Summary
Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.
Good for
- Binge-friendly
- Thought-provoking
- Adults
Skip it if
- You need an uplifting mood
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 72GoodWatch 67
Audience score80%
IMDb6.4
Time to watch it all
3 h 36 min
9 episodes, about 24 min each
An episode a night: done in 9 nights.
Reach
Streams in 129 countries
+119First aired
2019
July 1, 2019
Ended 2019
Genres
Action & AdventureCrimeDramaLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
Japan
Rated
No age rating yet.
What's in it
- ViolenceStrong
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityMild
- Dark themesStrong
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
- Drug useNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsPartner WatchSolo WatchBinge-FriendlyThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
and 11 more14 people
- Ron Mizuma9 episodes
- Ryohei Otani9 episodes
- Maika Yamamoto9 episodes
- Naomi Nishida9 episodes
- Shuntaro Yanagi9 episodes
- Tomoya Maeno9 episodes
- Junki Tozuka9 episodes
- Takashi Yamanaka9 episodes
Masato Wada9 episodes
Yosuke Sugino9 episodes
Shodai Fukuyama9 episodes
Asuka Hanamura9 episodes
Takuya Wakabayashi9 episodes
Tetta Sugimoto9 episodes
Directing · 1
- Yuki Kobayashi Director
Production · 3
- Tomiji Kajiwara Producer
- Wataru Murashima Producer
- Hideto Sezaki Producer
Sound · 1
- Kō Nakagawa Original Music Composer
Other crew · 3
- Yuki Hara Development Producer, Creator
- Daisuke Suzuki Creator
- Jun Tsugita Creator
SCAMS episodes
1 season · 9 episodes
Episodes
- S1 E1 Episode #1.1, 7.0
- S1 E2 Episode #1.2, 7.1
- S1 E3 Episode #1.3, 7.8
- S1 E4 Episode #1.4, 8.0
- S1 E5 Episode #1.5, 8.0
- S1 E6 Episode #1.6, 8.0
- S1 E7 Episode #1.7, 8.2
- S1 E8 Episode #1.8, 8.2
- S1 E9 Episode #1.9, 7.6
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