Fukasaku Kinji follows his Battles Without Honor and Humanity series with a film focusing on the other-side-of-the-coin, a police department where the yen far outweighs the law. Sugawara plays a guy who came out of postwar Japan and by a twist of fate wound up a cop instead of a yakuza. Doesn’t matter because he’s so corrupt he’s basically a criminal anyways: delivering witnesses to his yakuza buddies and looking the other way while they murder rivals. But now a war is breaking out and a new boss is installed: an anti-corruption police reformer. This bad lieutenant is going to have to choose a side, or go down dirty.