Great Pretender - S01

A run of bad luck has pushed Makoto Edamura into a life of crime, picking pockets and scamming people just to get by. But after he swindles a tourist who seems completely clueless, Makoto finds out he was the one who got played, and worse, the police are now after him. While he is trying to get away, he runs into that same tourist again. The man turns out to be a fellow con artist named Laurent Thierry, and Makoto ends up following him to Los Angeles. Wanting to defend his self-proclaimed title of "Japan's Greatest Swindler," Makoto challenges his rival to see who is the better scammer. Laurent accepts, drops them off outside a huge mansion, and says their target will be the biggest mafia boss on the West Coast. As Makoto gets pulled deeper into the schemes of the cunning Laurent, his colorful associates, and the world of international high-stakes fraud, he soon realizes he has gotten more than he bargained for, with his self-declared skills put to the test again and again.