Shūchakueki Series (終着駅シリーズ, Terminal Station Series), also known as Morimura Seiichi no Shūchakueki, is a long-running prime-time television detective drama series in Japan that first aired on TV Asahi in 1990. Based on Seiichi Morimura's Ushiokeiji no Jikenbo series.[1][2]

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi played the lead role in the first four episodes, Tsurutaro Kataoka has been playing the lead role since the fifth episode. Masanao Ushio is a detective of Nishi Shinjuku Police station, his nickname is Moo-san.[3] He solves incidents with his great insight and intelligence.[4][5]

Some episodes have aired on KIKU with English subtitles.[6]

Cast

• Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Masanao Ushio (Episode 1–4)
• Gen Kimura as Hirabayashi (Episode 1–4)
• Tsurutaro Kataoka as Masanao Ushio (Episode 5-37)
• Kumiko Okae as Sumiyo Ushio (Episode 7-36)
• Akira Nagoya as Sakamoto (Episode 5, 7–17)
• Taisaku Akino as Sakamoto (Episode 17-37)

Episodes

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Masanao Ushio (1990-94)

• 1. Shūressha (December 8, 1990); Susumu Kurobe as Onaka Kazuyuki, Naoya Makoto as Detective Haraguchi, Tadashi Yokouchi as Mogami Hideyuki
• 2. Shūchakueki (February 1, 1992); Tōru Minegishi as Mizuma Tasuhiko, Eiichiro Funakoshi as Kurasaki Shinya, Hiro Komura as Miyasaka Yukiko
• 3. Shikeidai no Butai (November 7, 1992); Yoko Moriguchi as Igusa Mamiko, Kenichi Endō as Iba Hiroshi
• 4. Ao no Jūjika (September 24, 1994); Yu-ki Matsumura as Nagumo Hirotada, Takako Miki as Yabuki Asako

Tsurutaro Kataoka as Masanao Ushio (1996-now)

• 5. Hokoriaru Higaisha (January 27, 1996)
• 6. Ningeno no Jūjika (September 28, 1996)
• 7. Machi (March 22, 1997)
• 8. Mado (March 28, 1998)
• 9. Eki (November 28, 1998)
• 10. Murder of a Flower-Viewing Guest (March 27, 1999)
• 11. Murder Credit (August 28, 1999)
• 12. Yako Ressha (February 5, 2000)
• 13. Satsujin no Funin (January 13, 2001); Satoko Takemoto as Ashita Megumi
• 14. Sabaku no Anshō (September 22, 2001); Naomi Hosokawa as Michiyuki Yumiko, Masanori Ikeda as Kanda Naoya
• 15. Sabaku no Eki (February 8, 2003)
• 16. Kabe no Me (July 5, 2003)
• 17. Muteki no Yoin (October 2, 2004); Takami Yoshimoto as Erimura Tazuko and Shizuko,
• 18. Hakon no Jōken (August 20, 2005); Mami Nomura as Satomi Masae, Satoshi Jinbo as Nakanishi Mitsuhiko
• 19. Shisha no Haitatsunin (March 25, 2006)
• 20. Sabaku no Kissaten (October 28, 2006); Ryoko Yuui as Obana Fujie, Bengal as Jibiki, Takeo Nakahara as Inaba
• 21. Aku no Jōken (September 22, 2007)

• 22. Satsujin Doumei (March 14, 2009); Atsuko Sakurai as Takabayashi Yuko
• 23. Shisa-ji (October 10, 2009); Kaori Takahashi as Niki Seiko, Hiromi Nakajima as Yanagawa Naomi
• 24. Shūchakueki[lower-alpha 1] (July 31, 2010); Noriko Aoyama as Mikami Junko, Yuko Takayama as Miyaji Yukiko, Masahiro Komoto as Mizuma Tatsuhiko
• 25. Tochū Gesha Suru Onna (September 24, 2011)
• 26. Satsui no Honryu (October 27, 2012); Natsuki Harada as Izawa Miho, Kazuya Takahashi as Chiba Ryugo
• 27. Akuno Tamashii (September 28, 2013); Sayuri Kokushō as Kawana Megumi
• 28. Zankokuna Shikai (June 28, 2014)
• 29. Umbrella of Goodwill - Murderer on a Rainy Night!! A Husband was Murdered!? (2015); Riona Hazuki as Yamano Kyoko
• 30. Murder Credit - Victim's Pandora's Box!! Unsolved Murder Under the Lake...[lower-alpha 2] (2016); Sei Matobu as Munakata Ayuko, Gamon Kaai as Okamoto Hiroshi
• 31. Murder of a Flower-Viewing Guest[lower-alpha 3] (July 16, 2017); Kanan Nakahara as Kunugi Shizuka, Yasufumi Hayashi as Nagasaki Shinsuke
• 32. Satsui wo Hakobu Kutsu (April 22, 2018); Jun Hashizume as Shimojo Tamotsu, Yōko Ishino as Shimojo Kanako
• 33. Garasu no Mihitsu (June 24, 2018); Tomoka Kurotani as Ayane
• 34. Koya no Shoumei (January 27, 2019); Reiko Takashima as Sekikawa Kyoko, Shunsuke Nakamura as Yamana Isao, Hideko Hara as Wakita Fuyue
• 35. Kishibo no Matsuei (November 3, 2019)
• 36. Yuki no Hotaru (January 7, 2020); Yoko Moriguchi as Eiko Izumida, Maki Miyamoto as Shimamura Masako, Ichirota Miyakawa as Izumida Yozo
• 37. Teinennonai Satsui (April 1, 2021)

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