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question about the tattoos


why did they keep appearing and disappearing? my sister and i are not very retarted and that is the only thing we could not figure out. i was suprised by how much i enjoyed the movie. thank you so much for any help.

*beep* it, cut'em up!

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i thought that was interesting. the man with the tattoos at the beginning is the one who young ariyoshi had to get his manhood from. i think the tattoos showed up when kazuki was acting most like this vision of manliness that ariyoshi is so into. hope this helps!

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I figured it represented his "mentor" or the aspects of his mentor he saw in in Kazuki. The neccessity for him to project a master role on to someone. Even, like he said, his own insanity coming to the surface. Misinterpretting someone he doesn't even know or have a relationship with to mean so many things to him.

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