NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Fight 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1999
Kintaro comes to town with his son Ryuta to begin working at a construction company. They move in with Kayo, who's rumored to be the CEO's mistress. When Kintaro takes Ryutaro to his nursery school, he's shocked to meet Hitomi, who's the spitting image of his late wife. The first payday, he's invited out for a drink where they're accosted by a yakuza.
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#2 - Fight 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1999
Depressed by his seemingly imminent ouster initiated by Oshima, Ryunosuke calls his friends and loved ones together for a party at a hotel. There, Kintaro runs into an old buddy from his motorcycle gang days. Toru and his transvestite friends join the party and relate tales of Kintaro’s wild days.
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#3 - Fight 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1999
It's nearly time for the Board of Directors' meeting, but Maeda hasn't been able to find the computer password that will unlock Oshima's nefarious schemes. Masumi sends Ryunosuke a magazine article reporting on a scandal involving Oshima. Meanwhile, Kintaro is "called out" by a punk at his office.
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#4 - Fight 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1999
Kintaro is assigned to the Sales Department. Section Chief Tanaka takes him around to meet all their important clients. One day, CEO Ryunosuke introduces him to the father of a young man Kintaro had helped in the past. Takao wants to show his appreciation by allowing Kintaro to draw up the estimates for his supermarket.
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#5 - Fight 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1999
Ryunosuke orders Kintaro to supervise at a construction site. The work there has fallen 2 months behind schedule. The foreman refuses to resume work until he's paid in full. However, he’s already been paid the construction cost. It is later learned that Oshima had promised to fork over another 200 million yen!
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#6 - Fight 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1999
Kintaro has his hands full working on plans for an apparel firm's new building. Meanwhile, Maeda is depressed because his work isn't going well. Misuzu and Hitomi call on Kintaro at home, but they're left to twiddle their thumbs when Kintaro realizes that it's Ryuta's birthday, and he rushes off to Akemi's gravesite.
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#7 - Fight 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1999
Kintaro's plans for a multi-level pachinko parlor-shopping center is a hit with his superiors. However, when he takes them to Amagasaki, president of the pachinko parlor chain, he is given the cold shoulder. It seems Ryuta and Amagasaki's grandson have been at odds at school.
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#8 - Fight 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1999
Kintaro is called in by the head of a yakuza organization and warned to give up his plans for off-track betting. When Kintaro refuses to budge, he's given a week in which to get permission from the Horse Racing Association. If he fails, he'll lose his life!
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#9 - Fight 9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1999
When Kintaro and Tanaka make a sales call on a client planning a new construction project, they're told that their bid is not welcome. It seems that someone with a grudge against Yamato Construction has been spreading rumors that the company is in financial straits.
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#10 - Fight 10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1999
Kintaro gets wind of Takashi and Oshima's plot to take over Yamato Construction, but they can find no proof. One day, Kintaro is attacked by three men on his way home. The attack was engineered by Shuhei to test Kintaro. Shuhei wants to lure Kintaro away from Yamato.
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#11 - Final Fight
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1999
CEO Yamato needs Kayo's help desperately, but she's been kidnapped by Shuhei, who's in cahoots with Takashi. Kintaro is finally able to rescue her, but can he get her to the board meeting in time to save Yamato?
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#12 - Fight 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/2000
Kintaro's son Ryuta is now in the first grade, and Kintaro has received a promotion. When CEO Yamato orders him to train the new hires, Kintaro begins a most unusual orientation course. One day, Kintaro learns that former co-worker Yoko has been hospitalized after being injured by a group of protesters at a construction site.
Director: Kenjiro Kuranuki
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#13 - Fight 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2000
Kintaro and the others now work for a little venture capital firm, Yamato, Inc. A Chinese man whom he had once saved from thugs approaches Kintaro. Lin wants to give Kintaro some business, in gratitude.
Director: Katsunori Tomita
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#14 - Fight 3
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2000
Kintaro tries his best to help Lin out in his bid to build a chain of restaurants, but the Chinese mafia hampers him. Kintaro's co-workers try to talk him out of helping Lin, but Kintaro isn't about to give up.
Director: Toshimasa Suzuki
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#15 - Fight 4
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2000
A wealthy landowner requests plans to be drawn up for a five-billion-yen job. It sounds like a great job, but he gives them only three days in which to complete the design. Everyone's ready to throw in the towel...
Director: Eiji Takano
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#16 - Fight 5
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/2000
Kintaro has two huge jobs in progress. When it comes time to decide on whom to contract to do the construction, his boss suggests going with Heisei Construction. By using them, Yamato throws a wrench into Heisei's plans to let their former Yamato Construction people go.
Director: Kenjiro Kuranuki
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#17 - Fight 6
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2000
Sparks fly when Kintaro and Yamato Inc. come up against Heisei Construction over a multimillion-dollar redevelopment project. The outcome of the upcoming mayoral race will decide their fates.
Director: Mitsunori Morita
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#18 - Fight 7
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2000
As the mayoral race heats up, a band of motorcycle thugs posing as Kintaro and his friends shows up on street corners causing chaos, and blackening Kintaro's good name.
Director: Toshimasa Suzuki
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#19 - Fight 8
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/28/2000
After a hard-fought election campaign, the candidate backed by Yamato Inc. loses. The loss can only be attributed to the dirty tricks used by the opposition. Kintaro goes after the men responsible.
Director: Eiji Takano
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#20 - Fight 9
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/4/2000
Kayo suffers a stroke and must soon undergo intensive physical therapy. Meanwhile, Yamato offers to contract Heisei Construction to work on the redevelopment project, but they are turned down!
Director: Kenjiro Kuranuki
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#21 - Fight 10
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/11/2000
When the love triangle between Kintaro, Yoko and Masumi becomes uncomfortable, he tells them that there is another to whom he's promised his heart. Meanwhile, Kayo introduces Kintaro to a man who has plans to build a senior residence.
Director: Kenjiro Kuranuki
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#22 - Fight 11
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/18/2000
When the Construction Bureau orders Yamato, Inc. to stop the redevelopment project, Yoko and her colleagues look for proof of conspiracy between Heisei Construction and the Bureau.
Director: Mitsunori Morita
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#23 - Final Fight
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/2/2000
Takatsukasa is missing, and Kintaro has a hunch that he is in grave danger. The key to his disappearance may be hidden in a highly protected CD. Will Maeda crack the code time?
Director: Mitsunori Morita
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#24 - Fight 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2002
Kintaro, Ryuta and Masumi visit Kintaro's mother's grave. There, they run into Kintaro's father, who had vanished years ago after being released from prison. Soon, Kintaro becomes the father of a baby girl. He is overjoyed, but when he goes to work, he discovers there's a new company president, and he has received a promotion!
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#25 - Fight 2
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2002
Kintaro finds out that Tonichi Construction had cut corners in the construction of a hotel built before the merger with Yamato. Now, Yamato must take the responsibility for making any required corrections. Kintaro is fired when he insists on taking an inspection team in.
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The Worst Episodes of Salaryman Kintaro
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Kintaro Yajima comes to Tokyo and is hired by Yamato Construction Company when he saves the life of the company's CEO. A former leader of...
Genre:Drama
Network:TBS
Worst Episodes Summary
"Fight 1" is the worst rated episode of "Salaryman Kintaro". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/10/1999. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fight 2".