Drama: Partners: Season 1 Romaji: Aibou: Season 1 Japanese: 相棒 Season 1 Director: Seiji Izumi, Toshio Ohi, Hajime Hashimoto Writer: Yasuhiro Koshimizu, Hakaru Sunamoto, Takeharu Sakurai Network: TV Asahi Episodes: 12 Release Date: October 9 - December 25, 2002 Runtime: Wed. 21:00-21:54 TV Ratings: 13.1% Language: Japanese Country: Japan **Plot** Tokumei Gakari (Special Mission Task Team) – is not considered as important as it might sound. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and so-called as the “oversized garbage dealer”. Ukyo Sugishita (Yutaka Mizutani) is a head of this Tokumei Gakari. As people rumor that anyone who worked under Ukyo eventually leaves the office, he is called “the grave keeper of human resource”. However, there was another reason why people call him in this name. When Ukyo fist transferred to this section with his secret mission, all of his direct reports died mysteriously. Somehow, the police have sealed this incident from further investigation. Ukyo's present partner is frank, ardent man Kaoru Kameyama. (Yasufumi Terawaki) Though they of the type that is completely the opposite don't get along, Ukyo and Kaoru will solve the truth of the cases. **Cast** Mizutani Yutaka Terawaki Yasufumi Kawahara Kazuhisa Suzuki Sawa Takagi Saya Kishibe Ittoku Izumiya Shigeru Yamamoto Kei Namase Katsuhisa Matsushita Yuki Yamamoto Mirai Ikewaki Chizuru Morimoto Leo Naitou Takashi Suga Kenta