Hey... hey Megumi-chan.
You're too noisy! What are you doing?
I started taking Karate lessons.
Karate? Why?
Recently I often meet perverts, so for self-defense?
If it's you, you're able to repel a pervert
even without learning Karate.
That's mean. Just looking at me I do appear pretty weak.
And I do feel scared when I meet a pervert.
Sure you would.
Did I wake you?
What's with you?
Karate, Karate.
Karate?
Oh... ouch!
What's wrong?
You hit me.
So weak!
How about joining me? Ka-ra-te!
Huh?
Good idea. Why don't you join her, Muraki-chan?
Don't you lack some exercise?
Ouch.
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
HASHIMOTO JUN YOSHIKURA AOI IKEZU SHOKO
Co-Writers: KUROZUMI HIKARU / ONE HITOSHI
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: ONE HITOSHI
Ready.
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Yes, that's the spirit. Tighten your sides, firmly.
Yes.
With a loud voice: Yes.
Yes.
Did you do this before?
What?
Looks good. You tighten your lower back well.
You've got some experience, right?
No, just learning by watching the others.
Then you've got a good sense for it.
I brought him along.
Is he your boyfriend, Megumi-chan?
No way. This is Muraki-san.
He's a regular employee at my part time job.
He does nothing but idly lie around all the time
so I thought he'd better get some exercise sometimes.
Hey I don't always just lie around.
Alright, I see.
Well, where is the club?
What?
Well thought about visiting Megumi-chan
to hang out with her at her club for once.
Sensei, did you mistake me for a cabaret girl? (TN: Cabajou is like the female equivalent for host)
You aren't?
I work as a call girl, not as a cabaret girl.
Ah that's what... huh? Call girl?
Yes, so if it happens that you can't hold it in anymore...
please call me here.
I'll be waiting.
Thanks.
I'm sold.
So, are you her manager?
Well... how much for 90 minutes?
You're wrong. I work at a detective agency.
Huh? detective?
Yes.
Huh? You're a detective?
I want you to look for somebody.
Who is it? Maybe your first love?
Megumi-chan, this isn't your place.
But Kajiwara-sensei is a customer I brought in.
Then I'll leave this case to the two of you.
Yes.
H.. he.. Boss?
Can we continue our conversation?
Excuse me. Please.
I want you to look for my benefactor.
Yes.
I want to meet this person once again to express my gratitude to her.
I've been thinking about it ever since.
But I don't know where she is or what she does now.
So I had given up on it.
But then I heard that you're detectives.
She's not a detective, just a part-timer.
I'm also a detective.
I'm investigating about male sexual preferences, etc. every night.
What?
Hey...
It's a long story. Do you want to hear it?
Please.
It's about when I was in senior high school.
Yes everyone, please listen.
This month is No Smoking Reinforcement month.
Shut it!
Even if it's just for a month, no tobacco in school...
It was a terrible school.
Like a retention center for kids who were left behind.
You know, a school full of delinquents.
I was weak, both in body and mind.
I had a hard time.
But you don't seem like this at all now.
Yes.
Since that incident happened...
Hey, Kajiwara, wait a sec.
Hey, you've got it, right?
Hey, wait! You bastard!
What's this? You trying to fuck with me?
I told you to bring 50,000 Yen.
Excuse me, this is all I got.
- It's even all my New Years gift savings. - What? Are you an idiot? Motherfucker!
I told you to just take it from your parents' wallet.
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
Guess we gotta teach you a lesson.
- No, I'm sorry. - Kajiwara!
- I'll bring it tomorrow. - Let's go.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - Let's go, here I come.
This is bad. This is bad!
Gotta splash water on him. Gotta cool him down.
It's dangerous, it's dangerous... here you go, you got burnt.
What are you doing?
I didn't do anything.
Don't do such low things.
Hey!
It doesn't hurt at all.
Ouch!
Reiko, the gang leader.
She was the school's strongest and the worst girl gang leader.
Her trademark was a wooden sword that had even the male delinquents shudder in fear.
She was a special being who nobody dared to oppose.
You saved me!
Thank you very much.
This is the least...
Well...
It's your fault.
For always timidly sneaking around.
I hate losers like you the most!
Get strong.
Start training your body, you dumb shit!
Get strong.
Start training your body, you dumb shit!
So cool.
Right?
And then?
Starting that day, how should I put it? With firm resolve...
I changed myself.
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Her remark made me
want to become a different person.
En garde.
Start.
I see.
So your request is to search for the gang leader, Reiko, right?
Yes.
It's been over 20 years since.
I kept living without forgetting about her.
But then isn't she your first love after all?
You're mistaken, it's not love
and she's also not a sex object for me.
For me she is
my God.
What a nice story.
But with the passing of time it's possible that
she's met some cruel fate, too.
Well no. I won't ever regret this.
I understand.
This detective agency will take up this case and search for her.
Right? Right?
Do you have something like a lead for us?
I brought the last yearbook
and a list of names from the alumni meetings.
She left school during 2nd year of senior high.
Maybe you can use this as a reference.
Ogata Reiko? You mean Reiko, the gang leader girl?
Just mentioning her name gives me the shivers.
She was scary.
With just one stroke of her wooden sword she's slain down 3 gang members.
So scary!
I heard you are the organizer of the class reunions.
Well I guess you could say I am.
How to put it? Well after she quit school we didn't keep in contact
I don't know if we had better kept in contact,
it's not that I personally had a reason not to.
Why don't you try meeting the guy she dated back then?
What?
Takagi, a gang leader.
Takagi-san?
He's got a Yakitori shop in Asakusa.
Reiko, the gang leader? That name brings back memories.
She was one of a kind.
I heard you were going out with her, right?
What? Me? With Reiko, the gang leader?
Are you kidding? Who'd go out with such a scary girl?
The one I went out with is the mother of my kids now.
I was mistaken?
Aren't you mistaking me for Takano from the vocational high school?
Takano?
At that time, me and Takano were the 2 big troublemakers in this area.
Taka-no and Taka-gi, we were called Big-Taka and Little-Taka.
Although Big-Taka and me were on opposite sides.
Were is this Big-Taka now?
You want to meet with him?
Seems like this guy called Takano
was Reiko's boyfriend.
However...
What is it?
He's now among the top brass of the Ryuseikai. (Yakuza syndicate)
The Ryuseikai?
That means it's my turn now, huh?
Ryuseikai...
Hello. It's Ookawabata.
It's been a long time.
Yes, somehow.
To be honest I have a request for the Boss.
Are you Muraki-san?
Don't.
I'm Muraki from the Ookawabata Detective Agency.
Thank you for taking the trouble to come here.
Is your Boss well?
Yes, thank you for asking.
I see. So, what's this about?
Well it's about somebody's request to...
Too slow, dumb shit! You fucking idiot!
Excuse me.
So, what was it?
Oh, here.
Reiko, huh? She was a fine woman.
Thinking back, I still get the chills.
Excuse me, what was your relation with her?
I got rejected.
It's true.
I once tried putting my moves on her by kissing her forcibly.
Sorry for calling you out all of a sudden.
It's not what you think though.
Won't you go out with me?
Hey, you will, right?
I like you. Come on, give me a kiss, let me kiss you.
I've still got a scar here.
She really was a scary woman.
But well, that was her charm, too.
And after that?
Huh? She suddenly left school.
After that there was no trace of her.
Cut off all contact.
Dunno whether she became a Lady Boss somewhere else,
Or eloped with a Kansai Yakuza.
or she became a drug addict and went to prison.
A lot could have happened.
In the end she could be doing anything, anywhere.
I see.
So that was a dead-end, too?
Now, what else could we do now?
Well, just wait.
You know, Yakuza are weak when it comes to those old stories.
That was quick.
Yes, Muraki speaking.
Yes, Muraki-san.
I've got some information about Reiko, the gang leader.
You'll be surprised when you hear it.
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10... keep going.
Hello, Kajiwa here.
Really?
Yes, thank you very much!
Shut up!
Here?
Yes.
She didn't want to meet in front of other people.
So we agreed to meet here.
It was her idea?
Yes.
Please wait here.
Okay.
Reiko-san...
Thanks to you...
Up until today, I...
I... I...
Yes, that's enough, Mikka-chan.
Kawashima Reiko-san, formerly Ogata Reiko-san.
and Mikka-san, her daughter.
Nice to meet you.
Her husband works at a pharmaceutical company.
The 3 of them live in the Aichi prefecture.
Today she came all the way up especially.
It's been a long time.
Yes.
You must be disappointed that I'm such an old wifey now.
No...
Wow, that was so embarassing, Mom!
Sorry, sorry.
- Did you really go around like this? - Oh just forget about it again.
- But even the belly button is showing - Can't do that anymore now.
Seems Reiko-san doesn't clearly
remember about you, Kajiwara-san.
I'm really sorry.
You... don't?
But I do remember something like that happened.
I could never forgive those who bullied the weak.
Thank you so very much.
Please don't do this. Stand up please.
No, thanks to you I got saved.
You are my god.
Please stop this.
No, really, if I hadn't met you then,
I would still be my weak old self.
That this life was waiting...
Right.
The 20,000 Yen carrying the memory of that day.
Here, please accept them.
Please just accept them!
Please.
Kajiwara!
A man must not easily bow down.
Stand up!
Y... Yes.
Rumors are always exaggerating.
Like being the girlfriend of another school's boss,
or defeating a biker with one strike of my wooden sword.
Those were all false rumors spread by somebody.
At that time my parents were getting a divorce and I was a total mess, too.
So I used those rumors and played the gang leader.
That's what happened?
Folly of youth.
That wasn't the real me.
Anyway, thanks to Reiko-san the gang leader,
I got reborn.
Right.
I always thought I wanted to forget how I behaved then.
If it was a help to you, then
at least there was some good in that, too.
Yes.
Let's drink. Let's have a drink on Reiko-san, the gang leader tonight.
Thank you.
What a fine woman.
Hey Megumi-chan? Cosplay today?
It's Special Service Day.
Call me Megumi-sama! (TN: Sama = honorific used for people of much higher rank)
- Megumi-sama - Louder!
Megumi-sama!
You dumb shit!
Time flies.
Here she is, Reiko, the gang leader.
Run everyone! She's up for a fight!
Formerly, Reiko, the gang leader.
Hey, gimme a break.
Shouldn't you put this back?
'Muraki' ODAGIRI JOE
'Director' ISHIBASHI RENJI
'Megumi' KOIZUMI MAYA
'Kajiwara' - HASHIMOTO JUN 'Mika / Reiko (young)' - YOSHIKURA AOI 'Reiko' - IKEZU SHOKO
'Kajiwara (young)' - YOSHIKO SAITO 'Megumi's customer' - MIZUSAWA SHINGO 'Takano' - NONAKA TAKAMITSU
'Merchant / Alumni Secretary - MISHIMA YUTAKA 'Takagi (yakitori shop owner)' - KOSEN 'Takano's henchman' - ARAGAKI MASATO
'Teacher' - MATSUSHITA SADAHARU 'Yankees': KATSUYA / SHIOMI DAIKI / SHINIWA MASATO
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
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
Lighting cooperation - APEXII Post-Production - IMAGICA
Action Coordinator: OHARA GO 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: ONE HITOSHI
A 2014 production of: TV Tokyo
Next on File.09: "Getting a life"