Living in Japan, you¡¯re reminded with such frequency about the threat of scams, it¡¯s easy to imagine that you¡¯d be wise to a potential con when it went down. All the more so if you¡¯re a local government official like Jiro Kumazawa (Seiyo Uchino), the protagonist of Shinichiro Ueda¡¯s ¡°Angry Squad: Civil Servant and Seven Swindlers.¡±
The middle-aged tax officer may be a dab hand at spotting financial impropriety, but he¡¯s easy prey for Makoto Himuro (Masaki Okada), a suave trickster fresh out of jail. While trying to buy a secondhand car for his wife, Jiro ends up blowing his bonus on an illusory sale that Makoto orchestrates by phone while cooking lunch.
When Jiro enlists a detective pal to go after the scammer, Makoto presents him with a counteroffer: that they team up to extract ?1 billion in unpaid taxes from a well-connected property developer, Tachibana (Yukiyoshi Ozawa). Jiro has recently suffered a professional humiliation at the hands of this corporate crook, but he soon discovers a more pressing reason to help orchestrate the latter¡¯s comeuppance.
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