Directed by Eiichi Kudo • Drama • With Yusaku Matsuda, Hyoe Enoki, Mari Hemmi • 1981 • 112 minutes
When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past.
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