Taiyō ni Hoero!

Taiyō ni Hoero!
Genre Detective drama
Starring Yujiro Ishihara
Tetsuya Watari
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Raita Ryū
Kenichi Hagiwara
Yūsaku Matsuda
Hiroshi Katsuno
Masaya Oki
Masaki Kanda
Shinji Yamashita
Touru Watanabe
Kunihiko Mitamura
Masanori Sera
Takeo Chii
Tappie Shimokawa
Yoshizumi Ishihara
Akira Onodera
Keiko Takahashi
Composer(s) Katsuo Ono
Country of origin Japan
Original language(s) Japanese
No. of episodes 718
Production
Producer(s) Hirokichi Okada
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) Toho NTV
Release
Original network NTV
Original release June 1972 – November 1986

Taiyō ni Hoero! (太陽にほえろ!) literally, Bark at the Sun was a long-running prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1972 to 1986 for a total of 718 episodes.[1] The lead star was Yujiro Ishihara. It also helped further the career of actors such as Yūsaku Matsuda and Kenichi Hagiwara as well as Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Masaya Oki. It was a police procedural set mostly in a police station. It was one of the most popular and iconic detective dramas in Japanese television history.

Regulars

Character Nickname Actor Episodes
Shunsuke Todo Boss Yujiro Ishihara
Jun Shibata jiipan ("jeans") Yūsaku Matsuda
Seiichi Yamamura Yama san Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Jun Hayami Macaroni Kenichi Hagiwara
Ryuichi Taki Scotch Masaya Oki

Theme music

The theme music is a Mariachi-sounding tune which is very often used on Japanese television programmes. The music for this show was composed by Katsuo Ono (大野 克夫, Ono Katsuo). The theme music has also been used in The Filthy Frank YouTube series, for his "100 ACCURATE LIFE HACKS" video on October 2, 2015. This has led to it becoming a notorious internet meme.

References

  1. ↑ Takase, Masahiro (Nov 15, 2007). Showa Senbon No Dorama-Tachi [1000 TV dramas of the Showa Period] (in Japanese).
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