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The Diplomat Kosaku Kuroda

2011 · 1 season · 54m per episode · Drama, Mystery, Crime

Japanese Ministry of Foreign affairs diplomat Kosaku Kuroda (Yuji Oda) is dispatched all over the world to protect Japanese interests and citizens.After successfully defeating a kidnapping attempt of Japanese citizen in South America, Kuroda is assigned to protect Foreign Ministry official Shoko Mikami (Tamiyo Kusakari) in San Francisco during a World Trade Organization meeting. He meets informant John (Lee Byung-Hun) who gives details on security arrangements and former diplomat Takeshi Shimomura (Teruyuki Kagawa) who worked with Kuroda at the Mexican Embassy 11 years ago.With the help of the information received from John, diplomat Kosaku Koroda is able to prevent an attack on Shoko Mikami by extremists, but as he investigates how the attacker knew of Mikami's movements, Takeshi Shimomura jumps off a building to his death.Meanwhile, a suspect emerges in the murder of a university professor in Japan that took place recently.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 10 episodes (January 13, 2011)

Cast

• Yuji Oda as Kosaku Kuroda（黒田 康作）
• Ko Shibasaki as Rikako Ogaki（大垣 利香子）
• Teruyuki Kagawa as Takeshi Shimomura（霜村 毅）
• Kei Tanaka as Mamoru Saienji（西園寺 守）
• Kaho as Rui Shimomura（霜村 瑠衣）
• Tamiyo Kusakari as Shoko Mikami（観上 祥子）
• Masato Hagiwara as Keiichi Yuki（悠木 圭一）
• Koji Ohkura as Yuji Kamoshita（鴨下 祐司）
• Takeshi Kaga as Yosuke Ando（安藤 庸介）
• Tetsushi Tanaka as Kazuhiko Niida（新居田 一彦）
• Mahiru Konno as Tomoyo Shimomura（霜村 倫世）
• Nana Katase as Aiko Sasaki（佐々木 藍子）

Details

First aired

January 13, 2011

Episodes

10

Genres

Drama, Mystery, Crime

Network

Fuji TV

Status

Ended

TMDB score

6.5 / 10 from 2 votes