Great Pretender

A run of bad luck pushes Makoto Edamura into a life of petty crime, making ends meet through pickpocketing and small-time scams. When he targets a tourist who looks like an easy mark, the tables turn—Makoto is the one who gets conned, and he suddenly finds the police on his trail.

Fleeing the heat, Makoto crosses paths with the same “tourist” again: Laurent Thierry, a seasoned con man. Drawn into Laurent’s orbit, Makoto follows him to Los Angeles and, determined to prove his claim as “Japan’s greatest swindler,” challenges Laurent to a contest of who can run the better con. Laurent’s answer is a new job aimed at a massive score—one that puts Makoto alongside Laurent’s eccentric partners in the dangerous world of international, high-stakes fraud, where every trick comes with consequences.