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subtitles,

remember?

that heavy rain we stood under the eaves

i was there?

yes

in hamamatsu

you lived there with us for 1 year

you stayed here from 5 to 8

then you entered izu school

grind wasabi

kanazawa high school, kyoto university

journalist in osaka, writer in tokyo

you've been all over japan

school wasn't in izu but numazu

it's next door

the rain was pouring

that day you sent us to the station

i'll take this one

every time you come you take something

mom's upset

very valuable on the market

it's just catching dust here

right… that time

i remember dad's face

but he was waiting in taiwan

here

we joined him there

a whole year in taiwan

you were so lucky to stay

i wasn't

sure

no

sure

you were lucky

i was abandoned

what?

you were lucky

indeed

it was tough there

you want some?

mom's not joining us?

thank you

thanks

akio, so early

the library car gave me a ride

thank you

brother-in-law you arrived last night?

from tokyo after noon

we don't need funeral clothes anymore

when dad saw his son, he recovered

that's a father's wish

rather when he saw kuwako

when he saw you

no way

when he saw you

stubborn

i'm not

dad looked good on these army photos

villagers used to call him "excellency"

he retired as a major general

still young when he came to these mountains

he refused a position at the hospital…

to work in the fields

what a weird guy

you too were attracted to wasabi plantation

for 3 minutes

3 minutes?

there was enough family here…

in igami to work it

i would have thrown it all away one day

kuwako you were the same

skipping marriage to start business

i was young and confused

now i'm in antique art

he's so similar

yes… you too chose an artistic career

no, i meant similar to his father

surely not

fiddling with a cigarette case

you like soba cake as he does

i hate it

surely not

you're here

yep

mourning outfit?

there

you forgot mine

sorry

idiot

i go get it

enough… can't rely on you

i take this too?

father's check book?

father's funeral record

it reads "funeral expenses"

it's all scrupulously recorded

we had to pay so much

you & kuwako were both in tokyo

i had to handle it

take care of our status here

there are funerals expenses

there are two funeral accounts

that's mom's

so old-fashioned

how about your bus?

soon… you kuwako?

i stay another night

to what purpose?

tidy up storage

excuse me

what?

i'll go greet

he looks so much like father

right

your father said

write the obituary, not a verbose one

going back to tokyo

next week here again

my all time best-seller

so popular

my kids complain

if you read it

from cover to cover

it's 500,000 words

story of our family

i'll be back, goodbye

aki-chan

you enjoy that

so busy writing about genghis khan

no time to visit your father

it's my livelihood

what?

wasabi

bye

you don't have to come

i'm visiting honkei

hi, hiroshi

hello

thanks for the food

come greet honkei

in a hurry

you're the only son

your father asks you

can't hear you

write the obituary, not verbose

i know

who told you?

you did

you're ok?

i am

have a doctor check your head

hello

bye

bye

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let's go

tamada, the glue

sure

your slip shows

i'll take it

sorry

it's slow

how many volumes, mr. saburo?

12,000

12,000… mom…

kotoko is back from school?

she has a photo exhibition for school

her father will be mad

but it's good for her

what does the printer say?

he went 2 hours ago

he's at the restaurant

i'm back

welcome back

welcome back

welcome back

we're busy with the prints

i like home's liveliness

how's your father

i'd be more worried about mom

how?

whatever

wasabi, again

beautiful selfless dedication

service is a form of love

next week's lecture trip

later

sir, your meal

have you eaten? -not yet

call for delivery

which restaurant?

wakamatsu

a soba cake

additional orders

they don't like phone calls

i'll run there then

hello

excuse me

sorry

welcome back

hello

how many prints today?

12,600

1 pen, 2 chopstick

that's what feeds a family

mother fiercely disapproved me

a writer is a waste

you started at 43

father moved to izu at 48

i became a writer at 43

i quit osaka newspaper, came to tokyo

had to be tokyo?

sure

why?

well

tokyo is the place

always dreamed of working in tokyo

you too

same for me

he's a good writer too

segawa can speak for himself

you have to hurry

thank you

thanks for your work

leave it

where's kotoko?

busy with her photos

what photos?

a photo competition at school

we ordered food for her

thank you

that kid is stubborn

she knows how busy we're all with the print

she has no love

no love, no service

your voice is loud, you scare noriko

my voice isn't loud

18 years old, she's scared?

you're fine

coming in

what's this?

snails

while we're busy with the print

you play with snails

it's for the photo competition

when, tomorrow?

next month

no urgency

the print is more important

as long as we enjoy helping

but you force it on everybody

you live on my money

ah, the snails

how do you feel?

i'm fine

sorry about yelling

hello

dear

what?

your father

died?

just before i left him…

he took my hand

don't know why

he held my hand

then tossed it away

he's rejecting you?

he was surprised to see me

at first he, like, hooked me

he just wanted to hold

last tender gesture

father and son is not that simple

why kotoko rebellious?

puberty

because i make her write?

who knows

i became a writer to feed the family…

and launch my family into the trade

the history of genghi kahn

the whole family writes

ikuko and noriko agreed

different personality

cup of tea?

please

i'll go to the livingroom

this slope… you ok?

don't force it

sorry to be a burden

kotoko you go, i take care of noriko

we're together

father is mad at you lately

or he'd be mad if she left you behind

better stick together

i'm segawa the snail

i was called to help

"segawa the snail"?

because i helped you pick up the snails

that's where it comes from?

could you help?

all right

thank you

he'll carry you

she's light

please

heave ho

all right

thank you very much

grandma

sound of the mountain stream

what kind of kid was my father?

read his autobiography

your angle?

a seeker

seeking what?

anywhere on this planet

a small boy searching

amazing

grandma you're a poet

not a poet

it looked like verse

cold

you too

summer 1960

grandma

you liked mr. shunma

did i?

you said you did

more than grandpa?

he was about your age

he'd be 90 now

he didn't last that long

you'd have married him

we would not be born

enough… creepy

just a possibility

but his face

no way

are you talking about mr. shunma?

she comes again

precisely

how do you know about him?

you always talk about him

mr. shunma

talking about him

he's still in my heart…

after all this time

grandma is so cute

this week's letters from readers

just today's

fan lovers too

your slip shows -she's hopeless

grandma, cards could predict your union with mr. shunma

come sit here

wait, after we finish here

married! none of us were born

neither dad is born

grandma marries mr. shunma

why do you talk about mr. shunma?

here we go again

welcome back

heavy rain

kids are all in?

they would be able to come back

everyone's in?

your mother is here

i'm not alone

come in

good

segawa, driver and student this is koneko

nice to meet you

whose driver?

mine

he'll stay here

sorry… hand him a towel

back ache?

welcome back

welcome back

not only that, my thoughts are confused

you took care of mom for a year

indeed

i told you i could take her at my place

let's try for a week

she couldn't bear 2 days

experience taught us

mom said "i'm so old"

"moving to a home with kids"

what is she mumbling?

we have to do as she says

come quick

you know him, segawa the snail

the snail

fired from a printing company

no place to go, i took him in

a 2nd secretary?

my driver

what car?

we buy one

you take such decisions

it's bought, coming tomorrow

a pair of socks

talk about your wages

nice to meet you

this way

not selling antiques today?

mom wants to talk to mr. kosaku

surely not a big deal

she says it's important

she chats with the kids

keeps mentioning mr. shunma

shunma?

a friend who died 70 years back

yes, that genius who died young

his dad was struck by lightning

what grandma

she totally ignores your dad

she never mentions him

not as if she'd forgotten, but…

strange

they were such a good couple

mom's memory is fading

it's coming

gather the middle

away from window

kotoko, you wanna die?

kuwako, sit down

what's the fuss

it's coming

since father's death

in an instant

it's like he lives in me

going to the garden

wearing my clogs

slouching, reading the newspaper

playing with the cigarette box

suddenly the mouth of death facing me

next it's my turn

however, in my case…

mother is still healthy

half of me in the sea of death

mother preserving the other half

that gap between me and death

in fact will disappear

when mother passes away

excuse me

please

staying up late?

tell you something

what?

my brother living in the usa

is 70 this year

right

i want to send him a gift

last week i sent him a silver watch

you did?

we wrapped it in front of you

he's received it by now

don't touch please

i'm not sure you did it

what's that about?

you don't understand the world

leaving you in yugashima was my mistake

there you go again

right after shinako's birth

i should have come for you

but my health wasn't good

a year later you came it was too late

too late…? dramatic!

you didn't want to leave yugashima

you didn't come for me

i did many times

you saw your brother several times

you abandoned me

warehouse onui grandma became my mother

find the funeral record

the funeral record?

that book recording funeral expenses…

we found at dad's death?

why would anyone record funeral gifts

you know about that book

why should i care?

our family's funeral record

you lost me there

it is very important

times have changed now

we're wealthy enough to leave it

we pay back funeral gifts…

what we received in times of grief

when they are in grief we help them

suppose you died, and no one paid it

that wouldn't be fair

i get it, i'll find it

that dismissive tone

typical of onui grandma

so self-righteous

that warehouse woman

but i left you with her

it's not my place to talk

i'll go back home tomorrow with kuwako

i want that book back before, please

elvis

dad?

shit

one more

my father's handwriting

the 1920's

they're funerals gifts

japanese society was based on barter and exchange

"give and take", just like americans

not at all

they'd share all they had

nothing was left

a buddhist principle

don't get it

a funeral in 1920

your mother's mother?

warehouse onui grandma

what does it mean?

from age 5 to 8

onui grandma and i lived together

in a warehouse?

deep in izu mountains a small warehouse

onui grandma did something bad

in a way

she's not your mother's mother?

that's the official status

the truth?

my mother's grandfather's concubine

his lover?

my great-grandfather abandoned his wife and my mother

started a new family

he married that woman, changed her status

why?

strange question

to take care of her future

our family's genealogy

study, research it

grandma's grandpa had a lover

it's indecent

it's indecent

thanks a lot

tired

we're here on this map

shigako

we just arrived

how's mother?

she's great… in the lounge

my name's igami

do we have the orchestra tonight

they have arrived

classical?

sorry they're not

it's a latin group

a latin band

try again

it's like writing, just practice

i'm sorry

from the right knee

segawa enough, move on

don't be weak on him

kuwako

kuwako

akio, it's them

segawa is put to the task

never loses heart

it's grandma's birthday

coming here makes dad happy

it's a duty for all the family

this too is a duty?

serving is a form of love

is why we love to serve

it's dad's motto

his service and love are coerced

take it easy

mom… mr.tamaya

it hurts

wait kotoko

i'm out

stood kotoko

wait

kotoko

hello

hello

kotoko

for dad it's not a service

but a payment for his sin

kotoko talks nonsense

paying for what sin?

he used grandma's life and ours

to write his novels

he robbed us of our soul

his sin would rather be hubris

lucifer

admission to hawaii university

you study abroad?

once i graduate here

i may never marry or leave home

if you don't marry, neither shall i

who cares who marries first

grandma is 75

twelve candles

indeed

unexpected

grandma now

is more and more like a child

she's like a 10 year old

right

as she regressed

her memory dwindles

selectively forgetting

only bad memories

remembers good things

it started at dad's death

aging is an eraser going over memories

can't erase them all

she forgets a lot

she remembered someone who died in izu

she wanted to attend the funeral

and send them money

i'm fed up with her whims

she found an old funeral record

she searched it

how much she owes to such family

just like accounting

i've had enough

this for my mother

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so tired

back to your room?

i could see the pool from my room

i thought this was it

your room is above

i'd rather be here

spacious and comfortable

why did you bring the records?

sure didn't

it just fell from your shawl

don't be weird

maybe shigako brought it

she's here

you can't just disappear

i had to talk…

with your brother…

i called him to my room

what with her?

your room?

nothing

about visiting the graves tomorrow?

i'm patient

you don't visit grandpa's tomb.

i'll follow him soon

no one knows

your grandpa

was working

during the war

it was so hard

he can rest now

i had to go meet him in the snow

the roads were icy

next door lady slipped and fell

i prepared his lunch every day

there was so little food

i polished his boots

military boots

were so long it was hard

let me rest

grandma your nightgown

i'll lay like this

brush your teeth

all right

well

wait

mother wait

i help you

easy

you're too slow

grandma wait

she has no loving memory of dad

she's forgetting him

she also forgot the harm he did to her

his coldness too

their mutual debt is erased

tonight at last…

this is made clear

what?

you've changed

what?

first time you mention mom affectionately

say…

still i have not forgiven her

she abandoned me in yugashima

but she lost that memory

we can't fight over it

the memory gone, you can love her

too later for such racket

3 years ago, marilyn monroe

john wayne, 5 months

cheers for john wayne

cheers

amazing akio

kotoko how's grandma?

mom is with her

you can play with us

akio

shigako is dancing tokyo boogi-woogi

tokyo boogi-woogi?

i'd like to see that

men against women

dad, you can play?

of course

great

segawa and i

next big event is ikuko's wedding

in 2 two months

should have brought him here

it's our last family trip

thank you for all these years

noriko, woman against men

it's ok

okay

bears love their cubs

you know how they help them find food?

you know?

they abandon them

they throw them in a tree

they must come down the tree

otherwise they lose their parents

hello

hello

hello

something happened?

is it grandma?

come in

we don't have to stay

what are you saying

we celebrate the child's first food

we don't cancel

all right

the bag please

mom

i'll find a way

something wrong with grandma?

you're here

accident in yugashima

akio was hit by a car

say

you loaf around all day

easy life

mom, what did you just say?

if you don't work, you don't eat

gimme a break

you're raising your voice

he's doing his share of work

this is so unfair

he's your son-in-law

get out of my home is you don't like it

i wish we had done it

you have some nerve for a servant

she mistook me for a servant?

mom

mom, you just called me "servant"?

mom

we have to take care of grandma

she'd come here with us?

akio's will be hospitalized two weeks

just while he's absent

dad don't laugh

but grandma doesn't like tokyo

in hard times you negotiate with the enemy

what enemy?

we celebrate her first food

kotoko, help me

it's the first time

come with mom

let's use our villa in karuizawa

karuizawa?

i'll take care of grandma

what kind of idea

she won't stand 2 days in tokyo

we take her to karuizawa

the air is good there

grandma will love it

reopenig the villa is a big task

wasp nesting around

rain and wind opening windows

birds inside the house

kotoko would be scared

no one cares how grandma feels

as if she was an enemy

you should take better care of her

enough, kotoko

we celebrate her first food

kotoko, it's your idea, you do it

you can't deal with it on your own

i can pick up grandma

not on your own

you're over-protective

over-protective

you're always careful nobody would touch us

as if you feared an assault

on a typhoon alert you call my school

it's that type of situation

did i say that

you called me back from the cinema

during a storm

the wind and rain

who knows what could happen

moreover noriko, you're weak

the movie was "virgin spring"

"virgin spring"

you watch erotic movies?

an ingmar bergman movie

a father take revenge

for his daughter's murder

he kills 3 brothers

even the smallest boys

i couldn't see it till the end

i so wanted to see it

until the end

you shouted on the phone

you decide for everything

we're deprived of freedom

noriko, you okay

go outside breathe fresh air

i'll serve tea

a fight about "virgin spring"

my brother was shocked

so shocked

but she should do something

or she'll never leave home

she's our version of "virgin spring"

you're laughing, mr. dutiful?

i am sorry

he's not dutiful

sure, he's too

madam

your ride to tokyo

your ride to tokyo

grandma you're going to tokyo

mont ubasute is famous

mont ubasute?

kids abandon their elderly there

I'd be relieved

get ready to go

kids are so ungrateful

i'll use the bathroom

segawa come in to rest

a vast entrance

was a hospital before the war

here there was a pharmacy and waiting room

medicinal drawers are still here

how d'you do!

how do you do?… you?

excuse me

grandma?

sorry

there's no respect for elderly

grandma it's your ride

grandma you're ok

an american

i'm the driver, segawa

an american who can speak japanese

so happy he came for me

this one is smart

grandma means her brother

5 years younger

he lives in the states

i'm so glad

mom, you look great

you ladies are so pretty

losing her mind or playing fool

difficult to discern

i take this

you can't take these ornaments

who's that kid?

family taking care of grandma

she also comes to tokyo

did you greet our hosts?

ah did

did not

he went to numazu college

when we were in taiwan

mr. american, you hear me

i hear

you speak only japanese

"really"

let's go see the ocean in numazu

this is where my son used to swim

"yes indeed"

later i managed to get him back

however, his father

was garrisonned in taiwan

we also went to taiwan

sir

everything fine, shigako?

she came without fuss

we arrive in the evening

she protested a lot?

she complained she's abandoned

that legend, at 70

she said kids throw their elderly in the mountain

and she'd be relieved

she said we should abandon her

she would be better off

she's hard to deal with

say

she's not making fun of us

she does too

like in that movie about tokyo

she considers us nasty kids

coming back to our parents to abuse them

like the son and daughter of that movie

you remember?

i haven't seen it

after the war food was scarce

such stories might have happened

mom is very stressed

you're so kind to her

not that kind

I'm just saying she's a proud person

she would give up in front of no one

OK, gotta go

OK thanks

ms tamadai

we have a folder on mont ubasute

a haiku and song collection about it

a picture book too

picture book?

please find it

sorry to bother

come

still up

something bugs me

i may be repeating myself

i didn't notice that

I'm always bothering you

you probably have enough of me

no such thing

I'm relieved

i won't harass you

as soon as possible

not today, but tomorrow

let me go back home

back to izu home

today you spoke about mont ubasute

i may have mentioned it

you remember this book

mont ubasute

when i arrived in izu

you gave it to me

these were hard times

kids were abandoning their parents

on my summer vacations back in izu

i found it at onui grandma's

warehouse onui grandma

she'd kept it preciously

don't forget about my returning home

segawa will drive you to karuizawa

i'll join you later

first book you loved?

i was 5

i burst into tears

i had to leave my mother

very painful

at 11 i read it again and cried again

i was about to leave onui grandma

sir

i was told, the first 3 days she was mad

so to speak

even her american brother couldn't soothe

as soon as we arrived here

she thought i was the janitor

grandma?

this way

how is she?

good today

yesterday not too good

today she's fine

hey, grandma

on board from the pier in yokohama

peaceful

aging ideally

she finally gave up on the 5th day

i told her she had to be here

you've done a great job

the house is damaged

don't push me

look

humidity is eating it away

i'll wait at the post office

this way, grandma

I'll manage, you can go

go where?

tokyo

i can't

must take care of you

no one is asking you

until you become reasonable

me and Sada-chan and segawa stay

like a house arrest

2 guards and that janitor

that's so sad

what?

a woman asked me for direction

i wanted to show her the way

but kotoko was impatient

it's not true

you're impatient

she told her she was grace kelly

like a swan flying

she didn't ask she was just passing

she wasn't lost

kotoko enough

she asked me

segawa say something

that woman didn't ask

a janitor follows his boss

you embarrassed him

always impatient, you're pathetic

i've had enough of you

sure, you and me we're "bye-bye"

he's gone?

who?

that creep

man with a hat

that would be me

careful, i saw him

spies wear such hats

american spies

who am i?

you're the american

uncle keiichi?

i missed you today

i wondered where…

keiichi is still in the states

how old?

keiichi is 5 years younger than you

for some time…

i wanted to ask you

you received the silver watch?

silver watch?

for your 70th, i asked my son

'course i received it long ago

never knew if he really sent it

'course it was sent

my son is spaced out

since that warehouse onui grandma ensnared him

he wouldn't leave her

he was in numazu

lucky she died suddenly

had she lived longer…

about the silver watch

you received it?

kotoko?

tennis club

with a man

you ready?

"nice"

an elegant movement

that man in white pants?

he's her classmate

they often meet?

not often

you go back

good

kotoko, you did good

cuba libre

cuba libre

your father is waiting

your boyfriend? in white pants?

nope

whenever you feel like introducing me

writing today's events?

also about me too?

"you and me we're bye-bye"

finally, what are we to you…

but novel raw material

using grandma thus…

i'm quite a match to dickens

Alzheimer is such a book-seller, you

Saturday-chan infected me with her parlance

just ending a sentence with "you"

doesn't make it izu dialect, you

easy

heavy

easy

I'm beginning to understand

what?

how you see grandma

we go back

are you a writer or a son?

we discuss this when you're sober

look at you

too shy when you're sober

you never talk

enough kotoko

the writer is kind to grandma

but the son resents his mother

resentment is the drive

without it the canary doesn't sing

"the canari forgot the song"

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"let's abandon it in the mountains"

"no, you can't do that"

heavy

heavy

grandma

grandma

what's this?

grandma gone

what?

at the shrine

go to the shrine

check the pathways

grandma

grandma

grandma

grandma

go back

please

I'm fine

you're closing

thank you

going inside?

sorry to bother

it's raining

let's go

i'm busy

let's go

it's raining

segawa

the car

all right

grandma liked karuizawa

we stayed until winter

father didn't show up

your nap

good

forgot that prayer

it's ok to forget

where do you go?

outside

be careful

ok

if i bother

i go in my room, miss

stop calling me miss

a bit unexpected

and stop being dutiful

what do you mean?

if you're not too serious we could be dating

but not as a house employee

why are you so restrained?

i'm the boring type

to be honest, your kind of person

is a mystery to me

you took this line

from a novel of my father's

the heroines of your father…

are unconcerned by love

at odds or disconnected

and should their apathy…

ever be disrupted by actual sex…

love is terminated

this sterilized type of love

doomed from the egg, is not my…

segawa

I'm not marrying you

all right

in short

chose my father the writer…

or chose me

both

i won't take it

you chose the glass, the bottle will hate you forever

my student abused my trust

he may hinder your future literary prize

i quit being dutiful

grandma, sorry

help us

Sada-chan your chores

is it all right?

all in line

grandma

good ceremony

i wish it was every day

you know for whom?

for whom?

my memory is fading it's terrible

we commemorate warehouse onui grandma

she's been dead for 50 years

that puts an end to it

we don't owe her anything more

thus she joins the ancestors

thank you for your trouble

where's kurokawa?

not yet

you heard that?

death reconciles old enemies

dad?

in the salon with noriko

hawaii?

he agreed i'll study in hawaii

congratulations

thank you

i saw he was alone so…

i mustered the courage to ask

easier than i expected

good for you

I'll announce it now

a photo here?

you promised you'd be with me today

to find a title for the special edition?

your taking a break in the country

who came up with that?

segawa the snail

thought so

it's a conservative magazine

you snatched Mr. dutiful away from me

he decided on his own

he dropped me to date you

you're getting the hang of abandonment

i love it

he wrote good stuff under my guidance

he's not just a good editor, get it?

onui grandma's celebration in that side room is creepy

when we'd visit my parents place

she'd enter through the back door to greet people

never enter the main room

even dead, today she's forbidden

but you'd enter through the front door?

onui grandma told me to do so

you'd have dinner here some times

never

grandpa and grandma…

would not feed offer a meal

we were often invited…

but I'd refuse

in my kid's heart i knew onui grandma's feeling

so we'd go back to the warehouse

i remember writing poetry on this swing

what poem?

forgot

your memory is excellent

not for what i wrote at that time

nothing's left

you were protecting grandma

had she entered the main room

the whole family…

were her enemies

here she held my hand for the first time

who?

onui grandma

a sunset like this one

mother, had dropped me in yugashima

onui grandma raised me

go back

that year in yugashima

shigako was so busy

dad took in grandma

grandma not on your own

help

lock the door yone-chan

grandma come on

the luggage upstairs

grandma

easy

come on

easy now

come

easy

in our tokyo home

we had such rackets that could last an hour

especially in the afternoon

she was agitated

the rest of the time she would be peaceful

it was tough today, grandma

I'd rather forget it

putting you in such trouble

among us…

she'd listen only to dad

but i doubt she knew he was her son

that was creepy

grandma

let's go

all right, kotoko

all right

this way

you can't sleep like that

your nightgown

this is it?

grandma go back to sleep

grandma sleep

she went to your study this time?

she's doing this every night?

keep it quiet

thanks noriko

for 2 weeks, every night

at first i thought

she couldn't find the bathroom

she came to my room

she is disoriented

she checks every room in turn

until she finds her own

in yugashima she'd wander 3 times a night

even in yugashima

in my room and in madam's room

the kitchen too

then back to her room

so she's not looking for her room

we should close her door

like a child looking for her mother

if it was so

we'd feel sad for her

but she's spooking us

or a mother looking for her child

kotoko take the flashlight from her

but…

when we hid the funeral book she forgot

hide it

she won't wander

you're wrong

do as i say

ok

yesterday

she lost the flashlight

you searched?

the 2 of us in the night

for the flashlight…

she's wandering

no way

that flashlight has legs

forgot

here, flowers

thanks "slip-showing" yone-chan

"slip-showing" yone-chan

good weather

the amaranth is beautiful.

we call it tampala…

this is so nice

I'd like a garden too

indeed

wait here

the new secretary

sir

today deadline for the series

i know

they want to split it in 3 volumes

they need to know where to split

good

there was a person writing every day

he went

dead?

all too soon

3 days after he died

the 3rd day

he was popular

many people mourned him

there's one thing

i always wanted to tell you

we won't meet again

need to tell you

what?

that woman living with me

shigako?

she's just a servant

any other person living with you?

that woman who took my son

every night

i ask her for my son

she would not tell me

if i could see him just once before i die

grandma

you left your son back

never considered his sadness

"the rain stopped"

what?

"left many puddles"

"the pacific, the mediterranean, the sea of japan"

"each to its own"

"but my favorite"

"is not of this earth, a small, new channel"

"links mother & me"

"but my favorite"

"is not of this earth, a small, new channel"

"linking mother & me"

"linking mother & me"

"is not of this earth, a small, new channel"

"is not of this earth"

"a small, new channel"

teacher

hello

soap

i was right about the flashlight

grandma is not roaming anymore

something happened?

nothing

you're different

the usual

kuwako is not here?

she's joining us at the harbor

cheeeeese

good?

thank you

we're on our way

thank you for your kindness

noriko

next year, I'll visit you

good luck with your photos

i'm gone

good

everyone going back

everyone going back

she knew it

because i took a photo

she wanted to look good

didn't have her dentures though

indeed

lost it

lost it

her dentures

haven't seen her with it lately

haven't seen it

neither did i

power outage

the fuse

i'll check

you found it?

it's on

good

farewell

kuwako is late

she'll take the plane then

i look for her

maybe she fears the sea

like grandma

never heard that one

she can't swim

she loves the firm ground

when did you hear that?

at our wedding

an awful long time ago

she said she'd die

when she left for taiwan

a ship sank just before their trip

she thought the whole family would die

at least she would save her son

she left me because of that?

a survivor son had to be left behind

no matter how painful it was for him

to preserve the family for the ancestors sake

what did she have in mind

a sole survivor

his temperament will be strong

you knew this all along?

why didn't you tell me?

you became interested…

only recently

surely not

you'd feel abandoned in any case

it's your drive to write excellent novels

excuse me

Mr. Igami

i need a phone

1,2,3,4

and those you ate before

eat too much of them you'll turn yellow

already yellow

indeed

my feet are yellow too

can't see them

i'll have one too

it's dad

entrance door is open, check on grandma

the entrance…

dad?

30 min left, can't see kuwako

she didn't call you?

no

grandma

kotoko

let me hang up

what's with grandma?

grandma is gone

what?

we call the police

i'll be there in 5min

grandma

grandma

when you reel in a strong fish…

grandma, what happened?

looking for someone?

go to numazu to see my son

numazu on the seaside?

so what you'll go there…

find him floating…

and reel him in ashore?

where in numazu?

behind the imperial villa

want to see him?

want to see him

i need your attention

quiet please

moment please

sorry to bother

one of you truckers

going toward numazu imperial villa

numazu

grandma here

wants to see her son

here

who?

shige

shige, great

hurry

shige go

grandma, this is shige

shige, this is grandma

if i go i could see my son

on board

made it on time

kuwako

welcome

made it

please

i'm sorry

couldn't find swimsuit

excuse me

you saw an old lady

an old lady

holding a purse

a white-haired old lady

she was walking unsteady

grandma?

holding a flashlight

in shige's truck

shige stop

she'll be fine, come

kotoko is riding a truck

kotoko driving a truck?

she's not driving

a nice trucker is helping

to catch another truck with grandma

a truck chasing a truck

grandma is going to numazu

she want to see the ocean

she is going to where you used to swim

the imperial villa?

better let her go

enough

kotoko is handling this

grandma is scrared of water

we take care of noriko here

i've had enough

wait, a person is getting off

i'll be fine

she's in your hands

noriko, I'm not forgetting you

i'll take a plane

don't worry

sweet potatoes, freshly baked

dad

you missed the boat?

well I'm here

quite an adventure

grandma got car sick we when to a hospital

truck driver was so kind

quite an ordeal, i tried to call

all is well…

that ends well

it all ends well

sorry for all the trouble

you worked hard

grandma, get on

don't know who you are

but you're so kind

the ocean is scary

grandma

long ago

there was a diving board there

all numazu school students

were diving from here

kosaku, you know I'm scared of the ocean

21 november 1973

i'm back

welcome back

you're early

didn't want to stay for the banquet

kotoko?

she shows her photos from hawaii

she went to hawaii

welcome back

segawa received his award?

unanimously approved

he's got his award

your futon is already set for the night

kotoko you stay here.

for old time's sake

noriko's new boyfriend

3rd in 3 years… she's surprising

the clock is loud tonight

really?

particularly tonight

mom, have you seen this?

no need to close

so unusual

only some light commentaries to write

he always keeps it open now

since i left it's quieter

maybe

grandma has been 3 years in izu

she's peaceful now

the whole house is getting peaceful

you mean we have become old and sluggish

we were in constant grandma alert

indeed

the clock is loud tonight

dad

aunt shibako calling

she died?

grandma's condition suddenly got worse

doctor put her on intravenous drip

set the phone line in my study

all right

better find a car

it will come in the morning

the inauguration ceremony in numazu is on the 25th

so i packed your suit and shirts

car?

departure 7:00

kuwako and me ride along

when is kuwako coming?

she'll be here soon

ok

y'all go to bed

can't sleep

if grandma makes it tonight

she'll live another 5-10 years

i'm here

what's going on?

phone is ringing

hello

just now

grandma breathed her last

at 1:48

mother died peacefully in her home…

and we owe this to you as a couple

I'm so grateful

mother is at peace

you two took good care of her

till her last moments

thank you

so many years of dedication

suddenly mont ubasute's landscape came up

suddenly my legs are unsteady

for all i carried her on my back

i felt i had no choice

couldn't find her a suitable place

mother was angry

she said i wasn't looking hard enough

for my only mother

a place to get rid of her

to find such a place…

it is not a sin

you found her dentures?

it was nowhere to be found

minimasubs,