| Haraguchi Motoko works as a temporary employee at the Setagaya Kita branch of Tohrin Bank. She is painfully aware of how different her own life is compared to customers who come and deposit large sums of money, depositors who put money into illegal accounts under other people’s names or the daughter of a major client who pulled strings to join the bank. She spends each day like this – a temporary employee by day and a hostess at Shokudai, a club in Ginza by night. This is all for the sake of repaying the debt that her mother left behind. Motoko is attractive and has an air of innocence which soon catches the attention of an important customer Narabayashi Kenji, the director of Narabayashi Clinic. One day, Motoko is taken out for golf with Narabayashi by the proprietress of the club. She meets Hashida Tsuneo, the chairman of a large cram school, and Yasujima Tomio, the secretary of a lawmaker of the House of Representatives. Little do they know that this encounter will greatly change their lives later on. At this point, talk of a lay-off of temporary employees comes up at the bank just as Motoko pays off the debt. This spurs her to put a plan that she had been secretly developing into motion. She embezzles 180 million yen from the bank and opens her own club called Carnet in Ginza with a black notebook containing an illegal list of that amount of money and the accounts opened under other people’s names as her shield. Without a backer, she survives in the night scene as a young proprietress through sheer ambition, and eventually rises to become the queen of the night. |
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