

A yakuza chief haunted by a girl's face while enemies close in—honor or blood?
Kyowakai headquarters chief Yuto Tamura (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) seeks to settle accounts for his underling Tora, injured by the Toryukai. But the Toryukai enlists Diet member Kadowaka (Kato Kei) as mediator—only for his greed to be instantly exposed by underboss Renji Himuro (Motomiya Yasukaze), who seizes on Kadowaka’s weakness. Suddenly, masked assailants strike both Himuro and Tamura. Tamura corners one of them, but a terrified young girl (Yakuwana Tsumi) distracts him, letting the attackers slip away. Meanwhile, rogue member Shigeru Fujita (Yokoyama Ryo)—who defied both Tora and Toryukai boss Higashino—arrives in Kobe, intent on revenge against Tamura. To rein him in, the Sakota-gumi dispatches underboss aide Hayashi (Namioka Kazuki). As Tamura hunts the mysterious assailants alone, the image of the girl lingers, pulling him back to where it all began…
Acting
Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki's thousand-yard stare says everything
Direction
Tsuji frames Kobe's neon like wounds that won't heal
Writing
Fujita's rogue arc defies yakuza flick predictability

Director
Hiroyuki Tsuji
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 'Gaiden' (side story) expands the 'Unification of Japan' V-cinema series, direct-to-video yakuza films with cult following in Japan.
Yakuana Tsumi (the girl) has no dialogue—her presence as pure symbol mirrors how women function in classic ninkyo eiga, subverted by Tamura's inability to forget her.
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