Toby Kadoguchi was a Taiwanese actor and firearms technical advisor. He died 1999.
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings "walks like a dead man".
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.