Tokyo Tribe 2

This is the other side of Tokyo, a Tokyo of a different color. There, various tribes are living. The SARU from Japan’s Musashino, WU-RONZE of Bukuro, and HANDS of Shindyuku… Young men living in the city…the public of modern times builds a home out of corruption, these young men of the sordid side of life, a side called “reality,” are depicted here

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Kai and Hashim enjoy hanging out at Penny’s Cafe with their rest of their gang, the Saru ‘tribe’. Good-natured and fun-loving, the Sarus take in meek and geeky Tamiyama who wishes to join their gang, appointing him as secretary for lack of other obvious abilities. Befriended by Kai and Hashim, Tamiyama doesn’t have time to get to grips with tribe life before disaster strikes the Sarus: a leading fighter of a rival gang is sent to assassinate Saru’s leader. The assassin turns out to be Mera, Kai’s friend growing up. Brandishing a baseball bat against Mera’s katana, the two friends now find themselves as rivals in an escalating war between the tribes…