(A.K.A Hana-Bi) Nishi is a police detective. His child has died and his wife has terminal cancer. When his partner Horibe sends him to his wife in hospital, Horibe gets gunned down and is paralysed. With guilt and despair Nishi quits the police. As there is no hope for his wife's recovery, he takes the doctor's advice and plans to take her on a trip. But he needs money for the trip as well as for sending gifts to his ex-partner (who takes up painting) and the widow of a dead colleague. He disguises himself as a policeman and robs a bank. With the money he repays his debt to gangsters and takes his wife on their last journey. The gangsters sniff out the money and chase him. Nishi kills them all; but his former colleagues are closing in on him. Having learned that the journey has come to an end he commits a murder-suicide.
Hana-Bi was broadcast on SBS ONE at Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:00.