24 minSeason 1 • Episode 9
LatestAs the operation crumbles, the team works to destroy all their evidence. The police are closing in, but Makoto tries to act like everything's fine.
Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.
Acting
Ron Mizuma's descent from earnest to hollow-eyed predator.
Writing
Phone scam procedures so detailed you'll side-eye every unknown number.
Direction
Tight close-ups that trap you in the boiler room claustrophobia.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'ore ore sagi' (it's me scam) depicted here exploded in Japan post-2008, with losses topping ¥40 billion annually.
Director Daisuke Suzuki cast actual former call center workers as extras — their improvised patter in episode 3 is documentary-adjacent.
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