MAD MAN ON THE ROOF

Characters:
KatsushimaYoshitaro(TheMadman)-MEDINA  
KatsushimaSuejiro(Brother)- MANALAC
KatsushimaTakashi(Sister)- DANAO
KatsushimaGisuke(Father)CASAS
Katsushima Oyoshi(Mother) - BALMEDINA
Tosaku(Neighbor)- DULATRE
Itchiro(Neighbor)- Eugenio`
Kichiji(Manservant) - LAPUZ
Kimchi (Manservant) - AARON
Priestess – DANAO

INTRO VIDEOS
ROBI (sad and then happy)
VERMONT (arms crossed, shaking head side to side)
MARTINA(rubbing her arms w/ worried/caring expression)
PATRICK (bowing)
AARON (bowing)
HARRY(carrying, and waving)
JUN(holding a fishing pole and salute)
ASHLEY(NAGRIRITUAL)

SCENE 1
Gisuke: (speaking from within the house) tsk tsk. Yoshi is sitting on the roof again. He’ll get a sunstroke—the sun’s
so terribly hot. (WALK OUT THE FRAME, COME BACK IN) Kichiji! Kimchi!

Kichiji: (Bowing) yes master?

Kimchi: (Bowing) yes master?

Gisuke: Bring Yoshitaro down. Its terribly hot out there. He’ll get a sunstroke. How did he get up there anyway?

Gisuke: (looking up the roof) Yoshitaro! You’d better come down. If you stay up there you’ll get a sunstroke and
maybe die.

Kichiji: Young Master. Come on down. You’ll get sick if you stay there!

Gisuke: Yoshi! Come down quick!

Yoshitaro: (indifferently) Wh-a-at?

Gisuke: No whats! What are you doing up there anyway? If you don’t come down, I’ll get after you with a stick!

Yoshitaro: (protesting like a spoiled child). . . O, I don’t want to. There’s something wonderful. The priest of the god Kompira is
dancing in the clouds. Dancing with an angel in pink robes. They’re calling me to come. (crying out ecstatically) Wait! I’m
coming!

Gisuke: If you talk like that you’ll fall, just as you did once before. You’re already crippled and insane. Come down, you fool!

Kichiji: Master, don’t get angry. The young master will not obey you. You should get some fried bean cake; when he sees it, he
will come down, because he likes it.
Gisuke: No, ill get the stick. Don’t be afraid to give him a good beating up

Kimchi: That’s too cruel. The young master doesn’t understand anything. He’s under the influence of evil spirits.

Gisuke: We may have to put bamboo guards on the roof to keep him down from there.

Kichiji: Nothing won’t keep him down. He climbed the roof of the Honzen Temple without even a ladder. A low roof like this
one is the easiest thing in the world for him. Nothing will stop him it's the evil spirit

Gisuke: Oh.. he worries me to death. Suejiro says that everybody knows about Yoshitaro, the Madman

Kimchi: That’s just what I think. Even Saku, who’s a professional climber, admits that he’s no match for Yoshitaro.

Gisuke: (with a bitter laugh) Stop.. its no laughing matter (calling again) Yoshitaro, come down!

Kimchi: When I was a boy I remember there was a gingko tree in front of the gate.

Gisuke: Yes, that was one of the biggest trees on the island. One day Yoshitaro climbed clear on the top. Ninety feet above the
ground dreaming away as usual. My wife and I never expected him to get down alive, after a while, down he slid. We were all
too astonished to speak.  I swear it’s a monkey spirit that’s working in him. (he calls again) Yoshi! Come down! (dropping his
voice) Kichiji,  you’d better go up and fetch him.

Kichiji: Yes, Master. (EXIT CAMERA)

SCENE 2 (FILM IN SCHOOL)

Tokasu: Good Day, Sir!

Gisuke: Good Day, Fine weather. Catch anything with the nets you put out yesterday?

: No, not much. (looking up at Yoshitaro) Your son’s on the roof again, But after all, he doesn’t bother anybody.

Gisuke: He bothers us. We feel so ashamed of what he does.

Tosaku: But your younger son, Suejiro, has a fine record at school. So does your daughter. That must be some consolation for
you.

Gisuke: Yes, If both of them were crazy, I don’t know how I could go on living.

Itchiro : By the way, a priestess has just come to the island. How would you like to have her pray for your son? That's really
what we came to see you about.

Tosaku: she works all kinds of miracles, The priestess believes in the God Kompira that’s why her prayers have more effect than
those of ordinary priests. Why don’t you try her once?

Gisuke: Well weve tried prayers.. its never worked, we might, how much does she charge?

Itchiro : She won’t take money unless her patient is cured, then you pay her what you feel like..

Tosaku: We’ll bring her here. In the meantime you get your son down off the roof.
(TOSAKU AND ICHIRO EXIT FRAME)

Gisuke: Thank you, Yoshi! Be a good boy and come down. (SHOUTING)
SCENE 3 (IN THE SCHOOL)
Kichiji: (Who is up on the roof by this time) young master, come down with me. If you stay up here any longer, you’ll have a
fever tonight.

Yoshitaro: Don’t touch me! The angels are beckoning to me. You’re not supposed to come here. What do you want?

Kichiji: stop talking nonsense and come down.

Yoshitaro: If you touch me the demons will tear you apart. (Kichiji hurriedly catches Yoshitaro by the shoulder and pulls him to
the ladder. Yoshitaro suddenly becomes submissive.)

Kichiji: Don’t make any trouble now. If you do, you’ll fall and hurt yourself.

Gisuke: Be careful. (calling) Oyoshi, come out here a minute!!!

Oyoshi: (voice lng) What is it?

Gisuke: I’ve sent for a priestess.

Oyoshi: (coming into frame ) That may help. You never can tell what will.

Gisuke: Yoshitaro says he talks with the god Kompira. Well, this priestess is a follower of Kompira, so she ought to be able to
help him.

Yoshitaro: (looking uneasy, already down the roof) Fatherrr! Why did you bring me down? There was a beautiful cloud of five
colors rolling down to fetch me.

Gisuke: Idiot! You said that once and you jumped off the roof. That’s why you became a cripple. A priestess of the god Kompira
is coming here today to drive the evil spirit out of you. (Tosaku enters, leading the Priestess. She has a crafty face.)

SCENE 4
Tosaku: This is the priestess I spoke to you about.

Gisuke: Ah, good afternoon. (BOW) I’m glad you’ve come—this boy is really a disgrace to the whole family. (fade out)

(NOW INSIDE THE HOUSE)

Priestess: (casually) You needn’t worry anymore about him. I’ll cure him at once with the god’s help. (Looking at Yoshitaro) This
is the one?

Oyoshi: Yes. He’s twenty-four years old, and the only thing he can do is climb up to high places.

Priestess: How long has he been this way?

Gisuke: Ever since he was born. he wanted to be climbing. When he was four he climbed onto the low shrine, then onto the
high shrine of Buddha, and finally unto a very high shelf. When he was seven he began climbing trees. At fifteen he climbed to
the tops of mountains and stayed there all day long. He says he talks with demons and with the gods. (mockingly) What’s the
matter with this kid?

Priestess: There’s no doubt but that is a fox spirit. I will pray for him. (looks at Yoshitaro) Listen now! I am the messenger of the
god Kompira. All that I say comes from the god.

Yoshitaro: (uneasily) You say the god Kompira? Have you ever seen him?

Priestess: (staring at him) (laugh) Don’t say such sacrilegious things. The gods cannot be seen.

Yoshitaro: (exultantly) I have seen him many times! He’s an old man with white robes and a golden crown. He’s my best friend.
Priestess: (taken aback at this assertion, and speaking to Gisuke) This is a fox spirit, and a very extreme case. I will address the
god. (She chants a prayer in a weird manner. Yoshitaro, held fast by Kichiji, watches the priestess blankly). She works herself into
a frenzy and falls to the ground in a faint. Presently, she rises to her feet and looks about her strangely.)

Priestess: (in a changed voice) I am the god Kompira! The elder son of this family is under the influence of a fox spirit. Hang him
up on the branch of a tree and purify him with the smoke of green pine needles. If you fail to do what I say, you will be
punished! (She faints again)(shoked sounds)

Priestess: (rising and looking about her as though unconscious of what has taken place) What has happened? Did the god
speak? You must do at once whatever the god told you. I warn you for your own sake.

Gisuke: Kimchi, go and get some green pine needles.

Oyoshi: No! It’s too cruel, even if it is the god’s command.

Priestess: The boy himself will not suffer at all. Hurry! (Looking fixedly at Yoshitaro) Did you hear the god’s commands? He told
the spirit to leave your body before you suffer.

FILM

Yoshitaro: That was not Kompira’s voice. He wouldn’t talk to a priestess like you. (Mansevants holding him down)

Priestess: (insulted) I’ll get even with you. Just wait. Don’t talk back to the god like that, you horrid fox! Respect the god or be
punished! (Gisuke and Kichiji reluctantly set fire to the pine needles, then bring Yoshitaro to the fire. He struggles against being
held in the smoke.)

Yoshitaro: (hands tied) Father! What are you doing to me? I don’t like it! I don’t like it!

Priestess: That’s not his own voice speaking. It’s the fox within him.

Oyoshi: But it’s too cruel! (worried face)

YOSHITARO tied up screams(stop)

SCENE 5
SUEJIRO AND TAKASHI COME OUT OF THE HOUSE

Suejiro: What’s happening here? What’s the smoke for?

Yoshitaro: (Coughing from the smoke still tied up) Father and Kichiji are putting me in the smoke.

Takashi: (angrily) Father! What foolish things are you doing now? Haven’t We told you time and again about this sort of
business?

Gisuke: But the god inspired the miraculous priestess . . .

Suejiro: (cutting off) What nonsense is that? You do these insane things merely because he is so helpless.

Takashi: (fanning the fire away)ughh

Priestess: Wait! That fire was made at the command of the god!

Gisuke: Suejiro, takashi, I have no education, and you have, so I am always willing to listen to you. But his fire was made at the
god’s command, and you shouldn’t have stamped on it.

Suejiro: Smoke won’t cure him. People will laugh at you if they hear you’ve been trying to drive out a fox.

Takashi: that priestess is a fraud all she wants is our money!

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Oyoshi: But the doctors can’t cure him.

Suejiro: nobody can. I’ve told you before that he doesn’t suffer. If he did, we’d have to do something for him, but as long as he
can climb up the roof, he is happy.

Takashi: Besides, if you cure him now, what can he do? He’s twenty-four years old and he knows nothing, not even the
alphabet. He’s had no practical experience. If he were cured, he would be conscious of being crippled, and he’d be misserable.
Is that what you want to see? It’s all because you want to make him normal. Take her away! (pointing at the priestes)

Priestess: (angry and insulted) You disbelieve the oracle of the god. You will be punished! (She starts her chant as before. She
faints, rises, and speaks in a changed voice.) I am the great god Kompira!

Takashi: (excitedly knocking the priestess down) That’s a damned lie, you old fool. (He kicks her)

Priestess: (getting to her feet and resuming her ordinary voice) You’ve hurt me, you savage!

Suejiro: You fraud! You swindler!

Tosaku: We’ll leave now. It was a mistake to have brought to her.

Gisuke: (giving Tosaku some money) I hope you’ll excuse him. He’s young and has such a temper.

Priestess: You kicked me when I was inspired by the god. You’ll be lucky to survive until tonight.

LAST SCENE

Oyoshi: (soothing Suejiro) Children.. Be still now. (To the priestess) Oh.. I’m sorry this has happened. FILM tHIS

Priestess: (leaving with Tosaku) You don’t know what you’ve done. The foot you kicked me with will rot off. I curse you (The
priestess and Tosaku go out)

Gisuke: (to Tkashi) Aren’t you afraid of being punished for what you’ve done?

Takashi: A god never inspires a woman like that old swindler. She lies about everything

Oyoshi: I suspected her from the very first. She wouldn’t do such cruel things if a real god inspired her.

Gisuke: (without any insistence) Maybe so. But, Suejiro, your brother will be a burden to you all your life.

Suejiro: It will be no burden at all. When I become successful, I’ll build a tower for him on top of a mountain.

Gisuke: (suddenly) But where’s Yoshitaro gone?

Kichiji: (pointing at the roof) He’s up there.

Gisuke: (having a smile) As usual. (During the preceding excitement Yoshitaro has slipped away and climbed back up on the roof.
The four persons below look at each other and smile.)

Suejiro: A normal person would be angry with you for having put him in the smoke, but you see, he’s forgotten everything. (he
calls) Yoshitaro!

Yoshitaro: (For all his madness there is affection for his brother)(LAUGH) Takashi, Seujiro I asked Kompira and he doesn’t know
her!

Takashi: (smiling) You’re right. The god will inspire you, not a priestess like her. (Through a rift in the clouds, the golden light of
the sunset strikes the roof)
Oyoshi: (exclaiming) What a beautiful sunset!

Yoshitaro: (his face lighted by the sun’s reflection) look! Can’t you see? Just look! How beautiful.

Suejiro: Yes, I see. I see it, too. Wonderful…

Yoshitaro: (filled with Joy) There! I hear music coming from the palace. Flutes, what I love best of all. Isn’t it beautiful? (The
parents have gone into the house. The mad brother on the roof and the sane brother on the ground remain looking at the
golden sunset.)