Shohei Narumi has been in hiding for five years after a major assassination assignment. He's poor, no longer able to afford his fancy lifestyle. He can't even get a drink at the hostess bar he gets pulled into.
We don't have anything like a hostess bar in America. They aren't places of prostitution but instead a modern version of geishas, providing entertainment and flirtation to lonely salarymen.
While there, Shohei Narumi runs into two women from his past. A hostress named Akiko (Kaori Takeda) was the daughter of the man our protagonist killed five years ago. Yet she doesn't hate him for it. The other is the mama-san - the boss of the place - named Misako (Yutaka Nakajima). As he shot everyone he could five years ago, she is the one person he let live. Now she's dating another boss, Katsuda (Kei Sato), and he wants Shohei Narumi to start killing for him. So does another boss. That means that everybody is going to die, many of them from bullets that Shohei Narumi shoots.
What comes across at the end of this film is the fact that without someone to kill, his existence is pointless. He's like an unfired gun. All he knows in this life is how to end others.
We don't have anything like a hostess bar in America. They aren't places of prostitution but instead a modern version of geishas, providing entertainment and flirtation to lonely salarymen.
While there, Shohei Narumi runs into two women from his past. A hostress named Akiko (Kaori Takeda) was the daughter of the man our protagonist killed five years ago. Yet she doesn't hate him for it. The other is the mama-san - the boss of the place - named Misako (Yutaka Nakajima). As he shot everyone he could five years ago, she is the one person he let live. Now she's dating another boss, Katsuda (Kei Sato), and he wants Shohei Narumi to start killing for him. So does another boss. That means that everybody is going to die, many of them from bullets that Shohei Narumi shoots.
What comes across at the end of this film is the fact that without someone to kill, his existence is pointless. He's like an unfired gun. All he knows in this life is how to end others.