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Similar Seibu Keisatsu, G‑Men '75, Abunai Deka, Tantei Monogatari, Hissatsu series | ||
Taiyō ni Hoero! (太陽にほえろ!) (literally, Bark at the Sun) was a long-running prime-time television detective series in Japan, which ran from 1972 to 1986 for a total of 718 episodes. The lead star was Yujiro Ishihara. It also helped further the career of actors such as Yusaku Matsuda and Kenichi Hagiwara as well as Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Masaya Oki. It was a police procedural set mostly in a police station. It was one of the most popular and iconic detective dramas in Japanese television history.
Theme music
The theme music is a Mariachi-sounding tune which is very often used on Japanese television programmes. The music for this show was composed by Katsuo Ono (大野 克夫, Ono Katsuo).
References
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