Series

The Auditor

2008 · 1 season

The setting is Japan. After the bursting of its asset-inflated "bubble economy" in 1990, the country is suffering an economic hangover. Foreign capital is flooding in, and great transformations are underway. Accountant Kenji Wakasugi's auditing firm is divided into two camps. The "doves" favor overlooking what are called "window-dressed accounts" so as to allow businesses to recover their financial footing. The "hawks" won't ignore the slightest infraction, holding that inferior firms should be allowed to perish. Wakasugi himself believes in strict accounting practices -- until he is brought face-to-face with the distress and even deaths of employees of companies forced to go under. This is a fictionalized report from the economic front lines, replete with human interest.

Takashi Tsukamoto

Nao Matsushita

Kosuke Toyohara

Masanobu Katsumura

Ken Mitsuishi

Isao Hashizume

Go Riju

Kotaro Tanaka

Sato Kento

• Kazutaka WatanabeDirector
• Masao YajimaScreenplay
• Yuji KobayashiScreenplay

First aired

June 14, 2008

Last aired

July 19, 2008

Status

Returning Series

Original language

Japanese

Episodes

6

• Season 16 episodes · 2008