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[18]Episode 2
Re:Big Money
In the second episode, Norimichi was cheated by a Lady into signing a contract that he would have to pay back whaever loss he may cause her from losing money from the stock market. Now owing her 5000.000 yen, Norimichi does not escape from his responsibility though he was cheated. He vowed to pay back to the Lady who told him that she desperately needed the money to finance her son in medical school though she is divorced from her husband and lives apart from her son.
Norimichi then went to borrow money from Matsuba Bank only to be insulted by Yamazaki (Harada Taizo). When refusing Norimichi, Yamazaki didn't even take a single look at Norimichi, but just looked at his resume. He said there was no need to look at the face, as the paper is what he all need to know. Yamazaki is treating people as if they are not made of flesh and blood.
I was so angry seeing how when Yamazaki went to close a man's shop because he couldn't pay back the loan, he did a very inhuman thing. The old man cut his own palm with a knife and bled, saying that he is human of flesh and blood, but Yamazaki calmly took the man's other finger and used the blood to sign the closing of the shop with a bloody fingerprint!! When I saw this, I really wish Norimichi will later able to fix this guy! Later Yamazaki received order from his Boss to give Norimichi the loan, after Kotsuka plays a role behind this.
In the end, Norimichi succeeded in getting the 5000.000 yen from winning the stock, and paid back his debt to Yamazaki. His way of paying the money back is very impressive, and to see the face of Yamazaki in awe of Norimichi now.
Being a gentle person, Norimichi even went to see the cheating Lady's son in medical school and found out that the Lady was lying about his son loving her and giving her her favorite flowers, as the son said he hated his mother for leaving the family and just runs after money, and refused the 5000.000 yen from his Mom. He also denied that he ever gave her any flowers.
It is very enlightening when later Kotsuka told Norimichi that there are many ways of expressing love, and that even money can express love so this Lady is in fact expressing her love to her son via money because she knows no other way to express love. It is Norimichi that then could convince the son about his Mom really loving him and made him agree to accept the money for financing his study. And the end of this episode is very heartwarming when finally the son realized that his Mom does love him and went to meet her at the flower shop to thank her and bought her her favorite flowers.
A heartwarming human dorama in which the baddies will sure have no chance to prevail! Just my kind of dorama. This is the first time Yamazaki knows that he cannot take Norimichi for granted.
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