Suits (Japanese TV series) Season 2

Suits (Japanese: スーツ 2) is a Japanese legal television drama series that aired on Fuji TV. The second season, consisting of 15 episodes, was broadcast from April 13 to October 19, 2020, in the network's Monday 21:00 time slot. The series is a Japanese adaptation of the American legal drama Suits, which originally aired on the USA Network.

Promotional poster for Suits Season 2 — Promotional visual for the second season of the Japanese adaptation of Suits.

Plot

The story follows Shogo Kai (played by Yuji Oda), a high-profile partner at a law firm in Marunouchi, Tokyo. In this season, Kai brings Daiki Suzuki (Yuto Nakajima) back to the firm from Boston. Suzuki is subsequently tasked with handling a case involving a large publishing company facing a lawsuit from a former contract worker who alleges that her novel idea was stolen.

Cast

The main cast features several returning actors from the first season:

Yuji Oda as Shogo Kai
Yuto Nakajima as Daiki Suzuki
Yuko Araki as Makoto Hijirisawa
Anne Nakamura as Kayako Tamai
Shinya Kote as Mitsugu Kanie
Kotaro Yoshida as Hitoshi Uesugi
Honami Suzuki as Chika Yukimura

Production and Broadcast

The series was directed by Shin Hirano, Tomonobu Moriwaki, and Kazunari Hoshino, with scripts written by Hiroyuki Komine, Takayuki Ichikawa, and Masatoshi Nakamura. It succeeded the drama Absolute Zero 4 in its time slot and was followed by Asagao: Forensic Doctor 2. According to data from Video Research, Ltd., the series achieved an average viewership rating of 8.5% in the Kanto region.