The key characters in Detective Akechi Kogoro are Akechi Kogoro (Hidetoshi Nishijima), Kinugasa Ryouta (Shugo Oshinari), Udagawa Dougen (Akira Nakao).

Detective Akechi Kogoro was directed by Hisashi Kimura.

Dangerous hacker group “Phantom 20” is known internationally. They begin an attack on Hikari Bank in Japan. Kenjiro Namikoshi (Teruyuki Kagawa) is the chief of the criminal investigation section at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He leads the investigation into the group. Kenjiro Namikoshi thinks of Kogoro Akechi (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who holds vast knowledge on hacking and leads BD team hacker group. To ask him for advisor help on the investigation, Kenjiro Namikoshi sends Yoshio Kobayashi (Atsushi Ito).

Detective Akechi Kogoro is a Mystery, Drama, Suspense show.

Detective Akechi Kogoro episodes are 2h long.

There is no information yet from the studio on if there will be another season.