"A Studio Chizu Production" "You'll probably laugh, and say it sounds like a fairy tale no way that really happened" "But this story is a true story, the story of my mother" "Mother fell in love with a person who was a wolf" "Wolf Children Ame (Rain) and Yuki (Snow)" "Mother was a student at a state university just outside Tokyo" "Scholarships covered her tuition fees and she worked several jobs part time to cover rent and food" "(Professor) From your textbooks.." "(Professor) "Persons who have the reputation of being wise may have specialist knowledge in their field, or superficial knowledge in many fields but they know nothing of Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in order words, of "Areté"" "It was one day at college, when mother saw father in her class wearing an old, stretched-out T-shirt, without a textbook just diligently taking down notes he looked totally different to all the other students" "Wait" "Your attendance slip" "You have to hand it in or the class doesn't count" "So..." "I'm not a student here" "If it troubles you, I won't come back" "(Girl) Who's that?" "Please, wait!" "I don't really care if you're a student or not but to get through that class you really need the textbook" "Why don't you share mine?" "They'll be ready Friday" "Thank you" "Thank you for waiting" "Would you like a bag?" "Watch it" "Over here" "There we go" "Where do you want this one?" "Hey you" "And you" "There were three accusers at the trial," "Meletus the poet the politically influential Anytos and the sophist Lycon" "Meletus acted as the primary accuser, but Anytos is said to have manipulated him during the trial" "How do you enjoy yourself?" "What foods do you like?" "Until today, what kinds of girls have you fallen for?" "Why are you called "Hana"?" "(Flower)" "My name?" "Yes" "When I was born, there were cosmos flowers in the back yard not planted, naturally father saw them and decided at that moment that I should be called Hana." ""So she will grow up to always smile like a flower" he said" "In the good times and the bad he said to smile, even when it seems out of place and you'll be able to get through most anything" "That's the reason I smiled through his funeral" "The relatives said I was "inappropriate"" "and were angry at me" "Maybe they were right?" "Not at all" "Good" "In the same apartment block, all the homes are different homes with money, and homes without homes with a large family, and homes with none homes with babies, homes with old people" "It must be nice having your own home" "Saying "I'm home"" "taking off your shoes, cleaning your hands and face sitting down to rest" "I'd like that" "I would make a bookcase and when it's full of books, I'd make another" "I'd do what I want, it's my home after all" "What if I was there to say "welcome home"?" "Hana" "Yes?" "There's something I must tell you" "Anything" "It's that.." "I'll tell you tomorrow" "Okay" "Hana" "I'm sorry, Hana" "I'm sorry" "I've never told anyone this before" "I was scared because you will probably leave when I tell you" "But I should have told you sooner" "Or rather, should have shown you sooner" "Shown me?" "Close your eyes for a little while" "More than that" "Is that enough?" "Hana" "What do I look like?" "Mother learned the stories about people who turn into wolves under a full moon and attack people in the night were just legends" ""The world is full of the wonderful and the unknown"" "is what mother thought." "Did I shock you?" "Will you leave?" "But you're trembling." "Are you scared?" "Not one bit" "Because it's you" "Father was the descendant of wolves that had became extinct over 100 years ago" "He was the last of his kind with the blood of both a wolf and a man" "When my father was young, my father's father told him of their clan and its demise warning him the truth should not be spoken, just before he died" "After that, my father was taken in by unknowing relatives where he had a difficult childhood" "When he got his driving license he moved to the city for work" "No one knew him in the city, and his adoptive family never saw him again" "He lived on his own, hidden and in peace" "According to what he told mother" "Mother gave birth to me in that small apartment." "It was snowing on the day" "She did it without a hospital, and without the help of a midwife just her and father" "Mother was worried what a doctor would do if I was born a wolf so they did it alone" "I'm so happy she's a healthy baby" "Well, there's still so much to face" "I wonder if she'll be a kind girl?" "Maybe she'll be clever" "What kind of person will she be?" "A nurse, a teacher, a baker" "I want her to do whatever she wants to do" "I want her to grow up happy, without unhappy times" "We'll protect her until she can fend for herself" "My brother was born in the spring of the following year it was raining that day" "then one day, father didn't come home" "That day, I don't know why father did what he did it could have been instinct for him to hunt for his children to provide mother with nourishing food after giving birth" ""Take care of the children for me"" "Is how mother imagined his last words" "Leave it to me" "I'll raise them well" "For a while after he died, mother went through some tough times though I was too small to remember" "Mama" "I'm making it now." "Wait until I'm done, Yuki." "Mama!" "It'll nearly ready" "Mama!" "Yuki!" "When I became angry or annoyed my hair would bristle up... and I would turn into a wolf" "Oh, I give up go on and take a biscuit then" "I loved to eat" "I would scream and shout for food, morning noon and night my brother was different, more fragile" "Mother took a leave of absence from college to raise us and had to quit her part time jobs" "That was close and lived off the small amount of savings left by father" "That was close" "According to mother, my brother and I were unsure whether to live as a person or as a wolf" "They got me" "Mother had no one she could talk to and had to study by herself feeding us every two hours night and day and when we wouldn't take her breast soaking cotton in breast milk and letting us drink from that" "[Living With Wolves]" "Sometimes, when we wouldn't drink milk and cried through the night mother didn't know what to do and just had to comfort us until the morning" "She was easily tired" "I'm okay" "After a while, she was able to sleep at any time of the day just by closing her eyes" "Mommy" "Yes?" "When we became ill was a problem" "Yuki?" "Yuki?" "Yuki!" "She wasn't sure whether to take us to the doctor's or the veterinarian's" "My daughter ate a packet of desiccant" "Two years old." "Yes, she threw up." "No blood." "The packet says "Silica Gel"" "Is it something dangerous?" "Appetite?" "I'm hungry" "I see." "She's fine." "Mother regretted never asking father about how he was raised as a young wolf" "Walkies" "Yuki, you know.." "Walkies!" "You were only just ill you have to.." "Walkies!" "Okay, okay!" "You little.." "Put your ears away" "Right, let's go for a walk!" "Your ears!" "They're out again!" "Okay!" "Good day." "Cute, aren't they." "He said you're cute." "That's nice, isn't it." "Hey, stop." "Excuse me" "But.." "But she had another problem to deal with" "What time do you think it is?" "Keep it down!" "I'm very sorry." "Every night it's the same, you bloody idiot" "Really, I'm really very sorry" "Just get them to shut the hell up!" "There, there it's okay." "Your contract clearly states that.." "pets are prohibited" "I don't have any" "A barefaced lie" "I know what goes on here" "Look, if you're not going to follow the rules we have no choice but to ask you to find another place to stay." "Child Consultation Center?" "Yes, we have become concerned about your two children" "What do you mean?" "We found that neither of your children have been to either a routine medical check-up or vaccination" "It's okay." "They're fine." "In that case, would you be able to let us see them for a moment?" "No, it's not really.." "Just for a moment all we want to do is check if your children are fine like you say" "No, I can't" "Leave things like this, and we'll have no choice but to suspect you of abuse or neglect" "Please leave!" "(Yuki) Come on (Ame) Wait up" "Hup!" "Wait up" "Hurry up" "Hey.." "What, mommy?" "What do you want to be?" "Human, or wolf?" "Hmm?" "I think we should move somewhere where you can choose either way" "Quite a few people ask at the town hall for empty houses, wanting to live the country life but they never last very long" "As you can see, there's nothing round here the elementary school and hospital are both 30 minutes by car and the junior high school is two and a half hours by bus and train that's a round trip of five hours!" "You might be living in the most beautiful place in the world, and it might be amazing for children but the town is much more convenient" "It's big" "And the rent is almost nothing for what you get but the repair costs are something else it's not so much vacant you can leave your shoes on as a ruin but, it does have electricity and the water table is fine" "and the barn and outhouses come with it" "Are those fields?" "Yes, but this area isn't really good for crops the animals on the mountain dig them up you can try as hard as you like, but sure as not they'll be eaten that's why there are so many empty houses round here" "the animals ran everyone out of town!" "What about neighbors?" "Neighbors?" "You have to go all the way back down the road" "Shall we look somewhere else?" "There's sure to be something better in the village.." "I'm decided" "I'm decided, I want it" "Why?" "Where are we?" "Our new home" "Hup!" "Hup" "It's all wonky!" "Ah!" "Hello, ants" "What's this!" "Crash!" "Crash!" "Help me!" "Well?" "Do you like it?" "I like it!" "Let's go home" "Said wanted to live somewhere away from other people probably a bit strange" "Husband?" "Well.." "Income?" "Well.." "How is she supposed to support her children?" "Nirasaki-ojisan!" "Be nice this time, please!" "3, 2.." "Look look, mommy look!" "Ta-dah!" "Come here, come here" "Hey!" "Over here" "[7 years, 8 years]" "[Ame 4 years, Yuki 5 years]" "Thank you" "Come again" "Good evening" "Good evening" "Hey.." "is that the girl?" "Let's go" "We'll have to save where we can from now on" "Save?" "At the very least, we'll have to learn to grow vegetables" "I'll grow them too!" "Wait here, okay" "These ones, please" "Okay" "These as well, please" "Yuki!" "That Yuki and Ame are wolf children.." "is our special, special secret" "Yes" "If Yuki and Ame were to suddenly turn into wolves it would scare everyone out of their skins" "So, Yuki and Ame must never turn into a wolf in front of other people" "Okay?" "Never." "Got it" "And one more thing, if you meet an animal in the forest, you have to always be nice to them" "Why?" "Because that's what your father would have wanted." "Okay, understood?" "Okay!" "["You won't get away this time!" The villagers said, and ran after the wolf with their gun.]" "["I'm sorry, I won't do it again!" Said the wicked wolf, as he ran from the villagers.]" "Why?" "I don't know" "Hello!" "Excuse me.." "Can I take the fallen leaves in the forest?" "What did she say?" "The fallen leaves!" "Who asks permission to pick leaves up off the ground?" "Thank you" "I wonder how long it'll take" "She'll be complaining in no time "There's no shops, there's no karaoke"" "Too right" "This time.." "Mommy" "Hmm?" "Ame, what happened?" "The cat did it it's after him 'cos he's so weak" "They're just scratches, nothing serious" "You have to toughen up!" "Yuki" "Make it right" "There, there, it's okay" "I wouldn't lose to a wild boar" "You've seen a wild boar?" "Yes, antelopes and monkeys too but I wasn't scared at all" "I chased after them till they ran away, and.." "Yuki" "..and when I go pee" "Have you forgotten?" "It's wrong to go around scaring the animals" "But.." "Please" "Yes, mom" "Thank you" "Say it again" "There, there" "But now I think about it how should wolf children grow up?" "Yuki, wait" "Piggy back" "Already?" "You're slow, come on" "Wolves start to hunt four months from birth first, they learn to hunt small animals like mice and as they get bigger they form teams with other wolves" "Team!" "No!" "Suit yourself" "Don't go too far" "Okay!" "Let's go back" "Ame" "Do you think we can eat this one?" "Let's see.." "Got it!" "Got it!" "Ame, look" "There, there" "Mommy." "Look, look!" "It's a cormorant." "I saw a marsh over there, it's got.." "Mommy.." "Why is the wolf always the bad guy?" "The bad guy in the books?" "Everyone hates him and at the end he's killed" "I.." "I don't want to be a wolf" "I know, but.." "mommy likes wolves" "Even when no one else likes wolves mommy will never stop being their friend" "Mommy, mommy" "What is it?" "They died again" "What!" "Disease?" "All of them..?" "It can't be" "Mommy" "What do we do now?" "Mother's not doing well, is she?" "I guess she needs to study more will you join in again?" "Okay" "Thank you" "Inside" "Good evening" "I was meaning to introduce myself then I got so busy with things growing crops is an arduous pursuit, indeed" "I follow the books but nothing seems to grow but, this is a really beautiful place, isn't it?" "so full of nature" "What are you jabbering on about?" "plant as much as you like, it won't make a bit of difference do things your way you'll never grow anything" "Don't you realize that?" "I-I guess so" "Stop smiling" "Why are you smiling?" "Smiling won't put food on the table" "I don't like him" "It's mother's fault for being so hopeless" "Even though you're an adult?" "I wish I had learned more about all this from father" "This weather is terrible!" "Good afternoon" "Erm.." "Here, these are for you" "What are they?" "Seed potatoes" "The seed potatoes you plant in the ground?" "What else would you do with them?" "My old man probably said something but don't take any notice, that's just the way he is" "No, really it's all my fault" "Good afternoon!" "Sorry.." "It's okay" "Nirasaki-ojisan" "Thank you very much for the seed potatoes" "Oh, you want to waste them then" "Start over, from the soil" "you'll get nowhere digging like that" "Sorry" "What about fertilizer?" "You dug in those fallen leaves?" "Yes" "No need" "When you're finished down there, start over up here" "We don't need so much it's just the three of us after all" "Are you deaf?" "Yes" "Build up ridges" "Yes" "Widen the furrows" "Yes" "Too low, build up more" "Yes" "Wait a week, then bury them with the cut side facing down" "No water." "Leave them be." "Thank you for everything, I.." "Mom, you okay?" "Ouch" "Good afternoon" "Come with us" "Leave that and come with us" "Leave it, it's okay" "Over here!" "Yes" "Planting cabbage with chamomile keeps away bugs, and improves the flavor" "That's no good you have to plant celery with cabbage" "No, no, for a beginner this way is better" "No, no, no" "How many stomachs with chamomile fill?" "Plant shallow, about so deep" "No.." "Saturate with water first" "No, no, you water after just put it in the ground first" "No, no, no" "Sprinkle fertilizer on the surface lightly too much and it'll attract pests" "What are you talking about.. give it here be generous with it" "No, a little is enough" "Do what he says and you'll never grow anything" "You mean if she does what you say" "(Yamaoka) What!" "(Hosokawa) What!" "?" "Wood vinegar?" "Made from smoke from the charcoal kiln and chicken droppings." "There's a note in there on what to do" "Thank you so much" "No, no" "We should have said something, they seem to be scared of us" "No" "It's hard work preparing new land" "There's so much I don't know, I'm learning something new every day" "Most people who come from the city end up going back in no time flat" "Are they young people?" "No, no, old guys that have retired they're such delicate little flowers" "It's not my place to say, but the land round here isn't so easy to work off" "Drainage is poor" "There's so much snow" "The only way we can survive is by helping one another" "We didn't think you were interested in meeting with locals" "There are so few young mothers round here it's good to know another one of us if you need anything, just ask" "Well.." "What!" "You're living off savings?" "And I'll have to find a job soon" "Finding a job round here is nigh on impossible" "Most people leave their children in the nursery and commute to the city" "Don't they!" "What's a nursery?" "Why aren't we going to one?" "Well, the problem is.." "I want to go to the nursery!" "No" "I wanna!" "No!" "I wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna.." "I wanna!" "I want to go to the nursery wanna go, wanna go, wanna go, wanna go.." "Yuki, stop it and eat your breakfast" "I know to keep it a secret.." "but I promise it'll be okay" "But, Yuki.." "It'll be okay" "Y-Yuki" "Hana-chan, did you get yourself a dog?" "Y-yes, well" "That's a wolf, isn't it?" "Look, it's a wolf" "Don't be silly, there's no wolves in Japan that's a German Shepherd or a cross aren't I right, Hana-chan?" "Am I right?" "Wait, where's it gone?" "Nirasaki-obasan, good afternoon!" "There you are, Yuki-chan, you're in a good mood, aren't you" "Oh look, you've got matching clothes so cute" "Y-Yuki" "Something wrong, Hana-chan?" "Good afternoon" "Good afternoon" "Where has Nirasaki-ojisan got to?" "You've done marvelously" "With to everyone's help" "Ours were no good, this will come in really handy" "What happened to yours?" "A wild boar here, take these with you" "This many?" "Those wild boars.." "oh, thank you for this all our potatoes were all uprooted in the night, and we never heard a thing looks like they came down as far as Sakai-san's fields" "Something in return." "Careful, it's heavy." "Your fields were the only ones not damaged" "How peculiar being so high on the mountain" "You've got a secret method, haven't you?" "Not really a special system" "We all want to know" "What secret system?" "Toilet!" "Yuki-chan's so full of energy!" "Maybe..." "What?" "No, nothing" "Thank you very much" "You're welcome, it's in return for the potatoes" "We haven't had eggs in a while" "Well, that's just grand let us know when you run out" "Ah what a tiny fridge" "I couldn't possibly accept something this big" "Don't worry yourself it was just gathering dust in the barn" "I guess, but" "Please, take it" "Nirasaki-ojisan will be angry with us if we take it back" "Nirasaki-ojisan?" "Hana-chan this, Hana-chan that he's fallen for you" "Fine behavior for a 90-year-old" "And, he's been telling everyone to watch after her" "Fool!" "We were told to keep quiet about that" "I had no idea" "I finally understand why we need the extra fields" "I don't like it why are you always smiling like that" "Stop laughing!" "What's so funny?" "The main reason we moved here was to avoid the attention of others but somewhere along the way, the village has taken us under their wing" "things were difficult at first but I think we can get by" "Wow!" "Amazing!" "M.." "Mother!" "Ame!" "Mother, it's Ame!" "M.." "Mother" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Mo-ther" "Ame!" "Mother.." "Ame.." "Ame!" "Ame!" "Open your eyes, Ame!" "Open your eyes!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Open your eyes.." "Ame.." "Mother, you're hurting me" "Ame!" "I.." "..I found a kingfisher a really beautiful kingfisher" "I really thought I would catch it this time" "You know what, I felt totally different this time" "I wasn't scared at all" "I suddenly felt I could do anything and then," "Why are you crying?" "What are we doing here?" "Later, mother told me she has never been as scared as she was that day" "On that day" "Ame became someone totally different" "as the long winter ended and springtime approached" "I started looking forward to starting elementary school like all the other children" "To convince mother to let me go" "I did everything I was told and finally, as a reward, I was allowed to go" "However.." "Whatever happens.." "Don't become a wolf" "I know it, already" "You have to promise" "I said I'll be fine" "Remember this, Many a mickle makes a muckle" "What's that?" "It's a good luck charm to stop turning into a wolf" "Good luck charm?" "Many a mickle makes a muckle" "Try it" "Many a mickle.." "..makes a muckle" "Many a mickle makes a muckle" "Many a mickle makes a muckle" "Many a mickle makes a muckle" "Hurry up!" "many a mickle makes a muckle many a mickle.." "..makes a muckle many a mickle makes a muckle" "It was the first time I had been around so many people" "I had wanted to go to school so much and now I was there" "I was worried whether things would be alright" "As it turned out, I needn't have worried" "Father, I'm off now" "I'm going!" "See you later, take care" "Okay!" "Shino-chan, morning" "Morning, Yuki-chan" "I saved you a seat" "Thank you" "[Year 1]" "So who knows the answer to this one?" "Me, me, me, me!" "Hey, no running" "Yuki-chan" "How quick are you!" "Yuki-chan's amazing" "Yay for Yuki-chan!" "Thank you" "You're welcome" "I'm back" "Is that.." "Sorry to have kept you." "Shall we begin?" "My name is Tendo, a member of the Nature Observation Group" "Welcome to The Shinkawa Forest For Nature Observation" "Thank you" "The work of a member of the Nature Observation Group is not simply as a protector of nature but to encourage volunteers to help in implementing three important things environmental education, field surveys, and plant and animal conservation" "We work in a diverse range of fields so we have to be a specialist one moment, and a generalist the next." "We're looking for an assistant to work with a mostly extremely busy member of the group." "To be frank, the pay is very low we can only give just enough to cover what might be regarded as training costs for someone who wants to become a full member of the Nature Observation Group in terms of hourly wage, you'd be better off with a part-time job in a store" "Given that, will you do it?" "Erm.." "I heard there's a wolf here" "It's a timber wolf" "It's very calm" "He's quite old" "Director.." "Excuse me a moment" "Pleased to meet you" "I've come to ask you something this child is the son of a wolf his father, a wolf, is dead" "I am his mother, but" "I don't know how to raise the child of a wolf" "How did you grow up to become an adult wolf?" "Could you tell me about how you were raised in the forest when you were young?" "Excuse me" "His previous owner was rich and had special permission to keep him but after he died, there was no one to take over so here he is" "He was apparently born in Moscow Zoo" "He's not wild?" "You rarely find a wild wolf in a zoo when they're born, they're normally put with an adoptive family as well as this guy, we get injured birds, tanuki and other animals we look after them, heal them up, and.." "I'll be coming here to work will you come with me, Ame?" "I'll learn about the the mountains and nature and teach you about them while I work" "It's the first real one I've seen" "Wolf?" "Was father like that?" "No, not at all" "Good" "Why?" "He seemed lonely" "I wish I could have met father" "Your mother wants to meet him as well" "Around the time mother found work" "I was in for a rude awakening" "(Keno) Bunko-chan, yours is really good (Bunko) So's yours, Keno-chan" "I found a four-leaf clover" "Me too" "Yuki-chan have you got something?" "Yes" "Look!" "I was the only girl in the class who would play with a grass snake for fun" "Look, mother gave them to me" "So pretty" "Mother bought this for me last birthday" "So lucky" "Yuki-chan, what's in your treasure chest?" "Yes!" "What's inside?" "Look!" "I was the only girl in the class who would collect animal skeletons and dried beetles for fun" "When I realized no other girls liked to do the things I liked to do" "I was so embarrassed I wanted the world to swallow me up" "It was then that I decided" "I would act less wild, and more like the other girls" "Don't laugh!" "It's a really serious problem" "You should just do what you want to do" "But then everyone looks at me funny and I don't like it" "I guess there's nothing else for it" "What?" "Mother made me a new summer dress for school" "I remember being so happy" "Thanks to that dress I fit in at school and could play normally with my friends" "Morning" "Yuki-chan, I really like your dress" "Love it!" "That summer dress was a real lifesaver one year later, and it was Ame's turn to go to school" "Okay?" "Many a mickle makes a muckle, okay?" "School's this way!" "Good morning" "Ame-kun, on holiday today?" "Playing hooky?" "Come anytime" "Thank you" "The observation pond you can still see the immature frogs there" "Hana-chan, some help please!" "Coming!" "Everyone, listen up we have a new transfer student" "Sohei Fujii-kun" "Introduce yourself" "My name is Fujii." "Pleased to meet you." "Pleased to meet you!" "Hey, is there a dog at your place?" "What, why?" "You smell of dog hair" "No" "Really?" "That's weird" "I was sure you had a dog" "What is it?" "No, it's the smell" "The smell?" "What smell?" "Maybe I imagined it.." "Which one?" "Okay, this one!" "Ah!" "No way!" "Yuki-chan" "Come over Yuki-chan, Sohei-kun's really fun" "Oh, I have to take this back" "What's with her?" "She's not usually like that" "Hey Yuki, you know how.." "Yuki, you know how.." "Hey, Yuki!" "Yuki!" "Hey, Yuki!" "Just come out and say it!" "Say what?" "Have I done something?" "No" "So you don't like me because I'm a transfer student?" "Right?" "I said no" "Then why avoid me!" "I'm not" "Many a mickle makes a muckle.." "many a mickle makes a muckle.." "Hey!" "Wait up!" "Many a mickle makes a muckle many a mickle makes a muckle many a mickle makes a muckle many a mickle makes a muckle" "Stay away!" "I said stay away!" "What're you doing?" "Get off me!" "Yuki!" "Yuki!" "Hana-chan, outside line" "Okay!" "Hello?" "Sorry to drag you out of work" "Do you know how much blood he lost from his head?" "It was my ear" "Yuki" "We've tried asking her but she won't talk to us" "Did you really hurt him?" "Have you apologized?" "Apologize" "I said apologize" "Sorry" "My sincere apologies" "As you can see she's apologized and school insurance will cover the medical bill.." "Do you think an apology will make up for what happened?" "What if Sohei looses his hearing, then what will you do?" "A parent is responsible for the actions of their child, aren't they?" "You should be prepared to go into debt or even sell your house for this" "Well, in any case, this isn't the place" "You better be ready if it comes to the worst if he loses his hearing, you won't be.." "A wolf" "It was a wolf that did it" "A wolf did it" "Sohei, what are you saying?" "Sohei.." "Sohei?" "You don't know for sure she did it" "She's been acting weird lately" "Yuki would never do something like that" "No way it was her" "Thought so" "Where's Sohei-kun?" "He went home early" "Why?" "He got hurt" "How did he get hurt?" "Well, I can't.." "Who was it that hurt him?" "Well.." "Yuki-chan!" "There you go, it was her" "(Boys) We caught the criminal (Girls) Get over yourselves" "Quiet!" "Everyone, quiet!" "It didn't work the good luck charm didn't work at all" "Do you think I'll be thrown out of school?" "Will we have to leave our home?" "I'm so sorry" "Mother.." "I'm so sorry!" "There, there" "Sohei-kun?" "A printout, from Sohei-kun" "Sohei-kun" "Ouch" "Sohei-kun" "She's over at Shino-chan's place today" "I see" "Wait a second" "It's a long way to travel thank you for coming every day" "I don't like that Yuki is not at school" "You know, in the principal's office you said "a wolf did it"" "what did you mean?" "That was..well.." "you probably won't believe me but.." "When it happened, for a moment I saw a wolf just for a moment, and then my ear started hurting so, it was the wolf that did it.." "In other words, Yuki did nothing wrong everyone keeps telling me to stop talking rubbish.." "I see.." "Can I ask one more thing?" "Do you hate wolves?" "I don't" "Me too" "Do you.." "..want a look?" "Looks cool, right?" "Want a touch?" "Does it hurt?" "It's itchy" "Let's go!" "I'm off" "Where are you going?" "To Sensei" "Which Sensei?" "Sensei.." "Sensei" "Okay." "You'll be fine on your own?" "Yes" "Be careful" "Yes" "Don't be late" "Where's Yuki-chan?" "Back to school this morning" "That's wonderful, and Ame-chan?" "Sometimes he goes, sometimes he doesn't.." "There's nothing wrong with that" "Boys who skip elementary school have character" "Look at Edison, and look at me" "There he goes saying silly things" "That reminds me, is there someone living on the mountains?" "The mountains?" "Ame said he was going to see Sensei and I thought for sure he meant Nirasaki-ojisan" "Who knows" "Who would be on the mountains at this time of year?" "When it comes to the mountains" "Sensei knows everything there is to know" "It's good to hear you've made a friend invite him to the house next time" "I want to thank him, and in any case.." "Sensei doesn't meet with people he's like a wild boar or a bear, he doesn't leave the mountains" "but, maybe for you" "Sensei" "He looks after the mountains in the area" "Thank you for looking after Ame" "The water's ready" "I'll get Sensei to teach you as well your hunting will improve no end there's a special technique for running quickly through the forest like how to read the lay of the land you'll learn a lot like how to find swamps, how the weather changes" "land territories, and sharing land with others.." "As if I'd go" "Why?" "What about you, why don't you go to school?" "I like them, the mountains there's so much to learn" "I'd rather not" "Why?" "Stop it, just go to school!" "No" "Why not?" "Because I'm a wolf" "You mean a boy" "I mean wolf" "I decided never to be a wolf again" "Why?" "Tell me, why?" "Because I am not a wolf!" "Do you see?" "I am not a wolf!" "And why not?" "Stop asking why" "You're a wolf." "What else can you be?" "Shut it!" "You think you know it all, but you don't" "Try me" "Go to school tomorrow or you'll be sorry" "No" "I said you'll be sorry" "No!" "Let's go" "What is it?" "What's that noise?" "Yuki!" "Ame!" "Stop it right now, the both of you!" "Stop it, Yuki!" "Ame!" "Yuki!" "Ame!" "Ame?" "Yuki and Ame have both started down their own path it's what I always wanted so why am I so worried?" "Why?" "My final summer of elementary school saw record-breaking rains and Ame spending more and more time in the forest" "Ame was worried by the effect the torrential rains were having on Sensei and the other plants and animals in the forest" "Ame!" "Where have you been all this time!" "You're so cold.." "Wait there, I'll heat the water" "Sensei has hurt his feet he'll probably die soon" "Someone has to take Sensei's place and look after everything like he did" "Ame!" "you have to stop going to the mountains listen, you're just 10 years old you're still a child!" "That may be an adult in wolf years but you're.." "Please.." "don't go into the mountains please, I'm begging you" "He's gonna pass, he's gonna pass" "Go on, try a shot" "Nobumichi, get in there" "Pass" "That reminds me What?" "I heard my parents taking about it.." "Mmm?" "Sohei-kun's mother is getting married" "No way!" "How come?" "Because she's beautiful, I bet" "Then Sohei-kun will get a new father" "Good for him" "But guess what, Sohei-kun doesn't know yet" "Why not?" "Really?" "You can't tell a soul, no matter what" "Yes, we did it" "How many's that?" "Okay, let's go.." "Good morning" "Today will be fine during the day with heavy rainfall in the evening and throughout the night" "It's so hot!" "Yuki" "Stay home today" "Stay at home with mother" "Why?" "You'll miss the bus" "Okay" "You stay with her" "I'm off" "Take care" "(Radio) ..clear skies followed by rain.." "with lightning in some areas in the southwest, clear skies followed by rain.." "Ame" "Come inside" "For this one you need to work out how far a swallow travels in three hours first, do you all know what a speed of 70 km per hour means?" "that's 70 km per hour speed is the distance traveled per unit time so in one hour at 70 km per hour, the swallow flies a distance of 70 km" "..the weather front that was holding over the Sea of Japan has moved south causing sudden instability in atmospheric conditions" "In some areas of the prefecture will fall torrential rains, accompanied by lightning and strong winds more than 70 millimeters of rain will fall in some areas on the plains and at its heaviest, in some areas of the mountains" "100 millimeters of rainfall is anticipated the Meteorological Observatory warns.." "Okay, sit down" "It looks like there'll be torrential rains this afternoon so afternoon classes have been canceled" "We are contacting your mothers and fathers to tell them to collect you form school until then, wait in the gymnasium in groups according to district" "A blackout?" "I must go" "Understood, I'll be on my way" "Ame!" "Let's go pick up Yuki from school" "Ame?" "Ame?" "Where are you?" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Where are you, Ame?" "Ame!" "Takahiro" "Mother!" "Keiko" "Papa" "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake.." "My parents are late" "Don't worry" "But.." "If we have to stay at school let's play cards all night" "Cards?" "Let's do it!" "That sounds like fun!" "Like at camp" "I'll go get the cards" "Okay" "Do you know any card games?" "Old maid but that's it" "Useless" "Hey, no fighting" "Shino!" "Father" "You're late" "Sorry, the storm is terrible" "Yuki-chan, shall we take you back?" "Yes, come with us" "But.." "Quick, let's go" "Thank you, but my mother should be getting here soon as well" "No need to be shy" "Come with us" "I don't want to miss mother coming the other way" "I guess so" "Well, take care" "Bye-bye" "Bye-bye" "Ame!" "Where are you?" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame.." "Where are you?" "Sohei-chan's late back" "Yuki-chan" "Yuki-chan's gone home?" "Everyone, listen up!" "Whoever's left will be taken in the school bus" "Get your shoes and line up here!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Wait..wait" "Ame!" "Ame" "Where.." "What are you doing there!" "Because.." "you didn't come back" "No one's here" "Have they all gone home?" "I guess we're the only ones left" "I wonder if something happened to mother" "It's cold" "Let's walk" "Yuki!" "Wait!" "What'll we do if no one comes?" "We stay in the school" "No we can't" "We sleep in the nurse's office" "And food?" "We eat leftover lunches" "And if our parents never come?" "Do we stay here forever?" "We can work, deliver papers or something" "We're just kids, they won't employ us" "We hide our age, let them think we're in junior high" "Do you think we look old enough?" "No" "Really?" "I wish I was older" "Me too" "Ame" "Aren't you afraid out here all alone?" "Don't you want to come home?" "I.." "have to..protect you.." "I.." "have to.." "Is anyone there?" "He's gone" "My heart's pounding" "Why are we hiding?" "Hey" "It's like an ocean" "Maybe we'll be sucked in" "Are we really going to live here for ever, in secret.." "If our parents don't turn up, we'll have no other choice" "Why?" "Your mother's going to come" "She won't" "Why not?" "Now she's.." "My mother got married pregnant with his child" "When the baby's born they'll want rid of me" "After she was so worried about you" "I'm fine with it, to be honest" "I can leave home become a boxer or a wrestler or something and live the life of a loner" "Do you think I can do it?" "You'll be beaten easily you're so thin" "I'll train" "I'll train and make it alone" "So-chan.." "I want to be able to say what I really feel and laugh about it like you" "So-chan" "In the school yard the wolf that hurt you" "was me" "I've wanted tell you from the very beginning" "I didn't know how.." "I knew, always" "I didn't tell anyone your secret" "I won't tell anyone your secret, so please don't cry" "I'm not crying, the rain.." "Thank you" "Ame, where are you?" "Ame!" "Ame" "I was looking for you" "Let's go back to pick up Yuki.." "Hana" "It's been so long.." "It's not been easy since I left." "I'm sorry" "I've been watching over you the whole time" "I knew" "You did a fine job bringing up the children" "Not at all" "Nothing went right" "Silly" "Yuki and Ame are beautiful children" "Ame.." "Wait, where's Ame" "Ame!" "Ame will be fine" "But.." "It's alright, he's an adult now" "An adult?" "He's found a world to live in" "Ame.." "Ame!" "Will you go for good?" "But.." "you haven't given me a chance to be a mother to you" "There's so much I.." "But you're.." "Wait!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame!" "Ame" "Take care" "Do your best!" "Take care out there" "Mother said to me she'll never forget that morning" "The shining beech leaves, the glistening spiders' webs, the sparkling sky," "a whole world shimmering in the morning sun" "It was like the world had been reborn" "is the story mother told me" "The year after to stay in dorms near junior high school" "I left home" "When mother told me the twelve years she spent raising us felt like they had passed in but a moment she laughed" "happily" "Her smile lookeed like the crest of a distant hill and it made me happy" "Even now, mother still lives in that house on the mountain" "I make a wish to myself as I rub my belly" "That one day I will meet my child I have yet to see" "Will your face be a kind face I wonder" "Will your voice be a loving voice" "I see myself reflected in your innocent and unclouded eyes" "Tear drops fall and scatter on your soft apple cheeks" "Porridge rice, porridge rice" "Come my child dinner is ready" "Come my child let's go out and see the world" "With eyes red from crying you hold my knees in your arms" "I ask you what the matter is you tell me everything" "There's no need to worry I will always be here for you" "Whatever happens we will face it together" "Your smiling face makes me the happiest I'll ever be" "When I am let down your smile lifts me up" "Come my child let us sing together" "Come my child let me hear your voice" "I will raise you with a ready smile and loving heart" "Running through the snow Counting the clouds" "Playing in the rain Laughing in the breeze" "Covered in flowers Playing on a grass flute" "One moment on four legs Next moment on two legs" "Another new morning Another gust of wind" "Everything was made this way especially for you" "Another new morning Another ray of light" "The world was made this way especially for you" "Another new morning Another crescent rainbow" "This world is bursting full of incredible and wonderful" "A fork in the road Which path do you take?" "I watch on from afar with love and hope in my eyes" "What I am able to give you" "Is this all there is?" "Can I do no more for my child?" "You leave and begin your journey through this life" "I know I will see you off with a smile" "Happy of course Sad of course" "Go my child live life to the fullest" "Subtitles" " Hakuin"