"Dreaming of the metropolis" "'CHINPIRA / TWO PUNKS'" "Dreaming of the metropolis I, a loner, flew in with only my silk loincloth" "Great Tokyo, the metropolis" "Gold and silver neon waves" "what're you looking at?" "what d'ya want?" "we don't want you doing this here." "Doing what?" "what do you mean by that?" "what the fuck are you anyway?" "what are you doing?" "He was doing acid." "So sorry." "Everything's under control." "Let the underworld people handle such affairs." "Stay out of such affairs." "You're a rooky." "Do it elsewhere, bastard!" "Up there." "Go on." "Hey. wanna bite?" "Produced where?" "Born where?" "In Shikoku." "A Tosaite, huh?" "You've got the looks." "clean up the floor." "where the hell" "are you from?" "I'm asking your birthplace?" "Come on and get it" "Born in Taipei, Taiwan" "Riding over gold and silver waves" "They arrived in the port of Moji" "Messing around in Moji" "They missed the first train" "The second train was completely full" "The third train had no floor" "They were packed on the fourth train" "They arrived at Hakata Station" "Buy up, buy up" "Compared to ones seen at baths" "They're bigger, they're bigger" "A bite of these black bananas" "Makes all women, young and old, glad" "Buy up, buy up" "Buy up 300 yen, 200 yen" "Buy them now" "All right, 50 yen" "where're you from?" "what is it?" "Short tempered, huh?" "Sorry." "No need to apologize." "It's okay." "The boss likes your kind." "Michio, the counter..." "Forget it." "Nobody's there." "This joint's finished." "A rooky sticking his nose in." "That's why I hate country boys." "Hot headed, huh?" "In this world if you can't attract chicks in a week you haven't got it." "I have a bad stomach, so I shouldn't drink, but..." "You shouldn't drink." "But that certainly was a bad move." "Bad move?" "Don't you know?" "About what?" "She's Matsuo's woman." "My legs..." "May I sit more comfortably?" "Are you scared of Mr. Matsuo?" "That's not the issue." "You shouldn't mess with your senior's woman." "Stay here, until you save up some money." "But I think she's great." "who?" "Yuko Nagasaki." "Sure, but she's not my type." "Michio, don't you have a girlfriend?" "No, I don't." "Michio, how old are you?" "I'm 35." "You shouldn't drink so much." "Stop it." "I'm not a yakuza (gangster)." "Don't you Iike yakuza?" "That's not the issue." "I haven't got it." "There's no way I can be like that, Iike Mr. Otani." "AII he does is sit around." "That's cool, isn't it?" "what's cool about that?" "Good morning." "Fujikawa." "what is it?" "Not you." "I'm talking to him." "Fujikawa, why can't you say a simple good morning ?" "Didn't Mr. Umezawa greet me?" "Yoichi, greet him properly." "Can't tell whether you've got the guts or just plain stupid." "As the manager" "I don't want rookies who can't even say greetings." "He didn't speak to Yuko..." "I mean, Miss Nagasaki was the one who spoke to him." "what's that?" "well...ah...nothing." "You're happy go lucky." "Mr. Umezawa." "Yes, sir." "please open the club." "Yes, but... would you please go do it." "Yes, sir." "I kind of understand the way you are." "Sit down." "Have a seat." "You may not know, but" "I was quite big around here." "was sent to reform school at 1 7." "Boss belongs to the underworld and... recruited me when I got out." "what's that dirty look?" "You don't understand anything." "This is the boss's office." "Can't stand against him in this town." "Not against him, I'm standing against you." "Don't try to be fresh with me." "You don't get it, do you?" "An outsider like you can't survive in this town." "wait. where are you going?" "I'm quitting." "That won't do you any good." "I'II talk to Matsuo." "I'm quitting." "wait a minute." "It is all right, Michio?" "what is?" "The club." "what do you expect me to do?" "You know" "I'm not cut out for this world." "shall I say that's not true ." "Is that what you want?" "You're really a bastard." "It's true, isn't it?" "Mr. Otani invited me" "to be in charge of the bookie operation." "Are you recruiting me?" "You refuse?" "No, but..." "Then let's do it." "It'II be profitable." "Don't you have any friends?" "I'II think about it." "You can have it back." "How come?" "I don't want it." "I don't want it." "feel better now?" "Better what?" "I'II walk home." "Hey, wait a minute. wait." "I'II walk home." "You listen to me." "Good night, folks." "You don't understand." "I want you to be happy." "Sent to reform school, and became a yakuza." "Pick only on the weak." "You're a real man, Mr. Matsuo." "You forgot something." "what the fuck are you?" "why are you here anyway?" "Stay out of this." "Go ahead." "please carry on." "Take a hike, you bastard." "I'II wait, so please carry on." "You bastard." "You Shikoku boor." "wait." "wait." "Stay here." "If I die... throw my ashes into the sea." "Don't be ridiculous." "I'm quite serious." "blood...blood." "AII that running." "God, I'm exhausted." "A bike...should have stolen a bike." "Ouuuch." "It really hurts." "It hurts." "I think" "I'II save money to buy a bike" "and chase after you." "Get a secure lock or else it'II be stolen...in Tokyo." "I'II take good care of it." "I'II spend a year" "to save money to buy it." "old man Tanaka pay some?" "None." "He bet quite a Iot last time." "How much?" "little over 200 grands." "200 grands?" "That's a Iot." "Big for a convenience store owner." "Can we get it back?" "Of course we will." "ShouIdn't drink coffee." "It's not that." "My nerves...it's gastritis." "when we lose, Boss appears in my dream and laughs." "The total last month was a little more than 300 per head." "Not enough profit." "Better than office workers." "what if we get arrested?" "One bamboo." "At times, you're such a square." "Good morning." "Shoot." "Tokyo 3rd Race 2-4, 2-6, 5-5" "2,000 yen each." "Yes, sir." "Yes, that hit us hard." "congratulations." "Next?" "20 for 4-6." "Got it." "Too bad yesterday." "well, we just got lucky." "what about today?" "Tokyo 5th Race..." "Come on, Mr. Tsuchiya." "It's all a matter of luck." "Yes, Tokyo 5th Race, right?" "Yes, please." "3-6, 4-6, 6-7...6-8." "Time up." "Got it." "1-2, 2-3, 2-7, 2-8." "100 each!" "You're a real man." "Yes, thank you." "Yoichi, cut off the power." "The last race was so close." "still, we're a bit in the black." "please come in." "hello, ma'am." "You're welcome." "Come in." "About 70 ahead until the 1 1th." "In the final, Mr. Kai hit us hard." "what the fuck are you guys doing?" "In a case like that" "I told you to quit with 1 1th and pass it on to Takahashi." "we were doing well, and got greedy." "Don't get carried away." "It's your job to keep cool." "Be careful." "Sorry, sir." "Excuse me, sir." "what the money collection?" "It's coming along somehow." "There's a writer named Tsuchiya who hasn't paid up." "Eat it while it's cold." "This dick-head." "He is really serious?" "I'm afraid not." "we're trying to get hold of him, but he's slippery." "Yoichi, with a customer like this you have to be a bit strict." "Yes, we'II work him up a bit." "A bit?" "well, a Iot." "which is it?" "A Iot, sir." "Yes, sir?" "Tosaites mustn't be so reserved." "Yes, sir." "Eat." "Thank you, sir." "Fireworks?" "This should be better than fireworks." "Cops are really on us recently." "Getting so close." "You keep it." "Cops know where all my men live." "Yoichi, don't just stand there." "Try aiming it." "Don't point it this way." "More to the front." "You don't have to tell him everything." "You're angry." "He's angry." "He's angry." "It's not funny." "You don't understand." "Boss was laughing." "That's why it's bad." "what's wrong if he laughs?" "Yuko, leave him alone." "Must be jealous about me." "You don't know anything." "You're a yokel." "You're calling me a yokel?" "Shikoku's out in the sticks." "So is Ibaragi, where you're from." "Does it still hurt?" "Is it cancer?" "Go to the hospital?" "It's getting worse, and it's all his fault." "AII his fault?" "You probably had cancer from the first time we met." "At that time, it was only an ulcer." "Becomes cancer so conveniently." "I used to play sick to skip class in high school." "Yuko is an actress." "A natural." "I'm more serious." "A serious coward." "Yoichi, who are you calling a coward?" "Michio, don't be angry." "So it's a serious matter in Ibaragi." "Yoichi!" "Yoichi." "Hey." "Yoichi, look this way." "Bang." "Hey, cut it out." "Michio, you bastard." "Yoichi, you've got no manners." "You call me a bastard?" "I got you into this business." "Just trying to be nice to a middIe-age pop with no friends." "How dare you..." "Say that again." "Anything you want, coward." "I don't need to be patronized by a Iow-Iife like you." "I picked you up." "Didn't I pick you up?" "So what?" "So what?" "I thought you were a yakuza, but you're only a punk." "You fake." "Then quit." "Get out!" "I don't need you around." "Michio!" "Get out!" "Bastard." "Stop it." "I've had enough." "we're no Ionger partners." "who needs a partner who's immature and jealous." "You don't understand, Yoichi." "Yakuza is not what you think." "To prove your loyalty, you have to take the wrap." "Means you have to go to prison." "And I don't want to be convict." "Nor a yakuza." "Then quit this business." "Umezawa, I trusted you to be a professional." "This is too much." "AII this for a mere 100,000 yen." "I wasn't hiding or anything." "I know." "No, you don't!" "I trusted you because I thought you were a professional." "should have known better." "How much?" "I said I'II pay." "153,000 yen." "what the hell!" "Is the calculation correct?" "It is." "According to my calculation it's less than 100,000." "I get my 10% refund, don't I?" "Here's the beer." "You don't have to do that." "This is all I have on me." "I'II pay the rest next time." "Let me go." "Okay?" "Mr. Tsuchiya, this just won't do." "when we lose we pay you on time in full." "You must keep the rules." "You must be aware that you can carry on your business because of us." "Bend the rules at times." "You not the only booky in town." "You should take care of yourself." "what do you mean?" "I heard you're a writer." "You use a word-processor?" "I do." "Be careful with your fingers." "Come on." "Sorry about his attitude." "He became a member of the family yesterday." "well, we'II see you next week." "Yoichi." "wasn't he your pal?" "Don't ignore him." "That's not nice." "Shut up." "Good luck." "Eiji." "It's about Yoichi." "Does he intend to work?" "How long has he been here?" "About 2 weeks?" "already so long?" "It's about time he left." "Can't let him stay forever." "But he's my friend." "A lazy one like him would be bad influence on you." "No need to worry." "You fool!" "You bastard!" "I hope Boss won't be angry." "Michio, is it really all right?" "No trouble?" "Don't worry about it." "shall we switch cabs here?" "please stop around here." "I quit drinking, so I only have drinks Yoichi likes." "Thanks." "Here you are." "Michio, are you married?" "No woman would marry me." "Come on." "You have such a nice place." "I knew you were coming, ma'am, so I cleaned it up." "Don't call me ma'am ." "I'm sorry." "Michio." "Aren't you going to be a yakuza?" "It's not a matter of choice." "I can't." "I'm a coward and..." "I'm useless." "Besides I'm too old and..." "I loaf around, but I'm not much younger than Mr. Otani." "Otani is on acid." "Because he's afraid of being a yakuza." "I think you need more courage to be like you." "I don't think that true." "Ma'am, I mean, Miya." "Are you sleepy?" "shall I get a quilt?" "Can you trust them?" "Don't worry." "It's a very famous outfit." "Fame has nothing to do with trust." "If you so against it, I don't have to go." "Don't you want to be an actress?" "Become famous and support me." "You moron." "congratulations." "Thank you." "what?" "A gift." "Open it." "Open it." "where d'you get this?" "I found it somewhere." "It's Tsuwaji." "It only said Seto inland." "It's Tsuwaji, my home." "Tsuwaji." "Say..." "Come with me." "where to?" "Just come." "It feels good." "Did you live here?" "No, not here, but I did live near here." "In a dirty warehouse." "I sometimes came here for social studies." "social studies?" "A weathercock." "please, stop me." "How're you doing?" "It's been a while since we last met." "How about a welcome back?" "Got out of prison?" "I hear you're keeping Boss's gun." "Bring it over tomorrow." "still hanging out with Umezawa?" "I'm an official member of the family." "The Tajima family will intimidate you." "You deserve it." "You fixed their lieutenant." "Listen." "Before complaining about others, think of what you've done." "well, concerning the current case, I'II put in a word of apology to the Tajima family." "You think about it." "Yes?" "It's Yoichi." "Oh, it's you." "Come on in." "Excuse me, sir." "Did you bring it?" "Yes, sir." "wait there a while." "well, I'II be on my way." "Mr. Ichiki." "Don't call me that in front of everybody." "I have the seniority." "Mr. Ichiki, take this home with you." "No way." "I gave you this for your club's opening." "It's okay." "No need to worry." "It's not a fatal wound." "You'II die, if you move." "This isn't good." "He joined hands with Tajima, didn't he?" "I'm asking you!" "I think you have the potential, but you need polishing up." "You must learn the basics." "why don't you study at our training center?" "Let's see..." "the entrance fee and the tuition..." "hello." "hello." "Hi." "It's me." "Yeah, sure." "Just a minute." "I can get you a scholarship, so come visit me here." "You live in palace hotel?" "It's my workshop." "The station rents it for me." "hello?" "Yeah." "And what happened?" "He wants to fuck you, right?" "That could very well be." "Are you going?" "hell no." "Are you kidding?" "I don't need to stoop that low." "certainly not." "Good things don't come around so easily." "I envy you, Yoichi." "You have lots of friends." "You, too." "Like your actor friends." "They're all rivals." "Yoichi." "won't you become straight and marry me?" "I'm just kidding." "It's a joke." "where are you going?" "won't be long." "I'm kind of lonely today." "I wish you'd stay." "Yoichi." "Is it like hell?" "Like hell." "Strange." "I have a pain in my stomach." "I no Ionger feel the pain." "It's numb now." "That's how it gets." "I'm going home." "Stay a bit longer." "I'm not in any condition to listen to your worries." "I'm less experienced." "Can't be of any help." "Miya told me she's pregnant." "really?" "wow." "She wants to have the baby." "This could cost you your life?" "probably." "why are you telling me?" "So sorry, sir." "Boss, so sorry." "Start a new life?" "what do you intend to do?" "I want the baby." "Oh, well, if that's what you want." "Drink it." "Here." "Yoichi, call me." "call me." "Daddy." "Daddy." "Daddy." "Sounds so good." "Father." "Father." "Father." "Father." "Father..." "Daddy sounds much better." "Daddy." "Yoichi." "Yoichi, sit over here." "Yes, daddy." "Daddy is sad." "Yes, daddy." "I didn't bring you up like this." "You make me sad." "Sorry, daddy." "what is it, Michio?" "Yoichi." "I'm a father." "Yoichi." "How Boss?" "what does that mean?" "calm down, Yoichi." "Did he die?" "I don't know." "what're we going to do, Michio?" "what shall I do?" "calm down." "why the hell are you here?" "This is no place for scum like you." "Stop it, Yoichi." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Come on." "Don't be so depressed." "This was supposed to be a party to celebrate your new start." "Hey, Iet's eat." "Let's eat, Michio." "I'm really not in the mood." "Sorry about it." "Otani...when I screamed not to kick my stomach, he stopped even though he raged like a madman until then." "He looked at me with sad eyes." "I..." "I don't want to think Otani's death was my fault." "I only wanted to be since I was little, to be a wife and a mother." "That was my only dream." "That's how it should be." "Miya and Michio must become happy for Mr. Otani's sake, too." "Isn't that right, Yoichi?" "what's good about that?" "Her parents are overjoyed." "They can't wait to see their grandchild." "Good." "You'II be straight." "I might have become a yakuza if I were younger." "At my age" "I should be a lieutenant by now." "You couldn't have been." "First, we'II visit my hometown to see my grandma." "Maybe run a fishing goods store." "we don't have to be in hiding." "should be better for my stomach, too." "why don't you become straight and marry Yuko..." "You have a hometown, too." "Yuko would be delighted." "I want to live in a place like this." "I'm so tired of Tokyo." "You know, Yuko, I can do a bit of acting myself, too." "want me to try?" "If I can move your heart" "I'II be straight." "Dreaming of the capital of glory I, a loner flew in" "with only my silk loincloth" "Tokyo, the capital of glory" "Under the gold and silver neon waves" "Not all yakuza are men" "Not all flowers are women" "How did the rest go?" "I forgot." "I'm not cut out to be an actor." "Be a good actress." "Yoichi." "Yoichi." "See you." "See you." "Take care." "You, too." "Michi crapped along the road" "Couldn't find paper, so wiped with hands" "Didn't want to waste it, so licked it up" "Yes?" "what do you want?" "where's Umezawa?" "where is he?" "why should I know." "where did he go?" "where did he go?" "I said I don't know." "what happened to you?" "why are you looking for Michio?" "You don't know anything?" "The other day" "he was cleaning up boss's room." "Since then, the account book, the real one, is missing." "It's a question of time, but..." "call the office." "Yes, sir." "Michio." "Return it!" "You moron." "Return the money!" "Yoichi, please." "Don't tell them you saw me." "You bastard!" "They'II kill you." "The family is dead serious." "we're going to start anew." "You truly believe that?" "Start anew with this money?" "we will." "Kind of frightening, isn't it?" "I think..." "You're more frightening." "what're you doing?" "Take off the shirt." "what for?" "Just do it." "Turn around." "No tattoo on your back?" "Of course not." "AII the islanders say you have a tattoo engraved by a famous tattoo artist when you got out of reform school." "From tomorrow, walk naked outside." "Okay?" "Oh, Eiji." "hello." "How have you been?" "Yoichi." "Hey, Yoichi." "Everybody in Tokyo is kind." "The probation officer..." "people on the streets..." "The probation officer say anything?" "He said I was too lenient." "You ran away from Osaka because it was such a frightening place." "I told him that." "No need to make up stories." "Don't get Eiji into trouble." "I won't." "Go eat something with Eiji." "Come on." "I don't need it." "I can't come here very often." "Don't worry." "I'II be home in summer." "You fool." "Once a grown-up leaves home he shouldn't talk about returning home so easily." "Man, you're really in deep shit." "Better live luxuriously in the country than meagerIy in the city." "Doesn't mean you can steal mob money." "Consider it annuity for Miya." "That's bullshit." "You..." "Don't get me wrong." "wanted to shoot it once." "wow." "It's far out." "Next." "Michio, your turn." "Yakuza is not the only life" "Beauty is not only for women with my body less than 6 shaku tall" "You're 6 shaku ." "How tall is 6 shaku?" "181 .8 centimeters." "wow." "How do you know that?" "I was in the mechanical dept." "in high school." "No wonder." "wait a minute, Yoichi." "Hey." "It's me." "Me." "No, it's me." "Yoichi." "I found it first." "No, I did." "I have a confession." "was an airline hostess." "Hey, I saw it first." "This side doesn't open." "Yoichi." "Hey." "They'II let me go free if I return the money, huh?" "How the hell would they?" "Suppose I cut off a finger." "I don't think that'II help." "Then what am I suppose to do?" "I've got no choice but to run." "I'II work something out." "work something out?" "Like what?" "we each cut off a finger and I'II go return the money." "what about me?" "You're going to be a dad." "Not fair for you." "It's the only way." "I'II get a kitchen knife somewhere." "Don't run away." "with my body exactly 6 shaku tall" "Yoichi!" "why did you do it?" "why did you do it?" "Don't fuck with us." "This is from Mr. Matsuo." "please drop by when you return to Tokyo." "with my body exactly 6 shaku tall" "Dreaming of the capital of glory I, a loner, flew in" "with only my silk loincloth" "Tokyo, the capital of glory" "Below the tall City Hall" "Yakuza isn't the only life" "Beauty isn't only for women with my body 6 shaku tall" "I pass my days as a punk" "Even I had a friend, the only friend who was brutally murdered" "Kabukicho where people wander about" "Knives are drawn by hundred" "To stab or be stabbed, either way is hell" "Am I the only one who sees the skyscrapers as tombstones" "Are you looking for work?" "I can get you a job." "You're great." "You're perfect for it." "what kind of work is it?" "Can't you tell?" "Night club business." "Night club?" "Terrific." "You're great." "where you from?" "From Shikoku." "Oh, the Vatican." "That's very far." "But you're great. work at our place." "You're just the one." "I promise to be good." "what the hell." "Don't try to be cute with me." "sell me off, because I'm an ignorant country boy?" "Ain't gonna work out." "I ain't that stupid." "Not only in Tokyo in Shikoku, too, I've seen many of your kind." "I can rip your head off." "I'm a fresh reform school graduate, and I'm ready to spill some blood." "Can't you talk properly?" "Shut your trap, slave driver." "AII right here?" "wait." "hold it, mister." "You can sell me off but please don't shoot me." "You've got it all wrong." "Do I Iook like a yakuza?" "Michi crapped along the road" "Couldn't find paper, so wiped with hands" "Didn't want to waste it, so licked it up" "finally came." "TAKAO OSAwA as Yoichi" "DANKAN as Michio" "REIKO KATAOKA as Yuko" "CHIKAKO AO YAMA as Miya and RYO ISHIBASHI as Boss Otani" "original Story by SHOJI KANEKO" "screenplay by TOSHIYUKI MORIOKA SHOJIKANEKO" "Music by MAKOTO AYUKAwA" "Cinematography by ISAO ISHII" "Directed by SHINJI AO YAMA" "english subtitles by Jeanette Amano"