"Original Story:" "Itsuki Hiroyuki" "Screenplay:" "Shindo Kaneto Music:" "Kako Takashi" "Starring:" "Yasuda Narumi" "Watabe Atsuro" "Sergei Nakariakov" "Baisho Mitsuko" "Mikuni Rentaro" "Directed by Koyama Seijiro" "A SINGLE DROP OF WATER IN A MIGHTY RIVER" "That building is the Kremlin." "This is Red Square." "In that brick wall such people as the writer Gorki." "Lenin's wife Krupskaya and the Japanese socialist Katayama Sen are interred." "The body of Lenin is preserved in that building." "Ivan the Terrible had this church built to commemorate his victory over the Mongols at Kazan." "He was so taken with the beauty of these onion domes that he had the eyes of the two head carpenters gauged out." "'Why?" "' you may ask." "So they could not build a cathedral as beautiful again." "'This is very nice. very old." "'There is a real insect preserved inside." "No, thanks." "No. no thank you." "It's hard to get antiques out." "You mean Customs?" "Yeah." "'I'm with a Japanese tour gram;" "buying stack for the stare." "'We've been tn Paris." "Vienna. and Russia." "'St Petersburg is a beautiful city.'" "'Buying stuck.' she calls it!" "All they're doing there is having fun." "Is that any way to run a business?" "It's Russian folk art..." "a 'matryoshka'." "It's pretty." "Look inside." "Look at all this stuff!" "All of our latest imports are on this shelf." "Thank you!" "Hello." "Be back soon." "All right." "How's your time?" "Fine." "Fine." "Hello." "Gallery Ami..." "'Nikolai' ?" "Oh, the guide in Russia!" "Where are you?" "Hello." "I'm Nikolai." "Hello." "Please. come in." "Thank you." "Come in." "It's a friend's apartment." "He studies ukiyo-e prints." "That's an Utamaro." "He's got a Dart-time job." "I'm. how do you say?" "'Crashed here'." " 'Crashing' 7 - I'm crashing here." "Why are you crashing here?" "I'm auditioning on the trumpet for a Javanese orchestra." "Sit down." "Our tour guide was a musician!" "Guiding was a part-time job." "But he's a great trumpet player." "He makes it sound." "I don't know... 'sweet'." "And?" "Well. he sent the orchestra a demo tape." "They liked it, so now he's come for an audition." "And when's the audition?" "What was the name of that orchestra?" "Anyway, it's one of the ton orchestras in the country." "When's the audition?" "Tomorrow?" "No, the day after tomorrow." "You're pretty excited." "I promised to so along with him." "He says he'd like to work here in Japan." "Number 8, please." "I am Nikolai Altemikov." "Haydn's Trumpet Concerto." "It didn't go well?" "They said my style didn't suit the orchestra." "Bullshit." "They were playing favorites." "They took someone with connections." "It's no use complaining to me!" "Maybe he's just not good enough." "You've never heard him play!" "You're being silly." "I'm going to protest!" "You're in love!" "What's that got to do with it?" "Get to work!" "Sorry." "Is Nikolai here?" "Kolya!" "What?" "A visitor." "Come in." "I'm Nikolai's friend." "Ivan Ivanov." "I'm Ogura Yukiko." "I'm drowning my sorrows." "He's got a cold." "He hasn't been at his best." "That's not the reason." "I wasn't good enough." "But..." "He's pissed off." "His mother, his girlfriend and his success are all waiting." "Your girlfriend?" "In his home town." "The girl next door." "Where are you from?" "Gorki." "Gorki?" "Do you know it?" "It's about 400km from Moscow." "But now we're living Just outside Moscow." "Let's go out and have a 'tough shit' party." "What's that?" "You make a party of something bad." "Why would you want to do that?" "Stop that damn noise!" "Cut it out!" "Don't stop!" "Keep playing!" "Don't stop!" "Don't stop for anything!" "Nikolai, stop!" "Hello?" "Yukiko?" "It's me." "Your mother just phoned from Kanazawa." "Your father's ill." "They've taken him to hospital." "Shinichiro, will you calm down!" "I am calm." "The doctor will be angry!" "Let him be angry." "You're to have comprehensive tests today." "I'm not going to." "Shinichiro!" "What are you doing here?" "What do you mean?" "I called her and told her to come!" "How are you?" "As you can see, I'm fine." "But you collapsed!" "After dinner he suddenly vomited blood!" "I did not!" "Stop exaggerating!" "Listen, Yukiko I just got a bit dizzy." "Yes, and you couldn't move." "I'm going home." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Oh... thanks." "Mr Ogura!" "I want to run some tests!" "See?" "I told you!" "Dad!" "I'm very sorry." "Dad!" "Go back to the hospital!" "Who do you think you're ordering around?" "I'm not 'ordering'." "Then what?" "I'm asking you!" "You go back to Tokyo." "I will not!" "Everyone's looking at us!" "Dad!" "Mom!" "Dad!" "It's been a while." "When did you get back?" "My dad fainted." "What?" "Yesterday morning." "How is he?" "He was in hospital. then he left." "He's going back for tests." "So are you married?" "I haven't found anyone." "You?" "Me neither." "Want to so for some bean soup?" "Sure." "Enjoy your meal." "So how's the business going?" "Comme ci comme ça." "You talk like a Tokyo girl." "I don't know how you can stand living in a musty old town like this." "Well, it's old and it's not." "It's a good smell." "Tokyo smells kind of dirty and sticky, doesn't it?" "Spoken like a salaryman." "Well, that's the kind of guy I am." "Then you should be married." "Leave me alone, will you?" "No." "I worry about you." "Why don't you get married?" "I worry about you, too." "What's so funny?" "You could marry me." "No, I couldn't." "Why not?" "You like me. don't you?" "I'm going to marry a Kanazawa girl." "Oh." "Yep." "If we got married, what would I call you?" "'Honey'?" "And me?" "'Hey." "Yukiko!" "'" "I'm not a slave." "No, a wife." "By the way. could you help set my dad to the hospital tomorrow?" "I've got to work." "Before work." "Come on!" "He trusts you!" "'Paper. scissors... '...stone!" "'" "I win!" "That was stupid of me." "You always do 'stone' first..." "We'll set him out the door." "I can walk!" "Let's go." "Thank you." "Thanks." "The cirrhosis is very possibly connected with cancer." "With surgery there's a chance his life could be prolonged." "Otherwise he has six months at most." "Maybe only three or four." "I would recommend surgery." "We want him to live as long as he can..." "Mom..." "I'll talk to him." "Where are you going?" "I can go where I want." "Will you have it?" "Why should I have an operation?" "Please!" "No!" "Please, Dad!" "Have the operation!" "I don't want an operation." "Dad, I know you're stubborn." "but this is different!" "Have you come all the way from Tokyo to lecture your father?" "Spend your time working instead of preaching." "Please... have the operation." "Where are you going?" "The bathroom." "Here it is." "What happened?" "As you can see." "I should've called you." "It was always one day to the next." "The bank stopped lending, so I borrowed at high interest..." "Why didn't you talk to me?" "I'm sorry." "I was supporting him, too." "Mr Machida?" "He started his own store, you remember..." "In Aoyama..." "I save him the money to do that." "It's so embarrassing..." "I was in love with him, I was blind." "He said he wanted to set married. and I fell for it like a little girl." "That's nothing to be ashamed of." "He wanted to get married, but it was to someone else." "All he wanted from me was money." "But think of it!" "You were so much in love that you lost everything!" "I'm a fool." "No." "I think that's wonderful!" "Excuse me... is there a Russian named Nikolai working here?" "Hey, Nikolai!" "Nikolai!" "Yes?" "The wide skies of Tokyo... ls there a river where you come from?" "Yeah, the Volga." "A his one." "I guess you'd like to go home, wouldn't you." "Yes." "I would." "But my mother has her hopes set on me." "That you'll pass an audition." "Yes." "I'd love to help somehow, If only I could..." "Don't worry." "Yukiko." "I won't give up." "I won't forget your kindness." "I'm going back to Kanazawa." "I probably won't see you again, but I wish you the best of luck." "Thank you." "I'm glad I met you." "Nothing's changed!" "Here's my desk..." "When I was home last, I slept downstairs..." "You've been gone five years." "I've aired the room, but it's still a bit musty." "No." "How's Dad?" "I don't know." "He seems better." "He's working like mad." "Excuse me, everyone..." "I'd like to thank you all for taking the time to be here." "I suspect you've all heard about this already but I've been sentenced to cancer of the liver." "Now." "I've thought about this, and since this cancer is my fate I've decided to let nature take its course and so I have come home." "Things are going to happen, and I ask your patience and support." "We don't have much to offer you, but please, have a good time." "Help yourselves!" "Imagine making a speech bragging about how you've got cancer!" "He's a tough old crab, though." "Maybe he'll find a way to sidle out of it somehow." "Yeah. but cancer..." "Yeah..." "Thank you, Shoji." "Leave that." "OK. 'Bye." "'Bye." "Good night." "Thanks a lot." "I'll walk with him." "Shoji!" "What?" "I'll walk with you." "Is there anything between them?" "It's hard to go from 'childhood friends' to 'lovers'." "I'd like to see something settled while I'm still here." "Shoji's a strange kid." "Giving up the family business to be a normal salaryman!" "What's wrong with that?" "It's hard to believe Dad'll be dead within six months." "I don't know... he looks like he could go on for years." "He's going to die." "Maybe." "But he doesn't look it." "I'm scared." "Everybody dies someday." "There's nothing you can do." "I guess you just have to make sure you live while you're alive." "So I hear the store in Tokyo went broke..." "I went to Tokyo against Dad's wishes but here I am again." "But I'm going back." "I just came here to have a chance to talk to Dad." "When I was little, it was all me talking back and him scolding me." "We lived together, but we never talked." "As I grew up I was either embarrassed by him or arguing with him so we didn't talk then, either." "Now that he hasn't got long to live, it's suddenly hit me that we have to talk." "So you've finally figured things out." "I've finally figured things out, have I?" "And how much have you figured out?" "Not everything." "But I'm satisfied with my boring normal life." "But no one figures it all out." "Not even your father." "If he'd figured it all out he'd've had that operation." "What does my father's maturity have to do with yours?" "What's so great about 'normal'?" "You must think I'm a child!" "Screw you!" "I shouldn't have come out here!" "No way." "I was in love with the guy." "When we made love it was like I was dreaming." "And now he's dumped me I still love him." "I think I'll love him till the day I die." "I'm an orphan." "My mother and father are dead." "I live all alone, and I'll die all alone." "All alone..." "I just wanted to spill my heart to someone." "To you." "I just wanted you to know that a stupid 29 year-old woman got a lot of money together and invested it in a man who dumped her." "But even though she's been left penniless she can't forget that man." "You're drunk." "Pure of heart." "That's what I am." "It was pure love." "Body and soul." "Are you OK?" "Excuse me..." "Everything UK'?" "Inspector..." "This way." "Thank you." "Ms Ogura Yukiko?" "Yes." "She left you a note." "This is Kawamura Ami?" "Yes." "She committed suicide." "Last night she asked at the front desk for a 7 AM wake-up call." "There was no answer, so they came in and found her." "She had slashed her wrists." "This note was for us, asking that you be informed." "This is to you." "We've taken the liberty of reading it." "'Yukiko... '..." "I'm sorry for all this trouble." "'I wanted to speak my heart to someone who'd understand." "'I'm going to embrace the heart of love itself." "I won't be lonely." "'Goodbye . '" "Pure of heart." "That's what I am." "It was pure love." "Body and soul." "Dad?" "You're working late." "I'm finished." "It's gotten cold." "My father took overthis post office in Showa 25." "That means 1950." "He succeeded to it when my grandfather died." "He started this 'designated post office' in 1895." "That's more than a hundred years ago." "The year Japan and China went to war." "I wanted to go to university, you know." "But suddenly my father asked me to take over here." "Oh, don't worry." "I've never thought that you might carry on here after me." "I might be interested." "You should get married." "Anyway..." "Where was I?" "I wanted to study Literature." "In those days there were great writers in Kanazawa like Izumi Kyoka, Muroo Saisei, and Tokuda Shusei." "But I had some idea of how my father felt so I packed it in and took over the post office." "But once I started doing it I realized I had to be serious about it and eventually I devoted my whole life to it." "Someone puts a postcard in a mailbox." "Making sure that postcard arrives at the right place is important work." "Shall I make you some tea?" "How nice you've become lately!" "I intend to stay nice." "You do?" "Since I got cancer, everyone's so nice to me." "I should've got cancer years ago." "Will you stop talking about it!" "It's depressing!" "Where's Mom?" "Saigawa Shrine." "Why did she go there?" "She's doing the 'hundred visits' for me." "A hundred visits to a shrine isn't going to help any!" "What's wrong with it?" "It makes her feel better." "I'm back!" "At least she should go earlier." "She could catch a cold!" "It's more effective if you visit a shrine in the cold." "I'm freezing!" "I'm making some tea." "Thanks." "You know that bean-jam bun shop in front of the shrine?" "That skinny dog of theirs started barking at me!" "And I'm a regular customer!" "What does the dog know about bean-jam buns?" "What god is that shrine dedicated to?" "Gee, I don't know." "Bean-jam buns." "They're good." "Oh. by the way where are that friend of yours' ashes?" "She had no family to take them." "They're in my room." "I see..." "Marie what do you say we put them in our tomb?" "If you want." "She'd be happy about that." "Yeah?" "Well, maybe we should ask the ancestors first." "'Have mercy upon us." "Lord Buddha'..." "What's up?" "Your mother said you were here." "What is it?" "You have some strange jobs." "I'm a volunteer." "The principal asked me." "You were in the school band, weren't you." "What did you do?" "Track." "I held the middle-school record for the 100 meters." "You want something." "You're busy." "It's all right." "It's nothing." "I just wanted to see you." "I hear you're putting your friend's ashes in your family tomb." "Yeah." "It was so sad... why did she have to kill herself?" "How's your father?" "Still the same." "Maybe because Mom's doing the hundred shrine visits." "You've changed." "Oh, yeah..." "What?" "I wonder how Nikolai is..." "Who?" "A Russian who came to Japan for an audition, but failed it." "But he's brilliant." "Kanazawa has an orchestra..." "The Kanazawa Philharmonic." "Hello?" "About that trumpet player..." "You know, that guy..." "The Kanazawa Philharmonic is auditioning trumpet players." "Great!" "Isn't it?" "I know someone there I can talk to." "Great!" "I'll call Nikolai!" "Thank you." "Hey, wait, wait, wait!" "You're really going to call this Russian guy?" "Yeah." "I want to give him another chance." "That's why I asked." "Well?" "I don't see him." "What's his hair like?" "Chestnut." "He's not here." "Nikolai!" "This is Nikolai." "How do you do." "This is my boyfriend, Shoji." "Hi." "I'm Nikolai." "Shoji." "Thanks for all this, Yukiko." "Shoji 'broke a bone' for this." "He got hurt?" "!" "I mean he arranged it." "Thank you." "It's nothing." "You'll be staying at his house until your audition." "I can wash dishes." "No, don't worry about that." "Nikolai..." "This is the Asano River." "'Asano'?" "Yep. 'Asano'." "What's that?" "A kind of kimono called yuzen." "The last thing they do is wash them like that in the river." "They're beautiful." "Shoji works for the post office but his mother makes those yuzen kimonos." "Why doesn't Shoji make them?" "Shoji here wants to be a 'normal' person." "He didn't want to become a craftsman." "Because his mother understood how he felt she raised him as a normal person." "His father died, so his mother is keeping the business going." "This is Shoji's house." "The workshop's upstairs." "I'll show you later." "Does he understand?" "Hello!" "Come in!" "Hi." "This is Shoji's mother." "Welcome." "Thank you for having me." "I'm glad you're here." "Nikolai, in here." "Mom, could you make some tea?" "All right." "Use this room." "Thank you very much." "Anything you need, you just ask Shoji here." "Do you eat bread or rice at breakfast?" "'Anything', he says." "Make some coffee." "OK?" "Oh, yeah... hang on." "Uh, Mom..." "let's have coffee instead, OK?" "You'd think from the way Yukiko acts this was her house!" "Well, you know what she is like." "If you marry her, she'll wear the pants, you know." "That hasn't been decided." "That Russian is quite handsome." "Shoji's normal, but he's very nice." "He's your boyfriend, isn't he?" "Well, yeah... we grew up together." "We used to have fights." "Coffee..." "Hot coffee." "Thanks." "Can we see the yuzen?" "What'd he say?" "Just now..." "'Can we see the yuzen?" "'" "Oh, the family business..." "Japanese kimono." "'Kimono'." "I understand!" "Sure." "We can see them." "We can see them." "Yuzen dyeing is done by the 'glue overlay' method." "This special technique allows for gorgeous, multi-colored designs." "The yuzen of this 'Kaga' region uses lots of bright shades, scarlets, greens, and purples and skillfully blends different tones to achieve a rich color." "Mom!" "Make it simpler." "He won't understand." "No?" "Sure he will!" "It's very beautiful." "Thank you." "Come in." "We're back!" "Nikolai's here!" "Hello!" "Welcome." "Hello." "Come in." "Step up." "This way." "The household shrine." "Buddha?" "In here." "Sit there." "A beautiful house." "It's old." "I think it was built more than a century ago." "You probably drink coffee..." "this is Japanese tea." "Thank you." "The lord and master will be in after he's finished work." "'Lord and master'?" "Make yourself at home." "Please." "It's Kaga 'twig tea'." "Nikolai, this is my father." "I'm Nikolai." "You're the bugle player?" "'Trumpet' !" "It looks like a bugle." "It's called a 'trumpet' !" "Look at it!" "It's the same as a bugle!" "Shall I play?" "Sure." "He can hear the difference." "That's really something." "I thought you were tone-deaf." "I still know when something sounds good." "If my tone-deaf father can tell, you're sure to pass!" "Sit here." "Our Yukiko here seems to be quite interested in you." "How far has your relationship, uh, 'progressed' ?" "You don't say that!" "Even if you are thinking it." "I am simply trying to shine light on a buried jewel." "If you're going to shine light, why not shine some on yourself?" "If light shines on him, some will reflect onto me." "Nothing I've tried is working out." "Yes, I know that." "You see, I am suffering from cancer." "Shinichiro!" "Yes, Dad!" "You mean the disease?" "That's right." "The disease that eats at you." "The one that eats at you till you're dead." "I see..." "But you know, you see both sides of things the good and the bad, what rots and what doesn't." "Is that connected with Zen?" "What?" "Is that connected with Zen?" "I suppose, more or less." "Please...help yourself." "I hope he likes it!" "Kanazawa has the best food in Japan." "Especially in winter." "Your father's very interesting." "He says exactly what he thinks." "What do you need?" "Ice." "You shouldn't be drinking!" "I've come this far." "A drink won't make it worse." "Shoji!" "Shoji!" "Here he is." "Hi." "Good night." "Good night." "'Night." "I'm back." "I'm back." "Yukiko... have a drink with me." "Is it OK?" "Why not?" "OK." "You're in a good mood tonight." "This fellow Nikolai where's he from?" "Moscow." "It's cold there." "Is he single?" "Yes." "He says he has a mother and a girlfriend waiting for him." "What are you two going to do after I'm dead?" "What a thing to say when all we're having a drink!" "Don't talk like that!" "But the truth is soon I'm going to die." "No, you're not!" "How do you know?" "I'll protect you." "That's right!" "So will I." "You won't die." "I'm so happy to hear that." "I'm shedding tears of joy." "Shinichiro I love you." "I know that." "But no one lives forever, you know." "OK, let's speak hypothetically, then." "If you were to die I would keep this place going." "And Yukiko would..." "Yukiko is going to marry Shoji." "Wait a minute!" "I'm not finished." "Shut up and listen to me." "One day I'll follow you and die, too." "Yukiko and Shoji will get married, and have children." "One of them will take our name, and take over this post office." "What a plan!" "Yes." "It's a family saga." "It all sounds very good." "Things don't work out that well in real life." "As a matter of fact, I have a plan, too." "Not the one about dying..." "Why don't we take a trip?" "I'll stay here." "We've been on lots of trips already." "I have so many memories." "I can't keen them all straight." "You and Yukiko go." "I had a feeling you'd say that." "The only place we've ever gone is Kyoto, when I was a girl." "Go to a hot spring." "Uh, Yukiko why don't you ask that Russian fellow?" "Yeah... he'd probably like it." "I'm against it." "Why?" "Because." "Oh, come on!" "Don't be like that." "What if something happens to me while we're away?" "What could Yukiko do alone?" "I'd be happier if we had a man along." "I guess so." "That's a nice song." "Yes, isn't it." "I've heard it somewhere before." "Where?" "I wonder..." "I just have the feeling I've heard it somewhere, far away." "Looks like practice is over." "Go call him in here." "Shouldn't you rest?" "We've come all the way here." "Call him in." "Just for a little while." "Come in." "Please... sit down." "Sorry to disturb you." "Shall we have some coffee?" "Sure." "Hello?" "Three coffees, please." "Thank you." "What do you think of the Japanese hot spring?" "It's wonderful." "It feels great." "That's good." "I hope it'll put you in the right spirit for your audition." "I'll do my best." "Uh... it's 'Nikolai', isn't it..." "I'm very glad that you and Yukiko have become such good friends." "Thank you." "I'm very grateful, too." "No!" "No smoking!" "Nikolai what's that song you were playing on the trumpet called?" "It's my audition niece." "Oh?" "I just had the feeling I'd heard it a long time ago." "When I was a boy I lived near the Russian border in a place called Songhuajiang." "Now it's in northeastern China." "My grandfather was..." "Sorry." "I'll explain." "My grandfather ran a post office." "There was a 'national policy', and my father went to the continent and opened a post office there." "And I'll never forget..." "It was near the end of the war, August 9th, 1945." "Suddenly the Russian army or the 'Soviet' army, then attacked us, the Japanese, with thousands of soldiers." "I was 13 then." "You're the first Russian I've met since then." "So you hate the Russian soldiers from that time..." "No, no." "I don't hate anyone." "That's what war is." "The Japanese army did the same in China and southeast Asia." "What's that got to do with Nikolai?" "That's all right." "Please." "continue." "To tell the truth the Russian soldiers looked to us like the demons of hell." "But you know, Nikolai when the war ended, those very same Russian soldiers all marched away, singing their Russian songs." "It was beautiful, like a choir." "So beautiful I can still hear it, even now." "That was the first time I glimpsed the wonder of humanity." "You've never told me that." "When I heard Nikolai playing his trumpet it somehow started me thinking about it." "I didn't know that." "I'm glad you told me." "Let me tell you about myself." "Please." "My father died when I was six in the Afghanistan war." "In battle?" "Yes." "He was a very gentle man." "I see." "So you're a victim of war, too." "War makes no one happy." "Can't you sleep?" "I just had a dream." "There was a river..." "Probably the Asano River." "You were toddling along the bank." "We used to walk along there a lot, didn't we." "I vaguely remember." "Yukiko... never cry." "Live for what you believe in." "It's like I can see it." "Korea's over there." "That way is Russia." "He hasn't got much time left." "At the end he'll probably be in pain." "May I ask for your help?" "All right." "I can understand why your husband has chosen this way." "I'll help." "How's your father?" "Don't worry about him." "Do your best today." "I will." "Shoji..." "Don't you worry about a thing." "Let's go." "How are you feeling?" "Like I have a load off my mind." "Come in." "Hello." "How are you?" "Who might you be?" "Haven't we met somewhere before?" "That's right.We've met." "I know who you are." "You're the doctor." "I'm not here as a doctor today." "I just came to see how you were." "You don't have to lie." "You're here to give me morphine." "Wel, since you are a patient of mine and I happened to be passing by..." "Yukiko?" "Shouldn't you be going to the audition?" "Shoji went with him." "I see." "So you want to be here with me at the end, do you?" "Thank you." "You're not going to die, Dad." "Sorry could you turn me towards the sun?" "Number 17, Nikolai Altemikov." "Shinichiro?" "Does it hurt?" "Yukiko..." "Shinichiro..." "Thank... you." "I'm sorry." "Shinichiro... good night." "Dad... thank you." "Yukiko!" "Yukiko!" "He passed the audition." "Thank you, Yukiko." "Congratulations." "I played for your father." "My father... died." "You loved your father, didn't you." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Yes?" "Can I help you?" "We're from the Immigration Office." "ls there a Nikolai Altemikov here?" "He's Russian." "Yes, he is." "Uh." "should I call him?" "Yes, please." "Would you?" "Yukiko..." "Come here." "What?" "There's some men here for Nikolai." "Who?" "They're from Immigration." "They say Nikolai's visa has expired." "They finally tracked him down here." "So what happens?" "He'll be deported." "Right away?" "Yes." "You are Nikolai Altemikov?" "That is correct." "Your visa expired 35 days ago." "Why didn't you contact us?" "I was busy." "I just forgot." "That's right." "Anyway, please sit down." "That's too bad." "The law requires that you be taken into custody." "Let's go." "Now?" "Yes." "Right now." "Can't you give him some time?" "No." "He came to Kanazawa for a trumpet audition!" "The Kanazawa Philharmonic wants him!" "That is irrelevant." "He's broken the law." "What kind of people are you?" "!" "Ignore her." "Quiet!" "It's our job." "I'll come." "What can we do?" "Can we call the police?" "Can't we do anything?" "No, we can't." "It's the law." "But..." "We contacted the police to find out where he was." "Nikolai..." "I'm sorry we can't send you off properly..." "Take care of yourself, all right?" "Thank you for your kindness." "Goodbye." "Go easy on him." "I'm in love with Nikolai." "I thought so." "Well. that's a relief." "At least I'm sure." "I'm in love with you, too." "You don't have to be nice." "I'm serious." "You're moonlighting?" "Yes." "Will you stop this?" "I'm getting angry." "Nikolai has a girlfriend in Moscow." "That's cheating." "It hasn't gone that far yet." "Look, stop tormenting me, will you?" "Maybe I should just get married to you..." "Stop that." "I'm not marrying you." "I just decided." "I'm going to go to Moscow and see what's going on." "That sounds like a good idea." "Just walk in on him." "You come with me." "Look, give me a break!" "How can you say that?" "!" "What if there's no girlfriend?" "You're going to stay, aren't you." "I won't know that till I get there!" "My sandal..." "I just want to see him again!" "Please, Shoji!" "Come with me!" "Please!" "No!" "I have a job!" "You can come with me!" "Please!" "No!" "Please!" "Just how much of a fool are you, anyway?" "If your father was alive, he'd break your head open." "You're going with Yukiko so she can see her boyfriend?" "You'll be a laughingstock!" "I love Yukiko." "This is embarrassing!" "I can't believe I'm hearing this from my own son!" "You're free to go after Nikolai if you want." "But don't take Shoji with you." "You're trampling all over him." "That's a horrible thing to do!" "Shoji says he's coming because he's worried about me." "To think that my own daughter could be so heartless!" "It's freezing!" "Let's ask over there." "OK." "It's this way." "You go straight ahead." "There's a forest, then a bridge." "The green house on the right." "It takes about ten minutes." "Well?" "I'll wait here." "The next train to Moscow isn't till after 3." "I'll wait till then." "I'm sorry." "Get going!" "All right." "What?" "Shut off the gas." "Well?" "He's there." "Thank you, Shoji." "Let's go home."