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Time Loop Detective
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Gaku Hamada
Makoto Hyakutake
9 eps
Anna Ishii
Misaki Saeki
9 eps
Nobuyuki Suzuki
Takashi Yoshioka
9 eps
Yuka Itaya
Kumi Kawashima
9 eps
Katsuhisa Namase
Atsushi Kurosaki
9 eps
Keiko Toda
Lilly
9 eps
Satoshi Jinbo
Kazuo Yarita
2 eps
Shigeo Ôsako
Kawajiri
1 eps
Eiji Takigawa
Shosei Takatsu
1 eps
Kazunari Tosa
Yuichi Shimada
1 eps
Hajime Okayama
Mansaku Kameda
2 eps
Kentaro Maeda
Takuya Asao
1 eps
Meari Hayashi
Tamako Yamazaki
1 eps
Oolongta Yoshida
Hajime Himura
1 eps
Ryoko Kobayashi
Nozomi Nakano
1 eps
Kentaro Tamura
Kentaro Fukuoka
1 eps
Koen Kondo
Takuro Abiko
1 eps
Moemi Katayama
Sayuri Nemoto
1 eps
Momiji Yamamura
Kayo Umezawa
1 eps
Tsutomu Takahashi
Takuma Iwasaki
1 eps
Noa Nakada
Mari Iwasaki
1 eps
Yusaku Mori
Yukihiko Umezawa
1 eps
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Yoshiki Makimura
4 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Time Loop Detective actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Time Loop Detective reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A plainclothes detective travels back 10 years in time to prevent his girlfriend’s murder, using his future knowledge to confront police corruption and rewrite his destiny.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Rina SobueProducer
- Koichi HamataniProducer
Direction
- Tatsunori SatoDirector
- Yûichi OnumaDirector
- Wataru HiranamiDirector
Music
- Yuji IwamotoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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