Hero (2001 TV series)
| Hero | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Legal drama |
| Starring | Takuya Kimura Takako Matsu Hiroshi Abe |
| Ending theme | "Can You Keep a Secret?" by Hikaru Utada |
| Composer | Takayuki Hattori |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 46 min. |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Release | January 8 – March 19, 2001 |
Hero is a Japanese drama series that first aired on Fuji TV in from January to March 2001. Following a television special and a film adaptation, Fuji TV aired a second series called Hero 2 in 2014. Both series starred Takuya Kimura as a renegade public prosecutor in Tokyo.
The original 2001 series achieved unusually high ratings, with over 30% audience share per episode. It was the highest Japanese TV drama ratings record in 25 years (average audience share over the entire series was 34.3%). The feature film entitled Hero: The Movie which reached #3 on the 2007 top-grossing film chart in Japan.