is a

Japanese television drama , also called , are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, jidaigeki, thrill ...

that premiered on

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as (also known as EX and and stylized as TV asahi), is a television station that is owned and operated by the subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Comp ...

on January 10, 2005. It ran for 12 episodes until its conclusion on March 10, 2005. Set in a virtual simulation of Shibuya, Tokyo which is regulated by an entity named Piece which does not allow inhabitants to live, the series focuses on a fifteen-year-old boy named Tsuyoshi who seeks to find both his lost memories and a way to escape Shibuya. To maintain control, Piece "kills" those who do not operate within the proper confines of the world, which results in their being reset and inserted back into the city with a new name and identity and without their previous memories. The episodes are directed by Nobuhiro Suzuki and

Ryuta Tasaki is a Japanese film director from Tokyo. Tasaki is most known for directing episodes of '' Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon'', '' Cutie Honey: The Live'', and the ''Super Sentai'', ''Power Rangers'', and '' Kamen Rider'' series. Filmography * seri ...

, using scripts written by

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. Their soundtrack was composed by

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. A single volume manga adaptation, written and illustrated by Go Yabuki, was released by Kadokawa Shoten on July 1, 2005.

Cast

* Saya Yūki as Tsuyoshi *

Yui Aragaki is a Ryukyuan Japanese actress, model, singer and occasional radio show host. She has been selected several times as the most desired girlfriend and the most desired female celebrity face in Oricon's yearly survey. Early life She was born on J ...

as Ema *

Yuria Haga is a Japanese model and actress. Filmography TV series *'' Doremisora'' (2002) *''Kokoro'' (2003) *''Kamen Rider 555'' (2003) - Mari Sonada *'' Shin: Inochi no genba kara'' (2004) *''Sh15uya'' (2005) *''Kamen Rider Kiva'' (2008) - Mio Suzuki/ P ...

as Asagi *

Toru Yamashita , better known by his stage name Toru, is a guitarist and the leader of the Japanese rock band One Ok Rock. He was in the hip-hop dance group Heads along with Ryota Kohama from One Ok Rock before they disbanded in 2002. Personal life Toru w ...

as Ryuugo *Uehara Takuya as DJ *

Mao Kato Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PR ...

as Mikio *

Tomohisa Yuge is a Japanese actor who has had roles in numerous TV Asahi Tokusatsu shows, including ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' and ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'', as well as a number of films. Filmography Drama *''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' (2003), Goro Yura (Kamen Rider Zolda ...

as Kengo *

Mitsuru Karahashi is a Japanese actor and illustrator. He is known for having roles in various tokusatsu series, most notably as Naoya Kaido in ''Kamen Rider 555 is a Japanese tokusatsu television drama. It is the 13th installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It ...

as Ootomo *

Mark Musashi Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi (born April 26, 1977 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan), better known by the stage name , is a Wushu martial artist and a stuntman/actor or Gaijin tarento. Raised in Buckfield, Maine, he attended Dartmouth Colleg ...

as Piece *

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as Haru * Takashi Matsuyama as Igaya

Episode list

References

External links

Official TV Asahi website
* * {{IMDb title, 0780993, Sh15uya 2005 Japanese television series debuts 2005 Japanese television series endings Japanese drama television series TV Asahi original programming