CAST:
Tetsuya Watari (Tetsuya 'Phoenix Tetsu' Hondo),
Chieko Matsubara (Chiharu),
Hideaki Nitani (Kenji Aizawa),
Ryûji Kita (Kurata),
Tsuyoshi Yoshida (Keiichi)

SCRIPT:
Kôhan Kawauchi

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Shigeyoshi Mine

Synopsis:
This is one of the most famous films by Suzuki from the Nikkatsu period, a noir film about a former yakuza. Tetsuya’s boss decides to become an honest man and lets his employees go. Tetsuya, up to then his boss’s right hand, respects his decision and even accepts his request to leave Tokyo to relieve his boss of the pressure from the police and the organization. The rival gang thinks this is just a trick and follows Tetsuya on his travels.

35 mm, b/w and color, 89 min