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School Cop

School Cop

20216.91 Season10 EpisodesEnded

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.

Created by Tetsuya Oishi
Written by Tetsuya Oishi, Junpei Yamaoka, Soichiro Ojima
Produced by Fuminori Takahashi, Masahiro Kunimoto, Hideyuki Kasai
NetworksFuji TVKansai TV

Top Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Ryuhei Shimada

Yoko Maki

Yoko Maki

Ryoko Asamura

Yuki Yamada

Yuki Yamada

Hiroki Saegusa

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Kaede Mizuno

Katsumi Takahashi

Katsumi Takahashi

Kijima Toshifumi

Rio Asumi

Rio Asumi

Kaori Ogawa

Yuki Izumisawa

Yuki Izumisawa

Toru Shibata

Yuya Endo

Yuya Endo

Masahiro Okabe

Kenta Suga

Kenta Suga

Kiyoshi Niizu

Takuma Otoo

Takuma Otoo

Hiroaki Abe

Themes & Keywords

campustroubled teenjunior high schooltroubled youthtrouble at schoolout of control studentsvengeful studentschool police

About School Cop

School Cop is a drama, crime, mystery series that first aired in 2021 exploring themes of campus, troubled teen, junior high school, troubled youth, trouble at school, out of control students. Created by Tetsuya Oishi, it stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yoko Maki, Yuki Yamada. 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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