Chameleon Page #2

Listen to me! I saw it on TV...

Gosh! You couldn't even

collect today.

100,000 yen only? Idiot!

And you want to join us?

I'm sorry!

Yesterday's basement garage!

Who you talking to!

That guy!

That guy!

Kosuke.

Kosuke.

Let's go home.

Tatsuo.

Let's go out.

Tatsuo!

Hey, what?

We're going to go ahead and eat.

Sure, go ahead.

I'm sure hungry.

We start with a report on.

...testimony at

a Parliamentary Hearing.

Witness Atsugi.

I stand here before you today...

...not to respond to any allegations...

...but in order to establish whether

or not these allegations.

...carry any truth at all.

Getting to the point...

I have absolutely

no knowledge of this matter.

Transportation Minister Atsugi was

scheduled to testify in Parliament.

...regarding allegations of bribery.

Due to the

extraordinary disappearance...

...of another key witness...

Ishibashi Tomoyasu,

the Hearing was postponed.

Ishibashi, the planning director

for Japan Real Estate Corp...

...has simply disappeared...

It's him, right!

I couldn't believe it!

The Police have determined that

Ishibashi is in some troubles.

...and have been investigating

his activities from yesterday...

They say the Minister's secretary

killed himself...

...but they killed him.

They killed that guy, too?

We're witnesses, right?

Think there's money in a tip-off?

Money?

Money...

Think we could get

1 million yen for a tip-off?

If we do, they'll wipe us out.

Then it's the cops.

Like we can just go report

to the cops.

Then it's off?

Forget it!

I'll be back, in due course.

What's "in due course" mean?

Hey, watch it.

"If you're going to dance... "

"Dance the tap, tap,

wiretap dance"

"If I don't make it back,

use this"

"Goro"

He knows.

He's no dummy.

Take me to your boss.

I want to talk to him.

Yes, so...

...you'll be in touch with the local

risk assessment section...

...and we'll hire

an anti-terrorism specialist...

So I hear you're vegetarian.

When Noda Goro was 10...

...his parents lost their

interior decorating business.

...and walked out on

50 million yen in debt.

...and killed themselves.

Goro was placed in what they

used to call an orphanage.

When he was 14...

...he slashed a contractor who

owed his parents with a knife...

...landing him in reform school.

That's where he met Ookita Tatsuo

and Yoshida Jun.

After reform school,

he joined martial arts school...

...got kicked out, hired by yakuza...

...got kicked out, wound up

in Chinatown in L.A...

...as a bodyguard for the

Asian mafia, but after a year...

Let's not go that route.

Paper-scissors-rock!

You got back to Japan...

3 years ago?

Yeah, well.

You were 25

Since then?

I'd had a pretty active life,

so I became a regular slacker.

A slacker...

...who's depressed.

...and cons weddings.

Which is why I've got

no credibility whatsoever.

Even if I told them

I saw you there...

...they'd ask me what I was doing.

I'll shut up my 3 guys.

No matter what,

I won't let them talk.

So can't you leave us alone?

What do you mean,

"No matter what?"

You drugged or tortured

that witness, right?

He'll be dumped somewhere

tomorrow. Total amnesia.

He'll never testify in Parliament.

Where did you fight?

What?

Ex-fighters rub

their hands like that.

To keep their heart

and lungs in shape.

So, you were a fighter?

I only trained.

You breathe even a word...

...and you do know what

the punishment will be.

To the marrow of my bones.

There's no way out.

It's not much, but take it.

You've spared us the trouble

of executing you...

Not that we would.

Who do you think I am?

Don't look down on me...

Is what I'd like to say,

but can't. How pathetic.

Could I take 4 or 5 bills

for carfare?

"Who's behind me... "

I'm a serious Astrologist

I don't hold...

You're the chameleon...

How's your aging problem been?

Yourself?

Doesn't matter. You paid me

but I never told your fortune.

Your birth date?

I think it was September 22...

More or less.

More or less?

Won't work?

It's fine, you're a Virgo. Hold on.

Listen, if you have to

look it up in some books...

Look how thick this book is.

If I had the brains to memorize

this, I'd be in another business.

Unbelievable.

Shall I call an ambulance?

I'm fine.

I haven't eaten in a while.

You're my first customer in 5 days.

It's hard to read.

Want to go eat?

Don't order anymore eggs, please.

That's your 7th or 8th egg.

And stop mixing mustard

into your drink.

It's totally addictive.

Can I ask your name?

What? My name?

Goro.

Goro?

Rhymes with Gogo girl.

Mine's Koike Keiko.

My name's all K's.

I don't mean you...

...but I have lousy luck with men.

The guy I considered marrying

was a marriage con man.

My parents said I was the fool

and cut me off.

So now I'm broke.

I decided to join the cons.

That's why I tell fake fortunes.

Keep the change.

Thanks.

Use this to go home.

Hey! Don't insult me.

Is what I'd like to say,

but can't. How pathetic.

Hey!

Don't worry about me.

All of Tokyo's my pad.

I can always crash

a massage parlor.

Are you...

Is there...

...a reason you don't

want to sleep with me?

The man taken into custody

on this bridge early this morning...

...has been identified

as Ishibashi Tomoyasu...

...the missing Japan Real Estate

Corporation executive.

Mr. Ishibashi appears physically

unharmed and healthy...

...but suffers from amnesia...

...and is unresponsive to questions

from the police and his family.

As a result,

the recently postponed...

I'm with the news desk.

Can I help?

Parliamentary Hearings will be

delayed further.

Unbelievable.

It's good. Let's go with it!

Where was this?

The Oriental Plaza Hotel basement.

When?

The afternoon before the Hearing.

You'll pay me right away, right?

I asked you to wait on that.

10 million.

If not, I'll take 1 million.

I'll talk to my boss...

...but you agree to

go on the show, right?

We'll conceal your face

and alter your voice.

We'll shoot him in there.

With the monitors behind him.

The chair goes...

Goro, zip up your fly.

It hurts!

Hang in there, Granny.

No, call the hospital.

Hey, what's up!

This looks bad.

Your son's car hit her at that

crosswalk with no streetlights.

I asked a friend in the...

Department of Transportation...

...who found out it's your son's car.

He could be charged

with hit-and-run.

Shall I call the police?

The timing's all wrong.

What's going on?

According to Kosuke...

...we don't have any marks

lined up for wedding fraud.

Jun had a great idea.

Just the sort of idea from

a yakuza in training.

I'm not really into it.

It's a one-note drama.

I considered the "fake-son" con,

but it's not exactly our style.

We put the mark on

some new millionaire...

...and when his kid drives out

in some fancy car, bingo!

We offer a friendly settlement,

for at least 1 million.

Who's she?

I heard you have a spare room

on the 2nd floor, practically free.

She cons people, too.

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