1 00:00:51,051 --> 00:01:01,052 THE CEREMONY 2 00:01:05,023 --> 00:01:09,733 Screenplay by TAKESHI TAMURA, MAMORU SASAKI, and NAGISA OSHIMA 3 00:01:10,028 --> 00:01:14,022 Music by TORU TAKEMITSU 4 00:01:14,408 --> 00:01:18,402 Cinematography by TOICHIRO NARUSHIMA 5 00:01:24,418 --> 00:01:28,412 Production Design by JUSHO TODA 6 00:01:34,428 --> 00:01:38,422 Sound by HIDEO NISHIZAKI 7 00:01:38,765 --> 00:01:42,759 Edited by KEIICHI URAOKA 8 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:01,944 Starring 9 00:02:02,789 --> 00:02:06,783 KENZO KAWARAZAKI 10 00:02:07,085 --> 00:02:11,124 ATSUKO KAKU 11 00:02:11,465 --> 00:02:16,130 ATSUO NAKAMURA KIYOSHI TSUCHIYA 12 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:20,464 NOBUKO OTOWA 13 00:02:20,766 --> 00:02:26,136 HOSEI KOMATSU ROKKO TOURA FUMIO WATANABE 14 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,892 SHIZUE KAWARAZAKI CHISAKO HARA 15 00:02:29,107 --> 00:02:31,769 MAKI TAKAYAMA SUE MITOBE 16 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:34,644 RYUICHI TSUBAKI YUMIN ARUSHIMA 17 00:02:34,905 --> 00:02:37,488 YOSHIAKI OTA YUKIHIRO TSUBAKI 18 00:02:37,783 --> 00:02:42,493 EITARO OZAWA TAIJITONO YAMA 19 00:02:42,788 --> 00:02:46,782 AKIKO KOYAMA 20 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:51,161 KEI SATO 21 00:02:51,505 --> 00:02:56,170 Produced by KINSHIRO KUZUI and TAKUJI YAMAGUCHI 22 00:02:56,426 --> 00:03:01,796 Directed by NAGISA OSHIMA 23 00:03:03,809 --> 00:03:09,179 THE CEREMONY 24 00:03:20,826 --> 00:03:24,194 You're in a bind? I'm the one in a bind! 25 00:03:25,414 --> 00:03:28,327 In any case, please hold off a day. 26 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:34,328 What, are you going to make the plane take off despite the weather? 27 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:39,584 If we don't hurry, we won't have time to proofread the obituary. 28 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:44,468 He's more important to me than Grandfather! 29 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:49,097 In any case, I'm counting on you. 30 00:03:56,862 --> 00:04:01,072 I could have gone to check on Terumichi by myself. 31 00:04:01,867 --> 00:04:04,359 His telegram was addressed to me. 32 00:04:04,578 --> 00:04:07,240 Only I knew where he was. 33 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:42,605 What were we to each other? 34 00:04:45,243 --> 00:04:49,737 I don't necessarily mean you and me. 35 00:04:52,209 --> 00:04:54,871 When would we arrive if we took the train? 36 00:04:55,128 --> 00:04:58,871 Three hours on the Shinkansen to Osaka, 37 00:04:59,132 --> 00:05:04,002 then the Kirishima express to Kagoshima, arriving tomorrow at 8:19 a.m. 38 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:07,130 The ship leaves Kagoshima at 6:00 p.m. 39 00:05:07,349 --> 00:05:09,966 We'll spend the night on the ship and arrive... 40 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:12,259 Maybe I shouldn't go. 41 00:05:13,897 --> 00:05:16,389 I can't endure such a long journey. 42 00:05:18,401 --> 00:05:21,860 Terumichi's telegram might have been a prank. 43 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:25,523 - He's... - He's not the type to lie. 44 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:35,123 If it's true, only you and I are left. 45 00:05:36,294 --> 00:05:41,664 You're sure to live to 89, like Grandfather. 46 00:05:43,927 --> 00:05:46,043 Maybe even 100. 47 00:05:47,264 --> 00:05:50,052 - Are you mocking me? - I'm serious. 48 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:54,051 This is a serious discussion. 49 00:05:55,397 --> 00:05:58,139 Then what do you think we are to each other? 50 00:05:59,442 --> 00:06:00,773 Relatives. 51 00:06:00,944 --> 00:06:02,309 Is that all? 52 00:06:03,446 --> 00:06:06,689 We only see each other at weddings and funerals. 53 00:06:08,827 --> 00:06:10,067 I see. 54 00:06:11,329 --> 00:06:12,945 Ritsuko... 55 00:06:13,665 --> 00:06:17,533 would you be able to say the same to Terumichi? 56 00:06:18,670 --> 00:06:19,580 Relatives... 57 00:06:21,339 --> 00:06:25,298 who only see each other at weddings and funerals. 58 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:27,835 No, that's not true. 59 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:34,096 Ever since we met as children, I've loved Ritsuko. 60 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:39,096 Terumichi... if it hadn't been for you, 61 00:06:39,232 --> 00:06:42,941 I might have been able to turn that feeling into reality. 62 00:06:43,862 --> 00:06:46,854 Terumichi... if it hadn't been for you, 63 00:06:47,449 --> 00:06:50,362 my life would have been different. 64 00:06:52,078 --> 00:06:53,864 Come along, dear relative. 65 00:06:55,206 --> 00:06:57,117 How can you call me that? 66 00:06:58,209 --> 00:07:00,371 I have a name: 67 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:02,953 Masuo Sakurada. 68 00:07:03,506 --> 00:07:05,713 The man from Manchuria. 69 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:08,501 I was born in Manchuria. 70 00:07:28,031 --> 00:07:29,772 Terumichi... 71 00:07:30,533 --> 00:07:32,524 you caught me. 72 00:07:34,371 --> 00:07:37,659 It was just after New Year's Day, 1947. 73 00:07:38,750 --> 00:07:42,914 My mother and I had been repatriated from Manchuria. 74 00:07:43,129 --> 00:07:45,245 As we neared the Sakurada family home, 75 00:07:45,423 --> 00:07:47,915 villagers told us my father had died a year earlier. 76 00:07:48,134 --> 00:07:51,047 That day was the anniversary of his death. 77 00:07:52,514 --> 00:07:54,755 Mother said to me... 78 00:07:55,058 --> 00:07:59,643 "It's just the two of us now. Will you be okay, Masuo?" 79 00:07:59,813 --> 00:08:01,395 I nodded. 80 00:08:03,024 --> 00:08:07,939 When we started walking back the way we had come, all of you came after us. 81 00:08:08,822 --> 00:08:12,690 We'd escaped the Russians, Manchurians, and Koreans... 82 00:08:13,952 --> 00:08:21,200 only to return to Japan and be captured by our fellow Japanese. 83 00:08:24,587 --> 00:08:27,955 People keep saying the Russian soldiers are demons, 84 00:08:28,174 --> 00:08:30,711 but were they really that fearsome? 85 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:32,334 What? 86 00:08:32,637 --> 00:08:35,004 You aren't too bright, are you? 87 00:08:35,223 --> 00:08:38,261 I'm asking if they used you as a prostitute. 88 00:08:39,227 --> 00:08:41,639 That happened to some women. 89 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:43,853 I'm asking about you. 90 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:46,641 What about the Manchurians and Koreans? 91 00:08:46,860 --> 00:08:49,272 Had that happened, I wouldn't have returned alive! 92 00:08:49,487 --> 00:08:51,774 Then why'd you try to run? 93 00:08:52,032 --> 00:08:56,617 Well, we wanted to live without relying on you for help. 94 00:08:56,745 --> 00:08:59,407 How can you say that? For the Sakurada family, 95 00:08:59,622 --> 00:09:02,034 Masuo is irreplaceable. 96 00:09:17,807 --> 00:09:19,923 Ah, I forgot to ask. 97 00:09:20,185 --> 00:09:23,644 What happened to your younger brother? 98 00:09:28,193 --> 00:09:31,686 Before we reached Dalian... 99 00:09:32,655 --> 00:09:33,770 I see. 100 00:09:35,325 --> 00:09:37,566 Then it couldn't be helped. 101 00:09:38,703 --> 00:09:42,162 You must live for both, you and your brother. 102 00:10:33,383 --> 00:10:37,342 For some reason I didn't look at my father's picture. 103 00:10:38,263 --> 00:10:42,131 Looking at it would tell me nothing about why he died. 104 00:10:42,767 --> 00:10:46,476 Or, to be more exact, why he committed suicide. 105 00:10:48,231 --> 00:10:51,223 All I knew was that in June of 1945, 106 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:53,646 shortly before Japan's defeat, 107 00:10:53,778 --> 00:10:57,612 my father returned to Tokyo from Manchuria on important business, 108 00:10:57,782 --> 00:11:03,152 and that he committed suicide the following year, 109 00:11:03,288 --> 00:11:05,780 just after New Year's Day, 1946. 110 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:10,367 Nobody told me anything beyond that, 111 00:11:10,545 --> 00:11:13,037 and I didn't ask. 112 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:17,166 But don't think I was being particularly obstinate. 113 00:11:18,428 --> 00:11:22,387 Back then, people didn't really want to discuss 114 00:11:22,932 --> 00:11:26,425 the war, or soldiers, or the war dead. 115 00:11:36,279 --> 00:11:39,067 Mother, I can bathe myself. 116 00:11:39,824 --> 00:11:41,815 Your mother's sleeping. 117 00:11:42,202 --> 00:11:44,068 I'll help you instead. 118 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:49,157 I'm your aunt. Do you remember me? 119 00:11:49,209 --> 00:11:51,291 I can bathe myself. 120 00:11:51,461 --> 00:11:54,954 Perhaps you've forgotten me. It's been seven or eight years. 121 00:11:55,215 --> 00:11:57,582 I remember you. You're Aunt Setsuko. 122 00:11:57,717 --> 00:12:01,210 You know, I knew your father from when he was your age. 123 00:12:01,346 --> 00:12:03,553 Sit down now, or you'll catch cold. 124 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:19,607 - I'm embarrassed. - Why? 125 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,356 Because I'm so grimy. 126 00:12:22,492 --> 00:12:25,200 So? We're family. 127 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,963 - What's so funny? - I splashed myself too. 128 00:12:39,259 --> 00:12:42,502 She's my own mother, but she never bathes me. 129 00:12:42,637 --> 00:12:45,504 - Boy from Manchuria! - Who are you? 130 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:49,349 You're a street urchin. My dad's a war criminal. 131 00:12:49,477 --> 00:12:51,764 Don't spy on people! 132 00:13:03,783 --> 00:13:05,649 "War criminal." 133 00:13:05,868 --> 00:13:08,530 But Terumichi, to borrow your own words, 134 00:13:08,663 --> 00:13:10,620 the grandfather sitting before me 135 00:13:10,873 --> 00:13:15,743 belonged in Sugamo Prison along with Tojo and the others. 136 00:13:16,379 --> 00:13:19,792 The "war crimes" that kid referred to were minor ones, 137 00:13:20,133 --> 00:13:22,795 and his father was still being held in China. 138 00:13:23,553 --> 00:13:27,296 He was my father's younger brother by a different mother. 139 00:13:28,308 --> 00:13:31,642 My father has yet another half brother. 140 00:13:31,894 --> 00:13:33,931 He makes me sick, 141 00:13:34,147 --> 00:13:37,811 the way he slaps Aunt Setsuko's knee during pauses in his lectures. 142 00:13:37,942 --> 00:13:39,683 Later, people told me 143 00:13:39,944 --> 00:13:43,437 he was imitating Kyuichi Tokuda, head of the Communist Party. 144 00:13:43,948 --> 00:13:47,942 You told me he bravely stuck to his principles during the war. 145 00:13:48,953 --> 00:13:52,412 But that's odd, because this communist uncle 146 00:13:52,582 --> 00:13:54,949 seemed like a war criminal to me. 147 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:56,704 And he wasn't the only one. 148 00:13:56,836 --> 00:14:01,455 My father in photographs, the people drinking sake, 149 00:14:01,549 --> 00:14:05,793 all the grown men - they all looked like war criminals to me. 150 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:13,342 Masuo, how is your mother? 151 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:18,472 She's been very weak for a month or two now. 152 00:14:19,108 --> 00:14:23,102 A former nurse shouldn't spend that long resting in bed. 153 00:14:23,988 --> 00:14:25,854 She's my daughter-in-law. 154 00:14:26,074 --> 00:14:28,361 We'll put her to work tomorrow. 155 00:14:28,993 --> 00:14:30,825 But in her condition... 156 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:35,323 People who've been starving shouldn't eat too much too quickly. 157 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:38,996 I've heard that starving children in India, 158 00:14:39,253 --> 00:14:42,245 who devour a lot of food in one go, 159 00:14:42,507 --> 00:14:45,465 develop severe diarrhea and soon die. 160 00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:48,877 That goes for you too, Masuo. 161 00:14:49,013 --> 00:14:53,632 Mother, you always eat so little. Hence your excellent health. 162 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:58,012 Masuo, you should stay here in the country with Grandmother. 163 00:14:58,231 --> 00:15:03,271 In Tokyo there's nothing but the scraps the Americans use to fatten their pigs. 164 00:15:03,403 --> 00:15:05,610 - Yes. - Idiots! 165 00:15:06,781 --> 00:15:09,398 I'm taking Masuo to Tokyo. 166 00:15:09,659 --> 00:15:13,118 I'll raise him in his father's place. 167 00:15:19,794 --> 00:15:23,128 But Father, isn't Masuo actually your... 168 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:26,790 - My what? - Isn't he your own son? 169 00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:29,759 - What are you taking about? - But... 170 00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,762 - But what? - Isn't it possible? 171 00:15:33,182 --> 00:15:37,801 You've recognized me and Susumu, though we were born to mistresses. 172 00:15:38,438 --> 00:15:40,020 No question about Mamoru. 173 00:15:40,189 --> 00:15:45,400 Terumichi's almost surely your son, while Ritsuko's father is uncertain. 174 00:15:45,528 --> 00:15:49,066 And finally, there's seven-year-old Tadashi. 175 00:15:53,286 --> 00:15:56,950 Do I look like such a big shot even to a communist? 176 00:15:57,915 --> 00:16:01,408 Is your communism about giving communal birth? 177 00:16:02,587 --> 00:16:06,922 A former nurse who sleeps for two months? Really, now! 178 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:11,176 Russia, Russia. 179 00:16:11,721 --> 00:16:14,213 Russia's communist, just like you. 180 00:16:17,727 --> 00:16:22,597 Masuo, did the Russian soldiers wear red uniforms? 181 00:16:22,815 --> 00:16:23,850 No. 182 00:16:24,984 --> 00:16:28,727 Everyone seems to think the Russian soldiers 183 00:16:28,988 --> 00:16:32,071 did something sordid to Kiku. 184 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:36,861 In other words, that the Russian soldiers are like Grandfather. 185 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,738 Lies! You're all demagogues! 186 00:16:39,957 --> 00:16:44,997 The Russian soldiers were friendly. Weren't they, Masuo? 187 00:16:45,379 --> 00:16:48,246 Masuo, say something. 188 00:16:48,883 --> 00:16:52,251 They... gave me black bread. 189 00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:56,087 In Russian it's called... what was it? 190 00:16:56,265 --> 00:16:58,632 Isn'tit za... za... zakuska? 191 00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:01,635 And you took it? 192 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:02,889 Yes. 193 00:17:07,318 --> 00:17:10,231 Masuo, did they give your mother anything? 194 00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:13,480 I don't know. 195 00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:16,233 Were you separated from your mother? 196 00:17:16,369 --> 00:17:18,736 In the internment camp, for example. 197 00:17:21,207 --> 00:17:22,368 I see. 198 00:17:23,125 --> 00:17:24,991 Just as I thought. 199 00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:33,750 In front of the child... 200 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:43,384 Masuo. 201 00:17:44,647 --> 00:17:47,730 Your clothes fit me perfectly. 202 00:17:50,027 --> 00:17:52,359 What are you doing, Terumichi? 203 00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:54,650 Fumigate! Fumigate! 204 00:17:56,158 --> 00:17:59,150 All Japan must be fumigated SO we can begin anew. 205 00:17:59,370 --> 00:18:01,281 All of you. 206 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,412 May I offer Grandfather some sake? 207 00:18:18,306 --> 00:18:20,297 I shall also partake. 208 00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:22,006 Very well. 209 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:24,517 Have a large cup. 210 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:42,285 Thank you very much. 211 00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,781 Will you have some too? 212 00:19:00,222 --> 00:19:01,553 Terumichi... 213 00:19:02,433 --> 00:19:05,425 that was the first sake I'd ever had. 214 00:19:06,103 --> 00:19:09,971 I have no memory of its taste, 215 00:19:10,358 --> 00:19:12,975 but I do know it made me fall over. 216 00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:15,852 Terumichi... 217 00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:20,323 I was intoxicated by your powerful liquor. 218 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:53,765 Shouldn't you sleep some more? 219 00:21:45,137 --> 00:21:47,094 What is it? 220 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,507 A mole? A toad? 221 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:56,346 Masuo, move. Let me listen. 222 00:22:04,406 --> 00:22:06,989 What is it? I can't hear a thing. 223 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:10,277 - I can hear it. - What can you hear? 224 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:16,032 Did you eat snakes in Manchuria? 225 00:22:16,794 --> 00:22:20,412 In the red light of sunset in Manchuria 226 00:22:20,673 --> 00:22:24,416 Masuo ate a snake. 227 00:22:35,145 --> 00:22:36,886 You hear something? 228 00:22:37,064 --> 00:22:38,646 What do you hear? 229 00:22:58,836 --> 00:23:01,578 Get up. You're not a kid anymore. 230 00:23:08,971 --> 00:23:12,464 - Buried. - What? A treasure? 231 00:23:15,352 --> 00:23:18,470 - Who's buried? - My younger brother. 232 00:23:18,564 --> 00:23:21,807 They buried a baby who was still breathing, 233 00:23:22,443 --> 00:23:25,936 but I seemed to still hear him crying. 234 00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:28,605 So I put my ear to the ground. 235 00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:32,075 Mother took my hand and yanked me away. 236 00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:38,619 We ran like mad to get back into the column as it marched on. 237 00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:43,249 In the red light of sunset in Manchuria 238 00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:45,713 Masuo buried... 239 00:23:46,508 --> 00:23:50,752 Tadashi, don't tell a word of this to anyone. 240 00:23:51,013 --> 00:23:52,970 Promise me as a man. 241 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,262 Can I make that promise too? 242 00:23:59,146 --> 00:24:05,017 Masuo, make it clear to your mother, that she can't tell anyone about this. 243 00:24:09,156 --> 00:24:10,646 Terumichi... 244 00:24:10,908 --> 00:24:13,900 you asked if there had been baseball in Manchuria. 245 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,156 I was glad you asked. 246 00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:21,533 Fujio Nakazawa of the Manchuria Railway team coached me. 247 00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:26,413 Of course, Ritsuko and Tadashi couldn't hit my pitches. 248 00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:30,671 Your hand seemed to hurt when you caught one in your mitt. 249 00:24:33,013 --> 00:24:35,926 That was the first time I felt any affection for you. 250 00:24:37,935 --> 00:24:42,054 Before then, all I had was the faint notion 251 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:47,684 that your mother had been intended to marry my father before she died. 252 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:51,905 She'd been chosen by Grandmother, who insisted that her only son 253 00:24:52,074 --> 00:24:54,816 marry a girl from a good family. 254 00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:58,160 Thus, from a very young age, 255 00:24:58,414 --> 00:25:01,827 you and I were locked in a strange rivalry. 256 00:25:03,836 --> 00:25:09,457 But whom your mother married before giving birth to you... 257 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:15,591 or why you found yourself alone in the Sakurada family... 258 00:25:15,848 --> 00:25:18,715 these things I had yet to learn. 259 00:25:21,353 --> 00:25:22,684 Strike! 260 00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:24,724 Mother, that was a ball! 261 00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:30,603 Masuo, this is no fun if your pitches aren't easier to hit. 262 00:25:33,615 --> 00:25:35,481 No, Masuo. 263 00:25:35,617 --> 00:25:37,574 Throw it as hard as you can. 264 00:25:38,203 --> 00:25:42,618 Your father pitched with that glove against the Third Higher School in Kyoto. 265 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:45,741 I went to cheer him on. 266 00:25:46,003 --> 00:25:49,086 When they lost by one run, I broke into tears. 267 00:26:05,022 --> 00:26:06,763 Let's switch places. 268 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:10,144 Were you able to sleep? 269 00:26:16,158 --> 00:26:17,990 I kept having strange dreams. 270 00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:19,734 What kind of dreams? 271 00:26:21,914 --> 00:26:24,406 They had nothing to do with you. 272 00:26:26,293 --> 00:26:30,878 Maybe you should sleep some more. I have things to think about. 273 00:26:35,803 --> 00:26:39,012 Isn't it better not to think too much? 274 00:26:40,307 --> 00:26:42,765 You remember how we played baseball, 275 00:26:42,935 --> 00:26:45,802 after the memorial service for my father? 276 00:26:45,938 --> 00:26:48,930 The first anniversary, in 19477? 277 00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:53,184 We didn't play baseball. 278 00:26:54,071 --> 00:26:55,436 Yes, we did. 279 00:26:55,572 --> 00:26:59,315 You were in the batter's box. Terumichi was catcher. 280 00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:02,152 No, you've got things mixed up. 281 00:27:02,538 --> 00:27:06,577 You were playing alone, all by yourself. 282 00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:09,416 That's not true. 283 00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:13,204 Your mother, Aunt Setsuko, was the umpire. 284 00:27:14,716 --> 00:27:16,832 She praised my pitching. 285 00:27:21,849 --> 00:27:27,094 Are you saying my mother made you the way you are now? 286 00:27:33,735 --> 00:27:35,351 Setsuko... 287 00:27:36,613 --> 00:27:38,320 Aunt Setsuko... 288 00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:41,736 you looked after me, didn't you? 289 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:11,391 I'm quitting baseball. 290 00:28:11,607 --> 00:28:14,770 I'm quitting! I've had enough! 291 00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:19,771 Mother, I'm quitting baseball. 292 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,659 Aunt Setsuko... 293 00:28:33,879 --> 00:28:35,665 I mean... Setsuko, 294 00:28:36,924 --> 00:28:39,791 I could feel your eyes on my back. 295 00:28:41,053 --> 00:28:44,546 I was ready to be condemned by everyone, especially Grandfather, 296 00:28:44,681 --> 00:28:48,174 for not having been there when my mother died. 297 00:28:48,644 --> 00:28:50,430 But Setsuko... 298 00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:53,809 the memory of you seeing me in that state 299 00:28:54,024 --> 00:28:56,812 haunts my psyche like an indelible stain. 300 00:28:58,278 --> 00:29:00,189 I'm ashamed to say this, 301 00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:03,154 but your gaze seemed to strike my flesh 302 00:29:03,325 --> 00:29:06,067 with an almost voluptuous sweetness. 303 00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:09,779 It was 1952. 304 00:29:09,957 --> 00:29:14,076 I went to the 34th National High School Baseball Championship 305 00:29:14,211 --> 00:29:17,670 as a pitcher and cleanup hitter representing Tokyo. 306 00:29:17,923 --> 00:29:21,712 The evening before the quarter finals, at the dorm in Koshien, 307 00:29:21,843 --> 00:29:24,710 I'd received the call saying my mother was critically ill. 308 00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:27,547 At the bottom of the eighth in the quarterfinal... 309 00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:32,097 I threw a disastrously easy pitch. 310 00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:36,097 The score was no longer tied at 0-0. 311 00:29:37,943 --> 00:29:43,359 It was right around that time, that my mother breathed her last. 312 00:29:46,868 --> 00:29:50,111 Masuo, if you think about it, 313 00:29:50,372 --> 00:29:54,491 she was a pitiable woman, whose life was nothing but suffering. 314 00:29:54,751 --> 00:29:57,334 She wasn't with her husband when he died. 315 00:29:57,462 --> 00:30:00,500 And she didn't see her son before her own death. 316 00:30:00,632 --> 00:30:03,249 Such are the workings of karma. 317 00:30:03,719 --> 00:30:07,337 In Manchuria she seemed happy. 318 00:30:08,765 --> 00:30:10,381 I wonder. 319 00:30:10,767 --> 00:30:14,385 Don't be silly. She's exceedingly fortunate. 320 00:30:14,521 --> 00:30:18,355 She'll be interred in the Sakurada family tomb. 321 00:30:18,483 --> 00:30:23,023 Terumichi's mother long hoped for the same, but it wasn't to be. 322 00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:25,772 Is it so fortunate to be given a place in the Sakurada tomb? 323 00:30:26,033 --> 00:30:29,492 It doesn't matter where a woman is interred. 324 00:30:29,870 --> 00:30:33,408 But it matters for you, Terumichi and Masuo. 325 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:36,408 Japan has become independent. 326 00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:39,661 Defeat has temporarily derailed the nation, 327 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,998 and you two must correct its course. 328 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:46,547 What laughable nonsense! 329 00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:52,674 Masuo and Terumichi should never follow the path, taken by their grandfather or Masuo's father. 330 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:57,933 What an awful conversation! When do the Molotov cocktails start flying? 331 00:30:58,065 --> 00:31:03,560 Masuo, your father wasn't the kind of simple-minded militarist, 332 00:31:03,779 --> 00:31:06,316 who charged like a bull at anything red. 333 00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:09,068 Still in love with the First Higher School ace, huh? 334 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:13,445 Be nice now. If anyone should marry soon, it's you, Isamu. 335 00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:16,326 If there's room at your place, I'll invite myself over. 336 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:20,451 So Ritsuko, will you marry Masuo or Terumichi? 337 00:31:20,587 --> 00:31:23,295 Such a thing is out of the question. 338 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,049 We've lost relatives to war and other things, 339 00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:31,429 and we don't have a single happy couple, just perverse discussions like this. 340 00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:34,423 There is one happy couple: 341 00:31:34,601 --> 00:31:36,183 you and I. 342 00:31:38,814 --> 00:31:40,976 Though we've lived apart for nine years? 343 00:31:41,108 --> 00:31:44,851 As of today you may return to this house. 344 00:31:44,986 --> 00:31:49,605 No, for the sake of Terumichi's education, let's keep things as they... 345 00:31:49,825 --> 00:31:52,487 For the sake of his education, you'll live with me! 346 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:57,117 Terumichi, will you study law at Todai and join the Home Ministry like Grandpa? 347 00:31:57,374 --> 00:32:00,492 - A nasty education, if you ask me. - I've already given up on university. 348 00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:03,995 Really? So you'll become a worker and pursue practical action? 349 00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:05,704 "Practical action"? 350 00:32:05,882 --> 00:32:08,499 Uncle Isamu is a lecher. 351 00:32:08,718 --> 00:32:13,007 So in that light, I'll take it to mean making lots of babies. 352 00:32:14,975 --> 00:32:18,093 He has women hanging off each arm. 353 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:21,137 Terumichi, how old are you? 354 00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:22,888 Twenty. 355 00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:25,732 And you, Masuo? 356 00:32:26,153 --> 00:32:27,393 Nineteen. 357 00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:30,604 Grandmother, 358 00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:33,231 I'm 16. 359 00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:35,780 You call such a marriage "out of the question." 360 00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,369 But would it really be so terrible? 361 00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:42,625 Ritsuko, are you saying you're in love with one of them? 362 00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:47,166 Setsuko... 363 00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:52,798 I don't know what you and Ritsuko said to each other after that. 364 00:32:53,555 --> 00:32:58,675 But it seems you sent Ritsuko back home. 365 00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:03,395 Setsuko... 366 00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:09,026 did you foresee, that evening, what the future held in store? 367 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:11,497 Are you going to burn that glove too? 368 00:34:12,926 --> 00:34:14,542 Let me have it. 369 00:34:14,678 --> 00:34:16,544 I'll give you something nice in return. 370 00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:18,549 Something nice? 371 00:34:19,432 --> 00:34:23,551 You think you can give up baseball just like that? 372 00:34:24,312 --> 00:34:26,019 Yes. 373 00:34:26,273 --> 00:34:28,560 I'm starting university next year. 374 00:34:29,276 --> 00:34:32,143 I can see tomorrow's paper: "The Flower of Koshien 375 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,654 Tearfully Vows to Deceased Mother To Give Up Baseball." 376 00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:38,816 Isn't that how it'll be written up? 377 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,535 I don't care about such things. 378 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:45,198 I've actually hated baseball from the beginning. 379 00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:49,706 But wasn't it the one thing you could hold on to till now? 380 00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:54,707 You're saying I have nothing left to hold on to? 381 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:58,711 Surely I can't be that thing for you. 382 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:02,840 - You're wrong. - I cannot. 383 00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:05,471 But there's something else: 384 00:35:09,482 --> 00:35:13,476 This is the last will of your father, Kanichiro Sakurada. 385 00:35:13,695 --> 00:35:17,359 He asked me to give it to you on your 20th birthday. 386 00:35:17,616 --> 00:35:20,608 I haven't read it, of course. 387 00:35:30,754 --> 00:35:34,873 Why have you hidden this from me for the past six years? 388 00:35:35,342 --> 00:35:38,004 I wasn't exactly hiding it. 389 00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:42,255 Shortly before his death, Kanichiro came to me, 390 00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:45,387 and asked that I hand it directly to Masuo. 391 00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:49,386 Kanichiro didn't leave a testament for me. 392 00:35:50,273 --> 00:35:54,232 I have a right to know his thoughts before he died. 393 00:35:54,903 --> 00:35:58,862 I was simply respecting his final wishes. 394 00:35:59,032 --> 00:36:03,651 - I had no say in the decision. - No say in the decision? 395 00:36:04,162 --> 00:36:07,405 Didn't he visit you before his death? 396 00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:11,788 That was an immoral, loathsome act! 397 00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:15,288 Nothing about this situation was ever moral. 398 00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:20,259 You drove a wedge between your son and the woman he loved, 399 00:36:20,428 --> 00:36:23,796 $0 you could possess her for yourself. 400 00:36:24,057 --> 00:36:26,924 If that's morality... - Silence! 401 00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:31,394 Masuo, I'll send for you later. 402 00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:45,192 What else? 403 00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:50,823 I loved Kanichiro... 404 00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:54,202 and I believe he loved me. 405 00:36:56,464 --> 00:37:01,083 Your half sister ran away from home. 406 00:37:01,594 --> 00:37:05,212 I was her illegitimate child by some unknown man. 407 00:37:06,182 --> 00:37:10,676 That's why you wouldn't allow Kanichiro to marry me. 408 00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:15,723 I was 19 and came in tears to plead with you, and you forced yourself on me. 409 00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:18,354 What's your point? 410 00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:22,104 I adopted you as my daughter and married you off 411 00:37:22,449 --> 00:37:25,111 to a powerful pro-dapanese figure in China. 412 00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:30,116 What I'm trying to discuss with you, is what happened after that. 413 00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:36,703 I met with Kanichiro frequently after moving to China... 414 00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:42,129 But we never touched each other. 415 00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,127 Am I supposed to believe that? 416 00:37:45,597 --> 00:37:50,012 Kanichiro decided to end his life and came to see me. 417 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:56,222 We were transported in time. He was 22 again, and I was 19. 418 00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:58,770 What are you boasting about? 419 00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:01,735 I'm not boasting. 420 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,773 I'm just telling you exactly what happened. 421 00:38:10,246 --> 00:38:14,661 In that case, let's reach some kind of conclusion. 422 00:38:15,919 --> 00:38:18,411 Setsuko, come closer. 423 00:38:21,174 --> 00:38:23,541 I'm willing to do so, 424 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:27,420 but how will that help us to reach a conclusion? 425 00:38:28,807 --> 00:38:30,548 I don't know... 426 00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:36,144 But I'm prepared to face... the ultimate conclusion. 427 00:38:59,462 --> 00:39:02,921 I didn't have the nerve to eavesdrop any longer. 428 00:39:04,092 --> 00:39:09,587 Nor did I have the courage, Setsuko, to rush in to your rescue. 429 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:13,090 Would that have saved you? 430 00:39:13,351 --> 00:39:16,184 Would it have saved me? 431 00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:19,847 At that moment, I had no idea. 432 00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:23,350 Setsuko... 433 00:39:23,987 --> 00:39:27,230 Even now [I deride myself. 434 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:33,111 I do so because, in fact, you were my first love. 435 00:39:51,723 --> 00:39:55,591 Grandfather, is this the beginning of my education? 436 00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:00,095 You wouldn't understand, 437 00:40:00,773 --> 00:40:03,891 but it's actually the end of an education. 438 00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:10,648 Then please allow me to watch and learn. 439 00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:59,662 With this we have a conclusion. 440 00:41:55,722 --> 00:41:58,384 Please be my first teacher. 441 00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:19,609 My lips. 442 00:42:48,566 --> 00:42:50,022 My breasts. 443 00:43:17,220 --> 00:43:18,927 Now the other one. 444 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,132 No, don't rush. 445 00:44:05,852 --> 00:44:07,388 Calm down. 446 00:45:39,987 --> 00:45:42,479 - You're finally back. - That's right. 447 00:45:42,698 --> 00:45:45,861 Lots of interesting things happen at weddings and funerals. 448 00:45:46,077 --> 00:45:48,865 It's a shame to miss any of it. 449 00:45:51,582 --> 00:45:53,323 Who is your father? 450 00:45:53,501 --> 00:45:56,493 Why do you suddenly ask that? 451 00:45:57,213 --> 00:46:01,207 When you lived in Manchuria, did my father come to visit you? 452 00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:05,502 Three or four times. I'm not sure exactly. 453 00:46:05,972 --> 00:46:07,758 Why do you ask? 454 00:46:10,351 --> 00:46:13,218 No, you can't mean to suggest... 455 00:46:13,396 --> 00:46:18,391 Your father and my mother... you're suggesting I'm their daughter? 456 00:46:18,526 --> 00:46:21,393 That's not what you're thinking, is it? 457 00:46:21,612 --> 00:46:24,604 I don't think it's possible. 458 00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:28,116 Even if it were, would that be so bad? 459 00:46:29,787 --> 00:46:33,655 - Then you and I would be... - ...siblings? 460 00:46:36,002 --> 00:46:37,492 How wonderful. 461 00:46:37,670 --> 00:46:43,632 Besides fastballs, curve balls, and sinkers, you think about a lot of things, Masuo. 462 00:46:45,261 --> 00:46:47,548 I wouldn't mind being your sister. 463 00:46:48,264 --> 00:46:49,925 Siblings... 464 00:46:51,142 --> 00:46:52,678 That's right. 465 00:46:52,935 --> 00:46:55,802 Say something brotherly to me. 466 00:46:56,272 --> 00:46:59,060 I'm sort of speechless right now. 467 00:46:59,317 --> 00:47:01,775 Then how about some "practical action"? 468 00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:04,652 Kiss me. 469 00:47:18,794 --> 00:47:20,705 Siblings kiss here. 470 00:47:28,596 --> 00:47:30,462 Don't do that. 471 00:47:31,349 --> 00:47:33,841 We wouldn't be siblings anymore. 472 00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:40,722 Mother's funeral was lavish... 473 00:47:41,442 --> 00:47:46,061 So lavish, that people said it was Grandfather's living funeral for himself. 474 00:47:47,573 --> 00:47:49,610 Soon after being depurged, 475 00:47:49,742 --> 00:47:54,612 Grandfather received a government post as president of a public corporation. 476 00:47:54,747 --> 00:47:59,992 Many people gathered to offer their congratulations. 477 00:48:01,003 --> 00:48:02,368 Setsuko... 478 00:48:03,089 --> 00:48:04,705 In his will my father wrote... 479 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:11,379 "By the time you're an adult, Japan will surely be in chaos under a communist regime. 480 00:48:12,390 --> 00:48:16,600 My son, you must gather like-minded people, 481 00:48:17,395 --> 00:48:19,636 and fight communism." 482 00:48:20,398 --> 00:48:22,514 But his prediction was wrong. 483 00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:27,519 On January 1, 1946, 484 00:48:28,114 --> 00:48:30,856 the emperor renounced his divinity. 485 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:33,900 My father thought it would be the death of Japan, 486 00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:37,995 and wrote in his will that he wanted to die along with it. 487 00:48:38,165 --> 00:48:42,284 Today I find that sentiment repellent. 488 00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:45,040 Setsuko... 489 00:48:45,798 --> 00:48:48,665 I wanted to start university, quit baseball, 490 00:48:48,676 --> 00:48:51,919 and engage in truly practical action. 491 00:48:53,055 --> 00:48:57,174 But I don't want to think you were part of the reason. 492 00:48:59,937 --> 00:49:01,803 But you, Setsuko... 493 00:49:02,690 --> 00:49:06,649 you wept a long time over my mother's coffin. 494 00:49:07,820 --> 00:49:12,155 Just who were those tears for? 495 00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:31,049 WEST KAGOSHIMA STATION 496 00:49:37,933 --> 00:49:40,971 It's a ways to the harbour, but shall we walk? 497 00:49:46,859 --> 00:49:48,065 What's wrong? 498 00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:50,852 Nothing. 499 00:49:54,116 --> 00:49:57,108 Once you get on the ship, there's no turning back. 500 00:49:59,872 --> 00:50:01,988 Is that meant for me or you? 501 00:50:03,125 --> 00:50:04,240 You. 502 00:50:05,252 --> 00:50:08,620 People often don't turn back when they should... 503 00:50:09,715 --> 00:50:12,127 and end up regretting it later. 504 00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,003 Are you speaking for yourself? 505 00:50:16,514 --> 00:50:18,130 Among others. 506 00:50:20,518 --> 00:50:23,385 Have you never regretted anything? 507 00:50:26,232 --> 00:50:28,394 Perhaps the time I kissed you. 508 00:50:45,543 --> 00:50:48,285 - What's that? - It's for seasickness. 509 00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:56,258 I don't get seasick. 510 00:50:56,804 --> 00:50:59,171 We'll be on board over 24 hours. 511 00:50:59,557 --> 00:51:01,423 I've done it before. 512 00:51:01,934 --> 00:51:06,519 When we were repatriated from Manchuria, the boat trip took much longer. 513 00:51:06,939 --> 00:51:09,271 But that was a long time ago. 514 00:51:12,570 --> 00:51:14,937 I remember it like it was yesterday. 515 00:51:35,301 --> 00:51:37,212 It's a round-trip ticket. 516 00:51:37,970 --> 00:51:40,211 We'll go and come back. 517 00:51:40,723 --> 00:51:42,339 Of course. 518 00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:45,595 You're not thinking of... 519 00:51:46,812 --> 00:51:48,473 Thinking of what? 520 00:51:51,483 --> 00:51:53,474 If Terumichi's alive... 521 00:51:54,486 --> 00:51:56,944 I won't need a ticket back. 522 00:51:58,741 --> 00:52:00,231 Ritsuko... 523 00:52:01,076 --> 00:52:06,367 Is this going to be your last stop in a life without regrets or turning back? 524 00:52:06,749 --> 00:52:09,081 The look on your face frightens me. 525 00:52:10,002 --> 00:52:12,243 I've turned back before. 526 00:52:13,756 --> 00:52:17,374 Hasn't our life since repatriation been one long turning back? 527 00:52:22,514 --> 00:52:24,255 Perhaps. 528 00:52:25,100 --> 00:52:28,513 If repatriation showed the Japanese empire's regret, 529 00:52:28,771 --> 00:52:32,264 then we're the children born of that regret. 530 00:52:33,525 --> 00:52:36,392 That's true of you, of Setsuko, 531 00:52:36,612 --> 00:52:40,606 even of that child of a war criminal, Tadashi. 532 00:52:40,908 --> 00:52:44,742 On, on, to the next one! 533 00:52:44,870 --> 00:52:49,034 Two things you think will flow that never do: 534 00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:52,909 An old man's pocket money and an old lady's period 535 00:52:53,045 --> 00:52:55,412 Bring on the groom! 536 00:53:00,386 --> 00:53:04,550 Happy songs, sad songs 537 00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:08,425 Of all the songs I've heard 538 00:53:08,686 --> 00:53:12,680 There's just one I can't forget 539 00:53:12,815 --> 00:53:16,433 And that's the song of labor! 540 00:53:25,035 --> 00:53:27,697 Yes, you young people! 541 00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:31,414 Yes, forward to the future! 542 00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:34,955 Everyone, forward to the future! 543 00:53:35,212 --> 00:53:39,171 The English are clever 544 00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:42,959 So they use rubber or paper 545 00:53:43,095 --> 00:53:47,089 The Russians use their fingers 546 00:53:47,349 --> 00:53:51,217 to relieve their yearnings... - No need to use your fingers anymore! 547 00:53:51,353 --> 00:53:54,562 Hail the groom! 548 00:53:56,734 --> 00:54:00,944 As I left home 549 00:54:01,613 --> 00:54:05,698 I boldly pledged to screw a girl 550 00:54:06,201 --> 00:54:09,739 How can I quit before I've come three times? 551 00:54:10,247 --> 00:54:13,990 Even if I start seeing multiple suns 552 00:54:14,126 --> 00:54:18,461 Even if my back gives out 553 00:54:18,881 --> 00:54:22,499 The beer and sake make me sick 554 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,754 A short rest in the lap of a beauty 555 00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:31,011 I saw Sada Abe in a dream 556 00:54:31,143 --> 00:54:34,761 "I'll cut it off!" she threatened 557 00:54:35,147 --> 00:54:38,890 I awoke and looked down below my navel 558 00:54:41,779 --> 00:54:46,114 When you've done your first girl... 559 00:54:47,034 --> 00:54:50,368 Everyone gets one song. It's my turn. 560 00:54:55,501 --> 00:54:58,789 This is the dorm song of the First Higher School. 561 00:54:58,921 --> 00:55:01,253 "Flowers in a Jade Cup." 562 00:55:03,801 --> 00:55:08,796 Accept these flowers in your jade cup 563 00:55:11,433 --> 00:55:14,050 Accept these flowers 564 00:55:16,063 --> 00:55:21,183 Accept these flowers in your jade cup 565 00:55:27,658 --> 00:55:33,574 The moon's reflection in the green liquor 566 00:55:33,956 --> 00:55:39,793 Steeped in dreams of peace and order 567 00:55:40,337 --> 00:55:45,798 Gazing down at streets of splendor 568 00:55:46,802 --> 00:55:52,673 Rising high above Mukogaoka Hill 569 00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:59,972 Five dorms of stalwart, spirited youths! 570 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:06,982 Five dorms of stalwart, spirited youths! 571 00:56:07,865 --> 00:56:09,606 Susumu, you're next. 572 00:56:10,742 --> 00:56:13,700 Come on, have a cup of courage. 573 00:56:13,871 --> 00:56:19,867 Forget about the Chinese prisons and sing "Chinese Nights" for us. 574 00:56:20,085 --> 00:56:23,999 Chinese nights... 575 00:56:24,131 --> 00:56:26,247 Susumu isn't ready to sing. 576 00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:30,752 He's struggling with the conflict between the self that committed crimes in China, 577 00:56:30,888 --> 00:56:35,132 and the democratic self, reborn through reflecting on Mao's teachings. 578 00:56:35,350 --> 00:56:38,092 - He's in no mood to sing. - Susumu... 579 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,394 I don't know much, but today I become your sister-in-law. 580 00:56:44,484 --> 00:56:49,900 Let's encourage each other to live for peace, independence, and democracy. 581 00:56:50,490 --> 00:56:55,235 Arise, workers of all nations! 582 00:56:55,621 --> 00:56:59,285 Arise, oppressed of the earth! 583 00:56:59,791 --> 00:57:04,410 For justice thunders condemnation 584 00:57:04,671 --> 00:57:08,790 A better world's in birth! Enough, enough! 585 00:57:10,928 --> 00:57:14,011 Ritsuko, sing a Japanese song! 586 00:57:17,059 --> 00:57:24,181 Even my geisha chignon sways to your lead 587 00:57:24,942 --> 00:57:31,405 Dancing seductively, cheek to cheek 588 00:57:32,074 --> 00:57:35,658 My kimono in disarray 589 00:57:35,786 --> 00:57:38,653 My shame and joy 590 00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:42,665 The geisha's waltz 591 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:46,294 The waltz of memory 592 00:57:49,299 --> 00:57:50,334 Masuo? 593 00:57:59,351 --> 00:58:03,470 My heart may be fierce 594 00:58:03,981 --> 00:58:07,849 But I am no demon-god 595 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:13,355 Born as a human being 596 00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:17,984 My heart lacks not compassion 597 00:58:18,453 --> 00:58:22,242 Yet I must abandon my mother 598 00:58:22,499 --> 00:58:26,993 And cross the waves of the sea 599 00:58:27,129 --> 00:58:31,373 O friends and brothers 600 00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:36,253 When shall we meet again? 601 00:58:39,599 --> 00:58:42,216 - What song is that? - "The Manchurian Bandits." 602 00:58:43,645 --> 00:58:46,728 - What's it supposed to mean? - Nothing in particular. 603 00:58:48,358 --> 00:58:51,646 Well, if Susumu won't sing, how about his son? 604 00:58:51,903 --> 00:58:53,985 Tadashi, sing for us! 605 00:58:56,616 --> 00:59:01,406 Hundreds of miles from my native land 606 00:59:01,872 --> 00:59:06,537 In far-off Manchuria 607 00:59:06,918 --> 00:59:11,537 In the red light of sunset 608 00:59:11,923 --> 00:59:16,542 A friend lies beneath a stone in a field 609 00:59:16,887 --> 00:59:21,427 Until yesterday, the saddest of days 610 00:59:21,808 --> 00:59:26,769 He had always charged forward in the first rank 611 00:59:26,897 --> 00:59:31,562 Punishing the enemy without mercy 612 00:59:31,777 --> 00:59:36,692 Can this brave warrior really now be at rest? 613 00:59:36,948 --> 00:59:41,192 In the heat of battle 614 00:59:41,828 --> 00:59:46,322 My friend was always at my side 615 00:59:46,458 --> 00:59:50,918 When he suddenly fell 616 00:59:51,088 --> 00:59:55,707 Without a thought I rushed to his aid 617 00:59:55,842 --> 01:00:00,461 The rules of battle are strict 618 01:00:00,722 --> 01:00:05,216 But how could I just leave him there to die? 619 01:00:05,477 --> 01:00:07,844 Give me a clear answer! 620 01:00:08,980 --> 01:00:11,312 I haven't seen you since I was seven! 621 01:00:13,193 --> 01:00:17,482 How can I know what kind of person you are if you say nothing? 622 01:00:17,864 --> 01:00:20,982 What Uncle Isamu said earlier was a lie, wasn't it? 623 01:00:21,952 --> 01:00:25,240 The self-denunciation you wrote in China was just a ploy, right? 624 01:00:25,455 --> 01:00:27,116 Answer me! 625 01:00:29,376 --> 01:00:32,368 Is China really that great under Mao Zedong? 626 01:00:32,462 --> 01:00:35,079 Is it really better than Japan? 627 01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:42,377 Never mind. 628 01:00:43,473 --> 01:00:46,886 If I don't think of you as my father, there's nothing to ask. 629 01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,395 "I'm happy to die for my country 630 01:00:55,652 --> 01:01:00,271 Go back, don't fall behind!" you said with tears in your eyes 631 01:01:00,407 --> 01:01:01,772 Tadashi... 632 01:01:02,033 --> 01:01:05,742 that's how things were in 1956. 633 01:01:06,746 --> 01:01:10,660 I didn't sing, but if I had, I'd have sung "No to Atomic Bombs" 634 01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:14,410 or some other sentimental protest song. 635 01:01:15,297 --> 01:01:17,288 That was the age we lived in. 636 01:01:18,175 --> 01:01:20,792 That year people said the postwar era was over. 637 01:01:22,179 --> 01:01:28,175 Your father was released into that era after serving his time as a war criminal. 638 01:01:29,060 --> 01:01:34,555 it wasn't clear to your father, much less to us, whether he was a ghost held over from the war, 639 01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:38,400 or a harbinger of a new age. 640 01:01:40,071 --> 01:01:42,904 That's why your father said nothing, 641 01:01:43,074 --> 01:01:45,315 not even a single word. 642 01:01:47,329 --> 01:01:49,821 Yet you were so impatient in your questioning. 643 01:01:51,333 --> 01:01:55,918 It may have been a lost era, but it was the era of your youth, 644 01:01:56,046 --> 01:01:58,287 a youth you had to embrace. 645 01:02:22,364 --> 01:02:24,856 You don't drink whiskey like that. 646 01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,443 Tadashi just killed his father in front of one and all. 647 01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:35,991 It still wasn't enough. 648 01:02:36,878 --> 01:02:40,121 What's it take to get someone like that to talk? 649 01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:42,752 - You torture him. - How? 650 01:02:43,009 --> 01:02:45,125 Most of the Sakurada family knows how. 651 01:02:45,262 --> 01:02:47,253 Grandfather did it in the Home Ministry. 652 01:02:47,389 --> 01:02:50,757 Uncle Isamu was tortured severely and lost all taste for protest. 653 01:02:50,892 --> 01:02:54,760 My dad was first tortured and then became a torturer. 654 01:02:55,272 --> 01:03:00,984 What a bore... everybody singing with smiles pasted on their faces. 655 01:03:01,152 --> 01:03:03,143 - Go and get... - Who? 656 01:03:03,780 --> 01:03:05,521 My father? - Idiot. 657 01:03:05,740 --> 01:03:08,152 Liquor's wasted, when it's just angry men like us. 658 01:03:08,243 --> 01:03:10,359 - But the only girl... - I told you: 659 01:03:10,537 --> 01:03:12,869 She isn't a girl anymore. 660 01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:15,531 You want to torture Ritsuko? 661 01:03:15,750 --> 01:03:18,412 Depends on the mood of the moment. 662 01:03:20,672 --> 01:03:24,381 Is this all you're up to in here? It's not even worth spying on. 663 01:03:24,551 --> 01:03:29,261 - We're about to go on a rampage. - Then I'll join you for a bit. 664 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,892 You've gotten better at holding your liquor. 665 01:03:36,062 --> 01:03:39,054 You too. When did you start drinking? 666 01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:41,648 Do you drink with your boyfriend? 667 01:03:41,818 --> 01:03:43,934 What boyfriend? 668 01:03:44,696 --> 01:03:47,279 - How would Tadashi do? - What? 669 01:03:48,783 --> 01:03:50,694 Out of the question. 670 01:03:50,910 --> 01:03:53,277 Nothing in this world is out of the question. 671 01:03:53,455 --> 01:03:55,071 Indeed. 672 01:03:56,791 --> 01:03:59,579 Tadashi's angry tonight. Be nice. 673 01:04:00,420 --> 01:04:04,334 Do you really have a right to ask me to do that? 674 01:04:05,300 --> 01:04:07,962 A girl isn't enough. I want... 675 01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:11,177 ...to stab someone? 676 01:04:12,057 --> 01:04:17,223 Men not talking about sex? How strange. I came all this way to join in the fun. 677 01:04:17,479 --> 01:04:18,935 I want to kill! 678 01:04:19,230 --> 01:04:21,187 You have a knife? 679 01:04:25,487 --> 01:04:27,228 That thing's for hoodlums. 680 01:04:28,740 --> 01:04:30,447 Tadashi! 681 01:04:41,503 --> 01:04:43,494 That's not how you hold it. 682 01:04:49,010 --> 01:04:51,251 Grasp it with both hands... 683 01:04:52,013 --> 01:04:55,472 and aim for the heart with all your strength. 684 01:04:55,850 --> 01:04:58,763 A person won't die easily unless you plunge it in deep. 685 01:05:01,231 --> 01:05:06,101 I understand why some people want to kill, but there are also those who want to die. 686 01:05:06,361 --> 01:05:08,352 - Like who? - My mother. 687 01:05:08,530 --> 01:05:11,613 Aunt Setsuko? That's not our concern. 688 01:05:11,908 --> 01:05:12,989 It is! 689 01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:17,244 If Setsuko says she wants to die, it is our concern! 690 01:05:18,623 --> 01:05:20,660 Why does she want to die? 691 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:22,911 She just said she wants to die. 692 01:05:23,128 --> 01:05:26,371 That's crazy talk. It's none of our business. 693 01:05:26,506 --> 01:05:27,667 Yes, it is! 694 01:05:27,799 --> 01:05:30,040 How is it our concern? 695 01:05:30,552 --> 01:05:32,919 Terumichi, you... 696 01:05:33,179 --> 01:05:36,422 I haven't seen Setsuko in the four years since your mother's funeral. 697 01:05:36,558 --> 01:05:38,799 How should I know what she's feeling? 698 01:05:39,018 --> 01:05:42,261 That day four years ago is precisely the reason, isn't it? 699 01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:44,430 I wasn't even there. 700 01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:47,399 This is boring. I'm leaving! 701 01:05:50,155 --> 01:05:51,816 Didn't you lend it to me? 702 01:05:52,073 --> 01:05:57,659 This is old-fashioned. You'll kill one or two people at most. Is your anger that shallow? 703 01:05:57,829 --> 01:06:02,574 Don't pick up a weapon, unless you can massacre, take the world, turn it upside down. 704 01:06:02,834 --> 01:06:06,043 For that you need a gun. - That hurts. Let me go! 705 01:06:06,087 --> 01:06:07,577 Go cool your head. 706 01:06:08,923 --> 01:06:13,838 I can't sleep next to someone who wants to die, so I'll stay tonight with the two of you. 707 01:06:14,220 --> 01:06:18,464 Then I can hear all about the trouble that happened four years ago. 708 01:06:18,850 --> 01:06:20,306 That's my futon. 709 01:06:21,311 --> 01:06:23,177 Then come join me. 710 01:06:34,741 --> 01:06:37,483 Didn't we promise to be like brother and sister? 711 01:06:37,744 --> 01:06:39,985 Now I remember what happened four years ago. 712 01:06:44,334 --> 01:06:46,575 Am I taking too much of the futon? 713 01:07:07,857 --> 01:07:10,975 Now, let's begin. 714 01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:13,523 Who wants to start? 715 01:07:15,490 --> 01:07:17,652 It's hard to begin when you say it that way. 716 01:07:17,867 --> 01:07:21,485 Be a man. It was your idea. 717 01:07:23,665 --> 01:07:26,032 That was the role I wanted... 718 01:07:27,168 --> 01:07:31,162 but Terumichi took my place, right before my eyes. 719 01:07:32,048 --> 01:07:34,881 That's no good. Be more specific. 720 01:07:35,176 --> 01:07:37,292 Like this: "In this room, 721 01:07:37,428 --> 01:07:41,763 Masuo's lying on my left and Terumichi's on my right. 722 01:07:42,267 --> 01:07:46,886 Terumichi's leg is entangled with mine." Like that. 723 01:07:49,190 --> 01:07:51,682 Grandfather embraced Setsuko. 724 01:07:52,277 --> 01:07:53,688 And then what? 725 01:07:53,903 --> 01:07:55,564 He fondled her. 726 01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:56,895 How? 727 01:07:57,073 --> 01:08:00,065 At that moment Terumichi entered the room. 728 01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,036 Grandfather left. 729 01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:17,041 Setsuko was lying on her back. 730 01:08:18,469 --> 01:08:20,301 I asked her to teach me. 731 01:08:20,513 --> 01:08:21,924 You did? 732 01:08:22,181 --> 01:08:24,138 She was so kind and gentle. 733 01:08:25,184 --> 01:08:27,266 In what way? 734 01:08:28,688 --> 01:08:31,305 The way I always wanted her to be. 735 01:08:31,941 --> 01:08:34,683 But your mother chose Terumichi. 736 01:08:34,819 --> 01:08:36,309 I see. 737 01:08:37,071 --> 01:08:40,439 And after you saw that, we became siblings. 738 01:08:40,575 --> 01:08:42,566 We aren't siblings! 739 01:08:43,161 --> 01:08:47,075 At that moment, I didn't think of her as Setsuko, 740 01:08:47,457 --> 01:08:51,041 but simply as a tender woman offering her tenderness. 741 01:08:51,210 --> 01:08:55,704 I was longing for the Feminine. 742 01:08:56,090 --> 01:08:58,172 So it was purely carnal? 743 01:08:58,468 --> 01:09:01,836 You think the Feminine is purely carnal? 744 01:09:02,221 --> 01:09:04,553 I don't understand what you're talking about. 745 01:09:04,724 --> 01:09:08,683 And Ritsuko is right here. - Don't hold back on my account. 746 01:09:08,853 --> 01:09:12,346 I too would like to know what this "Feminine" is all about. 747 01:09:12,565 --> 01:09:14,476 Have you ever been with a whore? 748 01:09:14,692 --> 01:09:17,229 The older guys on the team took me to one. 749 01:09:17,862 --> 01:09:21,605 Nobody goes to a whore in search of the Feminine. 750 01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:26,239 Even if you tried, you'd go home disappointed. 751 01:09:26,704 --> 01:09:28,490 Sounds complicated. 752 01:09:28,706 --> 01:09:31,949 There must also be something like "the Masculine," 753 01:09:32,460 --> 01:09:35,248 and I hope it isn't as complicated. 754 01:09:37,256 --> 01:09:39,338 Terumichi, get up! 755 01:09:39,967 --> 01:09:43,631 The Masculine! The Feminine! You're hiding behind generalizations. 756 01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:46,630 What about Setsuko's feelings? 757 01:09:47,100 --> 01:09:49,967 Four years ago, and even today... 758 01:09:50,144 --> 01:09:56,265 Masuo, you think that that night four years ago is connected with my mother's desire to die, right? 759 01:09:56,401 --> 01:09:58,768 Not directly, of course. 760 01:09:58,986 --> 01:10:03,275 Then why not have her join us in bed and ask her? 761 01:10:03,491 --> 01:10:07,780 We can investigate the Feminine and the Masculine. 762 01:10:08,538 --> 01:10:10,279 Shall I go get her? 763 01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:14,866 You'll get her? 764 01:10:15,294 --> 01:10:19,663 I don't want to investigate anything. I just want to know how Setsuko feels. 765 01:10:20,550 --> 01:10:22,541 I finally understand that. 766 01:10:23,261 --> 01:10:26,253 Now I understand too. 767 01:10:29,308 --> 01:10:32,767 All that's directly connected to what happened four years ago 768 01:10:32,937 --> 01:10:35,053 are your feelings for my mother. 769 01:10:38,401 --> 01:10:40,312 Take it. 770 01:10:43,573 --> 01:10:48,409 It's quite possible that your feelings for Setsuko Sakurada 771 01:10:48,536 --> 01:10:51,779 and her desire to die are directly connected. 772 01:10:58,087 --> 01:11:00,579 Take it. Just in case. 773 01:11:23,446 --> 01:11:24,732 Tadashi... 774 01:11:25,072 --> 01:11:28,315 You saw me enter Setsuko's room. 775 01:11:29,952 --> 01:11:31,613 I could tell. 776 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:38,200 When I went in, Setsuko was sleeping peacefully. 777 01:11:41,130 --> 01:11:46,250 I sat near her pillow and gazed at her face. 778 01:11:46,761 --> 01:11:51,756 The violent feelings swirling inside me faded at some point, 779 01:11:52,517 --> 01:11:56,761 and I recalled everything that had happened over the previous four years. 780 01:11:58,231 --> 01:12:01,644 That following spring, I entered a university in Kyoto. 781 01:12:02,860 --> 01:12:05,147 Terumichi became Grandfather's secretary. 782 01:12:05,404 --> 01:12:10,524 His settling in at the house was one reason I wanted to leave Tokyo. 783 01:12:12,620 --> 01:12:14,861 Terumichi was supposed to be a secretary, 784 01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:18,407 but I heard all he did was sit around and read books. 785 01:12:20,503 --> 01:12:23,291 Not that I have anything to be proud of. 786 01:12:23,506 --> 01:12:29,377 I'd sworn to give up the world of baseball, but I kept getting drawn back into it. 787 01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:37,802 Maybe there was a direct connection... one that went back more than four years. 788 01:12:38,187 --> 01:12:39,427 Tadashi... 789 01:12:39,939 --> 01:12:44,524 You remember, don't you, that day the four of us played two-base baseball? 790 01:12:45,695 --> 01:12:48,813 I'd had those feelings for Setsuko since then. 791 01:12:50,783 --> 01:12:52,569 And yet, Tadashi, 792 01:12:53,077 --> 01:12:57,196 though you couldn't have known what was roiling in my heart, 793 01:12:57,415 --> 01:13:00,453 you stood there patiently spying on us. 794 01:13:01,335 --> 01:13:04,703 That may have been a sign of your youth. 795 01:13:06,674 --> 01:13:10,087 As for my youth, that was in the distant past. 796 01:13:20,605 --> 01:13:23,723 Masuo, Ritsuko was only joking. 797 01:13:24,483 --> 01:13:26,474 Don't take it seriously. 798 01:13:26,736 --> 01:13:30,821 You should know that young girls don't always mean what they say. 799 01:13:37,371 --> 01:13:41,490 But it's true that I am getting older. 800 01:13:43,753 --> 01:13:47,212 If I were to fall in love with someone now, 801 01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:53,631 I might ask him to die with me. 802 01:13:57,266 --> 01:13:59,758 Please answer one more question: 803 01:14:00,645 --> 01:14:04,354 Could that someone perhaps be Terumichi? 804 01:14:08,986 --> 01:14:11,648 Did he say something to you? 805 01:14:13,032 --> 01:14:14,113 Yes. 806 01:14:14,867 --> 01:14:17,154 I don't know what he told you, 807 01:14:17,662 --> 01:14:21,530 but I was simply yielding to a young man's desire. 808 01:14:23,167 --> 01:14:25,283 It only happened once. 809 01:14:26,003 --> 01:14:30,543 And though I wasn't that young anymore, 810 01:14:31,050 --> 01:14:34,543 something about it still touched my heart. 811 01:14:38,683 --> 01:14:40,048 Setsuko. 812 01:14:41,310 --> 01:14:42,516 What? 813 01:14:43,646 --> 01:14:47,435 I've never done anything extraordinary in my life, 814 01:14:48,192 --> 01:14:51,810 and I don't think I'll ever really amount to anything. 815 01:14:53,823 --> 01:14:56,190 I don't care if I die. 816 01:15:01,914 --> 01:15:04,076 You're embarrassing me. 817 01:15:05,084 --> 01:15:08,702 Your father was never that sweet. 818 01:15:10,214 --> 01:15:12,421 If he had been, I... 819 01:15:13,718 --> 01:15:17,177 But I've lived ten years too long. 820 01:15:17,930 --> 01:15:21,594 And I caused many people a lot of trouble. 821 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:27,725 Masuo, the next ceremony will surely be my funeral. 822 01:15:30,985 --> 01:15:35,604 I'll take this in appreciation of the gesture. 823 01:15:35,740 --> 01:15:37,356 You won't... 824 01:15:37,575 --> 01:15:40,442 No. It's just for self-defense. 825 01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:29,342 Tadashi... 826 01:17:29,937 --> 01:17:33,350 Did you continue spying on Setsuko after I left? 827 01:17:34,817 --> 01:17:37,980 If you did, tell me what happened. 828 01:17:40,614 --> 01:17:44,232 The next morning, Setsuko's body was discovered 829 01:17:44,869 --> 01:17:47,577 in the hills behind the house. 830 01:18:22,239 --> 01:18:27,405 Grandfather declared it a suicide, and nobody disputed it. 831 01:18:55,522 --> 01:18:56,808 Tadashi... 832 01:18:57,942 --> 01:18:59,307 Take it. 833 01:18:59,902 --> 01:19:02,314 But you didn't move. 834 01:19:02,905 --> 01:19:06,023 It even looked like you were sneering. 835 01:19:06,909 --> 01:19:08,024 Tadashi... 836 01:19:09,411 --> 01:19:13,325 You knew how she had really died, didn't you? 837 01:19:15,709 --> 01:19:19,919 Setsuko's death was treated as a suicide, and she was given a lavish funeral... 838 01:19:20,589 --> 01:19:25,709 but the suspicion that Grandfather actually killed her 839 01:19:25,970 --> 01:19:28,211 has never left my mind. 840 01:19:29,598 --> 01:19:34,809 But that's not why I despise him. 841 01:20:08,971 --> 01:20:12,339 We'll get to the island in about five hours. 842 01:20:28,532 --> 01:20:30,273 I have a feeling... 843 01:20:31,660 --> 01:20:35,779 that once we arrive, you'll be lost to me forever. 844 01:20:41,503 --> 01:20:43,039 Your hand... 845 01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:47,665 your hair... 846 01:20:50,679 --> 01:20:52,044 your lips. 847 01:20:55,559 --> 01:20:59,644 Lips that have only taunted me since I was a child. 848 01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:10,818 You know the story of the Flying Dutchman? 849 01:21:13,827 --> 01:21:16,319 A ship's captain is cursed, 850 01:21:16,455 --> 01:21:20,198 and condemned to sail the Seven Seas forever... 851 01:21:22,169 --> 01:21:25,082 always alone, never dying. 852 01:21:27,424 --> 01:21:28,710 I too... 853 01:21:30,344 --> 01:21:32,802 am a man under a stupid curse. 854 01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:38,716 I want to go on like this... 855 01:21:40,312 --> 01:21:43,100 sailing the sea with you forever... 856 01:21:44,233 --> 01:21:46,349 rocked by the waves. 857 01:21:48,362 --> 01:21:50,854 You haven't been cursed. 858 01:21:52,741 --> 01:21:55,358 You just wished you were. 859 01:21:59,957 --> 01:22:02,949 I can't even taunt you properly in this state. 860 01:22:12,094 --> 01:22:14,005 Shall we get some fresh air? 861 01:23:02,644 --> 01:23:03,930 Ritsuko... 862 01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:07,055 If Terumichi's telegram proves true... 863 01:23:08,317 --> 01:23:10,308 will you marry me? 864 01:23:49,233 --> 01:23:50,974 - Her appendix? - That's right. 865 01:23:51,109 --> 01:23:53,476 We're giving her pills and injections. 866 01:23:53,612 --> 01:23:55,979 Please don't be alarmed. 867 01:23:56,490 --> 01:23:58,447 In the worst case... 868 01:24:02,829 --> 01:24:04,240 Good morning. 869 01:24:04,373 --> 01:24:07,206 I just heard that the bride has appendicitis. 870 01:24:07,459 --> 01:24:09,200 - Tadashi! - Pardon me. 871 01:24:09,378 --> 01:24:13,212 - Should I not have mentioned it? - It's not that. What's this uniform? 872 01:24:13,382 --> 01:24:16,090 It's the semi-dress uniform of the Metropolitan Police. 873 01:24:16,218 --> 01:24:18,380 You aren't on duty. Go change. 874 01:24:18,595 --> 01:24:21,212 I intend to dedicate myself to the public 24 hours a day. 875 01:24:21,390 --> 01:24:24,508 I have nothing to change into but underwear and pajamas. 876 01:24:24,726 --> 01:24:26,888 This is a private affair for the Sakurada family. 877 01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:29,387 You may excuse yourself from the ceremony. 878 01:24:29,898 --> 01:24:32,265 Tadashi, we'll prepare some clothes. Go change. 879 01:24:32,401 --> 01:24:34,768 If she doesn't recover, will the ceremony go on? 880 01:24:34,861 --> 01:24:37,603 That isn't your concern. Go change! 881 01:24:37,739 --> 01:24:39,275 I don't intend to. 882 01:24:51,253 --> 01:24:54,541 - They operated? - Someone must go to the hospital. 883 01:24:54,798 --> 01:24:57,256 No, visitors are strictly prohibited. 884 01:24:57,509 --> 01:25:01,548 Leave everything to me. - What about the wedding? 885 01:25:01,763 --> 01:25:03,674 They could have said something before operating. 886 01:25:03,807 --> 01:25:06,890 I wonder if the bride's a runaway. 887 01:25:07,019 --> 01:25:08,930 Absolutely not! 888 01:25:09,062 --> 01:25:12,896 She'd been having some pains, and with all the stress... 889 01:25:13,066 --> 01:25:15,683 If "runaway" was an injudicious choice of words, 890 01:25:15,944 --> 01:25:19,778 perhaps better to say she's lost interest in a permanent bond? 891 01:25:19,906 --> 01:25:24,321 No, it's really her appendix. Just give her five days. 892 01:25:24,578 --> 01:25:28,287 How convenient it is to have an appendix. 893 01:25:30,959 --> 01:25:33,701 There was no mirror in front of me, 894 01:25:33,795 --> 01:25:37,789 so I couldn't see the face of the man who'd been abandoned by his bride. 895 01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:40,086 Ritsuko... 896 01:25:40,594 --> 01:25:43,336 How must that face have looked? 897 01:25:44,306 --> 01:25:46,593 At the age of 28, without wanting to, 898 01:25:46,808 --> 01:25:50,221 at Grandfather's request I'd decided to marry, 899 01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:53,062 and now I'd been jilted. 900 01:25:54,733 --> 01:25:57,976 But I was actually relieved. 901 01:25:58,987 --> 01:26:01,604 I wanted to run away more than she did. 902 01:26:02,574 --> 01:26:06,863 It would cause a minor scandal, but I'd taken ten days off work, 903 01:26:07,829 --> 01:26:10,446 and the thought occurred to me, 904 01:26:10,582 --> 01:26:15,122 that I could use that time to take a trip somewhere by myself. 905 01:26:20,133 --> 01:26:22,465 The wedding and reception will take place as planned. 906 01:26:22,594 --> 01:26:24,130 Without the bride? 907 01:26:24,346 --> 01:26:27,589 Distinguished guests have come from all over the country. 908 01:26:28,141 --> 01:26:32,760 If we put on a display, that will be that. 909 01:26:34,398 --> 01:26:38,892 Once her appendix has healed, the families can celebrate in private. 910 01:26:39,027 --> 01:26:41,268 You seem confident of catching her. 911 01:26:41,530 --> 01:26:44,522 That'll be hard if she's gone into hiding. 912 01:26:44,658 --> 01:26:47,650 It's not like when you were in the underground. 913 01:26:47,869 --> 01:26:50,156 Japan's police force today is the world's finest. 914 01:26:50,372 --> 01:26:51,908 Exactly! 915 01:26:52,124 --> 01:26:55,412 Tadashi, are you still in that uniform? 916 01:27:05,804 --> 01:27:07,386 He was right. 917 01:27:07,556 --> 01:27:10,548 We'd left the postwar confusion behind. 918 01:27:11,309 --> 01:27:14,392 The year was 1961. 919 01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:18,397 Only I was left to experience the confusion 920 01:27:18,567 --> 01:27:21,309 of exchanging nuptial cups with an absent bride. 921 01:27:39,546 --> 01:27:44,461 Now, allow me to present the bride. 922 01:27:45,969 --> 01:27:50,088 But first I must make an announcement. 923 01:27:51,349 --> 01:27:56,094 The bride returned to Japan after the war, 924 01:27:56,229 --> 01:28:00,223 without having picked up a trace of distasteful foreign customs. 925 01:28:00,442 --> 01:28:04,561 She is a pure, immaculate daughter of Japan. 926 01:28:05,489 --> 01:28:09,574 In preparation for this splendid day, she spent a month, 927 01:28:09,743 --> 01:28:14,829 no, several months, purifying herself by abstaining from meat and fish. 928 01:28:14,998 --> 01:28:17,740 Having endeavored thus, 929 01:28:18,877 --> 01:28:21,835 and having grown quite tense, 930 01:28:22,380 --> 01:28:26,749 after bidding her parents good-bye this morning, 931 01:28:27,385 --> 01:28:31,128 she was about to leave the house when suddenly 932 01:28:32,390 --> 01:28:35,473 she was stricken with acute appendicitis. 933 01:28:36,269 --> 01:28:39,136 She bravely endured the pain 934 01:28:39,272 --> 01:28:42,890 and insisted on attending the ceremony. 935 01:28:43,151 --> 01:28:49,272 But a wedding is a matter of one day, whereas married life spans a lifetime. 936 01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:53,651 After discussion among her extended family, 937 01:28:53,870 --> 01:28:56,783 she was admitted to the hospital. 938 01:28:58,041 --> 01:29:03,002 In my humble opinion, both this decision 939 01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:07,916 and the bride's attitude are to be applauded. 940 01:29:08,552 --> 01:29:11,544 He was a great politician, all right. 941 01:29:13,056 --> 01:29:17,391 For the first time I thought tenderly of the woman, who wasn't beside me. 942 01:29:17,769 --> 01:29:22,388 Hearing him call her "pure, a true Japanese woman," 943 01:29:22,691 --> 01:29:25,183 I oddly began to believe it. 944 01:29:27,529 --> 01:29:30,692 Where was she hiding right about then? 945 01:29:30,949 --> 01:29:35,819 She probably didn't care one bit about the Japanese police. 946 01:29:37,289 --> 01:29:42,079 We'll now ask the bride and groom to cut the wedding cake. 947 01:29:42,711 --> 01:29:46,204 Please applaud as the knife cuts the cake. 948 01:30:17,996 --> 01:30:22,741 The bride will now retire to change her gown. 949 01:30:23,001 --> 01:30:27,711 Meanwhile, please feel free to enjoy your meal and conversation. 950 01:31:21,685 --> 01:31:24,518 The bride has now returned. 951 01:31:24,688 --> 01:31:27,771 The groom may greet her at the entrance. 952 01:31:32,821 --> 01:31:35,904 We humbly ask the groom to greet the bride. 953 01:31:48,294 --> 01:31:52,458 How long will you keep up this humiliating farce for these big shots poisoning Japan? 954 01:31:52,590 --> 01:31:55,673 - What can I do? - Denounce this sham! 955 01:31:55,802 --> 01:31:57,713 If you don't, I willl 956 01:32:51,524 --> 01:32:56,894 "Blueprint for a New Japan: First, the emperor..." 957 01:32:58,406 --> 01:32:59,771 Ritsuko... 958 01:33:00,283 --> 01:33:04,277 At that time there was a great distance between us. 959 01:33:05,163 --> 01:33:07,746 If the wedding with my invisible bride 960 01:33:07,874 --> 01:33:11,242 and this minor disturbance were all that had happened that day, 961 01:33:11,419 --> 01:33:14,662 you and Terumichi would have been able 962 01:33:14,798 --> 01:33:18,792 to return to your normal lives, regardless of what happened to me. 963 01:33:20,261 --> 01:33:24,175 But the misfortune that was to follow 964 01:33:24,390 --> 01:33:30,056 would force us to speak face-to-face once again. 965 01:33:32,398 --> 01:33:34,810 In the street in front of the hotel, 966 01:33:35,068 --> 01:33:39,062 Tadashi was hit by a car and died instantly. 967 01:34:30,748 --> 01:34:34,241 "Item Six: Plan for Revolt. 968 01:34:36,004 --> 01:34:39,622 First: Acquisition of weapons. 969 01:34:40,967 --> 01:34:45,006 The pistols of our sympathizers on the police force 970 01:34:45,221 --> 01:34:48,009 will form the basic arsenal 971 01:34:48,391 --> 01:34:51,884 of each revolutionary unit. 972 01:34:52,854 --> 01:34:56,848 Second: Our sympathizers in the police, 973 01:34:57,025 --> 01:35:00,143 ammunition depots..." 974 01:35:04,032 --> 01:35:06,740 I know, it's really tough. 975 01:35:06,993 --> 01:35:08,859 Have a drink. 976 01:35:10,371 --> 01:35:13,409 It's a once-in-a-lifetime setback, but you did nothing wrong. 977 01:35:13,625 --> 01:35:15,662 She ran away. 978 01:35:16,044 --> 01:35:18,502 It's alright to cry. - No, it isn't! 979 01:35:18,671 --> 01:35:21,538 Tadashi became obsessed with stupid ideas and did stupid things. 980 01:35:21,674 --> 01:35:24,041 Of course he died. How could he survive? 981 01:35:24,302 --> 01:35:29,172 But Tadashi didn't commit suicide! Somebody ran him over! 982 01:35:29,432 --> 01:35:32,299 Communists or somebody! 983 01:35:32,435 --> 01:35:35,518 Then call the police. No doubt they had him under surveillance. 984 01:35:35,688 --> 01:35:37,929 This wasn't a case of murder. 985 01:35:38,066 --> 01:35:41,775 It was a traffic accident, nothing more. 986 01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:46,939 Like your bride's appendicitis. It was just bad luck, Masuo. 987 01:35:47,158 --> 01:35:50,947 She ran away! Masuo was jilted by his bride. 988 01:35:51,037 --> 01:35:54,780 That's right. I'm not "the man from Manchuria" anymore. 989 01:35:54,958 --> 01:35:57,825 I'm “the jilted bridegroom." 990 01:35:59,420 --> 01:36:02,708 A wake and a wedding night rolled into one - what a mess. 991 01:36:02,924 --> 01:36:05,211 I understand why you're crying. 992 01:36:05,843 --> 01:36:08,210 What are you laughing about? 993 01:36:08,972 --> 01:36:11,464 "Seven: Targets... 994 01:36:12,350 --> 01:36:17,095 First: All national ministers..." 995 01:36:17,230 --> 01:36:20,348 You can't just go on crying like this. 996 01:36:21,442 --> 01:36:23,854 It's actually quite funny. 997 01:36:25,488 --> 01:36:27,229 Isn't it, Masuo? 998 01:36:27,448 --> 01:36:29,689 Maybe it's best that she ran off. 999 01:36:29,867 --> 01:36:33,360 You'd have been called away from your wedding bed. 1000 01:36:33,579 --> 01:36:36,367 From that angle, you should feel lucky. 1001 01:36:37,500 --> 01:36:40,367 Why exactly was I crying? 1002 01:36:41,462 --> 01:36:44,375 Was I saddened by Tadashi's sudden death? 1003 01:36:44,507 --> 01:36:50,253 Was I miserable from that humiliating wedding? 1004 01:36:52,098 --> 01:36:57,138 You see, I was so drunk, didn't even know what I was feeling. 1005 01:36:58,271 --> 01:36:59,602 Ritsuko... 1006 01:37:00,148 --> 01:37:05,643 You said nothing, but I felt as if you were by my side. 1007 01:37:07,989 --> 01:37:11,653 I could hear Grandmother and Uncle Mamoru 1008 01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:16,654 telling stories about wedding nights from the past. 1009 01:37:18,916 --> 01:37:22,875 I don't know what made me do what I did. 1010 01:37:24,797 --> 01:37:27,255 I must have been drunk. 1011 01:37:27,425 --> 01:37:31,419 I hear that, inside the tissue holder in their kimonos, 1012 01:37:31,637 --> 01:37:34,675 brides have instructions for their wedding night. 1013 01:37:34,807 --> 01:37:37,299 There's no such thing! 1014 01:37:37,769 --> 01:37:40,431 It's just folded paper. 1015 01:37:41,189 --> 01:37:44,147 On my wedding night, when I saw Grandfather's manhood, 1016 01:37:44,317 --> 01:37:48,185 I thought, "Where's he supposed to put something that big?" 1017 01:37:57,789 --> 01:38:00,531 Grandmother, your haori half-coat... 1018 01:38:01,084 --> 01:38:03,542 - What about it? - Please hand it to me. 1019 01:38:23,481 --> 01:38:25,097 Relax. 1020 01:38:25,358 --> 01:38:27,315 There's nothing to fear. 1021 01:38:28,736 --> 01:38:30,852 Relax your whole body... 1022 01:38:31,739 --> 01:38:33,980 and leave it to me. 1023 01:38:35,201 --> 01:38:36,487 Masuo! 1024 01:38:37,245 --> 01:38:41,364 - It's my wedding night. - Have you gone nuts? 1025 01:38:41,582 --> 01:38:44,074 It's all been too much for you. 1026 01:38:44,460 --> 01:38:48,875 My true Japanese woman, pure and immaculate... 1027 01:38:51,008 --> 01:38:57,380 These breasts, these lovely breasts, are mine, all mine. 1028 01:38:58,766 --> 01:39:00,757 Should we call a psychiatrist? 1029 01:39:01,018 --> 01:39:03,601 No, this mustn't get out. 1030 01:39:04,230 --> 01:39:06,767 We're finally alone. 1031 01:39:07,108 --> 01:39:09,725 There's nothing to be ashamed of. 1032 01:39:10,111 --> 01:39:11,727 I love you. 1033 01:39:13,114 --> 01:39:15,651 Don't tense your thighs like that! 1034 01:39:27,420 --> 01:39:29,252 What's all this racket? 1035 01:39:33,176 --> 01:39:36,294 Your grandson. See for yourself. 1036 01:39:36,429 --> 01:39:38,796 My pure and immaculate Japanese girl! 1037 01:39:38,931 --> 01:39:42,925 My body is yours, and your body is mine. 1038 01:39:43,811 --> 01:39:45,142 Masuo... 1039 01:39:45,938 --> 01:39:49,056 I always knew you were good for nothing but baseball, 1040 01:39:49,317 --> 01:39:51,558 but I never knew you were such an ass. 1041 01:39:51,777 --> 01:39:54,644 You, the grandson of Kazuomi Sakuradal! 1042 01:39:55,948 --> 01:39:57,939 My true Japanese woman. 1043 01:39:58,409 --> 01:40:00,821 What are you doing? Are you fucking crazy? 1044 01:40:00,912 --> 01:40:02,903 He isn't crazy at all. 1045 01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:05,071 My true Japanese woman! 1046 01:40:06,209 --> 01:40:07,699 Let go of me! 1047 01:40:11,088 --> 01:40:13,079 Get off me, you madman! 1048 01:40:13,341 --> 01:40:18,211 My pure and perfect Japanese girl! Relax your thighs. 1049 01:40:19,847 --> 01:40:21,929 Are you going to stop? 1050 01:40:27,188 --> 01:40:29,475 This is your doing. 1051 01:40:29,732 --> 01:40:32,815 You're the one responsible for this wedding night. 1052 01:40:34,737 --> 01:40:36,227 "Targets: 1053 01:40:36,739 --> 01:40:40,232 1b: All ministers and members of the Diet 1054 01:40:40,493 --> 01:40:42,575 shall be sentenced to death. 1055 01:40:42,745 --> 01:40:46,955 1c: All ministry bureaucrats, 1056 01:40:47,124 --> 01:40:50,867 and all provincial civil servants, past and present, 1057 01:40:51,003 --> 01:40:54,371 shall be sentenced to forced labor for life..." 1058 01:40:55,758 --> 01:40:57,499 Come on, relax. 1059 01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:00,001 If it hurts, just say so. 1060 01:42:00,573 --> 01:42:02,189 What are you doing? 1061 01:42:02,533 --> 01:42:06,071 My, my, he's really on a tear tonight. 1062 01:42:06,203 --> 01:42:10,197 I had my suspicions, but you've really gone crazy! 1063 01:42:10,458 --> 01:42:12,199 Get out of there! 1064 01:42:14,337 --> 01:42:17,295 Grandmother, please tell him to get out! 1065 01:42:18,090 --> 01:42:21,924 If he's gone mad, he's hopeless in or out of the coffin. 1066 01:42:22,428 --> 01:42:26,092 If he hasn't, he won't listen anyway. 1067 01:42:27,850 --> 01:42:30,717 This is horrible, just horrible. 1068 01:42:33,981 --> 01:42:36,439 - Give me a hand. - To do what? 1069 01:42:42,740 --> 01:42:44,230 Masuo... 1070 01:42:46,202 --> 01:42:47,943 that's enough now. 1071 01:43:13,229 --> 01:43:14,390 Ritsuko... 1072 01:43:15,147 --> 01:43:17,639 if only you'd agree to marry me... 1073 01:43:20,027 --> 01:43:24,396 But I had my wedding night a long time ago. 1074 01:43:41,549 --> 01:43:42,914 Terumichil 1075 01:44:03,279 --> 01:44:05,816 Masuo, take Ritsuko's hand. 1076 01:44:21,422 --> 01:44:23,663 Now we're all linked together. 1077 01:44:25,593 --> 01:44:27,049 Still... 1078 01:44:28,429 --> 01:44:32,718 I'd hoped I would hear that sound... What does it sound like? 1079 01:44:33,851 --> 01:44:38,596 Terumichi, you don't intend to leave here? 1080 01:44:38,939 --> 01:44:40,179 Ritsuko... 1081 01:44:41,358 --> 01:44:43,725 if you'd agreed to come with me, 1082 01:44:43,986 --> 01:44:46,728 I'd have left this house. 1083 01:44:48,073 --> 01:44:53,819 Masuo, promise me to hold Ritsuko back until I've left. 1084 01:45:01,837 --> 01:45:03,248 Terumichil 1085 01:45:06,258 --> 01:45:08,215 He's leaving. 1086 01:45:08,385 --> 01:45:10,126 He's really leaving. 1087 01:45:11,263 --> 01:45:13,095 I'm... 1088 01:45:13,641 --> 01:45:15,382 He's leaving! 1089 01:45:26,278 --> 01:45:27,734 Ritsuko... 1090 01:45:28,155 --> 01:45:32,365 I held you fast, just as Terumichi told me to do. 1091 01:45:33,494 --> 01:45:37,112 You could have broken free and followed him if you'd wanted, 1092 01:45:37,540 --> 01:45:42,785 but you seemed to be under his spell, and you stayed completely still. 1093 01:45:44,797 --> 01:45:50,509 Terumichi agreed with Grandfather to leave the house, 1094 01:45:50,678 --> 01:45:54,137 in exchange for my getting married and living there. 1095 01:45:55,891 --> 01:46:00,806 The fact the two of them had made that agreement... 1096 01:46:01,939 --> 01:46:07,935 was of course unknown to me, and I guess to you as well. 1097 01:47:36,533 --> 01:47:37,898 Ritsuko... 1098 01:47:38,369 --> 01:47:43,489 After that night, Terumichi was never seen in Grandfather's house again. 1099 01:47:44,917 --> 01:47:48,251 I later learned that Terumichi 1100 01:47:48,379 --> 01:47:53,874 was Grandfather's child by the girl, who was supposed to marry my father. 1101 01:47:55,928 --> 01:48:01,173 Grandmother, who had adoringly raised him, died shortly after Terumichi left. 1102 01:48:03,268 --> 01:48:09,139 I had eagerly expected him at her funeral, but he never turned up. 1103 01:48:11,777 --> 01:48:18,524 Speaking of never turning up, the bride who'd abandoned me never turned up either. 1104 01:48:22,162 --> 01:48:25,325 And though ten years have since passed, 1105 01:48:25,958 --> 01:48:31,579 and though you and I both live in Tokyo, we haven't seen each other since. 1106 01:48:36,969 --> 01:48:39,961 My condolences on your grandfather's death. 1107 01:48:44,810 --> 01:48:46,346 Thank you. 1108 01:48:47,730 --> 01:48:49,437 Please come inside. 1109 01:49:00,951 --> 01:49:02,862 It's been a long time. 1110 01:49:03,078 --> 01:49:05,240 You look well. 1111 01:49:05,622 --> 01:49:08,239 Has every one arrived? 1112 01:49:08,375 --> 01:49:10,707 Some of the uncles aren't here yet. 1113 01:49:36,737 --> 01:49:39,354 Though I hadn't seen Ritsuko in ten years, 1114 01:49:39,531 --> 01:49:42,398 I had no time to speak with her. 1115 01:49:43,410 --> 01:49:46,402 I was the chief mourner 1116 01:49:46,622 --> 01:49:51,617 at the largest funeral ceremony the Sakurada family would likely ever see. 1117 01:49:53,629 --> 01:49:55,415 Politicians came, 1118 01:49:56,048 --> 01:49:58,255 and powerful government officials, 1119 01:49:58,425 --> 01:50:00,166 financiers, 1120 01:50:00,302 --> 01:50:03,169 mourners from the provinces. 1121 01:50:04,056 --> 01:50:08,266 I was like a machine, repeating the same words over and over. 1122 01:50:10,562 --> 01:50:15,557 In the three nights since Grandfather's condition had turned critical... 1123 01:50:16,777 --> 01:50:21,066 between preparations the night before the wake, and then the wake itself, 1124 01:50:21,281 --> 01:50:23,693 I hadn't slept a wink. 1125 01:50:24,576 --> 01:50:27,785 Even if I'd tried to think about Grandfather's death, 1126 01:50:28,580 --> 01:50:31,288 I wouldn't have had the time. 1127 01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:35,952 In those four or five days I'd grown as tired, 1128 01:50:36,713 --> 01:50:41,583 as if I'd had to relive my entire life over again. 1129 01:50:42,678 --> 01:50:46,797 Indeed, my entire life until then had been an attempt 1130 01:50:46,974 --> 01:50:51,218 to escape the heavy responsibility of being a Sakurada. 1131 01:50:52,813 --> 01:50:54,349 Baseball... 1132 01:50:54,565 --> 01:50:57,182 my decision to attend university in Kyoto, 1133 01:50:57,568 --> 01:50:59,980 quitting the company I briefly worked for, 1134 01:51:00,237 --> 01:51:02,478 coaching my old high school's baseball team... 1135 01:51:03,323 --> 01:51:06,111 all seemed directed at that goal. 1136 01:51:07,828 --> 01:51:11,867 Yet during the services people kept telling me 1137 01:51:11,999 --> 01:51:17,995 to give up baseball and do something to continue my grandfather's legacy. 1138 01:51:18,755 --> 01:51:21,372 They offered to pave the way for me. 1139 01:51:21,508 --> 01:51:25,877 My uncles insisted I get married and produce an heir. 1140 01:51:27,347 --> 01:51:29,759 I was sick of it all. 1141 01:52:02,382 --> 01:52:03,793 It's you. 1142 01:52:04,760 --> 01:52:06,125 Poor thing. 1143 01:52:09,681 --> 01:52:12,013 Masuo, I feel so sorry for you. 1144 01:52:13,810 --> 01:52:15,676 I don't need your pity. 1145 01:52:15,771 --> 01:52:17,182 No. 1146 01:52:18,440 --> 01:52:20,181 You poor thing. 1147 01:52:27,699 --> 01:52:29,189 Forgive me. 1148 01:52:33,163 --> 01:52:34,699 Please stop it. 1149 01:52:37,668 --> 01:52:39,579 Why are you acting like this? 1150 01:52:41,088 --> 01:52:44,547 It's heavy... and oppressive. 1151 01:52:45,717 --> 01:52:47,833 I feel I'm being buried. 1152 01:52:48,053 --> 01:52:49,339 Buried? 1153 01:52:50,347 --> 01:52:52,338 I'm being buried alive. 1154 01:52:53,433 --> 01:52:54,923 Buried... 1155 01:52:56,561 --> 01:52:58,973 Little by little my breath is cut off. 1156 01:52:59,481 --> 01:53:01,813 Masuo, I feel so sorry for you. 1157 01:53:02,734 --> 01:53:04,190 It hurts. 1158 01:53:07,447 --> 01:53:09,063 I'm suffocating. 1159 01:53:10,867 --> 01:53:13,859 But it's a good feeling. 1160 01:53:16,999 --> 01:53:18,114 No... 1161 01:53:20,127 --> 01:53:22,368 I'm being buried. 1162 01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:35,631 My eyes are being covered up... 1163 01:53:36,643 --> 01:53:38,350 It's the soil... 1164 01:53:39,396 --> 01:53:41,387 I can smell the soil. 1165 01:53:45,402 --> 01:53:47,234 My ears are being plugged up. 1166 01:53:55,412 --> 01:53:57,278 My mouth... 1167 01:54:11,928 --> 01:54:15,546 My mouth fills with earth. 1168 01:54:19,186 --> 01:54:21,678 All the pores of my skin... 1169 01:54:22,814 --> 01:54:24,304 are being clogged up. 1170 01:54:27,194 --> 01:54:29,060 The earth... 1171 01:54:30,572 --> 01:54:32,688 has completely covered... 1172 01:54:33,700 --> 01:54:35,441 my skin. 1173 01:54:40,207 --> 01:54:42,039 Above the surface... 1174 01:54:43,710 --> 01:54:47,669 someone's listening to my voice. 1175 01:54:49,091 --> 01:54:50,957 It's my older brother. 1176 01:54:52,219 --> 01:54:54,961 No... it's me. 1177 01:55:17,828 --> 01:55:19,239 TE... 1178 01:55:19,496 --> 01:55:20,986 RU... 1179 01:55:21,123 --> 01:55:22,579 MI... 1180 01:55:22,833 --> 01:55:24,323 CHI... 1181 01:55:24,501 --> 01:55:25,957 DEAD 1182 01:55:26,128 --> 01:55:27,618 STOP 1183 01:55:27,838 --> 01:55:28,873 SIGNED 1184 01:55:29,131 --> 01:55:30,621 TE... 1185 01:55:30,841 --> 01:55:32,252 RU... 1186 01:55:32,509 --> 01:55:33,874 MI... 1187 01:55:34,136 --> 01:55:35,626 CHI 1188 01:55:35,762 --> 01:55:41,633 TERUMICHI DEAD STOP SIGNED TERUMICHI 1189 01:55:44,396 --> 01:55:49,266 When we came ashore, Terumichi's cabin 1190 01:55:49,401 --> 01:55:56,239 was a warm presence in the dawn light, bespeaking nothing of death. 1191 01:55:57,492 --> 01:55:59,733 I thought perhaps we'd been fooled. 1192 01:56:00,620 --> 01:56:05,911 At that moment Ritsuko screamed, "He's alive!" and collapsed in a heap. 1193 01:56:08,378 --> 01:56:13,748 But when I ran to the cabin and called out Terumichi's name, 1194 01:56:14,426 --> 01:56:16,417 there was no response. 1195 01:56:17,888 --> 01:56:20,630 Ritsuko slowly approached. 1196 01:56:21,892 --> 01:56:23,929 I tried to open the door, 1197 01:56:24,436 --> 01:56:27,554 but to my surprise, every door was nailed shut. 1198 01:56:28,648 --> 01:56:32,016 Ritsuko called out "Terumichi" 1199 01:56:32,194 --> 01:56:34,185 for the first time. 1200 01:56:35,197 --> 01:56:38,155 It was a voice calling out for a dead man. 1201 01:56:39,826 --> 01:56:44,320 We broke through the doors like lunatics and burst in, 1202 01:56:44,456 --> 01:56:46,197 still in our shoes. 1203 01:56:49,169 --> 01:56:51,206 It was completely empty. 1204 01:56:52,589 --> 01:56:56,457 Terumichi had removed every trace of his life. 1205 01:56:56,843 --> 01:56:59,585 Only his corpse lay there. 1206 01:57:02,557 --> 01:57:05,720 His last will had been placed upon the newspaper 1207 01:57:06,603 --> 01:57:08,935 announcing Grandfather's death. 1208 01:57:10,232 --> 01:57:14,977 I began to read it aloud, but Ritsuko stopped me. 1209 01:57:16,947 --> 01:57:19,439 This is what was written there: 1210 01:57:21,243 --> 01:57:25,487 "I am the only one who can continue the Sakurada line. 1211 01:57:27,123 --> 01:57:29,956 By killing myself, 1212 01:57:30,627 --> 01:57:34,461 I hereby destroy the Sakurada clan." 1213 01:57:35,757 --> 01:57:36,997 Masuo... 1214 01:57:38,218 --> 01:57:41,381 you'll be late for your ship. You should go. 1215 01:57:43,515 --> 01:57:47,258 You'll be in charge of the funeral services in Tokyo. 1216 01:57:48,728 --> 01:57:50,264 I'll stay here. 1217 01:57:50,397 --> 01:57:51,637 Ritsuko! 1218 01:57:53,858 --> 01:57:56,099 You intend to die here, don't you? 1219 01:57:56,236 --> 01:57:57,351 Yes. 1220 01:57:58,530 --> 01:58:02,865 But I can take care of everything by myself. 1221 01:58:03,034 --> 01:58:04,240 You fool! 1222 01:58:06,997 --> 01:58:10,535 You think, I can leave knowing that? 1223 01:58:10,792 --> 01:58:15,411 Then you intend to stay and witness my death? 1224 02:01:05,717 --> 02:01:07,924 Do you see it? 1225 02:02:34,556 --> 02:02:39,926 THE END