We have to invent our memory without cease. Because once we stopped it then we would become fossilized.
Nagisa Oshima always invents his memory to the
cinematic fantasy. He boasts his own experience; he was a boy 8 years old in wartime. Nagisa Oshima remembers that he buried in the underground his father 's collection, the Karl Marx's Das Kapital translated in Russian because he avoided the confiscation of the military authorities and the disposal by his mother.
Nagisa Oshima saved the book. Later this memory would be transformed in the image of love. In his film, "Sada" cut off her lover's penis and buries it in her own vagina...

愛のコリーダ；記憶というのは、絶えず発明することが必要だ。やめてしまうと化石となる。大島の戦時中の自慢話。軍部の没収と母親による処分を避けて、少年の大島は父の蔵書・ロシア版資本論を壷に隠して地中に埋めたという。この記憶は愛のイマージュに変容する。映画のなかで、サダは切断した吉のペニスを膣の中に埋め込む...