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A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.Read moreLess
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
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A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Hironobu NomuraShunichi Yashiro
Takeshi KagaTakigawa
Mitsuko BaishoMegumi Nanbu
Junko MiharaEiko
Hideo MurotaKosakai
Isao BitōAsai
Sonny ChibaYakuza boss
Kiwako HaradaPianist
Tomoyo HaradaChieko
Yoshio HaradaShirae
Toshiyuki NagashimaDriverExplore the crew
- Director
- Haruki Kadokawa
- Screenplay
- Yōzō Tanaka
- Editor
- Osamu Tanaka
- Producer
- Sunao Sakagami
- Producer
- Haruki Kadokawa
- Director of Photography
- Seizō Sengen
- Original Music Composer
- Masahide Sakuma