Hironobu Nomura
Shunichi Yashiro
Takeshi Kaga
Takigawa
Mitsuko Baisho
Megumi Nanbu
Junko Mihara
Eiko
Hideo Murota
Kosakai
Isao Bitō
Asai
Sonny Chiba
Yakuza boss
Kiwako Harada
Pianist
Tomoyo Harada
Chieko
Yoshio Harada
Shirae
Yūji Honma
Shoji
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Driver
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.
