Overview: Checco. A splendid loser who'd like to be a gangster, just like in the movies. Angie. A young woman who desperately tries to be normal. When he finds himself dragged into a life-threatening plot, she's the one who'll get to save him. Together, they'll forge their best creation: the Baron. Just like them, a no-budget film which passionately dreams to be like a true film noir, with its plot as clear as mud, crossed by hints of fantasy and absurd, under the influence of Boris Vian and Dashiell Hammett.
Overview: Horitoshi Sensei is one of the last accomplished masters of irezumi, the art of traditional Japanese tattoo. Pascal is a young French journalist specialized in tattoo who discovered Horitoshi’s designs in a magazine and felt in love with them. Although he does not have much money, Pascal decided to go to Tokyo to have all his back tattooed by Horitoshi. When the film starts, he is at his fourth trip, but his tattoo is far from being finished. Pascal is our guide in this travel to discover irezumi.