Agitator

is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. Plot Mr. Kaito, head of the Kaito Group of over 2,000 soldiers under the umbrella of the Tenseikai Syndicate, seeks to absorb the 500 soldiers of the Shirane Group as well as the 400 soldiers of that group's rival, the Yokomizo Family, and become the largest group in the syndicate in order to ensure that he will be chosen as the successor to the hospitalized leader of the syndicate. Kaito enlists the aid of Mizushima and Muroi of the Shirane Group, promising that Mizushima will thereby take over as leader of the Shirane Group. Muroi hires Shinozake, who assaults hostesses on Yokomizo turf and is then killed by the Higuchi Gang. Higuchi is reprimanded by the Yokomizo Family but Mizushima and Muroi hire an outside assassin named Numata to kill the leader of the family, Yokomizo Takanori, and claim that the assassin was an overzealous Shirane soldier seeking revenge. Mr. Kaito mediates on behalf of the Tenseikai but Tsuchiya of the Yokomizo does not accept the initial offer. Mizushima and Muroi offer to bring their leader Shirane Kozo to a place at a specific time where Yokomizo soldiers will be able to kill him so that Mizushima can take over the Shirane Group, after which Mizushima and Tsuchiya will swear brotherhood under Kaito, who will then be able take over the Tenseikai Syndicate. Kunihiko Kenzaki of the Higuchi Gang is sent to kill Shirane Kozo and completes his mission without interference, leading him to suspect that the hit was set up from the inside. The Higuchi Gang cuts ties with the Yokomizo Family just before Mizushima and Tsuchiya swear brotherhood under Kaito. Kunihiko and the members of his Kenzaki Squad kidnap Muroi and beat him until he confesses the entire plan on tape. They blackmail Tsuchiya with this information, threatening to release it if their boss Yoichi Higuchi is not made head of the Yokomizo Family, but Yoichi is not interested and has already resigned himself to the fact that the Yokomizo and Shirane are now part of the same organization. Instead, they trade Muroi back to the Shirane in exchange for 50 million yen, but afterwards Yoichi is shot dead by Numata.