Yoshii ( Masaki Suda ) sells stuff. Any stuff, as long as it’s piled high — in a digital sense — and selling cheap, but not nearly as cheap as what he paid for it. The first thing we see him buy is a pile of “miracle therapy machines” at a knockdown price casually extorted from the people who claim to make them.
Who buys this garbage? Who cares? Yoshii is full of the bravado of a gambler on a winning streak. He has no idea whether he is buying fake designer goods, he tells another “reseller,” which is the name of his game. The point is to move things on before you find out.
Except that some people do find out they have been cheated. Among them, there are even people as web-smart as Yoshii himself. They will find out who he really is, behind his internet handle Ratel.
And when they find out, they will be angry in the way that only anonymous enemies on the internet can be angry. Almost as angry as his former boss Takimoto (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa), who kept urging Yoshii to move into management at his vast dry-cleaning firm and whose feelings were very, very hurt when he refused. So hurt he felt humiliated.
He’s watched enough movies — maybe even played enough games — to know what he has to do next. Revenge feels good. “Now I’m having fun,” he says as he prowls around Yoshii’s new house with a shotgun, “I’ve always dreamed of this!” RELATED: Japan Selects ‘Cloud’ By Kurosawa Kiyoshi Selected As Its 2025 Oscar Submission A master of atmosphere in.