Gaikókan Kuroda Kósaku
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Japanese Ministry of Foreign affairs diplomat Kosaku Kuroda (Yuji Oda) is dispatched all over the world to protect Japanese interests and citizens.After successfully defeating a kidnapping attempt of Japanese citizen in South America, Kuroda is assigned to protect Foreign Ministry official Shoko Mikami (Tamiyo Kusakari) in San Francisco during a World Trade Organization meeting. He meets informant John (Lee Byung-Hun) who gives details on security arrangements and former diplomat Takeshi Shimomura (Teruyuki Kagawa) who worked with Kuroda at the Mexican Embassy 11 years ago.With the help of the information received from John, diplomat Kosaku Koroda is able to prevent an attack on Shoko Mikami by extremists, but as he investigates how the attacker knew of Mikami's movements, Takeshi Shimomura jumps off a building to his death.Meanwhile, a suspect emerges in the murder of a university professor in Japan that took place recently. (official distributor synopsis)
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A big plus of the series is that the character of Kuroda Kosaka is very well written. So well that he manages to shape some of the other characters' ills so well that you don't find them so terrible in the end. It's basically a well-written song: the beginning lures you in, you want to hear what happens next, but as the song progresses the pace loosens up and you might even wonder if it's worth listening to the song all the way through; but then suddenly the drums kick in, and the ending of the song is fun to listen to again, and in the end the song doesn’t leave you disappointed. The same thing happened to me with this series. Not to mention that I'm studying international relations in Asia, so I found some aspects interesting from my "professional" point of view. Mainly in the fact that Japan at the time was starting to move away from being too attached to the US in international relations, and after Abe took over in late 2012 things started to pick up a bit. This series seemed to fit the mood. A weaker 4 stars.
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