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Are we still partners?

Were sitting next to each other for the first time today.

l know too weal that man can hardly control his passion.

Partners should never get emotionally involved with each other.

| visit some “Triends” once in a while

| don’t know any of them.

And fm not interested fn them elther

5 there’s no need to make any decisions.

Who's to die, when, where—

| ike people to arrange things for me.

You're Ming, aren't you?

Remember me? My name’s Hol.

Don't you remember me? | was always number one in grade school.

if my Mercedes hadn't broken down, | wouldn't have run into you here.

you Stil have classmates from grade school around

Every time | run into them,

What kind of work do you do?

Give me your card so we can keen in touch.

That would be great. Always lookin’ to make a buck.

Your own business? That’s worth breaking your back fort

Don't tell me you can't find a girtt

What's this— your wife's black?

| mean... smart move! Black grows on you.

Your

skin color’s different,

Hey, are you insured?

Maybe you can heip

me out

ve been in the business over ten years.

but i'm rated the top insurance broker in all Southeast Asia

I'm being interviewed by the newspaper in a few days.

For old

work out the best pian for you.

You never can tell.

God forbid, but what if something should happen?

it’s not just for you.

| see you travel a lot for work.

If not for yourself, think about your wife and little boy.

| often wonder if any insurance company would insure a professional kifer.

but | wouldnt now whom to name as beneficiary.

Remember that girl with the big boobs? The one we were both after years ago?

We're getting married next week. Here’s an invitation.

Come a little early. rfl write up the policy for you.

A few years back, | paid a black woman $30 to have her picture taken with me,

And the kid in the picture—

| just bought him an ice-cream cone.

but | know very weal it’s not my kind of scene.

can tell you a lot about them.

ffs

as

Find out too much about @ person and you lose interest.

I'm the practical

l know how to make myself happy.

No, he hasn‘t come back yet.

You telling the truth?

- You live here? - Something wrong with that?

Have you seen this person around?

Don't come out yet.

The cops are still here.

You rub elbows with a lot of people every day.

Some strangers night become your friends or even contidants.

But | know very well these cops wil never be my confidants.

My name is Ho Chi Moo.

| wes prisoner mamber 223.

I haven't seen him in days. ll let you know when he comes back.

I saw him come in. You'd better tell the truth.

I'm a happy man.

/ wes very tative when | was small

Ratt at age five, | ate a can of pineapple that had expired

and | stopped talidng.

For that reason, I have very few friends.

| found it very hard to find work too.

| finally decided to be my own boss.

Having no capital the only thing I can do

is sneak into other people's shops alter hours

and run my own busiiess.

/ just think it makes sense, since the rent’s already been paid

lf you want to do business,

each customer's needs into account

Buddha said "f | don’t descend into hell who will?”

You can't just look to your own gain.

l know very weal there's no such thing as a free lunch,

So | always work very hard

untd the wee hours

| don’t make a lot of money, but fm happy.

Are you nuts? Why should | let you wash my clothes?

I'm a beggar. | don’t need laundry done!

Are you nuts? Keen your hands off my clothes!

Give me back my clothes!

You can't make me bury Iti

I'm single. What would people think?

Not even if they're free!

This ts huge! Are you out of your mind?

l washed my hair yesterday.

| just came down for a late snack.

| give up. Do whatever you want.

| really don’t want a shave.

i'll pay you, okay?

rm coming in.

Hello? It’s me. What are you doing?

I'm having some ice cream.

Uh, no, it’s more than a scoop or two.

| don’t know how much more rl have to eat.

No, it's not an eating contest. Of course Il have to pay!

Yeah, but this guy won't let me...

| don’t know how to expiain, but it’s the truth.

Come see for yourself if you don't believe me.

No, | can't eat that!

What if my mustache catches on fire?

This isn’t funny anymore.

Why are you doing this?

| didn't tell you to bring the whole family.

The kids have to go to school tomorrow.

ai

Has anyone in Hong Kong ever died from too much ice cream?

i'll pay you, okay?

Name a price. rfl buy it all. Please.

but | think this family is having a great time.

When | was ttle, an ice cream truck would stop by my house every day.

Once | asked ny dad why he didn’t drive an ice cream truck

my mother had been run over byan ice cream truck

He worked as an assistant at the Chungking Mansions Hotel

He's rarely talked since my mother died

No more ice cream, of course.

Why are you being so nice to me?

You even bought me ice cream.

You should know | don’t lie loe cream.

it’s bad for my health. Gives me the runs.

Open this doort

What are you doing?

I'd ike to leave a message.

| get it. It’s clear.

| just wanna make sure the addrece was correct.

it was a fast-food store, not a barber shop.

You may think we must be making a lot of money.

Sa, once in a white

| moonlight in the financial field

Li 2 abt 4 lection

I'll get you the money.

l don't know wy, but [ve been injured a lot lately.

knowing when | woke up the next day, lid have to make a decision

Two weeks after | was injured lashed to see her

/ wanted to tell her my decision.

But | didn’t show

I'm sure she'll look for me here in the next couple days.

| know that because we've been partners for so long.

SO she can trace my actions and whereabouts.

She's become part of my life

| desperately want to tell her that | want to quit,

So [ve devised another way.

A woman may come asking for me

in the next few days.

Please give her this coin.

Tell her 1818 is my lucky number.

The number of one of the songs in this julebox

[t's ie losing ail direction

he’s Eee a inife in the heart

May | sit here?

Come on up.

Sure you don’t wanna come up?

Come and get it.

it won't dry out tonight. You'll have to stay.

ll take it to the cleaners for you tomorrow.

Hey, I'm talking to you.

Why are you ignoring me?

Looks nice. Sull fits you weil.

Why all the questions?

What are you doing?

What do you want from me?

What are you doing?

Don't let me stop you.

Guess wity | dyed my hair blond.

To make

it’s pretty special.

You're making fun of me.

| mean it. You're very special.

- Someone told me that once before.

- Who?

We were together for some time.

| had long hair then.

You called me “baby.”

if you like me now, it’s fine.

| didn't say that.

| just wanted some company.

Just for the night.

Maybe you'll like me better tomorrow.

Get out or I'll clobber you!

What did you want to tell me?

You wanna get married? Sure! I'll marry you.

Give me time to send out invitations.

You're a sly one!

You sent me an

A n-walting? How interesting

| want to call and congratulate her.

Give me a dime. You got a dime?

| know you're there.

Stop pretending you're the machine.

You know what? if you don’t taik to me,

you'll regret it the rest of your life!

You're marrying him?

| shouldn't have asked you to pay his electricity bill.

Now you're getting married?

You filthy bitch! He doesn't love you.

He just wants a son bom in the Year of the Pig— this year!

You got pregnant by another guy and told him it’s his child.

rm waming you: Next time | see you, ['m gonna push you down the stairs!

You got that?

Hello? Hello? I'm not finished yet!

Hower G

{for

That bitch! She took the phone off the hook

| don't want anyt

Let me cry on your shoulder.

girl seems to turn up wherever | go.

I'm fine now. rll pay you back nexct time.

| wish | could tell her some problems can't be solved over the phone.

You meet the guy face to face anid talk & out,

Of, If that fails, you punch him in the nose.

Too bad | couldn't put it into words.

But she seemed to somehow

Come out if you've got the guts!

'm gonna burn this place down on the count of three!

| think we got the wrong floor.

Blondie, come on out! | know you're in there!

'm gonna burn this place down if you don’t!

Let's try the nexct floor.

Are those gray hairs real?

At my age? Of course they are!

Looks like a faded blond dye job to me! How are you related to Blondie?

| don’t know any Biondie.

Her real name's Situ Hui Ling. Ring a bell?

is she your chick?

Or Situ Hul Ling? You look a lot alike. Have you forgotten?

= Think hard. = | don’t know her.

After a while, | started to wonder che even lnew where Blondie fyed

’m tired of this game.

Why is everyone covering for you? Where the hell are you?

I'm a nice person. Why doesn’t anyone help me?

It’s not fair. What kind of world is this?

| don’t wanna play this game anymore.

You must be sleeping with everyone. You must have sient with her too.

What a crazy world. How am | gonna find you?

Bitch! You've got the whole world on your side.

You slut! How dare you show your face!

Yourre finished!

I'l mop you to deathi

How can you be so cruel

Hey, get your face out of the food and watch the door!

Biondie could walk in any minute.

She used to come here for dim sum with her pop.

Never mind. rll just spell it lice this.

Ls ee

“1, Situ Hui Ling, aka Blondie, am ugly and inadequate.

I hereby retum Mr. johnny Kwong to his rightful gisifriend, Charile Young.

| will have no more relationship with him.

This will serve as proof.

Our signatures are binding unto death.”

Her old man can serve as witness. rll get a picture of them together.

- Your name is Blondie too? - Shut upl

is your name really Blondie?

They say women are made of water.

Most people fall in love for the first time as teenagers.

| guess ['m a late bloomer.

When | looked at hes, | suddenly felt Mice | was a store.

Without any warming, she suddenly enters the store.

ldont

The longer the better,

, Of COUTSE.

You never wash your feet or socks or hair.

When did you dye your hair blond?

| started to find myself more handsome and charming.

And suddenly | discovered

/ wes turning blond.

A lot of people don’t understand when my father speaks Taiwanese.

(t's actually Telwanese with the infamous Ruscian accent

Hello? Chungking Mansions Hotel.

the itallan team Sampdoria came to play in Hong Kong.

| went to the game with Charie.

Did they really expect a miracle?

You know why | came?

| was the one hoping for a miracie.

johnny is a huge fan of Gullit.

| was hoping he’d see me on TV.

He promised me he'd come!

So why didn’t he?

| realized that she

/ wasn’t sure this would apply to her and johnny,

but | thought & might

A few days later, | asked her to go to a second match

| thought what she had with Johnny would eapire Soon.

But as &t turned out,

As the lights of the stadium went dark,

| realized she wasn't gonna Show.

/ also began to realize my past behavior

had been very irresponsible.

| shouldn't have taken over other people's shops,

This realization had a profound effect on me.

Am | making you stay overtime?

What's it cost to open a place like this?

You have money?

| was just wondering what it costs to open a place like this.

Do you have a million?

When you live in a suitcase, you don’t need a place of your owm.

| had to start planning

for the hnure

That night, I had a nice chat with the manager.

He even

should | ever apen my own shop.

How much money do you have?

| stayed away from that bar for some tine,

partly because | didnt went to hear song number 1818.

But there are some things

you can’t escape.

Ive never returned to that restaurant since that night.

Wishing you good fortune and long Wife to reach the heavens

Best wishes to you

Your dad's fine. Don't worry about me.

Soon itl be your birthday.

I'm sorry | can’t come home.

Sato-san fs a real family man.

He was a film director before he opened this place.

So he always communicates with his family by making a videotape.

1'm sure his son must be very happy

to receive his videotapes.

Sometimes | want to try the same thing.

But | don't know who I'd send my tapes to.

| don't want to end up sending them to myself

You whom | hold in my heart

Why did you leave my side

| miss you with all my heart

Hurry back to my side

1 can feel the same happiness as his son on receiving his father’s tape.

I've got nothing to say. went to got slese

Later that night, | discovered Dad secretly watching the tape.

bad at details,

but | remember vety weal that & was his GOth birthday.

He kept laughing as he watched it. Who knows what he found so funny.

But | know he was happy.

When you've worked with someone for a long time,

he can have a certain effect on you.

l knew that fragrance very well

lust wasnt used to smelling kt on another woman.

This suit fits me we

But | think it’s shin

kao itt

| never liked this fragrance all that much.

This afternoon | emelied it on another woman.

She wants to see you very much.

| set up a meeting for you with her.

You should go. That way you could clear things up.

Then again, it’s even better if you don’t go.

Opts

The yellow ones, not the red.

/ wonder what they said to each other

It's raining so hard. How will | get home by myself?”

he returned to my side.

it would be so great

rm not coming up.

Then why'd you wakk me home?

You should have let me come hack alone!

| was thinking of coming back by myself anyway.

Why did you do that? Think it'd be easier on me this way?

You're crazy!

| never want to see you again!

Not mel | never agreed to anything!

| asked you not to see her, but you did. Now what do you want from me?

Give me your arm.

Can't | leave you a memento?

But my face is easy to remember. I have a mole.

If a woman with a mole on her face comes up to you on the street,

Yes, | will.

L 9 | remen har f or?

[mn fust a stopover on the journey of her life.

hope she reaches her destination soon

and finds a man who really loves her.

We afl need a partners.

Are we still partners?

| didn’t now how to answer that question.

| had come to look at partners from a new angie.

But she wasn’t the kind of partner you could spend your Mfe with.

I'd like to terminate our business relationship.

Do me one last favor, will you?

Maybe because it wes the lect time

I want to place an advertisement for my friend.

On the front page.

5 there’s no need to make any decisions.

Who's to die, when, where—

| ike people to arrange things for me.

| don't know it’s a good decision or not,

One evening, Dad wasn’t feeling weil

| took him to the hospital

He passed away a white later.

All these years, I've always fet ie a iittie boy because of him.

He was someone | could always turn to, someone to solve all my problems.

Packing up lis stuff that evening,

| feht ike a grown-up for the frst time

But | don't wenna be a grover-up.

/ sure wish Dad could always be with me!

When | left the hotel the videotape wes al | took with me.

| watched it over and over before | left

19 never taste his steaks again,

[8 never forget how they tasted

1 be damned

I'd love to be your customer.

Did | ever say no?

Look at me! How do | look? Don't touch me!

My wife has gone to China.

Give me three hours. | promise fll be back on time.

it’s a deal. Two hours and rll be hack.

Come on, trust me. We're old friends now, aren't we?

it’s a small world. We keep running into each other Two hours.

You have my word. We're brothers, right?

You want & usitten in biood?

lh you an them all of— / won't be able to go out in publict

Hurry and come down.

it must have just been bad fuck

Soon after Dad died, Sato-san returned to japan.

Since | didn't have much in savings,

| could only do what fm best at

being my own boss.

But | was very cautious this time.

| tried to pick the stronger SOps.

Ones that wouldnt get [nsrt easily.

Like this one.

its equipment was mostly steel

At times fd run ito acquaintances.

Some hadn't changed much.

/ wes always glad when | saw them,

| ran ito my first love again.

But she seemed to have forgotten me.

it was cold that evening.

l hadn't epected winter fo come $0 S00n,

as

Y

[ve gotten used to life

without a partner.

don't usually have ficed partners.

[ve grown more Cautious.

/ won't make their beds anymore for eample.

that the best partners

don’t get emotionally involved

You rub elbows with a lot of people every day.

Some strangers night become your friends or even contidants.

So | never turn my back on a Chance to rub elbows

That night, | ran into that woman again.

lknew very well we'd never be friends or confidant:

We'd had too many chances to nub elbows in the past.

We had rubbed elbows til our clothes tore, but still no sparks.

but that evening | felt a spark

As | was leaving, | asked if he'd give me a ride home.

l hadn't ridden on a motorcycle in a long time.

Actually, | hadn't been thet clace to aman fora while

The road wasn't that long,

and | new 'd be getting off soon.

Transiation and Subtitles by Captions, Inc., Los Angeles.