BG Personal Bodyguard


BG Personal Bodyguard is a Japanese television crime drama series starring Takuya Kimura and written by Yumiko Inoue. It aired first in January 2018 on TV Asahi. The second season runs on April 2020.

Synopsis

Shimazaki Akira is divorced and lives with his teenage son. He used to work as a personal bodyguard but had since left the industry after an accident occurred in which his soccer superstar client was injured. He now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works is going to set up a new bodyguard division. Without telling his manager about the past, Akira Shimazaki starts working as a novice bodyguard.

Broadcast

The first episode was broadcast on January 18, 2018, in Japan. It was also aired at the same month by Wakuwaku Japan in several Asian countries including Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. The first episode received a viewer rating of 15.7%.

Cast

ActorRole
Takuya Kimura Akira Shimazaki
Shinnosuke AbeHarutaka Kiyota
Yōsuke Eguchi Yoshiaki Ochiai
Yuriko IshidaAiko Tachihara
Takaya KamikawaGoro Murata
Shotaro MamiyaSeitaro Sawaguchi
Shinnosuke MitsushimaJunya Kono
Toshiyuki NagashimaShigenobu Imazeki
NanaoMayu Suganuma
Takumi SaitohMasaya Takanashi
Kanau TanakaShun
Takashi UkajiOsamu Hikawa
Tomoko Yamaguchi

Special appearance

Tomoko Yamaguchi, who co-acted with Takuya Kimura in the 1996 Japanese drama classic Long vacation, appears in episodes 6 and 7 as the ex-wife of Akira Shimazaki.