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Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex :: DI: Well-Fed Me; NIGHT CRUISE (02x02)
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| Title: | DI: Well-Fed Me; NIGHT CRUISE |
| Episode #: | 02x02 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday January 01st, 2004 |
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A former combat veteran named Gino, who fought during World War IV, now spends his days as a helicoptor pilot for the chairman of a large television studio. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Gino slowly grows more dissatisfied with the world that he believes needs to be "reset."
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Japanese Title: 「飽食の僕」 - 「Hōshoku no Boku」
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Ilaria Graziano | 「Monochrome」 | | | •Origa | 「Rise」 | | | •Steve Conte | 「Living Inside the Shell」 | | | •Yōko Kanno | 「アイドリング」 | |
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"NIGHT CRUISE": Taxi Driver
The entire episode is a homage to the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorcese. Taxi Driver is a movie about a Vietnam War Veteran so alone and so lost in the world that he has returned to. Gino is a veteran of the Second Vietnam War, Non-Nuclear World War IV, and the way that he moves through his life are all references to the protagonist of Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle (played by Robert De Niro).
| The Major's Undercover Residence: Flatiron Building
The building that the Major sets up shop in is a Flatiron Building, which takes the name from the way it is shaped. The most famous Flatiron Building is located at the intersection of 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway in New York City.
| Poster: Che Guevara
Gino has a poster of Che Guevara on a red background in his apartment. The one-time leader of Communist insurgents in the 1950's and 1960's, who was instrumental in the "26th of July Movement" that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba in 1959, Che Guevara (his full name is Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna) was assassinated in Bolivia in October of 1967.
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