In 1985, Kyogoku is an unconventional but passionate to the point of overeagerness detective who has solved many cases. He corners a violent criminal called Kagura, but at that moment, a bomb planted by Kagura explodes and Kyogoku slips into a coma for 30 years. One day in 2015, Kyogoku suddenly wakes up and visits his wife, Kanako. However, she has remarried and rebuffs him. Just at the moment he is behaving violently, he ends up getting arrested by a young detective, Mochizuki Ryota and brought to Yokohama Chuo Police Precinct where he is reunited with his former junior Suzuki and boss Kujira. Kyogoku quickly returns to his position as a detective. However, he cannot comprehend the latest gadgets and the “new wisdom”. He keeps ignoring modern rules without a care and getting Ryota, who has been made his buddy, into trouble.
The Last Cop (ラストコップ) is a Japanese television drama series based on the 2010 German television series Der letzte Bulle. The Japanese version was developed by NTV and Hulu Japan. The first episode premiered on NTV on 19 June 2015. It received a viewership rating of 12.9%. The rest of the episode is streaming on Hulu.
Toshiaki Karasawa played the lead role of the detective Kōsuke Kyōgoku who was in coma for 30 years, and Nozomi Sasaki played his daughter. Yuki Saito, who sang a hit song in the 1980s, also appeared as a guest role.
