Getting Any? (1994) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

After repeatedly failing to attract women with his cheap Honda Today, Asao becomes convinced that a proper roadster is the only way to get a girlfriend. When he realizes he cannot afford any of the cars at the dealership, he desperately asks his grandfather for money. Unable to secure funds through legitimate means, he makes the shocking decision to sell his grandfather's organs to raise enough money for a better car. This extreme act demonstrates the film\'s darkly absurd tone and Asao's complete inability to think rationally about relationships.

Foreshadowing: Earlier, Asao naively believes that simply owning the right car will solve all his dating problems, establishing his willingness to go to extreme lengths for his fantasy.

• organ selling
• desperation
• grandfather
• money
• car purchase

Asao obtains the money for the Eunos Roadster (Mazda Miata) by selling his grandfather's liver and kidneys. After failing repeatedly with his cheap Honda Today, he concludes that a sportier car is necessary and pleads with his grandfather for funds. When his grandfather refuses, Asao takes the drastic and morally reprehensible step of illegally selling his grandfather's organs to raise the money, then returns to the car dealer who convinces him to buy the cheaper domestic alternative.

Foreshadowing: The scene where Asao tests the cabriolet but admits he has no money foreshadows his desperate financial measures.

• eunos roadster
• miata
• money
• organ harvesting
• car dealer

After selling his wrecked Eunos Roadster to a salvage yard, Asao sees what appears to be an abandoned Mazda RX-7 Turbo on the street. Desperate to continue his quest for a car that will help him pick up women, he decides to steal it rather than buy one. However, his attempt quickly goes wrong when the car's brakes fail, causing him to strike a young woman and crash into a billboard before abandoning the wreck.

Foreshadowing: This moment follows his pattern of believing the right car will solve his problems, as established when he first visited the luxury car dealer.

• rx-7
• stolen car
• brake failure
• crash
• stealing

After traveling to Kawaguchi City to obtain a revolver from a local iron foundry, Asao's story becomes increasingly surreal. He encounters the yakuza, takes on the persona of Zatoichi, gains invisibility, and eventually transforms into a giant fly-man reminiscent of The Fly. These transformations appear to be part of the film's absurdist narrative style, where Asao's desperate fantasies manifest in increasingly bizarre ways as he continues failing to achieve his goal of having sex.

Foreshadowing: The film established early on that Asao's imagination runs wild after watching the erotic TV film, creating fantasy sequences that blur with reality.

• fly-man
• transformation
• surreal
• zatoichi
• invisibility

Asao becomes involved with the yakuza during his surreal misadventures after obtaining the revolver in Kawaguchi City. His journey takes him through increasingly absurd scenarios, with the yakuza membership representing just one of the many personas and groups he encounters as his quest becomes more desperate and his grip on reality loosens. The film uses these encounters to satirize various Japanese cultural icons and archetypes.

Foreshadowing: His decision to obtain a weapon for a bank robbery naturally leads him into criminal circles.

• yakuza
• crime
• revolver
• kawaguchi city

The film culminates with Asao diving into a large reservoir of feces, which leads to his capture by authorities. This scene exemplifies the film's extreme absurdist humor and serves as the definitive low point of Asao's chaotic journey. His desperate, downward spiral reaches its literal and figurative nadir as his schemes finally catch up with him, and he is apprehended in this degrading manner.

Foreshadowing: The escalating absurdity and failure of all his previous schemes build toward this inevitable collapse.

• feces
• reservoir
• capture
• downfall
• arrest

The film ends with Asao being captured after diving into a large reservoir of feces. In the post-credits scene, he continues leaping around Tokyo as the fly-man before meeting his fatal end: he is impaled on Tokyo Tower. This bleak and darkly comic conclusion abruptly shifts from the preceding slapstick comedy to genuine tragedy, serving as a stark commentary on the futility of Asao's obsessive pursuit.

Foreshadowing: The shift from comedic absurdity to tragic ending is foreshadowed by the increasingly desperate and self-destructive nature of his schemes.

• ending
• tokyo tower
• impaled
• death
• post-credits

Asao travels to Kawaguchi City, near Tokyo, to obtain a weapon for his planned bank robbery. At a local iron foundry, he creates his own revolver from scratch. This elaborate and somewhat absurd method of obtaining a weapon fits the film's tone of combining desperate ambition with Rube Goldberg-style problem solving.

Foreshadowing: His plan to rob a bank to fund his fantasy of airline stewardesses requires obtaining a weapon first.

• revolver
• weapon
• kawaguchi city
• foundry
• bank robbery

After crashing the stolen RX-7 and abandoning it, Asao envisions airline stewardesses offering naked on-board sex service to first-class passengers. This new fantasy leads him to want to travel by plane, but he has no money. Desperate to fund his dream, he hatches a plan to commit an armed bank robbery, demonstrating how his desires constantly escalate into increasingly criminal territory.

Foreshadowing: His earlier belief that buying a car would solve everything shows his pattern of turning to extreme measures for gratification.

• bank robbery
• plane
• stewardesses
• fantasy
• money

In the post-credits scene, Asao (as the fly-man) is impaled on Tokyo Tower, which serves as the film's final darkly comedic image. Tokyo Tower is an iconic Japanese landmark, and choosing it as the site of his death creates a stark contrast between mundane reality and his absurd fantasies. The graphic and tragic nature of the ending, impalement, stands in sharp contrast to the comedic tone of the rest of the film, delivering an unexpectedly bleak conclusion to Asao's journey.

Foreshadowing: The film foreshadows this tragic turn by gradually shifting from pure comedy to darker territory as Asao's schemes fail catastrophically.

• tokyo tower
• impaled
• death
• landmark
• ending

During his surreal misadventures after obtaining the revolver, Asao encounters the yakuza and adopts the persona of Zatoichi, the famous blind swordsman from Japanese cinema and literature. This transformation represents the film's satirical approach to Japanese cultural icons, as Asao continually adopts various identities in his desperate attempt to achieve his goals. His becoming Zatoichi is part of the rapid-fire succession of absurd scenarios that define the latter portion of the film.

Foreshadowing: His earlier practice with the female mannequin shows his tendency to imitate what he sees in media.

• zatoichi
• samurai
• persona
• transformation
• satire

The Eunos Roadster (Mazda Miata) that Asao purchases immediately begins falling apart after only a few meters of driving. The dealer has mislead Asao, selling him a car that is not in proper working condition. Rather than return to the dealer or seek repairs through legitimate means, Asao responds by attaching the broken pieces to the back of the car in a makeshift repair job, demonstrating both the car's poor quality and Asao's increasingly irrational problem-solving approach.

Foreshadowing: The dealer's push to sell him the Eunos Roadster after initially suggesting a more expensive model hints at his unscrupulous nature.

• eunos roadster
• car breakdown
• dealer
• malfunction
• repair