An aimless young man delivering pizza stumbles onto an underworld massacre carried out by a single hitman. Deeply impressed by the killer’s skill, he volunteers to become his apprentice. He learns quickly but his new vocation leads him into worlds he never imagined. As ideal vehicles for stoic masculine heroes played by handsome male stars, the hitman movie was a common genre in the early years of V-Cinema. Tuff is no exception, with its lead role for pop singer Kimura Kazuya and future heartthrob Toyokawa Etsushi playing his equally young and handsome nemesis. But this is no cookie-cutter fare.