Original subtitles

Wakamatsu Productions

Producer: Koji Wakamatsu

REFLECTIONS ON 'RUNNING IN MADNESS, DYING IN LOVE'

This is a matter of ideology!

As a typical careerist, you can't understand it.

What? Say that again!

I'll repeat it endlessly.

Brother is stupid!

Have you ever considered what you're doing every day?

Bastard!

Do you take this...

To be a necessary evil, which national powers authorise a policeman to exert?

- You'd better apply to the riot police. - I chase criminals everyday.

Those who observe the law need only justice as their ideology.

- And justice means beating me? How arbitrary! - This isn't violence, but the whip of love!

Don't cheat me! Only violence matters in a conflict between opposing powers.

Never use false words such as 'love' or 'the law'!

You're a policeman, a dog!

What?

You!

Stop it, please! Stop, both of you!

Beat me!

Beat me as you please! And your real nature will be revealed.

Violence? I'll treat someone who always talks of violence in this way.

Stop! Please!

Please! Stop it!

You are brothers, aren't you?

Policemen are pigs who never think about anything!

What?

Stop!

Leave go of me!

Bastard!

Stop, please!

Beat me! Beat me!

Policemen are the enemy!

- Bastard! - Stop!

Brother?

Brother.

Sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law.

Sahei, I...

Did you shoot him?

You!

But...

It was me who shot him?

No, it wasn't.

I...

No, it wasn't.

- I too must die. - No. You didn't shoot.

It was me who shot him. Please let me die!

Don't be an idiot! This was an accident.

When my brother died, you weren't there.

He treated you in such a dreadful way that you left home, leaving a note behind.

On reading it, he killed himself in despair.

The police will find out the truth soon.

You travel for a few days and go back home, suspecting nothing.

There you'll be surprised to find his body, and will call the police at once.

Nobody will suspect that we killed him.

'We'?

Yes. If he was killed, it was us together who did it.

However, I have an alibi since I was confronting the riot police at the time.

Only, if you manage to do well...

Murakami

I hope you'll be OK until the day after tomorrow.

I'll be back too, on the night of the day after tomorrow.

It's the platform on the opposite side.

My brother was responsible.

Though it was an accident, he deserved to be killed.

If everything goes wrong, I'll prove definitively that you did nothing wrong.

It was me who killed him.

I...

I too must die.

Sister-in-law!

I must die.

Watch out!

It's wrong to think about killing yourself.

It would be pointless to die now. That wouldn't revive my brother.

It was an accident.

It's us, rather than him, who are unhappy, for we'll be suspected of responsibility.

What's the matter?

We weren't at home, were we?

- We did nothing. - But I...

Sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law!

What's the matter?

You should act as we planned.

- I can't continue like this. - Then what should we do?

I don't know. I'm afraid.

What should I do?

I'll have to keep running away and lying for the rest of my life.

It's easier to die?

Dying now, in fact, means running away. Think about this.

Even if you die, nothing will become clear.

I can't help doing so.

Absurd...

It was a case of the absurd.

To stop our quarrel, I grabbed his pistol.

He tried to prevent me.

I pushed him down.

Is the criminal me, or is it the pistol?

The police will be content if they identify the criminal;

Who was the assailant and who the victim, who is bad and who has to be punished.

His way of thinking was just like that.

I have to go to the police and confess?

'I was participating in that riotous demonstration.

'I beat policemen and was beaten by them. And I've got an injury on my head. '

He told me to do so.

But he is dead now.

Even if someone dies by accident,

The police will be anxious to determine who killed whom, when and where.

I shot him.

- No! - Leave me alone!

If he was killed, both of us killed him.

I must expiate my guilt anyway.

I must expiate it by my death.

You really think so?

If you want to die, jump off!

You must be afraid.

I...

I...

I'm also afraid.

Anyone would be afraid.

But someone who has something more terrible in mind

Could dive into those dizzying depths.

Is that the case for you?

Do you have something so terrible within you?

Because they are human, the riot police are more terrible.

His eyes...

His face was peaceful, even in death.

When I look into the eyes of a policeman starved for blood,

In order to extinguish the fear,

I have no choice but to overcome him by raising my fist and throwing stones.

I'm not able to die.

To die is not easy for a human being.

Let's run away together.

You wouldn't be able to do so alone.

Have a good stay.

Thank you.

There is no article.

Neither the morning paper nor the evening paper mentions it.

Maybe because they are local ones?

However,

A policeman was killed.

Wouldn't newspapers report such a serious incident?

I'm not blaming you.

The pistol fired by accident.

Neither of us had any intention of killing him.

Then why do we have to run away?

If I didn't kill him, I don't need to run away.

How many times do you have to say the same thing?

Even if we insist that it was an accident, no one will believe us.

Besides, I was being tracked for the crime of inciting a riot.

No. I don't want to run away and suffer like this.

Calm yourself, please.

I'm happy now, for I'm with my sister-in-law, who I love.

Running away isn't suffering at all.

I thought it would be far more grievous.

Your crime of inciting a riot can be forgiven,

Since you acted according to your convictions.

What are you talking about?

I'm a criminal who killed my husband.

- I'm merely a killer. - Stop it!

That's an unreasonable idea.

If you're a killer, I'm an accomplice.

I'm a killer.

Sister-in-law!

I killed him.

You didn't kill him. You never killed him!

I'm a killer.

I'm a killer who can't even die.

Sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law.

Sahei.

Sahei.

- Yes. I'm a killer who can't even die. - No, you aren't.

I'm a killer.

If that's the case, we killed him.

- We did it so as to become like this. - No, it's not true.

We did it so as to become like this.

If you're a killer, I killed him so as to have an affair with you.

Kill me.

- Kill me. - A human being can't easily die.

A man can't easily kill someone either.

I also thought about killing myself several times.

But I couldn't and have gone on living after all.

When my brother told me that he'd marry you,

I strongly objected to it.

I said, 'Since Yuri loves me, she'll marry me. '

At that, people burst into laughter and

Despised me, saying I was a precocious lad.

You were also just laughing

- And left with him for Tokyo. - I was young.

You're still young.

Did you love him?

- You really loved him? - I thought it was love.

When you were gone, I seriously thought about killing myself.

But I couldn't, without seeing you again to hear the truth.

Four years have passed since then.

Those four years were very long.

My beard grew thick and my friends were talking only about sex.

- But I was always thinking of you. - Sahei, stop.

When the snow fell, I used to ask myself if it were snowing in Tokyo, too.

- In a blizzard, I'd wonder if it was cold in Tokyo, too. - Stop!

I was losing my head.

Becoming a grown-up,

I said to myself, 'I've become a grown-up. This is what is called a grown-up. '

I've really been forgetting myself whilst living with him.

- If I'm asked now whether I loved him... - He was losing his head over you.

- Don't talk about him. - Sister-in-law.

He did nothing bad.

- We... - Stop!

We killed him.

All right. This is all right.

Crush the Japan-U. S. Security Treaty!

Give back Okinawa!

Oppose the U. S. basements!

Smash the Japanese Communist Party and the US imperialists! Viva the Trotskyists!

Overthrow Stalinism!

Hinder the Security Treaty! The popular front will triumph.

Crush the national powers! Riot police, go home!

Kill the policemen!

Smash the policemen!

Smash the 1970 Security Treaty!

Hurrah for the Union of Workers and Students!

Sister-in-law!

I'm not your sister-in-law any longer.

I see.

Sorry. I didn't realise.

It's nothing. I simply felt lonely.

I felt as though you belonged to another world.

What's this?

You did it, didn't you?

You did it, didn't you?

What are you saying?

You shouldn't do it on the beach.

- We did nothing bad. - Let's go away!

If you do it on the beach, god will get angry.

The sea will get rough.

If you dare to do it, I also want to.

Let me do it!

Let me do it!

Run!

Let me do it! OK?

- No! - OK?

Stop it!

- Let me do it! - Stop it!

- Who are you? - OK?

Let me do it!

Let me do it!

Do it with me!

Do it with me!

Sister-in-law!

Where are you?

Sister-in-law!

Sister-in-law.

What's the matter?

He's gone away.

Let's go back.

I'm afraid.

The pistol didn't fire by accident - I shot him.

Don't say such foolish things.

I don't want to run away any more.

I'm afraid. Everything is unbearable for me now.

Be calm. Don't worry about that mad man.

- I don't want to go back. - Let's go.

Why? I'm with you.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

Let's go.

There isn't any mention today either.

Is that so?

I'll take a bath.

I want a baby.

I want my baby.

With him, I had nothing to complain of.

He was gentle and serious,

While you're even more sincere and idealistic.

I'm not good after all.

I can't endure this any more, as others do.

I can't love both you and your brother.

Yes, perhaps I hoped somewhere in my mind to have an affair with Sahei.

Maybe that's why I killed him.

Sister-in-law.

Admittedly, we haven't yet talked much about what we have in our minds.

Still, we understood each other, didn't we?

I've hidden nothing from you.

If you want to know something, I'll tell you.

It might be true that I'm an idealist,

But everyone should have the ideal of realising the revolution.

You and I have gained our world revolutionarily, so to speak.

No, it's different.

What is different?

Sister-in-law,

I want nothing in this world except you.

- If I can live with you in this way... - It's a lie.

- This isn't a lie! - It's a lie.

Perhaps we will be arrested some day...

But we are alone until that moment.

Even if we are arrested, that won't matter.

If arrested, we'll be together nonetheless.

Because the pistol fired accidentally, our guilt won't be grave.

It's a lie.

It's all over.

Then why did you run away? Why did you run away with me?

Because you wanted to keep our world alive as long as possible, didn't you?

My mind hasn't changed.

I still love you.

Gynecologist Physician

I'm pregnant with my husband's baby.

Sahei. This is his baby.

What should I do?

Give birth to the baby.

Since they say 'one girl and two boys' are best, I want to have at least three.

All right. It's finished.

It's useless regretting that you conceived.

- Are you going to give birth to it? - I wasn't pregnant.

What?

The doctor said I wasn't pregnant.

He said it was a false pregnancy.

Sahei...

I seem to be a bad woman.

When I came from Otaru to Tokyo, I felt incredibly liberated.

When you came to Tokyo I yearned for you, who was enthusiastic about something,

And different from him, who only worked diligently.

But I didn't know why I felt so, or what it was I wanted.

I was always confused and would wonder what I was, and if this was to be my happiness.

I used to think something would happen the next day, so that I'd change entirely.

But nothing has changed.

If I myself have no intention of changing, nothing can happen.

You're right.

I must have expected something from you.

I was excited every time the two of you quarreled.

I'm a bad woman.

Yes.

I'm afraid.

Don't worry. Nobody will come up here. A load of snow must have fallen.

Nobody would come to a lake in winter, covered with such deep snow,

Except for a couple who are eager to create their own world, like us.

Come here.

You can see something?

We've come to the end of the earth.

What might that be?

I'm afraid.

No!

Be obedient!

Be obedient!

Be obedient! Be obedient!

Stop! Be obedient!

No!

Be obedient!

It hurts.

Be obedient!

It hurts!

Be obedient!

No! It hurts.

Be obedient!

Be obedient!

Be obedient!

- Be obedient! - No!

Be obedient!

Be obedient!

Be obedient!

Please stop!

Stop it!

Be obedient!

Be obedient!

Stop it!

Be obedient! Who is this man?

I don't know who you are, but this is the rule of our village.

Please pay no attention to this! This mustn't be observed.

Set me free! You're going to kill her, aren't you?

This is the rule our village has observed for a long time.

- What an absurd rule! - Stop, please!

Stop it!

We live according to the code of our village.

Because this woman violated the social code, she has to atone for her sin.

Don't try to stop us!

Understand us!

She eloped with a stranger.

In our village, it has been said that even if one falls in love with a stranger,

One mustn't leave the village.

We've lived with this rule from generation to generation.

She's a woman who violated the code.

It's not permissible to break it.

Any woman who violates the rule has to be beaten

With a rope by every male villager, 17 times each.

This woman has to be beaten with a rope, 17 times each.

The man must consume nothing during 17 days, except the snow granted by Heaven,

So as to atone for his sin in tempting her.

Almost all would die.

The woman has to purge her body and soul

By immersing herself in the lake during these 17 days.

She has to pray to god and atone for her sin.

How absurd!

That's an infringement of human rights.

You can never understand this.

But otherwise our village would perish.

If everyone abandoned and left the village, it would certainly perish.

Say whatever you like!

Salvation never comes from anything else.

The two lovers who ran away are wrong.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

It's they who are sinful.

Were we dreaming?

Yes, we were dreaming.

Or was that real?

Yes, it was real.

Let's go back.

- Go back? - Yes.

Let's go back to our home town.

That's my brother!

I saw him for sure.

Or was I dreaming after all?

I can't stand this any more. I care for nothing.

I want to die straight away.

It was wrong to run away, as that old villager said.

You're right.

But this may be the germ of a superstition.

I don't care about that.

- No matter what becomes of me, I want to be relieved of my suffering. - And then?

I want to die.

Don't say that! We'll no longer run away.

Let's start over again. Let's try, even if it's impossible.

We can't die as we are now.

Otaru Station

Hey! Aren't you Yuri?

- Hello! - Ah, along with your brother-in-law?

- Get on first. - Thank you.

- Are you on your New Year holidays? - Yes.

Be careful.

Thank you.

Your parents will be glad to see the three of you together.

Three?

I saw your husband a while ago and heard him say he'd got lost in the crowd.

He has come back...

When did you see him?

Only ten minutes ago.

While going to the neighbouring town, I saw him in front of the post office.

- He's really alive. - What should I do?

- Take care. - Thank you very much.

- Visit my home on the way back. - Yes.

Say hello from me to all.

Sahei, stop!

No. I should see him now and have it out with him.

- We no longer need to run away. - No. I can't see him.

He's alive. This is fortunate.

But it's hard for me.

Be patient!

If we don't resolve this now, we'll have to feel guilty for ever more.

Stop, Sahei!

Stop!

Sahei, please!

Brother.

Brother, I have something to tell you.

- I don't want to hear anything. - I have to talk about us.

'Us'?

We thought you were dead.

Unfortunately, I'm not dead.

Yuri, come with me!

You'll come home, won't you?

Brother, we love each other.

It's true that we shouldn't have run away,

But the pistol fired by accident and Yuri had no intention of killing you.

Yuri? Since when have you been addressing your sister-in-law like that?

Yuri, come with me!

We should visit and greet my uncle.

Wait! Listen to what I'm saying.

Won't you come with me?

Sister-in-law.

Look.

I...

Bitch!

Sorry. Forgive me!

What were you going to do?

Bitch!

Forgive me!

What were you doing?

I did nothing.

What were you doing?

Forgive me!

Whore!

Bitch!

You were flirting with him, weren't you?

- Stop! I'll tell you in her place. - Stop, Sahei!

I was serious, too.

This is a married couple's problem. Go away!

Stand up!

I'll make you atone for your sin properly later.

Now come...

Script: Izuru Deguchi - Masao Adachi

Camera Operator: Hideo Ito

Lighting Technician: Hajime Isogai

Film Editor: Kansuke Guryu

Production Sound Mixer: Takashi Sugisaki

Music: Takeshi Yamashita

Yoko Muto

Ken Yoshizawa

Hatsuo Yamaya

Rokko Toura

Director: Koji Wakamatsu

The End

Translated by Quaisnord for ADC Revised by Lordretsudo for ADC