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Hokaben 2008 · NTV

The worst depiction of a Japanese lawyer?

10 / 10

26 Apr 2010

Domoto Akari "would be fired immediately and not hired by any firm for any reason" because this series is a good depiction of moral corruption of lawyers in general.

In short a good lawyer is a cheating, backstabbing lier who uses any means necessary, including deception and fraud, to achieve its goals. Maybe in real life lawyers not often go to those extremes but many of them really lack a moral compass.

Look around. Big companies with huge legal departments and corruptive influences in the parliaments are almost untouchable. Look at example of copyright and patent wars where citizens and small companies have no chances at all. It is really not hard to imagine lawyers like those from Emuza working in the background.

I think this series analyzes the morals of people behind the law pretty accurately. Not only that, it shows the mechanism which keeps the status quo. Laws are longer and longer, legal costs are going through the roof and normal people are lost in the maze of current legislation.

Pity it went without an echo in Japan and there are no similar production in USA and Europe. I saw a few TED talks about this issue though.

Anyway, I recommend this drama even if it distorts the view of everyday life of a Japanese lawyer.