Season 3 • Episode 5
LatestWho will run Japan? The prime minister or a mastermind? A political thriller about the "fixer" pulling strings behind the scenes controlling the political, business, and legal worlds as the greed of money and power intersect.
Acting
Karasawa's terrifyingly calm dominance
Writing
Ruthless dialogue that cuts like policy
Direction
Silence as weapon, stillness as threat
Creator
Yumiko Inoue
Toshiaki Karasawa
Kenichi Shitara
Keita Machida
Tatsuya Watanabe
Kotaro Koizumi
Koji Itakura
Yuki Uchida
Reiko Sawamura
Jun Kaname
Shinnosuke Maruoka
Yuki Saito
Kyoko Watanabe
Kaoru Kobayashi
Ichiro Suzaki
Masaya Katō
Takumi Ujihara
Koji Ishizaka
Shinjiro Kurohane
Reiko Takashima
Masami Yomoda
Satoshi Tokushige
Eita Kawamoto
Jin Shirasu
Shun Koiwai
Karen Otomo
Saki Ujihara
Arata Furuta
Eiichi Oonuki
Koji Ohkura
Hiroki Kanou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects real anxiety over Japan's 'amakudari' system where bureaucrats rotate into lucrative private sector roles.
Creator Yumiko Inoue spent months embedded with political journalists to capture the specific lethargy of government buildings.
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