dishearteningly similar to corporate employment. Throughout the series, he strives against the obstacles of bureaucratic indifference to help people and pursue his ideals of what a police officer should be, often with humorous results. Cast Oda Yūji as Shunsaku Aoshima Toshirō Yanagiba as Shinji Muroi Eri Fukatsu as Sumire Onda Chosuke Ikariya as Heihachirō Waku Miki Mizuno as Yukino Kashiwagi Yūsuke Santamaria as Masayoshi Mashita Sōichirō Kitamura as Sōichirō Kanda Satoru Saitō as Harumi Akiyama Takehiko Ono as Kengo Hakamada Kenta Satoi as Jirō Uozumi Akira Hamada as Shimazu Shigemitsu Ogi as Masakazu Ichikura Yuki Uchida as Natsumi Shinohara Guests Yoshimasa Kondo as Fumio Tanaka (episode 1) Toshihito Ito as Yamabe (episode 2) Ryoko Shinohara (episode 2) Katsuhiko Sasaki (episode 2) Asami Mizukawa as a middle school student (episode 3) Kee (episode 4) Hikaru Ijūin (episode 5) Tomoe Shinohara as Herself (episode 6) Claude Maki as Tatsumura (episodes 6 and 7) Yoshihiko Hakamada (episode 8) Sadao Abe (episode 9) Naoki Hosaka (pisodes 10 and the final) Maxi Priest (pisodes 10 and the final) Hiroshi Arikawa as the father of Masayoshi Mashita (the final episode) Timeline 1997 January–March: TV Drama. 1997 December: Special episode, Bayside Shakedown: Year-End Special Alert 1998 June: Extra episode, Bayside Shakedown: Wangan Police Station Female Police Officers' Story. 1998 October: Special episode, Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication 1998 October: Bayside Shakedown: The Movie 2003 Summer: Bayside Shakedown 2. 2005 Summer: Two "spin-off" movies which are part of The Odoru Legend Continues. The first titled Tokyo Subway Panic (also known as Negotiator) was released in May. It is based on the character of Mashita as a police negotiator. The second movie The Suspect which was released in August is based on the character of Muroi. Another spin-off, Tobosha Joichiro Kijima was recorded for the DVD release of the Tokyo Subway Panic. 2007: For a Japanese variety show, Trivia no Izumi, a new spin-off was made for a minor character from Tokyo Subway Panic (who did not even have a name at the time), titled Keigokan Uchida Shinzo. 2010 Summer: Bayside Shakedown 3. 2012 September: The last TV special, Bayside Shakedown THE LAST TV Salaryman keiji to saigo no nanjiken. Some of the original cast members reunite after 14 years. 2012 September: The last movie for Bayside Shakedown which is Bayside Shakedown The Final. References External links Official site of the two spin-off movies 1997 Japanese television