The Black Swindler

Tokyo rain slicks slick pavement near a derelict pawnshop. A son watches his family vanish behind a loan-shark’s smile. Years later, Kurosaki moves through nightclubs and back rooms, targeting thieves who steal from thieves—until a desperate mother asks him to find Ishigaki, whose fraud bleeds banks dry and leaves a child gasping in a hospital bed.

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Yasuharu Ishii directed The Black Swindler in 2008. See Yasuharu Ishii's full filmography, where to start with Yasuharu Ishii, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yasuharu Ishii.

The Black Swindler was released in 2008 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 127 minutes.