Daishou: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Okuyama Keisuke is a successful lawyer with a dark past. He suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder as a result of abuse and betrayal when he was a young boy. One day, Keisuke is asked to defend his distant relative and psychopath "friend", Ando Tatsuya, who is a suspect in a murder case. Tatsuya had robbed him of his own parents and happiness one after another. After that, he was repeatedly mistreated by Tatsuya's family who adopted him. Keisuke takes a risky gamble to bury Tatsuya from society. Their reunion is the start of a battle with a new nightmare.

Series details

• Title: Daishou
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Crime, Thriller, Legal
• Premiere date: 2016-11-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-12-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Hulu Japan
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 45 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 23028

Cast and credited roles

• Rin Takanashi — Makoto Shiraishi
• Shun Oguri — Keisuke Okuyama
• Takahashi Tsutomu — Tatsuya Ando

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-11-18; final listed air date 2016-12-23; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Daishou on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.