The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!

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An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution b...

Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the...

Three different scenarios, intercut, all using the same words but with very different meanings. A co...

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold betw...

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After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another ...