During his incarceration, he loses both businesses and now he’s out for revenge. Satake is arrested and confined for nearly a month but is released due to a lack of evidence. Their number one suspect is Satake, as the police have found Yayoi’s husband’s coat at the casino and have witnesses who saw Satake and Yayoi’s husband fighting.

Unfortunately, the police have found some of the bags and now they are investigating the murder. What is Yayoi to do? She confides in Masako who recruits the Skipper and Kuniko to help dispose of the husband’s body by cutting it up and throwing the bagged body parts away in different areas of the city. Yayoi sits and looks at her dead husband and says out loud, “Couldn't you have been nice once in a while?” When he says, “Can’t you be nice once in a while?”, it enrages her and she strangles her husband to death with her belt. The following evening Yayoi has another argument with her husband.

Yayoi is looking at her bruised body caused by her husband’s violence and she’s overcome by a very powerful emotion - hatred. Currently, Satake must deal with a problem customer at both of his establishments who happens to be Yayoi’s husband. Satake is convinced he needs to keep a low profile in his businesses due to his prison record. He once killed a woman in a most violent fashion and spent seven years in prison for the crime. Anna is the girlfriend of the club owner who also runs an illegal gambling casino called Kunimatsu in the same building. He is also stalking a hostess named Anna who works as a hostess at a club called Mika in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho District. He has dwindled the family account to nearly zero. Yayoi’s husband is a good-for-nothing gambler, womanizer, and wife-beater. Masako is a married woman who is estranged from her husband and teenage son. Kuniko is an overweight woman who enjoys living beyond her means and is trying to keep one step ahead of a loan shark. Yoshie, who the other three call the Skipper, is a widower in her late fifties, who also cares for her bedridden mother-in-law. Yayoi is the youngest of the four and is married and has two children.

The four women are Yayoi Yamamoto, Yoshie Azuma, Kuniko Jonouchi, and Masako Katori.

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