After graduating from high school in 1996 in Japan, It Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but he fails to find steady employment because of his eccentric disposition and because the country is m...(read more read more...)ired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, biding the time with cheap pranks, gambles, liquor and cigarettes. Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears.