Ouroboros (2015)

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"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew up in a children's orphanage together. When their favorite teacher, Yuiko, is murdered, a policeman wearing a gold watch covers up the incident. Ikuo and Tatsuya promise each other to avenge their teacher someday. Twenty years later, Ikuo is a detective in Shinjuku second police station investigating various cases with elite detective - Mizuki, while smart and handsome Tatsuya has become one of the top members of a gang group.

• Released: 2015-01-16
• Genres: Mystery, Drama, Crime
• Seasons: 1, 10 episodes
• Episode length: 55m
• Network: TBS
• Status: Ended
• TMDB rating: 7.0/10 from 20 votes

Top cast

• Toma Ikuta as Ryuzaki Ikuo
• Shun Oguri as Danno Tatsuya
• Juri Ueno as Hibino Mizuki
• Yoh Yoshida as Tachibana Tomiko
• Tsuyoshi Muro as Fukamachi Takeshi
• Nana Seino as Tamura Konatasu
• Ken Mitsuishi as Hibino Kunihiko
• Kenichi Takitoh as Chono Shinichi
• Kotaro Yoshida as Mishima Kaoru
• Ryoko Hirosue as Kashiwaba Yuiko

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