The Grey Industry in Dark Gold Ugly Island King: Supported by greedy humanity

"No, you can't postpone a day, pay it back immediately!" Readers who have seen the Japanese manga "Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun" must be deeply impressed by this sentence.

The Japanese film "Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun" based on this manga and the second and third are the most realistic and shocking series of movies I have ever seen that reflect the underground economy and gray industry. How the mutual inversion of the underclass society, the greed of human nature and the desires and dreams of the young people at the bottom are shattered by the iceberg are vividly presented in these three films.

Because it is an eastern society, although the social system on our side is more superior, I watch these three movies without any sense of separation, and it seems to happen around me.

Although the gap between rich and poor in Japan is not large, with a large number of middle class, known as "100 million total middle class", in the Heisei era, when economic development was almost stagnant for more than 20 years, social classes were further solidified. If the young people at the bottom cannot receive a good education - the proportion of poor children in well-known universities is very small, their future is almost gray, often can only open small shops, do odd jobs to earn a living, can find a stable, complete social security job, the probability of becoming a white-collar worker in the company is low. As a result, a large number of such young people have poured into the gray industry. Loan sharks, pornography, pyramid schemes and other industries showed a deformed prosperity.

The protagonist of "Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun" Ugly Island Shin (played by Takayuki Yamada) is a handsome, cold, thoughtful and courageous young man. He is the owner of a usury company "Niu Niu Finance", lending money to people who urgently need money, the interest rate is much higher than the statutory interest rate, even reaching 50% or 30% of the daily interest, and the interest is deducted when the loan is issued, commonly known as "beheading interest". When the creditors are unable to repay the money on time, Ugly Island and his horse boy use violent means such as intimidation, beating, and threatening their families to claim the debt.

Most of the people who are swallowed up by usury are desperate or self-abandoned, and they are marginal people with poor economic status and low social status. Like some other Japanese literary works depicting the bottom of society, in these three films, the borrowers of loan sharks must have single mothers who ran away or died and did not have a legitimate occupation. For example, Suzuki Mirai (Yuko Oshima) in the first part lives with a single mother and underage brother. She earned money by doing odd jobs and later as a coffee girl (chatting with the opposite sex) to pay off her mother's debts, and her mother made a living in the skin and meat business herself, and even forced her daughter and the man who bought the spring to make a "threesome" to make a lot of money. In the confusion and about to sink, Suzuki Future stopped the pace of depravity, paid off his mother's debts, went to a small restaurant to work and earn money, and returned to the ordinary days.

There are also some involved in the black hole of usury who are cold children whose hearts are higher than the sky and who are bent on making a lot of money. Jun Ogawa, played by Sakimoto, a performance planner and organizer who travels to Tokyo's Vanity Fair, carries three mobile phones with him and has 3,000 phones, confident that with these "connections", he can quickly turn pheasants into phoenixes, make a lot of money, and get ahead. He organized five well-off young men in school to do a "excellent five" singing group, and in the process of organizing a large-scale concert of this group, he found that people's feelings were as thin as paper, and it was difficult for him to ride the tiger in order to pay the rent of the venue, he went to ugly island to borrow usurious loans. Under pressure to repay his debts, he instigated several other marginalized young women to report the ugly island extortion to the police. Facing imprisonment, Ugly Island withdraws the lawsuit under the various soft and hard measures of Ma Zai and lawyers, and the free Ugly Island takes cruel revenge on Jun Ogawa for breaking the unspoken rules.

Shinji Sawamura (played by Shoto Hongo) in "Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun 3" is a poorly paid dispatched employee (that is, a temporary worker sent to the enterprise by a labor service company, and there is no labor contract relationship with the service enterprise, and there are many in China), who is disguised as an e-commerce marketing master and is actually a pyramid scheme leader, who is envious of Tiansheng xiang living a life surrounded by beautiful women and similar to the "feast of the sea and sky", and also fantasizes about getting rich overnight, borrowing money from ugly island to raise money to buy the "secret book of getting rich" of the natural master. After repeated setbacks, he finally "opened up", weak and introverted, he became mouthy, pulling people's heads to lie one after another, his performance climbed steadily, and he also won the heart of vanity and beauty. However, the greater danger is coming.........

These films expose the ugliness of society very boldly and spicyly. The mother instigates her daughter to sell spring; the son steals the father's medical treatment money for the membership fee of the pyramid scheme; the rookie sacrifices his girlfriend to please the pyramid scheme leader......... Thankfully, every movie has a slightly warm tail. Ugly Island, which looks cruel and ruthless, can still abide by the bottom line of "stealing and having a way", not without pity for the goodness of nature and the young people forced by life, and even secretly help, but also show no mercy to the greedy pyramid scheme leaders and the debtors who break the unspoken rules.

In fact, such a story, I think China is not lacking. In 2016, Yu Huan, a young man in GuanXian County, Shandong Province, stabbed to death a debt collector who used cruel and indecent means to coerce his mother to repay the loan shark, which should also look good if it is made into a film and television drama. However, it can only be thought of, such a work that exposes the dark side of society is too negative energy!