People who "paint on their bodies" originally lived like this.

Dejon 2022-03-30 08:01:02

In my family, the person who has the most contact with yakuza should be the Japanese grandmother. She and her husband (my grandfather) used to run a sento (= public bath) and several yakuza came to bathe every day.

I went to live at my grandmother’s house in summer, and my grandmother often told me that if I saw a person with “a lot of flowers and fish painted on their body” in the bath or outside, don’t keep staring at him, don’t talk to him, but don’t avoid him obviously, pretend to be Can be seen.

When I was a kid, I rarely went to sento, and I had a bathroom at home anyway. When I went to university and lived alone in Tokyo for four years, I rented a room without a bathroom, so I had to go to a nearby sento to take a bath. It's a pity that there are no people who "paint on their bodies", and my grandmother's instructions are not used. In this day and age, we rarely see yakuza up close unless we go to a 'sauna' or something. I also only saw a few yakuza in the baths when I was a child.

When I started watching Takeshi Kitano's "Extremely Wicked and Outrageous", what came to mind was the faces, expressions, and backs of people who were "painted on their bodies" that I saw when I was a child. After watching the movie, I felt that this is how they lived.

"If you are beaten, you must fight back",
"If you receive a gift, you must return the gift twice."
'Brother Cup', 'Parent-Child Cup',
"What the 'head' says is absolute"
... the dark society that seems exaggerated The rules, in fact, are reflected more or less in modern Japanese life.

After watching it, I have a feeling of intimacy with this movie, which should be the reason.

nice. Photography is also good. Suzuki Keiichi's final theme song "Outrage (Final)" is also pretty good. recommend!

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Extended Reading

The Outrage quotes

  • Ikemoto: H-h-hold on a minute...

    [panting]

    Ikemoto: I'll reverse the banishment.

    Ôtomo: Huh?

    Ikemoto: I'll reverse the banishment.

    Ôtomo: You banish me, then you reverse it?

    [explodes]

    Ôtomo: How many fucking tongues do you have?

    Ikemoto: Huh?

    Ôtomo: Are you deaf? How many do you have?

    Ikemoto: I've only got one.

    Ôtomo: Only one? *Two* or *three* is more like it, you fucking prick!

    Ikemoto: I'm telling you I've only got one tongue!

    Ôtomo: [a little calmer] Open your mouth.

    [louder]

    Ôtomo: Stick out your tongue!

    Ikemoto: [beat] Huh?

    Ôtomo: [barking] Stick out your tongue!

    [Ikemoto reveals reluctantly a bit of his tongue]

    Ôtomo: MORE!

    [Ikemoto does]

    Ôtomo: STICK IT OUT, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

    [Ikemoto sticks out his entire tongue, then Otomo slams his jaw so violently that Ikemoto chokes on his own tongue; Otomo eventually kills him]

  • Ôtomo: How the fuck can you come to play here just after you banished me ? I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU !

    Ikemoto: W-wait a second...

    [he pants]

    Ikemoto: OZAWA !

    Mizuno: He's gone already, you dipshit.