stab Azuma on a busy street; Azuma grabs the knife and Kiyohiro pulls a gun, accidentally killing a young woman when his shot misses. Azuma manages to stab Kiyohiro in the leg and escapes. The next day, he purchases ammo and an unregistered gun from a friend at the gambling parlor and practices shooting it. Knowing that Azuma will come for him, Kiyohiro goes back to his hideout and orders his men to arm themselves for a shootout; he shoots one dead for refusing his orders and kills another when the man unsuccessfully tries to kill him. The third man flees and Azuma takes him out as he opens the door. A wounded Kiyohiro grabs two guns from his stash and empties them both into Azuma, who calmly fires back. Just as Kiyohiro goes for a third gun, Azuma shoots him in the face. Akari runs out and starts searching his pockets for more drugs. Knowing that she's too far gone, her brother puts his last bullet in her head. Azuma, badly wounded, starts to walk towards the door, but Shinkai, Nito's former advisor, guns him down in revenge after Azuma executed Nito under the mistaken belief that he had ordered Kiyohiro to go after Akari. Sometime later, Kikuchi, now a senior member of the vice squad, meets with Shinkai, who explains that with the heat surrounding Azuma's actions dying down, he wants Kikuchi to take over for Iwaki and continue to sell drugs through the police force. Kikuchi eagerly accepts Shinkai's offer and leaves. Cast Takeshi Kitano as Azuma Maiko Kawakami as Akari Makoto Ashikawa as Kikuchi Shirō Sano as Yoshinari Sei Hiraizumi as Iwaki Mikiko Otonashi as Iwaki's wife Hakuryu as Kiyohiro Ittoku Kishibe as Nito Ken Yoshizawa as Shinkai Nobuyuki Katsube as Deputy Police Chief Higuchi Akira Hamada as Chief Detective Araki Yuuki Kawai as Detective Honma Ritsuko Amano as Honma's Fiancée Tarō Ishida as Detective Tashiro Kenichi Endō as Emoto Susumu Terajima as Oda Title The Japanese title is the same as that given to the Japanese translation, by Makoto Sawa (佐和誠), of James Hadley Chase's 1968 novel Believed Violent, published by Tokyo Sogen-sha (東京創元社) in the Sogen Mystery Library (Sogen suiri bunko: 創元推理文庫) series in June 1972. The phrase「その男、凶暴につき」appears to suggest the wording of a police wanted poster ("This man, because of his extreme violence [should not be approached]"), but does not usually appear on