Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief With scamming a topic of current news and growing concern across Asia, Netflix’s “Tokyo Swindlers” is a timely addition to its slate of Japanese live-action programming.
Ayano Go and Toyokawa Etsushi head the cast of the seven-episode crime drama series that is an adaptation of a bestselling novel by Shinjo Ko, originally published by Shueisha Bunko.
The protagonists are a group of cunning con artists led by Harrison Yamanaka (Toyokawa) who use forged documents and recruit imposters to pose as landowners and defraud major land developers.
Their biggest target is a JPY10-billion plot of land next to a Buddhist temple. “Real estate prices in Tokyo have once again begun to skyrocket.
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