Last Waltz 2

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Frontispiece

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Title

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Phrase 6

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Takaaki: Ishii!?

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Iwata: What's the idea, Kenzaki? I thought I told you I'm busy today?
Go away. I've got someone coming over.

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Kenzaki: If that's Takaaki Rou, he's not coming
Iwaki: Wha-at?
Kenzaki: I told Ishii to 'distract' him. You must have known that was what had happened when he didn't show up.

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Kenzaki: Even Shinkawa is wrapped around his little finger. Takaaki has a thing for any good-looking guy... even if it isn't you
F/X Iwaki shock
F/X Iwaki hits Kenzaki

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Iwaki: What do you know about it? You've only met him once!
Kenzaki: This is the first time I've ever seen you lose it. He's really got under your skin, hasn't he?
Iwaki-san- I came here to get you to sleep with me

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Kenzaki: I'm not like Takaaki- I'm not interested in sex with men. But I'll do it to make you understand
You didn't say 'If I'm sleeping with a guy, I prefer Takaaki', you said 'If I'm sleeping with Takaaki, it's OK that he's a guy.'
How come? Is Takaaki the only man you've ever had?

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Kenzaki: So why not try someone else? I might be just as good
Iwaki: Fine...
F/X grabs Kenzaki's chin

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Iwaki: If you want me to screw you so badly that you'll piss me off to make me do it, then I'll screw you
But I'll make sure you never try that again

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F/X Ishii being sick
Takaaki: Here, have some more water. Get the alcohol out of your system
Ishii: ...sorry
Takaaki: It'd be nice if you were this agreeable at the club

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Takaaki: Now.
F/X turning on taps
F/X water running down drain
Ishii: (thinks) He's leaving??
(aloud) Where are you going!!!
Takaaki: Where...? Just to tell the front desk to bring some aspirin
I don't know who put you up to this, but you've certainly paid for it
Don't worry. I'm not leaving

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F/X Takaaki undoing his tie
Takaaki: I'll stay with you till morning
Ishii: (thinks) This sucks
First I get falling-down drunk in front of him,
then I start heaving while he watches
(aloud) Unh!!
F/X Ishii retching
(thinks) I can never look him in the face again

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Takaaki: How's it going? You've stopped feeling like being sick? Ishii: ...yeah...
Takaaki: There's nothing to be ashamed of, you know. Just relax and feel better

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Ishii: .....
Takaaki...san
Takaaki: Mh?
Ishii: You know I'm a host at Iwaki-san's club, yes?
Takaaki: Yes, I know
Ishii: So why didn't you tell the manager? If you'd done that...
Takaaki: Yeah, well. It'd have been easy enough to tell him. But- and maybe I'm just being too self-conscious- if I did-
Do you think the other staff would have approved of me? And if I told him, you wouldn't have had a chance to learn anything

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Takaaki: The younger hosts are always watching what I do
For the sake of their futures, I don't want them seeing me using such an easy and exclusive method

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Takaaki: But I'm probably just showing off here... Hey, go to sleep. You're still drunk
Ishii: (thinks) Everyone's always going on about 'Takaaki-san' 'Takaaki-san'
Oh god... and now I'm starting to feel that way too

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Iwaki: How long're you gonna go on sucking like that? Can't you get it stiff? We haven't even started the real action

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Kenzaki: You're meaner than I'd have thought, Iwaki-san
(thinks) but it's still OK
(aloud) I got into this line of work because you asked me, and ever since I started
Takaaki Ryo has been 'special' to you
Everyone knows you're the one that gave him his training, right from the start. I've always compared myself to him- and I'm sick of it. I've always wanted to tell you-- whatever it takes, *I'm* going to be the best host you've ever trained!

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F/X Iwaki pushes Kenzaki's forehead
Kenzaki: Iwaki-san? What--
F/X Iwaki throws Kenzaki's shirt at him
Kenzaki: Iwaki-san...?

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Iwaki: Get out...
Kenzaki: Huh...?
WHY???

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Kenzaki: What's bugging you?!
You don't like the fact that I intend to compete with Takaaki??
Answer me!! I think the world of you! I want you to think as much of me as you do of him!

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Kenzaki: Why *can't* it be me?!
You're telling me I have to let him beat me always?!!
Iwaki-san!!!
F/X door slamming behind Iwaki

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Kenzaki: (in flashback) I'm going to be the best host you've ever trained
Iwaki: (thinks) Him and me- we've done exactly the same thing
Iwaki: (in flashback, to Takaaki) You think I'm going to take second place to that kid, with you?

Well, forget that. You can start thinking only of me again.
This miserable sense that we're forcing our emotions onto someone else
Takaaki- if you've ever felt the same way...

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Iwaki: No, he wouldn't
Not Takaaki
Ishii: (grimaces at the sunlight)

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Ishii: He's gone...
F/X sound of blowdryer from the bathroom
F/X Takaaki clicks it off

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F/X Takaaki's step on the bathroom doorstep
Takaaki: Oh, I woke you up? Sorry to be so noisy
It's morning, so I have to be going. I'll take care of the check-out, so take your time

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Takaaki: And don't stay away from work with that hangover
F/X door closes
F/X Ishii collapses back in bed

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Ishii: (thinks) 'Takaaki-san', yeah?
He's really cool
F/X cell phone rings
Ishii: My cell phone!?
Clothes- where are my clothes?

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Ishii: Hello?
Kenzaki: Ishii. It's me.
Ishii: Oh, Kenzaki. Hiya.
Kenzaki: I see you kept Takaaki away till morning
Ishii: Yeah, I managed it, but boy did it cost me. How'd it go with you? You get to talk to Iwaki-san?

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Kenzaki: Ishii, you're to quit work at Schnapps from today, and bring your clients over to our place
Ishii: Just a sec! What *is* this all of a sudden? I haven't gotten hardly any of uh Takaaki's clients yet
Kenzaki: Doesn't matter. We've done enough damage to them now Shinkawa's not there any more.
F/X Takaaki rummaging for keys
Ishii: But how *come*?? What's happened?

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Takaaki: Iwaki-san
Kenzaki: Never mind! Just get over here! I want to see Takaaki sweating

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Phrase 7

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F/X Takaaki unlocks apartment
Takaaki: Come on in
Sorry... couldn't make it last night. Something came up...
This is a first, huh? You coming in here. You've seen me to the door so often... Uh, have a seat over there...
Iwaki: Takaaki!!!

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Takaaki: Iwaki-san-- You don't have to...
Nhh- mmhh...

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Iwaki: So how was Ishii?
You stood me up for him, so he must have made you happy.

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F/X stunned
Takaaki: I..wa..ki-san

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Host 1: What's up with *him*? The manager says he's been doing that since two o'clock
F/X whispered conversation
Host 2: Didn't he take yesterday off without calling in?

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Host 1: Oh c'mon. You think *that*'d bother him? For one thing it's way too late for him to start making nice
Host 2: But this is making me nervous. He must've gone neurotic or maybe he's on drugs. I just can't see Ishii cleaning ashtrays. (Never really wanted to...)
F/X Ishii wiping ashtrays clean
F/X deep sigh
Kenzaki: (in flashback) You're to quit work at Schnapps from today, and bring your clients over to our place
I want to see Takaaki sweating

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Ishii: Damn Kenzaki. Always always always *always* telling me to do the impossible without thinking twice
Doesn't he realize? If I do what he wants
Takaaki-san... he's sure to... he'll think I'm a shit
Host 3: Hey! Just got a call from Takaaki-san. He's not coming in today
Ishii: (thinks) Takaaki-san's taking the day off? (And I was hoping he'd say something nice about me working so hard.)
F/X slams ashtray down on counter
Host: Looks like Ishii's himself again
Host 3: But that call

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Host 3: I don't think the voice was Takaaki-san's. (Maybe he's got a cold?)
F/X Iwaki tosses cell phone on the bed

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Iwaki: I called the club. Take your time getting up

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Iwaki: I'm sorry- pushing you into this. You didn't do anything with Ishii, did you?
Takaaki: How come... you needed to make certain of that?
Iwaki: You're saying I don't have that right?
Takaaki: And how come you knew I was with someone else, and that someone was Ishii?
F/X shock (?)
Takaaki: Don't tell me...

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Takaaki: ...it was *you* who told Ishii to make sure I didn't go home last night?
Iwaki: Why do you think it was me?
Takaaki: Ishii wouldn't have gotten so worked up about it unless it was your orders!!
But most of all, how did you know I was with Ishii!!?

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Takaaki: Were you testing me, Iwaki-san?!
How come you had to stoop that low?
You've been so strange lately! What the hell do you want me to *do*!?

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Takaaki: If it's just that you wanted me, you didn't have to say all those calculated things
Iwaki (in flashback): You still don't understand? The only thing for you is to be mine
Takaaki: All you had to do was make love to me nicely
Iwaki (in flashback): So how was Ishii?
Takaaki: All you had to do was be the Iwaki-san that I respected and loved!!

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Iwaki: Can you say that...

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Iwaki: Can you say that, Takaaki...
After shoving your own ideals onto Shinkawa and then running from him?
Are you the one to talk?

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Iwaki: Even now, you won't see the real me?

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Phrase 8

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Iwaki: Even now,
you won't see the real me?

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Takaaki: the real... Iwaki-san? What are you... saying...? That I only see the version of you I want to see?
Iwaki-san!! I never shoved my ideals on anyone! I just wanted to be like you!

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Iwaki: Shinkawa would probably say the same thing
Using underhand means and dirty tricks-
you're shocked that I'm the one doing it?

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Iwaki: You're sweet Takaaki, you're so sweet...

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Iwaki: I've always hated you when you're like that
Takaaki: Then why... did you say I had to belong to you...

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Iwaki: Did I hurt you?
This is the only way I have to find out how you feel
Whenever you're hurt by something I say or do, you become so honest and lovable
I think- if I can do this to him then he loves me
I've never felt this attached to a woman... maybe it's because you're a man like me, and in the same business, that I have this special feeling for you

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Iwaki: And that's why you have to stop being a host

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Takaaki: What...
Iwaki: That's why I said you have to be mine
If we agree this is just love, plain and simple, then I know I'll be rid of this feeling I don't understand. If you don't need to cry any more, then I can love you more than I ever have.
Takaaki: ...*selfish*...
You made me a host- you slept with me- and you left me so I wouldn't trust you any more- it was *you* did all that!

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Takaaki: And now you're saying it's all my fault! And then you tell me to quit being a host!
All you want to do is hurt me! Do you really hate me that much!
Iwaki: I'm not forcing you... I'm just making you choose... If it was hatred, would I use this roundabout way of doing things?

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Iwaki: Yesterday... you said I was someone who'd never belong to one person only
So have you ever said, even once, that you wanted me alone!?
Have you ever begged me to be yours!?
If you'd only asked me, I'd have done it whenever you liked

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Takaaki: And why didn't *you* ever tell *me* this?
This is the first time I've ever heard how you felt!!
Iwaki: Why do *I* have to be the one who says it first!! You think you can treat me the way you do Shinkawa and the others!?

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Takaaki: That's...
Iwaki: Why do you always make me crawl like this... Why do you make me spill my guts to you??

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Iwaki: (thinks) If I could just say 'don't look at other men'
'I love you'-
Iwaki (aloud): I'm the kind of man who cares about silly things like that
Iwaki: (thinks) how much happier I'd have been

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Iwaki: Let's be perfectly clear here, Takaaki. Today I've put my pride aside and said everything you wanted me to say.
Now you have to choose.
I won't shove my feelings at you any more. I won't come to see you.
If I'm your choice, you'll come to see me.

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Iwaki: And if you don't come
This is the end

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Iwaki: (thinks) I'll make it the end
Makiko: What's the matter, Toshiya-kun?

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Makiko: Getting drunk this early... Is business OK?
Kenzaki: I've been drinking since last night... something awful's happened, you wouldn't believe it.
Get me another drink, Makiko-chan
Ne, Makiko-chan. When're you coming to my club? I've been waiting for you...

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Kenzaki: You're the most famous hostess in Akasaka. If you were my client I'd be prouder than I could say
Hostess club mama: Good evening, sir. Are you by yourself?
Guest: I'd like to request the number one hostess here.

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Mama: Makiko-chan- a minute...
There's a new arrival who wants your company.
Makiko: Sorry, Toshiya-kun. Can you spare me for a bit?
Kenzaki: Yeah, I'll be on my way

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Makiko: I'm sorry Toshiya-kun
Kenzaki: It's OK. I'm in the same business so I know how it is. But next time come to my place. I'll be waiting for you

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Makiko: Welcome, and thank you for the invitation. I'm Makiko. Ah- is something the matter?
Shinkawa: No, nothing...
The fact is, Makiko-san...

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(sign) Kabukichou First Street
Kenzaki (thinks): I've got to stay on here...
F/X pressing cell phone buttons
Host: Rusty Nail, Shinjuku.
Kenzaki: It's me. Is Iwaki-san there?
Host: Oh, Kenzaki-san. No, Iwaki-san isn't here yet

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Kenzaki: Any word from Ishii?
Host: No. But Kenzaki-san, where are you now?
Kenzaki: On the first floor, just about to get into the elevator
Host: Something's up here, Kenzaki-san. Please hurry!
F/X door closes
F/X Kenzaki apprehension

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The club is full of flowers with congratulatory messages: Congratulations, Takaaki. Shinkawa-kun, congratulations on your new position- Emi. Celebrating your move, Shinkawa-san- Shibata Takashi
Host: There's even more than when we had our opening
Kenzaki: But this is crazy. It's two days until Shinkawa is supposed to start here
F/X elevator arriving

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F/X door opening

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Kenzaki: Makiko-chan! Why're you with Shinkawa...
Makiko: Toshiya-kun...
So this *is* your club?

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Kenzaki: Makiko-chan! What're you doing with this guy!!
After I've asked you here so many times!!
Shinkawa: Wait, Kenzaki.
Makiko: It's alright, Shinkawa-san.
When a hostess goes to a host club it's because she wants to forget the stress of having to suck up to guys all day. But you just kept asking me for business reasons, because you want more clients.

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Makiko: Shinkawa-san said he'd show me a good time. And I agreed. That's all
Shinkawa: Show us to our seats.
Host: Ah- yes sir.
Shinkawa: It's certainly worth getting the number one hostess in Akasaka on your side.

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Kenzaki: I see. This is how you get back for what Ishii did- you go taking other people's clients. That's what I'd expect Takaaki Ryo to have taught you.
Ishikawa: Takaaki-san taught me to put myself in my clients' position and act with honesty towards them.
And besides, Makiko-san isn't your client.

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Ishikawa: You were *her* client. That's all.
Host: Kenzaki-san...
F/X Kenzaki grabs a flower from a bouquet

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F/X and crushes it
Kenzaki: Shin... kawa....!!!

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