Come and have a look.
This please.
Yes, thank you. This will be 262 yen, please.
Live Comedy Show.
How about some Comedy?
It's all live.
Hey, speak up!
This is live comedy.
Sis, you're so hot.
What cup are you? D, E, F?
No, by any chance, could this be a super J-cup*? (TN: famous Pro-Wrestling tournament)
You're supposed to jump in and do a reverse J with me!
Thank you for the fuck!
Having a 250 yen bento again today? (TN: Bento: Japanese packed lunch)
But this is really yummy.
A fried chicken bento for 250 Yen is super awsome.
As a woman, shouldn't you make your own Bento at least?
Isn't this discrimination against women?
That's not what I mean, but you're a woman, so
becoming able to make your own Bento
would be good for your future, I thought.
Once I catch a guy I can support as a housewife,
I'll remember about cooking then.
Do you?
I'll go for lunch, too.
Hey, Muraki, food...
He's not gonna get up, huh?
Boss, don't tell me you feel lonely, going for lunch alone?
Then, I can come with you.
You're eating a Bento, aren't you.
Since I'll be finished soon,
we can go together and you can treat me to a dessert.
Coming.
What kind of dream was it today?
Bento...
Bento?
Oh, stop nagging! Just come in.
Hello.
You're from before...
This is a detective agency, right?
Yes, so?
Wow, it's the first time we're at a detective agency.
It hurts.
Wearing a hat! That's so detective-style, innit?
Doesn't he look like... Matsuda Ryuhei's father? (Matsuda Yusaku - famous for his hard-boiled roles, especially Detective Story- in the West known as Sato from Ridley Scott's Black Rain)
He's nothing like Matsuda Yusaku. (Matsuda Yusaku - famous for his hard-boiled roles, especially Detective Story- in the West known as Sato from Ridley Scott's Black Rain)
You're always half-assed.
As a straight man, you've gotta butt in straight with a sharp voice. (Straight man [tsukkomi]: comedy stock character, the serious guy)
Please.
You've got a request, right?
This one also looks like a proper detective.
Even his shadow looks burdened, right, right?
Ouch.
There's even the sexy assistant!
River's Edge, Ookawabata Detective Agency
Original Work: "River's Edge, Ookawabata Tantei-sha" Author: Hijikita Yuho / Art: Tanaka Akio ("Shukan Manga Goraku" serialized by Nihonbungeisha)
Opening Song: [Neon Sign Stomp] by EGO-WRAPPIN'
'Muraki' ODAGIRI JOE
'Director' ISHIBASHI RENJI
'Megumi' KOIZUMI MAYA
ABE KYOUSUKE / SONE HARUMI
Co-Writers: KUROZUMI HIKARU / ONE HITOSHI / SHINTOKU KOJI
Music: MORI MASAKI [Ego-Wrappin']
Cinematography: MIYAMOTO WATARU Lighting: TOMIKAWA HIDENOBU
Subtitles by arakira @d-addicts
QC / Styling / Timing: earthcolors
Special thanks: micehell / furransu / ap
Content Producer: GOKA KIMITAKA Producers: ASANO DAI / SUGIHARA NAMI
Chief Producer: NAKAGAWA JUNPEI
Director: SHINTOKU KOJI
So, what is your request?
There we go, there we go...
File .06: "Good Luck Lunch Box"
'What's your request' he says File .06: "Good Luck Lunch Box"
That's so detective-style.
Oh, shut it.
Well...
Yes, about the request, right?
We want you to resolve an unsolved case.
Unsolved?
It's not a big case at all.
With unsolved I meant it's too much to handle for this guy.
It's really just a teeny-tiny case.
Yeah.
This guy is too tongue-tied to explain himself.
That's why I came as his attendant.
Are you guys some kind of stage performers?
You can tell? Wow, as expected of a detective.
We're comedians.
We do a two-men-act at a theatre in Asakusa.
At the Little Theatre there?
Do you know us?
I don't know you. Do you come out on TV?
Well, we didn't get on a regular broadcast, yet...
We didn't get on a satellite broadcast either. (TN: Broadcasting/Communications Satellite: Japanese stations have special channels/programs distributed via satellite broadcasts)
So you're unsuccessful performers?
Yes, true, We've got no success whatsoever.
'Hey, you!' (Manzai catchphrase)
So to say, we really don't have any success.
Lately I hear, many performers
do it to become popular with the ladies.
In the end, we're like that, too.
We thought once we're performers we'll be popular,
Moreover, Asakusa is like holy ground for performers in Tokyo.
That's true.
Atsumi Kiyoshi, Hagimoto Kinichi and Beat Takeshi... (TN: Famous comedians/actors with roots in Asakusa comedy shows)
Nowadays the entertainment world
has totally changed.
That's true.
To put it frankly, now
nobody aims to be a performer in Asakusa
And still...that's why...we dare...
starting in Asakusa,
to become a second Noiru Koiru* of our times. (*Showa Noiru Koiru: Manzai comedy duo around ever since the 70s)
Nobody knows Noiru Koiru,
I can imagine how unpopular you are.
Would you show us a bit from your routine, please?
You want to watch us?
On the contrary, I want to see just how boring you are.
So that's what it was?!
Ah, well, lets give it a try.
Come on, get up.
I don't want to.
Why the heck?
Welcome!
W..w..welcome.
Speak up properly.
We're only beginners, so
all we want today is for you to go home and remember our name.
We're School Lunch Duty Z... Z!
It's an S.
Like this?
Z!
If you do it like this, it's still the same, isn't it?
What's more, what do you like best for school lunch?
Hmm, let's see...
Wouldn't it be hamburger after all?
Don't just decide arbitrarily.
Then, formed minced meat
grilled on a piping hot iron plate?
Hamburger, right?
Then, a band you'll kiss right away?
That's Lindberg. Though young folks won't know them now.
Finally, that TV programme where they throw darts?
Well... Friend Park?
About school lunch, hamburgers are fine, but
as a Japanese it's really Curry, right?
Well, Indian that is.
They eat with the right hand like this.
The left hand is said to be unclean and mustn't be used.
He's like a pro.
And after eating you wash your hand swish-swash in the Ganges.
We also don't have that in Japan.
About school lunch...
What about school lunch?
You...you started talking about it, right?
No I didn't.
Yes you did.
I didn't.
You did.
When did I? At what hour, minute, second?
How many times did the earth spin since?
A...Are you a grade schooler?
That's all. We're School Lunch Duty Z.
Z!
S...
Thank you.
That sucks.
Well, as you watched, you saw, I'm doing alright, but
This straight man here's just too weak.
I was the one who wrote the jokes.
That's what I'm saying, these jokes are weak, too.
Then you write them.
It's a law that the serious one of the duo writes the routine.
What country's law would that be?
Cambodia,
I'm not a naturalized Runner!
Hey, come on.
I think we've seen your ability now.
Please have a seat.
What about the case?
Yeah, right, you see,
a mysterious gift gets delivered to this guy's apartment every day.
A mysterious gift?
Yes.
You see,
a mysterious gift gets delivered to this guy's apartment every day.
A mysterious gift?
Yes.
Whenever I come back from work,
in front of my door,
somebody left a Bento.
At the beginning I had a bad feeling about it.
But now I already got used to it.
I'm just grateful now.
This is such a Bento.
Overall it looks rather brownish.
Well, the colour isn't all that... but
the amount is perfect and you could say I'm feeling grateful.
This sounds completely like Gon the Little Fox's story.
What's that?
It's a fairy-tale about a fox called Gon (TN: Children's classic by Niimi Nankichi, the Japanese H.C. Andersen)
who does nothing but pranks and causing trouble to some villagers.
The heck would I know. What fairy tale? This is a true story.
You don't know it?
Well, go on.
Probably I've got a fan
who keeps bringing them over.
Must be an ugly fan.
How would you know whether she's ugly?
Of course she's ugly.
So, to find out who put it there,
of course he tried to catch her, but
no matter how he waited in the entrance way on our days off,
No, no, no...no way!
Wait a second, wait!
He couldn't catch her at all.
It's because you're an unlucky guy.
It's also your fault that our act isn't successful.
That's totally unrelated.
Must be because you're still a virgin
that we just can't get off at all.
That's also totally unrelated.
It is related.
It's because you're a virgin that we came here.
First of all, I'm not a virgin.
Then while looking at her breasts before,
didn't you get an erection?
I didn't!
That's it. That's the voice you should always use.
Let's continue with the story.
That's why I told him, you see.
It's a chance to lose his virginity.
What do you mean?
This fan who brings him a Bento every day.
Though we don't know who it is, they must like him.
Even though I think she's an ugly woman,
I've been telling him to eat her up.
Do the ugly girl once, gain some confidence,
so his straight man act would cut in sharper, too. (TN: the word for 'straight man' also means penetration)
Stop saying ugly, ugly all the time!
It's a given that she's ugly.
How is it a given when you didn't even see her?
Hey, hey, hey, I got you.
- She's ugly. - What ugly? - Hey, hey, hey, I got you.
So the subject of your request is the Beto delivering ugly girl.
as you called her...you want us to locate this fan.
No, only that would be a problem.
We'd like you to let him meet this woman
in an atmosphere that sets a good mood, to create such a setting,
to make it work for him.
I see.
However, such an inquiry is costly.
Excuse my rudeness, but what about this? (TN: Gesture for money)
You see, he won 100,000 yen at Pachinko.
That's why I figured we'd try our luck with this money.
And I brought him here.
Would 100,000 be enough?
Well, let's say there's a virginity discount.
Well, but...I'm not...
It's alright..
We've got a duty of confidentiality as detectives, too.
With a virginity discount please.
This duo is never gonna be successful. They were totally not funny.
Why did you accept this request?
I don't know the conditions of the Comedy World nowadays.
but if they get successful like Gon the Little Fox (TN: In the book, the Fox realizes his mistake when a granny dies due to his pranks and then he tries hard to make it up to her son, though with terrible consequences)
they might pay me back in the end. (TN: In the book, the Fox realizes his mistake when a granny dies due to his pranks and then he tries hard to make it up to her son, though with terrible consequences)
No, isn't that unreasonable?
I'll leave the rest to you, Muraki-kun.
In the end it's me?
A good answer at the right time.
By the way,
I've never see you laugh out loud.
Excuse me.
Yes.
Did you deliver that Bento to Manabu-san's place?
Oh, yes.
Do you always do this?
Yes.
I see.
Could we talk for a bit?
Manabu-san is very grateful to you.
He would certainly like to meet you to express his thanks.
That's fine with me, but
to be honest, this Bento...
Yes?
I see, so that means
This mysterious case got solved just like that?
Huh? What kind of girl was she?
Well if you ask me, she was rather cute.
She was short and rather almond eyed.
Ohh, like Gon, the Little Fox?
No, more like a Tanuki* (raccoon dog) than a fox. (*Tanuki were seen as mischievous shape shifters in folklore, nowadays they're often used as cute mascot characters)
Tanuki?
Why that?
Well....
Muraki-san, is this how you laugh?
There's even folks with a poor laughing style, huh?
Really? You found her?
Yes.
So, how ugly is she?
Shut it. And?
And she came here for you today.
What?
No, no, no.
Please stand here.
Yes.
Please close your eyes.
I think you'll receive a big shock at first.
Is she that cute?
Close them.
Yes.
Please come in.
Please, say your words of gratitude like this.
Well...
Thank you for always making a Bento for me.
I always enjoyed your tasty Bento.
It was really tasty.
It's what keeps me up and going.
Delivering a Bento to me every day
you must have a lot of
good will towards me, with this feeling,
with this..well...
if you don't mind...if you would...
let me do you, even if it's just once.
Ouch!
Idiot!
Mom!
W...why?
You really are such an idiot.
What's this?
I made these Bentos for you.
Why?
Did you forget what kind of job
I've been doing to raise you?
At work there's always some burnt fried foods
that are put aside.
Good work today.
- Midori-chan - Yes.
Please bring this to my idiot son again.
Yes.
Sorry for always making you.
Not at all, don't mind it. It's on my way,
She delivers it because I asked her to.
So you won't starve.
You kidding me?
No way you'd have a fan who'd bring you food.
Idiot.
I'm really sorry.
Sorry, my stupid son turned out like this.
No, he properly paid the investigation fee.
Is that true?
How much was it?
Adding it up altogether it was 100,000 yen.
100,000?
Idiot!
Do you know what I have to go through
to earn 100,000 yen?
So what? It's my own money.
- Idiot! - Stop it, that hurts.
Don't give me such a boring reaction!
- Aren't you a comedian? - That's right.
Your answer is too damn serious.
What's with the 'that's right'
That's not how I said it.
You gotta say something funny with that stupid face of yours at least.
Don't call it a stupid face, you're the one who gave birth to me.
It's just you who came out like this on your own,
What on my own? Who'd chose a face like this if he was to choose?
Don't get so angry.
It'll spoil the funny face you finally managed to make.
How do you touch me?
What's this? You're so funny.
If you went out like this wouldn't you manage to have a breakthrough?
That's true. I've learned a lesson today.
People are watching!
- It's alright. - How are you touching me?
Like this, I had a peek.
It was too suspicious.
Then she came.
She came, the Bento girl but
it was his mother.
It really was my Mom.
This is a true story.
This really happened to us.
Well, you've got a nice mom.
Her face looks like Karaage (fried) chicken though.
Who looks like Karaage?
You should finally act your age,
Yeah.
show some proper filial piety.
Frankly, I can't.
Would be better if you could.
How about hitting her stiff shoulders,
or adding some lemon juice on her.
The latter's for Karaage!
Or how about covering her with a duvet on cold nights. Or adding some mayonaise?
The latter's for Karaage!
How does a feather duvet make you go to chicken?
Is this funny?
Makes me laugh.
Don't spoil this funny face.
How do you touch me? Don't wipe your hands afterwards!
It's totally no good.
They're not making them laugh, they're being laughed at.
But it sure is funny.
So, will you go out with him?
That's...
See.
Well, I'll think about it again after he's become successful and famous.
Manabu!
Do your best to sell!
Mom, gimme a break!
This is his Mom!
- Why is everyone applauding? - That's enough, Mom, that's enough!
That's enough, sit down!
Do your best, Manabu! Do your best, Manabu!
I am doing my best!
'Muraki' ODAGIRI JOE
'Director' ISHIBASHI RENJI
'Megumi' KOIZUMI MAYA
'Nakagami Manabu' - KONNO HIROKI 'Sawai Kenji' - CHO TAMIYASU
'Nakagami Akiko' - FUKU MATSUMI 'Midori' - FUKUNAGA MARIKA
Original Work: "River's Edge, Okawabata Tantei-sha" Author: Hijikita Yuho / Art: Tanaka Akio ("Shukan Manga Goraku" serialized by Nihonbungeisha)
Co-Writers: KUROZUMI HIKARU / ONE HITOSHI / SHINTOKU KOJI
Opening Theme: "Neon Sign Stomp" Ending Theme: "Sunnyside Melody" Performer: EGO-WRAPPIN' / Music: MORI MASAKI
Assistant directors: KOTOKU KOJI / IWABUCHI TAKASHI NINOMIYA KOHEI / WAKABAYASHI SHOHEI
Editing / Title Back: OZEKI YASUYUKI Stylist: IGA DAISUKE
Investigation Cooperation: GALU Detective School Technical Cooperation: UPSIDE
Shooting cooperation: TAITO Film Commission
Production: TV TOKYO / OFFICE CRESCENDO
Producers: KOMATSU YUKITOSHI / TANABE HAYATO / SUZUKI KANAKO
Subtitles by arakira @d-addicts
QC / Styling / Timing: earthcolors
Special thanks to: micehell / furransu / ap
Director: SHINTOKU KOJI
A 2014 production of: TV Tokyo
Next on File .07: "Snow Woman in Summer"