Goro is a pachinko parlor owner in Osaka who gives 16-year-old Mozasu a job to keep him off the streets. He’s a “fat and glamorous Korean” who loves beautiful women. He can also be generous, especially to poor and elderly Koreans, such as when he patronizes the struggling Totoyama’s uniform shop and lifts her family out of poverty. He makes Mozasu manager of his seventh parlor when Mozasu is only 20. He remains lifelong friends with Mozasu and Haruki, but his yakuza ties contaminate Solomon’s real estate deal at work, ultimately costing Solomon his job.