Runaway: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Tetsuo Nagai is a probation officer. His job is to rehabilitate young offenders and get them on the straight and narrow. Married with one son, he lives a happy life. All that changes one day when his wife is murdered and his son is gravely injured in an attack. Nagai wrestles with the assailant, but he escapes. Nagai takes his son to the hospital run by his father-in-law, but his son is again attacked and left in a coma. Nagai is interrogated by police detectives and finds himself the chief suspect due to the emergence of a number of pieces of unfavorable evidence. Is someone setting him up? At the verge of giving up, he is struck by another option - he becomes a fugitive, striving to prove his innocence and find the real killer while his son hovers at deaths' door.

Series details

• Title: Runaway
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Crime
• Premiere date: 2004-07-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2004-09-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TBS
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 54 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 49274
• IMDb ID: tt6953208

Cast and credited roles

• Yosuke Eguchi — Tetsuo Nagai

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2004-07-18; final listed air date 2004-09-26; episode order: 11.

Source and licence

Adapted from Runaway 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.