GREENWICH TIME
NEW YORK
PARIS
4:00
MOSCOW
6:00
BRAZZAVILLE
4:00
PEKING
11:00
SAIGON
11:00
JAPAN
Thief! Thief!
Hurry up! Take them off!
What do you think I took?
Don't get so excited, you bastard!
What do you think I took?
A piece of plastic pipe
Take your pants off, too!
Okay, I'll take them off!
Pull them down further!
Wait a minute!
Do you think I got something here?
Shall I show what's inside?
Now, you want to see?
Sorry! Sorry!
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
Someone asks you...
Morning in the sea, noon on a hill...
Night in the river. Who is it?
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
Even if we'll fade away... Even if we'll fade away...
A SOZOSHA PRODUCTION
Produced by NAKAJIMA Masayuki
SCRIPT TAMURATsutomu, SASAKI Mamoru ADACHI Masao, OSHIMA Nagisa
CINEMATOGRAPHY YOSHOKA Yasuhiro, SENGEN Seizo
SET DESIGN BY TODA Jusho SOUND BY HISHIZAKI Hideo
SOUND EFFECTS: SUZUKI Akira ART DIRECTION: ARAKAWA Dai
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: OGASAWARA Kiyoshi ASSISTANT PRODUCER: YAMAGUCHI Takuji
In cooperation with Kinokuniya Bookstore, Tokyo
THE BOY CALLED BIRDEY HILLTOP YOKOO Tadanori
THE GIRL CALLED "SUZUKI UMEKO" YOKOYAMA Rie
TANABE Moichi, TAKAHASHI Tetsu
SATO Kei, TOURA Rokko, WATANABE Fumio
KARA Juro and Members of the Jokyo Theatre Group
Directed by OSHIMA Nagisa
SHINJUKU
SUMMER 1968
SATURDAY
5:30 P.M.
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
Someone asks you...
Morning on the sea, noon on the hill
Night in the river, who is it?
President, this guy...
Do I know you?
I'm your employee
My employee?
Well, okay
Jean Genet?
Yes, "The Diary of a Thief"
We have to see the police?
Idiot!
Let me go!
Three times
What?
Before you're taken to the police
See you tomorrow
What do you want?
Let me
Let me do it
Let me. A cherry is not so precious
I'll rape you!
Okay, tomorrow
Tomorrow?
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and yet another day
Why not today?
Are you man enough...
...to put me in blue ecstacy, even the first time?
Sure, I am
Really?
NEXT DAY, SUNDAY
SHINJUKU
5:30 P.M.
It's only the second time
There's a real variety here
He said he'd come again today
So to the police...
So, yesterday was a preview?
You're a cinéphile?
What's your name?
Do I have to tell you?
If you like books so much...
But all these are for sale
I give you my book. It doesn't sell anyway.
"CONVERSATIONS WITH A NAKED FIGURE" BY MOICHI TANABE
My name is Hilltop...
Rather unusual name. Is this how you spell it?
Yes, my name is Birdey Hilltop
You know, like flies in the air
Hilltop? The school I went to also had a song like that
A bird sings and sings in a gingko tree
Not very good, am I?
Sorry, I lied
My real name is Gropey Shinagawa
Gropey... Let's cut-out the jokes
Vicar's Hall...
He's just trying for sympathy
I won't allow it
The ivy twines over...
One gate of Vicar's Hall...
It was all so sentimental...
But is it still twining there
Clear brisk fall skies...
And the sea off Shinagawa Bay
I leaned against the wooden fence...
And enjoyed the view...
Everybody knows this much of it
I can't tell whether you're my junior or my senior
Winter exams are close at hand
I don't get French at all
Oh, when I was twenty...
I went to sChool for six years...
Wine, songs, tobacco and girls...
That's all I ever learned...
I only learned to shop-lift
If you must use a false name...
You could have said Haruo Seto...
It would have been easier for me to dedicate
Here take this
You seem to be very interested in this student
No one else brings shop-lifters to me like this
I like this store and you
You like me? What's your name?
Miss Suzuki
Miss Suzuki, you don't have to bring me every shop-lifter you find
You see, I'm quite busy
You're the one he gave it to
I don't fancy having dinner with you
But he said together...
No point in being together
I'll wait here til you get off
WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, 5:30 A.M.
SHINJUKU SUNDAY 7:30 P.M.
I've got a date with a guy at 8:00
What for?
To sleep with him
You like having sex?
What do you want?
This felt better than having sex
How does it feel?
I almost ejaculated
This only happens when I shop-lift
Good-bye
What about the money?
I don't want it
How about splitting it?
I said you can have it all
Use it for the hotel tonight
Birdey Hilltop
What?
You've got money
You could buy any book you like
I'm poor
On only a book store clerk's pay...
It's a meagre existence
That's right
Nonsense!
Those books you have there...
You can have them
The book the President signed to Birdey Hilltop
A sex text- it will help you tonight
Take them!
I got your number, Miss!
That's what you think!
Okay, to Miss Nogood Suzuki
Pick them up, they're expensive
Damn!
Well, let's steal something!
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
Someone asks you...
Morning in the sea, noon on the hill...
Night in the river. Who is it?
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
An unsolvable solvable riddle
Tonight the owl won't hoot
Morning in the sea, noon on the hill...
Night in the river. Who is it?
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
Congratulation!
Wait, you've got to see me in it
A camel's lumps, two melons
We're alike as two peas in a pod...
To the number of hows, above and below
We like the same guy
We even say the same things in our sleep. Ei-Ei-
A lonely night...
We embrace in front of a mirror
Even a wilted pomegranate blooms Ei-Ei-
A hungry winter's night...
We gouge our Siamese cat's eye out...
And stuff our mouths full
The dead in their graves give birth Ei-Ei-
As long as we are so much alike...
There's nothing at all in the world
The whole world is deadly still
A pig's navel
Kyu-Kyu-
You should have told me before
How was it?
Nothing
Did it hurt?
No
You liked it even the first time?
No
Will you clean my ears?
No
It couldn't feel...
No
Feel any better for the earpick than the years...
Could it?
I feel nothing at all I still feel damned
PARIS
COMPLETE VICTORY PRESIDENT DE GAULLE
COMPLETE VICTORY
Take her home!
Let's go home!
Go yourself!
Settle down
Let me go! What're you doing?
What are you doing?
SUMMER 1968 - MONDAY 4TH - 9 A.M.
UMEKO SUZUKI WAS HELD AT THE YOTSUYI POLICE STATION
MR. TANABE GOT UMEKO OUT OF JAIL
UMEKO HAD ASKED HIM TO
I heard about you two from Mr. Tanabe...
And I think I understood the problem...
My methods are pretty severe...
Would you give me a few details...
About yourselves and your problem...
The way I look at it... I shouldn't do all the talking...
Take off your jacket... It's so hot...
We must gradually get through the veils...
After all... a boy and a girl...
It's the most natural thing in the world...
My feelings on the matter from what I have heard...
The boy is pretty...
The girl has a strong personality...
This is the basic problem...
But neither of you seem very strong...
Let's see... Your name was... Hilltop, wasn't it?
You're still breast feeding...
I think you are still quite a baby...
You are Umeko?
You seem quite strong...
But I don't think you really are...
You talk as though you understand...
But I don't think you really do...
These are pictures by Yumeji Takehisa...
These are pornographic drawings
Have you ever seen one?
Yes I have
How about you?
No
You look at them first...
I didn't know Yumeji drew pornography
They are very rare
This is quite...
I want to pass them on to her...
You look at them closely too
This one kind of gets to me...
In what way? Emotionally?
Yes
For instance, what she said...
...about the drawing seems to...
...indicate, that she has a desire for group sex...
Also you seem to have Lesbian tendencies...
Lesbian
Lesbian?
Yes, a kind of desire for women...
Lesbianism is very popular nowadays...
This drawing is of two women and one man
Since you are so impressed with it, you probably have these tendencies
As for you...
...you haven't told me the truth.
You must become naked...
I wonder, why you don't take off your clothes
You still aren't willing to undress...
There are still lots of veils to pierce through
At least take off your necktie
Come on, make yourself comfortable
You haven't revealed your heart to me
Is your waist thick?
I mean, not your waist... your hips
For a boy
Well, about the same as my chest
Exactly?
Have you measured yourself?
No, I haven't, but...
My size... trousers size...
But that's good...
But at the same time it shows some weakness, I think...
This may sound rude...
...but I feel you are quite effeminate...
I want to see both of you naked...
Both body and heart
Especially for Umeko, I feel...
Self-love... loving only oneself...
...results in subconscious Lesbian tendencies, I think...
...you are attached to those of your own sex
It may be your mother...
...or some other woman
Beginning with self-love and developing into Lesbianism
That's why you can't become naked
I think this feeling is one of pure self-protection
How about it?
I think both of you...
...you have something like an armor
And I think, this is the reason you'll never be able to do anything at all
I want you to undress
Can one get undressed just because someone says one should?
If I had been alone physically, personnally and anthropologically
I wouldn't have minded stripping completely
But just think!
Together... with her... by the numbers!
And me, the one who first made her...
...leaving a cherry blossom on the sheets
And she able to say only Nothing... Nothing... Nothing
For things to end like that...
If I were to suddenly remember her over breakfast when I'm 80...
...I think it would kind of get to me
Without sexual freedom, humans will never be free...
But it's impossible
If all girls in the world would never again say no...
...the world would be different
Professor Takahashi...
...undoubtedly wanted us to take the first step by stripping
But for us to take on...
...the responsibility of the whole world and strip was impossible
Mr Tanabe's kindness was also in vain
I could have put an end to this difficult discussion
I didn't have to make so much of a little cherry blossom
It was sort of stupid for them to ask us for advice...
...but let's see what we can do for them
But among those present there doesn't seem to be...
...much of an authority on the subject
How can you tell?
What do you mean? Pretty insulting!
Sure I'm insulting! Nobody here deserves better treatment
Nonsense!
I want to hear what the guy who said "nonsense" has to say
Can you solve their problems?
What is the basis for your satisfaction?
You're the only one who's satisfied
I'm satisfied, too
I'm not satisfied, not at all
I am... I am
Let's let our hair down I'll be MC
No clapping means everyone agrees with me
Mr Mutsuhiro Toura...
What do you have to say about sex?
I'm pissed, too. I'll let you ramble on...
Let's ignore Mr Toura
And pan to Mr Masao Matsuda
Mr Matsuda, are you or are you not sexually satisfied?
That's not the problem everyone here is sexually satisfied
Mr Matsda, are you sexually satisfied?
I'm doing alright
And now to today's guest
Mr. Hajime Yamazaki, are you or are you not sexually satisfied?
Please... how about it?
Sex? I get enough
In other words, sex isn't a duty, is it?
Do you feel sex is a duty?
No, it's not
Anyway, why do you think my saying that I love a woman...
...why do you think it's embarrassing?
Mr Mutsuhiro Toura has announced that he loves a woman...
I find that rather hard to believe
If I may be so bold...
...just what is love?
Well...
Please answer
Love? It's something one doesn't explain
Mr. Kei Sato, how is it to appear on TV?
Looking as though your mind is bleached white?
Shut up, boy!
What about it?
What about what?
You're useless!
I have my doubts...
So, I have a feeling that...
...you are appearing asjust Mr. Kei Sato on TV
It makes me feel rather strange
What do you mean?
I get sort of confused
I intend to be confusing
Is that your aim?
What kind of woman I love? That's ridiculous!
That's something that those who understand understand...
...and those who don't, don't
One doesn't have to reveal everything about one's sex life
But you're annoying others
I'm doing what?
Annoying others! You really are!
How am I annoying others?
In various ways
That's just what you think!
I don't think I'm annoying anyone at all
You are crazy to think I'm annoying
Don't be ridiculous. I think you're extremely annoying
- Never happen! - That has nothing to do with nothing!
For instance, Kei, your saying this has nothing to do with it...
...makes it all sort of masturbation
Anyway, phenomenally and physically...
...at the moment of coitus...
...one falls into the illusion, that one has become one with one's partner
But what man and woman feel at that time is quite different
Nonsense!
It's not...
I think it's nonsense
Why?
- I'll explain it to you - Please...
- I'll answer... - Answer, please!
For instance, the question is, "What is sex?" generally speaking
Who? Me?
I mean I want to answer the question "What is sex?"
I'm thinking hard about what to say
But since it's not something I usually think about...
...I'm thinking so hard about it now, but...
...for instance, when you feel it's time for sex...
...when you think now I need sex...
In other words, when you see a woman's arm, her shoulder...
...her tits... of course, one only usually sees the upper part of them...
...but even when I see the upper part I think...
...I turn it over in my mind...
...and I consider the reason for a woman's arms...
...are they for enticing men?
Are they for embracing men?
That's not it
No, her arms are for washing glasses...
...for doing laundry, for cleaning, etc...
This is also what woman's arms are for
For instance, during the Olympics...
Why does Mr Toura feel itso necessary to explain to us...
...how hot he is for his woman?
I've got a woman I'm pretty deeply involved with, but...
...but I doubt she is as hot for me as I am for her
I even doubt my feelings
Because I feel doubt, I want to go on living...
If I had no doubt, I wouldn't want to live any longer
I want to include ideas on how to live...
...and thus explain sex
I don't think freedom in sex is possible
It is a personal matter
It should be left at that
This way it still has beauty
I don't see any sense in such reports as the Master's Report etc.
Reports on sex have absolutely no significance
When a man and a woman are together...
...something comes of it
That something has nothing to do with whether or not a child is born...
The only thing that counts is, that they had fun
That's the point
You are saying that they enjoyed it or not...
...depends on things like your partner's sex organs, arms
You make it sound like it's a matter of details
Whether a woman's sex organs are good or bad
Judging it on something one is born with...
...is utter nonsense
There are those who can't appreciate well made things
I disagree. I think that sex should be good whether or not...
...her organs are the best
I think on the other hand sex is making the best of...
...poor quality organs
Okay, then just what is sex?
Sex should end with an "s"... It's got to be plural...
We got to be two people
Thus again onanism is impossible
Having someone watch is also rather interesting
Once I tried dressed sex...
I'll explain...
It was about January 20th and the geisha were still wearing...
...their long kimono decorated with thick heavy sashes...
Usually they take off the sash before getting into bed...
But instead in dressed sex the sash is left on...
It is considered lucky during the first seven days of the new year.
When I heard this...
...I thought it sounded like fun. But dressed sex alone...
...didn't sound interesting enough.
So I made a suggestion...
I said I didn't care what happened so everyone should hide and watch.
There should be no objections.
We arranged everything and called in a young geisha.
The other geisha hid and held their breath.
The girl was quite cute.
I felt it was kind of cruel...
...but I had promised...
It was now my responsibilty to give them a good show...
FIVE DAYS LATER, IT WAS SATURDAY AGAIN So they could see better...
FIVE DAYS LATER, IT WAS SATURDAY AGAIN ...I pulled her out of bed and on the floor.
PARIS RAIN ...I pulled her out of bed and on the floor.
PARIS RAIN She didnt like it, so I said...
SAIGON She didnt like it, so I said...
CLEAR WEATHER She didnt like it, so I said...
CLEAR WEATHER ...it's good luck, and she was finally convinced.
CLEAR WEATHER SUNNY DAY IN NAHA ...it's good luck, and she was finally convinced.
CLEAR WEATHER SUNNY DAY IN NAHA In the middle of things...
SHINJUKU: CLEAR WEATHER In the middle of things...
SHINJUKU: CLEAR WEATHER ...someone coughed in the hall.
TEMPERATURE: 36 DEGREES, HUMIDITY: 70% I got exited and coughed twice as loud
DISCOMFORT INDEX: 85 I got exited and coughed twice as loud
Everything came out all right. The girl left...
...and we got together again.
Who coughed?
The culprit wasn't found. Our little game had almost gone too far.
If she had heard the cough...
...she might have appealed to the police on human rights grounds.
A lonely night...
We embrace in front of a mirror
Even a wilted pomegranate blooms Ei-Ei-
A hungry winter's night...
We gouge our Siamese cat's eye out...
And stuff our mouths full
The dead in their graves give birth Ei-Ei-
At a certain place on the other side of the river...
A place called Shower Inn...
A male and female relationship is just like a car...
There is an element of timing for starting the engine...
When the timing is good...
...suddenly it begins to rain...
...at exactly the right moment
Thus, when a man and a woman are caught together in the rain...
...it works out very well
In other words, if the woman says she must leave...
...and it starts raining...
...especially if the rain starts...
...just when you are having trouble keeping up a conversation...
...the two of you suddenly have a feeling of closeness
Everything there is so well arranged...
...for the man and the woman
The hotel sets up a very passionate atmosphere...
...for it's customers
They really do their best to help you succeed
If things don't work out well here, then it is almost impossible
That's how good it is there
In the front there is a little door...
It's like a tea room door
You enter through it and you are immediately in an eight mat room
Because of the way tea rooms are made, it looks bigger than eight mats
And you are suprised to find that the whole floor...
...is covered with sleeping mats from wall to wall
It is extremely sensual
A room which excites sexual desire
If you go and nothing happens, we'll talk about it again
Anyway, go and try it
From Prof. Takahashi's...
Here I come!
Here we come!
Here I come!
Here we come!
Help!
Ali Baba, town of mystery
Someone asks you...
Morning in the sea, noon on a hill...
Night in the river, who is it?
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery
An unsolvable solvable riddle
Tonight the owl won't hoot
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery
An unsolvable solvable riddle
Tonight the owl won't hoot
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery
UMEKO SUZUKI WAS RAPED
RAPED BY TWO MEN
WHAT WAS BIRDEY DOING THEN?
TOKYO, SHINJUKU: FAIR
SAIGON: CLEAR AND FAIR
I'm going
Birdey!
BIRDEY!
UMEKO SAID TO BIRDEY
"IS IT OVER?"
OF COURSE BIRDEY DIDN'T ANSWER.
"LET'S DO IT."
BIRDEY...
Let's do it
SHINJUKU
SUNDAY
5 A.M.
If you want to see I'll show it to you!
Hump it, Showa Decadence Boy! Kara Juro's big hump!
Dad and mom embraced and I was born from a peach
If you want to see, pay your fee and see...
SITUATION PLAYERS" PERFORMANCE KARA JURO'S "YUI SHOSETSU"
Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
We got drugs at midnight
Come and see at Hanayono Shrine
SHINJUKU, MONDAY 5:30 P.M.
BIRDEY IS STANDING HERE
STANDING
What's the President's number?
The number?
2-0-0
The President, please
This is Birdey Hilltop
Is this the President?
No, it didn't work
Yes, we're here. Of course
The President will meet us at the Capricorn Bar at 8:30
At 8:30!
For a long time...
I was a barber...
In Shinjuku behind the Isetan Department Store
My mother was a hustler
It was a good life
On Sundays, not a cloud in the sky...
We put on our Sunday best...
Enticed the lovely ladies...
And gayly chopped off their heads
Look! Look!
The razor dances
Look! Look!
Heads fly!
What a lovely Sunday!
Even the little birds eat pickled onions
Yeh! Barbers, Hurrah!
I...
...was hiding...
...in the toilet.
I am Jean Genet
Convicts'clothes are striped pink and white
Though it was at my heart's bidding...
...that I chose the universe wherein I delight...
I have at least the power...
...of finding in it the many meanings I wish to find:
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts
A true witness is one who gives evidence... "SIMONE WEIL"S WORLD" BY DAVY MARIE-MAGDELEINE
...from the depth of poverty, misery, despair and disgrace
HENRY MILLER: WRITINGS
Now I destroy my inept writings.
I throw my knowledge in the river passing by.
I die of hunger as the wolf I cling desperately...
But I can do nothing...
Tears flow across my cheeks
Oh, I am low and base
Those passing by lead heavily laden horses.
The days pass by and evening comes in the broad plain of the sky
If it would serve to free the human race...
...I believe that even sex with animals, or...
...Copulation in public view, or incest should be encouraged
But if I said here come Mr. Clay, Mr. Tree, Mr. Fish, Mr. Bird...
...you would not know, what color he is until you saw him
He could be negro or white.
Because two million Negroes are named after...
...the masters, when we were freed a hundred years ago
My loneliness was clearly trying to move...
...to a place with which my soul was not concerned
I felt the reason I had to become angry...
...in the form of my loneliness YOSHIMOTO TAKAAKl: POETRY
My first lover was a boy. So I had to become a girl
TOMIOKATAEKO: POETRY Then everyone except my lover said I had become a girl...
TOMIOKATAEKO: POETRY So for them I became a boy again...
Unfotunately, for my lover too TOMIOKATAEKO: "GIRL FRIENDS" POETRY
But he said he wouldn't sleep with me, so I became a girl for him
The woman suffrage problem in Kolkhoz is a serious one
I know that many of you...
Belittle and ridicule women and their demands
But, comrades, this is a mistake
It is a serious mistake
She takes out from her pocket the operating Gikuyu razor...
With a stroke she cuts off the tip of the clitoris
As no other part of the girl's sexual organ is interfered with...
In a moment each girl is covered with a dress by her sponsor
At this juncture the silence is broken...
...and the crowd begins to sing joyously in these words:
Our children are brave, hurrah! JOMO KENYATTA "FACING MOUNT KENYA"
Did anyone cry? No one cried-hurrah! JOMO KENYATTA "FACING MOUNT KENYA"
I should have never learned words
With Japanese and a little foreign language...
I stop in your tears...
TAMURA RYUICHl: POETRY
I return alone in your blood TAMURA RYUICHl: POETRY
Not being a learned priest, I don't have the freedom of Nirvana
I still have an attachment for life
I decided to escape from the place
That night I burned and threw away all letters from friends
My wife and I took our children and escaped to an inn
Before long, it was rumored that I had been captured and killed
But Rou-xi's whereabouts were entirely unknown
Some said that the foreign community officials had taken him away...
To the Ming-Rishudian Publisher to find out whether he was an editor
Others said, that he was taken to the govermental publisher...
To determine whether or not he was really Rou-xi
Since he was handcuffed his case must have been serious
Some said that he could be released on bail...
While others claimed that he had already been sent to Nanking
Also there were numerous people asking of my whereabouts...
Then my mother in Peking collapsed under the strain...
I found it necessary to answer them to stop the mistaken rumors
This situation continued for twenty days
It became bitterly cold
We had sufficient bedding, but we wondered if Rou-xi did
Suddenly we received a reliable report...
Along with 23 others, Rou-xi had been shot...
On the night of February 7th or the morning of the 8th...
At the Pong-Hua Police Headquaters
Ten bullets entered his body
Is this the way things were?!
Late one night I was standing in the enclosed garden of the inn
Debris was piled up all around me
I felt keenly the loss of my good friend...
And China's loss of a fine young man
My indignation became deeper
From this deep feeling, an old habit came to the surface...
Which resulted in a poem...
Her last name is Suzuki. Her first name is Umeko
This is Kinokuniya Book Store
I'm on the second floor
I'm locked in and can't get out
Let's talk outside
Let's go outside...
And talk...
No!
Let's talk
No!
We meet again. I think I've got the picture
I never have disliked adventures
I've come along this far, but now...
...I think it's time to bring down the curtain on our little drama
Nasty!
A real man is sexual and at the same time something more
But a woman is nothing without sexuality
Otto Weininger
You're acting pretty strange
I did a lot of wild things in the past...
Well, a few...
And I don't want to bother you two any further
Even in baseball, if you get lazy just because it's the first inning...
...you will suddenly find that you are in the ninth inning
Please buy this girl
All right. I understand
Please buy her
Yes, I'm a slut
A whore
A prostitute
I was raped by a gang
That swastika pose is nice
But it's not very good for the books underneath
The books are me
Please buy her
The game is over
I knew you weren't my employee from the beginning
Umeko Suzuki is now bought...
...with this money
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
I bought you
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
GOING HOME...
UNPLEASANT THINGS IN THE WORLD
TODAY TOO, LATE AT NIGHT...
I MAKE MY LONELY WAY HOME
1, 2, 3, 4...
5, 6, 7, 8, 35, 46, 150, 1000, 10000
Everybody waiting. Just waiting
Doing nothing but waiting to see Yui Shosetsu
They themselves should act rather than just wait
Our red tent is next to the Hanazono shrine.
No performance tonight
Break up, please!
But Umeko and me can't break up.
I have 30,000 Yen. They say: No money, no friends.
So Umeko will stick with me.
Were no beggars, but thieves.
Tanabe san didnt understand that.
Therefore he didn't join us.
I believe, Umeko wanted to steal Tanabe sans sex, and I wanted to steal it from her.
He didn't wish to join us
He tried to tell us several things...
...but actually he taught us nothing at all
30,000 yen... it would be natural for us to split it...
I could buy a girl and Umeko could buy a guy
Then we could disperse
Rather than buy a girl, I want to become a girl
And I think Umeko wants to become a boy...
May I make an offering to the ghost?
What's wrong? Did you kill someone?
Not yet
But I'd like to take a swipe with a sword like this
Or wear a woman's costume like this
Are you an actor?
Neither being in or seeing a play is any fun
Then how come you pretended you were a bookstore clerk?
It's just right. Isn't it?
Fits too well!
What do you plan to do?
I want to try being someone else
You mean it?
Yes
Your part is Yui Shosetsu
No, don't do that!
There is something wrong with him
It's all lies
This weak a guy can't play Yui Shosetsu
It's better for an actor to be strange
But for an absolute amateur...
His eyes are the eyes of a thief
In these eighty years of theatre a thief has never become an actor
You want to try it with that as a selling point?
Kabuki means to perform in a wild manner
The actors were not gorgeous footmen, but social outcasts who were chased...
...into the riverbed. That's why they are great
But I won't show you the trap door that leads to the riverbed
You have to find your own
If you don't find it...
...and people start praising you...
...with such terms as "underground", "psychedelic"...
you'll start feeling like you've arrived before you really have
That's how it is
Head for sale!
Who are you?
Yui Shosetsu
Head for sale!
Give me your head!
Give it here!
Crazy woman! Get out!
Strange face!
I'm really getting it tonight!
Why are you helping him?
Who are you? Tell your name!
Yui Shosetsu
It's not only the town that's crazy
Right! You and him and everyone...
I know you!
You're running away! Coward!
You killed your comrades
You had your comrades killed
Don't mistake what you see! Hag!
Hey! Listen to the crow fly away!
Call his name once more!
Once more! All together!
Caw... caw
Craaah!
You call Shosetsu a rook?
What?
Chuya! Stand up!
Wait! Wait!
Let me hear your name once again!
You, what did you say your name is?
Yui Shosetsu
Shosetsu - pure snow. Yui - was there anyone greater?
That voice, those teeth...
...these big ears, that strong odor...
...these eyes, those hands...
...that way of rearranging his underwear without using his hands as he walks.
Yozakura raised Shosetsu...
Fraud!
You are not Yui Shosetsu
That's right!
Who do you say he is, hag!
Who do you say he is?
Give it up!
Away! Away!
Fraud! Immodesty!
If you are Shosetsu, I, Yozakura should know you
I'll beat you with the back of my sword!
What're you doing?
Die!
Shosetsu - pure snow. Yui - Is there anyone greater?
Stay away from her!
SITUATION PLAYERS CRAZY PERFORMANCE
AUDIENCE:
1,000 GIRLS
AUDIENCE:
10,000 POLICEMEN
A man should never entrust anything to a woman
A man should just pass over the top of a woman
Hurry! Pass over!
Woman and country are alike
Man must not serve woman
What is a woman?
Me!
Chuya. Woman is a pitfall!
Woman is not waiting for man...
Chuya. Man is pitfall!
Man is not waiting for woman...
Woman is waiting below... at your feet.
She wants to pull you in... like an octopus trap
They just want you!
They catch men's dreams like an octopus trap
Chuya. There is no woman...
Believe me, there is no woman!
There are no women in the world!
Where to?
I clean myself.
Wait!
What are you doing?
What costume do I wear next?
You may believe that there is no woman
What both of us imagine as a woman...
...don't pay any attention to her
All we need to do is close our eyes and pass over her like a breeze
But after all Japan is an island country
She keeps her legs crossed...
...just like a woman for fear of attack from the outside
Comparatively, Europe is much better
Holland, Italy Germany, Afghanistan...
They are just whore houses with Goddesses' crown
In the West, ten women wait for one man
But in this country, one woman waits for ten men
You aren"t Shosetsu any more. Let's leave
Hasn't it stopped yet?
Not yet
Believe there is no woman!
Powerful men have always ruled the country...
But in the end the country raped all her rulers
From now on men must raise themselves above those of the past
No, don't pay any attention to her
Shosetsu, don't bitch like a bastard child
After all, here we have a fine woman named Okin
With your arbitrary theories about women...
...Okin won't know what to do with herself
Your ideas are just those of a bachelor's Utopia
Very weak!
You're just an undernourished king of weak ideas
Oh, poor thing! Oh, poor thing!
Since my family was poor...
I went to work in an oil shop when I was little
I was allowed to go out only once a year...
To the Mulberry Fair
The wife of the boss was an old bitch...
Always thinking I was making out with her husband
She watched and spied all the time
Watching me as she did the cleaning
Watching me as she cooked
Watching the boss all the time
Till he finally began to find me attractive
One night on the way home from the bath...
...he beckoned to me from behind a trash barrel
Okin. Come here Show me your ass
Though I didn't like him, I went...
Though it didn't hurt, I yelled...
Finally his wife found out
One night I packed my things...
And went to be a maid in a bicycle shop
My new boss was a milk-toast
No problems from him
But his stupid son Yochan...
...Came crawling into my bed every night
What's wrong with you, Yochan...
...your feet are cold as ice
No matter how much I objected...
Yochan just giggled and said:
Let me suck your mulberry nipples
Okin, where do you gather such nice mulberries?
I want to buy mulberries like yours...
...and eat them by the mouthful.
Stop your silly jokes, stupid boy...
...you cannot make Okin your toy
The door slid open and who should be there but old milk-toast
He runs in with a fire pump, yelling:
Where's the flat fire? Let's see it!
He grabbed my tit, and began blowing
This ain't no tube!
Even so he kept on blowing
Stupid Yochan and his milk-toast dad had a big fight
Over whether it was a mulberry or a blow-out
In a hurry I fled the place
And wandered along the night road...
With my sandals under my arm...
Where, oh where shall I go?
I asked the stars, in vain.
Walking along through the Edo night
I got all wet in the night dew
I learned the sad fate of a woman
With a happy laugh, Oh...
What are you doing?
Let's steal it!
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
It's your own fault! Everything!
Sorry!
Go find it!
Hanbei, call my name
When I kill someone, who appears in front of me...
You promised to teach me, who I am, didn't you?
You told me to take off this mask
I can't take it off!
You said to show me my face behind the mask
My hands slip
I didn't know that blood was so slippery
Head for sale!
That head is sold!
Do you want this one?
Orthatone?
Which will it be?
Let go! Let it go!
Oh, such big snow flakes!
I am Yui Shosetsu
Give my husband back his head, please
Kara Juro! It's my fault. It was stolen
Don't stop me!
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...
Someone asks you...
Morning on the sea, noon on the hill
Night in the river. Who is it?
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery
An unsolvable solvable riddle
Tonight the owl won't hoot
Morning in the sea, noon on the hill...
Night in the river. Who is it?
Bero-bero, a little boy
This is Ali Baba, town of mystery
What is this? How did you get cut?
I was about 18. I was walking alone in Shinjuku
A boy about 14 started following me
I didn't know he was following me
So I continued walking
He came running towards me
I think he was a pervert
He stabbed me and ran
What did he stab you with?
I think it was a dagger
But he ran away immediately
I didn't know what had happened
It seems he stabbed two or three girls
He was caught soon after
I heard later...
...that he was an American
Did you know immediately that you had been stabbed?
I realized what had happened. The blood began to flow
But since he was an American...
...alone in Japan with no parents...
...he had sort of come apart for various reasons
I think that's the reason he did what he did
He was quite pitiful. I don't want to blame him
I only feel strong anger towards something
Because of that...
...didn't you, perhaps, develop a fear of men?
I don't think that had anything to do with it
You mean it doesn't have any particular relationship to sex?
No, there's no relationship at all!
But there was a time when I had a fear of men for about a month
Well then, your wound has not created a wound in your heart?
It has had a certain amount of influence, I think
Then it was pretty bad for you?
It was bad, but it was a single event...
...so that I think it is something of rather great importance to my life
Well... in that event...
...you probably should take good care of it
Yes, of course, that's true