"DEAR SUMMER SISTER NATSU NO IMOTO" "Screenplay by:" "SASAKI Mamoru TAMURA Takeshi, ÔSHIMA Nagisa" "Music by:" "TAKEMITSU Tôru" "Photography by:" "YOSHIOKA Yasuhiro" "Art Direction:" "TODA Jusho" "Sound Recording:" "YASUDA Tetsuo" "Sound Effects:" "HONMA Akira" "Editing by:" "URAOKA Keiichi" "Unit Management:" "UEDO Takashi" "With:" "KURITA Hiromi" " Sunaoko" "ISHIBASHI Shôji" " Tsuruo" "Lily" " Momoko" "KOMATSU Hosei" " KIKUCHI Kosuke" "TONOYAMA Taiji" " Sakurada" "TOURA Rokko" " Teruya" "KOYAMA Akiko" " Tsuru" "SATO Kei" " Kuniyoshi" "Executive Producers:" "KUZUl Kinshirô ÔSHIMA Eiko" "Directed by:" "ÔSHIMA Nagisa" "I teach the Okinawan language." "Hello!" "1000 yen per word." "Bye." "Once upon a time, Urashima Taro," "Invited by a turtle who owed him his life" "Went to the Dragon's Palace under the sea." "There all was beauty and legendary splendour." "Don't be so long!" "You even washed your hair!" "Want me to hop in with you?" "No, I don't." "Then hurry up!" "Here, in Okinawa, I'm playing the lead!" "Maybe you're too nervous to meet OMURA Tsuru." "After all, you're daddy's fiancee, and Tsuru is his old mistress!" "Did you get her number?" "Her office, not her home." "Shall we phone first, or just drop in?" ""Drop in"!" "With that dirty hair of yours!" "You can't come in!" "It's Sakurada." "We are not dressed!" "I'm all right now!" ""All right", he says!" "This room is too small for the two of us." "Not at all!" "A hot bath sobered me up." "I feel tip-top." "I can show you around Okinawa." "You let me have one of your rooms." "I'd like to thank you." "That's right, you've been on Okinawa before." "I've counted everyone of her blackheads!" "Blackheads?" "I mean brothels." "Know what they are?" "Sure I do!" "Sakae-machi, Jukkanji," "Nami-no-ue, Koza-Yoshiwara..." "When you were young, Tsuji was the place!" "Your sister has taught you well." "Sister!" "Get dressed." "I'll be downstairs." "I'm very sorry, we're not ordinary tourists." "So you're extraordinary!" "Tell me about it." "We're on a search!" "Su-tan!" "What a coincidence!" "So am I!" "I get it!" "You're looking for your old..." "My old flame?" "No, I've come here to be killed." "Are you still drunk?" "You laughed a moment ago when I called you sisters..." "So what are you?" "I'll let you guess." "Don't be that way!" "Women always complicate things" "Let's be simple!" "Su-tan!" "I'm going sight-seeing with him." "Go there by yourself..." "You're playing the lead!" "Still daylight..." "I don't know where to start." "I know where..." "Southern Hotel?" "May I speak to the manager?" "It isn't Miss Omura anymore?" "Three months ago?" "She doesn't come in anymore at all?" "Do you have her address?" "Or her phone number?" "What's wrong?" "Nothing at all." "Let's go see the sights!" "I'm looking for" "Miss Omura, the ex-owner." "Oh, yes..." "Tsuru-san." "Where has she gone?" "At the desk they don't know." "Yes, no one knows where she went when she sold the hotel." "Well, since there's a new owner," "I'll just drop in and ask him!" "I don't see a single soul who looks like he could kill." "All gentle souls!" "Well, you don't look like one." "Me?" "I look like a tenth-rater?" "I'm the kind you kill, after all." "You want to be killed?" "Why?" "The atrocities, you know..." "You mean you killed women and children here, too?" "Oh, no, I consider a woman's life as far too precious." "But on our side of the fence, no one wants to be responsible, either to commit suicide or be killed." "You want to be the first of a long line?" "Momoko-san!" "I felt a little abandoned!" "I know how you felt!" "A girl... all by herself on Okinawa!" " Guess what?" "..." " Wait till we're alone." "But it's far!" "I need food to build up my strength!" "You got the address?" "It's far?" "It wasn't that hotel?" "It was sold 3 months ago." "Retired... an island off the coast." "An out-of-the-way place in the south." "Good thing I saw you!" "Know how to find the house?" "It's the Omura family's." "I'll let them know the "leading lady" is on her way." "If it had been told to me there was a phone," "I'd have made an appointment here in town." "I hope you're talking about a man." "Sorry, it's a woman." "When will she be back?" "Late this afternoon?" "Yes, I'm an acquaintance of hers." "All I understood was that she's off in a boat and won't be back till evening." "Do we go out there and wait?" "And hang around for 4 or 5 hours?" "Let's go now!" "We can tour the southern battlefields by bus, and be at her place just in time!" "Here in Itoman, we have a good example of sea-going folk, who live mainly on fish." "Plying the ocean in light canoes, they ventured far into the South Seas and were faimed as dauntless seafarers." "As the husband is often away, the wife runs the home, raises the children, and makes the ritual visits." "Hence her reputation for strength, energy and thriftiness." "Once, a very special custom was observed here:" "husband and wife kept separate accounts;" "the wife bought her husband's catch and sold it at a profit." "Thus, there were rich women whose husbands didn't even have cigarette money." "Here are the family tombs called Koji-hara-monchu." "In Okinawa, "monchu" means "clan", and "hara" means "family"" "There are 29 haras and 42 monchus." "Each hara has its own tomb." "The four tombs in front from the shiruhiroshi." "The one in back is called the tuchi." "When a clan-member dies the corpse is put into the shiruhiroshi." "After 3 years, the body is taken out and placed in the tuchi." "However, a confidential rule among the villagers provides that anyone over 80, or who has brought honour to the clan, shall be put into the tuchi immediately, while anyone under 7 or who has dishonoured the clan" "shall not be burried in the tombs at all" "In this cave-shelter was stationed the "Unit of the Lily", i. e. the nurses of the 3rd Medical Unit." "In this area there were four shelters the CHQ, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Medical Units." "It was in the 3rd Unit's shelter that the entire staff of nurses was wiped out, except for three survivors." "On the 18th of June, Showa 20, 1945, the 1st Unit learned the US troops were only 60 yards away." "They contacted the 2nd Unit and both shelters could be evacuated." "But the 3rd Unit was so isolated that they were unaware of their predicament till the next day." "Evacuation was set for June 20th, at dawn." "On the last evening they held the ceremony that marked a unit's dispersal." "Each took part in an impromtu show and at the end they sang "Going Over The Sea"" "That, however, was no longer possible." "The next day, they died." "Ready for another?" "Su-tan!" "I'm allowed to!" "I'm the lead here!" ""The month of July, Showa 12,1937, marked the begining of the China Incident" "which ultimately developed into the Pacific War, turning all of South-East Asia into a battlefield." "Because of its strategic location," "Okinawa ws the theater of crucial fighting." "The war ended having taken a toll far heavier than any war in history." "The war caused many casualities among civilians and soldiers" "of Okinawan origin" "The souls of those dead... "" ""Little sister Sunaoko," "You may be annoyed by this letter, thinking it is a declaration of hate." "But, it is my blood that speaks to you." "My name is OMURA Tsuruo and the blood that flows in my veins may well be that of your father, KIKUCHI Kosuke." "I had always believed I had no father, until one day I questioned my mother." "and she named two men, either of whom may be my father." "One of the names was your father's. "" "Sunaoko, stop!" ""I went to Tokyo in March." "I gathered information about your family, but I didn't want to see your father." "In your garden, I glimpsed my little sister..." "Or, rather, a girl who might be her." "But seeing you rake the garden," "I felt sure that you," "Sunaoko, are my sister. "" "Too bad, it was fascinating!" "That's enough, Su-tan!" "You're here now!" "You'll see your brother!" ""Sunaoko, little sister..." "I see no point anymore in blaming father, mother, or their generation, I only want to be able to to call you 'llittle sister'," "and show you all my affection on my native Okinawa." "Wouldn't you like to spend your summer vacation here?"" "Sleep, Su-tan." "I'm not sleepy." "She won't be back for an hour or so." "Lie down." "My name is KOTODA Momoko." "I'm intruding..." "You must be very busy, but please let me talk to you." "I'm not so busy as all that, but I'm no Good Samaritan, either." "I'm just in from Tokyo." "Thank you for the long journey..." "That greeting's out of date, eh?" "May I speak to you now... alone?" "As you wish." "It's about KIKUCHI Kosuke..." "Judge Kikuchi." "Have you any news of him?" "I understand he lives alone with his daughter." "Is it true that his daughter Sunaoko, and your son Tsuruo are brother and sister?" "Does it concern you?" "Tsuruo wrote Sunaoko that he had seen her in the Kikuchi garden." "Well?" ""I want to call you little sister." "I believe that's what you are." "I want to show you my affection on my native island." "Come spend your vacation here. "" "Sunaoko is here now." "What of it?" "The person he saw in the Kikuchi garden" "was someone else." "Was it you?" "Yes." "Tsuruo thought you were..." "Please, don't laugh!" "Where did you get to this over laughter or tears..." "in Tokyo?" "I..." "I..." "Are you one of the family?" "No..." "I mean, not yet." "Well..." "Sunaoko knows nothing of Tsuruo's misapprehension." "She must not see him." "I came to ask your help!" "Just what you expect of me?" "If Sunaoko asks for it, don't give her his address." "I can't give what I haven't got." "Of course, I could get hold of it." "And Sunaoko apart, don't you want to see him?" "I understand." "You agreed for me to see her." "Find some excuse and take Sunaoko home." "Don't bring her back too late." "And cut out the beer!" "Beer's the least of our worries!" "So you think we've been double-crossed, too?" "All that way for nothing!" "Papa arrives tomorrow!" "He phoned and left a message." "What's he coming for?" "He said he'd come as soon as he could." "Nobody told me!" "Otherwise, I wouldn't have come!" "Daddy wasn't to be in on the secret!" "I see it all!" "You were spying on me for him!" "Don't be silly!" "All right." "I believe you..." "But I won't be back tonight!" "Go, go, drink!" "But awamori's strong, isn't it?" "So, we were double-crossed, eh?" "It smells!" "This whole business smells to high heaven!" "Going off to that island, then come back because of some phone call..." "It's crazy!" "Tsuruo is your affair..." "But the mother!" "Didn't she have the right, nay!" "the duty - to see that lovely swan... or ugly duckling, as the case may be?" "Be careful!" "You're supposed to sip that!" "You up there!" "How about a song?" "Come on up!" "Have a drink." "Now... what song first?" "Let's start with a easy one:" "Asatoya Yunta" "We're not together." "What on earth is that?" "The night of Ikebukuro" "I don't know Okinawan songs." "You're from the home islands?" "Maybe so." "You can still see the marks!" "Who is that guy?" "What a world!" "I forbid you to hang around with guys like that!" "In my days, an Okinawan had his dignity!" "So did a Japanese, for that matter!" "Okinawan girls, especially..." "They were pure in heart." "Though a bastard like me can only defile them with statements like that." "Don't cry, please." "I'll start crying, too." "You're pure in heart, too." "But I guess I can't relive those days with you." "Let's leave." "You won't find a taxi here..." "Try down there." "You know..." "You'd be better off back home than loafing here." "Yes, sir." "Here's a song you know." "You and me, two cherry blossoms, fellow classmates," "Blooming in the gardens of the Sub-mariners' Training School." "Once they've bloomed," "They are ready to fall," "Let us be ready to fall gracefully in the service of our country." ""Brother"?" ""Little sister"?" ""Father"?" ""Affection"?" "The word doesn't exist in Okinawan." ""Summer vacation"?" ""Summer vacation"... is "summer vacation"!" "That means "see you soon!"." "Too early for coffee?" "Are you in room 715?" "You have a letter." "Mis." "Sunaoko Kikuchi" "Tsuruo Omura" "Who brought it?" "I wasn't on duty, but I can find out." "Don't bother." "Sunaoko, little sister, you did come to Okinawa!" "I only found out last night." "Good morning." "Good night." "Are you an early-bird?" "If it's 9, meet me at Tsuboya." "If it's 10, on the cobbles at Kinjo." "If it's 11, at the Shurei Gate." "If we miss each other... then tomorrow." "I'm sleepy." "Who's there?" "Is it you, OMURA Tsuruo?" "Oh, it's you, Momoko!" "Go to sleep, Daddy won't be here till noon." "You can sleep till then." "I won't go!" "You're not at home now!" "You're so selfish!" "Do you think I've come here to see Daddy?" "I've come here to meet OMURA Tsuruo!" "Where are you off to?" "Play around a bit... before noon!" "Good!" "You should have some fun!" "You're grown up now!" "9 o'clock, at Tsuboya." "Are you asleep?" "Or awake?" "I'm asleep." "How come?" "It's 9:40 already!" "What else is there to do at this hour?" "Do you know this fellow?" "He's not here." "What do you want with him?" "I want his advice..." "I'm looking for someone, and that guy's my only friend here." "You're from Japan?" "You don't frighten me." "Really?" "You don't have to stare at me like that!" "I'm looking for my only Okinawan relative." "A commonplace search..." "You're searching, too?" "You say my eyes frighten you?" "You're very perceptive." "I'm looking for a Japanese who deserves my killing him." "I'm going to the police." "Don't worry, it's just to find my brother!" "MISSING PERSONS - 1972" "He wouldn't be in here..." "He's not missing!" "He left his mother's home and can't be found." "So it's the right list." "Otherwise, there's "Suspicious Deaths"" "or "Wanted Criminals"." "My brother's no criminal!" "He's nice!" "Send out a car with a loud-speaker:" ""OMURA Tsuruo, son of OMURA Tsuru, you're wanted!"" "For you, it's easy!" "I'm in a hurry..." "You're very amusing, young lady." "I feel more like crying." "OMURA Tsuruo, where are you?" "Say that again." "But I didn't do anything!" "Don't arrest me!" "Have you said "Omura"?" "Yes, "OMURA Tsuruo, son of OMURA Tsuru"." "What's he to you?" "He's my brother, I want to find him." "So you're Kikuchi's daughter?" "I think I can put you in touch with Tsuruo." "Thank you... but how?" "Oddly enough," "I'm the other man who may be his father." "But my father is supposed to be..." "I'm KUNIYOSHI Shinko" "Have you never heard that name?" "Never." "I'll explain over lunch." "But Daddy arrives at noon!" "Good, I want to see him, too!" "Sunaoko!" "Was it nice?" "Tsuruo-san?" "Pretty, wasn't it?" "Tsuboya at 9," "Kinko at 10, and here at 11." "The best places in Naha!" "You lay it on thick!" "I'm sorry..." "Let's have lunch." "I haven't time." "Then... when, Sunaoko?" "Write me tomorrow like you did today." "I told your father that Tsuru was my little sister." "It wasn't true, of course." "But can you understand a man's wanting to say that about a younger woman?" "I think so." "So, naturally enough, your father was drawn to Tsuru." "And as a result," "Tsuruo's father may be him, or me." "It all happened rather fast" "Tsuru went right back to Okinawa." "You shunned responsability?" "It was hot that summer" "It's almost as hot in Kyoto as it is here." "A student thinks he's already a man." "But "youth" it seems, is synonymous with "irresponsability"..." "isn't it?" "Why did you come?" "And Momoko?" "It's me..." "Kuniyoshi." "I ran into your daughter." "I didn't let you know I was coming, but I wanted to see you." "Tonight, then..." "Your hotel!" "Hotel "Kowa", isn't it?" "See you later!" "How do you like Okinawa?" "As you must know, Koza's 60,000 inhabitants depend for their livelihood entirely on the U.S. base." "Koza is more American than Japanese." "Until recently, $10,000 worth of marijuana changed hands every day, and a gun cost as little as $5.00!" "Ever since the Reversion," "U.S. equipment is dirt cheap." "Interesting..." "Why don't I get out and take a walk?" "Anyway, this is an opportunity for you!" "Daddy is a very busy man!" "He seldom has time for his family!" "You can make this a dress rehearsall for your honeymoon!" "Of course, I'm under orders, but I can get out, too." "She was joking..." "Please, go on." "This area has an English name:" "Center." "It's a playground reserved for Gls back from Vietnam." "We've counted 10,000 prostitutes on Okinawa, but the real figure is betgween 12 and 14,000, for a female population of 500,000, only half of whom are of suitable age." "Instead of spoating statistics, tell us about what's happened to the girls in Koza-Yoshiwara." "There were some 3,000 prostitutes in Kaza-Yoshiwara." ""3,000 beauties"!" "What a drawing-card for tourists from the home islands!" "The ban on prostitution frustrated Japanese men." "And "away from home, anything goes!"" "The girls take $10 a time, or $20 for all night." "Excuse me... your daughter..." "Daddy, have you ever been with a whore?" "Most of my friends have been." "Like Commissioner Kuniyoshi!" "Daddy isn't very convincing, isn't he, Momoko?" "Indeed not." "What does it matter?" "You make a lively family!" "A judge's home-life must be more democratic in the home islands." "Too democratic, sometimes!" "His daughter spends her first night out on the town!" "His fiancee goes out at dawn to play around!" "And the judge means to find a whore!" "Once upon a time, Urashima Taro" "Invited by a turtle who owed him its life," "Went to the Dragon's Palace under the sea" "There, all was beauty and legendary splendour" "I'll be right down." "Me, too." "Su-tan, don't dress up..." "Tonight, I'm the leading role." "Miss Kikuchi?" "A letter for you?" "Who is it from?" "Mr Kuniyoshi." "Banzai, Su-tan!" "Banzai, yoichi!" "That means "brother" in Okinawan." "I'm meeting Tsuruo!" "When?" "He can only be found at night!" "I'm not going to the dinner." "Tell Daddy..." "Please, little mother!" "I'm to tell him you're seeing OMURA Tsuruo?" "Of course not!" "That's our secret!" "Tell him I've a stomach-ache, tell him anything!" "A stomach ache?" "He'd send me to nurse you." "I'm late... excuse me." "I was up at the North Cape." "You still do get around, I see!" "I hear a woman's with you..." "Married again?" "Not yet, but I plan to in the fall." "I caught a glimpse of her at the airport." "Is she coming?" "You know how complicated young people are." "Judge Kikuchi is famous even here." "Many of our local celebrities would have liked to be here, but I asked only friends." "This is TERUYA Rintoku..." "He gives authentic renditions of Okinawan songs." "War has changed the face of Okinawa;" "only her songs and language have been preserved." "Let us drink heartily!" "Mr Teruya doesn't drink?" "Never before singing." "And the rest of the time..." "like a fish?" "Thank you for inviting me." "I'm sorry to be late." "My retirement has made me lazy." "It's me..." "Kikuchi." "Oh, excuse me," "I didn't think I was recognizable." "On the contrary!" "It's been so long!" "Indeed..." "Commissioner," "Is this his first visit to Okinawa?" "Who can say?" "He does get around so!" "It's the first time, I swear it is!" "Children aren't allowed any further" "I'll bring him out." "But last night I drank awamori there!" "But Sakurada was with you." "Wait here for me." "But, if I stand here, people will take me for..." "For what you are and nothing else!" "She's stupid!" "A "customer" already!" "That was a narrow escape." "But she's so stupid!" "So, nobody could take me for...?" "No one would come up to Su-tan?" "But someone did call me!" "Me!" "..." "Su-tan!" "Your name's Su-tan?" "Yes..." "Sunaoko." "Sunaoko what?" "Kikuchi." "What are you doing here?" "Looking for OMURA Tsuruo." "Help me." "I've been told he's here, and does the same work as you." "Momoko is looking, but she's not reliable." "Who's Momoko?" "She's daddy's fiancee..." "and my watch-dog." "Your family's complicated, too." "I came after air." "Sunaoko stayed at the hotel." "This is Miss KOTODA Momoko, my daughter's piano teacher." "I mentioned her before." "Make yourself comfortable..." "Extend your legs or you'll get cramps." "A massage?" "Kikuchi, a song!" "Huh?" "What song?" "I'll sing!" "I graduated from Kyoto U." "20 years ago, ho, ho!" "Now I'm generalissimo of all the masseuses, ho, ho!" "If ever the need arises," "I have only to say the word, ho, ho, and 50,000 masseuses obey my every wish!" "You haven't improved!" "You want one, too?" "It might suit a youngster." "I graduated from Kyoto U." "20 years ago, ho, ho!" "Now here I am, in Tokyo..." "I haven't improved either... eh?" "No, that's not it!" "It's as if you were marrying your daughter!" "My daughter's only fourteen!" "Is she alone at the hotel?" "Forgive me..." "Sunaoko... is... with a man... here, nearby." "She's got a crush on him!" "I couldn't do anything about it." "Who is he?" "He may well be one OMURA Tsuruo." "The boy's name is Tsuruo, isn't it?" "Well, he is my son, isn't he?" "I expected as much, that's why I came!" "How about a song?" "Your chit-chat isn't a matter of life and death!" "The man with the silver mask is the masked rambler" "He leaves a silver trail like a shooting star." "When you're sad, you look for a brother, a little sister..." "Let's have the brother-and-sister act in here!" "We stop looking?" "I've got to work..." "And maybe we'll get a lead." " Brother and sister?" " No!" "It's just an expression." "What do we sing?" ""Don't cry, little sister"" "What's that?" "You don't know..." ""The Boulevard Of Life"" "Sorry." "Think it yourselves, I'll follow along." "Don't cry little sister, little sister don't cry" "If you cry, what was the use, when we were small..." "Of leaving our native land..." "On the road, gloomy and dark," "After the sun had set," "Big brother scolded you, crying himself..." "Have you already forgotten his voice?" "His voice choked with tears?" "Hanging out in a dump like this?" "!" "What's gotten into you?" "Neglecting your noble quest to sing with this good-for-nothing!" "Who are you?" "It's all right!" "You wanted to hear Okinowan songs?" "My teacher sings tonight." "Let's go!" "I'm not going." "Of course you are!" "We're all a little related, aren't we?" ""I count the days since our wedding night," "I must go to war for our country's sake," "Bying the most of our love... "" "What do you grieve?" ""A quicklier happy return, of our frontiers. "" "Wonderful!" "Oh, bad news!" "It's the dinner for my father!" "It's your father?" "Yes... and OMURA Tsuruo's father, too." "And that's your watch-dog near him?" "Yes, that's my old Momoko." "I'll look some more." "But where?" "Well, "he's a rambler", you know." "Wait!" "Good evening..." "Do you mind?" "It's you!" "You're so clean now!" "Sakurada!" "He's one of the men that kill!" "And he's the kind that gets killed!" "They were looking for each other." "My name is SAKURADA Takuzo." "TERUYA Rintoku." "We've plenty of time." "The singing is over." "Do you mind if we leave?" "Tonight, you've got your family." "Let's meet again tomorrow." "Yes, indeed." "Daddy, introduce me to that woman!" "I'm KIKUCHI Sunaoko." "You already know who I am, Sunaoko." "Your Honour!" "..." "She must identify herself properly!" "My name is OMURA Tsuru." "The defendant OMURA Tsuru will tell the court why, having loved KIKUCHI Kosuke, she had to go and love KUNIYOSHI Shinko too, and give birth to an irrational child!" "I don't know what to say!" "Please excuse her!" "I will apologise more for this another time." "For tonight, allow me to retire." "We convene again tomorrow, August 3rd." "You'll be informed where." "Are we agreed?" "Please rise and bow to the bench." "It feels good to get up early." "That's no way to bait a hook." "Oh, I came along to feed the fishes." "No catch, no breakfast." "Daddy, are you really going to eat them?" "I can't..." "I feel sorry for them." "Could you do it, Momoko?" "Eat that?" "You should know how to prepare fish." "Think I'll ever be able to?" "You haven't caught a thing yet!" "He'll be furious!" "Make an effort!" "The mind a void, every thought banished, not staring fixedly at the pole," "leaving the line slack on the water" "A bite!" "You're a great man!" "Now, maybe he won't scold us for yesterday." "The fish turns fisherman!" "He's caught the pole!" "Will he take it to the Dragon's Palace?" "Take mine." "Do you really want to get one?" "What else?" "I've something to tell you." "You've got to listen." "Wait till we're back in Tokyo." "We're on vacation!" "Go ahead!" "Tell him!" "I won't listen!" "I'd as soon be scolded here!" "I want you to listen!" "I can't hear a thing!" "Back to port!" "Scold me if you like, but don't laugh at me." "It all began when I was mistaken for Sunaoko." "There's lots of ways to tell a story!" "OMURA Tsuruo saw me in the garden in Tokyo and mistook me for Sunaoko." "He sent her a letter:" ""Sunaoko, little sister... "" ""Sunaoko, little sister... "" "As soon as she got it, she wrote back." "I realized the mistake." "I intercepted the letter, but, already, in the first he had written:" ""Come to Okinawa for the summer." "Big brother wants to show you his affection. "" "Yesterday morning, I went to meet Tsuruo." "Don't laugh..." "I pretended I was Sunaoko." "Was he very affectionate?" "No!" "It's too long!" "I haven't been that bad!" "As I told you," "Tsuruo has met Sunaoko and realised his mistake." "They were friendly, but no more!" "I don't think anything came of it." "But having gone so far, and to clear everything up," "I'd like to go see Tsuruo this morning." "I'll eat them!" "No matter who caught it, a fish is a fish!" "No matter what she eats, Su-tan won't change!" "Damn!" "Wait, Sunaoko." "Here comes my bawling out!" "Stop up your ears!" "You're in touch with him?" "Yes..." "Then go on." "I want to see him, too." "Bring him to lunch." "Thank you, Su-tan." "It's ready." "Little sister!" "But I..." "Let's sit down." ""Seeing you rake the garden," "I was sure that you," "Sunaoko, were my sister." "Why did it have to..." "Sunaoko," "I want to show you all my affection..." "How?" "Any way you like." "You were raking the garden." "Your hair," "your shoulders," "your hands..." "Sunaoko!" "Tsuruo-san!" "We're brother... and sister..." "Beautiful..." "Your mouth..." "Stupid Momoko!" "Moronic guitar player!" "Instead of looking for Tsuruo..." "Damn it!" "Okinawa shouldn't have been given back to Japan!" "How old were you in 1945?" "Eleven." "So your lily was still only a bud." "And you?" "I was full-grown!" "You were in the "Okinawan Fixed Byonet Squad"!" "And a bayonet would have marked my grave!" "I saw a man die with a hard-on!" "What a beautiful death..." "like Benke's!" "Despite his bravery," "I hear he was impotent." "He made it with his lord." "And his wife made it with his enemy's lady!" "And how old were you?" "You are younger?" "Your talk is flattering." "Please, go on." "In Tsuji there were amazing girls whose whole bodies were sexy." "Be more specific!" "As soon as I touched her, it flowed down to her knees" "I thought she was sick, but the madam told me she hadn't had sex in three days." "The eagerness of Okinawan women isn't just physical, it went much deeper." "They are not making them like that anymore!" "You've a true Okinawan right here..." "We beg for a sample!" "Good idea!" "And the madams were marvelous." "I asked "how much?"" ""Later", she said." "I assumed she meant tomorrow, but no:" "she meant "after the war"." "Whore nobles, eh?" "Indeed." "The funniest part was that everyday there were banquets thrown for the officers of the Governor..." "So we had background music!" "Since she turned down all other comers, while I was with her," "I felt I was in the Dragon's Palace." "I was ready to be a second URASHIMA Taro." "Got any "souvenirs?"" "I was never healthier!" "Oh my, it's all just a memory now." "Like URASHIMA Taro, I awoke... with white hair, top and bottom." "Before such a master singer what can I do?" "Sunaoko, come here!" "No, you bore me!" "Does Miss Prosecutor drop her charges?" "Cut that out!" "You are all liars, anyway!" "I, for one, told nothing but the truth!" "Then let him kill you!" "What are you talking about?" "And you went on about killing!" "It's true..." "You two act very strangely..." "Yet, you don't seem queer." "What are you?" "I promised to kill this man, that's all." "Then set a time for it!" "There's a time for everything." "It seems to me it's pretty late, we should go away." "I think there's still time." "Kuniyoshi told me everything." "But I'm not sure I can believe him." "This should be a good time to confess our war crimes." "Quite right!" "The soldiers' crimes the magistrates', as well" "You're joking." "I was in school at that time, I still had my exams to pass." "Well, anyway," "I repeat:" "I've never been here before!" "Okinawa doesn't concern you." "I no longer care to sit here with you." "I have no reason to leave, so you go buy your souvenirs, and take the first plane out." "Daddy, tell him why Okinawa concerns you!" "All right..." "Wait a minute!" "Go ahead!" "You see, Kuniyoshi, in those times your Okinawan origins were an obstacle between us." "But what about you?" "What was your position on Okinawa;" "return to Japanese suveranity or independence?" "When?" "Around the time of the Peace Treaty in 1951." "Kuniyoshi, to think of it, how'd feel about it?" "At the time it didn't occur to me to wonder." "Answer him, please... for my education" "I can't remember." "For real family reasons." "and provided there ie no security risk for the Ocupation Forces," ""civilians may go to Japan"." "Those were the conditions." "First, you had to have a motive to go to Japan then apply to the provisional govern the Eighth Army GHQ in Japan!" "It'd take from 2 to 6 months before you had permission." "It was better to travel illegaly." "But all that, was before you were born..." "Nowadays, we can go where we please, so all's well." "So, Tsuru came to Japan." "You told Daddy: "She's my sister"." "I hoped to prevent their having fallen in love." "My behaviour had nothing to do with your Okinawan origins." "It's normal to be drawn to a friend's sister." "It may be normal, but the upshot was an abnormal child" "Tsuruo is a perfectly normal child!" "Does he seem abnormal to you?" "I don't know how to answer to that yet." "Really?" "Then why say he's abnormal?" "He may be my father's son or he may be Mr. Kuniyoshi's." "In a situation like that, who'd be normal?" "Tsuru..." "I sincerely offer you my belated apologies." "But now you tell the truth about which of us is the father?" "At the lavish feast of the Sea Princess" "The sole and the sea-bream dance and sing" "Everything is lovely and strange" "Time goes by as in a dream" "This is OMURA Tsuruo." "She's lying!" "You'd found him and didn't know it." "No kidding!" "That guy's Tsuruo?" "Really?" "Yes." "Really?" "Liars!" "You're pulling me on!" "I've never seen him before." "So, he's the child you had by my father." "Or by Mr Kuniyoshi..." "Sunaoko, don't say that to Tsuru!" "And, you, don't take offence at that introduction, if, indeed, you are Tsuruo." "Everything was such a mess then, that Kuniyoshi and I had no chance to talk." "...Tsuru he... the cage." "A cage at the Zoo or a chicken coop?" "It's true that I did a lot of dumb things, but lock my sister in a cage... never!" "I was in jail behind the bars, you understand?" "You'd been bad!" "It was still uncommon to jail a student for political reasons." "He was serious-minded, much more so than I was." "Actually, I was being pretty foolish!" "But who did Tsuruo..." "The day Kuniyoshi got out of prison" "I did something to Tsuru" "What did you do?" "If I'd found out from Kikuchi himself, things would have been different." "But since it was Tsuru who told me," "I could only rape her myself." "Why?" "I can understand that!" "He had the right idea!" "Make love with your pal's girl, all the while keeping him in mind." "Stealing a woman:" "The ultimate pleasure!" "But in this case, it was about getting even." "And even it was, wasn't it?" "I was upset  ......might have..." "So I wanted ..... to make sure we had a ....." "Commissioner, I admire your attitude!" "People used to say he left only pregnant women behind him." "They said that about" "How romantic!" "I feel so young!" "The only trouble is that Tsuru doesn't look sad." "It bothers me!" "Sunaoko, you're wonderful!" "Tell me: whose son is Tsuruo?" "He's mine!" "You're wonderful, too!" "This guy can't be OMURA Tsuruo!" "But he is!" "You're lying!" "I saw you!" "I saw you together!" "I see..." "Judge Kikuchi, it seems your fiancee likes mixtures, too." "Hey, you, the fake Tsuruo!" "You want some, too?" "I'm in no position to say that but should they be left alone?" "Why not?" "After all, they are brother and sister, aren't they?" "Shall we take a little walk over that way?" "Actually, there are only 2 species: man and woman." "You mean Japanese and Okinawans." "I'm not forgeting that, either." "You're the one who can play the guitar, says he'll find Tsuruo then doesn't come through, does that with Momoko..." "And then proves to be the fake Tsuruo." "So I want you to make Sunaoko a promise." "What promise?" "Find the real OMURA Tsuruo at all costs!" "That's not easy..." "I haven't got what it takes." "It just takes guts!" "Be a little serious!" "For some, it's a life and death matter!" "I'm not strong enough!" "Try!" "I'm taking the boat tomorow." "Tomorrow morning?" "Then, it's hopeless." "Don't follow!" "When I came the sun was red." "The "killer" and his "victim" were still drinking and singing." "Tsuru and Kuniyoshi were talking in low tones, but maybe it was just a business discussion." "Daddy and Momoko seemed to be quarrelsome and tender, by turns." "I couldn't remember too well, but it did seem to me" "that my rescuer had stroked me affectionately, maybe even kissed me..." "The next morning, I told Momoko to go back with Daddy, by plane." "They were afraid I wouldn't come home." "What jerks!" "I'm not the one who lies!" "I'm the real Tsuruo, you know!" "Tell your lies in Okinawan!" "I'll come back when I'm stronger, and I'll find the real Tsuruo!" "Those two!" "Forever fishing and drinking!" "THE END"