War of Money (Japanese Drama)

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Drama: War of Money
Romaji: Zeni no Senso
Japanese: 銭の戦争
Director: Yoshishige Miyake, Keiichiro Shiraki, Kosuke Suzuki
Writer: Park In-Kwon (comic), Noriko Goto
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 11
Release Date: January 6 - March 17, 2015
Runtime: Tuesday 22:00-22:54
TV Ratings: 13.4%
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Tomio Shiraishi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) graduated from a prestigious university and now works for foreign securities company. He has a beautiful fiance, Kozue Aoike (Fumino Kimura), and no complaints with his life. One day, his father kills himself, leaving behind large debts. Tomio Shiraishi is liable for his father's debts. He pays what he can with his savings account, but it is not enough. He is chased by moneylenders. Tomio loses everything. His job, finance and savings. He then becomes homeless.

Tomio Shiraishi then decides to work for Daisuke Akamatsu (Atsuro Watabe), who runs Akamatsu Finance. Akamatsu Finance is the company that drove Tomio Shiraishi to become homeless. The company looks like a normal finance company, but it actually lends money with high interest. Tomio Shiraishi decides to do anything, including illegal acts, to make money.

One day, he meets his high school teacher's daughter, Mio Konno (Yuko Oshima) who is in heavy debt. Tomio Shiraishi and Mio Konno begin to have feelings for each other, but his former fiance, Kozue Aoike, appears again.

Notes

Based on South Korean comic "Jjeonui Jeonjaeng" by Park In-Kwon (first published December, 2004 by Samyang Publisher).
Related titles:
1. War of Money | JJeonui Jeonjaeng (SBS / 2007)
2. War of Money | Zeni no Senso (Fuji TV / 2015)
Related titles (drama series):
1. War of Money | Zeni no Senso (Fuji TV / 2015)
2. War of Lie | Uso no Senso (Fuji TV-KTV / 2017)
3. War of Traps | Wana no Senso (Fuji TV-KTV / 2023)

Cast



Tsuyoshi Kusanagi	Yuko Oshima	Fumino Kimura	Sho Takada	Yua Shinkawa
Tomio Shiraishi	Mio Konno	Kozue Aoike	Shinichi Sakurada	Akane Madoka



Kotaro Shiga	Hana Kino	Masahiko Tsugawa	Judy Ongg	Ren Osugi
Takao Shiraishi	Mihoko Shiraishi	Yuzo Beniya	Sawako Aoike	Hiroshi Konno



Atsuro Watabe	Yuta Tamamori
Daisuke Akamatsu	Kotaro Shiraishi

Additional Cast Members:

Erika Asakura - Momoko Meguro
Arisa Nakajima - Keiko Kigawa
Tomomi Maruyama - Mamoru Uekusa (ep.1-4)
Kisuke Iida - Kuroda (ep.1-2,9-10)
Hajime Okayama - Kanehara (ep.1,5-6)
Taiki Nakabayashi - Haitani (ep.1,8,11)
Shinobu Kawamata - Junko Tsuchida (ep.1)
Goro Oishi - Sumida (ep.1)
Masahiro Nakai - Tatsuyuki Haibara (ep.1)
Kaoru Kobayashi - Sumio Kuwata (ep.1)
Takashi Ukaji - Sasaki (ep.2)
Yuta Kanai - Shinji Midorikawa (ep.2,4)
Ryoko Tateishi - Mutsuko Uekusa (ep.3-4)
Koh Takasugi - Kyoji Oguro (ep.4,10)
Yoshihiro Nozoe - Takeshi Koganezawa (ep.4)
Tamae Ando - Emi Aizawa (ep.5)
Yoshiyuki Tsubokura - Takaya Aizawa (ep.5)
Moka Kamishiraishi - Haruka Aizawa (ep.5)
Haruka Uchimura - (ep.6)
Kazuyuki Asano - Reiji Mizukoshi (ep.8)
Hideyuki Kasahara - Freelance Writer (ep.8,10)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	01/06/2015	14.1%
02	01/13/2015	11.9%
03	01/20/2015	12.1%
04	01/27/2015	13.1%
05	02/03/2015	12.6%
06	02/10/2015	11.9%
07	02/17/2015	14.4%
08	02/24/2015	12.6%
09	03/03/2015	14.0%
10	03/10/2015	13.9%
11	03/17/2015	15.4%
Average		13.4%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Comments

Gabriel Jun 27 2017 8:40 am One thing I can say about this is drama, is that there are so many things to learn in how to handle money. It includes spending it wisely and not for something personal gain or to impress someone.

shingster Sep 22 2015 9:01 am So where to start

This drama had a very interesting story and a great cast of characters both main and support. The Mc was pretty good and Kusanagi Tsuyoshi did a great job portraying the semi villainous main character. Kimura Fumino and Yuko Oshima also portrayed their respective characters well and though it was the first time i seen the two act they left a pretty good impression on me.

Overall this drama was interesting and was a little too short.

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