Dora (Ryo Ryusei) and associates runs a badger game scheme to extort victims out of money. One day though, their target looks like an ordinary guy, but he turns out to be a yakuza. Dora and his associates fall into a far darker world. Dora steps into a business that offers to take revenge on others by any means necessary.
Acting
Ryo Ryusei's hollow-eyed descent from smug grifter to hollowed-out revenge broker.
Direction
Hashimoto's unflinching gaze at Japan's underbelly without glorification.
Cinematography
Compressing spaces—love hotels, back rooms—into claustrophobic traps.
Director
Hajime Hashimoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ryo Ryusei was primarily known for Super Sentai hero roles before this against-type casting as a wormy opportunist.
The 'badger game' (bakkā gēmu) was a real post-bubble Japan phenomenon, targeting salarymen in love hotel blackmail schemes.
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