The Guys from Paradise (天国から来た男たち, Tengoku Kara Kita Otoko-tachi) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, adapted from the novel by Yōji Hayashi.

[1][2] Japanese businessman Kohei Hayasake of Sanyu Trading is arrested for possession of a kilo of heroin in Manila and sent to a prison there.

Yoshida sells the drugs through the warden, who states that Kohei must produce money for bribes in order to win his case.

The pedophile Sakamoto takes Kohei to a club where he is drugged and taken to a room to have his organs removed for sale but Yoshida finds him and rescues him.

Using the pseudonym Mabini, Kohei wins the Philippine presidential election, hoping to turn around the economy and the country for the sake of the people.