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The Black Swindler

2022 · 1 season

A sleek, tense revenge thriller where every con is a chess move, drawing you into a world of deception and moral ambiguity.

Genres
Drama, Crime, Action & adventure
Overview
In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a "white swindler", which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact revenge, Kurosaki becomes a "black swindler", a swindler who tricks other swindlers. He swears to scam every white swindler in the world and takes on foe after foe, but can he find his ultimate enemy who robbed him of his family? This riveting revenge drama exposes the very emotions that scams exploit.

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Genres
Drama, Crime, Action & adventure
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • deception
  • crime
  • grief
  • justice
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror2
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Stream
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Details

Genres
drama, crime, action & adventure
Created by
Kenta Tanaka, Shunichi Hirano, Yasuharu Ishii
Written by
Eriko Shinozaki
Starring
Sho Hirano, Yuina Kuroshima, Tomokazu Miura, Koji Yamamoto, Kai Inowaki, Yuri Nakamura, Eiichiro Funakoshi, Bando Yajuro
Music
Hideakira Kimura
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 63 min each
Network
TBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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