Original subtitles

GREENWICH TIME

NEW YORK

PARIS

4:00

MOSCOW

6:00

BRAZZAVILLE

4:00

PEKING

11:00

SAIGON

11:00

JAPAN

Thief! Thief!

Hurry up! Take them off!

What do you think I took?

Don't get so excited, you bastard!

What do you think I took?

A piece of plastic pipe

Take your pants off, too!

Okay, I'll take them off!

Pull them down further!

Wait a minute!

Do you think I got something here?

Shall I show what's inside?

Now, you want to see?

Sorry! Sorry!

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

Someone asks you...

Morning in the sea, noon on a hill...

Night in the river. Who is it?

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF

Even if we'll fade away... Even if we'll fade away...

A SOZOSHA PRODUCTION

Produced by NAKAJIMA Masayuki

SCRIPT TAMURATsutomu, SASAKI Mamoru ADACHI Masao, OSHIMA Nagisa

CINEMATOGRAPHY YOSHOKA Yasuhiro, SENGEN Seizo

SET DESIGN BY TODA Jusho SOUND BY HISHIZAKI Hideo

SOUND EFFECTS: SUZUKI Akira ART DIRECTION: ARAKAWA Dai

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: OGASAWARA Kiyoshi ASSISTANT PRODUCER: YAMAGUCHI Takuji

In cooperation with Kinokuniya Bookstore, Tokyo

THE BOY CALLED BIRDEY HILLTOP YOKOO Tadanori

THE GIRL CALLED "SUZUKI UMEKO" YOKOYAMA Rie

TANABE Moichi, TAKAHASHI Tetsu

SATO Kei, TOURA Rokko, WATANABE Fumio

KARA Juro and Members of the Jokyo Theatre Group

Directed by OSHIMA Nagisa

SHINJUKU

SUMMER 1968

SATURDAY

5:30 P.M.

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

Someone asks you...

Morning on the sea, noon on the hill

Night in the river, who is it?

President, this guy...

Do I know you?

I'm your employee

My employee?

Well, okay

Jean Genet?

Yes, "The Diary of a Thief"

We have to see the police?

Idiot!

Let me go!

Three times

What?

Before you're taken to the police

See you tomorrow

What do you want?

Let me

Let me do it

Let me. A cherry is not so precious

I'll rape you!

Okay, tomorrow

Tomorrow?

Tomorrow, tomorrow, and yet another day

Why not today?

Are you man enough...

...to put me in blue ecstacy, even the first time?

Sure, I am

Really?

NEXT DAY, SUNDAY

SHINJUKU

5:30 P.M.

It's only the second time

There's a real variety here

He said he'd come again today

So to the police...

So, yesterday was a preview?

You're a cin�phile?

What's your name?

Do I have to tell you?

If you like books so much...

But all these are for sale

I give you my book. It doesn't sell anyway.

"CONVERSATIONS WITH A NAKED FIGURE" BY MOICHI TANABE

My name is Hilltop...

Rather unusual name. Is this how you spell it?

Yes, my name is Birdey Hilltop

You know, like flies in the air

Hilltop? The school I went to also had a song like that

A bird sings and sings in a gingko tree

Not very good, am I?

Sorry, I lied

My real name is Gropey Shinagawa

Gropey... Let's cut-out the jokes

Vicar's Hall...

He's just trying for sympathy

I won't allow it

The ivy twines over...

One gate of Vicar's Hall...

It was all so sentimental...

But is it still twining there

Clear brisk fall skies...

And the sea off Shinagawa Bay

I leaned against the wooden fence...

And enjoyed the view...

Everybody knows this much of it

I can't tell whether you're my junior or my senior

Winter exams are close at hand

I don't get French at all

Oh, when I was twenty...

I went to sChool for six years...

Wine, songs, tobacco and girls...

That's all I ever learned...

I only learned to shop-lift

If you must use a false name...

You could have said Haruo Seto...

It would have been easier for me to dedicate

Here take this

You seem to be very interested in this student

No one else brings shop-lifters to me like this

I like this store and you

You like me? What's your name?

Miss Suzuki

Miss Suzuki, you don't have to bring me every shop-lifter you find

You see, I'm quite busy

You're the one he gave it to

I don't fancy having dinner with you

But he said together...

No point in being together

I'll wait here til you get off

WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, 5:30 A.M.

SHINJUKU SUNDAY 7:30 P.M.

I've got a date with a guy at 8:00

What for?

To sleep with him

You like having sex?

What do you want?

This felt better than having sex

How does it feel?

I almost ejaculated

This only happens when I shop-lift

Good-bye

What about the money?

I don't want it

How about splitting it?

I said you can have it all

Use it for the hotel tonight

Birdey Hilltop

What?

You've got money

You could buy any book you like

I'm poor

On only a book store clerk's pay...

It's a meagre existence

That's right

Nonsense!

Those books you have there...

You can have them

The book the President signed to Birdey Hilltop

A sex text- it will help you tonight

Take them!

I got your number, Miss!

That's what you think!

Okay, to Miss Nogood Suzuki

Pick them up, they're expensive

Damn!

Well, let's steal something!

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

Someone asks you...

Morning in the sea, noon on the hill...

Night in the river. Who is it?

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

An unsolvable solvable riddle

Tonight the owl won't hoot

Morning in the sea, noon on the hill...

Night in the river. Who is it?

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

Congratulation!

Wait, you've got to see me in it

A camel's lumps, two melons

We're alike as two peas in a pod...

To the number of hows, above and below

We like the same guy

We even say the same things in our sleep. Ei-Ei-

A lonely night...

We embrace in front of a mirror

Even a wilted pomegranate blooms Ei-Ei-

A hungry winter's night...

We gouge our Siamese cat's eye out...

And stuff our mouths full

The dead in their graves give birth Ei-Ei-

As long as we are so much alike...

There's nothing at all in the world

The whole world is deadly still

A pig's navel

Kyu-Kyu-

You should have told me before

How was it?

Nothing

Did it hurt?

No

You liked it even the first time?

No

Will you clean my ears?

No

It couldn't feel...

No

Feel any better for the earpick than the years...

Could it?

I feel nothing at all I still feel damned

PARIS

COMPLETE VICTORY PRESIDENT DE GAULLE

COMPLETE VICTORY

Take her home!

Let's go home!

Go yourself!

Settle down

Let me go! What're you doing?

What are you doing?

SUMMER 1968 - MONDAY 4TH - 9 A.M.

UMEKO SUZUKI WAS HELD AT THE YOTSUYI POLICE STATION

MR. TANABE GOT UMEKO OUT OF JAIL

UMEKO HAD ASKED HIM TO

I heard about you two from Mr. Tanabe...

And I think I understood the problem...

My methods are pretty severe...

Would you give me a few details...

About yourselves and your problem...

The way I look at it... I shouldn't do all the talking...

Take off your jacket... It's so hot...

We must gradually get through the veils...

After all... a boy and a girl...

It's the most natural thing in the world...

My feelings on the matter from what I have heard...

The boy is pretty...

The girl has a strong personality...

This is the basic problem...

But neither of you seem very strong...

Let's see... Your name was... Hilltop, wasn't it?

You're still breast feeding...

I think you are still quite a baby...

You are Umeko?

You seem quite strong...

But I don't think you really are...

You talk as though you understand...

But I don't think you really do...

These are pictures by Yumeji Takehisa...

These are pornographic drawings

Have you ever seen one?

Yes I have

How about you?

No

You look at them first...

I didn't know Yumeji drew pornography

They are very rare

This is quite...

I want to pass them on to her...

You look at them closely too

This one kind of gets to me...

In what way? Emotionally?

Yes

For instance, what she said...

...about the drawing seems to...

...indicate, that she has a desire for group sex...

Also you seem to have Lesbian tendencies...

Lesbian

Lesbian?

Yes, a kind of desire for women...

Lesbianism is very popular nowadays...

This drawing is of two women and one man

Since you are so impressed with it, you probably have these tendencies

As for you...

...you haven't told me the truth.

You must become naked...

I wonder, why you don't take off your clothes

You still aren't willing to undress...

There are still lots of veils to pierce through

At least take off your necktie

Come on, make yourself comfortable

You haven't revealed your heart to me

Is your waist thick?

I mean, not your waist... your hips

For a boy

Well, about the same as my chest

Exactly?

Have you measured yourself?

No, I haven't, but...

My size... trousers size...

But that's good...

But at the same time it shows some weakness, I think...

This may sound rude...

...but I feel you are quite effeminate...

I want to see both of you naked...

Both body and heart

Especially for Umeko, I feel...

Self-love... loving only oneself...

...results in subconscious Lesbian tendencies, I think...

...you are attached to those of your own sex

It may be your mother...

...or some other woman

Beginning with self-love and developing into Lesbianism

That's why you can't become naked

I think this feeling is one of pure self-protection

How about it?

I think both of you...

...you have something like an armor

And I think, this is the reason you'll never be able to do anything at all

I want you to undress

Can one get undressed just because someone says one should?

If I had been alone physically, personnally and anthropologically

I wouldn't have minded stripping completely

But just think!

Together... with her... by the numbers!

And me, the one who first made her...

...leaving a cherry blossom on the sheets

And she able to say only Nothing... Nothing... Nothing

For things to end like that...

If I were to suddenly remember her over breakfast when I'm 80...

...I think it would kind of get to me

Without sexual freedom, humans will never be free...

But it's impossible

If all girls in the world would never again say no...

...the world would be different

Professor Takahashi...

...undoubtedly wanted us to take the first step by stripping

But for us to take on...

...the responsibility of the whole world and strip was impossible

Mr Tanabe's kindness was also in vain

I could have put an end to this difficult discussion

I didn't have to make so much of a little cherry blossom

It was sort of stupid for them to ask us for advice...

...but let's see what we can do for them

But among those present there doesn't seem to be...

...much of an authority on the subject

How can you tell?

What do you mean? Pretty insulting!

Sure I'm insulting! Nobody here deserves better treatment

Nonsense!

I want to hear what the guy who said "nonsense" has to say

Can you solve their problems?

What is the basis for your satisfaction?

You're the only one who's satisfied

I'm satisfied, too

I'm not satisfied, not at all

I am... I am

Let's let our hair down I'll be MC

No clapping means everyone agrees with me

Mr Mutsuhiro Toura...

What do you have to say about sex?

I'm pissed, too. I'll let you ramble on...

Let's ignore Mr Toura

And pan to Mr Masao Matsuda

Mr Matsuda, are you or are you not sexually satisfied?

That's not the problem everyone here is sexually satisfied

Mr Matsda, are you sexually satisfied?

I'm doing alright

And now to today's guest

Mr. Hajime Yamazaki, are you or are you not sexually satisfied?

Please... how about it?

Sex? I get enough

In other words, sex isn't a duty, is it?

Do you feel sex is a duty?

No, it's not

Anyway, why do you think my saying that I love a woman...

...why do you think it's embarrassing?

Mr Mutsuhiro Toura has announced that he loves a woman...

I find that rather hard to believe

If I may be so bold...

...just what is love?

Well...

Please answer

Love? It's something one doesn't explain

Mr. Kei Sato, how is it to appear on TV?

Looking as though your mind is bleached white?

Shut up, boy!

What about it?

What about what?

You're useless!

I have my doubts...

So, I have a feeling that...

...you are appearing asjust Mr. Kei Sato on TV

It makes me feel rather strange

What do you mean?

I get sort of confused

I intend to be confusing

Is that your aim?

What kind of woman I love? That's ridiculous!

That's something that those who understand understand...

...and those who don't, don't

One doesn't have to reveal everything about one's sex life

But you're annoying others

I'm doing what?

Annoying others! You really are!

How am I annoying others?

In various ways

That's just what you think!

I don't think I'm annoying anyone at all

You are crazy to think I'm annoying

Don't be ridiculous. I think you're extremely annoying

- Never happen! - That has nothing to do with nothing!

For instance, Kei, your saying this has nothing to do with it...

...makes it all sort of masturbation

Anyway, phenomenally and physically...

...at the moment of coitus...

...one falls into the illusion, that one has become one with one's partner

But what man and woman feel at that time is quite different

Nonsense!

It's not...

I think it's nonsense

Why?

- I'll explain it to you - Please...

- I'll answer... - Answer, please!

For instance, the question is, "What is sex?" generally speaking

Who? Me?

I mean I want to answer the question "What is sex?"

I'm thinking hard about what to say

But since it's not something I usually think about...

...I'm thinking so hard about it now, but...

...for instance, when you feel it's time for sex...

...when you think now I need sex...

In other words, when you see a woman's arm, her shoulder...

...her tits... of course, one only usually sees the upper part of them...

...but even when I see the upper part I think...

...I turn it over in my mind...

...and I consider the reason for a woman's arms...

...are they for enticing men?

Are they for embracing men?

That's not it

No, her arms are for washing glasses...

...for doing laundry, for cleaning, etc...

This is also what woman's arms are for

For instance, during the Olympics...

Why does Mr Toura feel itso necessary to explain to us...

...how hot he is for his woman?

I've got a woman I'm pretty deeply involved with, but...

...but I doubt she is as hot for me as I am for her

I even doubt my feelings

Because I feel doubt, I want to go on living...

If I had no doubt, I wouldn't want to live any longer

I want to include ideas on how to live...

...and thus explain sex

I don't think freedom in sex is possible

It is a personal matter

It should be left at that

This way it still has beauty

I don't see any sense in such reports as the Master's Report etc.

Reports on sex have absolutely no significance

When a man and a woman are together...

...something comes of it

That something has nothing to do with whether or not a child is born...

The only thing that counts is, that they had fun

That's the point

You are saying that they enjoyed it or not...

...depends on things like your partner's sex organs, arms

You make it sound like it's a matter of details

Whether a woman's sex organs are good or bad

Judging it on something one is born with...

...is utter nonsense

There are those who can't appreciate well made things

I disagree. I think that sex should be good whether or not...

...her organs are the best

I think on the other hand sex is making the best of...

...poor quality organs

Okay, then just what is sex?

Sex should end with an "s"... It's got to be plural...

We got to be two people

Thus again onanism is impossible

Having someone watch is also rather interesting

Once I tried dressed sex...

I'll explain...

It was about January 20th and the geisha were still wearing...

...their long kimono decorated with thick heavy sashes...

Usually they take off the sash before getting into bed...

But instead in dressed sex the sash is left on...

It is considered lucky during the first seven days of the new year.

When I heard this...

...I thought it sounded like fun. But dressed sex alone...

...didn't sound interesting enough.

So I made a suggestion...

I said I didn't care what happened so everyone should hide and watch.

There should be no objections.

We arranged everything and called in a young geisha.

The other geisha hid and held their breath.

The girl was quite cute.

I felt it was kind of cruel...

...but I had promised...

It was now my responsibilty to give them a good show...

FIVE DAYS LATER, IT WAS SATURDAY AGAIN So they could see better...

FIVE DAYS LATER, IT WAS SATURDAY AGAIN ...I pulled her out of bed and on the floor.

PARIS RAIN ...I pulled her out of bed and on the floor.

PARIS RAIN She didnt like it, so I said...

SAIGON She didnt like it, so I said...

CLEAR WEATHER She didnt like it, so I said...

CLEAR WEATHER ...it's good luck, and she was finally convinced.

CLEAR WEATHER SUNNY DAY IN NAHA ...it's good luck, and she was finally convinced.

CLEAR WEATHER SUNNY DAY IN NAHA In the middle of things...

SHINJUKU: CLEAR WEATHER In the middle of things...

SHINJUKU: CLEAR WEATHER ...someone coughed in the hall.

TEMPERATURE: 36 DEGREES, HUMIDITY: 70% I got exited and coughed twice as loud

DISCOMFORT INDEX: 85 I got exited and coughed twice as loud

Everything came out all right. The girl left...

...and we got together again.

Who coughed?

The culprit wasn't found. Our little game had almost gone too far.

If she had heard the cough...

...she might have appealed to the police on human rights grounds.

A lonely night...

We embrace in front of a mirror

Even a wilted pomegranate blooms Ei-Ei-

A hungry winter's night...

We gouge our Siamese cat's eye out...

And stuff our mouths full

The dead in their graves give birth Ei-Ei-

At a certain place on the other side of the river...

A place called Shower Inn...

A male and female relationship is just like a car...

There is an element of timing for starting the engine...

When the timing is good...

...suddenly it begins to rain...

...at exactly the right moment

Thus, when a man and a woman are caught together in the rain...

...it works out very well

In other words, if the woman says she must leave...

...and it starts raining...

...especially if the rain starts...

...just when you are having trouble keeping up a conversation...

...the two of you suddenly have a feeling of closeness

Everything there is so well arranged...

...for the man and the woman

The hotel sets up a very passionate atmosphere...

...for it's customers

They really do their best to help you succeed

If things don't work out well here, then it is almost impossible

That's how good it is there

In the front there is a little door...

It's like a tea room door

You enter through it and you are immediately in an eight mat room

Because of the way tea rooms are made, it looks bigger than eight mats

And you are suprised to find that the whole floor...

...is covered with sleeping mats from wall to wall

It is extremely sensual

A room which excites sexual desire

If you go and nothing happens, we'll talk about it again

Anyway, go and try it

From Prof. Takahashi's...

Here I come!

Here I come!

Here we come!

Here I come!

Here we come!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Ali Baba, town of mystery

Someone asks you...

Morning in the sea, noon on a hill...

Night in the river, who is it?

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery

An unsolvable solvable riddle

Tonight the owl won't hoot

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery

An unsolvable solvable riddle

Tonight the owl won't hoot

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery

UMEKO SUZUKI WAS RAPED

RAPED BY TWO MEN

WHAT WAS BIRDEY DOING THEN?

TOKYO, SHINJUKU: FAIR

SAIGON: CLEAR AND FAIR

I'm going

Birdey!

BIRDEY!

UMEKO SAID TO BIRDEY

"IS IT OVER?"

OF COURSE BIRDEY DIDN'T ANSWER.

"LET'S DO IT."

BIRDEY...

Let's do it

SHINJUKU

SUNDAY

5 A.M.

If you want to see I'll show it to you!

Hump it, Showa Decadence Boy! Kara Juro's big hump!

Dad and mom embraced and I was born from a peach

If you want to see, pay your fee and see...

SITUATION PLAYERS" PERFORMANCE KARA JURO'S "YUI SHOSETSU"

Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!

We got drugs at midnight

Come and see at Hanayono Shrine

SHINJUKU, MONDAY 5:30 P.M.

BIRDEY IS STANDING HERE

STANDING

What's the President's number?

The number?

2-0-0

The President, please

This is Birdey Hilltop

Is this the President?

No, it didn't work

Yes, we're here. Of course

The President will meet us at the Capricorn Bar at 8:30

At 8:30!

For a long time...

I was a barber...

In Shinjuku behind the Isetan Department Store

My mother was a hustler

It was a good life

On Sundays, not a cloud in the sky...

We put on our Sunday best...

Enticed the lovely ladies...

And gayly chopped off their heads

Look! Look!

The razor dances

Look! Look!

Heads fly!

What a lovely Sunday!

Even the little birds eat pickled onions

Yeh! Barbers, Hurrah!

I...

...was hiding...

...in the toilet.

I am Jean Genet

Convicts'clothes are striped pink and white

Though it was at my heart's bidding...

...that I chose the universe wherein I delight...

I have at least the power...

...of finding in it the many meanings I wish to find:

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts

A true witness is one who gives evidence... "SIMONE WEIL"S WORLD" BY DAVY MARIE-MAGDELEINE

...from the depth of poverty, misery, despair and disgrace

HENRY MILLER: WRITINGS

Now I destroy my inept writings.

I throw my knowledge in the river passing by.

I die of hunger as the wolf I cling desperately...

But I can do nothing...

Tears flow across my cheeks

Oh, I am low and base

Those passing by lead heavily laden horses.

The days pass by and evening comes in the broad plain of the sky

If it would serve to free the human race...

...I believe that even sex with animals, or...

...Copulation in public view, or incest should be encouraged

But if I said here come Mr. Clay, Mr. Tree, Mr. Fish, Mr. Bird...

...you would not know, what color he is until you saw him

He could be negro or white.

Because two million Negroes are named after...

...the masters, when we were freed a hundred years ago

My loneliness was clearly trying to move...

...to a place with which my soul was not concerned

I felt the reason I had to become angry...

...in the form of my loneliness YOSHIMOTO TAKAAKl: POETRY

My first lover was a boy. So I had to become a girl

TOMIOKATAEKO: POETRY Then everyone except my lover said I had become a girl...

TOMIOKATAEKO: POETRY So for them I became a boy again...

Unfotunately, for my lover too TOMIOKATAEKO: "GIRL FRIENDS" POETRY

But he said he wouldn't sleep with me, so I became a girl for him

The woman suffrage problem in Kolkhoz is a serious one

I know that many of you...

Belittle and ridicule women and their demands

But, comrades, this is a mistake

It is a serious mistake

She takes out from her pocket the operating Gikuyu razor...

With a stroke she cuts off the tip of the clitoris

As no other part of the girl's sexual organ is interfered with...

In a moment each girl is covered with a dress by her sponsor

At this juncture the silence is broken...

...and the crowd begins to sing joyously in these words:

Our children are brave, hurrah! JOMO KENYATTA "FACING MOUNT KENYA"

Did anyone cry? No one cried-hurrah! JOMO KENYATTA "FACING MOUNT KENYA"

I should have never learned words

With Japanese and a little foreign language...

I stop in your tears...

TAMURA RYUICHl: POETRY

I return alone in your blood TAMURA RYUICHl: POETRY

Not being a learned priest, I don't have the freedom of Nirvana

I still have an attachment for life

I decided to escape from the place

That night I burned and threw away all letters from friends

My wife and I took our children and escaped to an inn

Before long, it was rumored that I had been captured and killed

But Rou-xi's whereabouts were entirely unknown

Some said that the foreign community officials had taken him away...

To the Ming-Rishudian Publisher to find out whether he was an editor

Others said, that he was taken to the govermental publisher...

To determine whether or not he was really Rou-xi

Since he was handcuffed his case must have been serious

Some said that he could be released on bail...

While others claimed that he had already been sent to Nanking

Also there were numerous people asking of my whereabouts...

Then my mother in Peking collapsed under the strain...

I found it necessary to answer them to stop the mistaken rumors

This situation continued for twenty days

It became bitterly cold

We had sufficient bedding, but we wondered if Rou-xi did

Suddenly we received a reliable report...

Along with 23 others, Rou-xi had been shot...

On the night of February 7th or the morning of the 8th...

At the Pong-Hua Police Headquaters

Ten bullets entered his body

Is this the way things were?!

Late one night I was standing in the enclosed garden of the inn

Debris was piled up all around me

I felt keenly the loss of my good friend...

And China's loss of a fine young man

My indignation became deeper

From this deep feeling, an old habit came to the surface...

Which resulted in a poem...

Her last name is Suzuki. Her first name is Umeko

This is Kinokuniya Book Store

I'm on the second floor

I'm locked in and can't get out

Let's talk outside

Let's go outside...

And talk...

No!

Let's talk

No!

We meet again. I think I've got the picture

I never have disliked adventures

I've come along this far, but now...

...I think it's time to bring down the curtain on our little drama

Nasty!

A real man is sexual and at the same time something more

But a woman is nothing without sexuality

Otto Weininger

You're acting pretty strange

I did a lot of wild things in the past...

Well, a few...

And I don't want to bother you two any further

Even in baseball, if you get lazy just because it's the first inning...

...you will suddenly find that you are in the ninth inning

Please buy this girl

All right. I understand

Please buy her

Yes, I'm a slut

A whore

A prostitute

I was raped by a gang

That swastika pose is nice

But it's not very good for the books underneath

The books are me

Please buy her

The game is over

I knew you weren't my employee from the beginning

Umeko Suzuki is now bought...

...with this money

DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF

I bought you

DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF

GOING HOME...

UNPLEASANT THINGS IN THE WORLD

TODAY TOO, LATE AT NIGHT...

I MAKE MY LONELY WAY HOME

1, 2, 3, 4...

5, 6, 7, 8, 35, 46, 150, 1000, 10000

Everybody waiting. Just waiting

Doing nothing but waiting to see Yui Shosetsu

They themselves should act rather than just wait

Our red tent is next to the Hanazono shrine.

No performance tonight

Break up, please!

But Umeko and me can't break up.

I have 30,000 Yen. They say: No money, no friends.

So Umeko will stick with me.

Were no beggars, but thieves.

Tanabe san didnt understand that.

Therefore he didn't join us.

I believe, Umeko wanted to steal Tanabe sans sex, and I wanted to steal it from her.

He didn't wish to join us

He tried to tell us several things...

...but actually he taught us nothing at all

30,000 yen... it would be natural for us to split it...

I could buy a girl and Umeko could buy a guy

Then we could disperse

Rather than buy a girl, I want to become a girl

And I think Umeko wants to become a boy...

May I make an offering to the ghost?

What's wrong? Did you kill someone?

Not yet

But I'd like to take a swipe with a sword like this

Or wear a woman's costume like this

Are you an actor?

Neither being in or seeing a play is any fun

Then how come you pretended you were a bookstore clerk?

It's just right. Isn't it?

Fits too well!

What do you plan to do?

I want to try being someone else

You mean it?

Yes

Your part is Yui Shosetsu

No, don't do that!

There is something wrong with him

It's all lies

This weak a guy can't play Yui Shosetsu

It's better for an actor to be strange

But for an absolute amateur...

His eyes are the eyes of a thief

In these eighty years of theatre a thief has never become an actor

You want to try it with that as a selling point?

Kabuki means to perform in a wild manner

The actors were not gorgeous footmen, but social outcasts who were chased...

...into the riverbed. That's why they are great

But I won't show you the trap door that leads to the riverbed

You have to find your own

If you don't find it...

...and people start praising you...

...with such terms as "underground", "psychedelic"...

you'll start feeling like you've arrived before you really have

That's how it is

Head for sale!

Head for sale!

Who are you?

Yui Shosetsu

Head for sale!

Give me your head!

Give it here!

Crazy woman! Get out!

Strange face!

I'm really getting it tonight!

Why are you helping him?

Who are you? Tell your name!

Yui Shosetsu

It's not only the town that's crazy

Right! You and him and everyone...

I know you!

You're running away! Coward!

You killed your comrades

You had your comrades killed

You had your comrades killed

Don't mistake what you see! Hag!

Don't mistake what you see! Hag!

Hey! Listen to the crow fly away!

Call his name once more!

Once more! All together!

Caw... caw

Craaah!

You call Shosetsu a rook?

You call Shosetsu a rook?

What?

Chuya! Stand up!

Wait! Wait!

Let me hear your name once again!

You, what did you say your name is?

Yui Shosetsu

Shosetsu - pure snow. Yui - was there anyone greater?

That voice, those teeth...

...these big ears, that strong odor...

...these eyes, those hands...

...that way of rearranging his underwear without using his hands as he walks.

Yozakura raised Shosetsu...

Fraud!

You are not Yui Shosetsu

That's right!

Who do you say he is, hag!

Who do you say he is?

Give it up!

Away! Away!

Fraud! Immodesty!

If you are Shosetsu, I, Yozakura should know you

I'll beat you with the back of my sword!

What're you doing?

Die!

Shosetsu - pure snow. Yui - Is there anyone greater?

Stay away from her!

SITUATION PLAYERS CRAZY PERFORMANCE

AUDIENCE:

1,000 GIRLS

AUDIENCE:

10,000 POLICEMEN

A man should never entrust anything to a woman

A man should just pass over the top of a woman

A man should just pass over the top of a woman

Hurry! Pass over!

Woman and country are alike

Man must not serve woman

What is a woman?

Me!

Chuya. Woman is a pitfall!

Woman is not waiting for man...

Chuya. Man is pitfall!

Man is not waiting for woman...

Woman is waiting below... at your feet.

She wants to pull you in... like an octopus trap

They just want you!

They catch men's dreams like an octopus trap

Chuya. There is no woman...

Believe me, there is no woman!

There are no women in the world!

Where to?

I clean myself.

Wait!

What are you doing?

What costume do I wear next?

You may believe that there is no woman

What both of us imagine as a woman...

...don't pay any attention to her

All we need to do is close our eyes and pass over her like a breeze

But after all Japan is an island country

She keeps her legs crossed...

...just like a woman for fear of attack from the outside

Comparatively, Europe is much better

Holland, Italy Germany, Afghanistan...

They are just whore houses with Goddesses' crown

In the West, ten women wait for one man

But in this country, one woman waits for ten men

You aren"t Shosetsu any more. Let's leave

Hasn't it stopped yet?

Not yet

Believe there is no woman!

Powerful men have always ruled the country...

But in the end the country raped all her rulers

From now on men must raise themselves above those of the past

No, don't pay any attention to her

Shosetsu, don't bitch like a bastard child

After all, here we have a fine woman named Okin

With your arbitrary theories about women...

...Okin won't know what to do with herself

Your ideas are just those of a bachelor's Utopia

Very weak!

You're just an undernourished king of weak ideas

Oh, poor thing! Oh, poor thing!

Since my family was poor...

I went to work in an oil shop when I was little

I was allowed to go out only once a year...

To the Mulberry Fair

The wife of the boss was an old bitch...

Always thinking I was making out with her husband

She watched and spied all the time

Watching me as she did the cleaning

Watching me as she cooked

Watching the boss all the time

Till he finally began to find me attractive

One night on the way home from the bath...

...he beckoned to me from behind a trash barrel

Okin. Come here Show me your ass

Though I didn't like him, I went...

Though it didn't hurt, I yelled...

Finally his wife found out

One night I packed my things...

And went to be a maid in a bicycle shop

My new boss was a milk-toast

No problems from him

But his stupid son Yochan...

...Came crawling into my bed every night

What's wrong with you, Yochan...

...your feet are cold as ice

No matter how much I objected...

Yochan just giggled and said:

Let me suck your mulberry nipples

Okin, where do you gather such nice mulberries?

I want to buy mulberries like yours...

...and eat them by the mouthful.

Stop your silly jokes, stupid boy...

...you cannot make Okin your toy

The door slid open and who should be there but old milk-toast

He runs in with a fire pump, yelling:

Where's the flat fire? Let's see it!

He grabbed my tit, and began blowing

This ain't no tube!

Even so he kept on blowing

Stupid Yochan and his milk-toast dad had a big fight

Over whether it was a mulberry or a blow-out

In a hurry I fled the place

And wandered along the night road...

With my sandals under my arm...

Where, oh where shall I go?

I asked the stars, in vain.

Walking along through the Edo night

I got all wet in the night dew

I learned the sad fate of a woman

With a happy laugh, Oh...

What are you doing?

Let's steal it!

DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF

It's your own fault! Everything!

Sorry!

Go find it!

Hanbei, call my name

When I kill someone, who appears in front of me...

You promised to teach me, who I am, didn't you?

You told me to take off this mask

I can't take it off!

You said to show me my face behind the mask

My hands slip

I didn't know that blood was so slippery

Head for sale!

That head is sold!

Do you want this one?

Orthatone?

Which will it be?

Let go! Let it go!

Oh, such big snow flakes!

I am Yui Shosetsu

Give my husband back his head, please

Kara Juro! It's my fault. It was stolen

Don't stop me!

DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery...

Someone asks you...

Morning on the sea, noon on the hill

Night in the river. Who is it?

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery

An unsolvable solvable riddle

Tonight the owl won't hoot

Morning in the sea, noon on the hill...

Night in the river. Who is it?

Bero-bero, a little boy

This is Ali Baba, town of mystery

What is this? How did you get cut?

I was about 18. I was walking alone in Shinjuku

A boy about 14 started following me

I didn't know he was following me

So I continued walking

He came running towards me

I think he was a pervert

He stabbed me and ran

What did he stab you with?

I think it was a dagger

But he ran away immediately

I didn't know what had happened

It seems he stabbed two or three girls

He was caught soon after

I heard later...

...that he was an American

Did you know immediately that you had been stabbed?

I realized what had happened. The blood began to flow

But since he was an American...

...alone in Japan with no parents...

...he had sort of come apart for various reasons

I think that's the reason he did what he did

He was quite pitiful. I don't want to blame him

I only feel strong anger towards something

Because of that...

...didn't you, perhaps, develop a fear of men?

I don't think that had anything to do with it

You mean it doesn't have any particular relationship to sex?

No, there's no relationship at all!

But there was a time when I had a fear of men for about a month

Well then, your wound has not created a wound in your heart?

It has had a certain amount of influence, I think

Then it was pretty bad for you?

It was bad, but it was a single event...

...so that I think it is something of rather great importance to my life

Well... in that event...

...you probably should take good care of it

Yes, of course, that's true