Dead or Alive I

Dead or Alive centers around Ryuichi and his gang of dropouts; descendants of Zanryu Koji or Japanese war orphans left in China after the war who returned to Japan only to find themselves second class citizens. Because of his lineage Ryuichi feels a detachment from society and therefore not bound by the same rules that govern everyone else. He also carries no loyalty to either side of the underworld in which he operates and decides to take on both the Japanese Yakuza and Chinese triad who ironically are in the process of forming a partnership; and take over the drug trafficking operation that ships in from Taiwan.