Two broke yakuza nobodies bet everything on one last score—and their own boss just walked back in.
Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...
Acting
Motomiya's slow-burn desperation masks volcanic rage.
Direction
Asao treats rural yakuza like dying cowboys, not cartoons.
Writing
Every promise between partners curdles into tragedy.
Director
Masahiro Asao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Revives ninkyo-eiga (chivalry films) but strips away romanticism—no white suits, just rust and regret.
JP
