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AIBOU: GEKIJYOBAN

By Seiji IZUMI

TOEI COMPANY, LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Action/Adventure - Completed 2008

A film version of Japan's most popular detective drama series. Two men - Ukyo who has a sharp mind and the other Kameyama, a fervent detective, find out the truth of the difficult murder case.

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Action/Adventure
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 130 mn
- Director(s)
- Seiji IZUMI
- Writer(s)
- Masashi TODAYAMA
- Cast
- Yutaka MIZUTANI, Yasufumi TERAWAKI
- Producer(s)
- Motohiro MATSUMOTO, Megumi UEDA, Junichi KATSUKI, Atsuo NISHIHIRA
- Synopsis
- From the mysterious code to the Tokyo big city marathon 2008.
  Cleverly-devised plot to bomb!?
  The arcane series of murders with the mysterious code left. The code means a chilly plot to bomb the Tokyo big city marathon 2008. Who? And what for? What is the true purpose of this case? The suspect seems to make a fool out of investigators, and the capital city is about to be destroyed!
  
  A corpse of a popular newscaster is found on a steel tower of an antenna of a live telecast in the suburb of Tokyo. There is a code “f6” left in an accident site...
  Ukyo Sugishita (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kaoru Kameyama (Yasufumi Terawaki), who are now in a special assignment section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, are ordered to protect House of Representatives member Hinako Katayama (Yoshino Kimura). She receives a package bomb from a suspect, but luckily, she doesn’t hurt and leave overseas visit safety. There is also a code “d4” in the scene of an assault.
  
  From the information of “SNS”, a membership web site, Ukyo and Kaoru recognizes that these cases are the announced beforehand murders. There are victim’s names in a message board of a web site named “list of dispatch”. Ukyo explains to Kaoru that the code is a mark of a game record means chess, and this murder case is a series of murders.
  
  From new information, Ukyo finds a “massage” in the “SNS”. Then he catches a mysterious file “S”, and finds that a manager of the website, “list of dispatch”, Kazunori Shiotani (Takashi Kashiwabara) ’s true purpose. The reason is a revenge for everyone in this country because his friend, Watari is left in the lurch. So he plans an indiscriminate terror in the Tokyo big city marathon. Ukyo realizes that Shiotani’s target is Rinkai Bridge.
  
  Kaoru finds a suspicious boat at the base of the bridge, he chases it and succeeds to head off an explosion. Although detectives in the investigation headquarters have a sense of security, only Ukyo doesn’t. He guesses there is something left in Shiotani’s plan, so rushes immediately to the place that holds fond memories for Shiotani and Watari.
  On the other hand, Kaoru goes to the finish line of the marathon to looks for Yayoi (Yuika Motokariya). Then Ukyo finds Yayoi who worried about Shiotani and a time bomb, which is about to blow up!!
  
  The main director who established the world of “Aibô”.
  He did strategic spots since this drama has been started.