I made friends with certain people,
and when a fellow hoodlum told me to go to Shinjuku,
I went to an office there.
An office.
There I saw rows of jars filled with pinkies,
all with names on the labels.
They were all lined up.
When I took a closer look, they were the tips of fingers
down to the joint.
There were so many names written on labels.
So quite a few fingertips had been cut off.
Probably for messing with a superior's girl
or something like that.
Or for stealing a superior's money.
Or for doing the boss's girl.
If three guys were involved, all three would lose their fingers.
Then and there.
You don't start cutting from the thick part of the joint.
If you start cutting from this part, you'd cut all the way to here.
So they start cutting around the middle here.
That's gotta hurt.
They use a plane.
They lay the finger out and whack it as hard as they can.
When I first came to Shinjuku, I went to a coffee shop.
There seemed to be lots of gangsters there.
I noticed a man picking his nose like this.
I couldn't believe how much of his finger was inside his nose.
I kept on watching him.
When he pulled out his finger, I saw this part was missing.
I didn't know about pinky cutting back then,
so I couldn't believe how much of it was in his nose.
Know what I mean?