A yakuza ghost walking through a world that forgot how to need him.
Shinpei did time for his gang, but the yakuza changed and he's marked for death. He might just be desperate enough to join forces with an old enemy.
Acting
Iwanaga's thousand-yard stare carries 81 minutes of unspoken history.
Direction
Yamaga strips the genre to its bones — no glamour, just rot.
Director
Takayuki Yamaga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emerging from Japan's direct-to-video V-cinema tradition, where genre veterans experiment outside studio constraints.
The 81-minute runtime isn't budget necessity — it's narrative mercy. Shinpei doesn't deserve epic suffering.
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