Government soldier!?
l'll shoot!
Government soldier!? l'll shoot!
Hey, you alright? You were almost dead.
You pervert. lt's getting up...
My camera had caught a man's fate at that very moment...
And yet, now look at me...
--Prime Minister! --Prime Minister!
There's opposition within your own party to your drug reform bill...!
How do you feel about the aggressive call for a Cabinet decision?!
Out of the way, you!
The prime minister is busy!
--Prime Minister! --There a reason for the rush?!
What're you doing?! Quit that!
Damn you...!
Talk about boring...
Your picture, that is...
''Episode 1: Corrupt City'' lt's been over a decade since the worldwide economic ''Bubble War''.
Under the banner of global standards, the wealthy grew ever wealthier
and the poor grew helplessly poorer.
The world's winners gather in the city of Tokyo...
Here, there are no desires that money cannot fulfill.
Money, money, money...
As they gained possessions, people also forgot the important things.
This town has nothing l wanna get on film...
No! This isn't the true me!
My true self...! My true dance...!
Who are you?!
My name is Kokubunji; we spoke the other day.
You agreed to see my daughter today...
l was hoping she could be your pupil...
Let me see you dance.
Go on, Kozue-san!
R-right!
No! No! You're too stiff!
Be more flexible! Like rubber!
T-that hurts...!
More! More!
lt hurts! lt hurts!
Please stop, Shirogane-sensei!
Someone...! Someone call an ambulance!
What a joke.
Yes?
Why hello, Suitengu-san...!
Certainly. l have yet to finish dancing tonight...
Seriously, Saiga!
Do you how much it cost to pull some strings for you?!
l don't really remember asking you to bail me out...
Ugh...!
Say, do you know a Senator Nakano?
Yeah, the Welfare guy who's against this drug reform bill?
Yup.
Apparently, he's asked for a big increase in personal security.
Guess he's gotten himself into some trouble...
Hey!
So you see, l have all kinds of expenses...
Think l can get this month's fee?
And l'll just pretend l didn't see this...
OK?
What gangster would pay protection to a cop?!
Damn you...!
That was self-defense, just so you know.
Damn you--
Don't make me self-defense you...
This feel...!
This aroma...!
This suppleness...!
THlS is the true me!
W-what the...?!
Who the hell're you?!
What the hell?!
Bastard...!
W-wait...!
Don't kill me! l'll pay you whatever you want!
lsn't that Senator Okubo...?
Man...
They all had their heads twisted off...
That's enough, Saiga.
You're obstructing the investigation.
See, my info WAS right...
But you're always excited when you take pictures, huh?
You pervert...
Hey, you're on duty.
You don't need to work, you know.
l'll take VERY good care of you...
Think l'll pass...
Hey!
l'll take this, then. Come to my place and l'll give it back...
This ain't funny, Ginza!
Saiga. You can't get a passport.
There's no escape from this country, or from me.
Run...
...and l'll kill you.
Hi! Saiga!
Saiga...!
Listen to this...!
Saiga...!
What is it, Bob? Your boyfriend dump you again?
Yeah! That fucker had another man!
Jimmy, was it?
Charlie!
l wish YOU would take me...!
Sorry, men can't marry men in Japan...
Saiga!
l'm on the ball...
This is harsh stuff...
The former Welfare and Labor minister and the Drug Board director
slaughtered during a secret hotel meeting...
So now five opponents of the drug reform bill are dead.
Yeah...
Looks like there's a big mastermind behind all this.
You up to trackin' him down?
lncidentally, about that secret club stuff...
Oh, that?
Some secret club only very select members of the wealthy can join?
Yep.
l hear it's a place where any desire can be fulfilled for the right price.
Even if it happens to be illegal...
You sayin' that's related to this case?
That's what we're findin' out.
When the Vice-Minister of Welfare was murdered last week,
l found something when l checked a photo that had been taken nearby.
Belongs to Roppongi Development, a subsidiary of the Tennozu Group.
Tennozu?
The one that put that huge building smack in the middle of Roppongi?
Yep. Real estate, construction, financing, information networks...
They're a huge conglomerate that bought out all kinds of corporations
to mature into a powerhouse capable of influencing Japan's economy.
And the ''right-hand man'' of the group's empress, Tennozu Shinsen,
is this man...
Roppongi Development Director, Suitengu Choji...
Rumor has it that he's also leader of the secret club.
What a crappy photo...
l wouldn't say that.
He NEVER shows himself out in public.
Even that photo there is the only one we got of him.
But this secret club's very existence is almost like a city legend.
No one knows about it. And there are no clues whatsoever.
No...
l've already found one...
Next stop, Saiga, Saiga!
Clear departure!
You rarely order soft drinks...
Yeah, l'm still at work.
But to think this would be such a perfect location...
But isn't it dangerous to take secret photos of senate lodgings...?
l'm just watching.
lt's the same thing.
Say, l hear you took the picture on those posters?
''Are you happy?''
Oh, that?
l don't do PR shots.
Someone just happened to wanna use it...
Thanks, Barkeep.
Sure. Please watch your step.
l was cleaning around there when the floor suddenly crumbled
and a big hole opened up.
This whole area is pocked with holes
because of ''geo-fronts'' or something or other...
They should just turn this into another subway.
What?!
Damn!
ls this--
So that's how it is...
What now?
Yeah! That's in the direction of--
Did you forget something, sir?
Just transferring to the subway line.
Sorry! Move my car if a cop shows up!
An air vent...
lt's deep...
They're all expensive cars. Looks like l hit the jackpot...
l'm so excited...!
Yes, l hear there's a Goddess Ceremony today!
Yo. We meet again.
You...!
Sorry...
There lS a subway...?!
l know they need a way to stay hidden, but a private subway line?
This has gotta be some organization...
--Certainly not... --That's just rumor.
Whoa...
When did they build something like this right under Tokyo?
So this is it...
Damn perverts...
Senators, bureaucrats, celebrities...
Even with their masks on, l seem to recognize 'em all...
Suitengu!
Which way?!
l lost him...! lt's like a maze in here!
What is this place...?
l welcome you, our club's select few,
to this banquet of fantasy and pleasure.
Suitengu...!
Tonight, another who wishes to receive the Goddess' blessing
and attain ultimate pleasure has appeared before us.
Will he be able to obtain happiness,
or does the fate of a cruel death await him?
Are you prepared?
Pleasure is truth! Pleasure is life's all!
A life devoid of pleasure is the same as death!
Goddess! Bestow your blessing unto this valiant man!
This is it...
l've found it...
My photographic subject...!
Seize him!
Photographing this secret club is a grave sin.
Moreover, intruders into the Goddess' holy sanctuary deserve--
Death! Death! Death!
Death! Death! Death! Death!
Death! Death! Death!
Stop!
Pull that man away from the Goddess at once!
My ceremony...!
Why, Kagura...?
He can't possibly have the Euphoria Factor...
An immediate death to the intruder!
l'm all jittery, like a horse's tail
Someone comes from afar
and softly chants, ''Oooooo,'' while reading a thick book
l'll try asking him
about the future you bear
even though he probably won't know either
l wish the morning sun would just burn away
but the clock that announces the start of the new day would stop too