Hsiu-Chuang DeppmanSimilarly, in Hanzawa Naoki the hero frequents a hilltop above Tokyo to establish himself as
a visionary and a savior of his community. In a critical expositional scene, the camera slowly
pans from left to right and then right to left to capture the images of Naoki and his wife Hana
standing at the rail, overlooking the city, which is reduced to clusters of lights beneath them
( Figure 7b.2). The juxtaposition of the numerous flickers and Naoki’s larger-than-life figure
makes him stand out as one of a kind: the hero confesses to his wife about his ambitions of
righting society’s wrongs by reforming the banking system to help ordinary people.
Figure 7b.2 Naoki and Hana look at Osaka from a vantage point
Figure 7b.1 Min-joon and Song-yi looking down at Seoul from a high vantage point