Kurosaki, A.K.A. Kurosagi, is a crook who targets professional crooks. He defrauds money and gives it to the victims; he never keeps it for himself. His father was once set up by a crook and planned a family suicide. Kurosagi managed to save his life but lost his whole family.
The crook was Toshio Katsuragi – the mastermind of all crooks. Despite knowing what Toshio did to his father, Kurosagi buys information off of him to capture other crooks.
Is there a way to free our world of crooks?(Source: TBS). Rewatch Value 7.0 I really liked Kurosagi. What hooked me was the manga feel to the writing and episodic set up of the drama.
I enjoyed the 'legend' of a swindler of swindlers and Kurosagi's reasons behind becoming who he was. And quite baldly, honestly, Yamashita Tomohisa has never been more handsome than in this drama.The thing with these 'Avenging Hero' type dramas/stories is the love story orbiting the hero is always a frustrating dance. Perhaps he has been deeply scarred and/or his mission is antithetic to the love that unexpectedly blossoms between the antihero and heroine. Kurosagi is classic in this respect.Each episode unfolds with Kurosagi swindling a different kind of swindler and it's fun to watch him get into character and pull off his clever cons.
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I couldn't help but compare this just a bit to Liar Game, in that you have to use your brain and the hero has to work around the trick of the con. I really liked Kurosagi's little personality quirks and his different 'con' personalities.Having sung it's praises, I still came away from Kurosagi feeling something was missing. It took a little while to put my finger on just why I can't give this drama a 10 but I've figured it out. It feels incomplete. Usually as I watch and then rate Jdramas, the fact they usually only take 9 to 11 episodes to tell the story makes me enjoy them immensely. This speedy and more concise story telling in turn raises the rating for me.
But somehow this was not the case with Kurosagi. I felt this story needed more time, more story and I am left unsatisfied.The acting was great for the most part. Yamashita Tomohisa has impressed me again. I've watched 4 of his dramas now and I really like when he plays more 'character' parts like this rather than straight lead (See Buzzer Beat, which I did love).
Somehow even with his handsome leading man looks, he feels more like a character actor to me. I liked the lead actress. Some of the secondary characters fell flat for me.A word about Katsuragi: He is the most original character I've come across in a long time. He was at once; chilling, pathetic, gross, pitiful and scary. He left an impression with me, that is for sure.The intro song didn't really thrill me but the background song which I will call Kurosagi's 'theme song' was cool.
I really dug it.I am giving the re-watch value a 7 because I think people will want to watch this again. There are already parts I have gone back and watched again.I recommend this. It's worth your 11 hours. It's fun and if you get into manga turned into live action, I think you will like this.
SynopsisKurosaki is a young man whose family was destroyed by swindlers. Despite that, Kurosaki grows up to become a con artist known as Kurosagi. As Kurosagi, he swindles other con artists and returns the money to the original victim.
He works with the master swindler Katsuragi Toshio even though Toshio had a hand in the destruction of Kurosaki’s family. Kurosaki's life begins to change when he meets Yoshikawa Tsurara, a young law student who disapproves of his disrespect of the law. Can she persuade Kurosaki to give up swindling and his quest for revenge?InfoSubtitlesENGLISH (HardSubbed) + JRAW + English SUB (Movie)PasswordIUploadsLinksEpisode 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11: FINALEthe artist.