Hanzawa Naoki
| Hanzawa Naoki | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Jun Ikeido and Yatsu Hiroyuki |
| Directed by | Fukuzawa Katsuo and Takayoshi Tanazawa |
| Starring |
Masato Sakai Aya Ueto Mitsuhiro Oikawa Kenichi Takito Kin'ya Kitaōji Teruyuki Kagawa |
| Opening theme | Takayuki Hattori |
| Composer(s) | Takayuki Hattori |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 55 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original release | July 7 – September 22, 2013 |
| Website | |
Hanzawa Naoki (半沢直樹?) is a 2013 Japanese television series by Japanese broadcaster TBS based on the Hanzawa Naoki series of novels by Jun Ikeido (池井戸潤). It follows the story of Hanzawa Naoki, a banker working for the largest bank in Japan, Tokyo Chuo Bank. He faces numerous obstacles from upper management as he climbs his way up the ranks. The show received consistently high ratings: the final episode reached 42.2% in the Kanto area, the highest figure for a drama in the Heisei Era.
Following its huge success as the most-watched series in Japan with a 42.2 share of the audience, the TV serial Hanzawa Naoki, made its entry overseas starting with Taiwan and Hong Kong. The collection from the TV episodes and the popularity poll for the show has achieved the highest rating in three decades of Japanese television drama.
Naoki Hanzawa (Masato Sakai) joined the Sangyo Chuo Bank (one of the precessedors of Tokyo Chuo Bank before the merger with Tokyo Daiichi Bank) and becomes Chief of Loans Division at the Osaka Nishi branch. He is forced by branch manager Asano (Kanji Ishimaru) to grant an unsecured loan of 500 million yen to Nishi Osaka Steel. However, Nishi Osaka Steel goes bankrupt and president Mitsuru Higashida (Takashi Ukaji) along with the 500 million yen disappears. Asano shifts the blame to Hanzawa and orders him to recover the amount. Hanzawa joins forces with Kiyohiko Takeshita (Hidekazu Akai), whose business collapsed due to a chain effect from Nishi Osaka Steel's bankruptcy. The two discovered that the entire event was a scheme by Asano and Higashida. Racing against time and the Taxation Office investigation, Naoki was able to recover the entire 500 million yen for the bank. Afterwards, Hanzawa wanted to expose Asano through the media but out of sympathy to his wife and family Hanzawa leveraged his evidence against Asano so Hanzawa and his subordinates can be promoted to positions of their choice instead. Subsequently, Hanzawa is promoted to deputy Manager of the 2nd Operations Department at the Tokyo Headquarter.
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