Akira and Akira (2017)

This is the 2017 television series. For the 2022 film, see Akira and Akira (2022).

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Akira and Akira is a Japanese drama adapting Jun Ikeido's banking novel of the same name, broadcast on WOWOW Prime from 9 July to 3 September 2017 across nine episodes. The story follows two men who share the given name Akira and grow up on opposite sides of Japan's banking hierarchy: Takumi Saitoh plays Akira Yamazaki, heir to a family-run regional bank, and Osamu Mukai plays Akira Kaido, the son of a failed small-business owner who claws his way up through a major city bank, their rivalry and eventual alliance tracking the merger politics reshaping Japanese finance; Takaya Kamikawa guest-stars as Hiroyuki Sawatari, a rival brewery's planning executive. (TMDB)

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Worn by Takumi Saitoh as Akira Yamazaki. Jackroad's costume-loan archive credits Saitoh's regional-bank heir Akira Yamazaki with a manual-wind Grand Seiko Ref.4520-8000. (Jackroad)

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Worn by Osamu Mukai as Akira Kaido. Jackroad's costume-loan archive first credited Mukai's self-made banker Akira Kaido with an Omega Constellation "C-shape," naming no specific reference (Jackroad); a separate Jackroad post for the same production specifies the reference as 168.029. The appearance predates and is unrelated to the different Omega reference Jackroad separately supplied Mukai for Bones of Steel. (Jackroad)

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Worn by Takaya Kamikawa as Hiroyuki Sawatari. Jackroad's costume-loan archive credits Kamikawa's guest-starring brewery planning executive Hiroyuki Sawatari with a vintage steel Rolex Datejust Ref.16014. (Jackroad)

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