Netflix has picked up rights to Japanese financial drama series “Trillion Game” from leading local broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) and will begin airing it from Saturday.
The show involves two young men – one a computer programming ace, the other a self-centered but charismatic entrepreneurial type – who have their early career moves thwarted by Dragon Bank and instead start their own company with the seemingly impossible ambition of building a trillion dollar company.
They have no business plan and no capital and must come up with innovative ways to raise money and get ahead.
The story was based on a manga originally written by Inagaki Riichiro and illustrated by Ikegami Ryoichi that was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine from 2020.
The TBS series, directed by Murao Yoshiaki, written by Habara Daisuke and produced by Matsumoto Akiko, Matsushita Hiromi and Kato Shoichi, began airing as weekly instalments in primetime...
The show involves two young men – one a computer programming ace, the other a self-centered but charismatic entrepreneurial type – who have their early career moves thwarted by Dragon Bank and instead start their own company with the seemingly impossible ambition of building a trillion dollar company.
They have no business plan and no capital and must come up with innovative ways to raise money and get ahead.
The story was based on a manga originally written by Inagaki Riichiro and illustrated by Ikegami Ryoichi that was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine from 2020.
The TBS series, directed by Murao Yoshiaki, written by Habara Daisuke and produced by Matsumoto Akiko, Matsushita Hiromi and Kato Shoichi, began airing as weekly instalments in primetime...
- 10/20/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In a move that befits the streaming era, Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Television is looking to make itself more of an international force. It will invest in more international shows and strike new coproduction partnerships.
The company unveiled its new strategy on Friday at the South By South West (SXSW) festival in the U.S.
It followed ten months on from the launch of TBS’s Vision 2030 program which sought to increase content spending, launch a new division and expand into related areas such as licensing. The new unit was announced as having a content budget of JPY30 billion ($266 million).
To realize its vision as an international force, TBS will be looking for global partners for co-production of creative content for the global and Japanese audience; co-production of live entertainment for the global audience; strategic co-investment in global content; and combining cutting edge technology to create top-notch entertainment.
“From production companies to start ups,...
The company unveiled its new strategy on Friday at the South By South West (SXSW) festival in the U.S.
It followed ten months on from the launch of TBS’s Vision 2030 program which sought to increase content spending, launch a new division and expand into related areas such as licensing. The new unit was announced as having a content budget of JPY30 billion ($266 million).
To realize its vision as an international force, TBS will be looking for global partners for co-production of creative content for the global and Japanese audience; co-production of live entertainment for the global audience; strategic co-investment in global content; and combining cutting edge technology to create top-notch entertainment.
“From production companies to start ups,...
- 3/13/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, a large number of Japanese orphans were adopted by families in Northeast China. When diplomatic relations between the two countries were normalised in the 1970s and 1980s, many orphans returned to Japan to find their roots, including Chen Lihua, the adopted daughter of Grandma Chen Huiming (Wu Yanshu). In 2005, Grandma Chen seems to have lost touch with her adopted daughter and decides to travel to Nara, Japan to search for her. With limited knowledge and facing language barriers, she embarks on a unique journey with the help of Xiao Ze (Ying Ze), who is half-Chinese and herself the child of a war orphan, as well as a retired police officer (Jun Kunimura).
Tracing Her Shadow is an original film, the third feature written and directed by Peng Fei. It is produced by Naomi Kawase and Jia Zhangke. Director Peng Fei’s...
Tracing Her Shadow is an original film, the third feature written and directed by Peng Fei. It is produced by Naomi Kawase and Jia Zhangke. Director Peng Fei’s...
- 11/28/2021
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
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