Shudan Sasen (2019)

Shudan Sasen was unexpected

I was really going to give this a miss when a saw it was going to be another Kagawa Teruyuki playing another overacting villain in another variation of Hanzawa Naoki.

I ended up giving episode 1 a show and luckily Kagawa Teruyuki is not a sneering villain and secondly while it is another Hanzawa Naoki with a banker fighting against overwhelming odds, Shudan Sasen doesn't take itself too seriously and there is a kind of showa innocence with the always positive and ganbaru Fukuyama Masaharu as the main character.

Shudan Sasen is like this fable that as long as you work hard, you will succeed even if your own bank is against you and wants to see you fail.

The standard plot of banking jdoramas is that if you show your sincerity and effort, clients will be impressed.

How much you enjoy the show will depend on how much you enjoy such positivity. On a side note, happy to see Nakamura Anne from Suits in this. Also, I love the theme song. Never heard of Elephant Kashimashi before this but they remind me very much of Ulfuls.

I can see myself getting tired of Fukuyama Masaharu's ganbaru everything solution but at least we've got the mystery of who's the traitor to keep us guessing and I'm 100% sure its not Kagawa Teruyuki.

On the whole, I don't hate Shudan Sasen which was unexpected. Maybe Fukuyama's showa positivity is more conducive to my tastes rather than the always sneering, taking itself too seriously Hanzawa Naoki. If you like your Japanese banking doramas where the odds are stacked so high any sane person would have given up, this show is for you.

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Not another Hanzawa Naoki, But A Whole New One !

At first I thought it was going to be another Hanzawa Naoki. But after watching episode one, I realised that the main character is not as serious as Hanzawa was. This guy is more of a funny and chill person. But eventually he becomes serious as the series gets to its end. And I thought Kagawa Teruyuki was going to be an antagonist in this one. But he had demonstrated himself by picking up and acting another wonderful character like he always does. I'm personally a big fan of Kagawa Teruyuki. Overall, you can get into this one without any hesitation. It was satisfactory for me.

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