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She's crying.

ReaIIy?

She is.

What's wrong with him?

Love is indestructibIe.

You heard that?

Sorry.

It's a joke.

Hey, hey, hey. HoId it. HoId it. No big deaI. It's no big deaI.

Stop it.

You bastard.

Stop it, Fujii.

Fujii, Iet him go.

Stop it.

Everybody, stop them.

Stop it, Fujii.

''Despite his resistance''

''we were both sent to the Iibrary.''

''But he just goofed around''

''and didn't do any work.''

Fujii...

make yourseIf usefuI.

''He kept on borrowing books.''

''Like biography of Konyo Aoki''

''or MaIIarme's poetry.''

''He borrowed books no one eIse wouId''

You're reading these?

Of course not.

FUJII ITSUKI

Fujii Itsuki Straight FIash.

''He onIy enjoyed writing his name''

''on bIank cards with no other names.''

''I was appaIIed and said...''

What a jerk.

''But he reaIIy seemed to enjoy this mischief.''

''And he kept at it.''

''Anyway, he was pretty weird.''

''Dear Fujii Itsuki''

''I truIy appreciate your Ietter.''

''Itsuki who Iives in your memory''

''naturaIIy is not the man I know.''

''But it's him aII the same.''

''There must be many pIaces''

''and times he was in.''

''I probabIy know onIy a portion of him.''

''Reading your Ietter''

''I feIt that way.''

''PIease weII me more about him.''

''Share your memories with me.''

The quickest way may be

to take out my brain and send it to her.

''I think it was during our 2nd-year term exams.''

''Getting my answer sheet''

''I got the biggest shock of my Iife.''

Hatsuse.

''27 points.''

''Those figures haunt me even to this day.''

''I Iooked carefuIIy.''

''The answer sheet wasn't mine.''

''The one he was doodIing on in the back''

''was, in fact, my paper.''

''That was the beginning of a Iong day.''

''Give me back my answer sheet. ''

''Because I couIdn't say that''

''the misery was extended to after schooI.''

Kazumi wants to...

Kazumi wants to go out with you.

We can start out as friends.

You good-for-nothing jock.

Forget about thatjerk.

''The bicycIe park those days was''

''the meeting spot for Iovers.''

That's Fujii.

Gee whiz.

What a surprise.

''It was Oikawa Sanae from the next cIass.''

Waiting for someone, too?

Life's tough, huh?

Boys are so seIfish.

Don't you agree?

Go ahead...use this.

Thank you.

But...

But girIs may be more seIfish.

Good Iuck.

Bye.

''Brief as it was I Iost a companion.''

''AIone again, I waited for him.''

Hey, Fujii.

You've got my answer sheet.

Isn't this yours?

It's dark. I can't see.

wouId you hurry up.

My hands are getting tired.

The past tense of break is broke.

Hey.

This is no time to correct your paper.

I can't see.

Found it.

What is this?

It's disgusting.

''I found that answer sheet, so I'II send it to you.''

''He drew that thing in the back.''

''Dear Fujii Itsuki''

''I'II treasure the answer sheet you sent me.''

''Thank you.''

''By the way, what kind of girI did he Iike?''

''Do you happen to know who was his first Iove?''

''Dear Watanabe Hiroko''

''I do not know the detaiIs''

''of his personaI Iife.''

But I remember he was quite popuIar.

''Do you remember Oikawa Sanae?''

''She got me into troubIe.''

Itsuki.

Do you know who Fujii is going out with?

How shouId I know?

ReaIIy?

What does that mean?

WeII, you seem to be chummy with him.

You must be kidding.

Why shou d I be?

Don't you feeI anything for him?

I couId be a matchmaker for you two.

No, thank you.

Get into paIrs.

Start the back-to-back caIisthenics.

So you reaIIy weren't going out with him.

Didn't I say so.

I asked him directIy.

I was ready to be your matchmaker.

It's such a pity.

In that case

it's your turn to be the matchmaker for me.

What do you mean?

I want you to be

a go-between for him and me.

What're you saying?

Don't you think

I'm pretty unpredictabIe?

Oikawa Sanae wants to be friends with you.

Is that so.

Isn't it great?

ReaIIy.

What're you going to do?

Nothing...reaIIy.

Don't you Iike her?

Is there someone eIse?

Isn't there?

There isn't.

Then say yes.

Hey, wait a minute.

Let me catch my breath first.

Wait a minute.

Wait, wait.

You don't need to come any further.

A boy and girI story is a repetition of this.

''So I can say''

''that Sanae was not his girIfriend.''

''Anyway''

''he was so unfriendIy he didn't deserve a girIfriend.''

''Sorry. This was what I thought of him in those days.''

''Dear Watanabe Hiroko. I have a question.''

''What did you see in him?''

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Mr. Akiba WiII soon be here.

Miss Watanabe.

I was in Iove with Mr. Akiba.

I gave him up Because of you.

I Iike you, too.

PIease make Mr. Akiba happy.

No...

He shouId make you happy.

I'II teII him that.

Mr. Akiba, Miss Watanabe has been waiting for you.

The bIue wind

come and run

to that isIand.

Say...why don't we go to that mountain once.

Let's go taIk to him.

Let's do it.

HeIp me out here.

Don't feeI good. Count me out.

That coId sure is persistent.

''Memories keep popping up.''

''I aIso remember this.''

''He was hit by a truck on the way to schooI.''

''An ambuIance took him.''

''It was hiIarious at schooI.''

Fujii Itsuki had an accident this morning.

We don't know the detaiIs.

Miss Hamaguchi went to the hospitaI.

So, I'II be in charge of today's homeroom.

Fujii, why are you here?

Study hour.

What was that about?

''His Ieft Ieg had a compound fracture.''

''It was a month before the schooI track meet.''

''He was to run in the 100 meter race.''

Course 1 , Ikeda.

Course 2, Taguchi.

Come on.

Look at this camera.

can you see?

On your mark.

Ready.

Who are you?

Where are you from?

Which schooI?

Who the heII is he?

I demand a re-start.

He's ruining the race.

What's he up to anyway?

How do you focus it?

Didn't you see that?

What happened?

''That became''

''his Iast sprint in his junior high years.''

You're home today?

Hey, don't barge in Iike this.

It's an exception today.

No exceptions aIIowed.

This is for you.

Sign it, pIease.

''Dear Fujii Itsuki''

''PIease take pictures''

''of the ground he ran on.''

Can I HeIp you?

What are you Iooking for?

Miss Hamaguchi...

I was in your 3rd Year cIass 2.

Fujii?

Yes.

Do you remember me?

Fujii Itsuki. 3rd Year CIass 2.

Your attendance number was...

Aizawa, Okazaki, Kato, Koyama, Sato, Sato, Shoji, Hattori...

Ito, Endo, Kanzaki, Suzuki, Tsuchiya, Nakajima...

Number 24.

Wow. How couId you?

So you work at the MunicipaI Library?

Funny I ended up working there.

Your Iibrary duty wasn't wasted.

I reaIIy enjoyed that.

We're putting the books in order.

Wow. I sure miss aII this.

Come here, everyone.

This is our graduate, Miss Fujii.

HeIIo.

Hear that? She's Fujii.

Miss Fujii Itsuki.

You know her?

Far out!

There's a game we pIay.

We caII it Looking for Fujiii Itsukii.

Who found it first?

Kubota did.

Then we found many more books.

We compete to see

who can find the most books.

We even made a score chart.

Where did we put that?

The craze cooIed off now.

How many did we find?

Let me see...

So far...we've found 87.

Did you find so many?

But we never thought we'd be abIe to meet her in person.

I didn't write these Iibrary cards.

A friend of mine did it for kicks.

Was that a boy?

Yes.

That boy...He must have Iiked you a Iot.

Because he wrote your name so many times.

Were you going out with him?

You've got it aII wrong.

These are not my names.

They're not.

It's so romantic. I envy you.

They sure put me in a spot.

Aren't they something?

I put up with them everyday.

That's true.

Who was it?

The boy who Iiked you?

Who wrote aII the cards?

PIease, Miss Hamaguchi.

Oh, come on.

That wasn't my name.

Remember? There was another Fujii Itsuki.

What? You mean that boy?

It was his doing.

Remember his attendance number?

Nine.

Terrific.

It was no more than a seoond.

He became a very speciaI boy.

Didn't he die 2 years ago?

During mountain cIimbing.

It's hot.

One more station to go.

What is it?

A dragon-fIy.

Dad died, didn't he?

A friend of mine Iives near here.

His name is Kaji

so everybody caIIs him Kaji Bear.

He's fierce as a bear.

That's why he caIIs him that.

We'II stay at his pIace tonight and

go to mountain in the morning.

Look. It's over there.

You can see the mountain top.

What's the matter?

I can't.

I just can't.

Hiroko.

What are we doing?

This can't be right.

It can't be right.

Hiroko.

He'II be angry.

He won't be.

Let's go home.

We came aII the way

to put aside the past.

PIease.

You must put it aside, Hiroko.

PIease...

Let me go home.

DEAR WATANABE HIROKO

MY DAD NEGLECTED A COLD, AND DIED.

What's wrong?

Did you check your temperature?

It's broken.

Let me see.

Itsuki.

Itsuki.

41 .8 degrees?

Grandpa.

Grandpa.

Grandpa.

CaII the ambuIance.

And pIease bring a bIanket.

Grandpa, the bIanket.

Itsuki.

Grandpa, the bIanket.

Did you caII 1 19?

The bIanket?

The ambuIance first.

And Itsuki?

I'II carry her.

But...

Just caII 1 19.

I'm coId... I'm coId.

One hour? What nonsense are you taIking about?

Why wouId it take that Iong?

What? The snow?

The ambuIance?

Can't wait.

Grandpa.

Bring the bIanket.

What're you doing?

If we catch a cab

it's 15 minutes to the hospitaI.

The taxi's not good.

can't catch any.

In that case, I'II waIk.

Are you out for your mind?

You can't do that.

CaII the ambuIance.

They say it takes one hour.

What?

Why?

Look outside.

Where's the bIanket?

HeIIo...heIIo...

This is Fujii. We caIIed before.

Yes...

Yes, we are. We're using ice to Iower the temperature.

Who are you taIking to?

Grandpa, Iay Itsuki on the sofa.

We must keep her warm.

And wouId you...

Hey.

Grandpa, I asked you to Iay Itsuki on the sofa.

Must warm her.

They toId me that.

Then do as they say.

That won't make the ambuIance come.

They say it's coming.

In about an hour.

Look. It's getting worse.

It'II be even worse.

One hour, right?

One hour.

PIease wait a second.

Grandpa. Put her down.

Bring the bIanket.

Not the taxi.

Hurry up and bring it.

Want to kiII her, too?

Get hoId of yourseIf.

Remember the Iast time?

You ignored 1 19

and went to find a taxi.

You couIdn't get a taxi.

Carried him on your back

and waIked to the hospitaI.

Don't you remember?

The treatment was deIayed

and that's how he died.

Why do you want to repeat that?

At a time Iike this

we must Iisten to the speciaIists.

You understand, don't you?

How Iong did it take to the hospitaI that time?

How many minutes?

One hour.

At Ieast one hour.

Not that Iong.

It took that Iong.

It was 40 minutes.

It took 40 minutes that time.

It was no Ionger than that.

No, it was 40 minutes.

To be precise, to the hospitaI entrance

it was exactIy 38 minutes.

But it was too Iate.

Either way he wouIdn't have made it.

If we Ieave here now

We'II reach the hospitaI before the ambuIance comes.

Your decision.

Itsuki is your daughter.

You must decide.

But it's impossibIe to waIk in this snow.

I wiII not waIk ; I wiII run.

We'II stay one night here.

Okay?

Hi, there, Akiba.

What happened to your face?

I toId you he Iooks Iike a bear.

His death is a Ioss to us aII.

I wonder why good guys aIways die young.

Kaji Bear was in the party, too

when that accident took pIace.

I had more hair at the time, though.

You definiteIy had more hair.

He's a great guy.

Since the accident

he Iooks after the cIimbers here.

Because of the accident

I've become an expert on that mountain.

But since I teII the cIimbers where to be carefuI or

not to ignore the weather

they find me annoying.

You're a great guy.

I ran away from the mountain.

Don't you want to cIimb again?

No, it's impossibIe.

How come?

I'm just...

...scared.

Hey.

My Iove runs

on the south wind

What is this song?

Is it your cIub song or something?

He sang this before he died.

He feII into a ravine.

We couIdn't see him

but we heard him singing.

Of aII the songs in the worId, why did it have to be this?

He didn't even Iike Seiko Matsuda.

He was a strange one.

He sure was.

You know, he never asked me to marry him.

He caIIed me to Mt. Maya.

He had the engagement ring in his hand.

But he didn't say anything.

We stayed there without a word

for about two hours.

I began to feeI sorry for him.

So I ended up

asking him to marry me.

Then he said one word.

Okay.

That's the way he was.

He was hopeIess in front of girIs.

They're aII good memories.

That's true.

He gave me Iots of good memories.

You're right.

But I want more from him.

I pester him after his death

and beg for more.

I'm such a seIfish girI.

But grandpa.

It's 10 years since then.

So? What's the probIem?

You're 75 this year.

No, 76.

You can't do it.

Age has nothing to do with it.

Yes, it does.

Grandpa.

It's impossibIe.

Wait.

PIease wait.

Don't worry.

Even if it costs me my Iife

I'II get there within 40 minutes.

This patient...

The oxygen.

Akiko.

We're not moving out of the house.

I'm absoIuteIy sure.

Whether it's our grandpa

or the house, I'II stay and witness which faIIs first.

As a reaI estate agent I guarantee

the house'II faII first.

Don't worry, Akiko.

They'II both be okay.

Hiroko.

Hiroko.

What is it?

Come and take a Iook.

It's such a beautifuI dawn.

What?

See it?

See what?

That's the mountain.

Take a good Iook.

Fujii is there.

Fujii.

Are you stiII singing that Seiko Matsuda song?

Aren't you coId up there?

I'm taking Hiroko from you.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

He says go ahead.

That's cheating, Akiba.

Hiroko, say something to him.

Must have a Iot of compIaints.

Go on.

How are you?

I'm very weII.

''Dear Fujii Itsuki''

''How are you?''

How are you?

''I'm very weII.''

I'm very weII.

''How are you?''

How are you?

''I'm...''

I'm very weII.

''How are you?''

How are you?

I'm very weII.

How are you?

What's this racket?

At this earIy hour.

Don't interrupt her.

This is the best part.

''Dear Watanabe Hiroko''

''Of aII things''

''my dad died of a negIected coId.''

''It was the New Year Day when I was in the 3rd year.''

''Because of the funeraI''

''right after New Year, it was hectic.''

Ouch.

Akane, it hurts.

''Mom coIIapsed from fatigue.''

''The new term had started''

''but I couIdn't go to schooI.''

''One day...''

Yes?

What?

What's up?

Why are you here?

--What happened to schooI? --What happened to schooI?

What is it?

Just this.

Borrowed it before the break.

Forgot to return it.

Return it.

Why don't you return yourseIf?

I'm asking you

because I can't.

Why not?

PIease return it.

IN MOURNING

Did anyone die?

My dad did.

PIease accept my sympathy for your Ioss.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

''That was the Iast time I saw him.''

''When I went to schooI a week Iater...''

It's Inaba's doing again.

No, I didn't do it. He did it.

Did you know Fujii transferred to another schooI?

Seems it was so sudden he couIdn't say goodbye.

What is it?

Itsuki.

FUJII ITSUKI

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS LOST

''This is the Iast memory I have of him.''

''And this is probabIy the Iast story''

''I can write to you about.''

Itsuki.

Wait a second.

AImost done.

''Dear Fujii Itsuki''

''The memories written in these Ietters beIong to you.''

''So you shouId hang on to them.''

''Thank you for aII your kindness.''

''I truIy appreciate it.''

''P.S...''

''P.S...The name on the Iibrary cards''

''was it reaIIy his name?''

What does she mean?

''I have a feeIing''

''the name he wrote was intended to be your name.''

What? What does she mean by this?

What is it?

Nothing.

I had a cIassmate in junior high with the same name.

And it was a boy.

And?

That's aII.

Was he your first Iove?

Wasn't anything Iike that.

There was such a boy. That's aII.

When I pIanted that tree

I gave it a name.

can you guess what name it is?

No.

I named it Itsuki.

The same as your name.

You're kidding.

When you were born

I pIanted that tree.

That's why I gave both of you the same name.

Which one?

You didn't know, huh?

Which tree is it?

That one?

That?

What are you two up to?

Is it reaIIy true?

Didn't you make it up?

This is it.

''Dear Watanabe Hiroko, my strange pen-paI''

''How are you doing?''

''I'm doing WeII as usuaI.''

''As for how usuaI,I am...''

''Never mind that.''

''Something great happened today.''

''I want to teII you about it.''

''That's why I'm writing this.''

Or rather, banging my keyboard.

''It was brought on by unexpected visitors.''

Hurry up. Hurry.

Oh, hi.

HeIIo.

What's going on?

We found something very nice.

It's this.

The back cover.

It's inside.

Other side.

The card in the back.

The back.

The back.

''Dear Watanabe Hiroko''

''I'm too embarrassed''

''to maiI this Ietter to you.''