public prosecutor Tominaga Shinichi. The first drama SP of the same series titled "Kyoaku wa nemurasenai Tokusou kenji no gyakushuu" was shown in October last year and the sequel is due to be shown within this year.

In this latest SP based on the novel titled "Hyouteki" by Mayama Jin, Tominaga will be investigating a big-name female politician Koshimura Miyabi who is the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare on allegations of receiving bribes. Koshimura is highly regarded to be on the path to become Japan's first female prime minister and known as a driving force to push forward reforms in social welfare. Tominaga then sets out to investigate the case while faced with various obstacles in the complicated world of national politics. Natori Yuko will be playing the role of Koshimura while Tominaga's superior Hase Kiichi i.e. the assistant director of the prosecutors department will be played by Okuda Eiji. Tominaga's admin officer Igarashi Tetsuo will be played by Hagiwara Masato while the director of the prosecutors department Iwashita Nozomi will be played by Hada Michiko. Other co-stars include Takizawa Saori who plays Tominaga's colleague Fujiyama Ayumi and Tamura Ryo who plays Tominaga's father Kazuo who is a wagashi master in Kyoto.

Tamaki commented that he hopes that this drama will be a reflection of the voices of the people and reach the top of the political world as well. Although the role of Tominaga is not an easy one to play, he felt that being able to take on this character is a way of helping him to grow and hopes that there will be a day when the drama becomes a full series. Meanwhile, Mayama expressed his joy at seeing his novel being made into a drama again so quickly and revealed that the ending of the drama will be different from the novel. As such, the readers will also be able to enjoy the drama and raise their awareness of the illogical things happening in Japanese politics.

Filming began in late July.

Source: Sanspo / Oricon / Yomiuri Hochi