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.
00:03:56 I'm thin, but I haven't been ill.
00:05:31 It was 33 years ago.
00:07:33 I couldn't neither pass by them, nor back away.
00:10:04 - Not the mountains. - They won't change.
00:12:12 "... died of malaria; also shot in the arm. "
00:14:40 Our brother's who died young.
00:16:23 Matsukichi didn't want to.
00:18:08 I donated to chapels and orphanages.
00:19:40 You didn't write to me.
00:21:25 He said brother Uzen and I were unfilial.
00:23:47 They didn't treat me well.
00:25:44 It's like a dream that I'm really seeing you.
00:28:01 Nam Khan.
00:29:50 I don't remember the place.
00:31:54 So I died there?
00:34:02 I'm a Thai national now, I might go to war.
00:36:24 Who was in charge?
00:38:24 That's strange. This isn't my signature.
00:40:46 I challange you. Come out!
00:43:25 I'm glad to see you again.
00:45:20 but we didn't wish him a long life.
50:00:00 the soldier's family.