Asano immediately shifts the entire blame onto Hanzawa, attempting to sacrifice his subordinate’s career to protect his own.
Within three months, Nishi Osaka Steel goes bankrupt, revealing it had been cooking its books to hide massive debts. Hanzawa Naoki Episode 1
The premiere of , which aired on July 7, 2013, on TBS, didn’t just launch a television series; it ignited a cultural phenomenon in Japan. Centred on the high-stakes world of banking, Episode 1 introduces us to the relentless Naoki Hanzawa (played by Masato Sakai), a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. Asano immediately shifts the entire blame onto Hanzawa,
