"Why are you leaving?" "I don't understand why you are angry." "Do I really have to answer you?" " But they just happened to be there!" " Like hell they did!" "You could have told them to go away." "You didn't let me know you were coming, either." "Oh, no, I didn't foresee it." "You're lying." "You always do only what you like." "I'm married." "That's the best I can manage." "The same old excuse for running away." "Only this morning, I thought you had betrayed me once again." "When they arrived," "I was mad." "I yelled at them that you were coming." "Then, they started placing the bets." "No!" "You're laughing!" "All of you!" "A married woman, coming to fulfill her perverse fantasies!" "You, you were also laughing!" "He's still there." "He's photographing us" "I hate being photographed without being told" "I'm actress, and I'm 26 years old" "When did I start acting?" "Now, the camera's running Everybody's watching me" "Eyes, countless eyes, are watching me" "Look!" "The sea's different." "The light has faded away, and the clouds" "Yes, I have to cay To cry" "It's been so long ago, I don't ever remember anymore" "It's since then..." "The clouds are darkening It will rain." "ASAOKA Ruriko" "KIMURA Isao" "HARADA Yoshio" "AKAZA Miyoko INANO Kazuko" "KUSANO Daigo KODAMA Taiji" "MINEGISHI Ryunosuke KAWAZU Yusuke" ""I've suddenly lost my voice!"" "'So, unfortunately, I can't be in the shooting anymore," ""because it starts the day after tomorrow '" "That's a movie that'll make history!" "KAZUMORI Shoko plays an aphasic woman in "Confession, Theory, Actress"" "a movie that brings together three great actresses!" "'You think it's only one of my whims!" "But I assure you I've really got no voice anymore!" "I've lost my voice!" "I can't speak anymore!" "I can't say anything anymore to the man I love!" "What can I do?" "I'm a little bird, raked, and without wings a rabbit that can no longer leap!" "I..."" "Step aside!" "You don't like your part?" "'Call the producer immediately!" "'" "You don't like the other actresses?" " "Kazumori Shoko can't act"" " Is it because of Kaido Aki?" " 'No'" " Is it because of ISAKU Makiko then?" ""No." "No."" "There's a problem with the director!" "For once, I like the director '" "Is it about the money?" ""I've never complained about money. '" "That does it!" "The morning classes are over, miss drama student!" "Exquisite" "Passionate..." "Mountain..." "Forest..." "Gla-sses..." "What has that to do with glasses?" " A white... robe" " I got it!" "You want a holiday because you're tired!" "A glittering sea." "An ardent sun..." "A week-end in a quiet mountain lodge." "The robe: summer holidays" "And the sun glasses!" "All wrong!" "I was thinking about my childhood!" "When I lost my voice because of diphtheria" "The glasses, it's the teacher who took me to the infirmary" "Come on, get out!" "I have to change" "If you're so sick as not to be able to speak, it'd be better you stayed in bed" ""As I have lost my voice," "I'll buy some good glasses so that I can, at least see"" "'Ah!" "In fact, it's about sun glasses" "Stars are oftenly gazed upon with sun glasses." "There has to be a change once in a while '" "OKADA Mariko" "MIKUNI Rentaro" "TAICHI Kiwako" "SUGA Kantaro" "HAYANO Hisao NAKANO Seiya" "It seems there's no taxi." "Who could guess there'd be clients on such a day?" "Or that great star ISAKU Makiko come in this town?" "You still want to wait?" "Let's get back with the same plane!" " There's another flight in the evening." " Stop it!" "If that's found out, the traffic will be stopped" "Of course!" "We'll take a driver!" "Do you mind asking the airport staff?" "Do whatever you want!" "But, at least, tell me why you came here for!" "Why?" "It's because..." "I was born here." "I thought you were from Tokyo!" "Well, I must have got it wrong" "It's been a longtime we've been friends" "You're an excellent costumer, but, all of a sudden, you're only interested in the surface of things" "Today," "I want you to know who I really am" " Where were you calling?" " Tokyo" "Not at my house, I hope!" "I haven't told my mother anything!" "At the workshop!" "They know nothing about me, since you kidnapped me!" "They'll worry if I don't call" " Is it true?" " Why?" "I rater think you've called Karasawa" "He's your lover" "But he also is your friend" "I might get it wrong" "You called him because you're worried about me" "He's raving mad this very minute" "I had a date with him." "You're out of your mind doing this!" "Well, have you called a driver?" "Yes." "ARIMA Ineko" "TSUKIOKA Yumeji" "KUBO Mazuruka ITO Go" "KANEUCHI Kikuo MIKI Toshihiko" "HOSOKAWA Toshiyuki" "Could you, please, send my agent a medical certificate?" "He refuses to believe I'm sick." "You thought you had lost your voice, but it was only a dream" "Describe the scene accurately for me, please" "What did you see?" "My husband, it was my husband." "How strange for my husband to be there!" "'There'?" "Where, exactly?" "At my house" "Is noting strange in finding your husband there" "I've been living in that house since we've separated" "He's never set foot in there." "Who else was there?" "Rie, a girl who wants to be an actress" "But of course, Rie doesn't know my husband!" "And still, my husband was talking to her" "Tell me what you're feeling" "You must be feeling something" "Everything seemed extremely natural" "It's only now that I find it strange" "No, you must have felt something" "In your dream, you wanted to speak to your husband" "Isn't it so?" "I know that KAZUMORI Shoko is here." " And you are ?" " Her agent" "So, it's you." "I was going to send you her medical certificate" "Please, don't be shy, invent her a sickness!" " Where's she?" " In the next room" "Dr. TOYAMA is treating her with narcoanalysis" "Narcoanalysis?" "While she's asleep, the barricades of her unconscious are" "Stop it!" "What do you expect, rummaging an actress' feelings?" "She's the one who wanted this treatment." "KAZUMORI Shoko is a star, a high value ware." "And you intend to destroy everything?" "The feelings of an actress are of no importance whatsoever" "If she has them, when you're an actress, only what can be seen on the exterior is real" "Wake her up." "I'll take her home" "She's not sleeping" "We've just given her some vitamins." "You can enter the doctor's office." "KAZUMORI Shoko is full in a session of narcoanalysis, but it's only a comedy" "the scene is incomplete." "What'd you say is missing?" " A man" " Who is he?" "MINAMIKAWA, my agent." "Is this man meddling so much into your intimacy?" "He's always around me" "Now, as well as the other times" "Why?" "I'll ask him that" "But we're only talking about a dream, and nothing more" "MINAMIKAWA is even present in my dreams" "Good." "Try visualizing once more that scene" "In your house, a young actress talks with your husband, whom she definitely isn't acquainted with" "Nonetheless, they seem intimate" "You don't feel anything watching them." "How intimate were your husband and this young woman?" "He's coming near her, takes her hand." "No!" "They're holding hands" "They are undressing" "They are caressing one another." "That's how men and women express their love" "They're making love!" "It really is a beautiful town" "That's because in the old quarters, everything they didn't want seen was hidden away" "Only those living here know this" "'We think about our native place when it's far away '" "But I was not born in this town." "I was born in Manchuria, before being repatriate to this unknown town" "Did you know my mother was an actress?" "Who?" "Your mother?" "No, I didn't know it" "It was before the war." "A theater actress, totally unknown" "After she had been dumped, she gave birth to me in Manchuria" "I was a fatherless child." "But thanks to the defeat, I gained a father" "My mother remarried a man who had helped us when we were repatriated" "A much younger man than my mother, a communist driven away from Japan during the war" "This town, it was his town, wasn't it?" "We were really very poor" "But I was yet too young to understand it" "My father worked at the Municipal Library" "He had a frail health." "Because in Manchuria, he had sacrificed himself, so we could eat" "That's what my mother said" "Your father die in this town, didn't he?" "What do you want to show me in such a landscape?" "It's in this very forest that we've tried to commit suicide." "You?" "!" "A double-suicide?" "!" "Yes, I wanted to die with someone" "And whom did you try to commit suicide with?" "My late father ran a theater group in this town" "It was with a boy I had met there" "You went a little too far..." "When I think at what we did, it almost feels strange" "You must have had a reason..." "I don't really know very well anymore" "Surely, a too big gap between our families" "That's how poor we were" " Such a reason for dying" " The times demanded it" "Times that make you want to commit double-suicide" "And he?" "He died." "I'm the only one that survived" "Stay here!" "Don't go!" "Stay by me!" "I'm being watched." "Someone's watching me" "I'm sure!" "I'm being watched!" "No!" "I heard them laughing!" "It's you who has laughed!" "You're mocking me!" "Yes..." "Such eyes..." "Their eyes rape me!" "I have won!" "I've won my bet!" "You're here." "In my arms" "You are here." "No, it's not you who has won!" "It's me who has lost, because I was too sure of myself" "Hold me, hold me tighter!" "I'm ashamed!" "Ashamed of myself!" "Just to think about it," "I feel like losing my mind!" "Make me forget!" "Make me forget everything!" "Cut" "It's good?" "OK !" "It was your last scene" "I was so absorbed, I didn't know what I was doing anymore" "It was my own body, still I couldn't move in the way I wanted" "I'm being watched" "Someone's watching me" "I'm sure I'm being watched" "No!" "I heard them laughing!" "It's you who has laughed" "You're mocking me!" "Yes..." "Such eyes" "Their eyes rape me!" "I have won!" "I've won my bet!" "You're here." "In my arms" "I feel embarrassed." "Wait!" "You are KAIDO Aki, aren't you?" "Yes." "I know you well" "It's a gargling." "From the German Rivanol laboratory" "It's a very efficient medicine" "What did you think it was, sulphuric acid?" "Who are you?" "What are you doing here?" "I came to give him this" "I was thinking I'd use the situation to meet you" "Who's "he"?" "Are you Mrs. NOSE?" "You say you don't want make this movie anymore" "But even you don't know why" "It's because you're jealous" "Whom do you think I'm jealous of?" "ISAKU Makiko." "She had an affair with your husband" "It's long gone." "He has married me since" "You can also be jealous of KAIDO Akiko" "Now she's shooting with NOSE, with whom you used to team up" "Now I'm beginning to understand why you have brought me here" "It was 17 years ago, in full summer, under scorching sun" "I'm wondering if the place has changed since" "It's here that you bathed." "There were no bikinis then." "The camera was on those bleachers." "It was the first time I was seeing a film camera" "NOSE was the director." "He was sitting by the camera with a tanned face" "But, of course, you were here also, somewhere around there" "You had brought me here, after taking me away from that shabby theater ensemble" "Back then, I was controlling KAZUMORI Shoko" "You behaved like I told you to" "You're laughing that day, you seemed happy" "Not necessarily" "All this time gone by, and you still don't know anything about me" "I was having my period that day" "When you asked me to bathe laughingly," "I despised you" "Do you regret becoming an actress?" "It's been too long now." "It seems like I've been doing this since I was born" "You'll still be an actress when you'll die" "Dying like an actress would come most natural to you" "I understand." "As a matter of fact, I also didn't know it!" "Until then I thought you were the reason" "I didn't want to make this movie." "But no, this was the reason!" "This plastic balloon!" "In my dream, I had it in my throat, and it prevented me from speaking" "So this balloon really existed, and what's more in this very pool!" "Some kids must have forgotten it!" "It's a sign!" "An extraordinary sign!" "I don't want to be an actress anymore!" "The answer was in this balloon!" "And it was floating in the pool I had made my debut in!" " Stop raving!" " I'm sure!" "I must tell it immediately to Dr. Toyama!" "I found out what that plastic balloon meant!" "If you don't hurry up, you'll be late for the party" "And if you went alone?" "NOSE'd be happy" "It's a queer thing to say" "How'd you want me to go without you?" "It kind of bothers you, eh" "What they're saying about you and NOSE" "Wasn't it you saying that scandal is an important accessory for an actress?" "I saw NOSE's wife today" "When?" "When I returned alone at the hotel." "That middle-aged woman, all spruced up." "You don't understand why I'm not going to this party" "And what did she tell you?" "We just measured one another sourly" "And still..." "This woman's convinced the rumors are true" "For her, it's a real drama" "But, no, it's a comedy" "Kyoko, you're in your baby-doll!" "Obscene?" "What do you mean?" "Exactly what I've said." "And what has this to do with KAIDO Akiko?" "I'm not speaking about the present KAIDO Akiko" "But about the one she was before becoming an actress." "And just what do you pretend knowing about her?" "That I'll tell her in person" "Kyoko!" "Who was it?" "The man we saw by the sea today" "What does he want?" "He was hired by NOSE's wife" "Maybe it's a private detective?" "Yes, he must surely be one" "I told him to go away, that you didn't have anything to do with that" "Welcome home." "You're late!" "Don't make me anything I've eaten before coming home" " KARASAWA is waiting for you" " Mother did you tell him to come?" "You had a meeting with him this afternoon" "I'm asking you if you have told him to come!" "I knew nothing about you, I was dead worried" "KARASAWA wanted to come here." "Stop doing only what you want!" "It's you that does only what you want!" "You're eight hours late!" "I'm tired." "Go back to your place, will you?" "What came over you, going away like this?" " Nobu called you after all" " No, it was not her" "Then, who?" "Someone from back there called your mother" "But who?" "Someone kind enough to let me know you had returned to the old town." "A man's voice?" "I didn't see anyone" "Someone who knows you from the old days" "And what else did he say?" "Yes." "He just said he had seer you" "Your mother got worried, so she called me." "Them, aren't you going to explain it?" "Why did you go back to that town?" "You have behaved strange today" "Ask Nobu if you want to know" "She's waiting at your place." "I'd have like to hear it from you" "You always put Nobu between us I don't like it!" "But it's the only way" "There are certain things I can't tell you" "You look tired." "I'll come back tomorrow." "You need patience to be with such a capricious actress" "It's me!" "It should have been me!" "It's him!" "Hurry and open up!" "I'm sorry for coming so late" "I had a meeting with am old mate from the lab and I got home rather late" "I saw Dr. TOYAMA's wife had called to tell me to go at your place as soon as possible" "I was waiting for you" "I told myself you must be having am insomnia and I came right away" "I have asked you to examine me because I have dreamt it." "You'd rather need a medicine against dreams" "Unfortunately, nobody has yet discovered it!" "And this dream that told you to consult me" " what was it about?" " Wait a little longer" "Very soon another character from my dream will arrive" "Who?" "My husband" "It's that famous dream you have told Dr. TOYAMA about" "I've heard the recordings" "You are Rie, aren't you" "Your name was also mentioned." "I feel he won't come." "Why?" "Just a premonition" "Rie!" "He did say he'd be coming this evening, didn't he?" " Yes" " No, he won't come" "You told him not to come, didn't you?" " Of course not" " Yes you did!" "You called him when I wasn't aware." "If you didn't believe me, ask Rie" "It'd be useless." "Rie and you, together with my husband, are playing the same hand" "You have leagued to keep me prisoner" "Tell me, professor, this type of raving wouldn't it be the sign of a neurosis, would it?" "No, this type of thing happens to anyone" "And the difference between a sane and an ill spirit is very slight" "WATARI Hayato, my husband, will surely not be coming" "But that doesn't make me give up" "Until I won't have understood the significance of this dream" "I won't be able to sleep" "I'm sorry, but I thank you for staying till the end" "But no, my husband is also here!" "Mr. HATA would you like to be my husband?" "Do you agree to play the role of WATARI Hayato?" " I can only be myself" " Everything will be all right" "All men feel the same thing" "That's true even more when repressed desires are involved, isn't it?" "You' have been a psychoanalyst!" "Will you?" "I don't have any choice" "Allow me to ask you a few questions" "What kind of a man is your husband?" "What are the salient features of his character?" "You'd better ask Mr. MINAMIKAWA." "Who among the present knows best WATARI Hayato, in your opinion?" "Come on, answer him!" "Explaining my private life that's the job of my agent, isn't it?" "WATARI Hayato, 36 years old" "An avant-garde composer, among the best, but not quite young anymore." "Medium built and height No character" "A too poised man, in everything" "The circumstances surrounding his marriage is complex enough" "The circumstances are simple enough" "A scandal involving KAZUMORI Shoko and ISAKU Makiko, two cinema stars loving the same man" "But KAZUMORI Shoko had no intention of going thus far" "What happened is simply that she got married so that her rival wouldn't win." "Is that so?" "Something's missing" "It's him that arranged the whole thing" "So that I could live free, you took advantage of his kindness and good breeding, and manipulated him shamelessly!" " You can talk" " I loved him!" "It's you that imposed him this separation!" "What did you reproach him?" "I've got it" "Well, now let's project ourselves in the scene you have dreamt" "Where from were you watching the scene?" "In short, where were you?" "There!" "Go where you were" "Where did you catch us, Rie and me?" "I mean, your husband" "Well be taking our positions" "We don't see you anymore" "From here, we can only see your feet" "Of course, from where you are, you can't see our faces" "That means that, in your dream, it was impossible for you to know that it really were this girl and me, well... your husband who were kissing" "And still, though you could only see our feet you concluded they were Rie and yon husband and, more, that they were kissing" "Is it correct?" "Dreams often comprise this kind of incoherence" "In our present case, this can have an important significance" "Now, you're living alone" "Even if your husband is in no way responsible, you have imposed him this actress' caprice" "To escape remorse's, you've begun hoping he'd make a mistake" "An affair, and more with a young woman:" "your husband is kind enough to oblige you and makes an unpardonable error" "So, without any blemish on you, you can ask for divorce and lie alone" "I conclude you want a divorce" "That's what your dream means" "All this is only your imagination!" "There are, of course, opposite explanations" "Your husband really had an affair" "But the force of your desire, supported by pride and jealousy, forbids you to acknowledge the truth" "But in your sleep tensions have eased, and the reality you were refusing to see was acknowledged" "If this is the case, then you surely don't want a divorce" "Another possible explanation:" "the conservation instinct" "It's up to you to choose the version that suits you best" "Thank you" "I think I'm also beginning to understand" "And you, what'd you choose?" "As a doctor, I can't tell you that." "But as a man I can answer." "You should divorce." "This apart, there is another enigma to be solved him this dream" "After all, why did you imagine Rie as your husband's lover?" "Mrs., when you found out who they were, what were they doing?" "You were embraced!" " Didn't she resist?" " A little, in the beginning." "But, very quickly, she got off her dress, and was naked." "She was holding his hands that encircled her from behind." "It was Rie, because the actress KAZUMORI Shoko is jealous of her youth" "But even if this is the case, what's the direct connection between Rie and your husband?" "We haven't figured that out yet" "Rie!" "You're hiding something from me, aren't you?" "Speak." "Make a clean breast of it, this is the opportunity to understand each other better" "Whatever you say, she won't hold it against you" "Of course." "I only want to know the truth" "Madame, I'll tell you the truth." "I've tried to, but was never able to go all the way" "But now, I can." "I've known your husband from the beginning" "Were we intimate?" "Indeed." "Long before I came to you," "I had an affair with your husband" "It's me who has seduced him." "And all this, because of you!" "I wanted to get close to the great KAZUMORI Shoko, and use her to become an actress." "That's why I slept with your husband" "My youth, my body, so precious," "I wanted to devote them to being an actress" "Not to a man like him!" "Nonetheless, he came today." "He tried to make love to me" "Yes, on that very place" "On this couch." "I didn't want it, but he forced me" "He's a man, he's stronger He pushed me on this couch, and there he..." "Without realizing, I cried" ""I'm here to become an actress!"" "My body is not for you!" "'" "I don't want to speak about it." "I don't want to speak about it!" "Is what she telling true?" "She has surely made everything up" "But, as an actress to be, she has expressed very well her inhibited person" "It's already midnight!" "Enough dream analysis for this evening" "Not yet, there still are important aspects to clear up." "In Dr. TOYAMA's recording, you also speak of Mr. MINAMIKAWA" "Mr. MINAMIKAWA should have been in your dream, but he wasn't" "It's an interesting point" "Let's remake our experiments him a more rigorous way" "Even if you couldn't see them," "You have recognized Rie and your husband" "What did you do then?" "I was very close to them, when I saw them kissing" "So close that it seems strange they didn't observe me" "Please go where you were" "You were close, but where?" "Mr. MINAMIKAWA, what'd you do in these circumstances?" "I'm not interested in her private life" "Help us, instead of saying this!" "You, who are always by my side, why weren't you there?" "Go stay wherever you want" "What are you doing?" "If it was me, I'd do such as" "KAZUMORI Shoko wouldn't see this obscene spectacle" "But you weren't here." "Where were you?" " Where were you hiding?" " I was nowhere" "Because you didn't need me" "You know very well I wouldn't have allowed that you saw that." "How could you know what I know?" "I'm telling you that are you that wanted to see that obscene spectacle" "What are you trying to tell me?" "Come on say it!" "That I wanted to see such a scene?" "Exactly!" "You did!" " It's not true!" " And you must have seen something else!" "Your dream was way longer, and went father" "I'd very much like you tell us about it" "Could that young professor question you?" "It's the real Shoko who's in this dream, the one who doesn't need me at all!" "Speak!" "We'll know at last who you are!" " Mr. MINAMIKAWA!" " Let him..." "Let's see the continuation of my dream" "Hadn't it finished?" "Rie was in my husband's arms, without knowing I was there, right by them" "She freed herself, and began laughing, bare breasted" "Yes, she was looking at me as if provoking me" "But of course!" "She knew I was there!" "What did she do then?" "She ran with her big breasts to her room" " Did your husband follow her?" " No, I did!" "I got near the room, and I opened the door" "Rie was sleeping Absolutely naked!" "And then you approached her" "No, not me." "A man was already there." "Who was that man?" "I didn't really know" "The man approached the bed." "Also naked!" "Naked like a worm!" "Tell us that man's name!" "She has to know it!" "I didn't know him." "But he was tall!" "Medium built, like my husband, but more muscular" "His skin was tanned, and had a brutish smell" "It's you!" "It was KAZUMORI Shoko herself that man was making love to!" "No!" "It's her!" "Let go of me!" "I don't know anything!" "I don't know your husband!" "I don't know any man!" "You rejected him, and ran away, completely naked" "You got out of the room" "You were laughing!" "Running, you were laughing!" "With an indecent voice!" "Come on!" "Tell us what happened in that dream!" "Enough small talk!" "We've all seen the kind of woman you are!" "Who is that man?" "Tell us who kissed you while you were sleeping!" "Yes..." "The one that kissed you had long legs," "A man among the most agile in Japan" "A man with prominent cheekbones" "But this face... is as sweet as is frightening" "You always miss the point!" "You really have mo sensitivity at all!" "The one that kissed me... it's you" "You." "No..." "Not you, but someone who resembled you a lot" "Please, do as if it had been you" "Embrace me." "Like in my dream" "Of course, it's him!" "An intellectual with thin lips, and almond eyes" "Yes." "Even if he hugged me, he continued to lower his eyes" "And still" "His arms were the strongest" "Then, who hugged you?" "The one you described" "The fastest man in Japan" "Well!" "Who's next?" "That one?" "The young skyer you met in Hokkaido?" "Or the airplane pilot you met in Paris?" "Come on, say it!" "I can recite the names of all those you have slept with" "The first one must have been that actor with a tanned face, the one smelling like an animal!" "Then, a soccer player, a fashionable novelist the skyer, the pilot, and there are more!" "You can't have remembered all their names" "I can tell you exactly what their names were" "Stop it!" "I don't want to listen to this!" "But you have to!" "In your dream, it's you they were hugging one after the other" "KAZUMORI Shoko!" "You have reseen all your sexual adventures" "It amused you to see all this again" "A flock of men..." " All these men around you" " Stop it!" "I don't want to hear it anymore!" "Mother!" "Who are you talking to?" "Who's on the other end of the phone?" "Give me the phone!" "Let me talk to him." "Hello!" "Who are you?" "Tell me your name, please" "Hello?" "!" "Can you hear me?" "If you can hear me, speak!" "This person knows me" "Say something, please" "Let me hear your voice!" "Hello?" "!" "Hello?" "!" "It's father..." "It's father!" "He was alive, wasn't he?" "Father was alive!" "But then why?" "Why did you tell me he had died?" "What a dreadful lie!" "It's unfair!" "It's too unfair!" "Hate me as much as you like" "Anyway, the mother I am has had no choice." "For twelve years," "I thought that man was dead" "What suffering A never ending suffering!" "And you stayed there, watching, not saying anything" "You're horrible!" "I know." "But thanks to this lie, you stayed alive" "And also became the actress you're today" "That's it..." "Everything's clear now!" "I've been your prisoner" "All my life!" "But today, I'm sure you're happy." "No!" "I wanted that man" "I didn't want to lose him!" "Stop it!" "I forbid you to speak about him like this" "I'm the one that gave you birth!" "You're jealous!" "You're jealous because we tried committing suicide together" "It's your father you have tried committing suicide with!" "He's not my father" "But your lover, one amongst all the others" "Why shouldn't I have had the right to love him?" "A mother and her daughter fighting over the same man..." "Why had we to go through all this?" "There's nothing but hate between us" "I should have better died that time." "Daddy!" "Now I understand everything" "As a matter of fact, I was the only one not knowing" "I understand your wife goes mad" "A man secretly sneaks into my house" "Logically, everybody thinks he comes to see KAIDO Akiko" "Your wife..." "Poor victim, stringed along." "And not only her..." "Me also" "I know it's not very glorious," "But... even so..." "I'll not start being afraid at my age" "I've got no intention to reproach you your relationship" "I'd only have wished you had had more respect for me" "I'd have wished at least, you had avoided seeing Kyoko at my house" "By doing that, you thought Id never notice it?" "No!" "I knew you'd catch us one day." "Why didn't you go somewhere where I couldn't have seen you?" "We met here to spend the night," "but it's me who asked him to come." "Why did I do this?" "I think you've already understood." "Because I wanted you to see us!" "To understand, to be surprised" "Yes, I wanted you to see all that!" "Aki..." "You have fallen the first in the trap set by Kyoko" "I'm also maybe a victim" "But it's not the same situation." "Me, I've fallen knowingly" "Me also, I was expecting surely to find myself like this in front of you, burning with an unbearable shame" "I was most certainly in love with KAIDO Akiko" "What I'm saying seems ambiguous" "But as I never brought it up with you it surely was the only way for me to say it!" "No as a matter of fact it's the other way round" "It's because I was sure you wouldn't understand me," "whatever I'd say to you" "You're the actress KAIDO Akiko." "A transparent cinematographical object, unable to resist or react." "Confronted with such things, a man feels like suspended into the void, left on their own" "KAIDO Akiko the woman, not the actress, becomes, inevitably, the object of cruel thoughts." "All that ends in a stupid way." "That's where we are this morning" "Why must you force me to undergo all this?" "Suffering a malaria attack when sleeping with me one evening he called your name quite distinctly." "It's not true!" "When I heard him, I shouted:" ""At last, I have won!"" ""I took him from Aki!"" "I had never been so happy." "Do you understand?" "Why..." "Why?" "Why must you have betrayed me?" "Now you're jealous of me" "That's exactly the result I was hoping for" "Oh, yes?" "Are you sure it's not the other way round?" "It's you who were jealous of the actress that Aki is" "No..." "As far as I'm concerned, KAIDO Akiko never was an actress." "The KAIDO Akiko I hate is not an actress." "The one I was friends with in high-school" "You mean what happened that day" "Yes." "That awful story" "Obscene!" "I could never tell anyone about it, that's how ashamed I was" "But now, I can tell everything!" "We were in the 3rd year in high-school" "Me and Aki, we were the best of friends." "One day, together, we paid a visit to our professor" "You must also remember what happened that day" "I remember everything much better than you do" "It happened during the summer holiday" "Under the hottest sun,  we visited our teacher." "He lived in a temple's guest-house" "Amidst the ran-down cemetery gravestones" "I saw three giant sunflowers yes, three they looked like painting in the sun" "When I saw them, I had a bad omen" "Our professor was not married" "I leaned towards Kyoko and whispered it in her ear" "She just laughed" "He met us in white shorts." "Dazzled, we lowered our eyes, unable to go a step further" "He spoke to me we wanted me to go to the kitchen, and bring some orange juice from the fridge" "I did what he had asked me to." "I was somehow embarrassed to be with him like that, and wanted to get out of that room" "The kitchen was deserted, everyone seemed to be away" "I took the liberty of serving myself" "Crossing again the temple garden," "I saw, far away, the tip of a cloud" "He was shining in the sun-light, a heavy, swollen cumulonimbus" ""Is it going to rain?" "Asking me that question," "I had, again, a bad omen" ""Kyoko and the professor are alone in that room"" "I approached without making any noise" "Why?" "Yes..." "I think I was sensing what was going to happen" "And, suddenly, everything became real" "Someone was fighting in the other room" "I was like paralyzed" "The first thing I saw, was the white cloth the professor had in his hard" "Chloroform..." "Yes!" "He wanted to make Kyoko inhale it" "She resisted." "But her strength was slowly wearing out" "She collapsed on the tatami" "Yes..." "What did I then see..." "When I recovered my senses," "I was standing in the temple garden, alone" "The summer clouds, as cut of joint" "Foolishly, deep inside," "I was praying rain'd come as soon as possible" "You could have helped me, as I couldn't move anymore" "But you did nothing!" "Without saying anything, you watched me being raped!" "And that's not all:" "when everything was over, you sent an anonymous letter to our school" "It was the talk of the entire school." "I understood it was you who had sent that letter" "The professor was sacked" "And me, everybody looked at me like if I was a circus freak" "It's been a long time since" "I've been doing all I can to make up to you" "You're talking about this life you've allowed me to have?" "Do you think your compasson is enough to heal this wound?" "I was waiting for such an opportunity, to show you what you're afraid to see, more than anything else" "Exactly" "Since you've seen me being raped, men only make you afraid, and sex has become a dread!" "Stop!" "Enough talking like this!" "You're afraid to make love to a man!" "You are full of lust, but sex scares you!" "It's your fault if you've become totally frigid!" "I imagine you've said all you wanted to!" "You shouldn't stay in this house" "Go pack your things, please" "As a matter of fact..." "To keep things crystal clear between us," "I want to tell you that my relation with Kyoko isn't only a game" "I like making love to her." "At my age," "I've got no more scruples saying it" "It's false!" "Everything's false!" "Nobody knows that!" "Not even Kyoko!" "I'm the only one that knows it" "After being chloroformed," "Kyoko collapsed like a rag" "She was asleep, what could she have known?" "Kyoko was asleep" "Peacefully, ignoring what was going on." "The professor face was close to mine" "A deformed face, as if he was crying." ""I love you":" "I had the impression he was saying it a couple of times" ""I thought you'd come alone"" "He was furious I had come with Kyoko" "He told me that was why he had chloroformed her" ""No!" "Stop!"." "I shouted to him" "He was getting paler, as if he was crying" "His hand was pressing my shoulder." "I don't know why, but I suddenly tried to inhale" "The chloroformed rag he had in his hand" "I was so afraid, I wanted to lose my conscience" "When I woke up, I was lying on the tatami" "Yes, I distinctly remember the tatami touching my thighs, when I was trying to bend my feet" "They were really cold." "Once again, when his face came close to mine," "I heard the distant thunder." "I so wished it had rained earlier, had it rained..." "But it was too late for everything" "I thought I didn't have to see you anymore" "The little yesterday trip, was meant to be the last time" "It was for our friendship, the most beautiful of offerings" "I've given up my lover to you" "You really are heartless!" "Coming to see the tears of who has given you her lover!" "What a perverse curiosity!" "Did you expect finding me in despair?" "You must really be surprised, aren't you?" "You really are an actress!" "These scissors are very ordinary, but it can also be a dangerous weapon" "For killing a man..." "Or" "For killing oneself" "Are you saying I'd be capable?" "Being an actress, of course" "You'll have no problem faking a suicide" "These scissors in exchange for the lover I've let you have?" "Everything happens as you've foreseen" "I couldn't avoid the trap hidden in your acting talent" "Poor woman, only survivor of a double-suicide!" "I told him everything, as you wished" "No, I embellished the things for KARASAWA" "A woman who in the past caused a man's death, doesn't have the right to love anymore" "We can't say you have won, can we?" "On the contrary" "And still, I even confessed that shameful past" "Quite so." "You can wrap up even the horrid in beautiful words" "ISAKU Makiko thrives almost entirely on her narcissism!" "That's what KARASAWA has told you, isn't it?" "Your double-suicide story hasn't surprised him at all" "He sees you with very lucid eyes." "No..." "With very cold eyes, rather." "You have tried many times to die with..." "No..." "You have also tried to commit suicide." "That double-suicide, isn't by far the only one!" "Why didn't you say anything?" "And besides they have all failed" "KARASAWA has told me everything!" "You have a suicide mania!" "But you somehow manage to be the sole survivor" "You're just playing a character." "Don't run away!" "Just before shooting your first film, you and an actor tried killing yourselves with gas" "Come on, speak!" "I'm sure you'll make up quite a story!" "You're wrong!" "Don't leave me!" "Don't leave me alone!" "Let me go!" "I want to die!" "I want to die!" "Really?" "You want to die?" "A star, what's a star?" "I'm not made for such things!" "You have a good opportunity You must hang on" "You don't have the right to care about a woman like me, met by chance" "Forget me" "You must leave me." ""I want to die"" "As if you had the guts!" "Me, I could do it!" "I can kill myself!" "O. K..." "I want to die with you" "You will die with me in this room." "I'm condemned to do it, sooner or later" "But, then again, you couldn't die" "Before the gas had filled the room, the employees of the production company broke the window," "and saved you" "You had, maybe, foreseen it would end like this." "A rising star, mixed in a scandal!" "The studios made everything to stop you from you speaking about it" "That's why they gave you a small part" "That's how a poor young girl began her career thanks to a scandal!" "Ironically, the actress ISAKU Makiko was born when that great movies actor disappeared." "I don't want you to get any false ideas" "It's only what your beloved KARASAWA has told me" "It' surprise me." "I then ask you:" "what about your third failed suicide?" "You hate clothes without sleeves, because of the scar you have on your left wrist" "Painful memory of the fight that opposed you to KAZUMORI Shoko for that musician..." "It was simply a heartbreak." "I want to make things clear" "As far as ISAKU Makiko is concerned," "I've never loved her." "It's not only that I didn't want her, but there's something in her that stopped me" "It may be her mother" "Her mother permanently casts a shadow over her." "Maybe only a man can see that, but, anyway, it's sad for Makiko" "You could say I'm obsessed by death" "I took you there so you'd understand it" "What's there left for a woman, who has let a man die?" "You can tell me anything you want on your past I don't believe you anymore" "KARASAWA made fun of you, calling you a suicide maniac" "He?" "He warned me not to believe what actresses tell" "He." "You really are heartless!" "What else do you want me to tell you?" "How are you behave so arrogantly with me?" "It was daddy!" "My father!" "I'm telling you that the one I wanted to die with, the one I killed, was my father!" "Do you understand!" "?" "I've slept with my father!" "I took away from my mother the man who was my father!" "If ever a woman is unforgivable, I'm the one!" "Quiet down!" "Even if he knows your suicide mania, KARASAWA will marry you" "He said that was part of ISAKU Makiko's charm" "He's not made for your little comedy" "But be advised, I'll never trust you anymore" "These women called actresses," "I'll never trust one of them again!" "You're the actress KAIDO Aki, aren't you?" "And who are you?" "We've met yesterday, by the sea" "I must see you;" "I've got things to tell you" "It's out of the question." "I've got no reason to meet you" "Yes, you have" " Is it blackmail?" "'" " It's for your own good" "Some old stories that involve yon" "Are you alone now?" "If you don't answer, it means you're alone" "Please, don't come!" " Who are you?" " The laundry man" "The laundry man?" "But I didn't call you" "What are you doing?" "I know this house better than you doo" "You're rude!" "I'm the one who washes your dirty laundry even your underwear" "And you call me rude?" "Help me carry the milk" "In the bathroom, like usually" "I know very well that every evening, you bathe naked in milk." "It's disgusting!" "Even the sheets are dirty!" "What are you doing?" "Come help me!" "You have soiled these sheets..." "Come, it's ready!" "Get in the bathtub!" "No!" "Why don't you want today?" "You like bathing in milk!" "Get out!" "Get out of here!" "Do you think I don't know?" "You never lock the door when you take your bath!" "Exactly!" "That's the kind of woman you are!" "It's not true!" "It's Kyoko!" "Not me!" "Please, come in" "You wanted to talk to me about my past" "Yes." "About that obscene story." "I'm acquainted with one of those concerned" "Kyoko?" "The professor sacked because of you." "He and me, we've met in a remote village, lost in Hokkaido" "Supply teacher in a school" "That's what he's doing now" "Like you, I was his pupil" "What do you want to know?" "His name was dragged in the mud, and he was sacked for obscenity, but I don't believe any part of it!" "I want to know the truth." "This way, please" "Come in this room, please" "I will tell you everything, quietly, about this obscene story" "Please, come in" "I won't be had anymore by anyone!" "You also want the same thing" "You're one of those filthy men!" "Come on, wash yourself!" "As long as you wish" "Rub off that vile filth" "Please..." "I beg of you." "Wash yourself." "Wash yourself." "I want you to be naked." "Where's my husband?" "I'm sure he's here!" "NOSE didn't sleep at home last night!" "I understood everything!" "Yes..." "Last night you say?" "NOSE came, and spent the night here" "How sincere!" "No, as a matter of fact, I think you don't have even a drop of courage!" "Come on!" "Tell me where he is!" "He isn't on the first." "He is there." "You haven't yet told everything" "I'm listening" "Maybe it's better I'm the one who says it" "You intentionally missed your date" "In the evening, you meet secretly" "When you abandon the part of KAZUMORI Shoko the actress" "The day you confess it to me, you choose not to go" "This man is waiting outside" "Maybe you made sure he'd follow us" "You knew, didn't you?" "I came also to break up with you" "Why?" "Nobody knew about the two of us it was my secret" "But I understood did that because of MINAMIKAWA" "It's strange, isn't it?" "I don't remember if we met because I loved you, or because I wanted to have a secret he didn't know" "You have broken up for good, so you don't need me anymore" "You're leaving me, don't you?" "What a coincidence." "I was thinking exactly the same thing" "Since you've entered here," "I've been wondering when to tell it to you." "But I haven't had the courage, and I've slept with you" "Typical male hypocrisy, without any doubt" "But for me, breaking up, doesn't have the same meaning" "To make it clear, I don't want you to dream about me" "All these men KAZUMORI Shoko the actress has known, so many you can't remember them all," "I don't want to be part of them" "Only because I'm an actress, people spied on me, even in my dreams" "Now, I'm alone" "Without haven't been ever able to get used to seeing my pride trodden" "We also, when breaking up," "have nothing else to say to each other, but good bye" "Today, you must listen to me" "You must see him." "It might be for the last time" "You know, Mr. KARASAWA" "He accepts your past, everything you've done." "He forgives you" "He came to tell you this" "Accept?" "Forgive?" "Who intends to forgive me?" "Nobody has the right to" "How can you say that?" "Tell him to go home." "And that I don't want to see him anymore" "Won't you regret it?" "As I'm an actress, what does it matter if the people forgive me?" "And if something must be proven to them, it's up to me again to do it!" "Mr. KARASAWA, you can go see her" "She's waiting for you" "What's the matter?" "Anything wrong?" "Makiko!" "Makiko!" "She's trying again to kill herself!" "It's me!" "KARASAWA!" "Come on!" "Open the door and get out!" "I know very well what you're trying to do" "You're thinking again at it!" "It's when you're thinking to kill yourself, that you're the real ISAKU Makiko" "Your mother has told me everything" "You haven't killed anyone!" "When the next film will be over, you'll take a real vacation, and you'll come back" "Makiko!" "I'll go with you" "You'll see again your father" "There's nothing between us anymore" "If not too much time spent together" "You're ISAKU Makiko, the actress." "And even behind this beautiful make-up, you still are ISAKU Makiko, the actress" "And if you really are an actress, you can't die" "To you, even dying is acting." "I'm in love with this ISAKU Makiko." "I can't die." "I can't die!" "You've been alive all this time!" "Daddy!" "I didn't know about you and the doctor" "For an agent, this is a professional mistake!" "When could you have so drifted away from me?" "It as never before happened to us" "I've been betting for a long time." "On the same and only woman" "I believe more than anyone, in the power of these fictions engendered by actresses." "I only have this means to really stay in touch with the world" "I'm not young anymore" "I'm too old to start from scratch." "I beg of you, give me another chance!" "Only one." "You could never make love to me because you dreamt of another one" "Something other than me..." "Don't look." "Don't look at me." "You..." "You are an actress." "An actress mustn't see such horrible things" "Don't look..." "Don't look at me..." "What does cinema mean for you?" "It's the world I live in." "I can't give you an objective answer" "Why have you become an actress?" "Because I wanted to live the lives of others" "What part would you like to play?" "A neglected lover" "And the one you'd hate?" "A happy woman." "I don't like comic parts" "Which is the first person you have loved?" " I think it's my mother" " The one you respect?" "My professor." "He taught me to speak." "T, O, L, O, V, E" "To love." " Your principles in life?" " Not to betray the others" "Tell us which is the secret of your beauty" "I banish all thoughts!" "For you, what does life mean?" "Losing the ones I love, one after the other" "Tell me a word you like" ""No"." "Having the courage to say no" "A word you hate?" ""Oblivion"." "Also everything that preceded my birth," "I want to remember it, without forgetting anything" "Have you yet thought about getting old?" " Yes" " What image do you have of death?" "Death comes from far away, with no warning" "I await it with docility." "I'll change my question:" "what's the meaning of an actress for you?" "A job like any other" "What have you loved most until now?" "My father" "Or rather the father I've imagined" "Have you ever hated anyone?" "Only once" "Who was it?" "Me." "My complexe" "How many movies have you made?" "I don't remember." "Count them, if you have the time, and then you'll tell me" "Do you remember your first film?" "I've forgotten it." "What has cinema given you?" "Becoming an actress, being an actress, continuing being an actress" "When you're acting, what happens to your 'self'?" "When I'm acting, there's nothing left in my 'self"" "There's nothing." "Only the void." "What are you thinking now?" "I hope you'll be ending your questions soon" "I'm nervous before a shooting." "I'm sorry." "In the end, tell me your favorite color" "Mauve, ancient mauve" "But today, it's black" "It's a sinsiter colour, tell me" "A man died, a man I knew" " Who was he?" " Nobody needs to know" "Besides me." " to read "The Tale Of Genji"" " What do you think of free love?" " I recognize it exists." " And yourself?" "People'd like an actress to say yes." "What do you think of marriage?" "I don't know, I've never been married" "Would you like to get married?" "I'll surely marry when this shooting is over" "Is it true?" "Whom with?" "I'm going to look for him." "One last question: what does an actress mean to you?" "The shooting begins" "CONFESSION, THEORY, ACTRESS" "A film by KIJU Yoshida" "Screenplay by YOSHIDA Kiju, YAMADA Masahiro" "Photography:" "HASEGAWA Genkichi Decors:" "ASAKURA Setsu" "Music:" "ICHIYANAGI Toshi Light:" "KOBAYASHI Tetsuya" "Sound:" "SEGAWA Tetsuo Editing:" "WATANABE Shiro" "Produced by:" "YOSHIDA Kiju, OKAMURA Kiyoshi" "KATSUMATA Junya ISODA Keiji" "A GENDAI EIGASHA film"