"Based on the novel "Chi to Hone" by YAN Sogiru (Gentosha)" "A SAI Yoichi Film" "CHI TO HONE BLOOD AND BONES" "There's my father..." "He's off to Japan by himself, leaving Korea and Cheju Island behind" "There's Osaka!" "You can see Osaka!" "What would my life have been like, without him..." "All my life, my father blocked my path, like a solid wall..." "Kimchee" "Get out!" "Bastard!" "Bastard!" ""That hurts"" ""Bastard!" "Bastard!"" ""Stop!" "Stop!"" "Mommy..." "That's my Mom..." "She was first married off when she was 16... but to a 10 year-old kid" "She couldn't take it, so she ran away to Japan, and found work at a textile mill in Kishiwada..." "You slut!" "Get out!" ""Impudent!"" ""Shameless!"" "She got cozy with the manager, a family man, who knocked her up, so she got thrown out" "You're filth!" ""Beggar trash!"" ""Don't you dare come back!"" ""I thought you liked me"" "Mom spent the rest of her life struggling hopeless against" "Dad's ceaseless... violence..." ""My stupid husband never came back after wandering off"" ""I wish my drunk husband would wander off, he's a drunk"" "Hey, Masao!" "Give that back!" "Give it back, Masao!" "That's me..." "Next to me is my sister, Hanako, who's 3 years older" "Wherever the troops of the righteous may go" "None shall hinder their passage" "Go forward then, warriors sons of Japan" "That's my Dad's little brother, Shingi" "And Harumi, my half-sister, by Mom" "They were rushing to get married, because Shingi was being sent to war" "Oh, fearless Japan, who knows no foe" "Now is the time for the whole world to know" "Go forward then, warriors, sons of Japan" "Why, thank you" "Takayama Shingi!" "Banzai!" "Mansei!" "You bastard, spitting on an Imperial soldier!" "In this time of crisis, as sons of the Emperor," "Japanese and Koreans must fight as one!" "Have you no shame!" "Shame!" "Try that again, you moron!" "Great Imperial Japan, Banzai!" "Banzai!" "Banzai!" "Air raid warning!" "Enemy aircraft!" "Exterminate the Anglos!" "1, 2, 3!" "Exterminate the Anglos!" "1 ,2, 3!" "And then, the war was over and the summer was gone, and I was 9 years old..." "The Koreans are at it again!" "Ikuno Chapter Association of Koreans Residing in Japan" "Osaka Korean Middle School" "Return to your classrooms" "Go back!" "Go back" "Crush the Imperial Collaborators!" "Crush them!" "Crush 'em!" "From 10 Million Patriots to 10 Million Penitents!" "Korean Independence, Mansei!" "Mansei!" "Shut up!" "We can't study!" "Korean Independence!" "Look at the shit you put us through!" "Pushing us around with that Japanese-Korean Unity crap!" "You piled up a real mountain of corpses." "How many did you kill?" "How many Koreans did you send to war?" "How many?" "Tell me!" "I nearly lost my life, thanks to your bullshit!" "Blaming everything on me, now!" "Don't you wave the Japanese flag, you moron!" ""People's Traitor!"" "You were an MP on Cheju Island, weren't you Shingi?" "I could turn you in to Occupation GHQ as a war criminal!" ""What choice did I have!" "I had no country!"" ""What choice did I have!"" "My Dad had up and disappeared one day before the war got bad, and we hadn't heard from him since..." "But, the way we saw it, his absence was just a short, blissful interlude" "What's wrong?" "He's back, he's back, he's back!" "Welcome home..." "You locked the door" "You were gone... so long..." "Shut up!" "I do what I like!" "I'm sorry" ""Say hello"" " Welcome home, father" " Welcome home, father" "I'll make your dinner right away" "Get over here" "Over here!" "Stop!" "Don't!" "You can't!" "Can't!" "Don't!" ""Brother!"" ""Brother... "" ""Father-in-law,"" "welcome home" "Let's have a toast at my place, sir" "Violence isn't good." "We're all for Democracy, now" "Every last one of you fuckin' with me!" "Who the fuck do you think I am!" "He's out of his mind" "Hey, keep it up, keep it up" "Aren't you supposed... to get the landlord's" "Permission..." "Get me 40,000 Yen, cash" "What for?" "Starting a fishcake factory" "That's impossible" "It's not" "Idiot!" "Watch it!" "Sorry" "It's my payday tomorrow, payday" "I'll fuck my brains out in Tobita 4,400 Yen" "Your seal" "How many boxes?" "500 times 22 Yen is, 11,000 Yen" "Your seal" "Hurry it up, moron!" "It'll rot!" "Time's money" "Those are some tasty fishcakes Carry 'em good and and safe, now" "They're your paycheck" "More rice" "It's been a while I'm starting work here tomorrow" "Let me set you straight" "This is Great Imperial Japan" "Blood relations are meaningless You slack off, you're out of a job" "What's got you so worked up, brother Shingi?" "I'm no fishcake maker, I'm just a laborer" "Like you know anything!" "You hired him 'cause we're short-handed" "Keep your fat trap shut!" "You're grateful for the job" "Get your ass over here" "Are you..." "Kim Shunpei?" "What the hell?" "I'm your son, see" ""I, Lee Yonghi, was born on a moonlit night"" ""According to my mother, a light shown upon"" ""my newborn back"" ""It is now 18 years since my husband,"" ""Kim Shunpei began treating me like a slave"" "Thanks" "Your tip, keep it" "Thanks, brother" "Wanna smoke, Masao?" "I will, brother" "...I've been working, so hard everyday" "All the other workers are good folks..." ""Sir... "" "...and everyday is fun" "Thanks always" "Charging them for slops..." "Tesu and Yongsu are your nephews." "That's too much" "They make their money selling the pigs, that eat these slops" "What's wrong with that!" "Sure is hot" "Too hot" "Sanae, up here!" "Takeshi!" "I'm sorry it took me so long" "Come, come, everybody!" "C'mon up!" "Who's that!" "How dare you bring her into my house without permission!" "She's my wife." "She'll be living with us, starting now" "Take some" "We'll be leaving" "Takeshi, good morning" "Mom" "Sorry." "Can I get a glass of water?" "Finish the fuck up there!" "That an old hag pee?" "You're so mean to me" "You're at it all day and all night?" "If you don't like it, why don't you buy us a house..." "Dad?" "You idiot!" "Who's got that kind of dough!" "I was born 'cause you raped my mom" "Then her enraged husband beat her to death," "so I got passed around from the moment I was born" "God's hardly going to punish you, for buying a house, for this poor son of yours, is He now, Dad?" "You don't like it here, get the fuck out!" "He's here" "Morning" "It's not loaded" "Can I touch it, brother?" "Nope" "What's the big deal?" "Let him" "It's no kid's toy, you moron!" "You can't tell a soul, got that?" "Oh, sir" "Long day, sir" "Thank you for everything, Dad" "Thank you very much" "Get out" "I'm leaving, but I need a favor" "Can you lend me some... money?" "You see any money!" "I haven't got any" "What the fuck are you doing, moron!" "Shut the fuck up, you miser!" "Give him, brother!" "Cut it out!" "Get off!" "Sir!" "You moron!" "I'll bust your head in two!" "Get over here!" "Isn't that enough?" "Let go, let go!" "I said, let go!" "Take this" "Go wherever you want" "Stick around, he'll kill you" "Honey..." "Masao" "You study hard" "Masao, Masao" "My brother Takeshi... showed up in the rain and left in the rain" "Ten days later, he up and got shot in the back in a cabaret in Hiroshima," "and he was dead..." "Hey, Masao, I'll help you" "Wow, amazing" "Fellow Korean-Japanese Arise and Join the Japanese Revolution" "We have to follow Mao Tsetung" "It's not just about your stomach..." "Here's some makkori" "I'll have some later" "It's home brew, I made it myself..." "That fucking bitch spoiled him" "The next son that's born, I'll raise" "After Dad bought a new house right under our noses and a war widow named Kiyoko, started coming by," "our crowded Korean-Japanese neighborhood fell into an uproar" ""God's curse on her"" ""Slut"" "Let me... die" "Let me die" "What?" "What are you smirking for?" "You're good" "If I keep this up every day, I will die" "Kim san, please look after me forever and ever" "Strip" "I really will die" "Hurry, strip!" "Hello, boss" "Nice to see you, boss" "Hey, liquor man" "She looks just like a princess, right, boss?" "Shut up!" "Sake!" "Special day, today?" "He gets away with it, because you keep quiet" "I really hate it." "It's so disgusting" "You just look after your own family, that's enough" ""You lech!"" "Tetsu" "Tomorrow's payday" "I'll get my ass to Tobita and fuck my brains out" "Lucky you." "Wish I could fuck, too" "You assholes" "Just because 3 guys quit, you cut down on production" "Keep your quotas up" "What the fuck do you expect us to do!" "Who the fuck you talkin' to!" "Don't, Yoshio" "Fuckin' miser." "Pay us overtime!" "Please pay us overtime." "We barely get any sleep, now" "Overtime pay!" "Fishcake makers get a day rate, based on skill!" "Goddammit!" "You work us to the bone, then threaten us like that!" "Work!" "Get up!" "Work!" "What" "Get to it" "Work, goddammit!" "Get to it!" "Work!" "Work" "Principal of 400,000 Yen" "Against such principal of 400,000 borrower shall pay monthly interest of 24,000 Yen on the 25th of each month" "April 3, 1950" "Osaka City, Nishiyodogawa Ward, Himeshima 3-15-2" "Borrower, Nanbara Eisei Lender, Kim Shunpei" "When will you pay off he principal?" "Can you wait..." "Another 6 months?" "Cut the crap" "You want a 6 month extension, you owe me 6 months' interest" "That's impossible" "Who's next?" "Dad used his fishcake fortune, to become a loan shark..." "As though competing with him," "Mom quit her peddling business and opened a diner" "Even with everyone..." "I remain... their... pioneer" "Wherever... there is pain" ""Please save me... "" ""from this suffering"" ""Aunt"" ""Salvation won't bring you happiness"" "Shut up, Commie" "Where are you going?" "Somewhere to talk about death and life" "I know, you're going somewhere nasty" "You're crazy, we're Communists" "Moron Masao!" "You lech!" "Why can't you make a baby?" "You've been here 2 years now." "Why not?" "Eat!" "Eat it, regain your powers and have my baby!" "Eat it!" "Eat it!" "Eat!" "Eat!" ""Brother Chynamyo!"" "Masao!" "Hanako!" ""Brother Chynamyo!"" "I'm stuck in here for awhile!" "You take care!" "Let's go home, Hanako" "Let's go" "Then, Kiyoko suddenly collapsed from a brain tumor..." "We're going" "Unable to contain his rage, my Dad started taking it on his family again" "Who the fuck do you think I am!" "I'll kill the lot of you!" "Come sit here" "You deaf?" "Who the fuck do you think I am?" "Tell me!" "Who the fuck I am to you?" "My father" "You don't even believe that shit" "You say I'm your father?" "Who the fuck I am to you?" "Tell me" "Tell me!" "Who the fuck am I to you!" "My father" "I'm not your fucking father!" "If you're not my father, who are you, then?" "How dare you!" ""Fucking lunatic!"" "Rat Poisoning" "Although she took 15 pellets of rat poisoning, Hanako survived..." "You did this to Hanako" "I swore revenge for Hanako and went to the bath house to stab my father to death..." "Stab me" "You coward!" "Brother, brother" "Please stop." "Masao will die" "But I was no match for my father, who broke my nose and two of my ribs" "I was hospitalized the next day" "Whether because of Kiyoko's collapse, or a decline in his fishcake fortunes," "Dad shut his fishcake factory, and dedicated himself to usury like a man possessed" "Get out here, you!" "Get out here!" "Give me back my money!" "Pay me back!" "Get out here, you!" "I'll open up, open up, stop!" "You moron!" "How long you gonna make me wait?" "Here, drink this!" "Anyone who eats my money is sucking my blood" "Desperate to escape from Dad, my sister Hanako, had accepted a proposal from a man she didn't love" "Hey, Tokuyama!" ""It's a trial, a trial!"" ""I haven't done anything bad"" "Stop, stop it" "When did you kiss Hanako?" "I haven't kissed her" "Confess, dammit!" "You've got the face of a liar" "It's the truth, the truth" "Spare me" "That spring, Kiyoyo was released from the hospital" "The casting metalworker died!" "Killed himself!" "You drove him to his death!" "You hear me, moron!" "Bastard ate my money!" "I'll drag him from his grave to get hold of my money!" "Let him die if he wants to!" "Brother Chyanhyon was released after 4 years in prison" "I feel like Rip van Winkle" "Hanako got married, the war to liberate Korea ended," "and the things I believed in so fervently have changed completely" "Do you mean the Japanese Communist Party's revised position?" "Hanako and Arai, congratulations on your marriage, really" "Thank you" "Cheers" "He's sure got plenty of attitude, for an ex-con" "And that worthless brother of yours, all tail-wagging smiles" "Bet that ex-con wanted to fuck you" ""Are you in, sir?"" "When you hear the buzzer, come upstairs and check" "She can't talk, but mostly she understands" "I see" "Let her pee and shit into this pan" "She pees 2 or 3 times a day" "She shits about once" "I see" "You gotta help her eat She can't feed herself" "This lady's going to look after you, now" "You do what she says, got that?" "Maybe she doesn't like me" "Who gives a shit" "Worm, snake," "little brother of a snake, big snake" "Stinky" "Don't they have any gas here?" "For tomorrow's groceries" "40 Yen?" "For a day's groceries?" "Got a problem?" "Make her play outside" "Yukiko" "Maggots, Mom" "Go buy some candy at that candy store" "Maggots..." "Go buy some" "Strip" "I said, strip!" "I left you some money" "Thank you" "How about a "thank you"?" "Thank you" "I'm going" ""Brother, I'm going"" "My stomach's been bothering me lately" "Go see a doctor" "It's just my age" "I tire so easily these days" "You can leave him and come home" "You've got Chyanmyan" "Say goodbye" "Listen, he tricked me into moving in" "He said he'd marry me after you died..." "He's got a wife, across the alley." "She's nowhere near dead" "What a joke" "She won't eat, no matter what I try" "Try to make her eat again" "God, it's exhausting" "You don't like it, get the hell out" "As of today, I'm a Poet of the North" "Masao each of us is a single-line poem" "This moment is a poem" "Write poems, poems" "I'll write you as soon as I get there" "Chyanmyan" "Brother, wait for me!" "I'll see you soon," ""in the Republic of Korea"" "I'll be waiting!" ""Kim Il Sung, mansei"" ""People's Republic of Korea, mansei!"" "I didn't go home to the Republic" "Perhaps, more accurately, I never went" "He never sent me a single letter from that Earthly Paradise and I eventually lost all contact, with our Poet of the North" "What the hell!" "How did she crawl to the stairs?" "Oh, I'm so scared" "Bet she fell down the stairs on purpose" "Bet she wants to die and get me blamed, I'm so scared" "Shut the fuck up" "Let me play" "No, go away" "You've go the apples and the bananas reversed" "Red's in the east, white's in the west This is wrong, too" "And that snapper's backwards, too" "The head faces east, tail faces west" "Get with it, you're the eldest son" "Please, act the part" "Take this, please" "Masao, it's about time to go get your father" "We're about ready to start" "I gave her some peace" "You can't tell anyone" "You keep your mouth shut" "He's a murderer" "That man's a murderer" "You can't... send your father to prison" "Sooner or later, Kiyoko san was bound to die" "That's no excuse for murder!" "I watched him murder her!" "Just keep your mouth shut!" "Masao, you're the eldest son." "You get the family inheritance" "I don't want money!" "That money belongs to us!" "We can't let some Japanese girl have it!" "Masao!" "You won't talk, will you?" "You keep your month shut, go that?" "Masao!" "What's this?" "Wow, open this." "Not that" "Look at this, it's a skirt" "It's so cute" "Mommy I'll wear this" "Yuki, try this one on It'll look good on you" "Look, it's tight on me" "Hey, don't touch it" "Get off!" "Keep your hands off" "Hey, money-man, you home?" "Against principal of 3,000,000, borrower shall pay 270,000 Yen, on the 25th of each month, as interest" "In the event of delayed or unpaid interest payments borrower shall be subject to a 540,000 Yen penalty" ""Welcome"" "I explained it all on the phone Can't you come home?" "I can't" "Leave it be, brother Shingi" "I'll take care of myself." "Leave me be" "You're Kim Shunpei's son You've got nowhere to run" "What are you, my Dad's shadow?" "Your Dad and I..." "Run back to my mother you love so much" "What are you saying?" "You've got it all wrong" "Bet you want him dead, more than all of us" "Some things, you just can't say, Masao" "Oh, is that so?" "Please..." "Masao" ""Oh, God"" "The doctor says radiation would eliminate some of the cancer" "But she won't recover, right?" "She's gonna die anyway, why waste money?" "Can't you even take care of her, at the end?" "I don't give a fuck if she lives or dies" "But she's your wife" "Who the fuck you think you're talking to?" "Please cover her treatment" "I don't give a shit" "If it's money you need, you can work like a dog, like I do" "You made it by yourself?" "After working us all to death, you keep everything for yourself!" "You won't pay for her treatment!" "Shut the fuck up, you moron!" "Die!" "Bastard!" "Outta the way!" "Asshole!" "I'll kill you!" "Get the fuck out here!" "I'll crush you!" "I'll crush you to death!" "That's the fighting spirit!" ""You bastard!"" "Get back here!" "Fight!" "Try jumping!" "Break your leg!" "Moron!" "Trash!" "Fucking idiot!" "Be strong, be strong" "You're almost there" "Be strong, I can see its head" "I can see the head" "A boy!" "A girl!" "Got quite a little weenie on him" "That's all he's good for, that lunatic!" "How many kids he gonna make at his age!" "Shameless!" "There's a curse on your whole family" "Cursed penises" "You've got bad blood in you" "Hey" "When's that idiot Masao gonna pay back my money?" "I don't know" "Didn't you ask him, you moron!" "I lent it to him 'cause he's your brother" "Grovels when he needs money, but not a word since!" "Just a dumb high school grad!" "Please talk to Masao" "Please talk to Masao?" "You got that wrong" "Isn't he your brother!" "Get up, bitch" "Get up, bitch." "Get up" "Would you lend me money to rent an apartment?" "That's a bad idea" "Even if I can't sew dresses, I can at least do piece work" "Buy Maki some toys and get back home" "You're starting to be just like Dad" "Maybe our family blood is bad" "Listen, sister." "It's a tough world out there" "You're best off going home" "So he beat you up It's nothing compared to Dad" "Ever since you were a kid, you were always threatening to die" "God, you're annoying" "Why don't you die already, if you can" "Masao, the second floor!" "Put a lid on it" "I'm sending Hanako off in style Shut up" "It's time you paid attention to your guests" "Can't you show any sympathy?" "With Hanako gone, I'll have to raise my kid alone" "You're the one who drove her to this" "Masao, your debts were a real burden to her" "My sister was planning to divorce you!" "That's enough!" ""Father-in-law"" ""It's been so long"" "I would have come to meet you" "Who the fuck are you?" ""I'm Hyubon, Hanako's husband"" "Hanako" "Hanako, your father's here..." "Hanako" "Say something, Hanako Say something, Hanako" "Where's my daughter?" "Father-in-law, get hold of your senses, she's right in front of you" "Where?" "Where is she?" "Where?" "Let me see my daughter" "That's enough." "If you wanna pick a stupid fight, you'll have to go" "Where the hell is she!" "You outta your mind!" "Your blood's spoiled" "Please, stop!" "Where's my daughter!" ""Wife"" ""Wife"" "I can't get up" "My leg's... numb..." "I can't get up" "Go up and die" "Die" "Where'd you put the money?" "Who knows when you'll have another attack" "I'm keeping the money for you Don't you worry" "Making a fool outta me, thief!" "Your money belongs to us" "Peace!" "Peace!" "Peace!" "He'll die" "You, "almost-died" Don't you fuck with me" "That felt good" "Listen, you pay me back before your factory goes under" "Otherwise, I'll kill you" "What are you, threatening me?" "I've paid you back at high interest rates for years" "Quit muttering or else" "This note's worth 5 million" "This one's worth 4.5 million" "Add the 500,000 commission, for a total of 10 million Yen" "Hand him over" "I'll throw in the land at Tezukayama" "That pussy-drunk Oyama's keeping a girl there" "Yoshio," "I've still got a mountain of riches" "You do a good job, you hear?" "Boss, who is that guy?" "A freak" "It's me!" "Oyama!" "Where the hell are you!" "What the hell's going on, moneylender!" "Yakuza burst into my place with the notes and deed I gave you" "Give up" "Once you get involved with the yakuza, you're screwed" "You're the one that broke your promise, asshole!" "You sold me out to the yakuza, you bastard!" "Better get home and raise that money" "You'll find a watery grave" "Doesn't this room stink?" "You don't have to come so often, Shingi" "Nothing better to do" "I'm embarrassed, too" "All black, from the radiation..." "Should I call him over?" "Don't bother" "I'm sorry for your loss" "Deliver my soy sauce" "I'd better go get him" ""Brother,"" "this is fun" "Shut up and eat" "Listen, I'm willing to assume those debts you've left all over the place" "Isn't that great, Masao?" "Your father's looking out for you" "Brother Shingi, sorry, but he's bad for my business" "He came all the way to visit you Can't you at least listen to him?" "Feel free" "You'll work as my collections man" "Work like a dog and pay off your debts" "Isn't it time you let Masao take over your business?" "Leave things to him and take over your business?" "Don't you agree that's for the best?" "Hand my money over to him?" "No way" "You don't even trust your own son?" "No way, no way, you do exactly as I say, while I'm still alive and kicking" "My money belongs to me I won't let him touch it" "This is just a bunch of crap It's time you got going" "You're the only one, Masao" "You've always done whatever the fuck you want, just keep doing that 'til you die" "Masao!" "Enough" "You're..." "You're Kim Shunpei's son" "That was the last I saw of my father" "According to Brother Shingi, after that, my father took Ryuichi, the son he had with Sadako, and moved to North Korea" "Five German duo-tone automated plate-makers, 5 cars, 5 two-ton trucks" "100 Seiko watches, clothes, shoes 70 million Japanese Yen" "He donated the entire fortune he'd hoarded to North Korea, and went across the sea" "Mom!" "Dad's a kidnapper!" "In any case, until the bitter end, my father lived for no one's pleasure but his own" ""There's Osaka!"" ""You can see Osaka!""