"The opening film of Miike's Black Society Trilogy protrays a world of alienation, corruption and emotional disintegration that finds its expression in murder, rape and the ultimate in the exploitation of a human being."--Container.

A hit man is hired by yakuza to rub out a rival gang's boss, only to be betrayed and targeted by both sides.

Set in 1963, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), expelled from the Yamamori gang, has allied himself with the cowardly Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) and the Akashi family, who are engaged in a power struggle with the Shinwa Group, allied with the Yamamori. But mainstream society, enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity, will no longer tolerate their violent criminal activities. The police begin a major crackdown, putting the gangs on the defensive. But rogue...

A restaurant manager and former boxer saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods.

While Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang, serves a prison sentence for a bungled hit, another family member attempts to seize power from the boss, leaving Miyoshi stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.

After his supernatural powers catch the attention of a detective agency, a teenage boy becomes part of the group that takes on gangster-involved crimes.