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I am currently working on several writing projects. One is a story based on the play, 'Othello', written by William Shakespeare. The shortest synopsis of the story is written below and a copy of it is in the hands of a producer from Toei, the movie production company.

I also told her about the Japanese translation of it, which is on the Japanese side of this website. As well, I informed the president of the Stage & Arts Brains Company, a new sub-company of the Yoshimoto corporation, that is going to produce movies, about it.

Hopefully, one of them will produce it.

OLDFELLOW

a treatment by

Butch Read

based on the play, Othello, by William Shakespeare

The first foreigner to join the Osaka police force is psychologically manipulated into killing his wife and then himself by a Japanese police officer, jealous of the rapid rise in status within the ranks of the police force by the foreigner.

It is afternoon on a side street in downtown Osaka. At the front door of a small chapel, Yago stands guard.

A car pulls up and Kato steps out. He opens the rear door for Monami, in a wedding dress, and Emi. They run inside giggling like two school girls. Nick arrives, dressed in a tuxedo.

Inside, the pastor closes his Bible. "You may now kiss the bride." They kiss long and tenderly. Kato tells the pastor, "Thanks for keeping this a secret." and reminds Nick, " You only have three hours before you have to be at the dojo."

Outside, the newlyweds run down the steps. Unseen, Rokubuichi takes a photo. The cars take off.

Rokubuichi walks up to Yago. "Now that she is married it is over," he laments. "Don't be so pessimistic," Yago scolds. "You know what to do with that photo."

At the police dojo, the cadets walk out leaving Kato and Nick. Yago walks in and informs Nick, "The commissioner wants to see you sir."

The police commissioner orders Nick to quell the gaijin gang violence. "You're a gaijin. You should be able to talk with these gangs," the commissioner tells him, ignoring his protests that he is white gaijin.

In a back alley at night, Nick asks the Brazilian and the Chinese gangs to disperse. A fight starts with the gangs and the police. Several of the gangs' members escape.

The next morning Monmami looks horrified at a newspaper with Rokubuichi's photo and the headline "Action Movie Star Secretly Wed". "Kato, you're in charge of guarding Monami from now on, "Nick insists on the phone.

At the wrap party on the film set, Emi tries to get Kato to have a drink. Yago shrugs,

"One drink. What can it hurt?" One drink leads to many.

Yago coaches Rokubuichi to start a fight with Kato. Just as Kato hits Rokubuichi, Nick walks in.

"There is no way I'm going to have a drunken brawler in charge of watching Monami!" he scolds.

Kato is consoled by Emi and she unashamedly shows how infatuated she is with Kato,

"How about you stay at my place tonight?" she askes. Yago overhears, and when she goes to get a drink, he questions Kato about her.

"She likes me. And she's really lively in bed," Kato confesses. She returns, so Kato changes the subject　and consults Yago about Nick. "How about talking with Monami?" he recommends.

At Nick's apartment, Yago lets Kato in to see Monami. Nick arrives as Kato is leaving.

Kato sees Nick and hurries off ashamed. "What?" queries Nick, antagonistically. Yago covertly plants the idea that Kato is having an affair with her. "If they were, I'd kill them both!" Nick announces angrily.

Monami asks Nick to put Kato back on her guard, fuelling his suspicions. They fight.

The next night Yago gets Nick to overhear Kato after consulting with Monami. "So you had a good time with your girlfriend?" Yago conspiratorially enquires. Kato gives away bedroom secrets of his evening spent with Emi.

Nick gets delusional. He mentally creates scenes with Kato and Monami having s ex.

He confesses a wish to murder them to Yago. Yago gives him some pills, "The police psychiatrist would put you on these drugs anyway."

"But he'd also take me off duty. And I need to finish this gaijin gang business. But I'm a white gaijin," he complains as he pops the pills.

He takes more drugs and gets into more arguments with Monami. She confides in Emi.

Her mobile rings. "Yago never gave me any jewellery from you," she tells Rokubuichi.

Later Emi tells Kato about what she overheard in that phone call. "I'd better go see Yago about this," he says. She insists on coming along. "OK, but you stay in the car," he warns.

Outside Nick's apartment, Kato tells Yago what has been said. Rokuibuchi walks up, accusing Yago of theft.

He starts swinging and Kato tries to stop him. Rokubuichi pulls out a knife and slashes at Kato. "You stay out of this. It's got nothing to do with you," he pleads.

Yago takes the opportunity to grab the knife. He thrusts it deep into Rokubuichi's neck and cuts cleanly across with it. "You saw him, he tried to kill me. It was self-defense ," he insists.

Kato looks at Yago fearfully. "You can't get away with this," warns Kato. Yago lunges with the knife. They struggle and fall.

Yago gets up and turns Kato's still body over. The knife is embedded in Kato's chest. Nick walks up with glazed eyes. "You won’t believe this!" Yago insists. "They were both having an affair with her!"

Nick walks inside, closes the door and deadlocks it. A tear forms on his cheek
.
Monami is asleep in bed. He takes a pillow, straddles her and covers her face. She struggles and fights, but Nick is too strong and no longer sane.

She succumbs and her body becomes motionless. He puts his gun into his own mouth.

Outside Yago calls for an ambulance. The gun goes off inside the apartment.

A scream rings out. Yago sees Emi. She runs but he catches her easily.

At a kiosk in a train station, Yago picks up a newspaper. He reads aloud, "Action Star's Assistant
Found Dead In Her Apartment. Suspected Overdose."

The vendor replies, "Just yesterday that same movie star was killed by her gaijin husband. And he was a cop! No wonder they can't control the gaijin gangs. Crazy!"