Blackmail Is My Life

Muraki is a man who grew up on the street. His past is hard and poor. He has found himself a line of work. The work is blackmailing people. He rises fast in it. He reads people well. He spends what he makes at once. The life he keeps up is expensive and loose. He does not want that arrangement disturbed. But one day he aims too high. His new targets are the business partners of a powerful gang boss. These men are not like the earlier ones. His luck turns from that point. The account moves into a fast fall. Hiroki Matsukata and Tomomi Satō take the leads, with Shinjirō Ehara also in the cast, in Kinji Fukasaku’s Japanese film of 1968.