Composer
Director
Screenwriter
Main Role
- Sakaguchi Kentaro Main Role
- Kitamura Kazuki Main Role
- Kichise MichikoSakurai MisakiMain Role
- Watabe AtsuroNakamoto ShinnosukeMain Role
Support Role
- Kimura YuichiYamada Tsutomu [Detective / Misaki's subordinate]Support Role
- Ikeda TetsuhiroKojima Shinya [Forensic officer]Support Role
- Komoto MasahiroIwata Kazuo [Chief of Investigation Division 1]Support Role
- Aono KaedeAnzai Rika [Associate professor at Department of Forensic Medicine, Keimei University]Support Role
- Kamio FujuKato Ryota [Kento's older brother]Support Role
- Ohnishi RikuSaegusa Kento [Young]Support Role
Guest Role
- Serizawa TatetoMaruoka [Reporter] (Ep. 1)Guest Role
- Kawai AobaMaekawa Honami [Former Tanihara Memorial Hospital nurse] (Ep. 1)Guest Role
- RimiTashiro Ayaka [Victim] (Ep. 1-2)Guest Role
- Kataoka ReikoTashiro Kyoko [Ayaka's mother] (Ep. 1-2)Guest Role
- Hasegawa KyokoYoshimoto Keiko [Former Tanihara Memorial Hospital nurse] (Ep. 1-2)Guest Role
- Takeuchi ToshiHashimoto Keisuke [Suspect] (Ep. 1-2)Guest Role
- Yamazaki Gakudai[Police officer] (Ep. 1-2)Guest Role
- Okayama HajimeIto Yuji [Takeshi's senior detective] (Ep. 1-3)Guest Role
- Takano ShihoKato Miki [Kento and Ryota's mother] (Ep. 1, 8-10)Guest Role
- Sakuma YuiKitano Midori [Ramen Yasuda's employee] (Ep. 2-4)Guest Role
- Yashiba ToshihiroYasuda Jiro [Ramen Yasuda's owner] (Ep. 2-4)Guest Role
- Matsunaga YurikoMika (Ep. 2, 4)Guest Role
- Onoue HiroyukiTanaka Hitoshi [Shuichi's son] (Ep. 2-4)Guest Role
- Ohnishi TakeshiNakajima [Ryoko's husband] (Ep. 3)Guest Role
- Sato RyoNakajima Reiko [Ryoko's daughter] (Ep. 3)Guest Role
- Saburi MayunaShimada Yayoi [Victim] (Ep. 3-4)Guest Role
- Moro MorookaTanaka Shuichi [Josai bus driver] (Ep. 3-4)Guest Role
- Manase JuriYashiro Eiko [Former colleague of Tanaka / Josai bus clerk] (Ep. 3-4)Guest Role
- Ohtaka HirooKaneda Masaru [Shuichi's colleague] (Ep. 4)Guest Role
- Kinoshita AyaneYabe Kaori [Young] (Ep. 5-6)Guest Role
- Nozaki MoekaYabe Kaori [University researcher who was kidnapped by Masayuki] (Ep. 5-6)Guest Role
- Yoshikawa AiKudo Kazumi [Masayuki's daughter] (Ep. 5-6)Guest Role
- Aitsuki AkikoYabe Kayo [Kaori's mother] (Ep. 5-6)Guest Role
- Kosuda YasutoYabe Eisuke [Kaori's father] (Ep. 5-7)Guest Role
- Takahashi TsutomuOkamoto Norio [Former gangster] (Ep. 5, 7-8, 10)Guest Role
- Aoki Ippei[Prison officer] (Ep. 5, 7)Guest Role
- Hirata MitsuruKudo Masayuki [Former thief] (Ep. 5-7)Guest Role
- Kitami ToshiyukiOyama Yasushi [Takeshi's father] (Ep. 5, 9-10)Guest Role
- Shiraishi ShunyaShiraishi Tomohiro [Son of a victim of a series of thefts] (Ep. 6-7)Guest Role
- Morioka YutakaMiyagashi [Tomohiro's driver] (Ep. 6-7)Guest Role
- Suzuta Shuya[Izakaya staff] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Nishioka TokumaNozawa Yoshio [Member of the Lower House] (Ep. 7-8, 10)Guest Role
- Kasahara HideyukiKuraki [Takeshi's junior detective] (Ep. 8)Guest Role
- Nishihara NobuhiroMoriya [Former Tojo High School student] (Ep. 8)Guest Role
- Kaki Hiromi(Ep. 8)Guest Role
- Kubota YukiSasaki [Shinnosuke's subordinate] (Ep. 8-9)Guest Role
- Morishita YoshiyukiIguchi [Nana's father] (Ep. 8-9)Guest Role
- Yamada AinaIguchi Nana [Tojo High School student] (Ep. 8-10)Guest Role
- Seto ToshikiSaito Yuya [Tojo High School student] (Ep. 8-10)Guest Role
- Nagashima SeiraAoi [Kento's high school classmate] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Emi KuraraMotomura Nana / Iguchi Nana [Adult] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Hamada Mari["Okanyaki Fujiyoshi" owner] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Obara YuitoOgawa Yoichi [Tojo High School student] (Ep. 9-10)Guest Role
- Sasakawa KanonReiko [Childhood] (Ep. 3)Guest Role
- Oe YuuriSaegusa Kento [Young] (Ep. 1)Guest Role
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