"The Prosperities of Vice" "Produced by Hidehiro Ito" "Screenplay by Rio Kishida Based on a novel by Marquis de Sade" "Music by Isao Matsushita" "Camera:" "Masao Nakahori Lighting:" "Kenji Ushiba" "Art Direction:" "Noriyoshi Ikeya Theatrical Design:" "Hiroshi Tomi" "Recording:" "Eiji Kimura Editing:" "Osamu Inoue" "Starring:" "Ri Seiran, Koji Shimizu" "Kimiaki Makino Miwako Yonezawa" "Aoi Nakajima Yasumi Hara, Minori Terada" "Renji Ishibashi" "An Akio Jissoji Film" "Thank God for meat." "And the Devil for the cook" "My vice this month is that I made the wife of a public officer my pet" "He owed..." "He owed me lots of money" "It's wonderful to have a dog trained just to please me" "I sentenced an innocent man to death the other day" "He was incontinent and passed out with fear" "It turned me on, and I ejaculated under the gown" "The perks of the job, eh." "I'm envious" "But I have a great story, too" "What did you do?" "." "I bought a ten-year old girl and made my houseboys beat her" "I felt the pain on my body as if I were that girl" "Is there any more quail?" "I'm still hungry" "With your endless appetite, there'll be no quail left in Japan" "You're late!" "." "Of course, crime is an ugly vice" "Religion, morality, and the law all try to proscribe it" "However, human beings secretly prefer crime" "I want to free that desire in this theater" "When you say theater, you might think of a grand edifice and a stage filled with bright light" "And crime might remind you of a dark prison and life behind bars" "Theater and prison, and heaven and hell" "The truth is, they are all around us if we only look" "Play in today's theater is like the gold and silver kept in the bank food at the restaurants, and love you can buy at the brothel" "It is technically the most refined form of art" "But is it the true color of theater?" "." "There are many theatrical factors in our daily life" "Meanwhile, crime is also a part of the social fabric" "You were criminals" "Pickpocket, thief, prostitute, arsonist, robber, and activist" "However, the prison is just the graveyard of crimes" "In this theater" "You will teach the pleasure of vice and spread its poisonous seeds through a story of a woman" "To combine theatre and crime and to teach the pleasure of vice to the audience" "That is my goal" "Henceforth, your criminal life wll not be in the streets, but in this theater" "So!" "." "Let's begin..." "I was raised in the convent of Panthemont" "As you know, it is a famous convent" "The person who planted the seeds of vice in my heart was the head of the convent, Madame Delbene" "I was mesmerized, seduced, and corrupted by her" "One day, a messenger came from my mother to tell that my family was bankrupt and my father seriously ill" "I returned home, to watch my father die" "One month later, my mother died, and I became an orphan" "I was alone in the world and had to make a living for myself" "I decided to become a prostitute" "I started my training under Madame Duvergier" "And learned how to be a good prostitute" "For six weeks, she sold my virginity to as many as 50 men" "Every night, she carefully applied a mysterious ointment to the swollen part that was abused by the men I spent the night with" "Are we allowed to do such a thing?" "It's not a matter of being allowed to." "I do it all the time" "It's our right to take that worthless old man's money" "If you don't steal when you can, you are a stupid and naive girl" "Are you still that innocent to think stealing is bad?" "." "Wise up girl, look at the world around you" "But it is a very bad thing to do" "I didn't know you were still trapped in that useless prejudice" "You should get rid of such stupid ideas" "Oh, I know what!" "I'm going to a dinner party tomorrow night" "So I'll take you with me" "Why?" "." "To introduce you to Dorval" "Dorval?" "." "Who is that?" "." "He is a thief!" "As you have heard, every actor in this theater is a criminal" "I looked at your resume, and it's quiet impressive" "Listen, if you tell anyone that the owner of this theater is me or that we make plays for the pleasure of becoming someone else" "you'll end up in prison" "I understand" "As long as you are here, you are protected" "Yes" "Do you swear obedience?" "." "Yes, I do" "Show me the proof" "What should I do?" "." "I will tell you that eventually" "Aren't you on soon?" "." "You may leave" "I absorb nourishment from theft which I see as the sweetest pleasure of all" "I find myself in a flame of sexual desire only when the passion rises in my body by the act of theft" "What?" "...." "Your wife?" "." "Yes, you have to rape her" "I can't" "Why?" "." "You were a thief" "You used to steal to make a living" "Just do it" "Tamae is worth stealing" "I also know that, since you came to this theater you have been staring at her like a starving dog" "Am I wrong?" "." "But why?" "." "Why do I as her husband ask you such a thing?" "Yes" "Because I want to see it" "Her face in the pain of being raped" "And her body as it begins to accept you and drowns in pleasure" "For me, the pleasure of watching is stronger than actually having sex" "Entertain me" "You're an actor, aren't you?" "." "I have many friends" "I am powerful enough to murder you and not be accused of the crime" "He is a thief!" "The strong steal, and the weak are stolen from" "Do you understand, Therese?" "." "This mean man said to me" "The most important morality in this house is honesty" "If you steal even a penny, I will have you hung and you will not live another life" "My wife and I live in peace because of our hard work and saving" "By the way, do you eat a lot?" "." "No, master." "I only need a little bread and water" "And if there is any, I'll have some soup" "What?" "Soup?" "Shameless bitch!" "Soup?" "." "It seems people live in luxury these days" "Someone who's been starving and looking for work for a year eats soup?" "." "Justine and Juliette" "Is that right?" "." "Justine is the Misfortunes of Virtue." "Juliette is the Prosperities of Vice" "Madame said..." "Said what?" "." "I live the lives of two women in one body" "Women prefer men who are dedicated to them" "And we love the men who move us" "Since I was nine years old, I have been amoral..." "No, you haven't" "You are not Juliette" "I'm not Justine either" "Then you are..." "What?" "." "Who are you?" "." "I am me" "I see something like regret behind your eyes" "You don't need to feel like that" "I don't regret it at all" "Why?" "." "Because I am trained that way" "Whatever happens, everything will pass like a blowing wind as long as I don't look back" "Good morning" "Are you rehearsing?" "." "Yes..." " But you are not in the theater" " You're right" "This is a bedroom" "With the morning sun streaming in" "You are a Marquise, and that man is a thief" "And you are a theater director" "I'm just a Marquis" "Whose wife has been stolen" "You committed a crime in the real world" "So you should atone for your sins in the real world, too" "Help!" "Call a doctor!" "Hey there, can you hear me?" "." "please read" "I was born as the third son of a plasterer" "When I finished school, a man decided to look after me for some reason" "He sent me to the military academy, and I became a private" "Do you have a wfe?" "." "Yes" "So why do you want to do this?" "." "My wfe is the daughter of a fallen samurai family" "When I was serving in Korea, I met her on her second day as a geisha" "I borrowed money from the Colonel to buy her, and we got married" "I want to make her happy" "Nonsense" "If you do what you say, you'll die" "It's the Showa Restoration." "The world will change" "My wife will be happy" "Marquis... the prince told us... he is on our side and will join us once we have started" "This is my wife" "This is Mr. Kenji Isogai" "He wants me to get involved wth them" "Have you made a decision?" "." "I am a director who manipulates the audience" "I can create any incident on the stage" "But the worst vice I could create in the real world was a simple murder case" "On November 1 at 2pm, Kikuyoshi Mashiko... the Principal of Ryuhoku Elementary School... was tricked into drinking poisoned tea at a cafe in Asakusa" "Mashiko was transported to the hospital... but died some two hours later" "According to the cafe staff, Mashiko had a large bag with him" "When he entered the cafe, he sat with..." "Let's start rehearsal." "Second and third act" "I play Noirceuil, and you play Juliette" "It was the poor idiot who was killed" "She was just a tool to satisfy our sexual desire" "She was so dumb and understood nothing" "But your mentality is much higher" "You understand my feelings and follow my orders" "I know you, Juliette" "I knowwhat you Iike" "You like wickedness" "I know you, Juliette" "I know what you like" "You like wickedness" "Yes, Master, it's true" "The thought of wickedness drives me to a frenzy" "That's right" "You will become noble bad girl" "I hate you" "You have no idea how much I have suffered from your vice" "Ah, but I like your wickedness" "I Iove your amorality" "Juliette..." "That's because you don't know all my vices yet" "Then tell me everything" "It's about your father" "I am the reason for his bankruptcy" "It's about your father..." "I am the reason for his bankruptcy" "It's a long time ago but at one time I had the chance to help him double his estate" "or take it all for myself" "I naturally decided to prioritize my own benefit" "That's how he went bankrupt and died, and I earned my pension" "You monster!" "You're a brute of a man" "I will repeat it again and again" "You're a brute of a man" "But even so, I still love you" "Even though I killed your entire family?" "What does that have to do with me?" "I judge everything with my feelings" "My family, who became victims of your violence have not given me any feelings" "However, the confession you made of your crime excited me, and stimulated me" "Excited me beyond my control" "Come here, my sweet Juliette" "I'm getting turned on" "Show me your beautiful bottom" "The child of the victims of my desire for wealth... will be turned into the victim of my desire for sex" "Ah!" "What delicious irony" "Believe me, Noirceuil" "I am happy to be partner of the man who killed my parents" "Let my juices flow and not my tears" "That's the only thing I want to give to the dead family I have hated" "Before I met you, I was a Juliette who knew not of vice" "I lost my family when I was fifteen and became a prostitute" "You found me, married me, and taught me how to act" "But just as you are not Noirceuil, I'm not the vicious Juliette either" "You didn't drive my father to bankruptcy" "Noirceuil killed Juliette's parents but you have never put your own hands in the mud" "Yes, you resemble Noirceuil" "He took Juliette out of the brothel, and you did the same to me" "And for both Juliette and myself it was a happy event" "As it approaches winter, the sunset becomes clearer and beautiful" "Very soon after I arrived at the Noirceuil's house" "I became obsessed with the cruel scenes I saw and heard about" "And I couldn't control the desire to commit vice for its own sake" "I dressed as a man with a pistol hidden in my pocket" "I went into the quiet streets" "The purpose was to steal, and to murder for my own pleasure" "What's the matter?" "." "I am the unhappiest woman in the world" "If you kill me, that would bring me the happiness I've dreamed of" "What kind of unhappiness do you have?" "." "I lost my job 8 days ago, and cannot pay the small rent" "My child has been taken to an asylum and my husband is in the prison!" "All I can do now is to count on people's sympathy" "Stand up" "I want to enjoy your body first" "I'll help you after that" "Oh, master..." "Even a miserable woman like me can arouse your desire?" "." "Women like you turn me on even more" "Come on, give me pleasure" "I am a woman..." "But I like women" "Oh, no way!" "Let me go!" "I may be ruined, but I have my pride" "I cannot stand such humiliation!" "Go to hell, bitch!" "Tell the demons in hell that Juliette is such a woman" "It can't be the Marquis" "Well, it's possible" "But why?" "." "For pleasure, like it says in the play" "That's Juliette's line" "But it can't be Tamae" "Well, we can easily come up with someone to play the killer" "You seem anxious" "We created this theater to get away from horrid reality" "Leave it to the marquis" "He is the leader" "I can handle this case very well by myself" "Please do so" "It's a nuisance to be bothered by the trivial murder... of an ex-pickpocket actress who couldn't even act well" "But Marquis..." "please remember... to be careful" "Of what?" "." "I heard a rumour" "They say that a deserter from the army came here to visit you" "Yes, he did" "Between you and me, I heard that the Prince is on their side" "Don't worry" "I won't get involved" "Last summer, Mr. Hijikata from the Shin-Tsukiji Company attended the Soviet Writers Association Convention" "He made a speech about the killing of Takiji Kobayashi and he had his title taken away" "I don't care that much about the lives of other people" "Anyway, what I value above all other things... are peace and luxury" "In the theater, where murder occurs at the same time every night someone committed a real murder that was not in the script" "That person is a traitor" "But who is it?" "." "I have been a thief since I was a child" "I am nourished by theft, which I see as the sweetest pleasure of all" "No, my thefts were much smaller more desperate, and more miserable" "When I was 5, I stole a pair of sandals, because my bare feet were hurting" "When I was 6, I stole rice balls, because I was hungry" "When I was 7, I stole a dog, because I wanted a friend" "When I was 8, I stole a blanket, because I was cold" "When I was 9, I stole a fan, because I was hot" "When I was 10, I stole a family's lucky charm because I was an orphan" "When I was 11, I stole a train ticket because I wanted to ride on a train, and I never had" "When I was 12, I stole a cigarette, because I wanted to be an adult" "When I was 1 3, I stole a barber's razor, because I needed to protect myself" "When I was 14, I stole a radio because I was lonely" "And then... when you were 30" "you stole me" "There was an unexpected murder in my theater and there is an unexpected incident happening in my house" "I didn't notice the other day" "What?" "." "You have a mole here" "That's called the valley of tears" "But I rarely cry, so the tears never run down there" "Instead, it's the passage of the wind" "Beautiful" "Judge, this lady here is the murder suspect" "But she has no intention of hiding the name of the real murderer" "According to what she just told me, the real murderer... is one of the three women who went to the town" "Here, Juliette, speak up" "You remember the name of that woman?" "." "Of course, I do" "It was the most beautiful girl of the three" "She was about 18 or 19, and her name was Minette" "That's what I wanted to hear" "Now, please swear what you just testified" "Of course" "I swear that the person who killed Madame Simone is Minette" "Come on, kiss me." "I Iove to suck your lying tongue" "You told a complete lie" "You are a wonderful man, Noirceuil" "You are the only man in the world I Iove" "How foolish of me to betray such a man" "Calm down, Juliette" "There is no need to regret vice" "What you need to regret is virtue" "Whip me, I beg you!" "please give me that shameful pleasure!" "Here, hurry!" "Don't worry" "The mole you found does not hurt" "It wasn't in the script" "You mean, when I turned round?" "." "Right" "Were you acting?" "." "Or..." "Or what?" "." "Was it atonement in advance?" "." "What if it was acting?" "." "My compliments" "What if it was atonement?" "." "If my on stage existence surpassed my real life one... you'd probably be disappointed in me" "What was all that nonsense?" "." "You don't like sea cucumber?" "." "You shouldn't have likes and dislikes" "I never tried it before" "There are plenty of things you have never eaten!" "To learn about taste is to learn about the world" "Eat!" "Open your mouth!" "Coward" "Her sin taints you all" "Do you want the sea cucumber?" "." "Or do you want the whip?" "." "Did you punish her?" "." "The other night, they met secretly in the attic" "She was held gently in his arms" "Stretched..." "Seduced..." "She was beautiful." "It made me jealous" "Last night, she made me panic, acting lines that were not written" "I was destroyed as an actor" "Tamae is not just yours" "She is ours" "Then you should sense it, too" "Sense what?" "." "Jealousy and defeat" "Or did you already sense it?" "Even before I did?" "." "Back when I found Tamae and put her between you and me" "Did you already sense the jealousy and defeat?" "I am O" "You are?" "." "Madame CIairwil" "CIairwil..." "You... you're killing me!" "Juliette" "You are wonderful" "But I am much older than you" "Think about it" "I am already 40" "I have become numb to most things" "That's why I need a lot of tricks and foreplay, to get turned on" "For me to get excited..." "I need to imagine dirty fantasies and indecent acts" "My frenzy must frighten you" "And you will soon become fed up with my desire" "It looks like you're eating your own flesh" "Moriko blamed me" "About three days ago?" "." "Right" "Is your scar from the whip gone?" "." "Yes." "Shall I show you?" "." "No, I'll just use my imagination" "I want to ask you something" "What is it?" "." "What would you do if I died from an accident?" "." "I would write a script by myself" "I would put on a mourning dress and lots of perfume and play a widowed marquise" "It'd be a year long run, and the target audience would be society" "Then what?" "." "I don't think I would be bored very much" "I quit" "Of dieing?" "." "I want to remain in the audience" "You'II attend me on my deathbed?" "." "I am an actress who plays Juliette" "I want to die in the bright light" "To Mr. Dorval" "From Juliette" "Thank you for the cleaning." "Come steal me tonight" "Welcome" "You're such a good thief, coming to steal your master's wfe" "Thank you for the cleaning" "Come steal me tonight" "Here, drink" "Don't be scared" "Your Juliette wll be here soon" "She is in bed with her husband right now" "She asked me to come instead" "You're an idiot" "That was an aphrodisiac" "Juliette is not coming" "Now you must make love to me" "You can stand there until the aphrodisiac kicks in" "Or do you want to eat this with me?" "." "Cockscombs" "It was the Dowager Empress's favorite" "Putting on her thick make-up, governing the vast land of China" "and eating cockscomb soup..." "She lived to be 73 years old" "She is my role model" "Is theater illusion or reality?" "." "Stage actor arrested for the actress murder case" "In fact, theater is about violating certain rules" "Which makes it a crime" "The essence of theater is to violate the rules set by nature, state and public" "For example, we can transform a corner of a crowded room into a deserted field" "Philosophically speaking, theater is crime" "The graveyard of crimes" "Crimes put on masks and play an active role in this society" "Stop it!" "It's broken" "You still kept it with you?" "." "I got this clock from you when I was 15" "Throw it away if it's broken" "Or do you want me to repair it?" "." "Neither..." "Let me return it to you" " It's not broken" " Watch carefully!" "I killed her" "I'm surprised" "You don't believe me?" "." "You think I'm saying this to save him?" "." "I don't care who did it" "But why did you kill her?" "." "He had to kill a school principal, someone he hardly knew... as a punishment for raping me" "So I killed an actress whom I kill in the play every night... as a punishment for being raped" "You believe in the prosperity of vice but you can never commit a murder outside the stage" "He and I could kill in real life" "We committed a murder with our own hands" "We were chosen to be together" "Chosen?" "." "By whom?" "." "Probably... by you" "Who are you playing Justine for?" "." "Do you play a woman of virtue for him, and a woman of vice for me?" "." "Who the hell are you?" "." "I was nobody" "And now, I am slowly becoming me" "You are my wfe" "What do you want me to do?" "." "You don't know?" "." "No, I don't" "What do you want me to do?" "." "Nothing" "You are Juliette, a woman of vice" "And also Justine... a woman of virtue" "My hope is that you play both roles" "Give him back to me..." "And then..." "Mr. Leopold, I am happy to obey your capriciousness" "And to satisfy your desires" "However, if you are a man with dangerous impulses just like any other king" "Then I will never enter your gate" "So please remember" "Our sacrifices are over there" "You are a medium, and the priest and I play the role of offering the sacrifices to you" "AII right then, let us begin" "No matter how crafty a king is, I sometimes believe his words" "Especially when I have a sure method of revenge" "You!" "Are you threatening the king's life?" "." "Of course I wll not hurt you without a reason" "But if you break the promises" "Beware..." "I wll remind you with this knife that I am a French woman" "So there is no difference between killing a cobbler or a king" "Just like killing a fly and a butterfly is exactly the same" "They are both natural species" "I Iike this woman's honesty" "I do, too, my majesty" "But do you think this brash woman wll really obey your pleasure?" "." "I'm a little worried" "That is a groundless fear, priest" "To act proud and gentle in society, and sweet and obedient in the bedroom is the duty of French prostitutes" "Therefore, that is my duty also" "But remember, even if I become your slave in the bedroom" "I only obey your sexual desire, not your status as a king" "I have deep respect for sexual desire" "However..." "I am deeply against respect for status" "Let's begin" "Whoever it is... when I'm beaten, the bedroom turns into a boat in the darkness" "With the jumbling blade of a sickle" "I was skinned and marked with a letter of the moon" "A small fire in my body was fanned by the wind and turned into a blaze" "Look at the fire burning the mansion" "That's the fi!" "re from my body" "I may be infertile... but my fire burns the sky" "I have a firefly between my legs" "Every time I'm whipped, the firefly twinkles" "It sparkles, flickers and shines" "Outside, is a snowy darkness" "close the gate tightly" "And nothing about the world needs to be seen, heard, or mentioned" "You should forget everything" "Look, it's warm mid-day here" "The sunlight falls." "Overflows" "Like a shimmer in the air, or the wind crossing the river" "Here, embrace me" "Her words are an unstated command" "Tamae, you are..." "Come!" "..." "My lover!" "You..." "You are the one who trained me" "No matter what kind of nourishment it absorbed a rose is obligated to atone for its beauty" "That's what you said" "I am a rose, too, Tamae" "I too am obligated to atone ...for beauty" "What is this?" "." "It's a dish" "This is a dish of cooked olive" "This is a dish?" "." "Sure" "Do you want to know the recipe?" "." "Yes" "First, you take a large olive" "Deseed it, stuff it with anchovy and pickled bud of broccoli" "Leave to marinate in the finest olive oil" "Then stuff it into a fat quail" "Wrap it with grape leaves and stuff it into a medium sized plover" "Then stuff that into a matured Japanese pheasant" "Stuff that into the finest chicken" "Stuff it into a matured goose" "Wrap it with bacon, stuff it into a young guinea hen..." "Stuff that into a turkey..." "It's not over yet" "What else is there left to do?" "." "The next step is to fill all the interspaces... with chestnuts, ground meat, bread crumbs" "Put it into a big pot" "Together with celery, cracked pepper, salt, regular pepper, cilantro and other spices" "And simmer it for 24 hours" "Then, the essence offorest, pond, field and farm meld together and will soak into the olive in the core" "And that's what I am going to eat" "2-26-1 936 Military attack Prime Minister's house!" "It is still not too late" "Surrender immediately." "And submit yourself to military law" "Your crime will not be prosecuted" "That is the wish of your family, and of the entire nation" "Abandon your actions immediately" "These are the Orders of Military Command" "I have no fear of death or pain" "My soul belongs to the Emperor" "Good-bye, my love!" "..." "Remember me" "Let's pray" "Here..." "This is my wife's hair" "After my execution..." "Will you bury it wth me?" "." "I barely managed to save you" "You are the one who told them about the iniquitous plot" "although you were the one who was behind it" "And you persuaded them to get involved" "Because I am a Marquis..." "I play my part" "The role of a man who lives on in shame... and grows old" "Your theater was not damaged" "You can put on a political play or a crime play" "Whatever you like" "This house remained untouched, and your status was protected" "Nothing happened" "Nothing at all, in terms of your surroundings" "I died for my own sake" "But you tried to die for others" "You were betrayed and surviived" "What a waste of time" "Juliette died and disappeared from this world" "It was meant to happen, and did not surprise me" "This precious woman died without saying her last words" "And no artist will ever be able to recreate her existence" "Therefore, if anyone made an attempt all he could do is use his imagination, not the truth" "However, no matter how hard he tried, those with a trained eye... especially those who were absorbed by this story" "would be able to tell the huge difference" "Who am I?" "." "I am the Marquis de Sade" "In other words..." "Clown...!" "Directed by Akio Jissoji"