History Series / HanzawaNaoki

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In season 2, Hanzawa asks for Owada's help and Owada demands that he say "''onegaishimasu''" ("please"). He does so by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnoKOuStbY emphasizing. Every. Syllable]].

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In season 2, Hanzawa asks for Owada's help and Owada demands that he say "''onegaishimasu''" ("please"). He does so by emphasizing every syllable.

* PuncuatatedForEmphasis: In season 2, Hanzawa asks for Owada's help and Owada demands that he say "''onegaishimasu''" ("please"). He does so by emphasizing every syllable.

** In season 2, Minobe is not above doing this to get what he wants from his political associates.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yuasa, the president of the hotel in the Tokyo arc. He is willing to overhaul the hotel's poor management style [[spoiler:and even agrees to affiliate his hotel with a foreign hotel chain, whose lawsuit almost brought them to ruin, in order to keep the business going]].

--> '''Hanzawa, while shedding ManlyTears''': Your pride as a director won't allow you to yield to a subordinate? If that's what you're thinking, then you're making a big mistake. You're not apologizing to me. You're apologizing to all the people and companies [[HopeCrusher whose umbrellas you took on a rainy day]], and whom you cut off like a lizard's tail. Now please kneel. ... All those people clung to you, [[AintTooProudToBeg groveling in the dirt]], insulted and treated with contempt, yet in order to desperately protect their families and companies, all the things important to them, they kneel before you. [[DarkestHour Their pain, their anger, their frustration]], I'll have you experience that too. Please kneel. ... [[BigWordShout DO IT NOW!]] [[spoiler:[[SayMyName OWADA!!!!]]]]

* YouAreInCommandNow: In season 2, [[spoiler:after Hanzawa and his allies expose Minobe's fraud in which the Tokyo Chuo Bank's pre-merger management was complicit, Chairman Nakanowatari take all the responsibility and resign and Owada challenges Hanzawa to take over as chairman, as he is convinced that the bank can still be rescued, before he also resign with his boss]].

* LargeHam: Mainly Naoki, Owada, and Kurosaki, and the others also have their moments.

* VillainousCrush: In season 2, Kurosaki seems to develop a bit of this to Naoki, going so far as calling him by [[FirstNameBasis his first name]].

** Hanzawa's UsefulNotes/{{kendo}} skill comes in handy when others try to get rough with him.

* HollywoodEncryption: In the second season, Kurosaki attempts to crack Hanzawa's password with a brute force utility, even though it's explicitly mentioned that the system will lock out after three wrong tries.

The series follows the story of [[CharacterTitle Naoki Hanzawa]] (Creator/MasatoSakai,) a banker who works for Tokyo Chuo Bank, as he climbs the career ladder while exposing the wrongdoings of his corrupt superiors and protecting the livelihood of the common people. A good and incorruptible man, he is nevertheless merciless to those who wronged him, vowing to pay them back twofold (or more) and takes great pleasure in making them literally kneel and beg for forgiveness.

'''''Hanzawa Naoki''''' (半沢直樹) is a 2013 Japanese television series, originally aired on TBS and based on the series of novels of the same name by Jun Ikeido (池井戸潤), himself a former banker in the 80s and 90s. It follows the story of Hanzawa Naoki, a banker who works for Tokyo Chuo Bank, as he climbs the career ladder while exposing the wrongdoings of his corrupt superiors and protecting the livelihood of the common people. A good and incorruptible man, he is nevertheless merciless to those who wronged him, vowing to pay them back twofold (or more) and takes great pleasure in making them literally kneel and beg for forgiveness.

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--> '''Hanzawa, while shedding ManlyTears''': Your pride as a director won't allow you to yield to a subordinate? If that what you're thinking, then you're making a big mistake. You're not apologizing to me. You're apologizing to all the people and companies whose umbrellas you took on a rainy day, and whom you cut off like a lizard's tail. Now please kneel. ... All those people clung to you, groveling in the dirt, insulted and treated with contempt, yet in order to desperately protect their families and companies, all the things important to them, they kneel before you. Their pain, their anger, their frustration, I'll have you experience that too. Please kneel. ... DO IT NOW!

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivered by Hanzawa to [[spoiler:Owada]] at the climax while forcing him to ''dogeza'', in front of the whole board of directors.
--> '''Hanzawa, while shedding ManlyTears''': Your pride as a director won't allow you to yield to a subordinate? If that what you're thinking, then you're making a big mistake. You're not apologizing to me. You're apologizing to all the people and companies whose umbrellas you took on a rainy day, and whom you cut off like a lizard's tail. Now please kneel. ... All those people clung to you, groveling in the dirt, insulted and treated with contempt, yet in order to desperately protect their families and companies, all the things important to them, they kneel before you. Their pain, their anger, their frustration, I'll have you experience that too. Please kneel. ... DO IT NOW!

* PoseOfSupplication: Hanzawa [[spoiler:has the image of [[FreudianExcuse his parents begging and scraping]] to the merciless loan officer to keep their factory afloat burned permanently into his memory and]] takes satisfaction in watching his vanquished enemies beg for his forgiveness.

* CatchPhrase: Hanzawa's "If somebody wrongs me, I'll return it twofold!", which became very popular during the drama's run in real life. [[spoiler:However, he doesn't go through with reporting Asano to the police for his crime out of consideration of the latter's family, although Asano does get exiled to Manila]].

* PoseOfSupplication: Hanzawa [[spoiler:has the image of his parents begging and scraping to the merciless loan officer to keep their factory afloat burned permanently into his memory and]] takes satisfaction in watching his vanquished enemies beg for his forgiveness.

--> '''Hanzawa''': Let's work together, Takeshita-han!\\
'''Takeshita''': On one condition... never try to speak Kansai-ben again.

'''''Hanzawa Naoki''''' (半沢直樹) is a 2013 Japanese television series by Japanese broadcaster TBS based on the Hanzawa Naoki series of novels by Jun Ikeido (池井戸潤). It follows the story of Hanzawa Naoki, a banker working for the largest bank in Japan, Tokyo Chuo Bank. He faces numerous obstacles from upper management as he climbs his way up the ranks. The show received consistently high ratings: the final episode reached 42.2% in the Kanto area, the highest figure for a drama in the Heisei Era.

Following its huge success as the most-watched series in Japan with a 42.2 share of the audience, the TV serial Hanzawa Naoki, made its entry overseas starting with Taiwan and Hong Kong. The collection from the TV episodes and the popularity poll for the show has achieved the highest rating in three decades of Japanese television drama.

* ChekhovsSkill: Hanzawa's UsefulNotes/{{kendo}} skill comes in handy when others try to get rough with him.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Kondo is said to suffer from schizophrenia and displays symptoms of Tourette as well. This greatly hampers his career as a banker.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Kondo [[spoiler:uncovered evidence that Owada funneled 30 million yen to his wife's business thtough his current employer's account]] and has to decide whether [[spoiler:to give the evidence to Hanzawa to strengthen his case against Owada]] or [[spoiler:suppress it at Owada's request, in which case Owada will arrange that he returns to the bank in a position of his choosing]]. [[spoiler:He chose the latter, but Hanzawa respects his decision since he uncovered it all by himself and therefore has the right to use it to reach his own goal]].

* GoodLuckCharm: Hana gives Naoki [[spoiler:a resin screw similar to his TragicKeepsake which she made by herself when she visited her mother-in-law in Kanazawa]].

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* CampGay: The tax investigator is flamboyant, refers to himself in feminine pronouns ("''atashi''") and [[GroinAttack punishes his subordinates by squeezing their genitals]].

* {{Dogeza}}: Hanzawa [[spoiler:has the image of his parents begging and scraping to the merciless loan officer to keep their factory afloat burned permanently into his memory and]] takes satisfaction in watching his vanquished enemies beg for his forgiveness.

* IntimidatingRevenueService: The National Tax Agency has the authority to barge in and investigate any business at its leisure, and Hanzawa often finds himself in a race against them to obtain evidence.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yuasa, the president of the hotel in the Tokyo arc.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Hanzawa's take on the KansaiRegionalDialect is not taken positively by Takeshita, his Osakan newfound ally.

* YouKilledMyFather: Hanzawa became a banker [[spoiler:to find the man who withdrew the loan for his father's factory and [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to hang himself]]]].

* Dogeza: The [[spoiler:image of his parents begging and scraping to the merciless loan officer to keep their factory afloat is burned permanently]] into Hanzawa's mind and he takes satisfaction in watching his vanquished enemies beg for his forgiveness.

'''Takeshita''': On one condition... never try to speak Kansai-ben again.

!Hanzawa Naoki will return these tropes tenfold:

* AmbiguousDisease: Kondo is said to suffer from schizophrenia and displays symptoms of Tourette as well. This greatly hampers his career as a banker.