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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
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studied the brain itself.

And there are no cures

for mental illness.

Patients have been put behind

bars all over the world.

They're not treated

as human beings.

Why, I ask, are other patients

treated differently...

from those who suffer

from mental illness?

What defines normality

and abnormality?

You, yourselves live in the bustling city,

you carry on with your normal lives.

Sometimes you

do abnormal things.

You tire and feel as if

someone is watching you.

And you suffer from

your persecution mania.

Most of you have experienced

this abnormality.

So the normal folk

have this tendency.

Those we call insane,

have it to a greater degree.

A genius, or one who is

fixated on one subject...

is also referred

to as being crazy.

Notably, Dr. Masaki is

a typical crazy professor.

Even a doctor, how can

he distinguish madness?

A pulse, examining a tongue?

Where can he cut?

Can't see it on an X-ray.

More mysterious than a fart.

How can we examine it?

You know it can't be cured

and an asylum doesn't help.

Committing them doesn't

give you peace of mind.

For the patient it's the end

and the doctors lots of bucks.

A pit of horror stories. They

get you in and get your bucks.

Bung him in the loony bin and

watch the bugger squeal.

Can't escape from there

and hardly anybody knows.

How could they?

Be quiet! Shut up!

Like this Loony-Lad,

he's taken my Freedom Cure...

and has recovered some

of his faculties.

Sometimes he expounds on

his theories of the brain.

But essentially he's

plagiarizing my theories.

The lad has memorized

it so well.

Sometimes, I even go

listen to refresh my mind.

Doctor Masaki has given me

the nickname Prof. Loony-Lad.

Does that mean the humans

exist for the brain's sake?

Or do brains exist

for we humans?

That deserves deep

consideration.

The god-exiling brains will

destroy not only humans...

but also the world itself.

In order to prevent this, I will cast

this thinking brain to the ground.

And stamp on it. Just watch!

Interesting case, eh?

Then Loony-Lad lapses

into unconsciousness.

But Professor,

why do the detective and

criminal knock each other out?

Because both are

the same entity.

The brain entraps itself.

And the revelation of

it is also the brain.

Put another way. The brain

thinks the brain doesn't think.

According to the brain's thinking.

But that gets nowhere.

So, after Loony-Lad

wakes up again,

he goes through

the very same process.

Unreasonably reasonable.

You're saying that's me?

What do you think?

It's...

as if it were a stranger.

Wakabayashi speaking.

Tomorrow?

That's October 10 at 3 p.m.

Very good.

Professor...

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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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