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TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION

Staff

Executive Producer Kinshiro Kuzui

Based on the Novel by Yukio Mishima

Producers Teruo Takabayashi, Yoshinobu Nishioka

Photographed by Fujiro Morita

Starring

Saburo Shinoda

Toshiro Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu

Yoshie Shimamura

Etsuko Ichihara

Jun Arai

Yuki Mizuhara, Teresa Noda

Yusaku Terajima, Shingo Ibuki

Kazunaga Tsuji, Dan Kenny

Asao Uchida

Mariko Kaga

Written and Directed by Yoichi Takabayashi

"Divination Stick 14: Bad Luck"

“Especially if you go northwest.“

NISHI-MAIZURU

"Divination Stick 14: Bad Luck"

Uiko.

The waves...

ebb and flow eternally, no one can stop them.

But...

Hey.

Beautiful, isn't it?

The beauty of the Golden Pavilion...

is eternal.

Such beauty is...

unrivaled.

Hey.

Do you think so?

My son,

you understand nothing now.

There is nothing...

as beautiful in this world.

The appearances of humans change,

but...

the beauty of the Golden Pavilion doesn't.

Ground Floor: Hosuiin.

1st Floor...

Choondo.

2nd Floor...

Kukkyocho.

Golden Pavilion within Golden Pavilion.

A small Golden Pavilion inside a big Golden Pavilion.

I'm inside the universe that surrounds me.

Inside me,

there's a universe.

Sweets from Tokyo.

Have some.

It's very...

hard to get them these days.

Have some.

I don't think...

I'll be around for much longer.

So...

please look after...

him.

Yes, I'll take him in.

It's early, but let's sleep.

I'm taking...

the 6 am train...

to get home.

What is it?

Dad.

You aren't going to die?

What?

I feel that you are.

Let's see the Golden Pavilion again.

Golden Pavilion?

Golden Pavilion.

“The most beautiful thing in the world is the Golden Pavilion"

Dad was right.

Golden Pavilion.

I'm coming to live next to you.

Your dad has passed away?

Do you like the Golden Pavilion out of remembrance for your dad?

Air raid siren.

Non-stop since the fall of Saipan.

Kyoto will also be bombed, I guess.

If so, the Golden Pavilion will also burn down.

May I?

TOKYO BOMBED LAST NIGHT

Golden Pavilion may be next.

B29 bombers will come tonight, at last?

I'll also be killed?

Burnt to death?

The same fire will destroy Golden Pavilion?

Air raid alarm on Osaka, Kyoto, and surrounding areas.

Air raid alarm on Osaka, Kyoto, and surrounding areas.

According to Central Region Army the targets are...

Uiko!

What?

Ui...

What? Go away!

I lo...

What the hell?

You don't speak!

Die!

Fool!

Die!

You'll die, Uiko!

You'll die by my curse!

Uiko was arrested by military police!

Go and see!

You brought this to him?

She tried to bring a lunch box to a deserter.

She got close to this man at the Maizuru hospital.

She even got pregnant.

What a fool!

Where is he hiding?

Tell me!

I had never seen...

a face so full of defiance.

Her face was really beautiful.

It was as if she was defying the world, but...

She betrayed him!

Honey.

Run! Military police!

To me, it was just an incident from a long, long time ago.

Insensitive people...

don't feel anything until they bleed.

But when they bleed,

the tragedy is already over.

You know her?

Your mom came to visit you today?

Yes.

Let's go back, she might be there.

No.

Why?

That's Heian Shrine.

Arashiyama is over there.

What is that mountain?

Uiko.

MIZOGUCHl'S MORTUARY TABLET

I had a hunch that you'd come,

and tell me this.

Yes.

My husband asked you to do this before he died.

You could see her in time.

Now hurry.

What is it?

Aren't you happy to see her?

I won't hurry.

Let's walk slowly.

I see.

You want her to feel sorry for you,

and treat you better.

You want me to stay here until...

I reach adulthood. You better not come.

I see.

But,

I have something to tell you.

About what?

About our temple in Maizuru...

you won't have it when you come back.

- You sold it? - Yes.

Your dad had been sick for a long time.

Just the temple...

won't cover all the hospital bills.

I sold the fields as well.

There is nothing left.

Oh really?

Son,

your temple is no more.

You have one way out. To be a monk here.

Make the head monk like you...

and inherit this temple.

This will make me happy. This hope makes me live on.

What about you?

Me?

I'll go to Kasa, to my uncle's.

[Don't worn] about me.

Don't tell anyone what we just discussed.

I'm hungry!

Fasting time is not over yet!

I...

won't forgive this woman!

It has been a long time since it happened.

But I haven't forgiven this traitor!

Don't look at hell.

You're full?

Sir.

Thanks for taking care of me.

I'm going home.

I see.

Kurata...

is going home to get married.

On the road outside,

a man was hit by a truck.

I feel sick.

- Why? - The guts are spilled out!

That makes you sick?

We also have those.

It's the same as the skin!

Yes, but...

It is not the guts nor blood that are ugly.

Is he dead?

He's dead?

The man hit by a truck.

Is that death?

Such a helpless creature...

What is life for a human being?

Strange boy!

At ease.

A bugle is played this way.

Blow it hard from your belly!

Understand?

Can't you answer?

Mizoguchi is a stammerer.

I see.

You join the army too.

In just one day you'll overcome it.

I won't join.

I'll become a monk.

- A monk? - Yes!

I see.

Then I may need...

your advice one day.

Just you wait.

When we die, what should we say?

Surely,

"Long Live the Emperor!"

Let's play sumo over there.

Yes.

Go!

KEEP OUR COUNTRY INTACT

It's all lies.

Our country deceived us.

Our school, our teachers betrayed us for the country!

What's true and what's not,

no one knows.

The new world we're having might also be a lie.

Uiko!

Uiko.

With the defeat,

Japan is no longer a military state.

The Emperor declared that he's human,

not a god.

With a strange word “democracy“,

a dreamlike new world has begun.

In Kyoto,

nothing...

was destroyed by the war.

This temple.

The buddhas inside.

The thought that the fire that would burn down the Golden Pavilion,

destroying myself together with this era,

came to nothing.

Golden Pavilion will exist eternally

Mizoguchi, please...

a Yank again.

We can't say no to Yanks.

Thanks.

I don't want to come!

Too cold!

Why get me to come here?

Enough!

- May I speak? - What?

A Yank just visited us,

and left this in return.

Thank you.

Wait.

After...

finishing high school,

go study at Shogoku University.

I promised your dead father.

Study hard,

you must get in Shogoku University.

- OK? - Yes!

I'm the head of this temple.

What is it?

A couple of days ago,

I came here with Jack in the morning.

I complained that I was cold, and wanted to leave,

he was drunk and got angry,

then knocked me down.

Not just that,

Jack told the apprentice that took us around...

to stomp on my belly.

To please Jack,

that hateful apprentice...

did it.

I was pregnant.

He did such a cruel thing.

And I lost my baby.

What then?

Shall we talk about it?

Will you pay my hospital fees?

Money?

I should press charges against that perverse apprentice, but...

Let's settle this with money.

Really? That's good!

It's now settled.

Say hello to him for me.

He'll become a good monk.

That morning... it was Mizoguchi.

He did such a thing!

What happened today,

don't tell him.

Did you...

really...

do it?

I did nothing.

I did nothing.

Did he...

really believe I did it?

Well...

only he...

would see through everything, quietly.

He trusted me,

and didn't question me.

Tsurukawa .

No eyewitness.

No witness.

There is no crime.

Next spring,

Tsurukawa and I...

got into Shogoku University

If! Draw a line on my life,

this should be it.

I started a new life.

Then in the same class...

I saw this man.

Excuse me.

I know very well why you want to talk to me.

Because of this.

You thought...

you found somebody that you could talk to?

Are you a virgin?

You are.

This is not beautiful.

It means you're too afraid to go to a prostitute.

That's it.

I'm not a virgin.

Look.

Your face is in the mirror.

For me, my foot is just like a mirror.

This disability shows all that I am,

before everything else.

I couldn't ignore it.

For me, my foot...

is the condition of my being.

The reason, the objective, the ideal.

This is my being.

Look at the old woman.

Can you sleep with her?

This crooked foot of mine,

is a blessing from god.

When I was born,

Buddha appeared in my mother's dream.

"When this child has grown up,"

"women who worship this foot,"

"shall go to Heaven,"

said the Buddha.

Do you want to worship it?

Well then,

worship it.

It was so funny!

She worshiped it!

So absurd!

And,

during this ugly worship,

I noticed that I got excited.

No matter how beautiful, all women get old.

So no matter how crooked the foot is,

my desire won't wither.

That was how I lost my cherry.

Then how did your sex life go?

I'm sure there are women who will love my foot.

There are women with such bad taste.

Right.

Such women,

are usually very beautiful,

with a proud nose,

and a wanton mouth.

Jump!

- Hey! - You're cold-headed!

How dare you ignore me! My foot is crooked because of you!

Then what?

Do you have medicine at home?

That woman...

cares a lot about my foot.

Just give it some time.

Beautiful scenery...

is hell.

Cheers.

This woman has been obsessed with my foot ever since.

It's incredible, right?

She's like that.

It hurts!

It hurts! It hurts!

It's healed!

Incredible!

Whenever you do that,

the pain is gone.

Miracles happen like this.

Persuade her.

I asked her out just for you.

Persuade her!

A miracle will happen.

Persuade her.

Persuade her.

This taste...

is life!

This is the gateway to obtain and push forward your life!

What's wrong? You stopped suddenly.

No!

You're strange.

I don't understand what's going on in your mind.

Then don't.

I'm so proud of living my life with things that people don't understand.

Don't understand them.

What is it?

I have something to tell you.

It's about Kashiwagi.

You better...

stop seeing him.

Why?

Don't say that.

He's not a good friend.

If I...

live my life his way,

I can't bear it.

His way of living...

is the same as destroying oneself.

It is the road to hell.

But,

no matter how he lives this hellish life as a performance,

- he's still my friend. - No!

Stay away from him!

- I won't. - Why?

Why not?

You just admitted...

it's the way to hell!

Then what is your way of life?

The road to Buddha?

You're a good man.

You should be a friend to other good men.

People like me suit Kashiwagi best.

You...

have changed.

That's who I am.

You just couldn't see that.

Mizoguchi!

I have sad news.

Tsurukawa...

died in Tokyo.

Last night,

on his way back from his uncle's,

he was hit by a truck,

and died on the spot.

He was a...

bright and pure young man.

Tsurukawa!

Without you telling me so, I've never come to visit you again.

Every day, I spend my time farming...

in the fields of Kasa.

I'm so happy that you're studying at the university

Please work hard on your studies.

I won't die until I saw you come into the favour...

of the head monk and inherit the Rokuon Temple.

Hey!

Tsurukawa died, right?

Purebred animals are fragile.

Tsurukawa is like that.

I won't go to his funeral. Much as I want to.

Good men die young.

Cursed people like us live long.

By the way,

I need a favour.

These.

My uncle died.

He left me these.

But I need only one.

You can have one.

- For me? - Yes.

I believe you'll be lonely without Tsurukawa.

Am I nice to you?

In return,

I want to get inside the Golden Pavilion on the next full moon.

- Inside... - Yes!

And play this inside the Golden Pavilion.

OK.

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OFFENDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED

MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Nice?

Music...

should vanish in a flash, like the human life.

I hate eternal beauty.

Literature and architecture are not for me.

Golden Pavilion also?

I hate it!

This thing is an insult to life!

It isn't cursed so it won't live long.

Right!

May I go to my friend's?

Sure. But come back before 11.

Hi!

As I told you,

you stole this from Golden Pavilion.

No one saw you?

The head monk is out on Saturdays.

Only the vice head is in.

The monks of Golden Pavilion...

love to play with women.

Just rumors.

Really?

And then,

what happened to your youth?

Not just flowers should be stolen.

Women?

Women too,

grew up to be picked by flower thieves.

I'm not interested.

Bullshit.

Just say you have none.

You really know how to do this!

Like music,

flowers have shod lives.

The morning after,

they'll die.

People have shod lives too.

- Where did you learn this? - What?

A teacher who lives nearby.

By some strange coincidence,

I learned this.

With it I can live on my own.

But I got fed up.

She's still young and beautiful.

During the war, she got involved with a soldier.

She miscarried the baby,

and her man died in battle.

Then she lost her morals,

and now plays with men endlessly.

So she...

and you...

Hello.

A visitor?

No, he's not a visitor.

My shakuhachi student.

He's in the way.

He's a monk in the Golden Pavilion. We're schoolmates.

He's called Mizoguchi, from Tango.

Oh?

Kashiwagi...

- What? - You don't come to me these days.

Yes. I'm busy at school.

Am I right, Mizoguchi?

You have a new woman?

Woman?

I know.

You're jealous?

Silly. I...

You know how old you are.

The jealousy of an old woman...

is just ugh!-

Such fresh flowers!

You did them well.

Yes.

You have nothing more to teach me.

I no longer need you.

These flowers!

Go after her.

Console her. Hurry!

He's so mean.

He plays around with people.

He took a lot of money from me.

His tuition and expenses.

He has such a foot.

How stupid of me to fall in love with that foot!

Thanks for seeing me home.

Come in.

Come in!

I'll give some offering.

Have you...

ever cursed someone to die?

Yes.

Is it...

a man or a woman?

A woman.

How scary.

I saw you before.

Me?

During the war.

I saw you from above Nanzen Temple.

Nanzen Temple?

You were sitting in front of a soldier,

- in a bowl... - At that time,

- you saw how desperate I was. - Yes!

At first I thought you were as pretty as a doll.

Then...

I fell in love.

You did?

You did?

I have no more milk.

Poor boy.

I have no milk, but...

I can still...

do the same thing to you now.

You're...

still in love with me?

I'll imagine you're him.

I'm not ashamed.

I'll do the same thing to you.

This is the same...

the same...

Do it!

Now!

What's wrong?

Strange man.

What's wrong?

No.

You're young, but impotent.

Useless man.

Are you keeping me away from life, so as to protect me?

You...

appear when I try to touch life with my fingers, and gets in my way

Because of you,

will I only be able to look at life?

Don't look at hell.

Traitor!

The appearances of humans change,

but the beauty of the Golden Pavilion doesn't.

Your school sent a strongly-worded notice.

Read it.

You missed too many lectures.

Your grades are bad.

They warned you many times,

but you did even worse.

Imagine how sad your dead father would be.

Think carefully...

on what you want to do.

Lend you money?

How much?

3,000.

For what?

For... a trip.

Will you come back?

Yes.

Arson!

To bum that temple, that student“...

pretended to smoke and lit a match.

What are you running away from?

If that student...

sets fire to that temple,

he'd better run away.

Light a match,

it won't burn the world up.

But the flame...

will only light a cigarette,

then fades away.

Even if a temple gets burnt down,

it won't change the world. It won't change anything.

Have you misunderstood something?

Do you think...

this tiny flame...

will change the world?

At this moment,

countless matches are burning.

For cigarettes,

for coffee,

for cooking rice.

It won't upset the world's order.

Keep this in your mind.

Only thoughts can change the world.

No!

It's not thoughts!

What it takes is action!

Going crazy,

or dying?

Which one?

People use thoughts as weapons to combat the harshness of life.

Animals don't need them.

They don't even know that life is harsh.

Politics is powerless.

An is powerless.

Teacher is powerless.

School is powerless.

Then religion is also powerless.

The Golden Pavilion?

- Golden Pavilion? - Yes.

Golden Pavilion.

Golden Pavilion?

What is it?

You want to set fire to the Golden Pavilion?

Golden Pavilion isn't powerless.

Still,

it's the source of my powerlessness.

14

Come in, young man.

Nice girls in here, come in!

What's wrong? Come on in.

Sir.

I think...

I've seen you before.

This is really your first time?

OK.

You're shaking.

On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria

You drink a lot of water!

Is it really your first time?

You're gentle.

Three years ago,

I came to Kyoto from Nagoya.

Kyoto is really nice. I love it!

Is this so special for you?

By Beccaria...

"On Crimes and Punishments."

So difficult.

- I don't get this! - Well...

I'll be in the papers soon.

Then you'll remember me.

What's so funny?

Liar.

Bluff.

You're a liar.

It tickles.

It's raining.

"Divination Stick No.14."

"Bad luck on travels."

“Especially to the northwest.“

MERCHANTS' INN

You want to set fire to the Golden Pavilion?

Instead of burning this,

you should kill your teacher.

Killing Teacher won't change anything!

I can't cut off this powerless world.

If you burn the Golden Pavilion, will it be cut off?

And me?

Can you burn me?

Burn me!

- Burn me. - Uiko!

- Burn the Golden Pavilion. Burn me! - Uiko!

Yes.

Burn me.

Can you?

Just light a match!

I'm yours forever.

Forever?

Traitor.

Who's the traitor?

Hello. Is this the Rokuon Temple of Kyoto?

This is the police of Tango.

Do you have a student from Shogoku University named Mizoguchi?

He's in our custody.

Traitor!

Traitor!

Where did you get the money to come here?

Money?

A friend lent it to me.

- Really? - Really. - You didn't steal it? - I didn't.

Really?

You didn't tell the head monk you were coming here!

Ask him to forgive you.

Apologize from the bottom of your head!

He's a kind person,

I think he'd forgive you.

But if you do this again, I may die!

Change your mind,

become a good monk.

You must inherit that temple!

This would be my only joy to live on.

You have always betrayed me!

Enough!

Get out of this temple!

These eyes can see nothing.

You died 600 years ago.

Yoshimitsu Ashikaga.

SOULS OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Souls of past, present and future.

I call on you sincerely.

Please appear promptly.

Destroy this country.

Let the world remain.

With their wicked heads,

people lit the lamps of prosperity.

They live easy lives...

in this fake but orderly world.

I implore you, souls of past, present and future,

show your wrath, punish this country, destroy it.

They won't.

Uiko.

Mom.

Powerless world that draws me into you.

If my youth is also powerless,

then all lives that I see are also powerless.

To dominate this powerless world,

and escape from the fictional darkness,

I must burn this ignorant world.

To destroy this...

rooted and spreading powerless order in me,

and to give birth to a new order,

I must start this modest coup d'etat.

Uiko.

THE END