88 minutes, one bomb, zero chill — Japanese pulp crime at full throttle.
Shinjuku Kabukicho, Asia's largest entertainment district. Gangsters and the Chinese mafia are vigilantly targeting the town's huge concessions. One day, Detective Kumada, who belongs to Section 4 of the Shinjuku Chuo Police Department's anti-gang team, receives information that a bomb has been planted somewhere in Kabukicho...
Direction
Ozawa directs himself with zero vanity, pure kinetic chaos.
Production
Kabukicho location shooting feels dangerously authentic.
Editing
Tighter than the timeframe — 88 minutes of pure propulsion.
Director
Hitoshi Ozawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hitoshi Ozawa was a V-cinema legend who frequently directed himself in gritty crime thrillers throughout the 2000s, essentially building a one-man yakuza universe.
This captures the tail end of Japan's V-cinema boom — direct-to-video crime films shot on real locations with minimal budget but maximum attitude, before streaming killed the format.
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