1936 Tokyo Abe incident

Abe incident refers to May 1936, when the maid Abe was scheduled to strangle her lover and cut off her genitals in Aojiu Teahouse in Arakawa District, Tokyo.

Abedin (ぁべさだ,1May 28, 905-? ) was born in Kanda-CHO, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

The trial result of the incident was determined to be infatuation. Abe accepted the sentence of serving six years in prison, 194 1 released from prison. After that, Abe lived the life of an ordinary citizen, but suddenly disappeared at 197 1 and his whereabouts were unknown.

Curious about the incident, after the incident and Abe's arrest (May 20th of the same year), the Japanese press published an extra figure. At that time, it was an event that attracted great attention. Even now, when many Japanese mention the name "Abedin", they will think of that incident. This shows its high popularity.

In addition, the Japanese film industry has made Abe's incident into films and put it on the screen several times, including 1976' s Sensory World directed by Takehisa.

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1936 On February 26th, Tokyo was covered with heavy snow, and the sky was still gloomy. In this obscure day, the only military coup in Japan's modern history shook the island country at the instigation of a group of radical young imperial officers.

This year, Abe, who had just turned 32 (when Japan was in a nominal age), had left home to live independently 14 years. Over the years, she has been to Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe, and worked as a waitress, a high-class prostitute and a concubine.

She was born in a well-off family, but as early as 10 years old, she learned about men and women from the conversations of her aunts and grandmothers at home, and when 15 years old, she tried to have sex with her friends and brothers' classmates for the first time. It was very painful for Abe to taste the forbidden fruit for the first time, and she was bleeding for the next two days. But this seems to open the door for Abe to understand his body. In a short time, the man around her became her first lover.

Father said in a rage, "You like men so much, you might as well be a prostitute." 18-year-old Abe also thought it was a good choice, left his parents and began to wander in the world of men.

In this world, Abe is like a duck to water, even after she escaped from a brothel, she came to Tokyo and became a waitress in a restaurant. "It's not that enemies don't get together." The owner of this "Yoshida family" selling eel rice, Yoshizo Ishida, is a famous womanizer nearby. Naturally, two people are competing with each other.

In the following days, they eloped and stayed in a small hotel. It is said that most of the time was spent in unscrupulous relationships. Occasionally, Abe has to go out. In order to meet his old master (the husband who is a concubine, and the Japanese call her husband the master), he gets money from him, and then rushes back to the hotel and rushes to the impatient Ji Zang. It seems that there is nothing else in the world that needs their nostalgia, and they are indifferent.

Their story was later rewritten as Paradise Lost by Junichi Watanabe, but their real ending was quite different. The extravagant hope of extreme mutual possession pushed these two doomed wild mandarin ducks to the ultimate cliff. During sexual intercourse, Abe tightened Ji Zang's neck with a belt, which made them feel the pleasure they had never felt before, but the forgetful Abe's action made Ji Zang wake up the next day and begged her: "Don't strangle her next time."

Abe listened carefully to Ji Zang's advice and went out to buy a sharp kitchen knife the next day. In the following sexual intercourse, Abe hanged Ji Zang with a belt, cut off a part of her favorite Ji Zang and left with her. Before leaving, she carved "Ji He Ding Two" and "Ding" on her body and legs with a sharp blade. She doesn't want to run away from anything. She left because she had an appointment with her old master.

Soon, the police caught Abe and found the missing part of Ji Zang's body. Abe seriously explained: "I don't want those who tidy up their appearance to play with his' baby', which belongs only to me."

This incident injected a strange bright color into the Japanese military and political atmosphere at that time, causing an uproar. Forty years later, the famous Japanese film director Takeshima Takeshima put this story called "Abe Incident" on the screen. Due to the "obscenity" of the plot, this film co-produced with France has caused extraordinary effects overseas, but it has not been released in Japan. Finally, after abridging some contents, I was able to meet the Japanese audience.

It seems that things are far from over. Sany Research (Press) and Zhudao jointly published the propaganda photos and plot compilation of the film. As a result, they were taken to court together for "publishing and selling obscene books" and went to court with the prosecutor. But soon, the trial turned into a big social debate about "obscene content" and "freedom of speech". This also makes the trial itself seem obscene and messy. After six years of marathon trial, the court finally acquitted the plaintiff, thus ending this seemingly absurd ruling that caused social concept change.

Let's talk about the protagonist Abe. After her arrest, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Tokyo identified her as "promiscuous". She confessed to her actions and was sentenced to six years in prison. But five years later, when Japan celebrated, Abe was released from prison. After being released from prison, Abe was anonymous and married, but her quiet life was quickly disrupted by the needs of the people who needed sensory stimulation after the war.

Once a Japanese writer put her story on the stage and invited Abe himself to play it. After that, although there was no financial burden, she began to wander around. At the age of 65, she was seen working in a restaurant, but no one has seen her since. People who have seen her photos say that she looks so gentle, like an ordinary grandmother.

After experiencing the passion and madness of others trying to fail, Abe doesn't know how to regain inner peace and enjoy his old age.