"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 plastic pipe" "Take your pants off, too!" "Okay, I'II take them off!" "pull them down further!" "Waita 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 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 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 cinéphiIe?" "What's your name?" "Do I have to tell you?" "If you Iike books so much..." "ButaII 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, Iike files 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 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 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-Iift" "If you must use a false name..." "You could have said Haruo Seto..." "It would have been easierfor me to dedicate" "Here take this" "You seem to be very interested in this student" "No one else brings shop-Iifters to me like this" "I Iike this store and you" "You like 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 til 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 sleep with him" "You like having sex?" "What do you want?" "This felt betterthan having sex" "How does it feel?" "I aImostejacuIated" "This only 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 hotel tonight" "Birdey hilltop" "What?" "You've got money" "You could buy any book you Iike" "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 Presidentsigned 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, Iet"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" "Apig's navel" "Kyu-Kyu" "You should have told me before" "How was it?" "Nothing" "Did it hurt?" "No" "You liked iteven the first time?" "No" "will you clean my ears?" "No" "ItcouIdn't feel..." "No" "feel any betterforthe earpick than the years..." "could it?" "I feel nothing atall 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?" "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 problem..." "My methods are pretty severe..." "would you give me a few details..." "About yourselves and your problem..." "The way I Iook at it..." "I shouldn't do all the talking..." "Take off yourjacket..." "It's so hot..." "We mustgraduaIIy 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, whatshe said about the drawing seems to indicate, thatshe has a desire for group sex..." "also you seem to have Lesbian tendencies..." "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..." "Butat the same time itshows 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..." "SeIf-Iove..." "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 seIf-Iove and developing into Lesbianism" "That's why you can't become naked" "I think this feeling is one of pure seIf-protection" "How about it?" "I think both of you you have something like an armor" "And I think, this is the reason you'II never be able to do anything atall" "I want you to undress" "Can one get undressedjust because someone says one should?" "If I had been alone physically, personnally and anthropologically I 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 I'm 80 I 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 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 forthem to ask us for advice but let'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 tell?" "What do you mean?" "Pretty insulting!" "Sure I'm insulting!" "Nobody here deserves bettertreatment" "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 notsatisfied, notataII" "I am..." "I am" "Let's Ietour hair down I'II be MC" "No clapping means everyone agrees with me" "Mr Mutsuhiro Toura..." "What do you have to say aboutsex?" "I'm pissed, too." "I'II let you ramble 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 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 notsexuaIIy satisfied?" "please...how about it?" "Sex?" "I getenough" "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 Iove 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'texpIain" "Mr Kei Sato, how is it to appear on TV?" "Looking as though your mind is bleached white?" "Shut up, boy!" "Whatabout it?" "Whatabout 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 getsort of confused" "I intend to be confusing" "Is that your aim?" "What kind of woman I Iove?" "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 aboutone'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'sjust what you think!" "I don't think I'm annoying anyone ataII" "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 itaII sort of masturbation" "Anyway, phenomenally and physically at the momentof coitus one faIIs into the illusion, thatone 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'II explain it to you" "please..." "I'II answer..." "Answer, please!" "For instance, the question is, ""What is sex?"" generally 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 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 hertits...of course, one only usually 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 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 gota woman I'm pretty deeply involved with, but but I doubtshe 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" "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 absolutely no significance" "When a man and a woman are together something comes of it" "Thatsomething has nothing to do with whether or nota child is born..." "The only thing thatcounts is, that they had fun" "That's the point" "You are saying that they enjoyed itor not depends on things like your partner's sex organs, arms" "You make itsound like it's a matter of details" "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 well made things" "I disagree." "I think thatsex should be good whether or not her organs are the best" "I think on the other hand sex is making the bestof poor quality organs" "Okay, thenjust 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... 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 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... 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 ...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 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 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..." "AplaCe Called Shower Inn..." "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" "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 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" "It 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!" "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'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, 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... ln Shinjuku behind the Isetan 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 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 lf 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 TAKAAKI:" "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 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""" "I should have never learned words" "With Japanese and a little foreign language... I stop in your tears..." "TAMURA RYUICHI:" "POETRY I return alone in your blood TAMURA RYUICHI:" "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 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... I 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 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." "Herfirst name is Umeko" "This is Kinokuniya Book Store" "I'm on the second floor" "I'm locked in and can't getout" "Let's talk outside" "Let's go outside..." "And talk..." "No!" "Let's talk" "No!" "We meetagain." "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 lotof 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" "AII right." "I understand" "please buy her" "Yes, I'm a slut" "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" "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..." "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." "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 didntjoin us." "I believe, Umeko wanted to steal Tanabe sans sex, and I 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..." "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'sjust 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 betterfor 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 thatas a selling point?" "Kabuki means to perform in a wild 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 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'II 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!" "Getout!" "Strange face!" "I'm really getting it tonight!" "Why are you helping him?" "Who are you?" "tell 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 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!" "AII 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, thatstrong 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'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 clean myself." "Wait!" "Whatare you doing?" "Whatcostume 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" "AII we need to do is close our eyes and pass over her like a breeze" "Butafter all Japan is an island country" "She keeps her legs crossed just like a woman forfear of attack from the outside" "comparatively, Europe is much better" "holland, italy 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 leave" "Hasn"t itstopped 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 arejust those of a bachelor's Utopia" "Very weak!" "You'rejustan 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..." "YoChanjust 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 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 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..." "Whatare 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 frontof me..." "You promised to teach me, who I am, didn't you?" "You told me to take off this mask" "I can't take itoff!" "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?" "Letgo!" "Let ltgo!" "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'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 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 immediatly" "I didn't know what had happened" "Itseems he stabbed two orthree girls" "He was caughtsoon 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" "Butsince 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 ataII!" "But there was a time when I had a fear of men for abouta month" "well then, your wound has not created a wound in your heart?" "It has had a certain amountof 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 Iife" "well...thatevent you probably should take good care of it" "Yes, of course, that's true"