Taiyō ni Hoero!
| Taiyō ni Hoero! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Detective drama |
| Starring | Yujiro Ishihara Tetsuya Watari Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Raita Ryū Kenichi Hagiwara Yūsaku Matsuda Hiroshi Katsuno Masaya Oki Masaki Kanda Shinji Yamashita Toru Watanabe Kunihiko Mitamura Masanori Sera Takeo Chii Tappei Shimokawa Yoshizumi Ishihara Akira Onodera Keiko Takahashi |
| Composer | Katsuo Ōno |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 718 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Hirokichi Okada |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production companies | Toho Nippon Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | NNS (NTV) |
| Release | July 21, 1972 – November 14, 1986 |
Taiyō ni Hoero! (太陽にほえろ!), literally Roar at the Sun!, was a long-running prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1972 to 1986 for a total of 718 episodes. The lead star was Yujiro Ishihara. It also helped further the career of actors such as Yūsaku Matsuda and Kenichi Hagiwara as well as Hiroshi Katsuno and Masaya Oki. It was a police procedural set mostly in a police station. It was one of the most popular and iconic detective dramas in Japanese television history. A sequel was aired from 1986 to 1987, airing for 12 episodes.
It was one of the first shows to air on the then-fledgling Nippon Television Network System (NNS).