"White Beast" "Directed by Mikio Naruse screenplay Motosada Nishiki Mikio Naruse" "Cast" "Sô Yamamura" "Kimiko Kaino Mitsuko Miura" "Tanie Kitabayashi Haruko Ashida" "Tatsuya Ishiguro Eiji Okada" "Chieko Nakakita" "Tomoyuki Tanaka.... producer" "Original Music by Akira Ifukube" "Cinematography by Masao Tamai" "Production Design by Hirakawa Masao Takeda" "Choshichiro Mikami.... sound recordist" "Hyakumi Shima..." "lighting technician" "White Lily Residence" "Aargh!" "I get sick of this!" "Ah, thank you." "We appreciate your efforts." "Hello." "I've brought you a couple more." "We picked this one up out in front." "Have a seat." "Here are the forms." "Thanks." "Where's the Director?" "I think he's out in the field." "What was your motivation for getting into the business?" "It's not a business." "I did it freely, for my own pleasure." "How long do I have to be here?" "How long do I have to be here?" "As a rule, it's a year, but it depends on how well you do." "Do you I have to be here that long?" "It's not a long time." "It's an important period that will affect your whole life." "And during that time, your room and board are paid for, so we at least have to get that much work out of you." "Just leave us alone." "It's inhuman." "Just what right do you have to keep us locked up here?" "Here's the Director." "Say hello to him." "Let me out of here." "Here's their paperwork." "Why don't we talk this over?" "Well, I see you've graduated from some good schools." "I'm not a prisoner." "Spend a year here?" "I can't do that!" "If you really don't want to be here, you can go as soon as we finish the paperwork." "Fine, let's do it now." "But then we'd be legally obligated to hand you over to the police." "To the police?" "I was just doing what I wanted to do." "Why do you interfere in that?" "Have I bothered anyone?" "It's your choice:" "you can stay here or go to jail." "Hey everyone, here are Yukawa-san and Sayama-san." "They just came today." "Be nice to them." "What's up with her?" "Isn't she proper?" "You can sit here." "Move over and let them in." "Mina-chan, the fish was good." "Was it?" "There's nothing you can do about the food, Miss." "You just have to eat it." "Mina-chan, I got some meat." "But I just didn't feel like getting the fried tofu." "Yes?" "I'll take your laundry." "Oh yeah, you can take this." "Oh, wait a second." "Sugiyama, you like novels don't you?" "Yes." "You can have this." "Thank you." "Right there." "Do it harder right there." "Ah." "That's right." "That's right." "What was it that your guy does?" "Shu-chan is the name." "He was collecting meat scraps and fat." "Mina-chan, don't you have anything interesting to tell me?" "I don't know." "Someone stopped coming in." "Well, I don't think I've never seen anything as stuck up as that outfit." "Don't you think?" "Hey, that's a perm, ain't it?" "Mari-chan, you don't have to do that if you don't want to." "Watch your tongue, Miss." "I really don't mind doing this." "If you have cigarettes, give us some." "Here you go." "This is great!" "You guys are so big!" "You're all in the same house and you're all wearing matching suits." "And now I'm going to set you on fire with a comet's tail!" "It's been a while since I've had a cigarette." "You go out and watch." "Hey Sugiyama, we have cigarettes." "I don't smoke." "What's your problem?" "What are you reading?" "Have you tried to get out of here." "Yes, I went out on leave and I told them nothin." "You can go out?" "Yeah, you can tell them you want to see your boyfriend" "That's the book the Director gave me." "Give it back!" "and get a pass from the Director." "Stop!" "Stop it!" "They're coming!" "They're coming." "Komori is really uptight!" "It's about time to get ready to turn out the lights." "Miss!" "It's against the rules to smoke." "You gave everyone cigarettes last night?" "Yes." "We need you to obey the rules, even the little ones." "I think the problem is that you make stupid little rules." "There are reasons why we have the rules." "I don't think it makes any sense to make a big sacrifice just to hold down a little, tiny desire." "I suppose that right, but then, there are also times when you have to sacrifice small desires to satisfy a larger one." "Right" "Well, when it comes to that, I'll work on my own." "I don't need anyone else." "You're right." "That's an important thing to remember during your reform." "Reform?" "You want to reform this, you want us to do that." "Just what are you trying to teach us here?" "To work." "I'm trying to give you the habit of working." "I think that if you can get by just enjoying yourself, that's better than working." "That's not true!" "People who really work learn to love their work." "At any rate, working makes the food they serve here taste better." "Tobacco tastes good, too." "Come in." "I brought some records." "Thank you very much." "Is she new?" "Yes, she's a real wild one." "Did she do something?" "It's cigarettes again." "They say if you gargle with a weak solution of silver nitrate you'll stop wanting to smoke." "Really?" "Well who knows for sure?" "When you're finished talking come in here and we'll start the examination." "Let me introduce you." "This is my friend Aoyanagai." "He's the chief editor of the Japan Review." "He handles the women's pages." "This is Nakahara from the National Hospital." "I've heard about you from Izumi." "Nakahara is more than just a doctor." "She really helps out in all sorts of ways here." "I really don't do much." "Izumi is really indebted to you." "You're embarrassing me!" "I have to go." "You can go, too." "Nakahara is really pretty." "Now I see how much you enjoy working here." "Don't be silly." "How many times have you had a blood test at a hospital?" "Twice." "What did you use for a prophylactic medicine?" "Spirochetes can enter any through the smallest break in the skin, you know." "Doc, I have a question." "Go ahead." "What does it mean for a body to be dirty?" "Medically speaking, a person who is clean and healthy can be said to have a clean body, but people seem to harbour a tendency to hide their sexuality." "But isn't that an old way of thinking?" "I don't think I'm dirty woman." "But I suspect that you're grappling with the feeling that you're dirty or that you should be ashamed of what you've been doing." "I don't see any difference between that and what goes on between a husband and wife." "Yes, when their relationship is dirty, that's true." "You mean when the husband plays around?" "Well, it's not only that." "Sometimes the wife is the husband's doll or maybe just a maid." "That's it." "Would you call in Sayama Mari?" "Yes." "What are you doing?" "I'd sure like to have a smoke." "Why don't you get some from Sh?" "ji" " in the usual way, if you know what I mean." "If we're going to ask for the assitance of the prefecture, then we have to be able to do things cheaper than they can." "Do you want to ruin everything?" "To be honest, we're already in trouble financially." "Hold it to this much." "And then for Sh?" "ji-san, there's this much." "I'd like to meet with Ono Yoko." "And you are?" "You can tell her that Iwasaki has returned." "What's your relationship with her?" "Please let me talk to her." "She'll know when she sees me." "She's busy now." "I'm in a hurry." "How long should I wait?" "She won't be free until the evening." "Hey, what about the emblem." "Yes, we'll have to fake it." "We'll have to stamp the seal on the invoices." "You could be nicer, you know." "Do you think you're going to reform her in a place like this?" "What are you saying?" "I've come back to Japan after four long, hard years!" "Listen, we take responsibility for each of our inmates." "What's wrong?" "He wants to meet with Ono and he got angry and started yelling." "My intentions in coming here are perfectly honourable!" "We can talk in here." "Ono, you've gotten much better." "I've been talking to Mi-chan about working with her when we get out of here." "You still have a ways to go, though." "Yes." "Ono, the Director wants to talk to you in his office." "You can go when you get to a good stopping point." "Yes." "We promised each other that we'd get married if I came back alive." "She sent me a lot of letters when I was in Mongolia, but then they stopped coming." "I've been looking for her since I got back." "I want to see her as soon as I can." "I want to ask you this:" "You do know that her parents and her brothers and sisters died in the war?" "Yes, that's one reason." "Yoko-chan, it's me." "What happened?" "How I've wanted to see you!" "What happened?" "You don't have to worry." "Have a seat, both of you." "Why don't you talk things over?" "Please stay." "I want to talk to you." "I've finally been able to meet you." "Let's talk about our future." "Why don't you say something?" "I" "Yoko-chan, wait!" "Stay here." "She's not going anywhere." "You loved him, right?" "You promised him that you'd marry him when he got back." "I can't marry anyone now." "Why do you say that?" "Isn't that true?" "I'm a whore who's had syphilis." "Who's going to take me?" "You're overreacting." "Just now Iwasaki" "He's just infatuated with me now." "That's why he says that." "Once we got married, he'd start hating and despising me." "Once a woman sells her body, that's it." "It's over." "If that's what you think, why did you get into that business?" "Well, if you can't answer, you can't." "It just seems strange to me." "No, boss, If I had been able to work at a regular job," "I would have done that, no matter how rough it would have been." "That's true." "Well, I guess that's the way it is." "Can I take this?" "Yes, I'm sorry to ask, but could I have some hot water?" "Yes?" "Excuse me." "Well, come in." "Were you studying?" "No, I just didn't expect you to be here at night." "I just wanted to talk to you." "One of my patients suddenly died after surgery this evening." "It wasn't something you did, was it?" "I didn't expect this at all." "That one seemed so healthy." "Do you need a drink for the Doctor?" "I have something here already for her." "They seem so well-behaved when they're in here." "Is Ono over her illness?" "Yes." "There was a guy here to talk to her today who said that she had promised to marry him." "Oh my!" "You have to say something clever." "Don't worry." "I can hardly wait." "That guy!" "You have to get him to like you." "You can't just phone him." "You have to get me those cigarettes." "Aren't you going to dance?" "I'd just be bored." "Mari-chan, why are you working?" "I thought you didn't like to work." "But I like doing this." "Welcome, Doctor." "It's not every day we see you here at this hour." "It sure is lively!" "Residents Doc!" "Doc!" "Doc!" "I put on some of the records you brought us." "How did it go?" "Most of them" "Those records might be too much for them now." "Doc, would you lead?" "May I?" "Go ahead, I'll watch." "I don't know if I can." "Just once." "Come on, Doc!" "Harumph!" "What a pain she is!" "What'd you get?" "I like you, Doc." "In order to give the girls an appetite for work, we have to give them tools with which they can work." "They have to develop the desire to put their abilities to work." "So what's your point?" "That means that we have to give them quite a bit." "At this point we only have ten or so machines, and half borrowed." "What do you think?" "If you could bring us up to at least twenty of these machines, we'd gladly take more girls in." "You're already past your first trimester." "Why didn't you say anything?" "Were you trying to protect someone you're in love with?" "Why Doc?" "Is there something really wrong with me?" "Wrong with you?" "No." "You're going to have a baby." "A baby?" "I'm going to have a baby?" "You mean you didn't notice until now?" "Do you need something?" "Umm, do you have any silver nitrate?" "Silver nitrate?" "Just a minute." "I'll talk to the Director." "Don't worry." "Mari, what's wrong?" "Did something happen to her?" "Yes, would you wait a minute?" "Sayama-san!" "I won't tell anyone." "Mari is three months pregnant." "What?" "Sayama?" "It seems she didn't notice." "Such ignorance!" "This is a fine mess, isn't it?" "Doctor, can't you give her an abortion?" "Well...it falls between the cracks in the Eugenics Law." "But these days, when they're even talking about controlling the number of kids born to legally married couples, no one would want a baby without a father." "Let's not talk about necessity." "Nakahara-san, you have to make her understand somehow." "Yes." "If she has the kid here, it'll be a big mess." "Yes, but I'd like her to think it over first before I talk to her." "Ah yes, this is the oppurtunity." "We could turn that sick room into a place for her." "If you could do that, it'd be really helpful." "Is there something wrong?" "Sorry to keep you waiting." "What did you want the silver nitrate for?" "Do you think you have a sore throat." "No, I thought I'd like to gargle." "What?" "Gargle?" "I see." "You are naughty, aren't you?" "Here you are." "Thank you." "Ah, this is good." "Doc, do you smoke all the time?" "Just after surgery and times like that." "Hey Doc, are you still single?" "Yes." "Are you still a virgin?" "That's a very personal question." "Come on tell me!" "Why do you have to hide it?" "You ask a lot of questions yourself." "Yes, I do, but only with patients." "Aren't you going to get married?" "I have my job." "But whether a man or a woman, you don't have to be alone" " even if you're not going to get married." "That's true." "I really want to know." "I just want to know what kind of life someone like you lives." "If you want to see my room and how I live, you can come visit me at home anytime you want." "Really?" "But I wonder if I'll be able to go." "I'll get you permission." "Really?" "That'd be great." "Thank you very much." "Is there some objection to that?" "No, but whatever you do with the others," "I'd like you to refuse Masuda's leave" "For what reason?" "When the previous director was still here," "She went to a place that was a front for a whorehouse." "She had three or four men..." "That was Hasumi I think." "says her grandmother's ill." "Do you think she really has a grandmother?" "Why would Yoshimura say that then?" "It would look strange if I let everyone but Masuda go out on leave, and it's still too early for Yukawa, but I'm thinking of giving them all a chance once they're ready for it." "It's taken five or six days, but what the hell!" "It's been a year since I've had anything like this, Tama-chan." "I don't need to go to no beautician for a perm." "Hey, I hear you're going out, too." "The Director told me so." "The Doctor was right with him." "I think you're the one who's stuck to a certain someone." "Whaat!" "?" "Do you think anyone's going to put up with your smart mouth?" "Alright, you." "Do you think I'm going to take that from you?" "Take a right!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Alright if that's what you want..." "What are you doing?" "!" "Yukawa, let it go." "Sister, stop it." "Sister." "Do your best, Missy!" "What are you doing!" "Stop that!" "Stop that!" "You're women!" "That's the first time I saw a fight like that since I got here." "They sure are violent." "Which one was telling the truth?" "About what?" "About the Director and the Doctor." "Is there any doubt?" "He's a man and she's a woman." "And they're both single, too." "I don't think so - even if they do like each other." "Do you really think so?" "Why?" "I think that if there was really something between them they couldn't get along the way they do." "Hey, Yukawa holed herself up in Izumi's office." "What'd she say?" "That she couldn't stand being in a place with people like us and that she wanted to be let out immediately." "How can she say that?" "You guys talk like men." "Just listen you!" "You sound like a tomboy." "The rest of us are all the same." "Were you crushed by our little fight?" "What?" "!" "This is all your fault!" "Who could put up with this place?" "Let me go!" "They were insulting you and I got angry." "It was close." "You almost cut an artery." "Do you still like me even if I got a little violent?" "This will be a lot of trouble if it gets infected." "But, Doctor" "I was surprised when I got that call from the Director." "Will I be scolded?" "About what?" "So there's really nothing between you and the Director?" "We're friends." "Good friends." "Is that all?" "Yes." "What kind of person is the Boss?" "He's a good person." "He's gentle." "You'll get to like him." "Do Nakahara and the Doctor get along well?" "I don't know." "But you shouldn't do things like you did yesterday." "It's bad for you, and it's hard on the Boss and he's taking care of us." "What do you mean he's taking care of all us?" "I'm talking about our reform." "Do you think you did something so bad that you need to be reformed?" "I didn't think it was bad before I came here." "But I think differently now." "The Boss says that we're not bad," "But still, selling your body for money is giving up to that evil world." "Working to eat is just the human condition." "And if you want sex, the Director says there's a right way to get it." "I don't think what I did was bad or a defeat." "I think happiness is living the way you want to live." "I don't think I'm defeated or dirty." "Reform?" "That's ridiculous!" "Well, I think I'll go to bed." "When I was on the island, I never promised myself to a man." "I know that." "I made them all really happy." "When the vet left me, this is what he told me: " I'm going now." "Live happily." "When I die, I'm going to go out yelling 'banzai' for you."" "That gave me a shiver down my spine." "Then, when we had the final battle on the island ." "He said I was a paragon of virtue, and that when the war was over, he'd give me a medal." "But, unfortunately , Im little different from todays commonwhores." "...and then Sayama says that she wants to have her baby no matter what." "Really?" "But if you think about the consequences at all, having the baby of an unknown father means ..." "It is unfortunate." "But she says that she'll work had and do anything to bring her baby up, no matter how hard things are." "Masuda is acting strange." "Masuda?" "Yes, she's been acting strange for a couple days." "I warned Miyoshi to keep an eye on her." "She's gone wild and torn all the pictures off the wall and she's smoking mosquito coil." "Let's go!" "What's going on here?" "She says that's a medal she got that from a general." "So it's syphilis?" "I think so." "Didn't she have a blood test?" "Well, sometimes with latent neural syphilis, even if the blood test is negative, the spirochetes can sometimes show up in the cerebrospinal fluid." "The ambulance is here." "That's good." "But they want an inmate to go with her." "Yes, well that's because it's a mental hospital." "Yes." "No, no!" "I don't want to!" "That was really something!" "Yo-chan She's a special case." "What are you going to do when you get out here, Sugiyama?" "Me?" "Maybe I'll work on a bus?" "Is this what you'll say?" ""Thank you for riding with us." "Here we go."?" "This music is OK once in a while, isn't it?" "What is it?" "Can I sleep next to you tonight?" "Why?" "What's wrong?" "I'm really lonely tonight." "I can't stop thinking of my mother." "You're still just a kid, aren't you Mari?" "But I'm not, Sis." "I'm going to have a baby." "I'm pregnant." "What are you going to do, Mari?" "I'm going to have it." "I'm going to be a mother." "Don't you think I can be a mother?" "We finally got those ten new machines." "That's great!" "Would you ask them to help out?" "Everyone, the machines have come." "Lend a hand." "Iwasaki was just here again." "Did you tell him how I felt?" "Yes, I did." "He just left." "Did he find a job?" "He hasn't found anything else." "But it seems that he can only think of you." "He's suffering so much he can't sleep at night." "He was crying." "Mari, how long?" "Seven months." "You're going to have the baby?" "Yes." "That will be hard." "Yes, it is, but..." "I have an announcement." "Sugiyama has been doing really well." "From now on, she'll be working apart from the rest of you, in the office." "I wonder if anything's different for you if you work in the office." "Do they pay you?" "Is the food different?" "And I'd like to ask you about the girls leave." "Yes, well, let's tell them about it during meal time." "I see." "I think it might be a little early for some of them yet." "But I'd like to give them a lot of leave, though it depends on how they do on their exams." "I see." "How's Yukawa doing?" "She seems to be quiet these days." "I see." "Komori-san, there's something I want to ask you." "What is it?" "What do you give a woman on her birthday?" "Is she young?" "Yes - well, not that young, but..." "I see." "You could give a lot of things, say, a compact or a handbag " "Hello." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Have the girls all gone out?" "Sayama and Yukawa are still here." "Sayama and Yukawa?" "Yes." "Sayama doesn't want to go out because she's pregnant, but I wonder what's up with Yukawa?" "What's wrong?" "Don't feel so good?" "It's boring." "I suppose so." "It might be better to relax here in the dorm." "Yes, and also, I thought you'd come and visit if I stayed behind." "There's no one here and it's very quiet." "It's like being in the mountains." "You like quiet places?" "Yes." "What about you." "I guess quiet places are nice once in a while." "You know, I know a quiet hot spring in Izu." "Boss, do you like hot springs?" "Hot springs are nice too, I suppose." "I like to spread myself out in a big empty hot spring." "I'd like to swim, dive - and do handstands!" "Handstands?" "You're quite a tomboy aren't you." "Don't you like girls like that?" "I don't mind if someone does handstands." "You know, I have eighteen moles on my body." "Do you like fat women?" "Skinny ones?" "Hmm." "You know, these days I've been seeing some strange dreams." "What kind of dreams?" "I can't tell you." "Boss, I've been working hard." "I know that." "I'd like to get you out of here as soon as I can." "That's not what I'm talking about." "Yukawa, let's go outside for a walk." "Well, come on." "You should get out and get some fresh air." "Hello there." "Hi." "Did you want something?" "No." "I just brought some lunch." "Thanks!" "Yukawa isn't coming?" "She says that she doesn't want to go out, that it wouldn't be fun." "Would you go and get Yukawa?" "We'll be out in the garden." "We can have a picnic." "She's a good, obedient kid." "She was working by herself in the mess hall." "I'm concerned about her." "I'd like to find her a good job." "But it'll be rough, won't it?" "I think the girls should grow some flowers." "Yes, flowers might be nice." "There's not enough colour with just potatoes and vegetables." "Isn't Yukawa coming out?" "She says that she doesn't want to." "I wonder what's wrong." "Why don't you join us?" "Have some." "I suppose I will." "You should have one, too." "Everyone likes this handbag." "Really?" "You have a good eye." "No, no." "I wonder where everyone went." "To a movie?" "I hope they all come back and that nothing happens to them." "Don't worry they'll be back." "Ah!" "Yukawa!" "What's wrong, Sis?" "Your eyes look strange." "Something's wrong with my eyes." "What could it be?" "I think I'm just tired." "Why don't you let the Doctor have a look at them?" "I got these from Dr. Nakahara." "Let's have one together." "Dr. Nakahara is very nice." "You like her, too, don't you?" "No, I don't like her." "I hate her!" "And aside from Ono?" "Yamazaki and Kanemura." "I was keeping a close watch on them, but they sure are a lot of trouble." "They're back." "Sorry we're late." "It seems they missed the bus and had to walk." "All the way from the station?" "To be honest, we got a ride on a truck." "Anyway, it's good to see you back." "Is it just you two?" "Good night." "What do you suppose happened to Ono?" "I think she probably stopped at Iwasaki's place." "You should go to bed, Boss." "There aren't any more buses." "If you asked someone with a suspicious mind, they'd say that the residents and the staff are in cahoots and that you're taking bribes from the residents." "Bribes?" "But - but - but " "Yoshimura, I know it's a lot of work, but please do the books over again." "What happened?" "Will you tell me what happened?" "Komori-san, will you leave us alone?" "Have a seat." "Boss, I- it's like I thought." "So you went to your parents' grave?" "And since you told me, I..." "You went to see Iwasaki?" "He was very happy to see me..." "Do you know how long I waited for a chance to talk to you like this?" "I thought you might never come." "What's wrong?" "Here, make yourself comfortable." "What's wrong?" "Have a seat." "I haven't told you, have I?" "What?" "Thank you for everything for so long." "And congratulations on making it back in one piece." "Thank you." "Thanks to you," "I've finally made good on my promise to come back alive." "It must have been really hard." "Yes, but it was harder after I saw you up there." "I didn't know how you felt about me." "Please don't say that." "It doesn't matter now." "And you?" "You thought I died, didn't you?" "What were you planning to do?" "I thought I might die with my mother and father." "But, I just didn't have the courage to die." "What are you talking about?" "It doesn't take courage to die." "That's what I learned in the war:" "that it takes a lot more courage to live than it does to die." "You gave me courage to go on." "You must have had it rough, too." "I know that." "But it's not your fault." "My feelings haven't changed at all." "Iveneverdreamedthat wedbe able to talk like this together." "Once you get out of there we can live together." "You promised, didnt you." "That wed getmarried?" "Yes, but that's way off in the future." "Future?" "Would I make a good wife?" "Sure, you'd make a great wife." "I want to live somewhere far away from here." "Somewhere where no one knows me." "What's wrong with living here?" "What have you done to be ashamed about?" "I won't let anyone point their finger at you." "That's right." "I have to find a job soon." "I should find one for you, too." "Iwasaki, this is for your guest." "Thank you." "I'm leaving." "Stay a little longer." "Don't." "I have so much to tell you." "It's too soon." "Let's forget everything like it was a bad dream." "Love me." "Forgive me." "We're going to get married." "I really do have to go." "So you really don't love me." "It's a lot of trouble if I'm late." "Why do you make me suffer?" "I don't know what." "I'll do if you go." "I see you in my dreams every night." "Go." "Just go." "You're a cold woman" "Let me go!" "Please!" "Let me go!" "I couldn't leave for a long time." "I see." "We were worried." "I'm sorry." "I can do the paperwork so you could go out more often." "No, I can't." "I'm still no good." "Excuse me." "You regret it now don't you?" "No." "Of course not." "You're over your illness aren't you?" "Because I really can't afford an expensive shot now." "The doctor says I'm over it, but ..." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I got it from some guy I didn't know." "I didn't have anything to eat that night." "That's just an excuse." "On the battlefield," "I went for days without eating." "You could go without food for a day." "It's all my fault." "You're going back to the White Lily?" "I can take you there." "No thanks." "That's a pretty nice watch." "Did one of your favourites buy it for you?" "Why do you say such awful things?" "Among all those men, there must have been a few that you liked." "Now I know:" "You're just like all the rest." "You only wanted my body." "What?" "!" "I don't want to hear anything more about how you forgive me, how you love me" "Was I wrong?" "I thought you'd say something like that to me that one day." "Forgive me." "I was crazy." "I loved you so much." "Why did you try to kill me?" "It was my idea for you to see Iwasaki." "I didn't think it through." "Please forgive me." "It's not your fault." "I'm not going to see him again, though." "Yes, but you two love each other, don't you?" "I think it'd be very difficult for you two to get married." "Even after you got married it would still be very difficult." "But if you have the love to overcome those difficulties, if the two of you have a strong love..." "Is love enough?" "Even with a woman like me?" "I think it is." "Fidelity is just a matter of maintaining a true love." "You're a good woman, a serious woman." "Even if by some chance you can't get married," "I think you could do great things on your own." "There's no need for despair." "I'm sure Iwasaki regrets what he did." "You can rest in your room." "You don't have to attend tonight." "Are you still at it?" "Are you finished?" "Let's go." "According to the statistics, almost all of the women who are arrested say they do it to survive." "But, the truth is that most of them are really decadent types who want money to buy what they want." "These women are dragging down Japanese womanhood." "People often make excuses for all this and say that there's nothing wrong with doing what do you want to do." "Or that if they didn't do it, good and proper women would be harassed by men." "Or that these women only want to live freely." "But thats completelywrong!" "All of these women have frightening diseases." "Im talkingforyourbenefithere." "Why are you laughing?" "Who is that?" "Come here!" "Who is that?" "Come here!" "Let it go!" "Just ignore it." "You?" "I thought it was you." "Who are our customers?" "You are!" "And your sons!" "Mr. Director, what's wrong with that girl?" "Don't be angry." "This place" "went home really mad." "We tried explaining things to him." "It's the Boss's fault." "He completely ignored our opinions." "Are you staying late, Doctor?" "Yes." "I hope you don't mind if I leave now." "No, not at all." "Good bye." "Today you were just too much." "I just can't put up with male hypocrisy!" "But you weren't alone, you were with your peers." "You have to think about how your actions affect them." "It's a call from Aoyanagi." "Thanks." "Well, what's done is done." "Go back to your room, will you?" "Is that right?" "Yes." "Really?" "Thanks." "No, not especially." "Yes, please do." "What did Aoyanagi say?" "He said not to worry about what happened today." "That's a relief." "Sorry to worry you." "No, no." "I think you need a change of mood." "Why don't you come over to my place tonight?" "My mother says that she'd like to meet you." "It's been a while since I've left this place." "I should tell you.." "something bad happened to me, too." "Someone stole my handbag from the clinic." "It was probably one of the girls." "But to get the guilty one, you'd have to cast doubt on all of them." "That would be bad for their future." "I think we should wait and see what turns up." "Because of one person, all of us are going to be thought to be doing poorly." "We'll all have to stay here longer because of her." "That's right." "You have to consider that at the very least." "Let's dance." "Sis, I'm going to do a bit of work." "I'm not dirty." "I'm not dirty." "Ono says that she doesn't want to see you." "Is there anything I can do?" "No matter how much I ask her, she says no." "I'm sorry, but I don't think we can do anything." "But I would at least like to apologise to her myself." "It was my fault." "Even I didn't think I could do something so terrible." "She's over her illness, but if you were to get married in the state you're in now, I don't think it would go well at all." "Boss, tell me, what should I do?" "Excuse me for saying this, but you need to get a job yourself." "But until I know how much she loves me," "I don't want to go to work." "But if you really love Ono, you have to establish yourself as a worker so you can support her." "Are you telling me to give up?" "No, but if a deep and trusting love develops between you two, you can go through life as a couple." "I'll do it." "I'll do what you say." "But it'll be difficult, you know." "I can get a job as a manual labourer right away." "She can sew." "And I'm going to save up to buy her a sewing machine." "Don't overdo it." "Don't worry about that." "Thank you." "Give it your best." "I'm not going to come here again." "Take care of her for me, please." "Iwasaki, you should go by the garden on your way out." "Huh?" "Ono might be there." "is going to have her baby today or tomorrow so we moved her into the sick room." "Already?" "That was quick!" "We just had a call from the hospital." "Masuda died last night." "Masuda?" "There's no one to take the body." "They're waiting for someone to do the paperwork so the body can be taken to the public cemetery for the cremation." "Is that right?" "That's terrible." "And there's no one to pay for a funeral." "The head of the hospital seems to have been impressed with how well Miyoshi took care of her before she died." "Someone has to go get her." "Komori, I know it will be difficult, but would you go to the hospital?" "I understand." "Does this hurt a lot?" "Yes." "It hurts all night, too." "It hurts at night?" "Why didn't you say something before?" "Let's go to the hospital tomorrow." "We can have an ophthamologist look at your eyes." "She was really wretched." "She couldn't sleep for a week before she died." "They put her in a straight jacket so she couldn't hurt anyone, but she was banging her head against the wall." "She called out a lot of guy's names." "She was yelling for Sh?" "ji." "But she quit Sh?" "ji." "Well of course, he's a terrible guy." "And at the end, she yelled out "Banzai" and got quiet." "When I looked, she was dead." "That's a terrible way to go." "Of course." "Were you scared?" "You sure took good care of her." "Well, sure, it could happen to one of us anytime." "Don't say that!" "You must be lonely all by yourself, Sayama." "But I'm not alone!" "You're not?" "Oh!" "That's right, there are two of you." "You're not going to tell me there are three of you, are you?" "Give me a break!" "Well, how do you feel?" "I don't feel anything now." "But you have to do your best." "I think about a lot of things, and that makes me sad." "Like what?" "Don't worry." "We'll think about what we can do." "Can you give the baby a name?" "Sure, I'll think of a good one." "May I have a moment." "How's Yukawa?" "It looks like syphilitic neuritis." "Did you tell her?" "No, not yet." "How do you feel?" "What did Nakahara say about my eyes?" "Nothing special, just that you need to be careful with them for a while." "That's a lie!" "She said it was syphilitic, didn't she." "Tell me!" "Tell me the truth." "It's syphilis isn't it?" "I just heard from Nakahara that there's a new treatment" "So I was, after all" "Calm down." "Let's talk this over." "What should I do?" "What should I do?" "I" " What should I do?" "It's not the end of the world." "You're wrong." "It's the end of everything." "What's become of my body?" "I trusted my body until today." "You shouldn't think that way." "You should just get treatment as soon as you can, then you won't have to worry." "Yukawa, up to now you were just feeling joy and sadness in your body." "You might think that everything is over now." "But all you were feeling now is the fear." "You dont needto be sad." "You have to use this as an opportunity to put your body on the right track." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Never mind." "Never mind." "Don't bother with me." "It's not just my body." "I'm dirty right down to my soul." "I'm just a dirty woman." "Yukawa!" "Yukawa!" "You're awake, aren't you?" "Does it hurt?" "Doc, I stole the handbag the Director gave you," "but I finally realised that I've been mistaken." "It's best to forget about things that are over and done with." "Your eyes are going to get better." "Sayama is going to have her baby tonight." "It might not be the happiest circumstances to have a child, but if Sayama has the heart of a mother," "I think she'll have the strength she'll need." "Sayama is about to have her baby." "Take it easy." "Is the baby here yet?" "No, no." "It'll be a while yet." "You don't need to worry." "Why don't you go to bed?" "I can't sleep." "It's as if it were your child." "Yes." "How is Yukawa?" "She's OK, but I think it would be better if she got some rest." "Sis, sis, it's a boy." "Boy?" "Mari's baby!" "It's a boy." "Let's go look." "Yes, let's have a look." "It sure is a beautiful morning." "I hope it's a sign that things are going to go well for the new mother and her child." "Yes, that's for sure." "It's Yukawa!" "Leave her alone." "It's OK." "I just talked to her." "Now I understood how difficult your job is." "No, I just can't help thinking that there are a lot of places where I need to improve." "But I think it's letting them experience things on their own is probably enough." "Yes, I suppose it is if I can save even one of these poor girls." "translated by Guy YASKO"