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When people finish their day
and hurry home,
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my day starts.
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My diner is open from midnight
to 7:00 in the morning.
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They call it "Midnight Diner."
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Do I even have customers?
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More than you would expect.
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MIDNIGHT DINER: TOKYO STORIES
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SWEET ROLLED OMELET
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Such a big eggplant
could only be called "jumbo eggplant."
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A friend of mine sent them
after quitting her job and returning home.
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How do you eat them?
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In Takayama, we grill them
with miso in the middle.
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Here. Fried fish with less rice.
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Master, if you've got a minute,
can you cook these?
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Sure.
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Welcome.
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Beer?
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Sure.
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Is this the right place?
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I think so.
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Have you seen this man here?
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Shall I help them?
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Have you seen this man here?
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Here you go.
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Have you seen this man here?
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Hey...
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Never mind. It's okay.
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I scan you, you scan me.
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Pay with e-money, okay?
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This is... This is...
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Cash only. Cash only.
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Sorry to have disturbed you. Goodbye.
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Hey...
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He said, "Sorry to have bothered you.
Keep the change."
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He said so. Maybe.
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Aren't they survivors
of the Hong Kong mafia,
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who once had a big fight
with the local yakuza?
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Could be. They looked like that.
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Dangerous smell.
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Certainly.
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Throw it by hand
by supporting with your waist.
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Anything wrong?
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What?
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Master class technique.
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Are you her master?
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Just a passerby.
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A passerby...
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Hello, Master.
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This person would like
to have a rolled omelet.
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Please.
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Sure.
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Here you go.
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Ours is a bit sweet.
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This tastes similar to the one
my dad used to make when I was little.
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His was sweeter than this.
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I see.
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I'll add more sugar next time.
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Thank you. Check please.
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It's 400 yen.
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You speak Japanese very well.
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I studied it before.
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It's none of my business...
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but people came here to look for you.
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I'm Lee.
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That was very delicious.
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Lee visited here again and again
after that day
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and had a sweet rolled omelet.
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You do like rolled omelets.
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Do you like it?
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Yes, it's delicious.
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Where did you learn Chinese?
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Last year, I started teaching Japanese
as a volunteer
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and learning Chinese
from my students in exchange.
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I like watching their historical dramas.
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How about you? How do you know him?
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I've met him,
but I don't actually know him.
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Welcome.
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Hey.
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Two mafia guys are coming this way.
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The mafia?
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The mafia is coming here?
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Shut up, you!
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I think they're
in the same dodgy business as I am.
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You say so, but...
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You should go upstairs now.
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I've nothing to do with the mafia.
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Don't worry.
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We can't ignore someone
who is in trouble in a foreign country.
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This way.
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This way.
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This way. This way.
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Our group needs Lee, the big brother.
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"Our group"?
So, you're members of the mafia!
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We're not the mafia.
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We're his underlings.
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"Underlings." There you go!
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Huh? Underlings are hunting
their own big brother,
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it's such a moral degeneration
of chivalrous spirit.
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Hey, I don't want any trouble here.
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-We need our big brother, Lee.
-We know he's here.
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They're not the mafia.
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They're my staff for the movie production.
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Sorry we made a fuss. Have some.
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Lee Punfa is a movie director.
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They're the producers who set up
the production company together.
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I guess they call it "a group" in China.
The same word we use for a yakuza group.
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Because he is Lee, they call it
the Lee group.
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It's so confusing.
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We found a new actor.
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He'd like to talk to you soon.
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Okay. I'll go back next week.
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The main actor of his new movie has quit
because of the pay
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and the production has been stopped.
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Lee was fed up with the whole thing,
and he just left China. That's the story.
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I think I can...
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You can drink!
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His father, late Lee Guanrai,
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was a famous director of chivalry movies.
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What is a chivalry movie?
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Chivalry movies
are sword-fighting action films,
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which are based on Chinese novels
of the 1920s.
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Both you and your father are
film directors.
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I had aspirations to be a film director
like my father.
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I'm glad your new movie production
won't be canceled.
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We planned to remake the movie
which my father couldn't finish.
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When the main actor declined our offer,
I actually felt relieved.
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I have no confidence to remake it,
and I'm still scared.
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I'm scared of being
compared with him forever.
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You're different from your father!
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Please make your own movies!
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That's right. Just make movies!
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There are so many movie directors
who actually can't even make one.
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Actually, his movie's main actor
was a Japanese man.
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My father wished to see the guy again
after he had left China.
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I looked into his whereabouts,
but I couldn't find him.
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It was more than 40 years ago, right?
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It'd be difficult to find him.
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The movie you're gonna remake,
what's the story like?
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It's a long film.
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Can I explain it roughly?
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That's fine.
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Good evening.
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-You all are here.
-Welcome.
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Master, a beer
and a sweet rolled omelet, please.
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Miso soup with pork and veggies.
Large portion, please.
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Sure.
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Ms. Kosuzu, this is Lee Punfa.
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He is a film director.
Isn't he good-looking?
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I like sweet rolled omelets, too.
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Such a coincidence!
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His omelets are good, aren't they?
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It means "delicious."
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That... Great.
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Lee and Mr. Kanemoto, please continue.
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Shall we?
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It was in the 15th century,
during the Ming dynasty in China,
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a group of evil eunuchs
tried to take control of a region.
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They made the opposing minister
the scapegoat and executed him.
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Then they started hunting his family, too.
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The group discovered their whereabouts
and tried to kill all of them.
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They are now in an impending danger!
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They are forced into a corner.
Life is a candle flickering in the wind.
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Then,
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a martial artist and low-class eunuch
in the evil group,
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a beautiful man called Xiao Ning
appears in front of the family.
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Xiao Ning was a subordinate
of the minister.
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Xiao Ning is a member of the evil group
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but has never forgotten
the minister's kindness.
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Xiao Ning, who decided to share his fate
with the minister's family,
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takes down the opponents with his swords.
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"I am who I am now.
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Every one of you..."
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Sorry for my betrayal!
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He said, "Sorry for my betrayal!"
What? Kosuzu, how did you...
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Xiao Ning!
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Did you perhaps...
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Father didn't cook very much.
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I know.
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You're the one who taught my father
how to cook rolled omelets?
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I thought so.
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Don't look at me.
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What's wrong with you?
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Is that person a man or a woman?
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I'd say both.
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Come inside for a cup of tea?
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I was just making one.
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Please.
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What can I say...
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How cruel the time is!
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Master.
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Can I come in?
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Sure.
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I met him...
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at a bar I used to work at.
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Lee's father happened to be in Japan.
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He persuaded me to be
the main actor in his new movie.
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He was a gorgeous man,
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so, I had a crush on him.
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He told me that he got divorced
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and was living with a new-born baby son.
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So, I didn't think twice...
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and followed him to China.
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It looks great.
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Does Lee look like his father?
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Yes, he does.
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The moment he said "delicious"
in Chinese, I knew it.
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Can I have some, too?
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Of course you can.
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Please.
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The new movie...
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The production stopped
due to a shortage of money.
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After that,
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he suddenly lost his interest in me.
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I guess it wasn't a happy ending for me.
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Lee said he was scared
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of being compared with his father forever.
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He can't avoid that.
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The only thing he can do
is make movies. Silly boy.
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I believe you could tell him something.
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PRIVATELY RESERVED TODAY
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The night before Lee left Japan,
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all the regulars turned up
to say goodbye to him.
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Everyone.
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Cheers!
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Cheers!
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It was great to meet you all.
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Master, thank you so much for tonight.
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Okay. Here.
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Ms. Kosuzu, don't you cook
rolled omelets anymore?
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Master makes the best ones.
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Hey, I've got something to give you.
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Too beautiful!
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I can't believe it!
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It can't be true!
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Is this really you?
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Your father loved only you and movies.
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Keep up the good work.
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Yes.
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Shall we also have rolled omelets today?
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To celebrate Lee's new start,
I'll treat you all.
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Great!
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-Does he really?
-That's unusual.
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Three months have passed since then.
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Surrender!
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You...
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Sorry for my betrayal!
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Cut!
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Cut!
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Getting better.
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But a bit cooler look on your face.
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You look so rigid.
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Try to relax.
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Let's have a break.
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Eunuchs...
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In exchange for their career,
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they had to give up
their masculine function.
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They're unfortunate and sad creatures.
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If you don't get that properly,
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your acting gets very shallow.
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Hey, you!
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That's not the right costume.
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Change it quick.
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Hurry up, or you'll be fired.
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You got it. Right away.
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Director.
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Let's do it.
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Yes.
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Camera rolling.
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DIRECTOR: LEE
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Action!
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