“Post-war Tokyo's legendary Fast Food Grifters: phantom scam artists who shaped Japan's dark culinary underworld across decades.”
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
立喰師列伝
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Post-war Tokyo's legendary Fast Food Grifters: phantom scam artists who shaped Japan's dark culinary underworld across decades.
Immediately following the end of the World War II, Tokyo was trying to emerge from the rubble. In a corner of the black market stood a flimsy soba (buckwheat noodle) eatery. It was a delicate time just before the closing. A man appeared at the threshold. "One moongaze (raw egg). With soba." This was none other than the legendary Fast Food Grifter known as Moongaze Ginji. His relentless scam quietly initiates. The time changes. In the midst of the first anti Japan-US Security Treaty movement (1960), the streets rumored about Foxy Croquette O-Gin, a beautiful lady Fast Food Grifter, who disappeared all of a sudden. Wandering the alleys in the years of the economic miracle was Crying Inumaru, the loser. Then came Cold Badger Masa, whose scandalous death made people aware of the presence of Fast Food Grifters within the Japanese society. Beefbowl Ushigoro put an end to a major gyudon (beef and rice bowl) restaurant chain. And it is not possible not to mention Hamburger Tetsu, who shocked the entire fast food industry. Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting heroes who carved their names on the dark side of dietary culture with their glare. Now their legend revives, strong as ever... (Source: Production I.G.)
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- Format 1 × 104′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 44m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2006 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-2187 catalog
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- Fonishia Producer
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- Discotek Media Licensor