Daitokai (大都会, The Big City or Metropolis)　was a popular prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1976 to 1979^[3] for a total of 132 episodes and three seasons, each with its own story arc. The lead star was Tetsuya Watari.^[4][5] The drama won popularity and was followed by Seibu Keisatsu.^[6]

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Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.^[7][8]

Daitokai Tatakai no Hibi (31 episodes)^[7][9]

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Yujiro Ishihara as Takigawa Ryuta (Baku-san)
• Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa
• Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
• Isao Tamagawa as Mitsuhiko Ishiki
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bousan)
• Kōjirō Kusanagi as Goichi Takagi
• Akira Terao as Akira Hidaka
• Masaki Kanda as Kōji Kujō
• Joe Shishido as Junichirō Matsukawa
• Sei Hiraizumi as Akihiko Okubo
• Hiroko Shino as Naoko Miura

Daitokai Part II (52 episodes)^[8][10]

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Yusaku Matsuda as Isao Tokuyoshi (Toku)
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Masaki Kanda as Sōtarō Jin (episode 14-52)
• Ryuta Mine as Gan Kamijō (Saru)
• Gō Awazu as Haruo Hirahara (episode 1-13)
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bōsan)
• Shunsuke Kariya as Hyōsuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
• Asao Koike as Tsutomu Yoshioka
• Akiko Nishina as Keiko Kuroiwa (episode 1-8,19)
• Yūsuke Takita as Kiyosato Yamamoto
• Kei Satō as Yukio Fukamachi
• Yujiro Ishihara as Doctor Gorō Munakata
• Mitsuko Oka as Nurse Kyōko Yoshino

Daitokai Part III (49 episodes)^[6][11]

• Tetsuya Watari as Raisuke Kuroiwa (Kuro-san)
• Akira Terao as Jiro Makino
• Masato Hoshi as Isao Torada
• Takehiko Ono as Tadashi Ouchi (Bō-san)
• Kaku Takashina as Yonezō Maruyama
• Ryuta Mine as Gan Kamijō
• Shunsuke Kariya as Hyōsuke Miyamoto (Benkei)
• Yujiro Ishihara as Doctor Gorō Munakata

• Part II

"Hitori" by Tetsuya Watari.

• Part III

"Higure Zaka" by Tetsuya Watari.