Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Un asesino del crimen organizado es contratado para llevar a cabo una misión. Es conocido como el Número 3, y pronto se verá en vuelto en una especie de conspiración en la que están metidos una extraña y fascinante mujer, y más asesinos. La caza comienza, y enseguida sabremos quién es el Número 1 de la Organización, todo un ejemplo a seguir, y sobre el que algunos incluso aseguran que no existe, que es un invento para meter miedo.
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
«Phoenix Tetsu» es un asesino a sueldo reformado que ha seguido el ejemplo establecido por su jefe, aparentemente arrepentido de su trabajo. Una vez alejado del mundo de la delincuencia, Tetsu se encuentra vagando por las calles de Tokio, eludiendo, a la par que esperando, una muerte segura a manos del villano Viper. Tan solo le queda la compañía de su novia, cantante en un nightclub.
Tsurumatsu
‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?
Maki's Bodyguard
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
A un mafioso recién salido de la cárcel, merced de algunas arreglos hechos por un capo local, le es encomendado de manera inmediata un atraco perfecto. Hacerse con el dinero recaudado en el hipódromo. El plan, bastante fácil en el papel, se ve pronto complicado cuando nada ocurre de la forma planeada y nuestro héroe descubre que sus servicios fueron contratados sólo para intentar asesinarlo posteriormente.
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
