If a person who can firmly occupy the top position in the Yakuza organization does not have the power and prestige to intimidate the group, he will plant a tube of explosives to split the organization.
If Inagawa Yuhiro wants to compete for the position of the next chairman, he must not use the method of leaving a reputation for himself. Not only that, when the neighborhood Jiro Tsunoda is responsible for developing cannot continue due to this sudden fate, as a Jiro Tsunoda's opponent, Yuhiro Inagawa, must be able to prove his innocence.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought to himself that if a third party killed someone in that neighborhood, and then blamed Inagawa Yuhiro for the incident, it would be an excellent opportunity to provoke an internal struggle within the Inagawa Association.
"Speak of it."
Imai started the conversation, just like a model train enthusiast, talking about the information he had collected, "When the Inagawa Association was competing for the chairmanship, the Sumiyoshi Association was also uneasy. First, there was an incident with the Yori family. There was a confrontation, and during this period, the president and the president also died one after another."
"However, the newly appointed President Nishiguchi Mominan is quite resourceful. Not only did he quickly settle the dispute with the Yori family, he also took this opportunity to restructure the Sumiyoshi Federation into the Sumiyoshi Kai."
The renaming of the "Federation" to "kai" means that the Sumiyoshi Federation, which was originally a joint organization, was reorganized into a pyramid-shaped organization. The Sumiyoshi Federation is a Yakuza organization comparable to the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Inagawa Association. In recent years, the Sumiyoshi Federation Rapidly expanding its territory, it has the momentum to replace the Inagawa Society and become the largest Yakuza in Kanto. In other words, this is a fact that will definitely happen.
The dispute between the Sumiyoshi-kai and the Sumiyoshi-kai started when the group under the umbrella of the Sumiyoshi-kai annexed the group under the protection of the Yori-kai, which led to an all-out war between the Yori-kai and the Sumiyoshi-kai.
When there are disputes with the outside world, it is a good time to unite internally. For the new president of the Sumiyoshi-kai, when he took office as the president, he had a death weighing on his head, and he also had the dispute with the Yori family as the reason. It was simply... God-given opportunity.
"I see." Shinichi Iwahashi nodded politely in response to Imai's enthusiastic explanation.
I had almost no understanding of the Yakuza in Japan, so it was quite interesting to hear him talk like this as a story. As soon as Iwahashi Shin heard the story, he subconsciously thought to himself that there is a competitive relationship between the Sumiyoshi Kai and the Inagawa Kai. The Sumiyoshi Society is in the stage of expansion. If it can successfully drive a wedge between the Inagawa Society and start a war between Tsunoda Jiro and Inagawa Hiroyuki, the Sumiyoshi Society will be able to reap the benefits.
This might explain the other phone call to Shinichi Iwahashi.
However, the first call to buy the land at a high price was to buy the land so that it could harass the surrounding neighbors. Then, the second call to buy the land at a higher price was for what reason, so obsessed with that land? What about land?
Not only that, when a murder occurred in that neighborhood and the demolition plan came to a halt, everything mentioned in the two phone calls came to an abrupt end.
Did the person behind the phone call achieve his goal, or did he change his goal midway?
Or, if Inagawa Yuhiro foresaw that the Sumiyoshi Kai wanted to use this demolition related to the succession dispute to drive a wedge between himself and Jiro Tsunoda, he pushed the situation along the way and facilitated the incident, which not only stopped the demolition plan, but also shifted the responsibility to the Sumiyoshi Kai. Go over there...
Unanswered questions popped up in Iwahashi Shinichi's mind one after another. Of course, the matter involved the Yakuza, and even a power struggle that could never be seen under the Yakuza, so it was probably impossible to get the "correct" answer to these questions.
Imai talked about it thoroughly, and sighed to Shinichi Iwahashi, "Honestly, if you look at it from the side, what happened in reality is more exciting than what was filmed in Ren Xia's movie... It shouldn't feel like this.
It’s weird.”
Iwahashi Shinichi smiled and replied, "There are routines that must be followed in Ren Xia movies, but there are no such rules in reality."
"That's true." Imai nodded repeatedly, "To be honest, sometimes movies are boring compared to reality." He thought for a while and added, "But most of the time, movies are more interesting."
…
In that neighborhood, ever since Tachikawa Industries moved in and started the demolition plan, various stories have been unfolding in that neighborhood.
There are residents who have lived here for generations and will never leave without selling their land. In order to defend their land, these residents formed a group and held a small flag to protest against Tachikawa Kosan, who wanted to destroy this neighborhood full of memories with barbarism.
There were also people who inherited the land but settled elsewhere. They felt that such a small piece of land and a messy neighborhood were as useless as useless. After Tachikawa Kosan moved in, they sold the land as soon as possible and said goodbye to that neighborhood completely.
No real estate company was willing to develop that block. No matter how the land prices increased, prosperity seemed to have nothing to do with that area. For families with more than one child, according to long-standing practice, when the land is handed over to the eldest son for inheritance, the other children will not inherit it either.
Opinion.
However, when news of the demolition came, the children who had previously stayed out of the matter came back one after another to demand their share. The once-established convention of one child inheriting the family business also completely collapsed in this bubble era.
Now, the once vigorous demolition plan has suddenly come to a halt. In the past few years, some of the grievances and hatreds surrounding the land in that block have been settled, and some have returned to their old positions. But the most dramatic thing is the tearing up.
After the place became a mess and the relatives turned against each other, the demolition plan was suspended indefinitely.
This is how people are. In the times, they are played around in circles. They think they are fighting for themselves, but in fact they are being led around.
Imai chatted with Shinichi Iwahashi for a while, and finally stood up to leave with Shinichi Iwahashi's land purchase request that he had written down.
When the stock market bubble and the real estate bubble were at their peak, Iwahashi Shinichi never thought about joining them. Now, when the bubbles burst one after another, Iwahashi Shinichi ignored the fact that land prices were falling and wanted to buy a large piece of land.
When leaving, Imai bowed and saluted to Iwahashi Shinichi again. Imai couldn't help but think in his heart that this Iwahashi-san was obviously living in this era like himself and everyone else. But, unfortunately, this Iwahashi-san was living in this era.
Qiao Sang gives people the feeling that he has never been at the mercy of the times, he has always been following his own pace and moving forward regardless of everything.
Although he knew in his heart that this feeling might just be his own illusion, Imai couldn't control himself from thinking so.
…
The smaller the piece of land, the better.
When Iwahashi Shinichi made this request and bought the one and a half square meters of land, he never imagined that so many things would happen around the neighborhood where that small piece of land was located.
After saying goodbye to Imai, he returned to the company. In his mind, he was still thinking about the phone call with Imai.
It seems redundant and ridiculous to ponder over questions that have no "right" answers. However, if you think about it from another angle...
If there is no way to get the "correct" answer to a question, it means that you can imagine it more freely and get more than one answer.
As soon as Iwahashi Shin thought of this, he suddenly felt energetic. He picked up the receiver and before dialing, he thought about it, took out the tape recorder from the drawer, and dialed the phone to the person in charge of the TV production company.
"I suddenly had an idea."
Iwahashi Shinichi said this idea that suddenly came to him as if he was talking about a "hypothesis".
Suppose there is a Yakuza organization A that is about to elect a new successor. In order to become the next president, the two candidates are fighting openly and secretly.
One of the heirs, if he can successfully complete the development of a block, then he will have the absolute advantage of succeeding as the president. However, the development of this block is full of difficulties, and his younger brother who is in charge of it uses various means to advance
While planning the demolition, a murder suddenly occurred here, and another heir became the biggest suspect.
Also in Tokyo, there is a Yakuza organization B that competes with organization A. This organization is expanding rapidly. It sees organization A as a rival, and organization A sees him as a threat. There is a turbulent undercurrent between the two sides.
When he learned that Organization A was going to face a succession dispute, the newly appointed director of Organization B had the idea of sowing discord.
Also in this neighborhood, there is a piece of land that is only one and a half square meters in size. At the beginning of the demolition, the owner of the land received strange calls about buying the land, and there were more than just this one.
This piece of land, which is one and a half square meters in size, connects two Yakuza organizations and the story of the dispute between the two heirs.
…
"Assuming that the first call was made by the extremists responsible for the demolition, in order to buy the land, they harassed the surrounding neighbors as ordinary people and forced them to sign a land sale contract. Then, the second call,
Which force is more reasonable and can continue to advance the plot? This is my question."
On the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi slightly processed the thoughts that came up in his mind when he just talked with Imai, and started chatting with the person in charge on the other end of the phone.
He had a draft in his mind, and he spoke it very smoothly.
The person in charge on the other end of the phone confirmed to him, "Is this the storyline Iwahashi-san thought of?"
"Recently, I happened to watch some movies about the Yakuza, and this idea came to my mind. However, when I thought about it, I didn't know what the next step would be appropriate." Iwahashi Shinichi replied.
The person in charge had just listened to his vigorous talk. At this moment, he finally had the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief. When he opened his mouth, he praised, "But it is a very attractive story, and I listened to it with gusto."
"But, for ordinary people, that's all." Iwahashi Shinichi smiled and replied, "So, I thought, it would be better to ask professionals to ask them to see how to write this story next to make it more interesting.
suitable."
"I see." The person in charge also laughed, "Do you want to make something about the Yakuza, Iwahashi-san?" When he said this, he paused and reminded, "However, it is not easy for a Yakuza movie to be a hit.
"
TV dramas are mainly "appropriate for all ages", so they try to avoid restricted content. Even TV dramas with Yakuza themes will be made into exaggerated comedies.
If you want to see the bloody Yakuza struggle, you can only go to the cinema.
A major problem with Japanese movies is that there is not much distance between them and TV series. But even so, one of the meanings of the existence of movie theaters is to allow a certain section of the audience to see what they want to see.
This is why, after the head of the production company heard Shinichi Iwahashi's idea, he immediately thought that he wanted to make a Yakuza movie because it was content that could not be adapted to TV.
However, Iwahashi Shinichi has no definite plans to turn this square and a half square meters of land into a movie. If he really wants to say it, at this moment, his purpose is to use the power of screenwriters or novelists to give himself this
There is no answer to the question without writing a suitable second half.
Of course, if it's really exciting enough, it doesn't mean it can't be made into a movie.
But Shinichi Iwahashi handed over this half-thought-out story as an idea, and his decision to make this story into a movie are two different things.
If it's the latter, the production of the movie is very important. He has no power to make decisions on his own at the production company. Of course, if he wants to entertain himself and pay for it out of his own pocket, that's another matter.
Thinking about this, Iwahashi Shinichi was not in a hurry to tell the person in charge, but asked, "If we want to complete this story, are there any candidates you can recommend?"
"This is it."
The person in charge paused on the other end of the phone and said, "Personally, the best Yakuza movie star in my mind is Fukasaku Kinji-sensei."
However, Shinichi Iwahashi's temporary idea of playing the game did not seem to be realistic for using such a big shot. The person in charge gave an unreliable answer, but it was actually because Shinichi Iwahashi had not yet determined his thoughts, so he was subconsciously perfunctory.
However, for Iwahashi Shinichi, when he heard the name of a famous artist like Fukasaku Kinji, the first thing that came to his mind was that he was not interested in finding a famous person to complete the second half of the story. He said, "This is not a movie.
Celebrities, I hope they produce things."
He said this, and to a certain extent, the person in charge relaxed a little.
But Shinichi Iwahashi went on to talk about his plan, "I thought of using a new writer. If this half of the story is given to different playwrights, it will have different developments and endings. It can be a comedy or a drama.
Tragedy, or a pure Yakuza movie... all kinds of possibilities, all in the story that only half happened."
The program planned by Shinichi Iwahashi himself and co-operated by the production company and TV Tokyo followed this model. The same subject matter was handed over to directors and screenwriters with different styles to produce.
And this time, his plan is to put his half-happened story into the hands of a new playwright to see how many possibilities can be presented.
And among these possibilities, one of them may actually be made into a movie.
