""If someone asked me, as a movie watcher,"" ""whose films I've seen the most,"" ""I'd definitely answer:"" ""Kon Ichikawa."" "Yukio Mishima." "1915." "4th Year of the Taisho Era." "Mie Prefecture." "Uji-Yamada." "Now Ise City." "Kon Ichikawa's birthplace." "Real name:" "Giichi Ichikawa." "A kimono wholesale store." "Latticed windows." "In the dusky room, hung a shop curtain." "The grounds of Ise Shrine." "Its white gravel." "They were his oldest memories." "Raised among women:" "Teu, mother." "Chou, first daughter." "Koto, second daughter." "Chie, third daughter." ""I was spoiled by them."" "Soon after he was born his fatherdied." "Their kimono wholesale store folded before long." "He went with his mother to live with his sister's family." "Kujo Area of Osaka." "Afactory town with chimneys." "He liked drawing." "He was always drawing." "The film he first saw was one starring" "Matsunosuke Onoe." ""Jiraiya"" "The film fascinated him." "Dominant in those days were" "Lloyd." "Keaton." "Chaplin." ""But I preferred"" ""Japan's swordplay movies."" "While playing baseball" "While playing baseball" "a ball hit his back." "The pain continued." "He saw a doctor." ""It might be Pott's disease."" "Pott's disease:" "Atuberculosis that affects the spine." "It can cause back pain and paralysis of the legs." "Fortreatment bed rest is needed forsix months." "Forquiet rest he moved to Shinshu with his mother." "In the fresh, clean air, he played baseball and had sword fights." "Then he got better." "In the end... was it really Pott's disease?" "It's not clear." "But this "Pott's disease"" "later saved his life." "First love." ""I'm not sure."" ""But..."" ""a girl caught my attention."" "A pawnbroker's daughter." "A neighbor." "Older than he." "Bobbed hair." "A long kimono." "A little strong-minded, but pretty." "Standing before a warehouse, she gazed at children from a distance." "Her leg was paralyzed." "She was always alone." "He laterwrote a short novel about her." ""Osome of a Pawn Shop."" "It won a prize in a weekly paper." "He was 17 or" "18 back then." "His uncle told him to change his name" "to Kon for good luck." "Acrucial encounter:" "Walt Disney's" ""Silly Symphony."" "An animated movie." "Drawings and movies had been combined into one." "His calling." "The young man had found his dream, and who could stop him?" "1933." "1933." "He moved to the west part of Kyoto." "J.O. Studios." "Its Talkie-Animation Department." "With the help of a relative, he somehow got hired." "The firm later became Toho." "His unique lighting and cutting, as well as stylish imagery made him a great master of Japanese films." "He started with animated films." "The "Cake Before Flowers" series" ""Mt." "Kachi-kachi Story"" "They were made by just a few staff using stop-motion animation." "Mickey Mouse," "Betty Boop" "And Popeye." "He studied them and tried many things." "He tried colortoo." "Back in those days there were no color movies in Japan." "Afterfinishing a film, animators would apply the three primary colors to each frame of print and project it." "It could hardly be called "color film."" "But it conveyed the colors." "Kon Ichikawa's first color film was probably like this." "Agreat success!" "As feature films became popular, the amount of animation work decreased." "His staff resigned one after another." "Finally..." ""I was left alone."" "Aside from the music, he made everything by himself." "Animation was his calling." "He thought so until he saw a set where a film was being shot." "On a dusty stage, many people were focused on one task." "Such passion!" "He was envious." "He made animated movies by himself in a small room upstairs." "But he became taken with feature films." "1936." "The Talkie-Animation Dept." "Was closed." "At that time" "J.O. Studios merged with P.C.L. And others, and Toho was born." "1939." "He moved to Tokyo to join" "Toho Studios." "No smoking" ""I kept running."" "Assistant director is a tough job." ""I want to be a director."" "The wish made him" "run around in the set." "His senior back then was:" "Akira Kurosawa." ""Kurosawa was..."" "a good screenwriter." "He was everyone's idol." "1941." "December 8." "The Pacific War broke out." "Ichikawa was drafted from Hiroshima." "He went home to become a soldier." "A physical examination site for conscription." "There were two lines." "One for a young doctor." "The otherfor an old doctor." "The old doctor examined the men slowly and carefully." "The line for him was long." "The young doctor wasn't so serious." "The line for him was short." "Ichikawa joined it instinctively." ""Your medical history...?"" ""Pott's disease."" ""A doctor said I had it."" "It was the truth at least." "So he told him." ""Is it still bad?"" ""Bend your back."" "He could do it normally." ""Well, you're all right."" "The doctorslapped his back." "Afterthe examination, four names were announced." "His was included in them." ""Giichi Ichikawa!"" ""The fourof you"" ""shall serve on the mainland."" "In short... he was exempted." "Why?" "The reason is unknown." "If anything, it might have been his Pott's disease." "The four men were kicked out." ""That was too bad."" "Disappointed, they all went home." "But, really... they were relieved." "Still... they could not mention it." "In the following year... he received draft papers again from Hiroshima." ""Your medical history...?"" ""Pott's disease."" ""A doctor said I had it."" ""When?"" ""When I was in grade school"" ""And now?"" ""I'm better."" ""No problem then."" ""Any other problems?"" ""That reminds me..."" ""I have a bellyache."" "He pointed to his appendix." ""Is it appendicitis?"" "He needed a closer examination." ""Here will do."" ""But a nearby hospital would be better."" ""I know one."" "He lied." "He went out and looked fora hospital, and found one." "He had himself examined." ""This is bad!"" ""You have peritonitis!"" ""You need surgery at once!"" "He had surgery." "Aweek later, he found the examination site... was closed." "He did not know what to do." "He talked with a city hall clerk." ""What do you do?"" ""I make movies in Tokyo."" ""Then go back to Tokyo and wait until"" ""your draft papers come again."" ""Really?"" "He did as he was told." "He went back to Tokyo." "He later made warfilms "Fires on the Plain"" "and "Harp of Burma"." "He received draft papers twice, yet in the end never joined the war." "The military asked him to make a "comfort" movie." ""A Girl at Dojo Temple", a story of tragic love, became Ichikawa's first work as a director." "The great master's first work was not a live-action movie but a puppet play." ""A Girl at Dojo Temple"" "Manipulating the marionettes was harder than he thought." "Struggling with the strings, he aimed to make a masterpiece." "Acertain person obtained a print." "It was released in the United States in 1940." "Ichikawa saw" "Walt Disney's" ""Fantasia"" "at a Toho screening." ""How can we beat"" ""a country like this?"" "1945." "August 6." "Hiroshima." "An A-bomb, a horrific bomb was dropped." "Hiroshima was destroyed." "Such rumors spread." "His mother and sisters lived near the A-bomb Dome." "He wanted to go home." "But he was stopped." "He was told that the smoke would kill him." "Afew days later, a letter came from his sister." "All eight members of his family were safe." "The letter said:" "They all ran out of the city." "They ran and ran and ran." "They got to the top of a hill." "They looked back." "The city had been reduced to ashes." "So the letter said." "August 15." "They were making a shelter for themselves." ""Bear the unbearable."" ""Endure the unendurable."" "They heard the Emperor's speech." "The war had ended." "That night, he drank to it, but he didn't drink much." "He could now become a film director." "His first film "A Girl at Dojo Temple"" "disappeared." "The GHQ censored it and sealed it." "The postwarturmoil swept the studios too." "The so-called" ""Toho Strike"" "took place." "Staff members became leftists." "The war had ended but there was no time for films." "During that time," "During that time, he met "her"," "the woman of his destiny:" "Natto Wada" "Real name:" "Yumiko Mogi" "She had wonderful eyes." "She was an honest woman." "She was an interpreter at the Toho Studios." "He fell in love with her." "He would marry her... once he became a film director." "She chose a book for him." "A novel by Yaeko Nogami." ""Machiko."" ""Isn't it interesting?"" ""Yes, it is!"" "This book became his first film as a director:" ""A Flower Blooms."" "That's how it was." ""A Flower Blooms"" "Toho and Wada both okayed the film." "April 10, 1948." "The couple visited a neighborhood shrine and held a modest wedding." "They invited their close friends to the Toho dormitory." "It was a pleasant, unique wedding and suited the couple." "This bride was a gifted person." "When Ichikawa didn't like a screenplay, he talked with her." "She would smoothly write" "wonderful dialogue." ""I write it because I have to."" "And the screenplays she wrote were all excellent." "As co-writers, they took the name" ""Natto Wada."" "The penname became hers before long." "They took to calling each other "Master"" "and "Natto-san."" "That was how it was." "Thus... they started making films together." ""365 Nights"" ""Human Patterns"" ""Passion without End"" ""Sanshiro of Ginza"" ""Heat and Mud"" ""Pursuit at Dawn"" ""Nightshade Flower"" ""The Sweetheart"" ""The Man Without a Nationality"" ""Stolen Love"" ""Bengawan Solo"" ""Wedding March"" ""Mr. Lucky"" ""Young People"" ""The Woman Who Touched Legs"" ""This Way, That Way"" ""Mr. Poo"" ""The Blue Revolution"" ""The Youth of Heiji Zenigata"" ""The Lover"" ""All of Myself"" ""A Billionaire"" ""Twelve Chapters on Women"" ""Ghost Story of Youth"" ""The Heart"" ""Harp of Burma"" ""Punishment Room"" "He made his first color movie from Kyoka Izumi's story of a pure love:" ""Nihombashi"." "Write my name as his wife." "Don't talk big, whore!" "The warehouses don't matter!" "I'm a geisha." "Attending parties is my job." ""The Crowded Train"" ""The Men of Tohoku"" ""Hole in One"" "Good evening." "When creating a story," "When creating a story, they sometimes couldn't compromise." "They quarreled." "They ate supper in silence." "At times like that," ""I always gave in first."" ""Because it seemed"" ""her ideas were always right."" "Writing screenplays wasn't hergoal." "She never thought about becoming a screenwriter." "She became a wife, a screenwriter and a mother." "She wanted to be a good housewife." "She didn't have a study." "At the dining table, the guestroom table or in the kitchen, she wrote many screenplays." "She was an educated woman." "But... she never boasted about it." "Never." ""I don't like complex theories."" "She was like that." "On the other hand, a lot of the material she tackled with was first-rate literary works." "Forcertain reasons, they changed one movie's title." "They changed a temple's name to Shukakuji Temple." "But the original story was Mishima's masterpiece:" ""Kinkakuji Temple."" "It was obvious." "I don't stammer when I chant sutras." ""Conflagration"" "Hey, why don't you join us?" "Stammer, stammer." "Go on stammering." "Don't speak ill of Shukakuji!" "You blow the bamboo flute so smoothly." "I wanted to hear your stammering sound." "Do as you please." "I'm not concerned." "Go ahead." "Die by the roadside." "I wish you weren't born." "Buddha judges us." "One novel caused a lot of fuss" "One novel caused a lot of fuss in the Diet too." "To win the rights to make the film," "Ichikawa prepared a handsome amount of cash." "He drove in a Mercedes, and visited a great writer." "Cash and a Mercedes." "This was all" ""Natto-san's idea."" "The trick worked." "He got the rights to make the film." "Natto-san boldly adapted the original work." "The great writer liked the screenplay and okayed it." "The writerwas Junichiro Tanizaki." ""Odd Obsession"" "Kazuo Miyagawa's exquisite photography." "Daring makeup." "Your mother may not have been dirtied." "But she could face worse." "Stop it!" "I'm leaving." "Am I to marry Toshiko then?" "She'll be happy, if you do so." "Maybe my motherwas using you to excite and kill my father." "He's dead." "Shohei Ooka's splendid war novel." ""Fires on the Plain"" "The extremes of the battlefield lead to cannibalism." "Kurosawa films are often said to be masculine." "Ichikawa movies are, if anything, feminine." "No." "Androgynous." "No." "Sexual." "A little different from erotic." "Healthy but somehow with a feeling of... itchiness." ""Bonchi"" "The heroines are lively and" "full of vitality." "Your molars." "Diamonds." "Diamonds?" "They are tough." "Let me take the money then." "They are shameless" "but strong." "Flashy, eh?" "I have more." "In short..." "You like rings?" "Yes." "They're pretty." "They're realistic." "That's why" "they're cute." "The men are pleasant but" "somehow fragile." "They're too naive, frivolous" "and unreliable." "They're sexy." "I'm sorry." "They like affairs." "This is my first gift." "Somehow..." "Thank you very much." "They're otherworldly." "Somehow... they're like angels." "Hey!" "This characterized Ichikawa films and showed Natto Wada's personality." "There were some models..." "I'm thirsty." "For the characters in Ichikawa films." "A naive husband raised with his sisters, and a good wife and wise mother who speaks foreign languages:" "Kon Ichikawa and Natto Wada." "Wada won many screenplay prizes." "She only wrote screenplays for her husband." ""Does she really write?"" ""Isn't she just a dummy for earning"" ""screenplay fees?"" "Some wrote such articles." "That angered Natto-san." "She left this note:" ""In private life, Natto Wada is"" ""Kon Ichikawa's wife."" ""Her screenplays help"" ""her husband a lot."" ""So what?" "Mind your own business."" "She didn't make it public." "Did she forget it while doing the laundry?" "It's still a mystery." "In those days the screenplays for most of Ichikawa's films were written by Natto Wada." "But there was an exception:" "One screenplay was left untouched." "Ichikawa wanted to film it." ""It's a pity this script was not filmed."" "She said that, too." "From a book by Aya Koda, a screenplay by Yoko Mizuki." ""Her Brother"" "You feel better?" "Want this?" "Silver retention, a special development method also used forthe movie "Seven", had its origin with this film." "He's trying to seduce you." "No!" "What nonsense." "You look happy, fool." "What?" "Damn you!" "Crazy girl!" "How dare you talk like that to yoursister?" "Afterthe screening she said:" ""The ending was no good."" ""I wonderwhy there wasn't music there."" "That was his aim." "He made a dry ending to enforce the woman's solitude after losing her brother." "But Wada insisted on music." ""The film should end with tender music."" "He changed his mind." "He added music to the ending." "The Kinema Jumpo Best Film Award." "The project left untouched for so long won all the film prizes." "Will you really wake me up?" "Good night." "Good night." "The couple's was not a mere director-screenwriter relationship." "Kon Ichikawa and Natto Wada made one creator, perhaps." "This may sound rude, but will you divorce Kaze?" ""Ten Black Women"" "I still look like asleep, don't I?" "They're only using you for theirwork." "Shall we kill him?" "You?" "How about you?" "No." "It's sickening." "10 of us togethercan commit the perfect crime." "Why 10?" "Are there more?" "There are about 100 women at my office." "I know 30 or 40 of them." "You're with 40 women?" "No way." "You can see." "I'm not that amorous." "Carnal relationships don't mean much to me." "Why do you hate me enough to kill me?" "Why not just ignore me?" "We want to kill you because you say that!" "Why must I be treated like this?" "Why must I stay with my husband's women at a place like this?" "I'm in a shameful position, too." "It's all yourfault!" "What happened to his body?" "It's in the closet." "Closet?" "It's been two weeks!" "It was treated with preservatives, so don't worry." ""I Am Two"" "He isn't hurt." "How did he get out?" "You didn't watch him while I was in the bathroom?" "How can you call yourself "Mother"?" "It's not like you." "I thought you were wiser." "I'll go home." "Go home?" "I'm stupid." "I'm not cut out for being a mother." "I'll go home to my parents' home." "It's also tough after giving birth." "He doesn't drink milk or he drinks too much." "He gets the runs." "He catches cold." "Vaccinations." "Convulsive fits." "Eczema." "Nursing doesn't go well." "The measles." "Fear of polio." "It's like we're being bombarded with natural disasters." "I have no time to relax." "Those days were the golden age of film." "The films were made continuously." "A parody of Ozu films:" ""Good-bye, Hello"" "An omnibus film with two otherdirectors." ""AWoman's Testament"" "Toson Shimazaki's" ""The Outcast"... was... made a TV drama by them, too." "The work of Ichikawa and Wada was very dense, oriented in every direction, borderless and of high quality." ""An Actor's Revenge"" "Their films came one after another and became more refined." ""Alone Across the Pacific"" "It was as if the couple was in perfect unison." ""The Money Dance"" "It was as if" "they knew that their partnership... would not last forever." ""Tokyo Olympiad"" "After "Tokyo Olympiad,"" ""Do it by yourself,"" "Wada said." "She stopped writing screenplays." "She practically retired." "After retirement, she showed no interest in screenplays." ""She was so clear-cut."" "Ichikawa was left alone." "In Osaka, he was editing videotapes for a TV drama." ""A call from yourwife in Tokyo."" "She rarely phoned him while he was working." "Yet she phoned." "The corridor was dusky and full of machinery." "He took the receiver there." ""It seems..."" ""I have breast cancer."" "She sounded calm." "Herstruggle against her illness began." ""Topo Gigio and the Missile War"" ""Youth"" "The era of rapid economic growth." "Television rose." "The movie business declined." "At the beginning of such an era," ""Four Riders" was formed by" "Akira Kurosawa," "Keisuke Kinoshita," "Masaki Kobayashi and" "Kon Ichikawa." "Afilm to be directed by the four:" ""Dora-Heita"" "They wrote the screenplay together." "They argued over which part they'd direct." "The project was shelved." "The script was filmed 30 years later." "Three of the Four Riders had already passed away." ""To Love Again"" "Like a TVfilm series, the "Monjiro" films were made." ""Somewhere, someone..."" "The theme song was a hit, too." "He made a film about young gamblers." ""The Wanderers"" ""Visions of Eight:" "The Fastest"" ""I Am a Cat"" ""Between Women and Wives"" "1976." "Afilm took the lead in Japan's film world." "The first Kadokawa film to be remembered:" ""The Inugamis"" "Its credit titles were..." "Cast" "Koji Ishizaka laid out in an unprecedented style." "Yoko Shimada" "Teruhiko Aoi" "Mieko Takamine" "Norihei Miki / Kyoko Kishida" "Eitaro Ozawa / Rentaro Mikuni" "Directed by Kon Ichikawa" "Movie enthusiasts in those days were stunned." "Me too." ""All the Inugami assets will go to..."" "The moment the Inugami's will was unveiled, cut works, never seen before," "danced on the screen." "A lie!" "The will is a fake!" "Someone rewrote it to steal our fortune!" "I witnessed it as a lawyer." "It's perfectly valid." "Every word of it must be observed faithfully." "His daughters have no right?" "Nonsense!" "Are you really a lawyer?" "Astranger will get the fortune?" "If we approve it, she can decide ourfuture lives." "This is the worst nonsense I've heard." "That head!" "What surprised us more was his out-of-focus face." "Was it on purpose or a mere error?" "It was a mystery bigger than the film." "Anyway, everything looked great including that part." "You got back on the 20th, right?" "I'm talking about the three Inugami people." "He's here for my help." "Shut up!" "You killed the man to hush him up." "Who are you to interfere?" "You aren't the police!" "I saw it at the premiere." "The show ended." "I stayed in my seat." "I saw the film again." "Good!" "Understood!" "Aweek later," "I saw it again with a friend of mine." "Kindaichi!" "Where are you going?" "Never mind." "For investigation?" "Shall I go with you?" "Let me go with you." "Private Detective Kindaichi" "Private Detective Kindaichi caused a big boom." "Aseries was made featuring him." "Many recommend this as the best:" "Second film." ""1952"" ""Onikobe Village"" ""Rhyme of Vengeance"" "A pretty girl seemingly the heroine" "is shockingly murdered in the beginning." "The targets are innocent girls." "I killed her by mistake." "It was her?" "His first film "A Girl at Dojo Temple"" "is revived in this movie:" "Third film." ""Island of Horrors"" "Pretty girls are murdered for unknown reasons." "No." "Heroines Reiko Ohara and" "Yoko Tsukasa." "They are beautiful throughout." "This is the brilliant and splendid world of Ichikawa." "I did it." "Ma'am!" "Hideko!" ""Queen Bee"" "The murdererwas thought to be a middle-aged woman." "Based on that supposition," "the film starred many middle-aged actresses." "It was impossible to figure out the killer." "However, here is the conclusion." "You can't make Kotoe happy!" "Tatsuya Nakadai was the killer." "The Kindaichi series ended." "Everyone thought so." "But..." "Afterthe ambitious film" ""The Phoenix", the decision was made to make just one more film." "The last film in the series." "A human head!" ""The House of Hanging"" "Also in the original novels, this was Kindaichi's last job." "You're..." "How eerie!" "Junko Sakurada is the heroine." "Why are you staring at me?" "Midori Hagio soon disappears." "Yoshiko Sakuma is the killer." "They are also beautiful throughout." "Before we know it," "Kindaichi becomes the most famous detective in Japan." ""Ancient City"" ""Lonely Heart"" "Ichikawa's wife was struggling against her illness." "She tried every thinkable treatment." "She took every thinkable medicine." "Sometimes she was better." "Sometime she had a hard time." "She did not run." "She confronted her illness." "Herway of life and approach to life hardly changed even after she knew she was ill." "She underwent surgery twice." "He went to see heras often as possible between shoots." "He stood by her when she was drained." ""When 'the time' comes,"" ""I'll think it's 'the time'."" ""I don't want anything original."" ""Some say they expect a miracle to happen."" ""But the fact I've lived up to now"" ""is a miracle, isn't it?"" ""That's what I think."" "He had a work he wanted to film badly." "He talked with her as usual." ""Why..."" ""do you want to do it now"?" ""I don't know."" "Whenever she disagreed, he would give up." "That was usual." "But he insisted on it." ""The Makioka Sisters"" "Do you know how much money he has?" "No." "What about you?" "I don't know." "I don't, either." "What does he do after all?" "In the end, his studying aviation in the U.S. Paid off." "He got a job at an aircraft manufacturer." "His pay is terrific." "Because he's from a noble family." "You're being so sarcastic." "She wrote the ending part of the film." "Aftershe stopped writing, she rarely touched screenplays." "But she wrote that part swiftly." "Drinking too much is poisonous." "I want to take poison." "Don't say that." "She's getting married." "She isn't your daughter, is she?" "You look young for that." "At the end of the year, they planned to go to Lake Kawaguchi." "It seemed she got a little worse." "So they stayed at the Imperial Hotel." "Suddenly she said she wanted to see "E.T."" ""It was so unusual of her to say that."" "The film was a big hit." "But they managed to buy tickets." ""The best work of Spielberg, isn't it?"" "She strode along the Ginza Streets at night." ""I'm glad I saw such a good movie in the end."" ""It's not 'the end' yet."" "Even at that time, he never thought that she would be gone." "On the morning of January 1, her pain suddenly became worse." "She was hospitalized." ""I'll write down what you should do."" ""After the moment"" ""has passed,"" ""just follow the funeral manuals."" "Until the very end she was calm and dignified." "Natto-san was herself." "1983." "February 18." "While "The Makioka Sisters"" "was being completed," "Yumiko Ichikawa, with penname" "Natto Wada, passed away." "The original novel's title "Sasameyuki" means a light, dry snowfall on a chilling day." "Still, the director went on making films." ""Ohan"" ""Harp of Burma"" ""Rokumeikan"" ""Actress"" ""Princess from the Moon"" ""Tsuru"" ""Noh Mask Murders"" ""The Return of Kogarashi Monjiro"" ""47 Ronin"" ""The 8-Tomb Village"" ""Shinsengumi"" ""Dora-Heita"" ""Kah-chan"" "One day" "I was offered a job:" "A new film by Kon Ichikawa." "I visited him at his house." "The great masterwas a chain smoker." "While smoking, he'd already be holding another cigarette." "He saw my films." ""Your basis is backlighting, right?"" "We then had a long talk about lighting." "We were both maniacs." "The age difference didn't matter." "I chanced to meet the world's... most agreeable person." "I felt so." "But I was wrong." "Before long, I realized why he was so agreeable." "The man in front of me was" "the origin of me." "I had learned so many things from him." "And I was now meeting him." "The thought thrilled me." "What we approached was the first Kindaichi story:" ""Death at an Old Mansion"" "I thought I'd write the screenplay." "But the great master said:" ""Let's direct it together."" "Co-directing?" "How?" ""We'll manage."" ""Otherwise it won't be fun."" "People who know him well let out a sigh." "They remembered the "Four Riders" thing." "It seems theirfears came true." "The project was shelved... and still hasn't happened." "But I shall neverforget my meeting with him." "He told me lots of things." "About "The Inugamis."" "About Kindaichi." "About Kurosawa." "About Four Riders." "His stories were like his films themselves." "Somehow comical." "Somehow lovable." "I could even imagine how they should be filmed." "About a thief." "Athief sneaked into his house, but left his most valuable thing." "Forthe great master, it was his Mickey Mouse wristwatch." "About Osamu Dazai." "We were suggesting plans." "I proposed an Osamu Dazai story." ""Dazai was..."" "Wait a minute." "Dazai?" "Have you met him?" "In person?" "Was he still active?" ""Dazai was"" ""an amorous man."" "When his "Beautiful Day" was filmed," "Ichikawa was an assistant director." "Ichikawa looked afterthe actresses." ""Dazai tried to sneak"" ""into their bedrooms at night."" ""I had to stop him each time he tried."" ""Dazai!" "Dazai!"" ""You can't do that."" "That Dazai..." "About draft papers." "About Pott's disease." "His mother was an A-bomb victim." "But she lived until she was 90." ""My sister is over 100 years old."" ""She's still alive."" "What a family!" "I see now." "If they can withstand radioactivity, nicotine should be okay." "About Natto-san." ""She left many screenplays"" ""she wrote."" ""I must film them somehow or other."" "Even while talking about the war," "Ichikawa was somehow mischievous." "When taking about Natto-san, he was like a boy." ""But..."" ""I don't have much time left."" "Usually I would believe that." "But he has a sister who is over 100 years old despite being an A-bomb victim." "More than 5 years have passed." "He's over 90." "He's still active as a film director." "Amazing." "2006." ""The Inugamis" again." "Here is a question:" "Which of the two leg shots is from the new film?" ""Murderof the Inugami Clan"" "Executive Producer:" "Kazuo Kuroi" "Produced by Taka Ichise" "Based on the Novel by Seishi Yokomizo" "Screenplay:" "Kon Ichikawa" "Shinya Hidaka / Norio Osada" "Music:" "Kensaku Tanikawa" "Theme music:" "Yuji Ohno" "With" "Koji Ishizaka" "Nanako Matsushima" "Kikunosuke Onoe" "Sumiko Fuji" "Keiko Matsuzaka" "Hisako Manda" "Megumi Okina / Ittoku Kishibe" "Kyoko Fukada" "Mitsuko Kusabue / Tamao Nakamura" "Hideji Otaki / Takeshi Kato" "Atsuo Nakamura" "Tatsuya Nakadai" "Directed by Kon Ichikawa" "Do you rememberthis watch?" "I'm pregnant." "Stay away!" "Ishizaka, this is the place." "Do it here..." "He came for my help." "Shut up!" "Who are you to interfere?" "You aren't the police!" "This is missing." "I killed them all." "Sukekiyo..." "Action!" "Cut!" "The End" "The true ending is yet to come." "Can you give me a little more?" "Yeah, a little more..." ""filmful life"" "Produced by Taka Ichise" "Screenplay:" "Shunji Iwai" "Cinematography by Shinichi Tsunoda" "Edited by Shunji Iwai" "Present Rockwell Eyes Kadokawa Herald Pictures OZ" "In cooperation with Independent Film Fund" "Production OZ / Rockwell Eyes" "Directed by Shunji Iwai" "©2006 "Ichikawa Kon Monogatari" Film Partners"