Ishitsubute is yet another WOWOW corruption dorama, this time Kitamira Kazuki as the employee from the Ministry of Foreign affairs who is involved in a very interesting corruption case with Sato Koichi and Eguchi Yusuke as the police investigators from the second division.
If you've seen a WOWOW corruption show, you've seen Ishitsubute; the two main investigators who can't get along, the usual Japanese office politics of people applying political pressure and the slight overacting in showing anger when characters get bad news delivered to them.
Ishitsubute was still fun for me because its still an underdog story about investigators trying to go after some very big fish. The step by step investigation into how the corruption was carried out was interesting and how the investigators slowly built their case.
Ishitsubute was really hard for me to watch and was going to drop it until someone suggested I try to look for Japanese subs and to my surprise jpsubbers had the subs! Before this, I could never get Japanese subs for WOWOW shows and its got my wondering what other WOWOW subs I could find. If I can find Japanese subs for Mosaic Japan, I might be tempted to sub it cause I love that show so much.
Anyway, I just want to say Ishitsubete is a pretty standard WOWOW show that doesn't suck but doesn't do anything good either. I had fun learning all the political jargon, most of which I have forgotten.
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jpsubbers have uploaded subs for WOWOW dramas since at least last year IIRC.Unfortunately, no Mosaic Japan. I've watched only ep1 of Ishitsubute and didn't feel the urge to continue. But then I can't remember any cop show worth watching recently. I often play them while doing something else :).
Hello there Akiramike!
Been a reader (but not a commenter) since long ago.
If you're interested, I own the original DVD for Mosaic Japan (with subs!) so I could send you the .idx and .sub files for all chapters and we could work together to make the subtitles, if you want...
http://doramaworld.blogspot.ru/2018/03/more-is-less-and-less-is-more-tbs.html
@bikutah : Yes, I am interested in subbing Mosaic Japan! Are you going to put the Japanese subs on d-addicts? Contact me at akiramike at gmail.com. I don't know how much time I can spend on it but it should be a lot faster with two people working on it.
What is another good wowow corruption drama? I need your suggestion!
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