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Hanzawa-kun

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Japanese Title: 半澤直樹

Romaji Equivalent Title: Hanzawa Naoki

It was everywhere. I heard about this J-drama all over TV channels on Astro. The Taiwanese channel was talking about it, the Hong Kong channel was talking about it. There was a great hoo-haa going on about this 10-episode latest J-drama claiming it has 54% rating in Japan, meaning half the population in Japan was watching this drama (specifically the finale). And the trailer does look good, in fact, quite fascinating it got my attention immediately. Alot of kneeling downs, beggings, shoutings what not. 

Not gonna explain much about the story. You can read it up here. Basically, politics in the banking industry. It has been awhile since I feel so attached to J-drama and what's really good about this drama is the fact that it points out the way the actual employment world is - where employers take all the credits, employees take all the blames and situations where employees.. more often that not, says 'yes' to everything he/she was asked to perform/do by immediate bosses/superiors which, EVERY single employee in the world can relate to - which was bad. It's about time employers listen and take a 'no' for a change (if it does make sense).

This drama does make you wanna stop, take a step back and start looking at your job in a different perspective - one that does justice to the company and your customers. Gotta love the main character (the guy on the upper left corner) - so insanely smart, brave, outspoken and attentive - a real elite in the banking industry ; if only I canz be as smartz... XD

I highly recommend this J-drama if you ran out of anything else to watch. Forget TVB series.. getting real hopeless these days *shakes head*