He's correct of course, and soon finds himself on the defensive, attacked from all sides, friend and foe alike. But Murakawa harbors suspicions that there's more going on than he's been told, and fears it might be a set-up. As the movie opens he's been sent to Okinowa by his crime lord boss, a kind of soldier-for-hire rented out to another gang, in a mission to help broker peace between rival clans. Kitano plays the Yakuza enforcer Murakawa, a stoic, stone-faced machiavellian anti-hero hoping to retire from a life of killing.
