Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home
1973 · 52 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 68 VOTES · DIR. Shōhei Imamura
Overview
“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura
Dialogue Timeline — 542 lines
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00:00:03 Matsukichi Fujita, 55, ex-corporal...
00:01:56 He's a coward.
00:03:52 Really? You're tough.
00:05:25 She's a mother to you, and a sister to me.
00:07:21 On the Burma Thailand border...
00:09:56 - Has it chanaged? - Yes.
00:11:46 This is the document. It reported you dead.
00:14:24 Finalty I can visit your grave.
00:15:59 But his brother survived the A-bomb...
00:17:47 I know, but I'm asking you. What's past is past.
00:19:18 .. I'll have to send her money from Thailand.
00:21:04 My brother kept yelling at me last night.
00:23:18 Then he worked at the steel mill with Fujio.
00:25:12 That's right. I'm glad to see you back.
00:27:27 Hello, Ukiie! How have you been?
00:29:07 The plane did all that.
00:31:11 No. I've never seen it.
00:33:09 I hear you were in the field hospital.
00:35:32 And I assume your family passed it to us.
00:37:40 Maybe you told Fujito this
00:39:46 Will you call Fujio?
00:41:49 I didn't come to ask for money.
00:44:28 But now he's deserted some of his is children.
00:46:26 In the wake of our rapid prosperity...