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WAKAMATSU PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

This film is a record of my struggle as a gynecologist...

to deal with the problem of modern sexual sciences.

A problem which I became aware of looking at my patients.

Analysing this problem in a scientific way...

... and summing up the results in a scientific paper.

I am seperated from the world, branded as mad.

Locked up in prison.

The people out there ... no ... the people in charge of the law!

They think of my discovery as a threat to mankind.

Not ready to accept it, they had me arrested.

And put me into this small, dark cell.

I'm frustrated and sad.

But to present my scientific findings, the essence of my life...

... is my duty!

ABORTION

Produced By: Koji Wakamatsu

Script / Music / Art By: Masao Adachi

Cinematography By: Hideo Ito

Cast:

Kimio Terashima

Reiko Ensho Nami Katsura

Yuri Nishi Shigeo Sone, Tatsuhiro Oka

Yoko Takeuchi Hiroko Fuji

Kyoko Michi Noriko Kaede

Directed By: Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi

Everyone would be moved by this spectacle.

Seeing a new life born, it always makes me think.

Does sex exist for love?

Or is it only there for making mankind reproduce and prosper.

Well, I think both are the purpose of sex.

Both make up its essence.

It's neither meant only for love nor for reproduction.

The question of whether sex exists for love and pleasure ...

... or only for reproduction ...

... makes many women wonder and suffer.

That's it.

Noriko Sengoku, 20 years old.

She was one of those women.

Congratulations.

Pregnant in the third month.

Congratulations.

So it's true?

What can I do?

I'm sure you know already, but...

Mitsuko!

Calm down.

You have to control your emotions from now on.

So cute, and still a child.

And suddenly she had a baby in her own body.

Going to be a mother... what a shock.

They are only young, occasional lovers for some time.

Maybe they only came to me out of coincidence.

Nothing special here in my practice.

I used to leave cases like this to my wife Mitsuko.

This girl's case turned into something very important for me.

Mister?

Hey! Young dad!

What?

- What's up? - I'll tell you!

Come with me!

Tell me... is anything wrong with Noriko?

Nothing's wrong. She is pregnant - third month.

She'll be a great mom.

Third month of pregnancy?

Now, come with me.

Noriko, what's wrong?

They say I am going to have a baby!

Really? What a surprise!

Stop fooling around! Sit down!

I'm not fooling around.

It really is a surprise.

Noriko Sengoku, 20 years old.

- You're living nearby? - Yeah...

Are you her husband?

Are you joking?

The "unoffcial partner" then.

- You are the child's father? - Yeah...

Your name, address and age, please.

Oh no... It feels like I'm being arrested.

But you have no choice!

Do the two of you know what it means to have a baby?

Of course I know that.

But...

Noriko said she knew the calender method.

And she said it would be fine... on that day...

So you are using the calender method?

I don't know anything about it...

But I am in love with Susumu.

So I pretended I knew...

What's wrong with you? You have no idea?

Aaah, sounds like trouble!

So you become pregnant on the day of the festival?

Idiots! The two of you are so stupid!

Leave! I don't want people like you to be here!

How slutty and unhygienic!

You are still kids!

What are you doing?

What kind of mother and father are you?

I won't listen to that any more!

Okay, fine then.

Leave us alone!

Let's go, Noriko.

We'll make it somehow.

Wait!

I was rude to you.

Hear me out.

You have to stop crying...

... and pull yourself together.

You have to understand what is going on in your body scientifically.

It's our job to make the patients stop worrying about such things.

I will explain it to you, from the basics.

It's not about "make it somehow"...

You need to hear the truth, instead of useless 'support'.

Listen, think of this as a woman's genitals.

This part is the womb.

Right after the menstruation, hormones are produced.

They make a new egg develop. The womb regenerates on the inside.

Then another hormone called progesteron is produced here.

The egg ripens and passes...

... over the oviduct, into the womb.

Then the sperm cells come up this way...

... and fertilize the egg cell in here.

So according to the Ogino-sheme, the period when fertilization...

... is possible is 12 to 16 days before the regular menstruation.

So you shouldn't do it within these five days.

The sperm cells are said to survive for three days.

So one has to take three more days before the normal time into account.

Three month's ago your fertilized egg went ...

... into its place inside the womb and started growing.

The fusion of the sperm and the egg cell is called 'fertilization'.

The settling of the fertilized egg cell is called "nidation".

And your egg cell keeps growing bigger in here.

Noriko-san!

Now this baby inside your body is nourished on your blood.

Step by step it will become more like you.

It will grow for 4... 5... 6 months.

It will be born as a pretty baby from your body after 9 months.

Until that moment the mother coninues to nourish her baby.

It's the most glorious exercise of a mother.

A baby - the greatest creation of a mother and a father.

You and Susumu have to make this clear to yourselves.

Thank you for teaching us.

I've got a better idea now.

That's good to hear.

You two are responsible for the baby's development.

- Good luck! - Thank you!

I knew a little about this from school. But now, after you told me...

... I feel pride as a woman.

I am confident now. I'll have your baby, Susumu.

No! Here she is again - the old chatterbox!

Wait a moment.

Now you think that everything will be fine?

Dear!

That same old story again?

You agree on giving birth to the child?

Have you thought about what that really means?

- No idea ... - Not in front of the mother!

I want to talk to her too!

Listen!

Just a moment ago you were very scared.

Your soul was affected by the changes happening to your body.

And then my wife gave you a little science lesson and told you...

... about the wonders of motherhood. And now all is fine?

How can it be?

We are living in the space age and sending sattelites up.

But the sex drive as the most basic instinct is out of control?

The Japanese laws on sexual issues state:

If mother or child is threatened by a hereditary mental illness...

...if there is a risk to their bodies...

...if there is a mental illness or a weakness of will...

...if there is such a problem with the mother or any close relative...

If there is the mere possibility of such a problem...

...and the possibility that it could be transmitted to the child...

...or if the mother or child could be endangered during the birth...

...or if their lives should be in danger...

...it is permitted to perform an operation on the fetus.

In a case where this is impossible, an abortion shall be permitted.

My place is just a normal gynecology practice.

But I used to perform abortions on two or three women every day.

I had been running my practice for eight years.

How many abortions did I perform?

How many unborn lives did I bring to an end?

Let's think of an average number of three a day for eight years ...

That's 2920 days...

That means that I have killed several thousand.

Several thousand!

Yes. I am a murderer.

But it's not because I like it.

It's because men and women are practicing sex.

Without thinking about the social consequences.

And when they realise their mistake, they come to me.

And their number keeps increasing. I'm wondering why.

Being involved in my work and through the operations I perform...

... and through the experiences of my patients...

... I started to research about this topic which effects all human beings.

I decided to start analyzing the modern sex culture first.

What role does sex play in the lives of modern people?

How important and how problematic is sex for them?

Like clutching at straws, I tried to grab hold of such material's...

... knowledge, which does not seem to deal with the real essence of sex.

So we must think of a scientific solution or a good system of society...

... which would provide a fitting and final answer.

It's an urgent issue.

Oh, Kurihara-san ... When did you...?

It's so embarassing, doctor.

I've watched you sleeping.

I'm sorry about that.

What can I do for you?

Now I remember. I heard that you had been hospitalized.

Are you alright?

Yes.

Thanks to your help I am just the way I was before.

But my husband ran away...

What can I do now, doctor?

You know...

I am...

What's wrong?

Doctor, please hide me.

There's nothing to worry about. It's just another patient.

To tell you the truth, I...

Dear, listen.

It's the police together with a school girl who was raped ...

You take care of it. It's a special case, isn't it?

Yes.

Thanks.

Hello.

Come out. Nothing to worry about.

Weren't you ...?

That's right.

I've run away from the ...

... mental home.

I just couldn't stand it anymore.

Well...

If they call me nymphomanic, there's nothing I can do about it.

Doctor...

I'm fed up of seeing the strange people who are there.

It's like a nuthouse.

You know yourself very well.

Once you see a man, you chase him.

That's why I need you to look at me.

I thought I could be quiet for some time...

Doctor?

I'll have a look, but then you must return to the hospital at once.

Hurry up.

Yukiyo Kurihara, 28 years old.

A wife living in the neighbourhood.

One husband is not enough for her.

So she had affairs: With the cleaner, the noodle and sushi-man ...

... the milkman and even the gasman.

Her nymphomaniac behavior soon became famous in the neighbourhood.

Then she seduced a high school student preparing for his exams.

She was brought to a mental home.

I realised before that her longing for a child was extremely strong.

But her husband was not interested in her body.

He had no intention to have children.

And here?

So it's nothing...?

Here?

Her feelings of being unsatisfied became chronic.

The symptoms of an extremely insatiable polydepsia increased.

That was when she came to my clinic.

First she wanted a child to get closer to her husband.

Then her desire became so large that she would sleep with anyone.

It's a common case.

Controlling her eregenous zones...

... she can feel greater lust than normal intercourse.

I guess she used to be a normal woman having no special thoughts about sex.

Look at her pitiful situation.

The genitals are not the only organs involved in sex.

The body parts shown in this figure have sensory cells like the genitals.

They make it possible to enjoy an orgasm here as well.

If those parts of the body are stimulated ...

... the body shows arousal reactions which can lead toward ecstacy.

It's only natural.

According to the modern philosopher George Gurdjieff...

Human beings have centers for instinct, sex, emotions, movement...

... and also for sexual lust.

Where this center is located remains unclear.

But experiments show clear evidence that the center ...

... for sexual arousal is not identical to the genitals.

And this "sex center"...

...works independently from the other centers.

Some people say that this is the way to total freedom.

Such a poor woman.

Good afternoon.

It's alright.

Have a seat.

I've done an irrigation.

No bigger outer wounds. I think she'll be fine.

So she has wounds in other places?

Is it very bad?

Just some scratches. I made the bleeding stop.

Excuse me... The irrigation...?

The greater amount of the seminal fluid stays near the vaginal entrance.

But even a very small amount of it can lead to pregnancy.

Sperm cells climb up the uterus within minutes.

Washing out the rest doesn't have a big effect.

That means...

That this girl could be pregnant?

Yes, it's certainly possible.

So the first guy would be the biggest offender.

So there were several men...?

Three young men.

They attacked her in the street.

That's too much!

It's too much...

Yes, it's intolerable.

What a perverse act!

Well, the desire for sex is very natural.

But both sides must consent!

What if she is pregnant?

They say they were out of their minds because they wanted to have a woman.

Idiots, that doesn't matter.

It's unbearable.

Officer, there is a woman who ran away from the mental home.

Take her with you.

Ran away?

Doctor, I feel very refreshed now.

Thank you very much.

Don't cry anymore.

Thank you for your kindness. The hospital is in Nerima.

My pleasure...

Nobody will know what happened.

Okay?

I had enough of it.

Things like that happen because prostitution is banished by law.

There are four million young unmarried men in this country.

30% of them might be lucky with their female friends.

And 20% might have enough money to get what they want.

But what about the remaining 2 million?

How do they deal with their sexual desire?

About half them is just waiting for the right moment.

So about one million young men could always turn into rapists.

The number of abortions I have to perform is rising and rising.

What can I do?

I continued torturing myself with these thoughts.

How could one seperate the sex drive and sex?

Many people would be saved from suffering.

Yes.

There must be a method to seperate sex from the drive once and for all.

Seperate the genitals from the mental center of sexual desire.

That would mean nothing else that men and women could...

... take each others hands, embrace each other nakedly ...

... and make love without limits.

There are enough beds ready. I just needed a method.

There are more than 4000 places like this in the city.

They are called "guesthouses".

The energy created by the men and women having sex here ...

... is supposed to be high enough to produce a mountain of confetti ...

... as high as Mt. Fuji in one evening.

But the people coming here ...

... all of them came to enjoy sex.

Nobody comes here to have a child.

However, some women become pregnant.

Condoms, jelly, coitus interruptus, irrigation, coil etc. etc.

No matter what method they are trying ...

... there are always failures resulting in pregnancy.

Unwanted pregnancy.

I wanted to think one step ahead.

Let's seperate sex and reproduction.

In a time when artificial fertilization has become normal.

There should be something artificial on the woman's side too.

An artificial placenta for growing the fetus.

This was a plan which could lead to a solution of the basic sex problem,

A fertilized egg will be conserved in a test tube.

The machine can be handled freely. The egg is removed from the womb.

Then we can have children when we want to and how we want to.

Women won't have to suffer anymore from the hardships of pregnancy.

Not experience the pain of giving birth.

Mankind will be redeemed from the fear of pregnancy and birth.

These voices of joy.

People of ancient times were able to experience...

the joys of sex as the most natural way of satisfaction.

As a fundament for their spirits...

What a great spiritual time it must have been!

Now we discuss war and peace.

The circumstances of capitalism are getting worse.

With such a political background a day when we can...

... talk frankly about sexual experience won't come.

By that time, my wife was already alarmed.

She thought that I was getting too serious about my research.

But I ignored her suspicion and rejection.

I continued my research.

It exhausted me though...

Dear!

Dear!

Dear...!

Hey...

Hey!

Eureka!

There are lots of egg cells wasted at our hospital. Why not use them?

What are you talking about?

I've got all I need.

Clinic for Gynecology, Maternity, Genital Diseases ...

Marukito

Marukito Laboratary for Sexual Sciences

Early morning.

We are exposed to the serious faces of our patients.

The problems we gynecologists are confronted with ...

... are not only symptoms of the body.

Well, of course these are important issues as well.

But on top of that we are dealing with severe mental problems.

Of course there are specialists dealing with mental problems.

Psychiatrists and mental homes.

But the problems we encounter are caused by changes of the body.

It's a matter of mental state, morals, philosphy or religion.

We are dealing with dramas involving the whole body.

Only the women themselelves embody their fears and worries.

They appear like naked body expressions.

In my job I'm always confronted with issues not in the realm of my job.

But these personal feelings of mine are ...

... put into question by certain patients.

Shima-san, please!

Yes.

This woman: Junko Shima, 31 years old.

Member of a dancing group.

After she had her first abortion at the age of 19...

... she had seven more abortions.

Good afternoon, doctor.

Ah, it's you?

So, how do you feel?

No changes after you were here?

No, nothing.

Good.

So, what is it today?

Doctor, you know... It's happened again!

What the...? Again?

No doubt about it. The third month...

You can't be serious! You've just had one!

Yes... I'm very sorry about it.

It must have happened right after that.

I must be extremely fertile...

I really hate it. - What are you talking about?

You haven't given birth to even one single child.

Right. Sorry...

Doctor...

I'm sorry to be back again, but please do it for me.

We don't have a show today so I came here to have it done.

Some sweets for you and your wife.

Listen!

Can you remember how many abortions you've had so far?

Yeah, the other day it was the 7th time.

Right, the 7th time.

You had 7 abortions already.

What do you think about that?

I've asked you a question!

What can I say...

I'm not talking about morals.

It's about your body.

Don't you care about your body's health?

Tell me!

But there's nothing I can do.

I can't have a baby now.

I can see that.

You mean you are living just for love?

Yes.

That's right.

So a baby ... - You can't go on like this!

I'm talkin as your doctor.

Your life is in danger.

It's like you are committing suicide.

But it just happened...

Just happened? That's what you always say.

Again and again but you never reflect on it at all.

Once the abortion is done you find yourself a new man.

That's what I am scolding you for.

Don't you understand? Your body is already ruined.

I am sorry. I'll be more careful from now on.

Doctor...

Just one last time.

I've heard that before.

So what can I do? - Forget about it.

But doctor...

That's so mean, doctor.

You want me to give up love?

That's impossible.

I haven't said that.

But as I told you last time. There are many other...

A sterilization?

Never! No way!

I don't want such a useless body.

Wait!

Oh dear...

When I hear her careless talk, I can only be surprised.

No matter how often I tell her about contraception methods...

... she shows no sign of performing them.

People who are inflamed in love might think of ...

... contraception as annoying.

Its a very careless kind of romanticism.

Well, it's not that I can't understand it at all.

No doubt. The third month.

Let's operate later. - Yes.

Really?

You'll do it then?

I don't have a choice, do I?

But first I'd like to talk to you again, okay?

Alright, doctor.

So you don't mind the abortion, but are scared of a sterilization?

It's because you don't really understand about these operations.

Well, have a look.

The belly method: The abdominal wall is opened and the fetus is removed from there.

The vagina method: The fetus is removed by entering the body through the vagina.

The belly method is normally only performed

when other gynecological operations have to be done.

In case of the vagina-method you only have...

... to open 2 or 3 centimeters below the pubic region.

If only an abortion is performed, normally the vagina-method will be chosen.

This charming woman.

Always falling in love.

But I knew that she had never experienced greater sexual lust.

A strange woman who has never become aware of her own body yet.

I will...

One day I will have a baby.

When I find a good man.

One.

One.

Two.

Two.

Three.

Three.

Four.

Fo...

Thinking of love and marriage together.

I can't do that.

But I really want to live a proper life now.

Look for a real husband.

You'll see: I'll have a wonderful family.

So you want a third child?

Yes.

With an artificial fertilization this august...

... I would have the baby in spring next year, right?

I calculated that that would be a good time.

I see.

Well then...

This woman: Yoshie Suzuki, 32 years old.

Due to her husband's impotence we obtained seminal fluid...

... from him and performed a test-tube fertilization.

But there's also the possibility to use seminal fluid of another person.

How about problems with your unsatisfied sex drive?

Oh well...

You surely feel the desire to have a man to make love to you.

Yes, but...

My husband is ready to experiment.

So he pleases me with all kinds of petting.

So you do feel satisfied.

Yes.

Fine then.

So there are people who seperate sexual pleasure from reproduction.

People like her are the happy ones.

Every person's sex drive is different.

There are all kinds of neuroses that can be caused by sex.

Frigidity, impotence or vaginismus.

Women long for, fear and envy the male genitals which they don't have.

It's similar with men.

And if these latent fears become too strong, such symptoms appear.

But this isn't the way to a fundamental solution.

For those who stay away from sex as they are scared of giving birth.

For those who are longing for a child but can't have one.

Sexual lust had to be seperated from reproduction.

I had to develop an artificual placenta as soon as possible.

Me, a specialist for abortions, was crazy about finding ...

... the ideal conditions of giving birth to a child.

What irony!

How to make sure that his ridge causes no injuries?

Yes! Turn around the outer side of the container...

And connect it here.

But I never neglected my professional duties.

Examinations in the morning, operations in the afternoon.

Every free minute I found, I went on with my research.

I had to fight severe exhaustion.

An invention fit for the atomic age!

An artificial placenta! I was crazy about it.

There is the example of the experiments of an Italian scientist.

He was able to keep a fetus alive in an artificial surrounding.

Similar experiments were done in the USSR and West Germany.

But all such experiments were stopped under the pressure of...

... religious or human-rights groups.

It's done!

Now to the trickier part.

How to obtain an egg to put inside.

Dear, let's have dinner.

I'm coming.

Dear.

What are you studying at such a time?

There's some research I have to do.

Don't get any funny ideas.

Even without that there are strange rumours going on.

I need a proper egg cell as soon as possible.

Dear!

All is prepared.

The artificial placenta. The nutrition-machine.

I only needed a fetus to put inside.

Dear, I'm a woman too.

Your wife.

Love me.

Let's make love.

Women during the day are enough.

But dear!

Okay okay. I know what you want.

Yes, I decided to have the baby.

I'll bring it up, no matter how hard it will be for us.

I've made up my mind.

I see.

And Susumu has agreed too?

I don't care about what he thinks.

It's what I feel like.

Then you will give birth to a bastard.

Well, let's have a look. - Yes.

Bend your legs.

Listen, something is wrong.

I can't feel the fetus.

Let's do a progesteron injection. - Okay.

Ouch!

Fine, that'll do.

How strange...

I had found the perfect test object.

I guess God was still on my side.

It accomplished my plan to obtain her fertilized egg...

... and transplant it into the artificial placenta.

Mitsuko was out visiting patients, so there was nothing to worry about.

Exposure to air or changes of temperature must be prevented.

Good! The first step was successful!

Now I had to ensure regular nourishment and stable conditions.

Developing well.

The little one has been alive for 5 months now.

My cute baby.

What an unbelievable child you are!

You're living in the greatest invention of mankind!

The invention of an articifial placenta, more important than

... space travel - a success!

The future... The future of mankind...

Oh yes. Let's call you "future".

My child is the future.

Come back then. - Yes.

Thank you. - Good luck.

Next one. - Noriko Sengoku!

Come inside.

I had my monthlies.

Menstruation? But you are ...!

I really did!

I don't know what's going on.

Is it possible?

That's impossible, right?

Go and have a look at the patients' room.

Yes, but...

Just hurry up and go.

Yes.

Noriko, you might not believe it...

But it is possible.

There are reports on cases like this.

It's called a "phantom pregnancy".

I was suspecting it could be the case... So I was right then!

So the baby of me and Susumu...?

It was just a product of your imagination.

It existed only in your mind. In reality you were not pregnant.

Your body only showed symptoms of what was on your mind.

Well, you should forget about it.

What a pity!

Well, there's nothing we can do about it.

It's like I was cursed by a fox.

You could say that.

A phantom pregnancy is mysterious.

It's like a neurosis of your will.

A neurosis? I am having very strange dreams these days...

What kind?

When I go to the toilet in the morning...

I realize that the baby has disappeared from my womb.

While I was asleep the baby woke up by itself and just went away.

Those kind of dreams.

Your mental state is related to the phantom pregnancy.

It's a fact that a strong neurosis can have such an impact on the body.

In your case you got involved with Susumu.

The fear of becoming pregnant caused your mental state.

That has made your menstruation stop.

At such an early stage it's impossible to get a definite result.

But think about it, having a child at your age...

Isn't it better like this?

I knew it!

Oishi-san, please come over right now.

The baby is pretty big.

This feels very eerie.

But I can't say what is going on by myself...

Please come soon.

A placenta?

Madam!

This is a huge experiment!

But if the baby grows more...

... society will oppose it.

What a research!

The whole world might talk about this.

We must act right now.

So you were the first who found it, madam?

Yes, I was shocked and called Oishi-san.

Oishi-san is a friend of Dr. Marukito's.

Yes, he's a researcher at the university.

His wife is a patient here.

Your husband was arrested this morning.

What is your opinion?

I really hope he'll come home soon.

But your discovery led to his arrest...?

It had to be done. Stealing someone's baby!

It's unforgiveable.

It's a real problem, to what kind of deed...

... his everyday job has led him too.

What did he say when he was arrested?

All he said was: "Future!"

- Future? Madam, what does it mean? - I don't know.

"Educational Guidance"

"Education Research Institute"

What stupidity! What obstruction!

Future Marukito, my son whom I had been raising...

... had been turned into a freak show!

History is telling us:

Genius inventors are often not accepted by their contempories.

I had been aware of that.

Those primitive quacks!

Those stubborn moralists!

Alarmed by my experiment, they came with the authorities...

... agitated the totally ignorant Noriko Sengoku...

... said that I had stolen her baby...

... had me arrested, sentenced guilty and thrown into this cell.

But do you think my research was a waste of time?

It can't be! I made the greatest invention of the 20th century!

My son, Future Marukito.

I don't know what happened to him.

But if he's still alive...

... he'd be 18 years old by now.

He'd have turned into a proper young man and would be out there somewhere.

I believe the day will come when I can present my research results...

... to you as an academic research esssay.

THE END

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