One of director Nakajima's best films.
A gritty, nourish gangster saga - especially for 1963 - more in the jitsuroku (true account) vain before there were many yakuza films.
Serving his prison time after the events of the first movie, Hishakaku discovers that Otoyo is working as a prostitute in Manchuria. He travels to China to save the woman he still loves, only to get involved in a battle he can never win.
Korean girl loses her beloved dog while moving with her family. The rest of the movie is about the girl and the dog trying to find each other.
A supposedly true-to-life story of one of the biggest rightists - yakuza bosses in 1950s - '60s Japan.