Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (鮫肌男と桃尻女)

It was just after my daughter Amy's third birthday.

She ran up to me, threw her arms around my legs,

looked up and said.

"Daddy, I've loved you for four thousand years!"

I gazed into her little face.

A deep happiness enwrapped my heart, body and soul.

Brian L.Weiss.

Toshiko...

Toshiko!

Want to drive?

You got your license, right?

Tomorrow you have to.

I'm quitting the hotel.

You should, too

when you've saved some money.

That guy's weird.

Original Story by Minetaro Mochi zuki.

Is something wrong?

Could you check this again, please?

I'll go make a call.

Hotel Symphonia...

Your savings? Gone?

No, they're not gone.

I got a good stock tip, so I invested them for you.

You can't just take someone's savings like that...

Hello?

Hello?

Hey, you!

Money, please.

Money, please.

Money, please.

Written and Directed by Katsuhito Ishii.

SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL

Two years later.

My dad quit the mob, but he couldn't quit the drugs.

With a regular job, he had more money to buy them.

He hid it from us, but he was high all the time.

He got caught twice, but he had the money for bail.

Me and my mom and my brother always used to say...

"Why don't you just stay in jail for a while?"

He'd be eating ice cream all the time.

You know, that white stuff...

Like the ice shavings?

Yeah, the stuff with that kind of hard ice in it.

Our fridge was full of it.

I mean, obvious or what?

When I was in middle school I was sniffing glue in the living room

when the cops raided our house. I ran upstairs

to hide my stuff in the closet.

But when I opened the closet, all these bags of white powder

came falling out where my dad had hidden them.

I had it tough.

When my old man was caught, it was in the paper.

At school someone pasted the article in the class paper.

People made fun of me, and I hadn't done anything.

Adults too Not just kids, ..

? Adults made fun of you.

We'd go to someone's house, and I couldn't go in.

"Do you know what your dad did?" their parents would say.

"I didn't do it you jerk!" I'd say, "You know your son sniffs glue?"

When I see that in the papers, I think of the kids...

They're the ones who suffer.

If kids came to my place, they'd think the juice was spiked.

As if you'd put speed in orange juice!

When I was a kid, I thought a tattoo

would appear on your back when you grew up.

I really believed that!

What are you doing, Toshiko? Did you sleep in?

Yes. I'm sorry.

I stayed up reading...

Yes.

I'm sorry. I'll be right there.

What?

Nothing.

You saw it, didn't you?

So what?

Nothing.

It's enamel.

Enamel?

Advertising posters like this.

They're called "enamel posters".

You collect them?

- What's wrong with that? - Nothing at all!

It's great.

I think they're very nice.

You have to come way out here in the country to find them.

I know.

You've got hobbies, don't you?

Yes!

If you see one of these, stop.

Posters...

- You are laughing at me... - No, sir!

You think you can find them anywhere, don't you.

Don't you!

No.

I think my grandmother might have one

? What kind.

An Ohmura Kon poster for Oronamin C.

- You're... - Sorry!

- What are you apologizing for? - Nothing.

There are about ten types that I know of.

The Ohmura Kon posters..

Are they the good ones?

This one's normal.

The ones with "Golden Bat" or "Attack Number I!" are rare.

Rare...

Rare.

Toshiko, where are you going?

Post office.

Say, "I'm going to the post office."

I'm going to the post office, Uncle.

Not "Uncle"...

Manager.

Where's the guy who threw this?

Looks like he's gone.

- There were two girls there... - Girls?

Is that all you think about?

Why did Mr Tanuki go on ahead?

Well I don't know.

Just bump him, Sorimachi.

May It Die! Die!

Sorimachi... he's getting away.

It's freezing in here!

Doesn't this damn heater work?

? Aren't you cold!

That's her phone...

What the hell?

Toshiko.

Are you at the post office yet?

What's going on? Where are you?

Get off my back!

I cut him off...

Hotel Symphonia Mail.

Are you all right?

The poster.

Bring it.

Why didn't you wait?

What are you doing here?

The old man told me to come If I wasn't doing anything.

Then do something! Well?

Don't ignore me!

And... heave!

Here's Tani...

Excuse me...

You still here?

Um... can I use the toilet?

Please.

Sawada here...

You stink. Get out of here.

You stink! Get lost!

Not. Stop!

Man, I'm lucky!

This is a great jeep!

Lovely. Well nice.

Really nice.

Come on Mr Tanuki's gone on ahead. He'll be mad again.

So what? I like this jeep.

Just come on.

You can drive it later. Let's go!

Nice...

Well nice.

Tani-san, come on.

This is great!

We're going, Come on Tani-san!

- Let's go! - Nice.

That guy pisses me off.

What can you do? He's the boss's son.

So why are we here?

Insurance. In case they need us.

"Insurance"?!

Didn't you teach Samehada anything?!

Sorry...

- Mitsuru... - What?

You shouldn't talk like that.

Like what?

You don't tell people to stay back just because they stink.

- Go to hell. - You go to hell!

Sorimachi...

Sorry.

Smell anything?

Yep.

Shampoo, rinse and a woman on the rag.

You in there?

It's locked.

Hold it here...

No, here.

Here?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Mitsuru says there should be a smell from the ground.

Well, he's not under the ground there!

I guess not.

So what are you doing?

- No, what are you doing? - Over there.

I Turn your walkie talkie on.

Get going.

Well?

- Hey! - What?!

- The woman! - What about her?

What happened here?