Kaoru Takamura

Kota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa (Tadanobu Asano), a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda (Kenta Kiritani), a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student (Shim Chang-Min), Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki (Junpei Mizobata) and a former elevator engineer (Toshiyuki Nishida). These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.

A Japanese film by Hideyuki Hirayama, Lady Joker is a detective thriller with elements of social commentary on Japanese society that is based on the 1997 bestselling novel by Kaoru Takamura.

Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.

目黒区の住宅街の路上で頭部に独特な“突き傷”がある元暴力団員の死体が見つかる事件が発生し、警視庁捜査一課の合田警部補は被害者の身辺を調査し始める。その一方、ある法務省刑事局の職員が同じような“突き傷”のある遺体となって見つかる。合田は警察内部のしがらみに苦労しながらも、元暴力団員と法務省職員の両方に、ある弁護士が関係していたことを知る。やがて捜査線上に水沢という謎の青年の存在が浮上してくる。