Roosevelt Game (2014) [Ep 1 – 9 END]

Profile

• Drama: Roosevelt Game
• Romaji: Ruzuveruto Gemu
• Japanese: ルーズヴェルト・ゲーム
• Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa, Takayoshi Tanazawa, Kenta Tanaka
• Writer: Jun Ikeido (novel), Hiroyuki Yatsu, Nobuko Nishii
• Network: TBS
• Episodes: 9
• Release Date: April 27 – June 22, 2014
• Runtime: Sundays 21:00-21:54
• TV Ratings: 14.5% (weekly average)
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

The Aoshima Company is a precision machine maker, located in the suburbs of Tokyo. The company is a medium sized corporation. The have a conference once every week to report achievements made and the prospects for the company. At the conference, President Mitsuru Hosokawa (Toshiaki Karasawa) gives a menacing look, while executives shout at each other. After President Mitsuru took his job, the economy significantly worsened due to a financial sector slump. The Aoshima Company suffered because of this and faces difficulties.

President Mitsuru then tells executives to abolish the baseball team. The executives are shocked. President Mitsuru informs the executives that he has heard the bank may cancel their loan from the next session. To show the bank that they are trying to improve their situation he has decided to cancel the baseball team. The baseball team needs 300 million yen to exist. Their baseball team was once well regarded, but they re now a burden to the company.

President Mitsuru must persuade the Chairman and Founder of the company Takeshi Aoshima (Tsutomu Yamazaki) before he can abolish the baseball team. He goes to talk with Chairman Takeshi. The Chairman asks President Mitsuru “do you have  ‘ism’ as a company president? If you want to fire people, you need to have ‘ism’ as a company president.” President Mitsuru tells him that he doesn’t have ‘ism’ right now, but no matter what he will protect the Aoshima Company. That is his ‘ism.’

A bigger crisis ensues.