""If you suppose that the motivation for interest in capitalism is not the... accumulation of wealth, but pleasure, then it collapses from the base."" " Karl Marx "Das Kapital"" "THE EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP" "Tomato Ketchup Constitution" "Imperial Decree:" "For me, the peace, happiness, and honor of this country's children are the core and the continuation of this everlasting lineage is best." "For the children who love me, I owe strength and aid such that the country's advancement and development is my wish." "Provisions of the Lord Emperor:" "1." "The Emperor's unsoiled respectful existence will not be dirtied." "2." "By the Emperor's chosen path of law, that which is inherited... 3." "The Emperor's father will polish the his shoes by licking them with his tongue;" "The Emperor's mother will play the violin for solace when the Emperor is bored." "4." "Military and naval forces are under the rule of the Emperor at every moment to keep peace and intensify the well-being of children." "5." "The Emperor's favorite food, tomato ketchup, will be the national symbol." "6." "Adults will not hinder what the Emperor wants." "7." "The Emperor's declarations of war, thoughts of peace, and various pacts, are binding." "8." "The Emperor wears a hat, and no matter what, he does not take it off." "9." "Those who give offense to the dignity of the Emperor, for this crime of disrespect will be hung by the neck form a tree until dead." ""The wise man exercises sovereignty among the stars. "" "Introduction To The X-Mark Code" "Adults who oppose children, who ignore children's power who teach a prejudiced viewpoint against children, or adults who care too excessively for children, all will be erased from the register with an X." "Under the Black Flag Party they will be erased." "An adult, who reduces a child's snacks, disturbs a child's drinking and smoking takes the freedom of a child's eroticism and pushes their own educational fixations..." "A ringleader will be executed or given life in prison..." "Participating conspirators, adults that do not directly enforce will be given eighty years imprisonment." "The X-mark body of law." "Pure intellect is a product of death." "Long, long ago, there was a father and a mother." "The father was an elementary school teacher the mother a vampire." "The two did not have their own child, so they gathered other children and after reading them the story of Hansel and Gretel it is eight rends of the flesh and into the bubble-bubble boiling meat pot to eat." "So, you must not go to school." "The scary wolf waits, licking its lips, to eat such a child." "X-Mark Body of Law 77th provision Svekarak judgment" "Father of more than two children: 500,000 yen fine." "School teacher:" "Permanent exile or 20 years in prison." "Fairy tale writer:" "Life in prison." "Toy maker: from 1 to 10 years in prison." "Probation officer: from 10 to 30 years in prison." "Police Department, Juvenile Division:" "Death." "Our fight to take over power in, Germany was just as decisive for our fate as the fight which we are waging today." "It was only during the past year that this became known to us in all its meaning and if victory had not been achieved in 1933, then Germany would have remained what it was then, a powerless nation with an Army of 100,000 men.../i" "...which would necessarily have had to submit to destruction." "99th Provision" "All children are free in the name of God." "Free to conspire." "Free to betray." "Free to practice sodomy on the Army Minister of State." "Free to wipe one's butt with the Bible." "A cartoon toilet is beyond a church." "A cat beyond the slaughter of a friend." "Dear Mother, Are you well?" "Have you hidden yourself well from the Black X-Flag search parties?" "Please take care of the kitten that has become an adult even a cat, if an adult, it would seem, is to be taken to the concentration camp." "I have enclosed a picture of me." "This month's assignment has been as a concentration camp oven guard." "It is for the adults who lied to children the people's court is held and my job is the baking to death of those adults chosen for execution." "At first the smell inside was horrible, but these days I am used to it." "I bake seven or eight people a day." "In the fire the bones turn to ash." "Behind me, bound up, is an educational movie actress who pushed filial devotion." "Baking and perfume is not a very good combination." "I will write again later." "Anatomy" "Children University Lecture:" "As for the destiny of adult culture it would seem to fit the ruins of ancient times such that it is a phenomenon which is limited in space and time." "The conscious path of the transient nature of adult records is a mathematical law analogous to the comprehensive path of continuous tradition." "Mother, are you well?" "Father has just escaped the concentration camp." "One dose of tobacco, and then it seems I will suffer." "I yawn at the world." "The emperor yawns at the world." "The section 'of the cat' in the encyclopedia is revised in the bathroom." "For example, abolished is the four legged mammal definition." "Cat... the hirsute expert of contemplation." "Cat... the animal that cannot speak to children unless wearing boots." "Cat... the carnivore what cannot be eaten." "Cat... the non-writing detective novelist." "Cat... the spy that wiretaps Berlioz's symphony." "Cat... the hedonist with no property." "Cat... the only political domestic animal, descendant of Machiavelli." "97th Provision:" "At times of simple flight, planned, or unplanned adult escape the penalty is ten or more years hard labor." "The escapee and accomplices will be surrounded by the X-mark of martial law within this sphere of the X - mark, the lawless ones must stand and do ten or more years of hard labor" "The one who aggravated the escape, usurping power will incur internment the same as the one who attempts to the act." "These punishments will be done." "His Majesty the Emperor's dynamite." "Provision 190:" "In relation to the articles for the disposal of corpses and the like the following reforms have been made to the code:" "Namely children's corpses, ashes, hair and such will be placed in a coffin styled therein and disposed of." "The penalty for dereliction by the profiteering stylist is three or more years years continuous hard labor." "Adult corpses, hair, and such can be dealt with as you like." "For corpses, dolls, and play dress, it is the task of the doctor to dissect and classify the hair, teeth, skin and the like." "Accessories, personal effects, and household decorations are subject to tariff and must be offered up as such." "The X-ambassador is a meat border line." "Mother, are you well?" "Whatever happens, you must not come out." "Recently control has become very strict." "When informants turned in just one adult hiding in a barn in Shinagawa a whole platoon with machine guns was dispatched." "Also mother, it would be best if the partisan radio broadcast of lullabies is stopped." "Although we listened to lullabies when we were infants we will not return to a child's naivety." "A return to a beatific childhood, and a peaceful mother's love, are both futile." "Anyway, no matter what, please hide yourself." "The law has changed, so that cats who do not wear boots are all to be slaughtered." "So please do not let the kitty out on a moonlit night." "The Emperor seems to have come to like cat steak." "11th provision:" "All subjects through faithful valor love their country." "From Emperor and loyal sacrifice the rise of the Empire's glory both at home and abroad cannot be in doubt." "It is not a question of children or men and women of different ages;" "everyone, for all time, must bow to the duty of obedience." "Listen to that tune." "The girl changed into a witch." "Listen to that tune." "The cat became smoke." "Listen to that tune." "Fanon has come to like Kirie." "Listen to that tune." "A person has come to love everyone." "Listen to that tune." "I would like to give to you." "There is a sum total that has no relationship to history or mathematics." "Therefore the mathematical certainty of natural law," "Galileo Galilee's astonishing view that nature is such that one can write of it using the language of math; according to Kant with the birth of correct natural science the potential of the application of mathematical methods to reach a truth is also born." "Can you accurately speak the word vagina?" "VAGINA" "Today, from the police headquarters now situated outside the Tomato Ketchup Occupied Zone, ...to all the un-occupied households nationwide this appeal for cooperation with the following five items has gone out:" "1." "Do not allow children to watch TV, read newspapers, or listen to the radio." "2." "Children must not be allowed to have edged tools, even for building." "3." "Add the children's favorite food to dinner one plate at a time, to gage the level of friendliness." "4." "It is strictly forbidden for children to gather together therefore, during this time, all schools are on vacation." "5." "If possible, respect children, and never talk back to them." "Furthermore, this evening the provisional government has in emergency, revised the constitution to remove the child welfare laws and dispatched the self defense forces." "While the cat is napping, the child first learns of tobacco." "While the cat is napping, the child's butt is strongly devoted to." "While the cat is napping, the child experiences the prison of books." "While the cat is napping, the Spanish civil war and the flower wilt." "While the cat is napping, start the dynamite burning!" "While the cat is napping," "Change the world!" "Change the world!" "One soldier has responsibility in conquest." "One soldier of the imperial troupe cannot break the rule." "One soldier finds the effects of pleasure." "One soldier holds responsibility for the rise and fall of the empire." "The Emperor plays ken ball with the world." "Mother, are you well?" "This will be the last letter I'm afraid." "The Black Flag Party is on their way to capture you tomorrow." "Please forgive this money grubbing un-filial betrayer of a son." "But, you could not hide forever anyway, and no matter how it goes, we could never share our lives." "I will buy a nice Buddhist altar, and place flowers every day." "I will also decorate it with pictures." "From now, if it goes well, I think you will be entered into the Kichigai hospital." "Today, while the Emperor and I inspected it," "I thought it might be good if you were at Kichigai." "Mother, please stop this wasteful resistance." "Please don't think badly of me." "Goodbye." "Someone will probably remember me." "Friends gone, the former political world bullocksed on the verge of becoming a brothel, this all disgusts me." "To cry out toward the devil has disgorged hedonism." "When the wings that support the bird propel it through the air it is the surrounding air's resistance that gives the dynamic lift this is the bird's loneliness and harmony." "So I face the broken wall in my apartment and try to work out a flying ornithopter machine that flaps like a bird." "Maybe then I could fly." "The theory of wings is hollow at its heart it is the dynamic lift that holds one's salvation in the highest in the highest, in the highest places one's eyes might open." "Bird, Bird, Bicycle bird." "As I fly I might see a dream of political power and rule." "Oh yes, on that day, at that time, I will call out toward a phantom political pulpit." "I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am!" "If you have a beard, you can have an empire." "Anyone who wears a beard becomes the Emperor." "A cat is the Emperor of an empire of darkness." "A child is the Emperor of an empire not yet complete." "So it is that "World history is merely a haphazard point of view becoming reality bringing a release from mandatory/necessary uniformity. "" "Photography:" "Sawatari Hajime" "Title Design:" "Enomoto Ryuichi" "Film Work:" "Tanaka Michi" "Production Assistants:" "Matsuzawa Happyaku, Inaba Akihito," "Takenaga Shigeo, Tanaka Yoshiko, Kitagami Aya" "Photography Assistants:" "Nakagawa Masaaki," "Dejyo Kodama, Kume Masami, Mitajyu Fumio" "Sound:" "Morisaki Henriku Collaboration:" "Naito Rune" "Performance:" "Niitaka Keiko 70 children" "Tenjo Sajiki Theatre Group" "Scenario, Music and Direction:" "Terayama Shuji" "[ENGLISH]"