Difference between revisions of "Salaryman Kintaro"

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Details

Title: サラリーマン金太郎
Title (English/romaji): Salaryman Kintaro
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human
Broadcast network: TBS

Season 1

Episodes: 11
Broadcast period: 1999-Jan-10 to 1999-Mar-21
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Kibo no Kane ga Naru Asa ni by THE ALFEE

Cast

Production Credits

Original work: Motomiya Hiroshi (本宮ひろ志)
Screenwriter: Nakazono Kenji (中園健司)
Producer: Morita Mitsunori (森田光則)
Director: Morita Mitsunori, 冨田勝典, 倉貫健二郎
Music: 高見沢俊彦

Season 2

Episodes: 12
Broadcast period: 2000-Apr-9 to 2000-Jul-2
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Kizuna by Oda Tetsuro (織田哲郎)

Synopsis

Yajima Kintaro comes to Tokyo and is hired by Yamato Construction Company when he saves the life of the company's CEO. A former leader of a motorcycle gang, Kintaro is known for his highly principled and forthright way of dealing with matters and is never afraid to tell his superiors exactly what he thinks. This has a tendency of irritating some; but when corruption from within the company begins to surface, he may be the only one who can stand up to it. This story is based on the best-selling comic book of the same title. --TBS

Cast

Season 3

Episodes: 11 Episodes
Viewership rating: 15.53%
Broadcast period: 2002-Jan-06 to 2002-Mar-17
Theme song: Atsuku Nare, by Takahashi Katsunori

Synopsis

Kintaro is a young man with a hot temper and a warm heart. He makes the impossible possible. This former motorcycle gang leader has come a long way in the corporate world. -- KikuTV

Cast

Season 4

Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 11.2
Broadcast period: 2004-Jan-15 to 2004-Mar-18
Theme song: Kibo no Hashi, by The Alfee

Synopsis

Following the death of his mentor, Yamato Construction chairman Yamato Ryunosuke, and tired of the Japanese corporate system, Kintaro leaves the salary man life. He returns to his hometown and becomes a fisherman. There he lives peacefully with his wife Masumi and their two children. Then an unexpected visitor arrives. It is Ryunosuke's younger cousin, Shimazu Momotaro. Momotaro puts a strange request to Kintaro - come back to Yamato Construction and work with Ryunosuke's son Ryuhei to rid it of its current management. Current Yamato president Takatsukasa has given in to pressure from ex-bureaucrat Enjoji and is about to become his accomplice in a shady scheme. Kintaro's sense of honor is rekindled.

Cast

External Links

Autumn 1998	Season 1	Spring 1999
Nanisama	Sunday 21:00	Good News

Winter 2000	Season 2	Summer 2000
Beautiful Life	Sunday 21:00	Saimin

Autumn 2001	Season 3	Spring 2002
Gakkou no sensei	Sunday 21:00	Yoisho no Otoko

Autumn 2003	Season 4	Spring 2004
Et Alors	Thursday 21:00	Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari 4

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