Smuggler

After seeing his dreams of becoming an actor going nowhere, 25-year-old Kinuta does nothing but spend his time gambling everyday. Broke, framed and now neck-deep in debt, he is recruited as a Smuggler - underground movers of everything from dead bodies to illegal goods. Apprenticing under Smuggler veteran Joe, Kinuta's first cargo consists of the slaughtered bodies of yakuzas - including the headless corpse of Boss Tanuma. The killers, Vertebrae, and Viscera, a pair of assassins working for the Chinese mafia, are now wanted by the Tanuma clan who are out for their blood. When the assassins are tracked down, Joe's crew are assigned to deliver them - one dead, one alive - to the Tanuma family. But when Kinuta's kindess leads to Vertebrae's escape, putting their lives in jeopardy, he has no choices but to 'play' Vertebrae in an attempt to deceive the yakuzas...