01x03 - Episode 3

[bunniefuu]

TANOMAIL OFFICE GOODS

This is Kabukicho in Shinjuku.

The largest entertainment district

in East Asia.

Ma'am! Your luggage!

Ma'am!

Hostess bars, host clubs, girls bars

and other legal entertainment

establishments line the street.

Anybody can live it up safely.

KABUKICHO FIRST AVENUE

I'm sorry but

I don't know you very well yet

is what I think she will say.

You mean you don't know me well, right?

I'm confessing my love to Mai,

so answer it from Mai's perspective!

Don't use me as practice! It's so rude!

Fine! Tell you what

- I can offer you counseling in return.

- What for?

For what's most important in life

your looks!

Five minutes of free

professional counseling by me!

No, thank you.

- I think you need it, though.

- What do you mean?

Oh, sorry.

I mean, you have a very unique face.

One step away

from being cute.

A mishmash

of cute.

It's like your cute

by accident.

Ugh, my vocabulary is awful!

I need more practice on how to encourage

customers to get work done.

As I said, stop using me for practice!

Sorry!

I went to buy more snacks!

What is it?

Um

- Mai.

- Oh

I'm sorry but

I don't know you very well yet

- Okay, take your trousers off.

- Why so happy?

Didn't you get dumped?

Well, she's definitely starting

to see me in a romantic way now.

She messages me when she wakes up,

and when she goes to bed.

We're practically dating.

Um I'd prefer a male doctor if possible

- Ms. Horii.

- Huh?

Oh, my apologies! I'll leave!

No, you're not the problem

- Ouch!

- Why did you put it in?

I was filming for YouTube.

You know how if you place a boiled egg

on a warm milk bottle, it slips in?

So I

IT GETS SUCKED INTO THE MILK BOTTLE!

So you decided

to try it for yourself, huh?

- You idiot!

- Emergency patient incoming!

A fight between foreigners at Golden Gai.

One of them might have

a facial bone fracture.

- Scary

- His nose is deformed and beat up.

- His ear is torn and all bloody.

- Gross!

- He's also broken some of his teeth.

- That's so grim!

We got denied everywhere else.

Lowering the patient.

Kabukicho where people of

every ethnicity gather and

languages from all over are spoken.

This is St. Magokoro Hospital,

located in an obscure part of Kabukicho.

It is also known as

SHINJUKU FIELD HOSPITAL

Any plans?

I just want a day off.

I get that, but what for?

What will you do with it?

Just to rest and do nothing.

What a waste.

- Do you think so?

- Of course.

What's the point of you having a day off?

You don't read, you don't do housework,

your relationship

with your husband is non-existent,

so you'll just fall asleep

watching Korean dramas.

And you'll think

"Why didn't I go in to work

if I was going to waste my day like this."

I guess so.

A possible orbital blowout fracture!

W-What do you mean?

Guten tag!

He needed an operation!

And it's not an operation

that we can perform.

Jó napot kívánok!

Salam!

Salam

He's from Azerbaijan.

Nope, sorry!

I can't think of any jokes

or information about Azerbaijan!

- Passport?

- He wasn't carrying it.

Insurance card?

Any cash? Credit card?

Nothing at all?

Oxygen saturation is declining.

Let's call a critical care center.

We can't treat him!

- Yeah?

- Yeah!

"Yeah"? We're actually doing this?

It's fine.

It's not fine!

He can't pay a penny for the treatment!

All you talk about is money, Ms. Shiraki.

I am in charge of accounts!

Did you possibly

Did you punch Mr. Azerbaijan?

Oh, no

The one with severe injuries

has no passport nor an insurance card.

The one with a small injury

has travel insurance.

In theory, we should send

the former to critical care,

and treat the latter here

so we can make a profit.

However

This is going to hurt a bit

Inoki?

"Shiraku" was fine.

It's an understandable mispronunciation.

She is American, after all.

But

"Inoki" is totally different.

In the end, we sent the one with

a small injury to a critical care center.

I can't believe it!

It's as equal as it gets!

This is wrong!

We should be trying to make money!

No, it's not about the money.

We should be sending the severely injured

to a critical care center!

But they all rejected him

which is why Yoko treated him, right?

Maybe we have different ideas

as to what constitutes a serious wound.

Maybe for Dr. Yoko, even if the guts

are spilling out it's still a light injury

as long as the person is still alive?

She was an army doctor.

Since Yoko Nishi Freeman has arrived,

my work here has not been easy.

At least

give me a day off!

Due to Ms. Shiraki's cry for help,

a shift system was implemented.

As a work style reform.

ST. MAGOKORO HOSPITAL

Closed on Sundays

and emergencies only on Mondays.

A five-day workweek that she dreamed of.

The director's brother Keizo,

was quick to jump on this opportunity.

Wow Toru!

Let's take down that filthy painting

and hang a poster.

Good idea, Dad.

He redesigned one of the examination rooms

and started a Monday-only beauty clinic.

Gets!

Toru's the number one!

He even had his son

work at a host club to draw patients in.

We will show you a good time!

Let's drink some champagne!

And spent a fortune

on advertising as well.

WANT TO BECOME JAPAN'S NO.1 HOSTESS?

Apologies for the wait.

I'm Toru Takamine, the director.

I'm a beauty influencer.

My name's I Onna.

So

a hyaluronic acid injection

and a liposuction?

PATIENT APPOINTMENTS

Toru this is bad!

Appointments are pouring in!

- What?

- You're joking.

Wow, we have more reviews, too.

Why? This is scary!

I knew it.

The beauty influencer from the other day

posted about us on Instagram!

- Show me!

- Look!

I Onna What a name!

"Magokoro's hyaluronic acid injections

are extremely cheap"

An Okayaman dialect!

I don't know her.

Other clinics set their prices too high.

- Should we raise our prices, too?

- No, let's keep them as is.

But please make sure

to keep us well-stocked!

Aye, sir!

Thank you very much

for coming to Magokoro.

Those who want to be more beautiful,

form two lines!

This side is for Botox,

the other for hyaluronic acid.

Please make sure you're in the right line.

Please stand closer together.

You're all already beautiful

Oh?

- I'm not who you think.

- I haven't said anything.

My laugh lines

I have a matchmaking barbecue next week!

I'm trying to bag the surgeon.

Please, don't tell my father!

If you have a matchmaking event soon,

this is the perfect time

to come to our Monday Beauty Clinic.

Our Monday Beauty Clinic!

See you!

ST. MAGOKORO HOSPITAL

I'm sorry.

- Did I wake you?

- It's late!

I said I'm sorry.

You're scary

Aren't you going to ask where I was

and what I was doing with who?

I didn't OD though.

Of course, you didn't.

Drugs are the worst.

My roommate

I understood "pusher" but nothing else.

Why do you sleep with your shoes on?

Do your feet smell?

You have to be prepared to run anytime,

especially at night.

Oh yeah, you worked on battlefields.

Pretty amazing.

No, it's not.

I feel safe with you by my side.

Only you can protect yourself!

Thanks. Sorry.

Go to sleep!

Good night.

They're gone

They're gone again!

My Peyang noodles disappeared again!

You had them yesterday.

Those were yesterday's!

What's this?

The latest laser treatment equipment.

- What's it called?

- It's a Pico Laser.

Director! My Peyang noodles

Huh?

Why is the Pico Laser sitting in my chair?

Because it's more useful than you.

We just put it there for now

to get it out of people's way.

Diminishes dark spots,

clears the skin tone,

gets rid of wrinkles,

and makes your skin youthful!

All that with this?

You'd look 20 years younger.

- What?

- No way!

- H-How much is it?

- Ten million yen!

We don't need it!

Don't forget that we're a hospital

with more important things to do!

Modernizing our toilets, for example.

Move it out of my sight, Hazuki.

It's an eyesore.

Did you not hear me, Ms. Shiraki?

Do you want to try it out later?

- Can we?

- Ms. Horii!

I'll cover the cost for now.

It's an initial investment.

Charge 40,000 to 50,000 yen per session,

and it pays for itself in 200 sessions.

It's not what doctors do.

There you go!

You think that only surgeons are

real doctors and look down on others.

It's that arrogance

that got us into this situation!

Constant debt, insufficient staff.

Shut it, you miser.

Ten million yen. Director.

We have ten million here!

The demand is high and cosmetic

dermatology is more lucrative.

You can't afford to choose patients!

Why can't you two oldies get along?

We fight because we're old!

- Two dry curries, please.

- Huh? Got it

He used to be so cute.

He had big round eyes.

His eyes are still big and round.

We had a ten-year age gap

but we were close.

We were called

the Kabukicho Magokoro Brothers.

I want to ride the teacups

at least ten times!

Keizo, don't run!

Only doctors had pagers back then.

- Really?

- I'm sorry.

It rang anytime a patients'

condition worsened.

- We're going home, Keizo.

- But why?

Keisuke was old enough to understand,

but I was still young.

- No, I don't want to go!

- I'd cry myself hoarse and fight back.

No, I don't want to go home!

It always rang at the worst times.

Sports festivals, school events,

parents' day.

It was so annoying,

I wished he hadn't come to the events.

Doctors' kids all suffer

the same thing, don't they?

Keisuke as a surgeon

and me as a physician.

That was our dad's

Not dream,

but his realistic expectations.

After Keisuke passed the medical exam,

he was really hard on me.

Keizo ran away from home often

to hang out at the discos.

It was next to

the Toa building, the now Kabukicho Tower.

He's one of the original Toyoko kids,

I guess.

How about you?

- It sounds like home.

- Huh?

- This, it sounds like home.

- What?

"It sounds like home"?

What on earth is she saying?

Uh

It "smells" like home?

Bug rice?

That's what she called it.

Any photos?

He died when I was 20.

What did you do?

So that's why you're an army

I see.

I was in the army for 13 years.

- You went through a lot.

- Yum!

But I'm glad you made it out.

And that you're alive.

Are you crying?

No, I'm not.

Yum!

This is so tasty!

You must be raking it in.

We have an American

who also speaks

in an Okayaman dialect, working here.

The Okayaman dialect is quite funny.

There are so many ways of saying "very",

such as "De-re-, Bokke-, Monge-"

"Buchi" is another way to say "very".

- How are they different?

- The difference?

- Yeah.

- Hmm that's difficult.

"De-re-" is like

"Bokke-" is

So the difference is in the face?

What about "Monge-"?

They're all the same!

Oh, really?

"Bokke-, De-re-, and Monge-",

all the same.

We say "de-re de-kon te-te-te."

- I don't get it.

- I said, "Cook that big radish."

- Are you okay drinking more?

- As good as an IV drip!

Hey!

He's a famous cosmetic surgeon.

Here, take his business card.

You, too!

- Here.

- Thank you!

Amazake is the drinkable IV drip

Thank you, ma'am.

- Hello!

- Thank you.

Men of this generation are getting

more and more good-looking. It's great!

Can you tell that to our Director?

There's nothing wrong with men

spending money on their looks!

Right?

Well, the downside is that

the dating market is fiercer.

- Huh? W-What are you doing?

- Let's continue this chat at a hotel.

Wait, what? You must be joking.

Come on, we don't have to do anything.

No

We can't. Oh!

ROYAL HEAR

No!

It's not like that! No!

It's really not! No!

That's all I can say! Help me out!

- I'm I Onna.

- That won't help!

I understand what kind of person

you are now.

As I said

Hello?

Yes.

What?

What is this place?

I'm just trying to look out for her.

Come in.

CHINESE RESTAURAN

Thanks.

Shoplifting.

Overdosing on stolen drugs?

Just how much trouble

do you want to cause?

I'm so sorry for the trouble.

Rather than apologizing

tell her off.

If you don't, she'll do it again.

Picking up trash and cooking

for the poor is all great but

But you as an adult

need to scold her when needed.

I'm Inui, a child welfare officer.

I was told she has run away from home

before and you took her in then?

She has nowhere to go.

Not even her home or school is safe, so

The ones who have nowhere to go

are kicking out the ones

who originally belonged there.

That's what's happening in Kabukicho.

What do you mean?

- What's happening?

- It's a lawless state.

Kids couldn't go near the area before.

That's because of the terrifying adults

that ruled the area.

- It helped keep the area in order.

- I disagree!

We don't need that sort of order

created by criminals and yakuza!

You can't make 150,000 yen

a night with yakuza around.

I'm sorry.

No one's told you off, yet.

First offense, right?

We can talk about it more in detail

once the parents are here.

Parents?

No, you can't.

- Well yeah, she's a minor.

- But

No, we just can't.

You called them?

She ran away from them

because her mother's boyfriend is a*usive.

- I didn't see that in her reports.

- She's too scared to make a statement.

- That's very common recently.

- Yes, exactly!

Some get sexually harassed

by their own parents.

- Where can those kids go?

- Well, the child care center

- Some kids struggle to fit in!

- I don't know!

This town is full of adults

who deceive and exploit those kids

with false words and prom

You said "those kids" twice now.

What?

It doesn't matter.

It's all the same.

Being at home, school,

and the care center.

I thought Kabukicho would be better

but it's the same.

I don't care about the society

or where I belong.

Is it because I'm being abused?

Because I slept with my mom's boyfriend?

Because I ran away from home,

overdosed, and shoplifted

What makes me one of "those kids"?

Do you feel sorry for me? Huh?

It's so dumb.

Fine!

Cast me as one of "those kids"

if you enjoy that kind of sob story!

Mayu

Hey, hey hang on.

Mayu?

How did you know?

I haven't told Toru.

Why?

- Why?

- Why don't you tell him?

I spank some old filthy men

to make money to save people

in weaker positions than me.

Is that wrong?

Men lie to their families to have sex

with young girls and to feel less guilty,

they try to help them.

Runaway girls swindle

creepy old men out of money.

In the same way, I don't feel guilty

at all and I should be charging more!

You don't even know

who Tarantino or Rodriguez are.

Name the video store Tarantino worked at.

- GEO?

- Manhattan Beach Video Archives.

Huh? Who's that?

- Pause it!

- Yes!

It's just Yoshino taking out the trash.

He's destroying the evidence.

No way

Huh? What are you guys doing?

Horii insisted we check

the security camera footage.

There is definitely a

Peyang thief in this building!

- Keep going!

- Okay.

And that's the reason

you're here on your day off?

I find it hard to stay away.

And yes, I do have a boring life.

Oh? Haven't we met?

At the Korean restaurant

My name is Park.

Mr. Park! Thanks for coming!

This makes me happy. Come in!

- Oh!

- Huh?

I've had a headache

since my last hyaluronic acid injection

and Botox treatment.

Hyaluronic acid injection and Botox.

Okay! Thank you.

I'll give you a discount

since it's your first visit.

No!

Hmm? What's wrong?

Headhaches.

Headhaches?

Head Oh!

Headache!

I see! You speak Japanese? Okay!

Okay, I'll prescribe some Loxoprofen.

I'm with a patient.

Mayu didn't come back last night.

- Did Minami call?

- Nope! No clue. Leave.

Reclining the seat.

What's wrong?

What?

Pause it there!

What, where? What is it?

- Play!

- Okay

Ms. Horii, we need an ER room!

Okay!

Police! Can I go cool down in the lobby?

- Oh?

- Stop!

What's going on?

Who's that?

Annyeonghaseyo?

Annyeonghaseyo.

He's Korean, and he's very cute.

We have eyes.

He has.

He's had quite a bit.

What?

- She says his nose is becoming necrotic.

- What?

Is it possible that the hyaluronic acid

went into his veins?

It's rare, but the blood flow stops

and it can lead to blindness.

Geez, I almost gave him another injection!

I don't know, it's not my specialty.

We have something

that can dissolve the hyaluronic acid!

Thank you, Yoko!

They managed to avoid a possible disaster,

thanks to their prompt measures.

However

Bad reviews

have a bigger effect than good reviews.

Misinformation spread on social media,

making it as if Magokoro's procedure

was what caused the problem.

I'M DISAPPOINTED

DID YOU PROMOTE IT KNOWINGLY?

I'M SO SHOCKED

IT'S LAUGHABLE

DID YOU REALLY RECEIVE THE TREATMENT?

THE HOSPITAL PAID HER

FRAUD!

BEAUTY INFLUENCER?

ARE YOU ALRIGHT? I'M WORRIED

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

ISN'T THIS A CRIME?

MEDICAL ACCIDENT AT ST. MAGOKORO?

MALE PATIENT ALMOST LOST HIS NOSE

DUE TO AN ERROR IN PROCEDURE

SHINJUKU LOCAL NEWS

THE DARK SIDE OF COSMETIC TREATMENTS

Their sales plummeted.

They suffered damage from the rumors.

Unfortunately, you cannot return it.

RETURN

Just like a host club urikake,

you owe him ten million.

Don't worry.

How can we not?

This is Mr. Kariya,

we used to go to the discos together.

That really brings me back. BIBA, right?

Used to dance all night,

us two and Sam from TRF!

In another world, we could have been

the ones doing "EZ Do Dance."

For sure!

You might not know this,

but Mr. Kariya is Kabukicho's

real estate king.

I know.

I've seen his huge signboard.

Exactly.

Here and there, and everywhere!

He owns all of them!

And he has noticed the value

our hospital location has.

KABUKICHO CHAMPAGNE TOWER

CONCEPTIONAL DRAWING

A hair salon and a spa on the fifth,

a host club on the fourth,

a hostess club on the third,

a consumer loan company on the second,

and a Pachinko on the first floor.

So you get pampered on the top floor,

become a host, hostess,

you work, borrow money,

and gamble that money

as you hit rock bottom

it resembles a Champaign Tower.

The B1 floor is for legal prostitution.

So this embodies all your desires,

does it?

Oh?

What about cosmetic dermatology?

Look again.

- I thought we were opening a clinic.

- Look again!

BC?

Beauty clinic?

- 20㎡?

- Smaller than the current space.

Sorry, son.

But I'm not kind enough to trust

someone with such loose morals

like you to take over our hospital.

In return for transferring the mortgage,

Mr. Kariya has agreed

to take over the money I lent you.

The interest rate is 15 percent.

If you can't pay me back

by the end of the year

I will put this place up for auction.

Can I have one?

Sure, it's not like we have any patients.

What a sh*t father!

I never thought he would do that to me!

I'm so sorry.

I mean, we'll be fine, right?

Yeah, we can find somewhere else to work.

But what about you?

Ah, right.

No license.

Sugar dating it is!

Do you actually know what that is?

It made me think, though.

Think what?

What the director always says.

That cosmetic dermatologists

aren't doctors?

Obviously, I don't agree.

It gives me a sense of accomplishment

and it's profitable.

But

- There are too many things we can't do.

- Well

I guess you're not exactly

treating illnesses.

Exactly!

It doesn't save lives!

I do acknowledge that.

Even if you have no wrinkles

and have plump lips,

you'd still die if a car runs you over!

On a b*ttlefield,

soldiers wouldn't care about how they look

when they're heading into battle!

They do, actually. They really do.

- Do they?

- Why do you think they don't?

Sorry.

He was very handsome.

It really increased my motivation.

Wait, what?

You said all lives are equal

regardless of their looks!

- It was a figure of speech.

- She admitted it.

No, that was a proper kiss!

He was conscious!

A b*ttlefield

It's a battle where you fight to survive.

A battle where you fight to get married.

As long as you live,

you want to be beautiful.

That's how humans are.

Which makes you a fine doctor.

Thanks.

What do you think?

I'm leaving.

Don't drink too much, okay?

Stop telling me what to do! Go!

What's in this?

I think I got scammed!

Okay, watch this.

From the emergency entrance,

through the corridor

and up the stairs

Switching to the second floor.

He gets to the door of Yoko's room

and disappears!

- Mayu?

- He ran away because Mayu came back!

- So creepy!

- I can look him up if I can borrow this.

He was injured.

- Huh?

- What?

- Can you rewind it?

- Sure.

There.

Pause it!

See his right hand?

Let's zoom in.

It's him.

He sat on that bench.

It's him!

I'm sure of it! Excuse me.

Really?

Michael?

- And then?

- We sent him to the critical care center.

- I'm so glad!

- A pusher.

He's a pusher's underling.

He followed me.

Well, the downside is that

the dating market is fiercer.

sh*t

- W-What are you doing?

- Let's continue this chat at a hotel.

I see

By the way, where's the director?

He's not here.

Oh, really.

- Who was that?

- Huh?

Ah!

I found the Peyang thief.

Thank you!

Don't pretend to be asleep.

If you die

I will be devastated.

Your life, your choice.

This is boring.

Make some noise at least

Only you can protect yourself!

Ricchan.

This is Kabukicho in Shinjuku.

Everyone can feel safe here,

in the biggest entertainment

district in East Asia.

Mayu?

SHINJUKU GOLDEN GAI

She's too cute to dump?

- You idiot!

- I have to apologize to you.

All he cared for

was his hospital and his name!

THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION

THE ORGANIZATIONS ARE FICTITIOUS

AND UNRELATED TO EXISTING ONES