All language subtitles for Prosperities of Vicepamw

The Prosperities of Vice

Produced by Hidehiro Ito

Screenplay by Rio Kishida
Based on a novel by Marquis de Sade

Music by Isao Matsushita

Camera: Masao Nakahori
Lighting: Kenki Ushiba

Art Direction: Noriyoshi Ikeya
Theatrical Design: Hiroshi Tomi

Recording: Eiji Kimura
Editing: Osamu Inoue

Starring:
Ri Seiran, Koji Shimizu

Kimiaki Makino
Miwako Yonezawa

Aoi Nakakima
Yasumi Hara, Minori Terada

Renki Ishibashi

An Akio Jissoji Film

Thank God for meat.
And the Devil for the cook

My vice this month is that I made
the wife of a pubIic officer my pet

He owed...

He owed me Iots of money

It's wonderfuI to have a dog
trained just to pIease me

I sentenced an innocent man to death
the other day

He was incontinent
and passed out with fear

It turned me on, and I ejacuIated
under the gown

The perks of the job, eh.
I'm envious

But I have a great story, too

What did you do?

I bought a ten-year oId girI

and made my houseboys beat her

I feIt the pain on my body
as if I were that girI

Is there any more quaiI?
I'm stiII hungry

With your endIess appetite,
there'II be no quaiI Ieft in Japan

You're Iate!

Of course, crime is an ugIy vice

ReIigion, moraIity, and the Iaw
aII try to proscribe it

However, human beings
secretIy prefer crime

I want to free that desire
in this theater

When you say theater,
you might think of a grand edifice

and a stage fiIIed with bright Iight

And crime might remind you of
a dark prison and life behind bars

Theater and prison,
and heaven and hell

The truth is, they are all around us
if we only look

Play in today's theater is like
the gold and silver kept in the bank

food at the restaurants,
and love you can buy at the brothel

It is technically
the most refined form of art

But is it the true coIor of theater?

There are many theatrical factors
in our daily life

Meanwhile, crime is also
a part of the social fabric

You were criminaIs

Pickpocket, thief, prostitute,
arsonist, robber, and activist

However, the prison
is just the graveyard of crimes

In this theater

You wiII teach the pIeasure of vice

and spread its poisonous seeds

through a story of a woman

To combine theatre and crime

and to teach the pIeasure of vice
to the audience

That is my goaI

Henceforth, your criminaI Iife

wiII not be in the streets,
but in this theater

So! Let's begin...

I was raised
in the convent of Panthemont

As you know, it is a famous convent

The person who pIanted
the seeds of vice in my heart

was the head of the convent,
Madame DeIb�ne

I was mesmerized, seduced,
and corrupted by her

One day, a messenger came
from my mother

to tell that my family was bankrupt
and my father seriously ill

I returned home,
to watch my father die

One month Iater, my mother died,
and I became an orphan

I was aIone in the worId
and had to make a Iiving for myseIf

I decided to become a prostitute

I started my training
under Madame Duvergier

And learned how to be
a good prostitute

For six weeks, she sold my virginity
to as many as 50 men

Every night, she carefully applied
a mysterious ointment

to the swollen part that was abused
by the men I spent the night with

Are we allowed to do such a thing?

Are we aIIowed to do such a thing?

It's not a matter of being aIIowed to.
I do it aII the time

It's our right to take
that worthIess oId man's money

If you don't steaI when you can,
you are a stupid and naive girI

Are you stiII that innocent
to think steaIing is bad?

Wise up girI,
Iook at the worId around you

But it is a very bad thing to do

I didn't know you were stiII trapped
in that useIess prejudice

You shouId get rid
of such stupid ideas

Oh, I know what!

I'm going to a dinner party
tomorrow night

So I'II take you with me

Why?

To introduce you to DorvaI

DorvaI? Who is that?

He is a thief!

As you have heard, every actor
in this theater is a criminaI

I Iooked at your resume,
and it's quiet impressive

Listen, if you teII anyone
that the owner of this theater is me

or that we make pIays for the pIeasure
of becoming someone eIse

you'II end up in prison

I understand

As Iong as you are here,
you are protected

Yes

Do you swear obedience?

Yes, I do

Show me the proof

What shouId I do?

I wiII teII you that eventuaIIy

Aren't you on soon?

You may Ieave

I absorb nourishment
from theft

which I see
as the sweetest pIeasure of aII

I find myseIf in a fIame
of sexuaI desire

onIy when the passion rises in my body
by the act of theft

What?...

Your wife?

Yes, you have to rape her

I can't

Why?

You were a thief

You used to steaI to make a Iiving

Just do it

Tamae is worth steaIing

I aIso know that,
since you came to this theater

you have been staring at her
Iike a starving dog

Am I wrong?

But why?

Why do I as her husband
ask you such a thing?

Yes

Because I want to see it

Her face in the pain of being raped

And her body as it begins to accept you
and drowns in pIeasure

For me, the pIeasure of watching
is stronger than actuaIIy having sex

Entertain me

You're an actor,
aren't you?

I have many friends

I am powerfuI enough to murder you
and not be accused of the crime

He is a thief!

The strong steaI,
and the weak are stoIen from

Do you understand, Therese?

This mean man said to me

The most important moraIity
in this house is honesty

If you steaI even a penny,
I wiII have you hung

and you wiII not Iive another Iife

My wife and I Iive in peace
because of our hard work and saving

By the way, do you eat a Iot?

No, master. I onIy need
a IittIe bread and water

And if there is any,
I'II have some soup

What? Soup?
ShameIess bitch!

Soup? It seems peopIe Iive in Iuxury
these days

Someone who's been starving and
Iooking for work for a year eats soup?

Justine and JuIiette

Is that right?

Justine is the Misfortunes of Virtue.
JuIiette is the Prosperities of Vice

Madame said...

Said what?

I Iive the Iives of two women
in one body

Women prefer men
who are dedicated to them

And we Iove the men
who move us

Since I was nine years oId,
I have been amoraI...

No, you haven't

You are not JuIiette

I'm not Justine either

Then you are...

What?

Who are you?

I am me

I see something Iike regret
behind your eyes

You don't need to feeI Iike that

I don't regret it at aII

Why?

Because I am trained that way

Whatever happens, everything wiII pass
Iike a bIowing wind

as Iong as I don't Iook back

Good morning

Are you rehearsing?

Yes...

- But you are not in the theater
- You're right

This is a bedroom

With the morning sun
streaming in

You are a Marquise,
and that man is a thief

And you are a theater director

I'm just a Marquis

Whose wife has been stoIen

You committed a crime
in the reaI worId

So you shouId atone for your sins
in the reaI worId, too

Help!
Call a doctor!

Hey there,
can you hear me?

PIease read

I was born as the third son
of a pIasterer

When I finished schooI, a man decided
to Iook after me for some reason

He sent me to the miIitary academy,
and I became a private

Do you have a wife?

Yes

So why do you want to do this?

My wife is the daughter
of a faIIen samurai famiIy

When I was serving in Korea,
I met her on her second day as a geisha

I borrowed money from the CoIoneI
to buy her, and we got married

I want to make her happy

Nonsense

If you do what you say,
you'II die

It's the Showa Restoration.
The worId wiII change

My wife wiII be happy

Marquis...

the prince toId us...

he is on our side and wiII join us
once we have started

This is my wife

This is Mr. Kenji Isogai

He wants me
to get invoIved with them

Have you made a decision?

I am a director
who manipuIates the audience

I can create any incident on the stage

But the worst vice I couId create
in the reaI worId

was a simpIe murder case

On November 1 at 2pm,
Kikuyoshi Mashiko...

the Principal
of Ryuhoku Elementary School...

was tricked into drinking poisoned tea
at a caf� in Asakusa

Mashiko was transported
to the hospital...

but died some two hours later

According to the caf� staff,
Mashiko had a large bag with him

When he entered the caf�,
he sat with...

Let's start rehearsaI.
Second and third act

I pIay NoirceuiI,
and you pIay JuIiette

It was the poor idiot who was kiIIed

She was just a tooI
to satisfy our sexuaI desire

She was so dumb
and understood nothing

But your mentaIity is much higher

You understand my feeIings
and foIIow my orders

I know you, JuIiette

I know what you Iike

You Iike wickedness

I know you, JuIiette

I know what you Iike

You Iike wickedness

Yes, Master, it's true

The thought of wickedness
drives me to a frenzy

That's right

You wiII become nobIe bad girI

I hate you

You have no idea how much
I have suffered from your vice

Ah, but I Iike your wickedness

I Iove your amoraIity

JuIiette...

That's because you don't know
aII my vices yet

Then teII me everything

It's about your father

I am the reason for his bankruptcy

It's about your father...

I am the reason for his bankruptcy

It's a long time ago

but at one time I had the chance
to help him double his estate

or take it all for myself

I naturally decided
to prioritize my own benefit

That's how he went bankrupt and died,
and I earned my pension

You monster!

You're a brute of a man

I wiII repeat it again and again

You're a brute of a man

But even so,
I stiII Iove you

Even though I kiIIed
your entire famiIy?

What does that
have to do with me?

Ikudge everything with my feelings

My famiIy, who became victims
of your vioIence

have not given me any feeIings

However, the confession you made
of your crime

excited me, and stimuIated me

Excited me beyond my controI

Come here, my sweet Juliette

I'm getting turned on

Show me your beautiful bottom

The child ofthe victims
of my desire for wealth...

will be turned into the victim
of my desire for sex

Ah! What delicious irony

Believe me, Noirceuil

I am happy to be partner
of the man who killed my parents

Let mykuices flow

and not my tears

That's the onIy thing I want to give
to the dead famiIy I have hated

Before I met you, I was a JuIiette
who knew not of vice

I Iost my famiIy when I was fifteen
and became a prostitute

You found me, married me,
and taught me howto act

But just as you are not NoirceuiI,
I'm not the vicious JuIiette either

You didn't drive my father
to bankruptcy

NoirceuiI kiIIed JuIiette's parents

but you have never
put your own hands in the mud

Yes, you resembIe NoirceuiI

He took JuIiette out of the brotheI,
and you did the same to me

And for both JuIiette and myseIf

it was a happy event

As it approaches winter, the sunset
becomes clearer and beautiful

Very soon after I arrived
at the Noirceuil's house

I became obsessed with the crueI
scenes I saw and heard about

And I couIdn't controI the desire
to commit vice for its own sake

I dressed as a man

with a pistoI hidden in my pocket

I went into the quiet streets

The purpose was to steaI,
and to murder for my own pIeasure

What's the matter?

I am the unhappiest woman
in the worId

If you kiII me, that wouId bring me
the happiness I've dreamed of

What kind of unhappiness
do you have?

I Iost my job 8 days ago,
and cannot pay the smaII rent

My chiId has been taken to an asyIum
and my husband is...

...in the prison!

AII I can do now is to
count on peopIe's sympathy

Stand up

I want to enjoy your body first

I'II heIp you after that

Oh, master...

Even a miserabIe woman Iike me
can arouse your desire?

Women Iike you
turn me on even more

Come on, give me pIeasure

I am a woman...

But I Iike women

Oh, no way! Let me go!

I may be ruined,
but I have my pride

I cannot stand such humiIiation!

Go to heII, bitch!

TeII the demons in heII
that JuIiette is such a woman

It can't be the Marquis

WeII, it's possibIe

But why?

For pIeasure,
Iike it says in the pIay

That's JuIiette's Iine

But it can't be Tamae

WeII, we can easiIy come up with
someone to pIay the kiIIer

You seem anxious

We created this theater
to get away from horrid reaIity

Leave it to the marquis

He is the Ieader

I can handIe this case very weII
by myseIf

PIease do so

It's a nuisance to be bothered
by the triviaI murder...

of an ex-pickpocket actress
who couIdn't even act weII

But Marquis...

PIease remember...

to be carefuI

Of what?

I heard a rumor

They say
that a deserter from the army

came here to visit you

Yes, he did

Between you and me,
I heard that the Prince is on their side

Don't worry

I won't get invoIved

Last summer, Mr. Hijikata
from the Shin-Tsukiji Company

attended the Soviet Writers Association
Convention

He made a speech
about the kiIIing of Takiji Kobayashi

and he had his titIe taken away

I don't care that much
about the Iives of other peopIe

Anyway, what I vaIue
above aII other things...

are peace and Iuxury

In the theater, where murder occurs
at the same time every night

someone committed a real murder
that was not in the script

That person is a traitor

But who is it?

I have been a thief since I was a chiId

I am nourished by theft, which I see
as the sweetest pIeasure of aII

No, my thefts were much smaIIer
more desperate, and more miserabIe

When I was 5, I stoIe a pair of sandaIs,
because my bare feet were hurting

When I was 6, I stoIe rice baIIs,
because I was hungry

When I was 7, I stoIe a dog,
because I wanted a friend

When I was 8, I stoIe a bIanket,
because I was coId

When I was 9, I stoIe a fan,
because I was hot

When I was 10, I stoIe
a famiIy's Iucky charm

because I was an orphan

When I was 11, I stoIe a train ticket

because I wanted to ride on a train,
and I never had

When I was 12, I stoIe a cigarette,
because I wanted to be an aduIt

When I was 13, I stoIe a barber's razor,
because I needed to protect myseIf

When I was 14, I stoIe a radio

because I was IoneIy

And then...

when you were 30

you stoIe me

There was an unexpected murder
in my theater

and there is an unexpected incident
happening in my house

I didn't notice the other day

What?

You have a moIe here

That's caIIed the vaIIey of tears

But I rareIy cry, so the tears
never run down there

Instead,
it's the passage of the wind

BeautifuI

Judge, this Iady here
is the murder suspect

But she has no intention of hiding
the name of the reaI murderer

According to what she just toId me,
the reaI murderer...

is one of the three women
who went to the town

Here, JuIiette, speak up

You remember
the name of that woman?

Of course, I do

It was the most beautifuI girI
of the three

She was about 18 or 19,
and her name was Minette

That's what I wanted to hear

Now, pIease swear
what you just testified

Of course

I swear that the person
who kiIIed Madame Simone is Minette

Come on, kiss me.
I Iove to suck your Iying tongue

You toId a compIete Iie

You are a wonderfuI man,
NoirceuiI

You are the onIy man in the worId
I Iove

How fooIish of me
to betray such a man

CaIm down, JuIiette

There is no need to regret vice

What you need to regret...

...is virtue

Whip me, I beg you!

PIease give me
that shamefuI pIeasure!

Here, hurry!

Don't worry

The moIe you found
is not hurt

It wasn't in the script

You mean,
when I turned round?

Right

Were you acting? Or...

Or what?

Was it atonement in advance?

What if it was acting?

My compIiments

What if it was atonement?

If my on stage existence
surpassed my reaI Iife one...

you'd probabIy be disappointed in me

What was aII that nonsense?

You don't Iike sea cucumber?

You shouIdn't have Iikes and disIikes

I never tried it before

There are pIenty of things
you have never eaten!

To Iearn about taste
is to Iearn about the worId

Eat!

Open your mouth!

Coward

Her sin taints you aII

Do you want the sea cucumber?

Or do you want the whip?

Did you punish her?

The other night,
they met secretly in the attic

She was heId gentIy
in his arms

Stretched...

Seduced...

She was beautifuI.
It made me jeaIous

Last night, she made me panic,
acting Iines that were not written

I was destroyed as an actor

Tamae is not just yours

She is ours

Then you shouId sense it, too

Sense what?

JeaIousy and defeat

Or did you aIready sense it?
Even before I did?

Back when I found Tamae
and put her between you and me

Did you aIready sense
the jeaIousy and defeat?

I am�

You are?

Madame CIairwiI

CIairwiI...

You... you're kiIIing me!

JuIiette

You are wonderfuI

But I am much oIder than you

Think about it

I am aIready 40

I have become numb
to most things

That's why I need a Iot of tricks
and forepIay, to get turned on

For me to get excited...

I need to imagine dirty fantasies
and indecent acts

My frenzy must frighten you

And you wiII soon become fed up
with my desire

It Iooks Iike you're
eating your own fIesh

Moriko bIamed me

About three days ago?

Right

Is your scar from the whip gone?

Yes. ShaII I show you?

No, I'II just use my imagination

I want to ask you something

What is it?

What wouId you do
if I died from an accident?

I wouId write a script by myseIf

I wouId put on a mourning dress
and Iots of perfume

and pIay a widowed marquise

It'd be a year Iong run, and the target
audience wouId be society

Then what?

I don't think
I wouId be bored very much

I quit

Of dieing?

I want to remain in the audience

You'II attend me on my deathbed?

I am an actress who pIays JuIiette

I want to die...

...in the bright Iight

To Mr. Dorval

From Juliette

Thank you for the cleaning.
Come steal me tonight

WeIcome

You're such a good thief,
coming to steaI your master's wife

Thank you for the cIeaning

Come steaI me tonight

Here, drink

Don't be scared

Your JuIiette wiII be here soon

She is in bed with her husband
right now

She asked me to come instead

You're an idiot

That was an aphrodisiac

JuIiette is not coming

Now you must make Iove to me

You can stand there
untiI the aphrodisiac kicks in

Or do you want to eat this with me?

Cockscombs

It was the Dowager Empress's
favorite

Putting on her thick make-up,

governing the vast Iand of China

and eating cockscomb soup...

She Iived to be 73 years oId

She is my roIe modeI

Is theater illusion or reality?

Stage actor arrested
for the actress murder case

In fact, theater is about
vioIating certain ruIes

Which makes it a crime

The essence of theater is to vioIate
the ruIes set by nature, state and pubIic

For exampIe, we can transform a corner
of a crowded room into a deserted fieId

PhiIosophicaIIy speaking,
theater is crime

The graveyard of crimes

Crimes put on masks and pIay
an active roIe in this society

Stop it!

It's broken

You stiII kept it with you?

I got this cIock from you
when I was 15

Throw it away if it's broken

Or do you want me to repair it?

Neither...

Let me return it to you

- It's not broken
- Watch carefuIIy!

I kiIIed her

I'm surprised

You don't beIieve me?

You think I'm saying this
to save him?

I don't care who did it

But why did you kiII her?

He had to kiII a schooI principaI,
someone he hardIy knew...

as a punishment for raping me

So I kiIIed an actress whom I kiII
in the pIay every night...

as a punishment for being raped

You beIieve in the prosperity of vice

but you can never commit a murder
outside the stage

He and I couId kiII in reaI Iife

We committed a murder
with our own hands

We were chosen to be together

Chosen?

By whom?

ProbabIy... by you

Who are you pIaying Justine for?

Do you pIay a woman of virtue for him,
and a woman of vice for me?

Who the heII are you?

I was nobody

And now, I am sIowly becoming me

You are my wife

What do you want me to do?

You don't know?

No, I don't

What do you want me to do?

Nothing

You are JuIiette,
a woman of vice

And aIso Justine...

a woman of virtue

My hope is
that you pIay both roIes

Give him back to me...

And then...

Mr. LeopoId, I am happy
to obey your capriciousness

And to satisfy your desires

However, if you are a man
with dangerous impuIses

just Iike any other king

Then I wiII never enter your gate

So pIease remember

Our sacrifices are over there

You are a medium, and the priest

and I pIay the roIe of
offering the sacrifices to you

AII right then, Iet us begin

No matter how crafty a king is,
I sometimes beIieve his words

EspeciaIIy when I have
a sure method of revenge

You!
Are you threatening the king's Iife?

Of course I wiII not hurt you
without a reason

But if you break the promises

Beware...

I wiII remind you with this knife
that I am a French woman

So there is no difference between
kiIIing a cobbIer or a king

Just Iike kiIIing a fIy and a butterfIy
is exactIy the same

They are both naturaI species

I Iike this woman's honesty

I do, too, my majesty

But do you think this brash woman
wiII reaIIy obey your pIeasure?

I'm a IittIe worried

That is a groundIess fear, priest

To act proud and gentIe in society,
and sweet and obedient in the bedroom

is the duty of French prostitutes

Therefore,
that is my duty aIso

But remember, even if I become
your sIave in the bedroom

I onIy obey your sexuaI desire,
not your status as a king

I have deep respect
for sexuaI desire

However...

I am deepIy against
respect for status

Let's begin

Whoever it is...

when I'm beaten, the bedroom turns
into a boat in the darkness

With the jumbIing bIade of a sickIe

I was skinned and marked
with a Ietter of the moon

A smaII fire in my body
was fanned by the wind

and turned into a bIaze

Look at the fire burning the mansion

That's the fire from my body

I may be infertiIe...

but my fire burns the sky

I have a firefIy between my Iegs

Every time I'm whipped,
the firefly twinkIes

It sparkIes,
fIickers and shines

Outside, is a snowy darkness

CIose the gate tightIy

And nothing about the worId
needs to be seen, heard, or mentioned

You shouId forget everything

Look, it's warm mid-day here

The sunIight faIIs. OverfIows

Like a shimmer in the air,
or the wind crossing the river

Here, embrace me

Her words
are an unstated command

Tamae, you are...

Come!... My Iover!

You...

You are the one who trained me

No matter what kind of nourishment
it absorbed

a rose is obIigated
to atone for its beauty

That's what you said

I am a rose, too, Tamae

I too am obIigated to atone
...for beauty

What is this?

It's a dish

This is a dish of cooked oIive

This is a dish?

Sure

Do you want to knowthe recipe?

Yes

First, you take a Iarge oIive

Deseed it, stuff it with anchovy
and pickled bud of broccoli

Leave to marinate
in the finest olive oil

Then stuff it into a fat quail

Wrap it with grape leaves and stuff it
into a medium sized plover

Then stuff that into a matured
Japanese pheasant

Stuff that into the finest chicken

Stuff it into a matured goose

Wrap it with bacon, stuff it
into a young guinea hen...

Stuff that into a turkey...

It's not over yet

What eIse is there Ieft to do?

The next step is to fiII
aII the interspaces...

with chestnuts, ground meat,
bread crumbs

Put it into a big pot

Together with celery, cracked pepper,
salt, regular pepper, cilantro

and other spices

And simmer it for 24 hours

Then, the essence offorest, pond,
field and farm meld together

and will soak into the olive in the core

And that's what I am going to eat

2-26-1936
Military attack Prime Minister's house!

It is still not too late

Surrender immediately.
And submit yourselfto military law

Your crime
will not be prosecuted

That is the wish of your family,
and of the entire nation

Abandon your actions
immediately

These are the Orders
of Military Command

I have no fear of death
or pain

My soul belongs to the Emperor

Good-bye, my love! ...
Remember me

Let's pray

Here...

This is my wife's hair

After my execution...

WiII you bury it with me?

I bareIy managed to save you

You are the one who toId them
about the iniquitous pIot

AIthough you were the one
who was behind it

And you persuaded them
to get invoIved

Because I am a Marquis...

I pIay my part

The roIe of a man
who Iives on in shame...

and grows oId

Your theater was not damaged

You can put on a poIiticaI pIay
or a crime pIay

Whatever you Iike

This house remained untouched,
and your status was protected

Nothing happened

Nothing at aII,
in terms of your surroundings

I died for my own sake

But you tried to die for others

You were betrayed and survived

What a waste of time

Juliette died
and disappeared from this world

It was meant to happen,
and did not surprise me

This precious woman died
without saying her last words

And no artist will ever be able
to recreate her existence

Therefore, if anyone made an attempt

all he could do is use his imagination,
not the truth

However, no matter how hard he tried,
those with a trained eye...

especiaIIy those who were absorbed
by this story

wouId be abIe to teII
the huge difference

Who am I?

I am...

...the Marquis de Sade

In other words...

CIown...!

Directed by Akio Jissoki