Limited series · MBS
Matori & Kyoken Men in the Back Alleys
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Daigo Nishihata
Umezawa Kyonosuke
9 eps
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Kurosaki Toru
9 eps
Osamu Mukai
Katsuragi Akito
9 eps
Kokoro Morita
Sugihara Aoi
9 eps
Joe Kujo
Kaga Hibiki
9 eps
Yuichi Kimura
Shinjo Jo
9 eps
Yusuke Shoji
Hainuma Taichi
9 eps
Kasumi Yamaya
Aoshima Haruka
9 eps
Eiku Yamashita
Inaba Eiji
9 eps
Kinari Hirano
Matsubara Tsutomu
9 eps
Tamiyasu Cho
Nagata Noriaki
9 eps
Motoki Fukami
Saeki Ryu
9 eps
Yasukaze Motomiya
Onizuka Momozo
9 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Matori & Kyoken Men in the Back Alleys actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Matori & Kyoken Men in the Back Alleys reads strongest on Serialized, Bingeability and Character Depth.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After a deadly incident in a Roppongi club, a former child star becomes a double agent for rival narcotics enforcers in Tokyo's criminal underworld.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E09
Episode 9: The End of the Mad Dogs
S01E08
Episode 8: The Price of Betrayal
S01E07
Episode 7: The Obsessive-Compulsive Boss
S01E06
Episode 6: The Day The Mad Dog Was Born
S01E05
Episode 5: The Mad Dog’s Rampage
S01E04
Episode 4: Infiltration into a Dark Social Club
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kentaro UchibeProducer
- Yanghwe YoonProducer
Direction
- Yohei MatsushitaDirector
- Hiroshi ShinagawaDirector
Music
- Senri TaiOriginal Music Composer
- Shunsuke SuzukiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
- Netflix Standard with AdsStreaming
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