Heat-Haze Theatre Page #5

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What happens to lne's hair?

Tell me.

Ine's story ends

with her having dark hair.

You can ask the other woman.

The other woman? Who?

The one who became his plaything

in place of Ine.

His second wife.

Playwright.

You seem to be well informed

about the truth.

Did you write

the second wife's story, too?

It is in the fogs of Hell.

I'll tell it to you.

Enough!

You speak to your inner self.

Come out, playwright!

A one-man play is too dull!

Irene, come out!

The new plaything,

the new flower,

taken by the man at first,

didn't know anything.

Then she was told about Ine.

The man wanted her

to become his second wife.

He was arrogant. Impudent.

He drove his wife mad

and replaced her with a new one.

He asked the young,

innocent woman. ..

...to be his second wife.

To be his second wife!

To humbly be his second wife.

How dare he say that to her!

The second wife agreed.

She pretended to be obedient

to her husband.

She obeyed him,

but then double crossed him.

She showed him

that women were not so weak.

She showed him!

She did? But how?

Adultery.

A flower picked

by the wrong hand has to wither.

I showed him how it withered.

Oh, it withered!

What of the second wife?

I shall die.

I shall die.

Death will settle the matter.

Do you understand, playwright?

This is the end of the story.

I know, / know.

The story is not over.

Not yet.

We have an audience.

Let's watch

the last act of the play.

Stop it!

Stop it!

I have no need of men's souls.

Drowned bodies.

Suicides for love!

Young lady.

You're very pretty.

Where are you headed?

Look. See the vapour

rising from the ground.

Yes, spring has come.

Dead?

Me?

A man came from Kanazawa

with a letter.

He said you wouldn't last long,

getting letters like that.

Mr Tamawaki died with his wife.

I shudder to think of it!

Then I found you standing like a ghost.

What a shock.

Come on, read the letter.

"Since I saw my lover in a dream,

"I have depended on dreams.

"To my love, Shinako."

You're right!

"To my love."

Does that mean you?

What a waste.

- She's dead.

- I wonder.

Will you please leave now?

I'm no longer obliged

to take care of you.

What are you doing?

I was Tamawaki's woman...

The dream changed my life.

This is a song of vengeance.

So you saw the heights

of desperate love in a woman.

I was involved in a romance too.

But she was the worst.

So wicked, and she has VD.

I'm taking her to her hometown.

It's my duty, because I love her.

Heads or tails?

Heads!

Give me one yen.

All of it? Thanks.

Where did you buy the bladder cherry?

On Ueno Hill.

In death I shall be known as

"square", "circle", "circle", "triangle".

The End

Directed by

Seijun Suzuki

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