SP (TV series)
SP | |
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Genre | Action |
Created by | Kazuki Kaneshiro |
Starring | Junichi Okada Shinichi Tsutsumi Yōko Maki |
Ending theme | way of life (V6) |
Composer | Yugo Kanno |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 11+Special |
Production | |
Producer | Ichiro Takai |
Production location | Tokyo |
Running time | 42 min./episode |
Original release | |
Network | Fuji TV |
Release | November 3, 2007 January 26, 2008 | –
SP, also known as Security Police (SP
The franchise consists of the TV series, two film adaptations of the series released in 2010 and 2011 with a manga adaptation.
Plot[edit]
Kaoru Inoue had suffered a tragedy when his parents were killed by a knife-wielding man in the political rally of Assemblyman Yūzō Asada in Tokyo when he was 6. Because of this, all of his senses have been improved with the ability to detect anything in his surroundings ranging from telling who is an assassin and who is a civilian while being able to tell important details such as having photographic and tracking abilities. Veteran SP officer Sōichirō Ogata recruits him from SP training after being impressed with his training under Section 4 of the SP division. Inoue works with Eri Sasamoto, one of the few women serving in the division. Another officer is Takafumi Yamamoto, who is the only known SP officer to have MMA experience with a preference to use the 7:3 hairstyle ratio. Mitsuo Ishida is the only known SP officer in the section who had been previously married. Together, these men and women work in unison to protect the VIPs assigned to them from being killed by assassins. But when the team is assigned to protect Asada, now the Prime Minister of Japan, Inoue begins to have nightmares relating to the tragedy while Ogata strives to ensure his safety while having some secrets of his own aside from Inoue.
Cast[edit]
- Junichi Okada as Kaoru Inoue (
井上 薫 , Inoue Kaoru) - Shinichi Tsutsumi as Sōichirō Ogata (
尾形 総一郎 , Ogata Sōichirō) - Yōko Maki as Eri Sasamoto (
笹本 絵里 , Sasamoto Eri) - Satoru Matsuo as Takafumi Yamamoto (
山本 隆文 , Yamamoto Takafumi) - Yū Kamio as Mitsuo Ishida (
石田 光男 , Ishida Mitsuo) - Atsuko Hirata as Harakawa (
原川 ) - Shingo Egami as Yoshiharu Nakao (
中尾 義春 , Nakao Yoshiharu) - Kisuke Iida as Yūji Nishijima (
西島 勇司 , Nishijima Yūji) - Toru Nomaguchi as Ichirō Tanaka (
田中 一郎 , Tanaka Ichirō) - Kei Yamamoto as Yūzō Asada (
麻田 雄三 , Asada Yūzō) - Sandaime Uotake Hamada Shigeo as Hiroo (ヒロオ)
- Mitsuru Hirata as Kazuya Yamanishi (
山西 一弥 , Yamanishi Kazuya)
Reception[edit]
The shows final episode reached a viewership rating of 18.9%, the highest in recent history for a late-night drama.[1] Since there were high ratings, an average of 15.0%, a special was aired on April 5, 2008. The average rating is the third highest in the fall season (October 2007 - January 2008), following Galileo with the 21.9% rating and Team Medical Dragon 2 with the 16.7% rating.[2]
Other media[edit]
Manga[edit]
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Movies[edit]
Two movies have been made using the same cast and crew as the TV-series. The first film, SP: Yabou-hen (international title SP: The Motion Picture), was released on October 30, 2010 and made ¥3.63 billion, making it one of the highest-grossing films of 2010 in Japan.[3] It also grossed $26,167 in Hong Kong, for a total of $39.65 million in East Asia.[4]
The second movie SP: Kakumei Hen (international title SP: The Motion Picture II) was released on March 12, 2011. Two TV Specials were shown on March 4 and 5, 2011 serving as a prologue to the second movie.[5] The main cast reprised their roles, while scriptwriter Kazuki Kaneshiro and director Katsuyuki Motohiro also returned.[6] The film grossed ¥3.33 billion ($41.73 million) in Japan,[7] and $12,783 in Hong Kong.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "『SP』
最終 回 の視聴 率 18.9%、深夜 ドラマで過去 最高 " (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-11-11. - ^ "フジテレビ
系 ドラマ「SP」がゴールデン進出 、スペシャルを4月 放送 。" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-29. - ^ Jonathan Green (2011-02-11). "Fuji TV to air "SP" movie prologue before release of "SP: Kakumei-hen"". Bionic Bong. Archived from the original on 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "SP: The Motion Picture I". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ HPriest (2011-02-20). ""SP" to make a television return prior to the second movie". Tokyo Hive.
- ^
岡田 准 一 主演 ドラマ「SP」映画 化 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-11-11. - ^ "Movies With Box Office Gross Receipts Exceeding 1 Billion Yen". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ "SP: The Motion Picture II (Hong Kong)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
External links[edit]
- Official Movie Site (in Japanese)
- SP at IMDb
- Japanese drama television series
- Terrorism in television
- Japanese action television series
- Political drama television series
- Television shows set in Japan
- 2007 Japanese television series debuts
- 2008 Japanese television series endings
- 2000s Japanese-language films
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in fiction
- Fuji TV dramas