Headhunter

Details

 * Title: ヘッドハンター
 * Title (English): Headhunter
 * Format: Renzoku
 * Genre: Corporate
 * Episodes: 8
 * Broadcast network: TV Tokyo
 * Broadcast period: 2018-Apr-16 to 2018-Jun-04
 * Air time: Monday 22:00
 * Theme song: Baby don’t cry - Kamisama ni Fureru Kuchibiru by Beverly

Synopsis
Japan’s labour environment is about to transform dramatically with the changing times. In the past, lifetime employment had been taken for granted. Now, the resistance to changing occupations has diminished and the scale of this market keeps growing as companies compete to survive. Kurosawa Kazuki is the CEO of the recruitment agency SAGASU and a maverick headhunter. He goes deep into the minds of potential candidates and corporate clients to achieve ideal matches with techniques that can be called aggressive. At times, he is a savior, at other times a devil. Kurosawa is supported by his employees Haitani Tetsuya, who is in charge of general affairs and accounting; Miyu, a researcher who is highly skilled with computers; and Sanagi, a former business newspaper journalist. Meanwhile, Akagi Kyoko, who is in the top management of the industry’s largest outplacement company Bridge, hates Kurosawa’s work and burns with a sense of rivalry. Kurosawa’s background is a mystery. Even his associate of 30 years Haitani does not know the details and they share a complicated relationship. – Jdrama Weblog

Cast

 * Eguchi Yosuke as Kurosawa Kazuki
 * Koike Eiko as Akagi Kyoko
 * Sugimoto Tetta as Haitani Tetsuya
 * Hirayama Hiroyuki as Sanagi
 * Tokunaga Eri
 * Yamaga Kotoko
 * Okada Ryutaro (岡田龍太郎)
 * Kono Yoichiro


 * Guests
 * Kitamura Yukiya (ep1)
 * Yuui Ryoko (ep1)
 * Takahashi Katsumi (ep1)
 * Hasegawa Hatsunori (ep1)
 * Uchida Kyoko (内田恭子) (ep1)
 * Takashima Masanobu (ep2)
 * Masana Bokuzo (ep2)
 * Wakamura Mayumi (ep3)
 * Nahana (菜葉菜) (ep3)
 * Suguro Sayaka (須黒清華) (ep3)
 * Ibu Masato (ep4)
 * Tateishi Ryoko (ep4)
 * Hamada Manabu (ep4)
 * Kanai Yuta (ep4)
 * Nakano Tsuyoshi (中野剛) (ep4)
 * Itao Itsuji (ep5)
 * Yamashita Yorie (ep5)
 * Dan Jiro (ep5)
 * Takuma Takayuki (ep6)
 * Nomaguchi Toru (ep6)
 * Harumi Shiho (ep6)
 * Hironaka Maki (弘中麻紀) (ep6)
 * Hirata Mitsuru (ep7)
 * Maruyama Tomomi (ep7)
 * Hosono Kyoko (細野今日子) (ep7)
 * Fukasawa Emi (ep7)
 * Tawaragi Tota (ep7)
 * Yamamoto Koji (ep8)
 * Horibe Keisuke (ep8)
 * Yuki Jutta (ep8)
 * Nishiyama Mayuko (ep8)

Production Credits

 * Screenwriter: Hayashi Koji
 * Chief Producer: Inada Hideki
 * Producer: Takamaru Masataka (高丸雅隆)
 * Director: Hoshi Mamoru, Hijikata Masato, Kobayashi Yoshinori
 * Music: Sahashi Toshihiko