Blackmail Is My Life

"A pop-art exercise in manic storytelling...Fukasaku has a keen feel for his scummy underworld milieu."-Chicago Reader

A brutally intense Yakuza film from pulp master Kinji Fukasaku, Blackmail Is My Life follows the exploits of a ring of small-time punk extortionists who go up against Japan's corrupt establishment. Up-from-the-slums Shun (Hiroki Matsukata) is a young swinger who will do anything to keep his free-wheeling lifestyle intact. His lucky streak of blackmailing unravels in violent fashion when he unwisely targets business allies of a powerful gang boss.