Liar Game
Plot Summary
Nao Kanzaki is a college student who is known for her honesty and naivete. One day, she receives a black postcard indicating that she has been selected to participate in the "Liar Game Tournament". Along with the postcard is a box with 100 million yen. The goal of the first round of the game is to trick the other player out of their hundred million yen. At the end, the winner would get to keep the hundred million earned, and the loser owes the LGT 100 million yen, which "will be collected by any means and at all costs".
Cast & Characters
Cast
Shota Matsuda
Shin'ichi Akiyama
Erika Toda
Nao Kanzaki
Michiko Kichise
Eri Samukukwon
Rinko Kikuchi
Ryo Katsuragi
Kosuke Suzuki
Yūji Fukunaga
Ikkei Watanabe
Mitsuo Tanimura
MEGUMI
Marie Otsuka
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Yasufumi Tsuchida
Hairi Katagiri
Momoko Taninaka
Shihou Harumi
Norihiko Yasukawa
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Yuichi Nishida
Jutta Yuki
Wataru Makizono
Hidekazu Mashima
Sho Kikuchi
Nobuo Kyô
Tatsuya Kawai
Shugo Oshinari
Teppei Ikezawa
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Seasons (3)
Season 1
11 episodes
Aired: 2007
Nao Kanzaki 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, Kazuo Fujisawa. 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, Shin'ichi Akiyama, who is to be released from jail the next day. Desperate, she goes to him for help.
Season 2
9 episodes
Aired: 2009
The naïve Kanzaki Nao and expert swindler Akiyama Shinichi have not heard anything from the LIAR GAME organization since the end of the previous game, so it seems they may have actually escaped. But Nao suddenly gets another invitation and is once again caught up in the game. This time, she has to team up with Shinichi and one of their previous rivals named Fukunaga, facing off against three more opponents in new games of deception, such as "24 Rensou Russian Roulette" and "17 Poker."
Production
Fuji Television Network