Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer (Crying フリーマン)

Today is my birthday.

I am finally twenty-nine years old.

I am still a virgin.

That may seem strange, but it is the truth.

And I will probably not live to see my thirtieth birthday.

That is my feeling now.

Once I understood that, I wanted to write this down.

I am going to be killed.

Why, you may ask?

I witnessed a murder...

What's more, I clearly saw the killer's face.

H...H...Help me!

Please help me!

Help me!

Help me! Freeman, we're friends, aren't we?

I...I'll give you money...

Free...

Silent tears...

They flowed from his eyes, as if they were fountains.

Those tears the assassin shed were like no other tears, I thought.

Sadder than any others, more beautiful than any I had seen.

Are you an artist?

Yes...

Are you Japanese?

Yes, my name is Emu Hino.

I am Yoh, in Japanese you would write it as Kama.

Mr. Yoh...

The assassin introduced himself.

In China, that means he'll definitely come to kill me.

My father was the last of Japan's political fixers, but he's dead.

And I'm alone.

Father was a powerful man which scared suitors away.

That is why I have only one regret.

Will you kill me?

I love you.

I'm afraid.

You're packing two Chief Specials with you.

You must have two targets.

Isn't that right?

Koh, you talk too much.

Why is Shudo Shimazaki here?

What's that boss of bosses doing at an investigators' meeting?

Is this some kind of joke?

This subject of this meeting is the Chinese Mafia.

Unfortunately, we know next to nothing about the Chinese Mafia.

So, Mr. Shimazaki has been asked to fill us in.

I am Shimazaki of the Hakushin Group.

There are 26,000 in our business,

and we neither engage in, nor permit, the sale or trafficking

of narcotics in our business.

Narcotics drive men mad, wreck homes and destroy countries.

This so-called Chinese Mafia

presently controls 95% of the international narcotics market.

However, this organization's makeup is utterly mysterious.

This Chinese Mafia calls itself Hyaku Hachi Ryu.

Which can mean, ''The 108 Dragons,'' or ''Years of the Dragon.''

It's not a stretch to call them THE business in narcotics.

Even now, the 108 Dragons are no doubt working

to add Japan to their market.

However, as my organization will not deal in narcotics,

their agents have already entered Japan in order to kill me.

The 108 Dragons have trained a super killer.

Code name: ''Freeman'',

and nobody knows who he is, or who would know.

But I have been told that he is currently in Japan!

Old man...

Well detectives, I guess my life is in your hands.

Really, your first private showing, aren't you excited?

It's about time, I'll be thirty next year.

I need to get moving along, don't you agree, Mitsuko?

Oh no, don't say things like that!

Mr. Yoh...

Some mystery man in a mask shoots Shudo Shimazaki in broad daylight,

you call him Mr. Yoh, and he leaves you alive and runs off!

How many times do I have to tell you?

I just said something I don't remember to a man I don't know.

Now, if you are finished with me, I have business to attend to.

You aren't under detention, please feel free to go home.

How can I go home with that mob out there?

Especially since you've released my name to them!

Tell me about Mr. Yoh,

and that bunch out there won't lay a finger on you.

We can protect you.

I would never have believed the police could stoop so low.

I'm going home.

Guard her! Take her home.

Tell us! Who's the guy who did the boss?

Who's this Mr. Yoh? Tell us!

Hey! Woman!

Come back here! Hey!

Use a knife. There's a police box nearby.

One noise and the police will seal the place off.

There're five cars from the Hakushin following us.

That's not all. Mr. Yoh is also likely to try for you.

Wasn't that what you had in mind when you announced my name?

Well, the Yakuza seem to be sure he'll come back for you.

So, it doesn't look like they'll let you out of their sight.

Once I'm inside my house, please leave me alone for tonight.

Good evening.

Mr. Yoh...

So you remember me.

Remembering you is the problem. That's why you're here to kill me.

It is.

The police and Yakuza are both waiting outside. It is.

The police and Yakuza are both waiting outside.

I know.

You're so confident... I know.

You're so confident...

If I screamed, the police would come flying in here.

There'd be no way you could escape. What would you do then?

Make sure you die.

Before that, won't you please tell me one thing?

Well, well, Hakushin's killer, Razor Ryuji, shows his face.

Let's be friends, Mr. Shinda.

We've lost our murdered boss.

If we can't find this Yoh and get even,

the Hakushin are finished.

I have a favor to ask of you, so I'll cut to the chase.

Let us do the police's work for them.

Pay a visit to the Tokyo office the day after tomorrow.

I'll be waiting.

We go in at dawn!

My father had this made for me before he died.

It was to be my wedding dress.

My diary isn't lying, I'm a virgin.

Before you kill me, will you do something for me?

I've been thinking about you constantly.

I'm so tired of living alone.

It's lonely, so very lonely.

I have never made love either.

Show me.

I'm embarrassed. Show me.

I'm embarrassed.

I'm embarrassed. You can look at mine.

You can look at mine.

Did you say yours?

Yes...

Yoh...

Don't move!

Not that ya would with a Beretta M93 pointed at you.

So you're that bastard Yoh who off'ed the boss.

Aren't ya?

Yo... Yoh...

Hurry up, kill the woman and get to the car.

I can't shoot.

That bastard... Damn!

Why haven't you killed her?

Why are you asking for trouble?

Have you forgotten the laws of the 108 Dragons?!

Head for the Police Hospital, Koh!

Do you really mean that?

I'm cold...

We're taking you to a police hospital. It's the only way.

Will you tell me?

I will be at a place called Gokoyo on the western coast.

At Hinomura's kiln. Do you understand?

I don't know. I don't get it at all.

Why are you doing this, Freeman?

My name is Hinomura.

All this blood... Where is she?

Damn! That son of a bitch Ryuji screwed the whole thing up!

I know why Miss Hino isn't here!

What?

She was just admitted to the police hospital.

What?

Koh, she will come to Gokoyo alone.

No matter how they hound her, she will not talk about me.

If she does talk about me, then when I see her,

I'll take the chance.

And if she comes there alone, what will you do then?

Say goodbye.

I can't picture her with me.

Wait, take me to the base.

She's leaving.

She's called a taxi.

What? That woman left the hospital in a taxi?!

Why would she take a taxi, when it's so obvious?

You don't let her out of your sight, you got that?

What? It was a decoy?!

Yes, Sir, she switched places with a friend. Where she went...

You moron! You let her slip right through your hands!

Damn... Damn, idiots!

Mr. Yoh, it was just as you expected.

No one followed her. She's amazing, isn't she?

I told you my name was Yoh Hinomura. That was not a lie.

It is also true that I am a potter.

My father died while I was in college,

and the kiln passed to me.

But now, all that is just a front identity.

My true profession is assassin for the Chinese Mafia.

It started four years ago...

I had my first personal exhibition in New York.

My exhibition was a great success.

Then a roll of film changed my life forever.

Someone must have hidden the film in one of my pots.