An ex-con tries to go straight by selling phone fraud data to yakuza. What could go wrong?
After serving 2 years in prison, ISHIGAMI Takeshi (YAMAMOTO Yikken) spent two years working on a construction site and building up his funds before he returned to Tokyo with the help of Yasu, his best friend. He is determined to try and go straight but before he can do that, he has to raise even more money to break free of the criminal underworld and that requires a deep dive. He enlists his Korean friend Junghi and starts a business selling data for phone fraud to his Yakuza friend Yuki. As the business grows, Takeshi can just about make escape velocity, however, his old ties are holding him back and as a split in a yakuza family signals that start of a war, Takeshi finds himself getting dragged back down to the criminal underworld.
Acting
Yamamoto's quiet desperation masks calculated survival instinct.
Direction
Kojima builds dread through mundane criminal logistics.
Writing
Phone fraud as gateway crime — banal evil made terrifying.
Director
Oudai Kojima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zainichi Korean characters like Junghi reflect real ethnic tensions in Japanese organized crime, where Korean-Japanese often fill marginal roles in yakuza hierarchies.
The phone fraud scheme mirrors actual 2010s Japanese 'ore ore' scams targeting elderly victims, making this oddly documentary-adjacent despite being fiction.
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