"DAIB YONIN" "Feel free to dance with anyone you like." "You can give her your most beautiful smile." "But just don't forget..." "That I'm always here for you." "Do you remember that song?" "'Save the Last Dance for Me'?" "You were singing it when we met." "That was 20 years ago." "Have you been happy with me all those years?" "Of course." "really?" "Yes, really." "There's something I must confess." "I..." "I had a checkup." "And, well..." "I have cancer, too." "What?" "I'm sorry." "I won't be able to nurse you much longer." "Since I'm younger..." "My cancer will progress faster than yours." "I'm OK f or now." "So I can still take care of you f or a while." "Dancing can be sweet wine, and make your heart soar free." "So please, don't let your heart be stolen." "And save the last dance..." "That last dance for me." "I'm crazy about you." "Someday, we'll go far away where we can dance all alone." "Cut." "AII right, cut!" "How was it, sir?" "Didn't we overact a bit?" "It's fine." "You're sure?" "It was perfect." "If the producer says so, then it must be." "That's a take." "You were great, Aya." "That's all for today." "Be back on the set at nine." "What's so happy about birthdays?" "How many do I have left?" "DAYS LEFT" "No..." "No..." "Yes!" "Hush up and let your body do the talking." "How was it?" "You were so close." "What can I do to make you come?" "What are those?" "Stomach pills." "I want to stay here for ages." "It seems like you are." "I want to keep bedding you until I die." "Don't be silly." "What's wrong?" "You're so pale!" "That's blood!" "I'II call the hotel doctor." "And cause a scandal?" "That would be awkward, wouldn't it?" "What if I'd died in the saddle?" "What would you have done?" "Snuck home like a coId-hearted bitch." "What else could I do, you old satyr?" "Next time, I promise you'II come." "_Bye." "See you..." "Damn her hair." "You're back?" "You going somewhere?" "I guess so." "I need some time alone." "Happy Birthday." "There's champagne in the fridge." "I'm giving these back." "I'II be gone for a while." "I vomited today." "It scared me." "There was a lot of blood." "You're going to the hospital." "Get me Chief Surgeon Ogata." "please." "Come along!" "This way, Mr. Mukai." "Take off your shirt." "Put your clothes in the basket." "That him?" "Yes." "Something on my face?" "No, you look so dependable." "Everyone counts on you." "Right?" "I hope so." "It's too bad." "What's too bad?" "It hides how pretty you are." "Are you trying to seduce me?" "You want me to?" "You're certainly trying." "How about it?" "What to play 'Doctor and Patient' with me?" "No." "But he does." "Doctor!" "We're ready." "Take a seat." "So you're Mariko's husband?" "I'm Buhei Mukai, the actor cum director." "And you have a wonderful face, the kind that sick people trust." "YYou're vomiting?" "well, a little." "Describe it." "It's mostly what I've been eating." "Mariko said you vomited blood." "There was something blackish that I though might be blood." "please lie down." "You know Mariko well?" "We were college friends." "college is great." "I quit school, so I admire you intellectuals." "Let's stop talking." "Look up now." "Were you Mariko's lover?" "No, but everyone wanted to be Knees up now." "Don't be coy." "You know she saves clippings about you?" "I'lI bet she was a cold one back then." "On our first date I had to fight just to hold her hand." "That's enough talking." "I think we'lI need x_rays and a gastroscopy." "Forget it." "It's just overwork." "I just need pills." "Where did you get your MD?" "It's just that..." "Any serious illnesses?" "Never anything I'd call serious." "I hate hospitals." "But I Iove some drugs." "So no major illnesses?" "None." "But I'm always feeling bad." "Know why?" "I don't, actually." "I'm always hung over!" "Do you drink a lot?" "well...?" "Do you mind if I smoke?" "When we're finished here." "Doctor..." "Do I have an ulcer?" "We're still checking." "If I quit smoke and booze..." "You should on general principles." "That's all today." "Except for a blood test." "This way, Mr. Mukai." "So that's your husband." "He's insufferable." "You should have married me." "Did you ever marry?" "To my regret." "It didn't work out." "So what's wrong with my little invalid?" "We'll need some more tests." "Does he really drink so much?" "From morning to night." "Use your love to make him stop." "DAYS LEFT" "Take another swallow, please." "Put the cup down." "We're lowering the table." "Doctor, look at the size of..." "Take out your false teeth." "Take out my teeth?" "And disillusion you bef ore our first date?" "I stopped having illusions a long time ago." "Nihilism." "That's not good I can help." "Start by removing your teeth!" "Doctor, we're ready." "More to the right." "How far?" "Not you, silly The camera is inside you." "You stay still." "DAYS LEFT" "It's BoIIman III cancer, sir." "It's already reached the pylorus." "eventually it will block it." "So we can't just remove part of the stomach." "He needs an esophagojejunostomy." "Who will operate?" "I'II do it." "It's already huge and spreading." "I give him less than a year." "We have the test results." "It's an ulcer." "An ulcer?" "Here it is." "It's a very large one." "We'II have to operate." "Operate!" "You'Il have to take several weeks off from work." "lmpossible We're shooting a movie." "I have location schedules." "Actors' contracts." "A budget to keep." "Your life is in danger." "So we operate when the film is done." "You'd be done first." "You'd die first." "What kind of operation is it?" "To remove the bad part." "What bad part?" "About half of your stomach." "Don't be ridiculous, Doctor." "I may be stupid, but I know..." "You treat ulcers with pills." "You remove a hand for a hangnail?" "I do..." "If it means saving an arm or a life." "If you cut out half my stomach will I be cured?" "_Do you promise?" "Promise you?" "Answer me." "We'Il do the best we can." "Bef ore you cut I need a guarantee." "That's how business works." "I'm your customer." "And customers get written estimates." "Then find another physician." "Don't get a hair up your ass." "I'm not angry." "But without trust..." "There's no cure." "Do you want another doctor?" "OK, I give up." "I trust you." "I'II let you operate." "college must have been a drag for Mariko." "AII right, we'II operate." "Read this and sign it." "should I tell Mariko?" "YYes, please." "Doctor..." "You're sure this is serious?" "Maybe there's some mistake?" "Like mixed-up x-rays," "Towels, pa jamas, calendar, tissues, books..." "You choose the books." "Why did I go to the hospital?" "Anyways, I don't need so many underpants." "I'II be home soon." "Get me that teacup, dear." "I can't reach it." "You're not even trying." "You're totally helpless." "Without you I guess I'd die." "What a fool." "Stop that!" "Cut it out." "We're separated." "But still man and wife." "You're really something." "Knock it off!" "See, I'm still hale and hearty." "You'll do just fine if you stay this haIe." "This is your room." "I want a private room." "This is a only room available now." "I'm in no hurry." "But the doctor is." "He thinks you'II recover." "He does, does he?" "I'II go get a TV." "And a video deck." "Let's great them." "Hey, everybody!" "Here's your new ward made." "He's not as bad as he looks." "You'II love him." "Time f or a photo." "Come on, nurse." "hold on." "OK, ready?" "Hey!" "Where's Mrs. Mukai?" "Now brace yourself, Mariko." "He has cancer." "And it's pretty bad." "Cancer?" "Excuse me." "What's wrong?" "My head." "It's killing me." "Let me give you a sedative." "Does he know?" "It's our policy not to let patients know." "I said it was an ulcer." "He can never be told." "Inside he's still a child." "He can't handle it." "I can't leave him now, I guess." "Mariko..." "What?" "No, it's just..." "We both have to do what we can." "It's a consent from..." "For the next of kin." "hold on." "I can still walk." "Behave yourself." "OK, ready?" "One, two..." "Let's get rolling!" "Hang in there!" "See you later!" "This is the cancer." "It went very well." "We cleaned out the affected tissue." "But..." "It looks like it's already spread." "How much longer?" "I expect remission within a year." "And after that..." "DAYS LEFT" "It hurts!" "It hurts so bad." "Do something, darling!" "It hurts!" "kill me!" "please, kill me!" "Don't be silly." "You're getting better." "It really hurts." "I can't take it any more." "And look what's happened to my face." "You look great." "Just grin and bear it." "Please strangle me With your own hands." "Come on, please." "Do it for me." "IF you love me, you'II do it." "That's no good." "You have to use all your strength." "Now!" "If you really love me." "you'II do it." "I can't." "I can't kill you." "I've made up my mind." "If you won't kill me, I'Il do it myself." "Stay away!" "Just watch." "If you love me. then you'Il let me do what I want." "This is it." "I feel great." "Now it's time to part." "hold me once more." "You've made me so happy." "Good-bye..." "darling." "Go ahead and dance I'll be waiting here alone." "If she asks you to take her home, please tell her no." "And just don't forget..." "That I'm always here for you." "I'm crazy about you." "Someday, we'll..." "Go far away..." "Where we can dance all alone." "We finish tomorrow." "Tomorrow is the big one." "1,000 extras and a complete orchestra." "Lunch alone will cost $10,000." "Where's the orchestra?" "They fill the stage." "Where do I conduct?" "Around here." "What about the priests' costumes?" "Give that one in front a high-priest's hat." "Remove the front row of seats." "OK, I'II take care of it." "Spot the crane there." "How is this hat?" "A perfect Fit." "Turn on some lights." "Those up there, too." "AII right..." "I'm all right." "This is worse than I expected." "It's in the peritoneum." "Metastasis in the lymph nodes." "Do we just sew him up?" "No, we do an esophagojejunostomy." "Otherwise, no food intake." "This way, he can still have the pleasure of eating." "Yes, sir." "Doctor..." "Did the operating go well?" "It went well." "What was it?" "The ulcer was so bad it blocked the stomach." "You couldn't eat?" "When I ate threw up, so I was living on whiskey." "Now you can eat again." "Just grin and bear it." "Piss on grinning and bearing." "I hate pretenses." "Here, sir..." "What a pretty scar." "I know enough that a stomach ulcer would be cured by now." "Doctor." "Yes?" "I don't by chance have cancer?" "Don't be ridiculous." "Can I take it off?" "OK!" "Your favorite color." "Red." "Get well soon!" "Here's your painkillers." "How's the weather?" "It's raining." "I Iove cities on rainy night..." "Wait!" "Hold my hand like we were lovers." "Be a good boy." "You have a wife to hold hands with." "We're separating." "You are?" "We met when she was a student." "She worked part time as a singer at a hotel." "Singing about a 'Last Dance'." "I Iove that song." "It's a rotten song." "Dance with the woman you want but save the Iast dance for me." "That's like making you wear a dog collar." "But it didn't suit her one bit She was so cute." "Ouch!" "And you seduced her?" "We married within a week." "I couldn't aff ord a proper ring." "Look." "I bought them at a toy shop." "They're charming!" "No formal wedding Just made an offering at a shrine." "You know what I think?" "I bet you danced with others and saved nothing for your wife." "How did you guess?" "Let's you and me..." "So you are feeling better?" "Be a good boy and..." "Go to bed." "You're so mean." "You'r e really savoring that smoke." "Oh, sorry." "would you Iike one?" "Just the smell is enough." "A whiff and a cough." "Are you OK?" "See the sunny field at the foot if that hill?" "WouIdn't it be nice to be there..." "curled up like a kitten..." "sleeping in the warm grass." "Me, I've got cancer." "I probably have three months left." "My family is trying to hide it from me." "They say it's a big ulcer." "tell me to 'grin and bear it.'" "It's all bullshit, but I let them tell their little lies." "I even pretend to believe them." "I think I'II just run away." "Run away?" "From the hospital." "For dying, there's no place like home." "But when you're dying, shouldn't you be in a hospital?" "I've got something to show you." "Hey, what's up?" "See his throat?" "There's a hole in it." "PhIegm gets bad when cancer spreads to the bronchial tubes." "So they cut holes to drain it." "He was better f or a while." "But it's still cancer." "So now it's as bad as ever." "Nothing left bud death." "Can he talk?" "With that hole?" "Of course not." "Can't eat nothing, either." "He's living on drips." "Time to drain." "Ready?" "They do that a hundred times a day." "AII night, too." "sleep well." "It must really be awful." "Bet he wants to die." "But he can't He's so weak he can't even kill himself." "Can't even tell them he wants to die because he can't talk." "Can't starve himself to death since he's eating drips." "I'd be doing him a favor to pull out his tubes." "Poor thing..." "What are you doing?" "Go back to your rooms." "He's been like that for a month." "Me, I'm going to check out before that happens." "Do you really have cancer?" "How do you know?" "I know it." "I can see my wife crying behind all her phony smiles." "And then they're giving me the purple drips." "purple is the color of chemotherapy." "Fierce side effects." "Look..." "I'm going bald real fast." "Mr. Mukai." "We're changing the IV now." "darling..." "darling..." "darling!" "What's wrong with you?" "Come on, eat up." "Come on, darling." "You're hiding something from me." "What do you mean?" "About my illness." "What about your ulcer?" "What's with you?" "Nothing, it's OK." "Look, filet of sole." "Come on, you've got to eat." "What's wrong?" "Where does it hurt?" "darling!" "hello?" "Get here quickly" "What's wrong?" "It hurts!" "Give me some painkiller!" "You alr eady had your three does for today." "They don't work." "Just bear with it." "I'm already doing it." "Hurry up!" "But I need the Doctor's permission." "Then go get it!" "The pain's killing me." "Here's some new sleeping pills." "These are a stronger prescription." "I want to go home." "It hurts." "I know it hurts." "You just took your painkiller Bear with it a while longer." "I'm drying." "No you're not." "Your body is just coping with the pain." "I'm scared!" "I don't want to die!" "You're all right!" "help me." "please!" "Doctor, Iet's use morphine." "Morphine?" "Do you want to turn him into an addict?" "If it's done right, there's no chance of addiction." "But the side effects might accelerate the cancer." "I might use it at the end." "please read this." "I've been studying morphine." "I even took a course." "The W.H.O. says that..." "IF you start with oral dosages..." "You're not a doctor." "You're not competent..." "Not competent!" "How can you say that?" "Are you omniscient?" "You visit the patient once a day, for about thirty seconds." "We see them and deal with their pain 24 hours a day." "I certainly am competent." "Think of the patients." "Not another word on this!" "Remember, you're only a nurse." "only a nurse!" "I didn't mean it that way." "I'm disappointed in you." "Miss Hayashi!" "Let me study it." "I'm not omniscient." "darling!" "darling!" "Wake up!" "Doctor, doctor, please!" "fibrillation board!" "Yes." "Doctor!" "Doctor, please!" "Epinephrine!" "darling!" "darling!" "Remove the family." "I'II have to ask you to leave." "Out of my way!" "Here we go!" "Stop!" "Let him die in peace." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Just let him die please..." "please make them stop!" "Stop it!" "Let him die!" "Just let him die!" "Get him out." "Go back to your room." "That's not medicine!" "It's torture!" "Let him die!" "You can't chase his wife out!" "Let's go, Mr. Mukai." "Stop!" "please stop!" "May his soul rest in peace." "May his soul rest in peace..." "Do me a favor I want to see Aya again." "That's easy to arrange, but..." "Why not wait until you're better?" "No." "I might die first." "That's nonsense!" "They say you're recovering." "Whatever they say, just go get Aya f oe me." "What a cute hat." "Want to see my new hairstyle?" "You look fine, Aya." "As lovely as a flower." "No..." "No..." "please...don't fight." "I tire easily." "I want you to be a woman who can't live without me." "No..." "You look tired." "Have a drink." "But..." "If you fall apart now, he'd have nothing left." "What's that!" "That music..." "The movie's theme song" "When we first met, we sang it every day." "I see." "hello, Mr. Mukai." "Shame on you." "In this hospital!" "Send her away!" "This could be finish." "Did you come!" "Yes." "Good!" "Ooh, that's my hair." "Lots is falling out I'm getting old." "That's OK." "I'Il get it." "Bye-bye." "Good-bye." "Oh shit!" "Damn, why did they choose This pattern!" "Look at that." "darling!" "What's wrong?" "Nothing, I just felt ill all of a sudden." "Are you OK?" "I'm OK." "I saw Aya leaving." "Oh year, she, uh..." "Never mind." "I'm not jealous any more." "You're pathetic." "Your heart has a hole." "A hole so big nobody can fill it." "Good-bye." "You're beast." "You deserve to die." "Chief Surgeon Ogata, please." "I'm Mr. Mukai from Okayama." "Dr Ogata." "This is Heikichi Mukai, calling from Okayama." "I'm sorry to bother you, sir." "I am Buhei Mukai's uncle." "I was hoping you could tell me something about his condition." "You see, we've heard that it's really cancer..." "Cancer?" "Who told you that?" "We heard from his wife, Mariko." "If it's incurable, we must make certain arrangements." "I was hoping we might speak candidly." "I'm afraid I can't say anything." "please call Mrs. Mukai She knows everything." "I know." "She was the one who told us that it was cancer." "We'II, you see..." "Oh, Mr. Mukai." "Come back to your room." "It's time for your IV." "Time for an IV?" "So it's you!" "You sneaky bastard!" "hello!" "..." "Hello!" "hello!" "Who do you think you are?" "You cheat your doctor..." "You cheat your wife..." "And everyone else who cares about you." "We're fed up with you." "Why don't I get better?" "After two operations, I should be getting better." "This isn't any ulcer." "What is it, then?" "We are doing all we can." "But you must bear with it." "'Bear with it' is bullshit!" "You've totally ruined my Iife." "It's your responsibility!" "I want my Iife back!" "Life isn't something we give or withhold." "Life isn't my job." "AII I do is repair bodies." "This is my body!" "You're cutting the real me!" "It's my life and my happiness!" "I'm no cadaver For a scalpel!" "You're here to make me happy." "Do you ever think of that?" "You third-rate doctor." "AII you do is play with bodies." "Where's your pride?" "What do you know of pride?" "You're obscenely spoiled." "You talk about art." "Learn to live life like an artist." "You're afraid of being alone." "Nothing but a broken jelly doughnut." "Unhappy because you're torn in half." "You scream at others to make you whole again." "You're a disgrace." "Nobody likes you." "Even Mariko is leaving." "We have paupers in here who know more about the art of Iife." "You claim to be a great artist." "But your dying is bad art." "Not that you're dying..." "Hey, Mr. Mukai..." "Did you see Mr. Mukai?" "Let me bandage that!" "please sit down!" "Do it later." "We must find Mukai." "Has anyone seen Mr. Mukai?" "He went up that stairway a while ago." "The roof!" "Someone is over there." "Mr. Mukai!" "Mr. Mukai!" "Mr. Mukai!" "Nothing." "Get him to emergency." "Mr. Mukai!" "Mr. Mukai!" "Me." "Mukai!" "Mr. Mukai!" "Come on!" "Wake up!" "Mr. Mukai!" "Let's go!" "It's you!" "What are you doing here?" "darling!" "Get the respirator ready!" "Start an IV!" "Start the EKG!" "NoradrenaIine!" "What happened?" "Suicide." "Can you save him?" "His heart has stopped!" "darling!" "Epinephrine!" "Hurry up!" "Hey!" "The thread!" "FibriIIator set?" "200 joules." "Step back!" "300!" "We can't go higher..." "No!" "That can't be true!" "He is not dead." "He is alive I know it!" "Try it again!" "You can't give up!" "We' can't go higher." "please!" "One more time." "darling!" "You can't die!" "Darling!" "Come back!" "You can't die yet!" "darling!" "darling!" "Doctor!" "darling!" "_We did it!" "We did it!" "You did it." "Thank you so much." "You brought him back, Mariko." "That's the most we've even given." "He's tough one." "welcome back." "Now you can start complaining again." "DAYS LEFT" "level with me How much longer does he have?" "Three months at most." "We should tell him." "He already guesses he has cancer." "But we shouldn't tell him it's terminal." "Hope is a powerful medicine." "Hope to get better." "Hope f or a new drug." "Hope that we made a mistake." "I don't want to tamper with hope." "A person can't live without hope." "But his hope is based on lies." "We told him to just bear with us." "And what happened?" "A huge gulf opened between us." "We left him on his own." "He was left in the dark." "By lying, we closed our hearts to him." "So he closed in on himself." "And we just saw the result." "But if we tell him, he might try suicide again." "I'II give him the strength not to." "Whatever happens... lf we share the fear, he can overcome it." "should I tell him?" "No, I'II do it." "It's my job." "hello." "I'm back on the loose." "Are you still angry?" "I said some unwarranted things." "Not at all." "It was all my fault." "I'm ashamed." "I didn't know your desperation." "I'm not even third-rate." "What's that?" "Brandy." "Pour me a weak one." "Good health." "It tastes like sunlight." "Now I'm ready to die." "Actually, I wanted to talk about your condition." "My condition?" "The alleged ulcer?" "I'm just teasing you." "It's cancer, of course?" "I know." "Is it terminal?" "It would be extremely difficult to cure." "It's a shame." "But we still have hope." "So let's just keep grinning and bearing." "Pardon me. I know you hate that expression." "So, how much longer?" "Be honest." "I've got a lot left to do." "How much longer do I have?" "We'II, one year, two years..." "Give me the worst case." "We'lI, three months, six months." "But it could be three years." "And it's not necessarily incurable." "So it's 90 days." "That's only a guess." "Thanks for telling me." "I'm in your debt for life." "For three months, that is." "Cancer, eh?" "So I had it before I came here." "When my stomach ached, you know what I did?" "I took antacid pills." "Antacid pills for cancer!" "DAYS LEFT" "What's going on?" "He insists on checking out." "That's ridiculous In your condition..." "I'm shooting the finale." "The hero is a composer dying of cancer." "Cancer killed his wife." "He conducts a memorial concert for her..." "If you go now, you might die, too." "I'm dying anyway." "But we still have some options." "Options?" "What options?" "Direct suppressants..." "Thermotherapy, radiation..." "How much longer?" "I mean, with those treatments." "how much longer do I Iive?" "Another year?" "Another two years?" "That might be worth it." "But we're only talking about another three months, right?" "Or maybe just one month." "Get serious." "I'm going to die soon." "What's more important is..." "How I Iive the rest of my Iife." "But..." "Stop trying to heal me, Doctor." "Don't use tricks to prolong my Iife." "But... lf you were in my position, what would you want?" "Another ten days or a month of painful treatment." "would you sub ject your father to that?" "Try to be a person and not just a doctor." "Think about it." "If I were you..." "I'd refuse the options, too." "And minimize the IVs." "I would take a bag of painkillers home and die there." "And without IVs?" "You wither up and die." "There's less coughing and phlegm at the end." "I Iike that." "Make it a take." "So you do have answer." "But..." "But what?" "Is it ethical?" "Is it ethical to stop treatment?" "It's against our training." "I'm pledged to saving life." "I can't just let patients die." "You're not letting me die." "You're letting me live well until I die." "But, look..." "What?" "We can't just surrender to illness." "Don't worry The question now is how I Iive." "It's out of your hands." "For you death is defeat." "I don't want to see it as a defeat." "But as a finale I want to direct myself." "I want to leave life like a skylark soaring in the spring sun." "I'Il tell you a secret." "Death is not really such an awful thing to fear." "DAYS LEFT" "I've thought about our discussion." "Go ahead and shoot your last scene." "It might cost you a few weeks." "I know." "Rest up beforehand." "You'lI only have one chance to film it." "I understand." "What should I do?" "follow my advice for once." "I will." "And I'II grin and bear it, too." "'Grin and bear it'?" "It's a good line." "But it's hard f or me to grin when I'm in pain." "Don't worry about that." "Here." "What is it?" "A morphine cocktail." "Thank you." "Look at that sky." "The light is so brilliant." "See how it shades the trees." "I'm glad you told me the truth." "I never thought of dying." "I was never really alive." "But now, Doctor." "I feel more alive than ever." "I'm really happy." "DAYS LEFT" "Thank you for all your help." "congratulations." "For you..." "Thank you for all you've done to cure me." "That's what I should say, isn't it?" "OK, let's go!" "You're being discharged?" "At last." "Hey, that's funny." "What's funny?" "The pain is gone." "Your mind's too busy thinking of work." "I was thinking I was cured." "Quiet on the set!" "Camera A, ready?" "Camera B, ready?" "Lighting set?" "Is the orchestra ready?" "And the priest?" "Where's the high-priest's hat?" "Hey, Michi!" "OK?" "OK, let's go." "Ready." "roll 'em!" "The Heart Sutra is a short prayer." "Yet it distills the essence of illusion..." "It shows the path of deliverance from suffering." "I dedicate today's concert to my late wif e..." "And all others afflicted with cancer..." "And to the doctors..." "And the nurses who fight this disease." "The Teaching of The Way to Truth" "Use sense and think deeply..." "And you will see that all is illusion." "That body and soul are illusions." "Realizlng this frees you from all suffering." "Reality ls an illusion." "And illusion ls reality." "Perceptlon and ideas are illusions." "So are reason and knowledge." "all that exists in this world is illusion." "They are neither created nor perish, neither impure nor pure..." "Nor increase nor decrease." "Your eyes, ears, tongue, body and soul are illusions, as are..." "Form, voice, smell, taste, touch and emotions they perceive." "The world you see and your mind perceives are illusions." "Ignorance is illusion, and so ls escape from it." "Aglng and death are illusions." "So is escape from aging and death." "Suffering, its causes and escape from lt, is illusion." "So are intellect and enlightenment..." "See all that ls are thus lllusions..." "And your heart becomes free." "If your heart is free, fear is gone." "You awaken from troubles..." "And reach utmost peace." "This ls the Teachlng of The Way to Truth." "These are the words of the great spiritual power." "They are the words of wisdom." "Unexcelled words." "Unmatched words." "They alley all suffering." "They are true, not false." "Let us repeat this incantation leading the way to truth." "Let us go, Iet us go..." "To the world of truth." "Let us discover together the true way." "Thus ends the Teaching of The Way to Truth." "AII right, cut!" "Cut!" "OK." "That's a take." "Thank you, everybody." "DAYS LEFT" "I'm about to die." "I can tell." "It's too early for tears." "'Too early,' he says." "Sometimes I think that if you hadn't gone to the hospital..." "You'd still be hale and hearty." "You...you're a great guy." "We'd have been real friends." "Says..." "You take care of this guy." "Mr. Mukai!" "We might meet again, you know." "I saved the Iast dance for you." "So you did." "I'm going first." "I'II wait for you." "This would make a funny movie scene." "I'm sitting in a departing train and you keep waving good-bye." "But the train just won't leave." "You have years left." "darling!" "Doctor, the injection!" "Not this time." "That's it. 3:21 p.m." "Our condolences." "We might meet again, he said." "I'm sure we will." "DAYS LEFT"