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Yoh Yoshida Says Eriko's Cover-Up Scene Is the One That Chilled Her Most
Yoh Yoshida, star of NHK's Drama 10 slot series "Company Employee," spoke about playing Eriko Miyagi, a 50-year-old executive candidate who covers up a subordinate's power harassment in Episode 1.
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Why it matters
Yoshida's reading of Eriko as a survivor of the employment ice age who learned to swallow unfairness before the term power harassment existed is the frame the drama uses to make an executive's cover-up legible rather than simply villainous.
Key Facts
- "Company Employee" airs in NHK General TV's Drama 10 slot on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 10:45 p.m.
- Yoh Yoshida plays Eriko Miyagi, head of the Corporate Design Division at a major company and a candidate for promotion to director.
- In Episode 1, Eriko covers up subordinate Yamagishi's power harassment of Terada.
- Sara Minami plays Ruri Saito, a temporary worker at the mail center who sends Eriko threatening letters.
- The drama is an original work from NHK's WDR (Writers' Development Room) Project.
Yoshida said the scene where Eriko reframes the harassment as part of the job, guiding the victim to a conclusion as if it were her own decision, gave her the most chills when she read the script.
The scene Yoshida singles out comes early. In Episode 1, Eriko puts how the organization evaluates her first and moves to cover up subordinate Yamagishi's harassment of Terada. Yoshida describes Eriko as a survivor of the generation that lived through the employment ice age, shaped by a markedly male-dominated workplace and an era when "power harassment" was not yet a term.
What corners Eriko is Ruri Saito, a temporary worker at the mail center played by Sara Minami, who sends the threatening letters. Yoshida said Eriko's past comes to light as the story progresses. The series airs in NHK General TV's Drama 10 slot on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 10:45 p.m.
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- Cinema Today NHK「会社員」パワハラをもみ消し…吉田羊が「脚本を読んで最も背筋の凍るシーン」