"The wishing-table is one of the best memories of my childhood numerous times did my read it to me and all these fairytales start the same" "Once upon a time, there was a land, hidden behind walls and towers, which had a cozy guesthouse the cook was a curious man, and he served his guests delicacies from the fields and forests of the region" "So, did you like it?" "We are full." "How did it taste?" "As always." "And what did you have?" "Gulasch and spiced meat." "As always." "As always, spiced meat." "Gisela!" "Isn't there something missing?" "His fantasy also affected the one-eyed offspring of the family" "That is me!" "And what kind of experiments are you doing here?" "Grandpa says there is a country, where they eat like this." "Hmm, grandpa and his stories!" "But one doesn't play with food." "My father was a daydreamer." "He even tried to convince me, that he could turn his dreams into reality." "Rolf!" "You have to try the food!" "Yes." "Ingrid!" "Hmm?" "Dreamer!" "You are my onion-queen." "These are exquisite." "The dream started on a wet and cold day at the beginning of the 70s." "The trade organization (HO) celebrated its birthday." "The HO, a mighty organization that steered the fate of gastronomes under its reign with an iron hand." "Elephant or little bug, or busy worker, in the countryside and in the city, the HO feeds them all." "And noone has to be naked, the HO provides the clothing." "For twenty-three years the HO..." "Cheers!" "So, Cheers!" "And a heartily welcome." "All the leaders of the HO are out there." "That is a big chance for me." "And for you, for all of us." "If they are confident, Rolf... then you will get everything for free in the future." "Wild pigs, deer, crystal ashtrays." "Everything." "Could I have a bitters, please?" "I am so nervous." "Here you go!" "Rolf!" "The most important thing is that they like it and that you use local recipes." "As main dish I serve Weimarer Zwiebelschweinshackse au gratin, ... as dessert we have Ingrid's Hüllchen,... and as starter we have a suprise, I won't say more." "No suprises, tell us!" "What is it?" "MBS, i won't say more." "What is MBS?" "That sounds like..." "Well, I hope it's not a disease." "Comrades, it is so nice with you here in Thuringia." "I have heard many good things about the Weaponsmith." "Rolf's lazy women's soup is a delicacy, right?" "Yes, and his ashen dumplings." "One should import those to Berlin!" "First you have to solve the packing problems in Suhl..." "It is not ok that our customers have to bring a jar when they want to buy their sauerkraut." "But comrade Malaschke, that is as good as solved." "As soon as the paper crisis in Romania is resolved..." "We have already taken appropriate actions." "Yes?" "Yes!" "Good, let's drink one for that!" "Almost to westerly decadent." "This speciality was a delicacy here in Thuringia in the last century." "And now, here before you dear leading members of the HO, it finds it's renaissance." "It's resurrection." "That looks very good!" "I say, enjoy your meal!" "That is really good." "Nice taste after fish, I guess it is halibut." "Could also be white wagtail." "That is really exquisite." "Rolf?" "Now say, what did you serve us here?" "It is a may beetle soup." "Main ingredient is the meat of 350 female may beetles." "And that I have ligated with a little flour and egg yolk." "Next course." "Fast now." "Next course!" "Comrade Malaschke, usually the food in Mr. Anschütz's restaurant is really good." "Until he served the soup, it was a nice evening." "Why do you do that to me?" "Local food I said." "From Thuringia I said." "And you serve cockroaches!" "My may beetles?" "These are not..." "Do me one favor." "Never talk of these things again..." "All I wanted is to make you happy, do something special." "With roulade you would have made me happy." "With a sausage if you like, but not like that!" "Rolf, did you not get everything from me?" "Did I not always try to get everything you wanted?" "Exotic spices." "Salt, pepper, lents..." "Even an orange from Cuba!" "Cuba oranges?" "Here me out, my friend, don't push this too far..." "Mr. Jäger, I have something for you here, and for your spouse." "Looks good." "I told you so." "They only waited to cut you down." "The HO left early today." "Pearls for pigs." "The HO is afraid of culinary challenges." "Did you again candy potato shells?" "Or filled cutlet with rose petals?" "Your spiced meat tastes well and fills us." "That's all a human being needs." "I'm a cook, not a plumber." "A good cook is something like an artist." "And my stage is the kitchen." "I don't only want to fill the people..." "Then we are all artists." "Jochen can write, I can turn chair legs and you ... put people on their back." "Then be an artist for us, your friends." "Do something sensational." "Something with women and good atmosphere, and Jochen will write about it." "That is a good idea." "You would do that?" "Sure, otherwise I would only write about opening times..." "I have a really marvelous may beetle soup." "May beetle soup?" "Oh, sorry." "At the moment I am truly filled." "I would like to drink something." "Gisela, are you crazy?" "I had to pay for the may beetles with an entire set of winter tires." "Yes, it's a pity for the bugs, ah, the soup I mean." "I really liked it." "Really." "Yes?" "The cover." "That's exactly how the may beetle soup has to taste." "Exactly like that." "Weren't they all excited?" "Yes, so to say that was a running gag." "I am proud of you." "Show them that food also has something to do with culture." "Father, with these temperature you should not go fishing anymore." "What shall I poor pensionist do else?" "You don't let me into the kitchen anymore." "And the master gave him a table that did not look special in any way." "And also made from rather ordinary wood, but it had a special trait." "As soon as you put it on the ground, it was suddenly covered with a clean cloth." "On it were knife and fork, plate, and a glass of cool wine." "And when you then said to the table, lay yourself!" "With a dish from..." "Japan." "Shiujaki, a stew from Japan." "Small portions are eaten from many bowls." "And the ordering of dishes is never symmetric." "Always three, five or seven of every kind." "Beauty without symmetry." "Like in nature." "My favorite number is also five." "No..." "Go on." "Yes..." "Chinese cabbage, soy sprouts, tofu, bamboo sprouts, taki noodles and soy sauce." "Can you also do that?" "Sleep now." "Give me a kiss!" "Mr. Anschütz ?" "Ah, Gisela." "Here is the book you wanted." "The customs of nations." "Gisela, what are you doing?" "Thank you!" "For remembering this." "In father's mind a new idea took shape." "And once he was convinced by something, noone could stop him." "What are you doing up there?" "I fiddle with something." "What ?" "A surprise." "For me?" "For my friends." "Ingrid?" "Do you know where the key for the garden house is?" "Rolf!" "Where do you want to go with all that stuff?" "Your bag." "Ingrid says mustard and lighters are running short." "That's a pity for you." "Malaschke is still not well." "I would really like to know what is going on in your head." "At least a few new tableclothes from cotton..." "Rolf, forget about that!" "Say Rolf, did you see Robert's drum sticks anywhere?" "They are gone!" "No!" "Did you start playing drums?" "Twelve of these, please. 23cm long, without the ball of course." "At little more broad at the end." "Can you do that?" "There is no industry norm for that." "And I don't even know whether I am allowed to do that." "I will do it." "Hello." "Only hot water today." "Short arm!" "Quick, quick!" "Hello Hans." "Ah, Rolf." "Say, where can I get a suit like that?" "Do you want to join the sport club?" "I have enough to do in the kitchen, what else shall I do?" "A little movement would do you good." "But you can't buy something like that." "You can only get it from the sport club." "That is high-quality terry cloth from the west." "That is from the west?" "Say, do we stay with monday, 8 p.m. ?" "Yes." "And this time with a surprise, Hans." "See you." "See you then." "Rolf?" "What are you doing in there?" "I..." "I wash." "That is something new." "I already did the laundry today." "Do you know what I found there?" "Robert's drum sticks." "Ah?" "Rolf, do you remeber that you have to bring Robert to bed the day after tomorrow?" "I go out with the women from school." "On monday is my surprise evening." "What about my surprise?" "That is included." "What are you doing in there?" "Gisela?" "Could you please try on something for me?" "Sure." "Do you have more skirts like these on offer?" "Only what you see here." "Can you imagine that we rework the skirt like this?" "Yes, with more cloth." "Cloth?" "I can get cloth." "For what, if I may ask?" "I would be glad if you could be my Geisha." "What?" "What does your wife say about that?" "We will see." "Okay." "And what do you have beneath the Kimono?" "Nothing..." "Logically." "Gisela, Helga, what are you doing?" "The hair doesn't stay like that." "I think we need something special for that." "Maybe something from the west... or from the far east." "Helga, may I try something?" "Yes, let's try from beneath..." "It works." "It stays." "Improvisation!" "Coming!" "Otto, do you have them?" "Yes." "It was a lot of work, but here they are." "They are marvelous." "Could it be that they are curved?" "It has to be like that." "Everyone can do them straight!" "Even with brand, thank you Otto!" "Rolf say, what are Gisela and Helga doing?" "The restaurant is crowded." "Is there anything I should know?" "Come in, then." "I am so hungry!" "Rolf, hurry up." "We are hungry." "May I introduce:" "Geisha Gisela." "The first Geisha from Thuringia." "What does he say?" "Now I need something to drink." "First you have to change, Jochen." "Come in!" "Stop!" "Take off your shoes." "I know these suits." "This is how it's done in Japan." "Otto, how is your arthrosis?" "Thrives and flourishes." "The chairs are without legs." "Yes, that is Japanese." "Do they also eat spiced meat?" "No, but with sticks." "Ah, ok." "But you have some food prepared, yes?" "Yes." "Japanese." "Japan." "The land of the rising sun." "And they have no god." "Only the sun, which shines for everyone." "Isn't that beautiful?" "So, really no spiced meat." "First, let's have a drink." "To our friendship." "Cheers." "Do they really eat on the floor?" "Aren't they primitive people?" "Oh, see." "This is moving." "And what about this?" "That is no quality." "That is waste." "Oh, please." "Will you be nice?" "And here we have the Fujijama." "Geisha Gisela?" "May I ask you?" "Yes." "Does anyone want beer?" "A Japanese one, please." "But we do have sake." "Sake what?" "Japanese rice wine is sake." "Doesn't matter as long as we get drun" "Don't they recognize that this is white wine?" "Put a little Vokda into it." "And maybe we put in some grains of rice." "That's enough." "Now fill to the bowls." "Until then, his friends only knew lake Schwielow." "But he brought them to Japan." "And that was not easy to bear." "That means, cheers?" "That's all Japanese I need to know." "Yes." "Hot." "What is that?" "Does that contain rice?" "That's why it's called rice wine." "And?" "What do you say?" "Tastes good." "What is going on here?" "Ingrid?" "!" "That is nice." "Sit down." "Where?" "Take mine." "Make a little space." "Good evening." "Here you go." "These are my egg cups!" "Rice wine from Japan." "And, what do you say?" "Tastes like warm white wine." "Our good vase?" "Even mother played her role." "And beared the japonisation of her dinnerware with dignity." "What is the next course?" "I admire how you did that." "Only with raw eggs and beef." "My little Japanese." "To make something from nothing." "That is fantastic." "But you are the exact opposite of a Japanese." "Ingrid?" "This is what I always wanted." "To cook something exceptional." "On my stage." "It was like a dream." "And from now on..." "I promise you we will always have... only spiced meat." "and... and dumplings." "No..." "No.." "I..." "Helga!" "No boss, I don't know what to say anymore." "Anschütz?" "..." "No we don't." "We cook Thuringian if you know what that is." "Rolf?" "They all want to eat Japanese here." "Boss." "They guy from the HO is outside." "Do you have anything to do with that?" "No." "And he is in a bad mood." "Oh, I would not have thought to be in the newspaper." "I will kill you." "First your may beetle soup and now enemy propaganda." "Rolf." "This is enough." "Wait a second." "Enemy propaganda?" "I just cooked after recipes from a book published in the GDR!" "You cannot..." "Oh..." "You cannot try to incite new demands in our citizens." "In the end they will all want to eat this Suki-kaki." "We don't have foreign currency for that." "Foreign currency?" "We don't need any." "I tell you one thing." "Japan is brutal capitalism." "They can't even eat with knife and fork!" "So, if they now close your establishment..." "I will not be able to save you." "Mr Jäger?" "There is Mr Leutner on the phone." "Yes." "Fuck." "The district leader." "It's Mr Anschütz own fault." "We don't need anything like this." "Japanese leads to envy, frustration and perceived scarcity, comrade Jäger." "An idea becomes material power if it grips the masses." "Lenin." "Lothar, we are the GDR." "That is culinaric capitalism." "Rolf Anschütz makes fun out of entire Suhl!" "We have Japanese sitting in the restaurant." "A Japanese?" "A real one." "From Japan?" "Rolf?" "Go out there." "Ask him what he wants." "I don't speak Japanese so well." "That's my name." "From the economic university in Osaka." "For one year I teach as a guest professor at the university of Jena." "What can I do for you?" "I would like to eat in your establishment, Anschütz-San." "Yes, we have spiced meat..." "Japanese, please." "My train leaves in one hour." "Japanese..." "Rolf?" "And?" "What is our guest doing?" "He just wants to leave." "Are you crazy?" "He stays." "And you cook what he demands." "But what?" "Air soup and mashed shadows?" "Rolf." "You have a mission." "For years the GDR has tried to establish diplomatic relations." "And if now a Japanese is here and wants to eat Japanesian, he gets Japanesian." "That is a state affair." "Rolf Anschütz, you are cooking for world peace." "Isn't that great, boss." "He came from Japan." "From Jena, the Japanese comes from Jena." "Ingrid, can you crack the eggs?" "Rolf, we have other guests." "Look, grandpa has caught two fish." "Carps?" "You are my rescue." "Rolf, everyone speaks about you." "Do you serve Japanese today?" "Another time." "I will tell you, father." "Come." "It was worth a try..." "So, in principle I am the boss of Rolf..." "Mr. Anschütz." "Practically everything here is also my idea." "This is Geisha Gisela." "We eat Yose-Nabe." "Boss, Worcester sauce?" "We don't have anything else at the moment." "Thank you!" "That is soy-sauce..." "For me?" "Thank you!" "May I?" "Thank you." "Enjoy your meal!" "Very good!" "I knew it from the start." "Mama..." "Papa doesn't want to play wishing-table with me." "Why not?" "You have to go to bed." "Sure you have to." "No." "You promised me to stop with that Japan nonsense." "Ingrid." "For the first time in my life I have the feeling...to follow my destiny." "You follow your destiny and I work until I collapse." "These are not dreams anymore." "It was a real Japanese." "And he liked my food." "He was not just full." "But we are not in Japan." "We are in Suhl." "Rolf, we two have a restaurant with Thuringian cuisine." "And I don't want to risk that for one Japanese and eating fish from the floor." "And you..." "Look at you." "Judo-suit." "And you... you could expand your horizon." "While mother worried about the future of the family, father spent his first night away from home." "Yes!" "We cook together." "So, it was not good?" "It was." "But we can learn from each other, Anschütz-San." "and salmon." "Schweinshackse..." "How about Sassnitzer Seemannsgarn au gratin?" "Ginger." "And this is wasabi." "What is wasabi?" "Try it!" "Hot." "Please." "Louder." "Slurp them." "Slurping you mean?" "The soup tastes only with a lot of air." "Green tea." "Zinnaer abbey spirit." "Excellent." "Suntry old whiskey, also very good." "You have to make the eye hungry, not the stomach." "A Japanese proverb." "Humans control nature and nature controls the agricultural production community." "Thuringian proverb." "Ingrid?" "Dr Hayashi, this is Ingrid." "My wife." "I did not want to create any unpleasantries." "I don't want to disturb the two of you, but I have a restaurant to run." "Ingrid is not a fan of Japanese cuisine, Dr Hayashi." "It was an honor, Anschütz-San." "Mrs Anschütz." "Hayashi-San." "You still need that." "I would like to announce my friends for next saturday." "And you cook for them." "More Japanese?" "Yes." "You are ready, Anschütz-San." "More cloth, asian fire birds, dragons, lotus flowers and cups without handles." "Lothar, please." "Cups without handles." "Rolf, I will provide the dinnerware." "But the distribution of carneval articles is long over." "Such a nonsense." "We have twelve Japanese coming." "Twelve." "And for them I can't use old football cups or crepe paper." "No." "Did you say twelve?" "Twelve Japanese in one place?" "Yes." "Rolf, that is an invasion!" "Who wanted to strengthen the relations between nations ?" "Why not through food, Lothar?" "Japanese food means peaceful coexistence." "Rolf, I believe you." "But I cannot give you anything." "If they were at least Chinese or Tatars, but why Japanese?" "Sure, Anschütz does that out of pure craving for recognition." "I always say, initiative is the natural enemy of the economy." "And what we do with him now has to be decided by our boss." "Oh, that is already her." "Leutner on the phone." "What is going on in Thuringia." "Are you anarchists?" "We have already taken actions, comrade Malaschke." "Anschütz can soon cook his food in Russia." "Hold on." "The man needs support." "The GDR has been struggling to establish diplomatic relations with Japan for years." "And..." "I expect your report here in Berlin." "Don't mess this up." "So, Anschütz will cook for the Japanese." "Yes?" "You understood that?" "Don't mess this up." "Jäger could really show a little more initiative." "There you are, finally." "Today they bite exceptionally well." "Thank you father." "Thank you." "I hope this time the HO pays for this and not again yourself." "Don't let them trick you again." "Father, leave it please." "I still don't like that they socialised our restaurant." "Let bygones be bygones." "It just doesn't make sense." "You are the one with whom they can do such things." "Regarding doing something." "Shall I make some sushi for us?" "Only for the two of us." "Well..." "Father, do we now go to your place?" "Sure." "I have a large appeal to you..." "Say father, how many are supposed to use this?" "About twelve." "What, twelve?" "Yes, if you extend it." "Dou you still need it?" "No." "Sinca Martha is dead, I eat in the kitchen." "If I really leave this to you..." "Please be careful." "Father, you know me." "Yes, indeed." "And Rolf... remember my sushi." "That already looks very beautiful." "And how do I associate that?" "Well... something with dragons." "That spit fire." "And lotus flowers." "Renaissance or Rokkoko?" "Like decoration." "Taekwondo." "Well..." "Japanese." "Do you know what is next week?" "Mr Anschütz?" "Our?" "Upstairs." "What is next week?" "Mr Anschütz." "Telephone." "Urgent." "Mr Anschütz." "Telephone." "Urgent." "Now I need you." "Mr Anschütz?" "Decoration is ready." "While my parents drifted further and further apart, I also had to carry my burden." "Mama, they call me slit eyes." "What?" "They are silly." "You are not a slit eye." "I intentionally designed this in an agressive imperialist style." "Like emperor Hirohito 1939." "The HO will like it." "That's what Japanese have on their walls?" "Where they eat?" "Exactly like this." "That is Japan live." "And what does this say?" "Luck, sociability and Enjoy your meal." "Well, we will never get there." "Ah Otto, the height?" "Ah, yes." "Lift it up, please." "Still ok, everyone?" "Lower it slowly." "See." "It's firm, totters and still has some space to breathe." "As Confucius says, right?" "That was a Chinese." "Really?" "Rolf?" "How do you ever want to redeem that?" "It is so beautiful." "I don't forget our wedding anniversary." "Ingrid?" "I have to go someplace." "Be right back." "Is if it was made for you." "Yes." "That is Japan live." "Armin, I need forteen of those." "Maybe I would like to come to your restaurant on the weekend." "Any time on the weekend." "No problem." "Madame Butterfly will be on stage in September again." "Yes!" "Everything ok?" "Yes." "He is sleeping." "Was it nice?" "So beautiful." "I even cried a little." "Look at that." "From Rolf." "Is that the costume of Madame Butterfly?" "Is that the reason why we were in theatre?" "The wedding anniversary was just a pretense for you to..." "No, absolutely not." "Absolutely not." "I just wanted to make you happy." "It' just that..." "Tomorrow the Japanese come." "The ten." "How nice of you to tell me now." "I wanted to bring the necessary and the pleasant things together." "Today you can sleep here, downstairs." "Sleep well!" "Even Jäger slowly lost control." "Rolf, you never talked about all these rubbish." "Lothar, put this on." "The Japanese..." "And then the unbelievable happened." "Mr Förster, may I introduce..." "Mr Watanabe." "A friend of mine and journalist from Osaka." "Oh, journalist." "Sit down please." "You were good, Anschütz-San." "Now you have to walk your path alone." "I have to go back to Osaka." "Hayashi-San, why me?" "When you cooked for me last time, you were afraid." "But you were also curious?" "And you had the will." "Here, deep in the south, behind the mountains, curiosity prevailed." "You love Japan?" "And you can eat a lot of wasabi." "I got to know you as a friend." "We will meet again, for sure." "They are in here." "Yes, and now go home." "See you, grandpa." "The next twelve, please." "Rolf, what is going on here?" "The people are queuing up." "That's what I see." "And why?" "Our people in Suhl want to eat Japanese, right?" "That is not what we agreed upon." "Yes!" "I cannot let you do that." "In two hours the next twelve, please." "We took wild rice." "It has a wonderful consistency." "How it smells." "Carrots or fish?" "Fish." "So now comes the big moment." "It also works with spinach." "Yes." "Father, fresh supplies." "Wait a second." "Be careful." "You did very well." "How is grandpa?" "Well." "Isn't that a little exaggerated?" "Just because of a little fish." "Wait." "Tastes different." "Tastes... totally different." "But delicious." "Better than may beetle soup." "I agree." "But an employee of the HO cannot do what he likes to do." "If that attitude spreads..." "Yeah, then the next one will open up a hot-dog restaurant." "We should restrict Anschütz in his freedom." "Half of Suhl wants to go to his Japan restaurant." "Yes?" "Good day!" "Mrs Malaschke." "A delegation has announced itself." "I just read that because of coverage in Japanese media, an economic delegation is on its way to Suhl." "Oh, crap." "Shit." "I say stop with sushi." "No western money for Anschütz." "I will close his restaurant." "Hmm, they are really very special." "Give Anschütz what he applied for." "Right." "Of course." "Rolf, you are so stupid." "Jäger calls you and you do it." "I..." "I cook for world peace." "You should rather cook for family peace." "Do you really think they are interested in Japanese culture." "They only want the money from the west and you to play their clown." "The HO demands two dishes." "Japanese ones." "As planned target." "What?" "Are you serious?" "How shall we do that?" "As always." "Improvisation." "I can't do this anymore." "Papa, will you play samurai with me?" "Not now." "What are you doin?" "It is enough." "Robert and me will move to my mother's place." "Until you are back to normal." "I didn't want that." "I did not want that!" "My first time being beaten also corresponded to the worst time of my parent's marriage." "At the same time, huge trucks from another world appeared in Suhl." "The weaponsmith, where is that?" "And they brought real products from Japan." "Rolf...your father." "You have to go to the hospital immediately." "They brought him there." "Don't you see that this is impossible." "But, they said it is serious." "Rolf, I can do it alone." "We have guests." "Dear guests of the project world peace... ..ahh, project bright future...." "I am very happy to have you here." "My name is Rolf Anschütz." "So, the Japanese cuisine is a harmonic unison of culinaric symphonies." "I say, enjoy your meal." "Father..." "Father, we wanted to eat sushi together." "Now is the time." "These are the sticks." "Do you hear me?" "Sushi for the two of us." "Why couldn't you wait one hour?" "Father...is dead." "Then - tell - me - which - bird - can - say - it's - name." "In this chaos of feelings, a little gesture reconciliation would have been enough for my mother." "But father lacked the courage." "Hello, Rolf." "Ingrid?" "If you want to give a present to your son, please don't do it via post." "That is miserable." "Goodbye." "Over the following years the fame of the weaponsmith kept growing and was enriched by further attractions." "Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before the weaponsmith, a Japanese restaurant, in middle of the so-called GDR." "With uncommon methods the gastronome Rolf Anschütz succeeded to bring far eastern atmoshphere to cheerless Suhl." "Unheard of before in this world of scarcity, he imports ingredients directly from the land of the rising sun." "The weaponsmith is already booked out for years into the future." "In the weaponsmith, with Japanese section, that is the official name... meanwhile film stars, SED fat cats and foreign diplomats reside." "And doing that they present themselves open-minded." "When nudists and communists, in the so-called bath, an erotic center, scrub the Thuringian acres from their backs." "So much eastern decadence has created a run for the few hotels and pensions here." "Here, someone has shown with initiative that the allmighty HO and consume are built on sand." "The days of spiced meat seem to over in Suhl, for now." "And with that I give back to the Tagesschau." "Unbelievable what they say..." "You and your protege, Mr Jäger..." "It's your fault that even the western television mocks us." "Didn't I foretell that?" "What?" "Mrs Malaschke, we just got the message that Mr Kaltenhauser is coming." "The right hand of Franz-Josef?" "What kind of bath is that?" "Furu-bath." "Kind of a swimming-pool, where Japanese wash before eating." "Naked?" "I think it is time now that I see this free-time center with my own eyes." "These are not streets, this is shit." "The holes are part of it in the east, right?" "I hoped for Schweinshackse and dumplings in Auerbach's Keller, and now I have to go to the taiga." "Wait a moment." "For good business friends the HO has special things on offer." "I am looking forward to it." "Say, is all of this socialised property?" "Yes." "Do they have food on offer?" "Sure." "But not immediately." "This way." "Is this a brothel or what?" "Take off your shoes." "Undress." "I don't go into the same bathtub with all those easterners." "You are aware of that?" "Bathtub, I like that." "Please also take that last thing off." "That one?" "Here you go." "Thank you." "Mr Kaltenhauser, you are here?" "Yes." "I...am here." "Cheers, I am Ernst." "Hans." "Lothar." "Say, Mr Leutner, isn't that Mrs ... ah..." "Malaschke." "Yes, she is." "Dear Mr Kaltenhauser." "Call me Elke." "Elke?" "So..." "Ernst." "I already know you." "So then..." "Have a seat." "Do you also want one?" "I have a good feeling about our negotiations." "Yes, me too." "A song about the Japanese cherry blossom." "In the fields, and hills, and villages... as far as the eye can see, like fog, like clouds... fragrant and shining in the rising sun." "The blooming period." "From the improvisated club room, an almost perfect Nippon paradise was created." "The appearance of the ceremony master, even reminded a little of that of a Japanese emperor." "And I may say, a heartily welcome, here in the new rooms of the weaponsmith, in the new Japan restaurant." "And I also have to say, nothing of this would have been possible without the strong support of our HO." "Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!" "Yes, we managed this well." "Did we?" "Excellent." "The word marvelous still has a fine tone in Japanese." "And that is why my cooks, my Geishas, our collective... have prepared something very special for you this evening." "First we will serve you yams root." "The yams makes our women even more pretty." "And the men even more potent." "If you are in Munich once, visit me." "The yams symbolized strength, and this strength shall be transferred to you today." "Boss?" "Sorry for interrupting you." "Sensational news." "The Japanese want to give a medal to Anschütz." "I know, but we can't let them do that." "Does he have a medal from us?" "Not that I know." "We have to be faster." "Schmidt, come here." "Oh god, this thing is huge." "Anschütz only makes trouble." "Mrs Malaschke." "Schmidt, find out how large this Japanese medal is." "It cannot be that they give him a larger medal than us." "Yes, I will do that immediately." "And...did you amuse yourself further...in the weaponsmith." "Mr Anschütz?" "Oh, that is nice." "That I may get to know you personally." "I am Evi." "Where is my Gisela?" "I shall greet you from Gisela." "What greetings?" "I don't need greetings." "In a few hourse our house will be full." "So..." "She will stay in Budapest for some time." "Mr Anschütz." "Before she then goes to Andechs." "To Andechs?" "What?" "Well..." "She married that Mr Kaltenhauser." "Mr Anschütz, no reason to be flabby." "That upstart bavarian?" "She won't come back." "Take me instead." "I'm just as pretty as Gisela." "Anschütz-San." "Yes?" "I have the honor, in the name of my government, to hand this invitation to you." "We would like to decorate you for your untiring commitment to world peace and international understanding between the GDR and Japan." "You are invited as an honored guest of the Japanese government." "Otto?" "Otto?" "Shall we drink a beer together?" "You still have the courage to come here?" "And you even ask why?" "Why?" "Already two months ago you shifted the chopstick production to wood combine Wilhelm Pieck." "Because you thought I would not be able to cope with that." "No, that with the wood is done by the HO." "And even with Jochen you have messed it up." "With all these state cars around, you haven't seen any of us." "What, with Jochen?" "And now we don't want to see you anymore." "But, Otto..." "Hands off!" "They are all gone." "I am alone." "Loneliness is the fate of great men." "I always say that." "How is that of use to me?" "I always admired you." "Secretly." "You really created something." "Went your way." "And me..." "I was adjusted." "With the HO." "How good a musician I once was." "You were musician?" "Don't you know that." "I was singer with the Sputniks." "Schmalkalden?" "These were good times." "But then... came the offer from the HO" "and now..." "look at me." "Lothar, the Japanese invited me." "What?" "The Japanese to Japan?" "I don't think I am wothy of going there." "And then alone..." "I will come with you." "Isn't that clear?" "You would do that?" "Sure." "I am your friend." "Mrs Malaschke." "Your signature, please." "Thank you." "Comrade Malaschke." "You and Comrade Leutner frequently go to the capital." "Why don't you drive together think more intensively, decrease expenditure." "That is why I take the train, comrade." "The Japanese invited Anschütz to Japan." "I know, but we can't let him go." "Yes." "Sure." "He is not reliable, but..." "They must not invite Anschütz." "We have to delegate him." "I also think so." "And I won't leave his side for a moment." "Not that he stays over there." "You?" "That is impossible." "You are also unreliable." "Just look at your haircut." "Don't make such a sad face." "It's also beautiful here." "And if Anschütz doesn't come back, you take over the weaponsmith and become famous." "You started this." "And so today I have the honor to hand over the banner of the workers to a man who spread the fame of our country into the far east and who made sure on our streets there will soon be Mazdas on our streets." "For mutual understanding." "Rolf Anschütz, come here." "Or to say it with a Japanese proverb:" "Tame birds dream of freedom wild ones fly." "Mr Minister, please once for the camera." "This medal is seven millimitres larger." "Sensational idea, Mrs Malaschke." "Comrade Anschütz?" "Mr Anschütz." "It is said that recently Katja Eppstein was at your place." "Yes." "My wife is also crazy about it." "If you are able to get a reservation..." "Say, if you go to Tokio how will you be able to get along there?" "I don't know whether I will go there at all flying." "Excuse me." "Anschütz-San." "Welcome to my country." "Oh god, the state guest sits in front." "Let's also get in." "You first." "Today Rolf Anschütz, form the GDR, arrived as an official stateguest in Tokio." "In a ceremony he was given a medal from a member of the family of the emperor." "Your imperial majesty..." "I thank you for this distinction." "Everything for the peace." "You don't have to eat that." "I just want to be treated like any normal Japanese." "I am not Gai-Jin." "I am Rolf Anschütz, the first Japanese from Suhl, GDR." "Calm down, Anschütz-San." "I imagined all this... much more traditional." "More like in my book." "I am really happy that I can fly back soon." "Yes." "Then I can go back to my Japan." "You understand, Hayashi?" "Here one says, the bird in the cage craves the sky." "And I always thought that applies to you." "Yes." "Yes..." "Yes." "But for some birds... the sky is too large." "Anschütz-San." "This is not mushi, this is Ingrid." "Ingrid?" "How are you?" "Ingrid, where are you?" "In our kitchen." "In our kitchen?" "You..." "Ingrid?" "What?" "Ingrid I miss you." "Yes." "And our boy." "And our kitchen." "I did so many things wrong." "Yes..." "I only recognize that now." "Here." "That is what I wanted to say." "And that I miss you." "Hayashi!" "What are you doing, Anschütz-San?" "Is that for me?" "Thank you." "Your heart was tired." "You slept for more than eighteen hours." "Eighteen hours..." "Hayashi?" "You seem sad." "There is a very delicate issue." "You have no visa to go back to GDR." "How can that be?" "I have to go back to my GDR." "Suhl." "That is my home." "Calm down, Anschütz-San." "This situation is very unpleasant for our government." "They are trying to find a fast solution." "That must be a misunderstanding." "I think the HO is behind that." "That his home country did not let him travel back, father found unforgivable." "The weeks of his involuntarily prolonged stay, he tried to fare more quietly." "He asked Mr Hayashi to only see one further place." "Here was the place to say goodbye to an illusion." "You see, nothing is impossible." "I have a good message." "You can go back to the cage." "Yes?" "Probably it was only a mistake." "And would you cook once more for us?" "It would be a great honor." "Thank you." "I am ready." "Very good." "Smile once more, please." "Anschütz-San." "And now?" "Anschütz-San." "You should cook Thuringian." "What?" "Roulade!" "Such a roulade, a perfect one, is almost like a sushi roll." "Oh." "Very good." "For you." "Thank you!" "Anschütz-San." "Your ticket." "What?" "To home?" "Thank you Hayashi!" "Thank you." "Who is already happy, should not try to become more happy." "Says a Japanese proverb." "No." "Theodor Fontane." "Hayashi, thank you." "I thank you." "Enjoy your meal." "When father saw his hosts enjoy the Thuringian roulades he again felt the joy and his thoughts diverted to Suhl." "Where his Japan waited for him, the cook for world peace." "Until German reunification 1.97 Mio. visitors have been to the weaponsmith in Suhl." "In memory of Rolf Anschütz."