Season 1 • Episode 12
Latest"Big Money!" is a human drama with a suspense twist about a young man who learns the tricks of the trade about stock exchange from a well-experienced investor. The backdrop of this story is the elaborate world of banking and the stock market.
Acting
Ueki's final performance as the ruthless mentor.
Production
Pre-crash bubble economy nostalgia hits different now.
Tomoya Nagase
Shirato Norimichi
Taizo Harada
Fumihiko Yamazaki
Hitoshi Ueki
Taihei Kozuka
Kyoko Hasegawa
Haruka Hosaka
Aya Okamoto
Michiru Nakagawa
Fumiyo Kohinata
Shuji Tatsumi
Yutaka Matsushige
Makita
Kaori Manabe
Miyuki Kimoto
Sayaka Kaneko
Miki Kawai
Yoshimasa Kondo
Hideki Sekine
Kaoru Yachigusa
Teruko Hatano
Natsuko Akiyama
Ryoko Okura
Shigeru Kōyama
Inagaki
Yumiko Hosono
Hikari Nishina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hitoshi Ueki filmed this while battling cancer; he died months after airing. His frailty in later episodes is real.
Released during Japan's 'lost decade,' the series captures desperate national optimism about quick wealth that would collapse entirely by 2008.
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