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Liar Game (2007)

Liar Game poster
Original title
ライアーゲーム
Genre
drama television series
Country
Japan
Length
2 seasons, 20 episodes
Rated
16
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Nao Kanzaki is a naive young woman who gets manipulated into joining a high-stakes deception game. She teams up with a brilliant con man named Shinichi Akiyama to outsmart other players and survive the competition.

suspensefulintellectualdeceptivetension-filledstrategicunpredictablepsychological

What happens

Liar Game is a Japanese television drama series in 2007. It was adapted from a popular manga of the same name into a live action series directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama. The drama began airing in Japan on April 14, 2007. It featured Erika Toda as Nao Kanzaki, and Shota Matsuda as Shinichi Akiyama. The first season of Liar Game had 11 episodes, with a 3 hour long finale, which was a first for a drama series. It has also gained the second highest viewer satisfaction rating, for the season, in an Oricon survey. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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