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Flash back to before the accident: Samehada (Tadanobu Asano), the virile robin-hood-esque nemesis of the Yakuza, is interrupted from a hot, chaotic menage-a-trois by a team of professional hitmen hellbent on recovering their stolen loot and wiping him out in the process. After Samehada is saved by the collision, he thinks fast, jumps behind the wheel and speeds off with Toshiko, unconscious, riding beside him.

Uncle Sonezaki, realizing Toshiko’s disappearance, hires the gun-crazed mercenary Yamada (Tatsuya Gasyuin) to hunt down and return her. The Yakuza gang, headed up by crimelord Sawada (Susumu Terashima), continues on a restless pursuit for Samehada and thier stolen money. What ensues is a wacky chase that transports the audience into the comically violent and tragically hip world of bizarre characters. From the "knife expert" whose personality is

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