# Tokyo Swindlers (2024)

> A team of swindlers races to pull off a massive real estate fraud worth 10 billion yen.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/165243

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 7
- Episode runtime: 51 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: crime, drama
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Go Ayano, Etsushi Toyokawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Eiko Koike, Pierre Taki, Shota Sometani, Takayuki Yamada, Izumi Matsuoka
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31250132/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: tense, cool, morally cynical, sleek, propulsive

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively for its tightly plotted real estate con and sharp performances.

## Synopsis

Tokyo Swindlers (2024-present) is a Japanese crime drama series produced for Netflix, adapted from a novel and presented as a tightly plotted seven-episode run. Takumi Tsujimoto (Go Ayano) leads a team of swindlers who catch wind of prime real estate worth 10 billion yen and commit to the most ambitious scam of their careers. Opposite them stands Harrison Yamanaka (Etsushi Toyokawa), a formidable figure whose wealth and instincts make him a dangerous mark. Other principal players include Takeshita (Kazuki Kitamura), Reiko (Eiko Koike), and Nagai (Shota Sometani), each filling a role in the operation. The engine of the show is the careful choreography of the con itself: forged documents, staged negotiations, shifting alliances, and the constant threat that one wrong move will expose the whole team. Each episode tightens the trap, and the season unfolds as one continuing story rather than isolated cases. Fans of Ocean's Eleven and the Japanese crime thriller Tokyo Vice will find resonance here. The atmosphere is cool, tense, and morally cynical, with a glossy contemporary Tokyo backdrop and the sharp pleasure of watching professionals outwit people who think they are the smartest in the room.

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