A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).
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Yūjirō Ishihara
"Diamond" Fuyu
Hiroshi Nawa
Mitsuo Tsuruta
Hisako Yamane
Tatsuko Iwata
Minako Katsuki
Hanako Yamada
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Satoko Izu
Ichirō Sugai
Okaruhachi
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Izu
Kaku Takashina
Tetsu
Eiko Higashitani
Matsue Ichikawa
Mitsuko Mitagawa
Tokiko Izu
Taizō Fukami
Yoshida
Saburo Hiromatsu
Sato
Keisuke Yukioka
Meguro
Yōichirō Mikawa
Yagami
Shirō Yanase
