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Masayuki Nakajia Production Art Theater Guild Japan

EVIL SPIRITS OF JAPAN

Produced by Masayuki NAKAJlMA, Housuke FUKUCHl

Original Novel by Kazumi TAKAHASHl

Script by Yoshikazu FUKUDA

Cinematography by Yasuhiro HOTTA

Art Direction by ltsuro HlRATA

Music by Nobuyasu OKABAYASHl, Yoshio HAYAKAWA

Recording by Tetsuo YASUDA

Editing by Yoshio TAMURA

Lighting by Sadao lWASAKl

Hey, don´t you think that´s him?

Yeah, with a build and posture Iike that, it must be him.

Then hurry...

Gotta show courtesy, idiot.

- What do we do now? - Dunno.

- What do you think? - That man?

- So? - I don ´t know his face!

- Just talk to him. - I know!

He has such presence! Ok.

- I´II go first. - What if we mess up?

Let´s give it a go.

Excuse me.

- I´m sure that´s him. - Ok!

Excuse me...

I heard...

kito ´s Boss is finally coming out.

- Really? - Yeah.

What´s gonna happen then?

I heard he´s been serving time for quite a while.

Amnesty, right?

For what?

No elections Iately.

The Expo.

You kidding?

Nah. But once he gets released,

they´II start fighting

over their territory again.

Now Tenchi Family´s dominating this area.

- Yeah. - Totally.

They´d even go punch ordinary people.

But that, you never know

what´s gonna happen from now.

Brother!

Isn ´t he...

Pardon my bothering.

We are from kito Family.

Brother, are you the one who came...

From the Sanko Group Headquarters?

Wow you are! I knew it!

We´re glad you´re finallly here.

So you´re the one from

Namiki Family in direct Iine from Sanko Group.

Namiki Family in Hama is brother to the Head of Sanko Group.

Our Boss is his 50/50 brother...

Cut the crap!

Anyway, you´re

Murase-san, a substitute for our Boss.

With you on our side, anything´s possible!

Our Boss will be happy to meet you upon his release.

But hey, kito Family is an old,

traditional type of yakuza, right?

So they might end up turning

to our side, helping ordinary people.

There´s Yamazaki from Tenchi Family.

You know what was funny the other day, at Bar Naomi

when I was having a few drinks,

and there were folks from kito Family

who were kind of acting big because of their Boss´ release,

and they got real tense with Tenchi...

CAST

Kei SATO

Hideo KANZE Tatsuo TAKAHASHl

Michiko TAKAHASHl Eiko HORll, Akemi NARA

...the police here are such cowards!

Oh, absolutely.

Around yakuzas, they can´t be trusted at the Iast moment.

They get so freaked out

they´re gonna pee in their pants!

Tatsumi HlJlKATA Nobuyasu OKABAYASHl

Fumio WATANABE Taiji TONOYAMA

Directed by Kazuo KUROKl

But hey,

you have many sides to you.

You impressed me.

Yesterday,

you were kind of blunt.

Well, we met for the first time yesterday, for one thing.

And l´m not a whore.

I don´t sleep with just anybody.

Also, I owe much to Sister.

I´m already becoming attached to you.

Oh.

Are you going out?

I´ve just come back.

We were in bed just now. How vigorous.

No cheating outside OK?

Don´t behave like a wife.

But in my room, you´re my...

Been playing cards.

Not my lucky day though.

Who´s this guy?

Tell me.

You!

I thought it was... you.

But no.

Of course not.

I´m here.

You´re right...

You slept with him?

I´m sorry!

Forgive me!

Don´t tell it to Sister!

Wake up.

Wake up!

What a familiar face.

Good morning.

Hey.

Don´t fight.

Shut up.

Is this your house?

Something like that.

Sorry for the bother.

Your name?

Ochiai.

Let me get dressed.

Don´t move.

Looks like we´re enemies.

Too bad.

And you?

Murase.

Um...

I can´t find my underpants.

- Here. - Wait.

You got a camera?

A camera?

If you don´t, go get one. Quick.

I got something to discuss

with you, Detective.

Oh,

from the Headquarters.

I´m Ochiai from Prefectural Police Headquarters.

I´m Police Chief Goto.

Thank you for coming.

I´ve called a number of times

but the Headquarters

didn´t see the gravity of situation

in this town, and wouldn´t

call us back.

And yesterday

they finally replied that you´d be coming over.

Ah.

Let´s get to it. Report the current situation...

It´s OK.

I already have a grasp of it.

Oh.

You´ve made preliminary research.

Very good!

Then

Iet me report the latest findings

to both of you.

Kantou Sanko Group, the ruling body of Kito Family,

which is formally Kito Family´s...

50/50

brother, right?

You´re in the know.

And?

Yes.

They had announced they were prepared to give support.

And sent them help.

Exactly.

How many?

Just one, for now.

Good.

But...

a big one, the Boss´ substitute.

You already know that?

Well...

Iast night upon arrival l

strolled around town.

Oh.

You shoud´ve called us up and we´d have shown you around.

They´d recognize you.

Right.

How come you had access to such information?

It reached my ears quite naturally.

You can count on me when it comes to yakuza.

Well, l´m impressed.

So,

Lieutenant Ochiai,

my personal opinion is that

if Sanko Group has sent them

a substitute for the Boss, it means...

they are seriously

involved in this...

When push comes to shove,

they´ll put a significant number of soldiers in this area.

No.

It´s the other way around.

Sanko Group doesn´t give a damn

about territories in this town.

I´ve come to conciliate.

No, I mean, you have.

That is, when push comes to shove.

Until then, you´d rather incite.

I can´t.

No need to force anyone.

Just leave the temperature to rise.

I mean,

I can´t

play this role.

Why?

I´m not you.

That´s all the more reason you can.

This is the file

on Shonosuke Kito´s

manslaughter case X years ago.

But we did send a copy

to the Headquarters...

I wasn´t interested in old cases. Thank you.

Oh, Detective.

I´m Kawada.

Kawada-san.

Do you have records of

incidents before and after this case?

Of course, in the storage.

Good to hear that.

But

what for?

Never mind.

I was just curious about the past.

It´s here.

´´kito Family´´

Don´t worry.

I can keep a secret.

Good luck, then.

Thank you for last night.

´I know that´

´I´m asking for the moon´

´But together we´II go´

´To our horizon´

´Now is the time´

´For us to go´

´Let it roll´

´Let it tumble´

´And Iet it Iapse´

´Into the abyss´

´I only wish the flowers bloomed´

´And became one´

´Before staring at it´

´Let´s just try to jump into it´

´We might be able to ´

´Do what´s impossible for us to do ´

´So come on everybody´

´And dance´

´To the blues´

I came here on my own will.

Once I was

involved in this place.

Compensation

has no statue of limitations.

I bet

you´re not a born yakuza.

Why?

A yakuza doesn´t think like that.

I´ve been a detective for 1 8 years.

1 8 years.

´Shonosuke Kito has´

´carried a grudge against Zennai lsaji´

´and decided to retaliate. ´

´Finally,´

´on August 21,´

´around 5:.30 pm,´

´with a dagger,´

´physical evidence A,´

´he has broken into´

´the victim´s residence at 18 Tokiwa-cho, Tamarikawa City. ´

´´killed the man´´

You weren´t happy with Natsuko?

She told me on the phone.

That´s not it.

You seemed to like her two days ago.

Well, all right.

- Understood? - Yes, Ma´am.

What about

the circumstances that triggered your husband´s crime?

Haven´t I told you two days ago?

Oh,

I want to make doubly sure.

All right.

Um,

what touches me most is...

Um, l

decided to join this Family

when I heard the story...

Yeah, because

in the first place, it was Tenchi Family

who´d break into our territory.

We´d only have few members left.

Kito Family was like a candle in the wind.

So an attempt to make a raid on

Tenchi Family was most likely.

Right?

Like in the movies.

And yet, our Boss said...

´Organized crime is bad. ´

´Don´t hurt ordinary people. ´

See?

And to his underlings he´d say...

Members of the time

wanted to raid upon Tenchi Family,

but our Boss would

never say yes to them.

I was

sincerely impressed.

Besides,

he didn´t tell me, his wife,

where he was going that night.

That night...

he just...

Ieft this house as if he were going out for a walk.

We screamed out

in astonishment.

Because

Zennai lsaji whom Boss stabbed

had nothing to do with Tenchi Family.

Yeah,

that´s what we´d believed,

honestly.

But the truth is...

Isaji was a mastermind behind Tenchi Family.

That guy lsaji was

a large landowner in the area.

A member of Prefectural Assembly who owned forests.

But in fact,

he pulled strings

from behind Tenchi Family.

And Boss alone was aware of it.

But... wouldn´t tell to anybody.

Hmm.

Not even to his own wife.

Right.

Evidence?

Newspapers.

I was a kid then.

They first wrote it was the work of a group.

Then

the Police disclosed.

I guess they just had to.

I see.

But then

Tenchi Family who´s been keeping

quiet for a while regained power

while ours declined...

Sister...

You have new members joining in, like us.

The younger generation have grown so well.

With Boss coming out very soon

and with his helping hands,

we´ll surely beat upTenchi Family.

Sister.

They´re ready. Over there.

All right.

Thank you.

´On Saturday night´

´Take a walk on the streets´

´Everywhere´

´The hotels are all full´

´Tomorrow I´m off from work´

´So I don ´t care how´

´exhausted I might be´

´That´s why everybody´

´aspires to tonight´

´If everyone´

´would rise up in revolt´

´Asking for time, place and money´

´needed for one to make Iove´

´with his girlfriend anytime he wants´

´Simply impossible to repress them ´

´I bet someone´s gonna be´

´in a big trouble´

Pick one, please.

Don´t make me lose my face.

´Lately, high official began to say´

´that he felt pity for youngsters´

´in the present situations´

´and an outlet for their frustration ´

´is needed to appease their revolt´

´so Iet´s bring back´

´the red-Iight districts´

´If everybody discovers´

´the plot behind his words´

´And demands freedom ´

´instead of red-Iight districts... ´

Sorry for the wait!

´All suspects´

´belonged to Yorii squad in Tamarikawa area´

´of the Japan Vanguard League. ´

´Under the League´s militant policy,´

´they advocated for freedom´

´of forests from private ownership,´

´and were prepared to attack landowners´

´for the sake of revolution in Japan. ´

´ln August,´

´in response to the League´s change of policy,´

´the League´s Committee in Tamarikawa area´

´ordered the dissolution of Yorii squad. ´

´But the suspects refused the order and went on to make an attack. ´

´´Suspects are:´´

´´Sensuke komada, ´´

´´Jinichiro Oomi, ´´

´´and Tsuyoshi Takagi. ´´

Three.

And two.

Makes five.

There´s one missing.

Or rather two.

Lieutenant Ochiai.

Hi.

What an ardor,

working this late.

Not really.

There´ll be a crackdown tonight

on Kito Family.

- Kito Family. - Yes.

On gambling charges for now.

We´ve also got an anonymous tip.

It is assumed that Kito Family

now has a substantial amount of artillery,

in preparation for the upcoming battle with Tenchi Family.

So on this occasion...

We´d appreciate your cooperation.

Sure.

Game!

First set.

Which one?

Latter set.

How long was the statute of limitations on an injury case?

Injury case is... imprisonment of up to 1 0 years,

so 5-year statue for authority of prosecution,

and if less than 5 years, statue would be 3 years.

Pretty short.

And for homicide?

Death penalty is 1 5 years,

Iife confinement is 1 0 years.

Both are statues for authority of prosecution,

so for punitive authority they´d be double.

Good job.

Oh, was it a test?

Which one?

Which one?

Game!

Sometimes I have mixed feelings.

Statute of limitations for a debt

is a year provided there´s no remainder.

But when

one actually tries to repay, it can take a lifetime.

Quiet!

It´s no use.

I´ve got a hunch.

´´kito Family´´

Chief.

Found these.

Is that all we got?

Yes.

But these were

hidden above the toilet ceiling.

You found them?

Well, um...

actually,

I was told to take credit for this,

but l´m not this good, so...

Impressive, that Lieutenant from the Headquarters.

You have my respect.

It´s nothing.

Hey.

They´re gone?

We did it!

Brother, that was great!

I admire you!

Oh, wait.

Look.

I´ve talked to her.

It´s me.

It´s me.

It worked.

Kind of.

You even left a present.

You know what´s it called?

´´Kyoutou´´ -

´´Joint struggle. ´´

For how long?

Haven´t seen anything yet.

Aren´t you enjoying?

Paper recycling!

I´ll give you a unicorn beetle so help me push this.

Oh, thanks.

Greetings to everyone in the neighborhood.

Paper recycling isn´t my full-time job,

the movie director over there is making me do this.

In fact, l´m a singer.

And, um, I have to sing a song in this scene,

so I need some help from you.

Would you come forward a little bit?

You brats, come sit right in front of me.

Please,

everybody gather around and face me.

I´ll sing a song of wordplay,

so I want you to laugh and clap when it´s funny.

Wordplay that even brats like them

would understand.

I guess it´s gonna be okay with all these nosey adults.

Let´s see if you understand, for instance...

´A pigeon dropped something. ´ ´Fu-n. ´ Get it?

A bit louder please.

Here we go.

I married my love

Then came winter and spring

Summer´s passed and

´aki ga kita´

Come on, laugh if it´s funny.

The train conductor

doesn´t have a girlfriend

No wonder he´s rolling a

´chinchin´ train

Next one´s a bit tough, you´ve got to know some English.

The hospital nurse

doesn´t have a boyfriend

No wonder she´s Florence

´Nai-chin-geru´

Next one´s a bit highbrow.

Why is there so much

corruption in Japan?

No wonder, we belong to the

´o-shoku´ race

There are these two brothers who both became Prime Ministers.

I would like to dedicate this song of gratitude to them.

Think of their faces while listening.

The elder one has buckteeth

The younger one has goggling eyes

Both brothers are

´ha-me wo hazusu´

That´s all. Applause!

One, two, three, four

Five, six, seven eight

One, two, three, four

Five, six, seven eight

One, two, three, four

Five, six, seven eight

Thank you for everything.

Darling...

Ryuko!

My dear.

Congratulations.

That man stabbed Zennai lsaji?

Alone.

Broke into the mansion.

X years ago,

he was full of energy.

I wonder about that...

All by himself.

There´s Tenchi Family.

Senior Executive Higashi.

Family Head Baba.

Chief.

What´s the trouble?

But

can´t you see?

Folks,

Iet´s go now.

´´kito Family´´

Welcome back!

Who´re they?

Your underlings.

The number increased

after the news of your comeback.

´´Amaterasu Omikami´´

Then,

Iet us

celebrate our Boss´ comeback.

Brother Murase, a toast.

We´re in 1 970.

Let´s make it informal.

Congratulations.

- Congratulations! - Thank you.

Boss.

Boss!

A speech.

Everyone.

You´ve had

great patience.

Thank you.

And again,

those who joined us during my absence,

thank you.

Together, we will

revive the Family.

Boss!

We´ve so longed for your return.

Tenchi Family and their big attitude really got me pissed off!

Oh,

you know,

they eyeballed me in a cafe

and beat me up!

The police wouldn´t give a damn.

I got my girlfriend...

I got

nothing special...

That´s why

I joined this Family,

for a world of honor and justice.

See, Boss?

Boss.

My life´s for you!

I would die for you, Boss!

How I dreamt of delivering this line...

Boss.

You´re our

reason for living.

All right!

Yes!

This is the long-awaited day.

We can fight at last!

Easy.

Silence!

Let our Boss continue with his speech.

Everyone.

Now that l´m back,

we won´t let Tenchi Family get their way.

Starting tomorrow, you can beat them up as you like.

At last!

Yes!

But Boss, we´re outnumbered.

Nah, nothing´s impossible with your life at stake.

He´s right! Boss did it all by himself.

Yeah, l´m with you!

But...

how would the police react?

Yes.

I heard that an ace detective was

sent in from Prefectural Police Headquarters.

Leave it to me.

But...

I´ll keep the police out of this.

It´s gonna be all right.

Sounds weird coming out of you.

Haven´t they told you at the HQ?

Yes.

Now, have yourselves a good time!

Congratulations!

At the HQ

is Hatano-san doing fine?

Huh?

Oh, yes.

I owe very much to Yoshida-san.

I called Tokyo just a while ago.

They asked me about you.

Not a word from you since you left.

By the way, I heard

you have a pretty big appetite for women.

They praised you

for being wild, intelligent and reliable.

So l´m

counting on you.

Oh, hey.

Give it here.

Yes.

´Dear friend´

´Just before dawn´

´In the darkness´

´Dear friend´

´Let us keep´

´the flame of battle burning´

´Soon the day will break´

´Soon the day will break´

´Dear friend´

´What Iies´

´beyond this darkness´

´Dear friend´

´Is a bright´

´tomorrow´

You never come visit me.

If you won´t, l...

Can it be true that Zennai lsaji

was Tenchi Family´s

mastermind?

Well, of course it is.

A major landowner and Prefectural Assembly member.

It´s feasible that he´d be involved with an emerging yakuza family.

But

my guess is, he wasn´t that much involved.

Why?

Of all fund sources of Tenchi,

only a small fraction comes from forests.

I visited the tax office

as a law-enforcement officer.

What a devotion.

But...

We have to ask lsaji for more information.

But lsaji died shortly after from the stab wound.

Dead man tells no tales.

But...

there must be someone who knows.

Ochiai-kun.

Foget about work today.

All right.

All this is unimportant.

Sit.

´Hi parrot. ´

´Good morning´

´Bye-bye´

Please.

Evidence photos were attached to the record.

But l´d

rather say they were left behind.

Entrance was forced,

an aperture was broken,

so was the living-room window.

Is that a one-man crime?

It´s only natural to see them as three forced entries.

What´s your point?

- Kawada-san. - Huh?

That file lacks witness statements.

Oh, I wasn´t working here back then.

All it takes is

to ask lsaji´s maid and secretary who´ve witnessed.

But they´ve all left.

Search.

Find.

But no one tells you what happened that night.

Did you do that?

- That´s an abuse of... - My imagination.

I imagined how things will turn out.

So I won´t do that.

´Good morning´ ´Bye-bye´

Seven offenders.

Two of them were found dead,

reported as suicides.

Three were arrested.

´´On charges of - ´´

´´Assembling with Offensive Weapons´´

´´Violation of Criminal Regulations

to Control Explosives´´

´´Violation of Law of Punishment of

Physical Violence and Others´´

Two left.

What are you saying?

The two escaped.

One of them was the leader.

The other was a hoodlum.

A Leftist college student.

Anyway, these two got away with it.

What happens

if they came out today?

Nothing.

The limitations period has long expired.

Nothing can be done.

So...

nothing matters.

The most healthy

of us all

would Iead the pack.

We would follow him,

but, the thing is,

um...

as I said before, despite the heat

you have chills.

And... you begin to

have foot pain and feel dizzy.

It´s Iike...

your knees are knocking together.

And a comrade has

cooked rice balls for all seven of us,

and we ate that.

You don ´t taste anything.

It´s tasteless as sawdust, so to speak.

On our way to the meeting point,

I thought of running away,

again and again.

´Betrayal´ would be an overstatement,

but I wished I fell sick with fever,

or something serious happened

that prevented me from taking part.

I was desperately

Iooking for an excuse

for not

participating somehow...

a pretext.

But still, your Iegs would take you to the meeting place.

And then

the Ieaderjoined us,

and we had,

in an area with thick summer grass,

the next strategy meeting.

The Ieader was

the only one speaking there.

The others...

some were trembling,

we Iost our thinking abilities.

I mean, we had no idea where this was going.

We were filled with emotions of fear.

As a precaution,

we did prepare

climbing knives and daggers.

For instance, if the Iandowner comes toward you,

you´d stab him.

If he fights back, stab him.

That´s what the Ieader said.

For various reasons,

we wore raincoats, masks and hast

but still felt cold.

Like having fever with chill.

You really feel

very thirsty.

Mouth gets dry.

And then

one of us, an ex-office worker

said we´d better start

with cutting off the telephone Iine.

So he cut the Iine, then

the youngest

who... um...

was the weakest

kept guard at the rear gate,

just in case.

We broke in from the east gate.

But something really strange happened.

The Iine was cut,

but we saw this maid

still talking on the phone.

At the sight of this, we were really,

really upset, got all shook up.

How should I put it?

Felt Iike everything we´ve done

was in a dream.

I mean,

did the guy really cut the phone Iine?

We started doubting each other.

That´s when panic began to set in.

´Dear friend´

´Just before dawn ´

´In the darkness´

´Dear friend´

´Let us keep ´

´the flame of battle burning´

´Soon the day will break´

´Soon the day will break´

This is our territory.

Don´t you dare step in!

´Dear friend´

´What Iies´

´beyond this darkness´

´Dear friend´

´Is a bright´

´tomorrow´

´that never comes´

´Dear friend´

´AII your tears´

´and your sweat´

Don´t think we´re stupid!

´Dear friend´

´The day will come´

´when you will be rewarded´

Stop messing around!

´Soon the day will break´

Cut it out! Drop it!

Drop it!

Why, Brother Murase?

´Dear friend´

´What Iies´

´beyond this darkness´

´Dear friend´

´Is a bright´

´tomorrow´

´that never comes´

We´ve got to do something.

Another crackdown?

It´s no use.

Information leak.

Are you implying a cop is doing it?

In this station?

We cannot but think so.

Look what happened the last time.

A call for you, Leut. Ochiai

For me?

Yes.

It´s me, Yamaguchi.

From the Headquarters.

Um.. hello?

Hello?

Is it Lieut. Ochiai?

Yes I am.

Hey what´s up? You sound Iike a stranger.

I´m on my way back from an assignment

and thought I´d drop by

to say hi and cheer you up.

I´m at the station, so

I´II be there in no time.

Oh hi!

University grad? Oh no.

He only finished high school.

A longtime friend of mine,

but he´s a clumsy kind of guy.

An honest man for sure, but he´s

slow of speech...

Strange.

Has he ever been here?

Not that i´ve heard of.

Said it´d be his first time here before leaving.

I´m surprised...

Is he really that smart here?

Well, that´s the point.

Can´t find him anywhere.

Hi Yamaguchi.

Ochiai.

How´s your wife and son?

Fine as ever.

You´ve a good reputation here.

They told me you´re really smart.

Wait, bastard!

You again? Don´t get in my way!

He´s from Tenchi and

been acting big around here!

- Him? - Yeah!

Punch him down, please!

Ha! Look at yourself.

Don´t you ever come around here!

Or else l´ll give you Hell!

Understood? You bastard!

Damn it!

Huh!

Hi again.

You took me on surprise earlier.

Saw you fishing,

next moment I see you in a suit.

I´m fickle.

You don´t look like that.

Why follow me?

I´m supposed to know you, right?

Where you going?

This way, remember?

It´s ready.

Come on, tell me more.

- More of what? - Your life story.

I like listening to you.

Recap what I told you so far.

You´re actually very old.

What was the word again? Youth...

Try to remember.

You ride an airplane, in war.

Airmen?

Youth Airmen.

But you were a Makenic.

In charge of fixing planes.

Ah, an Air Mechanic.

The planes were in shambles.

They´d fly away, never to come back.

So you´d only

half-fill them with gas, right?

He´s pretty old that guy.

But soon the war ended.

But

you felt it wasn´t right.

You had to fight till the end

those enemies who´ve landed.

You just couldn´t stop

since you let your mates

fly those one-way planes.

You´ve got to compensate.

But there were no such orders.

There was one but they´d changed it.

So, you have changed.

Which makes sense.

You went home

with your rucksack filled with food.

Back then in Japan

people didn´t have enough food,

so your parents were very happy.

Your little brother was very happy.

You were happy to see them like that.

You thought that, all in all

it was good to be alive.

And then?

Let me see...

You waved a flag in the Union.

And then...

I´m trying to remember...

Oh!

I know!

Now tell me.

- What. - What happened next?

Who cares.

You always say that. ´Who cares. ´

Yeah...

Him?

What?

Oh, wait.

Restroom.

Who´s there?

Me.

What now?

Whatever.

Same here.

But you are...

It´s all right.

Why?

Nothing matters.

I´d like to try a little more.

You want proof?

You´d feel better with that?

That´s not the case.

It doesn´t matter, though.

OK.

I´m sorry.

Don´t be.

Well then.

That girl.

She´s peculiar.

You slept with her.

I did.

At last.

It took a long time.

- Got some ramen? - You have a good appetite!

Oh, never mind.

Right away!

Never mind.

Get naked, will you?

All right.

I love you.

Good.

I do.

Thank you.

But this... is a lie.

No it´s not.

I fell for you, it´s true.

This isn´t my true self.

No! You´re not a lie, not at all.

I´m not a yakuza.

´l´m not. ´

All right.

Not a lie...

Listen.

You see,

I was transferred to another post

but came back here

especially for this matter.

That´s why l´m asking

for compensation, eh?

And all my years behind bars? What for?

Listen.

the origin of Kito Family dates back to 1 850...

OK, I know all that!

Excuse me for being late.

- Murase? - Yes.

We were waiting for you. Come in.

He is

Murase, sent by the head of

Sanko Group, my Brother, to take care of everything.

A substitute from Namiki Family in Hama.

Nice to meet you.

Ochiai-kun!

Why are you here?

You know him?

He´s

Lieut. Ochiai from Prefectural Police Headquarters

who´s been dispatched to help us on this case.

That´s ridiculous!

No,

he really is Lieut. Ochiai.

Hey,

you are, right?

I have a question to ask to the local Police Chief.

See? I told you.

But...

Shonosuke Kito, head of Kito Family, was innocent of that crime.

Other men were responsible for it.

Is that true?

Why remind him of that now?

Chief,

is that true?

Well, yeah.

You knew it and...

It was on his request, I told you.

In that case,

you´re in violation of the National Civil Service Law.

Well done, smart guy. Good point.

You´ve got to be

Ochiai-kun...

If that´s so,

Shonosuke Kito can file a suit against the government.

Right!

You got it, Chief?

Kito-kun,

such argument won´t get us anywhere.

I know, but...

I mean...

He served his time.

Yes.

So keep your promise.

Give us all of Tenchi´s territory.

But...

you´ve got to understand, things have changed.

And your Family´s in no shape for...

Come on,

we have three times as many men since my comeback.

They´re all punks.

We´ve got Sanko Group on our side.

No,

they won´t make any move.

What?

Don´t give it away now...

Duh, like we didn´t know?

Still,

I believe that

you need to compensate.

Right!

You heard that, Chief?

Who´s the real culprit?

Just let it go, okay?

We shouldn´t!

It´s a dead issue.

Excuse me for a moment.

´A skeleketon´

´Iaughed clackety-clack´

´and said - ´

´Sooner or Iater´

´you people will all´

´drop dead´

´and be reduced to bones Iike me´

´So it´s no use taking it seriously´

´Why put on a serious face and stop being human ´

´and turn into a machine´

´and waddle along, debt-ridden?´

´AII you workers had better stop that and unite, ´

´but today´s audience´s too young to get it. Pardon my verbosity. ´

´A skeleton ´

´put on a serious face´

´and said - ´

´Sooner or Iater´

´each and every one of you´

´will drop dead´

´and be reduced to ´

´skull and bones Iike me´

´So the Ieast´

´you can do ´

´while you´re alive´

´Is to stop wasting time over trifles´

´And think of making the most of´

´the one and only´

´Iife of yours´

Strange.

Well, he´s a strange kind of guy.

Kito-kun.

Now isn´t the time to quarrel.

Eh? What do you mean?

Okay.

Let me meet you halfway.

Tenchi Family

will give up Miharu-cho and Hon-machi.

How about that?

Sorry for the wait.

Chief.

There are two dead men.

Um,

just one.

Zennai lsaji.

Which makes it three.

Hey, what the hell...

I bet Chief knows,

huh?

Hey, watch your mouth, Murase.

Shut up!

It´s a dead issue.

What?

There´s no evidence.

I told you.

There are two who´ve fled.

You must be Ochiai.

Nope. I´m Murase.

Masaru Murase.

Whatever.

Doesn´t matter who you are.

It´s all over now.

I´d even say it never happened.

Let´s say you´re

one of the two who´ve fled.

Even so,

what can be done?

With no evidence,

the papers won´t write your story.

Who´ll stand as a witness?

This man?

Can´t you see that

he´s anything but reliable?

He just complied with my request

and spent X years in prison.

What?

Well...

I guess you´re right.

Who else do you have?

For those who´ve fled,

it´s past the statute of limitation.

So it´s over.

No, to be precise...

this fact has

never happened.

So it doesn´t exist.

But look now.

I´m a yakuza, Chief.

So what?

In our world, compensation

has no statute of limitations.

Right!

Understood, huh?

Chief!

I did my best since you´ve come all the way for this,

but this is all I got.

I came up with these, in relation to student activists.

Couldn´t identify among those arrested.

So we can´t tell who he is.

Hard to determine the college from this photo.

There´s no way we can find.

Well,

back in the days, they were sloppy in record keeping.

But now l´m quite certain.

These three... well no, two, are...

Just as l´d suspected.

Not sure about the relationship between Murase and Ochiai,

but they´re accomplices.

But what are you going to do?

Arrest them, of course.

On what charges?

What about evidence?

The prosecutor will laugh you off.

It´s true that around the same time

a certain Leftist group,

after being squashed in an urban war game,

turned to the countryside.

I don´t remember if it was a Party or a League, but

anyway, their Headquarters had

a change of policy, and

discarded its front-line squad.

The story is so mundane

it won´t give added zest to our drinking.

Let´s say l

am one of the two escapees.

Oh, come on now...

The other one...

Huh?

should know.

Why?

He was the leader.

He planned everything.

Under his command...

Still,

it´s past the statute of limitations.

Hey.

You know that in war,

a lot more died.

Hey.

What´s up?

Crying won´t do any good.

What happened?

We got fired.

Fired?

Um... you know...

He won´t understand.

You gotta talk so he does.

Brother Murase,

you know that Kito and Tenchi

decided to reconcile.

Our territory expands a bit,

but not much at all.

It got overcrowded so they cut us back.

- They told us to go straight. - No way!

I see.

What?

That´s the way it goes.

I can´t tolerate this kind of thing.

Tough luck.

The blame is yours for believing.

Don´t cry, that´s uncool.

What, uncool?

No one´s watching.

I am.

Then get lost, will you?

We came all the way here to cry

where no one´s around,

as a man should.

Right, damn it!

Even the sun´s looking away.

It hid behind the clouds.

All right.

Sorry I interrupted.

Hey wait.

Bastard,

you saw our uncool side, so

you´ve got to compensate.

Sorry to call you bastard, but

we´re already fired, so it´s okay.

Come on, do something!

You tell us.

Is there any fun in this world?

Since you´ve laughed at our sobbing.

Hey.

You tell me.

Is there any fun?

Come on!

You´re also a yakuza, a professional one.

That´s why

I hate professionals.

I´m not a yakuza.

You gotta be kidding!

Nonsense, you bastard.

Right.

I am a yakuza.

Oh.

It´s been a while.

Beer.

We´re already closed.

What´s with you?

You look pale.

Who the hell are you?

Which one of you?

The yakuza?

The cop?

It´s me.

But maybe not.

Maybe you´re the other one.

I am me!

I feel like l´m being fooled.

It might be you, but then...

it might be not.

That´s creepy.

Mind you,

I am no one else but me!

I wouldn´t want to sleep with

a who-knows-who!

Welcome back!

I´m not Ochiai, l´m Murase.

Name doesn´t matter.

- l´m not a cop, l´m a yakuza. - It doesn´t matter.

I´m not the man...

- you love. - I love you.

Over time...

over too much time,

everything changes.

Rights emerge and disappear over time.

I...

didn´t stab him.

- Yet I did. - That´s funny.

Isn´t it?

- Two comrades died. - That´s sad.

- Reported as suicides. - I see.

Apart from me, there´s another

- on the loose. - How´s he doing?

He was the leader.

- He led us. - You can´t forgive him.

Worse yet, you can´t forgive yourself.

You feel awful.

So for that matter

you will never forgive him.

In fact, the League had abandoned us.

Nevertheless, we

couldn´t change the course of our furious run.

We refused to change.

That is why l

- stabbed lsaji. - Can´t be helped,

a country changes its policy too often.

But men always

identify their own life with it.

Eventually, you decide to change.

Right?

- l´m not Murase, l´m Ochiai. - Name doesn´t matter.

- l´m not a yakuza, l´m a cop. - Doesn´t matter.

No.

- l´m not the man... - I love you.

you love.

- What if there are two of me? - I love both.

- Three? - I love them all.

- No, five? - I love them all.

You love anyone.

I wish everyone in the world were you.

´A - I - U - E - O´

´ka - ki - ku - ke - ko´

Now this Iooks better.

What a drag!

So this party is an occasion for

both Families to celebrate

their reconciliation in public, right?

Spoiling children.

Thinking they Iook cool doing this.

I hate that Iook

on the Police Chief´s face.

´Ya - I - Yu - E - Yo ´

´Ra - Ri - Ru - Re - Ro - Ro - Ro - Ro ´

´Wa - I - U - E - O ´

´Un!´

Your Daddy...

used to work for XX Corporation.

Did such an excellent job

for the sake of our nation

which I am proud of.

That´s what keeps your Daddy going on.

Keeps me going on...

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´Is not´

´the bitterness of Iiving´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´Is the´

´joy of Iiving´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´Is not´

´the joy of Iiving´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´Is the´

´bitterness of Iiving´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´Is not´

´a Iife to Iive with you´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´Is to ´

´kill´

´you´

´We shall not´

´settle for´

´the misery´

´we´re in ´

´Toward a happiness´

´we never knew´

´Now´

´is the time to take off´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

´What we´

´all yearn for´

You have a baby, right?

I do.

You do, huh.

And then,

you don´t know who´s the father?

I don´t.

I´m not the one, am l?

Dunno.

Come on,

you said it was your safe day.

Tell me,

the fact that you don´t know

doesn´t bother you?

Nope.

- Not at all? - No.

- Really? - Yes.

You´re a funny-faced, funny kinda girl.

You´re done?

- Done. - Cut!

END