Emergency Interrogation Room Season 5: Production and Broadcast Overview

Emergency Interrogation Room, known in Japanese as Kinkyu Torishirabe Shitsu (緊急取調室), is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on TV Asahi. Season 5 premiered on October 16, 2025, and concluded on December 18, 2025, spanning a total of 9 episodes. The series occupied TV Asahi's Thursday 21:00 to 21:59 time slot, succeeding the program Their Marriage and preceding Okome no Onna, which began on January 8, 2026.

Production and Staff

The fifth season was directed by Jota Tsunehiro and Keita Motohashi, with screenplays written by Yumiko Inoue. The production follows a long-running franchise on TV Asahi that includes multiple preceding television seasons (2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2025 installments) as well as theatrical feature projects such as Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final.

Cast and Characters

The primary cast features returning members portraying the specialized interrogation unit:

• Yuki Amami as Yukiko Makabe
• Tetsushi Tanaka as Katsutoshi Kajiyama
• Mokomichi Hayami as Tetsuji Watanabe
• Kosuke Suzuki as Daijiro Kenmotsu
• Koji Ookura as Kazuhisa Iwaki
• Muga Tsukaji as Matsuo Tamagaki
• Denden as Susumu Hishimoto
• Fumiyo Kohinata as Haruo Koishikawa
• Yuki Ikushima as Shinji
• Shizuka Nakamura as Kayano

The season also featured various guest cast members across its nine episodes, including Koji Yamamoto, Mayumi Wakamura, Akihiro Kakuta, Yukijiro Hotaru, Raita Ryu, Rie Minemura, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Kurumi Shimizu, Kai Shishido, Takato Nagata, Nao Ayaki, Kazunori Mimura, Ryotaro, Sakurako Ohara, Kinuwo Yamada, Saki Takaoka, Hitomi Takahashi, Manato Sakamoto, Kurumi Inagaki, Maki Issou, Takashi Ukaji, Issey Ogata, Yasufumi Hayashi, Koen Kondo, Zuimaro Awashima, Koichiro Tomioka, Masataka Nakamura, Tomoko Takaya, Mariko Kaga, Takahiro Fujimoto, Aimi Satsukawa, Tetsuji Tamayama, Kazuya Ohashi, Maria Mori, Kazutoyo Yoshimi, Ryutaro Yamasaki, Kenya Matsuki, and Seiichi Kohinata.

Broadcast Ratings

According to research data from Video Research, Ltd., the Kanto region household television ratings for Season 5 averaged 9.0% across its run.