两个陌生人试图适应，因为他们发现自己陷入了纽约社会精英的光鲜亮丽的世界。
棋拳是新兴运动，运动员需同时比拼拳击与国际象棋，是揉合智力与武力的运动。影片则以反贪处长和黑帮老大的一盘中国象棋，处长以棋术压倒心术不正的对手，还破了对方贿赂海关、利用拳馆打棋拳、走私烟洗黑钱的大案。
Set in 1895, the film follows friends Ed and Frank who become brutal enemies in Oklahoma frontier territory when a rivalry develops over a woman who is set to inherit a prominent saloon. After a bounty hunter makes Ed disappear to a tortuous prison run by a sinister warden, he must learn the ways of an outlaw from a prison-mate to escape and exact his revenge.
久保的短篇小说集《水总是在深夜但是》中收录的《Kasokeki Sankayou》讲述了高中生国木田洋的奋斗和成长故事，他因过早成长而被迫长大。和他的家庭环境有关。
