"CONCEPT:" "MONKEY TOWN PRODUCTIONS" ""HARE TO NO TABU" FILM PARTNERS PRESENT" "A PRODUCTION BY LATERNA AND MONKEY PRODUCTIONS" "Hurry up!" "MASHIKE STATION" "EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:" "Naoshi YODA" "PRODUCER:" "Muneyuki Kll Naoko KOBAYASHI" "ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS:" "Sakura WAKITA, Masahiro KOBAYASHI" "Tatsuya NAKADAI" "Eri TOKUNAGA" "A FILM BY Masahiro KOBAYASHI" "HARU'S JOURNEY" "Grandfather!" "This is dangerous!" "I'm sorry about what I've said." "It hurt you." "Don't do it!" "Let us return." "Rubbish!" "You made the suggestion I'm only doing what you told me." "I'm telling you, it was..." "It's ok!" "What a gorgeous house." "That's the only one, that's gorgeous" "Dear me!" "It's very silent." "Like a death watch." "I'm freezing!" "Once a day you should ventilate." "That's healthy." "There!" "Long time no see." "You're kidding?" "Terrible, the matter with your mother." "Don't talk about it." " Yes." "Listen, Haru!" "Yes?" "Forget your mother!" "A woman that kills herself I can not forgive." "I doesn't matter under which circumstances" "That is inexcusable." "Sister-in-law?" " Yes?" "What is this person saying?" "Excuse me?" "To forgive someone, not to forgive..." "What is he talking about?" "Haru's mother is my niece nonetheless." "Who cares!" "The life of a human is only the concern of himself." "Or not?" "As always your eccentric manner!" "If you don't break with it..." " it's too late for that." "By the way, Tadao," "Why are you here actually?" "Why you are here!" " To ask for something." "Money?" " Not money!" "What else?" "Grandfather suddenly felt like seeing you." "Nothing more." "Right, grandfather?" "No, that's not true." "I'm here because of a certain request." "Please leave us alone, Haru." "Grandfather ..." "Go!" "Sister-in-law?" "I'm sorry." "Let's go over there!" "Grandfather, let it go!" "Let it go" "Go now." "What happened?" "I said something stupid." " What?" "I looked around earlier." "Next to the toilet is a storage room" "That would be sufficient." "Let me stay there." "The primary school, where Haru works at the canteen is going to be closed, and that's her reason to go to Tokyo." "That means, I'm going to be alone." "I cannot live alone." "I said, let go of the herrings!" "For decades you are dreaming about the big catch" "Because of those herrings father could pay off the house." "That happened several decades ago." "You haven't sold it, nonetheless." "What can you do, if nobody is living there anymore?" "I told you back then:" "Let go of the herrings, come back from Hokkaido and move in there." "If you would have lived there, we wouldn't be here now." "I have to do my duty towards the herrings." "It supported our family." "It's only fish." "But it doesn't matter how bad the catches were," "I couldn't give up the fishery." "I know, it's a big request." "I never got along with you." "But I don't have a choice." "Please take me in." "Is that the way to ask for something?" "Besides I'm your older brother." "Even if you are the older one, to me you are only a human being." "I'd like to treat you as an equal person." "Well, first of all nobody can live there." "There is no window." "Window or not, I don't care." "Even if you don't care, how would it look like?" "I passed everything to my son and retired." "But I haven't stopped to have a social life." "Every day a lot of people come here." "It doesn't matter, how unsuccessful you are considered, if there will be a rumor about me, letting my brother live in the storage room, my dignity will be undermined." " Dignity?" "Yes, my dignity!" "For the oldest son to be adopted by the family of his wife ..." "Is that your dignity?" "What are you thinking!" "Why did you of all the people choose me?" "That person, you couldn't get along with the most." "I thought, I'm going to start where there is the least hope." "Excuse me?" "What kind of explanation is that?" "That's how it is!" "Hey, Haru!" "Haru!" "Your grandfather is calling." "We are going." "At least stay for tonight." "How could I stay here!" "But..." "Grandfather!" "Tadao!" "Go to Michio in Sendai" "He is a respected man." "He probably can help a single man." "Let's go." "In fall I'm going to a retirement home." "Finally there are free rooms." "We go together." "I don't have the right to make a decision." "I have to do, what my son and his wife tell me to." "Idiot." "Please wait here." "I go to ask." "Excuse me!" "Thank you!" "With dinner and breakfast it's 6500 Yen." "And?" "Expensive, but I took it." "Oh!" "That looks delicious." "Grandfather?" "Are you OK, Grandfather?" "Grandfather!" "Grandfather." "Yes ..." "The first sip since twenty years." "It went to my head." "Why are you drinking then?" "How could you stand it without alcohol!" "I regret it." "I don't know, why I said that." "Thus let's turn back." "No," "I'm not turning back." "You were right." "You cannot be locked-in forever, like the courtesans in the past." "Soon it's going to be five years your mother has died." "You did care for me for five years." "Now it's time for you." "Move to the city take a flat and work!" "And you?" "What I am supposed to do!" "I can't accompany you." "On the other hand I can't live alone with that leg." "That's why I'm going to do, what you told me." "To get fed by my brothers and sisters." "Like my older brother" "I also thought about a retirement home." "But I can't get into a state-owned one, where there are hundreds of people on the wait list." "On the other hand I cannot pay for a private one." "That means even if we don't get along it's the best to go to one of my siblings." "I don't think you can do that." "If you can do it or not, you only know after trying." "I don't think so." "Then I can't live anymore." "Well, are we eating?" "No longer..." "Warm anymore." "Grandfather ..." "Eat something!" "Tomorrow we'll go to the cemetery." "Go on." "Eat." "It totally changed!" "In the past a plain beach reached up to there." "In the year I was born, a tsunami ?" "ooded this harbor." "Our house has been swallowed by the sea." "My father borrowed money and built a house on the hill." "But then the catch volumes have been restricted severely." "Therefore my father remained at land." "With 16 years I left this place." "I've heard in Hokkaido it's possible to catch a lot of herrings." "Sufficient to build several palaces." "That stirred the blood of a fisherman within me, which I inherited from my father." "It's possible, that the blood of a fisherman lies in you, too." "Within me?" "Why don't you try to swim?" "Go on!" "Go!" "Stop it!" "it's dangerous." "Stop it." "And?" "Here you are!" "Thanks." " Thank you!" "Where did he go?" "Year after Year we received new year greetings from this address." "That's what is strange." "It doesn't matter whom I'm asking, no one knows a Yukio Nakai." "Let's go there again, after we finished eating." "Pointless." "Whatever." "We're going there again." "Pointless!" "We're going there again." "Delicious, this ramen!" "Eat." "Kikuchi." "Excuse me!" "Is someone named Nakai living here?" "No." "No one with that name is living here." "But every year a new year's greeting is coming." "And your answers never returned?" " I don't write answers." "You are too lazy to write." "I don't like writing." "I don't know many characters." "That we have in common." "I've always been on the ship." "There was no time to learn characters." "You've been a sailor?" "Yes.Well ..." "But with Yukio it's really strange." "He wrote he's together with a waitress, they have a child, and he became respectable." "How long ago was that?" "Maybe twenty years." "If the child has been born twenty years ago, today it is twenty years old?" "The same age I'am." "That means 19 this year." "Is that right?" "Mother said so." "Is it a girl, that child?" "A boy." "A boy aged 19." "In that case ..." "Mrs. Shimizu has a son in that age." "Shimizu?" "But the household consists of mother and son." "Where is that Mrs. Shimizu living?" "There." "There, on second floor." "Over there?" "There probably is no bath here." "No, there is one." "Yes?" "After all it's a hotel." "Thus there is one." "Are you going?" "Well ..." "Not today." "Why don't you go?" "I went yesterday." "You should take a bath every day." "You're right." "Is there no alcohol to drink?" " No." "Why not?" " Because it's bad for your legs." "What a bore I became!" "In the past I fairly drunk!" "The women liked me." "You told me before." " Really?" "Many times." "Well ..." "Finish eating!" "But I just started." "Hey, watch out!" "You're making a mess again." "You're right." "Every grain of rice is precious." "That's for the accommodation today." "That's for our food tomorrow." "That's for the travel expenses tomorrow." "And there will be the ferry on the way back." "It's not enough." "It'll never be enough." "Do you know, Haru ..." "Yukio has been the youngest child." "My parents have spoiled him a lot." "But he has been worse than me, and not even passed high school" "Have you been to high school?" "Me?" "I've only been to primary school." "Where did he go to?" "He was a good guy." "Maybe he is in prison again." "Well, that's possible." "He might not be dead after all." "If he is dead, we would have received a notice." "That's right." "Are we visiting your older sister tomorrow?" "She probably is lively as ever." "And I'm going to be grumbled at again." "Listen Haru." "What is it?" "Why aren't We going to the apartment again, before taking the train?" "If you want to." "I think maybe that Mrs. Shimizu is Yukio's wife." "Listen." "Maybe you should give up Uncle Yukio by now." "But ..." "I got along with him very well." "Thank You!" " It was delicious." "Yes, thanks!" "." "Thank you a lot." "Refill is free." "Eat as much rice as you want to." "I can't eat anymore." "I don't believe that." "You still have side dishes!" "I wanted to get it wrapped up." "Grandfather!" " You are an unusual guest!" "These days no one get's something wrapped up." "Isn't it possible?" " That's not what I mean." "The contrary!" "People don't appreciate food anymore." "That's what I meant!" "Why don't you make filled rice balls with it." "Then we save a meal." " Grandfather!" "As an exception, as an exception!" "I'm sorry." "Grandfather!" "How embarrassing." "Why is it embarrassing?" "Hey, here you are." " Did you wait?" "Mrs. Shimizu!" " Yes?" "Grilled fish." " Yes." "Hey, Haru!" "Go ask." ""Are you the wife of Yukio Nakai?"" "Go." "My Grandfather is looking for him" "I'm sorry you had to wait!" "Is it OK to close up?" " In the afternoon it's empty." "Especially recently." "To close up is almost better." "There you are!" "Who would have known you are the wife of Yukio." "Not his wife." "The marriage never got registered." "You mean a concubinage?" "Well ..." "And when is Yukio getting out again?" "Next year?" "Or the year after?" "Oh dear!" "I forgot." "What did he do this time?" "If he would have done something I could accept it." "He's in for a criminal act by someone else." "Someone else?" "He owed him." "He thought after two, three years he would be out." "As if!" "Entire eight years." "For something he didn't do?" "Yes." "And your son?" "He's living in Tokyo and preparing for the entrance examination to university." "That means the new year greeting cards grandfather received each year ..." "They came from me." "From you?" "He said, I should send a new year greeting card only to his brother Tadao." "I see." "That's how it went!" "That's typical of him." "Conscientiously." "It would be nice, if he could live conscientiously." "Can't he?" "Live conscientiously?" "He probably can live only in a prison." "I'm sorry, but I have to go back to the restaurant." "I have to say I'm sorry." "I'm sorry for the sudden visit." "Thank you." "Well ..." "If Yukio returns, please let us know." "We all have our cross to bear." "Yukio really is a good guy." "Really?" "Women can't recognize his good side." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Thank you!" "Have a good way home." "Thank you." "Thanks." " Please visit us again." "It's great you are here, Haru." "I haven't been in touch for a long time." "Yes, but you have to show up more often." "Yes." "Abandon that old man." "Tadao!" " Mhm?" "What do you mean "Mhm"!" "You could have given a call." "The world doesn't revolve around you." "Other people are busy, too." "That's right." " Of course that's right!" "I know." " You know nothing!" "Not a bit." "It has been like that since ever." "Is that so?" "You are beyond help!" "And how long do you want to stay?" "Forever." " What do you mean, forever?" "I thought I can find shelter until I die." "That's not possible!" "Why not?" "Why not?" "Well, what could you do here?" "There is a rule here:" "If you don't work, you are not allowed to eat." "If you are chopping wood, we can talk about it." "I'm notable to do that." "I'm not good on my legs." " You don't chop wood with your legs." "But with your arms and back!" "I'm not able to do that also." " Then it won't work." "Well?" "You should go home and let Haru stay here!" "Haru can do everything." "She could learn to keep the books ..." "Yes!" "That's a good idea!" "That's how we do it." "You're going back, Haru is staying here." "Well, that..." "I don't know." "I'm not asking you, I'm asking Haru." "I ..." ""I" what?" "You have to abandon that spoiled grandfather immediately." "Otherwise you're going to regret it your whole life!" "Your life is not there for others." "It's there for yourself." "Yes." "Let's stop for today." "And?" "Where is our room?" "Unfortunately we are fully booked today." "The guest rooms are occupied." "Haru is sleeping in my room, and Tadao ... in the Futon storage room." "Ok!" "If either futon storage room or dog kennel ..." "Tomorrow you'll get a guest room." " Oh, no ..." "I'm going to stay in the futon storage room." "Don't make such a fuss about it!" "Haru, didn't you work for the canteen of a primary school?" "Yes." " Then you know kitchen work." "I'm sorry, but could you change your clothes and help me now?" "Today the house is busy." "There is a lot to do, I'd be happy to get some help." "Ok." "Ok then ..." "Grandfather?" "Exactly like I said." "So you aren't gloomy?" "My sister is the only one, where I duck my head." "At Yukio it's not working, at my older brother neither." "If it's not working at my sisters, the only one left is Michio." "Michio ..." "Here they are!" " Let it cool down." "Now spread the pickled vegetables." "Yes." "What is it?" "To stay at the futon storage room the whole time makes me feel depressed." "The rooms are getting cleaned now." "Please be patient!" "Listen." "There is a cafe that has good coffee." "Invite me." "The poor brother is supposed to invite the big sister?" "Don't make a fuss!" "It's your fault you're poor." "Good Morning!" "Thank you." " Thank you very much." "Good Morning." " Good Morning." "Welcome." "Here!" "Sit down." "Yes." "Two coffees, please." "Yes, immediately." "Very delicious!" "I love the coffee you get here." "So?" "You have to drink coffee in a cafe." "I never had one before." "You never had coffee before?" "It's the first time in my life." "I don't believe it!" "How do you drink it?" "With sugar and milk, if you like." "Coffee Without anything is called black That's an acquired taste." "Then I try it like that." "And?" "What?" "What you said yesterday evening ..." "That you'd like to stay here." "You say that, because you're thinking of Haru, right?" "That's how it is?" "The school she's working for is going to be closed." "That means, Haru won't have work anymore." "In our town you can't find good work." "Therefore it's better to go to the city." "Times are bad everywhere." "Even in the city it's possible she won't find work." "Yes, you're right about that." "Say, why don't you leave Haru with me?" "Is that the continuation of the discussion?" " Yes." "Then you shouldn't ask me." "If Haru agrees, I won't object." "Can I speak with Haru?" "You already spoke with her yesterday." "Again, formally." "Formally ..." "You know," "You have to get on alone." "Be strong." "I always did only what I wanted." "How am I supposed to live alone?" "My wife passed away." "And then ... my only daughter died, too." "Something is wrong with me." "Maybe I'm bringing misfortune." "Why else would there be only around me ..." "I want to be frank with you." "They are all your victims." "Of you and your dreams about herrings." "But not Haru, too." "Whatever happens, not her." "I know." "You don't know anything!" "You are a big bonehead, who only thinks about himself until his death." "I say it again." "You must not make Haru your victim." "I'm cold!" "Once a day you have to let in air." "So pull yourself together." "Oh,you're back." "Excuse me!" "I kidnapped him." "She gave me a telling-off." "Haru, can you come with me?" "Haru!" "Sit down." "I make tea for us." "Shall I ..." " it's Ok." "Sit down!" "Your Grandfather has a difficult life at the moment." "Why should it be different!" "His wife dies and then the thing with your mother happens." "And now he is supposed to live apart from you." "In my opinion it's important to experience bad things, too." "Especially for Tadao." "That's why we need to be strict with him." "We need to reject him." "I, too had difficult times," "When my husband died." "When the hotel had some problems and out of desperation" "I thought about to sell it." "If you have employees, it can get difficult quite fast." "Even now it's certainly not easy." "There also is the question about my succession." "All the time I have a lot of sorrows." "But distress brings you forward," "I decided." "The way I see it, everything becomes easy!" "All sorrows appear to be dumb." "That's what is counting in life." "And that's why it's better to abandon Tadao." "You abandon him,for him to stand on his own feet." "Therewith you do him something good." "To be honest, it was me telling him to get in contact with his siblings." "But now I changed my opinion." "Now I'd like to stay with him forever." "It doesn't matter what's happening, I'd like to stay with him." "That won't work!" "It's not good for you, and it's not good for Tadao." "Listen, Haru, why don't you work for me here?" "Under the condition that you'll become my successor." "Wouldn't that appeal to you?" "Do I have to give an answer immediately?" "If possible I'd like to get the answer now." "Did you talk to my sister?" "And?" "I refused." "I see!" "I don't want it." "To live separated from you." "For a long time I thought it's better." "But I changed my mind." "Now I don't want it anymore." "Let us visit Uncle Michio tomorrow!" "We're going to visit him, and after it We return home." "YAKITORI, ODEN" "Thank you." "Oh, it's raining." "I'm sorry, Haru." "Tadao?" "Stop to rely on Haru like that." "I know." "Here you are!" "Haru?" " Yes." "That's bad!" "But I'm going to accept it." "I'm sorry." "Be brave." "Yes." "You,too." "Ok, then..." "Thank you for everything." "Maybe we won't see each other again." "Stay just the bold sister that you are." "That goes without saying!" "So ..." "Good-bye!" "Grandfather!" "Could you wait a minute?" "What is it?" " I'm calling Uncle Michio." "Why?" "We have to spend the night with him." "Let's go to a hotel today." "We don't have money." " We are in the city." "A hotel!" "Let's go." "Oh dear!" "That's all we have." "Let's go." "I'm sorry, but We're fully booked." "I see." "Everything is booked here, too." "Do we need to walk again?" "Yes." "I don't like to walk anymore." "Also my legs hurt." "I'm calling a taxi." "Before you call a taxi, you need to find a hotel first." "Could you wait here a minute?" "I go looking for one." "I'm hungry." "I can't wait for long." "Ok, I understand!" "Do you have a room for two?" "Regrettably we are fully booked today." "We have no vacancies." "Why?" "Why is it fully booked everywhere?" "There is a symposium." "Symposium?" "We are two." "Do you have any vacant room?" "That took ages!" "All hotels are fully booked." "There seems to be a symposium." "What's that, a symposium?" "A symposium is a symposium." "Yes, and what's that, a symposium?" "If you don't know it, how should I know it?" "It seems we have to spend the night at Michio's." "You're saying that now?" "Come on and call him." "Ok, I'm going." "Notebook." "Notebook!" " Notebook?" "Go on." "And?" "The number you have dialed is currently not assigned."" "What's that supposed to mean?" "I don't know." "What does it mean?" "I don't know!" "And now?" "We're staying here to the morning." "Here?" "I don't know what else to do." "Staying here until the morning?" "And you?" "I'm on a diet." "I see." "Sir, I'm very sorry ..." "Let's go, Grandfather." "I can't anymore." "That doesn't help." "I won't take one step anymore." "OK, and now?" "Carry me." "No!" "Carry me!" " I said no!" "Do what you want." "Haru!" "What?" "Are you going to abandon me?" "Are you going to abandon me?" "Exactly!" "I'm going to abandon you." "You let me die on the roadside." " Exactly!" "Great." "I'm going to die." "I'm going to die." "Stop it!" "I'm going to die." " Stop it, Grandfather!" "Stop it!" "There is nothing left, that is worth living for." "Therefore I'm dying." "Grandfather." "Grandfather!" "Grandfather!" "I'm so pathetic." " Grandfather!" "Grandfather ..." "It has changed a lot here!" "It has changed completely." "Do you start again." "I heard about it often enough." "It changed completely." "There have been apartment buildings and shops everywhere." "Grandfather!" "What is it?" "According to the address it's here." "It's an empty plot of land." "But it's here." "What happened?" "How am I supposed to know." "What happened?" "It has been a huge building." ""Utsugi Real Estates"" "said the company nameplate." "Utsugi?" "The maiden name of his wife." "When his father-in-law died, he took over the business." "It is said he's doing all sorts of business dealings." "I'm asking for Uncle Michio's new address." "How strange." " Excuse me!" "What happened?" "Hey, Michio!" "It's me." "Tadao!" "Open up!" "Brother ..." "Hello!" "What are you doing here..." "May I come in?" "Aren't you supposed to sit down?" " No thanks." "Michio!" " They are leaving, soon." "You don't need to offer something to drink." "Hey ..." "I'm cold!" "You brothers are all the same." "I sold the house and soil not because I needed the money." "Before starting the second half of my life," "I wanted to have some kind of incubation time." "I'm having more than enough money." "I have tons of it." "But ..." "I still want to reach the top of property agency services." "That's why..." "I'm holing up in that small apartment, playing dead." "Reading those newspapers from front to the last page and try to anticipate how Japan's economy is going to develop." "It doesn't matter what kind of branch, they all feel the same." "The politicians, too." "You observe the condition, you read those newspapers, and you lie in wait completely quiet for the next business opportunity." "Oh well ..." "That's how it is." "Well now," "I listened to your stories." "I'm busy, I haven't had breakfast, and you are complaining." "Thereby nothing changed." "Since your childhood you haven't changed at all." "You've always been like that." "A worthless fellow!" "Unworldly would be understated." "That's what irritated me all the time." "Keep being eccentric." "But not unless you go through with it." "Then you are going to be respected by everyone." "But you are whining." "That's not how it works!" "Anyway, actually how egoistic are you?" "For years you keep ignoring us never showed up, only to count on Shigeo and" "Shigeko, and even on me." "I have ..." "If a leg is ill, you amputate it." "Usually." "And if the other one isn't going, you amputate that one, too" "With something like that, you would have been welcome." "As an invalid!" "Then you're allowed to get supported by others." "Don't complain about your age when you still have all your limbs." "For someone like that, I won't do anything" "Giving people charity like the war- wounded in former times makes sense to me." "What a great big brother." "Don't show up your face unashamedly in front of me ever again." "Asshole!" "Did you just call me asshole?" "I did." "What's up?" "Am I to repeat it?" "If you like, I repeat it." "Asshole!" "Asshole!" "Asshole!" "You asshole ..." "How are you talking to your older brother!" " Grandfather!" "You asshole." "Grandfather!" "Asshole, Asshole ..." "Aunt!" "I'm sorry." "We have to be sorry." "For what he said." "You don't." "It's not bad, if you can argue like that at that age." "Besides ... he's not always bad." "Take a suite, he said." "I fell in love again a little bit." "Would that be all right?" "Actually we are completely broke." "But it doesn't matter." "We don't have children." "We need to make ends meet." "Aunt ..." "Well ..." "Come visit us!" "You're always welcome." "So ..." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Everything is fine." "Let's go eat something." "It didn't work." "Nothing worked." "Haru." "I'm going to stay at home." "But you ..." " Let's stop talking about it." "But ..." " I don't want to hear it." "Yes, but ..." "Grandfather?" "Suddenly I'd like to meet my father." "All the time I never wanted to do that." "When I saw you with your siblings," "I became envious and suddenly wanted to meet my father." "Would you come along?" "I'd like to see him." "I'd like to see my father." "Grandfather!" "Grandfather!" "Grandfather, you mustn't die!" "Grandfather!" "Grandfather ..." "Hey, what happened, Haru?" "Don't scare me like that." "I'm glad ..." "I'm glad!" "What happened, Haru?" "I'm really glad!" "During good times, everyone is good." "During bad times, everyone is bad." "Well, that's how it is." "Right?" "Grandfather, don't you want to eat?" "Don't you want to eat?" "What are you doing?" "Grandfather, are you alright?" "Are you alright?" "What's up?" "I'd like to return home." "Although we are here now?" "You are Haru, right?" "I'm pleased to meet you." "Where do you know me from?" "I'm sorry," "I can't hear on that ear." "Can you repeat it?" "Where do you know me from" "From pictures." "Then you are father's ..." "I'm Nobuko." "That's how it is." "I always wanted to meet you!" "My grandfather." "Alas, please come!" "Please." "I take it." "Thank you." "This way." "Hey, Haru." "Please." "Sit down!" "Here!" "Did you know it, Grandfather?" "During the ceremony for the second day of death your father said there is someone, he'd like to be with." "So?" "Whether to tell you, or better keep it a secret, it obviously bothered him a lot." "He could have told me!" "But back then you have ... only just entered grammar school." "In that age you are vulnerable." "Now it's not much different." "You're right." "It hurts me." "Don't say that!" "Here you are!" "Thank you." " You're Welcome." "Shin'ichi ..." "Haru and her Grandfather are here." "Oh, Haru." "I haven't shown up for a long time." " Me, too." "Father, We haven't met for a long time." "I'm sorry, for us suddenly showing up." "Nah, don't worry." "Please sit down." "There you are!" "I'll take a walk over there." "Grandfather!" "It's been a long time." "Talk in peace." "Well then ..." "Aren't you cold?" "It's ok." "Your name is Nobuko, right?" "Yes." "Nobuko ..." "How shall I call you?" "Right." "Can I call you dad?" "I don't know!" "If your real father gets to know it, he'll be in a bad mood." "I don't have a father." "I grew up alone with my mother." "Thus like Haru." "That's how it is." "I never dared to hope meeting you." "I never thought I'm going to come." "All the time" "I thought I'll never going to meet you." "I didn't want to see you." "And that probably will be the last time." "The first and last time." "Yes?" "She looks like mother." "Nobuko?" "She's the spitting image of her." "Father, you loved your wife." "Why did you get divorced?" "You don't want to get asked something like that!" "But it's my right to ask." "Me solely." "There is no reason." "When people divorce, there is no reason for it." "From some point you drift apart." "Nothing more." "I don't understand that." "You don't need to." "Towards you, I'm really sorry." "You had the most difficult time." "I don't want to hear that!" "I don't want any excuses!" "Actually I know it." "An affair, right?" "Mother had a lover, right?" "That you couldn't forgive." "That's right after all." "I know it!" "I've been young, but I know everything." "Mother started working in a bar." "She returned home more and more late." "And sometimes she has been driven by a man." "You hit her, right?" "Almost beat her to death." "And then you left." "And never returned." "How often did I went to your working place." "But you quit." " Let bygones be bygones." "Say, father ... can't you retrieve an error?" "Can people think of nothing but one selves?" "Well," "Haru!" "Mother wanted you to forgive her." "And ..." "And then ... she realized, she never would be forgiven" "and she went into the sea." "Father!" "What is it?" "If you agree, father... don't you want to live with us?" "Forever." "I can't do that." "Why not?" "Why can't you do that?" "I can't do that." "We've met for the first time." "But I ... feel like you're my real father." "I don't remember his face." "Only sometimes I can see it vaguely in front of me." "But that doesn't matter." "I ... being together with you, feel like you're my real father." "If you would like to, please live here." "Forever, with us." "What would Shin'ichi think about it?" "Shin'ichi always talks about you." "That he had to separate from you, too" "And that he regrets it." "He likes you." "He really likes you." "Even if we are strangers, a human being is a human being." "Isn't it essential to get along with someone?" "Thank you." "The gesture alone is more than enough." "Haru!" "Grandfather." "What is it!" "Are you going to cry?" "That's not true." "Listen, Haru ..." "Shall we sneak away secretly?" "That's what I wanted to suggest, too." "We two get along quite good." "Don't you think?" "RESTAURANT IZUMI" "HANDMADE SOBA NOODLES" "Great, isn't it?" "The Soba." "You've been here before?" "Several years ago." "Several years ago I've been here." "Even before you've been born." "When Shin'ichi's father and mother still lived." "Your mother has been pregnant with you." "For the first visit we came here." ""She's expecting a child." "Let her get married."" "They flatly refused." "I didn't know what to do." "On the way back" "I've been here together with your mother." "I remember it even now." "Your mother shed tears" "dripping into the soba." "There I said:" "If you're going to cry like that, you're going to over-salt it and it gets inedible."" "Don't blame Shin'ichi." "He separated from his parents and married your mother." "I know that." "I know that!" "Grandfather ..." "I'm going to stay with you forever." "In the town hall, in the fish cannery or at a fruit farm..." "Somewhere I'm going to find work." "And then I'm going to stay with you forever." "Eventually I'm going to find someone I love." "But if he don't want to live together with you" "I don't want him." "I'm going to find someone!" "You can put your mind at ease." "We ... certainly won't be separated." "Do you understand?" "That's the local train to Mashike." "The next stop is the terminal Mashike." "Grandfather?" "Grandfather?" "SOURCE, BOOK AND DIRECTOR:" "Masahiro KOBAYASHI" "CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF APPEARANCE:" "Tatsuya NAKADAI" "Eri TOKUNAGA" "Hideji OTAKI" "Kin SUGAI" "Kaoru KOBAYASHI" "Yuko TANAKA" "Chikage AWASHIMA" "Tetsuya YAMAMOTO" "Nana NAGAO" "Akira EMOTO" "Jun MIHO" "Naho TODA" "Teruyuki KAGAWA" "EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:" "Naoshi YODA" "PRODUCERS:" "Muneyuki Kll, Naoko KOBAYASHI" "ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS:" "Sakura WAKITA, Masahiro KOBAYASHI" "MUSIC:" "Junpei SAKUMA" "CAMERA:" "Kenji TAKAMA" "LIGHT:" "Masamichi UWABO" "SCENERY:" "Teru YAMAZAKI" "SOUND:" "Shin FUKUOKA" "EDITING:" "Naoki KANEKO" "ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:" "Kazuhiko ISHIDA" "SOUND EFFECTS:" "Mitsuru SEYA" "COSTUMES:" "Takayuki SUZUKI" "DRESSING:" "Masae MIYAMOTO" "MAKE-UP:" "Midori ONUMA" "PLANNING:" "MONKEY TOWN PRODUCTIONS" "PRODUCTION:" "LATERNA, MONKEY TOWN PRODUCTIONS"