Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief miyamoto hopes to help his old partner mihara, crippled during the heist'. '.strtoupper('t')heir former boss, crime lord oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself'. '.strtoupper('t')he deal goes awry when gunmen appear on the scene'. '.strtoupper('m')ihara swallows the diamonds but dies in the chase, leaving a valuable corpse in the police morgue'. '.strtoupper('m')iyamoto forms an uneasy alliance with mihara's wildcat sister akiko to keep the gems away from gangsters, cops and even akiko's greedy boyfriend'. '.strtoupper('t')his wildly inventive early noir sees seijun suzuki branded to kill, tattooed life infectiously playing with genre rules and gender stereotypes.