Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
Acting
Sho Aikawa's sweaty desperation is practically its own character
Writing
Nested cons where everyone's the mark and nobody's the mastermind
Director
Tsutomu Kashima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 'V-cinema' direct-to-video boom where Sho Aikawa became the face of morally compromised everymen in the 90s-2000s.
The pension scandal mirrors real 2000s Japan cases where bureaucratic theft went unpunished while small-time criminals paid the price.
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