"BOUNCE KO GALS" "Do you have old photo stickers?" "Gimme, I'm collecting them." "Don't those old ones look kind of weird?" "Yeah, but those were the good old days..." "You're weird!" "Good luck, good luck!" "Wow, look at all she's written!" "I want to lose some weight." "Do you know where I can get some Speed?" "You don't need it yet." "You think so?" "How's our Versace guy from Sapporo?" "Hey, Raku." "He says he'll give me 400,000 yen a month!" "Here's your finder's fee." "Thank you." "Here." "Thanks!" "I have old photo stickers, want them?" "Well forget it!" "I'm just kidding, take them." "Donation!" "The word is you need it for your abortion." "Aw, thank you so much!" "Aw, thank you so much!" "Not enough, huh?" "I can't wait to get this damn thing out of me!" "Hey..." "It's no joke." "Hey, hey..." "But don't your parents need to sign something?" "The Doc gave me a lecture but he said that my signature would be fine just this once." "He said that last time too, but I'm taking a guy with me just in case." "Is it a legitimate clinic?" "You get what you pay for nowadays." "And I'm paying, so I'm sure it's okay." "Me?" "I'm sixteen." "Sure." "It'll cost you..." "Where should we meet?" "What about Advance De Chikyu?" ""We cannot afford a child right now..."" ""...and my husband and I both agreed to..."" "That sounds fine." "Yeah, I can be there by then." "See you later." "Bye!" "Hey you." "I'm the father." "Do you have a parent's signature?" "I'm the father." "Just this once, then..." "A family would be nice but I'm not ready yet." "Ms. Yazawa, please." "I hate this!" "No fuck, no babies!" "How about 30,000 yen?" "I know you're going to Shibuya to peddle your ass." "Hey, don't play innocent with me." "A Date Club won't pay that much!" "Let go of me!" "Fuck you!" "Everybody knows that you're a little whore!" "Hi, Mom, I just got in..." "My dad thinks he understands young people, but he's a clod." "He says that those old guys can get out of control once they snap, so I should be careful." "He's just getting old." "This one, please." "I don't think my parents do it very much any more." "They're like nonexistent." "Maybe I should teach them how to have fun." "I've probably got more money than they do..." "You record a message aboutyourself, pretending to be a good girl." "Then you'll get a dozen messages by the next day." "Don't call back the weirdos." "And don't be first to bring up money." "If you say you're a virgin, you'll get more but watch out, because they know how to check." "They're a real pain!" "You've never done it for money?" "Not really." "They can think what they want, but I don't cross the line." "Why don't you, then?" "Come on!" "I don't have to." "It'd be awful if you had to." "All those fat over-40's pestering you..." "That's why you should do it now, when you don't have to." "It's easy, real simple." "You can lay there like a fish, and they still come." "Why not start today?" "I have to be in love." "We'll do threesome!" "Look, my shoe came off!" "Maru?" "No." "Maru?" "Oh, hi." "I'm Maru." "How do you do?" "Who's your friend?" "Well, it's that time of the month for me." "So, I thought maybe she can help me out..." "I just remembered, my part-time job is today!" "Gotta go!" "Shall we go?" "You like that?" "Yeah, but it's a bit expensive..." "Visit a tanning salon?" "Sorry!" "Where's the man today?" "He's behind the Parco Department, wearing an indigo sweater." "Is today Tuesday?" "Friday." "All day." "Out shopping?" "You're speaking English!" "Um, I don't understand English, so..." "Hey, I don't understand English, will you speak Japanese?" "They live abroad a few years and they aren't Japanese anymore." "It wasn't like that before." "Did I ever tell you about the best day of my life?" "I left my home with 100 yen." "And I walked all the way to Ikebukuro." "As soon as I got there, I found these two average girls." "I got 50,000 yen for two girls from an Ikebukuro agency." "Then I went to Shinjuku, and found a girl who was okay." "I got 200,000 yen for her!" "Then I found someone for a place in Shinjuku, 200,000 yen!" "By the time I hit Shibuya, I had 400,000 yen!" "Oh, yeah!" "That was the best day of your life?" "Well, that's the best a talent scout can do." "Unless you find a really pretty girl." "This guy I know once told me that you can sleep with as many ugly girls you want." "But you don't lay a hand on the real pretty one." "Strictly hands off." "Who said that?" "Hey, I was trying to teach you guys..." "Oh, Mr. Bura did." "That pickup artist?" "It's not "picking up"!" "It's "talent scouting."" "Oh?" "He takes his time and builds trust." "Hey, look over there, at the crosswalk." "There's a gorgeous one at the crosswalk." "Take a look!" "You know, it's fate we should meet here." "I was thinking of buying you a gift..." "Would your father like a tie?" "Over there!" "Coming this way!" "Walking with the Mayor over there?" "She's from abroad, I can tell." "Right there!" "Ta-da!" "Armani, Comme ça, Nicole, Garçons, Valentino..." "If she is, I'll study English." "Go get her!" "What do you think?" "Nice, huh?" "Sorry, I'm late!" "The traffic was terrible, some protest or something..." "Anyway, the movie..." "Oh yeah, he is real cool." "Come on, let's go see a movie." "The theatre is this way, isn't it?" "Let's go." "Hey listen, please..." "You are really something, you know that?" "You have a kind of aura around you." "You know what it is?" "I think it's fate." "You are my destiny." "I became a talent scout to meet you, I realize that now." "I've been waiting for 20 years for you to come along, I'm serious." "Excuse me." "He won't give up, will he?" "He was rejected just before..." "Yeah, that was something." "Hello, I heard that Speed makes you lose weight, but it that true?" "Um, lose weight?" "Does it make you lose weight?" "I don't know, I've never gone on a diet." "Oh, thanks." "Do you want to take a shower first?" "No." "Shall we do it first?" "And the money?" "After's fine." "Always get paid in advance." "Well, that would help." "How much is it?" "100,000 yen, just oral." "You're joking, right?" "What kind of idiot would pay 100,000 for a kid to suck them off?" "Are you..." "Are you a yakuza?" "I do own some girls, and a Date Club." "That's what you call them, right?" "Yes." "Expensive gals like you are hurting my business." "I promise I'll stop, please don't hurt me!" "Oh, you don't have to stop." "As matter a fact, you'll start working for me today." "Actually not for me, one of my young men." "I don't fuck kids." "I have a young daughter, you know." "I just had an abortion today..." "I really don't think I can!" "You take a lot of chances." "Have you ever had a guy run out without paying, or been scared?" "Three run-outs, but this is the first time I've been scared..." "That won't happen if you work for me." "Could you at least wait until I finish high school?" "All right." "I'll let you go if you pay my costs." "I pay you?" "The sweater, this hotel, and my lecture say 100,000 yen." "But I don't have it..." "Pay up." "If you can't pay, I'll keep your ID." "I don't have any ID!" "Give me that." "Excuse me." "I've got these..." "Yes?" "Bring them out." "Why did you come here?" "I heard that..." "I heard that I could sell them for more here." "More than what?" "The going price." "There's no such thing." "Name a price." "Well, they cost $12.99, but..." "But what?" "Well, you know..." "Know what?" "Do you really need to ask?" "The second time I just pay you." "You only preach the first time?" "Just talk to me." "Think about this." "Think about what?" "Weird old men buying dirty underwear?" "Places like this selling it?" "Or places like this existing because you'll sell it?" "Weird old men buying it because you'll take it off?" "All so you can make some easy money?" "Okay, how much do you want?" "5,000 yen?" "Think, will you?" "How much is too much?" "Will you sell them fresh?" "Fresh?" "The ones you have on." "Take them off and hang them there." "You can get some new ones from the office upstairs." "Commission's 20%." "All right." "Once this guy came after me on the street bugging me to take a dump and sell it to him!" "It's the media's fault." "They get these guys all worked up over high-school girls..." "Yeah, they think we'll do anything!" "I hate that big-time!" "Just today someone called "Miss!" and I turned around and this guy said "How old are you?"" ""Seventeen" I said, and he said "Oh, sorry to bother you" and just walked away!" "Why?" "High school is too old now." "Once you're in high school, you're an old lady now." "That's right!" "No one's ever tried to pick me up." "Liar!" "Why do you say that?" "Never, maybe I look Chinese to them..." "Don't laugh at that!" "I'll be married by 20." "That's too young!" "Why?" "Yeah, what's wrong with that?" "You settle down and all that..." "I'll want to get married." "But, I really want to have a baby and be photographed with it nude." "Why nude?" "Babies have such nice skin..." "I think getting married is a lousy idea." "But kids are so cute!" "They are not!" "They are if they're yours." "Bitch, they are not!" "No way!" "They are!" "Maybe when they're small but then they grow up to be like us!" "Right?" "Like your parents with you!" ""She used to be so cute!" "What happened to her?"" ""I don't understand her at all."" "That's what they say!" "And you're not even at the university yet!" "Oh, don't you just hate those college girls?" "Wearing those suits, pretending they smoke..." "Oh, yeah!" "...then coughing all over the place..." "Yeah!" "That's right!" "If you're going to be a whore, high-school is the best time." "Once you're 20, they put you in jail." "Yeah!" "When I'm 20, I'm quitting smoking and everything." "All over!" "If you marry a guy, he'll want you to be home with his kids." "Who knows where he'll be?" "How do you know that?" "Those guys who pay us money to be with them all have families, you know." "She's right!" "I won't marry any of them!" "You know what it is?" "No, what?" "Cause and effect!" "What does that mean?" "Shut up!" "Junko, listen!" "I just got a lecture from a yakuza!" "That bastard!" "Huh?" "What's wrong?" "Is this how much it brought?" "The rest won't get that much." "Pose, don't smile." "Okay." "The uniform might bring 30,000 yen." "I leave tomorrow." "I don't pay in advance." "Sorry about that." "I want to make as much as I can tonight." "You're going for a while?" "Yes." "Are you an E-cup?" "No!" "No?" "How about a video?" "What kind?" "I don't know, I've never been in one." "I guess it's time you stopped fucking clients." "If you're good, you get their money without doing that." "Yeah..." "It's like hostesses." "The dumb ones fuck anyone." "The smart ones get rich." "That's true." "It's a matter of self-respect." "That's not the same as smug self-satisfaction." "Brand-name goods are all self-satisfaction." "Oh, like Chanel mascara." "It always comes right off." "Isn't Shiseido better?" "And Chanel lipstick chaps my lips." "But who'd be caught dead with Japanese stuff in their purse?" "Chanel is terrible!" "Don't you talk!" "Brand names are what you're all about." "I know that." "You don't look like you do." "I understand!" "I do..." "Anyway what do you need back?" "All I had was 40,000 yen." "For 60,000 he'll give back my ID and my cell phone." "You have a cell phone?" "This bar Mama in Roppongi bought it for me for work." "You're working there, too?" "About a third of my business." "Oh, you really should turn pro." "No way!" "This isn't a joke any more!" "Was the abortion a joke?" "Hey!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "No, wait, no more!" "Man can she run!" "You're going in a circle!" "Hey, please!" "Please, don't yell, okay?" "Just listen to me a bit, will you?" "Please, I'm not going to hurt you!" "I'll show you my ID, just wait, wait, wait..." "It's my driver's license." "I'm putting it here, okay?" "I won't move past here, I promise!" "Look, look!" "Haruki Akiyama, born August 28, 1976." "See?" "My friends call me "Sap."" "That's my parents' address." "I live with some friends near Komazawa Park." "Anyway, forget that." "Tell me your name." "Um, Lisa..." "Okay, Lisa..." "You were in the panty-shop selling underwear, weren't you?" "So you need money..." "Your worries are over, I'll take care of you." "Excuse me." "I have work." "What, selling yourself?" "A video." "Porn?" "No, it's not!" "Sure it is!" "No, it's absolutely not!" "You think I've lived this long in Shibuya for nothing?" "Who do you think watches that stuff?" "Guys who adult women won't touch, so they go after kids!" "When they were kids, all they did was study or jerk off!" "They don't know how to have fun!" "Now they're fat old men who think they can buy anything!" "Why do you listen to them?" "They're your enemy!" "Why do you listen to them?" "Out of my way." "All right." "Here's what I'll do." "I'm worried about you so I'll wait outside." "When I'm sure it's okay, I'll go home, take a dump and go to bed." "How's that?" "Wiggle your bum!" "Great!" "Yeah!" "More, more!" "Raise your arms!" "That's right..." "And cut!" "Cut!" "Okay!" "That was a great shot!" "Okay, everyone over here!" "This way, this way..." "Okay, next shot." "Girl C, Girl C, you're over here." "On this line." "Walk this line." "Right over here." "Girl A, Girl B, Girl C, right here." "Get in line, Girl C." "Girl C, what's wrong?" "I can't do this." "You can't do what?" "What's wrong?" "I can't walk a line." "Huh?" "Why not?" "Well?" "The doctor says I shouldn't." "What happens if you do?" "I get nauseous, I break out in a rash I get diarrhea my nose itches, I start yawning, and my period goes weird." "What's it called?" "It's Straight-line phobia!" "Phobia?" "What happens when you come to a crosswalk?" "How about that?" "I'm okay if I straddle the lines." "Girl D?" "Yes." "Glad you could make it." "Yes." "Just take it easy." "Yes." "Put your things down here." "Okay." "Change in there." "Yes." "Could I tape you changing?" "No way!" "Just a few seconds..." "No, that wasn't part of the deal." "I'll pay you more." "That wasn't part of the deal." "Come on!" "Please?" "Pretty please?" "Eight please." "There is no eight." "Seven, then." "Same as me." "That's 15,000 yen exactly." "This way, please." "Yes." "You talk to the girls on this phone." "You choose one within 15 minutes." "You meet out in front by the vending machines." "I choose?" "I only see one." "You can buy extra time if you like." "Is Mr. Oshima here?" "Haven't seem him today." "Hello?" "Excuse me, could I speak to the person beside you?" "There's just me here." "What are you talking about?" "I'm right here!" "I can see you!" "Oh, she's just here looking for someone." "Hey, that's not fair!" "This is a rip-off!" "I just paid 15,000 yen!" "Don't complain to me..." "I can't stand confined spaces!" "I can't stay in them, I panic!" "I just spent a whole hour in a telephone club!" "But you could hear all these weird conversations going on..." "I felt like a damn parrot in a cage!" "Whenever I went to take the phone it was already too late!" "And that's not all..." "If you want to whine, try a church." "Call Mr. Oshima for me?" "Is a Mr. Oshima here?" "Look over here!" "Wait, wait, wait, wait, Miss!" "If you leave, we can't finish the video!" "I'm sorry." "You saw the others!" "They're awful!" "We're all in just the right mood!" "It's all your fault!" "He scared you, saying all those twisted things!" "No, it's..." "Look, he'll apologize!" "He won't do it again." "That's fine, thanks." "But we need you to finish this off!" "I don't want to do those things!" "Here, put your things back down." "It'll be okay, put them here..." "I'm leaving, too!" "Okay?" "Wait, it'll be fine." "Okay, okay, I know, we'll do the other shot again." "So Maru wants her ID back?" "And her cell phone." "And what do I get?" "I'll work off the 100,000 yen." "You'll turn tricks in your friend's place?" "I don't turn tricks." "What do you do?" "Paid dates?" "I sing karaoke with them have dinner with them and listen to them talk." "For 100,000 yen?" "Per week?" "Per date." "That's robbery!" "Men in Japan these days want young girlfriends." "We don't go out with them because we want to." "That's exactly what I mean!" "Hey, what's this guy doing?" "You're in the way, man." "Sorry, excuse us, sorry." "Right on!" "Hey, hey, hey, what's all this noise in here?" "Making videos, huh?" "What are you doing with these Ko Gals?" "Who said you could shoot videos above our office, huh?" "You're in charge?" "A man of your age with all these girls?" "Okay, I get it." "Let's make a deal." "Hey, I like this." "Let's make a deal." "Smart guy!" "Okay, shoot's over!" "Passports from the U.S. And Japan, someone's lived in the States..." "Plane tickets to New York..." "Hey, Yama, hey!" "Money!" "There must be 300,000 yen here!" "I worked a year for that money!" "Give it back!" "Shut up!" "Give it back!" "Give it back!" "No, no, you hand it over like a good girl or we lay you down and do a three-way!" "That's my money for New York!" "All right..." "Give it back!" "All right, here's what I'll do." "You have the ticket." "I'll give you that." "You go off to New York." "She won't shut up, will she." "No!" "Why don't we just do her?" "Come on, I've had enough!" "I get first shot!" "Get the laundry off!" "Girl D, run, hurry up!" "I'm Lisa, not Girl D!" "This way, this way!" "Those bastards!" "They were all in on this, you know." "Instead of paying us, they set the whole thing up." "I've heard of it before..." "But anyway, at least you got your passport and your ticket." "Yeah, but..." "That's great!" "A Virgin Mary." "Thanks." "So tell me more." "How come you gals do so well?" "Every yakuza in Japan wants to know but there's no one to ask." "There's nothing special about us." "Even in elementary school men are offering you 10,000 yen for a kiss." "20,000 to watch them masturbate..." "I don't know a girl who hasn't been groped on the train." "That's what this country's like." "Perverted men treating women as objects?" "Trolling for us with money." "But why?" "Well?" "How can you get 100,000 yen just for karaoke?" "Adults these days don't have any sense." "They're like children, so real children have power." "And they take advantage of the grownups." "Money is everything in this world." "I won't kiss you for 10,000 yen, but for a million yen, I might." "If a man had any sense, it would stop there." "But there are guys who'll say "sure!"" "It's a pretty scary place, this world of ours." "Look on the bright side, you have your ticket and passport." "You can still go." "You've got friends there, don't you?" "New York's no place to be broke." "Then all you can do is go back home." "I can give you enough for the train." "Thanks but I don't want to waste this ticket." "Is New York so great?" "Isn't it dangerous?" "Yes, it is but the States have this "can-do" spirit." "What's that?" "The idea that something will happen if you believe in yourself and you try hard." "What about Japan?" "Talk about the States and teachers sneer at you." "You're a challenge to them." "They're so damn rigid..." "Yeah!" "That's what they're like!" "About to topple over!" "I gave up on school, too." "What do your parents say?" "I only go home maybe twice a week." "Don't they get mad?" "That's probably all they want to see of me." "Ko Gals!" "Mine are a pain..." "I'll get you!" "Careful!" "So the trick is getting paid without sex." "So you don't compete with our sex business so we should leave you alone?" "We won't be doing this for very long, anyway." "What's to get excited about?" "Maybe you don't sell sex, but that's what your clients buy." "They're not all nice guys." "That's when we take the money and run." "Hang on, Jonko..." "Get that flag..." "This isn't just 10 or 20 men." "You must run into guys who know the tricks or who are in shape, or are perverts..." "Yeah, sometimes." "Right!" "Then all you can do is put out." "Not necessarily." "Have you used that?" "Five times." "And the police?" "Who'd tell them he was done by a Ko Gal?" "This doctor from Sapporo would show up every week with a new Versace outfit and pay me 50,000 yen to have dinner with him." "And he'd bring these great presents." "In the end, though, it was "Sleep with me!" and I said "No!"" "I introduced him to someone who would." "I know three guys just foaming at the mouth." "Want to meet one?" "I thought I was ready..." "Well, don't, if you're not." "Maru paid 40,000 yen." "Know what's started here?" "Trust." "I trust you and you trust me..." "We'll have dinner once a month." "Not a paid date." "A dinner of faith, okay?" "Yes." "The syndicate had a meeting." "Tera!" "Last summer Tokyo was full of girls from the countryside selling themselves." "These amateurs on their paid dates made things hard for the pros." "No one knows what this year will be like." "What we do know is that Tokyo is full of horny old men." "Ever heard of Columbia?" "Sure, because of the drugs..." "You know that?" "Yeah." "To me, it's the land of M-19, Father Torres and Marguez." "The towns there have "Cleaners."" "If the problem is drugs, they find a dealer or a user and from close range, put seven bullets in his head." "Next day, the body's on the street, and the town is clean." "Same with prostitutes." "They call it Social Cleansing." "Some people want to import that custom." "If threats don't work one Ko Gal, dead on the street..." "Give this racket of yours a rest." "Even if the police don't care, the yakuza do." "I understand." "This is a yellow card..." "The next one's red." "Go on." "I'll work off the 100,000." "I know all the old songs." "Does some middle-school girl want her own cell phone?" "I'm looking for sex friends, 14-44..." "Hello, are you into bondage?" "This guy wants to tie us up!" "Hello." "What about him?" "I want a horny masochist of a woman into golden showers." "How do you do?" "Are you a woman who likes to be tormented?" "Was he for real?" "Good evening, I'm from Osaka here on business." "I'm looking for someone to spend time with me twice a month." "Hello, I'm looking for a girl, I'll pay 100,000 yen just to go out for dinner." "Mr. Shiga?" "Mr. Shiga?" "I'm Pipi!" "We talked on the phone!" "Hello!" "How about some karaoke?" "Sure!" "You're finished work?" "You're sure you're not too tired?" "Let's go to McDonald's." "I'd love to!" "Forget it." "Who is this?" "This is Kaka, we're Pipi and Kaka." "How do you do?" "I love your beard!" "Where are you going?" "I saw you back there." "Are you up for some fun?" "We have to start work." "Work?" "When do you get off?" "I'm a freelancer with spare time..." "Anyone interesting in a businessman, 40?" "I'm in need of stimulation..." "I don't have a girlfriend." "I'm looking for one." "Leave a message." "Where's Maru?" "She went to work." "She did?" "Some guys she knew came along and she took off with them." "She's crazy!" "Completely." "How did it go?" "Hey, you got her stuff back!" "But you look beat!" "From singing old songs." "After he went down, he kicked out and got one guy..." "Face front." "Don't move, please!" "Okay, pull it over his forehead..." "Ow!" "Oh, here, here!" "Sorry, sorry!" "I'm sorry!" "That hurt!" "I'm sorry, we'll get it this time." "What about this?" "Pull the ponytail through, like that." "Okay?" "Don't cover the bleached parts." "Don't what?" "They have sentimental value." "Okay, I understand." "Don't move." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Put down a real occupation, will you?" "Excuse me, Sirs!" "Get off the sofa!" "Did you bring my insurance thing?" "Yeah, did you break any bones?" "Hey, Nurse..." "Hey nurse, what's wrong with "occupation:" "Talent scout"?" "Put something normal, okay?" "But I'm really not normal." "That's the truth." "See?" "Here." "Do it right this time!" "Wait a minute!" "Get away!" "Let me touch it!" "No!" "Come on, that looks painful!" "How about a "trafficker in young girls"?" "But I know why some girls do it." "You don't have to talk, but you feel like you're worried." "I don't like getting paid for dumb conversation just because some guy has money." "Raku, let's split this." "What?" "We should split this money." "That won't even pay for the train home." "What time's your plane?" "Huh?" "11 o'clock." "Eleven?" "Yes." "11 o'clock, huh?" "Even on Fridays, there's no business after two." "I'll be okay." "Thanks for everything." "I'll give you the address of my school in New York." "Okay." "If I ever get there..." "Is that the phone number?" "No..." "No..." "No..." "What's the matter?" "What's wrong?" "This morning, I had a pen and some paper." "I had 300,000 yen I'd saved working weekends in a store." "I stopped off in Shibuya because I was greedy." "It's my own fault!" "It's okay..." "It'll be fine." "It's okay." "Well, at least by coming here I got to meet you." "Yeah!" "Thanks, I'm okay." "You okay?" "Yeah." "Hey, bring on the drooling foam-spitters!" "You know, a pro at this once told me only sell yourself when you don't really have to." "Anything's better than going back home." "And I'll do anything rather than go back to that school!" "Do people still wear those?" "They used to." "The same, please!" "All right!" "What is it?" "A charm bracelet." "Then why is it bulging up there?" "That's where it joins." "It looks like panty elastic." "No, they're longer." "There're zodiac signs and little gods in there." "There are not!" "There are!" "You have to see it in the light." "Gods make their own light." "Mine don't." "I see something." "An animal..." "A mouse." "The rat!" "Don't give away my age!" "Show me!" "No!" "Show me!" "I will not!" "Never!" "Oh, here you go!" "Raku?" "Thank you for answering so quickly." "It's been a while." "Look, I still don't like what you're doing." "You're calling after six months to say that?" "I don't agree but tonight I need your help." "Are you listening?" "Yes, I am." "There's not much time, so I'll make it quick." "There's this really great girl." "Seriously, she's incredible." "Her name's Lisa." "She's in trouble, she had 300,000 yen stolen." "She leaves for New York tomorrow, and she needs money." "Tomorrow?" "Her airport ticket runs out then." "She's from there?" "Huh?" "She's lived there?" "Yeah." "Will you help?" "No way!" "Okay, I'm at the Clap Club." "I'll send her over." "Bye." ""Plane ticket"..." "You said "airport ticket."" "No..." "Yes, you did!" "I did not!" "You did too!" "This is dangerous!" "What did Oshima just tell you?" "Jonko grew up getting groped on the trains." "Once she was molested by a teacher." "Then her father started paying high-school girls for dates." "She hates men like that." "She goes along to a hotel room and then robs them." "Sometimes they catch her..." "But she uses her stun gun on them and takes their money anyway." "Lisa, Lisa!" "Lisa!" "Don't be scared!" "Don't be!" "You don't want to go home..." "It's easy, you just have to hate your parents." "But this is different." "I understand." "I know what you mean but Ethan Hawke can't help you now." "Or Clinton." "Only Jonko can." "I'm around here after midnight." "So whatever happens, come and find me after." "The Clap Club's just up there." "I don't want to see Jonko." "You'll be okay?" "Hey, it's that way." "Be careful." "Later." "Bye bye." "Good luck." "You know the east exit of Shibuya station?" "There's a pedestrian bridge." "Yeah, by the movie theatre." "The Police Station's on the corner there." "Where the bridge meets the street." "I'm Lisa." "I'm Jonko." "Hello?" "Uh, Raku said she had to do something." "Yeah, I heard." "That's Kuji." "Hi, Kuji." "I'm Lisa." "She handles the phone and passes messages." "I see." "If something happens and we're separated, you run." "I'd be embarrassed if something happened to you." "If we get split up, come back here and find Kuji." "We want 600,000 yen." "Someone hits you, you hit back." "They pay for everything." "Okay?" "The best day of your life?" "What's 400,000 yen?" "I got through to her!" "I just felt so complete!" "What?" "When I went in with that extinguisher, my mind was a blank." "The adrenalin was just pumping!" "My brain was on fire." "The high point of my life!" "So why don't you look for her?" "Well, you know, before when I was getting stitched up I realized something." "A scout of my ability will only find certain types." "At best, common denominators." "At worst, multiples." "They're two different things!" "Well, yeah..." "But when they both happen in one person..." "Forget it, leave it for tomorrow." "Think about it..." "All the girls we meet worship designer brands." "Jeans, sneakers..." "All they think about is the here and now." "But Lisa's different." "She doesn't care about clothes." "She thinks about the workers who made them." "Isn't that great?" "Don't you understand that?" "So what'll you do?" "By the police station where the pedestrian bridges meet." "Then the Toyoko Line corner, under the expressway." "And the corner by that green sign." "And that footbridge going off at an angle?" "By the streetlight, look..." "That's one." "We've got four appointments." "They're all for 10:30." "Now we walk around and check them out." "Did you see them?" "What?" "Who were they?" "There was a country boy in a suit a fat guy with glasses who probably had bad breath a weirdo in an out-of-season suit and a guy who looked like a bar code." "I must be dreaming!" "Will you really have sex with me?" "You have to take a shower first if you want to get dirty with us." "Oh, no..." "If I do that, I won't get to do it." "Why not?" "I was robbed by a geisha in Atemi in 1971." "Then in Taipei in 1975." "And in Manila in 1975." "Every good woman I find robs me." "But at least I got to do it with them." "Things have gone downhill, now they rob you before." "It's not that I don't trust you, I'm just being careful." "Well then..." "I'll come in with you." "Come on, we'll take a bath, let's go." "But that'll be extra..." "No, it's okay." "I don't have that much money." "Close your mouth." "But..." "He should've quit in Atami in 1971." "The next guy's a great old man." "Will you use that on him?" "No way!" "He's a regular." "I bring him someone once a month." "You listen to his stories for 200,000 yen." "200,000?" "But there's an interview, some girls fail." "What does he ask?" ""How old are you?" stuff like that." "He's a professor?" "He's retired." "Medicine, I think." "Why are you hanging back?" "You threw that bread!" "Nice to see you again." "Have a drink?" "A Virgin Mary." "How innocent of you..." "Isn't it a drink for a yakuza's wife?" "It's a nonalcoholic cocktail for kids." "What?" "He lied to me!" "What's wrong?" "Sit down." "I'll have some red wine." "Professor, this is Lisa." "Lisa Togo." "What'll you have?" "Water." "Sparkling?" "No, thank you." "How old are you?" "Sixteen." "You look older." "Do I fail?" "No, no..." "You have good bones." "Like girls before the war." "Lisa has U.S. Citizenship, too." "First-aid kit!" "Tera's here." "Thanks for coming." "A stun-gun?" "Yeah, the guy wants it kept quiet." "It hurts..." "Those damn Ko Gals!" "I'm sorry about this." "Can you do something?" "Today we might take longer, will 300,000 yen be all right?" "Sure, give it to Lisa." "I couldn't go to America even if I wanted to." "Late last year I became a war criminal." "It was the "P Facilities" plan..." "Pee?" "Comfort stations." "There were records on women from all over Asia..." "Their endurance, tolerance, characteristics..." "Korean women were the best." "In 1941 the Army gave orders to create a special new unit." "We were to assemble comfort women from Korea." "I was a recruiter." "How much time a soldier had with a woman was fixed for officers, NCO's and other ranks." "We had to grade the women so different prices could be set." "We had to work out how to set the rules." "Our elite ended up managing brothels." "There were Army accountants and Navy pay officers." "One of those Navy men ended up as Prime Minister." "He spent the whole Pacific War setting up brothels in Borneo although he hides that now." "A lot of Indonesian and Dutch women were recruited, too." "Yep, we did some terrible things in Asia." "Still, though why do they come along 50 years later and accuse me of war crimes?" "Why does America listen to those women?" "It doesn't make any sense." "Some old guy offered me a lot of money if I'd walk on him!" "What?" "You attract those guys!" "I'd believe it." "Yuck!" "Was he after your body?" "Maybe you should've given him a chance!" "Speed doesn't make you lose weight." "It doesn't?" "No, this girl came up to me on the street and said she wanted some for a diet!" "That's weird!" "That's when I heard it..." "Could you get the phone?" "There was this "slap, slap, slap" noise." "Hello?" "Yeah..." "We won't get any more appointments at this hour!" "Okay, I'll do something from here." "You can close up shop." "Okay, we're going home." "Bye." "Hello?" "Maru?" "I'm a friend, she's not feeling well." "I see... this is Total Bitch in Roppongi." "She's mentioned you." "You need help?" "Yes." "A paid date." "That's fine." "There's two of us, we can be there in an hour..." "Today's very special." "I hope you're up to Maru's standards." "Don't worry about that." "Yeah?" "What's your name?" "Minako." "My friend is Minayo." "All right." "Ring 1919 at the door, and hurry." "Excuse me, Ms. Jonko?" "What good does getting on an 80 year-old's case do?" "An 80 year-old criminal!" "But one with money!" "What's the good of going there if we don't get paid?" "He shamed women all over Asia!" "You're Asian, too!" "That's how it was." "But when we were at the training camp, I was always fighting to be first." "Not this again!" "That's why I got so mad!" "But tonight I drink with my brother." "Your brother?" "That's why I called you." "You've never met?" "No." "Shall I?" "Okay." "Xun, my brother Takamitsu." "How do you do?" "Where are you from?" "China." "But I'm no China doll!" "I didn't think so." "Oh, too bad!" "Don't tease him!" "He's an important official." "Wow, even more of a shame!" "He might prefer workmen, he's in the Construction Ministry." "What do you mean?" "Sorry!" "There's two of us here..." "But you're all traitors and foreigners." "You don't see the real Japan." "Japan is a village society so it runs on two basic premises." "Do you know what they are?" "Anyone?" "I couldn't really say but two things surprised me when I came here." "One was Japanese men peeing in the street at night." "I don't do that!" "The other was..." "This is Minako and Minayo." "Come sit here." "Aren't they pretty?" "Do you two know the basic premise of a village society?" "What are you doing?" "Listen, you two..." "Would you like a job?" "Me, too!" "Fifteen minutes of physical work." "Cleaning a toilet until it sparkles cleanses the souls of traitors and foreigners." "Incredible!" "Thus, I am a bureaucrat and you are not." "Self-sacrifice and harmony, remember?" "200,000 yen each." "Shall we clean?" "If I, as a bureaucrat, cannot move Japan, who will?" "I'll do the thinking, you don't have the minds for it." "Yuck!" "What are you gaping at?" "Get to work!" "You do as you're told, 200,000 yen, remember!" "Um, I'll use these gloves, okay?" "Don't be stupid!" "It only means something if you do it barehanded!" "You couldn't do this in Los Angeles or New York, it's not safe." "There's too many Blacks and Mexicans." "You're ten years out of date!" "And Roppongi is weird, anyway." "Don't give me any lip!" "You Chinese bitch!" "You do what you're damn well told!" "Whatever you say, Japan is a safe place." "You don't have to worry about anything." "Do it once and you'll see its value." "Self-sacrifice and harmony." "Can I ask one thing?" "What?" "What are you doing?" "Takaaki!" "Takaaki!" "What did you call me?" "How dare you!" "Chinese bitch, huh?" "Take the money and go!" "Hurry!" "In five seconds I scream." "Quick!" "You little brats!" "Come back here!" "Which way?" "Left, left!" "I'm at Miyahita Park." "Something's happened." "A girl's been hurt." "It was a Ko Gal." "She set up a citizen for some of her male friends but the sucker turned out to be a karate freak." "I'm the victim here!" "Don't you understand that?" "I'm the victim!" "It might not look that way but I couldn't just stand there and let them mug me." "I understand that, it's self-defense..." "Could I ask your name, Detective?" "What's it matter?" "I'd just like to know." "Sato." "All right, Detective Sato I'd really appreciate if my family didn't know about this, all right?" "The girl's hurt bad." "The mark beat her up bad." "Did you hear about Roppongi?" "Yeah, I'm going there now." "It has to be Jonko." "I'll check out her dancer friend." "The love hotels, too." "She might try something else tonight." "She hit one of the Haga brothers." "This is serious." "The boss called me." "We've got to put a stop to it." "Looks like it." "The famous Haga brothers?" "The Construction Ministry guy and the idiot home-run king?" "Yeah." "He hits hard and has a long reach." "He could kill one of those girls." "I just don't understand them!" "They slouch, none of them are very pretty..." "No, I saw one today." "Where?" "I'm not saying." "A nice, upstanding young girl I stupidly sent on a porn job." "What's upstanding about selling your underwear?" "They'd sell their souls if they could take them off." "You can't even understand what they're saying!" "You're getting old!" "I mean a beautiful young girl with some passion!" "In our day things were changing." "Times were passionate, and so were we." "You don't see that any more." "Pour me one, too." "Pour your own." "A gardenia today..." "Thanks, Mr. Bura." "Did you see that?" "But I didn't hit him right..." "Did he ever yell!" "That was great!" "Yeah, it was..." "But I've got to spend my money better." "Just buying brand-name stuff gets boring." "And I don't want to hang on to money old men give me." "Yeah, it stinks." "I was into those antique dolls once." "I paid two million yen for one." "Two million?" "But the eyebrows started to look like something from a horror film, so I gave it away." "That's awful!" "You're not into brand names, are you." "I guess not." "Maybe I'm more interested in who makes the stuff." "Like a designer?" "Once in New York, someone in my class brought in a soccer ball and gave a talk." "He asked if we knew who'd sewn the ball." "Depressing, depressing, depressing!" "No, it's not!" "It's not!" "250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 work." "So now I don't buy things like clothes or carpets without wondering if children are being victimized." "Manners and forms change with the times." "Your aesthetics are out of date." "And you're a happy-go-lucky old cow." "You have gotten old." "What's wrong with that?" "Men and women have different pressure points." "You feel good and bad in all the wrong places." "There's only one place I feel good..." "Here, here?" "Put your logic aside and just feel!" "I don't understand that." "Hey, you know what?" "I sang arm-in-arm with a Ko Gal today." "Yeah?" "The Internationale, two part harmony!" "You sure?" "It was "Rad!"" "Not "intercourse" or "inter-continental"?" "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation..." "The riot police beat you up for your singing, not your politics!" "At least try to sing it right!" "Arise, ye prisoners..." "Hey, put on The Internationale!" "Let's go!" "I don't know you!" "What will you do there?" "Study." "Too much work!" "No it's not!" "It is!" "Not for an entrance exam, for me." "With a teacher who sees a student's talent." "No such thing!" "There is!" "Friends I can talk about life with..." "And no parents, that's what I want." "I can agree with half of that." "Half of it!" "Hey..." "Let's go see Raku!" "Lisa, come here." "I'm going." "Come up here." "Set me free!" "Okay, I'm going." "What?" "I'm going to see Raku." "What?" "I'm going, I'm leaving now." "I'm leaving." "Free me!" "I'm going!" "Lisa Togo, wait up!" "Raku!" "Raku!" "Raku!" "Bye!" "I always want to be friends with both of you." "There still isn't enough money." "Yeah, running out of money in New York..." "Means poverty!" "So we'll help if you run out." "Friends provide proper after-service." "I want to think you're doing well." "That's right!" "That's very important!" "You know how to use money." "Take all of this." "Yeah, you know better than we do." "Okay?" "And you spent all day with me." "Lots of great things happened to me today." "Me too." "Lots!" "So will you two stay friends?" "What?" "Huh?" "Come on!" "You're both important to me." "If you're fighting when I report in from New York I'll have to say everything twice." "And international calls are expensive." "What?" "I'm serious!" "It's a problem for me if you two don't get along." "Too bad!" "No, no!" "Yuck!" "Why?" "I'm kidding." "Lisa, keep quiet." "Who are you?" "The money." "What money?" "Everyone quiet down, this girl's caused us trouble!" "Stop it!" "The money..." "What money?" "Jonko!" "Jonko!" "What are you doing, Lisa?" "Jonko, are you okay?" "Where's the rest?" "That's all of it." "140,000 from the hotel, and 800,000 from Roppongi." "It was 140,000 and 400,000." "There's no mistake." "No mistake." "Does it hurt?" "Are you all right?" "Jonko?" "You two come with me." "We're together." "What?" "The three of us." "Um..." "I hate to ask, but could you keep away from the center line?" "I'm feeling sick." "Or maybe right over the line?" "No, it's okay." "I'll be fine, thank you." "I was with Saki at Bar Che." "I started to sing and she left." "Identify this girl." "She's a friend of yours?" "She is all right." "She'll live, but her left eye..." "Does anyone know her?" "She's got no ID, and her friends all took off." "Who did it?" "We're investigating." "Anyway, it's either Vice Squad or Juvenile." "He was attacked." "It was self-defense." "You call that self-defense?" "It's Maru!" "Maru who?" "She's Maru Yazawa." "Maru Yazawa..." "Did you hit her?" "She tried to run." "He walked up and slugged her!" "Oh, well..." "Can I tell you what's happened?" "No." "I made her do it." "No, damn it!" "Maru..." "Maru..." "Maru..." "Maru..." "One girl hurt is enough for today." "However..." "This is your last warning." "Got it?" "What about the money?" "It's not all here." "Give them the 540,000 yen." "Say they'd spent the rest." "What if they argue?" "The girls are telling the truth!" "Civil servants get rich padding expenses!" "Look!" "Look at the bills!" "400,000 of them are brand new!" "He was out with some construction company people." "That's a bribe they gave him!" ""Here kid." "Go play in the toilet!"" "If the Ministry complains tell them I'll pay the rest when he cleans out my toilet!" "Enough about Maru." "Don't be so broken up, Raku." "I'm not." "It's sad, but it's not a funeral." "I'm not!" "I haven't seen you look sad for a while..." "I'm not looking sad!" "Can't you put off leaving?" "It's a non-refundable ticket." "The foam-spitters are all asleep." "The foam-spitters?" "What?" "You idiot!" "What an idiot!" "But..." "Dumb!" "That's so dumb!" "Foam-spitters!" "What?" "You're so dumb, Jonko!" "But Oshima's so cheap!" "He could've given us all of it!" "But I'll be okay." "This is about 1,200 dollars." "I can manage on that." "We could make 600,000 yen easy in two more days." "You could buy a new ticket." "There's lots of places you could stay." "Yeah." "You can get a ticket for 100,000, can't you?" "Yeah." "Why don't you stay longer?" "For a year, I've been looking at this ticket telling myself I've finally decided to leave home." "It doesn't matter how much I take." "The point is that, on this day, with this ticket I leave for New York." "I think I understand what you mean." "I think I do." "You do not!" "I do!" "Well, I don't understand." "Well, you're the only one who doesn't, then." "Jonko, you're a moron!" "I am not!" "You are!" "What do you mean?" "I know that with your help, I could make 500,000 yen or more." "But then another week, and I could have a million." "Or two million if I waited a month." "That's how you think." "Money's like that." "You never know when you've got enough." "This plane departure time decides it for me." "Until this day, I played the good daughter." "But after this I'm on my own." "Watch me!" "Lisa..." "What's this?" "A funeral?" "What, in English?" "Did Lisa die?" "I'm not dead!" "Let's follow it!" "Shall we?" "Come on!" "No way!" "What's going on?" "What's that?" "It's an octopus." "It's an arrow, not an octopus." "Come on!" "Stop that!" "I'll get you!" "Lisa!" "Lisa, Lisa..." "What's all this?" "Sorry about that." "Who put all these here?" "They're over here, too." "And over here!" "They're everywhere." "Are they all for our Lisa?" "Were these here before?" "Wow!" "Huh?" "This way!" "Lisa, it says, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa!" "Look, it's incredible!" "Come on!" "Here!" "You're all over the place!" "This is weird..." "This is Saki's panty-shop up here..." "She sent me on that video shoot yesterday." "What video?" "Yesterday?" "The panty-shop?" "Housewife's urine!" "You're kidding me, right?" "This is the talent scout!" "Isn't that him?" "I know him!" "The "you are my destiny" guy?" ""Miss Destiny," he calls me." "Look at him!" "Wow!" "Maybe he's even stupider now." "That's the guy who helped us at the video shoot!" "Video?" "The video shoot?" "The guy with the extinguisher!" "That was him?" "No!" "Lisa!" "What a coincidence!" "You..." "Hey, what are you guys doing here?" "We're friends!" "They're my friends." "These two?" "Don't look like that!" "Anyway, who cares?" "I come here sometimes for a chat." "About what?" "Like, who sent Lisa on that video shoot and what happened back there..." "You gave her shit?" "No." "You lie!" "Saki was mad about it, too." "She got your money back." "She said I should go to the airport to give it to you." "I said I'd rather do it here." "What?" "Really?" "You got it all back?" "350,000 yen?" "No way!" "Why would I lie?" "350,000 yen!" "Look!" "Wow!" "You got it back!" "Here you go." "What's this?" "That's for her uniform and something from me." "How much?" "500,000." "It sold for that much?" "Well, with the extra." "Great!" "You're rich!" "Did you buy it?" "Well, yeah..." "I thought I could live with it until the owner comes back." "Wow, Lisa..." "This is the best Saturday I've ever had." "Ever." "You're right." "We're on fire!" "Let's burn some more!" "More fire!" "More fire!" "Hold your hands out." "No, like this..." "Bye bye." "My nose..." "It hurts." "Mine too!" "Good luck!" "Thanks!" "Thanks!" "Good luck!" "Thanks!" "Bye bye!" "Good luck!" "Lisa!" "I love you!" "I'm sorry!" "Bye!" "Good luck, Lisa!" "Lisa!" "Lisa!" "What's wrong with you?" "Oh, Lisa..." "You're crying your eyes out!" "So are you!"