"THE MOTHER TREE (Kaidan chibusa enoki)" "A Mitsugu Okura Production" "Based on the Story Enchou Sanyuutei Written by Torao Tanabe" "Assistant Director Hiromichi Takebe" "Starring" "Katsuko Wakasugi Akira Nakamura Asao Matsumoto" "Directed by Goro Katono" "What brought you back from near-bankruptcy three years ago is your ability." "It has nothing to do with that simple painting of mine." "No, Shigenobu-sensei." "That is the brushwork of the greatest artist in Edo." "Look how enticingly her hair hangs." "It is a masterpiece." "It's not that good!" "Indeed it is!" "This establishment has prospered on customers wishing to view it." "If he is to paint for you, have him do something colorful." "Fireworks, perhaps." "Fireworks on a temple folding-screen?" "Well, Sensei?" "Perhaps a "sumi" ink painting of the married dragons." "The progenitors of humanity..." "Yes, Sensei, please!" "I'll express what I've come since my marriage to feel." "I very much hope you will do that." "Excuse me." "Thank you for waiting." "The boat's ready." "Your man Shosuke insists on poling it himself!" "Look, Mayotaro...it's done." "This is for you." "He's asleep!" "Look..." "There's Takeroku up there." "Takeroku?" "That nice young lad?" "I said I'd paint something for him and I haven't even touched a brush!" "Land us at the bridge." "Yes, sir." "Cold Dumplings" "Don't worry." "I'll do if for you." "That would be wonderful, sir!" "Thank you very much!" "We'll be looking for you to come by." "Thank you!" "I'll look forward to it." "Whoops!" "Careful on the stones, Missus!" "Don't drop the baby!" "A pretty woman!" "Namihei!" "Were you here all along?" "I couldn't take my eyes off her!" "As usual, eh?" "Who was that man you were with?" "Hishikawa Shigenobu." "A famous Tosa and ukiyoe painter." "I see..." "What is it?" "I like painting." "I'd like to find someone good to learn from." "Could you help me become a student of his?" "I couldn't do that!" "Not even for a friend." "My master dismissed me because I was too interested in painting." "Yes, but still..." "Wait!" "I'm sure you can do something." "Are you sure you can't help?" "But..." "I know it's not much." "Don't be so damn proper!" "I see..." "All right, Namihei." "Taking so long over this..." "I must be losing my touch!" "You have too much to do." "The Nanzoin Temple has asked again when you will come." "How long has it been since I said I'd go there?" "All right, I'll go now." "Tell Shosuke to get my things ready." "I will." "It's such a help to have a student like Namihei here." "He's very nice, isn't he." "The baby always likes Namihei to hold him." "Did he buy you that comb?" "Well, this is goodbye for a while." "There's my boy!" "Be good till I get back." "Are you leaving now?" "Yes." "But don't worry." "I'll be back soon." "But I'll miss you..." "Getting this job done will be a load off my shoulders." "Take care of things." "I will." "I leave the women of my house in your care." "Have no fear." "Put your heart into your work." "Kise, if there are any problems, discuss them with Namihei." "Take good care of the boy." "Take care of your health, and come home soon." "Don't worry." "Shigenobu..." "I'll be going." "Make yourself at home, Takeroku." "It's always a pleasure to see you." "No, we should go." "I feel guilty about being received so well with your husband away." "I'm not saying this just to be polite but I can't imagine leaving such a pretty wife alone to go to some country temple and paint!" "Don't prattle that way!" "But..." "That's all right." "I'm very grateful to Takeroku." "Oh?" "And why would that be?" "It's because of him we have a student like you." "You embarrass me." "Takeroku, it's getting late." "We should go." "But you've come all this way to see that we're all right!" "With the Sensei away it's unseemly for us to be here too long." "Oh, no!" "It's time to go." "What's wrong?" "!" "I'm sorry..." "I sometimes have these spasms..." "Does it hurt?" "Please...bring me a cup of hot water...quickly!" "Just lay quietly." "Hana!" "Hana!" "One more thing..." "Oh!" "Move that in here." "What are you doing?" "!" "Keep quiet!" "Stop that!" "I'll scream if you don't stop!" "Go ahead." "I wasn't sick." "I think about you all the time." "I dream about you!" "What do you want?" "I love you more than I love life itself!" "This is wrong!" "Let go of me!" "You mustn't!" "Kise!" "No!" "Let go!" "If you refuse, I'll kill you then kill myself!" "If you want me so much, then take me and then kill me." "I'm a married woman." "This cannot be!" "Then I'll take this child with us!" "Wait!" "Then you accept that it's my fate to risk my life for love of you?" "This is unfair!" "To force yourself on a weak woman by using an innocent babe is cowardice worse than villainy!" "Call me villain or call me demon, I will pleasure you!" "Shigenobu!" "Be too much in the mind and the body pays." "Your Reverence..." "I don't know if it will help, but have some tea." "I sent Hana on an errand." "We won't be disturbed." "You're nothing but a beast in human form!" "And now you're my mate!" "You're an adulteress." "We're animals together." "You disgust me!" "Ye Gods, forgive me!" "As you wish." "Now, while we have time..." "Take your hands off me!" "The Sensei's coming home?" "!" "I thought he'd be there for weeks!" "Kise!" "No!" "What do you think you're doing?" "!" "You saw us!" "You!" "I don't know anything!" "I swear I'll say nothing about the two of you!" ""Two"?" "No, I mean..." "You said "two"!" "Please!" "So you know!" "I can't leave you alive when you know our secret!" "I know nothing!" "Then will you do as I tell you?" "I'm just an old..." "Will you?" "Well?" "!" "Yes!" "Whatever you say!" "Some rich food is welcome after so long a time." "I thought fish might be welcome after weeks of temple life." "What do you think?" "I've put my heart into it." "You'd think they were alive." "All that's left is the eyes." "I want eyes that might see right into the next world!" "But perhaps, Sensei, you're working too hard." "I was speaking of this to Shosuke." "Perhaps you might go to see the fireflies at Ochiai." "Go out and wander around?" "Yes." "Good health requires occasional rest." "Is that not so?" "I've heard the fireflies at Ochiai are a wonderful sight." "Shosuke, come with me." "Yes I will." "I follow you, Sensei." "What?" "Nothing." "Who are you?" "!" "What are you waiting for?" "!" "But..." "Fool!" "Get going!" "Go!" "You!" "Yes!" "Namihei!" "You're an inconvenience." "So if you'll excuse me..." "Have you gone mad?" "!" "You fool!" "Why would you hate me?" "Tell me why!" "Silence, dead man!" "You'll pay for this!" "To hell with you!" "You'll pay!" "Though you kill me I will not die while my dragons have no eyes!" "Stubborn bastard!" "Mayotaro!" "Mayotaro!" "Hello!" "I thought this might happen." "You've gone and done it now!" "You saw me!" "Oh, I wouldn't do that!" "The watch is to be told if I don't happen to come back." "Why are you drinking all that water?" "What's happened to you?" "It was horrible!" "The Sensei was attacked by thieves!" "He's dead!" "What nonsense is this?" "Shigenobu came back here and went straight to work!" "It can't be!" "Shosuke...what do you see?" "Shosuke!" "What's wrong?" "!" "Shosuke!" "Help!" "Your Reverence!" "Your Reverence!" "What's the matter?" "We found the Sensei under Ochiai Bridge!" "What?" "!" "His spirit yet wanders among us..." ""May his soul rest in peace."" "I'll arrange a proper wedding." "Please say you'll marry me." "Please, Kise..." "Kise!" "This has gone far enough!" "We've lain together!" "Where's the harm in it?" "Soon people will stop talking, and forget the Sensei." "Never!" "You'll submit to me!" "No!" "Don't touch me!" "You'll do as I say, even if I have to use force!" "I loathe you!" "Oh, you do?" "Then I have nothing to lose!" "Shut up!" "Put that damn child to sleep!" "With his father dead, my milk has dried up." "The poor thing!" "What do you want?" "Girls..." "Enjoy yourselves." "You know what I want." "You scratch my back, and I scratch yours." "Need I say more?" "How much are you going to wring out of me?" "Don't tell me you've forgotten!" "I mean, if I were to..." "That's enough!" "Have a drink." "Really?" "Good!" "I don't talk this way because I like to, you know." "Let me pour you one." "Anyway, squire..." "I'm a little short again." "What?" "!" "Oh, if it's a problem, don't worry." "I would have asked earlier, but you were busy..." "Enough!" "Don't ask me here." "Come with me to the house." "I'll give you something then." "Well, I'm certainly glad to hear that!" "I've made some broth for the little boy." "Thank you." "I could never find a wet-nurse for him this late at night." "Missus, even during the day..." "We've been refused?" "I've searched all over, asked everywhere but because of the way the Sensei passed on all the wet-nurses are afraid." "I see..." "If it goes on like this, he'll die..." "My poor baby!" "Forgive me!" "Rokusho Shrine" "The Mother Tree" "Give him to me." "Shigenobu!" "I don't care what happens to me." "I'll raise Mayotaro so he may take revenge." "For that I will live through any shame." "Until that day, forgive my sins!" "When that day comes I will appear." "Only then will I be able to paint the eyes of the twin dragons." "Shigenobu!" "Husband!" "Spirits!" "Hey!" "Come back!" "What's going on?" "!" "What's the Missus doing out here now?" "!" "Kise?" "You!" "Fiend!" "I can't!" "I can't do a thing like that!" "Oh, stop whining!" "I'll tell Kise he'll stay with a family in your village." "I owe the Sensei gratitude!" "I can't do that to his son!" "It's cold-blooded murder!" "The Sensei again?" "Who helped kill that Sensei you owe so much to?" "We can both be crucified for that!" "Please!" "I just can't do it!" "Quiet!" "You'll do as I say if you value your life!" "Do you hear me?" "!" ""Come to the Mother Tree..."" ""The Mother Tree..."" "Well?" "I'll do it." "But please, ask no more of me!" "I can't do that." "You're tied to me for life!" "You're really taking him to the best family in the village?" "Fool!" "Don't you trust Shosuke?" "But..." "Shosuke's gone to a lot of trouble over this!" "Why are you crying?" "He'll be much better off with a healthy village wet-nurse." "Won't he?" "Missus, I..." "Well, Shosuke..." "Yes?" "Take good care of my boy." "Have no fear, Missus." "Tell them if anything happens that I'll hurry right there." "I'll be on my way, then." "You will?" "I do this from fear of him." "Please don't hate me, child." "That Namihei is a demon!" "Mayotaro!" "Mayotaro!" "Namihei said to throw you into that river but I know I heard Hana's voice." "Pardon me, boy..." "I'll leave you here." "Well, Shosuke?" "Did you do it?" "Yes, I did." "You drowned him?" "I did." "Well done, Shosuke." "Now I take leave of you." "You what?" "Who are you?" "!" "You!" "We're leaving!" "I can't go just like that!" "Do you want to see your boy or not?" "!" "Get ready!" "My boy?" "!" "Stop wasting time!" "We're going to see him!" "Really?" "!" "That's Mayotaro!" "Fool!" "Mayotaro's dead!" "What?" "!" "But you said..." "That was to get you away from Edo with me!" "You killed Mayotaro!" "It wasn't me!" "Villain!" "Fiend!" "Mayotaro!" "Mayotaro!" "I'll go to hell for this child before I let anyone kill him!" "Yes, Namihei!" "Go mad!" "Go mad!" "Fall into hell!" "Go mad!" "Go mad!" "Missus..." "You have done well, Kise." "Now I arise to paint in the dragons' eyes." "I leave Mayotaro in your care." "Shigenobu!" "Shigenobu!" "Shigenobu!" "What are you doing here?" "!" "The dragons have eyes!" "His spirit is with us!" "Shigenobu will watch over him!" "Take good care of my boy." "Rest with Lord Buddha!" "The End"