Original subtitles

"Sometimes reality

can be too complex

to be conveyed by the spoken word.

Legend

remoulds it into a form

that can be spread all across the world."

[Propaganda]

[Tong Poo]

[Behind The Mask]

Now the mask you're wearing

Is stoney and staring

Lines and tears, age and fears

Growing old, passions cold

Now the mask you're wearing

Is stoney and staring

Lines and tears, age and fears

Growing old, passions cold

There is nothing in your eyes

That marks where you cried

All is blank, all is blind

Dead inside, the inner mind

There is nothing in your eyes

That marks where you cried

All is blank, all is blind

Dead inside, the inner mind

Is it me

Is it you

Behind this mask, I ask

Is it me

Is it you

Who wears another face

Is it me

Is it you

Behind this mask, I ask

Is it me

Is it you

Who wears another face

[Solid State Survivor]

Minds blind Empty eyes

Black smiles

Blank tongues ablaze

No names, breathe in dreams

Standing in line

Cracked smiles

The strangeness of the strangers

Second hand teenagers

Face to face they face

A chemical race

Minds blind Empty eyes

Black smiles

Blank tongues ablaze

No names, breathe in dreams

Standing in line

Cracked smiles

Marilyn Monroe's not home

So I sit alone with the video

And Tokyo Rose is on the phone

Dressed to kill

Minds blind Empty eyes

Black smiles

Blank tongues ablaze

No names, breathe in dreams

Standing in line

Cracked smiles

Minds blind Empty eyes

Black smiles

Blank tongues ablaze

No names, breathe in dreams

Standing in line

Cracked smiles

Minds blind Empty eyes

Black smiles

Blank tongues ablaze

No names, breathe in dreams

Standing in line

Cracked smiles

[Ballet]

Turning faded pages

A hint of calla

She was a refugee

From across the wall

Acting out a story

Written in air

Illicit in the darkness

Silent applause

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Shadows hold jealous eyes

Ice in may

Points on a silhouette

Slow fading shoes

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Acting out a story

Written in air

Illicit in the darkness

Silent applause

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

Lost in the motion

A mime with no end

Dancing with sadness

Just for herself

[La Femme Chinoise]

Fu Manchu and Susie Que

And the girls of the Floating World

Junk Sails on a Yellow Sea

For Susie Wong and Shanghai dolls

Susie can soothe

Away all your blues

She's the mistress

The scent of the Orient

Fu Manchu and Susie Que

And the girls of the Floating World

Junk Sails on a Yellow Sea

For Susie Wong and Shanghai dolls

Susie can soothe

Away all your blues

She's the mistress

The scent of the Orient

Orient

[Kagekina Shukujo] (Radical lady)

Jidai wa kagekina shukujo (The age is a radical lady)

Nakushita yasashisa nara (The lost tenderness)

Anata no kutsu no shita ni aru (Is under your shoes)

Kagekina LADY (Radical lady)

Dairiseki ni yokotawaru (You're laying on the marble)

Kagekina LADY (Radical lady)

[Under preparation] Shiroi mune no (There's white dunes)

Sakyuutachi (in your chest)

Kanashimi no ZIPPER wa sabiteru (The zipper of sadness is rusted)

Hakka no sake ni anata wa shizumi (You sink in a mint liquor)

Boku wa yuuutsu ni motarete nemuru (I lay on the depression)

Toiki dake ga kasokudo tsukete tobikau yo (Only sighs fly accelerated)

Tokai wa kagekina shukujo (The city is a radical lady)

Kizutsukeau NAIFU wa (The knife that hurts us)

SHEETS no nami ni kakushiteru (Is under the sheets)

Kagekina LADY (Radical lady.)

Yo ga aketara (When the night clears,)

LABYRINTH (it will be a labyrinth)

Kagekina LADY (Radical lady.)

BATHROOM de mezameta yo (I woke up in the bathroom)

Jaguchi kara maboroshi ga moreteru (Illusions leak from the tap)

Jidai wa kagekina shukujo (The age is a radical lady)

Nakushita yasashisa nara (The lost tenderness)

Anata no kutsu no shita ni aru (Is under your shoes)

Kagekina LADY (Radical lady.)

Yo ga aketara (When the night clears,)

LABYRINTH (it will be a labyrinth)

Kagekina LADY (Radical lady.)

BATHROOM de mezameta yo (I woke up in the bathroom)

Jaguchi kara maboroshi ga moreteru (Illusions leak from the tap)

Jaguchi kara maboroshi ga moreteru (Illusions leak from the tap)

[Ongaku] (Music)

Boku wa chizuchou hirogete ongaku (I open up the map book, and music)

Kimi wa piano ni nobotte ongaku (You go up in the piano, and music)

Matteru issho ni utau toki (I'm waiting for when we sing together)

Boku wa chizuchou hirogete ongaku (I open up the map book, and music)

Boku mo piano ni nobotte ongaku (I open up the map book too, and music)

Boku wa ringo kajitte ongaku (I'm chewing an apple, and music)

Kimi wa densha gotogoto ongaku (You're in the rattling train, and music)

Matteru issho ni utau toki (I'm waiting for when we sing together)

Matteru issho ni odoru toki (I'm waiting for when we dance together)

Matteru issho ni utau toki (I'm waiting for when we sing together)

Matteru issho ni odoru toki (I'm waiting for when we dance together)

[Wild Ambitions]

I'm on my way

To where you are

I'm running through the wild lands

You can't tell

Left from right

I'm running through the wild lands

So call my name

Please call my name

I'm running through the wild lands

I'm on my way

To where you are

I'm running through the wild lands

So call my name

Please call my name

I'm running through the wild lands

[Chinese Whispers]

Black night, no light

I've had all I can take

Our old snapshots

Make my lonely heart ache

It's doesn't take a genius to know

You're never coming back

Chinese whispers

It makes no sense to me

All this talk, talk

What's the fuss? I can't see

It's doesn't take a genius to know

You're gone permanently

You glide in the room,

Dim all the lights

Lie back in my chair,

You look up in my eyes

Perfect murder

You put a hole in my heart

Too late, no hope

It's falling apart

This whole thing is so bizarre

Maybe it's all a dream

Let's rewrite the script again

Cut to another scene

Chinese whispers

It makes no sense to me

All this talk, talk

What's the fuss? I can't see

It's doesn't take a genius to know

You're gone permanently

You glide in the room,

Dim all the lights

Lie back in my chair,

You look up in my eyes

What's on your mind,

You can't conceal

Your eyes take aim,

Your lips shoot cold steel

Perfect murder

You put a hole in my heart

Too late, no hope

It's falling apart

Chinese whispers

Chinese whispers

[Kai-Koh] (Unexpected Encounter)

Ima wa utaenai (Right now I can not sing)

Sutekina love song (my lovely love song.)

Hitori de aruiteta (I have been walking alone and)

Ima made no boku sayonara (I would say goodbye to ever I was.)

Hashirisugitekita (I have been running too far.)

Mou nanimo nakute (Nothing exists anymore.)

Koko ni wa irarenai (I can not stay here anymore.)

Ima made no boku sayonara (I would say goodbye to ever I was.)

Ima wa utaenai (Right now I can not sing)

Sutekina love song (my lovely love song.)

Hitori de aruiteta (I have been walking alone and)

Ima made no boku sayonara (I would say goodbye to ever I was.)

[Key]

I feel so bad, my spirit's weak

Somebody please, what's wrong with me?

What do you see?

I see a forest

What kind?

There's a light in the darkness

Whatcha gonna do?

I wanna walk in it

What you say?

I feel so bad, my body's weak

Somebody please, what's wrong with me?

What do you see?

I see a moth

What kind?

It looks like my lover

Whatcha gonna do?

I wanna chase it

What you say?

I feel so bad, my mind is weak

Somebody please, what's wrong with me?

What do you see?

I see a key on the ground

What kind?

Just a key, but it's shining

Whatcha gonna do?

I wanna pick it up

What you say?

I've got a feeling something's happening

It gives me a thrill but it's also very

Frightening

Frightening

I feel so bad, my spirit's weak

Somebody please, what's wrong with me?

What do you see?

I see a long wall

What kind?

It has no end

Whatcha gonna do?

Use the key to open it

What you say?

I've got a feeling something's happening

It gives me a thrill but it's also very

Frightening

Frightening

I've got a feeling something's happening

It gives me a thrill but it's also very

Frightening

Frightening

I've got a feeling something's happening

It gives me a thrill but it's also very

Frightening

Frightening

Tokyo!

Tokyo!

[Technopolis]

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

Tokyo!

[Rydeen]

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

Rydeen!

I decided

not to tell this story to anyone in the world.

A year passed,

then another,

and yet another after that

even I

had forgotten all about it.

[M16]

[October 1978: The Y.M.O. is formed]

[March 1984: The Y.M.O. is "dispersed"]

CAST:

HOSONO Haruomi

TAKAHASHI Yukihiro

SAKAMOTO Ryuichi

Boy: WADA Motoyoshi

Woman: ANJU Reiei

Ballerinas: TOMODA Yuko, TOMODA Hiroko

Dancers: TAKEUCHI Izumi, YOSHITOSHI Kayoko AKAHIRA Noriko, KOJIMA RIE, ISHIDA Alice

Women in the brothel: TSUBAKI Hiroka, NAKAMORI Izumi, ICHIKAWA Yasuko,

KIKUCHI Etsuko, KATO Sumie, KIM Kumiza, HORIE Kyoko, TANABE Shinobu, FUJII Tomoko

Men in the brothel: TAKAHASHI Taro, KIM Suncha, SUZUKI Satoshi, FUJITA Koichi

Girl in the brothel: IKEUCHI Yumi

Produced by OOKURA Hiroshi

Producer: OOSHIBA Kazuo

Director, screenwriter: SATOU Makoto

Assistant Director: TAMURA Tsutomu

Operator: IDE Shouji

Color director: SUGA Takashi

Assistant operator: KOGA Nobuaki

Lighting director: TAKAYA Hitoshi

Art directors: SENOU Kappa, HORIO Yukio

Decorator: NAKAMURA Mari

Title design: INOUE Tsuguya

Still photographer: MIURA Kenji

Sound director: YAMADA Hitoshi

Assistant sound director: HIGUCHI Katsuo

Sound effects: SHIBASAKI Kenji, SASAKI Hideyo, HOKARI Yukio

Editor: FUJIEDA Shizuki

Assistant editor: MATSUI Keita

Script supervisor: HONCHOU Yuka

Stylist: KOISO Masako

Assistant stylist: FUKUDA Sachie

Special effects: KUME Osame

The performed tracks:

Propaganda Music by YMO

Tong Poo Music by SAKAMOTO Ryuichi

Behind The Mask Music by SAKAMOTO Ryuichi Lyrics by Chris Mosdell

Solid State Survivor Music by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro Lyrics by Chris Mosdell

Ballet Music by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro Lyrics by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro, Peter Barakan

La Femme Chinoise Music by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro Lyrics by Chris Mosdell

Kagekina Shukujo Music by YMO Lyrics by MATSUMOTO Takashi

Ongaku Music and lyrics by SAKAMOTO Ryuichi

Wild Ambitions Music by HOSONO Haruomi, SAKAMOTO Ryuichi Lyrics by HOSONO Haruomi

Chinese Whispers Music by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro Lyrics by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro, Peter Barakan

Kai-Koh Music and lyrics by SAKAMOTO Ryuichi

Key Music by HOSONO Haruomi, TAKAHASHI Yukihiro Lyrics by HOSONO Haruomi, Peter Barakan

Technopolis Music by SAKAMOTO Ryuichi

Rydeen Music by TAKAHASHI Yukihiro

M16 Music by HOSONO Haruomi, SAKAMOTO Ryuichi, TAKAHASHI Yukihiro

The quote at the beginning is from the movie "Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard

Translation of quote taken from the Criterion Collection subtitles

Translation of the song "Kagekina Shukujo" by Diazepan Medina (lyricstranslate.com)

Translation of the song "Kai-Koh" by uji na (lyricstranslate.com)

Subtitles make by Akiradesu (t.me/gyarandu)