“Tokyo Swindlers” is a Netflix thriller series starring Gou Ayano and Etsushi Toyokawa.
Tokyo is a tough city, the largest and most populated in the world, it is not strange that there emerge scammers specialized in real estate. Today Netflix brings us this gripping thriller of grifters, cops and forgers.
A thriller with a lot of rhythm and with a very modern style that knows how to combine the classic stories of swindlers and criminals with a current setting and the frenzy of new technologies.
Plot
The real estate counterfeiters returned to Tokyo in mid-2010, after the Olympic Games and the return of real estate speculation to the city of Tokyo: a leader, a negotiator, a real estate expert, a counterfeiter, a legal advisor, an informer and a recruiter of impostors.
Precise and highly advanced criminal techniques for a group of real estate counterfeiters wanted by the police but not yet arrested.
About the series
Do you like 1940s Hollywood movies? Yes, the ones where criminals were the stars and the real heroes in a world that applauded and saw them as individuals who could live freedom through crime beyond traditional parameters.
“Tokyo Swindlers” is a series that gives criminals a starring role. No, here they are not heroes nor do they seek justice: they are professional real estate swindlers and use speculation and greed as a weapon.
They swindle large real estate companies, posing as the legitimate owners, forging documents and carrying out prodigious forgeries with microchips, watermarks and so on.
On the other hand, we have the police, with a curious duo of investigators (a veteran and a rookie), who add a touch of humor to this entertaining thriller.
“Tokyo Swindlers” is, above all, a very entertaining thriller of thieves and cops. It has a sense of humor, rhythm and a well handled plot in one of those series that you watch quickly and like, but without leaving an indelible memory in the retina: it is not spectacular in terms of images and does not contain the scenic brutality to which we are already accustomed to Asian cinema: “Tokyo Swindlers” is just an entertaining thriller of swindlers that, without coming to revolutionize the history of television, entertains for a while, without more.
Our opinion
If you like series about grifters and cops, give it a chance. “Tokyo Swindlers” has a great setting and a good plot, but does not achieve enough original elements to transcend or leave a mark.
It entertains, amuses and knows how to behave as a good television product.
Good in all aspects, but never brilliant.
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