"Fleshpot" stories??

Do you remember a movie "Moulin Rouge"?? It was talking about a night club in 1980's of Paris. The director was Baz・Luhrmann, he expressed a story surrounding the history of underground culture in Paris, in his original fantastic way. He was using a retro design dresses and musics combining with modern style as a musical show in the movie, and it shows us something that we can imagine the period that Moulin Rouge was prospered.

"In the closing decade of nineteenth century Paris a new period retrospectively christened La Belle Epoque ('the beautiful period') was born. As its name suggests, the Belle Epoque was characterised by relative calm, prosperity, enterprise and social freedom."

I saw a movie called "A memorial of Geisha", in Japanese it's "Sayuri" last year in Italy, this is also the story about a geisha house (a kind of traditional night club in Japan). Many classmates and friends asked me about the story of the movie is truth or not. But the important thing is not that it is truth or not, is that the story is the one that I can believe it's possible. I red the novel of this story, and it is written by an American novelist. He researched a lot about geisha story in Kyoto, I heard.

The same as him, I think these kinds of areas and histories are including a lot of sad but romantic, and dramatic stories inside. I can respect something and I feel humaneness in these kinds of stories.


In Paris, we have visited the place where Moulin Rouge is still there. It was quiet and becomes a tourist place, we can see many tourists taking photos around, so do we. But at night maybe we can still find some romantic but hidden stories in the same place... maybe.

Moulin Rouge is here!