A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
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The people behind it
Raizō Ichikawa
Shiozawa
Yumiko Nogawa
Keiko
Mikio Narita
Maeda
Mayumi Nagisa
Shogo
Jōtarō Senba
Tatsuo Matsushita
Owada
Sachiko Kobayashi
Asao Koike
Kimura
Saburo Date
Yūji Hamada
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