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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:20,910 --> 00:00:22,940 NO RETURN 2 00:00:23,020 --> 00:00:27,280 Starring SUMIKO KURISHIMA 3 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,580 "Why do people die?" 4 00:00:30,660 --> 00:00:32,590 "I want to live forever." 5 00:00:35,830 --> 00:00:38,630 "I'm your wife. Even in death." 6 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:43,290 Around the year 1921... 7 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:47,300 the cinema was still called "moving pictures." 8 00:00:48,270 --> 00:00:52,400 In 1896 a machine was imported from America, 9 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:56,920 which projected moving images using electricity. 10 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,110 It could be said that this was the beginning of Japanese cinema. 11 00:01:12,030 --> 00:01:14,190 In its long history... 12 00:01:15,470 --> 00:01:18,490 many things have happened to the cinema... 13 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,010 as they have to Japan. 14 00:01:31,650 --> 00:01:36,140 Is it coming out all right? - It's a bit tricky. 15 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,460 Your fade-down is a great help to us. 16 00:01:41,230 --> 00:01:44,720 Did you develop all night? - Yes... more tonight. 17 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:47,300 We're shooting again tonight too. 18 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:52,300 We've done it. 19 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,700 You get an allowance for helping us, don't you? 20 00:01:55,810 --> 00:02:00,580 Well, sort of... it only pays for a few games of billiards though. 21 00:02:02,210 --> 00:02:04,210 Isn't it strange? 22 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:07,450 When the projector begins to roll... 23 00:02:07,590 --> 00:02:10,750 the people in the picture start to move. 24 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:16,290 The picture moves... - That's why it's called 'moving pictures'. 25 00:02:16,460 --> 00:02:18,950 It's obvious. You're too easily impressed. 26 00:02:19,130 --> 00:02:21,290 I'll turn on the water for the rinse. 27 00:02:21,670 --> 00:02:24,160 The film should be fixed by now. 28 00:02:28,410 --> 00:02:31,100 How clever to invent such a thing... 29 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:38,110 ~ EIGA JOYU ~ ( Actress ) 30 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,190 Commemorating Kinuyo Tanaka's 99th film. 31 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,820 Produced by TOMOAKI TANAKA KON ICHIKAWA 32 00:02:54,530 --> 00:02:58,200 Screenplay by KANETO SHINDO SHINYA HIDAKA, KON ICHIKAWA 33 00:03:41,310 --> 00:03:44,080 Music by KENSAKU TANIKAWA 34 00:03:58,460 --> 00:03:59,560 Starring 35 00:03:59,870 --> 00:04:03,200 SAYURI YOSHINAGA 36 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:07,830 MITSUKO MORI 37 00:04:55,990 --> 00:04:59,190 KOJI ISHIZAKA 38 00:05:01,330 --> 00:05:04,560 BUNTA SUGAWARA 39 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:13,000 Directed by KON ICHIKAWA 40 00:05:16,810 --> 00:05:21,300 Where are the saké cups? - I don't know. 41 00:05:22,380 --> 00:05:23,710 TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) 42 00:05:23,710 --> 00:05:23,720 Have another look. TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) 43 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,840 Have another look. TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) 44 00:05:25,850 --> 00:05:27,880 Where are they? TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) 45 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:27,890 TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) Where are they? TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) 46 00:05:27,890 --> 00:05:29,480 TAISHO ERA 15 (1926) 47 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,690 Leave the sliding doors. 48 00:05:33,230 --> 00:05:35,990 We may as well take them too. 49 00:05:48,870 --> 00:05:51,070 My God it's hot! 50 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,110 Only three saké cups... 51 00:05:56,420 --> 00:05:58,080 Snapper! 52 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:01,550 You're being generous! - Of course. 53 00:06:01,620 --> 00:06:04,610 Dinner's going to be great. - Hardly. 54 00:06:04,890 --> 00:06:06,760 Yours are over there. 55 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,260 What? We only get sardines? 56 00:06:10,430 --> 00:06:12,400 Kinuyo, dear... 57 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,690 You shouldn't be working. Sit down. 58 00:06:14,770 --> 00:06:16,790 We're short on cushions. 59 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,230 There'll be seven of us. 60 00:06:20,070 --> 00:06:23,060 It's so hot. We won't need them. 61 00:06:23,140 --> 00:06:25,770 Is the snapper all for Kinuyo? - I'll show you. 62 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:30,440 There's another one in here. 63 00:06:31,020 --> 00:06:33,750 I put it aside. - Who's that for? 64 00:06:33,850 --> 00:06:36,480 Who'd you think... Mr. Shimizu. 65 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:37,920 Mr. Shimizu? 66 00:06:39,530 --> 00:06:41,490 Naturally. 67 00:06:41,890 --> 00:06:44,750 He's why Kinuyo starts work today... 68 00:06:44,930 --> 00:06:50,370 at Shochiku Cinema's Kamata studio... it's all down to him. 69 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,370 An on-call novice. - Shozo! 70 00:06:53,770 --> 00:06:57,500 And that's worth celebrating, isn't it? 71 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,980 When Mr. Shimizu left the Kyoto studio... 72 00:07:02,010 --> 00:07:04,510 for the Kamata studio in Tokyo... 73 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:09,550 Kinuyo was only a casual apprentice actress. 74 00:07:09,990 --> 00:07:14,390 He said to be successful, she'd have to go to Tokyo... 75 00:07:14,630 --> 00:07:18,060 and kindly asked her to accompany him. 76 00:07:18,330 --> 00:07:19,720 So it's only proper... 77 00:07:19,870 --> 00:07:24,830 that we express our gratitude to Mr. Shimizu for his faith in Kinuyo. 78 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,730 And I decided to go with her to Tokyo. 79 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:30,140 Only I wasn't sure I could manage alone... 80 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,730 so I persuaded you to come. 81 00:07:32,910 --> 00:07:35,940 You even gave up your job to come. - Not like that. 82 00:07:36,110 --> 00:07:40,450 As far as I'm concerned, I'm the one who's indebted to you. 83 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,990 Of course... Shozo and Haruji just had to tag along too. 84 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:46,990 I see you're here! 85 00:07:47,060 --> 00:07:52,090 Now Kinuyo has to support us. - Not me. I'll find a job. 86 00:07:52,730 --> 00:07:54,320 That's enough. 87 00:07:54,430 --> 00:07:56,230 I'm the one... 88 00:07:56,340 --> 00:08:00,900 who asked Kinuyo if she'd mind if we all lived together. 89 00:08:01,270 --> 00:08:02,930 I prefer it like this. 90 00:08:04,610 --> 00:08:07,170 You're such a sweet girl. 91 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:11,040 But you know... - What? 92 00:08:11,450 --> 00:08:13,940 After we got here, I started to worry... 93 00:08:14,020 --> 00:08:17,890 what if Kinuyo didn't get accepted. 94 00:08:18,090 --> 00:08:19,390 I'm so happy! 95 00:08:19,490 --> 00:08:22,950 Ahh that too... is thanks to Mr. Shimizu. 96 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,720 On top of that... he even found us this house. 97 00:08:26,870 --> 00:08:30,670 This is like heaven compared to our old place... 98 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:34,930 five of us packed like sardines in one small room. 99 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,940 Mother! The fish is burnt. 100 00:08:41,710 --> 00:08:43,410 What were you doing? 101 00:08:43,850 --> 00:08:46,410 You were careless. It's your fault, Mother. 102 00:08:49,290 --> 00:08:50,650 Kinuyo... 103 00:08:50,690 --> 00:08:53,950 When you met the head of Kamata studio... 104 00:08:53,990 --> 00:08:57,190 Mr. Shimizu went with you, didn't he? 105 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:02,400 He took me to the door, but I went in on my own. 106 00:09:03,270 --> 00:09:06,470 I almost wet my pants. 107 00:09:06,540 --> 00:09:09,740 You what? - None of your business. 108 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,280 Name? 109 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,110 Kinuyo Tanaka, sir. 110 00:09:20,550 --> 00:09:23,580 You must have been so nervous. 111 00:09:24,290 --> 00:09:26,810 You could hardly stand, could you? 112 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,760 I can well imagine. - I stared at him straight in his face. 113 00:09:30,860 --> 00:09:33,990 He just asked my name and then didn't say a word. 114 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,560 I was afraid he was going to send me back to Kyoto. 115 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,440 But then as you left, he gave you a tin of fruit drops. 116 00:09:42,540 --> 00:09:46,170 Is the fish all right? - This is the other one. 117 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,210 To him I must have seemed like a child. I felt miserable. 118 00:09:50,250 --> 00:09:52,220 He must have liked you though. 119 00:09:52,420 --> 00:09:54,780 Important people are like that. 120 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,050 They only give things to people if they like them. 121 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,330 So he gave her fruit drops? - It was all he had to hand. 122 00:10:01,390 --> 00:10:04,620 And then Mother puts them on the family altar. 123 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:06,130 And why shouldn't I? 124 00:10:06,630 --> 00:10:09,790 They were a token of Kinuyo's getting the job. 125 00:10:10,370 --> 00:10:13,030 I've offered my thanks many times over. 126 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,380 When Kinuyo said she wanted to become a movie actress... 127 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,180 weren't you the one who objected most? 128 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:27,980 You did just as much. 129 00:10:28,190 --> 00:10:30,750 You said all actors were shameless. 130 00:10:30,860 --> 00:10:33,380 Mother even said she'd disown her. 131 00:10:33,490 --> 00:10:34,820 So I did. 132 00:10:35,030 --> 00:10:39,690 I'd heard that movie actors were social pariahs. 133 00:10:39,930 --> 00:10:42,160 But you know... for me... 134 00:10:42,630 --> 00:10:46,670 when I saw her on stage, I knew she was right for it. 135 00:10:54,210 --> 00:10:56,540 Wasn't it to help support the family... 136 00:10:56,620 --> 00:11:00,050 that Kinuyo left school to play on stage? 137 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:02,050 Well, maybe it was. 138 00:11:02,150 --> 00:11:04,550 But she always liked performing. 139 00:11:04,690 --> 00:11:08,390 I thought it my duty to foster her talents. 140 00:11:08,490 --> 00:11:11,220 When I consulted you you agreed. 141 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,200 Sometimes in life one has to go for it! 142 00:11:14,430 --> 00:11:17,730 Besides, I like movies a lot. 143 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:19,800 The industry has a future. 144 00:11:20,410 --> 00:11:23,340 Mr. Shimizu's late. - The shoot may have run late. 145 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,640 We might as well start ourselves. Everyone... sit down. 146 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,110 You sit there. - The saké isn't ready. 147 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,940 We'll start without it. That's uncle's place. 148 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,280 We've only three saké cups. - Teacups will do. 149 00:11:42,790 --> 00:11:45,420 Give me that bowl. 150 00:11:49,330 --> 00:11:51,100 My congratulations. 151 00:11:51,370 --> 00:11:55,200 Please bear with us in the days to come. 152 00:11:57,410 --> 00:12:00,640 Why are you sitting with your faces hanging out? Come on, you too. 153 00:12:04,050 --> 00:12:07,680 Please don't, everyone. - No, no... it's quite right. 154 00:12:08,090 --> 00:12:12,280 By the way, we should think of a stage name for her. 155 00:12:12,420 --> 00:12:15,830 I'll always be Kinuyo Tanaka. 156 00:12:16,060 --> 00:12:18,000 That's too plain. 157 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:21,860 Right. Names are important. You need a flowery one. 158 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,760 Ask a fortune teller for an auspicious... 159 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,300 Hold on! 160 00:12:26,870 --> 00:12:28,810 Actually... 161 00:12:28,970 --> 00:12:33,270 I asked Kinuyo to keep using her real name. 162 00:12:36,850 --> 00:12:39,540 I've got it! It's because of Ryosuke. 163 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:43,950 He dodged his draft assessment... - Brother! Don't shout so loud. 164 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,280 What if the neighbors hear you? 165 00:12:50,130 --> 00:12:53,590 I see. You were thinking about that. 166 00:12:54,530 --> 00:12:58,970 All young men have to enlist when they turn 20. 167 00:12:59,340 --> 00:13:02,600 After he got drafted, he didn't show for his physical. 168 00:13:02,810 --> 00:13:06,830 Now he's got MPs, even police after him. 169 00:13:09,150 --> 00:13:13,210 It's been nearly 10 years since Ryosuke disappeared. 170 00:13:13,790 --> 00:13:16,880 I believe he's still alive somewhere. 171 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,490 If Kinuyo keeps her name and becomes famous... 172 00:13:23,630 --> 00:13:25,890 that may prompt him to contact us. 173 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,690 That's why I asked her to keep her name. 174 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,000 He's an unfortunate boy. 175 00:13:34,510 --> 00:13:37,700 The Tanaka family business went bankrupt... 176 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,610 not long after your father died. 177 00:13:42,150 --> 00:13:46,520 Ryosuke as the eldest... shouldered the responsiblity. 178 00:13:46,990 --> 00:13:50,050 It was a heavy burden for him. 179 00:13:51,390 --> 00:13:55,450 It's because he was so desperate that he acted recklessly. 180 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,920 I know... 181 00:14:00,570 --> 00:14:02,730 you've been left with the stigma. 182 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,700 I'm very sorry. 183 00:14:06,370 --> 00:14:08,240 I plead with you here... 184 00:14:08,510 --> 00:14:11,370 to forgive him for what he did. 185 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,440 I want you to hope that he contacts us. 186 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:18,810 Please. 187 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:35,360 That'll be Mr. Shimizu. - The director? 188 00:14:39,340 --> 00:14:43,400 We've started already, sir. Please come in. 189 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:46,240 We're so honored to have you, sir. 190 00:14:46,340 --> 00:14:50,640 Please share our humble table. - Excuse me, then. 191 00:15:20,850 --> 00:15:22,810 Good morning. 192 00:15:25,750 --> 00:15:28,450 ACTORS SECTION 193 00:15:28,750 --> 00:15:32,250 KINUYO TANAKA 194 00:15:38,660 --> 00:15:41,130 The going wage for a studio actress back then... 195 00:15:41,230 --> 00:15:44,030 was about 10 to 15 yen a month. 196 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:47,640 But somehow I received 30 yen. 197 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,040 In 1926, that was a lot of money. 198 00:15:53,110 --> 00:15:57,570 The schedule was posted late in the afternoon... 199 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:01,240 informing us who was or wasn't working the next day. 200 00:16:01,620 --> 00:16:04,780 If your name wasn't posted... you had the day off. 201 00:16:04,890 --> 00:16:08,950 But many went to the studio even if they had no work... 202 00:16:09,390 --> 00:16:14,420 hoping to catch the eye of someone important. 203 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,170 To get a role, no matter how trivial... 204 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:21,170 was a cause of great excitement. 205 00:16:21,310 --> 00:16:24,430 That girl... Did she get work today? 206 00:16:27,810 --> 00:16:29,510 Hell no... 207 00:16:29,810 --> 00:16:33,410 She practices making herself up every day. 208 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:35,990 Too darn diligent! 209 00:16:40,730 --> 00:16:43,560 Hey! Sumiko Kurishima is going on set. 210 00:16:53,340 --> 00:16:57,470 She's impressive, isn't she? - Sure is. 211 00:17:13,390 --> 00:17:17,690 The glass stage got its name from its glass ceiling. 212 00:17:21,370 --> 00:17:26,460 Natural light was used because electric lighting was poor. 213 00:17:28,410 --> 00:17:31,340 It usually took four to five days... 214 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,340 to shoot a four-reel movie, which would run for an hour. 215 00:17:36,610 --> 00:17:39,310 So the studio was a scene of constant bustle. 216 00:17:41,290 --> 00:17:44,080 Still, everyone seemed to love the job... 217 00:17:44,260 --> 00:17:47,450 and struggled hard with the unfamiliar equipment. 218 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,040 I've heard... that some of you are claiming... SHOWA ERA 2 (1927) 219 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,250 that Tanaka is getting roles because I favour her. SHOWA ERA 2 (1927) 220 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:06,630 SHOWA ERA 2 (1927) 221 00:18:06,710 --> 00:18:08,440 Who's been saying that? 222 00:18:10,950 --> 00:18:15,780 I suggested to the chief that she should be selected for this role. 223 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:21,160 I did it because she's devoted to her work. 224 00:18:21,790 --> 00:18:26,290 You tend to get jealous when anyone else gets a role. 225 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,400 Reflect on your own attitudes before envying others. 226 00:18:33,970 --> 00:18:35,370 Understood? 227 00:18:36,210 --> 00:18:37,540 Tanaka... 228 00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:39,680 Come to the studio. 229 00:18:42,450 --> 00:18:46,410 Was that an appropriate thing for a director to say? 230 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,320 He started directing at 21. 231 00:18:49,790 --> 00:18:52,480 The chief thinks very highly of him. 232 00:18:52,660 --> 00:18:54,780 I heard he's from a rich family. 233 00:18:54,890 --> 00:18:59,300 I don't know... He's famous for bluffing. 234 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:03,630 Like he bought a warship... - Can you buy warships? 235 00:19:03,870 --> 00:19:06,700 It's moored off Shinagawa, I hear. 236 00:19:08,110 --> 00:19:11,540 Stop it. Someone will tattle to him again. 237 00:19:12,580 --> 00:19:17,170 It wasn't me. I never spoke to him about anything said here. 238 00:19:18,850 --> 00:19:21,410 Then who did? - I don't know. 239 00:19:22,020 --> 00:19:26,320 Mr. Shimizu sounds rough, but he's a kind man. 240 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:40,470 I've nurtured your acting career, haven't I? 241 00:19:41,870 --> 00:19:44,000 The first leading role... 242 00:19:45,180 --> 00:19:48,170 can determine one's future in acting. 243 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,610 Yet you never consulted me on such a grave decision. 244 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,980 What are you going to do? - Welcome. 245 00:19:56,220 --> 00:19:57,690 Mrs. Tanaka... 246 00:19:58,260 --> 00:20:03,560 Were you aware that Mr. Gosho had spoken to her about a role? 247 00:20:03,660 --> 00:20:05,650 Well, yes... 248 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:09,630 An ashtray... 249 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:15,860 He visited us suddenly two nights ago... 250 00:20:15,970 --> 00:20:17,530 I want... 251 00:20:18,380 --> 00:20:23,310 to shoot "A Shameful Dream" with you in the leading role. 252 00:20:24,380 --> 00:20:26,410 A leading role for me? 253 00:20:27,150 --> 00:20:30,590 That's right. The role's made for you. 254 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,350 Well... 255 00:20:33,020 --> 00:20:36,320 I'm sorry to call on you so late at night. 256 00:20:36,390 --> 00:20:37,730 Not at all. 257 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:39,730 I'm well aware... 258 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,930 that since you came to Kyoto Shimizu has looked after you... 259 00:20:44,070 --> 00:20:46,160 and given you small roles. 260 00:20:47,210 --> 00:20:48,430 But... 261 00:20:49,170 --> 00:20:50,640 I'm not like him. 262 00:20:50,910 --> 00:20:54,710 Your talent has attracted me for some time now. 263 00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:57,270 Mr. Gosho... 264 00:20:57,450 --> 00:21:00,420 It's not up to me... - No... 265 00:21:00,550 --> 00:21:03,540 If you agree, I'll talk to the chief. 266 00:21:06,590 --> 00:21:10,080 I'm determined to get his consent. 267 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,430 With the chief's permission, I'd be delighted to do it. 268 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,900 I discovered your talent. 269 00:21:20,270 --> 00:21:24,230 I don't want others interfering with your natural directness. 270 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,470 Don't you agree, Mrs. Tanaka? 271 00:21:27,710 --> 00:21:32,050 Oh, yes... I'm grateful to you. 272 00:21:32,250 --> 00:21:34,720 You not only take care of her... 273 00:21:34,890 --> 00:21:36,880 but you made Haruji an assistant director 274 00:21:36,950 --> 00:21:40,120 and Shozo an assistant cameraman. 275 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,820 Kinuyo would never go against your wishes. 276 00:21:47,030 --> 00:21:51,630 Gosho's father had a wholesale dried foods shop in Kanda. 277 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,140 He went into films despite his parents' objections. 278 00:21:56,810 --> 00:21:59,070 They've disowned him. 279 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,140 I believe... he even used to work without pay. 280 00:22:04,250 --> 00:22:06,880 Without pay? He worked for nothing? 281 00:22:06,950 --> 00:22:09,180 He's only one of many. 282 00:22:09,490 --> 00:22:11,420 They receive food tickets 283 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,890 which they save and sell off to survive. 284 00:22:16,230 --> 00:22:19,690 While living like that, he was already writing plays. 285 00:22:20,930 --> 00:22:23,200 Mostly lyrical stuff. 286 00:22:23,330 --> 00:22:26,600 He was made a director only last year. 287 00:22:27,740 --> 00:22:30,140 I can't trust him with you yet. 288 00:22:30,510 --> 00:22:33,000 The chief won't approve the plan. 289 00:22:33,610 --> 00:22:34,980 He's a very bright man. 290 00:22:35,110 --> 00:22:40,450 He went to the best schools and Tokyo Imperial University. 291 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,210 ...the money for the timber for the sets. 292 00:22:43,490 --> 00:22:47,650 Running a studio costs money. We can't stop shooting. 293 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,820 Theaters have cash. I begged them for a loan. 294 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:56,560 I foresee trouble. 295 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,860 The head office will object. - You apologize to them. 296 00:23:01,970 --> 00:23:04,000 Chief... - What? 297 00:23:04,410 --> 00:23:08,610 I hear you approved Gosho's "A Shameful Dream." 298 00:23:09,250 --> 00:23:11,270 The Planning Department... - Listen. 299 00:23:11,380 --> 00:23:14,610 We can't keep making stale, sentimental movies. 300 00:23:14,750 --> 00:23:17,050 Cinema's a new form of entertainment. 301 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:22,260 As such, it needs to be cheerful and upbeat. 302 00:23:22,590 --> 00:23:24,820 I came to cinema from kabuki... 303 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,490 only to find the same old ideas here too. 304 00:23:27,830 --> 00:23:31,700 Cinema is young, so are we. There's no limit to what we can do. 305 00:23:32,140 --> 00:23:34,200 In the Kamata style, of course... 306 00:23:34,470 --> 00:23:37,870 Making dramas about the joys and sorrows 307 00:23:38,010 --> 00:23:40,240 of ordinary people... 308 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,940 By making a story from actual life. 309 00:23:43,110 --> 00:23:45,240 Gosho's new film is such a film. 310 00:23:46,650 --> 00:23:51,020 The leading role will go to Kinuyo Tanaka, as he wants. 311 00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:54,650 This too will surprise you, Planning Manager. 312 00:23:55,530 --> 00:23:59,330 But her responsiveness has always interested me. 313 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,330 Her innocence and intimacy are unique and new. 314 00:24:06,670 --> 00:24:12,040 The history of motion pictures as entertainment in Japan... 315 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,010 began with devices like the bioscope... 316 00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:19,280 followed by pictures projected onto a screen. 317 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,850 The early films were actual recordings 318 00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:28,460 of stage plays, geisha dancing or sumo wrestling. 319 00:24:28,730 --> 00:24:31,330 NEWSREELS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR . The newsreels of the Russo-Japanese War... 320 00:24:31,330 --> 00:24:32,330 NEWSREELS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR . created a great sensation. 321 00:24:32,330 --> 00:24:33,810 created a great sensation. 322 00:24:37,570 --> 00:24:41,700 From the late Meiji period... 323 00:24:41,770 --> 00:24:42,970 plays began to be written for the cinema 324 00:24:42,970 --> 00:24:43,940 SOULS ON THE ROAD (1921) . plays began to be written for the cinema 325 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:45,780 SOULS ON THE ROAD (1921) . This trend was encouraged... 326 00:24:46,110 --> 00:24:49,180 by the economic boom following the First World War. 327 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:50,380 THE TEA-MAKING HOUSE (1924) by the economic boom following the First World War. 328 00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:51,950 THE TEA-MAKING HOUSE (1924) . . 329 00:24:51,950 --> 00:24:52,390 THE TEA-MAKING HOUSE (1924) . The conventions of the old theater 330 00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:55,280 The conventions of the old theater 331 00:24:55,450 --> 00:24:57,790 THE CAGED BIRD (1924) . gradually became more realistic 332 00:24:57,790 --> 00:24:57,890 THE CAGED BIRD (1924) . . 333 00:24:57,890 --> 00:24:58,760 THE CAGED BIRD (1924) as a new cinematic style was eagerly sought. 334 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,190 as a new cinematic style was eagerly sought. 335 00:25:02,230 --> 00:25:05,350 A PAGE OF MADNESS (1926) . . 336 00:25:07,970 --> 00:25:09,660 Around this same time... 337 00:25:09,770 --> 00:25:10,270 many good films were imported 338 00:25:10,270 --> 00:25:11,770 BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) . many good films were imported... 339 00:25:11,770 --> 00:25:14,010 BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) . from Europe and America. 340 00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:17,270 Have you seen Griffith's "Broken Blossoms"? 341 00:25:17,510 --> 00:25:21,740 His spirit of realism is a visual art in itself. 342 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,120 The technique of close-ups... I hear the American Griffith started that too. 343 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:26,920 THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925) The technique of close-ups... I hear that started with Griffith too. 344 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,280 THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925) . . 345 00:25:29,650 --> 00:25:33,560 The flashbacks the French use are revolutionary. 346 00:25:33,660 --> 00:25:37,320 I think the director's name was Volkov. 347 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,000 He tried it in "Kean." - Hey, Ozu... 348 00:25:42,430 --> 00:25:44,960 I hear you're to be a director. 349 00:25:45,870 --> 00:25:48,500 Army service held you back. 350 00:25:51,510 --> 00:25:56,000 With its lucid realism and creative aesthetics... 351 00:25:56,380 --> 00:25:58,520 and some undoubted masterpieces... 352 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,350 VARIETY (1925) . and some undoubted masterpieces... 353 00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:00,720 VARIETY (1925) . . 354 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,990 VARIETY (1925) . the Western silent film... 355 00:26:01,990 --> 00:26:04,420 the Western silent film... 356 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,420 had enormous influence on Japanese cinema. 357 00:26:08,530 --> 00:26:11,390 Chaplin's "A Woman of Paris" - so good. 358 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,620 Chaplin a comic has made a social film. 359 00:26:15,330 --> 00:26:16,860 That's right. 360 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,660 Doesn't "Sad Clown" show the true nature of film? 361 00:26:20,810 --> 00:26:22,330 I haven't seen it. 362 00:26:22,910 --> 00:26:25,210 That girl Setsu is always distant. 363 00:26:25,310 --> 00:26:27,470 I hope she comes to visit the studio. 364 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,880 Where are we going, sir? - Never mind that, come on. 365 00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:39,980 I saw Gosho's film. - How was it, sir? 366 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:46,090 I cowered at the back of the preview room. 367 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,660 You were very good. - Thank you, sir. 368 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:57,470 As for me... I was under no obligation to attend the launch party. 369 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:01,880 But I went to find out what they thought of you. 370 00:27:02,410 --> 00:27:05,510 How could you behave so self-effacingly? 371 00:27:06,050 --> 00:27:08,420 You were crawling to everyone... 372 00:27:09,490 --> 00:27:13,010 And Gosho... you shook his hand again and again. 373 00:27:32,340 --> 00:27:34,940 I won't give you up to anyone. 374 00:27:35,750 --> 00:27:37,080 Sir... 375 00:27:38,620 --> 00:27:40,280 I love you. 376 00:28:06,540 --> 00:28:08,880 Welcome home. 377 00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:12,780 You work a lot of nights lately. - Yes. 378 00:28:20,020 --> 00:28:23,080 No one knows where she spends her nights. 379 00:28:25,430 --> 00:28:28,960 Haruji, Shozo... off to the studio with you. 380 00:28:29,070 --> 00:28:32,000 At least let us finish. - Hurry up then! 381 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:02,000 All this hard work, and at night too. 382 00:29:03,830 --> 00:29:07,130 Don't lie. You stayed at Mr. Shimizu's, didn't you? 383 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,230 They say you're always there. 384 00:29:09,410 --> 00:29:11,810 Half the studio's talking about it. 385 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,270 What's going on between you and Mr. Shimizu? 386 00:29:17,980 --> 00:29:20,310 He wants to marry me. 387 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:21,880 What? 388 00:29:22,050 --> 00:29:26,010 How absurd! But you don't want to, do you? 389 00:29:26,090 --> 00:29:28,320 Actually I wouldn't mind. 390 00:29:28,730 --> 00:29:32,590 Never! Never! Marriage is the end for an actress. 391 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,360 Uncle..! Uncle, please come here. 392 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,630 What is it? - Kinuyo says... 393 00:29:39,770 --> 00:29:42,300 she's going to marry Mr. Shimizu. 394 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:43,570 Is that true? 395 00:29:44,110 --> 00:29:46,470 We owe him a lot... 396 00:29:46,580 --> 00:29:51,010 But that's unfair. He's the one made you what you are now. 397 00:29:51,150 --> 00:29:54,170 Yet now... he himself would ruin it all. 398 00:29:54,990 --> 00:29:56,320 Kinuyo... 399 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,720 Your tendency to get passionately involved in things... 400 00:30:00,790 --> 00:30:02,760 is a fine quality. 401 00:30:02,860 --> 00:30:06,020 But you started as an apprentice actress... 402 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,130 and have worked your way up to a senior level. 403 00:30:08,270 --> 00:30:09,790 You have a future. 404 00:30:10,130 --> 00:30:17,070 I'm determined to live to see you... become the top actress at Kamata. 405 00:30:17,370 --> 00:30:20,870 No one will want to see someone's wife on screen. 406 00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:22,410 An actress isn't mature 407 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:26,310 until she can express the full charm of a woman. 408 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,520 Your asset as an actress is your prettiness. 409 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:33,350 Prettiness isn't enough to make a star. 410 00:30:34,490 --> 00:30:38,990 I want to be a complete woman. - Do you have to get married? 411 00:30:39,230 --> 00:30:41,600 Who put such ideas into your head? 412 00:30:41,730 --> 00:30:44,200 Was it Mr. Shimizu? - Yes. 413 00:30:44,540 --> 00:30:48,940 Mr. Shimizu's kind but... everyone knows he's a womanizer. 414 00:30:49,270 --> 00:30:51,870 Shozo heard it, too. - Please Kinuyo... 415 00:30:52,110 --> 00:30:55,810 tell him you've come to your senses and tell him you won't. 416 00:30:56,250 --> 00:30:59,150 We've made it this far. 417 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,150 I don't want to go back now. 418 00:31:03,050 --> 00:31:05,520 Worrying about finding our next meal... 419 00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:08,180 making envelopes, sewing on buttons... 420 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,490 taking in sewing... 421 00:31:10,790 --> 00:31:13,520 I've had enough of that life. 422 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,720 I don't want to be poor! 423 00:31:17,130 --> 00:31:19,330 Let me sleep. 424 00:31:21,670 --> 00:31:23,540 Are you serious? - Yes. 425 00:31:23,670 --> 00:31:25,470 We'll lose an actress. 426 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,510 Marriage will add lustre to her charm. 427 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:29,980 But if you're the husband... 428 00:31:30,110 --> 00:31:33,240 We can't stop love affairs among young people... 429 00:31:33,380 --> 00:31:35,880 but you're getting a reputation for it. 430 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,880 This time... I'm truly in love. 431 00:31:40,790 --> 00:31:43,190 Kinuyo has a future. You're valuable too. 432 00:31:43,290 --> 00:31:45,190 We need you both. 433 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:50,730 Right... 434 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:53,830 Wait two years. 435 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:55,900 Wait? 436 00:31:56,340 --> 00:31:58,100 Now listen carefully... 437 00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:04,180 You can continue while you're waiting... you can even live together. 438 00:32:04,820 --> 00:32:08,380 Then isn't that the same as being husband and wife. 439 00:32:08,590 --> 00:32:10,250 Not at all. 440 00:32:10,790 --> 00:32:13,350 It's a secret, trial marriage. 441 00:32:13,590 --> 00:32:18,250 If it works, you may marry. I'll even act as your go-between. 442 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,430 However... 443 00:32:23,670 --> 00:32:26,530 don't forget that while Kinuyo is more or less your wife... 444 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,260 she's our actress. 445 00:32:28,770 --> 00:32:31,430 Don't turn her into a housewife. 446 00:32:32,510 --> 00:32:35,500 Any problem, sir? - No. Good work. 447 00:32:39,450 --> 00:32:42,150 What is it? - Nothing. Good work. 448 00:32:44,790 --> 00:32:51,190 SHOWA ERA 3 (1928) 449 00:32:51,530 --> 00:32:53,050 Oh, no! 450 00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:09,670 In a house he rented for us, my dual life started... as a novice actress at the studio... 451 00:33:09,910 --> 00:33:13,610 and a very inexperienced wife at home. 452 00:33:14,590 --> 00:33:17,710 I came to know the director Ushihara, 453 00:33:17,820 --> 00:33:20,850 who had studied the new cinema in Hollywood, 454 00:33:21,090 --> 00:33:24,790 and an athletic actor named Mr. Suzuki. 455 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,360 I was very fortunate to have met them. 456 00:33:42,310 --> 00:33:44,680 We were both busy with work. 457 00:33:44,850 --> 00:33:47,370 We never knew what time the other would be home. 458 00:33:47,890 --> 00:33:52,720 At dawn we would reaffirm our love for each other. 459 00:34:22,150 --> 00:34:25,520 I played a supporting role to Mr. Chojiro Hayashi... 460 00:34:25,590 --> 00:34:29,490 in the film "Kaikokuki", which we shot at the Kyoto studio. 461 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,590 The excitement I expressed was not only acted. 462 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:37,760 It was in 1929... 463 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,530 that I first worked with the novice director Ozu. 464 00:34:42,170 --> 00:34:46,470 The movie was called "I Graduated, But..." 465 00:34:49,050 --> 00:34:52,350 I want a meal. - Hello, darling. 466 00:34:52,620 --> 00:34:54,910 Let's order something in. 467 00:34:55,150 --> 00:34:57,090 I eat catered food outside. 468 00:34:57,220 --> 00:35:02,060 I'll get Mother or the girl to cook when they come. 469 00:35:02,330 --> 00:35:05,230 Stupid..! I'm not a lodger here. 470 00:35:08,870 --> 00:35:11,230 Darling... - What? 471 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,770 Weren't you at work today? 472 00:35:16,410 --> 00:35:18,600 I don't have to report to you. 473 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,400 I see. 474 00:35:21,810 --> 00:35:23,140 You know... 475 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,880 an actor's eyes are opened... 476 00:35:25,980 --> 00:35:28,880 by working with good directors. 477 00:35:29,790 --> 00:35:32,450 Mr. Ozu is such a director. 478 00:35:33,260 --> 00:35:37,350 Mr. Gosho too can really get in touch with the actor's heart. 479 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,930 And what about me? 480 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,370 Your husband's a director, too. 481 00:35:43,730 --> 00:35:46,700 When I find a director stimulating... 482 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,310 I respond to him with passion. 483 00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:51,470 I see. 484 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:56,010 You see them as men... not as professional directors! 485 00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:33,150 Is everything going well? 486 00:36:33,450 --> 00:36:34,970 Yes... 487 00:36:35,390 --> 00:36:37,380 well, that is... 488 00:36:37,690 --> 00:36:39,050 I see. 489 00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:41,880 That's all right then. 490 00:36:43,030 --> 00:36:44,790 You're talking about Shimizu... 491 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,930 the rumour that he has a woman? 492 00:36:48,330 --> 00:36:50,030 So you know. 493 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:54,200 I was a little worried, so... 494 00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:37,310 Hey! 495 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,680 Get up! Your husband's home. 496 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,750 You're drunk, aren't you? 497 00:37:50,890 --> 00:37:53,260 Ahh... that's right... 498 00:37:53,530 --> 00:37:57,800 There was a party earlier to celebrate your promotion. 499 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:00,760 Right..! 500 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,230 Get up and dress nicely. 501 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,540 I want to congratulate you. 502 00:38:08,250 --> 00:38:10,010 It's late, isn't it? 503 00:38:10,350 --> 00:38:12,580 I said get dressed. 504 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,440 You should have just stayed at her place. 505 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,580 Who do you mean by "her"? - You know exactly who. 506 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,960 You hit me! - I did. So what of it? 507 00:38:27,430 --> 00:38:29,700 Even my parents never dared... 508 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,770 You bastard! 509 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,570 I'll piss then! - Fine, go right ahead then. 510 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:39,970 Move! 511 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,610 So then... did you? 512 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,920 I most surely did. 513 00:39:10,910 --> 00:39:16,210 Answering his slap by pissing in his room... That was pretty damn bold. 514 00:39:17,350 --> 00:39:19,340 But Kinuyo... 515 00:39:19,650 --> 00:39:23,420 You've become polished now a refined actor. 516 00:39:23,690 --> 00:39:28,220 You're sexy too. You shouldn't resent him. 517 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,620 So now that's over... what will you do? 518 00:39:31,860 --> 00:39:35,920 As long as I live... I'll never live with a man again. 519 00:39:42,410 --> 00:39:44,100 You idiot! 520 00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:57,080 I value your talent yet you cause so much trouble! 521 00:39:58,220 --> 00:40:01,620 Kinuyo came to tell me she'd been selfish. 522 00:40:01,830 --> 00:40:04,560 For my part, I have been too. 523 00:40:04,730 --> 00:40:06,890 You're relieved, aren't you? 524 00:40:09,770 --> 00:40:12,430 You're a bastard... - Chief... 525 00:40:16,270 --> 00:40:19,440 Thank you. - For what? 526 00:40:24,050 --> 00:40:28,950 Don't create any more trouble. The company can't afford it. 527 00:40:31,090 --> 00:40:35,080 My life with Shimizu lasted a little over a year. 528 00:40:36,530 --> 00:40:39,130 The chief told me a senior actress shouldn't be renting. 529 00:40:39,130 --> 00:40:40,770 - TANAKA - . The chief told me a senior actress shouldn't be renting. 530 00:40:41,930 --> 00:40:45,560 So I bought a two-storey house. 531 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,910 My uncle developed pneumonia... He died soon after. 532 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,750 He had always supported my unfortunate family. 533 00:41:06,090 --> 00:41:10,920 He always believed that I'd become the top actress at Kamata. 534 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:15,430 If he had lived a little longer... 535 00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:19,520 I could have given him a better life. 536 00:41:29,410 --> 00:41:33,940 Samurai films dominated the cinema in the late 1920s. 537 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,380 This was partly a reflection of social conditions... 538 00:41:38,490 --> 00:41:42,450 since the government suppressed free thought. 539 00:41:42,590 --> 00:41:43,930 SERPENT / OROCHI (1925) . . 540 00:41:43,930 --> 00:41:46,130 SERPENT / OROCHI (1925) . During this period... 541 00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:49,130 many masterpieces were produced... 542 00:41:49,570 --> 00:41:50,630 showing poor, nihilistic samurai rebelling against feudalism 543 00:41:50,630 --> 00:41:52,940 A DIARY OF CHUJI'S TRAVELS (1927) showing poor, nihilistic samurai rebelling against feudalism... 544 00:41:52,940 --> 00:41:53,640 A DIARY OF CHUJI'S TRAVELS (1927) or down-and-out gamblers as heroes. 545 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,830 or down-and-out gamblers as heroes. 546 00:41:57,810 --> 00:42:00,780 Spectacular on-screen sword fights... 547 00:42:00,780 --> 00:42:00,940 JOBLESS SAMURAI / RONIN-GAI (1928) . Spectacular on-screen sword fights... 548 00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:03,880 JOBLESS SAMURAI / RONIN-GAI (1928) . had audiences cheering. 549 00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:10,710 At the same time, a new contemporary genre emerged... 550 00:42:10,850 --> 00:42:11,620 known as the "tendency film". (keiko-eiga) 551 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:13,120 A LIVING DOLL (1929) known as the "tendency film". (keiko-eiga) 552 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,610 A LIVING DOLL (1929) . . 553 00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:16,890 Movie versions of novels... 554 00:42:16,990 --> 00:42:17,060 ASHES (1929) . . 555 00:42:17,060 --> 00:42:19,300 ASHES (1929) . were also created. 556 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:20,160 ASHES (1929) . . 557 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,830 WHAT MADE HER DO IT? (1930) . . 558 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,780 The talking movie. From silent to audio. 559 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,420 Western talkies were introduced in Japan. 560 00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:42,120 UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (1930) . Western talkies were introduced in Japan. 561 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:42,190 UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (1930) . . 562 00:42:42,190 --> 00:42:44,520 UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (1930) . in 1929. 563 00:42:45,590 --> 00:42:47,850 They were unpopular at first... 564 00:42:47,990 --> 00:42:51,930 because the narrator's voice overlayed the original soundtrack. 565 00:42:54,030 --> 00:42:55,790 The problem was solved... 566 00:42:55,900 --> 00:43:02,240 by placing superimposed titles down the right side of the screen. 567 00:43:02,410 --> 00:43:04,870 This was done for the first time in "Morocco". 568 00:43:06,410 --> 00:43:09,210 But this also caused a social problem. 569 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:15,340 masses of narrators and musicians lost their jobs and were on the streets. 570 00:43:17,590 --> 00:43:22,220 On top of this making talkies cost three times as much as silent films. 571 00:43:22,330 --> 00:43:25,420 Thus their progress in Japan was slow. 572 00:43:25,630 --> 00:43:32,000 But in 1931 Shochiku produced "Madam and Wife" 573 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,300 which became a classic as Japan's first talkie. 574 00:43:37,270 --> 00:43:40,000 The principal actress was Kinuyo Tanaka. 575 00:43:44,450 --> 00:43:51,290 SHOWA ERA 6 (1931) 576 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,800 Welcome. 577 00:44:10,970 --> 00:44:12,770 This way, please. 578 00:44:19,450 --> 00:44:21,280 In here, madam. 579 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,380 Hello. Please come on in. 580 00:44:33,730 --> 00:44:36,820 Were you surprised to be called all this way? 581 00:44:37,030 --> 00:44:39,630 Yes. What's the matter, sir? 582 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:44,970 I asked all our senior actors to come. 583 00:44:46,540 --> 00:44:49,440 Denmei Suzuki has resigned. 584 00:44:50,780 --> 00:44:52,840 I should say, he walked out... 585 00:44:53,050 --> 00:44:56,450 taking our big stars Okada and Takada with him. 586 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,390 More correctly, they were headhunted by our new competitors. 587 00:45:03,290 --> 00:45:05,190 It was to be expected. 588 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,860 The future of the cinema is now assured... 589 00:45:07,930 --> 00:45:10,900 and popular actors are valuable assets. 590 00:45:11,170 --> 00:45:14,190 Headhunting has become an accepted practice. 591 00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:17,870 We have many stars in our company. 592 00:45:18,210 --> 00:45:20,140 We must protect ourselves. 593 00:45:22,510 --> 00:45:23,810 Tanaka... 594 00:45:24,850 --> 00:45:28,580 I was just asking everyone how they felt about it. 595 00:45:30,050 --> 00:45:31,850 What about you? 596 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:36,280 I'm deeply indebted to Shochiku. 597 00:45:36,630 --> 00:45:39,860 No matter what they offer me, I would never leave. 598 00:45:40,630 --> 00:45:43,860 Kinuyo Tanaka is a Shochiku actress. 599 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,200 Please rest assured, sir. 600 00:45:50,110 --> 00:45:54,100 You're a modern woman yet you retain the old virtues. 601 00:45:58,150 --> 00:45:59,580 Thank you. 602 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:04,080 The shrike's song echos in the Amagi Mountain Pass. 603 00:46:08,730 --> 00:46:11,520 Beggars and itinerant players are not allowed to enter the village. 604 00:46:14,060 --> 00:46:18,000 "The Dancing Girls of Izu" was made in 1933. 605 00:46:18,130 --> 00:46:21,040 It was a silent film. 606 00:46:21,370 --> 00:46:24,540 Since many films were already being made as talkies... 607 00:46:24,540 --> 00:46:25,410 "Why are you walking so fast?" Since many films were already being made as talkies... 608 00:46:25,410 --> 00:46:25,610 "Why are you walking so fast?" . . 609 00:46:25,610 --> 00:46:27,140 "Why are you walking so fast?" . it seemed quite odd to me. 610 00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:28,200 it seemed quite odd to me. 611 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:33,720 But Mr. Gosho believed, making it a silent film would better reveal... 612 00:46:33,820 --> 00:46:36,100 its poetic beauty. 613 00:46:36,690 --> 00:46:39,020 It was a beautiful film. 614 00:46:42,990 --> 00:46:47,620 "When I told my sisters that I liked you, they made me pay the bill." 615 00:46:58,340 --> 00:47:01,280 "I might go to Tokyo." 616 00:47:03,550 --> 00:47:07,040 I tried to get inside the itinerant dancer. 617 00:47:08,020 --> 00:47:10,420 She always carried a drum on her back... 618 00:47:10,590 --> 00:47:13,680 so I carried mine throughout the shoot. 619 00:47:14,060 --> 00:47:18,190 By the end of shooting, my shoulders were black and blue. 620 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,060 Come here, my girl. 621 00:47:21,730 --> 00:47:25,130 What insolence... to say such things. 622 00:47:25,340 --> 00:47:28,100 How dare you enter this house, anyway? 623 00:47:28,340 --> 00:47:30,740 Have you apologized to Kinuyo? 624 00:47:31,770 --> 00:47:34,900 You virtually eloped with a studio chief. 625 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,810 And on top of that... 626 00:47:37,150 --> 00:47:41,550 now you want money to open a noodle shop. What a nerve! 627 00:47:42,390 --> 00:47:46,880 Times are hard for us too. - So I've heard. 628 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,390 I heard... 629 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,790 that Haruji and Shozo have left the studio. 630 00:47:52,930 --> 00:47:54,660 It's true. - Why? 631 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,960 The work just didn't suit them... 632 00:47:57,070 --> 00:47:58,500 It wasn't that. 633 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,930 All I did was run around... I was just a stage rat. 634 00:48:02,070 --> 00:48:06,200 And Shozo got sick of carrying heavy equipment. 635 00:48:06,380 --> 00:48:10,210 I've had enough of being called the big star's lackey little brother. 636 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,580 Shozo! 637 00:48:12,220 --> 00:48:16,280 What a loser! Others seem to manage alright. 638 00:48:16,420 --> 00:48:18,680 Just look who's talking now? 639 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,180 You ran off and married without a thought for us. 640 00:48:22,430 --> 00:48:24,830 Kinuyo isn't obliged to help you. 641 00:48:24,990 --> 00:48:28,120 Please, Kinuyo. I'll repay you. 642 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,830 I promise, Please help me out. 643 00:48:30,970 --> 00:48:33,130 I'll give it to you. - Kinuyo... 644 00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,070 She's talking about a lot of money. 645 00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:40,700 In return sister, I want you to stay away from my house. 646 00:48:41,210 --> 00:48:42,640 Brother Shozo... 647 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,140 Brother Haruji. If you hate your jobs, leave them. 648 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,410 What will they do then? - Laze around here and do nothing. 649 00:48:50,550 --> 00:48:55,050 I'll support you both. Sister... come get your money. 650 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,460 Thank you. 651 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:16,580 What's wrong with Mum? - You noticed? 652 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,650 Shozo told me. 653 00:49:18,850 --> 00:49:21,280 She often puts her hand to her chest. 654 00:49:21,950 --> 00:49:24,390 There's no need to worry. 655 00:49:25,390 --> 00:49:27,520 I'm just a little tired. 656 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,690 Are you sure it isn't heart trouble? 657 00:49:29,790 --> 00:49:34,350 I've been asking you to see a doctor. You really should. 658 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,060 The only time I ever went to a doctor... 659 00:49:38,230 --> 00:49:43,190 was when my cheek swelled up because of an infected wisdom tooth. I'm fine. 660 00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,710 But I'm starting to worry about you. 661 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,000 Why? 662 00:49:49,110 --> 00:49:52,640 I heard you were seeing that cameraman... 663 00:49:52,780 --> 00:49:55,250 the one who worked on "The Dancing Girls of Izu." 664 00:49:56,620 --> 00:49:58,990 Yes, we worked together. 665 00:50:01,790 --> 00:50:05,190 Wasn't director Gosho keen on you? 666 00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,900 He made you look so lovely in "The Dancing Girls." 667 00:50:10,270 --> 00:50:11,730 Didn't he? 668 00:50:11,930 --> 00:50:15,460 Haven't you seen it? You're being awfully quiet. 669 00:50:15,610 --> 00:50:17,970 I loved him, too. - Then why... 670 00:50:18,070 --> 00:50:20,870 Never mind. - But I do mind. 671 00:50:21,310 --> 00:50:24,680 What about that baseball player? 672 00:50:25,010 --> 00:50:28,040 He jilted me. - Then who's the latest? 673 00:50:29,190 --> 00:50:33,590 Changing men all the time... What are you thinking...? 674 00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:37,380 It doesn't matter, Mother. - Why not? 675 00:50:37,530 --> 00:50:40,590 It's just part of her job. All actresses do it. 676 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,060 There's nothing wrong with it. - What if someone proposes to her! 677 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,330 I told you... I'll never marry. 678 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,800 Why are you leading them on, then? 679 00:50:50,870 --> 00:50:52,500 I'm not! 680 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,170 At the time I'm serious. 681 00:50:57,010 --> 00:51:01,880 I understand less and less of what's going on in your head. 682 00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:03,820 It makes me sad. 683 00:51:03,990 --> 00:51:07,080 There's a man at the door. 684 00:51:08,460 --> 00:51:12,150 It's my man. We arranged to meet here. 685 00:51:22,710 --> 00:51:24,570 Who are you? 686 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,740 I'm Senkichi Nakama. 687 00:51:30,050 --> 00:51:32,210 They sent me from the studio. 688 00:51:32,350 --> 00:51:35,550 They said you'd take me on as your pupil. 689 00:51:36,050 --> 00:51:40,320 Who said that? - Mr. Kobayashi and Mr. Himori. 690 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,220 They're senior actors, aren't they? 691 00:51:44,460 --> 00:51:47,190 Weren't they just pulling your leg. - What? 692 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,460 They were teasing you. 693 00:51:49,730 --> 00:51:53,190 When I started, they'd say the director wanted to see me... 694 00:51:53,270 --> 00:51:55,100 so I'd rush off to find him. 695 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,200 They often amuse themselves at someone else's expense.. 696 00:52:00,210 --> 00:52:03,540 Why would they do that? - Why, indeed? 697 00:52:04,450 --> 00:52:06,440 Perhaps they're bored. 698 00:52:06,650 --> 00:52:11,810 But wouldn't it be odd for a man to study under an actress? 699 00:52:11,990 --> 00:52:12,650 Well... 700 00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:15,990 You're not from around here, are you? 701 00:52:16,060 --> 00:52:20,390 I'm from Beppu, in Kyushu. I adore the cinema. 702 00:52:20,500 --> 00:52:24,520 When I told my father I wanted to be an actor, he hit me. 703 00:52:24,700 --> 00:52:28,600 But I persisted. I stole money from my father and came here. 704 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,710 I suspect he'll disown me now. 705 00:52:31,910 --> 00:52:34,040 How do you feed yourself? 706 00:52:34,540 --> 00:52:36,070 Sometimes I eat, sometimes I don't. 707 00:52:36,250 --> 00:52:40,650 But I help with sets and work on location. I manage to survive. 708 00:52:40,850 --> 00:52:43,480 I'm strong, and a good fighter. 709 00:52:43,590 --> 00:52:45,550 Do you like the studio? - Yes. 710 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:47,880 I just love the atmosphere. 711 00:52:48,090 --> 00:52:51,120 I'm determined to make my living in the cinema. 712 00:52:51,290 --> 00:52:54,890 Well... Please excuse me. - Wait just a moment. 713 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,430 Why not work for me? - Kinuyo! 714 00:52:58,770 --> 00:53:03,640 What could I do for an actress like you? 715 00:53:04,510 --> 00:53:06,440 - bodyguard. 716 00:53:12,210 --> 00:53:18,520 SHOWA ERA 11 (1936) 717 00:53:26,260 --> 00:53:28,360 So we'll build a house and an annex... 718 00:53:28,530 --> 00:53:31,690 on half an acre of land in Kamakura. 719 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:34,490 It'll be really fine. 720 00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,770 From the garden we'll look over Enoshima and Sagami Bay. 721 00:53:39,580 --> 00:53:43,010 We were all but driven out of our old home. 722 00:53:43,250 --> 00:53:46,650 I still remember it like it were yesterday. 723 00:53:47,050 --> 00:53:49,540 This is like a dream. 724 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,780 Kinuyo... thank you. 725 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,920 It's hard to imagine living in such a mansion... 726 00:53:57,060 --> 00:54:00,830 The studio too has moved from run-down old Kamata. 727 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:04,360 The timing is just right. - Don't put down Kamata like that. 728 00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:06,990 It was like a mother to me. 729 00:54:10,140 --> 00:54:12,160 The day we left Kamata... 730 00:54:12,310 --> 00:54:14,940 I couldn't hold back my tears. 731 00:54:16,380 --> 00:54:18,750 The chief was in tears, too. 732 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:20,980 Senkichi! 733 00:54:21,350 --> 00:54:24,620 You're late. It's dress rehearsal today. 734 00:54:24,850 --> 00:54:27,520 We should have left for the studio. 735 00:54:27,660 --> 00:54:30,920 Something happen? - Yes... I did it again. 736 00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,990 You're black and blue. 737 00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:36,000 He got into another fight! 738 00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,600 That leak in the studio... 739 00:54:38,770 --> 00:54:41,530 The carpenter didn't give a damn. He just neglected it and... 740 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,400 So you hit him. - Yes. 741 00:54:43,540 --> 00:54:47,600 You hit him first, right? - Yes. That's my weakness. 742 00:54:49,980 --> 00:54:55,750 You're Kinuyo's very important bodyguard, no? 743 00:54:56,020 --> 00:55:01,250 We always have bandages and sticking plasters to patch you up. 744 00:55:01,460 --> 00:55:02,550 Wait a minute... 745 00:55:02,660 --> 00:55:04,790 Mother, you're so soft on Senkichi. 746 00:55:04,890 --> 00:55:07,420 And you were opposed to him at first. 747 00:55:07,660 --> 00:55:10,260 I'm grateful for your concern. 748 00:55:11,430 --> 00:55:15,000 Ah... those are the plans for the Kamakura house. 749 00:55:15,370 --> 00:55:18,740 It really will be Kinuyo Castle. 750 00:55:18,910 --> 00:55:20,670 It's too big. 751 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:21,810 Not at all. 752 00:55:21,940 --> 00:55:26,110 Miss Tanaka is now as senior as Sumiko Kurishima. 753 00:55:31,890 --> 00:55:33,250 Mother! 754 00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:36,150 Mother! 755 00:55:43,630 --> 00:55:47,500 Lay out the bed! Chiyo, Fusako... the bedding. 756 00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:52,730 Haruji, the doctor! - Right. 757 00:56:01,450 --> 00:56:02,780 Shozo... 758 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,250 Take her feet gently. 759 00:56:16,570 --> 00:56:17,960 The cover. 760 00:56:18,130 --> 00:56:21,760 Bring water. - Not until the doctor comes. 761 00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:28,000 Be strong. 762 00:56:28,340 --> 00:56:30,240 Please be strong. 763 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,320 I'm... finished. 764 00:56:38,620 --> 00:56:40,450 Don't be silly. 765 00:56:42,190 --> 00:56:43,950 Where does it hurt? 766 00:56:45,590 --> 00:56:47,320 Poor Mother... 767 00:56:49,270 --> 00:56:50,700 Kinuyo... 768 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,270 all the family... 769 00:56:55,740 --> 00:56:59,770 take care of them... for me. 770 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:03,980 The only thing... 771 00:57:05,250 --> 00:57:09,980 I regret leaving behind... 772 00:57:12,050 --> 00:57:13,920 is Ryosuke... 773 00:57:14,620 --> 00:57:19,620 who's been in hiding as a traitor. 774 00:57:22,430 --> 00:57:24,130 I'm sure... 775 00:57:24,300 --> 00:57:26,790 he's alive somewhere. 776 00:57:30,470 --> 00:57:34,140 If he ever contacts you... 777 00:57:35,380 --> 00:57:38,180 I know it's a burden... 778 00:57:40,350 --> 00:57:46,380 You're the only one who can help him. 779 00:57:48,990 --> 00:57:51,120 I'm counting on you. 780 00:57:54,300 --> 00:57:56,090 Please... 781 00:57:58,970 --> 00:58:00,940 Kinuyo... 782 00:58:03,270 --> 00:58:05,040 thank you... 783 00:58:07,110 --> 00:58:10,550 for... everything. 784 00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:19,950 Mother! 785 00:59:22,150 --> 00:59:27,110 The Great Depression came... and began to affect Japan. 786 00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:33,500 It cast it's shadow everywhere and hastened militarization. 787 00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:33,860 THEATER OF LIFE: YOUTH VERSION (1936) . . 788 00:59:33,860 --> 00:59:35,600 THEATER OF LIFE: YOUTH VERSION (1936) . But during this period... 789 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:35,730 THEATER OF LIFE: YOUTH VERSION (1936) . . 790 00:59:35,730 --> 00:59:36,170 THEATER OF LIFE: YOUTH VERSION (1936) . many challenging films appeared. 791 00:59:36,170 --> 00:59:38,370 many challenging films appeared. 792 00:59:38,370 --> 00:59:39,770 CAPRICIOUS YOUNG MAN (1936) . many challenging films appeared. 793 00:59:39,770 --> 00:59:41,570 CAPRICIOUS YOUNG MAN (1936) . . 794 00:59:46,910 --> 00:59:50,310 SISTERS OF THE GION (1936) . . 795 00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,920 MANY PEOPLE (1937) . . 796 00:59:57,820 --> 01:00:01,280 THE DAUGHTER OF THE SAMURAI (1937) . . 797 01:00:03,530 --> 01:00:06,930 ENOKEN'S CHIKIRI KINTA PART 1 - MOMMA, THE HAT - THE NICE WAY (1937) . 798 01:00:08,730 --> 01:00:11,100 It was also at this time... 799 01:00:11,170 --> 01:00:15,130 that the Toho block emerged with new aims and methods... 800 01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,430 very different from existing film-makers... 801 01:00:18,570 --> 01:00:22,200 companies like Shochiku or Nikkatsu. 802 01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:26,820 THE CONGRESS DANCES (1931) . . 803 01:00:26,820 --> 01:00:28,580 THE CONGRESS DANCES (1931) . European films... 804 01:00:28,580 --> 01:00:28,750 THE CONGRESS DANCES (1931) . . 805 01:00:28,750 --> 01:00:29,280 THE CONGRESS DANCES (1931) . were still being imported. 806 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,150 were still being imported. 807 01:00:33,860 --> 01:00:39,020 But with the outbreak of the "China Incident" in 1937... 808 01:00:39,290 --> 01:00:43,250 government agencies such as the Cinema Regulatory Office, 809 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,600 began to intervene and impose rigid controls 810 01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,200 on the content and operation of the cinema. 811 01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:55,540 Many men in the industry were conscripted... 812 01:00:55,710 --> 01:01:00,240 including Yasujiro Ozu who directed "The Only Son". 813 01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:03,200 Sadao Yamanaka directed "Human Heart, Paper Balloon"... 814 01:02:03,350 --> 01:02:06,250 before he was sent to the front. 815 01:02:06,450 --> 01:02:09,420 He fell ill and died in northern China. 816 01:02:11,020 --> 01:02:13,650 He was 29 years old. 817 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:46,620 SHOWA ERA 13 (1938) 818 01:02:53,130 --> 01:02:56,150 That cat's dirty. - It strayed in. 819 01:02:56,330 --> 01:02:59,030 Is it raining? - No. 820 01:03:00,940 --> 01:03:04,700 "Aizen Katsura" is a spectacular success. 821 01:03:04,810 --> 01:03:07,870 My landlady saw it twice. Really, twice! 822 01:03:08,180 --> 01:03:10,970 I feel proud, too. - It's good, isn't it? 823 01:03:11,110 --> 01:03:13,310 Ken Uehara is very handsome... 824 01:03:13,420 --> 01:03:18,410 but I was amazed how you played a widow with a child. 825 01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,960 Don't say a "widow". - A bereaved wife, then. 826 01:03:22,090 --> 01:03:23,460 Well... 827 01:03:23,730 --> 01:03:28,090 Young stars like Takamine won't take such roles. 828 01:03:28,330 --> 01:03:30,990 So it was fitting that I should take it on. 829 01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:35,140 To be honest, the advance of younger actresses... 830 01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:37,740 such as Takamine, Takasugi and Kuwano 831 01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,310 had me quite worried. 832 01:03:40,410 --> 01:03:42,600 But you've swept away my concern 833 01:03:42,710 --> 01:03:45,910 and fully recovered your popularity. 834 01:03:46,180 --> 01:03:49,580 You've truly been "through flowers and storms". 835 01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,660 This is a katsura tree. 836 01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,220 It's called... the Compassionate Buddha Tree. 837 01:04:08,070 --> 01:04:09,590 The legend has it... 838 01:04:09,770 --> 01:04:13,330 that if a couple touches this tree, vowing true love, 839 01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,930 their love will blossom. 840 01:04:16,910 --> 01:04:18,500 But you know, Sen-chan... 841 01:04:19,380 --> 01:04:21,870 It really hit home. 842 01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,950 If I was an athelete where a win or loss is clear, 843 01:04:26,050 --> 01:04:28,450 if I kept losing, I could retire. 844 01:04:28,620 --> 01:04:31,150 But in acting, winning and losing are never that clear. 845 01:04:31,260 --> 01:04:33,660 So I can never retire. 846 01:04:33,900 --> 01:04:35,560 It's awfully hard... 847 01:04:35,700 --> 01:04:38,600 You're so single-minded about acting. 848 01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:40,730 That's your strength. 849 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:44,760 You really shone in "Koto and Sasuke." 850 01:04:45,210 --> 01:04:47,540 Really? Was I that good? 851 01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,270 But the original novel by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 852 01:04:50,380 --> 01:04:52,610 was too difficult for me. 853 01:04:52,710 --> 01:04:55,440 I'd just been made a Principal Actress. 854 01:04:55,620 --> 01:04:57,520 I wanted to do well in it. 855 01:04:57,620 --> 01:05:00,750 The role of Shunkin was perfect for you. 856 01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:04,690 Proud, selfish, wanton... 857 01:05:04,790 --> 01:05:08,230 What do you mean? - Mr. Shimizu cast you well. 858 01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,630 Fool! One has to act as well. - Is that so? 859 01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,160 But... 860 01:05:15,570 --> 01:05:18,770 those were the last days. - Of what? 861 01:05:20,140 --> 01:05:24,840 Of the age when actors and crew put everything into film-making. 862 01:05:25,910 --> 01:05:28,610 Just look at the crews these days. 863 01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:32,340 They're only concerned with themselves. 864 01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,250 No one takes risks any longer. 865 01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,260 The fun is gone. 866 01:05:37,660 --> 01:05:40,630 You're no exception. - Why? 867 01:05:41,130 --> 01:05:44,000 You've lost your passion. - Who hasn't? 868 01:05:49,270 --> 01:05:50,830 Who indeed... 869 01:06:06,620 --> 01:06:13,890 SHOWA ERA 15 (1940) 870 01:06:31,580 --> 01:06:33,280 Excuse me. 871 01:06:34,250 --> 01:06:36,310 I'm from Planning... 872 01:06:38,220 --> 01:06:41,820 Isoya is my name. Thank you for coming so far. 873 01:06:55,070 --> 01:06:56,700 I'm Mizouchi. 874 01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,140 Kinuyo Tanaka, sir. 875 01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,200 Welcome. 876 01:07:03,850 --> 01:07:06,180 I'm at your service, sir. 877 01:07:10,790 --> 01:07:13,250 THE FENCE BUILDER 878 01:07:22,330 --> 01:07:24,700 It's so hot... 879 01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,970 What do you think of all that? 880 01:07:39,410 --> 01:07:40,810 About what? 881 01:07:40,950 --> 01:07:43,080 Planning normally comes to meet us 882 01:07:43,220 --> 01:07:46,280 but for a big director to do that... 883 01:07:46,420 --> 01:07:48,550 It was surprising. 884 01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:52,120 Maybe it's his custom. - Maybe. 885 01:07:52,430 --> 01:07:56,090 I thought he'd talk about work but he didn't. 886 01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,390 Excuse me. 887 01:08:17,150 --> 01:08:20,380 The director sent me to deliver these to you. 888 01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:23,890 The director? - I mean Mr. Mizouchi. 889 01:08:26,030 --> 01:08:30,560 What books are they? - He wants you to read them. 890 01:08:31,830 --> 01:08:37,270 I've already read the script for "The Woman of Osaka." 891 01:08:37,410 --> 01:08:39,770 Have you? Excuse me then. 892 01:08:39,940 --> 01:08:41,310 Just a minute... 893 01:08:41,540 --> 01:08:45,270 When will I meet the director to discuss the shoot? 894 01:08:45,710 --> 01:08:47,180 I wouldn't know. 895 01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:50,950 May I ask your name? - Sakanashi, madam. 896 01:08:51,090 --> 01:08:54,180 - What's your job? - I'm staff. 897 01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:55,690 Excuse me. 898 01:09:03,330 --> 01:09:05,270 What's all this? 899 01:09:10,470 --> 01:09:14,430 Goodness! They're all on bunraku. 900 01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:18,210 They're reference books. - Are they meant for me? 901 01:09:18,350 --> 01:09:21,080 Will you read them? - Don't be silly. 902 01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:23,750 I only read scripts. 903 01:09:38,570 --> 01:09:43,000 Director, I'll do that. Please leave it there. 904 01:09:43,570 --> 01:09:45,900 Let's have sukiyaki tonight. 905 01:09:46,170 --> 01:09:48,230 I've prepared saké. 906 01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,270 Do you like it hot even in summer? 907 01:09:51,810 --> 01:09:54,610 Hot saké is best in summer. 908 01:09:55,550 --> 01:09:59,750 Cold saké makes me depressingly drunk. 909 01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:05,420 Don't you have to attend classes at the university? 910 01:10:05,630 --> 01:10:09,190 It's all right, so long as I'm enrolled. 911 01:10:09,830 --> 01:10:14,860 Your family's from a temple, aren't they? 912 01:10:17,440 --> 01:10:20,770 Are you allowed to assist with directing? 913 01:10:21,010 --> 01:10:25,310 Our sect believes in 'Sansen somoku shikkai jobutsu'. 914 01:10:25,710 --> 01:10:28,210 We view anything we take on as spiritual training. 915 01:10:29,020 --> 01:10:32,320 And I want to direct films. 916 01:10:33,660 --> 01:10:36,420 Good afternoon. You've started already. 917 01:10:37,090 --> 01:10:39,490 Well... please come in. - Thank you. 918 01:10:41,230 --> 01:10:43,860 How do you like it here? 919 01:10:44,170 --> 01:10:46,630 At least it's close to the studio. 920 01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:51,300 Kurumazaki is staying here and being a great help. 921 01:10:51,810 --> 01:10:54,400 It's too far to commute from my house... 922 01:10:54,780 --> 01:10:56,970 anyway there's no one... 923 01:10:57,580 --> 01:11:01,020 By the way, how is your wife's health? 924 01:11:05,390 --> 01:11:08,750 She's been in hospital so long. It must be hard for you, no? 925 01:11:10,690 --> 01:11:13,180 Miss Kinuyo came to the studio yesterday. 926 01:11:13,730 --> 01:11:17,160 Why? - Why? She's worried, of course. 927 01:11:17,370 --> 01:11:22,170 She's been here three days and still hasn't heard a single word from us. 928 01:11:22,570 --> 01:11:25,940 She needs to know about her costume, her wigs... 929 01:11:26,170 --> 01:11:28,700 She's never worked with you before. 930 01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,240 Will you have some? - No, thank you. 931 01:11:31,410 --> 01:11:35,140 Anyway, I was surprised at how politely she spoke. 932 01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:37,310 I wonder... 933 01:11:37,450 --> 01:11:40,790 if it's reflects how hard she's trying to become a star. 934 01:11:41,260 --> 01:11:43,350 She's probably just feeling defensive. 935 01:11:57,870 --> 01:12:01,170 Atsuko...? - I sent her shopping. 936 01:12:02,940 --> 01:12:05,940 She's a bit old, but pleasant enough. 937 01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:10,140 Will you keep your assistant this time, please? 938 01:12:10,350 --> 01:12:12,880 Have you heard from the studio? 939 01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,850 No. - It's more than a week now. 940 01:12:16,060 --> 01:12:18,550 We still haven't made any arrangements. 941 01:12:18,790 --> 01:12:22,990 I've memorized the script, there's nothing else to do. 942 01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,160 Why don't you study those reference books? 943 01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:28,430 Sen-chan... 944 01:12:28,670 --> 01:12:31,870 All an actress needs to do is act her role... 945 01:12:32,010 --> 01:12:36,380 according to the script and as the director directs. 946 01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:40,480 She need do nothing else. - I've heard that many times. 947 01:12:40,780 --> 01:12:42,410 Very well, then. 948 01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:49,350 I came here expecting a fine film to work on. 949 01:12:49,660 --> 01:12:51,520 But look at this... 950 01:12:52,260 --> 01:12:54,060 A visitor for you. 951 01:13:03,140 --> 01:13:04,300 A moment... 952 01:13:05,170 --> 01:13:08,230 Who is it? - The director. 953 01:13:08,440 --> 01:13:09,540 What? 954 01:13:17,950 --> 01:13:19,680 Please... 955 01:13:28,860 --> 01:13:31,560 Good morning, sir. - Good morning. 956 01:13:32,530 --> 01:13:34,560 Did you come on your own? 957 01:13:36,940 --> 01:13:38,060 Yes. 958 01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:45,300 Miss Tanaka, have you seen any bunraku theatre? 959 01:13:46,550 --> 01:13:47,610 Yes. 960 01:13:49,020 --> 01:13:53,480 Are you making progress in your study of it? 961 01:13:55,020 --> 01:13:56,960 Well... yes. 962 01:13:57,890 --> 01:14:02,300 My new film is about the musical life of Danpei, 963 01:14:02,430 --> 01:14:06,160 a shamisen master in the bunraku theatre... 964 01:14:06,330 --> 01:14:09,600 I want to make it from a woman's point of view. 965 01:14:09,700 --> 01:14:10,640 Yes. 966 01:14:10,770 --> 01:14:14,900 Ochika, whom I play, falls in love with Danpei's music. 967 01:14:15,110 --> 01:14:19,440 He is a widower with a child, and she steps in as his wife. 968 01:14:19,780 --> 01:14:23,510 She gradually manages to convince herself 969 01:14:23,590 --> 01:14:27,520 that only she can perfect his music. 970 01:14:27,620 --> 01:14:29,490 So when they break up... 971 01:14:29,590 --> 01:14:32,820 Miss Tanaka, please travel to Osaka tomorrow. 972 01:14:33,660 --> 01:14:37,100 I'll come with you. We'll see a bunraku show. 973 01:14:37,300 --> 01:14:40,600 We'll also interview the performers and musicians. 974 01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:45,140 I'll let Isoya from Planning give you the details. 975 01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:47,800 Goodbye. - Excuse me. 976 01:14:52,780 --> 01:14:54,650 Welcome, sir. 977 01:14:55,350 --> 01:14:59,310 I heard you were here so I came to greet you. 978 01:14:59,790 --> 01:15:02,780 Going already? - It's been a long time. 979 01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:05,290 Excuse me. 980 01:15:07,460 --> 01:15:10,230 He hasn't changed at all. 981 01:15:12,330 --> 01:15:14,800 Is there anything you need? 982 01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:16,990 Please tell us if there is. 983 01:15:17,170 --> 01:15:18,900 Madam... 984 01:15:19,270 --> 01:15:22,110 Does the director come here often? 985 01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:26,180 Yes... now and then. - Wasn't he born in Tokyo? 986 01:15:26,350 --> 01:15:29,980 Has he lived in Kyoto long? - Well that's what I heard. 987 01:15:30,220 --> 01:15:32,950 I think I heard him say... 988 01:15:33,050 --> 01:15:35,990 that he likes the ambiance of Kyoto. 989 01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:39,880 Please. - The ambiance... I see. 990 01:15:40,300 --> 01:15:43,460 His depiction of women is said to be masterful. 991 01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:47,060 He must have trained himself in that area here. 992 01:15:47,270 --> 01:15:49,400 Well, I'm not sure... 993 01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:51,940 I wouldn't know. 994 01:15:52,470 --> 01:15:54,700 Excuse me. 995 01:15:57,580 --> 01:15:59,380 Thank you. 996 01:16:03,580 --> 01:16:07,450 It's interesting, Senkichi. - What is? 997 01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:10,160 Kenji Mizouchi. - Him? 998 01:16:10,460 --> 01:16:12,480 His speech is excessively polite. 999 01:16:12,660 --> 01:16:15,490 A difficult director to work with... 1000 01:16:15,630 --> 01:16:17,600 But there's more to him than that. 1001 01:16:18,270 --> 01:16:19,890 I'll have to challenge him. 1002 01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,850 Good morning. I'm sorry I'm late. 1003 01:17:13,250 --> 01:17:16,850 Good morning. - This way, Miss Tanaka. 1004 01:17:25,700 --> 01:17:28,900 Hello. - Hello. We meet again. 1005 01:17:29,570 --> 01:17:30,660 Hello... 1006 01:17:43,420 --> 01:17:44,750 Let's get started. 1007 01:17:53,460 --> 01:17:57,730 Danpei's house: Entrance "As a matter of fact..." 1008 01:18:02,140 --> 01:18:03,630 Please begin reading. 1009 01:18:03,740 --> 01:18:06,330 Let's start, then. 1010 01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:08,970 The script. 1011 01:18:09,380 --> 01:18:12,610 As a matter of fact, Okuni's in trouble. 1012 01:18:12,750 --> 01:18:14,770 So I was wondering... 1013 01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:18,850 if you could lend me 50 yen in exchange for this. 1014 01:18:18,990 --> 01:18:23,010 Well, asking like this out of the blue... 1015 01:18:24,130 --> 01:18:28,060 Why does she need it? - Won't you lend it to her? 1016 01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:31,330 I can manage it if necessary. 1017 01:18:54,620 --> 01:18:56,210 Please call Mr. Yodo. 1018 01:18:58,830 --> 01:19:01,120 You want Mr. Yodo? - That's right. 1019 01:19:31,390 --> 01:19:33,420 Miss Tanaka, please begin. 1020 01:19:36,700 --> 01:19:41,190 What's the problem? I'll ask Okuni directly... 1021 01:19:41,340 --> 01:19:43,240 Please call Yodo. 1022 01:19:48,480 --> 01:19:51,210 Hatsuko! You saw that, didn't you? 1023 01:19:51,510 --> 01:19:55,450 He puts up a blackboard in the middle of the set... 1024 01:19:55,580 --> 01:19:58,110 and makes the cast read from it. 1025 01:19:58,290 --> 01:20:02,120 Then when it sounds awkward, wam-bam, he makes the assistant erase it. 1026 01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:05,450 Yes. Eventually the whole thing got erased. 1027 01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:08,290 Then he calls Mr. Yodo, the scriptwriter. 1028 01:20:08,630 --> 01:20:10,860 Mr. Yodo rushes to him. 1029 01:20:11,100 --> 01:20:15,230 He orders Mr. Yodo to change the lines to make them easier. 1030 01:20:15,440 --> 01:20:18,870 Mr. Yodo changes them. They're written on the board. 1031 01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,840 We say the new lines. 1032 01:20:21,010 --> 01:20:23,910 He doesn't like them and changes them again... 1033 01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:28,540 The director never once corrected a line himself. 1034 01:20:29,250 --> 01:20:32,810 Where's Sen? - He went out with the crew. 1035 01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:34,910 Has gone drinking again? 1036 01:20:35,620 --> 01:20:38,820 We didn't shoot a thing, not even one take. 1037 01:20:38,990 --> 01:20:41,020 How is it possible? 1038 01:20:41,300 --> 01:20:44,260 May I speak, madam? 1039 01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:46,300 You may. - Thank you. 1040 01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:50,500 Unless the actors are present and say the lines 1041 01:20:50,610 --> 01:20:53,300 he can't tell if they're natural... 1042 01:20:53,440 --> 01:20:56,270 Can't he tell that? It's all in the script. 1043 01:20:56,440 --> 01:20:59,880 But without hearing the actors speak... 1044 01:21:00,050 --> 01:21:02,280 he can't say if the lines are alive or dead... 1045 01:21:02,350 --> 01:21:05,550 I'm alive and well. - I know, madam. 1046 01:21:05,790 --> 01:21:10,520 What about me? I learnt all the lines in the script! 1047 01:21:11,590 --> 01:21:14,720 You frightened me! - I'm sorry. 1048 01:21:14,860 --> 01:21:16,260 Sen... 1049 01:21:16,830 --> 01:21:19,300 Will tomorrow going to be like today? 1050 01:21:20,270 --> 01:21:24,070 Oh yes. We've never seen anything like that, have we? 1051 01:21:24,340 --> 01:21:27,740 But he's a very interesting director. 1052 01:21:27,910 --> 01:21:31,440 At first he was calling for Mr. Yodo. 1053 01:21:31,580 --> 01:21:33,950 Then it was just Yodo. 1054 01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:37,950 In the end he was shouting "Call Yodo!" 1055 01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:42,280 But the whole crew is working so hard. 1056 01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,990 What's behind that power? 1057 01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:53,760 What's driving him? 1058 01:21:58,970 --> 01:22:01,640 No, I can't. - What? 1059 01:22:01,940 --> 01:22:05,810 I see. What a strong-willed woman you arel 1060 01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:07,870 Please leave me. 1061 01:22:08,380 --> 01:22:10,750 I'll talk to Okuni myself. 1062 01:22:11,590 --> 01:22:14,820 Miss Tanaka, please behave naturally. 1063 01:22:18,730 --> 01:22:22,590 Miss Tanaka, aren't you a little on edge? 1064 01:22:24,270 --> 01:22:27,430 Miss Tanaka, are you happy with that? 1065 01:22:29,140 --> 01:22:32,870 Miss Tanaka, it's not quite right. 1066 01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,770 Miss Tanaka, put some feeling into it. 1067 01:22:36,580 --> 01:22:40,310 Miss Tanaka, you're not acting naturally. 1068 01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,580 Miss Tanaka, are you thinking? 1069 01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:47,780 Miss Tanakal Some psychological insight. 1070 01:22:55,860 --> 01:22:57,090 Right. 1071 01:22:58,570 --> 01:23:01,500 Miss Tanakal Psychological insight. 1072 01:23:33,570 --> 01:23:35,060 Director! 1073 01:23:37,740 --> 01:23:40,430 Would you please tell me... 1074 01:23:40,670 --> 01:23:42,510 how d'you want me to act? 1075 01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:49,410 Unless you instruct me in specific terms... 1076 01:23:49,480 --> 01:23:51,920 I don't know what you want. 1077 01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:56,450 You're an actress, aren't you? 1078 01:23:56,690 --> 01:23:58,660 You get paid to act. 1079 01:23:59,230 --> 01:24:01,460 Then do your job. 1080 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:05,300 I'm a director. I can't teach you to act. 1081 01:24:11,310 --> 01:24:15,070 You've been working hard. Please relax tonight. 1082 01:24:15,540 --> 01:24:17,510 Thank you. 1083 01:24:17,910 --> 01:24:22,820 They say Kyoto summers are so hot they melt people. 1084 01:24:23,050 --> 01:24:25,310 Must be hard to work, no? 1085 01:24:25,450 --> 01:24:27,510 It's awfully humid. 1086 01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:32,720 The director knows more about women than women themselves. 1087 01:24:32,890 --> 01:24:34,120 It's rather frightening. 1088 01:24:34,230 --> 01:24:36,990 What kind of things, madam? 1089 01:24:37,100 --> 01:24:41,000 It isn't easy to explain such things, is it? 1090 01:24:41,170 --> 01:24:42,500 Mr. Mizouchi once said... 1091 01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:47,970 it was wrong to see a geisha's make-up as deceitful. 1092 01:24:48,380 --> 01:24:52,710 He said it was as serious as a samurai's battle armour. 1093 01:24:52,910 --> 01:24:54,400 That impressed me. 1094 01:24:55,150 --> 01:25:00,050 He's directed many films. Some are excellent, some not. 1095 01:25:00,220 --> 01:25:02,310 Once, under the influence of Izumi's novels, 1096 01:25:02,420 --> 01:25:05,760 he fell into aestheticism and hit a slump. 1097 01:25:06,460 --> 01:25:09,400 I think he found himself with two films he made... 1098 01:25:09,530 --> 01:25:13,990 one about a poor woman ruined because of her father... 1099 01:25:14,170 --> 01:25:17,800 the other about two geisha sisters, men's playthings, 1100 01:25:17,940 --> 01:25:20,410 who live in a dark house in Gion. 1101 01:25:20,610 --> 01:25:25,310 That was a good film. - Depicting the plight of women, and how 1102 01:25:25,480 --> 01:25:28,450 they're exploited by men... it's his main theme. 1103 01:25:28,550 --> 01:25:31,640 He probably led a fast life when he was young. 1104 01:25:31,750 --> 01:25:35,280 Perhaps the proprietress can tell us about it. 1105 01:25:35,660 --> 01:25:38,150 Well, I don't know. 1106 01:25:38,260 --> 01:25:41,320 You've know him a long time, haven't you? 1107 01:25:41,630 --> 01:25:44,000 Well... sort of... 1108 01:25:45,170 --> 01:25:48,330 It seems he used to be a very heavy drinker. 1109 01:25:48,740 --> 01:25:54,040 I heard he once drank so much he urinated in the alcove. 1110 01:25:54,210 --> 01:25:56,640 He's said to have a scar on his back... 1111 01:25:56,780 --> 01:25:59,540 made by a woman with a razor blade. 1112 01:25:59,850 --> 01:26:04,110 What's the story? - No one's seen the scar. 1113 01:26:04,290 --> 01:26:06,550 But I hear he often says 1114 01:26:06,620 --> 01:26:10,280 to depict women one has to have been wounded by them. 1115 01:26:34,480 --> 01:26:37,010 This is a record of the shoot. 1116 01:26:37,250 --> 01:26:39,010 I'll leave it here. 1117 01:26:39,150 --> 01:26:40,520 Tell me... 1118 01:26:40,850 --> 01:26:44,480 What's your opinion of Kinuyo Tanaka as an actress? 1119 01:26:45,330 --> 01:26:47,090 I like her. 1120 01:26:47,260 --> 01:26:49,320 She's quite unique, you know. 1121 01:26:50,260 --> 01:26:52,390 There are other fine actresses. 1122 01:26:52,700 --> 01:26:55,260 Some have good feminine qualities, 1123 01:26:55,870 --> 01:26:59,030 others display an irresistible sensuality... 1124 01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:03,440 and some act with calculated precision. 1125 01:27:04,980 --> 01:27:07,240 But Kinuyo is different. 1126 01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:09,750 She's passionate. 1127 01:27:10,480 --> 01:27:12,680 She reminds me of an animal. 1128 01:27:13,350 --> 01:27:16,150 Don't you agree? - I don't know. 1129 01:27:16,260 --> 01:27:18,180 When she responds to me I can sense her force... 1130 01:27:18,260 --> 01:27:21,560 like a wild, unihibited energy... 1131 01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:24,460 a feral passion. 1132 01:27:25,630 --> 01:27:27,430 She makes me flinch. 1133 01:27:31,210 --> 01:27:35,670 Is she the first actress to make you feel that way? 1134 01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:41,650 Soba noodles refresh the palate after saké. 1135 01:27:43,180 --> 01:27:45,150 I'm off now, sir. 1136 01:27:45,420 --> 01:27:48,750 I'm going out now too. 1137 01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:51,450 Good night. 1138 01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:25,950 Who is it? 1139 01:28:26,790 --> 01:28:28,790 Mizouchi. 1140 01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:50,640 Welcome back. 1141 01:30:01,860 --> 01:30:04,150 It's been a hard night, Miss. 1142 01:30:06,990 --> 01:30:08,860 Call Sen. 1143 01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:33,050 I came back early to get a bath ready. 1144 01:30:33,220 --> 01:30:35,090 Will you have it now? 1145 01:30:35,260 --> 01:30:39,120 You saw him last night. What do you think? 1146 01:30:39,230 --> 01:30:42,350 He was worse than ever. It was murder. 1147 01:30:42,900 --> 01:30:45,160 That's true. - Don't get killed. 1148 01:30:45,330 --> 01:30:48,100 No way. I'll do the killing. 1149 01:30:48,900 --> 01:30:52,630 It sounds like a duel. - I won't let him intimidate me. 1150 01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:56,680 It seems the whole crew is taking an interest... 1151 01:30:56,780 --> 01:30:58,800 in you and the director. 1152 01:30:58,950 --> 01:31:00,350 How so? 1153 01:31:00,510 --> 01:31:02,450 Excuse me. 1154 01:31:03,750 --> 01:31:06,980 Sir's working you very hard, no? 1155 01:31:07,890 --> 01:31:12,120 Have some of this and get a good sleep. 1156 01:31:12,260 --> 01:31:14,890 The studio is like a sauna. 1157 01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,760 Miss Tanaka... 1158 01:31:18,130 --> 01:31:22,360 You're a very strong-willed woman. 1159 01:31:22,900 --> 01:31:27,970 She's up against that mule. - He's a good man. 1160 01:31:34,150 --> 01:31:36,240 Excuse me for asking... 1161 01:31:36,380 --> 01:31:39,280 but how many wives has Mr. Mizouchi had? 1162 01:31:39,520 --> 01:31:43,650 The present wife is the only official one. 1163 01:31:43,820 --> 01:31:48,590 So... the story of the scar on his back is false, then. 1164 01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:50,420 It's true. 1165 01:31:50,700 --> 01:31:53,830 He has a scar the size of a willow leaf. 1166 01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:55,660 Have you seen it? - Yes. 1167 01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:58,330 Where? - In the bath. 1168 01:32:00,340 --> 01:32:05,070 Then who was the woman? - She was a prostitute. 1169 01:32:05,410 --> 01:32:07,000 The incident occurred... 1170 01:32:07,150 --> 01:32:11,380 when they were arguing about separating. 1171 01:32:12,620 --> 01:32:15,920 Apparently, after the woman was released by the police, 1172 01:32:16,020 --> 01:32:18,550 he followed her all the way to Tokyo. 1173 01:32:20,860 --> 01:32:22,990 He's a naive man. 1174 01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:26,200 Does he have any children? - No, he doesn't. 1175 01:32:30,470 --> 01:32:31,900 Madam... 1176 01:32:32,140 --> 01:32:35,540 You said you knew nothing, but that's not quite true. 1177 01:32:36,310 --> 01:32:40,010 Goodness, have I talked so much about him? 1178 01:32:44,550 --> 01:32:47,180 She has such an innocent look on her face. 1179 01:33:59,330 --> 01:34:02,990 Isn't the water cold? - It feels good. 1180 01:34:05,100 --> 01:34:07,500 We've finished shooting. 1181 01:34:07,770 --> 01:34:08,740 Yes. 1182 01:34:08,900 --> 01:34:11,430 I'm amazed you went the distance. 1183 01:34:20,180 --> 01:34:24,120 This is the first time I've talked to you... 1184 01:34:27,450 --> 01:34:29,180 outside of work. 1185 01:34:59,820 --> 01:35:03,920 Thank you for your work. - Thank you very much. 1186 01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:53,570 I had believed that acting was my whole life... 1187 01:35:53,870 --> 01:35:57,500 and that everything else was merely a play. 1188 01:35:58,210 --> 01:36:02,480 It was then that I realized I'd been wrong. 1189 01:36:04,450 --> 01:36:07,250 The stern contours of his face... 1190 01:36:07,820 --> 01:36:10,120 would not leave my mind. 1191 01:36:18,130 --> 01:36:19,530 Hello. 1192 01:36:22,570 --> 01:36:29,480 SHOWA ERA 26 (1951) 1193 01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:53,000 It's been a long time. - I'm glad you've come. 1194 01:36:54,070 --> 01:36:55,660 I'm obliged to you. 1195 01:36:59,770 --> 01:37:03,300 It's all right. - I can still carry a bag. 1196 01:37:03,440 --> 01:37:05,310 My bag's surprisingly heavy, sir. 1197 01:37:05,550 --> 01:37:08,410 I'm so happy... 1198 01:37:08,750 --> 01:37:12,840 that you accepted this job so readily. 1199 01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:17,020 Well, I received a call from your producer Mr. Komai... 1200 01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,920 asking if I was free. 1201 01:37:20,090 --> 01:37:23,390 I said yes. He said he was from the Mizouchi team... 1202 01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:25,930 so I accepted at once. 1203 01:37:26,670 --> 01:37:31,430 While I was standing holding the receiver, I realized I was bowing unconsciously. 1204 01:37:31,710 --> 01:37:35,440 I see. - So what's the film about? 1205 01:37:36,080 --> 01:37:37,240 What? 1206 01:37:38,510 --> 01:37:41,070 You came all this way without knowing that? 1207 01:37:41,210 --> 01:37:43,770 Yes. What's the title of the film? 1208 01:37:45,490 --> 01:37:47,510 I see then... 1209 01:37:49,690 --> 01:37:52,450 Anyway, please come in. 1210 01:38:07,870 --> 01:38:11,070 We're using the storeroom as a production office. 1211 01:38:11,310 --> 01:38:14,250 And we won't be filming at the studio either. 1212 01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:18,280 We're using a renovated army warehouse. 1213 01:38:19,190 --> 01:38:23,090 It's in Hirakata, a town between Osaka and Kyoto. 1214 01:38:23,390 --> 01:38:26,020 Actually, I still haven't seen it myself. 1215 01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:34,920 THE LIFE OF OHARU 1216 01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:54,020 The original novel is "A Wanton Woman" by Saikaku. 1217 01:38:54,220 --> 01:38:56,780 The name of the heroine is Oharu. 1218 01:38:57,160 --> 01:38:59,750 She goes to the court... - Excuse me. 1219 01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:07,420 This is our producer, Mr. Komai. 1220 01:39:09,140 --> 01:39:12,070 How do you do. I'm Kinuyo Tanaka. 1221 01:39:12,310 --> 01:39:15,270 I'm Komai. We spoke on the phone. 1222 01:39:15,810 --> 01:39:18,470 It's been a long time. - Well..! 1223 01:39:18,650 --> 01:39:20,980 The director asked me to help with the film. 1224 01:39:21,510 --> 01:39:23,510 I'm at your service. 1225 01:39:23,650 --> 01:39:29,090 This film was rejected by several film companies, 1226 01:39:29,460 --> 01:39:32,760 but Mr. Komai managed to raise the funds... 1227 01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:34,520 to make it all possible. 1228 01:39:34,590 --> 01:39:38,460 No. It was your persistence that won in the end. 1229 01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:41,390 I look forward to working with you. 1230 01:39:41,900 --> 01:39:44,370 Director, we're off to see about the studio. 1231 01:39:55,850 --> 01:40:00,150 It's been eleven years since we did "The Woman of Osaka." 1232 01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:03,520 But we've worked together in other of films since then. 1233 01:40:03,620 --> 01:40:06,220 But "The Woman of Osaka" was our first together. 1234 01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:10,090 That's what I meant. - Of course you're right about that. 1235 01:40:11,500 --> 01:40:15,900 Soon after that, the Pacific War broke out. 1236 01:40:17,500 --> 01:40:19,800 I didn't think we'd win... 1237 01:40:19,910 --> 01:40:22,570 but I didn't think we'd be crushed, either. 1238 01:40:22,910 --> 01:40:26,940 When I heard the Emperor announce Japan's surrender... 1239 01:40:27,050 --> 01:40:30,910 I immediately rang the studio at Ofuna... 1240 01:40:31,050 --> 01:40:33,610 to ask when filming would begin. 1241 01:40:34,120 --> 01:40:36,380 The general manager came on... 1242 01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:41,360 he said I wouldn't believe it... weeds and cobwebs everywhere. 1243 01:40:41,460 --> 01:40:45,920 He said he was alone... everyone had gone off to war. 1244 01:40:46,330 --> 01:40:49,200 He sounded quite pathetic. 1245 01:40:51,140 --> 01:40:55,070 Oh... I haven't seen the proprietress. Is she well? 1246 01:40:55,110 --> 01:40:57,300 She'll come to greet you. 1247 01:40:57,710 --> 01:41:02,880 This place hasn't changed. It's exactly as it was. 1248 01:41:05,290 --> 01:41:09,220 Isn't Senkichi Nakama with you? 1249 01:41:09,460 --> 01:41:13,690 No. I was keen to get here as soon as I could. 1250 01:41:13,830 --> 01:41:17,760 He's following with the luggage. He'll probably arrive tomorrow. 1251 01:41:17,900 --> 01:41:22,060 I heard he had been opposed to you accepting the part... 1252 01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:25,460 when I made "The Victory of Women." 1253 01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:29,130 He said I couldn't play a woman lawyer. 1254 01:41:29,310 --> 01:41:34,010 What did you think yourself? Were you reluctant to do it? 1255 01:41:34,110 --> 01:41:35,440 Of course not. 1256 01:41:35,550 --> 01:41:38,920 An actress need only give herself completely to any role. 1257 01:41:39,950 --> 01:41:41,920 But it seems... 1258 01:41:42,290 --> 01:41:45,280 it wasn't right for you after all. 1259 01:41:45,830 --> 01:41:48,790 I didn't do well enough. I'm sorry. 1260 01:41:48,900 --> 01:41:51,160 That's not what I'm saying. 1261 01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:55,060 The film was criticized as old-fashioned. 1262 01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:58,730 As the film's director, I'm responsible. 1263 01:41:59,510 --> 01:42:03,070 We had to shoot it under American censorship. 1264 01:42:03,180 --> 01:42:07,640 and it became nothing more than a cheap celebration of democracy. 1265 01:42:08,250 --> 01:42:12,240 Even though I was well aware, I still agreed to it. 1266 01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:18,150 I was convinced I could do something fresh after the war. 1267 01:42:18,460 --> 01:42:20,220 But I failed. 1268 01:42:20,990 --> 01:42:25,190 I also asked you to play in my next film, "My Love Burns"... 1269 01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:28,130 which also failed. 1270 01:42:28,700 --> 01:42:31,530 I wasn't experienced enough... 1271 01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:34,510 to play an activist in the Democracy Movement. 1272 01:42:34,610 --> 01:42:38,480 It wasn't that. I was too impatient. 1273 01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:43,450 I couldn't adapt quickly enough to keep up with the times... 1274 01:42:43,620 --> 01:42:46,210 like the younger people did. 1275 01:42:47,490 --> 01:42:50,010 It's been hard for me, too. 1276 01:42:50,220 --> 01:42:54,590 But I had to keep working to get out of the slump. 1277 01:42:55,090 --> 01:42:58,390 I had to work as hard as I could, too. 1278 01:42:58,500 --> 01:43:00,630 I'd lost my confidence. 1279 01:43:00,770 --> 01:43:03,790 For an actress, age is critical to her career. 1280 01:43:03,940 --> 01:43:07,030 It takes a long time to build confidence... 1281 01:43:07,810 --> 01:43:09,740 but no time to lose it. 1282 01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:13,940 Before I knew it, I was being passed over for major roles. 1283 01:43:14,080 --> 01:43:16,450 We live in a cruel world. 1284 01:43:17,850 --> 01:43:19,820 Remember the time... 1285 01:43:20,020 --> 01:43:22,920 when the media described you as 'old and ugly'? 1286 01:43:25,330 --> 01:43:28,590 I felt like throwing myself off the nearest cliff. 1287 01:43:28,700 --> 01:43:31,530 I felt as if it was directed at me. 1288 01:43:31,630 --> 01:43:35,570 I knew I had to do something about it. 1289 01:43:36,700 --> 01:43:38,640 I was desperate. 1290 01:43:44,910 --> 01:43:47,940 We've strayed into strange areas, eh. 1291 01:43:52,590 --> 01:43:53,680 Yes. 1292 01:43:55,420 --> 01:43:58,790 I wonder how we got on to this. 1293 01:43:59,790 --> 01:44:03,630 We started off talking about "The Life of Oharu." 1294 01:44:03,760 --> 01:44:05,660 That's right. 1295 01:44:10,500 --> 01:44:12,030 Miss Tanaka... 1296 01:44:13,010 --> 01:44:14,910 this time will be different. 1297 01:44:16,410 --> 01:44:18,570 I've had to struggle... 1298 01:44:18,710 --> 01:44:22,080 but now I've found a film that suits my temperament. 1299 01:44:22,780 --> 01:44:25,150 That's why I wanted you in it. 1300 01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:28,720 Let's make it together. 1301 01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:33,690 Thank you very much. 1302 01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:37,420 Of course... 1303 01:44:38,060 --> 01:44:42,360 no one's life was easy in those difficult times. 1304 01:44:42,770 --> 01:44:46,140 MORNING FOR THE OSONE FAMILY (1946) . . 1305 01:44:48,370 --> 01:44:48,980 The postwar period began 1306 01:44:48,980 --> 01:44:50,410 NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (1946) . The postwar period began... 1307 01:44:50,410 --> 01:44:50,510 NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (1946) . . 1308 01:44:50,510 --> 01:44:52,410 NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (1946) . amid devastation and confusion. 1309 01:44:52,410 --> 01:44:53,310 amid devastation and confusion. 1310 01:44:54,550 --> 01:44:54,750 WAR AND PEACE (1947) . . 1311 01:44:54,750 --> 01:44:56,820 WAR AND PEACE (1947) . For Japanese cinema too... 1312 01:44:56,820 --> 01:44:56,920 WAR AND PEACE (1947) . . 1313 01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:57,820 WAR AND PEACE (1947) . it was a turbulent time. 1314 01:44:57,820 --> 01:44:59,080 it was a turbulent time. 1315 01:45:00,450 --> 01:45:00,720 During the process... 1316 01:45:00,720 --> 01:45:01,490 BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE (1947) . During the process... 1317 01:45:01,490 --> 01:45:01,590 BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE (1947) . . 1318 01:45:01,590 --> 01:45:03,860 BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE (1947) . a group of film-makers emerged... 1319 01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:06,190 with new perceptions and ideas. 1320 01:45:06,260 --> 01:45:09,350 BLUE MOUNTAIN RANGE (1949) . . 1321 01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:14,860 STRAY DOG (1949) . . 1322 01:45:19,840 --> 01:45:23,210 UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN (1950) . . 1323 01:45:25,280 --> 01:45:26,410 Foreign films reappeared. 1324 01:45:26,410 --> 01:45:27,780 PAISAN (1946) . Foreign films reappeared. 1325 01:45:27,780 --> 01:45:27,950 PAISAN (1946) . . 1326 01:45:27,950 --> 01:45:29,550 PAISAN (1946) . Works by Italian realists... 1327 01:45:29,550 --> 01:45:30,040 Works by Italian realists... 1328 01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:32,610 were highly praised... 1329 01:45:32,750 --> 01:45:35,640 for overturning the established conventions 1330 01:45:35,710 --> 01:45:38,970 BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) . and breaking new ground. 1331 01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:46,830 The cinema seemed destined to be a multi-media experience... 1332 01:45:46,930 --> 01:45:49,870 combining sound and colour. 1333 01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:56,170 In 1951 the first Japanese colour movie was made... 1334 01:45:56,280 --> 01:46:00,910 using film developed by the Fuji Film Company. 1335 01:46:01,580 --> 01:46:05,480 Keisuke Kinoshita successfully directed... 1336 01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:09,080 "Carmen Comes Home" in colour for Shochiku. 1337 01:46:58,840 --> 01:47:03,240 Then Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" won the Grand Prix... 1338 01:47:03,340 --> 01:47:06,070 at the Venice Film Festival. 1339 01:47:06,810 --> 01:47:11,650 It was the first Japanese film to win such acclaim... 1340 01:47:11,820 --> 01:47:14,250 before an international audience. 1341 01:47:16,060 --> 01:47:19,720 This was also in 1951. 1342 01:47:20,930 --> 01:47:23,860 It's already six years since the war ended... 1343 01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:28,300 yet you see its after-effects everywhere. 1344 01:47:28,430 --> 01:47:30,870 This used to be an army warehouse. 1345 01:47:31,070 --> 01:47:33,940 Long after the war it was still full of military supplies. 1346 01:47:34,410 --> 01:47:38,840 Only recently, the police stopped illegal trading in them. 1347 01:47:38,980 --> 01:47:42,640 They were reluctant to give us the lease. 1348 01:47:42,820 --> 01:47:46,680 Thanks to Mr. Komai's hard work, we can now build the set. 1349 01:47:47,590 --> 01:47:51,150 Thank you very much. - Not at all. It's my job! 1350 01:47:58,930 --> 01:48:00,830 What's that? 1351 01:48:03,300 --> 01:48:05,100 That sound... 1352 01:48:05,770 --> 01:48:07,470 The noise I hear. 1353 01:48:07,570 --> 01:48:11,440 That's the train that runs between Kyoto and Osaka. 1354 01:48:11,540 --> 01:48:13,510 I know that. 1355 01:48:13,710 --> 01:48:17,210 I'm asking you how we're going to record. 1356 01:48:17,780 --> 01:48:20,270 What about synchronizing our recording? 1357 01:48:20,390 --> 01:48:23,380 Can't we record when the trains aren't running? 1358 01:48:25,290 --> 01:48:28,230 And adjust our shoots to the train timetable? 1359 01:48:28,390 --> 01:48:32,130 We can't... - You can't expect me to... I can't. 1360 01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:39,000 The director hasn't changed at all. 1361 01:48:39,870 --> 01:48:41,670 What do you mean? 1362 01:48:41,940 --> 01:48:44,310 Didn't he say it would be different? 1363 01:48:44,810 --> 01:48:48,250 But all he says is "Please keep studying." 1364 01:48:48,380 --> 01:48:52,550 We start shooting soon yet we've heard nothing. 1365 01:48:56,190 --> 01:49:00,420 You've memorized the whole script and now have nothing to do. 1366 01:49:00,890 --> 01:49:03,450 No need for you to grumble. 1367 01:49:09,700 --> 01:49:11,690 Hello, madam. 1368 01:49:13,110 --> 01:49:15,470 It's a little chilly tonight. 1369 01:49:16,310 --> 01:49:19,870 Last time you came in the summer, this time it's winter. 1370 01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:22,140 Both seasons have their difficulties, no? 1371 01:49:22,320 --> 01:49:25,380 Just sitting and waiting makes it all the harder. 1372 01:49:25,850 --> 01:49:29,220 Mr. Mizouchi seems to be having trouble... 1373 01:49:29,320 --> 01:49:32,920 getting everything ready this time. 1374 01:49:36,360 --> 01:49:39,630 I heard he lost his wife. 1375 01:49:39,770 --> 01:49:41,390 So you heard? 1376 01:49:41,770 --> 01:49:45,930 Yes... it's probably just over a year now. 1377 01:49:46,870 --> 01:49:49,100 It was a sad illness. 1378 01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:52,180 A kind of mental illness they say. 1379 01:49:52,310 --> 01:49:54,010 Well, yes... 1380 01:49:54,910 --> 01:49:56,910 And because of that 1381 01:49:57,550 --> 01:50:01,320 there was a time when he blamed himself... 1382 01:50:01,490 --> 01:50:04,120 for not being able to help her. 1383 01:50:08,490 --> 01:50:11,290 How often do the damn trains go by? 1384 01:50:11,400 --> 01:50:15,390 I know you can't be interrupted by them. Right? 1385 01:50:15,570 --> 01:50:19,870 That's right! I can't work always stopping and starting. 1386 01:50:19,970 --> 01:50:22,840 I'm sorry. I'll think of something. 1387 01:50:22,910 --> 01:50:26,640 What good's your thinking going to do. 1388 01:50:41,630 --> 01:50:46,290 Sir, please sleep here. - I'm going home. 1389 01:50:46,470 --> 01:50:49,330 But they made it ready for you. Please stay. 1390 01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:54,130 I'm not that drunk. 1391 01:50:54,470 --> 01:50:57,500 But it really is very late. 1392 01:50:58,740 --> 01:51:00,970 May I take your jacket? 1393 01:51:03,350 --> 01:51:05,840 Good evening, gentlemen. 1394 01:51:09,050 --> 01:51:11,180 The director will sleep here. 1395 01:51:12,220 --> 01:51:15,490 I never said that I'd stay. 1396 01:51:15,900 --> 01:51:17,260 Director... 1397 01:51:17,530 --> 01:51:21,760 Please stay the night. We won't eat you. 1398 01:51:23,070 --> 01:51:26,160 I'm... going home. 1399 01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:38,010 Director! 1400 01:51:38,340 --> 01:51:40,000 Director... - Director. 1401 01:51:49,530 --> 01:51:55,170 Why did you let him go like that? - We can't exactly force him to stay. 1402 01:51:56,570 --> 01:52:00,840 - Let's have a drink, Senkichi. - Damn frustrating... 1403 01:52:02,710 --> 01:52:04,440 He's a very stubborn man. 1404 01:52:04,980 --> 01:52:09,210 He exudes confidence, but he hasn't changed... not a bit. 1405 01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:12,120 That's what I said the other day. 1406 01:52:13,220 --> 01:52:18,190 "Are you studying?" That's all he ever says. 1407 01:52:20,130 --> 01:52:23,790 Why don't you tell him what you really think? 1408 01:52:29,270 --> 01:52:31,290 Some of them are even saying... 1409 01:52:31,400 --> 01:52:34,900 that working with you won't get him out of his slump. 1410 01:52:36,380 --> 01:52:39,000 Who says? - People. 1411 01:53:03,970 --> 01:53:07,960 Would you like a woman? - Not till after saké. 1412 01:53:08,140 --> 01:53:10,700 But you're pretty drunk already. 1413 01:53:10,910 --> 01:53:13,880 I have a nice, young girl, who's new here. 1414 01:53:17,320 --> 01:53:21,620 You're a difficult man to find a girl for. 1415 01:53:22,090 --> 01:53:25,320 You played around too much when you were young. 1416 01:53:28,630 --> 01:53:31,620 Shall I call her? What would you like? 1417 01:53:33,170 --> 01:53:35,400 Just saké will do tonight. 1418 01:53:55,450 --> 01:53:58,220 You'll catch a cold dozing off like that. 1419 01:54:10,540 --> 01:54:14,230 Don't you feel anything, sleeping next to her like that? 1420 01:54:15,740 --> 01:54:19,770 Don't you get aroused by the woman in her? 1421 01:54:20,810 --> 01:54:24,680 She probably doesn't even notice that I'm a man. 1422 01:54:24,850 --> 01:54:28,050 You're a strange pair, aren't you? 1423 01:54:33,330 --> 01:54:36,190 MIZOUCHI 1424 01:54:52,140 --> 01:54:53,910 Seiko... 1425 01:54:54,880 --> 01:54:58,320 What time did I stumble in last night? 1426 01:54:58,720 --> 01:55:01,710 The sky was just getting light in the east. 1427 01:55:03,060 --> 01:55:05,250 Did I make much fuss? 1428 01:55:10,400 --> 01:55:12,460 This is no good. 1429 01:55:13,470 --> 01:55:18,270 As your uncle, I should be taking care of you. 1430 01:55:19,470 --> 01:55:22,600 Instead, you're the one taking care of me. 1431 01:55:28,910 --> 01:55:31,640 Breakfast's ready... will you eat now? 1432 01:55:33,890 --> 01:55:36,010 You off to work? 1433 01:55:38,090 --> 01:55:39,020 Yes. 1434 01:55:41,130 --> 01:55:44,390 An early start, eh? - Today's my father's death anniversary. 1435 01:55:44,500 --> 01:55:47,470 So I'll visit his grave on my way to work. 1436 01:55:47,730 --> 01:55:49,220 I see. 1437 01:55:53,510 --> 01:55:56,470 Would you offer a prayer on your uncle's behalf, too? 1438 01:55:56,680 --> 01:55:59,370 Uncle... you blame yourself too much. 1439 01:55:59,580 --> 01:56:00,740 What? 1440 01:56:00,950 --> 01:56:04,710 You feel responsible for Aunty's death. 1441 01:56:05,080 --> 01:56:09,780 So you decided to take care of me, her brother's daughter. 1442 01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:11,750 That's not true. 1443 01:56:12,420 --> 01:56:16,720 Your father went to war as an army photographer... 1444 01:56:17,300 --> 01:56:19,790 and was killed in action. 1445 01:56:20,130 --> 01:56:23,190 I'm only doing my civic duty. 1446 01:56:23,870 --> 01:56:28,140 We'll leave it at that. Aren't you off to work soon, uncle? 1447 01:56:29,540 --> 01:56:32,510 Please come home as often as you can. 1448 01:56:33,410 --> 01:56:34,380 Why? 1449 01:56:34,510 --> 01:56:37,070 Uncle... you're afraid that your sterness at work... 1450 01:56:37,220 --> 01:56:40,670 might be weakened by the warmth of a family life. 1451 01:56:40,890 --> 01:56:44,150 But I think you're wrong. Isn't it just the opposite? 1452 01:56:46,020 --> 01:56:49,550 Anyway, I'll stop before I get scolded by the stern director. 1453 01:56:49,800 --> 01:56:51,490 Oh well... I'm off then. 1454 01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:08,710 The heroine Oharu is serving at the lmperial court. 1455 01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:12,620 She has an affair with a humble samurai. 1456 01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:16,520 They execute the samurai and banish her from court. 1457 01:57:16,990 --> 01:57:20,860 A lord then takes her as his mistress to bear him a child. 1458 01:57:21,030 --> 01:57:23,720 She's sent away after giving birth. 1459 01:57:23,900 --> 01:57:27,590 Her parents then send her to Shimabara to sell her to a brothel... 1460 01:57:27,770 --> 01:57:30,260 but she's purchased as a servant by a merchant. 1461 01:57:30,700 --> 01:57:35,040 However, in a fit of jealousy his wife drives her out. 1462 01:57:36,410 --> 01:57:38,040 Oharu grows old. 1463 01:57:39,080 --> 01:57:42,210 Hiding her age under heavy make-up, 1464 01:57:42,510 --> 01:57:45,540 she stands in the street calling out to passing men... 1465 01:57:45,850 --> 01:57:48,510 reduced to a cheap prostitute. 1466 01:57:49,520 --> 01:57:53,860 We'll begin shooting the scene at the pilgrim's inn. 1467 01:57:54,430 --> 01:57:57,090 An old man guiding the pilgrims... 1468 01:57:57,460 --> 01:58:02,230 calls in the fallen woman to show them how ugly she is. 1469 01:58:02,570 --> 01:58:07,130 He warns them of the perils of persuing carnal desire. 1470 01:58:09,710 --> 01:58:11,110 So then... 1471 01:58:14,550 --> 01:58:17,450 she's trapped in the old values. 1472 01:58:18,080 --> 01:58:20,420 She's a puppet of fate... 1473 01:58:20,550 --> 01:58:24,610 it forces her to fall lower and lower. Bound by the old values... 1474 01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:27,780 she simply accepts her fate. 1475 01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:32,490 I want to push the limit in depicting this woman. 1476 01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:36,930 Understand...? a woman of the old values. 1477 01:58:42,240 --> 01:58:43,830 Director... 1478 01:58:44,710 --> 01:58:47,270 You've told me that many times. 1479 01:58:51,580 --> 01:58:53,640 I'll repeat it many times. 1480 01:58:53,750 --> 01:58:55,120 Director... 1481 01:58:55,950 --> 01:58:58,350 Please give up the old method... 1482 01:58:58,790 --> 01:59:01,380 Please try a new approach. 1483 01:59:07,430 --> 01:59:09,560 You think so? 1484 01:59:10,400 --> 01:59:12,530 Am I trapped in the old values? 1485 01:59:14,640 --> 01:59:16,200 Please, sir. 1486 01:59:32,420 --> 01:59:34,590 How impudent! 1487 01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:36,930 She's a mere actress. 1488 01:59:37,130 --> 01:59:40,900 I'm the director. How dare she criticize me! 1489 01:59:41,070 --> 01:59:43,260 It was rude... Unforgivable. 1490 01:59:44,040 --> 01:59:45,800 She'll have to go. 1491 01:59:46,270 --> 01:59:48,330 But shooting starts in two days. 1492 01:59:48,470 --> 01:59:50,910 I'm very sorry, sir. 1493 01:59:52,310 --> 01:59:54,750 You're not the one to apologize. 1494 01:59:56,520 --> 01:59:58,110 That's mine. 1495 02:00:12,900 --> 02:00:14,390 I knew it... 1496 02:00:15,270 --> 02:00:16,760 he got angry. 1497 02:00:17,770 --> 02:00:19,760 Did you really tell him? 1498 02:00:42,730 --> 02:00:44,160 Director... 1499 02:00:48,070 --> 02:00:51,040 The replacement... who would you like? 1500 02:00:52,040 --> 02:00:54,100 We're short on time. 1501 02:00:54,740 --> 02:00:58,340 Who can do it? - No one but Kinuyo can do it. 1502 02:01:03,920 --> 02:01:08,050 It was bold of Miss Kinuyo to say that to him. 1503 02:01:20,770 --> 02:01:23,460 The Director... Mr. Mizouchi's here, Miss! 1504 02:01:52,500 --> 02:01:55,960 I'm sorry to come so late. - No... 1505 02:02:00,410 --> 02:02:01,960 What you said... - I'm sorry. 1506 02:02:02,070 --> 02:02:05,870 I didn't understand you... - I've thought about it. 1507 02:02:06,180 --> 02:02:09,710 I was wrong. - Please do it your way. 1508 02:02:09,880 --> 02:02:13,610 You shouldn't change your approach for me, sir. 1509 02:02:18,990 --> 02:02:23,390 My family life has been very unsettled. 1510 02:02:23,660 --> 02:02:26,860 I felt it was the fate of a professional man, 1511 02:02:27,270 --> 02:02:31,130 but my niece lectured me the other day. 1512 02:02:31,440 --> 02:02:36,340 Please sir, do whatever you like with me in the film. 1513 02:02:38,280 --> 02:02:41,970 However I'm filmed... however I appear... 1514 02:02:43,180 --> 02:02:46,640 For my part... I'm afraid of nothing any more. 1515 02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:53,180 I'll stay tonight. 1516 02:04:21,410 --> 02:04:26,180 Mr. Mizouchi gambled everything on this film. 1517 02:04:32,860 --> 02:04:35,950 I would follow him to the end. 1518 02:04:51,010 --> 02:04:54,750 I'm ready. - At your service. 1519 02:05:03,720 --> 02:05:05,850 When the film was finished... 1520 02:05:06,020 --> 02:05:08,990 Mr. Mizouchi and I went our separate ways. 1521 02:05:10,700 --> 02:05:12,690 That was as it should be. 1522 02:05:22,170 --> 02:05:25,470 Miss Tanaka will come in from that side. 1523 02:05:26,110 --> 02:05:29,480 You lead Oharu into the room. 1524 02:05:44,400 --> 02:05:46,420 Let's rehearse it. 1525 02:05:46,670 --> 02:05:48,360 Action! 1526 02:06:12,460 --> 02:06:14,950 I have travelled blindly down life's path. 1527 02:06:15,130 --> 02:06:18,820 Experience was the only guide I learned to follow. 1528 02:06:23,370 --> 02:06:26,570 Of all the things that I have desired... 1529 02:06:26,710 --> 02:06:29,440 I wonder if anything has ever come true. 1530 02:06:31,510 --> 02:06:35,640 I suspect... I shall never know the answer. 1531 02:07:03,480 --> 02:07:04,940 Let's do it. 1532 02:07:06,980 --> 02:07:09,040 I only know... 1533 02:07:09,710 --> 02:07:11,740 that for the first time... 1534 02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:15,250 I feel I'm a woman, rather than an actress. 1535 02:07:16,490 --> 02:07:18,180 Stand by! 1536 02:07:56,830 --> 02:07:59,320 Please come this way. 1537 02:08:00,930 --> 02:08:03,330 Oh, it's so cold. 1538 02:08:05,300 --> 02:08:07,670 Please sit there? 1539 02:08:10,310 --> 02:08:15,340 Do you want me to sing? - No, don't worry about that. 1540 02:08:16,350 --> 02:08:18,180 Now, all of you... 1541 02:08:19,820 --> 02:08:22,410 Take a close look at her... 1542 02:08:22,850 --> 02:08:24,320 Look well. 1543 02:08:25,020 --> 02:08:28,460 Do you still feel like playing with women? 1544 02:08:29,260 --> 02:08:32,920 You're on a pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples... 1545 02:08:33,030 --> 02:08:34,970 in search of salvation. 1546 02:08:35,070 --> 02:08:36,400 If you want to learn 1547 02:08:36,500 --> 02:08:41,000 about the emptiness of all worldly acts... 1548 02:08:41,270 --> 02:08:44,900 you should follow the path of this old hag. 1549 02:08:50,320 --> 02:08:52,280 There... that's all. 1550 02:08:52,820 --> 02:08:54,340 Nothing more. 1551 02:08:56,650 --> 02:08:58,250 Take it and go. 1552 02:09:19,580 --> 02:09:23,540 Well, don't forget when you go back home... 1553 02:09:24,120 --> 02:09:27,110 to tell them you've spoken with an old hag. 1554 02:09:27,750 --> 02:09:29,410 Excuse me. 1555 02:09:57,350 --> 02:10:01,110 THE END 119644