2025-12-24
21 分钟What you're hearing is a trailer from an old Japanese drama.
It's called Vulture, or in Japanese, My colleague Leo Lewis,
the FT's Tokyo bureau chief, loves this.
Hear how locked in he becomes when we watch this trailer together the other day.
That is just magnificent, isn't it?
That's brilliant.
Okay, do you want me to comment on it?
Yeah, go ahead.
I mean, it was a big phenomenon at the time.
It was the water cooler conversation in offices.
Vulture was about a foreign fund that exploits struggling Japanese companies.
First, it was a TV show, and two years later, it was made into a film in 2009.
You know, it had a prime time slot, but it was also, thematically,
it could not have been more on the minds of people going into their nine to five jobs.
That's in part because just a few years before this,
some major American private equity firms had started to set up shop in Japan.
What's in the trailer is...
a series of scenes that depict the perceived problem with foreign capital which is that you know capital doesn't care about the nature of Japanese companies and there with sort of stacks of cash being thrown across the floor.
You know, the look of the thing was a little bit like, you know,
barbarians at the gate and kind of Wall Street and the idea that capital does kind of wicked things