"Groove Corporation Production" "Gendai Eiga-Sha" "Root Pictures" "Groove Kinema Tokyo" "In collaboration with the Centre National de la Cinématographie" "A film by YOSHIDA Kiju" "WOMEN IN THE MIRROR" "Executive producers NARISAWA Akira" "AYABE Masanori TAKAHASHI Matsuo" "A project by YOSHIDA Kiju and TAKAHASHI Matsuo" "Produced by TAKATA Shinichi" " OGAWA Takumi" "Philippe JACQUIER SHIMOMURA Yutaka" "Administration TAKAHASHI Masahiro" "Advertising NOBE Tadahiko" "Script by YOSHIOA Kiju" "Music by HARADA Keiko" " MIYATA Mayumi" "Cinematography by NAKABORI Masao" "Lighting by SANO Takeji" "Production Design by Kyôko Heya" "Editing by YOSHIDA Kiju" " MORISHITA Hiroaki" "Sound by YOKOMIZO Masatoshi" "Staring OKADA Mariko" "TANAKA Yoshiko" "ISSIKI Sae" "MUROTA Hideo NISHIOKA Tokuma" "YAMAMOTO Mirai KITAMURA Yukiya" "SANJO Miki" " INUZUKA Hiroshi ISHIMARU Kenjiro" "A film by YOSHIDA Kiju" "I'm Mrs Kawase." "You just called me on the phone." "Miss Kawase Ai?" "Yes." "We've found Kawase Miwa, who had disappeared." "My daughter Miwa..." " Are you sure?" " Yes." "Where was she?" "Right here in Fujimigaoka." "So close?" "How come we haven't found her sooner?" "She had changed name." "On her residency card she's registered under the name Onoue Masako." "How do you know it's my daughter Miwa?" "Because of her health book." "She had an old health book issued by our civil status office." "She's my daughter, it's Miwa." "Thank you so much." "Madame!" "Mr Goda!" "We found her." "My daughter Miwa!" "I heard the news." "What a surprise." "Are we sure it's really Miwa." "She had the book." "What book?" "The health book you did when she had her baby." "Is that true?" "It's thanks to you Mr Goda, that we found Miwa!" "No," "It's thanks to you." "You made the effort to check each month if your missing daughter hadn't come to change her address." "And now, where is my daughter?" " At the police station." " The police station?" "What happened?" "I don't know." "She's at the Fujimigaoka police station, who warned us." "Thanks." "Wait for me." "So Onoue Masako's health book would be your daughter's." "Yes." "My daughter's name is Kawase Miwa." "It's the name mentioned on it." "Her daughter is called Natsuki." "It means early summer." "That's right." "Could you show it to me?" "No, it belongs to the suspect." "The suspect?" "Something happened?" "She's being questioned about a kidnapping." "A kidnapping?" "She took away a girl playing in a park." "It's her third time offence." "She plays with her an hour or two and walks her back." "She doesn't harm them." "The parents don't press charges." "For us it's embarrassing to handle." "It's a kind of weird abduction." "Until now, the offence took place the 11th of each month." "The suspect may have a memory on that day." "A memory?" "The suspect is amnesiac." "It's Miwa." "I'm sure It's my daughter." "She disappeared from hospital on the 11th." "Just after childbirth." "The 11th of July." "Let's go and see her, my Miwa!" " It's impossible." " Why?" "It's forbidden during the investigation." "Your sunshade!" "Thank you." "Natsuki?" "It's mummy." "Did I wake you up?" "I have good news." "We found Miwa." "Yes, your mother!" "Can you imagine, she was living just around, in Fujimigaoka." "Yes, your mother!" "She had the health book." "Come back quickly, will you?" "Goodbye." "Goodnight." "Who's there?" "Is this home of Miss Kawase Ai?" "Yes." "I work for Television." "What is it about?" "I came to see you about your husband." "Just a second, I'll open." "I'm a TV producer for JMC." "My name is Hayashida Naoko." "I came about Mr Kawase Shinji." "Mr Kawase, my husband, is dead." "I know." "Actually I learned that just before the end of the war, on august 6, the day of the Hiroshima bombing, an American soldier had been irradiated." "What's it got to do with my husband?" "I learned about that at The Hiroshima Memorial while reading your husband's notes." "Dr Kawase was in charge of A- bomb victims at the time and in his notes, he states that day an American soldier was irradiated." "I came to see you, because I'd like to make a documentary about this issue." "I don't know anything about all this." "Pardon me." "Mr Goda!" "So?" "Police warned me that my daughter Miwa is released." "What good news!" "Do you want to come with me?" "I though about going to see her." "Were is she?" "The policemen gave me her address." "Let's go." "The more you work for Civil Status, the more you think people are just names, just characters written on paper." "Actually," "It's thanks to you, to this quest for your missing daughter, that I understood that behind names, there are human beings." "Although at times my late wife, had ideas about you." "It's her name indeed." "Apartment 401" "Are you coming?" "Nobody's here." "Let's come back another day." "I'll walk you back." "Look at this woman!" "She looks alike." "She looks like Miwa." "Are you Miss Onoue Masako?" "Someone would like to meet you." "Who is it?" "But, who is it?" "Someone who thinks she's your mother." "Really?" "Would you like to meet her?" "Yes." "Come upstairs to my place, please." "I'm at 401." "I beg you pardon for coming unannounced." "It's nothing" "I'm used to it." "So, do I look like her?" "Yes..." "In what?" "The eyes maybe." "Everybody tells me the same thing." "It's been 24 years since she disappeared." "In that case, she must've changed." "Please help yourself." "Look at me closely." "This woman's daughter's name was Kawase Miwa." "Miwa is written with characters of "beauty" and "peace"" "Miwa..." "It's a beautiful name." "And this woman, her mother is Kawase Ai." "The father was Kawase Shinji." "But he passed away." "These names don't remind you of anything?" "I don't recall anything." "Without mentioning other people's names, even my own name I don't recall." "Who is Onoue Masako?" "Who am I?" "Miwa, it was 24 years ago, the 11th of July, disappeared from the hospital just after giving birth to her daughter." "As it was close to summer, we named the baby" "Natsuki - "early summer"." "Then, she vanished." "It's her health book that" "I carry here with me." "In that case, my name would be Kawase Miwa, and I would have a daughter, Natsuki." "If that's me, I'm dreadful." "Disappearing while abandoning your child!" "And now, her daughter where is she?" "She's in the States." "Really?" "Please, could I ask you to show me the health book?" "Yes." "That's it." "How did you get it?" "I don't know." "I found it in my purse" "It made me unsettled." "Why?" "I though it might've been somebody else's." "Then, I felt embarrassed, and I kept this book hidden." "It's the police who found it while searching during their investigation on the kidnapping of the little girl." "I beg you, take it." "I give it to you." "No." "Keep it." "You kept it preciously for so long." "Really?" "If you think I look like your daughter we should check it with DNA testing." "If you want to know more about me, you can go and Dr Kondo, the hospital's psychiatrist." "Very well." "We'II go and see him." "Yes." "If that doesn't bother you," "I'd like to continue seeing you." "Like as a family." "As a family?" "This mirror, it's broken." "Did you break it?" "Yes, during a hysteria fit." "Miwa was also like that." "Mother." "Natsuki," "Are you back?" "Come in." "I just met someone who might be your mother." "Someone who might be my mother?" "What do you mean?" "I don't know." "It's been 24 years." "Although it's my daughter, my memories are vague." "By certain aspects she reminds me of Miwa, and by others not." "But she has those eyes, she reminds me of her." "Mother, although your my grandmother," "I always called you mother." "My grandfather too," "I took for my daddy." "So, I don't want a real mother." "If it's really your mother, what do you intend to do?" "This woman had a health book, with your name on it." "She doesn't remember why she's had it." "She doesn't remember?" "She's amnesiac." "She doesn't remember anything from the past." "Look at this broken mirror." "Miwa, when she left the house broke it in a hysteria fit." "At her home too, there's a broken mirror." "She said she broke it during a hysteria fit." "Maybe she's your mother!" "Don't you want to meet her?" "No!" "Why?" "She abandoned me at birth." "Even if DNA testing confirms she's my mother," "I don't want to." "For me, she's not my mother." "Time is unforgiving." "Despite she's my own daughter" "I don't recognize her anymore." "Dear Fujimura Jun," "I'm back in Japan, and would like to see you." "What is it?" "Mother." "I already have a mother." "Be careful!" "She's here, my real mother." "Plain water, as usual." "So you're leaving the lab in Santa Monica, and coming back to Japan." "This whim doesn't surprise me from you." "In high school, you were doing stage play to become an actress." "It bored you to play a character, so you started medical practice." "You though about saving lives, but you gave up, repulsed by dissecting." "Now, your decoding the human genome." "Actually Natsuki, you don't like people." "People of flesh and bones frighten you, you only believe in genome, seen through an electronic microscope." "I came back for my mother, she just went through a shock." "A shock?" "They found someone who might be my mother." "This woman is amnesiac." "She doesn't remember anything." "But mother wants to believe it's her daughter." "Well, all you have to do is a DNA test." "It's your speciality isn't it?" "But even if the test confirms she's my mother," "it makes me sick." "I don't want her." "Are you leaving?" "I'm meeting a friend who works in a lab, to see if he can hire me." "Do we see each other tonight?" "It's you Natsuki, who wanted to see me." "Don't get any ideas." "Think about it." "About what?" "About us." "But its' over, isn't it?" "My mother abandoned me." "I don't know my father." "How could I trust people?" "Maybe we shouldn't have met here." "Don't worry." "It's in this park that I ended up with a small girl in my arms." "She must've been cute." "Oh yes." "Me too, I often came to play here with Natsuki." "Do you recall having had a child?" "I've the impression of having had one, but maybe I just wished to have one." "When you took a girl away in this garden," "It was always on the 11th." "AS its' stated in the book," "Natsuki was born on July 11th." "Actually, I stole it from someone at the hospital." "Stole it?" "Yes, I had a miscarriage." "As I was jealous of others," "I wanted to steal a baby, but it was imposible." "I took the book away." "Why do you say such things?" "You don't even remember what you did." "As I don't remember anything," "I always imagine doing evil things." "I'm an evildoer." "And to punish me," "God deprived me of memory." "If I didn't think that way, I'd become crazy." "How was Miwa?" "I'd like to know, If it was me." "She didn't get along with her father, who passed away." "Nervous, ill-tempered, she left home at 20." "4 years later, she called us from a hospital in Yokohama." "I ran, she was about to give birth." "And then Miwa gave birth to Natsuki, before disappearing again." "Excuse me," "I'm bringing back painful memories." "Oh no," "It's hard, but at least I have memories." "Whereas you, don't have any memories at all." "But," "Miwa was so nice when she was a young." "She laughed innocently..." "She looked like an angel!" "My mother too wiped her lipstick with her finger." "She said she was embarrassed that we could see the traces." "Your mother too?" "Your Miwa!" "She imitated me since childhood." "Although she didn't have any lipstick, she pretended to wipe it off." "And she use to say she wanted to grow up quickly so she could put lipstick like mom." "I come on the part of Dr Kondo, from the university hospital." "About Onoue Masako?" "Masako would be the missing women you are looking for?" "I think she's the daughter of a close friend." "Do you have any proof?" "A health book." "The one Onoue Masako owned." "Masako had such a book?" "Yes, and it carries the name Kawase Miwa." "Pardon my indiscretion," "How are you related to Onoue Masako?" "She worked here 5 or 6 years ago." "When I discovered her amnesia," "I became her good angel." "And now, as we say, we're lovers." "It's strange." "Father used to sit on this side, and us two on that side." "It's been 5 years since he died, and we haven't changed." "And what if tomorrow we sit facing each other?" "Today," "I met her." "It must be hard not remembering anything." "Even sad memories, make up for emotional relief." "A little while ago mother, I saw you with her." "Why didn't you make a sign?" "Go and say hello just like that?" "Hello!" "She who bolted off after my birth." "Someone rang." "Sorry to disturb you so late, but something bothers me." "What's bothering you?" "Today I went to see someone who pretends to be her good angel." "He's a car seller called Mitsuoka Goro" "Besides," "It's a little embarrassing to say... in front of you two." "Please go ahead, tell us." "He told me he was her lover." "For a single woman, life isn't easy." "She has no memories, and doesn't recall anyone from her family." "Without any help, life would be unbearable for her." "But..." "You can't trust a man that speaks in such a way of his affair." "Besides, even her..." "Even her, she can't be trusted?" "You have to see things straight." "In the meantime, did you do the DNA test?" "It's Miwa, it's my daughter." "How do you know?" "I saw her today." "We had tea together, and I left lipstick marks on the side of the cup." "When she saw me wipe it with my finger, she said her mother used to do the same thing." "She remembered my habit!" "Mother, let's invite her home." "Are you ok to meet her?" "I also well know your special way of wiping lipstick marks." "Thanks!" "Come with her tomorrow." "You're welcome." "You met Mitsuoka." "Yes." "He got angry because I'd hidden the book." "Did I trouble you?" "It shows he cares for me." "Dear Fujimura Jun, I'm expecting my presumed mother." "I hope it's not her." "It's... this mirror?" "Yes." "Miwa, the day she left, broke it while arguing with my husband." "But he wanted it kept that way until he returned." "He wanted to see our intimate wound in it." "It's Natsuki." "Forgive me." "If I'm our mother," "It's all I can say." "Forgive me." "We didn't invite you to receive your forgiveness." "By the way Natsuki, show her your room, will you?" "It was Miwa's bedroom." "Maybe be it will remind you something." "This room" "Hasn't changed since my mother lived in it." "Do you have pictures of Miwa?" "I should see if it's me." "We haven't any left." "From fear that I'd get attached, mother got rid of them." "You must blame your mother." "No." "Even if you were my mother, you'd be a stranger." "Yes, a stranger." "Of course." "I gave birth to you, and disappeared." "I wanted to meet you because you interested me." "As a woman." "As a woman?" "How can a woman like me interest you?" "Because you've lived alone, without any memory from the past." "I could only rely on men." "I'm not worth much." "I envy you for having been able" "to live without memory." "Actually," "I still have a vague memory." "Yes, a hospital." "It looks like a hospital on the seaside." "It's probably a memory I don't want to recall." "Don't you remember where it was?" "In Hiroshima." "Hiroshima." "It was a hospital in Hiroshima?" "Yes, it faces the sea..." "From the bedroom you can see the sea, with several small scattered islands." "She has a memory, that comes from far back." "A hospital in Hiroshima." "From the bedroom you can see the sea, with several small scattered islands." "A hospital in Hiroshima." "From the window you can see the sea with small islands..." "Masako, is it true?" "It's only a vague memory..." "So you have been to Hiroshima." "Yes... maybe." "Mother, let's go to Hiroshima." "Maybe she'll remember something." "My daughter Miwa was born in Hiroshima." "Let's go to Hiroshima." "This hospital Miwa knows, no!" "This hospital which you recall, we could..." "Dear Fujimura Jun," "I'm heading for Hiroshima!" "In a quest for myself." "Who am I really?" " My name is Kawase." " We were expecting you Mrs Kawase." "You're welcome to register, please." "KAWASE MIWA" "My writing looks like hers?" "Like Miwa's?" "Thanks, for having signed Miwa." "Mrs Kawase." "So you're here?" "I'm also staying in this hotel." "We had talked about it." "I came to get information on that irradiated soldier." "Is it a family outing?" "Yes," "It's my daughter and my granddaughter." "Can I sit next to you?" "You're welcome." "I'II have the same." "But with a coffee." "Do you often come to Hiroshima?" "No, it's the first time." "First time?" "How did you knew my grandmother?" "I wanted to ask for her help." "How's that?" "I'm preparing a documentary about the A-bomb" "When the bomb was dropped over Hiroshima an American soldier was irradiated." "In his notes, your grandfather, Dr Kawase, says a sick person told him this story." "The A-bomb knows no friends nor enemies:" "She kills everybody." "Me," "I came to Hiroshima to learn more about myself." "About my grand-father, about my grandmother," "about my mother..." "About your mother?" "I don't know my mother." "She disappeared just after my birth." "The person I saw yesterday, wouldn't be..." "Please," "I would like to see my grandfather's notes" "Of course." "Please come to the Peace Memorial." "I'II come and see you tomorrow." "It's in this hospital, that I met my husband." "He had been sent out by Tokyo's university hospital, to heal patients irradiated by the A-bomb." "Nothing is like before anymore..." "At that time, the Hospital was full of irradiated patients." "You too, were irradiated, weren't you?" "And your family?" "Your parents?" "I don't know." "Of course, it was before you're birth..." "Mother!" "Look!" "I came with Miwa!" "And our granddaughter, Natsuki." "Look carefully, it's Miwa and Natsuki." "I was so eager to tell you about this once." "Miwa and Natsuki," "I so much hoped you could see them." "Mother..." "Kawase wasn't your father." "He was my second husband." "Yes, your grandfather, Natsuki, wasn't your real grandfather." "Is that true mother?" "Your real father died here." "At the time, you were 4 years old." "Don't you remember?" "At the time of his death, you came to look after him with me." "I beg you, please remember!" "It would become a memory shared between us, here..." "You very well said it!" "From the bedroom you could see the sea, with small scattered islands." "Sorry." "I don't remember anything..." "Yes." "Ok." "Where are you?" "Fine." "Dear Ned," "I'm in Hiroshima." "I found my identity here!" "So I won't be coming back to the United-States!" "Our love was" "Sorry for having troubled you." "Me too," "I wanted to speak to you." "A tonic, please." "Let's stop playing family." "I'm fed up playing the part of the daughter." "Can you speak to her?" "Let's do a DNA test, and see if I'm her daughter." "Wouldn't you like to wait a little more?" "I can't stand this situation anymore." "Mother wishes to see her daughter in you." "While doing this, she seeks for her past." "You say you're interested in me, in me as a woman." "So, let's speak about the woman I am." "Today," "I had a memory, while staring at the sea from the hospital." "A small girl walking next to a bustling sea, with big waves." "This little girl is desperately seeking for someone, screaming." "No matter how she screams, nobody comes." "This little girl," "It's me." "This child screaming on the seashore," "It's me." "Now that I'm here," "I realize that someone's watching this child in tears abandoned on the seashore." "A woman is watching her." "Yes, this woman," "It's me." "This little girl isn't me." "It's my child." "This child," "I would've wanted her to drown." "I'm a woman who wanted kill her child." "Despite that," "Do you still want to see your mother in me?" "I discovered something." "I found documents about the American prisoner's camp." "According to them, a Japanese translator accompanying a prisoner was irradiated." "The American soldier was also most probably irradiated." "I haven't got the name of the soldier, but the translator's name was mentioned." "What was his name?" "Izawa Takashi." "Do you know him?" "It's probably him who told this story to Dr Kawase." "His medical files mention a translator from the camp, by the name of lzawa Takashi." "Izawa Takashi." "This man told Dr Kawase that the day of the bombing," "He had been irradiated along with this American soldier." "Dr Kawase had written that in his notes." "The atomic bomb knows no friends, nor enemies:" "She kills everybody." "What happened to that translator?" "He passed away." "And I doubt this" "American soldier is still alive." "Well... what if we went back to Tokyo?" "Yes." "Remaining here can only make you suffer." "I'm so sorry that I don't remember anything." "Mother!" "Tell me..." "What is it?" "Sit down." "Izawa Takashi," "who is he?" "You know him, don't you?" "It's Hayashida the producer, who talked to me about him." "In his files, my grandfather speaks about the translator of an American soldier," "from the name of Izawa Takashi." "He most probably holds the story of this irradiated Mercian soldier from him." "Mother, you must know him!" "It's in the hospital on the seaside that Izawa Takashi also died." "Hiroshima and I..." "Who am I really?" "Miwa also, said the same thing as you." "Hiroshima and I..." "And then... she left home." "That day," "It was a cloudless summer morning." "At the time I was a 17 year old student." "I was heading to the ammunition factory." "The siren echoed." "At that moment, I heard somebody call me." "A man was calling me from an air-raid shelter behind a wasteland." "I ran to the air-raid shelter." "There I saw an" "American soldier, arms bound." "He was a B29 pilot, captain George Peterson." "He had just been made prisoner, and was being transferred." "As for the man who shouted so that I could flee to the shelter," "It was Izawa Takashi." "Your father." "Natsuki's grandfather." "How much time passed?" "I looked at my watch." "8 hours and a quarter..." "There was a burst of light." "The earth shook." "A burning wind whirled." "Then I noticed we were immersed in a strange calmness." "Finally, Izawa came out of the shelter." "Then he came back and said the city had disappeared." "Then Peterson shouted:" "The atomic bomb!" "It's dangerous to go out." "We risk being irradiated." "Izawa had understood what he'd said and he prevented me from going out." "Yes, that's what saved me!" "A long time passed." "Izawa came out of the shelter." "Then, he came back soaking wet, and told us..." "A black rain had dropped!" "It was radioactive rain." "Us others only got out of the shelter the next morning." "On this river, were floating countless bodies." "My father and mother died." "So, I settled with Izawa." "Yes, at the time," "It was impossible to live alone." "Without anybody to take your hand, cuddle you," "Life was too harsh to be bared." "He loved me..." "He was my only emotional comfort." "At the end of the war, he was detained by the occupation forces as a war criminal." "Izawa, who had saved Peterson from the bomb, was accused of prisoner mistreatments." "But one year later, they freed him, when they saw he was suffering from after-effects of the bomb." "Then you were born..." "He didn't want to have kids." "We were afraid that radiations would transmit and that the child would be rejected." ""Don't ever say who's your father, don't talk about it"" "Such were his last words." "I always asked myself when I would be able to say all this." "I wanted to redeem myself by telling you everything." "That mother, forgive her." "That's her." "Now, her name is Onoue Masako." "They're coming on behalf of Dr Kondo, from the hospital." "I'm Matsuki Ryozo." "And here is my wife Hanae." "They would like to make a DNA test." "My DNA test is at the hospital." "You may dispose of it." "Thank you." "But before," "I'd like you to tell me how your daughter disappeared." "Actually, our daughter, disappeared after her childbirth... and in addition," "she killed her baby." "She killed him?" "It was 28 years ago." "It's statute of limitations." "I don't have much time to live." "I'd like to see my daughter once again before I die." "That's why we came to speak to you." "Please make a DNA test." "If it should match mine..." "Are you really sure?" "Even if you killed your child?" "If you're cold, I can close the shoji." "It's the 11th today, is that right?" "Why?" "Go to Fujimigaoka park quickly." "She might commit a new kidnapping." "Natsuki," "I'm also calling for Mr Goda to go to the park." "Mother, I'm going." "You must rest, mother." "Mr Goda?" "Go to the park quickly!" "I also sent Natsuki." "We're on the day of her kidnappings." "I beg you, go quickly." "You haven't seen her yet?" "No." "Who's this child?" "It's my little girl, Nana." "Come on, say hello!" "Hello." "Come along, Nana!" "Come on, Nana!" "My son and her wife, have gone to a marriage." "And the child..." "You came, from fear I kidnapped a child." "How cute!" "Is it your granddaughter?" "What's your name?" "Nana-chan." "Nana-chan." "Yes, it's Nana-chan!" "I met the people who claim to be my parents." "If they are really my parents, then I'm a murderer." "A murderer?" "I would have killed my newborn baby, before disappearing." "What a dreadful mother!" "How is your mother?" "She's resting." "This trip seems to have tired her." "If I went to see her?" "Please do." "It would please her." "About these people who think they're your parents... don't tell Mrs Kawase about it." "Of course." "I couldn't tell her that I killed my baby." "Let's hit our hands!" "Would you close the shoji." "Are you dazzled?" "I would like to see the shadows?" "The shadows?" "Yes," "Your shadows on the shoji." "Look!" "This small shadow, that's Miwa as a child." "That's you." "You too, were often playing like that." "The small shadow," "It's me." "The big shadow, It's you..." "Mother!" "Yes, just before his death, your father was looking at" "our shadows on the shoji, while we were playing." "He was afraid to contaminate you and didn't dare take you in his arms while you were small." "He'd talk to you while watching your shadow on the shoji." "Upon leaving home, you told me" "you wished you hadn't been born." "Only the love of someone could've enabled me to bear" "the sadness and the sufferance of the atom bomb." "When he took me in his arms," "I could relieve from all this sorrow." "Women are like that." "I'm like that." "Natsuki, you found your identity in Hiroshima." "And you won't be going back to United-States." "One of your whims again." "I realized" "I was trying to escape from myself." "To escape from yourself?" "What happened, in the States?" "Nothing..." "I also, am a woman." "A woman?" "Yes, a woman." "You mean a love story revealed your feminity?" "He's an American, and he's married." "Don't build up a story!" "Mr Fujimura" "Wait for me, we'II go to eat together." "Do you want the end of the story?" "I found the woman which is in me." "Is she a bad woman?" "Or simply just a woman?" "Natsuki" "Kawase on the phone." "Natsuki isn't at home at the moment." "Who are you?" "I see." "Mr Ned." "Goodbye." "Are you feeling better?" "I can come back later." "He's about to leave." "Come in." "Today," "I came to ask you something." "Don't take this for a joke." "I would like... to adopt you." "I'd like to have you as adopted daughter at our home." "You don't have to answer now." "I though, you could think it over." "I've just spoken to those people." "Those who could've been my parents." "They have the DNA test results..." "It seems they're not my parents." "I'm sorry for them." "But It's good news for me." "Yet," "I probably killed my newborn child." "Those people told me." "Their disappeared daughter killed her child at birth." "She was a murderer." "But, since those people aren't your parents." "Yet," "I probably killed my child." "I had a vague memory looking at myself in the mirror." "It's on the seashore." "There are big waves." "A small child cries and screams." "From far out a women is watching her." "Curiously, she's watching her with a cruel eye, as if the child could as well die." "It's me" "Yes, me." "Do you understand." "I committed a crime." "No," "It's me." "When my husband died," "It's me that wanted to die with you, on the seashore." "It's me you have to forgive." "Stop torturing me!" "Your kindness makes me suffer!" "I beg you, please check, if we are mother and daughter." "Make a DNA test." "Who am I?" "Tell me, who am I?" "Give it back to me!" "Give me back my identity!" "Mother," "It seems captain Peterson is still alive." "It's probably him who was irradiated in Hiroshima." "At the time, in the States, it was forbidden to reveal it." "Peterson is now 86 years old, he lives healthily in Springfield, Missouri." "We spoke over the phone:" "He told me that translator lzawa Takashi had saved his life." "He also clearly remembered you." "He hasn't forgot anything from that day." "He asked me to give you his greetings." "It's thanks to him that I'm alive." "Tomorrow she leaves for the States to interview Mr Peterson." "Thank you for everything." "Give him my greetings." "Tell him I'm fine also..." "Mother..." "Yes?" "I won't go back to United-States." "Why?" "What happened there?" "Nothing." "A certain Ned called." "He would like you to call him back." "Was there anything between you two?" "Actually," "I'm worried about what's going on between you and her." "I went to see her today." "I asked her to become my adopted daughter." "She refused." "Into the sunset," "It looks like the color of blood." "Mother," "It's the co lour of your blood." "It's like this woman's blood who may be my mother." "It's also the color of woman's blood" "which runs through my veins." "Mr Goda!" "The phone!" "Goda speaking." "She disappeared?" "I'II be right over." "When has she disappeared?" "When I called this morning, she didn't answer." "By keeping telling her that she was your mother, your daughter, ran away!" "Did she leave a note?" "No, there isn't any." "Then, she'II probably come back." "I knew it would end up this way." "Since your arrival," "Masako had become anxious." "Before, she didn't distrust anybody." "She even trusted me." "A woman without memory can't live on her own." "All my life" "I'II be looking for Masako." "What happened to the health book?" "The health book?" "The health book she kept with care." "It was in the chest, in the top drawer." "No," "It's not there." "Why did she take it with her?" "She disappeared." "Her good angel phoned me." "So I went to her place." "It seems, she ran away." "Do we know why she ran away?" "According to him," "Masako had become nervous recently." "That's why she had disappeared." "In that case, there are chances she'll be back." "Don't you think, mother?" "No," "I don't think she'II come back." "The health book is gone." "She took it away." "It proves she doesn't expect to come back." "She was grateful to you two." "You really welcomed her as a family member." "However," "As she couldn't recover her memory," "It had become too hard." "So she ran away, with this health book as a souvenir." "She'II come back." "As long as she preciously keeps the book, we can't become strangers for her." "She'II come back," "I'm sure." "Mother, did you really believe this woman was your mother?" "Or then did you just want to believe it?" "This woman was a goddess." "She suddenly appeared before us, and suddenly disappeared, just like a goddess." "Look!" "Can you see her?" "There." "The shadow of the little girl." "Can you hear her?" "That voice..." "She's playing heedlessly." "You see," "It's Miwa when she was a child." "No," "Natsuki," "It's you." "No," "It's the shadow of the child you'll bear one day." "English subtitles by Dimax9 original french subtitles by Jean Viala" "A film by YOSHIDA Kiju"