After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

• DirectorSeijun Suzuki
• Release10 April 1966
• Genre
  Thriller / Crime
• Duration1h 23m
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• Rate
  

  7.106
  194 reviews
• Productions

  Nikkatsu Corporation