


In order to save Black and himself, White has to kill the first assassin Dragon by tipping gasoline and setting it alight, burning him alive. Angered, Snake then sends the deadly "three assassins" known as Dragon, Butterfly, and Tiger, near-superhuman hitmen, to finish the job. When Black interferes once too often, Yakuza are sent to kill him, but fail. Snake plans to tear down and rebuild Takaramachi as a theme park to fit his own goals and dreams. The Yakuza work for Snake ( 蛇, Hebi), the head of a corporation called "Kiddy Kastle". Despite their extreme differences, they complement and support each other, similar to the Chinese Taoist principle of yin and yang.ĭuring one of their "missions", they take on thugs and Black ends up beating up three Yakuza gang members who are menacing a street gangster friend of his. White is younger and appears to be mentally impaired, out of touch with the world around him and often living in a world of illusions. Black is a violent and streetwise punk, considering Takaramachi to be "his town". The film follows two orphans, Black ( クロ, Kuro) and White ( シロ, Shiro), as they attempt to keep control of the streets of the pan-Asian metropolis of Takaramachi, once a flourishing town and now a huge, crumbling slum fraught with warring between criminal gangs. While the manga follows multiple plot threads, the film adaptation consists of most plots shown in the manga.
