"Slowly, I realized realism in cinema is not the same as realism in life. Cinema has its own realism. The world in cinema is not the real world. It has been crafted. That makes cinema interesting. It's not real. It's closer to dreams. If you treat life as a dream, you can understand this."
Tsai Ming-liang
Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) shooting a press photo for Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song (女囚さそり 701号怨み節), 1973, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe (長谷部安春).
Scanned by me.