Yamikin Ushijima-kun
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| Contents: Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Spin-off |
Details
- Title: 闇金ウシジマくん
- Title (romaji): Yamikin Ushijima-kun
- Title (English): Ushijima the Loan Shark
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Human drama
Season 1
- Episodes: 9
- Broadcast network: TBS
- Broadcast period: 2010-Oct-12 to 2010-Dec-14
- Air time: Tuesday 24:55
- Theme song: Sudachi by Karasu
Synopsis
This drama depicts the harsh reality of those at the bottom of society through the eyes of the loanshark Ushijima. He is the head of Kaukau Finance which is a ruthless black market lending operation, charging as much as 50% interest every ten days.
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Cast
- Yamada Takayuki
- Katase Nana
- Yabe Kyosuke
- Sakimoto Hiromi
- Yokoyama Miyuki
- Kasumi Risa
- Saijou Ruri
- Kizaki Jessica
- Tokui Yuu
- Onoue Hiroyuki
- Yashiro Minase
- Aoyagi Ruito
- Taniguchi Hajime (ep8)
Production Credits
- Original writing: Manabe Shohei
- Screenwriter: Fukuma Masahiro, Yamaguchi Masatoshi
- Producer: (幹九郎)、(佐々木博之), Maruyama Hiroo
- Director: Yamaguchi Masatoshi, Kawamura Taisuke
- Music: Yoshimata Ryo
Season 2
- Episodes: 9
- Broadcast network: TBS / MBS
- Broadcast period: 2014-Jan-16 to 2014-Mar-14
- Air time: Tuesday 24:55
Synopsis
Drama series contains stories of debtors who suffer from Kaoru Ushijima, (Yamada Takayuki). A crisis also occurs for Kaoru Ushijima's company Kaukau Finance.
Cast
- Yamada Takayuki as Ushijima Kaoru
- Ayano Go as Inui
- Sakimoto Hiromi as Takada
- Yabe Kyosuke as Tsukazaki
- Irie Jingi
- Takeda Kohei
- Sasaki Mai (佐々木麻衣)
- Mana Sakura (紗倉まな) as Papiko
- Misawa Ryosuke (三澤亮介) as Morita Kiminori (ep3-4,6,8-9)
- Tagawa Kanami (ep1,8)
- Momose Saku (ep5)
Production Credits
- Original writing: Manabe Shohei
- Screenwriter:
- Producer: (幹九郎)、(佐々木博之), Maruyama Hiroo
- Director: Yamaguchi Masatoshi
- Music: Suehiro Kenichiro
Season 3
- Episodes: 9
- Broadcast network: TBS / MBS
- Broadcast period: MBS 2016-Jul-17 to 2016-Sep-19 / TBS 2016-Jul-20 to 2016-Sep-21
Synopsis
Mayumi (Mitsumune Kaoru), who works for a publishing company, happens to meet a mysterious man who calls himself Shindo (Nakamura Tomoya). Told by a fortune teller that she will have a “destined meeting”, she pays attention to this. But what awaits her is ironically an encounter with Ushijima Kaoru (Yamada Takayuki), the boss of Cowcow Finance, is known as a legendary black market lender. Cowcow Finance lends money at an illegally high interest rate of 5% every 10 days and relentlessly corners bad debtors
Cast
Spin-off
- Title: 闇金ウシジマくん外伝 闇金サイハラさん
- Title (romaji): Yamikin Ushijima-kun Gaiden: Yamikin Saihara-san
- Title (English): Ushijima the Loan Shark Side Story: Saihara the Loan Shark
- Episodes: 15
- Broadcast network: MBS / TBS
- Broadcast period: 2022-Sep-21 to 2022-Dec-28
- Air time: Wednesday 00:59 (MBS) / Wednesday 01:28 (TBS)
Synopsis
Appeared in the movie version of Yamikin Ushijima-kun, Saihara Akane is an illegal loan shark who is taken advantage of by the yakuza gangsters, that always make unreasonable demands and try to make her life in the underworld difficult.
Cast
- Loan Shark Team "Rhino Loan"
- Takahashi Maryjun as Saihara Akane
- Miyase Ryubi as Hazama Yuto
- Makita Sports as Murai
- Others
- Nakao Akiyoshi as Aizawa Koji
- Kinami Haruka as Aizawa Akemi
- Yabe Kyosuke as Ezaki
- Sakimoto Hiromi as Takada
- Mitsuishi Ken as Kumakura
- Yamauchi Takaya as Handa
- Furuhata Seika as Sakurai Tomoka
- Katsumura Masanobu as Tanaka
- Okazaki Taiiku (岡崎体育) as Ando
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Yamaoka Shinsuke
- Director: Yamaguchi Masatoshi, Toki Yosuke (土岐洋介)
Notes
- The original manga, which was nominated for Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, shows the harsh reality of social disparity in often grotesque and explicit pictures.
- Based on the manga series "Yamikin Ushijima-kun" by Manabe Shohei (first published 2004 by Weekly Magazine Big Comic Spirits)
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