Matsumoto Seicho's Black Leather Notebook(1982)

Matsumoto Seicho's Black Leather Notebook is a Japanese drama series centered on Haraguchi Motoko, a veteran bank teller who discovers the existence of a massive slush fund. Over six months, she meticulously plans and executes an embezzlement scheme, stealing 75 million yen. With her newfound wealth, Motoko opens an exclusive club in Ginza, Tokyo's glamorous entertainment district. The series explores themes of ambition, deception, and the consequences of crime, following a woman who risks everything to break free from her constrained life. Adapted from Matsumoto Seicho's work, the narrative unfolds as a tense character study of calculated betrayal and reinvention in post-war Japan.