讲述一名战时曾在日本服役的美国人,受好友之托前往日本拯救他被黑社会绑架的女儿(岸惠子饰),因而跟日本旧情人的丈夫(高仓健饰)展开了一场道义之交。Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...