When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

Koji Yakusho
as Hiroshi Kitano

Tatsuya Nakadai
as Hideaki Sasaki

Kippei Shiina
as Akio Katayama

Tetsuro Tamba
as Tajiro Kawakami

Jinpachi Nezu
as Kohei Nakayama

Jun Fubuki
as Kyoko Kitano

Renji Ishibashi
as Masao Nakazawa

Mayumi Wakamura
as Miho Wada

Hitomi Kuroki
as Hiroko Sato

Kenichi Endo
as Onoki