Japanese man finds woman living in his closet
 

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said Friday.



The 57-year-old man living alone -- or so he thought -- in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called the police when he saw images of someone walking around his home while he was out.
"We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.
The woman, named as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down.
She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said, adding that the women had been arrested.
"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the spokesman said. "She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time."
It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been closet-hopping, moving from house to house.

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better than the cellar.

so is she 'out' of the closet now?

man i feel so privileged sometimes.

I don't understand how she managed that without breaking her back or something. It's not like she slept in a walk-in big wardrobe.

if it hadn't been in japan i probably wouldn't have believed it.

Have you got any acting talents, my darling? I work in a theatre and have all the right contacts. We could be the next west end hit musical, think about it.

yeah, very BECKETT / PINTER , no?

Read Molloy. It's excellent.

First thing I thought when I read this was "what a good idea for a play!"
Do it!

actually jokes aside. it IS a good idea for a screenplay. Like the short ones by Pinter about self alienation such as "The Caretaker" or "No Man's land". That would go well with some Dream Aktion Unit.

Pinter also has plays in here very often. Let's call him or Tom Stoppard and see what they think about it.

Nef - Have a look through your wardrobe for your best dress to wear at the audition.

First thing I thought?

I want to live in fuckuokay.

This is one of my favourite plays. Whichever production of it I've seen has always been of high quality.

witty author. singular. like a more accessible Beckett really, that's why he's so popular. He has made dark, obscure themes more accessible. anyways.

How do we know she wasn't imprisoned there against her own will, eh? you obviously have NO IDEA what its like living out a cupboard for a year and them getting guilt tripped for it. NONE of you understand, k?

that makes my cheeks feel warm.

In Japan, how do you know for sure what qualifies as a closet?
In theory, that could be "the East wing" of the domicile in many cases.

ha ha ha

Honestly, though, I've heard bizarre things coming from students sharing overcrowded houses too. One of them was this bloke who was sleeping under someone's kitchen table because he had nowhere to live and someone was putting him up for a while.

WOW. I can't wait to go to uni. I will be that bloke. except you could probably fit me under the fridge, along with the crumbs and assorted droppings.

Being skinny helps out when you're crashing out at at other people's places.

i'm probably going to hell because i laughed hysterically at this

Strange.

I think I would become a bit like this if I lived in such an overcrowded country, not the suicide part, just the isolation.

You go to hell if you don't laugh at it. Anyone who doesn't laugh doesn't have a soul or sense of humor.

I just imagine it like a reality show in Japan. Like...cameras watching the woman sneak around the house with a big anime face looking at the camera every so often to put her finger over her lips and giggle while the man is near by but doesn't notice her.

That makes sense, right?

Edit: Possibly a cartoony-geisha anime face.

Edit: Definitely. And a funny host would announce stuff as it happened.

i read this in awe earlier but i withheld judgment

that woman is probably the granddaughter of a real-life ninja

she's got skills

The camera part made me think of The Ring and Japanese scary-without-a-monster pictures.

There's been a play on something slightly similar.
In 1996 Roland Topor wrote L'hiver sous la table (winter underneath the table), where a woman rents the space underneath her kitchen table to a man. Then all of sudden, as a friend comes to visit her, every character realises how strange the situation is.
Haven't seen or read it though.

The Japanese woman probably decided to squat at the place to be caught, write her memoirs and get plenty of money, avoidind being sued for plagiarism by Topor's family.

58 year old. That sucks.

Here in SF, there are a lot of people living in a lot of closets.

And not the metaphorical kind.

I've been in many types of closets, metaphorical closets, academic abstract concept closets, and the ones with dead moths in them.

I have a walk-in closet....

Closet-hopping.
lol

Stoppard is not even close to being in the same league as Pinter. What was The Real Thing for fuck sake........ apart from absolute dross.

The Homecoming is one of the finest plays ever written, as is The Birthday Party.

This sounds like a love story.

If she lives in the closet for 7 years does she become the owner?

she was probably a crusty punk and wasn't allowed at the local squat because she was heard singing "rock the casbah" to herself and didn't meet the studs on a jacket minimum.

ewww crust punks ewwww

POINTS.OF.FUCKING.VIEW.

Meh, nothing Steven Seagal or Rambo couldn't do.