The year, 1955. Six delinquents nicknamed Mario, Cabbage, Soldier, Turtle, Uncovered, and Joe are taken to a prison-l...

The seven boys have become comrades and spend time working out in their cell. Joe reveals that he has a younger siste...

Joe leaves solitary and Sakuragi's words are able to comfort him. Joe resolves to survive and one day reunite with hi...

Uncovered can't believe Sakuragi would risk his own life for someone else, believing that you can only rely on yourse...

After leaving the hospital, Sakuragi reunites with his cellmates. A new guard, Kumagai, has replaced Ishihara who is ...

The other bullies attack Sakuragi, while Ishihara listens from outside the cell. Ishihara leaves content that Sakurag...

Ishihara is apoplectic that Sakuragi is still alive after more than two weeks of starvation, unaware that Turtle and ...

Uncovered devises a plan to free Sakuragi and shares it with the others. Needing to get a key from Dr. Sasaki, Joe vo...

After hearing about the escape, Nurse Setsuko encounters Turtle and gives him directions to an unused farmhouse, wher...

Sakuragi begins training Mario in boxing so he can win his next match. Turtle takes a job selling black market goods....

Turtle tells Sakuragi about Ishihara. Sakuragi leaves determined to finish his battle with Ishihara once and for all....

Mario finally succeeds in knocking out his opponent. Outside the police order Sakuragi to put down the knife, but Sak...

A summary of the previous episodes, told through a series of flashbacks from Mario's point-of-view.

Sasaki, unnerved by his encounter with the boys, locks himself in his office. His thoughts are interrupted by a phone...

Mario takes Setsuko to the movies. Setsuko has something to tell him about her family, but cannot work up the courage...

The gang executes a plan to prevent Mario from going to prison, and during the plan, the uncover how he really ended ...

Turtle fulfills his promise to introduce Uncovered to women...by taking him to a brothel. Mario confronts Setsuko abo...

The gang settles in in Tokyo. Joe flashbacks to his beginnings as a singer, and his wish to be reunited with his sist...

Joe and his new manager are held captive, while Meg eagerly awaits to find out if her brother is the Joe she is at th...

Cabbage contemplates getting a job. Turtle and Uncovered try and talk him out of joining the yakuza. He does anyway, ...

Uncovered invites Turtle over for dinner. Uncovered tells Turtle of his plans to study law after he graduates. Turtle...

Mario bandaged Uncovered's wounds from the beating he received from Solider. Uncovered goes to the shrin to meet with...

Turtle continues his routine of selling American cigarettes to local shop owners on the black market. An old man appr...

Lily and Mario find Turtle collapse from sickness. They take him to the doctor, who diagnoses it as just a simple col...

Turtle goes to collect the debt for the old man. Mario and Lily search for Turtle to tell him about the doctor. Turtl...

Mario receives a visit from Jeffrey, the American boxer, who asks him to visit the Army Camp. Mario obliges and is ob...