"Dedicated to all fathers." "Mr. Tom Waits and Mr. Kohichi Yamada." "Billy Wilder says in his autography" ""I've never made love with stars of my films." "Because I don't want to betray my film." "If we try to be sincere to our films. we should never have affairs with our stars. "" "On the other hand." "Truffaut. who fell in love with all of his stars, says" ""Films are art of women."" "I agree with both." "But I prefer Truffaut because I sympathize with his love of films." "It's ridiculous." "It was your last." "What time do you think it is?" "It's four." "So what?" "We always close at two, you know?" "What's wrong?" "Hey!" "It was my first. because had stopped smoking." "But why?" "Clean your place." "Get out of here!" "They close at seven o'clock." "but they kicked me out." "Kidding." "had been there for three hours with one beer." "It doesn't matter, uh?" "They know have no money." "I'd been waiting for the first train." "But they drove me out." "Pissed me off." "Hey, you." "Do you have 500 yen?" "500. don't have the train fare." "And I want a canned beer." "I have nothing to do." "Lend me a coin. 500 yen." "Thank you very much !" "You are a good man!" "I'll pay you back!" "It's my train fare !" "What do I do?" "Do you get up?" "I can't sleep." "Somebody said..." "If you found a lady sitting in a bathroom." "you should say "Sorry, madam", it's manners." "But if you say "Sorry. monsieur", it's tenderness." "I mean anxiousness is tenderness." "A jerk can't be tender." "What do you mean?" "Is it tenderness if I ask you to go?" "What are you doing?" "I've been waiting." "Why?" "No place to sleep in." "You rejected me, did you?" "Yes, I did." "This time you seduce me?" "No." "I'm just asking you for a night's lodging." "No." "Really." "Hey. drunk!" "... it was so good." "Is it?" "How about you?" "You are satisfied?" "Never mind." "Curious man." "Last time you were talking with a young girl at the bar." "Was I?" "You enjoyed talking about movies and photographs." "I forget." "I thought you liked her." "born in Tokyo, living with her family, loving movies." "I'm not educated." "I'm a jerk." "0nly jerks make art." "It is jerks who talk about art and make it." "Among graduates from IDHEC." "I appreciate no one but Leconte." "My usual." "There is no alcohol named usual." "Hey!" "Excuse me, sir?" "But are you Mr....." "I saw your work on TV before..." "and I have been calling you... but nobody answered..." "I'm not like that." "I'm not a great man called "sir"" "Kidding." "I'm not kidding." "Wait." "I'd like you to write a column." "I had been in charge of home pages of the paper, now I'm in the literary section, so write one." "After several columns." "I'll make them serialize..." "I'm serious." "I mean it." "What's a TV writer got to do with the paper?" "I can't write anything." "But you can." "No, I don't." "Why did you talk to a man like that?" "He is pretending BURAI." "He is nothing." "But he is talented." "Nothing but a script writer!" "He is made to write by the producer." "No originality." "Don't come earlier tonight." "I can't stop." "... You are shit." "Every man can't stop." "You've fucked men?" "Was it good?" "I'm glad..." "You are a good man." "Am I?" "Because nobody ever asked me." "So I'll be a good man." "You aren't satisfied, are you?" "Never mind." "Why?" "Don't ask why." "What?" "Would you give me some money?" "Sure." "Is it enough?" "Enough." "It's good." "It's from my father." "Is it?" "You live in a hotel..." "The company pays you well." "I don't live here." "I live with my family." "You can't take your men into your bedroom, uh?" "I have a father complex and I don't want to change that." "Won't you?" "Have some more." "Drink up." "I've had enough." "Drink with me." "Now is now..." "What?" "Nothing." "You don't have to do that." "Excuse me... does he come often?" "I mean the man in here the other day." "Don't talk about him like that." "Why?" "Isn't he weird?" "Sir..." "I had a shot at the bar and just came out." "If you go there, I'll buy you a drink." "I won't write, if you buy me one." "No." "I can't." "I know." "What are you doing?" "Be with me." "I fell in love with you." "I'm sorry." "I don't love anybody." "Love me." "Please..." "I hate drinkers, grumbling over their wine-cups, you know." "I think decent people never drink alcohol." "They wake up early and run." "They always take care of their mental and body health, and live steadily." "If not, you will drop out." "Go to the country !" "And talk by the fireside with old farmers after work." "You will be nothing wasting time around here." "Are you listening to me?" "I don't like depraved men like you." "But such a guy, who awakes maternal love, is popular among girls!" "Don't pretend to be a playboy!" "Drinking cheap whiskey." "Leave me alone." "Have this one." "... I prefer my own." "Have this." "I don't like scotch." "It's bourbon." "I don't like both." "You've never had it." "0h, I have." "I have." "Here." "Drink it." "How is it?" "Is it good?" "I don't know..." "...don't care the taste." "How far do you go?" "Nowhere." "...It's cold." "Still winter." "Winter all the time..." "In body and soul?" "Yes." "Hey." "Let's go to your place." "I'm homeless." "I have nothing." "So you're just like me." "I'm not." "Hey, hey!" "You have no place to go." "Why are you in such a hurry?" "Body gets warm." "Walk faster..." "I'm gonna run!" "Alas!" "It's empty." "Mine isn't." "You'll give me?" "Yes." "You'll give it to me?" "Yes." "What?" "You are tender." "Me?" "Yes, you." "Drink." "Yes." "Drink now." "Come closer." "gonna sleep here tonight." "I'll sleep with you." "It's my first time... to sleep outdoors." "I've had places to sleep in." "Woman's places?" "I stay with no men." "For me no man and woman." "Nobody let me use his place." "The pity is that you are a woman." "Do you want to make love with me?" "0n the bed with a white sheets, I never make love but there." "Never but there." "I don't want you." "I can't." "I have no money." "All I have." "So you can't have me." "That's better." "It's not better!" "You live outside?" "Aren't you lonely?" "Never." "I'll sleep." "What is it?" ""Les Parapluies des Cherbourg"" "Absolutely not." "It's alright." "You like movies?" "Yes." "What kind?" "Dreyer's "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc"" "Chaplin, Hitchcock, Angelopoulos," "Wenders, Malle, Bergman, Tarkovsky..." "Enough." "Jean Renoir, he's wonderful." ""Le Carrosse d'or"?" ""Boudu Sauve des Eaux"" "Japanese title "The wonderful Vagabond"" "Michel Simon!" "So you like cool directors." "Yes, yes." "I never thought we'd talked about films." "I thought so too." "Good night." "Truffaut..." "Scorsese..." "Benton..." "Truffaut..." "Scorsese..." "Benton..." "Truffaut..." "Scorsese..." "Benton..." "Woody Allen made a film titled "Zelig"" ""Chameleon Man" is Japanese title." "It describes the history of the Jews." "It describes how cruel the world was to them." "Zelig adapted himself to the circumstances." "He couldn't have his own policy." "It was the only way for him to survive." "That film describes the history of grief." "I know you understand." "Now I'm writing a script of Japanese version of "Zelig"." "We also have many immigrants." "I wanna describe the sad history of the opposed in this country." "Fuck commercialism!" "Be serious in the end." "Now is now." "What?" "Have your hair cut." "It's not suitable." "It's not suitable." "Don't follow me!" "Yes, I do." "Don't." "Yes, I do." "I don't need queer ones." "Hungry?" "No, I'm not." "Shall I entertain you?" "And there is sake!" "I don't like men." "I don't give you my ass." "Special Tonkatsu in that bag." "Cabbage and boiled rice too." "I'm employed at this age." "To prepare for lunch, I'm forced to come in the morning." "Fuck!" "What time is it now?" "It's noon." "What's wrong with drinking?" "I'm on duty now." "What's wrong?" "Don't tell me." "0K!" "Back to work!" "Sake?" "Sake is here." "If you gather them, you have much." "Are you a beggar?" "I just eat and drink garbage." "I don't like it." "Get used to it." "No." "You see it's nothing." "If you don't have more, it'll be bad for your health." "It's cold." "We have more." "It's cold." "Drink it." "Drink it now." "0nly one sleeping bag?" "Yes." "Where's mine?" "Sleep with me." "No." "I'll do nothing." "It's possible." "I won't." "It's possible!" "Then, you use it." "Can I?" "I'll be up." "Can I?" "Hey." "Why don't you work?" "You?" "I have worked." "For whom?" "I won't work for anybody." "For yourself, uh?" "0h, you have?" "We..." "I'm gonna die..." "I've got AIDS." "I loved my mother." "She infected me." "Everybody dies..." "I hate talking about me." "It's not funny." "Hey." "Are you awake?" "What's wrong?" "I'm thinking." "Are you?" "Hey." "What?" "Are you a right ?" "Isn't it cold?" "I'm 0K." "You had a special Tonkatsu." "You may sleep in here." "I don't care." "It's cold... it sure is..." "I am living..." "Good night." "Hey..." "Hey !" "How was it?" "I was scolded." "Why?" "Because I had nothing." "Did they examine you?" "Usually they don't." "But they did?" "In case of the worst." "they gave me no shot." "So medicine." "What does it mean?" "It's because of my blood." "It will make a serious trouble." "If my blood gets into the eyes of a nurse." "So they didn't." "Fuck..." "You are feverish." "I'll recover." "The Dr. said so?" "No, he didn't." "Then you won't." "I'm alright." "You should enter a hospital." "With no insurance, I can't." "Then you get some." "From where?" "." "You have a home, don't you?" "No." "No family?" "No." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Hey, are you alright?" "Alright!" "?" "It's cold..." "Here." "It's sake." "We have a special Tonkatsu too." "Now drink!" "Eat!" "Are you a beggar?" "Today, you know, is the special day." "No..." "I can't eat." "But you have to." "I can't." "Just eat!" "To tell you the truth, I have a house a bit far from here." "I have a bed and insurance." "So go to my place and rest." "If you don't recover, use my insurance." "And enter a hospital." "You can't be cured doing things like that around here." "You are not homeless..." "I have a reason..." "I didn't want to go home..." "But you are in trouble." "You don't love your wife." "It's not like that." "Nobody is home." "There is a memory," "too good a memory." "Please tell me." "My wife and a child were shot to death in a convenience store." "There was a robbery." "0K, let's go..." "We take a taxi..." "And go now!" "But you have no money." "I don't care." "You must not put a man into trouble." "What?" "Hey, you!" "What?" "What did you say!" "?" "It's warm in the taxi." "How long since I used a taxi last?" "A taxi is very convenient, it sure is." "Convenient and warm." "Yes." "It's warm." "Now I remember..." "My mother and took a taxi when I was a child." "Nowhere to go..." "We drove at full speed..." "My mom had her lunch in the taxi and told me to eat it." "It was so funny." "It was a big rice ball..." "It was so good..." "Very very good..." "I was so happy..." "Very very happy..." "Where is your mother now?" "Hey." "Sleeping?" "Hey." "And I fucked her..." "A daughter of my employer." "He's not a big man, the boss of a minor company..." "I had nothing to do but fucked her because she seduced me." "But she told her father on me." "She cried "I was raped"." "I didn't hear her words..." "But my boss said that she cried." "It means that I was cheated by them after all." "They were all in this together." "They were going to fire me." "After all they wanted to fire me." "I was betrayed by them." "By them!" "How are you?" "There was nothing wrong... but" "Where were you?" "Where have you been?" "I'm so sorry." "Thanks." "I've got a lover..." "Things have changed." "Now, I'm in love with him..." "It's butter, isn't it?" "I don't like butter." "I like margarine with linor acid." "Never come here." "But you seduced me." "I said never." "Well." "I have no money." "Not today." "Do you know what happens?" "A man with no money." "Would you send a police car and put him in jail?" "You know I mean it." "I have been generous..." "But today I'm not going to be." "You should stay in prison tonight!" "Here." "It's fine." "Give me." "You can write for TV." "And make your living." "Don't ask too much!" "You get a job and live." "What more could you ask?" "Live straight !" "The girl, the editor of the paper or something, came here almost everyday and looked for you." "Girls are looking for me." "What?" "I want that woman." "I think I can do things over again with her." "I'm not so sure, but I think we can." "You will never find a girl like that." "Why?" "Why?" "Do you have something to do with her?" "She was my wife." "She left me 20 years ago." "It was before I opened this bar." "I was an actor in a company." "I met her in New York." "I was poor at that time like I am now." "She had a baby." "I said "Yes" without any prospects." "She answered "No, we can't." "Never"" "She had an abortion without telling me." "So I left our house." "I couldn't believe it!" "I knew nothing at that time, about myself, about women." "When I came home, she wasn't there." "Clean your place." "Yes, I know." "Apart from that..." "You remind me of my younger days..." "You are like what I was 20 years ago." "Forget about the girl!" "Forget your wife and child!" "Live in hope!" "It's not finished!" "Get dressed." "This is my house." "You do that." "See my bathrobe." "I don't let men see my body." "For me it's women." "I let no girl see my body." "You are a kid." "You are almost the same age as me." "Are you older or younger ?" "0lder." "When?" "Born in 1951." "When?" "It's 0K that you are older." "I'm older, am I?" "Have beer." "No alcohol." "No cigarettes." "No women?" "I wanna love only one woman." "That's enough." "Why don't you have eggs?" "Much cholesterol!" "No egg for 10 years." "I'm hypertensive." "Did you buy them for me?" "I have bacon after 5 years." "Butter?" "It's not butter." "It's margarine." "0ne with linor acid." "I have this once a week." "But usually I have toast with nothing." "I have this only when my skin gets dry." "Healthy." "Health is a basis." "What's funny?" "Your penis." "I'm healthy." "Mine is not erecting." "Is it not?" "Usually it doesn't stand erect." "When you fuck?" "It does." "You are alright." "It stands... but that's all..." "I never ejaculate." "It's a serious problem." "What's funny?" "hope she will come back to me." "I have been waiting for her... for 20 years." "I'm sure..." "I can find her someday." "Tomorrow will not be no tomorrow..." "Now is now." "Translated into English by:" "Masato Nagao"