Third Base (サード)

An ATG/Gentosha Production

K an to Asah/ Reform School

THIRD

Reveille!

Planning by Kinshiro Kuzui Produced by Katsuhiro Maeda

Attention. Line to the left.

Written by Shuji Terayama after the novel by Haku Kenjo

Hirai. Don't you know your own number?

Takeo Hirai. 18. Nickname: Deaf-and-dumb. Charge: Rape.

Total, 23. Absent 2. At present: 21.

Good morning.

With Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsuguaki Yoshida, Aiko Morishita, Akiko Shikata

Taketoshi Naito, Yuko Katagiri, Toru Minegishi

Sorry.

"One's friends seem always better than oneself."

Toshimitsu Nakazawa. 17. Nickname: Mr. Poetry. Charge: Robbery.

Tetsutomi Shinobu. 16. Nickname: Little Finger. Charge: Assault.

Keijiro Matsuda. 18. Nickname: Airplane. Charge: Assault.

Is Third up?

Isn't Akira here?

Why do they call Seno Third?

He used to play third base.

Really? Then he used to play at the Koshien?

Probably not.

Shinji Seno. 18. Nickname: Third. Charge: Murder.

Akira Shindo. 19. Nickname: Akira. Charge: Assault.

With Chiyoko Shimakura

Directed by Yoichi Higashi

Prayers.

Here's your food.

Prayers.

Let's eat.

It's been three days...

Third's been in solitary.

"Third" is Seno, isn't it?

Better not call him by that.

Why not? Third is Third.

He's not a very good mixer.

Akira's the same way.

Those two are bad influences.

So what should we do?

They're here. What can we do?

That fight was really something.

That? They went a little far.

Haven't had something like that for a long time.

Sun, they had to.

Akira went too far.

And that would have been my soup.

Spitting in the soup.

That's it - spit-soup.

Imagine feeding anyone that.

It's good sometimes.

But I don't like Akira much.

Me either, but we're in the same room.

Hats off.

Bow.

Good morning.

Seno and Shindo are still in solitary confinement but...

I want you all to do your best today.

Bow.

I have bad dreams sometimes...

I'm Third Base...

Not that good, not that bad either.

They all run past me, hit all the bases...

All of them reach home base.

And then it's my turn at bat.

And I make a long hit and no one else is there.

And I run but there's no home-base.

And so I run around yet again.

I'm just running, a runner with...

No home-base.

Running, running - then I'm exhausted.

A home-base - what's that?

Seno, you've got a visitor.

Go on and eat.

You eat it.

You ought to call me Mother.

You just never change.

I'm finding a new job in town for you, so just don't you worry.

And you needn't be at all ashamed of working there.

How's Newspaper Club doing?

Newspaper Club?

That's her nickname. Came to the house once.

I don't remember her.

You said among the girls I knew she wasn't so bad.

You've been in solitary confinement?

We call it private retention here.

It's a room used for private meditation.

He's really a good boy. But he had such bad friends.

He always went to school, always helped at home.

Go home.

Just like I said, you must be careful choosing your friends.

But no matter how bad, you always said it wasn't your own fault.

I still don't believe you did that terrible thing.

Seno“.

- Shinji Seno, right'? - Yes.

You have killed a man, and the reason is...

selling women, that is... procuring.

FAMILY COURT - JUVENILE DELINQUENT DIVISION

Of course, there may be extenuating circumstances...

It is determining these...

Discovering these, this discovery of cause...

in the service of humanity - this is our job.

But of course, there is a limit to what we can do.

I always worry about this - reform school or not.

Parole or reformatory... I must decide.

If it's reformatory, I don't sleep at night. I worry so.

For how long?

What?

For how many nights?

Oh, I know what you mean.

But I want to ask you something.

Have you ever thought of that dead man's family?

In any event, between judges and the judged...

There is always a human problem.

We must try to solve it together.

I always hope we will be successful in this.

I am sending you to the Asahi Kanto Reformatory.

Shall I cover up the handcuffs?

It's all right.

Say Murakami...

I've been working a year now. These handcuffs...

I wonder if they're really necessary.

This isn't a pleasure trip.

Why did you do a damn fool thing like that?

Well, everyone makes mistakes.

He's still young. He'll get along.

Tired?

It's a little farther.

Oh, it's a festival.

Shouldn't have come this way.

Wonder what this town 's called.

Different from my old dead town.

Next year, September... I'll be running through this town.

I'll call it September Town.

You're new - why are you running faster than we do?

Speak up - and stop looking like that.

Say that again.

- What are you doing? - Nothing.

"They say it tastes of Mother..."

"But not all soup is good."

Don't fuck with me!

About today's incident, what do you think?

I think it was bad, but...

What does Seno think?

I think I was bad.

I think it was bad to fight, but...

- He deserved it. - I think so too.

No matter what, it is bad to spit in soup.

But then Seno wasn't very polite to Shindo.

True. Both were at fault.

So neither of them should have fought.

That's true. We must all live together. We shouldn't fight.

If two people fight, then it involves us all...

And that, I think, isn't a very good thing.

We talk about politeness, but I think that fights...

Sometimes can really lead to friendship.

That's a mixed-up way of thinking.

Nakazawa, what do you think?

Nothing much.

Why's that?

I don't really understand.

- Solitary confinement? - That's a good idea.

All right, then they'll have time to think about this.

Well, it's their problem. Tomorrow the teachers will decide.

We'll tell them about this. They'll decide.

I made up a poem.

"Making fire flowers, I stop seeing."

That means if I get excited, it's no good.

Not very poetic.

The words are all right though.

I'm going to make a real model plane one day.

Keep on talking and you'll have an accident.

I don't understand this.

You did it a bit too much here.

Do it lightly, like this.

Here, try this.

How's this?

A bit too much too.

He's going to work now. Please take care of him.

Like this, all four of them.

- That's not so. - You don't understand something that simple?

You don't look very lively.

I'm lively enough.

You want to fight with Third again?

Fight? Of course, I do, but it wouldn't look good.

- Then you won't fight again? - It's not that, but...

Why?

All right then.

- Hurry up and get out. - We're still washing.

Begin.

EVERYONE HAS HIS OWN VIRTUE

If you have a real reason for crying...

Then you and I should have a good long talk.

The best for you would be to get out and go home...

Live with your mother and do what she says. Right?

What are you looking at?

It won't come out.

"Again today, the solitary stain, the lonely emission."

And it'll happen tomorrow.