Mukoubuchi

Japan’s booming 1980s bring a new era of high-stakes underground mahjong. As land prices and the value of money soar, the bubble economy sends the numbers shaping everyday life spinning out of control. In this unusually volatile age, a lone-wolf gambler known as “Kai” lives by the game. He is a mukoubuchi—a name for a true, solitary gambler—amid mahjong matches played for stakes unlike those of any era before.