You little brats, beat it!
Hey...!
It should have been me!
You'll miss the train
Hurry
PART ONE
'Kouzuki Noriaki
Go back to sleep
We're still far from the house
Pleased to meet you I am Okju.
A Western-style wing by an English architect
Not even in Japan is there a building combining two styles
It reflects lVlaster's admiration for Japan and England
Next is the annex
which lVlaster had furnished as a library
Last, the ser\/ants' quarters
As the Lady's handmaiden you won't sleep there.
You may eat her leftover food
but tea leaves go to the kitchen girls
Used soap is for the steward
l'm sure you wouldn't dare Tamako.
Among the richest men, lVlaster is the greatest book lover
And among book lovers he is the richest.
His ties to the colonial government even let us use electricity.
ln such a home
you know what's expected of a maid like you?
Don't be alarmed at the blackouts
I sleep in here?
lVliss Hideko wakes easily on account of her ner\/es.
She's behind this door?
IVlother!
lVliss!
lVliss, are you alright?
Junko! ls that you?
Junko was kicked out, lVliss l'm the new girl.
Seems you had a bad dream
You see that big cherry tree?
I\/ly aunt went mad and hanged herself there
Sometimes on moonless nights
my aunt's ghost
dangles from that branch
Here, drink up
When babies cry, my auntie feeds them a spoonful of sake
Sweet bird, sweet bird
You think l'm Tamako, a poor Korean handmaiden
But my rea/ name 's Nam Sookee.
I was able at age 5 to tel/ a rea/ coin from a fake.
Then /earned to forge stamps from Gugai,
and studied pickpocketing from Kutan,
but these babies will never /earn such useful skills.
Abandoned as newborns
we 'll wash and feed them, then sell them to Japan.
Such meaningful work
Instead of starving, they grow up gentlemen and ladies.
Kutan only breastfeeds her own kid I wou/dn 't be so miser/y.
I wish my breasts gave milk I 'd breastfeed all of them.
l'll tell you the story of an interpreter,
who bribed his way into translating for high officials
After helping Japan annex Korea he got rights to a gold mine.
Now he wants to turn fully Japanese.
So he gets naturalized
marries the daughter of a fallen Japanese noble
and adopts his wife's family name Kouzuki.
BaH.Bas
Bastard builds a mansion, fills it with books and antiques
He invites Japanese collectors to his library,
He loves books and paintings like his own flesh,
but he can't help parting with a few
What to do, when he must sell but can't bear to?
He sells a fake
He seeks out a specialist to create intricate forgeries
Unlike him this specialist
is a real Japanese of noble birth!
Count Fujiwara from Nagoya
So, who is this?
You'll seduce her - ls she pretty?
The Jap wife died ages ago with no children.
But the dead wife's dead sister's living daughter
But is she pretty?
An orphan. Her father was rich
Soon she'll fall in love with me and we'll elope to Japan.
After marrying her there
and inheriting her fortune l'll declare her insane
and lock her up in a madhouse
Right!
Love?
What does a crook know about love?
What of her fortune? She's rich?
Each night in bed I think of her assets.
1.5 million in cash 300,000 in bonds.
The uncle is just a guardian lt's Hideko's fortune.
That's why Kouzuki schemes to marry the girl
To his w...wife's niece?
What a s...sick f...f
Right, a sick fuck
So what's our share?
l'll share 50,000
Sookee gets the dresses and jewellery
l'll do it! Take me!
I\/ly Japanese is better, and I worked as a maid!
On top of the fifty
I get dresses, jewellery and my own 100,000.
She must be crazy
Crazy? Not a bit.
I 'll take my fortune and flee this country.
Endure these country yoke/s a bit longer.
Those fuckers
This is Tamako
I am at your service lVliss...
Bloody hell
He should 've told me she was so pretty.
I 'm completely flummoxed
A reference letter
from Lady lVlinami my last mistress.
Here's the letter Pay attention.
Dear lVliss Izumi Hideko
A maid is like a pair of chopsticks
Her presence is little noted, but her absence causes much distress
The sun scarcely ever shines here
Uncle won't permit it
One could never grow fond of such a dreary place.
Not a good liar, are you?
l'll take my leave
I\lly head aches before every reading practice.
Would you read it to me?
Pardon?
Lady lVlinami said such nice things about me!
Is that so?
You're a Japanese lady, why don't you speak Japanese?
The books he makes me read are all Japanese.
So read that for me
Dear lVliss Izumi Hideko
Count Fujiwara said you're looking for a maid
lVlaids are like
a spoon... no
are like chopsticks
Is it a spoon?
I don't know how to read, lVliss
Not at all? What about Korean?
This is your name Can't you read it?
Reading can be learned
and I don't care if you curse or steal.
But don't ever lie to me Understood?
Yes, lVliss
IVly mum
She's beautiful, quite the charmer!
And me? Am I "quite the charmer?
Everyone says I can't compare to my mother
Count Fujiwara said
So you've met the Count?
I\lly aunt! I heard it from my aunt
She was his nanny
What did the Count say about me?
He said your face
Every night in bed he thinks of your assets... your face.
I've nowhere to go
I've just stayed in this house since coming to Korea at age 5
But in new shoes, even well-trodden paths feel fresh
The ones from here
up to here should fit you
Time for reading practice
l'll go alone
lVliss?
But rain is falling
At noon, come knock on the door. Promise?
See you at
See you later
Why would the lady of such a big house... ?
Did the big house make her go mad?
I\lly new handmaiden
The snake, the snake!
You mustn't pass that point
Be warned!
The snake marks the bounds of knowledge'
A snake!
The Count?
Today?
That's why you insisted on a bath.
I\lly aunt, when she heard a guest was coming,
dropped eveiything and bathed her Baby lVliss.
Nothing made her happier than when guests praised her baby's scent.
You are my Baby lVliss
Auntie gave the babies candy during baths.
To teach them that bath time is sweet.
What's wrong?
One of my teeth is sharp It keeps cutting me.
So this was the scent.
Welcome, sir!
You are too kind to greet me this way upon my arrival,
when the journey has left me so unkempt.
Now your tedium is over
l'll ensure your painting lessons are stimulating.
This must be Okju
At your ser\/ice, milord
You know if you fail, it'll put me in an awkward position?
A decent bone structure for a Korean...
So, are you carrying out your duties faithfully?
Count Fujiwara asks lVliss Hideko to kindly allow her maid Tamako
to be sent to his Lordship for a brief errand.
Did you call for me, milord?
You may enter
How you'll be an even greater thief than your mum
Who believes the talk of a swindler?
When I give the signal "fully ripe",
Then l'll gobble her up to the pit.
She's so naive, even if a man pulls on her nipples
she won't know what he wants
So it's yourjob to tell her
that everything is because of me
"Oh my, since the Count arrived
your toenails are growing much faster!
That sort of thing, all right?
Here, a gift
Oh, he's so thoughtful!
That'// be mine when she goes to the madhouse
It pains my heart to see this poor girl
Have you ever seen sapphires so blue?
Let's take a look
This isn't a sapphire it's blue spinel.
lt's all right, lVliss. Spinels are expensive too
Oh, my Auntie... I mean Lady lVlinami taught me
But it's fine!
Your average fence can barely tell them apart
Is that so?
has anything been this pretty?
I 'd like to show her to the people at home.
Probably this?
lVlesmerising!
S...Spellbindingly beautiful!
He 's shameless
B...b...beautiful!
I...I...I'm flummoxed in your presence!
If you stutter like that and make your face go red
those uppity bitches will feel superior,
You try it
One, two, three!
The Count kept pushing wine on me.
lt's suffocating. How do ladies wear such things?
lVliss, you're killing me!
Dressed up, you look like a lady, too
I think I know
what the Count meant
Your face
Each night in bed
I think of your face
Don't be silly, lVliss
Ladies truly are the dolls of maids
All these buttons are for my amusement.
lfl undo the buttons and pull out the cords
then, the sweet things within
those sweet and soft things
lf/ were stil/ a pickpocket l'd slip my hand inside...
lVliss, are you truly going to marry your uncle?
That's what he raised me for, knowing he'd need my fortune
There's a famous collector in France.
He’ll be putting his entire library up for auction.
The gold mine's proceeds won't cover the cost.
If it were me, l'd sell books to buy gold, not the opposite
For now,
the Lady needn 't go read to the sick fuck
who wants to marry his wife 's niece.
Instead the fake Count goes to the Library to make fake books.
The Lady waits for her 2 o'c/ock art class,
and waits
Poor girl,
losing her heart to a fake
Please, Count!
Sorry to be late
lt's no matter
lVlaybe I need more practice to give it dimensionality?
Dimensionality... perhaps
Nonetheless, you have a vision that transcends mere skill.
As if you see directly into an object's essence
I hesitate to stand before you
for fear that you might read my thoughts.
That's enough for today
Almost fully ripe
A/ready?
Damn
Do you know what?
Since the Count arrived, your cheeks have grown flushed
Have they?
When I was a baby, at a big house, she was hanged
Well, pretty much
Still, while alive she hugged you a lot?
I\lly mother died giving birth to me
So it's as if I strangled her myself
I wish l'd never been born
No baby is ever guilty of being born.
If your mother thought you could understand
this is what she'd have said
That she was so lucky to have you before dying
That she had no regrets
Your mother stole a thousand times,
Did she cry?
She laughed
Said she was lucky to have you before dying
That she had no regrets
Wait here a moment, lVliss
l'll go pick mushrooms
We'll have mushroom stew tonight, you like that.
l'll go with you
l'll be quick
Before it rains
Good girl
What a coincidence
Indeed
IVlay I sit by you?
The lady sits, shy and trembling
The gentleman is persistent.
The perceptive maid has stepped out for a moment.
All is well, Sookee
Everyone's performing their roles so damned wel/
Fucking hell
You know S€I"\/HDTS can't use this entrance!
Hey!
I wish I 'd never come here
It was wrong to come
Tamako, you brought watercolours, right?
Of course, milord!
Watercolour paints and brushes
Go and get the oils
A day like this demands oils, yes!
A blackout! Bring a lantern
Yes, ma 'am
I need to think
I need to become rich
sail off to a distant harbouh eat food I scarcely recognise
buy my HI/ of glittering baub/es, and
not think of Hideko
Never think of Hideko
I returned and you didn't even come to me?
You know how hard it is to do those readings?
IVlust I remove makeup and change clothes all by myself?
I feel a nightmare coming Sleep here.
He proposed to me
Next full moon
when my uncle visits his mine he wants to elope to Japan.
What did you say?
I said I wasn't sure
l'm scared
Of your uncle's anger?
Of the Count
What's to be scared of? He's so kind.
I don't know, Ijust feel it
Like the reflex of pulling your hand from a flame.
Tell me
Pardon?
I mean after getting married at night...
How would I know? l'm practically a child
With no mother No one hereto..
Firs
I guess we'd kiss?
What the hell
I 'll show her one thing then put her to bed.
Poor thing
alone in a strange country, reading those useless books
without /earning a single useful skill
Why does the candy taste different?
The bitter turned souh
the sour turned sweet,
the sweet turned savoury.
How do you know all this?
You must have experience?
I\lly friend Kutan taught me
Taught you? In words?
Yes, only in words
So this is how it feels
That's what you will feel for the Count.
The Count, truly
He won't think he's making love to a corpse?
You know about my cold hands and feet.
Really?
Here
Feels just fine
You like it?
l'm sure he'll want to do this too.
And then
lt's so cute
If the Count sees this
Will he really be so tender as this?
Of course
And he'll touch you like this
And like this
Keep doing it like the Count would
And this is what he'll say
lt's so soft, warm
wet, and
s...s...spellbindingly beautiful!
Okju
Hideko
Mummy.
Daddy.
Now, the model must stay still
Okju
Hideko - Wait.
_ _ .doesn 't like it, you damned scoundre/I
Stop it!
I can't do this
Come here, Tamako
Find some otherjob to do
You catch my meaning?
I've no otherjob to do
Myjob is to look after the Lady
I spit it out without chewing! All because of you!
She's fully ripe! Fully ripe!
If I miss this fortnight l'm finished!
Can you feel it? How much I want it?
you think l'll let you fuck it up, you bitch?
Shall I tell the Lady you're nothing but a lowly pickpocket?
Fine, l'll have something to tell her too.
That you’re nothing but the son of a lowly Korean farmhand and shaman
Boksun raising babies with her bad back, and those two halfvvits
How will they feel if you go home empty-handed?
Want to shit on your mother's legend?
You should go home in glory
So don't push Hideko too hard
She's got no one on this earth.
If you frighten her, she'll close up hard as a clam
And please
Don't ever again put my hand on your tinyjoke of a cock.
Oh my
Your toenails have grown faster since the Count arrived.
How curious
Miss, doesn't it bother you not to know?
How many ships sail on the wide sea...
People leaving, people returning
those saying farewell or welcome back.
The hill beyond the manor?
I could be content here if you were with me.
You're fortunate, Miss
The man who loves you has the power to protect you
That's rare
But l'm not sure if I love him.
You do love him
How do you know?
Turn in your sleep and sigh
Even if I say I don't love him
if I say that I love someone else
Do you still want me to marry him?
You will love him
Miss!
In the end,
Hideko accepted the proposal, provided that I come to Japan too
nodded his head
On the day her Uncle left to visit his mine,
the Count pretended to go back to Japan, and hid nearby.
You'll have a week of freedom
but always remember the basement.
Miss!
Thank you for travelling on our ferry today.
Finally we're going home
lt's been three years
To not steal
To not commit adultery
To not lie
Spider thread pulled into strings
Strumming makes a zither sing
Thousand woes
Under the blue sky Only the crows cry
Excuse me
Sorry
The Count paid the innkeeper to spy on us, afraid we might run off
Why get dressed? I've nothing to do any\/vay
Things are moving too slowly.
I fear Hideko might truly go mad.
Shall we play 'maid like before?
From morning to night we see no sign of the Count.
Certifying the marriage and converting the inheritance to cash
You plucked the flower now re-plant it.
What do you want?
Hurry up and throw her into the madhouse!
A week here
Then Hnally.
This way
Who is that person?
The Countess Lady Fujiwara
Her maiden name was Izumi Hideko.
And who might you be?
I am the Lady's handmaiden
Then, what kind of treatment
do you believe your Lady requires?
where no one can harm her, and where she can do no harm
Just a few tests, then let's have lamb chops at the Peace Hotel.
Almost there Good work.
Don't be frightened
Good day, Countess
Do you remember me?
Countess?
What is this?
We mean you no harm, Countess
We're going to look after you
You've got the wrong person She is the Countess.
Tell them, Your Lordship!
She still believes she's a Korean handmaiden
lt's because her nanny was Korean
Let go of me, you filthy bitches!
We do not use such language here your Ladyship.
Miss!
If it's any help
this is from her mammy, and she used to cherish it
Such a considerate maid
I tel/ you, right from the start Miss Izumi Hideko
had always been
Miss!
l'm not a rotten bitch! No! No!
Put it in your mouth, Hideko
Hold out your hand
Next time you feel like talking back,
remember the taste of this metal bead.
You'll sleep alone from tonight
All right?
Please give me a light
We've been ordered to save oil
You little brat
Speak Japanese!
In there is a man the size of an ogre
who can't stand the sound of girls screaming.
And then?
He'll smother you with his giant body
So you can't make a sound
Aunt
|V|y, my
Scaring a little girl like that
Am I pretty too?
Look closely
to my big sister
DHV
Night
DHV
Night
Man
Woman
Man
Woman
Eye
Nose
Mouth
HI'
Shoulder
Nipple
Navel
Eye
Nose
Mouth
HI'
Shoulder
Nipple
Navel
Penis
P...penis
You think if you speak Korean I won't understand?
I was going a bit crazy, so I made them crazy too
When Mrs. Sasaki looked as crazy as me
life was more bearable
I know you are a bit insane
It runs in your mother's family
That's why l'm training you
To set your mind right
Established by the rational Germans
it's very effective in treating lunacy
They dig holes in the dirt put a patient in each one
and put lids on top
If patients improve they get a leash,
so they can crawl around like dogs.
The cherry tree that came with me on the ship from Japan
bloomed twice
"When Jinlian finally took off her clothes,
Ximen-Qing-examined her-Jade-Gate...
to-find-it-hairless-white-as-snow and-smooth-as-jade..."
You must pause between words
Don't read like a dog lapping at his plate!
Listen to your aunt read
"When Jinlian finally took off her clothes,
Ximen Qing examined her Jade Gate,
Discovering the Secret Well
to find it hairless white as snow,
and smooth as jade
and soft as silk
Once he drew apart the curtains of flesh,
and on fold upon fold of the red velvet interior
beads of dew were forming
Its centre was dark and void
yet as if it had its own life
it twitched and twitched
Everyone wanted to cut it down but my uncle refused.
He said this tree from Mt. Fuji had absorbed my aunt's soul.
The servants whispered it was due to the tree's high cost,
You can tel/ from the cherry blossoms
which turned brighter and bloomed longer.
Tell me, Juliette
Do you wish this impetuous young knight to save you?
Now
my brave knight
Oh, it's a new face!
Now
my brave knight
what do you feel?
I pity the poor woman
I wish to lick her and lick her caress her and caress her.
If you pity her so
why not take her place and let her whip you?
The duchess raised the whip high in the air, and then...
And again
If she could be yours for ten minutes,
what would you give in exchange?
Whatever your heart desires
Anything in this whole wide world
Once the duke untied me
I sat on the chair pulled her to me,
and slid my cock into her cunt.
Oh, Juliette, Juliette
As I felt the duke approach from behind,
a rope slithered around my neck
The duke slowly tightened the rope
I pulled the swirling currents of her hair.
Then the duke spoke
The ten minutes are almost up
Slowly, my dear said the Duchess
I haven't yet fully savoured his pain
No, the knight cried don't stop!
in the midst of this pain
Is it Sade?
lt's Sade-esque
Believed to be the same Japanese man who wrote 'The Lizard Skin'.
Acquired from a Japanese sailor on a ship from Hamburg.
Can you imagine myjoy when
after such a journey, it sat on my shelf with its brothers?
These are the babes to whom I feel the most affection
It used to contain an elaborate monochrome woodcut illustration
but as you can see
So unfortunate
If that were intact, you could've named your price
The author felt words alone could not fully describe the positions,
and so included an illustration
In that regard, before we start the bidding
Hideko!
'Pain is a Garment
Beautiful!
See you again
Yes, thank you
Today's reading was outstanding
Yes, thank you
Especially the puppet!
There was a time when
Imagine the torment of having so many women
make advances on me
when I couldn't afford to buy them a glass of Burgundy
Do the women here advance on you?
I look at women's eyes
Only the eyes
They turn their gaze away
but then they always look back
If I were to slide under someone's covers tonight
only one woman here would refuse me.
Does that include Mrs. Sasaki?
You left her to marry a Japanese woman.
But the S€I"\/HDTS tell me you still share a bed with her
You went so far as to abandon your wife,
why this urge to become Japanese?
Because Korea is ugly
Some Japanese say Japan is ugly,
and Korea is beautiful
Beauty is cruel by nature
Korea is soft, slow, dull and therefore hopeless
Does it include Mrs. Sasaki?
If I gave her the right signal
she'd knock on my door without her unden/vear.
My thoughts exactly
Then who is it?
The one who would deny you?
I heard you own the highest quality
antique bookmaking tools of East and West,
but I don't see them here?
Who would deny you?
I met Hideko's eyes by chance but she didn't look away.
Indeed it was I who shifted my gaze
Will she make an appearance in your lewd dreams tonight?
Even if honoured with such a visit,
I don't think I could consummate
Because her body would be as cold as waterfowl
The result of long training
I heard you are engaged to her
If l'm not mistaken, you are yet to have intercourse?
Her eyes have no desire
It means her soul is dead inside.
You should go easy on her training,
unless you enjoy making love to a corpse
My particular way of possessing beauty
Hideko too must have received painting lessons?
I was too occupied teaching her to read with correct diction
Dear me!
In England, where I studied
all ladies were expected to produce vibrant colour and graceful lines,
even in the less noble families
A phone call, sir
At this hour?
lt's the Iwamura Bookstore
Is that so?
Excuse me a moment
You are mesmerising
when they wish to touch a lady's breasts.
l'm familiar with Western conversational etiquette
I do a bit of reading you know.
There was no calculation in what I said.
It was a reflex, like pulling one's hand from a flame.
l'm no flame
l'm cold as waterfowl your Lordship.
He will return soon
Mr. Iwamura only called with a frivolous inquiry,
at my request
There's an issue regarding your future you should know
l'll wait by the stone lamp at midnight.
That Iwamura is a real fool
My maid is asleep in the room next door
I don't fancy being in scandalous rumours with you
I saw Junko go to the ser\/ants' quarters with her pillow
Consider your reputation as a nobleman.
l'm no nobleman
l'm not even Japanese
Think it was easy for a Korean farmhand's son to reach here?
Fifteen hard years in Japan before hearing about you.
Another three years to prepare
I studied bookmaking and learned to paint forgeries
All so that I could meet you
To seduce and marry you
to possess your father's inheritance
and then probably to get rid of you.
But I knew as soon as I met you
For a man to seduce you would be...
impossible
So in place of seduction, I decided to propose a deal
Most marriages are prison but this one will free you.
l'll rescue you from here
take you far away, and give you freedom
Of course, we'll split the money
Nonsense
Marrying an old man with a black tongue at your tender age makes sense?
I won't marry anyone
What have you in mind?
That's not proper
There's no beauty in that
If you kill yourself, what of your fortune?
So he can buy 10 little girls and teach them to read books?
My uncle will find us somehow
Uncle
The basement?
It says here when people are hanged
and her bottom was clean
Want to go somewhere nice?
l'll tell you in detail what I did to your aunt
after I caught her running away.
So don't you ever think of running, understood?
But if I ever end up there again
Highly concentrated opium
Three drops will make you sleep all day.
Five drops will knock down a horse
If you crave death within five minutes
drink it all
If you carry this, he can never take you to the basement.
At least not alive
It'll be my wedding gift to you
lt's more expensive than jewels
Bring a girl to be my maid. One who could disappear and not be missed.
If a bit dense, all the better
We'll send her to a madhouse under my name.
I can find you a new maid
but what do we do aboutJunko?
You really think l'm prettier than Miss Hideko?
Sure, Hideko's pretty and you're pretty.
What? You speak Korean?
You know
I learned it
You are just mesmerising
Oh my gosh!
You little tart!
I can't!
Forget this wretched place Come live with me!
Oh, fucking hell!
Fucking hell?
Fucking hell
Naive and a bit foolish
Mother!
Show Sookee your clothes and jewellery at every opportunity.
The material greed she got from her mother will make her more gullible.
P.S. Don 't worry if she reads this /etteh she's totally illiterate.
Countess Fujiwara Hideko
What's with your foot?
Who took Tamako's shoe?
If she ever runs away because of one of you
l'll strip you all naked and throw you out!
Fucking hell
All smooth
You like the scent?
Want to come in?
Pardon?
No need to be ashamed at all
Your average fence can barely tell them apart
Is that so?
Returning the earrings you loaned me.
A woman might wager her fate on such an exquisite pair.
I 'm sure that Sookee will try her very best
in order to see herself wearing these in the mirror.
l'll tel/ you how to keep her from getting suspicious.
Keep her busy until the day of the wedding
on making you fall in love with me
In other words, don 't fall in love with me so easily.
How did your mum die?
That she was so lucky to have you before dying
That she had no regrets
ls this the companionship they write about in books?
Men are disgusting
What's on my mind?
You don't really believe that I crave your body?
You do!
You read too many of those books.
If there's one thing l'm after, Miss...
lt's not your eyes, your hands or ass
it's your money, only that
Of all that you have money is the best.
Feels great being so rude to a noble lady.
What's with her?
Why does she stomp her feet, expressing her angeh
sit up in the middle of the night and sigh?
Every time she sees the Count, her eyes seem to say...
I despise you
Try to bear it. Only if she sees this will she believe the proposal.
Think of me as that puppet, and l'll imagine another woman
What woman?
The duchess Juliette
Lady!
Milord!
Lady
Jinlian could not fathom their depths.
Knowing this, Lady Sun
gave Jinlian four small silver balls.
These are 'minling or 'bells of passion
Place two in the lady's Jade Gate
and the other two in yours
Spread your legs apart
and like two scissors
When the lips below rub against each another
youWlhear a clear ringing sound
A blackout! Bring a lantern!
Yes, sir!
'The Sound of Bells on a Wind/ess Night
When do I put this in? asked Jinlian.
Does the lady breathe deeply and swallow hard?
Does she whisper sweetly in your ear,
and kiss you?
and caress your nipples?
Does her secret part become slippery
as she gently bites your shoulder?
Then, put in the bells
Amazing! - Indeed!
lt's so cute
If the Count sees this
Will he really be so tender as this?
Of course
And he'll touch you like this
And like this
Tamako, keep doing it
Like the Count would
The Count
He'll go crazy over this
And this is what he'll say
lt's so soft, warm wet, and...
s...s...spellbindingly beautiful!
Shall I teach you more, Miss?
Yes
Teach me everything
I wish that I had breast milk so I could feed you.
Do you like it when I do this?
Can you promise that you won't betray me?
Iilnever
FIGVSI'
SVSI'
Miss, how could such an innocent
You must be a natural
Stop!
I spit it out without chewing! All because of you!
She's got no one on this earth.
You see?
If you don't give the impression you want this marriage,
she may throw another fit and refuse to go fon/vard.
I can't do it
What?
I want to quit
What's with you all today?
You feel sorry for her?
What is it with women?
You know what that poor Sookee said about your Ladyship?
That you're too dense to get it if someone pulls on your nipples
That she was nice out of pity but you ate it up.
That you were so gullible!
That naive ser\/ant's face
If I say that I love someone else
Me, who has no one on this earth...
Do you still want me to marry him?
Yes
Miss!
I wish l'd never been born
Let go
Miss, l'm sorry!
Let go!
l'm sorry, Miss!
Don't die
l'm sorry
What are you sorry about?
I tried to trick you into marrying that bastard.
I was going to put you in a madhouse and run off
Don't die. Don't get married, Miss!
Sookee, are you worried about me?
l'm worried about you
How do you know my name?
You think you're tricking me?
You're the one being tricked
You're the one bound for the madhouse
I was going to lock you up in there under my name,
then l'd become you and run far away, with him
I won't say sorry, since you tried to trick me too
That fucking son of a bitch!
Oh, sorry Miss!
'I hope this letter Hnds you wel/ This is Sookee.
I 'm writing to inform you of a change in plans.
I decided to team up with the Lady Hideko
As such, l'm now in need of all your help.
Always remember the basement.
Want to go somewhere nice?
You didn't teach me to read Japanese.
Did that bastard draw this?
Is this what you've been reading to that dirty old man
and those gentlemen?
The daughter of a legendary thief
who sewed winter coats out of sto/en purses.
Herself a thief pickpocket, swind/er.
The saviour who came to tear my life apart.
My Tamako
My Sookee
You scoundrel!
Let go of me, you filthy bitches!
Miss!
Let go!
Miss!
l'm hungry
The first month, I ordered a slim herringbone suit.
PART THREE
The next month, I wore it to dine at the Imperial Hotel.
Some Englishmen who frequented the brothel recognised me.
I thought they'd call the maitre d' and kick me out
but what do you know?
They were amused l'd spend a month's pay
on one dignified meal
They started calling me 'Count
Frankly, l'm not that interested in money itself
What I desire is how shall I put it.
Something like that
Fourteen hours by train from Vladivostok
is the summer home of a genuine Russian noble family
Shall we marry there?
That my wife Fujiwara Hideko has died.
I doubt Sookee would want to live there very long.
Fuck!
I arranged it with a photography studio
We'll replace this with your photograph.
From tomorrow, we'll give Sookee a new life
l'm glad
Marry me once again
This time as Nam Sookee
You want another wedding night?
I think I like you... slightly
Poor Sookee, in a place like that
all by herself
Did such a thought ever cross your mind?
Not at all. Why should I pity her?
Where I come from, it's illegal to be naive
Where you come from, it's not naive to fall in love with a business partner?
Of course. lt's illegal
So even if my love for you leads me to ruin,
don't pity me
Love?
What does a crook know about love?
Fire!
C...c...come this way!
This way!
Because you desired me
and overcame all obstacles to reach me
I have been born anew it's true.
l'm grateful for that
l'll allow a kiss
Why hot?
ldon%Hke kisses with conditions
I never learned how to stop half\/vay
After this l'll thrust in deep to your navel.
Please do that
Those aren't the eyes of one who wants it.
You know you can't deceive me in such matters
If I could be yours for ten minutes,
what would you give in exchange?
Whatever your heart desires
Anything in this whole wide world
You'll become a completely new woman
It won't hurt. You know from those books?
In truth, women feel the greatest pleasure
when taken by force
Now l'm going to rip your unden/vear
Would you fetch those for me?
Respected Uncle
it always pained me to see you straining
to speak flawless Japanese before the Count from Nagoya
and even to quiver your voice like a nobleman.
So I 'm happy to inform you that you no longer need do so
That man is the son of a Korean farmhand
Oh, did my gift arrive safely?
I 'm afraid that in rea/ life
no woman feels pleasure at being taken by force.
I fee/ "s/ight/y" grateful
You wished to see my bookmaking tools?
Don't just look, experience them for yourself
l'll choose five books that I cherish...
Let's see
Firs
Confessions of a Whip
The Lizard Skin
'Decadent Girls Who Sell Lingerie
May I please smoke a cigarette, sir?
'Bells and Balls
The Mortician's Bedroom
How could you let a little girl fool you?
But don 't worry. I 'll catch them for you soon
I arranged so that no two girls travelling together can leave Kobe
Please change the destination to Shanghai.
Changing two tickets, from Vladivostok to Shanghai
Yes, that's correct
Show me your passports
Miss Nam Sookee?
Mr. Go Pan-dol?
You need to pay an additional 3 yen
Aii right
l'm just an old man who likes dirty stories
Even listening to the same story people imagine different things.
Peering into each of those fantasies
was this old man's humble recreation.
What to do, now that it's all over?
You should at least tell me your story.
How did that bitch Hideko taste?
Right, right
You have that silly penchant for cigarettes?
So how was Hideko?
You have no windows here?
Sookee could be listening in Let's do our best.
What's this?
So, where did you touch first?
Her face ?
Her breasts?
Was it soft?
Did it tighten up?
Did it have many wrinkles?
Was it sufficiently wet?
The viscosity and transparency of her vaginal secretion?
Please, one more cigarette, sir
Spider thread pulled into strings...
I dare say no book has ever described
such a ferocious wedding night.
I thought I heard a nightingale sing
And... the clean bright crimson blood!
Thus the Lady became my wife
Coy one moment, bold the next...
But how was she coy
how was she bold, tell it to me in detail!
A story is all about the journey
You should know
Did she resist?
So did you pinch her ass as punishment?
Or did she spit at you in contempt?
Or else
Did she beg you to do it?
Like the lady in The Widow's Lapdog?
How dare you!
Hideko is my wife
What kind of scoundrel rattles on about his wedding night!
lt's odd
Your smoke
lt's cold, blue
and strangely beautiful
You too have become soft, slow and dull.
Mercury is most deadly in its gaseous state.
At least I will die with my cock intact
I hear a sound in the distance
that sounds like the steps of my love
An echo that makes my heart
skip a beat
But I wait all through the night
and my love never comes to me
There is no end to the heartache
that grips me in this hour
Waiting for the footsteps of
my dear love
Waiting for the footsteps of
But then in my waiting heart
suddenly happiness overflows
There you are in the distance
coming to me
Filled with dreams of a new life
H//ed with happiness
Inside my waiting heart
flowers start to bloom
Come my /oven come to me
Let's dream of happy times
like long ago
H//ed with happiness
Inside my waiting heart
flowers start to bloom
Waiting for the footsteps of
my dear love
Waiting for the footsteps of