The title is '3 - 4 x October' according to online sources, the final baseball score.
Beat Takeshi's film is funnier than his first. A young man falls foul of the local Yakuza and sets out to take them out. Is, I think, essentially the plot. Which also involves a lousy baseball team and a visit to an out-of season Okinawa, where they encounter violent criminal Beat Takeshi, whose behaviour is somewhat outlandish, e.g. he orders his girlfriend to have sex with a colleague, then repeatedly hits her round the head as a punishment. This sequence also features a quite incredible flash forward montage - edited by Toshio Taniguchi.
Maybe the funniest moment is the group of jerks in a car who are haranguing our hero - who is Yurei Yanagi, by the way - and they crash into a parked car. Also the bunch of flowers which start firing. Or the kid who buys a new motorbike and crashes immediately.
Yuriko Ishida (the girlfriend), Gadarukunaru Taka, Dankan. Photographed by Katsumi Yanagijima.
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| This (I think) is comedian Dankan, which is why these two are genuinely laughing so much |
The sea features again - it seems to be a recurrent image.
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