When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his past.
Tatsuo Yamada was a Japanese actor best known for the protagonist of Sōgo Ishii's 1980 film Crazy Thunder Road.