Undercover spies have infiltrated both sides of a bitter corporate war between the Tiger Motorcar Company and their competitors, the Yamato Company. As Tiger prepares to launch its latest “Pioneer” car and a prototype bursts into flames, Toru heads a secretive task force to root out Yamato’s spy.

Selling their souls in a cut-throat race for profit, the salarymen in Yasuzô Masumura’s dog-eat-dog vision of industrial Japan are as ruthless as lowly criminals. Laying bare the dirty tactics of corporate espionage, this visceral parable casts a shadow over the nation’s postwar economic miracle.