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'tgetso excited, you bastard!
What do you think I took?
A piece of pIastic pipe
Take your pants off, too!
Okay, I'II take them off!
PuII them down further!
Waita minute!
Do you think I got something here?
ShaII 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?
l'm your employee
My empIoyee?
WeII, okay
Jean Genet?
Yes, ""The Diary of a Thief""
We have to see the poIice?
Idiot!
Let me go!
Three times
What?
Before you're taken to the poIice
See you tomorrow
What do you want?
Let me
Let me do it
Let me. A cherry is notso precious
I'II rape you!
Okay, tomorrow
Tomorrow?
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and yetanother day
Why not today?
Are you man enough...
...to put me in bIue ecstacy, even the first time?
Sure, I am
ReaIIy?
NEXT DAY, SUNDAY
SHINJUKU
5:30 P.M.
It's onIy the second time
There's a reaI variety here
He said he'd come again today
So to the poIice...
So, yesterday was a preview?
You're a cinéphiIe?
What's your name?
Do I have to teII you?
If you Iike books so much...
ButaII these are for saIe
I give you my book. It doesn't seII anyway.
""CONVERSATIONS WITH A NAKED FIGURE"" BY MOICHI TANABE
My name is HiIItop...
Rather unusuaI name. Is this how you speII it?
Yes, my name is Birdey HiIItop
You know, Iike fIies in the air
HiIItop? The schooI I went to aIso had a song Iike that
A bird sings and sings in a gingko tree
Not very good, am I?
Sorry, I Iied
My reaI name is Gropey Shinagawa
Gropey...Let's cutout thejokes
ViCar's Hall...
He'sjust trying for sympathy
I won'taIIow it
The ivy twines over...
One gate of ViCar's Hall...
lt was all so sentimental...
But is it still twining there
Clear brisk fall skies...
And the sea off Shinagawa Bay
l leaned against the wooden fenCe...
And enjoyed the view...
Everybody knows this much of it
I can't teII whether you're my junior or my senior
Winter exams are Close at hand
l don't get FrenCh at all
Oh, when l was twenty...
l went to sChool for six years...
Wine, songs, tobaCCo and girls...
That's all l ever learned...
I onIy Iearned to shop-Iift
If you must use a faIse name...
You couId have said Haruo Seto...
It wouId have been easierfor me to dedicate
Here take this
You seem to be very interested in this student
No one eIse brings shop-Iifters to me Iike this
I Iike this store and you
You Iike me? What's your name?
Miss Suzuki
Miss Suzuki, you don't have to bring me every shop-Iifter 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'II wait here tiI you getoff
WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, 5:30 A.M.
SHINJUKU SUNDAY 7:30 P.M.
I've gota date with a guy at 8:00
What for?
To sIeep with him
You Iike having sex?
What do you want?
This feIt betterthan having sex
How does it feeI?
I aImostejacuIated
This onIy happens when I shop-Iift
Good-bye
Whatabout the money?
I don't want it
How aboutspIitting it?
I said you can have itaII
Use it forthe hoteI tonight
Birdey HiIItop
What?
You've got money
You couId buy any book you Iike
I'm poor
On onIy a book store cIerk's pay...
It's a meagre existence
That's right
Nonsense!
Those books you have there...
You can have them
The book the Presidentsigned to Birdey HiIItop
A sex text- it wiII heIp 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!
WeII, Iet"s steaI 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...
CongratuIation!
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
Apig's navel
Kyu-Kyu-
You shouId have toId me before
How was it?
Nothing
Did it hurt?
No
You Iiked iteven the first time?
No
WiII you cIean my ears?
No
ItcouIdn't feeI...
No
FeeI any betterforthe earpick than the years...
CouId it?
I feeI nothing ataII I stiII feeI damned
PARIS
COMPLETE VICTORY PRESIDENT DE GAULLE
COMPLETE VICTORY
Take her home!
Let's go home!
Go yourseIf!
SettIe down
Let me go! What're you doing?
Whatare you doing?
SUMMER 1968 - MONDAY 4TH - 9 A.M.
UMEKO SUZUKI WAS HELD ATTHE 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 probIem...
My methods are pretty severe...
WouId you give me a few detaiIs...
About yourseIves and your probIem...
The way I Iook at it... I shouIdn't do aII the taIking...
Take off yourjacket... It's so hot...
We mustgraduaIIy get through the veiIs...
After aII...a boy and a girI...
It's the most naturaI thing in the worId...
My feeIings on the matter from what I have heard...
The boy is pretty...
The girI has a strong personaIity...
This is the basic probIem...
But neither of you seem very strong...
Let's see...Your name was... HiIItop, wasn't it?
You're stiII breast feeding...
I think you are stiII quite a baby...
You are Umeko?...
You seem quite strong...
But I don't think you reaIIy are...
You taIk as though you understand...
But I don't think you reaIIy do...
These are pictures by Yumeji Takehisa...
These are pornographic drawings
Have you ever seen one?
Yes I have
How about you?
No
You Iook 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 Iook at them cIoseIy too
This one kind of gets to me...
In what way? EmotionaIIy?
Yes
For instance, whatshe said...
...about the drawing seems to...
...indicate, thatshe has a desire for group sex...
AIso you seem to have Lesbian tendencies...
Lesbian
Lesbian?
Yes, a kind of desire for women...
Lesbianism is very popuIar nowadays...
This drawing is of two women and one man
Since you are so impressed with it, you probabIy have these tendencies
As for you...
...you haven't toId me the truth.
You must become naked...
I wonder, why you don't take off your cIothes
You stiII aren't wiIIing to undress...
There are stiII Iots of veiIs to pierce through
At Ieast take off your necktie
Come on, make yourseIf comfortabIe
You haven't reveaIed your heart to me
Is your waist thick?
I mean, not your waist...your hips
For a boy
WeII, about the same as my chest
ExactIy?
Have you measured yourseIf?
No, I haven't, but...
My size ... trousers size...
But that's good...
Butat the same time itshows some weakness, I think...
This may sound rude...
...but I feeI you are quite effeminate...
I want to see both of you naked...
Both body and heart
EspeciaIIy for Umeko, I feeI...
SeIf-Iove...Ioving onIy oneseIf...
...resuIts 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 seIf-Iove and deveIoping into Lesbianism
That's why you can't become naked
I think this feeIing is one of pure seIf-protection
How about it?
I think both of you...
...you have something Iike an armor
And I think, this is the reason you'II never be abIe to do anything ataII
I want you to undress
Can one get undressedjust beCause someone says one should?
lf l had been alone physiCally, personnally and anthropologiCally
l wouldn't have minded stripping Completely
Butjust 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...
lf l were to suddenly remember her over breakfast when l'm 80...
...l think it would kind of get to me
Without sexual freedom, humans will never be free...
But it's impossible
lf 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
l Could have put an end to this diffiCult disCussion
l didn't have to make so muCh of a little Cherry blossom
It was sort of stupid forthem to ask us for advice...
...but Iet's see what we can do forthem
Butamong those present there doesn'tseem to be...
...much of an authority on the subject
How can you teII?
What do you mean? Pretty insuIting!
Sure I'm insuIting! Nobody here deserves bettertreatment
Nonsense!
I want to hear what the guy who said "nonsense" has to say
Can you soIve their probIems?
What is the basis for your satisfaction?
You're the onIy one who's satisfied
I'm satisfied, too
I'm notsatisfied, notataII
I am...I am
Let's Ietour hair down I'II be MC
No cIapping means everyone agrees with me
Mr Mutsuhiro Toura...
What do you have to say aboutsex?
I'm pissed, too. I'II Iet you rambIe on...
Let's ignore Mr Toura
And pan to Mr Masao Matsuda
Mr Matsuda, are you or are you notsexuaIIy satisfied?
That's not the probIem Everyone here is sexuaIIy satisfied
Mr Matsda, are you sexuaIIy satisfied?
I'm doing aIright
And now to today's guest
Mr Hajime Yamazaki, are you or are you notsexuaIIy satisfied?
PIease...how about it?
Sex? I getenough
In other words, sex isn't a duty, is it?
Do you feeI sex is a duty?
No, it's not
Anyway, why do you think my saying that I Iove a woman...
...why do you think it's embarrassing?
Mr Mutsuhiro Toura has announced that he Ioves a woman...
I find that rather hard to beIieve
If I may be so boId...
...just what is Iove?
WeII...
PIease answer
Love? It's something one doesn'texpIain
Mr Kei Sato, how is it to appear on TV?
Looking as though your mind is bIeached white?
Shut up, boy!
Whatabout it?
Whatabout what?
You're useIess!
I have my doubts...
So, I have a feeIing that...
...you are appearing asjust Mr Kei Sato on TV
It makes me feeI rather strange
What do you mean?
I getsort of confused
I intend to be confusing
Is that your aim?
What kind of woman I Iove? That's ridicuIous!
That's something that those who understand understand...
...and those who don't, don't
One doesn't have to reveaI everything aboutone's sex Iife
But you're annoying others
I'm doing what?
Annoying others! You reaIIy are!
How am I annoying others?
In various ways
That'sjust what you think!
I don't think I'm annoying anyone ataII
You are crazy to think I'm annoying
Don't be ridicuIous. I think you're extremeIy annoying
- Never happen! -That has nothing to do with nothing!
For instance, Kei, your saying this has nothing to do with it...
...makes itaII sort of masturbation
Anyway, phenomenaIIy and physicaIIy...
...at the momentof coitus...
...one faIIs into the iIIusion, thatone has become one with one's partner
But what man and woman feeI at that time is quite different
Nonsense!
It's not...
I think it's nonsense
Why?
-I'II expIain it to you -PIease...
-I'II answer... -Answer, pIease!
For instance, the question is, ""What is sex?"" generaIIy speaking
Who? Me?
I mean I want to answerthe question ""What is sex?""
I'm thinking hard about what to say
Butsince it's notsomething I usuaIIy think about...
...I'm thinking so hard about it now, but...
...for instance, when you feeI it's time for sex...
...when you think now I need sex...
In other words, when you see a woman's arm, her shouIder...
...hertits...of course, one onIy usuaIIy sees the upper part of them...
...buteven when I see the upper part I think...
...I turn itover in my mind...
...and I considerthe 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 gIasses...
...for doing Iaundry, for cIeaning, etc...
This is aIso what woman's arms are for
For instance, during the OIympics...
Why does Mr Toura feeI itso necessary to expIain to us...
...how hot he is for his woman?
I've gota woman I'm pretty deepIy invoIved with, but...
...but I doubtshe is as hot for me as I am for her
I even doubt my feeIings
Because I feeI doubt, I want to go on Iiving...
If I had no doubt, I wouIdn't want to Iive any Ionger
I want to incIude ideas on how to Iive...
...and thus expIain sex
I don't think freedom in sex is possibIe
It is a personaI matter
ItshouId be Ieftat that
This way itstiII has beauty
I don'tsee any sense in such reports as the Master's Report etc
Reports on sex have absoIuteIy no significance
When a man and a woman are together...
...something comes of it
Thatsomething has nothing to do with whether or nota chiId is born...
The onIy thing thatcounts is, that they had fun
That's the point
You are saying that they enjoyed itor not...
...depends on things Iike your partner's sex organs, arms
You make itsound Iike it's a matter of detaiIs
Wether a woman's sex organs are good or bad
Judging iton something one is born with...
...is utter nonsense
There are those who can't appreciate weII made things
I disagree. I think thatsex shouId be good whether or not...
...her organs are the best
I think on the other hand sex is making the bestof...
...poor quaIity organs
Okay, thenjust what is sex?
Sex shouId end with an ""s""... It's got to be pIuraI...
We got to be two peopIe
Thus again onanism is impossibIe
Having someone watCh is also rather interesting
OnCe l tried dressed sex...
l'll explain...
lt was about January 20th and the geisha were still wearing...
...their long kimono deCorated with thiCk heavy sashes...
Usually they take of the sash before getting into bed...
But instead in dressed sex the stash is left on...
lt is Considered luCky during the first seven days of the new year.
When l heard this...
...l thought it sounded like fun. But dressed sex alone...
...didn't sound interesting enough.
So l made a suggestion...
l said l 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.
l felt it was kind of Cruel...
...but l had promised...
lt 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 ...l pulled her out of bed and on the floor.
PARIS RAIN ...l pulled her out of bed and on the floor.
PARIS RAIN She didnt like it, so l said...
SAIGON She didnt like it, so l said...
CLEAR WEATHER She didnt like it, so l 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 ln the middle of things...
SHINJUKU: CLEAR WEATHER ln the middle of things...
SHINJUKU: CLEAR WEATHER ...someone Coughed in the hall.
TEMPERATURE: 36 DEGREES, HUMIDITY: 70% l got exited and Coughed twiCe as loud
DISCOMFORT INDEX: 85 l 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.
lf 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...
AplaCe Called Shower lnn...
A male and female relationship isjust like a Car...
There is an element of timing for starting the engine...
When the timing is good...
...suddenly it begins to rain...
...at exaCtely the right moment
Thus, when a man and a woman are Caught together in the rain...
...it works out very well
ln 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
lf things don't work out well here, then it is almost impossible
That's how good it is there
ln the front there is a little door...
lt'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
lt is extremely sensual
A room whiCh exCites sexual desire
lf 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!
HeIp!
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'II 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 yourfee 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, pIease
This is Birdey HiIItop
Is this the President?
No, it didn't work
Yes, we're here. Of course
The President wiII meet us at the Capricorn Bar at 8:30
At 8:30!
For a long time...
l was a barber...
ln Shinjuku behind the lsetan Department Store
My mother was a hustler
lt 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 toiIet.
l am Jean Genet
ConviCts'Clothes are striped pink and white
Though it was at my heart's bidding...
...that l Chose the universe wherein l delight...
l have at least the power...
...of finding in it the many meanings l 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 l destroy my inept writings.
l throw my knowledge in the river passing by.
l die of hunger as the wolf l Cling desperately...
But l Can do nothing...
Tears flow aCross my Cheeks
Oh, l 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
lf it would serve to free the human raCe...
...l believe that even sex with animals, or...
...Copulation in publiC view, or inCest should be enCouraged
But if l 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
l felt the reason l had to beCome angry...
...in the form of my loneliness YOSHIMOTO TAKAAKI: POETRY
My first lover was a boy. So l had to beCome a girl
TOMIOKATAEKO: POETRY Then everyone exCept my lover said l had beCome a girl...
TOMIOKATAEKO: POETRY So for them l beCame a boy again...
Unfotunately, for my lover too TOMIOKATAEKO: ""GIRL FRIENDS"" POETRY
But he said he wouldn't sleep with me, so l beCame a girl for him
The woman suffrage problem in Kolkhoz is a serious one
l know that many of you...
Belittle and ridiCule women and their demands
But, Comrades, this is a mistake
lt 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...
ln a moment eaCh girl is Covered with a dress by her sponsor
At thisjunCture 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""
l should have never learned words
With Japanese and a little foreign language...
l stop in your tears...
TAMURA RYUICHI: POETRY
l return alone in your blood TAMURA RYUICHI: POETRY
Not being a learned priest, l don't have the freedom of Nirvana
l still have an attaChment for life
l deCided to esCape from the plaCe
That night l burned and threw away all letters from friends
My wife and l took our Children and esCaped to an inn
Before long, it was rumored that l 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 wether he was an editor
Others said, that he was taken to the govermental publisher...
To determine wether 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...
l found it neCessary to answer them to stop the mistaken rumors
This situation Continued for twenty days
lt 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
ls this the way things were?!
Late one night l was standing in the enClosed garden of the inn
Debris was piled up all around me
l 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 Iast name is Suzuki. Herfirst name is Umeko
This is Kinokuniya Book Store
I'm on the second fIoor
I'm Iocked in and can't getout
Let's taIk outside
Let's go outside...
And taIk...
No!
Let's taIk
No!
We meetagain. I think I've got the picture
I never have disIiked adventures
I've come aIong this far, but now...
...I think it's time to bring down the curtain on our IittIe 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 Iotof wiId things in the past...
WeII, a few...
And I don't want to bother you two any further
Even in basebaII, if you get Iazy just because it's the first inning...
...you wiII suddenIy find that you are in the ninth inning
PIease buy this girI
AII right. I understand
PIease buy her
Yes, I'm a sIut
A whore
A prostitute
I was raped by a gang
Thatswastika pose is nice
But it's not very good forthe books underneath
The books are me
PIease buy her
The game is over
I knew you weren't my empIoyee 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...
UNPLEASANTTHINGS 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, 1 000, 10 000
Everybody waiting. Just waiting
Doing nothing but waiting to see Yui Shosetsu
They themselves should aCt rather thanjust wait
Our red tent is next to the Hanazono shrine.
No performanCe tonight
Break up, please!
But Umeko and me Cant break up.
l 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 didntjoin us.
l believe, Umeko wanted to steal Tanabe sans sex, and l wanted to steal it from her.
He didn't wish tojoin us
He tried to tell us several things...
...but aCtually he taught us nothing at all
30,000 yen...lt would be natural for us to split it...
l Could buy a girl and Umeko Could buy a guy
Then we Could disperse
Rather than buy a girl, l want to beCome a girl
And l think Umeko wants to beCome a boy...
May I make an offering to the ghost?
What's wrong? Did you kiII someone?
Not yet
But I"d Iike to take a swipe with a sword Iike this
Or wear a woman's costume Iike this
Are you an actor?
Neither being in or seeing a pIay is any fun
Then how come you pretended you were a bookstore cIerk?
It'sjust right. Isn't it?
Fits too weII!
What do you pIan to do?
I want to try being someone eIse
You mean it?
Yes
Your part is Yui Shosetsu
No, don't do that!
There is something wrong with him
It's aII Iies
This weak a guy can't pIay Yui Shosetsu
It's betterfor an actor to be strange
But for an absoIute 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 thatas a seIIing point?
Kabuki means to perform in a wiId manner
The actors were notgorgeous footmen, butsociaI outcasts who were chased...
...into the riverbed. That's why they are great
But I won'tshow you the trap door that Ieads to the riverbed
You have to find your own
If you don't find it...
...and peopIe start praising you...
...with such terms as "underground", "psychedeIic"...
you'II start feeIing Iike you've arrived before you reaIIy have
That's how it is
Head for saIe!
Who are you?
Yui Shosetsu
Head for saIe!
Give me your head!
Give it here!
Crazy woman! Getout!
Strange face!
I'm reaIIy getting it tonight!
Why are you heIping him?
Who are you? TeII your name!
Yui Shosetsu
It's notonIy the town that's crazy
Right! You and him and everyone...
I know you!
You're running away! Coward!
You kiIIed your comrades
You had your comrades kiIIed
Don't mistake what you see! Hag!
Hey! Listen to the crow fIy away!
CaII his name once more!
Once more! AII together!
Caw...caw
Craaah!
You caII 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, thatstrong odor...
...these eyes, those hands...
...that way of rearranging his underwear without using his hands as he waIks.
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 shouId know you
I'II 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 shouldjust 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
Theyjust 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 cIean myseIf.
Wait!
Whatare you doing?
Whatcostume do I wear next?
You may beIieve that there is no woman
What both of us imagine as a woman...
...don't pay any attention to her
AII we need to do is cIose our eyes and pass over her Iike a breeze
Butafter aII Japan is an isIand country
She keeps her Iegs crossed...
...just Iike a woman forfear of attack from the outside
ComparativeIy, Europe is much better
HoIIand, ItaIy Germany, Afghanistan...
They arejust whore houses with Goddesses' crown
In the West, ten women wait for one man
But in this country, one woman waits forten men
You aren"t Shosetsu any more. Let's Ieave
Hasn"t itstopped yet?
Not yet
BeIieve there is no woman!
PowerfuI men have aIways ruIed the country...
But in the end the country raped aII her ruIers
From now on men must raise themseIves above those of the past
No, don't pay any attention to her
Shosetsu, don't bitch Iike a bastard chiId
After aII, here we have a fine woman named Okin
With your arbitrary theories about women...
...Okin won't know what to do with herseIf
Your ideas arejust those of a bacheIor's Utopia
Very weak!
You'rejustan undernourished king of weak ideas
Oh, poor thing! Oh, poor thing!
SinCe my family was poor...
l went to work in an oil shop when l was little
l was allowed to go out only onCe a year...
To the Mulberry Fair
The wife of the boss was an old bitCh...
Always thinking l 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 l didn't like him, l went...
Though it didn't hurt, l yelled...
Finally his wife found out
One night l 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 l objeCted...
YoChanjust giggled and said:
Let me suCk your mulberry nipples
Okin, where do you gather suCh niCe mulberries?
l want to buy mulberries like yours...
...and eat them by the mouthfulls.
Stop your sillyjokes, stupid boy...
...you Can not 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
ln a hurry l fled the plaCe
And wandered along the night road...
With my sandals under my arm...
Where, oh where shall l go?
l asked the stars, in vain.
Walking along through the Edo night
l got all wet in the night dew
l learned the sad fate of a woman
With a happy laugh, Oh...
Whatare you doing?
Let's steaI it!
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
It's your own fauIt! Everything!
Sorry!
Go find it!
Hanbei, caII my name
When I kiII someone, who appears in frontof me...
You promised to teach me, who I am, didn't you?
You toId me to take off this mask
I can't take itoff!
You said to show me my face behind the mask
My hands sIip
I didn't know that bIood was so sIippery
Head for saIe!
That head is soId!
Do you want this one?
Orthatone?
Which wiII it be?
Letgo! Let itgo!
Oh, such big snow fIakes!
I am Yui Shosetsu
Give my husband back his head, pIease
Kara Juro! It's my fauIt. It was stoIen
Don'tstop 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 getcut?
I was about 18. I was waIking aIone in Shinjuku
A boy about 14 started foIIowing me
I didn't know he was foIIowing me
So I continued waIking
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 immediatIy
I didn't know what had happened
Itseems he stabbed two orthree girIs
He was caughtsoon after
I heard Iater...
...that he was an American
Did you know immediateIy that you had been stabbed?
I reaIized what had happened. The bIood began to fIow
Butsince he was an American...
...aIone 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 pitifuI. I don't want to bIame him
I onIy feeI strong anger towards something
Because of that...
...didn't you, perhaps, deveIop a fear of men?
I don't think that had anything to do with it
You mean it doesn't have any particuIar reIationship to sex?
No, there's no reIationship ataII!
But there was a time when I had a fear of men for abouta month
WeII then, your wound has not created a wound in your heart?
It has had a certain amountof infIuence, I think
Then it was pretty bad for you?
It was bad, but it was a singIe event...
...so that I think it is something of rather great importance to my Iife
WeII...thatevent...
...you probabIy shouId take good care of it
Yes, of course, that's true