culture shock

my reference is one that I am sure you probably have never heard of, it is from a manga by Matsuri Akino called Petshop of Horrors. this manga is usually a collection of short stories centering around the mysterious pet shop of count D in Tokyo china town district. the Romeo and Juliet story starts when two young lovers burst in to the pet shop pleading for count D to hide them. as it turns out the slightly comical pair are both heirs to rival Yuzaka gangs. Count D allows them to stay the night so to escape their families thugs for the time being. in the morning how ever their families come to collect them by any means necessary, determined not to be parted they run up to the roof of the pet shop where they decide that If they cant be together in marriage they should be together in death and jump off the roof. luckily they are saved by Count D who then convinces the rivals to make up and let their children marry. when I found this referance was not actually very surprised because of the fact that Romeo and Juliet is such a classic that it is parodied and redone over and over