Diario di un ladro di Shinjuko - Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki (Nagisa Ôshima 1969) Sub ITA ENG ESP FRA

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Regia: Nagisa Ôshima
Nagisa Sohima, Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki e Masao Adachi
Prodotto nel 1968 da MASAYUKI NAKAJIMA, CON L'ASSISTENZA DI TAKUJI YAMAGUZHI, PER LA SOZOSHA

ATTORI:
Macsaku Fuwa, Maki Fujiwara, Hosei Komatsu, Juro Kara, Noboru Kuto, Agako Maro, Masao Matsuda, Reisen Ri, Kei Sato, Mutsuhiro Toura, Jushin Sto, Tetsu Takahashi, Tsutomu Tamura, Mihiro Wakabayashi, Moichi Watanabe, Moichi Yanabe, Tadashi Yamazaki, Shimon Yorsuya, Yadanori Yokoo, Shimon Yotsuya

Uno dei film più cinematograficamente audaci di Oshima Nagisa, Diario di un ladro di Shinjuku è la seconda co-produzione firmata dalla sua casa, la Sozosha, e l'Art Theatre Guild. Per il protagonista di questo film, ladro di libri di letteratura straniera dalla biblioteca ed amante, in particolare, Dostoevsky e Goethe, Oshima estrae alcuni tratti caratteriali da Ri'Chin'u (l'assassino coreano che ha ispirato il suo precedente film L'impiccagione).

Oshima usa questo film per mettere in scena una violenta rivolta contro i preconcetti sul recitare e sul furto, mescolandoli e ridefinendoli. Maureen Turim, discepolo di Oshima, dice che "le sue sciolte e giocose espressioni gestuali serrano l'attualità come teatro di strada", e David Desser sostiene che il film "ci nega un singolo livello di lettura" e che gli attori "interpretano se stessi, interpretano personaggi, mentre Oshima gioca con il film."

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 I come!

Here we come!

Here I come!

Here we come!

HeIp!

HeIp!

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!

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

You had your comrades kiIIed

Don't mistake what you see!
Hag!

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?

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

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