Original subtitles

Dreaming of the metropolis

'CHINPIRA / TWO PUNKS'

Dreaming of the metropolis

l, a loner, flew in

with only my silk loincloth

Great Tokyo, the metropolis

Gold and silver neon waves

what're you Iooking at?

what d'ya want?

we don't want you doing this here.

Doing what? what do you mean by that?

what the fuck are you anyway?

what are you doing?

He was doing acid.

So sorry. Everything's under controI.

Let the underworId peopIe handIe such affairs.

Stay out of such affairs. You're a rooky.

Do it eIsewhere, bastard!

Up there.

Go on.

Hey. wanna bite?

Produced where?

Born where?

In Shikoku.

A Tosaite, huh?

You've got the Iooks.

CIean up the fIoor.

where the heII

are you from?

I'm asking your birthpIace?

Come on and get it

Born in Taipei, Taiwan

Riding over gold and silver waves

They arrived in the port of Moji

Messing around in Moji

They missed the first train

The second train was completely full

The third train had no floor

They were packed on the fourth train

They arrived at Hakata Station

Buy up, buy up

Compared to ones seen at baths

They're bigger, they're bigger

A bite of these black bananas

Makes all women, young and old, glad

Buy up, buy up

Buy up

300 yen, 200 yen

Buy them now

All right, 50 yen

where're you from?

what is it?

Short tempered, huh?

Sorry.

No need to apoIogize. It's okay.

The boss Iikes your kind.

Michio, the counter...

Forget it. Nobody's there.

This joint's finished.

A rooky sticking his nose in.

That's why I hate country boys.

Hot headed, huh?

In this worId

if you can't attract chicks in a week

you haven't got it.

I have a bad stomach, so I shouIdn't drink, but...

You shouIdn't drink.

But that certainIy was a bad move.

Bad move?

Don't you know?

About what?

She's Matsuo's woman.

My Iegs...May I sit more comfortabIy?

Are you scared of Mr. Matsuo?

That's not the issue.

You shouIdn't mess with your senior's woman.

Stay here, untiI you save up some money.

But I think she's great.

who?

Yuko Nagasaki.

Sure, but she's not my type.

Michio, don't you have a girIfriend?

No, I don't.

Michio, how oId are you?

I'm 35.

You shouIdn't drink so much.

Stop it. I'm not a yakuza (gangster).

Don't you Iike yakuza?

That's not the issue.

I haven't got it.

There's no way I can be Iike that, Iike Mr. Otani.

AII he does is sit around.

That's cooI, isn't it?

what's cooI about that?

Good morning.

Fujikawa.

what is it?

Not you. I'm taIking to him.

Fujikawa, why can't you say a simpIe good morning ?

Didn't Mr. Umezawa greet me?

Yoichi, greet him properIy.

Can't teII whether you've got the guts or just pIain stupid.

As the manager

I don't want rookies who can't even say greetings.

He didn't speak to Yuko...

I mean, Miss Nagasaki was the one who spoke to him.

what's that?

weII...ah...nothing.

You're happy go Iucky.

Mr. Umezawa.

Yes, sir.

PIease open the cIub.

Yes, but...

wouId you pIease go do it.

Yes, sir.

I kind of understand

the way you are.

Sit down.

Have a seat.

You may not know, but

I was quite big around here.

was sent to reform schooI at 1 7.

Boss beIongs to the underworId and...

recruited me when I got out.

what's that dirty Iook?

You don't understand anything.

This is the boss's office.

Can't stand against him in this town.

Not against him, I'm standing against you.

Don't try to be fresh with me.

You don't get it, do you?

An outsider Iike you

can't survive in this town.

wait. where are you going?

I'm quitting.

That won't do you any good.

I'II taIk to Matsuo.

I'm quitting.

wait a minute.

It is aII right, Michio?

what is?

The cIub.

what do you expect me to do?

You know

I'm not cut out for this worId.

ShaII I say that's not true . Is that what you want?

You're reaIIy a bastard.

It's true, isn't it?

Mr. Otani invited me

to be in charge of the bookie operation.

Are you recruiting me?

You refuse?

No, but...

Then Iet's do it.

It'II be profitabIe.

Don't you have any friends?

I'II think about it.

You can have it back.

How come?

I don't want it. I don't want it.

FeeI better now?

Better what?

I'II waIk home.

Hey, wait a minute. wait.

I'II waIk home.

You Iisten to me.

Good night, foIks.

You don't understand.

I want you to be happy.

Sent to reform schooI, and became a yakuza.

Pick onIy on the weak. You're a reaI man, Mr. Matsuo.

You forgot something.

what the fuck are you?

why are you here anyway?

Stay out of this.

Go ahead. PIease carry on.

Take a hike, you bastard.

I'II wait, so pIease carry on.

You bastard.

You Shikoku boor.

wait.

wait.

Stay here.

If I die...

throw my ashes into the sea.

Don't be ridicuIous.

I'm quite serious.

BIood...bIood.

AII that running.

God, I'm exhausted.

A bike...shouId have stoIen a bike.

Ouuuch. It reaIIy hurts.

It hurts.

I think

I'II save money to buy a bike

and chase after you.

Get a secure Iock or eIse it'II be stoIen...in Tokyo.

I'II take good care of it.

I'II spend a year

to save money to buy it.

OId man Tanaka pay some?

None.

He bet quite a Iot Iast time.

How much?

LittIe over 200 grands.

200 grands? That's a Iot.

Big for a convenience store owner.

Can we get it back?

Of course we wiII.

ShouIdn't drink coffee.

It's not that.

My nerves...it's gastritis.

when we Iose, Boss appears in my dream and Iaughs.

The totaI Iast month was a IittIe more than 300 per head.

Not enough profit.

Better than office workers.

what if we get arrested?

One bamboo.

At times, you're such a square.

Good morning.

Shoot.

Tokyo 3rd Race

2-4, 2-6, 5-5

2,000 yen each. Yes, sir.

Yes, that hit us hard.

CongratuIations. Next?

20 for 4-6. Got it.

Too bad yesterday.

weII, we just got Iucky.

what about today?

Tokyo 5th Race...

Come on, Mr. Tsuchiya. It's aII a matter of Iuck.

Yes, Tokyo 5th Race, right?

Yes, pIease.

3-6, 4-6, 6-7...6-8.

Time up.

Got it.

1-2, 2-3, 2-7, 2-8. 100 each! You're a reaI man.

Yes, thank you.

Yoichi, cut off the power.

The Iast race was so cIose.

StiII, we're a bit in the bIack.

PIease come in.

HeIIo, ma'am.

You're weIcome.

Come in.

About 70 ahead untiI the 1 1th.

In the finaI, Mr. Kai hit us hard.

what the fuck are you guys doing?

In a case Iike that

I toId you to quit with 1 1th and pass it on to Takahashi.

we were doing weII, and got greedy.

Don't get carried away. It's your job to keep cooI.

Be carefuI.

Sorry, sir.

Excuse me, sir.

what the money coIIection?

It's coming aIong somehow.

There's a writer named Tsuchiya who hasn't paid up.

Eat it whiIe it's coId.

This dick-head.

He is reaIIy serious?

I'm afraid not.

we're trying to get hoId of him, but he's sIippery.

Yoichi, with a customer Iike this

you have to be a bit strict.

Yes, we'II work him up a bit.

A bit?

weII, a Iot.

which is it?

A Iot, sir.

Yes, sir?

Tosaites mustn't be so reserved.

Yes, sir.

Eat.

Thank you, sir.

Fireworks?

This shouId be better than fireworks.

Cops are reaIIy on us recentIy.

Getting so cIose.

You keep it.

Cops know where aII my men Iive.

Yoichi, don't just stand there. Try aiming it.

Don't point it this way.

More to the front.

You don't have to tell him everything.

You're angry.

He's angry.

He's angry.

It's not funny.

You don't understand.

Boss was Iaughing.

That's why it's bad.

what's wrong if he Iaughs?

Yuko, Ieave him aIone.

Must be jeaIous about me.

You don't know anything.

You're a yokeI.

You're caIIing me a yokeI?

Shikoku's out in the sticks.

So is Ibaragi, where you're from.

Does it stiII hurt? Is it cancer?

Go to the hospitaI?

It's getting worse, and it's aII his fauIt.

AII his fauIt?

You probabIy had cancer from the first time we met.

At that time, it was onIy an uIcer.

Becomes cancer so convenientIy.

I used to pIay sick to skip cIass in high schooI.

Yuko is an actress. A naturaI.

I'm more serious.

A serious coward.

Yoichi, who are you calling a coward?

Michio, don't be angry.

So it's a serious matter in Ibaragi.

Yoichi!

Yoichi. Hey.

Yoichi, Iook this way.

Bang.

Hey, cut it out.

Michio, you bastard.

Yoichi, you've got no manners.

You caII me a bastard?

I got you into this business.

Just trying to be nice to a middIe-age pop with no friends.

How dare you...

Say that again.

Anything you want, coward.

I don't need to be patronized by a Iow-Iife Iike you.

I picked you up.

Didn't I pick you up?

So what? So what?

I thought you were a yakuza, but you're onIy a punk. You fake.

Then quit.

Get out!

I don't need you around.

Michio! Get out!

Bastard.

Stop it.

I've had enough.

we're no Ionger partners.

who needs a partner

who's immature and jeaIous.

You don't understand, Yoichi.

Yakuza is not what you think.

To prove your IoyaIty, you have to take the wrap.

Means you have to go to prison.

And I don't want to be convict.

Nor a yakuza.

Then quit this business.

Umezawa, I trusted you to be a professionaI.

This is too much.

AII this for a mere 100,000 yen.

I wasn't hiding or anything.

I know.

No, you don't!

I trusted you because I thought you were a professionaI.

ShouId have known better.

How much?

I said I'II pay.

153,000 yen.

what the heII! Is the caIcuIation correct?

It is.

According to my caIcuIation it's Iess than 100,000.

I get my 10% refund, don't I?

Here's the beer.

You don't have to do that.

This is aII I have on me.

I'II pay the rest next time.

Let me go. Okay?

Mr. Tsuchiya, this just won't do.

when we Iose

we pay you on time in fuII.

You must keep the ruIes.

You must be aware that

you can carry on your business because of us.

Bend the ruIes at times.

You not the onIy booky in town.

You shouId take care of yourseIf.

what do you mean?

I heard you're a writer.

You use a word-processor?

I do.

Be carefuI with your fingers.

Come on. Sorry about his attitude.

He became a member of the family yesterday.

weII, we'II see you next week.

Yoichi.

wasn't he your paI?

Don't ignore him. That's not nice.

Shut up.

Good Iuck.

Eiji.

It's about Yoichi.

Does he intend to work?

How Iong has he been here?

About 2 weeks?

AIready so Iong?

It's about time he Ieft.

Can't Iet him stay forever.

But he's my friend.

A Iazy one Iike him wouId be bad infIuence on you.

No need to worry.

You fooI!

You bastard!

I hope Boss won't be angry.

Michio, is it reaIIy aII right?

No troubIe?

Don't worry about it.

ShaII we switch cabs here?

PIease stop around here.

I quit drinking, so I onIy have drinks Yoichi Iikes.

Thanks.

Here you are.

Michio, are you married?

No woman wouId marry me.

Come on. You have such a nice pIace.

I knew you were coming, ma'am, so I cIeaned it up.

Don't caII me ma'am .

I'm sorry.

Michio.

Aren't you going to be a yakuza?

It's not a matter of choice. I can't.

I'm a coward and...I'm useIess.

Besides I'm too oId and... I Ioaf around, but I'm not

much younger than Mr. Otani.

Otani is on acid.

Because he's afraid of being a yakuza.

I think you need more courage to be Iike you.

I don't think that true.

Ma'am, I mean, Miya.

Are you sIeepy?

ShaII I get a quiIt?

Can you trust them?

Don't worry. It's a very famous outfit.

Fame has nothing to do with trust.

If you so against it, I don't have to go.

Don't you want to be an actress?

Become famous and support me.

You moron.

CongratuIations.

Thank you.

what?

A gift.

Open it. Open it.

where d'you get this?

I found it somewhere.

It's Tsuwaji.

It onIy said Seto InIand.

It's Tsuwaji, my home.

Tsuwaji.

Say...

Come with me.

where to?

Just come.

It feeIs good.

Did you Iive here?

No, not here, but I did Iive near here.

In a dirty warehouse.

I sometimes came here for sociaI studies.

SociaI studies?

A weathercock.

PIease, stop me.

How're you doing?

It's been a whiIe since we Iast met.

How about a welcome back?

Got out of prison?

I hear you're

keeping Boss's gun.

Bring it over tomorrow.

StiII hanging out with Umezawa?

I'm an officiaI member of the famiIy.

The Tajima famiIy will intimidate you.

You deserve it. You fixed their Iieutenant.

Listen.

Before compIaining about others,

think of what you've done.

weII, concerning the current case, I'II put in

a word of apoIogy to the Tajima famiIy.

You think about it.

Yes?

It's Yoichi.

Oh, it's you. Come on in.

Excuse me, sir.

Did you bring it?

Yes, sir.

wait there a whiIe.

weII, I'II be on my way.

Mr. Ichiki.

Don't caII me that in front of everybody.

I have the seniority.

Mr. Ichiki, take this home with you.

No way. I gave you this for your cIub's opening.

It's okay. No need to worry.

It's not a fataI wound.

You'II die, if you move.

This isn't good.

He joined hands with Tajima, didn't he?

I'm asking you!

I think you have the potentiaI, but

you need poIishing up.

You must Iearn the basics.

why don't you study at our training center?

Let's see... the entrance fee and the tuition...

HeIIo. HeIIo.

Hi. It's me.

Yeah, sure. Just a minute.

I can get you a schoIarship,

so come visit me here.

You Iive in PaIace HoteI?

It's my workshop.

The station rents it for me.

HeIIo? Yeah. And what happened?

He wants to fuck you, right?

That couId very weII be.

Are you going?

HeII no. Are you kidding?

I don't need to stoop that Iow.

CertainIy not.

Good things don't come around so easiIy.

I envy you, Yoichi.

You have Iots of friends.

You, too. Like your actor friends.

They're aII rivaIs.

Yoichi.

won't you become straight and marry me?

I'm just kidding.

It's a joke.

where are you going?

won't be Iong.

I'm kind of IoneIy today.

I wish you'd stay.

Yoichi.

Is it Iike heII?

Like heII.

Strange. I have a pain in my stomach.

I no Ionger feeI the pain. It's numb now.

That's how it gets.

I'm going home.

Stay a bit Ionger.

I'm not in any condition to Iisten to your worries.

I'm Iess experienced. Can't be of any heIp.

Miya toId me she's pregnant.

ReaIIy?

wow.

She wants to have the baby.

This couId cost you your Iife?

ProbabIy.

why are you teIIing me?

So sorry, sir.

Boss, so sorry.

Start a new Iife?

what do you intend to do?

I want the baby.

Oh, weII, if that's what you want.

Drink it.

Here.

Yoichi, caII me. CaII me.

Daddy.

Daddy. Daddy. Sounds so good.

Father.

Father. Father.

Father.

Father... Daddy sounds much better.

Daddy.

Yoichi.

Yoichi, sit over here.

Yes, daddy.

Daddy is sad.

Yes, daddy.

I didn't bring you up Iike this.

You make me sad.

Sorry, daddy.

what is it, Michio?

Yoichi. I'm a father.

Yoichi.

How Boss?

what does that mean?

CaIm down, Yoichi.

Did he die?

I don't know.

what're we going to do, Michio?

what shaII I do?

CaIm down.

why the heII are you here?

This is no pIace for scum Iike you.

Stop it, Yoichi. Stop it!

Stop it!

Come on. Don't be so depressed.

This was supposed to be a party to ceIebrate your new start.

Hey, Iet's eat. Let's eat, Michio.

I'm reaIIy not in the mood.

Sorry about it.

Otani...when I screamed not to kick my stomach, he stopped

even though he raged Iike a madman untiI then. He Iooked at me with sad eyes.

I...

I don't want to think Otani's death was my fauIt.

I onIy wanted to be

since I was IittIe, to be a wife and a mother.

That was my onIy dream.

That's how it shouId be.

Miya and Michio must become happy for Mr. Otani's sake, too.

Isn't that right, Yoichi?

what's good about that?

Her parents are overjoyed.

They can't wait to see their grandchiId.

Good. You'II be straight.

I might have become a yakuza if I were younger.

At my age

I shouId be a Iieutenant by now.

You couIdn't have been.

First, we'II visit my hometown to see my grandma.

Maybe run a fishing goods store.

we don't have to be in hiding.

ShouId be better for my stomach, too.

why don't you become straight and marry Yuko...

You have a hometown, too.

Yuko wouId be deIighted.

I want to Iive in a pIace Iike this.

I'm so tired of Tokyo.

You know, Yuko, I can do a bit of acting myseIf, too.

want me to try?

If I can move your heart

I'II be straight.

Dreaming of the capital of glory

l, a loner flew in

with only my silk loincloth

Tokyo, the capital of glory

Under the gold and silver neon waves

Not all yakuza are men

Not all flowers are women

How did the rest go?

I forgot.

I'm not cut out to be an actor.

Be a good actress.

Yoichi.

Yoichi.

See you.

See you.

Take care.

You, too.

Michi crapped along the road

Couldn't find paper, so wiped with hands

Didn't want to waste it, so licked it up

Yes?

what do you want?

where's Umezawa?

where is he?

why shouId I know.

where did he go?

where did he go?

I said I don't know.

what happened to you?

why are you Iooking for Michio?

You don't know anything?

The other day

he was cIeaning up boss's room.

Since then, the account book, the reaI one, is missing.

It's a question of time, but...

CaII the office.

Yes, sir.

Michio.

Return it! You moron.

Return the money!

Yoichi, pIease. Don't teII them you saw me.

You bastard!

They'II kiII you.

The famiIy is dead serious.

we're going to start anew.

You truIy beIieve that?

Start anew with this money?

we wiII.

Kind of frightening, isn't it?

I think...

You're more frightening.

what're you doing?

Take off the shirt.

what for?

Just do it.

Turn around.

No tattoo on your back?

Of course not.

AII the isIanders say you have a tattoo

engraved by a famous tattoo artist when you got out of reform schooI.

From tomorrow, waIk naked outside.

Okay?

Oh, Eiji.

HeIIo.

How have you been?

Yoichi. Hey, Yoichi.

Everybody in Tokyo is kind.

The probation officer... peopIe on the streets...

The probation officer say anything?

He said I was too Ienient.

You ran away from Osaka

because it was such a frightening pIace.

I toId him that.

No need to make up stories.

Don't get Eiji into troubIe.

I won't.

Go eat something with Eiji.

Come on. I don't need it.

I can't come here very often.

Don't worry. I'II be home in summer.

You fooI. Once a grown-up Ieaves home

he shouIdn't taIk about returning home so easiIy.

Man, you're reaIIy in deep shit.

Better Iive IuxuriousIy in the country than meagerIy in the city.

Doesn't mean you can steaI mob money.

Consider it annuity for Miya.

That's buIIshit.

You...

Don't get me wrong.

wanted to shoot it once.

wow. It's far out.

Next. Michio, your turn.

Yakuza is not the only life

Beauty is not only for women

with my body less than 6 shaku tall

You're 6 shaku .

How taII is 6 shaku?

181 .8 centimeters.

wow. How do you know that?

I was in the mechanicaI dept. in high schooI.

No wonder.

wait a minute, Yoichi. Hey.

It's me. Me.

No, it's me.

Yoichi.

I found it first.

No, I did.

I have a confession.

was an airIine hostess.

Hey, I saw it first.

This side doesn't open.

Yoichi. Hey.

They'II Iet me go free if I return the money, huh?

How the heII wouId they?

Suppose I cut off a finger.

I don't think that'II heIp.

Then what am I suppose to do? I've got no choice but to run.

I'II work something out.

work something out? Like what?

we each cut off a finger and I'II go return the money.

what about me?

You're going to be a dad.

Not fair for you.

It's the onIy way.

I'II get a kitchen knife somewhere.

Don't run away.

with my body exactly 6 shaku tall

Yoichi! why did you do it?

why did you do it?

Don't fuck with us.

This is from Mr. Matsuo.

PIease drop by when you return to Tokyo.

with my body exactly 6 shaku tall

Dreaming of the capital of glory

l, a loner, flew in

with only my silk loincloth

Tokyo, the capital of glory

Below the tall City Hall

Yakuza isn't the only life

Beauty isn't only for women

with my body 6 shaku tall

l pass my days as a punk

Even l had a friend, the only friend

who was brutally murdered

Kabukicho where people wander about

Knives are drawn by hundred

To stab or be stabbed, either way is hell

Am l the only one who sees the skyscrapers as tombstones

Are you Iooking for work?

I can get you a job.

You're great. You're perfect for it.

what kind of work is it?

Can't you teII?

Night cIub business.

Night cIub?

Terrific. You're great.

where you from?

From Shikoku.

Oh, the Vatican. That's very far. But you're great. work at our pIace.

You're just the one. I promise to be good.

what the heII.

Don't try to be cute with me.

SeII me off, because I'm an ignorant country boy?

Ain't gonna work out.

I ain't that stupid.

Not onIy in Tokyo

in Shikoku, too, I've seen many of your kind.

I can rip your head off.

I'm a fresh reform schooI graduate, and I'm ready to spiII some bIood.

Can't you taIk properIy?

Shut your trap, sIave driver.

AII right here?

wait.

HoId it, mister.

You can seII me off

but pIease don't shoot me.

You've got it aII wrong.

Do I Iook Iike a yakuza?

Michi crapped along the road

Couldn't find paper, so wiped with hands

Didn't want to waste it, so licked it up

FinaIIy came.

TAKAO OSAwA as Yoichi

DANKAN as Michio

REIKO KATAOKA as Yuko

CHIKAKO AO YAMA as Miya

and RYO ISHIBASHI as Boss Otani

OriginaI Story by SHOJI KANEKO

ScreenpIay by TOSHIYUKI MORIOKA & SHOJI KANEKO

Music by MAKOTO AYUKAwA

Cinematography by ISAO ISHII

Directed by SHINJI AO YAMA

EngIish SubtitIes by Jeanette Amano