Shinjuku Swan II

Shinjuku Swan II

Year: 2017

Runtime: 133 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Sion Sono

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Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a talent scout, seeking out young women for the adult entertainment industry. After relocating from Shinjuku, Tokyo, to Yokohama, he finds himself in direct competition with Masaki Taki, the CEO of a rival scouting company. The ensuing conflict creates tension and challenges for Tatsuhiko as he navigates the competitive landscape.

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Timeline & Setting – Shinjuku Swan II (2017)

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Time period

Location

Yokohama, Shinjuku

The story centers on Yokohama, a major port city with a bustling nightlife where rival talent agencies battle for control. Shinjuku serves as the original recruitment hub, a dense urban area famed for its entertainment and youth culture. The plot moves between these districts, highlighting the underworld economy of the adult-entertainment business and the law's attempts to manage it.

🏙️ Urban setting 🎭 Crime 🕵️‍♂️ Police and corruption 💃 Entertainment industry

Last Updated: October 01, 2025 at 12:32

Main Characters – Shinjuku Swan II (2017)

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Tatsuhiko Shiratori (Go Ayano)

A Burst scout who relocates from Shinjuku to Yokohama to recruit more girls for the agency’s expanding network. He drives the conflict with Taki and navigates loyalty, power, and danger as the turf war escalates. His willingness to bend rules pushes him toward a decisive, risky path with his old ally Yosuke.

🎯 Ambition 🗺️ Strategy ⚖️ Risk

Masaki Taki (Tadanobu Asano)

CEO of the Wizard scouting agency in Yokohama, fiercely protective of his turf and rivals. He uses connections with police and business figures to push Burst out and expand his own domain. His ruthless ambition leads to high-stakes confrontations and a violent confrontation.

🎯 Ambition 🧠 Cunning 💣 Violence

Gensuke Seki (Motoki Fukami)

A former Burst scout who took the fall for a murder 12 years earlier and has avoided Yokohama since. He returns only to find his past catching up with him as Taki’s machinations threaten to drag him back into the conflict and force him to reclaim control of Yokohama.

🧭 Loyalty 🛡️ Protective ⚔️ Conflict

Yosuke (Yuki Kubota)

Taki’s associate who becomes entangled with drugs and a complicated relationship with Yosuke’s lover. He is drawn into the brutal power play, ultimately revealing a deadly truth about past killings and his own choices.

💊 Addiction 💔 Relationships 🕊️ Redemption

Akira Tasaka (Hideo Nakano)

President of the Monbu group who backs Taki’s expansion. He is willing to back aggressive tactics to secure money and territory, but his partnership ends in tragedy when he is shot by Arai.

🏢 Leadership 💰 Business 🔫 Violence

Sunako (Takashi Sasano)

Inspector of the Yokohama Central Police who uses her position to push back against criminal expansion while ensuring some order. She represents law and order in a city where corruption lingers and law enforcement is entangled with business interests.

👮‍♀️ Law 🕵️‍♀️ Corruption ⚖️ Authority

Yutaka Hayama (Nobuaki Kaneko)

A powerful figure in the criminal economy who refuses to let Yosuke rejoin Burst, often clashing with Tatsuhiko and others over turf. He embodies the gatekeeper role of the old guard resisting new leadership.

🛡️ Power 🗝️ Gatekeeping ⚔️ Rivalry

Ryoko (Yu Yamada)

Madame Ryoko’s club owner who becomes a focal point of the beauty contest and recruitment drama. She navigates a treacherous landscape of loyalty and profit as her business intersects with the rival agencies.

💃 Entertainment 🗃️ Networks 🔄 Strategy

Last Updated: October 01, 2025 at 12:32

Major Themes – Shinjuku Swan II (2017)

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⚔️ Power Struggle

Rival scouting agencies contend for territory, money, and influence, using alliances with police and business figures to push the other side out. Leaders manipulate events, turning the city into a battleground where violence and strategy determine who controls the network. Loyalties fracture as past debts and betrayals resurface.

💼 Exploitation

The film exposes the exploitation of young women recruited into the adult-entertainment industry, showing how beauty contests and club openings are weaponized for power. Recruitment, coercion, and market pressure reveal a ruthless business that treats people as assets. The moral costs are heavy, even as characters justify their actions as necessary.

🤝 Loyalties

Old friendships and debts test characters as Yokohama's borders are redrawn. The narrative explores whether personal bonds can survive corporate aggression and whether mercy can end cycles of revenge. The conclusion hinges on who gains control and who chooses to walk away.

Last Updated: October 01, 2025 at 12:32

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