Kazuhide Haruta

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and knocks some good sense into friends and enemies alike. Rapists and gangsters get the worst of it, as Mr. Soh builds up his school on the island of Shikoku.

In the near future, in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, a ‘Welfare Cutoff Squad’ is formed to plug the gaps in the deteriorating public finances. Their objective is to strip welfare recipients of their entitlement to benefits. However, as these recipients would rather live on welfare than work, concepts of ethics and morality are virtually non-existent. Thus begins a sordid battle between the Cutoff Squad and the residents…