This is probably one of the rare few Japanese dramas I have watched in my life. I'm not a fan of Japanese dramas in general as the overacting tends to be extreme and cringey. This drama is a far cry from what I expected though. Production value is high and the acting is decent. The only person who overacts is the FL policewoman but thankfully she didn't appear that much. Cinematography is great too.

My initial thoughts after watching was incredulity at how even such large companies could even fall for scams when I came across this article: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Land-scam-sparks-a-boardroom-coup-at-Japan-s-Sekisui-House . Shocking that a listed company would actually fall for such scams. It seemed that the Sekiyo House scam was based on this incident. Sadly, the show only features 2 scam cases despite being 7 episodes long. I felt that too much time was spent trying to develop the old detective character but he was hastily killed off so his character didn't go anywhere. There was also plenty of unnecessary nudity scenes regarding the nun in the Sekiyo House scam which honestly felt too over the top and didn't serve to advance the plot. Like yeah we get it, she loves those male hosts but there is not need to keep showing her have sex with them like ??? I'm not against nudity or whatever but seriously. Oh, and all those hunting scenes with Harrison where they just try to show him as some sort of one dimensional psychopath. He was so poorly developed as a character with his one trait simply being that he's a psychopath. He's the ringleader but doesn't seem to do much except to launder the money and delegate work. His role reminds me vaguely of the current corporate structures where the boss does fuck all and the employees slave away lol. But yeah in conclusion too much character development for some side characters and none for the main villain. Strange choice.

Finally, the ending. Strang and haphazard. So the ML finally realises that Harrison is the mastermind behind all the shit that happened in his life, thanks to the policewoman. And he starts getting emotional and shit. Which makes me go like HUH. Did you even care about revenge? He was never shown trying to dig into the identities of the scammer and instead was just working hard at his scamming job. He was a land scammer for 5 years too; he could have used some of his land scamming connections or knowledge to find out the perpetrators but no... His motivation to becoming a land scammer were also not clearly explained as well. I'm not sure if some things were missing in translation but the ending conversation with the FL was just abrupt. It almost felt like the show ran out of time and just hastily slapped some dialogue together. Took away the 3 stars for that.

TLDR: Land scamming parts are interesting, but the ending is shit.