Akira and Akira(2017)

Akira and Akira is a Japanese drama series set during Japan's bubble economy of the 1980s. Two university classmates named Akira—one born into wealth as heir to a shipping company, the other a self-made survivor of his father's bankruptcy—cross paths again as colleagues at the same bank. What begins as professional rivalry escalates into a decade-long battle that reshapes both their lives and careers. The series explores ambition, class, and the collision between inherited privilege and earned success against the backdrop of Japan's most volatile economic period.