Hero (2001 TV series)

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Hero
Genre	Legal drama
Starring	Takuya Kimura Takako Matsu Hiroshi Abe
Ending theme	"Can You Keep a Secret?" by Hikaru Utada
Composer	Takayuki Hattori
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	approx. 46 min.
Original release
Network	Fuji TV
Release	January 8 (2001-01-08) – March 19, 2001 (2001-03-19)
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Hero is a Japanese drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2001.

Hero achieved the highest Japanese TV drama ratings record in 25 years (average audience share over the entire series = 34.3%). It was so successful that it spawned a 2006 miniseries and a feature film entitled Hero: The Movie which reached #3 on the 2007 top-grossing film chart in Japan.

Starting July 2014, Fuji TV aired a second series entitled Hero 2, which had Takuya Kimura reprising his role.