1 00:03:54,569 --> 00:03:57,864 You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing. 2 00:03:57,947 --> 00:03:59,782 I saw everything. 3 00:03:59,866 --> 00:04:03,202 I saw the hospital - I'm sure of it. 4 00:04:04,621 --> 00:04:07,332 The hospital in Hiroshima exists. 5 00:04:09,125 --> 00:04:13,338 How could I not have seen it? 6 00:04:32,190 --> 00:04:36,069 You didn't see the hospital in Hiroshima. 7 00:04:37,028 --> 00:04:40,114 You saw nothing in Hiroshima. 8 00:04:46,704 --> 00:04:49,374 Four times at the museum. 9 00:04:49,749 --> 00:04:51,626 What museum in Hiroshima? 10 00:05:05,556 --> 00:05:08,893 Four times at the museum in Hiroshima. 11 00:05:09,268 --> 00:05:11,479 I saw people walking around. 12 00:05:11,938 --> 00:05:17,026 People walk around, lost in thought, among the photographs, 13 00:05:17,110 --> 00:05:20,863 the reconstructions, for lack of anything else. 14 00:05:21,364 --> 00:05:24,659 The photographs, the photographs, 15 00:05:24,742 --> 00:05:28,705 the reconstructions, for lack of anything else. 16 00:05:28,788 --> 00:05:33,251 The explanations, for lack of anything else. 17 00:05:36,004 --> 00:05:39,173 Four times at the museum in Hiroshima. 18 00:05:40,550 --> 00:05:42,343 I watched the people. 19 00:05:43,386 --> 00:05:46,514 I myself, lost in thought, 20 00:05:46,597 --> 00:05:49,392 looked at the scorched metal. 21 00:05:49,851 --> 00:05:51,436 The twisted metal. 22 00:05:51,769 --> 00:05:54,814 Metal made as vulnerable as flesh. 23 00:05:57,316 --> 00:05:59,694 I saw the bouquet of bottle caps. 24 00:06:00,028 --> 00:06:01,946 Who would have thought? 25 00:06:02,030 --> 00:06:05,199 Human flesh, suspended, as if still alive, 26 00:06:05,283 --> 00:06:07,952 its agony still fresh. 27 00:06:08,453 --> 00:06:11,789 Stones. Charred stones. Shattered stones. 28 00:06:12,790 --> 00:06:14,625 Anonymous masses of hair 29 00:06:14,709 --> 00:06:18,921 that the women of Hiroshima, upon waking in the morning, 30 00:06:19,005 --> 00:06:20,798 would find had fallen out. 31 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:37,607 I was hot in Peace Square. 32 00:06:38,649 --> 00:06:41,986 10,000 degrees in Peace Square. 33 00:06:42,070 --> 00:06:43,571 I know it. 34 00:06:44,989 --> 00:06:48,618 The temperature of the sun in Peace Square. 35 00:06:48,993 --> 00:06:50,661 How could you not know it? 36 00:06:50,995 --> 00:06:53,081 The grass. It's quite simple. 37 00:06:53,164 --> 00:06:56,584 You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing. 38 00:07:05,551 --> 00:07:09,806 The reconstructions were as authentic as possible. 39 00:07:11,349 --> 00:07:15,353 The films were as authentic as possible. 40 00:07:16,354 --> 00:07:20,817 The illusion, quite simply, is so perfect 41 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:22,902 that tourists weep. 42 00:07:24,695 --> 00:07:26,614 One can always scoff, 43 00:07:27,532 --> 00:07:29,951 but what else can a tourist do 44 00:07:30,326 --> 00:07:32,537 but weep? 45 00:08:10,283 --> 00:08:13,536 I've always wept over Hiroshima's fate. 46 00:08:14,453 --> 00:08:15,705 Always. 47 00:08:15,788 --> 00:08:16,998 No. 48 00:08:17,081 --> 00:08:20,585 What was there for you to weep over? 49 00:08:39,061 --> 00:08:41,397 I saw the newsreels. 50 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,359 On the second day, history tells us - I'm not making it up - 51 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:47,445 from the second day on, 52 00:08:47,528 --> 00:08:50,448 certain species of animals crawled 53 00:08:50,531 --> 00:08:53,576 from the depths of the earth, and from the ashes. 54 00:08:56,329 --> 00:08:59,373 Dogs were captured on film for all time. 55 00:08:59,457 --> 00:09:00,958 I saw them. 56 00:09:01,042 --> 00:09:03,961 I saw the newsreels. I saw them. 57 00:09:04,295 --> 00:09:07,548 Of the first day, the second day, 58 00:09:07,632 --> 00:09:09,383 the third day. 59 00:09:09,467 --> 00:09:11,636 You saw nothing. 60 00:09:11,719 --> 00:09:14,180 Of the 15th day too. 61 00:09:15,765 --> 00:09:18,267 Hiroshima was covered in flowers. 62 00:09:19,060 --> 00:09:22,813 There were cornflowers and gladioli everywhere, 63 00:09:23,439 --> 00:09:27,151 morning glories and daylilies 64 00:09:27,777 --> 00:09:29,612 born again from the ashes 65 00:09:29,695 --> 00:09:34,867 with an extraordinary vitality unheard of in flowers before then. 66 00:09:35,409 --> 00:09:37,578 I didn't make any of it up. 67 00:09:37,662 --> 00:09:40,331 You made it all up. 68 00:09:41,207 --> 00:09:42,541 None of it. 69 00:09:43,042 --> 00:09:46,379 Just as the illusion exists in love, 70 00:09:46,462 --> 00:09:49,423 the illusion you can never forget, 71 00:09:49,507 --> 00:09:54,303 so I was under the illusion I would never forget Hiroshima. 72 00:09:54,387 --> 00:09:56,430 Just like with love. 73 00:10:04,397 --> 00:10:06,691 I saw the survivors too, 74 00:10:07,191 --> 00:10:10,319 and those who were in the wombs of the women of Hiroshima. 75 00:10:11,362 --> 00:10:13,531 I saw the patience, 76 00:10:13,906 --> 00:10:15,533 the innocence, 77 00:10:15,992 --> 00:10:18,202 the apparent meekness 78 00:10:18,577 --> 00:10:22,123 with which the temporary survivors of Hiroshima 79 00:10:22,206 --> 00:10:25,293 adapted to a fate so unjust 80 00:10:25,376 --> 00:10:28,629 that the imagination, usually so fertile, 81 00:10:28,713 --> 00:10:31,507 is silent before it. 82 00:10:47,648 --> 00:10:49,984 Listen. I know. 83 00:10:50,067 --> 00:10:52,528 I know everything. It went on. 84 00:10:52,611 --> 00:10:54,530 Nothing. You know nothing. 85 00:10:54,905 --> 00:10:58,576 Women risk giving birth to deformed children, to monsters, 86 00:10:58,659 --> 00:11:00,161 but it goes on. 87 00:11:00,619 --> 00:11:03,539 Men risk becoming sterile, 88 00:11:03,831 --> 00:11:05,666 but it goes on. 89 00:11:05,750 --> 00:11:10,004 Rain causes panic, the rain of ash on the waters of the Pacific. 90 00:11:10,087 --> 00:11:14,592 The Pacific turns deadly, and its fishermen die. 91 00:11:14,675 --> 00:11:16,719 Food becomes an object of fear. 92 00:11:16,802 --> 00:11:19,889 An entire city's food is thrown away. 93 00:11:19,972 --> 00:11:22,600 The food of entire cities is buried. 94 00:11:22,683 --> 00:11:25,019 An entire city rises up in anger. 95 00:11:26,312 --> 00:11:28,856 Entire cities rise up in anger. 96 00:11:30,107 --> 00:11:33,361 But against whom do they rise up in anger? 97 00:11:33,944 --> 00:11:37,156 The anger of entire cities, whether they like it or not, 98 00:11:37,239 --> 00:11:39,367 against the principle of inequality advanced 99 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:42,370 by one people against another. 100 00:11:42,995 --> 00:11:45,414 The principle of inequality advanced 101 00:11:45,498 --> 00:11:48,834 by certain races against other races. 102 00:11:49,502 --> 00:11:52,046 The principle of inequality advanced 103 00:11:52,129 --> 00:11:55,591 by certain classes against other classes. 104 00:11:56,842 --> 00:11:58,427 Listen to me. 105 00:11:58,844 --> 00:12:00,971 Like you, I know what it is to forget. 106 00:12:01,055 --> 00:12:04,475 No, you don't know what it is to forget. 107 00:12:05,184 --> 00:12:07,853 Like you, I am endowed with memory. 108 00:12:07,937 --> 00:12:09,230 I know what it is to forget. 109 00:12:09,313 --> 00:12:12,900 No, you are not endowed with memory. 110 00:12:13,484 --> 00:12:18,322 Like you, I too have struggled with all my might 111 00:12:18,406 --> 00:12:19,907 not to forget. 112 00:12:20,491 --> 00:12:22,910 Like you, I forgot. 113 00:12:27,248 --> 00:12:31,377 Like you, I longed for a memory beyond consolation, 114 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:34,964 a memory of shadows and stone. 115 00:12:35,339 --> 00:12:39,093 For my part I struggled every day with all my might 116 00:12:39,385 --> 00:12:42,221 against the horror of no longer understanding 117 00:12:42,304 --> 00:12:44,765 the reason to remember. 118 00:12:44,849 --> 00:12:47,685 Like you, I forgot. 119 00:12:54,859 --> 00:12:59,488 Why deny the obvious necessity of remembering? 120 00:13:04,952 --> 00:13:07,455 Listen to me. I know something else. 121 00:13:07,538 --> 00:13:09,206 It will begin again. 122 00:13:09,290 --> 00:13:13,794 200,000 dead and 80,000 wounded in nine seconds. 123 00:13:13,878 --> 00:13:17,590 Those are the official figures. It will begin again. 124 00:13:18,215 --> 00:13:20,468 It will be 10,000 degrees on the earth. 125 00:13:20,551 --> 00:13:22,803 10,000 suns, people will say. 126 00:13:22,887 --> 00:13:24,930 The asphalt will burn. 127 00:13:25,473 --> 00:13:27,892 Chaos will prevail. 128 00:13:28,476 --> 00:13:31,312 An entire city will be lifted off the ground, 129 00:13:31,395 --> 00:13:33,564 then fall back to earth in ashes. 130 00:13:38,194 --> 00:13:41,739 New vegetation rises from the sands. 131 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,035 Four students together await 132 00:13:46,118 --> 00:13:49,330 a fraternal and legendary death. 133 00:13:54,919 --> 00:13:57,838 The seven branches of the delta estuary 134 00:13:57,922 --> 00:13:59,840 of the river Ota 135 00:13:59,924 --> 00:14:04,428 drain and fill at their usual hour, 136 00:14:04,762 --> 00:14:08,557 precisely at their usual hour, 137 00:14:08,641 --> 00:14:12,603 with freshwater rich with fish, gray or blue, 138 00:14:12,686 --> 00:14:14,939 depending on the season and time of day. 139 00:14:15,898 --> 00:14:19,610 People along the muddy banks no longer watch 140 00:14:20,110 --> 00:14:22,363 the tide slowly rise 141 00:14:22,446 --> 00:14:25,991 in the seven branches of the delta estuary 142 00:14:26,075 --> 00:14:28,118 of the river Ota. 143 00:14:41,215 --> 00:14:45,052 I meet you. I remember you. 144 00:14:45,803 --> 00:14:47,304 Who are you? 145 00:14:47,638 --> 00:14:50,891 You're destroying me. You're good for me. 146 00:14:51,433 --> 00:14:55,229 How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? 147 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,442 How could I know you fit my body like a glove? 148 00:15:01,443 --> 00:15:02,945 I like you. 149 00:15:03,195 --> 00:15:04,863 How unlikely. 150 00:15:05,322 --> 00:15:06,907 I like you. 151 00:15:07,408 --> 00:15:09,702 How slow all of a sudden. 152 00:15:10,327 --> 00:15:12,329 How sweet. 153 00:15:12,871 --> 00:15:14,832 You cannot know. 154 00:15:15,499 --> 00:15:19,169 You're destroying me. You're good for me. 155 00:15:25,509 --> 00:15:28,679 You're destroying me. You're good for me. 156 00:15:30,264 --> 00:15:31,765 I have time. 157 00:15:32,141 --> 00:15:35,519 Please, devour me. 158 00:15:36,228 --> 00:15:39,565 Deform me to the point of ugliness. 159 00:15:40,399 --> 00:15:42,151 Why not you? 160 00:15:42,735 --> 00:15:47,364 Why not you in this city and in this night 161 00:15:47,448 --> 00:15:50,784 so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? 162 00:15:51,702 --> 00:15:53,704 I beg of you. 163 00:15:56,165 --> 00:15:58,375 You have such beautiful skin. 164 00:16:02,421 --> 00:16:03,922 You! 165 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:07,551 Yes, me. Surprised? 166 00:16:23,734 --> 00:16:28,739 Are you completely Japanese or not? 167 00:16:29,114 --> 00:16:31,283 Completely. I am Japanese. 168 00:16:33,202 --> 00:16:35,746 Your eyes are green, aren't they? 169 00:16:36,664 --> 00:16:39,458 Yes, I think they're green. 170 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:41,919 You're like a thousand women in one. 171 00:16:43,253 --> 00:16:45,714 That's because you don't know me. 172 00:16:45,798 --> 00:16:48,550 That might not be the only reason. 173 00:16:50,511 --> 00:16:54,348 I don't mind being a thousand women in one for you. 174 00:16:57,101 --> 00:16:58,519 Listen. 175 00:16:59,061 --> 00:17:00,854 It's 4:00. 176 00:17:01,313 --> 00:17:02,690 Why? 177 00:17:03,148 --> 00:17:04,817 I don't know who it is. 178 00:17:05,275 --> 00:17:08,404 Every day he passes by at 4:00 and coughs. 179 00:17:22,793 --> 00:17:25,254 Were you here in Hiroshima? 180 00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:28,424 Of course not. 181 00:17:29,383 --> 00:17:32,136 That's right. How foolish of me. 182 00:17:34,638 --> 00:17:38,016 But my family was in Hiroshima. 183 00:17:39,977 --> 00:17:42,146 I was off fighting the war. 184 00:17:43,147 --> 00:17:45,023 Lucky for you, eh? 185 00:17:47,317 --> 00:17:48,694 Yes. 186 00:17:49,695 --> 00:17:51,697 Lucky for me too. 187 00:18:00,038 --> 00:18:03,417 - Why are you in Hiroshima? - A film. 188 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:05,127 A film? 189 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:07,880 I'm acting in a film. 190 00:18:10,507 --> 00:18:13,802 Where were you before you came to Hiroshima? 191 00:18:15,012 --> 00:18:16,472 Paris. 192 00:18:17,014 --> 00:18:19,016 And before Paris? 193 00:18:19,808 --> 00:18:22,561 Before Paris I was in Nevers. 194 00:18:28,317 --> 00:18:30,527 It's in the province of Nièvre. You don't know it. 195 00:18:37,201 --> 00:18:40,370 Why did you want to see everything in Hiroshima? 196 00:18:42,372 --> 00:18:44,249 It interested me. 197 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:46,877 I have my own idea about it. 198 00:18:47,503 --> 00:18:50,798 For example, looking closely at things... 199 00:18:52,216 --> 00:18:53,884 is something that has to be learned. 200 00:20:06,164 --> 00:20:07,833 Would you like some coffee? 201 00:20:20,721 --> 00:20:22,681 What were you dreaming about? 202 00:20:22,764 --> 00:20:24,725 I don't remember. Why? 203 00:20:25,976 --> 00:20:27,853 I was watching your hands. 204 00:20:27,936 --> 00:20:29,980 They move when you're sleep. 205 00:20:34,693 --> 00:20:38,655 Maybe that happens when you don't realize you're dreaming. 206 00:20:59,468 --> 00:21:01,929 You're a beautiful woman. You know that? 207 00:21:02,012 --> 00:21:03,889 - You think so? - I think so. 208 00:21:04,222 --> 00:21:06,016 A bit worn out, no? 209 00:21:08,352 --> 00:21:10,854 - A bit ugly. - You don't mind? 210 00:21:11,146 --> 00:21:13,440 That's what I noticed last night at the café. 211 00:21:13,523 --> 00:21:16,276 How ugly you were and - 212 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,779 - And? - And how bored you looked. 213 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:20,781 Tell me more. 214 00:21:20,864 --> 00:21:25,077 You were bored in a way that makes a man want to know a woman. 215 00:21:30,958 --> 00:21:32,584 You speak French well. 216 00:21:33,293 --> 00:21:34,628 Don't I though! 217 00:21:34,711 --> 00:21:38,423 I'm glad you finally noticed. 218 00:21:40,217 --> 00:21:43,887 I hadn't noticed that you don't speak Japanese. 219 00:21:46,139 --> 00:21:51,895 Have you ever noticed people have a way of noticing what they want? 220 00:21:54,064 --> 00:21:57,067 I noticed you. That's all. 221 00:22:11,581 --> 00:22:17,129 To meet in Hiroshima. 222 00:22:18,422 --> 00:22:20,257 That doesn't happen every day. 223 00:22:20,882 --> 00:22:24,928 What did Hiroshima mean to you in France? 224 00:22:28,098 --> 00:22:29,891 The end of the war. 225 00:22:30,726 --> 00:22:32,519 I mean completely. 226 00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:35,939 Astonishment that they dared do it, 227 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,692 and astonishment that they succeeded. 228 00:22:40,110 --> 00:22:42,946 And the beginning of an unknown fear for us as well. 229 00:22:45,073 --> 00:22:46,950 And then indifference. 230 00:22:47,951 --> 00:22:50,037 And fear of indifference as well. 231 00:22:50,746 --> 00:22:52,289 Where were you? 232 00:22:53,790 --> 00:22:55,792 I had just left Nevers. 233 00:22:56,168 --> 00:22:57,961 I was in Paris. In the street. 234 00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:03,091 That's a beautiful French word: Nevers. 235 00:23:05,677 --> 00:23:08,555 A word like any other. Just like the town. 236 00:23:17,856 --> 00:23:20,817 Have you met many Japanese in Hiroshima? 237 00:23:21,985 --> 00:23:23,653 A few, 238 00:23:24,404 --> 00:23:26,156 but none like you. 239 00:23:26,823 --> 00:23:30,702 - Am I the first Japanese in your life? - Yes. 240 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:33,955 Hiroshima. 241 00:23:34,331 --> 00:23:37,000 The whole world rejoiced, 242 00:23:37,751 --> 00:23:41,213 and you rejoiced with it. 243 00:23:43,048 --> 00:23:47,010 Was it a beautiful summer day in Paris? 244 00:23:48,178 --> 00:23:50,639 I heard it was. Wasn't it? 245 00:23:50,931 --> 00:23:52,849 Yes, it was a nice day. 246 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,853 - How old were you? - Twenty. You? 247 00:23:57,479 --> 00:24:00,440 - Twenty-two. - The same age, really. 248 00:24:01,108 --> 00:24:02,651 Just about. 249 00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:11,701 What do you do for work? 250 00:24:12,786 --> 00:24:14,871 I'm an architect. 251 00:24:16,957 --> 00:24:18,792 And I'm also... 252 00:24:20,377 --> 00:24:21,962 in politics. 253 00:24:22,546 --> 00:24:24,965 Is that why you speak French so well? 254 00:24:25,048 --> 00:24:29,094 That's why. To read about the French Revolution. 255 00:24:34,891 --> 00:24:37,310 What is this film you're in? 256 00:24:37,727 --> 00:24:39,688 It's a film about peace. 257 00:24:39,771 --> 00:24:43,024 What else would you expect in Hiroshima? 258 00:25:00,083 --> 00:25:02,335 I'd like to see you again. 259 00:25:05,922 --> 00:25:08,175 At this time tomorrow... 260 00:25:09,509 --> 00:25:11,553 I'll be on my way back to France. 261 00:25:11,636 --> 00:25:14,181 Really? You didn't tell me. 262 00:25:16,057 --> 00:25:17,434 It's true. 263 00:25:18,059 --> 00:25:20,270 There was no point in telling you. 264 00:25:20,979 --> 00:25:24,566 That's why you let me come up to your room last night. 265 00:25:24,816 --> 00:25:27,986 Because it was your last day in Hiroshima. 266 00:25:29,779 --> 00:25:33,033 Not at all. The thought never crossed my mind. 267 00:25:33,116 --> 00:25:37,746 When you speak, I wonder whether you lie or tell the truth. 268 00:25:38,663 --> 00:25:41,583 I lie... and I tell the truth. 269 00:25:42,209 --> 00:25:44,586 But I have no reason to lie to you. 270 00:25:45,879 --> 00:25:50,258 Tell me, do things like this happen to you often? 271 00:25:51,468 --> 00:25:53,011 Not all that often. 272 00:25:53,553 --> 00:25:55,055 But they happen. 273 00:25:57,182 --> 00:25:59,184 I'm very fond of men. 274 00:26:02,103 --> 00:26:04,606 I have dubious morals, you know. 275 00:26:05,649 --> 00:26:08,985 What do you call having “dubious morals”? 276 00:26:09,694 --> 00:26:12,155 Being dubious about other people's morals. 277 00:26:20,038 --> 00:26:22,082 I'd like to see you again. 278 00:26:22,749 --> 00:26:24,501 Even if your plane leaves tomorrow morning. 279 00:26:24,584 --> 00:26:27,128 Even if you have dubious morals. 280 00:26:30,006 --> 00:26:31,341 Why? 281 00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:34,094 Because. 282 00:26:48,483 --> 00:26:50,443 You don't want to talk to me anymore? 283 00:26:54,364 --> 00:26:56,408 I'd like to see you again. 284 00:27:06,209 --> 00:27:08,503 Where are you going in France? Nevers? 285 00:27:08,586 --> 00:27:12,007 No, Paris. I'm never going back to Nevers. 286 00:27:12,382 --> 00:27:14,467 - Never? - Never. 287 00:27:16,303 --> 00:27:19,264 I was never younger than I was in Nevers. 288 00:27:20,056 --> 00:27:22,225 Young in Nevers. 289 00:27:23,435 --> 00:27:25,270 Young in Nevers. 290 00:27:25,854 --> 00:27:30,275 And mad in Nevers too. 291 00:27:45,665 --> 00:27:49,502 You see, Nevers is the one city in the world - 292 00:27:50,295 --> 00:27:53,757 the one thing in the world - I dream of most at night. 293 00:27:54,841 --> 00:27:59,304 And at the same time, think about the least. 294 00:28:00,305 --> 00:28:02,849 What was this madness of yours in Nevers like? 295 00:28:05,685 --> 00:28:08,229 Madness is like intelligence. 296 00:28:08,813 --> 00:28:12,067 You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. 297 00:28:12,692 --> 00:28:16,112 It comes over you, consumes you, 298 00:28:16,821 --> 00:28:18,531 and then you understand. 299 00:28:18,615 --> 00:28:21,618 But when it's gone, you no longer understand it at all. 300 00:28:21,701 --> 00:28:23,370 Were you full of hate? 301 00:28:23,745 --> 00:28:25,330 That was my madness. 302 00:28:25,789 --> 00:28:27,624 I was mad with hate. 303 00:28:28,625 --> 00:28:33,213 I felt I could make a career of hating. 304 00:28:33,296 --> 00:28:35,382 All I cared about was hating. 305 00:28:36,132 --> 00:28:38,218 Do you understand? - Yes. 306 00:28:40,512 --> 00:28:44,140 It's true. I guess you must understand that too. 307 00:28:44,224 --> 00:28:46,518 Did it ever happen to you again? 308 00:28:49,396 --> 00:28:50,814 It's over. 309 00:28:51,231 --> 00:28:54,359 - During the war? - Right after it. 310 00:28:55,819 --> 00:28:59,864 Was that one of the hardships of life in France after the war? 311 00:29:00,323 --> 00:29:02,742 You could say that. 312 00:29:03,368 --> 00:29:06,162 When did this madness of yours pass? 313 00:29:06,704 --> 00:29:08,123 It went away little by little, 314 00:29:08,206 --> 00:29:10,333 and then when I had children, of course. 315 00:29:10,417 --> 00:29:11,918 What did you say? 316 00:29:12,001 --> 00:29:13,795 I said it went away little by little, 317 00:29:13,878 --> 00:29:15,880 and then when I had children, of course. 318 00:29:20,385 --> 00:29:25,014 I'd like to spend a few days with you somewhere sometime. 319 00:29:27,142 --> 00:29:28,351 Me too. 320 00:29:28,435 --> 00:29:30,812 To see you again today wouldn't really be “seeing you again.” 321 00:29:30,895 --> 00:29:34,774 Such a short time doesn't count. I really would like to. 322 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,618 Very well. 323 00:29:49,205 --> 00:29:51,249 It's because you know I'm leaving tomorrow. 324 00:29:51,833 --> 00:29:54,335 That may be part of it. 325 00:29:54,419 --> 00:29:57,046 But it's as good a reason as any, isn't it? 326 00:29:58,381 --> 00:30:03,470 The thought of never seeing you again in just a few hours - 327 00:30:50,934 --> 00:30:53,770 You were easy to find in Hiroshima. 328 00:31:02,111 --> 00:31:04,822 Is it a French film? 329 00:31:05,114 --> 00:31:08,618 No. International. It's about peace. 330 00:31:09,202 --> 00:31:12,163 - Is it finished? - It is for me. 331 00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:14,290 There are some crowd scenes left to shoot. 332 00:31:17,085 --> 00:31:19,629 There are lots of commercials for soap. 333 00:31:20,213 --> 00:31:22,715 Maybe by pressing the point - 334 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:24,926 Yes, maybe. 335 00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:28,638 Here in Hiroshima we don't make fun of films about peace. 336 00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:44,904 Are you tired? 337 00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:52,537 No more than you. 338 00:31:54,414 --> 00:31:56,791 I've been thinking about Nevers in France. 339 00:31:58,501 --> 00:32:00,503 I've been thinking about you. 340 00:32:02,589 --> 00:32:05,842 Is your flight still tomorrow? - Yes. 341 00:32:05,925 --> 00:32:08,428 - Without fail? - Yes. 342 00:32:08,970 --> 00:32:10,555 The picture is behind schedule. 343 00:32:10,638 --> 00:32:12,932 I was supposed to be in Paris a month ago. 344 00:32:37,957 --> 00:32:42,795 You give me a tremendous desire to love. 345 00:32:45,298 --> 00:32:46,799 Always. 346 00:32:47,675 --> 00:32:49,761 Short-lived affairs. 347 00:32:52,305 --> 00:32:53,806 Me too. 348 00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:05,193 It's not always this strong, and you know it. 349 00:33:14,410 --> 00:33:18,831 They say there's a storm coming before nightfall. 350 00:33:28,758 --> 00:33:32,679 IF ONE A-BOMB EQUALS 20,000 ORDINARY BOMBS, 351 00:33:40,311 --> 00:33:44,107 AND AN H-BOMB EQUALS 1,500 ATOMIC BOMBS, 352 00:33:51,447 --> 00:33:54,492 HOW MUCH DO THE 40,000 A-BOMBS AND H-BOMBS 353 00:33:54,575 --> 00:33:57,620 CURRENTLY STOCKPILED IN THE WORLD EQUAL? 354 00:33:57,704 --> 00:34:02,041 THEY ARE A TRIBUTE TO MAN'S SCIENTIFIC GENIUS. 355 00:34:02,125 --> 00:34:05,294 BUT UNFORTUNATELY MAN'S POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE 356 00:34:05,378 --> 00:34:07,505 IS 100 TIMES LESS DEVELOPED 357 00:34:07,588 --> 00:34:09,882 THAN HIS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 358 00:34:11,843 --> 00:34:14,595 AND FOR THAT REASON HE FORFEITS OUR RESPECT. 359 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:16,806 STOP THERMONUCLEAR TESTING! 360 00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:52,300 I don't like to think about you leaving tomorrow. 361 00:35:27,877 --> 00:35:30,296 I think I love you. 362 00:36:07,416 --> 00:36:10,795 You will come with me once more. 363 00:36:23,975 --> 00:36:25,560 Answer me. 364 00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:28,938 Are you afraid? 365 00:37:40,509 --> 00:37:42,136 Sit down. 366 00:37:45,556 --> 00:37:47,850 Are you all alone in Hiroshima? 367 00:37:48,476 --> 00:37:50,269 Where is your wife? 368 00:37:50,895 --> 00:37:54,815 She's in Unzen, in the mountains. I'm alone. 369 00:37:56,025 --> 00:37:57,693 When is she coming back? 370 00:37:58,194 --> 00:37:59,987 In a few days. 371 00:38:11,874 --> 00:38:13,876 What is your wife like? 372 00:38:15,127 --> 00:38:16,712 Beautiful. 373 00:38:17,296 --> 00:38:20,716 I'm a man who's happy with his wife. 374 00:38:22,635 --> 00:38:24,136 So am I. 375 00:38:24,845 --> 00:38:27,390 I'm a woman who's happy with her husband. 376 00:38:28,641 --> 00:38:30,851 It would have been too easy. 377 00:38:33,062 --> 00:38:36,440 - Don't you work in the afternoon? - Yes, a lot. 378 00:38:36,732 --> 00:38:38,776 Mostly in the afternoon. 379 00:38:45,157 --> 00:38:47,243 This whole thing is ridiculous. 380 00:39:18,357 --> 00:39:20,943 Are you giving up your afternoon because of me? 381 00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:24,780 Tell me. What difference can it make? 382 00:39:33,247 --> 00:39:37,668 The man you loved during the war - was he French? 383 00:39:46,135 --> 00:39:48,054 He wasn't French. 384 00:39:57,730 --> 00:39:59,148 Yes. 385 00:40:00,399 --> 00:40:02,276 It was in Nevers. 386 00:40:59,166 --> 00:41:02,044 At first we met in barns. 387 00:41:04,713 --> 00:41:07,216 Then among the ruins. 388 00:41:09,885 --> 00:41:12,096 Then in rooms. 389 00:41:12,471 --> 00:41:14,306 Like anywhere else. 390 00:41:34,368 --> 00:41:35,911 Then he died. 391 00:41:43,794 --> 00:41:45,754 I was 18. 392 00:41:46,255 --> 00:41:47,965 He was 23. 393 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,677 Why speak of him and not others? 394 00:42:33,761 --> 00:42:35,721 - Why not? - No! Why? 395 00:42:37,139 --> 00:42:39,350 Because of Nevers. 396 00:42:40,476 --> 00:42:43,604 I'm only just beginning to know you, 397 00:42:44,313 --> 00:42:48,817 and from the many thousands of things in your life, 398 00:42:48,901 --> 00:42:50,986 I choose Nevers. 399 00:42:51,070 --> 00:42:52,780 Just like that? 400 00:42:53,572 --> 00:42:54,865 Yes. 401 00:42:54,949 --> 00:42:58,327 No, it wasn't by chance. You have to tell me why. 402 00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:04,375 I somehow understand that it was there 403 00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:08,837 that you were so young 404 00:43:09,630 --> 00:43:12,591 that you didn't yet belong to anyone in particular, 405 00:43:12,675 --> 00:43:14,176 and I like that. 406 00:43:15,177 --> 00:43:16,887 No, that's not it. 407 00:43:20,849 --> 00:43:24,311 I somehow understand that it was there 408 00:43:24,395 --> 00:43:26,689 that I almost lost you 409 00:43:27,606 --> 00:43:32,194 and ran the risk of never, ever meeting you. 410 00:43:33,195 --> 00:43:36,532 I somehow understand that it was there 411 00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:42,371 that you began to be who you are today. 412 00:44:11,483 --> 00:44:13,569 I want to leave this place! 413 00:44:19,158 --> 00:44:21,410 There's nothing left for us to do now 414 00:44:21,910 --> 00:44:26,206 but kill the hours until your departure. 415 00:44:26,582 --> 00:44:29,251 Sixteen hours until your flight. 416 00:44:31,670 --> 00:44:33,589 It's too much! 417 00:44:35,215 --> 00:44:37,468 You mustn't be afraid. 418 00:45:20,135 --> 00:45:26,141 Does “Nevers” have any other meaning in French? 419 00:45:26,934 --> 00:45:28,477 No. 420 00:45:29,478 --> 00:45:33,649 Would you have been cold in that cellar in Nevers 421 00:45:34,233 --> 00:45:36,443 if we had loved each other? 422 00:45:36,819 --> 00:45:38,570 I would have been cold. 423 00:45:39,905 --> 00:45:43,742 The cellars in Nevers are cold both summer and winter. 424 00:45:45,369 --> 00:45:48,997 The city slopes down to a river called the Loire. 425 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,501 I can't picture Nevers. 426 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,712 Nevers. Population 40,000. 427 00:45:56,630 --> 00:45:58,549 Built like a capital. 428 00:45:59,341 --> 00:46:01,552 A child can walk all the way around it. 429 00:46:02,428 --> 00:46:04,179 I was born in Nevers. 430 00:46:10,227 --> 00:46:12,187 I grew up in Nevers. 431 00:46:15,649 --> 00:46:17,860 I learned to read in Nevers. 432 00:46:22,281 --> 00:46:26,535 That's where I turned 20. 433 00:46:32,291 --> 00:46:34,084 And the Loire? 434 00:46:36,712 --> 00:46:39,423 It's a completely unnavigable river. 435 00:46:39,965 --> 00:46:41,592 It's always empty... 436 00:46:43,010 --> 00:46:46,138 due to its irregular course and sand bars. 437 00:46:49,766 --> 00:46:52,853 In France it's considered a very beautiful river... 438 00:46:54,980 --> 00:46:57,733 due mostly to its light. 439 00:47:00,444 --> 00:47:02,738 So very soft. 440 00:47:03,780 --> 00:47:05,616 If you only knew. 441 00:47:13,207 --> 00:47:16,502 When you're in the cellar, am I dead? 442 00:47:17,252 --> 00:47:18,545 You're dead. 443 00:47:24,176 --> 00:47:25,886 How can anyone endure such pain? 444 00:47:30,307 --> 00:47:32,267 The cellar is small. 445 00:47:33,185 --> 00:47:35,229 Very small. 446 00:47:37,105 --> 00:47:39,816 The “Marseillaise” passes above my head. 447 00:47:41,443 --> 00:47:42,778 It's deafening! 448 00:47:49,660 --> 00:47:52,829 Hands become useless in a cellar. 449 00:47:54,248 --> 00:47:58,252 They claw and scrape away at the rocks... 450 00:47:59,461 --> 00:48:01,588 until they bleed. 451 00:48:04,299 --> 00:48:07,844 It's all you can think of to help yourself 452 00:48:08,595 --> 00:48:10,973 and to remember. 453 00:48:13,308 --> 00:48:16,937 I loved blood since I had tasted yours. 454 00:48:34,288 --> 00:48:36,832 The world passes by above my head... 455 00:48:37,958 --> 00:48:41,128 in place of the sky, of course. 456 00:48:42,379 --> 00:48:44,756 I watch that world pass by. 457 00:48:45,674 --> 00:48:48,176 Hurriedly during the week... 458 00:48:49,219 --> 00:48:52,306 leisurely on Sundays. 459 00:48:54,057 --> 00:48:56,351 It doesn't know I'm in the cellar. 460 00:48:57,519 --> 00:48:59,855 They pretend I'm dead. 461 00:49:00,230 --> 00:49:02,733 Dead, far from Nevers. 462 00:49:06,987 --> 00:49:10,782 My father prefers it that way, since I was disgraced. 463 00:49:11,867 --> 00:49:14,036 My father prefers - 464 00:49:16,204 --> 00:49:17,623 Do you scream? 465 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,375 Not in the beginning. 466 00:49:20,751 --> 00:49:23,920 I call your name softly. - But I'm dead. 467 00:49:24,004 --> 00:49:27,257 I call your name anyway. Even if you're dead. 468 00:49:27,549 --> 00:49:30,510 Then one day, I suddenly scream. 469 00:49:30,594 --> 00:49:33,722 Loud, like a deaf person. 470 00:49:34,723 --> 00:49:36,850 That's when they put me in the cellar. 471 00:49:37,225 --> 00:49:38,769 To punish me. 472 00:49:39,102 --> 00:49:40,687 What did you scream? 473 00:49:40,771 --> 00:49:43,523 Your German name. Just your name. 474 00:49:44,775 --> 00:49:49,154 The only memory I have left is your name. 475 00:49:52,699 --> 00:49:55,619 I promise I won't scream anymore, 476 00:49:55,702 --> 00:49:58,497 so they take me back up to my room. 477 00:50:01,416 --> 00:50:05,837 I yearn for you so badly I can't bear it anymore. 478 00:50:06,797 --> 00:50:09,007 - Are you afraid? - I'm afraid everywhere. 479 00:50:09,549 --> 00:50:11,051 In the cellar. In my room. 480 00:50:14,805 --> 00:50:18,642 - Of what? - Of never seeing you again. 481 00:50:20,060 --> 00:50:21,395 Even 482 00:50:25,941 --> 00:50:29,569 I turn 20 one day in the cellar. 483 00:50:30,904 --> 00:50:33,615 My mother comes and tells me I'm 20 years old. 484 00:50:35,659 --> 00:50:37,452 My mother's crying. 485 00:50:37,786 --> 00:50:40,288 Do you spit in your mother's face? 486 00:50:42,249 --> 00:50:43,542 Yes. 487 00:50:49,339 --> 00:50:50,799 Drink. 488 00:50:58,890 --> 00:51:01,101 Afterwards, I don't remember anymore. 489 00:51:03,478 --> 00:51:05,397 I don't remember anymore. 490 00:51:07,315 --> 00:51:13,989 You were saying the cellars in Nevers are old and damp? 491 00:51:15,115 --> 00:51:18,744 Yes, full of saltpeter. 492 00:51:22,539 --> 00:51:25,333 Sometimes a cat comes in to have a look around. 493 00:51:25,792 --> 00:51:27,669 It doesn't bother me. 494 00:51:30,130 --> 00:51:32,048 I don't remember anymore. 495 00:51:32,632 --> 00:51:34,593 Afterwards, I don't remember anymore. 496 00:51:35,260 --> 00:51:37,012 How long? 497 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,682 An eternity. 498 00:52:33,735 --> 00:52:36,488 I was so young once! 499 00:52:48,750 --> 00:52:51,628 At night my mother takes me into the garden. 500 00:52:53,713 --> 00:52:55,966 She looks at my head. 501 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,262 Every night she looks carefully at my head. 502 00:53:02,180 --> 00:53:04,766 She still doesn't dare come close. 503 00:53:07,310 --> 00:53:10,105 At night I can see the town square. 504 00:53:10,939 --> 00:53:12,858 So I look. 505 00:53:14,359 --> 00:53:16,069 It's huge. 506 00:53:18,613 --> 00:53:20,657 It curves in the middle. 507 00:53:22,826 --> 00:53:25,704 Sleep comes only at dawn. 508 00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:30,792 Does it ever rain? 509 00:53:32,752 --> 00:53:34,713 Along the walls. 510 00:53:40,427 --> 00:53:42,470 I think of you... 511 00:53:43,722 --> 00:53:45,807 but I no longer speak of it. 512 00:53:46,433 --> 00:53:48,018 Madwoman! 513 00:53:51,354 --> 00:53:54,691 Madly in love with you. 514 00:53:59,237 --> 00:54:01,531 My hair grows back. 515 00:54:02,490 --> 00:54:05,535 I can feel it with my hands, day by day. 516 00:54:06,202 --> 00:54:07,829 I don't care. 517 00:54:08,997 --> 00:54:11,666 But still, it's growing back. 518 00:54:15,253 --> 00:54:17,631 Do you scream before going down to the cellar? 519 00:54:19,090 --> 00:54:21,593 No. I feel nothing. 520 00:54:22,135 --> 00:54:23,345 They're young. 521 00:54:24,012 --> 00:54:26,640 They shave my head carefully till they finish the job. 522 00:54:27,265 --> 00:54:30,101 They believe it's their duty. 523 00:54:30,185 --> 00:54:33,021 Are you ashamed for them, my love? 524 00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:36,900 You are dead. 525 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,153 I'm too busy suffering. 526 00:54:41,613 --> 00:54:43,365 Night falls. 527 00:54:45,784 --> 00:54:49,496 I hear nothing but the sound of the scissors on my head. 528 00:54:51,122 --> 00:54:57,295 It eases the pain of your death a bit, like - 529 00:54:58,171 --> 00:55:01,633 I don't know how else to say it - 530 00:55:02,300 --> 00:55:07,597 like for my nails, the walls, my anger. 531 00:55:10,350 --> 00:55:12,227 What pain! 532 00:55:12,811 --> 00:55:15,063 What pain in my heart! 533 00:55:18,566 --> 00:55:21,403 They sing the “Marseillaise” all through the town. 534 00:55:22,904 --> 00:55:24,698 Night falls. 535 00:55:25,198 --> 00:55:27,826 My dead lover is an enemy of France. 536 00:55:29,411 --> 00:55:32,372 Someone says she should be paraded through town. 537 00:55:33,832 --> 00:55:37,585 My father's pharmacy is closed due to the disgrace. 538 00:55:39,254 --> 00:55:41,172 I am alone. 539 00:55:42,257 --> 00:55:44,050 Some of them are laughing. 540 00:55:46,428 --> 00:55:48,722 I return home at night. 541 00:56:06,906 --> 00:56:11,619 And then one day, my love, your eternity comes to an end. 542 00:56:19,919 --> 00:56:21,254 Yes. 543 00:56:23,631 --> 00:56:25,258 A long time. 544 00:56:25,759 --> 00:56:28,219 They said it was a long time. 545 00:56:30,805 --> 00:56:36,561 The cathedral bells ring at 6:00 every evening, summer and winter. 546 00:56:37,270 --> 00:56:40,273 One day I hear them. 547 00:56:40,982 --> 00:56:43,902 I remember having heard them before. 548 00:56:44,652 --> 00:56:47,489 Before, when we were in love, 549 00:56:47,822 --> 00:56:49,741 when we were happy. 550 00:56:51,826 --> 00:56:53,953 I begin to see. 551 00:56:54,329 --> 00:56:57,749 I remember having seen before, 552 00:56:57,832 --> 00:57:00,710 when we were in love, 553 00:57:00,794 --> 00:57:02,754 when we were happy. 554 00:57:04,422 --> 00:57:06,299 I remember. 555 00:57:06,674 --> 00:57:08,551 I see the ink. 556 00:57:08,885 --> 00:57:10,929 I see the daylight. 557 00:57:11,721 --> 00:57:15,183 I see my life. Your death. 558 00:57:15,517 --> 00:57:19,145 My life that goes on, your death that goes on. 559 00:57:19,854 --> 00:57:25,360 I see that the shadows take longer to reach the corners of the room... 560 00:57:26,903 --> 00:57:32,492 and the corners of the cellar. 561 00:57:33,785 --> 00:57:36,079 About half past 6:00. 562 00:57:40,125 --> 00:57:42,377 Winter has ended. 563 00:57:51,886 --> 00:57:53,513 It's horrible! 564 00:57:54,055 --> 00:57:57,058 I remember you less and less clearly. 565 00:57:58,935 --> 00:58:01,020 Give me something to drink. 566 00:58:09,904 --> 00:58:11,948 I begin to forget you. 567 00:58:14,325 --> 00:58:17,203 I tremble at forgetting such love. 568 00:58:19,247 --> 00:58:20,582 More. 569 00:58:37,932 --> 00:58:42,103 We were to meet at noon on the banks of the Loire. 570 00:58:43,730 --> 00:58:46,733 I was to leave with him. 571 00:58:47,942 --> 00:58:50,945 When I arrived at noon on the banks of the Loire... 572 00:58:52,197 --> 00:58:54,407 he wasn't quite dead yet. 573 00:58:54,741 --> 00:58:57,535 Someone had fired on him from a garden. 574 00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:04,626 I stayed by his body all that day... 575 00:59:06,294 --> 00:59:09,214 and all the following night. 576 00:59:12,926 --> 00:59:17,972 The next morning, they came to get him and put him in a truck. 577 00:59:19,891 --> 00:59:23,228 Nevers was liberated that night. 578 00:59:26,689 --> 00:59:32,153 The cathedral bells rang and rang. 579 00:59:35,323 --> 00:59:38,451 He grew cold beneath me, little by little. 580 00:59:42,330 --> 00:59:44,791 He took so long to die! 581 00:59:47,210 --> 00:59:48,503 When? 582 00:59:49,462 --> 00:59:51,464 I don't know exactly. 583 00:59:52,715 --> 00:59:55,176 I was lying on top of him. 584 00:59:59,555 --> 01:00:02,809 The moment of his death actually escaped me... 585 01:00:04,936 --> 01:00:10,817 because at that moment and even afterwards - 586 01:00:12,318 --> 01:00:14,654 yes, I can even say afterwards - 587 01:00:15,446 --> 01:00:19,284 I couldn't find the slightest difference 588 01:00:19,367 --> 01:00:21,536 between his dead body and my own. 589 01:00:25,039 --> 01:00:27,709 His body and mine... 590 01:00:29,502 --> 01:00:31,879 seemed to me to be one and the same. 591 01:00:33,298 --> 01:00:37,260 You understand? He was my first love! 592 01:00:55,653 --> 01:00:58,573 Then one day I screamed again, 593 01:00:58,948 --> 01:01:01,409 so they put me back in the cellar. 594 01:01:15,298 --> 01:01:17,258 It was warm. 595 01:01:22,096 --> 01:01:25,933 I think it was then that my hatred left me. 596 01:01:28,102 --> 01:01:29,937 I don't scream anymore. 597 01:01:30,813 --> 01:01:33,232 I become reasonable. 598 01:01:34,317 --> 01:01:37,945 They say, “She's become reasonable.” 599 01:01:40,865 --> 01:01:43,951 One holiday evening... 600 01:01:45,036 --> 01:01:47,080 they let me out. 601 01:01:47,789 --> 01:01:51,042 The banks of the Loire at dawn. 602 01:01:52,126 --> 01:01:54,295 People cross the bridge, 603 01:01:54,379 --> 01:01:56,881 in greater or smaller numbers, depending on the hour. 604 01:01:57,465 --> 01:01:58,883 From afar they're nobody. 605 01:01:59,926 --> 01:02:02,053 It isn't long after that 606 01:02:02,136 --> 01:02:06,682 that my mother tells me I must leave for Paris during the night. 607 01:02:07,558 --> 01:02:09,644 She gives me some money. 608 01:02:11,479 --> 01:02:14,774 I take off for Paris one night on a bicycle. 609 01:02:16,484 --> 01:02:19,612 It's summer, and the nights are warm. 610 01:02:32,166 --> 01:02:34,585 When I get to Paris two days later, 611 01:02:34,669 --> 01:02:37,672 Hiroshima is in all the papers. 612 01:02:39,674 --> 01:02:42,260 My hair has grown back to a decent length. 613 01:02:43,010 --> 01:02:45,805 I'm among the crowds in the street. 614 01:02:50,518 --> 01:02:52,979 Fourteen years have passed. 615 01:03:25,470 --> 01:03:28,306 I don't even remember his hands very well. 616 01:03:29,807 --> 01:03:32,435 I still remember the pain a little bit. 617 01:03:32,894 --> 01:03:34,562 Tonight? 618 01:03:34,979 --> 01:03:37,482 Yes, I remember it tonight. 619 01:03:39,066 --> 01:03:41,652 But one day I will no longer remember it. 620 01:03:42,236 --> 01:03:43,905 At all. 621 01:03:45,072 --> 01:03:46,574 Nothing. 622 01:03:49,911 --> 01:03:54,165 This time tomorrow, 623 01:03:54,749 --> 01:03:57,960 I'll be thousands of miles from you. 624 01:04:00,588 --> 01:04:03,966 Does your husband know this story? 625 01:04:08,888 --> 01:04:10,932 So I'm the only one? 626 01:04:12,433 --> 01:04:13,851 Yes. 627 01:04:21,567 --> 01:04:24,695 I'm the only one who knows! 628 01:04:25,196 --> 01:04:26,781 Be quiet. 629 01:05:01,482 --> 01:05:04,610 It's so nice sometimes to be with someone! 630 01:05:06,988 --> 01:05:08,406 Yes. 631 01:05:15,329 --> 01:05:16,914 Tell me more. 632 01:05:18,666 --> 01:05:20,001 Tell me. 633 01:05:27,717 --> 01:05:31,012 In a few years, when I have forgotten you, 634 01:05:32,013 --> 01:05:35,182 and other adventures like this one 635 01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:41,063 will happen to me from sheer force of habit... 636 01:05:42,189 --> 01:05:47,737 I'll remember you as the symbol of love's forgetfulness. 637 01:05:48,154 --> 01:05:52,116 I'll think of this story as of the horror of forgetting. 638 01:05:52,199 --> 01:05:54,452 I already know it. 639 01:05:59,081 --> 01:06:03,085 Don't things ever stop at night in Hiroshima? 640 01:06:04,295 --> 01:06:07,214 No, they never stop. 641 01:06:08,674 --> 01:06:10,468 I like that. 642 01:06:11,302 --> 01:06:14,722 Cities where there's always someone awake, 643 01:06:15,514 --> 01:06:18,559 day or night. 644 01:07:45,855 --> 01:07:50,735 Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. 645 01:07:51,861 --> 01:07:55,156 Otherwise we'd suffocate. 646 01:08:02,830 --> 01:08:04,832 Get away from me. 647 01:08:05,916 --> 01:08:08,836 The sun hasn't risen yet. 648 01:08:13,674 --> 01:08:17,678 We'll probably die without ever seeing each other again. 649 01:08:19,513 --> 01:08:22,141 Yes, probably. 650 01:08:23,476 --> 01:08:25,895 Unless, perhaps, one day... 651 01:08:27,730 --> 01:08:29,565 a war - 652 01:08:31,817 --> 01:08:33,194 Yes. 653 01:08:34,445 --> 01:08:36,030 A war. 654 01:11:26,283 --> 01:11:28,661 You think you know, 655 01:11:29,620 --> 01:11:31,121 but no. 656 01:11:32,081 --> 01:11:33,707 Never. 657 01:11:41,966 --> 01:11:45,886 In her youth in Nevers she had a German love. 658 01:11:48,639 --> 01:11:51,433 We'll go to Bavaria, my love, 659 01:11:52,142 --> 01:11:54,436 and we'll get married. 660 01:11:56,522 --> 01:11:59,149 She never went to Bavaria. 661 01:12:02,111 --> 01:12:05,489 Let those who never went to Bavaria dare speak to her of love! 662 01:12:07,825 --> 01:12:10,035 You were not quite dead yet. 663 01:12:10,995 --> 01:12:13,580 I told our story. 664 01:12:14,206 --> 01:12:17,418 I cheated on you tonight with that stranger. 665 01:12:17,918 --> 01:12:20,504 I told our story. 666 01:12:20,921 --> 01:12:23,590 You see, it was there to tell. 667 01:12:23,674 --> 01:12:28,887 Fourteen years since I've tasted an impossible love! 668 01:12:29,972 --> 01:12:31,932 Since Nevers. 669 01:12:32,433 --> 01:12:34,435 Look how I'm forgetting you. 670 01:12:34,518 --> 01:12:36,478 Look how I've forgotten you. 671 01:12:36,770 --> 01:12:38,731 Look at me. 672 01:13:26,862 --> 01:13:29,156 I'm going to stay in Hiroshima. 673 01:13:29,990 --> 01:13:33,160 With him. Every night. 674 01:13:33,660 --> 01:13:35,412 In Hiroshima. 675 01:13:36,497 --> 01:13:39,666 I'm going to stay here. Here. 676 01:13:50,344 --> 01:13:53,222 Stay in Hiroshima. 677 01:13:54,807 --> 01:13:59,353 Of course I'll stay in Hiroshima... 678 01:14:00,938 --> 01:14:02,856 with you. 679 01:14:06,151 --> 01:14:08,862 I'm so miserable! 680 01:14:10,072 --> 01:14:13,450 I wasn't expecting this at all. You understand? 681 01:14:25,045 --> 01:14:26,547 Go away! 682 01:14:29,383 --> 01:14:31,844 I couldn't possibly leave you. 683 01:14:56,743 --> 01:15:00,330 Stay in Hiroshima with me. 684 01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:10,132 He's going to walk towards me. 685 01:15:10,966 --> 01:15:13,719 He's going to take me by the shoulders. 686 01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:17,264 He's going to kiss me. 687 01:15:18,265 --> 01:15:21,935 He's going to kiss me and I'll be lost. 688 01:16:25,540 --> 01:16:27,668 I meet you. 689 01:16:28,043 --> 01:16:30,212 I remember you. 690 01:16:31,505 --> 01:16:34,591 This city was tailor-made for love. 691 01:16:35,509 --> 01:16:38,804 You fit my body like a glove. 692 01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,475 Who are you? You're destroying me. 693 01:16:44,393 --> 01:16:45,769 I was hungry. 694 01:16:45,852 --> 01:16:47,854 Hungry for infidelity, 695 01:16:48,313 --> 01:16:52,109 for adultery, for lies 696 01:16:52,192 --> 01:16:53,986 and for death. 697 01:16:54,069 --> 01:16:55,862 I always have been. 698 01:16:58,865 --> 01:17:01,910 I had no doubt you'd cross my path one day. 699 01:17:02,869 --> 01:17:08,083 I waited for you calmly, with boundless impatience. 700 01:17:11,044 --> 01:17:12,713 Devour me. 701 01:17:13,547 --> 01:17:15,799 Deform me to your likeness, 702 01:17:15,882 --> 01:17:19,511 so that no one after you will ever again understand 703 01:17:19,594 --> 01:17:22,222 the reason for so much desire. 704 01:17:24,057 --> 01:17:26,560 We'll be alone, my love. 705 01:17:27,561 --> 01:17:29,730 Night will never end. 706 01:17:30,188 --> 01:17:32,733 The day will never dawn again on anyone. 707 01:17:33,608 --> 01:17:36,653 Never again. 708 01:17:37,112 --> 01:17:38,739 At last. 709 01:17:47,748 --> 01:17:50,000 You're still destroying me. 710 01:17:50,751 --> 01:17:52,586 You're good for me. 711 01:17:54,379 --> 01:17:55,922 We'll mourn the departed day 712 01:17:56,006 --> 01:17:58,633 in good conscience and with goodwill. 713 01:17:59,551 --> 01:18:01,845 There'll be nothing else for us to do 714 01:18:01,928 --> 01:18:05,807 but mourn the departed day. 715 01:18:06,433 --> 01:18:10,270 Time will pass. Only time. 716 01:18:12,147 --> 01:18:14,232 And a time will come... 717 01:18:15,609 --> 01:18:21,281 when we can no longer name what it is that binds us. 718 01:18:23,158 --> 01:18:26,661 Its name will gradually be erased from our memory 719 01:18:27,037 --> 01:18:30,791 until it vanishes completely. 720 01:19:03,031 --> 01:19:07,119 Perhaps there's a chance you'll stay. 721 01:19:08,453 --> 01:19:10,205 You know very well. 722 01:19:10,288 --> 01:19:12,999 Staying is even more impossible than leaving. 723 01:19:13,083 --> 01:19:14,835 A week. 724 01:19:17,337 --> 01:19:18,922 Three days. 725 01:19:19,005 --> 01:19:20,674 Time enough for what? 726 01:19:21,341 --> 01:19:24,094 To live from it? To die from it? 727 01:19:24,177 --> 01:19:26,263 Time enough to know which. 728 01:19:27,639 --> 01:19:29,641 There is no such thing. 729 01:19:30,016 --> 01:19:33,603 Neither time enough to live from it, nor time enough to die from it. 730 01:19:36,189 --> 01:19:37,983 So I don't give a damn. 731 01:19:39,693 --> 01:19:44,906 I would prefer you had died in Nevers. 732 01:19:45,532 --> 01:19:47,242 So would I. 733 01:19:49,035 --> 01:19:51,621 But I didn't die in Nevers. 734 01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,967 Nevers, you whom I'd forgotten, 735 01:20:46,676 --> 01:20:49,179 tonight I'd like to see you again. 736 01:20:50,472 --> 01:20:53,517 Night after night, month after month, I set you afire... 737 01:20:54,684 --> 01:20:57,771 while my body was ablaze with his memory. 738 01:21:34,432 --> 01:21:38,311 While my body is still ablaze with the memory of you... 739 01:21:39,396 --> 01:21:41,523 I'd like to see Nevers once again. 740 01:21:42,607 --> 01:21:43,984 The Loire. 741 01:21:45,318 --> 01:21:48,238 Lovely poplar trees of Nièvre... 742 01:21:49,322 --> 01:21:51,449 I give you up to oblivion. 743 01:21:52,993 --> 01:21:55,453 Dime-store romance, 744 01:21:56,162 --> 01:21:58,331 I consign you to oblivion. 745 01:21:59,749 --> 01:22:04,796 One night without you and I waited for day to deliver me. 746 01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:09,259 One day without his eyes and she dies, 747 01:22:09,801 --> 01:22:11,678 the young girl from Nevers, 748 01:22:12,345 --> 01:22:15,015 shameless young girl from Nevers. 749 01:22:15,432 --> 01:22:19,352 One day without his hands and she knows the pain of love. 750 01:22:19,853 --> 01:22:21,896 Silly little girl 751 01:22:21,980 --> 01:22:24,190 who died of love in Nevers. 752 01:22:24,691 --> 01:22:26,443 Little girl from Nevers with shaven head, 753 01:22:26,526 --> 01:22:28,987 this evening I relinquish you to oblivion. 754 01:22:29,529 --> 01:22:31,865 Dime-store romance. 755 01:22:33,199 --> 01:22:38,538 As it was with him, forgetting will begin with your eyes. 756 01:22:39,539 --> 01:22:45,003 Then, as with him, it will swallow your voice. 757 01:22:46,379 --> 01:22:50,967 Then, as with him, it will consume you entirely, 758 01:22:51,384 --> 01:22:52,886 little by little. 759 01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:57,307 You will become a song. 760 01:23:12,864 --> 01:23:15,408 Who is she? 761 01:23:15,950 --> 01:23:17,577 A Frenchwoman. 762 01:23:23,875 --> 01:23:26,002 What's the matter? 763 01:23:28,922 --> 01:23:31,383 She's leaving Japan in a little while. 764 01:23:33,134 --> 01:23:38,431 We're sad at having to leave each other. 765 01:28:59,043 --> 01:29:01,546 I had to come. 766 01:29:33,828 --> 01:29:36,456 I'll forget you. I'm forgetting you already! 767 01:29:36,539 --> 01:29:39,083 Look how I'm forgetting you! Look at me! 768 01:30:02,565 --> 01:30:04,442 That's your name. 769 01:30:05,068 --> 01:30:07,570 Yes, that's my name. 770 01:30:10,490 --> 01:30:13,910 And your name is Nevers. 771 01:30:14,577 --> 01:30:17,955 Nevers in France.