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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

In Tokyo, the waitress Yoshie dreams on having a pearl necklace. When she meets a rich old client at the restaurant where she works, she glances at his bag and sees lots of bills. Further, he wears a very expensive platinum denture. She offers to clean his apartment, and they have sex. Suddenly, the man has heart attack and dies. She calls an ambulance and when she opens his bag, she sees that the bills are fake. She steals his denture, buys the aimed necklace using her savings and has a great surprise. The prostitute Maria Rosa returns to Naples after being expelled by the police. Her client, who is a law student, suggests that she marries an old man from the hospice to have the right to stay in Naples. She tells her pimp, and he imagines building a marriage agency for prostitutes and old men to make more money. She marries an old man, but things do not happen as planned. In Germany, Mr. Humlaupt is a great fan of the Eiffel Tower. When the swindler Alain des Arcys meets him, he plans a scheme with his gang of swindlers to sell the Eiffel Tower to the German. He summons him to come to Paris and he sells the tower to the naive German per a fortune. When the man goes to the Eiffel Tower believing he is the owner, he has a surprise. In Morocco, the TV journalist Patricia Leacock is the host of a show and is filming people and locations in the country. She sees a man in an American car distributing money to the poor people. When she buys typical clothing of the country, she is arrested by the police. At the precinct, she learns that she was using forged money, but the chief of police releases her. Patricia looks for the counterfeiter and when she meets him, he explains why he forges money.

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Cast & Crew See All

Mie Hama
Yoshie (segment: Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko)
Ken Mitsuda
Composer (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko"
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Detective (segment: Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko)

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