ライアーゲーム / Liar Game

Title: ライアーゲーム / Liar Game
Aired: 2007-Apr-14 to 2007-Jun-23
Genre: Suspense
Episodes: 11

• Toda Erika as Kanzaki Nao
• Matsuda Shota as Akiyama Shinichi

DramaWiki's synopsis: Kanzaki Nao is an honest college student who receives a hundred million yen one day, along with a card saying she has been chosen to take part in the "Liar Game". The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million dollars. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. The next day, she receives notification that her opponent is her former teacher, Fujisawa Kazuo. She goes to him, seeking help, but ends up getting tricked into handing her money over. Desperate, she approaches the police for help, but they are unable to do anything. However, she is told of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, who is to be released from jail the next day. Desperate, she goes to him for help.

Thoughts: First of all, I have no idea why Matsuda looks like he's wearing a friggin' wig and looking like a shitty 3rd rate delinquent in that banner. I promise he looks much better in the drama! I enjoyed Matsuda's performance thoroughly. But Kanzaki is an absolutely annoying character. I think no matter what, there's a limit to how much trust you can have in a person after he tricks you for the 2394823098th time. If you're gonna watch it, watch it for Akiyama's strategies in tricking people and ignore Kanzaki.