From Inoue Yumiko, writer of the underrated Harassment Game and the legendary Shiroi Kyoto (White Tower) come Fixer, a Karasawa Toshiaki WOWOW show where he pays this mysterious person who apparently does a lot of behind the scenes wheeling and dealing.
Fixer comes out of prison in the beginning of the episode greeted by Kaname Jun who plays the Fixer's muscle. Fixer gets a phone call from the Prime Minister of Japan and that night the Prime Minister is involved in a car accident where he went on a trip without telling his security team.
With the Prime Minister out of commission, there are a bunch of characters who get dragged up in the power struggle aftermath of the accident including Uchida Yuki as a newscaster, a journalist, Koizumi Kotaro as a police detective and most importantly Naohito Fujiki as the Prime Minister's private secretary. It is interesting that they cast Koizumi Kotaro not as the private secretary because I would have cast him in a political role due to his father being a former PM of Japan and his brother being former environment minister.
Fixer is basically a whodunnit mystery. We have various suspects who of course have the most to gain seeing that they are faction leader in the political party from Jinnai Takanori to Tomita Yasuko and Kobayashi Kaoru. Speaking of Kobayashi Kaoru, he is such a good actor that his scheming politician character is so far removed from the master from Midnight Diner that it seems like it was played by a different actor!
I think the reason Fixer did not impress me as much is that while it is called Fixer, Karasawa Toshiaki does not do much political fixing. Only a little bit but it is mostly a whodunnit mystery set in politics instead of a lot of political fixing which is mostly done not by the main character played by Karasawa Toshiaki this politician in a wheelchair.
Watchable show for me because it has got a good cast and watching the morality play that Naohito Fujiki goes through is fun. It just never got really good for me. You can stream the subbed series at Machida Keita Unofficial. Doesn't look like anyone is subbing season 2 yet but I will watch at some point. Hopefully there will be more backstory on Karasawa Toshiaki and Kaname Jun will have a lot more to do.
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