Tako Hachiro

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.

Two Japanese scientists investigating uranium deposits in Indochina's Laotai country were kidnapped by the local guerrilla Patriotic Front.