Saturday, September 28, 2013

Hanzawa Naoki ; The biggest hit of TV drama series in this year

People have watched TV less and less since the Internet technology has come out and given us what we can do other than watching TV. This would be true anywhere in the world. But as far as I can tell, the issue has been severe so far because the less people watch TV, the less TV stations can get the budget. The budget itseld usually comes from advertisement fee for commercial from comapnanies which want to put advetisement on air. As is easily expected, internet advetisement has becoming larger and larger because people's interest platform have shift from TV to internet practically, which can not be helped at the moment. Concequently the reducton of budget to make TV programs including TV dorama also becomes difficult. However, as the title indicates, one biggest hit drama came out this year in Japan. Its title is Hanzawa Naoki which is name of main person's name. Hanzawa is family name, and Naoki is first name.



The drama stroy is basically based on a famous novel which was published a few years ago, and a director of the drama follow the story by chainging a little bit in order to make it fitting for TV. 
The story is essentially long term revenge of Hanzawa to a people in a bank by whom a farther of Hanzawa committed suicide when he was small. His father run a small factory to make screws and lent money fron the bank, but the bank stopped lending because the factory did not expected to make money. Therefore the factory went almost bankrupt and his father killed himself. Hanzawa saw a person in charge tell his father stopping of money in one raining day even though his farther and mother were asking him to keep lending desperately while doing Dogeza. Dogeza is basically a way of asking and appoligizing by expressing desperate attitude. Hanzawa decided to do revenge of his farther when he saw his father hang himself with lope in the factory. He successfully joined the bank after graduating a university and approached the person in charge at that time who was already a board memeber. Finally he was able to make him do Dogeza in font of him and board members which is the most humiliated action in Japan.

The stroy is so simple and does not sould a big hit one, but the reason of the big hit is great jobs of director, actors and actoresses who made the drama attracting people so much. One of example is a charactor of Hanzawa who believe in justice at the bank which is full of politics and conspiracies, and he is always in weak position at first but he managed to knock down persons doing bad by discussion. I think that this way of justice would make people feel good as well as comfortable because there are many politics and stress full things in any companies.

I would say that this would not become the biggest hit if it was  a few decades ago when Japanese economics was doing great.

So it is right timing, and the story is right.

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