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A darkly comedic crime thriller about two men caught in escalating yakuza violence, mixing action and gore with moments of unexpected camaraderie and black humor.
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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