"ANGRY STREETS Ikari no machi" "Directed by Mikio Naruse" "You certainly are a good dancer." "You're much lighter on your feet now." "I guess that's because I'm a girl who takes the lead." "Ah, it's the same as my age." "You must be tired." "No, I'm fine." "Oh!" "What is it?" "I don't have the chit for the coat check." "You put it down here before." "I did." "Some guy took them." "He gave me the chit." "Was there something important in the bag?" "I had my tuition money in it." "That's terrible." "On top of everything else, it was a friend's bag." "I don't know if this will cover what you've lost, but you can take it." "Don't do that." "I can't accept that." "Don't worry." "Just take it." "I can't." "Why should I take what's yours?" "Let's not talk about that." "Think about how I feel." "I'm sorry" "Hey there." "That was quick." "How was it?" "What did you get?" "This is a top of the line watch from Longines." "This is a good one." "This will get you 10,000 yen at the very least." "You were able to come up with this because you followed my script." "Yes, it was a nice little drama you came up with." "And hunting dogs never eat the catch." "You're calling me a dog?" "No, I'm saying that you were a good actor." "That's all." "Of course, an actor has to be an actor all the time." "And you're an evil genius." "But what are you going to do?" "You're talking about her?" "I guess I won't be seeing her for a while." "I can't get too involved." "That's right, you can't." "OK, then I'll see you at the Telabia tomorrow." "Take care of the watch, will you?" "I'm getting more and more used to working with the school uniform on, too." "You don't think your family is on to you, do you?" "Don't worry." "What about Masako?" "She's smart, and that makes her scary." "Masako, it's about time to get your Grandmother ready for bed." "Yes." "I'm going to put the bedding out, Grandmother." "Yes, thank you." "Is your brother still out?" "Yes." "He's been coming home late every night these days." "I wonder if Granny ever thinks about how we make ends meet around here." "She thinks we're living on your pay." "Really?" "But what's really something is Shigetaka's band." "He learned the piano just for fun, but now he says he's making 10,000 yen a month playing in the band." "It seems too good to be true." "Grandmother would be mad if she heard about it, so don't mention it to her." "Yes." "That must be Shigetaka now." "Welcome home." "Hello, mom." "Sorry I'm late." "You must be tired." "Grandmother, I'm home." "Oh, hello there." "You're late, aren't you." "Yes." "The class meeting went late, and I just couldn't get out of it." "You have to get up early tomorrow, though don't you." "You'd better get to bed." "Yes." "Good night." "Are you hungry, Shigetaka?" "I sure am." "That's good." "Anything will taste good to you then." "That's fine." "How many people are in your band?" "It's never more than ten." "You've got a lot of courage to be playing piano in front of people for money." "A student band is just a part-time job." "It's no big deal to hire someone to play in one." "I'd like to see you play sometime." "I'm not a soloist, so I have to go wherever the band goes." "Mori-san isn't back yet, is he?" "What?" "No." "Did he quit school?" "No, he's probably just taking some time off." "I guess things must be tough for his family, too." "It looks that way." "Times are tough for everybody." "I'll go and get something for you to eat, OK?" "Yeah." "Mori-kun!" "Mori-kun!" "There's a student government meeting today." "You guys should come." "We're going to talk about working students getting jobs." "Something came up suddenly and we can't make it." "You two always say that." "You guys are members of a privileged class." "For you two, work is just something for others to worry about." "All you guys have to worry about is getting to and from school, but some of us have to work to pay for school." "OK, then, we'll make sure to come to the next student government meeting." "Make sure you do." "Yeah." ""Privileged class"?" "What a laugh." "If they saw us in action, they wouldn't believe their eyes." "What do those guys do for money?" "They run around the platform at the station selling stuff off trays." "Newspapers, magazines anyone?" "How about some ice cream?" "Peanuts!" "Sweet beans!" "Matches, cigarettes!" "In other words, it all comes down to what you have up here." "There are even students who are lending out tens of millions of yen." "You're talking about the president of the Hikari Club?" "He's a hero of our times." "We're intellectual athletes." "That's right, intellectual athletes" "Excuse me." "May I?" "My date didn't show up." "I was waiting for her." "Oh my." "So I hope you'll excuse me, but I'd like to have you for the rest of the evening." "I'd like to have you all to myself, too." "Please allow me." "You're very light on your feet, an experienced dancer." "My name is Miyabe Kimiko." "Mine is Shigetaka." "Much obliged." "That's all." "Thanks." "Are you two from T?" "to University?" "Yes, we are." "We're upper-classmen" "It must be hard working like this." "I get home at night and sit at my desk and fall asleep." "It's difficult, I know." "But this gets us more money than selling lottery tickets or something." "How about some lottery tickets?" "Win a million with just ten yen!" "Get your lottery tickets!" "Lottery Tickets!" "Win a million yen!" "One ticket is just ten yen but you can win a hundred times that!" "Mori-san!" "Hi!" "You live around here?" "Um, yes." "Are you still running your dress-making shop?" "I got married." "I've never been so happy." "Well, that calls for congratulations." "Does that mean that you aren't going to be seeing anymore?" "I've grown up." "I don't have any use for that boy anymore." "Is he still up to the same old tricks?" "Just what you set him up to do." "Maybe that's what he said." "But the truth is that I'm the one who got angry and left." "There's something I want to ask of you." "What is it?" "I want you to tell him about this." "The guy at the watch store was a tough customer." "He told me "It's not your watch anyway" and threw it back at me." "But in the end he gave me 14, 000 yen." "14,000 yen is still quite a bit of money." "I can finally pay my tuition." "I need a few books on international law and my mother says that she wants to get a gravestone for my father as soon as possible." "It's been tough coming up with the money for a gravestone." "Sounds like things are tough for you, too." "Well, let's just change that one step at a time." "Ah, that is good." "It's a little bitter - like Tsuneko's tears." "I can't believe you're saying that." "In our business, you can't have feelings." "This is the only way Messrs. and Mori, to build our fortune and continue our studies." "You mean we have to do what we can to get through the rough times." "Speaking of which, I ran into some trouble today." "What happened?" "I ran into the girl who payed for your clothes." "Paid for my clothes?" "I'm talking about Midori." "She wanted me to tell you something." "Oh, you mean the one we got 20,000 yen from?" "She said that she'd grown up and didn't need a boy like you anymore." "She was just a stepping stone to bigger things." "What did you come up with today?" "Miyabe Kimiko." "She's a butcher's daughter." "A butcher's daughter?" "Yes, nouveau riche, too." "How far did you get with her?" "I got as far as making a date to see her tomorrow." "Take her to quiet place." "Play the beginning like you always do." "It seems strange to be out walking freely like this with you." "Why is that?" "It feels just like it did when my father was still alive." "We still hold on to the old customs and ways of thought." "It's a sad contradiction." "Is all this a dream?" "We had to give up everything to pay the property tax" " even the money for our day to day expenses, not to mention the money for school." "My mother and grandmother are the daughters of nobility, and their social lives are filled with baronesses and dances with viscounts." "They're always talking about court life in the old days." "What you're telling me sounds like a beautiful novel." "I want to know more about you." "Why don't we sit down over there and you can tell me more." "My Grandmother was a noblewoman, a daughter of an elite family." "My mother is a daughter of an earl." "If my father were alive, he'd be up for a cabinet post now." "That's a shame." "My father just came into a million yen." "He'll probably have to pay that much in taxes, though." "Everyday, a big stack of two-hundred yen notes piles up at our place." "But you have so much pride." "But that's all that's left to us now." "You should stop worrying so much." "I can use much money as I like." "It's hard for me to accept money from a woman." "I wonder if there's some way I could get you to take a gift from me with a light heart." "There's a friend of mine who thinks it would be a good idea for me to put on a party, but that costs money." "A dance party?" "Yes." "I'd sell tickets to my friends, but there's still a lot of things you have to pay for:" "a band, staff, printing the tickets - things like that." "There's no way I can come up with the money for it, even if I know that I'm going to come out ahead in the end." "Please let me help you." "I can give you all the money you need for your party." "But " "I don't care." "I'd be happy just thinking that you were making use of something of mine." "When you say that it makes it more and more difficult." "Stop worrying about that." "How much money do you need to put on that party." "I'm not entirely sure - I'd have to ask but my friends who put on a lot of parties say that if you have 50,000 yen you won't have to worry about anything." "Are you sure 50,000 yen is really enough?" "I think 50,000 might be too much to ask for." "What do you know?" "That's nothing for those people." "Besides, it's just money that they made off the black market anyway." "But still, trying to get 50,000 yen in one shot might be a little dangerous." "I suppose we could give her a little discount." "Would we put on a really nice party?" "Don't be stupid." "Be satisfied with running off with the expenses." "You're a fine piece of work." "I know I always say this, but I don't want you to get too close to her." "Don't worry." "All I'm after is her money." "I'm not going to ask for her body, too." "Ebisuya Pharmacy" " Drugs" "Dear, this is awful!" "What's wrong?" "Kimiko has spent 50,000 yen." "So?" "It's her money." "What's the problem?" "This is your fault." "You're not strict enough with her." "Don't barge in here and start yelling like that." "Calm down and tell me what's going on." "When I went to put money in the bank, the teller told me" ""I see your daughter quite a bit these days." I asked why, and he told me that Kimiko has taken out 50,000 yen just in this past week." "She's probably having some clothes made." "She comes to me when she wants clothes, so I don't think it's that." "The suit she had made a while ago cost 29,000 yen." "I nearly fainted!" "With that girl, everything she does these days has one more zero in it than you figure." "You sure have changed a lot lately, Kimiko." "How have I changed?" "Even your clothes have changed." "I just can't wear the same thing all the time." "I'm really into dancing." "Is that right?" "I've even made a friend doing it." "He's a university student." "It can't be that interesting for you to hang around here." "Why do you say that?" "My mother said that that was the impressión she got from talking to you." "She would say that, wouldn't she." "And about that little arrangement we have," "I think we should make that perfectly clear." "My mother says that it would be better if I talked to you myself about it." "I get it." "No need to say more." "Do you really?" "I guess there's no need to go further into it." "Well, it feels good to have that all settled." "But I still want to be your friend." "That's fine with me." "The promises we made during the war mean nothing now that it's over." "Even I don't consider them to be important anymore." "But I can't just stand by and watch you destroy yourself." "That's all." "Are you going to watch over me?" "Uh, but of course you're free to do as you wish." "We're being punished." "It's fitting in a way." "Think about what we've been going through since?" "mori burned." "That's exactly why I wanted to let Kimiko live freely and do as she pleased." "Kimiko's not the only one you like to indulge." "What about that café girl you spend so much money on?" "You spend a huge amount of money to keep her mouth shut." "Quiet!" "It's unseemly to argue over money like this." "It's only 50,000 yen." "Kimiko's not a child anymore." "That may be so, but some guy has got his hooks in her." "Who is it?" "I don't know." "That's why I'm worried." "But before you do anything you need to find out who he is." "You're saying that it's my job to find out?" "Well, who would be good?" "What about that guy who worked undercover for you?" "Detective Kurinori?" "What about Doigaki?" "That will never work." "That guy's too wimpy." "But he's going to be Kimiko's husband some day." "Haven't you figured that out yet?" "No matter how good he is for you, Kimiko just doesn't like him." "Maru-san!" "Yes?" "Would you ring the house for me?" "Kimiko, where are you going?" "To the Ginza." "How much money are you taking?" "About 3,000 yen." "So what did you do with the rest of the money?" "What do you mean "the rest of the money? "" "Show me your bank book." "My bank book?" "Just show it to me!" "It's my money." "I can do what I want with it." "Even without any thought for your parents?" "Such talk!" "What do you think is going on, Mother?" "Playing dumb, eh?" "Come on, just tell me what you're doing." "Well, Mom, even I have to make investments for my future." "It's an unavoidable expense." "Even so, what does such a young woman need with so a much money?" "I don't know if I'll succeed or fail, but there's no way of knowing unless I give it a try." "Well, see you later." "Kimiko!" "Don't you have a partner?" "No, I don't." "If I'm good enough for you, I'd like to dance with you." "Were you waiting for someone?" "Yes." "He's a friend of mine." "Was that your friend?" "I'd like to put on your party soon!" "Yes, it'll be any day now." "Drink up." "Thanks." "Your friend is popular with the young women I see." "What does he do?" "He's a student." "He glides across the floor." "Is he a dancer?" "He's good isn't he?" "I've heard that he's the son of a duke." "Aren't you going to introduce me to him?" "Not tonight." "We don't want his girlfriend to get jealous." "I guess you're right." "But don't forget next time." "I'm looking forward to it." "Madame, shall we dance?" "Excuse me for a moment." "Hi there, Jy?" "ji, it's been a while." "No, it hasn't." "So you were alive after all?" "You idiot." "What are you looking at?" "Who's that guy?" "Who?" "That handsome boy?" "Yeah." "They say he's the son of a duke or something but but he never dances with any of us, so I don't know for sure." "Are they always together?" "Yes, these days they are." "So he goes after the young and naive ones." "What's up?" "Shall we dance?" "It's been a long time since I have." "Sorry to keep you waiting." "Not at all." "You want one?" "Thank you." "To tell you the truth, I have something a little unusual to talk to you about." "Now tell me, does it cost money to get into dance halls?" "Dance halls?" "You must go once in a while, right?" "I don't dance." "Really?" "For a young person these days, that's pretty surprising." "I guess you don't know anything about dance halls then." "I do know a little about them." "You have to pay to get in even if you don't dance." "The ones I've heard about cost 300 yen for admissión." "Admissión?" "That means that just to get in the place costs 300 yen, even if you don't dance." "That costs more than the moving pictures!" "That's true." "My salary wouldn't last long if I hung around in those kind of places." "I'll give you the money." "You want me to take you to a dance hall?" "No, that's not what I'm saying." "I want you go there and check something out for me." "Yeah?" "To tell you the truth, Kimiko has been going to the dance hall quite a bit these days." "I'd like you to find out what kind of guy she's hanging around with." "Has something happened with Kimiko?" "No, no." "You know parents, always worrying about every little thing." "You have to be careful." "There's someone after you." "Who?" "The dancer was calling him Jyoji." "What should we do?" "I think you should stay away from the young girls for a while." "Who am I going to go after then?" "I have something tasty lined up for you." "What are you saying?" "The woman I was dancing with tonight." "She seems like a real Bourgeois Lady." "She said that she ran a dentist's office in Nishi Ginza, though it seems her maid does all the real work." "A middle-aged woman, eh." "She's a middle-aged woman who has mastered the arts of deception." "How far do you think you can you get with her?" "What are you talking about?" "Women are women." "No, she'll go after your body first." "But once she's had you, she'll get tired of you pretty quickly." "That's why you can't give in to her or your desires." "If you do it that way, she'll give you all the money you want." "I see." "So he's some kind of punk kid." "Yeah, he's the kind of guy who tries to look so elegant that he wouldn't kill a bug, but he hits on inexperienced girls." "I don't want you to hurt him." "We're talking about Kimiko here." "Who knows what she'd do if something happened to him." "In my business, it's not good to let things slide." "At any rate, I want you to keep quiet about this." "This is just a small sum for your troubles." "Yoko!" "YOKO Hello." "Get a bicycle ready." "I was looking forward to dancing with you like this." "That girl you were dancing with at the Telabia?" "Is she your girlfriend?" "She's the daughter of someone I know." "Is she rich?" "Uh, yes." "Did I touch a sensitive spot?" "I didn't mean to." "No, I just remembered something silly." "What do you mean 'silly'?" "It's something embarrassing." "Hey, it's you isn't it, Doigaki?" "Mori!" "I wouldn't have expected to meet you here." "This is the first time I've seen you since we got back to Japan." "What have you been up to?" "I've been getting by working in an office." "How about you?" "I'm still in school." "I came here to introduce someone." "Did you come here with anyone?" "I'm looking for someone." "Are you married?" "No, not yet." "What about that girl whose picture you always used to carry around?" "The situation is all different now." "Her family has lots of money now and she isn't interested in a penniless office worker." "What business is her family in?" "They're butchers." "Butchers, eh?" "What was her name?" "Kimiko." "Miyabe Kimiko." "She told me: "Doigaki, you don't dance." "That makes it hard for me to be with you."" "Women are like water." "The more you bail, the more water comes in, and the more you give women, the more they want." "Don't get too depressed about it." "There are as many women as there are stars." "It's not that simple." "I'm very worried about the direction she's going in." "It's just like in the books." "She's going to be cheated and thrown away." "I'm afraid of what she'll do once that happens." "I don't mind being poor and I don't care if I get anything in return, but I'd at least like to preserve her honour." "I like getting guys like you to drink more." "I can't." "I'm afraid of what I might do if I have too much." "I don't have so much experience with drinking." "Try it." "I'd like to see you look scary." "It'd be better than that sad face you have on." "Are you thinking about that girl now?" "My family owes everything to her." "I have to dance with her because of that." "There's no way I can say no to her." "I know how you feel." "I had just remembered that and was feeling sad about it." "I'm always carrying that around on my shoulders, so I guess it's not that unusual for me to think of it." "When someone hits that spot, it hurts." "Sorry about that." "I was concerned." "That's why I asked." "Come on, cheer yourself up." "Oh it's you." "I didn't notice." "This latest one you have me with really wears me out." "Are you drunk?" "She talked me into drinking, and she was really laying it on thick." "She came at me with an all out frontal attack." "It was really tough to find a line of retreat." "I have to keep fighting my instincts." "What's wrong?" "The world is smaller than we think." "What happened?" "Did the woman who gave me the shoe money swat you this time?" "The guy I was talking with at the dance hall tonight was the guy I was closest with at the front." "What about him?" "I knew something bad would come of this." "His financée was a butcher's daughter." "He's really stuck on Kimiko." "That's your problem, not mine." "Women are just business to me." "But I'd like you to stop seeing Kimiko." "OK?" "Out of the question!" "That one's still within reach." "She wanted to show me her bank book." "We can get even more money out of her." "Oh." "This is from Tagami." "It's your fee for introducing me to her." "Hi." "Hello." "Shigetaka?" "What?" "Grandmother is waiting for you." "What's going on?" "She has a letter some girl sent to you." "A letter?" "Yes." "Tokio-to Meguro-ku Nishi Akebono-ch?" "6-4-3" "It's indeed possible that you were introduced to her on a special occasión and that you two got to know each other after that." "I'll grant you that." "But you haven't answered the letter." "I'm happy that you haven't answered her letters, even if you've risked angering her" "But she mentions a watch and a bag." "What's all that about?" "I don't know myself." "She must have gotten my calling card mixed up with someone else's." "And one more thing:" "do you go to dance halls?" "I've never been to such a place." "I see." "And I don't suppose you've even been tempted by something as effeminate as dancing." "No." "I want you to believe that Shigetaka plays in a band and brings in his money that way," "but can he really bring in that much money just playing the piano?" "What do you think he's doing then?" "If Mori were here he could tell us." "I don't want to tell Grandmother that I'm working part time, so it was really difficult to come up with an explanation." "Tsuneko was someone who was introduced to me at a party." "Please stop worrying about me." "I haven't seen you in quite a while" "Yes, indeed." "When did you get back to Tokio?" "Wha- uhm...a while ago." "My brother won't tell me anything about you." "I thought I might find you if I went to your apartment." "I see." "Do you see my brother these days?" "There's something I've been dying to ask you." "Do you know what my brother is doing?" "What he does?" "He says that he plays piano in a student band." "That's not true is it?" "That's what I thought." "Who would hire him for his piano playing?" "Have you been seeing him all this time?" "Yes." "My brother said that he didn't see much of you." "Why don't you come visit us like you used to?" "There's no special reason." "You've changed completely." "How have I changed?" "Did I lose weight?" "What about your brother?" "Has he changed too?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's because I see him all the time." "Who is it?" "It's SUDO." "Hello there!" "Come on in." "Have a seat." "I'll be done with this soon." "Four hundred thousand yen is a bit too much for me." "It has a bit of colour in it." "That's how much the coloured ones go for." "But I want it." "If it were pure white, it would get you four hundred fifty thousand with no questions asked." "I guess we're talking three hundred thousand." "Who is it?" "It's Tokunaga." "I got something in last night." "What was it?" "Don't worry about him." "Cute isn't he?" "What do you think?" "What is this?" "I don't want anything dangerous." "Thanks anyway, though." "I'm only asking for a one-twentieth part." "You can make ten times what you put in." "Thanks, but no thanks." "If you" "Madame, I thought you had more guts than that." "I'm not going to let you come in here if these are the kind of deals you bring me." "No need to go into it." "I think I'll be leaving." "You two, I have a guest today, so I have to hurry." "I'll take what you brought in." "See you again sometime." "Thank you." "I showed you a part of my life I usually don't show people." "It's my sensitive spot." "That's it." "I get this stuff from all over." "It'd be pretty serious if you got caught." "That's right." "It's not the best business to be in, but the money is great." "What do you think?" "Are you interested in this kind of thing?" "It sounds thrilling." "I guess we're on the same wavelength." "May I have a moment?" ""You've changed." "Why don't you come over and visit like you used to?"" "Sorry." "My leg is bad." "Thanks a lot." "We're selling these things on the street to raise money for school." "Help us out!" "Glassware!" "Everyday necessities!" ""Yamazaki Shoes"" ""Why don't you come and visit like you used to?"" ""You've changed completely."" "Hi there." "Our little act has taken a dangerous turn." "She kissed me." "What's wrong with you?" "I've had enough." "Enough of what?" "Of what we've been doing - even if we are making a little extra money doing it." ""A little extra money? " It's more than that to me." "We don't have any choice but to do this." "You're still naive." "I used to be afraid of you calling me naive." "I didn't want you to scorn me." "That's why I was pretending to be more immoral than I really am." "So that means you've lost to me." "Is that what you're saying?" "No." "You and I are completely different types." "What kind of person are you saying that you are?" "Today I met your Masako." "My sister?" "She told me that I had completely changed." "I'll tell you the kind of person that I am:" "I'm the kind of person who'll flip over when someone says something like that to him." "A con man?" "No, I was just a beggar following you around." "You're not going to double cross me, are you?" "I wanted to." "You're just an opportunist." "I'm through with that kind of game." "I want to be a financial wizard while I'm still in school." "Just you wait." "I'm going to do it." "You'll see." "Yes?" "What are you doing here?" "Grandmother" "What happened to her?" "She died suddenly." "How?" "She had a stroke." "Is that right?" "She should be happy." "That's a good way to go." "Masako-san, this is such a shock." "I'm not sure what I can say to comfort you." "I can't believe we're giving her a funeral like this for her." "Don't worry." "You can channel your sadness into all the little things you have to do for the funeral." "When I die, I don't think you're going to cry for me, are you?" "Mori is here." "Is that right?" "This is from Tagami." ""Condolences, Tagami"" "I see." "This will help." "This was unexpected." "Take some for yourself." "No, I can't take any of that." "You don't have to be so formal." "This is something to celebrate." "She finally got out of my way." "I got a lot of money for the funeral and on top of that, another obstacle has been cleared from my path." "SUDL- kun,putalid onit!" "But it's true." "The best she could do for me was keep her mouth shut and get out of my way." "That's just a cold, hard fact." "Thanks for coming all this way." "I'm sorry it had to be for this." "Shigetaka owes you so much." "That can't be true." "It's the exact opposite." "I heard you were living in an apartment." "It must be difficult." "Yes, it's pretty hard for a person living alone." "Oh." "I thought you were living with someone." "No, I'm not." "Mother, don't pry." "I'm really sorry." "Well, make yourself comfortable." "Listen, my old lady doesn't know a thing." "I felt like she was being sarcastic and that made me nervous." "At any rate, I just want to put a stop to this monkey business." "It's a bit naive of you to think that you can just quit like that after profiting so much from our little business." "I knew you'd tell me that someday." "I'm not criticising you." "I've made plenty of money off your ideas, you know." "Sorry to keep you waiting." "There's something I want to tell you." "I hope I'm not interrupting anything at work." "I told them I'd be out for a while." "It's like this:" "I would think of something evil to do, but I never the courage to carry my schemes out." "I'd tell SUDO-kun instead." "But when he heard my schemes, he'd do whatever it was right away." "He probably never looks back at what he's done." "When I see him like that, I sense danger." "In order to put the brakes on him, I'd come up with something even new, something even worse." "There was no choice but to fight evil with evil." "That's what's been going on between the two of us." "I still don't know what you're talking about." "You couldn't even imagine what we've been doing." "Why?" "Are you dealing on the black market, or dealing drugs?" "No, I'd come up with the plans and he'd carry them out." "In other words, I came up with a way to make money off of SUDO's good looks." "So you're - women?" "Rich women are more than happy to give your brother money." "Is my brother playing with those women?" "You could say that, but we promised each other that we wouldn't take advantage of women physically." "What?" "Do you think that anything is acceptable as long as you don't take advantage of women's bodies?" "We treated it like intellectual sport and we got good at it." "Didn't you say that you thought up the plans and my brother carried them out?" "That's right." "I used the money to rent an apartment, pay my tuition, and buy schoolbooks." "And we used that money without knowing where it came from." "Why such a long face?" "I don't have a single regret." "I don't either." "I'm glad to hear that." "You're going to marry me, aren't you?" "So you're here." "SUDO, you broke our agreement didn't you?" "Promise?" "There isn't any agreement between us now." "So Kimiko was here?" "I guess you figured it out." "I ran into her in the Ginza." "That woman has some strange habits." "She kept putting her body against mine." "But I want more of her money." "I had to use my ultimate weapon." "Are you going to marry her?" "You must be kidding." "I'll be vague about the date until she uses up all the money in her bank account." "Let me tell you something:" "the women whom I take advantage of deserve what they get." "If it weren't me, it would be someone else sometime." "SUDO." "I'm going to follow your example." "Do you have a mark?" "I do." "Who is it?" "Masako." "Ha." "She doesn't have anything." "I'm not after money." "Then what are you after?" "I'm going to do what you did to Miyabe Kimiko." "Do you think you're up to it?" "I am." "Well, if you are, try it and see." "Don't you care?" "If you do what I did?" "You don't care?" "I'm going to make your little sister into a toy." "You don't care if I do that?" "You're really terrible." "I've got more important things to do than this." "I'm going to get in with Tagami in her black market business, make it grow, and become a company president." "Golden Star seems like a good choice." "Yes." "Would you place our bets." "Don't forget, it's number seven." "Sure." "Remember, it's number seven." "Are you with the Madame?" "What's your horse?" "Golden Star." "You think that horse is going to win anything?" "Come with me." "You could get money out of that woman." "She trusts you." "We could make a lot of money." "I got some drugs in." "What do you think?" "You want in?" "It took you long enough." "It was crowded." "Gold his making his move." "It's Gold!" "It's Golden Star!" "We've hit the jackpot!" "Excuse me if I've mistaken you for someone else, but are you waiting for a Mr. SUDL?" "Who are you?" "So I was right." "I'm someone who has seen your relationship with from the beginning." "There's something I want to talk to you about." "I'm thinking of getting married." "I wanted to talk to SUDL- kunaboutthat." "SUDO-kun has forgotten about you already." "But he" "He has his hands full with a little nouveau rich girl Bourgeois Madame." "Listen, if you carry on with SUDL, he'll just make you unhappy." "You should forget about him and consider the merits of your marriage talks seriously." "You have understood what I've just said, haven't you?" "May I ask your name?" "I'm Mori." "Excuse me." "Come on." "Let's drink one for Golden Star." "Why do you drink to a horse?" "OK, then, we'll drink to you, in hopes that it will blow off that melancholy that hangs over you." "You know, why don't you stay here for four or five days?" "Just you and me and nothing else, right next to each other." "Tagami-san." "What is it?" "There's something I want to talk to you about." "About what?" "It's difficult for me to be always taking money from you." "Why are you worried about that?" "It was just spare change." "Why worry?" "Where there's money, there's more money." "It's like wet cloth, the more you squeeze it, the more comes out." "I want to be your partner in your business." "Are you saying that you're not satisfied just being my date and dancing partner?" "No." "As you know, things are difficult for my family." "Since I began seeing you, that rich girl has broken off with me." "Sorry." "I didn't pay enough attention to that." "It's not much, but I can put in 100,000 yen." "If I sell my mother's and my sister's diamonds,I think I can get that much." "I'd like to put the money into your business." "Well..." "I'll think about it." "But you know, I can do that job because of who I am." "You have to have to know where to get the merchandise and the information." "You also have to be trusted." "And besides, you can't do anything with a hundred, even two hundred thousand yen." "Just leave the money-making to me, why don't you." "Let's drink." "Tagami-san, I'm serious." "I really need to get in." "Please hear me out." "I'll work really hard." "I'll do what ever you say." "Please." "No." "I don't want to talk about that kind of thing now." "Come on." "Drink up." "Why do you drink it like that?" "It's not medicine." "I don't think you know what a woman is, do you?" "Sorry." "You're home early." "Did something happen?" "Mother, you've been going out a lot lately." "Yes." "You don't look so good either these days, Mother." "Do you think so?" "You always look tired." "That's because I am." "Are you working?" "Well, to tell you the truth, I've been working." "Doing what?" "I knit socks and sell them on the street." "Why didn't you say anything?" "Because I thought you'd try to stop me if you knew." "But you can't make much money at all doing that, can you?" "One pair costs 120 yen wholesale." "My markup is ten to twenty yen." "They go for 170 to 180 yen in the shops." "It's not much, but there's a little money there." "I can't believe someone like my mother is selling socks." "It's nothing at all." "A lot of other women sell socks." "Don't trouble yourself about this." "And don't tell Shigetaka." "Why?" "It would be better to tell him, don't you think?" "No, I don't think it would." "He has so much pride." "Masako, let me buy you a blouse." "You really want one don't you?" "Mother!" "Hello, front?" "Is this the front desk?" "What?" "She left?" "Did she leave a note?" "No?" "I was just coming to see you." "About your brother?" "My brother hasn't come home the past couple nights." "Where do you suppose he is?" "Can you tell me?" "My mother is so worried." "If it's OK with you, we could go somewhere and have something to drink." "Sometimes I get the feeling that my brother is doing something really terrible." "When I imagine what he's doing, it makes my skin crawl." "I think your brother is with an older woman right now." "Is he trying to con her, too?" "No need to worry." "I think he's the one who is being toyed with this time." "My mother goes out into the streets to sell socks every day." "He doesn't know about it." "Your mother?" "Are you surprised?" "You and your mother put me to shame." "When I listened to your story the other day," "I thought you were a really terrible person." "And that made me feel terrible." "Mori-san, my brother might be some kind of a monster." "He won't change on his own, and he's unable to take advice from others." "Mori-san, you're" " I still have hope for you." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Masako, I pledge to you:" "I'm going to see just what sort of a person I really am, whether I really am bad, or whether I'm someone you can rely on." "I might be out of line to say this, but I think there are many many people out there whose lives are more difficult than ours." "But in this world, the number of good people is ten - one hundred - times as large as the number of bad people." "It's the same with decadent versus the hard-working and honest." "Masako, I'm going to see how much of my virtue is left." "What do you want?" "I'm SUDO." "The Madame is out of town." "She said she wouldn't be back for a long time when she left." "I see." "Please excuse me." "I was just wanting to see you." "Give me a minute." "About that deal I was talking about." "The other side has to leave the country soon." "I can't do it right now." "Didn't we make a deal?" "I was away for a while." "Well, it doesn't matter." "There is someone else who says he really wants to do it." "Whether you or the other person does it doesn't matter to me;" "I'll make money either way." "There are plenty of people who want in." "Can't you wait a little?" "I don't want to put you in a difficult position." "I suppose there's no reason why I couldn't wait another day or two." "I have a source for the money." "I'll give you a call as soon as I get it." "Well, I'll be waiting for you to get it." "Don't forget to call." "I'll say this, kid:" "you sure have a lot of guts." "Welcome back!" "Are you surprised to see me?" "I bribed the super!" "This is trouble." "This is isn't my place, you know." "Mm, let's get a place of our own." "Yes, let's." "You're going to marry me, right?" "Of course!" "But, it's like I'm always telling you:" "my family is really old-fashioned." "It will take time for them to accept our love." "I was thinking about that, too." "Especially since I'm the oldest, my family will want to impose a lot of conditions to insure the stability of the house." "Well, what should we do?" "I'm just explaining why it's difficult." "I should have been more serious with you." "But I don't think there was any way for us to avoid doing what we did." "Even so, I'm just a student now." "I brought something." "This is all I could withdraw for now." "I can bring the rest by tomorrow evening." "Ah yes, we could meet at the dance hall." "I'm sorry." "I apologise from the bottom of my heart." "I can't do anything for you even if I love you as much as I do." "Don't worry about the money." "I've listened to what you've said." "Mother, why don't you trust me?" "That's all slander." "My marks at school are really good." "If I were really living such a decadent life, how could I be doing so well at school?" "I don't need you to bring in even one sen." "You can just focus on your studies." "My professors are working to get me a scholarship." "There's nothing to worry about." "If you really need money for school, we can sell the house." "Now that your grandmother is gone, we don't need such a big place." "To tell you the truth, I've been wanting to talk to you about that." "About what?" "I have a plan for the future." "To put everything into action, I need a big lump of cash." "I'd like to borrow against this place." "But what are you going to do with the money?" "Please don't ask me now." "I'll explain it to you after things take a little shape." "But if you borrow money, you'll have to pay a lot in interest." "No, I'll be able to pay it back right away." "That's the least of my worries." "Well, this place is yours now." "If you need the money, I suppose..." "Shigetaka!" "If you really need the money, then tell us what you need it for." "If you use the money from the house for something bad, it'll be the ruin of all of us!" "But Masako, we do have to think of the future." "If something happened so that we couldn't pay the mortgage," "I'd feel as if I'd let your grandparents down." "Mother, I'll take that to mean 'no'." "Shigetaka!" "Hello." "Is this the Fukudas?" "Excuse me, but if I could trouble you to call for your daughter, Miss Tsuneko?" "Yes." "My name is SUDO." "Yes, please." "So you'll believe me?" "To tell you the truth, I'm in a really tight spot right now." "My family wants to marry me to a rich girl for the benefit of the family." "It's going to take a lot of courage to say no." "You might be surprised to hear this all of a sudden, but the woman I really want as my wife is you." "Please give me courage." "As long as I have your love..." "Me?" "So you do love me?" "Yes." "But I need more than your word." "Show me your love for me." "SUDO-san, please stop." "Please!" "No." "Wait." "Wait." "SUDO!" "You!" "Aren't Miyabe and Tagami enough for you?" "What about it?" "Didn't anything I say get through to you?" "Do you remember seeing this?" "I was the one who stole that at the dance hall." "It was all an act that the two of us put on." "Ha!" "There are plenty of bags that look like that." "It's your choice whether to believe me or not." "If you'd think about things for a second, you'd know right away how worthless this guy is." "Wasn't it you who wrote all the scripts?" "That's true." "Don't ask any questions, just get yourself out of here." "I take final responsibility for all this." "Why don't you quit this business with me?" "No!" "You think you know who I really am?" "Did you know that your mother is selling socks in the street?" "I don't have a family any more." "SUDO, I beg you." "Think things over." "You know the president of the Hikari Club?" "Matsudo?" "We were wrong about him." "Don't be stupid." "I'm not going to kill myself." "That guy was the exact opposite of me and my bright and shiny life." "There have been a few kinks in my plan, but I still have plenty of hopes." "I'm going to meet Kimiko now." "I'm going to squeeze the money out of her while I still can." "You're going out now?" "Yes." "Hey!" "Why?" "Wait!" "SUDO!" "Get out of my way!" "Come on." "Quit!" "Say you'll stop." "Say you'll quit." "Say you'll quit." "No." "Why should I stop?" "How about if I do this?" "You still won't stop?" "Come on SUDO, tell me you'll stop." "Haven't you understood what I've been saying?" "Come on." "Tell me you'll stop." "SUDL!" "You can't change my mind." "Even if you kill me I won't quit." "That handsome boy isn't here yet, is he?" "I think that girl is jealous." "Is your name SUDO?" "Who are you?" "I'm going to cut you up!" "Miss, it's time for you to go home." "The guy you're waiting for will never show his face here again." "Who is it?" "Is it you Mori?" "SUDO." "They got me good." "From the beneath my eye up to my ear they put in 11 stitches." "It's my fault." "Forgive me." "If I had been able to stop you that time." "My storefront sign has been ruined." "I'm going to have to change my business now." "I'm thinking of a way I can make money off my scar." "I don't want to hear about it." "It's a mistake to think that something like that will stop me." "I asked them to call you because I needed a guarantor for the hospital." "I won't trouble you with the bill or anything." "Doesn't it hurt to talk to such much?" "There's something I want to ask you." "Make my family happy." "I don't want my mother to have the slightest worry." "Shigetaka!" "Mori-san." "What's happened?" "What should I do?" "If I can't save him, how can I save myself?" "Mori-san, pull yourself together." "To live honestly, to save my brother we have to work together." "Translated by:" "Guy YASKO"