Kōjirō Kusanagi

When two thugs are killed, a samurai investigates the murders and begins to suspect that a hidden mastermind is influencing the magistrate.

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up. Shot through with the same kind of bebop bravado that Godard was experimenting with half a world away, the anarchic descent into amoral madness that is The Warped Ones (Kyonetsu no kisetsu) sounded a lost generation’s cry for help and was one of the films that kicked off Japan’s cinematic sixties with a bang.

When 1 million yen go missing, a man (Jo Shishido) spies the opportunity to get rich, but he's not the only one looking to get his hands on the cash.