Hero (2001 TV series)
| HERO | |
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| Genre | Legal Drama |
| Starring |
Takuya Kimura Takako Matsu Hiroshi Abe |
| Ending theme | Can You Keep a Secret? by Hikaru Utada |
| Composer(s) | Takayuki Hattori |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 46 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original release | January 8 – March 19, 2001 |
| HERO (2014) | |
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| Genre | Legal Drama |
| Starring |
Takuya Kimura Keiko Kitagawa Tetta Sugimoto |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 54 min. |
| Release | |
| Original release | July 14 – September 22, 2014 |
Hero is a Japanese drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2001.
Hero achieved the highest Japanese TV drama ratings record in 25 years (average audience share over the entire series = 34.3%). It was so successful that it spawned a 2006 miniseries and a feature film entitled Hero: The Movie which reached #3 on the 2007 top-grossing film chart in Japan.
Starting July 2014, Fuji TV will air a second series entitled Hero 2, which will have Takuya Kimura reprise his role.
Kuryu Kohei is a young public prosecutor who gets transferred to a division in Tokyo from Aomori. Kuryu is unlike a typical prosecutor; he refuses to wear a suit and tie, opting for casual clothing, his trademark orange down jacket and stylish boots. He looks and behaves more like a Generation X slacker. He is known for always buying bizarre items from infomercials and the home shopping network. Kuryu is a high-school dropout who was falsely accused of a felony, cleared only by a public prosecutor who took the time to uncover the facts. This forces Kuryu to abandon his delinquent lifestyle, take his high school equivalency, study for the bar exam and pass with flying colours. Also, when he was 17 yrs old, he was arrested whilst trying to protect a friend. [ Hero season 1, ep 10.]
Kuryu's brilliant investigative instincts and determination make him well-suited as an investigator and advocate. Kuryu's job is interview suspects and decide whether to proceed with pressing charges against them. However, unlike his colleagues, rather than sit behind a desk and rubber stamping suspects for trial, Kuryu will leave the office and (literally) do the legwork, go the extra mile and doggedly pursue the truth. However, his unorthodox approach generally generates a lot of antagonism and negative publicity.
Kuryu's colleagues are all concerned with status and position and do not think highly of Kuryu or his eccentricities. Amamiya Maiko, his paralegal assistant, is concerned with attaining her law credentials and becoming a full prosecutor. At first, she believes Kuryu's addition may help her chances but at the beginning of the series comes to detest Kuryu. Kuryu doesn't care too much with how he is viewed and only cares about uncovering the truth of criminal allegations.
Throughout the series, Kuryu uncovers coerced confessions, unethical legal practices, corruption, obstruction from overzealous cops, sensationalistic media, interference from politicians and well connected, powerful elites. Over the course of the series, his idealism and dogged pursuit for truth and justice ignite a similar passion in his colleagues, especially Amamiya.
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