From 2011, directed by Sion Sono. An astonishing film that explores the limits of human understanding through the multifaceted lens of desire, meaning, sex and death. It pivots on the the poem On My Way Home by Ryūichi Tamura.
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Guilty of Romance (恋の罪 Koi no Tsumi) - Japanese Cut
From 2011, directed by Sion Sono. An astonishing film that explores the limits of human understanding through the multifaceted lens of desire, meaning, sex and death. It pivots on the the poem On My Way Home by Ryūichi Tamura.
On My Way Home by Ryūichi Tamura
I should never have learned words
how much better off I’d be
if I lived in a world
where meanings didn’t matter,
the world with no words
If beautiful words take revenge against you
it’s none of my concern
If quiet meanings make you bleed
it also is none of my concern
The tears in your gentle eyes
the pain that drips from your silent tongue –
I’d simply gaze at them and walk away
if our world had no words
In your tears
is there meaning like the core of a fruit?
In a drop of your blood
is there a shimmering resonance of the evening glow
of this world’s sunset?
I should never have learned words
Simply because I know Japanese and bits of a foreign tongue
I stand still inside your tears
I come back alone into your blood
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