Gate of Flesh Page #2

A**hole!

Run, Maya!

Run!

- No Yanks!

- Drop dead!

- Take that!

Let me through!

Cut it out!

Listen here, Sen!

We can't afford to have you

making trouble with Gls.

F*** the Gls! They're just men.

You're a man, too, aren't you?

Why suck up

to a bunch of GI whores?

- Who're you calling GI whores?

- You.

Trash!

Take a look at

who you're dealing with!

KOMASA OF KANTO:

What do you think?

It's a real piece of work.

Nice body.

You should get a full-body tattoo.

I once knew a geisha with a white spider

tattooed on her thigh.

When she drank

or strained real hard,

the white spider would

stand out real pretty.

In fact, that's what

got me into this line.

I just want power.

Awesome power, beyond my own.

I see.

Like people way back who tattooed

themselves to fight wild beasts.

Clear the way!

Move along!

It's not a show!

What happened, Mr. Abe?

Some crazy returnee.

Stabbed a GI just like that.

Were they having a fight?

It happened so quick,

I'm not real sure.

At least he showed

the Japanese spirit still lives.

You could show

a little more spirit yourself.

It's hard these days.

It's "democracy this, democracy that"

every time you turn around.

Over here, Maya dear.

No business for you either?

Nights like this,

I really hate this work.

- Fried noodles. Crisp.

- Coming up.

A woman belongs in the home.

My family was

my father and mother and me.

My father loved my mother,

and my mother loved my father,

and it was a happy home.

My father strayed once,

went off with another woman,

but he came back.

It wasn't because of me.

He couldn't forget my mother.

He couldn't forget her body.

I wonder if you understand that,

Maya dear.

Here's your noodles.

The relationship between

a man and a woman is physical.

Always physical.

You don't yet know the true joys

of the flesh, Maya dear.

Stuff that "Maya dear" sh*t!

Just call me Maya!

Hey, mister,

wanna have a good time?

I do.

You got the money?

Don't worry.

Hurry up and do your business.

It's hot in here.

You're as bad

as the whores at the front.

Look who's talking!

It's you men who are pathetic.

Losing the war!

Oh, yeah?

So you gonna do it or not?

Let's see your money first.

Damn.

So long, babe.

- Where is he?

- He went out the window.

There he is, chief!

He's getting away!

Machiko's been acting strange.

Doesn't come home much.

When she does,

she can't seem to sit still.

Right. Something's up with her.

Don't you think so, Maya?

She said she really hates this work.

If she hates it so much,

she should quit.

A whore shouldn't

try to play housewife.

She got sweet on a man whose wife

stayed in the country after the war.

We've got company.

Could someone go buy me

some liquor?

You're hurt.

Just a scrape. If the MPs come,

get rid of them, will you?

They won't come here.

Maya, go get the liquor.

We meet again.

Are you the one

who stabbed the GI in the market?

He had it coming.

Still haven't found him?

Maya.

- Does it hurt?

- Not a bit.

Twenty days

and it'll heal on its own.

That's how our bodies are built.

Count yourself lucky.

The downpour washed away

your bloody trail.

The market was crawling with police.

You can stay here until it heals.

Right, Sen?

What's your name?

Shintaro Ibuki,

former lance corporal.

So you're a returnee.

I feel like I'm in a field hospital.

What's your racket? S.T.?

Gotta be the X word.

B.T. Is more his speed.

What the hell are

S.T., X and B.T.?

Don't you know anything?

S.T. Is a sneak thief,

the X word is extortion,

and B.T. Is bicycle theft.

Idiots!

What good is it

using such obvious codes?

You think you're special or something?

Give me a break!

I do whatever I have to

to survive.

I bet you're a hold-up man.

Anything less

and you're beneath contempt.

I'm gonna get some sleep.

As soon as that wound heals,

I want you out of here.

This place belongs to just us girls.

We'll see who goes - you or me.

Just to eat and live -

he had more fight in him for that

than he knew what to do with,

and I watched him

with a feeling of awe.

As in primitive societies

where the strongest becomes chief,

Ibuki soon stood at the center

of our little community.

Is dinner ready?

I lived through years

of carnage on the battlefield.

You talk like you know life.

What a laugh!

You're just taking the easy way

and having your jollies.

Can't tell anymore

who's the sponge here.

He's just blowing off steam

from being cooped up too long, right?

Shut up!

I better be going.

I'll get yelled at if I'm late.

See you later.

Be a good boy

and hold down the fort for us.

Here you go.

What's keeping you?

Get moving!

Shin, I'll leave this for you to eat.

You like pineapple?

In the mountains of northern China,

it made my day when

it came in with the supplies.

I thought it was

the best thing in the world.

I swore if I got back alive,

I'd stuff myself with it.

You eat like a glutton.

You bet I do.

Take away a man's appetite

for food and sex and what's left?

Spout all the high-minded

phrases you want,

but without those two things,

you haven't got sh*t.

Right.

That's why we lost the war.

Even after losing, the bastards who did

this to Japan are still talking big.

I'll never again believe

a word they say.

I'm gonna live for sex and food.

Shin's got a hot temper,

but what a man!

He looks like a little boy

when he laughs.

It's like having my brother back.

I hope he stays with us.

Watch where you're going.

Do you have any canned pineapple?

- Sure. American.

- How much?

Twenty yen.

Don't let the MPs catch you.

Hey there.

Oh, it's you.

Don't startle me.

Could I talk to you a minute, Sen?

You haven't seen

that guy again, have you?

What guy?

The returnee who stabbed that GI.

You were with him

when the MPs came in, right?

Haven't seen him.

Wouldn't recognize him if I did.

Wait, Sen.

Here, have a cigarette.

Come over here.

He's a real gutsy guy.

He organized a heist

from a PX warehouse in Yokohama.

He had some returnee friends

in with him, and some Gls, too.

The GI he stabbed was one of them.

A quarrel within the ranks, I guess.

What'll you do if you find him?

Just talk to him.

The others are all in custody,

but the goods are still missing.

And you want the goods?

I'm willing to pay, of course.

A little give-and-take.

I'll tell him if I see him.

Don't forget.

Hurry.

You bought some too?

It's not pineapple.

What're you doing?

What is it?

- Canned pineapple.

Canned pineapple?

Excuse me. Who are you?

I've been staying here.

You one of the group?

- Yes.

- You're different from the others.

Hi. Nice to see you.

Sorry I can't stay.

Give the others my regards.

She makes me want to throw up!

With Ibuki the central figure,

someone was going to break ranks,

which presented a serious problem

for our survival.

It was time to make clear,

individually and as a group,

what the consequences

of betrayal would be.

Sen, Machiko's finally done it.

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