蓮川久美

Daijiro Akagi, a prodigal son who has been out of touch for three years, turns up at his father’s first anniversary memorial service and declares, ‘I’m going to buy Tsutenkaku and turn it into the Akagi family mausoleum.’ However, with no source of funds, he enlists the help of his younger brother, Kojiro—a man of cunning but little else—to raise the money. Their plan progresses steadily, but…

Daijiro Akagi, who has lived his life on sheer guts alone, and his younger brother Kojiro, whose cunning far exceeds that of the average person, are a pair of small-time thugs battling it out in Osaka. One day, the two find themselves saddled with a debt of nearly 10 million yen at an illegal mahjong parlour run by the Jishin-gumi. If they cannot repay it within a week, their lives will be in danger...