Utamaro's World (歌麿 夢と知りせば)

Utamaro's World

Nippon Herald Movie Distribution

Executive Producer: Katsumi Furukawa

Producer: Kinshiro Katsurai

Screenplay: Akio Jissoji and Masaru Takesue

Music: Ryouhei Hirose

Cinematography: Masao Nakabori Production Design: Noriyoshi lkeya & Yoshinobu Nishioka Lighting: Takeji Sano

Assistant Director: Zenji Shimomura

Still Photographer: Shin Tamagawa

Cast:

Shin Kishida

Shingo Yamashiro Mikio Narita Eiji Okada

Ryohei Uchida Tadao Nakamaru Isao Tamagawa

Akiji Kobayashi Isao Bitou Minori Terada

Kantaro Suga Tetsuo Tomikawa

Ben Hiura Katsumi Muramatsu

Noboru Nakaya Ryo Tamura Eishin Tono

Kyoko Kishida Michiko Saga Yasuko Nagamine

Rie Nakagawa Eiko Yanami Tokuko Watanabe

Yukiko Nagano Eri Kanuma Hiroko Sakurai

Mako Midori Kazuyo Mita

Kijiro Hirami

Directed by Akio Jissoji

- We will cleanse you! - Let me go!

Let me go!

Hey, hey, hey!

Someone, help me!

Don't bother people who are desperate to make a living.

Don't disturb us!

It hurts. It hurts.

A thief! A thief!

A thief! A thief!

Open it! It's the police! Open it!

- This way! - A thief! A thief!

- Have the police come yet? - Thank you for coming.

You are in our way.

Genta, look inside of the warehouse.

Let's go to the warehouse.

Where is the master?

Oh, Mr. Sobei. What's the matter?

- Dream was stolen. - "Dream"?

A masterpiece by Enshu Kobori.

You can't get it, even by paying more than 5,000 ryo.

This is big trouble.

Actually, it's a tea bowl presented by Sir Sadanobu.

What?

Sir...

Up there...

Dream

Yumeno-Ukihashi = "a floating bridge in a dream" He's over there! Yumeno-Ukihashi is over there!

Block his path!

Go that way!

This way!

- He's over there. - On the roof!

- Cooperate with us! - Yumeno-Ukihashi, you're under arrest!

- Co-operate with us! - You're under arrest!

This way!

You're under arrest!

Sir!

Don't let him run away!

Cooperate with us!

Ukihashi, you're under arrest!

Don't let him get away! Block his path!

You're under arrest!

Where did he go? Close off this area!

- Don't lose him! - Search for him!

- Where is he? - This way! - Search for him!

Search everywhere!

This is a police search!

About an hour ago, a thief broke into...

a Hinokuma-ya lumber wholesaler in Fukagawa Kiba.

If you guys harbor him, you are equally guilty.

The tiger's disguise...

is defeated by the fox's intelligence...

and borrows the cat's claws.

Are you ridiculing us?

No, not at all...

We are a group of losers, who love comic tankas.

We are holding a memorial service for our fellow comic tanka poet, Kiyonari Ozen.

Who are you?

Juzaburo Tsutaya from 50 Ken Street, in Yoshiwara.

I know that...

You are the publisher of lewd books.

I'm Utamaro Kitagawa, the man who wants to paint lewd paintings,

but is not allowed.

And you?

A comic tanka poet, Enju Shimizu.

Oh, you are the one who used to be a low-level vassal of the Tokugawa shogunate.

And you?

Sanji Furai or Genanai Hiraga or Kigai Fukuuchi or...

Oh, okay! Stop kidding around!

Hey!

The elderly man over there's other name is...

You...

Oh, I am very, very sorry, even though I didn't know!

I'm going incognito, and can't reveal my name. So please forget that you ever saw me.

Yes, sir...

Genta! Come here!

Go!

You idiot!

Thank you for helping me while I was in danger.

- I will not forget your kindness. - That's fine. Just leave quickly.

Please, this way...

So, forgive me for leaving...

Hey, you! I'm the best portrait painter in Edo.

You can get a souvenir of Edo for only three mon. Only three mon!

- Hey, you, cool dude! - Me?!

Your face can become a great painting!

Oh, no! You guys are my nemeses.

That's interesting. Why not us?

You know why! You are malicious.

- That gentleman is a painter. - How could you tell?

I can tell from his eyes.

If you hang around here, I can't do my business. Go away!

Hey, let's go.

A pickpocket!

Excuse me!

It's dangerous...

Excuse me.

You! Come with us!

- Stop it! - Shut up!

You are the pickpocket!

I'm a samurai from the Satsuma clan.

This woman definitely bumped into me intentionally and...

What the hell are you talking about? You're the one who bumped into me.

- Stop flirting with me. - Damn you!

Or do you have evidence?

Shall I strip under the bright sun?

- Great! - Do it!

You! Don't even think I'm blind.

This is...

No, this is... Don't play dumb!

You, too, are in this.

You will be punished!

Wait a moment...

- Dankaku! - Wait a moment. - Dankaku!

I'm Dankaku Ichikawa, the head of the nearby Kannon-za theater.

So what?

Officer, at least this gentleman is not part of the pickpockets.

What?

The other night, you were at Yanagibashi...

Anyway, I will clear the gentleman's name.

Let me borrow this.

Sir, please come this way.

That is the way it was.

But the woman is definitely a professional pickpocket.

Damn, she ran away.

Busy streets in Edo are dangerous. Please be careful.

Oh, thank you.

I saw that! Since when has the pickpocket woman been your lover?

Don't be stupid. But I think that I have seen her somewhere...

Why aren't these any good?

Uta-san, women are difficult...

You can't paint them unless you know them, of course,

but if you know them too well, that's not good, either.

If you can't paint them, no matter how much you...

Look at them, maybe you should shut your eyes.

Stop your nonsense.

Hey, you! This man is very, very serious.

If you treat him too roughly, he won't be able to paint, because his mind is fragile.

If he is that fragile, I don't want to do business with him.

How cruel...

Listening to you makes me angry.

Here is a galley proof for the picture book Selected Insects of Japan.

Darkening the shade of the bellflower was the key to success.

Why, Uta-san?

You can paint this type of subject very well, so why not women?

Are you a homosexual?

Or did your wife... suck out all of your energy?

I will paint...

I do want to paint women.

Hey, Uta-san!

Wait a moment! Hey! Hey!

Because you said that. Damn it!

Hey! Wait! Hey!

Uta-san!

I understand your feelings, but don't be so upset.

Hey, hey, wait!

You know, my friend, Genpaku Sugita, published a book called New Text on Anatomy.

After all, a woman is this.

I heard that lumber was overabundant in Edo.

Do we really make a profit from buying up lumber with so much money during such a time?

It is a business practice to do the opposite of what other people are doing.

Then, what can I gain?

You should know very well.

Are you telling me that I can get a post...

in the Shogunate government?

Humbly speaking, there is nothing that you can't buy with money in this world.

By the way, it was a big mistake that the tea bowl by Enshu was stolen.

We have to think of something else...

to present to Sir Sadanobu.

Yourcompany is here.

You haven't changed, Sangetsu.

Lord, your partner is finally here.

Kizaki is the best Oiran in Yoshiwara.

I want to die on top of her.

Just looking at her takes me to heaven.

Not yet?

Not yet?

Okay!