"KAWAKITA MEMORIAL FILM INSTITUTE" "CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE" "Produced, Written and Directed by HIROSHI SHIMIZU" "Repatriated soldiers can´t be our guests." "Pull back." "No business." "What do you mean?" "No finger-working." "Don´t shout, stupid." "Come on, everybody." "He´s acting like a boss." "Soldier." "Why not?" "Too crowded?" "Take the next one." "The last car." "Empty." "Take it." "All?" "Give me half." "All." "Half." "You´re too modest." "Funny kid." "No more." "You ate it?" "I gave it to the Old Man." "You have a father?" "Our boss." "Buy my bread." "I see." "We eat only leftovers." "Leftovers?" "If saleable, we must give it to him." "I didn´t know." "Eat it." "Going to Kyushu?" "Kyushu?" "Why?" "You didn't go to Tokyo." "I´m thinking where to go." "Thinking?" "Nowhere." "Why?" "I´m an orphan like you." "Because of the war?" "No." "I used to be a loafer." "Then you´re our senior." "Senior?" "Maybe." "Have you seen the movie "Tower to Look Back"?" "No." "It´s an old movie." "The Tower is a reform school." "I grew up there." "I´ve never had a home." "Then stay here." "It´s nice." "In the train." "I´ll work here for a while." "As a shoeshine boy." "No." "People are wearing clogs." "What else?" "The Old Man´ll help you." "Many jobs." "Like what?" "To buy train tickets." "For the black market." "And?" "To sell smokes." "What else?" "Plenty." "Name it." "It´s your job." "Tell him." "I can´t." "Attention, please." "Miss Yumiko Natsuki." "Your cable returned." "The addressee is missing." "Please come to the office." "Miss Yumiko Natsuki." "Your cable returned." "Please come to the office." "They´re calling you." "My cable returned." "No other relatives?" "Watch my things." "Please." "Shin, come here." "Keep an eye on this." "Will you?" "Sure." "You talked, huh?" "To the man." "My tongue slipped." "Punish me." "Do as you like." "They´re hunting loafers!" "Hunt?" "Get away!" "Warn the others." "Come on, Shin." "Leave me alone." "I´ll let them get me." "No kidding." "It´s fixed." "I shouldn´t have run away with you." "Let´s carry each other taking turns." "On our backs?" "Carry me first." "No kidding." "You carry me first." "Me first." "I´ll carry you later." "No deal." "You´re mean." "It´s them." "So you´re safe." "We ran along the railroad track." "Kobei was picked up." "He was slow." "Old Man?" "He talks big but has no guts." "He got away." "The cops were rough." "Where to?" "If only I were alone." "He´s a problem." "Too bad." "Avoid trains." "I´ll go to Shikoku." "Is it nice?" "I´ll find out." "Take care of him." "It´s you, boys." "Get on." "A job at a lumberyard." "Come on." "You mean we got a job?" "They think so." "But anything can happen." "Where were you?" "We hid in the sea." "Sei was picked up." "I didn´t expect it." "No precaution." "Scram." "We aren´t always lucky." "Don´t blame me for it." "We know that soldier." "Come on, ride." "A job at a lumberyard." "Come is nice." "Why not take a train?" "Repatriates can ride free." "I want to get a job around here." "What happened?" "Roundup." "We got away." "The cops were rough this time." "Where are you going?" "I´m going to Shikoku." "Shikoku?" "Across the sea?" "We could go anywhere." "Even Tokyo." "I haven´t been there." "I went to Aomori, too, way up north." "A land of apples." "I carried a lot of them to Kanazawa." "I made a profit." "Let´s try again." "No." "Cops are watching loafers." "Where did you live?" "Osaka." "Wakayama." "You?" "Osaka." "I was abroad." "Hiroshima." "I was in the shelter." "He came from Saipan with his mother." "His ship sank." "She died." "I´m sorry." "The war must have made many orphans." "Thousands of them." "They´re filling Tokyo." "Around Osaka Station, too." "Shut up." "I can´t sleep." "Be quiet." "Thanks." "Welcome back, soldier." "Got a match?" "I hear you have no place to go." "Come to Kobe." "I´m nobody here." "But in Kobe I´m somebody." "I can live a better life with beauts." "I had to be away for a while." "Let´s go to Kobe." "Wait!" "You must work here." "Damn kids!" "I´ll bring them back." "Wait!" "Come on." "Run!" "Hurry!" "Wait!" "Get away." "They tricked me." "I´ll work." "You worked for the country." "I´ll work." "I´ll help you." "Thanks." "Lift it." "Heavy." "That one." "Shin and the others?" "They´re smart enough." "Let´s go." "We worked hard, but he gave us potatoes." "He gave us a lift, too." "The black market pays better." "No black market for me." "Delicious!" "It´s good!" "It´s because you worked hard." "Come here and eat potatoes." "They didn´t work." "But they´re hungry." "They don´t deserve it." "They won´t think it´s good." "Who wants potatoes?" "Show them." "Persimmons." "They stole them." "Serves them rigth." "Soldier!" "Come on!" "Mother!" "Whenever he sees the sea, he calls his mother." "Why?" "His mother died in the sea." "But he feels she´s still alive." "Hanging around here?" "Where were you?" "We slept outdoors." "Without any food." "Hungry?" "Give them potatoes." "Eat this." "Potatoes?" "Good?" "Potatoes are everywhere." "Give me more." "They don´t work, so they don´t know." "Naturally." "Let´s go." "Come on, everybody." "We´re going to work." "Let´s go." "Where are you going?" "Take us with you." "Shall we?" "But they´re too many." "We´ll work." "We´ll work, too." "What´ll we get for this?" "Who knows?" "Maybe potatoes." "Hurry!" "You´ll miss potatoes." "Cops are watching the road." "What´ll we do?" "A passway." "How much?" "I knew it!" "A bargain." "Some other time." "I´m looking for a permanent job." "There are a lot of jobs." "Buy fish cheap; sell them high." "You can make easy money that way." "I don´t want to be like the black market." "Then go to a salt pond." "They´re short of hands." "A salt pond?" "It´s the young lady." "It´s her." "He´s soft." "Hello!" "It´s you, Shin." "What are you doing?" "I had a friend in Taiwan." "He lives here." "On that island." "You go there?" "You´re sun-tanned as usual." "Blow your nose." "Can´t I go there?" "I don´t know what´ll happen to me there." "I´ll see you off." "Thanks." "Go to the salt pond." "Tell them I sent you." "Thanks." "I´ll go there." "Shin´s coming." "There he is." "She´s going to the island." "You, too?" "Where to?" "The island." "Take me there." "I wish I could." "It´s not free." "I can ride a train." "Goodbye." "Keep well." "She´s waving at me, not you." "Yoshibo´s gone with her." "He´s gone." "He likes the sea." "Why don´t you go away, too?" "Why travel together?" "I want to settle down." "Take us with you." "We´ll work, too." "We carried timber." "Remember?" "Will you work with me?" "Yes." "We´ll work hard." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "Follow me." "They´re following us." "What´ll we do?" "Let them, if they work." "Come on, boys!" "I´m bored." "Let´s run away." "Come on!" "They´re running away!" "Aren´t you going to catch them?" "They have no place to go." "They´ll get busted." "Go that way." "What is it?" "They ran away, but I came back." "Where did they go?" "The school over there." "Stay and listen to the song." "Try this." "Go ahead." "Try." "Go on." "Multiplication." "I don´t know." "Then, deduction." "I don´t know." "Then, addition." "I don´t know." "Too bad." "I hated math." "What did you like?" "I hated school." "Too bad." ""October 8." "The man bought me a notebook." ""I want to study at the Tower to Look Back." ""I´ll work hard and study hard"." "Who was smoking?" "Who?" "Raise your hands." "Who wasn´t smoking?" "None of you smoked?" "Why the smoke, then?" "Tell me the truth." "I won´t punish you if you confess." "Don´t smoke again." "I won´t, either." "That´s one thing." "You lied." "That´s much worse." "Match?" "Promise you won´t smoke again." "They´re hunting for loafers." "We´re workers." "Right?" "Yes." "Good ones." "Wait!" "Where to?" "Beppu via Ubé." "Take this." "Thanks." "Keep well." "Shall we join them?" "Let´s do it." "Offer a game." "How about a game?" "They´re cowards." "Let´s go." "They ran away because they´re weak." "They have no chance." "They aren´t weak." "They´re just afraid." "Be decent so they won´t be afraid of you." "Take this letter." "They´ll give you a good job." "Thank you." "Beautiful." "Mom!" "Cut it out." "What´s Yoshibo doing?" "And the young lady?" "HIROSHIMA" "That´s Yoshibo." "What happened?" "It´s you again." "Hello." "Hey!" "It´s the lady!" "How were you?" "I couldn´t stay with my friend very long." "Even my cable wasn´t delivered." "I couldn´t help to come here." "Nice sweater." "You look rich." "Orange?" "Eat it." "Thanks." "For me?" "It´s a bit sour." "Thanks." "Find the man?" "No." "I won´t see him again." "Half." "Good." "They´re hard workers." "Better than me." "They aren´t loafers and I´m not a soldier." "That´s great." "To give food to loafers at stations isn´t good for them." "They want something else from us." "What is it?" "What shall I say?" "Love." "I understand." "Some understand." "We´re offered work in Shikoku." "We´ll get it." "That´s fine." "The trouble is education." "They need a teacher." "I´m not a good one." "You are." "I wish they could go to school." "After the work," "I´ll take them to my school." "That´s my "home"." "I have no other place to go." "A reform school named the Tower to Look Back." "Yoshibo, you must study, too." "Go with them." "Don´t be a burden to her anymore." "Come with us." "You must study." "Go with them." "I´ll write to you from Tokyo." "Tokyo?" "I have many friends there." "Shall we go?" "Goodbye." "Keep well." "I´ll write to you." "So write back." "Let´s go." "He´s no good." "Sis!" "She said she´ll write to you from Tokyo." "Yoshibo, join us." "Don´t cheat." "Your tears bring bad luck, Yoshibo." "A rich boy who lost his mother." "If you miss her, jump overboard." "He misses the lady, not his mother." "Stupid." "What are you doing?" "Here´s goat´s milk." "Right now?" "I envy a sick boy." "Drink it." "It´s you who´s sick." "Can you see the sea?" "Not from here." "From the mountain." "I want to see it." "You can climb the mountain later." "Drink the milk and take me there." "You´re ill." "Take me to the mountain." "You can´t even walk now." "On your back." "On my back?" "The sea can cure my disease." "No." "I´d be scolded." "You can carry me." "You can see the sea." "I want to see it." "Please take me there." "Drink the milk." "Will you get well, then?" "Yes, I will." "Really?" "Don´t tell the man." "I´ll carry you." "It´s good." "Thanks." "Hurry up." "Hang on." "It´s the sea." "Yoshibo, look." "You can see the sea." "Yoshibo, what´s the matter?" "Name?" "Yoshibo." "Age?" "Ten." "Parents?" "Dead." "They came from Saipan." "Repatriates." "Most ot them are undernourished." "He was alone." "An orphan?" "His mother died on the way to Japan." "I see." "Whenever he saw the saw, he called "Mother"." "He went to the mountain to see the sea." "My fault." "Blame me." "He died before he saw the sea." "Certificate of death." "Bury him on a hill where he can see the sea." ""Dear Sis, How do you live in Tokyo?" ""I´m ill." "Our work in the mountains will be over soon." ""I want to see you again." "Let us know your address"." "Goodbye, Yoshibo." "We´re leaving." "I´ll send your letter to the lady." "I´ll bring her here someday." "Goodbye." "I want to apologize to Yoshibo." "Apologize?" "Go ahead." "Say goodbye to him." "If I knew you´d die so soon," "I wouldn´t been kinder to you." "You asked me to carry you on my back." "I refused." "I regret that." "You wanted chocolate." "I could´ve bought some for you." "I hated you when you went to the island with the lady." "I´m sorry." "When you were ill, I cheated you." "I drank half of your milk." "I´m sorry." "I drank it, too." "We´re going to travel again." "You called "Mother" whenever you saw the sea." "We´ll call Yoshibo whenever we see a mountain." "Then please answer." "Goodbye, Yoshibo." "Say goodbye to him." "I´ll stay here by his side." "Yoshibo!" "Call him." "I saw a lady who looks like our lady." "But she´s in Tokyo, isn´t she?" "I saw the Old Man, too." "He was with a bunch of prostitutes." "There he is." "It´s him." "He looks like a gentleman." "Take care of her." "Don´t spoil your clothes." "Don´t be afraid." "You´ll get used to it." "Yoshibo´s letter." "He died." "Poor boy!" "Come down." "The Tower to Look Back." "They´re coming." "Don´t run away." "They´re welcoming us." "Welcome home!" "I´ve brought kids." "Good." "Welcome." "Come on, Old Man." "Cheer up." "THE END"