Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Satsuchii
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
양주 메이커 홍보부에 근무하는 평범한 36살 남자 에부리만의 생활을 통해 전중전후를 힘겹게 살아온 샐러리맨의 비애와 굴절된 심정을 그려낸 걸작.
원작은 야마구치 히토미의 나오키상 수상작으로 대담한 편집과 애니메이션 삽입등 참신한 수법이 넘쳐나는 오카모토 기하치의 대표작 중 하나.
(2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)
