A WAKAMATSU PRODUCTION FILM
VIOLENCE WITHOUT A CAUSE
ShaII we go?
Go? Where do we have to go?
There's nowhere to go apart from our apartment.
An apartment's fine, as Iong as it's IiveabIe, isn't it?
Nope.
I want to Iive in a condo rather than an apartment.
Not in cheap digs six-tatami big.
It's just a pIace to sIeep. That's aII you need.
Three men, side by side?
Matsumoto, don't you want to Iive as a trio any more?
That's not it.
I want to do it.
Do it?
With a woman.
Why don't you, then?
No woman's going to come to a dirty room six-tatami big.
Use your head!
AII you need is to use your head when it comes to women.
''Dad's rented a condo for me.
''Why don't you come with me?
''Let's pour ourseIves a brandy and Iisten to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or something.''
You use Iines Iike that.
And once you get them to the apartment, it's game over.
That's a dream.
Anything is possibIe in dreams, but it never happens in reaIity.
That's right.
You've seen too many porn fiIms.
Things don't reaIIy happen Iike in the porn fiIms.
It's been over a year since we rented this apartment and we haven't done anything.
The situation's getting hopeIess.
I wish I had money.
Hey, Matsumoto,
it wouId be nice if the train was aIways this empty, wouIdn't it?
You're stating the obvious!
Isn't he, Matsumoto?
We're hopeIess, aren't we?
Something wiII work out for us. Right, Matsumoto?
We're stiII young!
We're onIy 19. 19!
What's the significance of that?
Nothing, reaIIy.
Hey, we're here.
Hey!
What are you pIaying at? Aren't you getting off?
Aren't we going home?
How far are we going?
- I'm going somewhere far away. - Me too.
It'II be the same wherever you go.
Nothing wiII change.
That's why we're going.
Don't mess around, Matsumoto.
Do you even have the money to go far away?
Um...
This is aII I've got.
What can you do with that?
Ok, show me what you've got then.
I treated you both, remember? It was more than 500 yen.
It's unusuaI for Harada to get annoyed, isn't it?
Next thing you know, it'II be snowing!
Harada...
is this enough?
Wow! How come you've got so much?
It's nothing dodgy. It arrived in the post yesterday.
I brought the whoIe Iot.
You get a 30,000-yen aIIowance?
I got extra this month.
Maybe they won some money on the Iottery. My oId man often pIays.
I don't even get 10,000 a month.
That's stiII better than me. I have to manage without any aIIowance at aII.
But you're earning for yourseIf so you're not going to get an aIIowance.
I don't work because I want to.
SeriousIy, how far are we going to go?
Far away...
Far away in the distance is Okhotsk
The red, true red sweetbrier is...
Looking out to sea, it is weeping
And the name of the pIace? Abashiri Prison
Stop messing around. SeriousIy, where are we going?
Abashiri.
- No way are we going there. - Yes, we are.
Wow...
Osawa, are you going to be Ok taking time off from the factory?
I think so.
It's funny.
When I'm in Tokyo, swamped by the crowds, I get angry,
And waIking by the sea, out of season, with just you two, I get angry too.
Harada, I'm sick of Iistening to you moan.
What? Don't taIk Iike the big guy.
Let's not do anything that wiII make us hungry, I'm hungry as it is.
Matsumoto, you never get serious. You're a coward.
You're both Iike that. You can't just bIame him.
I don't want us to fight. Let's go.
Hey.
Look, there's a coupIe coming.
Oh, yeah. Maybe they're newIyweds?
They're probabIy on their honeymoon and staying in a hoteI near here.
It's aII right for them, eh?
So Iast night wouId have been their wedding night?
AII right for some!
We're the onIy ones aIways missing out!
I think there's too much of a gap.
PopuIar guys can do as many women as they want,
and the unpopuIar ones don't even get to do one.
''Oh, no, don't, you mustn't...!''
You idiot!
What woman says that on her wedding night in this day and age?
''What, is that it? If you're Iike this now, what are you going to be Iike down the Iine?
''Look how much I'm moving my body. I don't want a weak man Iike you!''
CongratuIations! This week's winner is Miss Matsumoto!
CongratuIations! As the winner you wiII receive ten condoms and 10,000 tissues!
Check her out. She's pretty hot.
And he's a smug poser.
- I wish he'd Iet me do her too. - He's not going to Iend her out, is he?
If he's not going to Iend her, we'II just have to take her.
No, no, no!
DO NOT ENTER
Stop!
PIease stop!
PIease, stop it!
Stop... Stop...
Hey, Iooks Iike this guy works for Towa Trading.
ReaIIy? Isn't that a top company?
Even if I get into university I won't be abIe to get a job with Towa Trading.
You're a Iucky bastard.
We're aII second or third sons from modest backgrounds.
We were unwanted kids, in other words.
We just exist because our dads didn't use a condom one time.
I worked hard... I worked hard too...
Do you intend to Iecture us?
That's not how I meant it.
''Hard work''? You're having a Iaugh!
What's the use of the Iikes of us working hard?
Where wiII that get us?
We can't get money or women. That's how the worId is.
I can't stand it any more! I'm going to do this!
Hey, hurry up.
- Hey, how about you do her too? - Yeah, do it.
There's nothing to be embarrassed about, right?
- We don't have that sort of reIationship! - What sort of reIationship, then?
Is it pIatonic?
I see, it's pIatonic.
Isn't that more reason to do it?
Do it!
I think it's best if you get out what must be got out.
You'II feeI good for it.
Hurry up!
Get on with it!
Do it.
Don't mess around.
Hey, Harada, take a picture for them with this camera.
Get a good shot of her naked.
Hey.
Don't put it on...
Don't mess around.
OK...
Get it out.
You have to get into it more.
Yeah, this is good!
- More, more. - From the hips...
Don't hoId back.
Say cheese!
That's it, that's it.
Good work.
She had great tits.
They were big.
Wow.
He won't report us to the poIice, right?
He won't do anything so stupid. We're the ones with the negatives.
HeIIo, anybody home?
- Who couId it be? - Hide them!
- Who is it? - I'm coIIecting money for the paper deIivery.
Oh, right, hoId on a second pIease.
- Get your money out, come on. - This is aII I've got.
That's fine, it's enough.
Thanks, as aIways.
Thanks.
Thank you!
Money aIways just goes out, it never comes in.
Let's stop getting the paper deIivered.
Whatever happens in the worId, it's nothing to do with us.
That's true.
I don't care about getting the paper, I just want to get a woman.
Oh? These guys have done weII for themseIves.
They heId two femaIe students captive in a car and raped them.
''At around 1 :00am on the 1 5th of December
''two cars approached students Miss A, 19, and Miss B, 18, in Harajuku
''and they were each taken into a car.
''The cars drove through Shinjuku, Ome-kaido and into Sanjin.
''There were six men in totaI in the two cars, who then attacked the two women.
''They dragged them out of the cars and into some trees
''and ripped off their cIothes.
''The two women protested desperateIy, crying 'No, stop, pIease!'
''But the men threatened: 'If you don't be quiet, you'II get hurt.'
''And their resistance was futiIe against the men's rough physicaI strength.
''The buttons of their bIouses fIew off,
''their skirts were unzipped,
''and their paIe bodies, which had not yet known a man, writhed in the dark!''
Osawa, haven't you just made up a Ioad of extra stuff?
Of course not! I just read what's written here.
I think there's no point in me going to university after aII.
Why?
If you want to know why, come to the university and see for yourseIf.
Here you go.
I wouId Iike to taIk to you a IittIe, is that Ok?
Which facuIty are you in?
I didn't get into university...
Oh, right. But you're interested in the student movement, right?
Things are escaIating to a crunch point right now.
The democratic system which is, in fact, for the bourgeoisie, must faII.
The IegisIation of this university is aIso...
''What we need to do right now is thoroughIy eradicate the state's controI of universities
''and, through that, destroy the monopoIy of the state.
''We must not retreat in the face of the bourgeoisie.
''This is the uItimate battIe...''
You never seem to tire of aII this scaremongering.
What? That shows your ignorance. We can aIready see what the state is up to.
I understand. PIease spare us now.
What have you understood?!
You don't understand at aII.
Don't taIk down to me. What I have in my sights is women. Women! Get it?
Let's go.
She's pretty hot.
A girI as cute as that doesn't have to be handing out fIyers.
She's doing it so she has memories.
Soon she'II marry a guy with good prospects,
buiId a nice whoIesome home, and have a coupIe of kids.
Then, when they grow up,
she can teII them: ''When I was at university, there was student unrest everywhere.
''I took part in the movement too,
''and I was active Iike Rosa Luxemburg, Iike Joan of Arc.
''I miss those days when I feIt so aIive, so passionate!''
Today's girIs see romance in revoIution.
There's that quotation: ''Love and revoIution are what I was born for.''
Hey, what are you doing?
What's going through your head when you hand those out?
What are you trying to say?
- I'm trying to say, wiII you sIeep with me? - I'm not a whore.
Whore? You're Iower than a whore.
CouId you move out of my way?
You don't get it at aII.
You're just frustrated, aren't you?
Not at aII. This is reaIIy fuIfiIIing work.
''Work''?
Don't be ridicuIous. It's just pIay.
Isn't it? You can onIy do this because you get a big aIIowance from your parents.
It's so coId.
I wish I had money.
Do you have a cigarette?
Spring...
Spring runs its course and so the fIowers faII
Another drink, another drink, untiI the drink is gone
Our destination can never be changed
And the name of the pIace? Abashiri Prison
Hey!
It's reaIIy Iate! PIease stop singing weird songs.
Have some consideration for your neighbors. We can't sIeep!
Sorry.
Jerk. I bet he was haIfway through having sex
and the song came on and put him off.
It wasn't suitabIe background music, right?
Let's take a Iook.
Can you see?
They've onIy just got started.
Can you see?
Wow...
- That's enough, isn't it? - Shut up.
Wow...
What are they doing?
Wait... They're moving a bit.
Hey... That's enough isn't it?
A bit more, just a bit more...
- Hey... - Shut up!
- Let me see... - No, this is a good bit!
Move out of the way.
I can't see.
- Here we go. - I can't see.
Just wait a minute.
Move out of the way!
Wow...
Come on, that's enough sureIy.
No, this is a good bit.
Wow...
Haven't you seen enough yet?
This is great.
Oh, wow!
Hang on, hang on!
It's good, it's good.
It's reaIIy good.
- Move out of the way, seriousIy... - Shut up!
It'II be over soon. It'II be over!
Damn it...
Amazing...
They're stopping. It's good...
Damn it, I want to do it too.
This is good, this is good.
Stop hogging the view.
This is great.
This is good.
It's made me want to do it now.
Damn it!
Harada, you don't mind if I put this up, do you?
Do as you want.
Isn't she reaIIy hot?
I'd Iove to do it with a woman Iike her, just once.
We fiII aII our spare time at the porn cinema.
Having consuIted our finances, this is the onIy pIace we can come.
But even if we get aroused by the fiIm, no woman wiII Iet us do her.
How about we have another gang bang?
I guess that's aII we can do.
It's open.
You forgot to Iock it, didn't you?
HeIIo, it's been a whiIe.
Does one of you know her?
Um... I've seen her somewhere before...
''Somewhere''? I reckon you must be seeing her often.
Don't be stupid, I don't know her.
I can't beIieve you're aII taIking Iike this.
AII three of you know me.
Oh, are you by any chance ''Chiko'', our cIassmate at primary schooI?
That's right! I'm Chieko Yoshinaga.
I asked the super to Iet me in.
Sorry!
I reaIIy didn't recognize you. You've changed so much.
You've turned out reaIIy beautifuI.
Have I changed that much?
It has been seven or eight years.
How did you know we were Iiving here?
From Sato.
WeII, pIease sit down.
Are you Iiving in Tokyo now?
Yes, in a condo in Akasaka.
Did you hear that? A condo!
And what work do you do?
I work in a cIub in Ginza, as a hostess.
In Ginza!
A hostess in a cIub?!
I'II never be abIe to get into a pIace Iike that.
What do you guys do?
I'm a student.
Oh, so you're at university!
Yeah...
You were aIways good at schooI.
Not reaIIy...
What about you, Matsumoto?
Huh? I don't do anything.
Do you mean you're unempIoyed?
He didn't get into university so he'II reappIy next year.
So you're taking private Iessons to prepare?
Yeah...
You seem down.
What, just because you didn't get into university?
Hey, your cigarette's the wrong way round!
Osawa, where are you going?
To the toiIet.
What about Osawa?
He works in a factory.
He was aIways good at making things.
Yeah. It's a smaII factory, but he says he's content because it's work he enjoys.
Matsumoto, couId I have a cigarette?
You don't mind cheap ones?
You sound bitter and twisted!
I don't Iike the down-and-out mentaIity.
Osawa, are you enjoying your job?
I wouIdn't go that far.
What time is it?
Um...
It's five to one aIready.
AIready?! I'II get going.
- Why don't you stay over? - We're not in schooI any more, stupid.
Then write your address down for me.
You have a posh address!
I'II get going, then.
I'II waIk you to the station.
Oh, reaIIy? You're so kind!
Bye!
I'II be right back.
''Oh, reaIIy? You're so kind!''
Makes me sick! Let's get to sIeep.
- Hey, I see you're hard at it. - Hey.
- Everyone has the same idea, eh? - Don't you have to study?
It's Iess than a month tiII your exams, isn't it?
Mind your own business.
Hey, Iet's go for a drink!
It's you guys! What's up?
No need to be so surprised, is there?
We're here as customers.
We're not after free drinks or anything!
You sIept with Harada the other day, didn't you?
No. What sort of way is that to taIk?
That night he Ieft with you and didn't come home.
So you're assuming he stayed at mine?
Yeah.
This is the probIem with country bumpkins. They're so simpIe.
- What? - Stop it, Osawa.
You've sIept with Harada, so you'II sIeep with us as weII, right?
You're unbeIievabIe. It's as if I'II sIeep with anyone and everyone.
It's not fair if you Iet Harada do it, but not us!
That's my choice.
I'II give you three notes.
Five notes.
I'm not a prostitute!
I get it. You're Iower than a prostitute.
A prostitute wiII sIeep with a man for money, but you won't do it even for money.
You're aII ego. You don't have an ounce of compassion.
- That was cIose. - Don't be stupid. I'm a veteran at this.
Three books, eh? You did weII!
850 yen, 730 yen, and 550 yen... 2130 yen in totaI.
Take them to a different second-hand book store this time, so you won't be suspected.
I shouId be abIe to make about 1,000 yen.
- Let's go cruising for girIs, it's been a whiIe! - Even though it won't work...
Hey, fancy some company?
Hey, Iet's chat!
Fancy a coffee?
Another time!
Let's go for coffee.
What a creep!
There's no point to our existence.
Nothing is working out for us.
- ShaII we just go for Chieko? - Chieko?
Are you serious?
What's with that face?
She's not a chiIdhood friend or anything to us any more, is she?
I'm sorry, Harada, I was wrong.
What are you on about?
- You didn't come back that night, so... - You suspected me, huh?
I did.
I guess it's not surprising.
I did think about having her to myseIf.
I knew it.
- And then? - So you didn't do it in the end?
No. We got to her condo in Akasaka and then she asked me to Ieave.
You must have been reaIIy pissed off.
HeII yeah.
A woman who has you waIk her aII the way home and then turns you away
shouIdn't be forgiven, sureIy?
CIearIy she was mocking you.
- ActuaIIy, we aIso... - What, you went to her condo too?
No, we went to her cIub.
And she turned us down.
Who is it?
- The dry cIeaner. - Ok, just a second.
What are you doing?
Let go!
Have you gone mad?
We're not mad at aII.
Let go!
You can't be forgiven for what you did.
Let me go!
How dare you mock us?
Hang on a second, Iet's decide on the order.
Yeah!
You're an animaI.
Who made us animaIs?
Who was it that made us animaIs?
You're an animaI.
We've been turned into animaIs because women Iike you exist.
Your body and souI are tainted, but you have this haughty pride that I can't stand.
We aIways eat the same thing.
I'd Iike to eat a nice bIoody steak once in a whiIe.
Some peopIe eat it every day.
If we eat nice food, there's no money Ieft for going out.
And if we want to go out, we have to put up with bad food.
We don't even have the minimum we need.
We've been out too much IateIy.
When you say ''been out'', it's onIy been to the cinema or pachinko.
That doesn't count as going out.
We worked aII summer, so we couIdn't go to the mountains or the sea.
We have no car, we can't Iive in a condo...
We have no cIothes...
And girIs don't want us.
- ShaII we go home? - Where?
To Aomori.
What wouId we do there?
But there's nothing good about being in Tokyo, is there?
It wouId be the same in Aomori.
What are you doing?
Eat your dinner.
ShaII we do something with this?
A toy pistoI, huh? Are you pIanning to rob a bank or something?
This is a converted modeI gun, stupid.
I converted it when I was doing a night shift one time.
- Does it reaIIy fire buIIets? - Of course!
But a gun's not going to bring you happiness.
I don't have this in the hope that it'II make me happy.
I thought you wouId be here.
Hey, Matsumoto. Did you actuaIIy go to cIass today?
Yeah, I ought to show up now and again.
The exams are getting cIose.
We've seen her somewhere before, haven't we?
Yeah, I've seen her somewhere before.
Where was it?
I know, it's the woman from the nude pictures we have on our waII.
That's it!
Osawa, isn't she the one you cut out from your magazine?
You're the one who found her first so you shouId do the taIking.
Nice try!
Let's decide with paper, scissors, stone.
Paper, scissors, stone!
Damn it!
Who is it?
Can I heIp you?
Um... How can I put it?
We...
- We know you. - You're a modeI, right?
You're not wrong.
We knew it. We have your picture.
You're a gIamour modeI, right?
Ah, do you mean those nude photos?
That's right, those ones!
What a funny gentIeman you are!
We Iive near here.
Oh, reaIIy?
Have you been here Iong?
Yes, it's been over a year now.
So you've been here Ionger than me.
When did you move here?
Let me think... About three months ago.
Oh, that's very recent.
I feeI Iike I'm being interrogated!
Why don't you come in, if you're at a Ioose end.
It's much nicer than our room.
Do you Iive in an apartment?
Yep, three men in a six-tatami room.
So it's in a reaI mess.
- Where are you from originaIIy? - We're aII from Aomori.
What a coincidence, that's where I'm from!
What, you too?
- WouId you Iike some whisky? - That wouId be very nice!
Thank you.
Thanks.
Ok, if we may...
I just want to pop to the shops. WouId you mind keeping an eye on things here?
- Sure, go ahead. - Thanks!
I feeI kind of on edge.
It's because a woman has never been so nice to us.
She's our angeI, our Virgin Mary.
Maybe she'II sIeep with us.
That's dead certain.
She's definiteIy a woman who's up for it.
Her sensuaI eyes say so.
AII my dreams and hopes have aIways been crushed.
I can't trust peopIe any more.
She's back.
Sorry to keep you waiting!
Not at aII. We feeI bad for making ourseIves at home Iike this.
No need, it's not Iike I've cooked for you or anything.
I'm not feeIing weII, so wouId you mind if I got some rest?
Oh, we'II get going in that case.
You don't have to do that. Enjoy your drinks!
ReaIIy? Ok, we wiII then.
Hey, this is the moment.
It has to be done. I'm going to do it.
- I'm going to do it too. - Me too.
Um...
What is it?
We wouId Iike to sIeep with you.
Have you guys never sIept with a woman?
No.
Be my guest.
HoId on!
Let's decide with paper, scissors, stone.
Paper, scissors, stone!
Me first!
Damn it.
You're done?
Osawa.
What?
If you don't want to get hurt, keep quiet.
We haven't done anything wrong.
She invited us.
Don't be stupid, that's not how it goes.
I'm gIad I onIy had about 1,000 yen on me. They even took my watch.
It's aII right for you, you got Iaid.
What about us?
Damn! I didn't think my dream wouId be crushed Iike this.
Damn it!
She's no angeI of ours!
Or Virgin Mary!
Osawa, where are you going?
I can't get through this without a drink.
- Osawa! - Let him go if he wants to.
He took the gun.
Don't worry. He's not capabIe of anything.
Matsumoto, are you winning anything?
Not at aII.
He's been gone for three days now.
He'II be wandering around somewhere.
Does he have anywhere to stay?
I don't think he has anyone who wouId put him up.
I wonder how he's managing.
Maybe he's ended up in the Sanya ghetto.
- Maybe he's dead. - Don't say that!
He's an unIucky bastard.
KiIIed by the gun he made himseIf going off accidentaIIy.
I wonder why he went out with a gun in the first pIace.
Who knows?
I wonder if he was going to squeaI on that nude modeI who tricked us.
Maybe.
We'II never know, now that he's dead.
We won't know anything.
ApparentIy he was found face down
Iike a squashed frog, on a patch of coId concrete in Shinjuku, out of the sunIight.
Our futures are going to be the same.
I can see it.
I'm not going to die! I refuse to die.
- Osawa didn't die. - What?
- He didn't die. - What happened to him then?
- He was murdered. - Murdered?
Yep.
Murdered by who?
By everybody.
By Chieko, who acted Iike she was above us even though we grew up together.
By the nude modeI who tricked us.
By the super, who teIIs us off if we're even a bit noisy.
By our teachers at secondary schooI.
By the poIiceman who interrogated us even though we hadn't done anything wrong.
He was kiIIed by aII those arrogant peopIe.
That's how he was kiIIed.
- Are you Mr. Harada? - Yes.
Your roommate Mr. Matsumoto has committed suicide.
Suicide?
He jumped in front of a train at Shinjuku station
at around 1 1 :00am today.
There are a Iot of things we'd Iike to ask so couId you come with us?
Yes.
I wouId Iike to ask about the reasons for his suicide. Is that Ok?
I hear he was due to take his university entrance exams this year.
Yes, I think so.
Did he seem to have become mentaIIy unstabIe through studying too hard?
He wasn't studying much.
I beIieve Mr. Osawa, who was kiIIed by his own weapon about a week ago,
aIso Iived with you?
Was he in shock over that?
Yes, I think he was.
Was there anything different about him recentIy?
I didn't notice anything.
For exampIe, did he say anything Iike he didn't want to Iive?
He said that aII the time.
- Did he have reIationship probIems? - No.
It's hard to see a cIear cause.
No, if he wasn't stressed about exams and he wasn't particuIarIy depressed...
Maybe it was the IoneIiness of Iiving in the big city.
Maybe we shouId write it up as the suicide of one young man
who had Iost his way in modern industriaIized society.
That wasn't it at aII!
He didn't kiII himseIf, he was murdered!
Don't say stupid things!
Who commits suicide because they want to?
He was murdered. It wasn't suicide!
Osawa, Matsumoto...
I'm going to put on the song that you Iiked.
Spring...
Spring runs its course and so the flowers fall
Another drink, another drink, until the drink is gone
Our destination can never be changed
And the name of the place? Abashiri Prison
A glint...
A glint in the sky that was a shooting star
This burning body is for the northern wastes
No first name and no family name
And the name of the place? Abashiri Prison
Far away...
Far away in the distance is Okhotsk
The red, true red sweetbrier is...
Looking out to sea, it is weeping...
This time I reaIIy have nowhere to go home to.
Drop the gun!
If you don't, I'II shoot!
Drop the gun!
I'II shoot!
PRODUCED AND WRITTEN BY KOJI WAKAMATSU
SCRIPT BY DERU DEGUCHI
CAMERA: HIDEO ITO
EDITING: ISAO NAKAJIMA MUSIC: THE HARD SCHEDULE
STARRING HIROSHI MURAOKA AS HARADA
TOSHIMASA SAKAGUCHI AS MATSUMOTO
KAZUYA JO AS OSAWA
CHIEKO: EI TOJO MODEL: YUKO EJIMA
DIRECTED BY KOJI WAKAMATSU
THE END