Key Hunter
Key Hunter is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network from April 6, 1968 to April 7, 1973. There were a total of 262 episodes, and it was one of the most popular action dramas in Japan at the time. The story involved "Key Hunter", a special clandestine unit of the International Police, which endeavored to solve various crimes. "Key Hunter" was a unique TV show, which started out as a grand scale spy thriller never before seen in Japan. The episodes were individually themed on global crimes and political strife. The initial hardboiled theme later evolved to include intellectual elements involving action, and occasionally with comical elements as well. Tetsuro Tamba starred in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice as Japanese Secret Service agent Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond. This role greatly influenced his image in "Key Hunter".
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Tetsuro Tamba
黒木鉄也 · 262 eps
Yoko Nogiwa
津川啓子 · 262 eps
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
吹雪一郎 · 262 eps
Hayato Tani
島竜彦 · 262 eps
Sonny Chiba
風間洋介 · 262 eps
Noboru Nakaya
村岡室長 · 262 eps
Hiroshi Miyauchi
壇俊介 · 262 eps
Eiko Ookawa
谷口ユミ · 262 eps
Tadao Nakamaru
小田切慎二 · 262 eps
Takayuki Akutagawa
(voice) · 12 eps
Hiroyuki Nishimoto
3 eps
Ralph Jesser
3 eps
Jun Negami
2 eps
Nobuo Kawai
2 eps
Hiroaki Tanabe
(as 田辺進三) · 2 eps
Riki Gonoue
2 eps
Rikiya Yasuoka
2 eps
Hachiro Misumi
2 eps
Michiko Tsukasa
2 eps
Iwao Dan
2 eps
