CHPATER 4
YUKI
I was very close to my older sister. We were born a little less than a year apart. We used to do everything together.
(We see a younger Gogo and Yuki doing the "five finger discount" at a busy Tokyo department store. Gogo lifts a pair of leopard-print briefs, while Yuki lifts a pair of gogo boots.)
(We now see Yuki with a birthday cake. She presents it to Gogo.)
YUKI (JAPANESE, ENGLISH SUBTITLES): Gogo-chan, it took more forever to find this cake. I know it is a few days late, but happy birthday, my dear sister.
GOGO smiles, then blows out the candles.
GOGO (ALSO IN JAPANESE WITH SUBTITLES): Thanks, Yuki-chan. I could not have asked for a better sister.
Of course the fact we both grew up without parents made us that much closer. At first we resented the Yakuza. It was they who had killed our parents.
(Flashback: Yaburi-san and his wife drive home in a typical Japanese car. We see the car being hit by a grenade launcher, totally destroyed. The camera pans away to see two young children - obviously Gogo and Yuki - watching on in horror.)
However, as we grew older, and more involved in...er, questionable activities, we came to know that not all Yakuza have stone hearts. One in particular was kind to us. O-Ren Ishii, like us, had lost her parents to violence. But it was she who said to us that wonderful saying....
O-REN (SPEAKING TO THE CAMERA): Don't get mad...get even.
Sadly, I was picked up on a weapons charge and sentenced to prison. The day before I was due to get out...I got into a....disagreement with another prisoner.
(We see Yuki slicing off the other prisoner's head with a crude sword.)
Seems I wasn't her type of folks. I was sentenced to more time. If it had not been for that, I would've been there when my sister was killed. I was to stay in prison the rest of my life. But I was not going to do that. NEVER.
(Flashback of Yuki bribing a guard to enter her cell...then killing her, taking her uniform, and talking her bribe money back.)
However, I had no idea of how to find this woman, this Black Mamba as I knew her. I would need help.
(Yuki at LAX. She seems confused. A figure comes up behind her.)
STRANGER: Yuki-san?
(Yuki looks up. We see SOPHIE smiling.)
SOPHIE: (JAPANESE): Good to see you again. Come. We have much to do, there's someone I'd like you to meet, she's going to help us.
YUKI
I was very close to my older sister. We were born a little less than a year apart. We used to do everything together.
(We see a younger Gogo and Yuki doing the "five finger discount" at a busy Tokyo department store. Gogo lifts a pair of leopard-print briefs, while Yuki lifts a pair of gogo boots.)
(We now see Yuki with a birthday cake. She presents it to Gogo.)
YUKI (JAPANESE, ENGLISH SUBTITLES): Gogo-chan, it took more forever to find this cake. I know it is a few days late, but happy birthday, my dear sister.
GOGO smiles, then blows out the candles.
GOGO (ALSO IN JAPANESE WITH SUBTITLES): Thanks, Yuki-chan. I could not have asked for a better sister.
Of course the fact we both grew up without parents made us that much closer. At first we resented the Yakuza. It was they who had killed our parents.
(Flashback: Yaburi-san and his wife drive home in a typical Japanese car. We see the car being hit by a grenade launcher, totally destroyed. The camera pans away to see two young children - obviously Gogo and Yuki - watching on in horror.)
However, as we grew older, and more involved in...er, questionable activities, we came to know that not all Yakuza have stone hearts. One in particular was kind to us. O-Ren Ishii, like us, had lost her parents to violence. But it was she who said to us that wonderful saying....
O-REN (SPEAKING TO THE CAMERA): Don't get mad...get even.
Sadly, I was picked up on a weapons charge and sentenced to prison. The day before I was due to get out...I got into a....disagreement with another prisoner.
(We see Yuki slicing off the other prisoner's head with a crude sword.)
Seems I wasn't her type of folks. I was sentenced to more time. If it had not been for that, I would've been there when my sister was killed. I was to stay in prison the rest of my life. But I was not going to do that. NEVER.
(Flashback of Yuki bribing a guard to enter her cell...then killing her, taking her uniform, and talking her bribe money back.)
However, I had no idea of how to find this woman, this Black Mamba as I knew her. I would need help.
(Yuki at LAX. She seems confused. A figure comes up behind her.)
STRANGER: Yuki-san?
(Yuki looks up. We see SOPHIE smiling.)
SOPHIE: (JAPANESE): Good to see you again. Come. We have much to do, there's someone I'd like you to meet, she's going to help us.