Political drama is a sensitive subject, but it is popular in foreign countries where the censorship system is relatively relaxed, whether it is a political criticism or satire, the audience is happy to hear, the political drama in Japanese dramas is also new, what high-scoring Japanese dramas on politics have you seen? What is the best political drama that you think is good in Japan? This article brings you the top ten most classic political dramas in Japan.
1. CHANGE (TV series)
CHANGE is a television series that premiered on Fuji Television in Japan from May 12 to July 14, 2008, directed by Kamasaku Sawada, written by Yasushi Fukuda, starring Takuya Kimura, Eiri Fukatsu, Satoshi Terao, Hiroshi Abe, Rosa Kato, and others. The drama is an inspirational and full of warmth of the Japanese drama, mainly telling the story of an ordinary primary school male teacher who took the place of his deceased father and brother in the election and climbed to the position of prime minister step by step.
2. The Man of Destiny (TV series)
Destiny Man (運命の人) is a Japanese television series broadcast by TBS Television from January 15 to March 18, 2012. Directed by Hiroyasu Doi and starring Masahiro Motoki, Takako Matsu, and others. The drama is based on the secret treaty of the return of Okinawa about 40 years ago, and tells the story of people who have been tricked by fate. The 2012 TBS TV Winter Nine Day Drama starring Masahiro Motoki, co-starring Takako Matsu, Yoko Maki, Nantomo Omori, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yasuzo Harada, and Shinya Kitaji, was adapted from to Toyoko Yamazaki's original work as a 60th anniversary tv drama for TBS Television.
3. The Summer of bureaucrats (TV series)
Summer of Bureaucrats (Japanese name: BureaucratIc Summer) is a 2009 television series broadcast on TBS Television, directed by Shunichi Hirano, Jin Ooka, and Reihito Matsuda, written by Hiroshi Hashimoto, and starring Hiroshi Sato, Masato Sakai, and Katsumi Takahashi Takahashi, and premiered on July 5, 2009. Adapted from Saburo Shiroyama's novel of the same name, the drama tells the story of Japan's rapid economic growth after World War II, when officials of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, represented by Nobugo Kazetsu, struggled tirelessly to lead Japanese industry, which had no international competitiveness, to the advanced level.
4. Minwang (TV series)
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Minwang is a japanese science fiction comedy broadcast by TV Asahi, directed by Keita Motohashi, Kimura, daisuke Yamamoto, written by Nishio Okue, and starring Kenichi Endo and Shoki Sugata, and premiered on July 24, 2015. Adapted from Ikei Torun's work of the same name, the drama tells the story of a series of comedies that occur after the Japanese prime minister and his son exchange "souls".
5. The National Tax Inspectorate (TV series)
The drama mainly depicts the offensive and defensive battle between Haruma, a prosecutor in the INVESTIGATION Department of the Internal Revenue Service who specializes in tax evasion incidents, starring Yosuke Eguchi, and Muramoto, a genius tax evasion consultant of the world financial network played by ARATA, around a huge asset of 600 billion yen. The play is an original script by playwright Yuji Sakamoto, and the story rhythm unfolds between various tax evasion techniques such as "money laundering" and "false declaration", and in order to achieve a magnificent scene, it resolutely moves to Hong Kong, the Caribbean and other overseas shooting locations. It has been 19 years since the peak of Japanese drama love masterpiece "Tokyo Love Story", and Yosuke Eguchi and Yuji Sakamoto, who became famous for this classic masterpiece, have finally joined hands again, and this time they no longer interpret delicate love stories, but belong to the rough stories of the big masters.
6. Scapegoat (TV series)
Scapegoat is a 2015 TELEVISION series based on Masato Koda's novel of the same name, featuring the first female prime minister in Japanese history to depict people caught up in the vortex of power and jealousy. It will be broadcast every Sunday at 10:00 p.m. (Japan time) from April 12, 2015. Starring Hitomi Kuroki, it is co-starring Kanji Ishimaru, Kazuyuki Furutani, Yuki Sasaki, Sasuke Yamaguchi, Ken Mitsuishi, Goshi Shinbo, and Tokuma Nishioka.
7. Don't Call Me Prime Minister (TV Series)
Don't Call Me Prime Minister (総理と呼ばないで) is a series produced by Fuji Television in Japan from April 8 to June 17, 1997 at 9:00 p.m. every Tuesday. The drama was written by Yuki Mitani and featured Masakazu Tamura as the second series (the first was "Renzaburo Furuhata"). Masakazu Tamura plays an incompetent politician, a father who is also bad at family, and even the lowest-rated prime minister in history. And this play as a whole is not only a comedy, but also a family series, and even a political drama. The composer of this drama is Takayuki Hattori, who has composed music for many of Mitani's works.
8. Diplomat Yasusaku Kuroda (TV series)
Yasusaku Kuroda is a Japanese television series that premiered in 2011 and consists of 10 episodes. The series is the sequel to Fuji Television's 50th anniversary film Amalfi: The Goddess's Reward (アマルフィ: Goddess Reward), which tells the story of diplomat Yasaku Kuroda. Yasaku Kuroda (Yuji Oda), a diplomat who works for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' "Overseas Terrorist Countermeasures Office for Japanese People", has successfully solved difficult incidents such as abduction and abduction of Japanese hostages in Italy and South America in the past years. This time, he was ordered by his superior, Eisuke Ando (Akishi Shikaga), to go to San Francisco to serve as vice foreign minister Shoko Kankami...
9. Supervisory Corporation (TV series)
Audit Corporation, also known as Audit Storm, is a Japanese television series co-directed by Kazuki Watanabe and Yuki Yanagawa, starring Takashi Tsukamoto, Nao Matsushita, and others, and began its release in June 2008. "Audit Storm" tells the story of young accountants who are troubled, struggling with the huge reports and heavy responsibilities, and challenging the improper operation of the company.
10. Golden Pig (TV series)
Di Xinzi, who belongs to the Search and Search Division of the Accounting Inspection Office, has been accustomed to a poor life since she was a child, and she was once arrested for fraud, neither academic nor bad, but she is very sensitive to money issues and handles them very well, which is appreciated by the head of the Accounting Prosecutor's Office. The theme of the play is to persuade the good and punish the evil, and every time the core of the matter is solved, it will shout to pay back the money, but the touching friendship and family affection in the play are also the highlights.