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Synopsis: A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his distant ancestors murdered his wife as a way of demonstrating a point to his lord about the importance of love over the emptiness of lust and to drive home the point further, created a series of illustrations of the dead woman decaying which in turn trigger the memories of his distant descendent. But is the whole thing merely a game concocted by the two doctors, who may even have driven themselves mad?
 
IMDB:
6.6
Year:
1988
109 min
293 Views


It had a great impact.

Your brilliant prose.

The editorial staff,

became too confused.

They just couldn't

work it out.

A good reaction.

But you should be

careful not to...

get your very self tricked

by your own brain.

Exactly.

Could you give me

more detail on that?

What's that?

I have trouble with your...

"the brain is not a thinking organ."

Because the brain

is almighty.

The brain likes to imagine it's the greatest

of all. As in, "I think, therefore I am."

Just a moment. She thinks

she's Anna Pavlova.

The black clouds so low

Lined up as they are

As they fly across the sky

When you look at

the western sky

What are you filming?

A detective story.

Detective story?

The brain searching

for the brain itself.

A patient, I call him Loony-Lad,

is the main character.

A good lad and smart as well.

I see.

But suddenly one day

he had a manifestation.

He's been here ever since.

Is that true?

You're such a doubter. If you

want I'll take you to him.

We've got him in room #7.

Alright.

And then?

Well, after that he was

amnesic for a while.

Then he returned to a

semblance of normality...

before completely

forgetting everything.

You remember something?

Do you know who I am?

Forgot again, did you?

It's alright.

I'm Keishi Masaki.

Head of the hospital

psychiatry section.

Psychiatry?

So I'm insane, am I?

Insane? Why say that?

I don't remember anything.

Not even my name.

You had a manifestation.

Now you've lost your memory.

How can I get it back?

Who am I?

Calm yourself down.

Earlier you screamed

out loud.

Identify why, and

it'll come back.

I had a dream.

Yes?

A frightening dream.

The world was at an end.

Or perhaps it was a beginning.

A woman suddenly opened her arms,

then looked so hurt.

No, it wasn't that.

Yes, go on.

I can't remember.

Where do our memories reside?

A very good question.

Searching for that gem is

as difficult as finding our soul.

Most doctors place

it in the brain.

I hold that

it's in the entire body.

And the brain acts

as a movie screen.

After I told the lad that,

he was so interested in the brain.

He started asking me numerous

questions, then reading.

He's still functioning well.

And he often makes learned

speeches to himself.

Brains, which exiled god from the world,

have taken the throne of the gods.

Becoming dictators, what have

they done to human culture?

Brains have created

weapon after weapon...

and tried to make us

kill each other off.

They brought us light, belittling

the sun, moon and stars.

They gave us machines and

have destroyed nature.

They created pollution and

its subsequent maladies.

What is the reality of the brain?

Strangely, the brain has not

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Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio) (March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist. more…

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