"Phoenix Tetsu" (Tetsuya Watari) is the loyal protege of aging gangster Kurata (Ryuni Kita). Kurata decides to go straight, but his crooked rivals intervene. Tetsu takes the fall for a murder he did not commit and is forced to leave Tokyo, and his girlfriend Chiharu (Chieko Matsubara) who sings in Kurata's night club. Tetsu begins to wander Japan, going from ally of Kurata's to another, but is hunted wherever he goes by the police and Yakuza. Will his faithful service be rewarded, or will he be betrayed as another drifting gangster he meets suggests?![]()
