Cruel Gun Story (拳銃残酷物語, Kenjū zankoku monogatari) is a 1964 Japanese heist film directed by Takumi Furukawa.
Joji Togawa, a former bank robber serving a sentence for the murder of the truck driver who left his sister paraplegic in a hit and run, is released from prison early due to the influence of Matsumoto, a wealthy yakuza boss.
Togawa tells her he feels responsible for her accident, since he made her go on the late night grocery trip during which she was run over, but Rie assures him he has no reason to blame himself and that she’s just happy to have him back.
When Togawa says he will soon have the money to pay for an operation to cure her, Rie makes him promise not to commit any more crimes for her sake and gives him a rosary as a reminder to stay on the right path.
Due to the delay caused by the armored truck drivers, the outriders’ bodies and motorcycles are left at the scene, where they are found by the police.
The group is surprised when Teramoto’s girlfriend, Keiko, suddenly arrives and reveals that she has secretly been spying on them on behalf of Ito.
Ito tells Togawa and Keiko to stay at a nearby hotel for the night so they can take him to where the money is stashed the following morning.
After leaving, Togawa is approached by Yanagida, the head of a yakuza group opposed to Matsumoto, who deduced he’d taken part in the truck robbery.
Back in Matsumoto’s house, just as the boss receives a call from Ito informing him of the failed exchange, Togawa takes advantage of most of the guards being gone to sneak in and confront him.
Horrified by the carnage and delirious from the bullet wound, Togawa stumbles around the house and accidentally starts a fire after knocking some kerosene onto an electric kettle.