They grow to adore one another, but do not confess their love for each other because they were both afraid of being heartbroken and would rather keep their brother-sister-like relationship.,

The elaborate tattoo on his back seems to support this view, though some claim that Kenji and Noi are merely imagining themselves as becoming more like their deceased siblings, as evidenced by the sudden revealing of Kenji's elaborate back tattoo (some have also speculated that Kenji's brother is in fact his Yakuza brother or "Aniki" and not his blood relative) and the scenes in which Noi is actually seen as the image of her sister, switching actresses and costumes in between shots of the same scene.,

Cut-transitions link these plangent and understated images together in way that seems to demand that their meanings be understood.,