His relentless desire to provoke the post-war establishment led Wakamatsu to venture into pinku eiga even without meaning to, with a subtext that was more left-wing political ideology than female exploitation or machismo, as can be seen in this story featuring the disturbed Kariya, who murdered the man who raped his mother when he was a child and has had time to mature his resentful emotions in search —of course—the slightest excuse to vent his misanthropy. It is precisely Kaneko, a small-time thug —don’t be fooled by his sackcloth appearance and his position in the criminal organisation— who, one night, saves the boy from a shootout during a night-time chase and adds the natural sociopath to the yakuza equation. The canvas is quite clear: Kaneko has his place in the organisation, but the newly discovered Kariya has testosterone to spare for beating up women and facing the clan’s enemies. He almost raped one woman, Harumi, and humiliated her in front of Kaneko’s wife, cutting her skirt with scissors for suggesting that he was too much of a child to be taken seriously.

He dragged Teji’s wife by her hair and, when she angrily confronted him, drowned her in a bathtub. On the other hand, his insolence (I’m talking about Wakamatsu and not his deranged killer) went beyond making low-budget films; as I said, he didn’t give a damn about the formal result. Look at the continuity error in this film at 0:31:01 and the following seconds. The girl was lying drowned, and you can still see a shadow on the bathroom wall and the killer’s jump for a fraction of a second when the scene was edited, LOL. His recklessness pays off because he is taken to the boss, who immediately puts him in the business of killing without knowing who, and incidentally hands him a wad of cash to get rid of that tasteless shirt open to the chest. First, the incident at 4:30 a.m. on the corner of Nichigekin with a rifle, then with a pistol in a room with lovers, another one whose gas tap he turns on, and another one he drowns in a sink, and so time passed and the serial deaths continued for the escalation of success in cold-blooded crimes.The world wonders what kind of big shot the boy who grew up alone became. I’ll show you.

watch a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Cj-uqda0E

The whirlwind of ambition with its cocktail of traumas generating a compulsion to kill and kill more without thinking takes him to a level where he doesn’t even realise when his boss asks him to get rid of the very person who saved his life. He runs over, or rather crashes into the wall, Kaneko and his pregnant girlfriend, almost running her over and unable to save her because Tashiro, the boss’s personal bodyguard, arrived at the abandoned warehouse to verify that the possible fraternal ties had come between them.