PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
ISLAND OF THE SI RENS
Coming!
Lincoln Bravo Charlie Fox, over.
This is 0KW7, Lincoln Bravo Charlie Fox, I read you.
Hello, lazybones!
- Enjoying the vacation, Benoit? - Sure!
Classy hotel, stylish staff, great mountain view.
If the disco had better music, it'd be paradise!
Report your position.
You expect me to give away my shortcut?
- Benoit, report your position. - In the lead!
- Out! - Benoit, this is 0KW7. Do you read me?
Mr. Benoit Croissant had an appointment in the bar. Ciao!
Careful, Benoit, there's a cyclone in the area.
Roger.
That's enough.
Crap!
Wait for me! Without you, they'll never find me!
Don't leave me to the sharks! Come back!
Is anyone there?
Here I am!
Here I am! Look at me!
Hey, look!
Damn sun.
Come back!
Tropics? It's freezing!
Damn mosquitoes!
Who are you?
What's your name?
Answer me! I'm Benoit!
Come here!
Come back, I need you.
Oh, my God, a boat!
I want to stay.
Slow down.
Are we there yet?
Hello.
Are these your sisters?
Your sisters?
Sisters?
Food.
Food for me.
Food.
Right. ''Ma-ken.''
How's it cooking?
Right.
That looks good.
Can I taste?
Damn, that's spicy!
This is really tasty!
What a wonderful meal!
This is tasty! Really tasty!
Really. I swear.
It's better here than over there.
It's better here than back home.
Yes. Much better!
And that! No comparison. Bravo!
Very good. Cigarette.
After a meal, always a cigarette.
More precisely, Gauloises. Just like it says on the pack.
Cigarette?
Ready? Go!
See that? Scared you, didn't I?
This is good. Isn't this nice?
This is good.
This is paradise!
No, start over.
This is how to play jacks.
It's the other one that counts. Like this.
Like that.
It's nothing, don't worry.
Leave it alone, it's nothing. Stop it!
Look at the kite! Look!
I make you an airline, and that's the thanks I get?
How encouraging!
Want to try?
I've got eight left. At two per day, in four days I'll quit.
Try it.
At least you appreciate that!
Yes, this is me.
Me!
That will take forever.
You need a knife.
Where's my knife?
Have you seen it? Damn, I lost my knife.
Knife. Knife.
I don't want any more. I'm done.
No. Stop.
But I'm stuffed!
What's this?
I found it over there.
Did someone come before me?
Here.
Someone like me?
No, like me.
Fine.
Stop it! What's wrong with you?
That's enough!
Not like that! She scratched me.
Finished!
That's enough.
Stop!
Croissant?
Hey, Benoit.
Stop!
Are you okay?
Nothing broken?
Written and directed by SHUJI TERAYAMA
This is the story of a man
searching for a nursery rhyme.
THE GRASS LABYRI NTH
A man tells his wife,
''Today a strange boy came to see me.
He might be the son of that family at the Black Door Estate
where you were a servant. ''
''He said he's been looking for you for a month.
He asked if I knew the words to a nursery rhyme. ''
''I'm busy enough without having people come to talk about you. ''
''I threw him out. ''
Akira seeks the words to the nursery rhyme.
''Three gifts for a little girl- Oharu-
who may be dead. ''
That's all he remembers.
His mother often sang it.
He visits the school principal.
''Ask your mother. ''
''They told me she's dead. ''
''They say one of my aunts sang it with her.
She wore a pretty red ribbon in her long hair.
She was married to a clothing merchant
and she went mad at 1 9, on the day of the Maidens'Festival. ''
''She's been in an asylum ever since. I wrote to ask for the words,
but she sent love poems, not nursery rhymes. ''
The school principal doesn't remember.
He has had so many students.
He has forgotten Akira's mother's face.
Even her name doesn't stir any memories.
''Anyway, no one sings nursery rhymes anymore. ''
When Akira was a child,
his mother often asked,
''Akira, what are you dreaming about?
I know you're not really here.
You're near me, but you are gone.
Your bones are here,
but you are gone. ''
Akira remembers one summer day.
She asked him,
''Would you prefer a bath or a meal?''
He asked, ''Who are you?''
She asked,
''Where are the chopsticks?''