A Shaw Brothers production directed by Kuei Chih-hung.

Sophisticated con artists always manage to relieve people of astronomical sums of money and make them do things they would not have thought possible. This is because they are masters in manipulating victims, the environment, and the public. But how do they succeed? How do they create the supposedly perfect deception? Are we so easily blinded?

The third solo concert by Sergey Orlov, recorded in November 2021.

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion.

The wealthy merchant Borg buys up all the country’s grain reserves to control the prices himself. His move creates panic both on the stock exchange and in the streets. However, he meets the seductive Vera, and with her, misfortunes follow one after another like pearls on a necklace. (Stumfilm.dk)