Details
Title: ハゲタカ
Title (romaji): Hagetaka
Also known as: The Vultures
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 6
Viewership ratings: 7.17
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2007-Feb-17 to 2007-Mar-24
Air time: Saturday 21:00 to 21:58
Synopsis
A business drama set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the bubble economy had collapsed and Japanese businesses with conventional management cultures were exposed to corporate buyouts by foreign investors. Masahiko Washizu, the leading character, is a businessman who once worked for a Japanese bank. He comes back to Tokyo as a New York-trained fund manger to buy out Japanese businesses. Through eight years for the man called "vulture," the drama depicts ambitions, struggles and hopes of those who are involved in corporate acquisitions.. --NHK
Cast
Omori Nao as Washizu Masahiko
Shibata Kyohei as Shibano Takeo
Matsuda Ryuhei as Osamu Nishino
Kuriyama Chiaki as Mishima Yuka
Nakao Akira as Iijima Ryosuke
Muramatsu Toshifumi
Yajima Kenichi
Nakahara Takeo as Sakota
Asari Yosuke
Okuda Tatsuhito as Horikirizono Kentaro (ep4,5)
Production Credits
Original Work: Mayama Jin (真山仁) Hagetaka (novel)
Screenwriter: Hayashi Koji (林宏司)
Directors: Ootomo Keiji (大友啓史), Inoue Go (井上剛), Horikirizono Kentaro (堀切園健太郎)
Music: Sato Naoki
