The final episode of the drama Hanzawa Naoki in September 2013 had an average rating of 42.2 percent in the Kanto region. It was the highest rating of the Heisei era, from 1989 onward, for a drama on commercial television.
In the climax, the banker Hanzawa forces his superior Ōwada to kneel before him in a dogeza, the deepest bow of apology.