Tokyo 1968: the time of the student revolt. In an attempt to escape his criminal past, Norio Nagayama sets off to the Japanese capital in the hope of a new beginning. At the "Village Vanguard", a jazz bar where the Japanese revolutionary students tend to hang out, he meets the young actor and director Takeshi Kitano. Takeshi's big film project: "Unlucky Young Men", a chronicle of a disillusioned Japanese generation – willing to do anything to live out their dreams. To finance the film's production, the two young men plan to attack a security van carrying 300 million yen...