If we pay the rent to the landlady, we won't have any money for food; we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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If we pay the rent to the landlady, we won't have any money for food; we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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The confidence man and his blonde call girl make a perfect match in enraging his landlady.
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This lady is Masagokan's landlady, Yoko Someha.
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Sometimes the old landlady would come by and said "That child doesn't cry", but it was that my babysitting was godly.
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