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A FILM BY KINOSHITA EIGA

What do you guys think you're doing? Get back to class.

- The principal's here with a policeman... - What a bunch of ugly mugs.

The deposit money from the bank will be here, don't worry. Tanuki said so.

I think somebody's discovered our plan.

We're screwed...Tadashi...

It's fine, it's fine. Tanuki said they'll be here soon.

The principal doesn't stand a chance.

Here he is!

Thief!

Kazuo!

Help!

Stop them!

Are you OK?

- What's going on? - They got us.

Tadashi and Tamae.

I need to use your phone.

Tadashi! Tamae!

You brats again! Come out!

Where are you?

We know where you're hiding!

Come out right now!

We'll be nice to you, so show yourselves!

Mr. Noro, convince the students to come out and show themselves!

Mr. Noro!

Mr. No...

NUCLEAR GYPSIES

PRODUCED BY SHIGESABURO KINOSHITA

WRITTEN BY SHOJI KONDO, AZUMA MORISAKI & KIYOHIDE OHARA

PRODUCER: TOSHIAKI NAKAZAWA

THEME SONG: "ALBATROSS" BY HIROSHI ITSUGI MUSIC BY RYUDO UZAKI

STARRING:

MITSUKO BAISHO

YOSHIO HARADA

MITSURU HIRADA

TAKAHIRO KATAISHI / SACHIE TAKEMOTO SHINPEI KUNO

TOSHIE KOBAYASHI / YOSHIE UEHARA KOJU RAN / JUVI SIBALIOS

TONPEI HIDARI

NENJI KOBAYASHI / SABU KAWAHARA GORO KATAOKA

SHIGERU IZUMIYA / TAIJI TONOYAMA

TATSUO UMEMIYA

Tadashi! Where's the money?

DIRECTED BY: AZUMA MORISAKI

It's Barbara! You're finally here! You doin' OK?

- Just fine! How 'bout you? - Not too bad!

- I'm back, Captain! - Oh, it's you, Hatsue.

Welcome back, Barbara!

- Ah, I've got a favor to ask of you, Captain. - What?

Being the intermediary.

I'm back!

Huh? Hatsue's back!

Come in!

Thanks for minding the house for me.

- Don't mention it! - Where's Tadashi?

- School. - Tamae, too?

Ah, that funny girl...

- I'm beat. - You were gone for a long time.

- What a rough day. - Rest up, won't you?

It's Aiko! Have you eaten?

Is Aiko that... from the other day?

She said "intermediary"...

- She's ready to settle, I'm sure. - Settle?

A traveling nude dancer from the age of 16 until today,

the age of 33, anybody like that would want to settle down eventually.

Going here and there all over Japan, dragging such a large suitcase...

a girl living all by her lonesome.

It takes quite a toll on your body.

It's believed that the minors that seized the graduation trip travel fund

got the idea for the crime based on a resentment removed from travel itself.

However, the matter of why Mr. Noro, who carried the funds, detoured to the school gate

- remains a mystery. - You're up?

In any case, Noro, who disappeared with the other drivers of the car,

is being regarded by Tokyo police as the holder of the key to the crime.

- Want some rafute? - Yes.

- Get me some ears too. - Okay.

You going to be here for a while, then?

I'm quitting dancing.

That so? You say the same thing every time.

- "I'm really quitting this time," and all that. - I'm quitting for real this time, really.

I'll find a job, live here for good.

Yep, that's for the best.

No use dragging yourself all over the place any more.

This is the best place in all of Japan.

The Peoples' Republic of Okinawa, settled on the waves.

How about it, Barbara?

Maybe I should play your theme song!

It was the spring of my 19th year, that I fell in love with you...

SNACK BAR "DARUMA"

500,000 yen is fine.

Will you let Mr. Noro go if I send the money?

What?

Fired?

Why did Mr. Noro get fired? We took him hostage.

Forget about it, just bring out the Principal!

Tamae!

I saw you on TV, you idiot.

You still haven't had an abortion?

I'll make some money if you need it.

You just need to turn some tricks for me.

Is that you, Tamae?

What are you doing? Huh?

Asshole!

What? What? What is it?

Well, well, well!

Hey there!

Ow...!

Miyazato.

The boss of the Shiozaki clan told me to give it to you straight if I saw you.

- Tell me what? - Don't play dumb!

The girl you took off with from the boss's place

went back to Tsuruga last night and was caught.

- Aiko? - Yep.

She confessed that you made her escape.

We clear?

Even if you're just trying to hit back at the clan,

that kinda thing ain't gonna fly in this world.

- Miyazato. - Yes?

Apologize to the boss in Tsuruga today, if you want to keep living.

Get something for our fellas, too.

Welcome home, Barbara.

It was the spring of my 19th year, that I fell in love with you

Is your neck still stiff?

You know, I...

I think I'd better stop traveling around for Tadashi's sake, too.

I'll always be here, from today onwards. Right next to you.

Tamae Shinjou!

You here?

Not so loud.

What are you doing, eating like that?

Did you bring the ransom?

Stop! What are you doing?

What's she done?

From where I'm standing...

- Ransom! - Shut up!

You're stealing that money!

You fucking bastards! I'm going mad!

Don't you ever come close to the school again!

Why do you treat them like vermin?

- You're the vermin. - Shut up, you stupid old man!

- You gonna get in my way? - Noisy asshole!

Worthless piece of trash.

I'll smash your nuts.

- It's the vice principal! - Huh?

This much I'll say:

I won't go to the police.

But I don't want to see any of you at school.

Mr. Noro is no teacher of ours.

There's no-one at our school that would team up with students to pilfer money.

Tamae.

- Tamae! - What?

- You took money. - No big deal. No more than you have.

That won't do it. Tell me clearly.

Why did you need so much money?

For an abortion.

- Abortion? - Yep.

So you...

- You're pregnant? - Yep.

- Whose child? - Who cares?

- That won't cut it! What'll you do with the father? - Nothing!

There's no father. It's better off to not let it live.

No father? You...

I bet you still hold a grudge, being thrown out...

- What do you know? - Takeko.

There's no need to get so...

Leave them alone.

It's between mother and daughter. Ought to leave them be.

So, you think you shouldn't give birth to a fatherless child?

Yeah. Why? You gonna say I should be thankful, or something?

I don't need you telling me how much you've suffered raising me.

I'm not going to bother you. I'll take care of it myself.

Not going to bother me?

- I'm gonna leave this house, is what I'm saying! - Idiot!

I'll leave before you even set foot out the door!

You've always said you don't need parents,

so maybe it should be me that throws away a child and leaves the family!

Let's go, Captain.

Looks like it wasn't such a good idea

to sweet talk me the night of the Eisa Festival last year!

Remember how you said that if I really wanted to disappear somewhere,

you'd smuggle me aboard your ship and take me to Tokoyo-no-shima or something?

- Where's Tokoyo-no-shima? - Wherever, who cares.

Grandma talked about it. Some paradise beyond the sea.

Flowers bloom all year round, and you never have to worry about food.

So you don't need to take those old clothes with you, then.

What?

Bye, then. I'm never coming back here.

Hey, Barbara.

Let's do it already.

- Hurry up! - Not here on the futon!

Again with that?

- Why? - Don't ask why.

Where, then?

- In the kitchen again? - They can hear it downstairs from there.

Why are you...?

Well, let's just do it somewhere.

Under the clothesline will do.

Clothesline?

It's fine, just... It's cold, so...

I want to see you.

You're already seeing me.

- I want to see you! - You're already seeing me!

Tell me just one thing...

What?

What happened to Aiko?

Well...

she went back to Tsuruga after all I went through to make her escape.

She'll be killed if she goes back!

That half-wit is dumb enough to know she'll be killed if she goes back.

That's not true.

Not true?

You're lying!

But didn't you talk to Aiko over the phone?

I did, the day before yesterday.

A month after I asked you to get her and help her run away,

I called long-distance every day, but she never picked up.

She finally picked up the other day. She was crying.

I was so happy.

I rushed down here as soon as I finished up my schedule, but...

you chased her away, didn't you?

- Me? - If you didn't, then why's she not here?

- Wait a sec... - Cutting ties with the yakuza,

helping Aiko escape as proof, and having a proper wedding ceremony...

They were all lies!

Barbara, I can explain...!

Who's there?

Come here.

What are you doing there?

Tadashi!

Tadashi!

Out you come!

What do you think you're doing?

Why did you have to kidnap this teacher? You could have used a fake or something.

Poor thing.

I didn't think I knew him when I saw him on TV before,

but he's your classroom teacher, right?

Why'd you tie up your own teacher?

- For a hostage. - Why take him hostage?

He said there'd be no graduation trip.

- So I went a little crazy. - That's your own fault.

So, what were you planning to do with a hostage?

We thought we'd get ransom money instead of using our savings,

but Tanuki said he got fired, so they wouldn't pay the ransom. He was pretty mad.

He said to get rid of him.

- Why? - I thought we'd get rid of him, but...

I didn't know what to do.

I thought maybe...

Miyazato could take care of it.

How would I?

Wrap him up in old newspaper and exchange him for tissue paper?

It's nothing to laugh about.

Let's go to the school with your sister and apologize properly.

You'll be handed over to the cops if you go there.

- That's how you apologize! - Like it'll end there!

We don't need the cops.

That's right.

Quit taking a leak over there!

Come and say something!

You are their teacher. Start acting like one!

Don't fuck with me.

What are you gawping at? You take me for some kind of idiot?

You're nothing more to me than the shit-stained water in those creeks!

Come on.

It's like this.

Like what?

Well...

teachers like him are all empty mailboxes,

so it's only natural that the kids fly off the handle. Right, Tamae?

Yep. I'm a flying girl!

Don't act high and mighty. It's you that's empty-headed.

Don't make fun of him.

Well? Hear anything?

- No... - Then, it is empty!

Mine makes a little sound, thank goodness.

You've just got some holes in it.

- Quit messing around! - Ouch.

What are you going to do now?

I'm going to be a gypsy.

- You know what a gypsy is? - Yeah, I do.

It's good money.

I'll be your underling.

You're like a little brother, rather than an underling.

No! I'm not going to let you become a yakuza.

- Nobody's talking about yakuza! - I don't trust you, or Tadashi!

Why don't you trust me?

Because you're a liar.

I...

I get it now.

Get what?

You...

you don't plan on leaving the yakuza, do you?

I could tell by how happy you looked when Tadashi offered to be your underling.

Idiot!

You're just a...

Who do you think you're...!

Stop! Let's go.

Bring Kazuo's stuff!

- Tadashi! Where are you going? - I'm going with him.

Go get lost.

"Far in the sky over the mountains of you, the scent of someone"...

Sorry.

Let me take your bag.

Yeah, partying makes your body weak,

and I was traveling almost all year.

Being introduced to club after club by club owners in the places I was heading.

From Okinawa in the south, to the edge of Hokkaido in the north, there's nowhere I wouldn't go.

To save on rent, I used to always sleep in the waiting areas at stations.

Winter in Hokkaido is awful.

You wear more so your bag gets heavier, your feet freeze...

I sometimes got so annoyed pushing around my stuff that I would kick my bag down the train station stairs.

Sometimes there were clubs that booked a ryokan for me, but mostly I stayed in the clubs' green rooms.

The worst times were when I slept on a goza mat in the kitchen.

I dry out my clothes as soon as I get to the clubs. They're always dirty with sweat, dust, and nicotine.

It's lonely eating out all the time, so I used to pack saucepans, rice, even gas stoves.

I packed a radio and knitting gear too.

When I would leave one place, I'd make the journey to the next one fun.

Like learning kanji or whatever.

You meet lots of entertainers in the green rooms, but you never talk with them.

There are lots of migrant dancers from the Philippines these days,

but they can't speak Japanese, and I can only speak Japanese.

Nothing interesting comes of it.

The most annoying things were the drunk clientele and bullies from the band.

Bandsmen that knew the dances were fine,

but there were some that were fed up that I wouldn't sleep with them.

Di-da-da-da, di-da-da-da...

they made me cry once by making me dance forever to that one phrase.

Goodnight.

Mr. Noro, why don't you sleep on the futon?

Okay.

"Now arriving at Takenami."

"Please take your belongings with you."

Hello!

Haruko!

- Where's your mom? - At the cemetery.

Cemetery?

Barbara.

Did someone die?

Is it true that Aiko's back?

- Where is she? - Well.

- The funeral was just recently. - Funeral?

Whose funeral?

Well...

it was Aiko's.

Aiko's dead?

When? Was she killed?

Where's her grave? Up the mountain?

Aiko!

I knew it...

I knew she'd end up killed because of us!

Aiko...

Aiko...

Barbara?

It's Aiko! Have you eaten? Hey Barbara!

Aiko!

Aiko!

So, it was his funeral?

"Yasuji" was his name, huh?

- Could it be that...? Aiko? - Yeah?

This Yasuji guy...

did you have feelings for him?

Did you come back because you were worried about him?

That cut is from when you were hit when you came back, right?

Don't tell me Miyazato hit you?

I gotta go and take care of the shop.

She looks just like me.

Filipino people are Asians just like us, after all.

They say that she has a relative named Barbara, so she follows us around.

She must be a migrant worker, like the ones you met.

It's thanks to them that us dancers stopped being able to make a living.

Our fees went right down.

They used to have to pull customers on only three cup noodles a day too.

Poor things.

Their passports were confiscated, and they can't go home.

I was so happy, you know.

When you said, "Let me take your bag."

I've been traveling around for nearly 20 years,

and while I've had my butt groped, no Japanese man has ever offered to carry my bags.

- Your hand hurts, doesn't it? - Ah, no...

Tamae!

I saw Mr. Noro today, down at Mihama.

At Mihama? So Mr. Noro's here, is he?

Tamae!

They're "nuclear gypsies."

Those nuclear plant workers.

Nuclear plants have to take a routiner every year.

- "Routiner"? - Routine inspection.

That's why so many temporary workers hang around here.

There's so many nuclear plants here they call it the "Nuclear Ginza."

Hey, kid.

- Whiskey & water, please. - Sure.

- That's a gypsy superstition. - Superstition?

They say the bottle sounds good when you haven't inhaled much radiation.

- How's yours sound? - So-so.

- Potato chips, please. - Here, let me have a go.

Good, good!

You guys are so addicted.

You bathe in radiation for the whole day, then wait for the inspection.

Nothing else to do but this.

Your debt from the boss has gone up, hasn't it? Over 5 million, wasn't it?

You OK?

You know how much money per day is coming from back home?

A thousand, maybe two thousand.

Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren are subcontracted, you take a kickback of about 7-8,000,

and that's taken by debt interest and gambling.

All that's left is radiation.

How stupid. Yes!

Keep it coming, keep it coming.

What's that?

You being back here makes me think you're in love with me.

Eh, Barbara?

Sorry everyone.

The boss says we've gotta get going.

- So if you'd kindly make your way... - Something up?

I've just gotta go check on the water.

Let's hustle, shall we?

Miyazato! Get your ass down here!

Well, Detective Yoroi, I have to get to our clan meeting. Please excuse me.

Out you go, then.

The only chumps making small change are you and the strippers.

See you back here when you get more money!

All they blab about is nightshifts. Same deal for me.

- Miyazato. - Yes?

Good evening.

Aiko and Maria are staying together, aren't they?

Yes.

"Valuables of the deceased."

You show it to any doctors?

There'd be a hell of a fuss from the TV and newspapers if I did.

Smuggling the whiny fool from the plant to here by boat

and keeping him locked up was hard enough.

- Where's the body? - Well.

I told Aiko we should leave him for the plant to come pick up, but that idiot wouldn't listen.

She said she felt sorry for him being cemented in a tin drum,

so both her and Ginko buried him up in the mountains.

Liar.

You killed him, didn't you?

Don't say such a stupid thing!

- What's wrong with you? - Huh?

You're running away with Aiko, aren't you?

I might have joked about it once, but not anymore.

So you've told the boss about this?

No, not yet. He's up at the onsen today and tomorrow.

So you know about that.

Whatever.

By the way, for tonight,

let me have Barbara, OK?

Nothing to do with me, Detective, so don't ask.

I was planning to beat you half to death for that graduation trip.

Why... why are you only after me?

Didn't I tell you? You're our greatest ally.

You were really scared when we let loose, weren't you?

You didn't know what to do, did you?

Even if it was just something like breaking glass or throwing Coke everywhere,

other teachers would phone the police straight away.

So, Mr. Noro...

how's your neurosis been recently?

Thank you.

I...

I finally understand.

Tadashi!

If you're drowning, you mustn't try to reach the surface.

But if you don't try, you sink.

That's right! You sink!

If you sink as low as you can, that's when your feet hit the ground.

And then you kick, as hard as you can!

That's how you save yourself.

So have you hit it yet, old man?

I'm asking if your feet have hit the ground yet, old man.

If that's what you have to say for yourself,

go to those workers' living quarters in my place!

Take these!

What'll I do? I'm so happy I won't be able to sleep tonight!

Let's stay up all night and party!

Party? Great!

Well!

It's Tamae! Have you eaten?

Come here, Tamae!

So you were here too after all?

Tamae! Come join the party!

- Sit down, sit down. - Here. Over here.

Ta ta-ta ta ta turtle! Ta ta-ta ta ta turtle!

Maria! Come along!

Come on, let's dance!

Dinner will be a little while.

Even a cheap postcard

travels for thousands upon thousands of miles

Ah, the bittersweetness of living in the same city of Koza

without being able to meet

They're both in Koza, huh?

I was only 3 or 4, but...

you were in Koza during the riots too, weren't you Barbara?

Riots?

It was at the end of the year.

That was some riot, for sure.

There was an old man working at the US base who got run over,

and the military police tried to let the American soldier off scot-free.

"As if we're going to let this slide!", the protestors said.

They went up in arms, furious.

It was amazing.

Flipping over American cars,

setting things on fire...

How old were you, then?

Nineteen.

It was right around the time a girls' bar popped up on Kokusai Street.

When I glanced around Tadashi had disappeared.

His mom had died,

and I took him in, keeping him in the green room.

I was shocked. I looked for him everywhere that night.

And then...

Ah, the bittersweetness of living in the same city of Koza

without being able to meet

Or whatever.

Tadashi says he still dreams about it.

Dreams of people running everywhere,

in the middle of the night.

Huge balls of fire.

It's alright.

I...

I... "me"...

I'm not scary.

I'm n-o-t scary.

Maria, I love you.

I... love... you.

I... love... you!

- (speaking Filipino) - Huh?

You love me?

This is the first time I've ever seen so many stars.

They say there's more of them every night, the ones that are born that day.

I heard that my parents had a hard time when I was born.

They were at the workers' quarters, but my dad couldn't work because of his neuralgia.

"I'll be a dad that can't even do what most people can, but that's alright!", he'd say,

and told my mother to have me anyway.

I bet he was already at the end of his days.

He'd already died by the time I was able to remember his face.

Mom didn't get all sad about it, though.

"Thank goodness, he's at peace now", she said,

gently patting Dad's legs.

I wasn't sad, either.

There was also an older man and a younger man in our workers' quarters,

who used to say I was their daughter too,

looking after me all the time.

"Rock, paper, scissors, it'll be aiko for sure!"

aiko = a draw/tie

"It's always a tie between sad things and happy things."

That's how my folks thought, so they gave me the name Aiko.

I remember the old guy and the younger guy, everyone at the quarters.

Mr. Chou, Mr. Gata, old man Arirang, Mr. Ko.

They let me join them in sitting cross-legged.

The best at it was Gi.

He used to rest on Yama's back.

Mr. Matsu's beard was all prickly.

Mr. Seki, who'd say "hoi-sa!"

Koba, Gin, Tomari.

- Iso who liked naniwa songs... - Icchon-bacchon Icchan!

Masa! Mr. Kawakami. Jimiya's dad.

- Kaneda, Shige, Iwa from Hiroi, old man Rabaul, Ken! - Ecchu-toyama, Tome from Kurabashiri.

- Sawa from Shinonome, Kato, Allah, Yu. - The decorated Bata, Kuma, Goro.

- That maggot Ton, Saki. - Roku...

Bei the dragonfly, Kazu the black kite... and toothless Sata!

Toku the rude, old Mrs. Oloron...

I remember everyone! Oh, and Miko!

And then at elementary school, there was Principal Keshikawa...

Mr. Oguni, and Mr. Itoyama, he was bald,

and he got angry at me when I threw my P.E. shoes at him!

There was Mr. Matsuo Sato, Mrs. Hatsuko Ono the music teacher,

Ms. Yoko the nurse, and the P.E. teacher Gon.

The babbling Mr. Hosoda, and the nail-biting Mr. Takeuchi.

Hoshi the bully, Kuroiwa the crow, Mr. Narayama.

Galico, Ohira the vegetable.

Ishii who would say "G'morning!", Rika, Mr. Kobayashi.

Kurumoi, En, Take, Kawakubo.

Old man Mr. Morimoto...

- Satomi from the photo parlor. - That pervert Yama, Sawada, Seki.

- Hayashi with the pork soup, Tateyama. - Hachi, Abe, Ao, Tatsu, leafy Pee, Yagi the maid.

Ide who brought the rain with him, Kuzukatsu, Kiyoko from the udon shop,

Nao from the market, Tane, Ginko,

Natsu, Haru, Maria!

- Takeko on the waves. - That's mom!

Mr. Shimabukuro, and the Captain of the Mashiki!

Barbara! Miyazato, Tadashi,

- Kazuo, and... - I'm waiting!

Tamae!

1,437.

So I'm the 1,437th person, huh?

What's this?

Aiko said it's the "distribution of mementos."

Hello. Sorry.

It's hard to suddenly go duck hunting when there aren't many boats.

Aren't there only a few ducks here?

- This boat is fine. - Huh?

You drive.

Has Aiko been here?

- She was here, but she left. - Where'd she go?

They say there'll be a sun shower.

She said that during her wedding ceremony,

there's sure to be a fox's wedding, too.

Aiko was just here, wasn't she, Granny?

When a man and a woman become one...

it's just about the happiest thing in this world.

"Granny, look! There's going to be a fox's wedding today!"

She looked so happy, laughing away.

Granny!

Where's Aiko having the ceremony? Where?

At the temple, I'd say.

Then, who's the groom?

There was a funeral yesterday.

Everyone was talking about it, but the day's finally come.

Poor Minamata...

Barbara.

Can you be the intermediary?

Mr. Noro!

Weddings need alcohol, so I bought some.

- Wedding? - You're gonna be an intermediary.

Intermediary?

It's Aiko. Have you eaten?

I got some wedding clothes from Granny!

They're so pretty! I'll show you them now!

I forgot to bring the hoe.

I was so happy to see you, Yasuji.

Aiko...

Aiko, we've come to...

These two will be the intermediaries for the wedding!

The intermediaries are here, Yasuji!

Yasuji, these are the intermediaries.

I'll bet he's grinning with happiness!

I'm sure the bridegroom is thoroughly pleased.

Come here, come here!

You can hear him, can't you? If you do this...

He sounds happy...

He's laughing.

The tube is caught on the lid, so the air must be...

- Alright, then? - Yes.

Say hello to the intermediaries.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

I'm very grateful that you came all this way for us.

Oh, not at all...

My, er...sincere congratulations... on this auspicious day.

Thank you very much.

Now we do the exchange of nuptial cups, right?

Congratulations, Aiko.

- It looks so beautiful. - Thanks.

The weather's also really... um...

It must have been hard to stay in that grave.

Yeah, but you get used to the difficulty in breathing.

It must be just like dying.

Are you injured?

I slipped and fell when I was fixing the pipe used for cleaning waste liquid.

The floor is so dark you can't see it, and it's soaked in waste.

You've seen a doctor?

Doctors can't enter the reactor, but my pals scrubbed the wound with a scourer for me.

A scourer?

You can't see it, but if you roll around in there radiation covers your body.

If it hurts, you just live with it.

It's dark and everyone wears masks, so you can't tell who's who.

I needed to go to the bathroom, but there ain't none in there.

I don't know the name of the guy that fell with me,

but I took a leak in his plastic gloves while I caught my breath.

They didn't let us touch the body.

Some of the reactor staff came and took him away.

You hear the same story from reactors all over the country.

On days when a gypsy has died in a reactor,

a helicopter appears out of nowhere at night, drops a rope in,

and hoists up the body, crammed into a nuclear waste barrel.

Fukushima, Genkai, and Tsuruga...

you hear the same story about all of them.

If I had've let him inside the grave, perhaps now he'd...

Maybe let's leave that story there for now.

Hey, listen to this. This is the password we made!

Ready, and...

"Overflowing Passion, Filled with Youth,"

"Unanimous Cooperation! Fight! Fight!"

And again!

"Overflowing Passion, Abundant Youth,"

"Unanimous Cooperation! Fight!"

Thank you, Barbara, and Tamae.

We must be off. I bid you farewell.

Excuse us.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

- Goodbye! - Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Why'd they even build all these nuclear plants way out here?

Because there aren't many people, and the bond is cheap.

If there was an explosion, there wouldn't be many casualties.

Tamae.

Keep quiet about what you saw at the cemetery, OK?

Did you know about it, Grandma?

If that Yasuji fellow hadn't proposed to Aiko, they wouldn't have had to risk all this.

He's a living witness to the company's cover-up of a nuclear discharge incident.

Faking Yasuji's death and hiding him in a grave. Quite the smart idea for little old Aiko.

I wonder if she'll be able to get away...

There's a different plant past that 'No Trespassing' fence over the mountain, along the rocky shoreline.

The company can't go near it.

Although...

Although what?

- If... - If...?

If that fool Aiko didn't listen to me and took Maria as well, by now she might be...

A sun shower...?

Aiko... she's celebrating, from the afterlife!

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, nam-myoho-renge-kyo...

Aiko's body was found.

It was snagged on the plant's sluice gate.

She must've taken her own life after Yasuji was killed.

Their bodies were found together, actually.

You knew Yasuji wasn't dead, didn't you?

- You helped with the grave too, right? - The police knew as well, didn't they?

You knew she'd take Maria with her, so you let her go.

It was a dirty trick.

Who killed Aiko?

Where's Maria?

You didn't need to kill her.

Give them a few thousand yen, tell them not to come back,

and not to tell anyone about the incident.

If you'd only done it that way, they could have gone on living somehow.

They wouldn't have returned here for the rest of their lives.

So why'd you have to kill them?

Tamae... Tamae!

It's Aiko!

Have you eaten?

Did you really think Maria would be here?

She witnessed a murder.

She doesn't know any Japanese, but she knows she'd be killed if they found her.

Why the long face, Barbara? Doesn't suit you at all.

Even when she's 34 or 35 and goes around acting like some punk's woman,

she won't end up dead in the sea like Aiko did.

- What are you talking about? - Idiot.

You think I'm blind?

- I see what you're up to. - And what's that?

Listen to me.

Aiko was killed trying to escape with Maria.

Maria knows everything about the company's dirty handling of the Mihama plant.

She lives on despite overstaying her welcome, like a redundant worker.

Cup noodles are all she needs to be happy.

Flights of fancy like saving people's lives aren't in fashion anymore.

Unless they're happening on a TV screen.

You can't live an honest life if you don't throw away your fanciful ideas.

Don't forget, you're nobody.

You're just a stripper.

Um...

Um... I laid out the futon for you.

I'm going back to the quarters.

Hold me.

Hold me!

Hold me...

Well...

Let me give you a massage, then.

I'm scared...

I'm scared of him.

Miyazato killed her.

I'm an idiot for letting Aiko get involved with Miyazato.

It's as if I killed her!

I miss you, Aiko!

Come here.

You do this kind of stuff, but you don't know about it, do you?

I'm rotting away here.

You think gypsies can deal with this radiation, that they can't even see?

Going into the reactor core without a mask.

"You guys are like modern-day kamikaze!", they say.

It's just glorified punishment. You wanna drink?

The radiation I swallowed just doesn't go away.

That hateful uranium stains deep.

It becomes the end of you, really.

Wait!

You take care of Barbara.

You hear me?

Give up on Maria.

I'll take care of it properly.

I'm back!

What are you all doing back here? Done running around everywhere, then?

Watch carefully, Tadashi!

Well? Is it moving properly?

Well? Anything?

Tadashi!

Welcome home!

Huh? Are you getting smuggled aboard too, Mr. Noro?

Tadashi, check the aft!

- Climb aboard, Mr. Noro! - If you get lazy, we'll sink halfway!

Tell us if you get hungry. Keep it up, only a bit more to go!

You want some?

He's here. He came in from the back.

Is Miyazato here?

What are you doing barging in here?!

Miyazato?

I've come to escort you. Get your stuff.

Let's go and turn you in.

What do you mean, "turn me in"?

Instead of the boss. He knows you didn't kill her.

Heard you helped dig a grave for that Aiko girl and everything.

A girl called Ginko confessed after we shook her down.

The boss...

he realized when he saw what you were like when you went duck hunting.

Oh well, you'll just have to be patient for 5 or 6 years.

Let's go.

By the way, where's the Filipino girl?

I'm not turning myself in.

Fucking idiot. What's your problem?

The boss told me to take you out if you refused to come with me.

You wanna be killed?

Tamae! What do we do?

Tadashi said he's going on ahead! Together with Maria!

- Alright, punk! - What are you doing?!

What's that about Maria?

Tell us where Maria is!

Speak up, you little shit. Where?

Fuck!

Get him in the car!

Hey, Kodama.

Kodama!

Tell this to the boss when you see him.

I'm going to expose everything you guys have done, got it?

I'm going to go on TV, in the papers, everywhere!

What are you all doing? Get the fuck outta here!

Let's get out of here, Mom!

Settle down!

I'm not doing anything.

Just stay here, OK?

It's not fair on her if you're not here.

Not fair for you, you mean!

Being the scapegoat for a murder you didn't even commit.

That's something a local punk would do, not a grown man like you!

Committing an actual murder,

and for what, yakuza honor?

It's OK if you were wrong.

You were always that kind of man, after all.

Taking everything on yourself when things get too complicated, trying to make yourself look cool.

I can't trust that side of you.

You're truly a wreck.

Even though I told you I wanted a child,

you went and got caught up in something like this.

Idiot.

You stupid idiot!

- What do you want? - It's Maria...

- What about Maria? - She won't get on the boat.

She says if she's not with Barbara, she won't move.

There she goes.

You're not going after her?

She's an idiot. For real.

A woman that knows nothing.

Let me tell you an old story.

The reason I became a gypsy was because I was in love with her.

Get it?

Decades ago,

we escaped from Okinawa to the mainland, with no passports or anything.

We couldn't register ourselves anywhere.

No family register.

We couldn't work, let alone open a bank account.

It was hopeless.

So you know what she says? "If we ain't got nothing,"

"I'll do anything, I'll be a touring stripper!"

"Alright! Let's live together as drifters throughout Japan for the rest of our lives, then!"

"If you're going to be a stripper, I'll be a nuclear gypsy!"

That's what I blurted out.

After that...

as she toured around Tohoku, I worked at the Fukushima plant.

In Kyushu, the Genkai plant. In Fukui, the Mihama plant, and so on.

We talked over the phone at the living quarters for each plant,

and met up at the nearest onsen.

Kuroiso Onsen at Fukushima,

Ureshino Onsen at Fukuoka.

I won't forget it.

Snow at Gero Onsen.

On a rock hard boulder in an outdoor bath, as the snow gently fell,

we held each other tightly.

You wouldn't believe it, old man.

I guess that's what they call bliss, I don't know.

Good girls do it in bed, you know,

but we ended up only doing it in the kitchen, the bath, the corridor, hard places.

She's an odd woman.

A real eccentric one!

While she's still in your arms,

she says, "I want to see you, I miss you!", and cries her eyes out.

Honestly...

it's kinda bittersweet.

What the...?!

What the fuck is this?!

What should I do? What am I going to do?!

Old man.

If you lift me up, I can walk.

Okay!

Alright, we're leaving soon! Have we got everything?

I'll leave you behind if you dilly-dally!

Come on, we're leaving soon!

Hatsue!

Where's Maria?

I'll be right back, Hatsue!

Get Maria on that boat, old man. Quick.

- Noro! - Right!

Get the boat going! Let's go!

Go! Start the boat!

What happened?

I want to see you...

I want to see you...

You're already seeing me.

I want to see you.

Miyazato! Show yourself!

You're under arrest for the murder of Aiko and gang leader Tobari!

Show yourself!

If you don't, I'll fucking kill you!

It was the spring of my 19th year

that I fell in love with you

If you must divorce me after all this time,

return me

to when I was 19

Even a cheap postcard

travels for thousands upon thousands of miles

Ah, the bittersweetness of living in the same city of Koza

Maria!

Without being able to meet

Miyazato! Miyazato!

TV sure is good for nothing.

On the afternoon news, they said there'd been a shootout between gang members

and a detective was killed in action. Have they come snooping 'round here?

They just came and picked up the body, that's all.

This whole business ain't good for them either, you know.

After all, they were in dealings with the yakuza.

In Ryukyu, we've always said "If a hand comes out, bring your elbow in,"

"if an elbow comes out, bring your hand in."

Higan-jirai jishiki, ichigan-jira ishiki.

Well, that man died with both his hand and elbow sticking out.

Where's Barbara?

At the harbor, seeing Maria off.

She's being forcibly deported, apparently, on today's boat.

That makes me think of the Captain.

I wonder where they are now?

Morning.

I forgot to load up the oil.

Aiko.

I'm going to have the baby.

"Overflowing Passion, Filled with Youth,"

"Unanimous Cooperation, Fight!"

- Fight! - Fight!

Fight!

It's Barbara!

Have you eaten?

NUCLEAR GYPSIES FIN

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