Tokyo 1984: Starting in Kabukicho

Tokyo, 1984.

It was a frenzied era when people waved around ten-thousand-yen bills to hail taxis and neon lights blazed through the night on every street.

Lin Chengsi, a public relations director from Lujiazui, opens his eyes to find himself a low-ranking black-suited host at a club in Kabukicho.

He has only 30,000 yen in his pocket, an outrageous 180,000-yen compensation bill pinned to his chest by the floor manager, and a beautiful hostess beside him being forced to entertain a nouveau riche client.

Facing the snobbery and the con artists who skip out on their bills, Lin Chengsi picks up a tray and approaches the three men in cheap suits, ignored in a corner and drenched by the rain.

He recognizes the diamond-patterned emblem on their Mitsubishi Corporation briefcases. More importantly, he knows they're the real money gods, with enough clout to move billions.

From an old private room in Kabukicho to the finest clubs on Ginza 8-chome;

From a five-hundred-million-yen drinking session to sway bank auditors, to pocketing trillions in entertainment expenses from the Big Five trading companies, then shorting the market at its 1989 peak and buying up Japan's entire entertainment industry and zaibatsu real estate at rock-bottom prices.

As all of Tokyo descends into a frenzy over the surging yen,

Lin Chengsi stands before the floor-to-ceiling windows atop a Roppongi skyscraper, swirling Yamazaki whisky in his glass. Behind him are the most dazzling celebrities and beauties spanning the Showa and Heisei eras.

"I came to Tokyo for just three things: make money, seize power, and rise above everyone else."