Taiyō ni Hoero!

Taiyō ni Hoero!
Genre	Detective drama
Starring	Yujiro Ishihara Tetsuya Watari Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Raita Ryū Kenichi Hagiwara Yūsaku Matsuda Hiroshi Katsuno Masaya Oki Masaki Kanda Shinji Yamashita Touru Watanabe Kunihiko Mitamura Masanori Sera Takeo Chii Tappie Shimokawa Yoshizumi Ishihara Akira Onodera Keiko Takahashi
Composer	Katsuo Ono
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	718
Production
Producer	Hirokichi Okada
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Toho NTV
Original release
Network	NTV
Release	June 1972 – November 1986

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 Yūsaku 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.

Regulars

Character	Nickname	Actor	Episodes
Shunsuke Todo	Boss	Yujiro Ishihara
Jun Shibata	jiipan ("jeans")	Yūsaku Matsuda
Seiichi Yamamura	Yama san	Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Jun Hayami	Macaroni	Kenichi Hagiwara
Ryuichi Taki	Scotch	Masaya Oki

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). The theme music has also been used in The Filthy Frank YouTube series, for his "100 ACCURATE LIFE HACKS" video on October 2, 2015. This has led to it becoming a notorious internet meme.