"It is cherry blossom time" "In Katsushika town" "It is 20 years ago." "My old man and I had a big flight" "He knocked my head all bloody so I left home" "I swore I'd never return again" "But cherry blossoms reminded me ofhome" "And the time we kids played at parks" "River banks, and the temple" "My parents and brother died" "Only my sister's left." "I heard" "Still I didn't feel like returning, so I keep my silence" "But now I'm looking at my birthplace" "I feel something warm welling up in me" "Yes, I was born in Shibamata at Katsushika, in Tokyo" "Tora-San Our lovable tramp" "I was born and bred in Katsushika" "The surname's Kuruma, my given name's Torajiro!" "People call me Hippie Tora" "I know you can't marry because ofme" "So a worthy brother I wanted to be" "I tried my best but I could cry" "The sun sets --- Iuck has passed me by" "Let's change" "Let me" "Old folks, keep time tothe music!" "This is Shibatama Daikyoji!" "Who's he?" "Never saw him before" "Who is he?" "A local man?" "Splendid" "Holy Priest" "How doyou do" "It's me, Tora!" "You don't remember me?" "Heizo's son, Torajiro!" "You hollered at me when I went into... youryard to catch dragonflies!" "Yes, I rememberyou" "You really do?" "Thank you!" "Tora!" "You're Tora?" "Aunt!" "Still alive?" "Uncle!" "How's uncle?" "Alive and well!" "I see!" "Aunt!" "Uncle." "Aunt." "I'm back again" "Please don't bow" "I can't greet you ifyou do" "Figuring it out, I've been away 20 years" "I'm sure my late parents and brother were indebted toyou" "No, no, it's no so!" "Ayoung brother, it's fresh ofme to greet you loudly!" "So I'll just thank you and beg your pardon for staying away until now" "Well, well, thanks" "Moreover, as to my stupid sister's growing up..." "It is all due toyour guidance and I don't know how tothank you" "Uncle and Aunt, I thank you from the bottom ofmy heart" "Neighbors all, I've been away a long time" "Please remember me and be good for me" "Enough offormal greetings" "Uncle, please relax." "You, too, Aunt." "You've come home a fline man" "You parents would be so proud..." "Anyway..." "Nothing much but a drink?" "Excuse me, neighbors." "Please come in" "Bythe way, not yet?" "What?" "Sakura?" "Overtime work" "Working overtime?" "Working at a neighborhood textile mill?" "Ofcourse not." "She is a key puncher" "Key Pun...?" "I see" "Handles the electronic computer at the Oriental Electric Appliances Co" "Electronics?" "She's pretty great" "It's an age ofelectronics" "Oh, yes, I forgot!" "This isn't much ofa present but..." "Put it on, Aunt" "An electron health band" "Electrons chase out all the poison and rebuild the body" "Expensive?" "It's okay" "Not gold?" "Joking?" "It'd cost more than $D200,000 then" "But it's not an imitation" "Try it and you'll see" "Tiny humps, see?" "Electrons" "Enterthe bodyfrom yourwrist" "It quickens blood circulation" "Doesn't your bodyfeel lighter?" "Good for high blood pressure, neuralgia" "And forwoman's ills" "Neighbors, come in and take a look" "Back, Sakura?" "I'm home" "Sakura!" "Are you really Sakura?" "It's me." "Don't you remember myface?" "Sakura!" "Who is he?" "Don't you know?" "Look close" "Never mind." "Nowonder" "I up and left when you were only 5 or 6" "Children grow up even without a family." "Awfully big now" "My...brother?" "Yes!" "Your brother!" "You're alive?" "Brother!" "Sakura!" "Have a hard time?" "Good girl!" "Going outside" "Toilet's over here" "Never mind" "Isn't it nice?" "Do not cry, my sister, do not cry" "Forwe left our old home, you and I ifyou cry, I'll never know why..." "Sakura!" "Come here" "What is it?" "Listen" "I'll go alone" "I should say not!" "You can't!" "Theirwhole family's coming" "I can't help it" "We can't postpone it for his hangover" "It'll ruin the marriage-meeting ifyou go alone!" "I don't mind." "My Chief's idea" "Don't saythat!" "Have you had a better offer?" "What'll I dothen?" "Do?" "What a mess!" "He's a fool!" "I reminded him last night!" "Aunt, what's up?" "Today's Sakura's marriage-meeting" "Well..." "It is?" "And whowants to marry her?" "Her company's..." "You be still!" "You worthless drunk!" "Don't shout." "My head aches" "What?" "Now, now, don't flight." "What's up?" "It's a wonderful offer!" "Oriental's subcontractor likes hervery much" "He wants herfor his son's wife" "Your uncle was to gowith hertoday, but he drank too much" "She says she'll go alone" "I'm not interested anyway" "You mean marriage-meetings are old hat?" "Is that what you think?" "Isn't it a mistake?" "Yes, we told herthat too" "Tora, will you go in my place?" "Me?" "Yes, it'd be a great help" "Frankly, it's at a hotel" "I don't want to shame Sakura" "I'm not used tofiine hotels" "Tora'd bejust right." "Her brother" "Aren't you busy?" "No, I wasjust brushing myteeth" "Hotel's English, but don't let it surprise you" "Inn for lovers are called hotels now" "Don't be scared!" "That" "The hotel" "What is it?" "You must be happyyour brother's back" "Away 20 years?" "Yourwork now?" "What?" "Me?" "I'm a salesman" "What doyou sell?" "Well...books mostly" "Publications?" "Well, yes." "Law and statistics too" "Well, well" "English, hypnotism, moxibustion dreamreading, mental tests also" "Nursing, taking out stains, suicide tales whodunits, and soforth" "Nothing to it." "It's stupid work" "A drink to get acquainted" "Please drink" "In March each year, there's a personnel reshuffle" "All the Chiefs want Sakura then" "Chief." "Personnel calls it the Stove League" "Orders come out during cherry blossom time" "I'm sorry" "Sakura (cherry) is an unusual name." "Yourfather named you?" "Yes, but written in Chinese letter" "Yes, that's so" "Like Cherry in Cherry Blossoms?" "People think her surname's her name too" "Kuruma Sakura's funny, they say" "I see!" "Sakura's funnywritten in Japanese" "Pulled apart, it can mean, I'm worried about the girl upstairs." "That's good" "Good, isn't it?" "Chinese letters are fun" "Corpse and Water become urine" "Corpse and Rice become dung." "The funniest is Corpse and two Hee." "Hee" "I guess fart sounds like that to some people" "Say, you!" "Beer?" "No, thanks" "I see." "Fine as a cat with furfull ofashes" "Laughing." "It's funny?" "There's more." "The cat fell in the horse manure." "Not very elegant?" "Sake!" "Strange, isn't it, for a pretty girl... to have a brotherwith a beat-up face?" "Isn't it, Pal?" "No, it's..." "No, it isn't" "Nowonder." "She's my half-sister" "You're tight" "Tell us some othertime" "No, I can't." "Poor girl." "I have to clear it up" "My old man was a woman chaser" "My old lady's a geisha" "My old man told me he sired me when he was dead drunk" "Not through" "When my old man beat me up, he'd say..." "I begot you when I was dead drunk, soyou're a fool." "It used to make me so mad!" "He fathered me when he was drunk" "Brother" "Should've been serious!" "Excuse me" "Where to, Mother?" "Toilet?" "Please." "Please" "Can't put offgoing there" "Me too." "I'll gotoo" "Don't worry!" "Be right back!" "I'm quick at it" "Being fast is sort ofan art too." "Wish I could show you how fast I am" "I'm going" "Mother!" "Which way?" "Listen, where's the toilet?" "We're back!" "Don't worry!" "I went alone with her!" "So it was a great success!" "Through" "Is it true?" "A success?" "I wonder." "Afailure?" "Don't you cry, sister ofmine..." "Who's wetting myfence?" "You octopus!" "What about you?" "Noisyfrom morning till night!" "Don't you know there's a girl here?" "Come here a minute!" "Crazyworking all daylong!" "Goto bed when the sun sinks!" "You lousy man!" "I was born and bred in Shibamata, Katsushika, Tokyo" "I'm Torajiro Kuruma, but called Hippie Tora!" "Like you, Tokyo ofthe neon lights andjazz is my abode now" "Fate threw us together 'V" "I'm working like everything for my only sister" "Whether I travel west or east" "I'm always indebted tothe local folks" "Please rememberyours trulythe Ugly Japanese, and help me!" "Tea" "Excuse me" "I'm sorry about yesterday" "No, no." "Sit down" "Hard getting him home?" "Mr. Kamakura was here." "He asked to be remembertoyou" "So I'll give you the answerfiirst" "I know." "He came to refuse?" "Yes." "I'm sorry" "It's all right." "I knew it." "I see" "I'm sorry" "It's all right" "Magazines, folks" "Dirt cheap." "A big bargain" "All sorts ofmagazine" "All cheap" "Lousy sales pitch!" "Can't you do better?" "Dummy!" "Pal?" "Pal Tora?" "I searched foryou!" "You're trash!" "I said go home and help yourfolks!" "I'm desperate!" "Take your pick!" "So desperate I'd bite into a sun-ripened eggplant!" "But can't with store-bought teeth!" "Girls, made up pretty," "Would pay 500 or 600 yen at department stores!" "Know why it's cheap?" "A bookstore couldn't paytax 'V a sacrifiice sale!" "$D400!" "$D300!" "$D200!" "$D100!" "How about it?" "You still won't buy?" "All right then!" "I'm back!" "ls my sister in?" "There you are!" "Don't hold back!" "Come in!" "I'll introduce toyou to sis." "Hurry up!" "Pretty?" "She's working in an offiice." "She's way above you." "Noboru's like a brother" "He's a fool that you can see, but the poor devil has nofamily" "We're going towork together, so look after him" "Why are you looking so sunk?" "What's up?" "How can you act so unconcerned?" "Apologize!" "What's bugging you?" "Sakura's marriage!" "She was turned down!" "She was?" "She was turned down?" "Isn't she plain lucky?" "That immature slob!" "She'll have a string ofsuitors" "A hard time refusing them!" "I see." "That's whyyou were drinking?" "Like a desperate egg-plant" "Dark and good to eat" "But can't with store teeth!" "Stop it, fools!" "Let me talk!" "Tora, she was turned down because ofyou!" "She can't expect a better offer!" "Frankly, Sakura's an orphan and has no dowry." "When it came to marriage, it's been harderthan we'd care to say!" "Speak right up then!" "She can't marry because ofme?" "Stop it." "I'm resigned to it" "Yes, that's important" "And you asked me to goto the marriage-meeting." "Griping hag" "What's that?" "Hag?" "Mad, old fossil?" "How can you?" "You're indebted to him!" "Apologize!" "Apologize?" "Only a kid sister- don't be fresh!" "You are!" "Acting the big brother!" "Don't you know how you've made me worry?" "How dare you slap her?" "Don't be rough!" "What're you?" "Afactory hand?" "Go ahead, Hiroshi!" "You've my permission!" "Give it to him good!" "Sure, go ahead!" "What have I done anyway?" "Try and hit me!" "Stop" "How about it?" "Did it hurt?" "I didn't hit you!" "It was your dead father's flist!" "A laugh!" "His hurt more!" "When you left, your pa was worried sick!" "When I saw you again," "I thought he'd be so happy ifhe could see you!" "But I'm glad he's dead!" "I bet he'd think sotoo ifhe saw you like this!" "He's thinking so underthe sod!" "Sakura, my medicine" "What is it?" "Pull yourselftogether!" "Don't stare!" "Is Uncle all right?" "Yes, he is" "Let me!" "Sakura!" "It's late!" "Hurry!" "You'll be late forwork!" "My brother left!" "Sis." "I'm sorry about last night." "I'm going away but I'll always be praying your happiness." "Take care of Noboru for me." "Goodbye." "Yourfoolish brother, Torajiro." "There he is!" "Brother!" "Pal!" "Wait for me!" "Don't mind!" "Go on!" "Pal!" "Have a heart!" "Don't leave me behind!" "Brother!" "Don't go!" "Boatman!" "Come back!" "Don't go back even ifthey call you" "You wouldn't know but mine's a hard world" "Brother!" "Why are you going away?" "ONE MONTH LATER" "Special letter" "Special delivery?" "Whofrom?" "From Fuyuko Tsubouchi in Nara." "The priest's daughter" "Miss Tsubouchi?" "You read it." "Are you all well?" "I have been in Nara almost 3 months." "I am well now and Father has come for me, so I am coming home." "Today, while I was showing father around, we ran into a rate man." "It seems sofunny remembering it." "Not tired?" "No" "It's very noisy around here" "Hey, Tora-san!" "Yes" "Beautiful, fline, fline" "Even beauty has its drawbacks" "Beautiful but I'm all fagged out" "No decent meals" "But you folks eat steaks" "Right, Master?" "The good priest!" "Well, well, how doyou do" "Thank you forthat time" "Here to see how people live?" "Why're you here?" "Your relatives are worried" "I was selling things in Kyoto" "I got hold with them" " Take them here and there" "You do get around." "She's beautiful." "I'll leave now" "Fool!" "My daughter!" "Forget?" "You nicknamed her Popeye and teased her" "Popeye!" "You remember him?" "Yes." "You're Tora?" "You haven't changed at all" "He left the foreigners and stayed with us all day long" "Here I go." "Please smile" "Please smile, sir" "I've none ofyou smiling" "Yes, a pokerface." "Smile" "Be still!" "I'll smile!" "Hurry!" "Really?" "Smile." "Smile now" "Butter" "What's that?" "Anyway, hurry!" "Butter!" "What's the matter?" "It's cheese." "You mean cheese?" "What about cheese?" "Never mind!" "Hurry!" "Yes, yes, here I go smile, please." "Butter" "Ifyou'll excuse me..." "Tora, not returning to Shibamata" "So, please excuse me" "Why?" "Wouldn't Sakura want you to?" "She can't even marrywith a brother like me" "He knows about it" "I won't insist, but live decently" "You'll be laughed at wearing those" "Thank you foryour kindness" "Please be good to Sakura" "Not going home?" "It's a shame" "Ifyou'll excuse me..." "Tora" "Leaving at 9 tomorrow." "Call me ifyou change you mind" "Yes" "Thank you" "Sowe parted from Tora." "We goto Kishu tomorrow" "We may be home before this card reaches you." "I'm looking forward to seeing you." "What's he doing in Nara?" "Selling kimono goods?" "Imitation silk, I'll bet" "He's a fool, a real fool" "He should help out here" "Shouldn't he?" "Maybe he can't live a decent live" "He must know it" "Excuse me" "200 yen's worth ofsweets, please" "200 yen's worth ofsweets, please" "You will?" "Thanks" "Go out the back way." "It's nearer" "I see." "Thanks" "Humming." "She likes him too?" "Yes." "Leave them alone." "It maywork out" "Leave them alone?" "Tora would ruin it" "Miss!" "I'm back." "How doyou do" "Welcome back" "You seem verywell" "We were talking about you." "Please" "Received your card today" "I see." "You're both well?" "Yes, thank you." "The good priest?" "He's tired." "He sent his regards" "I see." "Thank you" "Say, tea" "You must be tired" "You saw Tora overthere?" "Yes, accidentally" "I see" "He up and left a month ago." "We've noword from him since" "We've been worried about him." "Is the fool well?" "Miss, I saw the good priest and the luggage safely home" "He's pretty old" "His hips hurt, his knees knock - a bother" "Hi, Uncle and Aunt." "You're well?" "I see." "Good." "Miss told you?" "So I'll stay a few day" "It's burning" "I missed this place." "It hasn't changed a bit" "Just an old dump." "See the people here are creaking too" "Sakura home?" "I'd like to see her." "At work?" "She's home..." "She is?" "Sakura!" "Brother!" "Sakura" "What happened?" "Back so suddenly!" "See Fuyuko?" "And then?" "Worried about you, so I tagged along" "After her?" "I see" "Fuyuko...?" "She's here" "Shop?" "Back?" "It's nice!" "Sakura was worried" "Sakura?" "Acting familiar!" "Don't come into other people's yard!" "Don't think you can hook Sakura!" "A college graduate for her!" "She's too good forfactory hands!" "Ifyou know, get lost!" "She's not married yet" "Don't gape" "Tora!" "I'm leaving" "You are?" "Pal!" "You still alive?" "Miss!" "A present!" "He's a fool, really a fool" "Hi." "Gain a lot!" "What's up?" "Still a fool?" "That scum!" "Only a gangster!" "Big trouble!" "My men went to Edogawa Rivertofiight Tora!" "What'll we do?" "Tell the police?" "A goryfiight?" "Think so?" "It's terrible!" "Say, stop fiighting!" "Don't flight!" "Hey, acting like a pup caught bythe pound man!" "Tora and your man's talking it out!" "Is Hiroshi safe?" "Simmer down!" "Is he safe?" "Hiroshi's okay." "He can handle a couple ofmen like him!" "Any complaints?" "Sakura's husband must be a university man?" "Sure!" "Griping?" "Fight it out then?" "Tell me." "Are you a university graduate?" "For instance, you love someone" "What would you do ifher brother said that toyou?" "What?" "I love someone and her brother...?" "Fool!" "Got none!" "Don'tjoke!" "But ifyou did, you'd feel like I do" "Stopjoking!" "Not me!" "Don't insult me!" "Why?" "Why?" "You're dumb" "We're not the same" "If I eat a potato, would it make you fart?" "See?" "Just horse sense is no help!" "Speak up!" "Brother." "A question" "Ever been in love?" "How about it?" "Not even once?" "Ifyou're a man, you must've loved someone deeply once." "Have you?" "What, you bum?" "You're in love with Sakura, aren't you?" "Talking about love and a whole lot ofnonsense!" "In a word, you want to marry her?" "I wouldn't go sofar..." "Not in love?" "Yes, I love her" "What then?" "Make yourselfclear!" "So as I said, I've nofamily and I'm not a university graduate..." "See here, you." "Can't you marry ifyou're not?" "I see." "That's your rule?" "So brother, I...!" "Don't call me Brother so easy like!" "Okay, then, go ahead" "It's a democracy." "Dating, kissing, petting - give herthe works" "Yes" "Yes?" "Can you hook a girl with you face?" "Sakura's got a strong mind." "You're confiident?" "No" "No?" "Awful ifshe turns you down" "You make me cry!" "I'll give you some pointers" "Please, Brother" "Too soon to call me that!" "In short, the eyes catch girls" "I don't mean to stare like this." "They'd think you're crazy" "Sojust a quick glance" "Like this" "I'll pierce her like Cupid's arrow" "So she looks at you" "Quick, you look down" "She'll look surprised" "Meet her eyes then, don't let them go" "Gaze at herwistfully, longingly, asking herto pamperyou" "I'll mesmerize her" "So give a last push --- talk with your eyes with my eyes" "Sure, theytalk." "Watch me" "Theytalked?" "About what?" "What?" "Oat!" "They said, I love you!" "What is it?" "Dust in your eyes?" "No." "Dusty here now, isn't it?" "Not here" "It's caught." "I'll turn it around" "Tora!" "Don't move, Miss!" "Brother" "What is it?" "Came for a look see" "A big company." "How many employees?" "About 1200 here" "Men all university grads?" "Most ofthem" "Great" "Why'd you come here?" "I just dropped in" "I'd better run along" "Leaving?" "That reminds me." "What doyou think about that?" "That?" "You know." "Hiroshi next door" "What about him?" "Nothing." "Just asking" "Impossible?" "What doyou mean?" "Nothing." "Nothing at all" "Are the toilets here foreign ones?" "Yes." "Why?" "Nothing" "My regards tothe president" "Sorryto botheryou" "Working overtime, men?" "Fine, fline." "Work beats poverty any day" "How was it?" "Nothing doing." "Give up." "No hope" "Did you ask her?" "Sure thing." "You're notalker so I put it to her good" "That I want to marry her?" "Sure, but there's no chance" "I see" "Cheer up." "Let's gofor a drink" "Torajiro" "Here we go." "Getting formal on me." "What is it?" "Have you ever been in love?" "I know." "I know how you feel" "Go ahead, cry." "Have a good cry" "Say, don't stand around!" "It's nofree show!" "Get towork, lazy pigs!" "Noworkmen's spirit?" "What's the matter?" "I can see yourwindow from my room" "When I wake up I watch you" "You open the curtains, yawn and put awaythe bedding" "On Sundays, you sing" "On winter nights, you read and cry" "During my 3 years in the factory" "I enjoyed seeing you every morning!" "It was the onlything I looked forward to!" "I'm leaving but please become happy!" "Goodbye" "What's going on?" "What did he come here to say?" "Brother, what happen inside the factory?" "Nothing,...what did he say?" "He said he will leave here!" "What?" "Brother, wait a minute!" "Tora, what have you did to him?" "What's the matter, yourface is so red?" "Nojokes anymore, he wanted to resign!" "What?" "Without him, the factorywill be fiinish" "That's a good thing?" "He needn't slave in a dirty place" "Tell him I praised him." "What?" "Brother!" "Tell me what you said and did." "Nothing much." "I said to give you up" "Can't be helped?" "Then coming to my offiice...?" "Yes." "You behaved coldly" "I didn't!" "Boss!" "Hiroshi really left!" "Is it true?" "Leave him be!" "Fool!" "You big fool!" "Hiroshi!" "I was thinking ofSakura's happiness!" "Don't meddle!" "What?" "Me meddle?" "Yes!" "Ifyou hadn't, it would've turned out well!" "Fool!" "It's a laugh!" "What lout can't even hold hands!" "Hiroshi a lout?" "He's my chiefengineer!" "We mayfold up without him!" "Good." "More sunshine!" "Repeat that!" "Didn't get me?" "More sunshine then!" "You don't know how hard it is for small enterprises!" "Pal!" "Shut up!" "Get out!" "Yes, that's best!" "It wouldn't have happened ifyou hadn't come back!" "That does it!" "Kicking me out?" "It's the end ifyou say it!" "Okay." "I'm the odd man here!" "I'll never come back!" "Shut up!" "Tothink you'd say it!" "I'm back" "Brother." "I'm going to marry Hiroshi" "We're engaged" "Boss!" "Hiroshi's back!" "Really?" "You don't mind?" "Doyou, Brother?" "Thanks" "Where were you?" "They're waiting!" "I know!" "I know!" "I clean forgot my note was due today!" "The go-between?" "I'm here!" "Octopus!" "Where were you hiding?" "Making people worry!" "Ruining the wedding?" "It's beginning!" "Why're you here?" "Go away!" "First...!" "What is it?" "Please introduce both families" "Wait." "Both families?" "A mistake?" "His old man's farming in Hokkaido" "After a flight, he cut offhis ties with him" "So he wouldn't come" "A mistake." "Let's go" "Tora, see him and then..." "Say, girl." "No, no, a mistake" "I'm sorry, Mister" "Father" "I'm his father" "I'm his mother" "Suwa..." "Honorary Professor" "How doyou read his name?" "I don't know" "He didn't want to come" "Afiine professor!" "A phony?" "Ready?" "I'll take you." "Please smile" "Butter!" "I was bad awhile and was expelled from school" "He cut me offthen!" "want no part ofhim!" "But he came from Hokkaido?" "Just for appearance's sake!" "But..." "Brother?" "Starting pretty soon" "I understand" "I knew he lacked manners" "Don't worry." "Leave it to me." "I'll handle it" "Please applaud!" "The groom, Hiroshi..." "Suwa" "He was born in lshikari County...the 3rd son..." "I'm sorry I'm such a poor go-between" "Stupid octopus!" "Hiroshi and Sakura quarreled" "Sorry!" "A mistake" "I mean theyfell in love after he had a big flight with her brother" "It started when her brother said nofactory hand could marry his sister" "I didn't!" "Unlike Torajiro, Sakura was a gentle and warm-hearted child" "She'd go out and crywith him when he cried, scolded by his father" "She was like that" "On the other hand, Torajiro..." "You're too slow" "That face --- laughing at a poor man's wedding!" "Ifhe speaks, he'd insult us!" "Don't let him!" "We have to." "The groom's father" "No, let me talk!" "I'll tell him what's what!" "You against it?" "No, no." "After his father" "I'm last?" "Okay, fline." "Forget and I'll bust your head!" "It was a very nice wedding" "And now, a word from the parents ofthe newlyweds" "First, Hiroshi's father, Mr. 'K lchiro Suwa" "Ordinarily, as the father ofthe groom" "I should thank you all" "But we do not have the right to do so" "But even parents like us feel like all parents" "In all frankness, I saw my son for the fiirst time in 8 years" "Watching him surrounded byyourfriendship and Sakura's gentle love..." "I can hardly bearthe shame I feel" "What did I dofor my son as a parent?" "My guilty conscience tells me what an inadequate father I was" "I know mywife who is beside me is thinking the same thing" "These 8 years were a long, long winterto us." "But due toyou, spring is coming to us at last" "I thank you, everyone" "Sakura" "Please take care of Hiroshi" "Sakura's brother." "Please keep an eye on both ofthem" "Wait!" "Father!" "Mother!" "Thank you!" "I know Hiroshi is very happy!" "Thank you!" "Sakura!" "Sakura, isn't it nice?" "Thank you!" "Thank you!" "I'm back!" "Took the sweets tothe temple" "Thanks." "Was Miss in?" "Yes." "She said you must be lonelywithout Sakura" "She's gentle" "Pal?" "He's around?" "Pal, Miss said you must be lonelytoo." "Joking?" "Feels nice without that tomboy!" "That so?" "She said to come over" "Going out, Uncle" "Sure" "Not much ofan errand." "Having mywatch repaired" "I see." "Gothen" "Oh, yes, the temple wants their bath fiixed, so I'll go over" "Yes, gothere" "Thanks" "Why'd you say, Thanks for?" "Why?" "Trying to needle me?" "No." "I'm sorry if I upset you." "I didn't mean to" "Just soyou know" "Goodbye" "Take yourtime" "Take mytime?" "I said I'd be right back!" "I've notime to loaf!" "What doyou mean?" "I'm sorry" "Now, now, he meant no harm" "Noboru apologized" "Just so he knows" "I'm going" "Yes, do" "When she was at home, I thought Sakura noisy and bossy" "But the house seems deserted now that she's gone" "I know." "Especially since she's your only kin" "That's right" "You're thinner?" "Yes, about 8 pounds" "You're pale too" "No appetite" "That's bad!" "You'll become sick!" "All right?" "I expect so" "Who's he?" "Listen..." "let's go and chase awaythe blues" "I feel depressed too" "Let's go" "Quick!" "Quick" "Well done" "I'll treat you." "I won $D2000" "This dump?" "Never mind" "Eat it while it's hot." "It's good" "Good?" "It's good" "Sure." "Cat's inside" "No, it isn't!" "Fooling her again!" "Saw you strangle one!" "Can't fool me, I know!" "Why can't I sing?" "Whistling was a childhood friend." "Whistling whenever I chose" "Everybody's asleep" "Shall we goto sleep too?" "Yes" "Tora, goodbye" "This" "Thanks" "Good night" "Goodbye!" "I could killer her, loving her so" "But I nevertouch her, you know" "Laugh at me a sentimental fool" "I'm nowolf, I play it cool" "It's the rule that I live by..." "I'm home" "What the..." "The stair's over here" "He's a really a fool" "Hot every day, isn't it?" "Excuse me." "Going fiishing with Miss" "Fool!" "Where are your eyes?" "Watch out, dim it!" "A guest?" "I'm sorry." "I promised to gotoday?" "It's all right." "Please, please" "I'm sorry!" "Going home?" "A relative?" "Yes, he's going to become one" "Fuyuko's future husband" "Had a hard time, but I found a good man" "Don't tell anyone yet" "I could kill her, loving her so..." "Miss, laugh at me" "I could die, loving you so..." "Thank you" "This one?" "You may break it?" "Oh sorry!" "You're back?" "Sakura, when'd you get back?" "Late yesterday" "I see." "A nice honeymoon?" "Yes." "Thank you for everything" "No at all." "Fine, fline!" "Is Tora back, Noboru?" "At the temple." "He promised Miss" "It's awful." "Sakura!" "I saw Miss Fuyuko's groom at the temple" "She has one?" "University professor." "Afiine man" "So?" "Tora ran intothem" "Oh, no!" "Gen told me." "Where is he?" "He left, his face pale as a ghost" "He won't drown himself?" "." "Hardly" "He will rave tonight." "I beg out" "Awful!" "Awful!" "Does he love her so much?" "Does he?" "I'll say." "Doesn't he?" "Everybody knows he went there every day afteryourwedding" "There's gossip?" "Only he didn't knew" "Miss is so gentle, she didn't mind, I guess" "But he was a nuisance" "Miss should have told him off!" "She's to blame too" "No!" "It was Tora's mistake tofall in love with her" "That's so" "He fault, so he can't complain" "But it's troublesome" "Sakura, get me my pillow." "I feel sort oftired" "Poor man." "I wonderwhat he's doing" "What's he doing?" "He's really a fool" "Don't saythat." "He's my brother" "But he's a fool." "You were back?" "Yes" "What were you doing?" "I don't know" "Here all along?" "I heard" "Don't laugh!" "Boss!" "Phone!" "Say!" "Phone call!" "We got back last night." "Thanks a lot" "I see." "That's fline." "Fine" "What's up?" "Nothing" "What would there be?" "Pal" "I'm in pain" "Medicine for my heart" "What happened?" "Where to?" "Atrip" "I meant to, anyway" "Brother, I don't know what to say" "Never mind" "You're really mad?" "Forgot it." "It's one ofthose things" "A lie. you're really angry" "You've no place to go!" "You're a fool!" "Listen, Tora!" "Really going away?" "Pal!" "Hachinoe?" "Your home's there?" "So go home." "Be a good son" "But Pal!" "Get this, kid." "It's about time you thought ofyour age" "Can't even sell stuffand tagging along" "Everthink how you'll end up?" "What'll you do?" "End up like me?" "Yes, I want to be like you" "Fool!" "Become a fool like me?" "You that big a fool?" "Pal!" "Take me along with you!" "Fool!" "Don't act like a spoiled brat!" "Want the truth?" "I'm sick and tired ofyour sugaryface!" "Get lost!" "Get lost, I said!" "I will!" "That suit you?" "What're you gaping at?" "It's no show!" "ONE YEAR LATER" "The baby's smiling." "It's smiling at me" "Good baby." "Good baby" "Who does he take after?" "Again?" "Never mind!" "How about it?" "Well...not exactly like Sakura..." "Not like Hiroshi either" "But like someone?" "Stop it, Aunt!" "Whothen?" "It's Tora" "Yes, you're right" "Oh, no!" "A card foryour daughter" "I'll send it on to her." "Leave it" "Is she well?" "Yes, getting along fline." "She's plumper, she says" "Now, now, don't cry, Tora." "Don't cry!" "Dear Mrs. Tsubouchi:" "I haven't written toyou a long time." "It's over a year since I left home." "Time does fly." "I heard my sister has a child and I am very happy." "A stupid sister but my only kin, so pleased be good to her." "When I think back, I'm ashamed ofmanythings." "So I spend my days with Noboru regretting what I did." "I beg you toforget them toofrom the bottom ofmy heart." "Girls, made up pretty," "A bookstore couldn't paytax 'V a sacrifiice sale!" "$D400!" "$D300!" "$D200!" "$D100!" "How about it?" "You still won't buy?" "All right then!" "I'm desperate!" "Take your pick!" "So desperate I'd bite into a sun-ripened eggplant!" "But can't with store-bought teeth!"