"Endorsed by the Society for the Appreciation of Outstanding Films" "Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution" "A Collaboration Japan" " Cuba" "The Cuban Lover" "Kuroki Productions" "Cuban Institute of the Films and Arts Industry [ICAIC]" "Production:" "Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Orlando de la Huerta and Asano Tatsumaro" "Script:" "Kaato Ichiro, Abe Hirohisa and Kuroki Kaazuo" "Photography:" "Suzuki Tatsuo Sound:" "Kato Ichiro, Music:" "Matsumura Teizo" "Assistant Producer:" "Harima Akira Assistant Director:" "Katayama Tatsumine" "Photography Assistant:" "Oshikiri Takaya Editor:" "Honda Tsutomu" "Poem Mis dos abuelos by Nicolás Guillén" "Guantanamera, poem by José Martí, music by Joseíto Fernández" "Iré a Santiago, poem by Federico García Lorca, music by Roberto Varela" "Planning Assistant:" "Takeuchi / Takenaka Ro / Negira" "Production Team:" "Ikeda Masako Namiki Kikuo, Yasuda Soharu" "Tokyo Television Center" " Westrex East Development Processing" "Cuban Communist Party Cuban Revolutionary Defence Committee" "Japanese-Cuban Institute of Cultural Exchange Cuban Insititute of International Friendship" "Appearing:" "Tsugawa Masahiko" " Akira" "Obdulia Plasencia" " Marcia" "Gloria Lee" " Gloria Armando Urbach" " Militiaman" "And all the Cuban people" "Director Kuroki Kazuo" "Translator Okaeda Shinji" "Havana, Cuba." "Hey, remember that guy we met at Margarita's party?" "No, girl." "Which one?" " Hey, girls!" "Goodbye!" " Goodbye!" "Beautiful!" " Wow, how cute he is!" " Did you beat me to him?" "No!" "I'm your sister." "Gorgeous!" " Excuse me." " Yes?" "I am looking for this address." "Hey, come look at this!" "Let me see." "it's up this street..." " No, this way to the left." " Yes, that way." " Thank you." " Are you sure it's that way?" "Yes, but not that, the other." " Luisa?" " No." " Luisa." " No, no." "I want to see Luisa." "Luisa doesn't live here." " Are you Luisa?" " I'm not Luisa, no." "Luisa lives here?" "No. I am telling you she doesn't!" " Where does Luisa live?" " l don't know." "She doesn't live here!" " Luisa?" " How rude!" "She doesn't live here!" "Luisa doesn't live here!" ""We are at the Cafe."" ""Participate in weeding duties to guarantee the sowing in springtime."" "Girls, let's take a walk!" "Show me Havana." " We are in a hurry." " Another day, then?" "Girls, let's go to the movies!" "No, thank you." " Darling!" " No, mister!" " Why not?" " No!" "We don't like impertinent Chinese men!" "Hey, girl!" "Look, here!" "Marcia!" "Luisito..." "What were you doing?" "Would you give me a kiss?" "Excuse me!" "You've got a lot of nerve!" "Who convinced you I'm a slut?" "Have respect for women!" "What's wrong with you?" "What do you want?" "Take your hands off me, I want to kill him!" ""More vigilance, more offence, more revolution"" "... his command to create two, three, many Vietnam  will live forever!" "Long live the solidarity of our people  and of the people of all countries in the world  with the struggle of Vietnam!" "Long live President Ho Chi Min!" "Long live the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam!" " Fatherland or death!" " We shall overcome!" "Cuba, Vietnam, together shall overcome!" ""July, 26th." "Ten years."" " Catch me if you can!" " There I go!" "Marcia!" "Marcia!" "Good morning." "Good morning, Chinaman." "I am Japanese." "How do you know my name?" "What's your name?" "You so beautiful..." " Gorgeous." " Yeah?" "Tell me something..." "What do Japanese people know about Cuba?" "Sugar, tobacco, coffee..." "Revolution." " And you?" " Me?" "Only Marcia." "Look... in the past, no blacks, nor mulattos, nor poor people  could come here." "Now everyone can come freely  because now this belongs to everyone." "What's your job?" "I am a sailor." "On vacation." " Vacation?" " Yes." " Me too." " You too?" "Have this book." ""The diary of Che in Bolivia. "" "Yes, an extraordinary man." " Thanks a lot." " No." "Listen, Marcia." "Can I see you tonight?" "Then... tomorrow?" "The day after tomorrow?" "Then..." "That can't happen." "I have to travel to Santiago de Cuba." "My home town." "Can you delay your departure?" "Then, I'll go to Santiago de Cuba, too." "That can't happen." "It's not a town for a Japanese ladies' man like you." "Bye, Akira." " I want to eat cassava!" " Hey, sow cassava!" " I want to eat potatoes!" " Hey, sow potatoes!" "I want to eat rice!" "Hey, sow rice!" "Today's paper!" "The "Granma"!" " Good morning!" " Good morning." "What are you doing here?" "As I promised you, I'm going to Santiago de Cuba, with you." "What's wrong?" "Travel" ""..." "Be like Che. " Juan Manuel Márquez Primary School" "Come here, man." "Are you Chinese?" "No, I'm Japanese." "Japanese?" "How many Yankee military bases are there in Japan?" "There are many." "And there are many Yankees." "Hey, were you invited by the "26th of July"?" "No, I was invited by a pretty woman  and I'm going to Santiago." " This Japanese guy is funny!" " This bus isn't going to Santiago!" "It's not going there?" "Ah, so weren't joking?" "Hey, you're in serious trouble!" "And you...?" "Where are you going?" "To Santiago." "Oh, hot waist, drop of wood!" "Harp of living logs, alligator, tobacco flower!" "I always said I'd go to Santiago" "In a black water chariot to Santiago, to Santiago" "At full moon I'll go to Santiago" ""100 YEARS OF STRUGGLE"" "In a chariot of black water I'll go to Santiago" "Breeze and alcohol in the wheels I'll go to Santiago" "My coral in the twilight I'll go to Santiago" "The ocean drowned in the sand..." "Playa Girón|" " Bay of Pigs" "Akira, did you know that in April 1961  arrived here, coming from Guatemala  counter-revolutionary troops backed and protected by the USA?" "I didn't know." "There were 1600 of them, and we beat them in three days!" " All of them?" " Every one of them!" "Do you like Japan?" "Yes, I do!" "I like Cuba too." "Truly for the last ten years." "Ten years?" "Yes." "Since the triumph of the revolution." "I like revolution." "No, Akira!" "I'm being serious!" "You're a counter-revolutionary!" "Marcia's Testimony 1" "Invasion of counter-revolutionary forces at Bay of Pigs." "Fire!" " Hello, how are you?" " What's up, how is everything?" "Charmed, and are you well?" " What are you up to?" " I'm on vacation." "Just passing through?" "Just a little visit to the Bay of Pigs." "But that's all." " Ah, ok!" " And at home?" "Well." "Everybody is well." " It's been a while since the last time." " You could say quite a bit." " Are you still at the..." " So you're a soldier?" "I work in a tobacco factory and serve in the militia." "Where are you from?" " From Japan." " Oh, yes, Japan!" "Compañero, let me see." " Are you interested in guns?" " Why not?" "Take a good look." "Can you handle guns?" "Absolutely, once I wanted to join the Japanese Army." "What type of guns are used by the Japanese Army?" "They're model Garand M17. 62 mm." "Ah!" "the same type we captured here." "Why did you want to join the army?" "Because I wanted to drive a tank." "... you were most impressed by a certain Roberto." "I saw you!" "Where are you going?" "Where Marcia's going." "What do you mean "where Marcia's going"?" "... He's following me from Havana..." "Just like that?" "Hey, I also like Marcia, but she hasn't said yes to me yet!" "Mama how I love the coffee she makes for me" "Mama how I love more the food she cooks" "This lovely black woman, mate, that cast a spell on me" "This lovely black woman, comrade, that cast a spell on me" "How long are you thinking of following me?" "We have nothing in common." "What are you laughing at?" "You've no one to shoot even if you had a gun." "Yes, I have." "If I had a gun I'd fire at the enemy." "And who is this enemy?" "It's... whoever is fresh with you." "Marcia." "I want to embrace you." "I love you." "Until tomorrow." "You're just like all the sailors before the revolution!" "Only interested in my body!" "No, Marcia!" "I love you." "A man who doesn't know how to shoot at the enemy  has no right to speak to a woman!" "I man, you woman!" " No!" " Yes, we're in love!" "That can't be!" "I will never love you!" "Get out of here, go away!" "Get lost, get lost!" "Bolivia" "Marcia?" "Ah!" "Marcia left a short time ago." "I understand." "Thanks!" "Pepita, Pepita" "Early in the morning Pepita calls me" "She calls me at one, she calls me at two, and I don't get up..." " Are you coming with us?" "...because I don't have a clock" "Gloria" " Are you Japanese?" " Yes, yes." "Where are you heading?" "I'm going with you!" " And you?" " To cut cane." "What's your name?" "Gloria." "And you?" "How old are you?" "Eighteen." "A good match..." "For me." "Hey, look how good this guy is at cutting cane." "Have you seen him?" "See how well he cuts, how quickly, how tidily he cuts!" "He cuts the cane really well, It's like he's been cutting it for a long time!" "Cane." "Do you like it?" "Cuban cane." "Over there is my house." "Yeah?" "How pretty!" " My mother is waiting for me." " Yeah?" "Mother, very good!" "Would you like to eat a bit more, son?" "I'm full." "If I eat any more, I won't be able to move." "Come and enjoy this rhythm" "Chachachá" "The Danzón is uplifting" "It had its time Rumba too" "This Chachachá rhythm" "Its time will never end." "My daughter told me that you're a hard worker." "Do you have a girlfriend in Japan?" "No, I don't have a girlfriend in Japan." "What do you think of Cuba?" "Very good." "Cuba, sí!" "Opening Ceremony of the town of Batabanó." "Prime Minister Fidel Castro." "Compañeros..." "Workers  and residents of this new town  which we open tonight." "The rain wasn't planned for tonight." "... this entire southern region of the province was in need of development." "It didn't have, and still hardly has any roads..." "Large areas are impassable..." "It has a lot of lowlands, needs a lot of drainage systems  and all kinds of hydraulic works." "But the fact remains that in less than a year  since we started working in this southern zone  to this moment, rice has been already sown  in 6,000 hectares of land." "We had to clear vegetation." "Vast tracts of land were very difficult to clear  for they are very close to the coast  they're low lying, the machinery gets bogged down  and so we must wait for a period of drought to complete the work." "Anyway, we worked very hard until the rains came to this region." "Also, there was an important social problem." "In these rice growing areas there were living  throughout the region  many working families and also many..." "And you'll keep it deep inside your soul" "But you don't know, girl, that a kiss is dangerous" "You're a good man." "In Cuba we need men like you." "We need to increase production, you know?" "In Batabanó, Fidel said that in 1971..." "Hey, I want to know more, but  we can speak as we walk." "Alone at last." "You're hands are hard." "Gloria, go to bed, my girl." "You have to get up early." "Yes, mum." " See you tomorrow." " See you tomorrow." "Guantanamera, country girl, Guantanamera" "Guantanamera, country girl, Guantanamera" "With the poor people of the world  I'm willing to risk it all." "The mountain stream  I like it more than the sea." "Give to the vain the fresh gold  that burns and shines in the crucible." "Give me the endless forest  when the sun rises above it." "I want to leave this world  the natural way." "In a chariot of green leaves  they will take me to die." "Don't put me in the dark  to die like a traitor." "I am good, and as a good man  I will die in view of the sun." "The leopard has a shelter  in its dark and dry mountain." "I have more than the leopard  because I have a good friend." "Guantanamera, country girl, Guantanamera" "Guantanamera, country girl, Guantanamera" ""So near yet so far"." "Town of Trinidad." "Look, this is a colonial city and it grew thanks to sugar." "Where were you yesterday?" "Cutting cane." "For the first time in my life." "You cut cane!" "So hot!" "You like to work, don't you?" "It's because I've worked since I was small." "Me too." "I've worked since I was seven." "I went to school after the triumph of the revolution." "Poor people like me couldn't go to school." "But now everything's different." "Everything." "Ah!" "I'm getting on!" "I want to get on." "Can I?" "On you go, Don Quixote!" "Look, Marcia!" "Where are you going?" "Oh, it's beautiful!" "How beautiful!" "From my house in Santiago you can see El Morro." "Do you still like me?" "Yes, of course." "Now I like you more than the sea." "You're very pretty..." "And affectionate." "Did you read Che Guevara's diary?" "Not yet." "But I like Che." "He came from Argentina  to Cuba to join the revolution, right?" "And then he died in Bolivia, right?" "Very good, Che!" "Yes, but he thought of the Happiness of all humanity  and not only of himself." "I would like to be like Che." "We can't all be like Che." "Former bourgeois residence now used as a guest-house" "Shadows which only I see," "I'm watched by my two grandfathers." "A bone-point lance, a drum of hide and wood:" "my black grandfather, a warrior's gray armament:" "my white grandfather." "Shadows which only I see," "I'm watched by my two grandfathers" "Don Federico yells at me and Taita Facundo is silent;" "both dreaming in the night and walking, walking." "I bring them together." "Federico!" "Facundo!" "They embrace." "They sigh, they raise their sturdy heads;" "both of equal size, under the stars both of equal size, a Black longing, a White longing." "both of equal size, they scream, dream, weep, sing." "They dream, weep, sing." "They weep, sing." "They sing." "When I get to Santiago, I would like to meet your Mum." "Why?" "Why?" "Because I want to know you better." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "It's your enemy again!" "That enemy I can kill it single-handedly." "Look, Marcia!" ""Akira, I want to be alone. "" ""Don't follow me anymore." "Marcia. "" "Sierra Maestra mountains, guerrilla base of Fidel Castro during the revolution." "Santiago de Cuba." "From my house in Santiago you can see El Morro." "Castle El Morro" "Marcia." "I really wanted to see you." "Marcia." "I finally made it to Santiago." "Akira..." "So you came." "Do you want to meet my family?" "Yes, I want to." "This is my family." "My family wasn't the only one lost in the revolution." ""Rest in peace, Renato Guitart Rosell... "" ""..." "Abel Santamaría, and the 32 young people... "" ""... who together with them fell on the 26th of July, 1953. "" "Marry me!" "Is it because you don't love me?" "Why don't you answer me?" "Akira, my brother was in Che Guevara's column  and died in Santa Clara in December, 1958." "And Dad and Mum." "All my family was assassinated by Batista!" "But those who died spilling their blood never abandoned me." "And since then I've got to know perfectly who was my enemy." "I can understand your hatred too." "But if you can't think of your happiness  how can you think of other people's?" "Don't you understand how much Cuban blood has been shed in this revolution?" "Che knew it when he was fighting in the mountains of Sierra Maestra." "It's the sacrifice which must be done to show the people of Latin America  the path to liberation!" "Sacrifice." "You were left alone." "Isn't that enough for you?" "Marcia..." "Come to Japan with me!" " You see how you can't?" " What?" "I love Cuba." "Cuba needs me." "I need you too!" " Akira, that's different!" " What's different?" "You don't understand the reality in Cuba." "I'm not talking about Cuba!" "I'm talking about you and me!" "Loving Cuba and a man is the same to me!" "I have to go to Santa Clara to attend the rally of the 26th of July." "Why don't you understand me?" "There's no point in speaking anymore." "You must go back to Havana." "Goodbye." "Marcia's Testimony 2" "Excerpts from "The diary of Che in Bolivia"" ""29th of May." "There was total tranquility... "" ""... as if we were in another world. "" ""30th of May." "At 14:00 everybody was assembled... "" ""... around a fire on which we roasted three turkeys. "" ""31st of May." "Two army trucks were spotted... "" ""... we quickly ambushed them, seemingly killing two men. "" ""1st of June." "The air force is in the zone... "" ""... according to information on the radio. "" ""2nd of June." "An army truck passed very close by... "" ""..." "It was an easy snack, but it was a day off. "" ""3rd of June." "Walking until noon, at which time... "" ""..." "Benigno and Ricardo went off to explore the way... "" ""4th of June." "At 14:45 we stopped for coffee and oats. "" ""5th of June." "The day passed without food. "" ""We kept the salty water from the canteens for tomorrow's breakfast. "" ""6th of June." "First reports indicated that... "" ""... we were 3km from Puerto Camacho, where there were 50 soldiers. "" ""7th of June." "The guy who guides us started to... "" ""... complain about strong stomach pains." "We don't know if they're real or not. "" ""8th of June." "There are news of a state of siege... "" ""... and the demonstration of the miners, but nothing came of it. "" ""9th of June." "10th of June. "" ""11th of June." "A day of total tranquility. "" ""We waited to ambush, but the army didn't advance. "" ""12th of June." "The Army talks of three killings... "" ""..." "Inti, one of the guerrilla commanders, among them. "" ""13th of June." "What's interesting is the political... "" ""... convulsion of the country, the fabulous quantity of pacts and counter pacts. "" ""14th of June." "Celita's 4th birthday?"" ""I'm 39 and the time is coming to think about my future as a guerrilla fighter. "" "... the always growing satisfaction  that the name of Cuba  echoes around the fields of America, and also echoes around  the fields of other countries that fight  for their freedom  always representing the same thing:" "The image of what can be achieved by the means of the revolutionary struggle." "The hope for a better world." "The image for what it is worth  to risk our life  to sacrifice ourselves to death in the battlefields  of every continent of the world." "La Paz, Bolivia." "November 6th." "A guerrilla group attacked last night the Military Academy  in the province of Cochabamba, in Bolivia." "Caracas." "November 4th." "It was disclosed that a soldier died in combat with guerrillas..." "Marcia's Testimony 3 ... There was some sort of  panic." "Everybody was running, and you could hear gunshots  and he died." "Renato died." "Renato was a boy  with a joyful personality." "Always happy." "He liked dancing and music." "He was a good singer." "And he knew how to make good friends." "On July 25th of 1953, at 7:00 PM  he told me: "Dad, don't wait for me tonight." "I'll go to the Carnival. "" "He stood there and looked at me for a long time  in an odd way." "I was very impressed by his look." "I didn't know he died in the Moncada, until 8:00 PM on the 26th." "Hey, use my hat!" "Here we are, with Fidel, 26!" "Carry on, heroic guerrilla!" "Guerrilla fighter, carry on, at the forefront!" "You go building our peace with your war..." ""Land or death!"" ""Freedom or death!"" "26th of July in Santa Clara." "10th Anniversary of the revolution." "... that we were wrong." "That we were naive." "That we would fail." "That's what politicians said." "The political commentators, the political scholars." "The leaders of the traditional bourgeois parties." "They didn't believe in our people." "They despised our people." "They considered our people  incapable of achieving anything, as an ignorant, uneducated herd  that could be manipulated at their will." "If you look today, as we, from this platform  can see, and can contemplate  this gigantic multitude, expression of the strength of this revolution..." "You should not forget  that 15 years ago we were just a small group of young men and women  who they called naive  who were condemned to fail  because a revolution was impossible in a country 90 miles from the U. S." "... because a revolution was impossible  within a nation of illiterate and ignorant people..." "Nevertheless, what can we see today?" "What's the result of the effort  that 15 years ago a small number of young people  started in this stage of our revolutionary history?" "What have those people achieved?" "What have those unarmed people achieved?" "What have those people they called ignorant achieved?" "Those people that were despised and considered lacking of any virtue?" "Those unarmed people  opposed a regular army armed by Yankee imperialism  composed of more than 50,000 soldiers and policemen." "They had all the guns!" "And our people had none." "Nevertheless, those people despised by the political commentators..." "Those people, "ignorant"  illiterate, unarmed, undertook the struggle  continued the fight, defeated that army  dismantled that army." "And it is these people today that have their own army  a true Army of the People, because it is the people armed  10 times, 20 times as powerful as that army." "And this 26th of July  when the students make those flags their own  when our people make those flags their own..." "With legitimate pride, and with full confidence in our future  we can say:" "Che, we dedicate to you this fifteen anniversary  of our revolution!" "Fatherland or death!" "We shall overcome!" ""Remember the heroes fallen in the attack on the Moncada"" "U. S. spy ship" "Is Marcia here?" "Ah, Marcia!" "Wait a minute." "Listen." "Here's a foreigner waiting for Marcia." "Yes, a compañero is waiting for Marcia." "The compañera says she will be here in a minute." "Compañero." "Are you Akira?" "I want to see Marcia." "Marcia left the job." "She's not here." "She's not?" "Where did she go?" "Nobody knows." "Your Marcia is a person necessary for our country  as well as for Latin America." "She went voluntarily." "I am so sorry." "But that's all I can say." "About you, she used to say she was in love with you  and will always love you." "1968, Year of the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter" "The End."