The film is about Tatsuo (Kazuya Takahashi), a gangster and pimp who sends out his only prostitute (Reiko Kataoka) to service a politician.
When she returns beaten, Tatsuo's girlfriend complains but is killed by crime boss Animaru (Mickey Curtis).
He flees, riding in the taxi driven by a Peruvian Japanese named Kantake (Kōji Yakusho).
To deal with the Peruvian-Japanese taxi driver character in the film, director Masato Harada had Kawasaki listen to tapes of Peruvian music to come up with a similar sound.
Its neon-lit nightscapes and vivid brutality dance, shock--and leave the viewer both riveted and repulsed.