Tokyo Swindlers (Japanese: 地面師たち, Hepburn: Jimenshitachi) is a Japanese streaming television series directed and written by Hitoshi One. Produced by Nikkatsu Corporation and Booster Project for Netflix, and stars Go Ayano and Etsushi Toyokawa. The series was released worldwide on July 25, 2024.
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Cast
Go Ayano as Takumi Tsujimoto
Etsushi Toyokawa as Harrison Yamanaka
Kazuki Kitamura as Takeshita
Eiko Koike as Reiko
Pierre Taki as Goto
Shota Sometani as Nagai
Izumi Matsuoka as Natsumi Kawai
Kaito Yoshimura as Kaede
Anthony as Orochi
Satoru Matsuo as Sunaga
Taro Suruga as Maki
Makita Sports as Hayashi
Elaiza Ikeda as Detective Kuramochi
Lily Franky as Detective Tatsu
Koji Yamamoto as Takashi Aoyagi
Production
In February 2024, The series was announced on Netflix. It is based on Ko Shinjo's 2019 novel Tokyo Swindlers. The filming of the series concluded in 2023.
Reception
James Hadfield writing for The Japan Times rated the series 3 stars (out of 5). Daniel Hart of Ready Steady Cut assigns the series 3.5 stars. Jenny Nixon of Common Sense Media gave the series a four out of five stars. Jan Lee of The Straits Times gave the series a rating of 4/5 stars.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 6 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. Joel Keller of Decider and Graeme Blundell of The Australian reviewed the series.
