Tokyo in the 1930s. Murakami Tetsutaro-nicknamed "White Tiger Tetsu" because of his fine tiger tattoo-became a yakuza to help pay his brother Kenji's way through art college. Now he wants to go straight, but the price demanded by his oyabun for his freedom is that he carry out one last assassination....Suzuki and (art director Takeo) Kimura's visual stylization actually hits a new pitch of sophistication in this film, replacing the gaudy primary colors of earlier films with subtler autumnal shades....The emphasis on art and romance help to deflate the usual machismo of the genre even more than similar emphases did in Kanto Wanderer, justifying Suzuki's description of it as "my most feminine film."-Tony Rayns, "Branded to Thrill"