"PRODUCED BY SHINSEI STUDIOS AND BUNGAKUZA" "DISTRIBUTED BY SHOCHI KU, INC." "Asao!" "Independence No. 1!" " Today's the day." " Yup." "It's the day." "It's a beautiful day!" " Take her away, Asao!" " Okay." "Here goes." "Be careful." "That's dangerous." "It cost four million yen!" "What's dangerous?" "Higher, Asao, higher!" "Now lower it!" "This is great, really great!" "It smells great!" "Hey, boss!" "You guys really did it." "How's being an owner?" "How do you think?" "How was yours?" "Got a point." "But you picked a hell of a name, Independence No. 1!" "Off on a test run!" "Outta the way!" "Here we go!" "IF YOU WERE YOUNG:" "RAGE" "Producers:" "SEISHI MATSUMARU, NORIO SONODA, SABURO MUTO" "Screenplay by:" "TAKEHIRO NAKAJIMA, KOJI MATSUMOTO, KINJI FUKASAKU" "Director of Photography TAKAMOTO EZURE" "Production Designer TOTETSU HIRAKAWA" "Music Composed by TAKU IZUMI" "Lighting:" "MITSUHARU HIRATA Sound:" "SHOTARO YOSHIDA" "CAST" "TETSUO ISHIDATE, GIN MAEDA" "CHOICHIRO KAWARASAKI, HIDEKI HAYASHI" "RYUNOSUKE MINEGISHI" "MICHIE TERADA, MAYUMI OGAWA" "MICHIKO ARAKI, HISAKO YABUKI KIWAKO TAICHI" "YUMIKO FUJITA, SANAE NAKAHARA JITSUKO YOSHIMURA" "Directed by KINJI FUKASAKU" "Now I pay you by check." "By check?" "Well, get a load of how much... your dump truck made." "One thousand, ten thousand, five hundred thousand!" "Feels good, huh?" "Your future's as good as made." "'Cause you looked out for us." "Two hardworking guys like you, worth lookin' out for." " Keep it up." " You bet." "Japan's not so bad, after all." "What?" "That you can make it if you try." "Yeah." "I owe it all to you." "No, we did this together." "Who knows what we'd have done on our own." "He was a good brother." "You're all alone in the world now, Kikuo." "What misery..." "What are we going to do?" "Asao, your mother doesn't know..." "I just don't know..." "Don't want 'em!" "What's wrong, Kikuo?" "I quit, I quit.!" "I can't run in these cheap shoes.!" "Damn it.!" "Don't run, Asao.!" "You were in last place for that whole race." "It was unbelievable." "No, I just..." "I was just running like mad..." "We've been running ever since." "Seven years ago, we all headed off to our new jobs on that train." "You're all Golden Eggs." "You can go to night school." "Stick with it." "Don't give up." "Give it three years." "But three years later, nothing much had changed." "Damn it to hell!" "What kind of idiot called us Golden Eggs?" "INCOME AND EDUCATION" "Asao!" "Look at this chart." "So much for Golden Eggs." "What's this?" "Income projected by education." "Here's our line." "High school and college grads." "Only an idiot or a chicken would stand for this." "We've got to do something!" "Hurry, the bank'll close." "Right." "Here you are." " Feel it." " A real wad." "Welcome." "Our monthly installment on the truck." "One, two, three..." "Thank you, sir." "Next year, No.2?" "We need a telephone first." "A phone!" "But first, a night on the town!" "You're on!" " Kikuo." " Yeah?" "If the guys were here too..." "Yeah, the guys..." "The five of us stayed in the dorm after the factory went under." "Living on unemployment insurance." "All broken Golden Eggs." "Kiyoshi, a fisherman's son." "Lost my Dad and the boat in the worst storm in decades." "I wanted to take over, but Mom and Sis said, "Don't become a fisherman. "" "Coming to Tokyo was the only choice." "Ichiro, a factory worker's son." "So many kids in my family." "Nine below me, 10th on the way." "Totally hopeless." "Ryuji, son of pioneer farmers." "Got a bad stutter." "Rarely talks." "But he was the toughest of us all." "When are you guys gonna move?" "This is no good." "You're the only ones left." "Suit yourselves." "Tomorrow the bank sends in marshals." "Marshals?" "The factory and dorm are being auctioned." "Better get out or they'll sell you, too." "Goddamn it!" "That's just great." "Go ahead, sell us off!" "Jerk!" "We were all going crazy." "That night... was Ryuji's first match." "Come on, man." "Fight!" "No cheek dancing!" "What's up, chickenshit?" "Fight, man." "Fight!" "You won't die!" "Go for it." "Go!" "What the hell?" "How dare you rely on unemployment?" "Plenty of good jobs around." "Young people these days..." "Let go, damn it!" "Why just arrest them?" "It's not fair!" "Ryuji!" "You fools!" "Think it over for a night!" "Ryuji." "Sorry about tonight." "Really ticked me off." "It's... okay." "I'm calling boxing quits." "No matter how hard I try, I'm powerless alone." "Damn!" "The more I stare at those bars, the more I want to bust 'em!" "And what's outside?" "Kicked out of the dorm, gotta find a job." "No good jobs anyway." "What a drag." "I wish something really exciting would happen!" " Like?" " Like, man... ride around in a tank or something." "Blow this prison up!" "Join the Self Defense Forces." "Maybe I really should." "What's all that noise?" "Clam it!" "Firing squad for you!" "The guerrillas are much cooler." "Guerrillas always have beautiful heroines." "You watch too much TV!" "Sounds good." "Like, steal some machine guns." "Steal a truck!" "I just want to, like, race down some wide open place!" "That's right." "We'll buy a truck!" "Start a business with our own truck." "It's not that easy." "The dough?" "Impossible alone, but if we join forces." "Us?" " Join forces?" " Yeah." "Just like Ryuji said, on our own we're weak." "We've got no education." "But if we all work together... what should take five years will take one." " One year!" " Yeah." "In four more years..." " We'll all have trucks." " Yeah." "I know a guy who runs a crew, started out with one truck!" "Maybe we can swing it!" " I'm... in!" " Me too!" "Let's do it, guys!" "Save our paychecks!" "Give the truck a cool name!" "That's right." "But what?" "What?" "Spit it out!" "Independence!" "No. 1!" "Independence No. 1!" "That's great!" "INDEPENDENCE NO. 1" "Just the two of us left now, but they were good buddies." "Yeah." "Wonder how Ichiro's doing with his girl." "I felt so bad about Ryuji." "Wonder how Kiyoshi's doin'." "Haven't visited him." "Hey, I just remembered." "Kiyoshi's family is comin' to Tokyo." "When he gets out in six months... he won't come back to the country... but if he stays in Tokyo, he'll fall back in with those bad boys." "I was so worried." "I sold everything and came here." "You'll be fine." "Plenty of work for women." "When Kiyoshi gets out, he can work with us." "Oh, please." "Here he's got such nice friends." "Why'd he have to..." "I just panicked." "I got behind on my payments for the truck." "So I went in on a bad deal." "He's no good." "He's a coward." "A coward?" "He was too scared of the sea to fish." "But he said..." "He wasn't allowed after his father's death." "That's a lie." "He's a liar." "But he was a good buddy to us." "First time anyone's praised him." "He saved me once." "Right, Kikuo?" "Really?" "How?" "The first day we were all pooling our money." "It was my payday." "Grab it, grab it!" "Hurry!" "What happened?" "Don't!" "Let me go!" "Don't!" "Asao!" "You ever earn your money?" "Punch him, Asao!" "If I'd taken that butcher knife..." "I'd have killed one of 'em" "And I might be in the pen now, instead of Kiyoshi." "Two peas in a pod." "Strange sister." "A young girl with a brother in jail." "She's got it rough." "Hey." "Hey." "How you been?" "So-so." "Hear you're doin' great." "Gotta keep workin'." "Off to a night gig now." "Come on in." "Bad timing." "What's up?" "Thing is, I need to borrow some money." "Money?" "My old lady's pregnant again." "She'll pop in ten days." "30,000 yen would really help." "What's his name?" "Taro." "Dad's Ichiro, son's Taro, huh?" "I had to leave because of him." "If only I'd listened to you guys." "Say, waiter." "She was cute." "I even set her up with customers." "That was some body she had." "Just make sure you don't get trapped." "I know how to handle a woman." "She wants me to use her money to get a license." "I won't have an abortion." "She got pregnant." "Next it was my mom." "I'm the oldest son." "I've got family responsibilities." "In any case, there goes the truck." "I understand, but we've come so far." "You can pay late." "I want to too." "The reason we came today... we want my share of the money back." "Here you are." "Thanks, guys." "It's a big help." "Say bye-bye." "See ya." "Ichiro's really down, isn't he?" "He's a sucker all the way." "For that woman, for his family." "No discipline." "Not Ryuji, though." "Ryuji, huh?" "With Kiyoshi and Ichiro gone... we really had to count on Ryuji." "Ryuji.!" "You fool.!" "How'd this happen?" "My brother..." "Ryuji, signed on as a strikebreaker today." "Strikebreaker?" "We're not forcing anybody." "Anybody who wants the extra 10,000 yen." "10,000 yen sounds good, huh?" "Damn it.!" "For the truck.!" "Independence.!" "Damn it!" "Kill!" "Let go!" "Give up the truck?" "We started out as five, but now it's just us." "We can't keep going." "You can spend Ryuji's share on a nice grave." "You think he'd want a nice grave?" "Ryuji bought this before he died." "A good-luck charm for the truck." "INDEPENDENCE" "I know it's tough with just the two of you." "But can't you keep trying?" "It's what he would want." " Kikuo." " Yeah?" "Ryuji gave the truck a great name, didn't he?" "Sure did." "Yeah?" "Good morning." "Look at this mess." "Get up." "We're cleaning this place today." "Hey, she's wearing my jacket." "When was the last time anybody cleaned for us?" " Feels kinda strange." " Yeah." "Now she's washing your shoes." "Hey, don't bother." "No big deal." ""Independence No. 1."" "Must feel great to ride in such a big truck." "I'd like to too." " Asao." " What?" "Remember going to Amakusa?" "Yeah." "We were in the sixth grade." "We got back from the ocean... his dad and my brother, both..." "What happened?" "They were killed in a cave-in." "Coal mine's like hell." "I just had to finish middle school and get out." "Find a good job in Tokyo." "But it wasn't that easy." "Your mom?" "Died when I was a baby." "But Asao's mom's fine." "She looked after me, too." "Wonder how she is." "Kikuo!" "Cut it out!" "He's strange." "Strange?" "That's what he said about you." ""Strange sister."" " I'm going out drinking." " Drinking?" "Ryuji's sister's bar in Shinjuku." "Take Yukiko home, okay?" "Asao, Asao!" "Welcome." "Why'd you come alone?" "Fight with your buddy?" "Not like that." "Lie." "You're always angry, aren't you?" "Since the first time I met you." " First time you met me?" " That's right." "I knew you long before Ryuji died." "Ryuji's first and last match." "I was there, too." "You were the first to fight." "You went crazy." "I think it meant a lot to Ryuji." "Because he gave up boxing completely and started saving money... to buy a truck with his buddies." "Ryuji, I'm no good with women." "Just no good." "If you just keep lying there, you're gonna catch cold." "ON STRIKE!" "GRANT OUR DEMANDS!" "ON STRIKE!" "Pisses me off!" "Ten days of rain... and now this." "How long can they strike?" "As long as they want." "They're covered." "We fend for ourselves day to day, damn it!" "No work today." "We can't make the installment." "What crap!" "Bullshit!" "Waste of time!" "All this rain, no work!" "Kikuo!" "Asao!" "Don't be fooled!" "Don't sell us out!" "If you don't help now, you're heartless." "Don't worry about the others." "You're your own men." "Isn't that right?" "I can turn down other jobs." "But I've got to deliver this gravel today." "You're my only hope." "Won't you do it for my sake?" "Please!" "Please!" "We'll do it." "Let's go." "Does he own you?" "Where's your pride?" "I don't like it!" "Forget it." "But should we..." "We've got no choice!" "Asao, why are you sulking?" "What is it?" " Nothing." " Then cut it out!" "We don't have any choice." "It's their strike!" "Nobody'll help us." "We don't make money, we lose our truck." "I won't stand for that!" "Watch out!" "Watch the road, you idiot!" "What do you want?" "Mom said to make you supper." "What happened?" "Clean up and you'll feel better, Asao." "What's done is done." "Cut that out, will you?" "We'll just paint it over." "No big deal." "I've had it with you!" "Asao." "Asao!" "Hello." "It's me." "About what happened, Kikuo." "I'm sorry." "Forgive me." "I went crazy." "Don't worry." "I let it go." "But where are you?" "Hello?" "Hurry back home." "Yukiko made supper." "We'll wait to eat with you." "I'll be home soon." "Clear his plate!" " But..." " Just do it!" "I'm sorry, Yukiko." "Yukiko..." "I..." "I..." "You asshole!" "Morning." "What would Ryuji say if he saw us like this?" "Probably punch you." "Isn't that what you want?" "You remind me of Ryuji." "Slam into things, things slam back... then you're in pain." "Hate yourself for who you are." "His boxing was just the same." "You're both just clumsy..." "I'm not all that clever myself, winding up like this." "You better go now." "You stay here, I'll wind up lecturing you." "Good-bye." "Try not to take things too seriously." "Or you'll end up like Ryuji." "Yeah." "STRIKEBREAKER NO. 1" "Asao." "Yeah." "I'm going to marry Yukiko." "Oh, yeah?" "Congratulations." " I'm off." " Take care." "Are you the Yabes?" "We're from the precinct." "Your son's Kiyoshi Yabe?" "Yes." "This him?" "That's him." "But he's in prison now." "What happened to him?" "You Higuchi?" "Got a phone call!" "Who?" "Some girl." "Said to call." "Oh, hello." "Yukiko, it's me!" "What?" "Escaped?" "Kiyoshi?" "Last night, with three others." "Why'd he do that?" "What a stupid move." "He only had six months left." "You better go to Yukiko." "I'll finish up." "Asao." "Kiyoshi!" "You idiot!" "What happened?" "A cop shot me." "A cop?" "Get inside." "Kiyoshi!" "Why the hell?" "Why couldn't you hang on for six more months?" "There was a nasty guard, really got it in for me... after I stood up for a guy who was sick." "He took away my mattress, starved me... wouldn't let me bathe or walk." "When I finally complained, he put me in solitary." "You say six months, but that's a long time." "But what's the point of escaping?" "I wanted revenge on that guard." "Revenge?" "Yeah, I thought I'd escape and then rape his wife." "Rape?" "That's right." "I really wanted to make him suffer... by squashing his pride." "Did you do it?" "No, a cop shot me instead, and now here I am." "When the other guys deserted me, I thought it was all over." "That's when I remembered you guys." "That you guys would understand how I felt." "Kikuo!" "Asao!" "Did you hear?" "Kiyoshi's..." "What the hell's going on?" "This is bad." "This is bad, what you're doing." "We're not harboring him." "Kiyoshi's wounded." "But he killed someone." "Killed someone?" "Yeah." "Didn't you see it on TV?" "It's all over the news." "On the 7:00 news, we reported the death of Officer Kashiwagi... wounded while questioning the fugitives." "One of the suspects alleged... that the killer was Kiyoshi Yabe." "Not originally part of the escape plan... the gang forced Yabe to join them... because they needed more men to execute their plan." "Kiyoshi!" "Why didn't you say so?" "That guard story was a lie." "Wanting revenge was a lie." "A pack of lies!" "Say something!" "Why'd you lie to us?" "No, it wasn't a lie." "I didn't lie to you." "There was a cruel guard who hated me." "I wanted to ruin his wife..." "Shit, I didn't lie." "I was scared, so scared." "It's the truth!" "I didn't lie!" "It wasn't a lie!" "Well, I'd better get going." "Ichiro!" "Don't you tell a soul." "I know." "But I'm not involved." "Not involved?" "I know nothing." "I never saw Kiyoshi." "I'll say nothing." "I've got a family to look after." "Another kid on the way." "I can't afford to get into trouble." "Keep me out of it, please." "Get out!" "Just get out, damn it!" "Bye, then." "Kiyoshi." "Please." "Just tonight, let me stay here." "I swear I'll turn myself in tomorrow." "I'm begging you." "I want to stay here a little longer." "What'll we do?" "I'll turn myself in." "You were up?" "Yeah." "I thought it over last night." "I'll cause you a lot of trouble if I stay here." "You serious?" "There's no way out of this one." "Good." "If you're ready, then it's the best thing." "Right?" "For Yukiko and your mom, too." "I'll go with you." "No." " I want to go alone." " Alone?" "I've always been too chicken to do anything alone." "Even the escape." "If I have to turn myself in, at least I'll try doing it alone." "Don't worry." "I'll keep my word." "Go on and get to work." "And... work hard for me, too." "Yeah." "Think Kiyoshi's turned himself in?" "Kiyoshi." "This is your mother." "Your mother prays... for repose for the man who died." "Your mother feels such remorse... for that man's family." "Hurry up and come back." "Kiyoshi!" "Come back!" "I can't..." "Go home!" "Go home!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "It's none of your business!" "Leave us alone!" "Get out!" "Just get out!" "Kiyoshi!" "You!" "I've had it with you!" "You're a liar!" "You're a loser!" "You made this mess!" "Clean it up!" "If you don't turn yourself in, I'll go to the police!" "You go, I'll kill you first!" "Kiyoshi!" "Yukiko." "Don't move!" "I meant to turn myself in." "I really did." "But goddamn it!" "I just can't do it!" "Shit, I'm not going to any cops!" "Shut up!" "You don't know how I feel!" "Gimme the keys to the truck!" "The truck?" "That's right!" "I paid for it too!" "Hand 'em over!" "Now!" "Now!" "Kiyoshi." "I have the keys to the truck." "Hand 'em over!" "Not if you're threatening me!" "Put it down!" "Down!" "Don't forget!" "I finished off a cop!" "So you're gonna kill us just like that?" "Tell me!" "Kill me for the keys!" "He's hurt so bad." "You're such a coward." "So spineless." "Mom finally collapsed." "It's all your fault." "But what's done is done." "Come on." "Let's go to the police." "You can't get out of this." "I'll go with you, okay?" "You're not going?" "You can't!" "Gutless!" "If you won't do it, then I will!" "Yukiko!" "Yukiko." "I can't go." "I just can't go to the police!" "What should I do?" "What am I supposed to do?" "Kiyoshi..." "Where were you gonna go?" "I wanted to go back home." "Home?" "What for?" "I don't know." "Go home... to the sea." " The sea?" " Yeah." "I'm no good." "Like Kikuo said, I'm a liar and a loser." "Why'd I turn out this way?" "That's what I kept thinking today, while you were out." "The sea!" "It's all because of the sea!" "Mom wasn't the reason I came to Tokyo instead of becoming a fisherman." "I was scared of the sea." "That..." "I knew..." "My dad used to beat me... but I was just too scared." "Every time he'd try to get me on the boat..." "I'd say my head hurt, or my stomach." "Lying became a habit, and this is how I turned out." "But if you hate the sea so much, why go there now?" "I don't know..." "Don't know, but... if I saw it again, maybe..." "I feel like maybe I could be different." "Could start over..." "Start over?" "Please take me!" "All right!" "Right?" "What are you saying?" "Take him in the truck!" "As far as Niigata!" "At least that far." "Idiot!" "We can't do that!" "Cops everywhere!" "We'll all get caught and wind up in jail!" "Kiyoshi, you still have a chance to start over." "You'll ruin that!" "But he helped pay for the truck." "He deserves a ride." "So does poor Ryuji." "Ryuji wouldn't mind." "I'll even go alone." "Asao!" "You want to make Kiyoshi's crime worse?" "Using Independence No. 1 to escape!" "No!" "Just take him where he wants to go!" "Forget it!" "You're crazy!" "I'm going to the cops!" " Kikuo!" " Shut up!" "Kikuo!" "Don't!" "Stop!" "Asao." "Let's go... to the sea." "Asao!" "Asao, don't!" "Stop!" "The truck isn't only yours!" "Asao!" "Asao!" "Asao!" "Asao!" "You okay?" "But listen, Asao." "What?" "I'm sorry." "Look what I've ended up dragging you into." "It's fine." "But why are you so good to me?" "I don't know." "But when you said you wanted to start over at the sea..." "I wanted to start over, too." "What if that was a lie?" "Was it?" "Who knows?" "Once you start lying, it's hard to know what's a lie... and what's the truth." "It's true I wanted to see the sea... but then maybe I just made it up to get away." "Kiyoshi, you weren't lying." "Really?" "No, you weren't." "I can tell." "Because your hope is always real." "Remember when we were all in the slammer together?" "You were the first to say you wanted to drive a truck." "And that's why we wound up buying this truck." "Right, I guess you're right." "I want to start over too." "From before we bought this truck." "From the way I was... when all of us were together back then." "What's wrong?" "Are you okay?" "Need a little rest?" "Don't stop." "Keep driving." "I want to see that ocean." "You planned to harbor him." "I told him to turn himself in." "He stayed at your place for 24 hours." "Plenty of time to get to the police." "Why'd you wait?" "I told you how I got hurt." "I'm a witness." "He wasn't harboring my brother." "Kikuo wanted to go tell the police." "Then Asao hit him." "Kikuo tried to stop Asao from taking my brother in the truck." "That's how he got hurt." "Kikuo never once meant to harbor my brother." "He wouldn't understand how a fugitive feels." "The sea!" "You can see the ocean!" "Kiyoshi!" "Look!" "Wake up!" "The ocean you wanted to see!" "Kiyoshi!" "What's wrong?" "Kiyoshi!" "Damn you!" "The ocean!" "Damn it!" "The ocean!" "Damn it!" "Kiyoshi!" "Kiyoshi!" "So you still feel no regret?" "No." "Your remorse could be an extenuating circumstance." "But I just don't feel what I did was wrong." "Even harming your friend Kikuo?" "I feel bad about what I did to Kikuo." "But I know he'll forgive me someday." "He'll understand." "Because we've been... buddies since we were kids together." "Yukiko." "Why'd you come?" "I wanted to see..." " Did you visit Asao?" " Yes." "Is he doing okay?" "He's fine." "I'll be taking the next train back." "Yukiko." "When'll you see Asao again?" "Tomorrow." "When you see him, tell him..." "I feel like... it's just as well the truck burned." "Is it really just as well?" "That's right." "I'm starting over too!" "THE END"