The Big Boss (暗黒街の顔役)

TOHO INCORPORATED

Who are you?

THE BIG BOSS

Producer: TANAKA Tomoyuki

Screenplay: SEKIZAWA Shinichi NISHIKAWA Motosada

Sound Recording: TONE Norio Photography: NAKAI Asakazu SHIMONAGA Nao Art Direction: Lighting by: AKUNE Iwao MORI Shigeru

Music by: Sung by: IFUKUBE Akira TAKARADA Akira "Cute Fellow": Theme songs: Columbia Records Lyrics by SEKIZAWA Shinichi "Broken Blinker": Music by: HAMAGUCHI Kuranosuke Lyrics by SEKIZAWA Shinichi Music by: Sung by: HAMAGUCHI Kuranosuke TAKARADA Akira

Film Processing: Assistant Director: Toyo Laboratory TAKEBAYASHI Susumu Engineering: Production Manager: Toho Engineering Editor: KITAMURA Toshio Department KUROIWA Yoshitami

Cast

TSURUTA Koji

TAKARADA Akira KAWAZU Seizaburo

KUSABUE Mitsuko YANAGAWA Keiko SHIRAKAWA Yumi

HIRATA SATO TANAKA Mickey NATSUKI Teruhiko Makoto Haruo CURTIS Yosuke

YOKOYAMA Michiyo HAYASHI Miki KODO Kokuten NAKAJIMA Sonomi SAKAI Sachio SASA Rumiko HONMA Ayako

SERA Akira AMAMOTO Hideyo SAWAMURA Ikio YAMAMOTO Ren OTOMO Shin KIRINO Hiroo KATO Haruya

NAKAYAMA Yutaka TAKAGI Hiroshi HIROSE Shoichi UNO Koji NAKAMARU Tadao IWAMOTO Hiroshi IMAIZUMI Ren ICHIKAWA Katsuji

MIFUNE Toshiro

Directed by: OKAMOTO Kihachi

YOKOMITSU TRADING COMPANY

"Just like udon noodles, but it is not udon...

"Just like soba noodles, but it is not soba...

YOKOMITSU TRADING COMPANY - "Just like soba noodles, but it is not soba...

"Just like soba noodles, but it is not soba...

"Just like somen noodles, but it is not somen."

What is going on?

Don't be so hasty.

You can't cash a bad bill so quickly.

"Tokoroten jelly. Tokoroten jel..."

But it's been three months.

- Mr. Amagishi, didn't you give up on cashing that bill once?

Where is Mr. Komatsu?

- Chief? He is taking a day off.

- Yeah. Yes! Chief is taking a day off.

Hello. Yes, boss?

Ryuta, I need to talk to you.

Yes, at my house. Kurozaki is here, too.

- I promised my kid to visit him in the hospital today. Is tomorrow...

What?

I said I need to see you now.

- Boss, Ryuta has a swelled head because of the money he earned.

- That's all right. He is a reasonable man. He's different from his younger brother Mineo.

YOKOMITSU

- I don't know how you feel about this, but I don't like educated men.

Ryuta is still useful.

But...

- Listen, nowadays using only rough methods like yours, does not work.

Boss, what did you want to talk to me about?

Sit down.

How is Amagishi's bill?

I am letting it cool.

It can be cashed now, but I am considering the police.

Yes. It is better to wait.

Is that what you wanted to talk to me about?

Seen your younger brother, Mineo?

No, I have seldom seen him.

Something happened to Mineo?

- I don't know what he's thinking, but he is singing in Shinjuku.

Singing?

On top of that,

he sings at a jazz club very close to the restaurant where the witness works.

With a stage name, "Eddie Mineo". That makes me laugh.

Darling, I'm going home.

I will see you at the club tonight.

Okay. Bye.

Komatsu, make him quit right away!

- The public excitement over the murder case just started to cool down.

You must be aware that now is a very crucial time.

Nothing is wrong about singing,

but he can't expose his face to the public.

Go see Mineo and tell him.

Yes... Bye.

Listen.

I hope you will lecture him well what will be the consequence for an act of treachery.

Drive me to my apartment.

What's wrong?

Please return the car to the office.

Ryuta...

Today's performance: Jimmy Takeda and the Wagon Stars, featuring Oume Nami and Eddie Mineo

Today's performance: Jimmy Takeda and the Wagon Stars, featuring Oume Nami and Eddie Mineo - "The road illuminated by the headlights is the road for a desperate man...

- "The road illuminated by the headlights is the road for a desperate man...

Damn the intersection!

Left or right?

"Right blinker is broken and hell is on the left."

"Being irritated and stepping on the gas pedal...

"My dreams are turning away...

"If it's a red light, it is even...

"It's a broken blinker after all...

"Nothing goes straight."

Are you grumbling to customers?

How filthy!

Hey, say something!

= "One, two... one, two, three, four...

"The neon signs on the streets have a sulky look."

- "The neon signs on the streets have a sulky look...

"Life is miserable. There are all sorts of..."

Want to ride in an ambulance?

A hearse would be fine, too.

Well?

"With the broken blinker, I keep living my life."

Okay. Let's go.

Ouch.

Stop the silly harassment.

Take this!

It annoys customers.

What?

Are you going to set yourself against the Yokomitsu family?

What? Yokomitsu?

- You must be a stranger. - He must be a fake.

Pay your bill and go home!

You bastard!

Brother Komatsu!

Ken.

- I'm sorry about them. They're new faces.

Did Kurozaki send them?

- Well... - Are you here to help them?

- No, please stop joking. I'm on business.

No, it isn't about you. Please come this way.

Ouch!

"Today is a fine day. Today is a fine day."

Ah, Yoko! You are here.

Yes. I had today off.

- I heard those punks were in the audience again.

- It was only a pinprick. I'm not bothered by those hooligans.

- That's right. If they do that to me, I will crush them with my fingers.

- Mineo-san, someone's here. - What?

"Autumn mist wets my eyes."

Ah, it's you, brother.

Yes.

I need to talk to you. Let's get outside for a little while.

Finally, they sent you.

Stop singing.

It's about that, as I thought.

- Your composite photographs are being distributed like handbills.

That does not look like me at all.

- The girl who witnessed you works at a nearby restaurant.

She must have forgotten my face by now.

- Who can guarantee that? Stop appearing on the stage.

No! I will never stop.

Mineo, can't you understand?

You're the one who can't understand me.

I want to go straight.

Go straight?

It's not easy to quit your life of crime.

Listen, Mineo. Do you know what would happen to you if you keep singing?

I came here only because I have your best interests at heart.

- That's a lie. You came because you're in danger yourself.

You're a coward, brother!

What?

Brother, can your son walk now?

At heart, you want to go straight for your son, too.

You are lying to yourself.

Brother!

- I will see you tomorrow. Think hard until then.

- Hey Mineo. I need you to come with me.

How about that man?

No, he was more handsome, like a movie star.

Well, it looks as if this guy is innocent.

So he is a handsome man, like a movie star...

Yes, he was.

- It's been half a year. Are you sure you haven't forgotten his face?

- No way. I have an excellent memory.

- Is that right? I will be back again.

Thank you.

Kana, come here.

You'd better tell him that you have forgotten.

Why is that?

- You don't want to get involved in things like that.

Please take me there.

- But they charge ¥100 for a cup of coffee. Let's split the cost.

Stingy! That's fine!

What are you angry about?

He's too cheap to pay ¥100 for coffee.

How stingy. - Where's that?

High-Teen.

Oh! Take me there, too.

KASHIMURA AUTO REPAIR SHOP

Kashimura, what is that?

That's the car from the last time.

Idiot!

That car may supply a clue to the police.

Why didn't you take it apart?

But that car is still...

- Make it a junked car. It's easy for you to do that.

Mr. Kurozaki!

Why are you looking at me like that?

Please give me a break.

Don't be silly.

Did you forget about the past already?

But I paid you back what I owed.

Yes, that's true,

but if you didn't have that money then, this shop was junk a long time ago.

You should never forget that.

I begged my boss on your behalf to make use of your shop for times like this.

I am grateful for that...

No, you're not!

What do you want me to do?

Just do as the stockholder tells you.

Kashimura, we'll borrow your shop for a while.

What will you do?

We're not going to destroy it.