少女椿

<少女椿>,丸尾末广首先于1984年绘成的异人SM凄绝漫画
导演绘津久秋花了五年时间为其绘制胶片,并与1992年正式完成此怪诞大作
制作完毕的<少女椿>随后被带到海外参加影展,岂料回国经过日本海关的时候即被查禁
其原版胶片拷贝悉数被海关没收并销毁(此说法有争议,日网上也有人说海关没收了并未销毁,但从此没人见过胶片真迹),此片也随即遭到全国禁播

在接触到这片子之前我还真没想到过有什么动画能闹到被海关强行焚毁的地步
拜日本海关之所赐,如今再也看不见清晰的<少女椿>胶片拷贝了
目前我们能接触到的也只有从<少女椿>录像带孤本上翻录下来的版本
不过这样就该谢天谢地了,因为这部禁忌之作如今能重见天日本身就是一个奇迹

丸尾末广,1956年1月28日出生于长崎
作为一个漫画家,他笔下的世界无不是怪异变态血腥戏剧之极,哪怕是出名的情色也如此地充斥着毁灭感
他擅长描绘怪诞猎奇夸张诡异的超现实地狱梦境,官能之凄烈之邪美似乎尽是顺手拈来
看他的作品就宛如在做一场人间之噩梦,就算你惊诧到头脑一片空白也不会轻易从梦中醒来
荒淫疯狂无边的地狱浮世绘粉碎着人性,你无法逼视,可是内心的欲望却又源源不断涌出让你无法唾弃它
"所谓修罗场大概就正是如此".旁观者咽了咽口水,对着自己这么说

<少女椿>是丸尾末广最有名的作品之一,也是他第一部被引进入欧美的作品
故事改编自日本传统童话,但是经丸尾末广的异化之后已彻底成了"儿童不宜":
单纯甜美的小孤女原本和母亲相依为命,可是母亲却暴死在床上,老鼠肆无忌惮地啃食着尸肉,践踏着她的痛苦
悲戚的她投奔了亲戚,随即来到亲戚介绍的怪诞破败马戏团"赤猫座"打工
没料到马戏团里无一善类,各色异人在她第一次踏进马戏团的大门以后就凌辱强暴了她
从此小孤女被迫喝鸡血遭暴打,天天辛苦干活伺候马戏团的所有人,晚上还得看着他们杂交做爱并忍受他们时不时地强奸
所有人都以欺负她为快事,小孤女无比痛苦以至于到了几乎要开始神经崩溃的地步
她开始神经质,凄苦无望地活在恐怖之中,随后开始发高烧做噩梦
然而这时马戏团里来了个奇人,一个懂得幻术的侏儒魔术师表演出了不可思议的钻瓶术
当时马戏团因为没人捧场已经三个月没收入一文钱了,大家都穷困得要死
侏儒魔术师的出现给他们带来了一线生机,他们开始把他当作台柱进行大力推销
而此时侏儒魔术师也向小孤女表达了爱意,得到慰藉的她投入了他的怀抱
一切都在向着美好的方向转变:侏儒魔术师的表演大受好评,观众如潮水般涌来,而两人的爱情也在不断地发展
可是好景不长,一切都慢慢向着更深的地狱滑落.................

最后,樱花在绝望的幻觉中随着狂风般惊乱的意识凶猛地充斥混乱了天地,天旋地转中她几乎连自我也要丧失
终于,整个世界在抹杀一切的白色和凄厉的声嘶力竭的尖叫号哭中彻底结束

畸形变异的肉体,破败衰落的场景,怪诞诡异的情节,偏离正道的思想
所有这些构成了一部独一无二的作品----地下幻灯剧画<少女椿>

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此文作为圣诞贺文于2007年12月24日发布在云中漫步论坛
该片的配图以及下载地址详见原帖
http://www.cloudc.net/cgi-bin/bbs/topic.cgi?id=ac&topicID=20071224232133

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基本资料:

1992年5月2日公開。

スタッフ

原作：丸尾末広
演出・台本・作画・監督：原田浩（絵津久秋）
音楽：J・A・シーザー
撮影：菅谷信行
音響効果：浅沼幸一
美術監督：針生勝之
現像：IMAGICA
監修：飯田豊一
製作協力：パラノイア百貨店、劇団実験室◎万有引力、月蝕歌劇団、青林堂、ACCプロダクション、虫プロダクション、東映動画、ビジュアルアーツプロダクション
企画・製作：密閉映劇霧生館

主題歌

迷い子のリボン
作詞：丸尾末広
作曲：J・A・シーザー
歌：中美奈子
 
挿入歌

紅い下着
作詞：丸尾末広
作曲：J・A・シーザー
歌：野村欣史

映像ソフト化

日本国内における本編の映像ソフトは、VHSビデオが少数流通頒布されたのみである。2006年、「MIDORI」というタイトルでフランスにてDVDが発売。

【1999年、成田税関は『地下幻燈劇画・少女椿』のフイルムを没収。日本国内での上映
禁止の指示を出したのであった。（前リンク先）】
http://plaisir.genxx.com/?p=198

An old friend of mine and an avid collector of 16 and 35mm film prints follows a very strict regime when watching movies: "The celluloid must run through a projector in a theater with a big screen and a crowd, the way those movies were meant to be seen. Watching video copies of them on a couch at home doesn't count. It doesn't provide the true experience of the work in question. You can't say that you have seen a film if you've just watched a video of it."

This is fair enough for most films. But Hiroshi Harada, the director of Shojo Tsubaki (let's stay with the original title for the time being) sets the bar much, much higher. He doesn't even allow his film to be shown in movie theaters in Japan, yet alone let them be consumed on video or DVD.

For his screenings, he created incredibly elaborate "freak show" events which encompass live theater, live music, acrobatic acts, wild stage settings, freaky characters let loose on the audience... and a lot of secrecy. His flyers announcing shows and even those looking for performers were deliberately confusing - nobody was supposed to know what was really going on. In the early years, which means the early 1990s after the film's premiere in 1992, he wouldn't even want anyone to know what kind of show Shojo Tsubaki was at all: a movie, an anime, live theater?

"It would have been not interesting if I had given all that info in advance." Harada wrote me in a recent e-mail. "I wanted surprise. The audience suddenly encountering something totally unexpected - that was the point."

Now, what is Shojo Tsubaki? Well, it's animated, it's on celluloid, it is about a poor young girl who lives a hard life in a freak show circus, and its scenes often switch from being extremely kawaii to extremely graphic, violent, and at times oozing into the territory of far-out sexual fetishism. Sex among disfigured freaks, eye-ball-licking, rape by a disgusting, diseased... it's all there. And yet, Midori, the main character, does find true love here... and then things turn violent again... You never know where the movie is heading. You can't even guess what dangers or pleasures might be coming Midori's way from one second to the next.

Shojo Tsubaki is set in the early years of the Showa emperor's reign, the late 1920s in the Western calender. The original inspiration for the film dates from around the same time: a kami shibai performance going under the same title. Kami shibai translates to 'paper play' or 'picture show' and it dates back to the middle ages. A storyteller would tell a fantastical story in busy market places or wherever else he could find an audience, illustrating his story with a series of drawings. Often, his story was written on the back of the cardboards displaying the pictures to make it easier to do the performance and also to enable the storyteller to sell copies of his act afterwards.

Shojo Tsubaki (which literally means Camelia Girl) is said to have been originally created by a legendary kami shibai performer from the 1920s working under the name Seiun. It was a lengthy performance back then, consisting of 21 chapters and lasting for several hours. One of those original sets of pictures still survives and the play actually has been performed at times as part of the Shojo Tsubaki film events.

The paper play tells the story of a poor family whose father went too far into gambling debts. He runs away and lets the others fend for themselves. Midori, his daughter, goes into the business of flower selling. It's a sad job and one day she is kidnapped by two men and sold to a travelling girl's revue theater where she performs under the name Tsubaki Midori.

In the early 1980s, underground manga artist Suehiro Maruo began to turn the old kami shibai into one of his own disturbing picture stories. The earliest evidence I could dig up was in his 1982 book Das Ungetum der Rosenstck in which the beginning of his unique take on the Midori story is shaping up. The title of the book is of course some sort of flawed German. Though his grasp of the language might have been lacking, Maruo was deeply influenced by 1920s German expressionism and his heroes were Nosferatu, Marlene Dietrich and Doctor Caligari. They all figure prominently in the book - and the drawing style is a fascinating mix of Weimar German influences and vintage Japanese. Truly mesmerizing stuff.

In 1984, Maruo eventually had his final book-length manga of Shojo Tsubaki out in the stores. As already outlined in his Shojo Tsubaki chapter of Das Ungetum, the old kami shibai became now something new altogether... a full blown girl-in-the-freakshow story freely mixing cuteness, violence, perversity and a painstaking accuracy in the depiction of 1920s Japan and its outlaw characters to mindblowing impact.

Enter Harada. He was a young overworked pen-and-inker in the animation industry in 1970's Japan and he hated it. He realized that artistic ambition and the need to sustain oneself had always been a great conflict artists had to fight out with themselves ... but the animation industry didn't even give him the freedom to choose one or the other. The boss told the guys on the drawing boards what to do and they just had to hurry on with their mindnumbing work. He wanted out of the system and he did manage eventually to get out. He quit his job and premiered his first independent animated production City Nocturne in 1979. In 1985, he had 2 new animated works ready for release: Eternal Paradise (Kagirinaki Rakuen) and Lullaby to the Big Sleep (Nido to Mezamenu Komori Uta). The latter, shot on Super 8 and 27 minutes long, told of the adventures of a young boy getting sucked into the violent demonstrations held by leftist groups resisting the construction of Narita Airport. It played the Pia Film Festival in Tokyo, the main showcase for young Japanese independent cinema. Jury member and punk / biker movie director Sogo Ishii loved it and thanks to his lobbying, Harada won a major festival award.

Lullaby had already strong Maruo-esque tendencies: an unpredictable, sexually-charged story, experimental techniques and a main character who underwent a wide variety of forms of bizarre abuse. Even the drawing style appears to be heavily inspired by Maruo. So it seems almost logical that Harada choose a real Maruo as his next project: Shojo Tsubaki.

Knowing that this would demand much bigger resources than his previous films, he went back to the studios and tried to find financing. None was to be found at all. The subject matter of Maruo's book simply scared all potential investors away. Undeterred, Harada sacrificed his life savings, even went to money lending outfits to keep going. Maruo himself had told him "to make the film any way he wanted", as Harada told me. They did stay in close contact during the production period, though, with Maruo providing readings of old-fashioned kanji he had used in his book, advising on what colors to use for scenes and otherwise providing a great influx of ideas - some of which Harada then used. Maruo also lent his original source material to Harada, photo books on Tokyo of the period for example.

Harada started the great work in 1987 - and then continued drawing for 5 years, all by himself. Every single image of the movie was drawn by just one man alone! Harada did however receive a great deal of volunteer support from the Tokyo underground scene of the time for the final completion of his work: from musicians who provided the soundtrack, animators, people at independent documentary film studios, theater groups, even S/M clubs.

In 1992, the premiere of Shojo Tsubaki was held as a giant spectacle in a red tent on the grounds of Mitake Jinja, a Tokyo Shinto Shrine. Amidst strange decorations and exhibits, undergound theater group Aka Neko Za (Red Cat Theater) staged acts which are also performed by the freaks in the movie, and smoke was blown into the audience.

Here's what was projected onto the big screen: To a collage of violent freak show images, an announcer screams out what kind of an incredible story the audience is about to witness - in rhyming vintage carney lingo which almost no young Japanese would be able to understand. Then Midori, a poor girl about the age of 12, selling flowers in 1920s Tokyo. One of her regular customers is a strange man she calls "Mister Bowler Hat" due to the hat he wears. One night, she comes back home and finds her mother dead in her bed, rats already feading on her corpse. She runs away... With nowhere to go she turns to "Mr. Bowler Hat", who turns out to be a freak show impressario going under the name of Mr. Arashi. She joins his travelling circus... and right from the beginning becomes the focus of endless abuse by the real freaks, grotesquely disfigured perverts with bizarre fetishes and giant egos to boot. Relief comes in the form of Wonder Masanitsu, a magician who can squeeze his entire body through the tiny opening of a glass bottle. She falls in love with him but Masanitsu has powerful dark sides too...

It's an animation film, for sure, but the animation is extremely limited. In many instances, it's just a series of drawings, held together by music and dialogues... a modern-day kami shibai. Which of course is quite fitting to the origins of the tale and the time it takes place in.

More screenings of the film followed in rapid succession. Harada himself developed a new modus operandus of screening the work which made it even more difficult to access: he handed audience members who had made a reservation a map of a residential neighborhood. The people had to follow cryptic signs like dolls placed on street corners or folks in strange attire standing by the street to evenutally find an unassuming building and enter its basement. There they were handed candles and had to make their way through a dark labyrinth of corridors and rooms before they could enter the actual venue. Couples were separated, smoke was blown in, fans blew paper snippets resembling cherry blossom petals. While the film ran, theater group members threw objects at the audience that were also thrown around on screen...

In 1994, the film had its international premiere at the Orleans Biennale in France. It has since been shown at a number of Western festivals under a variety of titles like The Girl in the Freak Show or Midori - The Girl in the Freak Show, though without any of the trappings that come with the film in Japan. Harada wouldn't have been able to stage anything similar in a foreign country. The Japanese shows were difficult enough to arrange. Still, Midori stood her ground up on the Western screens, despite being all alone with the vicious freaks in the movie and the quiet lurkers in the seats. Poor girl... so many cruel things have been done to her...

That the film is now available on DVD in France under the title Midori with subtitles in 5 European languages for private home viewing might be the worst abuse Midori ever encountered, though. At home in Japan, however, the film can still be seen only on the rare occasions of a real full-blown freak event, the way it was meant to be seen....

他说，我要去买点吃的，你在这里等我。 从此，就再也没有回来
只是这里触动了我
本以为一切痛苦将要迎来新的平静开始
但对于什么也不知道，无措的绿子，一切犹如一场扭曲幻术
所唯一能期待零微希望幻灭
令人叹息
这部片子
应是在嗟叹，从卖花姑娘低下头开始
“
在母亲怀里哭泣，
伤心欲绝
幸福破灭
春花秋月
而今又是形影相吊！”


在这里感谢此贴的lz
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2078619875
如果不是在这里看分段~我是不会独自碰这部动画的~

         世间最可怕的大概就是从噩梦中醒来时，却发觉现实更是一场噩梦。
     尾丸末广的这部怪异之作风格上有点类似于大卫林奇的那部备受争议的《双峰之与火同行》，满篇皆充斥着种种的怪异荒诞的虚幻想象，但不同的是《少女桩》保留了日本浮世绘的表现方式，以旧式广告画为基调，充分的展现了日本人所特有的种种低级趣味，因此显得更为怪诞，荒谬。但此种怪诞绝又不是作者一厢情愿的想象或是其特有的特殊嗜好，它却是来源于我们共有的突发的幻想或是意识深处完全偏离正常世界的原始冲动。作者只是在这个看似光鲜的的世界里描绘出其阴影下的那些永无尽头的黑暗........