Kumazawa Jiro, a tax-worker, is tricked out of a large sum of money by the swindler Himuro Makoto. With the help of his best friend, a detective, Kumazawa tracks down Himuro and teams up with him and sets out to extract JP¥ 1B in unpaid tax from a large corporation that is hiding tax evasion.
Direction
Ueda's kinetic energy elevates bureaucratic paperwork into thrills
Acting
Uchino and Okada's reluctant chemistry carries every scene
Writing
Twisty script makes tax law genuinely suspenseful
Director
Shinichiro Ueda
Seiyo Uchino
Jiro Kumazawa
Masaki Okada
Makoto Himuro
Rina Kawaei
Sakura Mochizuki
Aoi Morikawa
Miku Shiraishi
Takenori Goto
Tatsuya Murai
Shusaku Kamikawa
Kentaro Maru
Seina Suzuki
Ruriko Igarashi
Miki Maya
Kaoru Igarashi
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Yamato Tachibana
Sarutoki Minagawa
Shinpei Yagi
Misuzu Kanno
Emiko Sakai
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Motoyoshi Anzai
Hana Kawamura
Natsumi Kumazawa
Toshihiro Yashiba
Okamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects real 2020s Japanese frustration with corporate tax avoidance scandals, reframing white-collar crime as populist heroism.
Seiyo Uchino reportedly took actual tax preparation courses to nail Jiro's document-shuffling dexterity; some fast-hand shots are unscripted.
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