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School Cop

2021 · 1 season

A tense, earnest procedural that mixes school drama with crime investigation, asking for steady attention as it explores troubled youth and hard-line justice.

Created by
Takeshi Shirakawa, Masahiro Kunimoto
Genres
Drama, Crime, Mystery
Starring
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yoko Maki, Yuki Yamada
Overview
Tatsuya Fujiwara plays a talented detective who trades hardened criminals for troubled teenagers. Placed in an unruly public junior high school, he gets to work contending with the many problems it faces and uncovers some more serious ones. While the detective tries to operate in the hard-line way he knows best, he finds himself confronted by a skeptical and fiery teacher, played by award winning actress Yoko Maki.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Created by
Takeshi Shirakawa, Masahiro Kunimoto
Genres
Drama, Crime, Mystery
Starring
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yoko Maki, Yuki Yamada
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • education
  • crime
  • justice
  • coming-of-age
  • redemption
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
  • procedural
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror2
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, crime, mystery
Created by
Takeshi Shirakawa, Masahiro Kunimoto
Written by
Tetsuya Oishi, Soichiro Ojima, Junpei Yamaoka
Starring
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yoko Maki, Yuki Yamada, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Katsumi Takahashi, Rio Asumi, Yuki Izumisawa, Yuya Endo
Music
Yugo Kanno
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 54 min each
Network
Fuji TV, Kansai TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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