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Key Hunter
Key Hunter is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network from April 6, 1968 to April 7, 1973. There were a total of 262 episodes, and it was one of the most popular action dramas in Japan at the time. The story involved "Key Hunter", a special clandestine unit of the International Police, which endeavored to solve various crimes. …
The story
Key Hunter is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network from April 6, 1968 to April 7, 1973. There were a total of 262 episodes, and it was one of the most popular action dramas in Japan at the time.
The story involved "Key Hunter", a special clandestine unit of the International Police, which endeavored to solve various crimes.
"Key Hunter" was a unique TV show, which started out as a grand scale spy thriller never before seen in Japan. The episodes were individually themed on global crimes and political strife. The initial hardboiled theme later evolved to include intellectual elements involving action, and occasionally with comical elements as well.
Tetsuro Tamba starred in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice as Japanese Secret Service agent Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond. This role greatly influenced his image in "Key Hunter".
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Cast
Tetsuro Tamba黒木鉄也
Yoko Nogiwa津川啓子
Hiroshi Kawaguchi吹雪一郎
Hayato Tani島竜彦
Sonny Chiba風間洋介
Noboru Nakaya村岡室長
Hiroshi Miyauchi壇俊介
Eiko Ookawa谷口ユミ
Tadao Nakamaru小田切慎二
Takayuki Akutagawa(voice)
Hiroyuki Nishimoto
Ralph Jesser
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Jun Negami
Nobuo Kawai
Hiroaki Tanabe(as 田辺進三)
Riki Gonoue
Rikiya Yasuoka
Hachiro Misumi
Michiko Tsukasa
Iwao Dan
Pierre Caramelo
Reiko Hitomi
木村元
Yuki Arikawa
Isao Sasaki(as 佐々木功)
Tomoko Tanaka
Mari Sono
Masuyo Iwamoto
Sakae Yamaura
Etsushi Takahashi
Nami Munakata(as 宗方奈己)
Hiroshi Sato
Jiro Miyaguchi(as 宮口二朗)
Takao Nakamura
Hiroshi Date
Kosuke Nakatsuka
Tatsuya Kameyama
Osamu Sakai
Etsuko Nami
Hiromi Sakaki
Mayumi Miura
Keisuke Nakai
Shozo Inagaki
Shin'ya Ishiwata
Kōji Nanbara
Takashi Fujiki
小西まち子
佐々木梨里
稲吉靖
Dennis Hodgson
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Midori Fujita
Tomotaka Ueda
Keiko Yumi
Asao Koike
Chico Lourant
Misa Kôno
Rainer Gessmann
Yumeji Tsukioka
Yūko Enatsu
Ken Nishida
Hitomi Ariyoshi
Robin Howett
Hiroyuki Ôta
Fumio Watanabe
Naomi Shiraishi
Osamu Kimura
Joe Shishido
Nana Kinomi
Eiko Yanami
Miyako Natsu
Tetsuya Ooshita
Yoshimasa Sato
Takeshige Hatanaka
Osamu Misumi
Masaya Takahashi
Ruriko Itô
Kōji Matsubara
Keiji Yamamoto
Yûichi Nishi
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