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The Trading Company

1980 · 1 season

A dry, talk-heavy corporate drama of boardroom maneuvering and oil-market stakes, rewarding patience with a slow-building sense of pressure and decline.

Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masako Natsume, Sengoro Shigeyama
Overview
An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch president of a trading company challenges Japan's internal power struggle and the North American oil market.

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Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masako Natsume, Sengoro Shigeyama
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • power
    • ambition
    • corruption
    • betrayal
    • work
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, crime
    Starring
    Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masako Natsume, Sengoro Shigeyama, Kei Satō, Nobuo Nakamura, Akira Yamanouchi, Leo Morimoto, Aki Mizusawa
    Length
    1 seasons, 4 episodes, 70 min each
    Network
    NHK
    Languages
    Japanese

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