Apparently, divorce is a difficult thing in Japan. If your spouse doesn't agree to get a divorce, you might be stuck. And if you're a woman, you might be socially ostracized. Enter the professional seducer.

Mr A

Mr A is outside a bank in a busy part of Ikebukuro, a faintly seedy area of Tokyo, waiting for his date. He beams as she teeters across the road on high heels. Kyoko, 20, is half his age. She has a mane of black hair, sloe eyes, a fetching smile and a cute giggle. Her blouse is open to reveal her cleavage and she has on a short skirt and sheer black tights. Mr A is a bald 40-year-old salesman in a crumpled grey suit and glasses.

... Mr A doesn't know that a team of private investigators is recording his every move. The boss, the ebullient Mr Tomiya, lurks behind a lamppost on the other side of the road and takes photographs as Kyoko meets Mr A. Tomiya's equipment includes a packet of cigarettes and a pen, both of which are actually cameras. Shimizu, a heavy-set man with a bullet head and cropped hair, carries a black bag. It contains a camera with which he films continuously through a tiny hole in the bag. A third man acts as a lookout. They follow the couple down the street, dodging the crowds and sprinting across red lights, keeping far enough behind so as not to arouse suspicion but close enough so that Shimizu can film. ...Mrs B

In a very different part of Tokyo, Mrs B is waiting for her date. She works in the glitzy Ginza district, near the new Gucci building, where they've arranged to meet. She's 29 and wears a blue short-sleeved jumper over a sparkly low-cut blouse and pretty skirt. Her husband is away on business. The marriage isn't going well; in fact, he asked for a divorce, but she refused. Even so, she's nervous to be seeing someone else.

... The young man on the leather sofa directly opposite is playing with his mobile, as everyone does. But he is filming the pair canoodling. The whole scenario has been carefully planned to suit her taste. The flash car is one of a fleet of company cars. The restaurant bill is paid by the company and ultimately by her husband.

The goal is to get the target to fall in love with the seducer to the point where the target is the one trying to get the divorce so that they can marry the seducer. Failing that, the cuckolded spouse now has a file proving the other's infidelity.

It's not all about catching the spouse cheating, though. In other cases, in a more Hitch-like method, they help couples get together by creating a situation for the client to meet the target and coaching the client on how to make a good impression.

The bit where the seducers have sex with their targets and often have several cases going on at once while carrying on a regular relationship with a boyfriend or a spouse is kinda oogy, imo. But i think i liked this line best:

Men are not suspicious when a lovely young girl starts chatting to them. Even a bald 40-year-old salesman in a crumpled suit with a cheap briefcase assumes he's irresistible to women.

Tsk.

You got a lady and you want her gone
But you ain't got the guts
She keeps naggin' at you night 'n' day
Enough to drive you nuts
Pick up the phone, leave her alone
It's time you made a stand
For a fee, I'm happy to be
Your back door man.