♪ (TOKYO VICE THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (TOKYO VICE THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(WIND WHOOSHING)
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (BODY THUDS)
Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck! Fuck!
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) - Are you sure it's him?
JAKE ADELSTEIN: I saw him hit the pavement.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - Maruyama-san.
Before Nakahara fell, I saw Tozawa enter the building.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - Do you have photos of that?
No. But he was there.
Fine. We'll include that detail.
Start dictating.
(IN JAPANESE) Noboru Nakahara...
- (KEYBOARD CLACKING) - (IN JAPANESE)
- JAKE: ...long time kaicho... - (REPEATS)
- JAKE: ...of Kansai-based... - (REPEATS)
MASAHIRO OHNO: Answer me.
What were you looking for in my study?
Nothing. I was curious to see where you live, where you work.
Don't lie to me.
I'm not lying to you. (CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
I'm not a stupid man.
I'm not... I think I'm gonna just...
Oh, okay. What... what the fuck?
What's on this?
Did you photograph my blueprints?
♪ (LIGHT TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SIGHS) I don't understand.
Of what use is my work to you?
My club is half-owned by the yakuza.
They found out about your project.
They asked me to get the information.
I said I would if they give me the club free and clear.
(SCOFFS) So you did it for yourself.
Yes. And for the girls, too. To protect them.
I see.
'For the girls.'
And my career gets ruined in the process.
You can sleep on the couch. It's too late to drive you home.
We'll discuss this tomorrow.
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ - INDISTINCT CHATTER)
HIROTO KATAGIRI: Gokurosan.
(IN JAPANESE) Katagiri-san.
How'd you hear?
I got a call. You?
I was in the office late
and heard the local station call it in.
I thought I recognized the address.
Witnesses?
TETSUO FUNAKI: None.
He left a note in the penthouse.
No signs of struggle.
You buy it?
(AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING)
Even thugs come to the end of their ropes.
It's not impossible.
So, Tozawa take over the entire Kansai operation?
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(NAOKI HAYAMA BREATHES HEAVILY)
(IN JAPANESE) Hold on. I need a second.
AKIRO SATO: No stopping. We keep moving.
What's your fucking problem?
My problem?
We've been walking all night in the fucking snow
with no idea where we are.
HAYAMA: You're always stressing about the little things.
We still got the money, right? So we're doing fine.
'Doing fine'?
Are you serious? What the hell is wrong with you?
Watch your tone!
- (WIND WHOOSHING) - (CRACKS NECK)
I'm your Kashira. Show respect.
(CAR APPROACHING)
Oi, oi, oi!
(CAR ENGINE RUMBLING)
Is something the matter?
My friend's hurt. We need a ride.
(SIGHS)
I'm sorry, but we don't have room.
We need a ride. I promise my friend will behave.
(INFANT CRYING)
But if you say no...
(INFANT CONTINUES CRYING)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(IN ENGLISH) Come with me.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (MASAHIRO SIGHS) - Masa-san, I am so sorry.
I won't tell them what I saw.
I'll say you caught me first, that I couldn't find anything.
Ishida will have to accept that.
And what if you do not provide Ishida with the location?
- What will he do to you? - That's not your problem.
I got myself into this mess. I'll get myself out.
There's another project I'm working on.
Early stages.
If Ishida bought surrounding properties there instead,
he could make a significant return.
But you'd still be ruined.
Maybe not. Unlike Shimbashi, this one is a private venture.
If there was a run on nearby real estate,
the owners would profit. And likely ask no questions.
If we convinced Ishida to accept this,
you could keep your club...
and I could I keep my job.
What if I could get someone I know to publish the location
of your project in the press?
Wouldn't that make the Shimbashi information worthless?
And then...
I could make my proposal of a valuable replacement.
Why are you helping me?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I know what it is to need forgiveness.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
HIROTO: Thank you for the call last night.
It was smart of you not to talk to anyone else.
JAKE: Of course.
You know there's no way that Nakahara jumped, right?
I just wish I would've gotten a picture
of Tozawa entering the building. That fucker never came back out.
I will get back to you with anything we learn.
And by 'we', you mean that female detective
who sent me packing the other day?
How's that working out?
She's like your new partner or something?
It is working fine.
Great. But we're still a thing, right?
Starsky & Hutch.
Which of us is Starsky?
Me, obviously.
I do not think so.
(SHINZO TOZAWA EXHALES DEEPLY)
(IN JAPANESE) Thank you for keeping the fires burning while I was away.
Nakahara was my father's brother-in-law.
SHINZO: Of course.
That's why you're being so sullen.
You are in mourning.
In mourning that you did not consult me.
We are on the verge of something unprecedented.
Nakahara-san was in the way.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Not that it is any of your business.
It is my business.
My family's business.
Nakahara understood the need for boundaries.
Between our legitimate businesses
and your questionable ones.
Not to mention the side arrangements
you make for yourself which threaten all of us.
I am going to go if you lecture me.
In your absence,
I have continued to cultivate relationships.
With those who will help bring your plans to fruition.
I should be the one to continue the conversation.
What are you afraid of?
That I'll embarrass your precious family?
Without my family, you would still be nothing,
as you were when I met you --
- (BANGS TABLE) - (CUTLERY CLINKING)
Enough.
I will not permit such disrespect.
Neither will I.
Enough, woman.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(NECKLACE JINGLES)
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ - (CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(IN JAPANESE) Next, I would like to explain about the suicide
from a high-rise apartment building
in 6-11-3 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku,
at around 9:20 pm last night.
The deceased was Noboru Nakahara,
kaicho of a Kansai-based gumi.
He left a suicide note. Authenticated.
There was an anonymous call made to the police
Does the building have a back door
by which an assailant could flee?
Suicide. Note. Authenticated.
Are there cameras in the lobby?
SHOICHI WADA: They weren't on.
Next question.
- REPORTER 1: Hai, hai. - REPORTER 2: Hai, hai.
REPORTER 1: What did the suicide note say?
SHOICHI: We will not disclose it in consideration
of the bereaved family's feelings. Next.
REPORTER 2: Any witnesses?
SHOICHI: The first person to discover the body was a neighbor.
Who heard a loud noise.
Your gaijin is smarter than he looks.
HIROTO: If Tozawa has returned, he must be our next target.
Agreed.
I should be able to get a thirty-day wiretap approved
for Tozawa's offices and hotel suite.
You really think it'll be useful?
SHOKO NAGATA: Maybe we'll get lucky.
If you don't mind sitting in a telecom basement
with a bureaucrat, checking every call.
(CHUCKLES)
What is it?
(DOOR CLOSES)
Several months ago, Tozawa threatened
to kill my family and me if I ever investigated him again.
I should have told you,
but there were plenty of other gum is to go after.
So I did not.
Have you told headquarters about these threats?
No.
I'm not sure who to trust there anymore.
I'll make sure your family's protected.
HQ doesn't have to know.
We'll have you assigned to a case unconnected to Tozawa...
As far as anyone knows.
After all, Detective, you're not much good to me dead.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Were you here for the press conference?
I was hoping to run into you.
We need to talk.
My team found something about the topic we were discussing.
One of my reporters has been looking into Kazushin Holdings.
EMI MARUYAMA: Hmm.
A series of corporations owned by Kazuko Tozawa.
His wife?
All legitimate businesses. At least on paper.
We found out they're a major donor
to several Nationalist political groups.
So the Tozawas are right-wingers. No surprise.
True. But..
What was a surprise, was that Baku is an active member
of one of the groups they fund.
Baku is on Tozawa's payroll?
I hate the guy, but I doubt it.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
But maybe sometimes he looks away.
Or does things behind the scenes.
Like getting rid of a videotape.
(IN ENGLISH) And it's for sure that this complex
is being built over Shimbashi Station?
Yep, I've seen the blueprints.
It won't be announced for a good year,
but that's where it's going.
JAKE: This anything to do with Ishida?
Can you just do this for me?
Are you in trouble?
(SAMANTHA PORTER INHALES, EXHALES SHAKILY)
Fine.
- I'll follow it up. - (GLASS SHATTERS)
(IN JAPANESE) Kenji, was that another highball glass?
Please try to be more careful.
I will.
(IN ENGLISH) What's up with you?
There's something I need to tell you.
Tozawa's back in Tokyo.
I saw him at his lawyer's office
and I followed him to a medical building
in Minato-ku.
I'm gonna make him pay for what he did.
I'm not giving up.
(CLICKS TONGUE) Jake, I love you for wanting to take him on,
but having a death wish isn't sexy.
We had videotape of his men killing Pol,
NO consequences.
His men beat you up, no consequences.
So, no, I'd rather not find out one day
that you just disappeared
and there will be no consequences.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (SHINZO GRUNTING) - (MISAKI TANIGUCHI MOANING)
(SHINZO GRUNTING, EXHALES)
(GRUNTS, PANTS)
(BREATHES SOFTLY)
(IN JAPANESE) Did you miss me while I was gone?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You were gone far too long.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
I am so glad for your recovery.
Thank you for your loyalty in my absence.
You seem happier, too.
(CHUCKLES)
In a way I haven't seen in so long.
(KISSES)
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(SHINZO CHUCKLES)
I was thinking of the very first time we met.
After that runway show.
Where you captivated me.
You spoke of the house you were going to buy your mother
someday.
(SIGHS)
You were kind to take any interest.
I was thinking about a trip to the mountain house this weekend.
The weather is meant to be lovely.
While we're there,
we can discuss the house for your mother.
Aren't you happy?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
In every way.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(IN ENGLISH) They know the actual location
of where their project is being built?
Yeah. My source just called me. They said Shimbashi.
Are they in the Transport Office?
No, they're... in a different field,
but I trust them.
- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) - JAKE: Maruyama-san?
Have the article ready for tomorrow's edition.
I was thinking KURIHIRA should do it.
You want to give away a scoop?
I think he could really use it.
You know, Baku's been riding him really hard.
Fine.
Oh.
And your request for your trip to America was approved.
Oh. Oh, I'm just not sure, what with everything going on,
that I should go. You know.
Jake, there will always be stories,
but you have only one family.
♪ (SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
The Ministry will say 'no comment, '
so you'll just need to bluff a little.
- I see. - Make them think
that you already have proof of the location.
You just need confirmation.
But don't say the name.
- Okay. - Okay?
Jake-san. Thank you for this tip.
We gotta look out for each other, right?
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) - You got this.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO) ♪
(IN JAPANESE) What do we tell Oyabun about Ota?
We didn't even get the 'tools.'
I may have a solution.
But if I do this, you will do something for me.
What's the solution?
I have access to some 'tools.'
HAYAMA: Huh?
Ishida told you not to get them.
You told me not to, too. But I've been gathering them.
We can say they're from Ota.
That's fucking brilliant.
You're as sneaky a fucker as me.
After we give these tools to Oyabun...
You will stay away from my brother.
Or I'll tell Oyabun what happened in that cabin.
Understand?
(CHUCKLES)
I like how you negotiate.
Could you off turn this shitty music?
- (MUSIC STOPS) & - INFANT CRYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
IMPERIAL BUILDING
(IN JAPANESE) Can I help you?
I'd like to make an appointment.
This clinic only takes referrals.
I'll get one. Thank you.
May I use your restroom?
Out the door, one floor up.
3 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) &
(DOOR CLOSES, LOCKS)
(GROANS)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
ASSISTANT VICE MINISTER: (IN JAPANESE) What brought you here?
It is no secret the city plans to build
on an existing train station.
The Ministry does not comment
until a project is announced publicly.
To prevent real estate speculation.
Yes, but I have a source that's already provided the location.
I'm doing you the courtesy --
I have other meetings. If you'll excuse me.
Hold on, please.
(ASSISTANT VICE MINISTER SIGHS)
It's Shimbashi. Confirm it.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Give me time to speak to my supervisor.
(GRUNTS)
(IN JAPANESE) Here.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
HAYAMA: Soviet surplus.
Well, better than nothing.
By the way, the gaijin mama-san, you fucked her, yeah?
Never fucked a gaijin. Are they the same down there?
(DOOR OPENS)
- Are you serious? - HAYAMA: Huh?
(IN JAPANESE) Am I being too loud again?
(IN ENGLISH) We are taking them out.
(IN JAPANESE) Kashira, can you give us a moment?
(ZIPPER CLOSING)
(GRUNTS)
Fucking bitch.
(IN ENGLISH) It was temporary.
Doesn't matter.
It isn't really my club. As you made perfectly clear.
JUN SHINOHARA: No, no. It's actually two circles
going in opposite directions.
So, let me get this straight.
You're talking about the Yamanote line
that makes the big circle around Tokyo.
Yes.
The outer track runs clockwise.
The inner track, counter-clockwise.
So, if you prefer foreign men,
we say you ride 'the outer track.'
So, I'm a foreign man.
Well...
- (CHUCKLES) - (CHUCKLES)
And if you stick to native Japanese men,
you ride the 'inner track, ' right?
(INHALES SHARPLY, IN JAPANESE) Exactly.
Good to know.
(EXHALES)
(IN ENGLISH) So, I guess you're a outer track man, huh?
Actually...
tonight was my first time on that track.
Really?
(KISSES) Thank you.
What about you?
To be honest... (SIGHS DEEPLY)
...it's been a year since I've been with anyone.
Really? Why?
I got tired of not liking the people in my bed.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Thank you.
It was a big deal for me to approach you at that party.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I haven't done that in a long time.
You have a lot of lost time to make up for.
If you can keep up.
♪ (ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (JASON MOANS) - (JUN MOANS)
(BOTH GRUNTING, MOANING)
(BOTH PANT)
- (BREATHES HEAVILY, CHUCKLES) - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
3 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) &
(DOOR UNLOCKS)
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
- (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
JAKE: So here's Tozawa's file, right?
And here are the files of four other yaks.
Are you sure they are yakuza?
Dude, you know how many fanzines I read.
I know all their names.
(IN JAPANESE) And check this out. On every file...
Liver disease.
(IN ENGLISH) 'Illness of the trade.'
We call that shokugoyo.
Yakuza live a life filled
with alcohol, shabu, and tattoo needles.
Do that long enough, and you get liver disease.
Well, it seems Tozawa has I,
or did.
It's not something they get over.
ASSISTANT VICE MINISTER: (IN JAPANESE) The Ministry of Transportation
and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government,
announce that a shopping center will be built
over Shimbashi Station.
The shopping center will contain more than twenty restaurants
and retail stores...
Did you know this was happening?
He said he was going to get back to me with a comment.
And you trusted him?
Are you brain damaged?
Now you have no story.
(THUDS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(GUN SAFETY CLICKS)
(IN JAPANESE) Everything went according to plan?
Perfectly.
HITOSHI ISHIDA: Good work.
HAYAMA: Thank you.
May we never need these.
Nicely done.
Thank you.
HITOSHI: Hayama.
Why are you limping?
(SPEAKING JAPANESE)
I was trying to keep up with this young buck.
I fell hard. Pulled something.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I'm getting old.
Sato.
Stay.
(SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(DOOR CLOSES)
HITOSHI: Take a seat.
Did you see the news today?
AKIRO: No. We were traveling.
HITOSHI: The Ministry of Transportation announced early.
Now the property in that vicinity will go for top dollar.
3 (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) &
It is unfortunate that they announced before Samantha
could get you the information.
(HITOSHI SPEAKS JAPANESE)
Or perhaps she had other plans all along.
I just received a message from her.
She and the architect requested a meeting tonight.
At the club.
I want you there.
A lesson may have to be taught.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(IN JAPANESE) Another outgoing call.
ANEZAKI: Put it on speaker.
KAZUKO'S MOTHER: (OVER COMPUTER) Hello?
KAZUKO TOZAWA: Mother. I've asked you many times.
Don't send Mugito any more money.
KAZUKO'S MOTHER: Kazuko, it's a grandmother's prerogative
to send her grandchild money.
KAZUKO: Not if his mother asks you to stop.
Non-salient.
- (KEYBOARD BEEPS) - (SHOKO SIGHS)
This is pointless.
Tozawa's clearly not using these lines for work.
So what do you suggest?
35 (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) &
HIROTO: That's Tozawa's guy.
SHOKO: Let's go.
They're using burners.
You were right.
That'll cost us two weeks of time. I'll put in the paperwork.
For?
A warrant for the phone company to issue us the serial numbers.
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
- (CAR DOOR CLOSES) - ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER) ♪
(IN JAPANESE) How can I help you?
The man who just bought the prepaid phones.
I need the serial numbers.
I can't.
It's against the law.
No.
You suspect that the phones will be used in a crime.
You are reporting your suspicions to the police.
Aren't you?
Oh, yes.
And I'd like these as well, please.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (BAT CRACKS)
(GRUNTS)
JAKE: (IN ENGLISH) Hey!
- You wanna hit one? - AKIRO: No.
I have a busy night, Meicho.
- What's so important? - I got you something.
To thank you for taking care of that kid in jail.
Oh.
- Just one? - One more favor
and then I give you the other.
(IN JAPANESE) What do yakuza do when they get the 'illness of the trade'?
(IN JAPANESE) If they have a liver issue, they die.
Nobody gives organs in Japan.
(IN ENGLISH) Oyabuns just give up and die?
I... I don't believe it.
Some try to fight it and go to Thailand.
There's a German doctor there. Um...
(IN JAPANESE) Does an infusion thing. With blood from young people.
Fucking weird.
Does it work?
(IN ENGLISH) For... about six months. Then they die.
(IN JAPANESE) Thank you.
(IN ENGLISH) Ta-da!
- (IN JAPANESE) They are cool, aren't they? - (IN ENGLISH) Yeah. Not bad.
These are too small.
(IN JAPANESE) You should have checked.
(IN ENGLISH) Hey, wait, you got a little brother, right?
Give 'em to him.
Okay.
(IN JAPANESE) But you're still in debt to me.
- (IN ENGLISH) Hey, you wanna hit one? - AKIRO: No, no, no.
C'mon, five minutes.
You should practice more. Thank you.
- RIE SATO: Akiro. - (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) &
(IN JAPANESE) Mother?
What are you doing here?
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
I have been waiting for your brother.
He has not called for days.
He will not answer his phone.
I'm sure he's okay.
Don't patronize me.
I spoke to his professor.
Kaito has been getting in fights.
He's in danger of being expelled.
I know what Kaito wants.
To follow you. Do what you do.
Akiro.
Promise me, you'll keep him out of your world.
I promise you.
How could you choose this life, these Killers,
over your own family?
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I chose them when Father threw me out.
Or have you forgotten that part?
I can't lose both my sons.
If he throws away his life, it will be your fault.
Fix this.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(GIRLS LAUGH)
(IN ENGLISH) Right? It's like this rose...
I think it's rose. I don't know. I have no idea.
SAMANTHA: Ladies, listen up.
We have a big night tonight. Important guest.
Is it Liam Gallagher?
- (GIRLS LAUGHING) - It's not Liam Gallagher.
But I do need you all in top form.
NAOMI: (IN JAPANESE) Aren't we always in top form?
Tip-top form then.
Ten minutes.
JOANNA: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
Samantha?
What happened with your architect?
(SIGHS) It's so complicated.
But I think tonight, everything gets sorted.
No more Chihara-kai.
I'm offering Ishida a deal, and if he takes it,
the club is mine a hundred percent.
Samantha...
be smart.
Yakuza do not give things back. It won't work.
It has to work.
Okay.
Let me run the floor tonight.
Whatever you need, I'm there for you.
Thank you.
- SAMANTHA: (IN JAPANESE) Everything okay? - (KENJI SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(SAMANTHA SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(IN ENGLISH) Is that how we 'look out for each other, "
Jake-san? By stabbing me in the back?
What are you talking about?
You gave me shit advice, so I would fail!
Dude, I told you not to say the actual name.
After you did that, the Ministry had to announce.
That's on you, Tin-Tin.
(IN JAPANESE) My name is KURIHIRA!
What is your problem?
I'm the only one around here who helps you.
I didn't ask for your help.
I took the exam the same day you did, and I outscored you.
Why are you even here?
Okay, KURIHIRA. Keep up the good work.
♪ (SOFT POP MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (SINGING IN JAPANESE) ♪
(APPLAUSE)
(GIRLS CHEERING)
(IN ENGLISH) No matter how this goes...
I'd like to take you to dinner tomorrow.
A real date.
I don't think the mama-san is supposed to date clients.
Just one client, who I'm very grateful to
and very attracted to.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(IN JAPANESE) When we arrive, have your two men stay in the other car.
We don't need to call attention.
Yes, Oyabun.
Hayama did not tell me the truth today.
He is unchanged.
Did you two steal those guns from Ota?
No, Oyabun. I broke my word to you weeks ago.
I collected those guns in my fear for our future.
I disobeyed you. Arrogantly believing in my own judgement.
You disobeyed me,
but you did it to protect your brothers.
5 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) &
One day, your judgement will protect the Chihara-kai.
When you are its leader.
What about Hayama?
An Oyabun cares for his men.
Respects civilians. Keeps his word.
As you do.
If anything were to happen tome...
I'm depending on you.
I thought you'd be pleased.
I am. Thank you.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(IN JAPANESE) Tozawa tried to blackmail Minister Shigematsu.
When he failed
and couldn't get into the U.S. for medical care,
he may have gone to Thailand.
For this temporary cure.
Six months to live.
That would be lucky.
For you and your family.
But if Tozawa only has six months, why Kill Nakahara?
This is all wishful thinking.
He did not come back and kill Nakahara just to die.
We must keep digging.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MASAMUNE YABUKI: What if they don't comply?
SHINZO: YABUKI, men are simple.
What about the photos?
I've arranged for them.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (GLASS CLINKING)
SHINZO: Welcome all.
Especially our brothers from Kansai.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
We are all brothers. Sons of Father Nakahara.
His death brings us together this evening.
He was a great man who led us to the brink of a new era.
To Nakahara!
But Nakahara's time had passed.
Because you decided his time had passed!
Transition is difficult.
But most of you understand that our future glitters.
As long as you're our Oyabun, right?
I'm glad you ask. No, gentlemen, I will not be your Oyabun.
There will be no more Oyabun.
Either we change, or the police destroy us.
Our future, our power and wealth,
will flow from something new.
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I will not be your Oyabun.
I will be your President.
(INDISTINCT MUTTERING)
Tozawa Corporation will entitle you all to dividends.
Payment from the top down.
You will never pay tribute again.
And if we don't join you?
If you wish to live in Osaka,
beating up pachinko owners for small bills...
Be my guest.
Or go join another organization.
But you won't last long
because the police are breaking them all up.
That day is done, my brothers.
The police are devouring our enemies for us, one by one.
It's the best show in town.
(ALL LAUGH)
I don't want pachinko.
I don't want brothels. I don't want junkies for customers.
I want to be in every boardroom in Japan.
I want the airlines! I want the Olympics!
I want the Nikkei! I want all of it!
Because when you are big enough,
when you touch all their money...
When you control the flowing blood of this country...
They will never arrest you.
Gentlemen, we are not criminals.
We are the future.
President! Banzai!
CROWD: Banzai!
- Banzai! - CROWD: Banzai!
- MASAMUNE: Banzai! - CROWD: Banzai!
- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(IN JAPANESE) He's a really good kid.
You're a natural with him. He likes you.
(IN ENGLISH) Yeah, yeah.
MASAHIRO: (IN JAPANESE) Thank you for meeting with me.
I am told you have a proposition.
I had some information that I did not realize
was of value to you.
But Samantha-san has explained your loss.
You did not realize?
And knowing your disappointment,
I sought another opportunity for you.
A mixed-use development project.
It will be called Forest Daikanyama.
I'm not in the habit of accepting consolation prizes.
And those who try to cheat me, pay dearly for it.
We would never cheat you.
This information will provide a substantial revenue stream.
Don't talk to me like I'm an idiot.
No disrespect has been intended.
If you were to inspect this, I think you would see its value.
♪ (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(IN JAPANESE) You will see to it
that there are no more surprise announcements...
Until my business is complete.
I will.
If we are surprised again,
you will be solely liable for my costs.
I will.
In that case... we have a deal.
- Give him a drink. - (SPEAKS JAPANESE)
(ELEVATOR DINGING)
35 (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) &
- Sato! - (GUNSHOTS)
- (CROWD SCREAMING) - (GUNSHOTS)
(GRUNTS)
- (GRUNTS) - (GUNSHOTS)
Sato...
(GRUNTS)
Don't get killed.
- (GUNSHOTS) - (GLASS SHATTERS)
You little--
- (GUNSHOTS) - (GRUNTS, WHIMPERS)
(GROANS)
AKIRO: Oyabun.
Oyabun.
- (WHIMPERS, GROANS) - ♪ (SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Oyabun!
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
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