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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Subverted. Nishi tries this on Wada to stop him from committing suicide, but Wada takes this to mean that he should kill himself immediately.
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* KarmaHoudini: Heavily {{Downplayed]]. Iwabuchi does not get anything close to justice... [[spoiler:but his relationship with his daughter and son is ''shattered'' for good, and he really loved them, and the phone call where his seniors tell him to "sleep well" is heavily ironic since we see him stressed and sweating at the end]].

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* KarmaHoudini: Heavily {{Downplayed]].{{Downplayed}}. Iwabuchi does not get anything close to justice... [[spoiler:but his relationship with his daughter and son is ''shattered'' for good, and he really loved them, and the phone call where his seniors tell him to "sleep well" is heavily ironic since we see him stressed and sweating at the end]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Iwabuchi at the end. [[spoiler:Of course his relationship with his daughter is broken for good, and he really loved her, and the phone call where his seniors tell him to "sleep well" is heavily ironic since we see him stressed and sweating at the end]].

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* KarmaHoudini: Heavily {{Downplayed]]. Iwabuchi at the end. [[spoiler:Of course does not get anything close to justice... [[spoiler:but his relationship with his daughter and son is broken ''shattered'' for good, and he really loved her, them, and the phone call where his seniors tell him to "sleep well" is heavily ironic since we see him stressed and sweating at the end]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:That's Toshiro Mifune? Where's his BadassBeard?]]

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Tatsuo uses his wedding toast to flat-out tell Nishi that he'll kill him if he hurts Yoshiko. [[spoiler: Tatsuo follows up that threat by shooting at Nishi and later disowning his father when Nishi's murder breaks Yoshiko.]]
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* WeddingDay: Starts off with the reception after Yoshiko's wedding to Nishi.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nishi. So quiet, so polite, such a good secretary! But he's up to something.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes:
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Nishi. So quiet, so polite, such a good secretary! But he's up to something.



* DrivenToSuicide: Miura steps in front of a truck to spare his superiors from incrimination.

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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
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Miura steps in front of a truck to spare his superiors from incrimination.



* HeroicBSOD: Yoshiko goes into a catatonic state after finding out that not only did her father have her husband killed, it was her fault for revealing where Nishi was hiding.

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* HeroicBSOD: HeroicBSOD:
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Yoshiko goes into a catatonic state after finding out that not only did her father have her husband killed, it was her fault for revealing where Nishi was hiding.



* ShootTheShaggyDog: Nishi spends the entire movie building up The Plan to get his ultimate revenge on the corporate grifters who drove his father to suicide, but he ends up falling in love with Yoshiko, leading Iwabuchi to drug his own daughter and arrange for Nishi to be killed. You don't see him die—Yoshiko and Tatsuo return to his hideout, only to be told by his badly beaten best friend that Nishi was drugged and then sent on the road, where he was killed by a train. Land Development Corporation and Iwabuchi get away with everything.

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* ShootTheShaggyDog: ShootTheShaggyDog:
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Nishi spends the entire movie building up The Plan to get his ultimate revenge on the corporate grifters who drove his father to suicide, but he ends up falling in love with Yoshiko, leading Iwabuchi to drug his own daughter and arrange for Nishi to be killed. You don't see him die—Yoshiko and Tatsuo return to his hideout, only to be told by his badly beaten best friend that Nishi was drugged and then sent on the road, where he was killed by a train. Land Development Corporation and Iwabuchi get away with everything.
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** When Yoshiko and Tatsuo go looking for Nishi, they arrive at the hideout and find Itakura crying in the abandoned corridor over Nishi's death.

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** When Yoshiko and Tatsuo go looking for Nishi, they arrive at the hideout and find Itakura crying in the abandoned corridor [[spoiler: over Nishi's death.death]].



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nishi is rough, manipulative and vengeful, but deep down he cares about those closest to him, most of all his wife. Itakura (the real Nishi), is a bit meaner, but he and Nishi are fond friends, and Itakura is crushed to lose him.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nishi is rough, manipulative and vengeful, but deep down he cares about those closest to him, most of all his wife. Itakura (the real Nishi), is a bit meaner, but he and Nishi are fond friends, and [[spoiler: Itakura is crushed to lose him.him]].
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** Wada is the nicest of the three conspirators against Iwabuchi. But when he finds out that Shirai goaded him into trying to kill himself, Wada tries to assault him.
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--> "Why cover the wedding fo the daughter of Public Corporation's vice president?"

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--> "Why cover the wedding fo for the daughter of Public Corporation's vice president?"

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--> "Why cover the wedding fo the daughter of Public Corporation's vice president?"



--> "Why cover the wedding fo the daughter of Public Corporation's vice president?"
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Yoshiko, Nishi's wife, who has very little character.

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