The Golden Demon - Koyo Ozaki

Omiya betrays her engagement out of greed for wealth and marries the son of a banker; Kan'ichi, devastated, comes to hate money, abandons his studies and becomes a ruthless moneylender, the "Golden Demon". Through these two mismatched lives, the work exposes how, with the rise of capitalism after the Meiji Restoration, money-worship crushed pure feeling and distorted human nature.