Hasegawa Institute of Political Economy
The deposit for Club Rudan.
Haraguchi Motoko
Club Carnet Mama
50 million Yen.
Hasegawa Shoji
The remaining 250 million...
...will be paid within the next two weeks.
Thank you very much.
This is business.
Business must not be influenced by emotions.
Right.
You read through the contract?
Yes.
In case I break the conditions of the contract, there will be a penalty of 100 million Yen, right?
There's no problem with the additional condition, I assume?
In case of an unilateral breach of contract...
...party A Haraguchi Motoko has to pay party B Hasegawa Shoji...
...a penalty of 100 million Yen as well as...
...transfer the rights of Club Carnet.
Carnet on top of the penalty?
You just have to pay the remaining money by the end of two weeks...
...and there isn't gonna be any problem at all.
It's okay.
Once I've sold Umemura for 200 million and Carnet for 100 million...
...I should have no problem paying the remaining 250 million.
Very well.
If I could have your sign and seal on here, please.
Ichiko-san?
Nakaoka Ichiko
Former Narabayashi Clinic Head Nurse
Pardon me for bothering you all of a sudden.
There's something I just had to confirm with you.
What is that?
The 10 million Yen I returned to you.
I'm returning this.
Please make sure this gets returned to the director, okay?
What happened to that money?
Did you return it to him as requested?
I should have been clear enough.
You went back to Narabayashi Sensei, didn't you?
How's he doing?
That money is originally from the 50 million Yen you extorted out of him, isn't it?
I wonder what would become of you if the taxation bureau were to come barging in.
Are you threatening me?
While you persuaded me to do that for you in exchange for my severance payment...
...you extorted a great deal of 50 million out of him...
...and simply gave me a fifth of it.
Am I right?
Answer the question.
Answer me!
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Bullshit!
The offender might forget, but the victim never does.
The one who spits might forget...
...but the one who gets spit on will resent you to death.
The 50 million. I want you to return it in full.
Say something, will you!
I'll come again.
I'm sure you're about to fall into ruin.
Ruin?
I will not be ruined, ever.
Calling: Kita-Ginza Real Estate
Haraguchi here.
It's about Ryotei Umemura.
You've already sold it?
It's not registered under your name.
Please sell the Umemura to me.
The ownership was returned...
...from Hashida Tsuneo to the former owner Umemura Miki.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts
Cancellation on the ground of miscomprehension.
Miscomprehension?
A miscomprehension can be a misunderstanding of some sorts which...
...under certain circumstances...
...can lead to the contract between Umemura Miki and Hashida Tsuneo becoming invalid.
Under certain circumstances?
Typically it's about calling off the succession to property...
...after becoming flustered by the huge amount of taxes that come with it.
I wonder what's the situation in this case.
Hashida Tsuneo
Josei Seminar Chairman
Chairman. You have a call from Haraguchi Motoko.
I want a proper explanation about what's going on.
Umemura was bought by me.
You bought it? For how much?
20 million Yen.
Have you forgotten we exchanged a contract for the 25-year loan?
20 million for a land and property that's worth at least 200 million?
That's absurd.
Are you sure it wasn't just a dream?
Why would I sell Umemura, which I don't own, to you in the first place?
I'm pretty sure this contract is legal and binding.
If you want to keep up this game, I'm gonna sue you for fraud.
Sue me?
You the extortionist?
If you get the police involved...
...isn't it you who is going to end up in a lot of trouble?
Go ahead and sue.
That's gonna be one heck of a long trial, I assume.
You've been tricking me from the start, haven't you?
You shouldn't talk like that about others.
The timing of the cancellation on grounds of miscomprehension...
You set me up, didn't you?
Someone gave me an advice.
Someone?
You must have offended various people, huh?
You sure you want this to go public?
What's that?
I showed you before.
It contains evidence of you accepting bribes for backdoor admissions.
This data...
...who gave it to you and when?
Could it be...
...that Sumie who brought me the lunch box...
...took advantage of me showering...
...secretly copied the data from the tablet...
...and gave it to you?
Those are dummies.
Dummies?
Fabricated data.
In other words, fake.
The student names, their guardians' occupations...
It's all made up.
Nothing but fiction created by myself.
As if I'd believe...
I got you good, huh?
I'm really glad it worked.
What do you mean?
You still don't get it?
You got betrayed.
By whom?
Who do you think?
By the woman you believe to be your most trustworthy and devoted pet dog.
The female spy you hired.
Shimazaki Sumie
Club Carnet Hostess
While he was taking a shower...
...I copied it in a hurry, but I think I did it.
You finally realized?
The woman you paid 1 million Yen to become your spy...
...received 3 million from me for betraying you...
...and became my spy instead.
Like a twist straight out of an American action movie, isn't it?
Sumie and I conspired against you...
...who thinks she can control people with money...
...and decided to punish you for being so conceited.
Everything went according to my script.
It's all only thanks to the lunch box...
...you had Sumie deliver to me in the first place.
Sumie, she's a great actress.
Of course, you get the starring actress award.
A stupid heroine who wanted to trick people and got tricked instead.
Best Actress in a Leading Role.
A masterpiece. An epic masterpiece.
Don't think you'll get away with...!
Just to be clear, you're not the victim here.
You're the perpetrator who thought she can manipulate...
...Sumie with money and snatch away the Umemura by blackmailing me.
Not caring about the means you use to get what you want...
...and controlling people's minds with money alone.
It serves you right for being such a conceited person.
You get one last chance, though.
If you promise to become mine and only mine...
...there will be a happy end for you.
I'm gonna give you Umemura as a present.
And not just Umemura.
Whether it's 200 or 300 million, you can have as much as you want.
How about it? You get your beloved money.
I get my true love.
A win-win happy end.
I refuse.
Too fast. You should think abou it more.
By granting me true love, you can...
No, thanks.
I told you. Too fast!
I still have that notebook.
Evidence of your tax evasion, a list of your false-name accounts.
Evidence for tax evasion?
What's with that?
You really think so?
Do you really have such a thing?
Show me then.
That notebook and whatnot, go and get it right now.
What is this...?
We checked the cameras in the apartment complex...
...and it was a group of five disguised as movers.
- Movers? - Yes.
Most likely the act of professionals.
Professionals?
Anything else that was stolen besides cash, valuables and brand items?
A notebook.
What kind?
A black notebook that I put in this drawer.
Does it contain important notes of some kind?
Nothing important in particular, no.
Is there anyone you have offended recently?
For example someone you're on bad terms with or trouble involving money.
No.
You just have to pay the remaining money by the end of two weeks...
...and there isn't gonna be any problem at all.
No notebook and no 200 million from the Umemura.
If I don't pay the remaining money...
...there will be a penalty of 100 million...
...and I'll have the Carnet taken from me.
There are only two weeks left.
I've no choice but to try and extend the deadline.
Excuse me for a second.
Hasegawa Institute of Political Economy.
Pardon me for calling so late at night.
Haraguchi Motoko speaking, is President Hasegawa available?
He already went home.
It's very urgent...
...so could you tell him to call me back?
Understood, I will.
Thank you very much.
Lend Yasujima your strength!
Yasujima Tomio
Lower House Member Candidate
Let Yasujima work for you!
Your help is much appreciated!
Yasujima!
- Thank you very much! - I hope you'll win!
Thank you very much. Very much appreciated.
Haraguchi Motoko here.
I've been awaiting a call from Hasegawa-san since last night.
I see, understood.
Apologies for calling again.
Next we turn towards Gunma 7-ku.
In Gunma 7-ku, Yasujima Tomio...
...is running for election as the official candidate of the Jiyuu Democratic Party.
With the passing of Minister Wakatsuki Masayoshi in May...
...who has been responsible for this district for many years...
...his wife Wakatsuki Takako took over his electoral support until...
Pardon the sudden visit.
The president is not in.
I already told you so on the phone.
I know, but I've been awaiting his call for three days now.
- I have to discuss something immediately... - I will let him know.
Excuse me.
Yasujima!
Here he is, the man of the hour!
Thank you very much!
Yasujima Tomio, Banzai!
Banzai!
What brings you all the way here?
Congratulations on your victory.
Thank you.
All thanks to this.
You've kept it on you?
That aside, how's the Rudan contract coming along?
I suddenly haven't been able to get in contact with President Hasegawa anymore.
Please help me. I need to meet him.
Why?
The 250 million Yen I'm supposed to pay within the next week...
...I won't be able to.
I told you so.
- I just need a meeting with him. - And then what?
I'll have him cancel the contract...
...or at least have him postpone the settlement date.
It's too late for that now.
The contract exists for this reason.
It explicitly stated a penalty...
...of 100 million Yen in case you break its conditions.
I know I'm asking for the impossible.
I'm begging you.
Fine.
Let me try and have a word with him.
You can leave the rest to me.
Thank you so much.
I'll drive you to the station.
What's wrong?
Dobayashi Kyoko
Daughter of Dobayashi Group
I'm sorry for interrupting.
I'm really surprised. Do Mamas of Ginza clubs...
...come as far as out here to conduct their businesses?
Once again, congratulations.
- Please, come inside. - No, I...
After you've come all the way here. Right?
Oh, am I the nuisance here?
Nonsense.
- I'm going home. - How about we drive you to the station?
It's alright. I'll just call a taxi.
Excuse me.
Do you really have such a thing?
Show me then.
That notebook and whatnot, go and get it right now.
Hashida knew that my notebook got stolen.
Someone gave me an advice.
You must have offended various people, huh?
Who the hell took my notebook?
Calling: Anonymous Number
Yes?
Hello?
Hello!?
Calling: Anonymous Number
Haraguchi-san?
Yamada Namiko
Former Club Carnet Hostess
It's been a while. How are you?
Oh, I'm just coming back from an interview.
Interview?
Right now I'm working at a snack bar in Kita-Senju...
...but I guess can't help wanting to work in Ginza again.
You don't seem well. Is something wrong?
Not really.
Even though you got robbed?
Ah, that's right!
The other day I ran into Murai-san.
Murai-san?
All gone because of your embezzlement!
He really wanted to see you.
I miss those days, when were temp clerks at the bank.
Well then, see you.
You must have offended various people, huh?
How much longer? I've been waiting my ass off here.
I'm so sorry.
- Someone, please. - Yes.
I'm truly sorry.
Hey, did you hear?
Makino
Ginza Shagrin Manager
They finally found a buyer for Rudan.
I wonder who that woman is. Spending 300 million Yen like that.
Right...
It's you, isn't it?
I'm joking!
What's with the startled face?
- Good morning. - You too.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Maybe it's one of them who betrayed me?
Who? Which one of them?
Calling: Anonymous Number
Hello?
Hasegawa Institute of Political Economy
Yo, Sensei!
Hello there.
Allow me to congratulate you on your victory indeed.
Thank you very much.
I hope you'll think of me whenever you get to sell some state-owned land.
Got it.
Man, these days I rarely get to enjoy myself in Ginza...
...and instead work hard to smooth out smile lines and wrinkles around the eyes.
Narabayashi Kenji
Narabayashi Clinic Director
What's wrong? You seem tense.
It's nothing.
Trouble with women?
Just joking.
We should have a meal again sometime soon.
Yes, see you.
Thank you very much for your extremely generous gift the other day.
Don't stand there like a stranger.
Don't worry, you'll have plenty of opportunities to return the favor.
Leaving that aside, what's this urgent matter? Please, have a seat.
Excuse me.
It's about your contract with Haraguchi Motoko.
I see. She clung to you in tears.
Must be tough being a womanizer.
It seems she's been trying to get in touch with you.
No idea. I didn't hear anything.
And?
There has been an accident.
An accident?
She won't be able to come up with the money...
...she is supposed to pay you.
In case of her breaking the conditions...
...she is going to give me an additional 50 million as promised.
A contract must be protected at all costs. It's an arrangement between adults.
No matter the circumstances.
No matter what kind of misfortune you've gotten yourself into.
You must keep your promises.
I agree with you, but...
Those who don't, regardless of their gender, I absolutely won't tolerate.
Is that all you wanted to talk about?
I'm having fugu with the Chief Cabinet Secretary soon.
If you excuse me.
Please wait.
There's one more thing I wanted to bring to your attention.
A reporter from Shukan Maicho...
...seems to be on to you.
That third-class magazine which exposed the scandal...
...of Minister Wakatsuki? What would they have on me?
It's about the 100 million Yen in illegal donations...
...to the governor of Tokyo for getting the rights to the expansion of Haneda Airport.
The governer's selling point of having a clean image.
If this was to come up as a scandal...
...it would be good fodder for the press as well as...
...as the enemies in his own party.
That would also be true for you...
Yasujima!
Are you threatening me?
Not at all.
The go-between for the Haneda Airport situation and the governor...
Wasn't it you!?
Who else could they have gotten this information from?
I don't know.
He just introduced himself to me...
Don't play dumb with me!
You know nothing.
You don't know how terrifying he can be.
You're too conceited.
You managed to speak to him?
The sale contract for Rudan is canceled.
You won't have to pay the additional penalty of 50 million Yen either.
Thank you so much. You're certain?
Yeah.
I'll make sure the matter regarding Haneda never gets public.
In return...
Why would you go that far in supporting that lass?
It's not like you would've fallen in love with her.
Well?
However...
...you won't get back the deposit you already paid.
I know 50 million is a lot of money...
...but you'll just have to think of it as tuition fee.
Understood.
I'm truly grateful to you.
Is there something else?
You're pretty much...
...stark naked by now.
He must have checked you good and know everything about you by now.
Everything?
Before you opened your business in Ginza...
...about what you did at the Torin Bank Setagaya-Kita branch office.
That you used Narabayashi Sensei's mistress to obtain his secret accounts...
...and extorted 50 million from him.
That you tried to get Umemura...
...from Josei Seminar's Chairman Hashida in similar fashion.
I warned you about him.
If he feels like it...
...he can have Diet members as well as the police and yakuza dance to his bidding.
Getting a background check on a Ginza Mama is a piece of cake for him.
It's President Hasegawa who pulled the strings.
He probably...
...was also the one who suggested the miscomprehension to Hashida...
...and had the notebook stolen by professionals.
If you intend...
...to keep doing business in the nightlife of Ginza...
...you must not oppose him at any cost.
And...
...we can't see each other anymore.
Why not?
I'm forbidden to enter this club.
That's the condition for him canceling the contract...
...and forfeiting the remaining 50 million.
Why would he...
...have such a condition?
He didn't...
...tell me the reason.
Why?
You and I are the same.
We both must not oppose him at any cost.
We're liked caged birds.
When you quit your job at the bank and opened your club in Ginza...
...you must have felt like flapping your wings in the vast blue sky.
When you wanted to obtain Rudan...
...you must have thought you could fly even higher.
However, what you thought to be the sky...
...is just the inside of a tiny birdcage.
Whether it's Ginza or the National Diet, everyone is being kept in a birdcage.
Inside the cage you're free to fly as much as you want.
You're even allowed to look cool for a bit.
However, as soon as you disturb the peace inside...
...or try to jump out of the cage, you'll always be caught by its owner.
And depending on the situation...
...even get killed.
After all, we're just...
...birds in a cage at the mercy of our owners.
Take care.
Please wait.
Where are you going?
We're in a birdcage after all.
Thank you.
All thanks to this.
After all, we're just...
...birds in a cage at the mercy of our owners.
Here we go.
After that, Yasujima hasn't come to the club...
...or contacted me ever again.
The silent phone calls also stopped.
This banquet hall with its Palais-Royal palace motif...
And not only Yasujima.
I haven't been contacted by Ichiko, Hashida or Hasegawa either.
And so one month passed.
Not only your own customers...
...we have to value all of our customers--
Sir, you can't! Sir!
Sir, you can't!
Murai Toru
Former Torin Bank Vice Director
Yo, long time no see.
I missed you.
I'm sorry, but we're not open yet.
It's work that brings me here today.
Work?
That's supposed to be my new job now.
Business Card: Club Carnet Manager Murai Toru
Club Carnet's manager?
I'm going to manage this club starting today.
Just as instructed by President Hasegawa.
I changed my job to a subsidiary of Hasegawa Institute of Political Economy.
I lowered my head and was ready to do just anything.
I didn't expect him to entrust a club in Ginza to me.
It's not like I could have refused, right?
He's the Don of Japan after all.
How heartless. That casting of yours.
But is a former bank employee really fit for becoming the manager of a club in Ginza?
Well, as long as it's only the bookkeeping that's wrong.
Hold on a second.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
You still don't get it?
If you insist.
Look, here.
In case of an unilateral breach of contract...
...party A Haraguchi Motoko has to pay party B Hasegawa Shoji...
...a penalty of 100 million Yen as well as...
...transfer the rights of Club Carnet.
That contract got canceled.
I have it right here, though.
Come on now! You've been working at a bank!
You should have at least that much of common knowledge.
I got played.
Even though I won't have to pay the remaining 50 million...
...he still indented to seize the Carnet from me as contracted.
I'm all about the monjayaki from Tokyo Shitamachi.
All that juice...
How could anyone like that?
You prefer the Hiroshima style then?
Kansai style is the way to go.
Why would anyone like mixing soba and udon?
- Right? - You sneaky bastard.
Jumping on his side like that right away.
It's my life motto.
"Better bend than break and you'll get into the pants of a beautiful woman."
Well, now that you get it, you can leave.
From this moment on, it's not your club anymore.
Ah, before that...
...let me introduce Carnet's new Mama.
The new Mama?
I'm loving it.
The nightlife of Ginza.
It's the best!
I told you, didn't I? That I met Murai-san.
Geez, you really don't listen to what people say.
Hashida Tsuneo, 310 million Yen.
See, I knew you had that much!
If we do this, how about Director Narabayashi then?
See, found it! Wow! Heisei's king of tax evasions!
Well, how about I go and try to give it to the taxation bureau now?
Come on now! You can't do that to us!
The precious notebook...!
I should be the one to keep it!
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts