CAST:
Jô Shishido (Joji 'Jo' Mizuno),
Ichirô Kijima (Jo'ov bivši partner),
Misako Watanabe (Kumiko Takeshita),
Seijun Suzuki (detektiv Hirokawa),
Akiji Kobayashi (Nomoto Tatsuo)

SCRIPT:
Ichirô Ikeda,
Tadaaki Yamazaki (prema romanu Haruhika Ohyabe)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kazue Nagatsuka

Synopsis:
This film represents a sort of turning point in Suzuki’s career – for the first time all of his most characteristic stylistic elements are in place, although he went on to develop them more fully in the later films Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966) and Koroshi no rakuin (Branded to Kill, 1967). Jô Shishido plays a former policeman who slowly blends in with the world of yakuza clans, becoming gradually more entangled with them in so doing. And yet, as he lets them know that he is looking for a job and the clans start to fight each other for him, they are slowly entangled in the web that he is weaving for them…

16 mm, b/w and color, 92 min