Shinjirō Ehara

A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang.

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it. Tracking down the real culprit willtake him along a twisted trai...

A killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. He then seeks revenge against the people who employed him.

Per aging chanbara star Katoaka's involvement, this leans more to the old-fashioned gangster film style/formula spilling over from Toei's 1950s heyday.

A photo taken of Takakura and Shindo both sporting full-upper-body tattoos, something not the common in pre-1963 yakuza films.