"Produced by DAIEI CO., LTD." "DENTSU INC." "KUROSAWA PRODUCTION with Co-operation of TOKUMA SHOTEN PUBLISHING CO., LTD." "General Producers YASUYOSHI TOKUMA, GOHEI KOGURE" "A AKIRA KUROSAWA film" ""MADADA YO"" "He's coming" "Attention" "Salute" "Sit down" "Someone smoked here" "No smoking in the classroom" "However..." "It is difficult to get rid of smoking" "I am not excepted either" "When I hear the bell in the faculty room" "I try to leave..." "But then I get the urge to smoke" "I light a cigarette" "Soon I light another, then another" "So you see, I am always 20 to 30 minutes late" "But, professor..." "What's with you today?" "It is already 30 old years" "Since I've been addressed as professor" "During that time... as if watching water running from an open faucet..." "It is like that after water has passed" "Students have drifted away in front of my eyes" "It is impossible to remember each and very face" "Ah, yes" "There is one among them, though that I remember clearly to this day" "The face belong to one..." "Who slept during class with his eyes open" "Hey, Takayama" "That dozing expert was your father" "By the way, gentlemen" "Today is the last day for me to be called professor" "As of today..." "I am resigning my professorship" "My books... have somehow become salable" "I can live by writing" "I must admit, I don't dislike teaching" "But as the say" "He who runs after two hares will catch neither" "I have decided to quit teaching" "Professor" "Even if you quit" "You are our professor" "My father, too was an schoolmate of this school" "So were his friends" "Even to this day, they call you professor" "They also say..." "You are solid gold" "Solid gold" "A lump of gold with no impurities" "I means, you are the true professor" "You are a German professor but..." "You have taught us more" "I feel..." "You have taught us many precious things" "Tokyo, 1 943" "This is the house our professor moved in" "After he quit school" "Darling" "Ma'am, put the professor away somewhere" "He's in the way" "Put that in the entrance hall" "The entrance hall will be my study" "At the same time, I will be the gatekeeper" "To protect the house from invasion by the naughty crowd like you" "receiving days 1st  15th month visitors on other days prohibited" "I hope it is all right" "What is?" "This house" "The rent is cheaper than I expected" "I knew there was something fishy" "When I went to order noodles today" "The shop lady told me" "This house has been burglarized quite frequently" "So none have settled down very long" "And it was vacant for a while" "The heck with burglars" "There's nothing worth stealing here" "Still I am somehow scared" "Don't worry" "No burglar will break in" "Since I was a child" "I've been so afraid of burglars" "I've given much thought on how to prevent burglar" "And I have hammered out a method to prevent them" "Did you really, professor?" "Yes, I did" "1 o'clock" "Bewitching hour for the burglars" "I'll go over this wall and open the side door" "Sneak in from here" "Wait a minute" "We're acting like thieves ourselves" "We're only supposed to be checking his precautions after what his wife said" "The only way to check is to..." "Sneak in like real burglars" "Take a look at that, what a laugh" "Don't worry he says" "And he boasts about being an expert on burglars" "Burglar's entrance" "Burglar's passage" "Burglar's rest area" "Burglar's exit" "That was a clean score" "I had to steal this to get even" "Isn't that the professor's hat?" "He wore it when he was teaching Army people" "He won't need it anymore" "It'll be a memento a family treasure" "What's we do with the side door?" "What'll we do with the side door?" "What about it?" "It's unlocked" "It has to be locked" "You'd better go over the wall" "It's not safe" "Come down" "What is it?" "Someone's coming" "Damn it, it's a cop" "Can we leave the side door like that?" "Sure, with those signs nothing will be stolen" "Our professor is something" "Yes, he's a solid gold" "Professor" "We have happily come upon receiving your invitation" "Come right on" "We can't with you sitting there" "You look like scribe or a fortune teller" "Literary men somewhat are the same" "This must be a defense measure to keep away the visitors" "Beside who wants to stay" "If he's reading this kind of thing" "BY SHOKUSANJlN (Haiku Poel)" "Annoyance is to have visitors" "Nonetheless this does not imply you" "By the Host" "Delight is to have visitors" "Nonetheless this does not imply you" "Hello" "Come on in" "Is it all right?" "There aren't enough cushions" "So I'll be the one to use it" "I think that's rude to the guests" "But, oh, well..." "What do you mean rude?" "You barge into my house remove all the sliding doors" "Fine guests you are" "Professor" "It's not a visiting day" "What's happening today?" "It's a special day today" "A special day?" "It's the day I have become a genuine old man" "It is my 60th birthday" "I have become 60 years old" "Is that true?" "If we had known" "We would have invited you to a great banquet" "Come, come, don't say that" "It's wartime now" "Not a time for a grand celebration" "I myself had completely forgotten" "If not for some venison" "My relatives back home sent me" "I thought is was a good idea to exchange drinks with you over some venison" "We brought beer and sake we've gathered" "I appreciate that" "By the way, how many of you are here?" "There's 1 6, sir" "Do we have enough cooking stoves and pans?" "If we don't, we'll go buy some" "Gentlemen" "Happy birthday, sir" "Make yourselves at home" "I sit this way because" "It's comfortable for me" "Please put the meat in" "Ma'am" "Ma'am, join us" "Don't worry" "She's never eat horse meat" "Horse meat, sir?" "Isn't this vension" "We received bulk of venison more than we two can eat" "So I decided to invite you" "But considering your appetite" "So I decided to invite you" "I realized that it's not enough for all of you" "Venison stew is rare and grand but adding horse meat should make to interesting blend" "Horse and deer mean stupid" "I get it, sir" "This means we are stupid" "No need to be depressed" "Beef, pork and chicken are hard to come by nowadays" "I happened to hear horse meat was available" "I thought of a good idea of adding horse meat to the venison stew" "I set out a butcher's quite distance form here and bought a horse meat" "Should bring ears to your eyes" "For his loving student an old man whipping his old bones to buy horse meat" "Can you imagine that?" "He's my beloved teacher thinking of his debt to our teacher" "Gentlemen" "What is more, I feel myself in an awl situation" "The horse was at at the Air..." "Acade where taught for some time" "It stared at me with doubt eyes" "As if saying what in the world are you buy there, sir?" "I was so embarrassed" "I wanted to hide somewhere" "By the way, gentlemen, I never realise horse had such large eyes" "Well, let's eat" "The meat should be ready" "You certainly make it easy for us to eat with that story for us, professor" "Imagine it's all venison" "Beside, the two meats are mixed" "You wouldn't know which is which" "It's certainly delicious" "If there is an air raid this stupid stew will turn into blind stew" "I hate the raids" "I've been afraid the dark since I was a child" "I can't sleep in the dark, either" "Even now, sir?" "Aren't you afraid of the dark?" "Of cause not" "We're grow-uns" "What's so scary about darkness?" "You gentlemen are impossible" "Why is that?" "Anyone unafraid of darkness has a vital discrepancy as a human being" "You lack imagination" "A proper human being even in the darkness in their imagination of darkness" "Which prevent you from seeing" "Whatever in the dark everything can be deadly" "That's why we becomes scare" "This is justified logic" "In my case..." "If I know it is here?" "the neighbors hereby" "Seems like badgers" "Rather, I suspect the badger have disguised as humans" "This is the nature of Human beings" "It may be natural for you because you solid gold" "To the solid gold professor" "Cheers" "Looking up to our teacher" "Thinking of our debt to our teacher" "Over the garden" "Countless years have already passed" "So fast is the passage of time" "The years and the months" "Our professor's house was also burned down from the air raids" "This is the professor's house after that" "Ah, won't go in" "Thank you very much" "Here Okay?" "Over here" "Ma'am" "Professor should love this" "Indeed like rain in drought" "Can I put the bag there?" "Oh, that goes..." "Are you coming in?" "I'll help" "There are too many people" "Are you alright?" "I can't budge" "I now know" "How canned sardines feel" "Anything to put over here?" "This, please" "Please, yes, thank you" "Watch your head" "Ignore that head" "Would you take this, too?" "Ma'am, if you need anything, please tell us" "Thank you very much, everyone" "We trouble you all the time" "I want an umbrella" "Take this one, sir" "Our bath room is... that new building over there," "I doesn't have a roof" "Therefore on rainy days such as today" "We can't use it" "What do you say?" "To be honest this place is terrible" "Let's find someplace else" "No, no... coming across this house which miraculously survived was mere luck" "Besides, the owner is a baron I'm acquainted with" "A baron?" "Peerage" "Lived in this house?" "Don't talk nonsense" "This used to be an old worker for Noble old garden keeper" "On the morning when both the barcon's house and my house were burnt down" "The baron who come to" "I found his estate" "My wife and I found this shack" "We were resting here and asked him if we can rent here" "He said: go ahead" "We were very lucky indeed" "You know this, don't you?" "HOJl-Kl" "Yes, sir" "Books are heavy" "I fled with only this book my favorite" "The author of the book Kamomo chome" "lived the capital during the Heian Era" "He experienced many disasters such as wars, fires and famines" "losing all hopes in life be secluded himself in a mountain hermitage" "I recently feel the same way as Kamono Chone must have felt" "For the time being, I intend to some down here" "To live some days like the hermitage he lived in" "Well, gentlemen, I wish I can invite you in but I'm afraid I can't" "It's packed with my wife and I alone" "Don't worry" "Professor" "Please" "Many of the birds we kept were burnt" "My wife instead on freeing them from the cages" "If we couldn't take them" "A bird treed from its cage at night" "Would only fly into the fire" "If they are going to be burnt anyway they might as well meet their fate in their familiar cages" "We left them" "A neighborhood child found this silver-eye and gave it to us" "It was fallen out of its nest it was just tiny fledgling at first" "Since she raised it from that time my wife strongly insisted and didn't let the cage go" "We had no choice, but... to escape with this little bird" "The only resemblance this has with the hermitage in Hoji-ki is its smallness and without elegance decoration" "There is no sound of clear water from the mountains running from bamboo pipes as at Chomei's hermillage" "The only sound heard is that of someone urinating against the clay wall" "I wonder why people take the trouble of always urinating at the same place" "All people are the same" "The sign of "No pissing" has no effect" "Even a picture of a shrine seems ineffective" "But I came up with a brilliant idea" "I painted a special incineration" "I'm sure it works this time" "Go take a look at it" "It's on the other side" "It's ingenious" "No pissing or cutting those committed" "Clever indeed" "Can't afford to get it chopped off" "He's certainly a genius for such things" "The rainy season may end" "By the way how is the professor?" "Where's the professor?" "You see how it is" "He's hopeless once it starts to rumble" "That's why I must always keep ready this incense against thunder" "We owned so many thing but none of them existed now" "human beings accumulate" "So many things during their life" "Most of them were burnt during the air raid" "But things have increase in this house again" "I sometime hope the B29 will come pay us a visit" "Still we're glad the war is over" "Are you sure?" "On the contrary" "Life has become worse" "During the war, we at least had food rations without rations" "We are reduced to live like beggars" "Long ago when I was a small child" "We used to Built huts with bamboo and straw in the open air behind our house" "I often went to our little hut and sit inside" "When my grandmother caught me there." "With tears she'd asked" "What are you doing here?" "He will surely grow up to be a beggar" "She wept like a child" "Indeed" "My grandmother's prophecy come true" "Professor" "What are you saying?" "You fancy yourself as Cheme?" "Did you forget his spirit?" "It's not like you" "The river runs on and on and the water is never the same" "Bubbles diffuse and appear in the water they never remain forever" "In this world one's house has come pass as thus" "I see" "Don't be grumbling like an old man" "Let me apologize" "We are here about that matter, sir" "We can't have you living here forever" "We plan to build a house for you somewhere" "Nonsense, I won't let you" "Not immediately, sir" "By the 1 st Masshakai next year" "We'll have a concrete plan" "What is that?" "This Maadhakai?" "The name of your birthday party" "We've decided on that, since..." "It's not likely you'd die soon" "Mouii Kai?" "(ready)" "Madadayo (not yet)" "Maadha kai as in this" "The characters are" "Ma from the God's name" "And A and Da from the Budda" "Isn't it a great name?" "Is that right?" "Maadha kai" "You're back" "Here's a bottle of Jonney Walker" "But the content is not real Jonney Walker" "It's medical alcohol" "I got it from a doctor I know" "He made it by mixing tea and brown sugar" "It tastes strange" "But it's effective" "I must say..." "I'm beginning to feel good" "Professor" "When we were students... we often drank with you" "When we got drunk you led us to a lot of muschied" "We switched nameplates on houses" "When you sobered up" "You'd make us put them back again" "Thank you, Ma'am" "Professor" "Do you want your new house" "Japanese or western style?" "As I already said..." "I won't let you" "Leave it to us, professor" "Now that the war is over major publishers are reopening" "One of them has offered to pay in advance for the right to publish your works" "Leave it to us" "There is a piece of and we are considering now" "We can build a small garden" "What kind would you like?" "I'd like to have a pond" "A pond?" "A garden pond?" "There won't be space for a big pond but a small one will be possible" "I don't want such a small one" "I'd like to keep some fish but fish swim in the same direction" "If the pond is so small they'd have to bend their bodies all the time" "It'll be pathetic their back get bent" "Fish's backs?" "What about this idea?" "The whole garden is a pond" "That's a lot of construction work" "Then make the pond circumference as large as possible" "Build an island in middle" "Make a doughnut-shaped pond" "You come up with the weirdest ideas" "You're beyond us mediocre men" "He seriously worries about fish's backs" "I must say, he's a genius" "He's child, he never grows up" "I got it" "That's what turns you on" "Don't be silly" "Don't hide it" "I realize that's what we like in him, too" "That's why it's fun to be with him" "Isn't that right?" "The moon is out" "The moon is out..." "Round, round, perfectly round" "I love old songs" "Like Henri Rousseau's painting so innocent and honest" "I love songs of the good old days" "During the war" "We had forgotten about such nice things like a moon" "The moon is out..." "Round, round, perfectly round" "The moon is like a tray" "Many houses were demolished by wars" "Only the quiet places could remain without dread though small and poor" "If offers a bed at night and a seat in the day" "What more can one ask for in a shelter" "The 1 st Maadha Kai" "To celebrate our professor's 61 st birthday" "We will open the first Maadha Kai party" "Due to the Ailied Occupation food and alcohol is not easy to come by" "Luckily, with the cooperation of all the members" "We are able to hold this banquet" "As the chairman" "Let me voice our appreciation to the officers who have done so well" "Professor, please said something and a large glass of beer" "Please drink up in one breath" "Then a toast in his honor" "My friends and gentlemen" "Thank you all for inviting me here tonight" "Thank you for sparing time thought some are not busy from your busy schedule" "to attend this wonderful gathering" "Is this old goat still alive?" "seems to be the motive of the Maadha Kai and that" "You all have the desire to ask me Maadha Kai (not yet?" ")" "I have come to say Maadayo (not yet)" "Though it may be against the principles of this meeting ask me again next year and the year after" "Please ask me Maadha Kai" "I promise that I will some day respond to you by saying Mouiiyo (I'm ready)" "I assure you I am well prepared" "The person to my right has taken care of me for years" "He is my physician Dr, Koobayashi" "He will sign my death certificate" "The gentleman on my left is one of the alumni" "He used to look after his family business but now he is a priest of a temple" "Sev kamevama will hold the memorial meeting before I die" "However" "I will finish this beer at one time this big glass of beer even if I died there was nothing for me to worry" "Madadayo (not yet)" "Cheers" "Congratulations" "Gentlemen, while you are still free from the effects of the liquid" "Everyone must say something" "Make them short and simple" "May the professor long life" "That was so short" "This is the best wish" "It would be a lie if it is too long" "I am deeply grateful to the professor" "When we staged the opera Faust" "In German under his guidance" "I was given a wonderful role" "I will always treasure that memory of sensation" "Did you play Mephistopheles?" "No, sir" "I played the eternal virgin Faust fall in love with Margerlia" "I'm awkward with speech" "I'll recall all the station name from Hokkaido to" "Are you catch the express train?" "No, the normal one" "This is a very special idea" "Kushiro, Shin-Fuji, Ohtanoshige,Shero" "Shiranuka, Onbetsu" "Forget it, next" "I don't understand" "What today is an auspicious day" "Probably because professor is still alive" "I'm alive too, but there's..." "I don't think it's auspicious" "Master" "This make me embarrassed" "So, senior monk" "Monk" "It is so nice of you to call me that name" "So I call you monk?" "That is better off" "How about your business?" "Are you busy?" "Very busy, thank you" "That's why I'm not visiting you" "I know I have to wait for a while" "I don't mean it" "You should be frank to say" "How long could my life last?" "Let me see" "If you follow my instruction" "I guaranteed" "Shit" "If he lived for so long" "The men should be sentenced to death" "Cheers, Professor" "You're a executive" "Yes" "Have you ever thought of the meaning of killers?" "Nothing special?" "That would be troublesome" "Even if we had the right to enforce the laws" "It means the right to enforce, not to kill" "It'd not be excluded, since you're a killer" "This man is of no value" "Must be excused" "Have mercy on me, Sir" "Now that me turn has come I would like to say..." "I owe it all to professor" "Thank you, professor" "Professor, you have taught us to drinking" "But some only got drunk... and will given you trouble" "Suo went wild swinging beer bottles" "When Komura got drunk he'd hold and kiss anyone" "Even kissed me" "Shave off your beard?" "Yes" "Mustn't do such a thing without telling us" "Why not?" "The beard was a part of your face for many years" "We all recongnized you" "It is because of your beard" "Now it's gone" "I didn't recognize you at first" "Granted, the beard was yours, but..." "I was also ours, so..." "Mustn't shave it off on your own" "Sorry, I'll grow it again" "That won't do" "If you grow it again" "We won't recognize you" "As you all know professor is indeed well read" "One time he told us not to take for granted that ears are attached to the head" "Because Ampriobirs Spirias has ears on its feel" "What?" "What's Ampriobiris Spirias?" "What is that?" "It's Ampriobiris Apirias" "Please, Sir" "Gentlemen" "Don't crowd me like this" "I can't cope with you all by myself" "Let's toast once again and we all enjoy the party" "Gentlemen, thank you" "Congratulations" "Thank you" "Drinking parties are intersection" "At one time, all the members become intoxicated" "It somehow reminds me of water in a poor coming to a boil" "That is why" "I still feel I am his student" "Be quiet, please" "Tada, you turn" "The professor is great" "Right" "I don't mean all the professors are great but a great men could be a professor only" "Professor is like the sun to us" "Over statement" "That would be an exaggeration so I'll say he's like the moon" "Exaggeration" "Wait" "There are half moons" "Or one-third moons" "Or at time no moons" "Like professor's lessons" "This is why I call him to the moons" "The moon is the sun's sister" "The moon turns into the circle" "The moon turns into the bow" "Spring, summer, autumn, winter... she shines over entire Japan" "The moon is out, the moon is out" "Round, round, perfectly round" "The moon like a tray" "The moon is hiding, hiding" "Behind black, black, jet black" "Clouds like black ink" "The moon is out once again" "Round, round, perfectly round" "The moon like a tray" "Gentlemen" "Remember..." "One-two Mr., Pharmacist" "Let's do that" "One-two Medicine is the best in Japan" "One, two" "Buy One-two Medicine" "One, two, one, two" "The medicine cures..." "One, two" "Pyrosis, stomach trouble, diarrhea" "Dizziness before and after childbirth" "Asthma, headache, influenza" "From here is my original" "Take the pace" "Medicine can cure numerous illnesses" "But no medicine can cure a fool" "Foolishness is in heaps today" "Japan is blooming with fools now" "Suffer defeat held under occupation" "But fools call it the end of the war" "Right about" "Advocating democracy loud and clear" "Only crooks throw their weight about" "Bribery and corruption currently pass with impunity" "Brazen fair and square" "Scandals, paradise, unfair judges" "Those naughty fools never learn" "Chirp and twitter all in unison" "Chirp, chirp, twitter twitter" "The end" "The House, the Rock, the island" "The lsland" "We're arrived" "What?" "Where is everybody?" "I don't know" "Have some more" "Could that be me?" "It seems like it" "Maadha Kai (not yet)" "Madadayo" "Maadha Kai (not yet)" "Professor's new house was completed" "Only this pair for men" "The rest are for women" "My garden doesn't need to be that wide" "You would be used to it" "In order to build the pond" "We have to make the house smaller" "When you imagine a house of match box" "This is indeed as big as a palace" "Really?" "Indeed it" "We're flattered" "I am also proud of this round fish pond" "This idea is special" "The Pacific may be vast..." "But swimming straight... you'll reach the shores of America" "Swimming round in this pond the distance is limitless" "I want to keep carp in this pond" "Big ones you only see in dreams" "They could be as big as rowboats" "That's impossible" "Infinite this pond may be..." "Like in the expression... and end up motionless" "Bad for their backs" "I meant is as a figure of speech" "Like in the expression... gray hair 3,000-yard long in a Chinese poem" "Imagine a carp the size of a whale" "By the way..." "The Golden Pavilion is built in a pond and my house although small and and not sparking is quite like it" "So put this up" "Kinkakuji ( guests forbidden)" "This Golden Pavilion forbids such boisterous crowd like us" "I'll use it as my study so I won't allow any guests" "What do you think?" "Isn't this too small?" "Could be worked out with the plan" "It's 49.5" "Land for sale" "It's 53.5" "Tea is ready" "The man who greeted you who is he?" "The owner of that land" "He came the other day to ask me if I'd buy that land" "I don't have so much money" "I have to refuse, but..." "He was very courteous" "Approaching me so polite" "I find it hard to tell him" "Seems he found the buyer" "Yes, I'm glad" "Are you keeping that cat?" "I call it Nora" "Because it's a nora neko (alle, cat)" "My wife gave it dried fish and it's lived here" "Besides, it has good physiognomy" "Cat physiognomy?" "Sound odd" "How else can I say it?" "But it does sound rather odd" "Any way this cat has well cultured" "Better mannered than you" "Excuse me" "It's the man from next door" "He wants to pay his respects to you" "Excuse me" "What?" "That's why I came to pay him my respect" "But..." "Rot the but" "I bought the land" "It's my land now" "I can build whatever I like" "That's true, but..." "You must think about you neighbor" "Building a 3-storey house next to their fence is unreasonable" "Unreasonable" "The surveying proved the lot is smaller" "Another floor must be added to the 2-storey house I planned" "If you do that" "You'll be depriving them of the sun" "So what?" "That's none of my concern" "Please wait" "The negotiation is closed" "Please wait" "I've changed my mind" "What?" "I'm not selling" "Don't be ridiculous" "Now that the contract is made" "I haven't signed it yet" "It's still my land" "I absolutely will not sell that land to you" "Excuse me" "I'm grateful to you for being so considerate about us" "I can't thank you enough" "But wouldn't is put you in a bad spot?" "As for my house even though there's no sunlight" "If that's the case..." "But what..." "Let's do it" "Professor, I must say this cat has good qualities" "The cat was angry at that blockhead" "But that landowner... seems to be a good man" "Where does he live?" "He lives in a shack at the base of that lot" "We must be leaving" "Stay a bit longer" "I'm still upset" "Let's drink" "I've prepared some food and..." "Sorry, ma'am" "I must go" "So must" "Goodbye" "Nanzanju" "Professor, what does this Nanzanju mean" "Long life of Nanzan" "An express wishing long life" "Should be read Nanzansu" "I hung it up" "Because I am reluctant to talk to visitors" "Nanzansu is what you want" "Nanzansu is what you want" "The Courtesan used this expression during the Edo Era" "Of course, it's shed for nan-zamasu" "It's prefect for that blockhead" "Right" "Nanzansu indeed" "My god, he's annoying" "I detest that dear man" "Goodbye, sir" "Goodbye" "Something strange is cooking up" "Why did they hurry off like that?" "Good baby, good baby, dear Nora" "Let me hold, too" "Hey, let me" "Come on" "If you consent to it" "Thank you" "I can buy a small house with this and send for my family" "I don't know how to thank you" "You can thank our professor" "He truly is grateful to you" "We understand how he feels" "So..." "If he finds out about this deal it'll be awkward" "I know" "Please keep this secret from him" "He'll know in time but leave the lot as it is until then" "You all are such nice people" "You're a nice person yourself" "But the best person is our professor" "We try as best to imitate him" "Goodbye" "That was good" "By the way" "Nanzansu (what dear?" ")" "Let's drink" "Where shall we go?" "To the professor's" "Great idea" "That's a charming idea" "Professor's in trouble" "What's wrong?" "He isn't sick" "The cat disappeared" "Madam called me" "Wants we to come" "Professor hasn't stopped crying since the cat disappeared" "Dear" "Please" "We received a call from Madan" "Are you all right?" "Of course I am" "Nothing more than a cat" "I am alright" "Beside this isn't the first time" "Nora has disappeared before" "He'll come back" "Thank you for coming" "I would be grateful you could spare time to eat with me" "You'd do me a favor if you could" "Since Nora disappeared" "He's eaten almost nothing" "You may think I'm stupid" "No..." "To be honest..." "I am stupid" "I'm totally hopeless" "Since Nora disappeared" "I can think of nothing else" "I can't do anything" "I only think about Nora" "Do you see that willow tree" "Nora came through an opening in the fence there" "Since then he became a member of this household" "Since Nora disappeared" "I can't help..." "looking at the opening" "Nora might come through the opening" "I want to see it" "The other day..." "I finished the lecture at Kaozhou" "On the way back" "Through the window" "In the dark station, I saw Nora" "It may sound strange, but..." "I really saw it" "I say the true" "This makes me headache" "When I reached Tokyo station" "I called my house" "As I thought..." "That day... after nightfull" "Nora wanted to go out" "I picked him up and said" "Stay home, it's late" "He wanted to go out..." "So I took him outside" "Nora grew impatient and wiggled until he slipped out of my arms" "He went through the opening" "After a while..." "It began to rain" "And later it began to pour" "Nora probably couldn't return in that rain" "On the bathtub cover" "Is Nora's bed" "My husband sometimes goes there" "Looks at the cushion" "He caresses it dearly and weeps" "I really don't know what to do" "Professor" "I'm ashamed to show my miserable face" "I may be... sentimental" "Or over reacting or weak willed or whatever..." "I just can't help it" "I try to forget but keep remembering Nora" "Then I feel so much pain, I can't bear it" "Professor, we'll find Nora" "We'll organize search to find Nora" "So please, professor" "That's a dog" "we promised to find Nora, but..." "We should try..." "Searching places saved from fire" "Why should professor suffer so much?" "Our professor is very special" "He's not you and me" "His sensitivity and imagination are beyond us" "When he thinks of Nora he can picture every detail" "What's why he suffers" "Can't just sit and watch" "You're right." "Let's try" "Dear Nora" "This is our professor's diary which he wrote about Nora with affection" "Here" "There are cats everywhere hundreds around" "But simply has to be this cat" "How come?" "Do you have a brother?" "Sure I do" "He's still a baby" "If your brother is switched with some other baby" "That's terrible" "This cat is my baby" "I care for him like my child" "That's why it has to be this cat" "Tell me if you find him" "What is look like is written here and address is here, too" "Children" "Please find a cat named Nora" "This cat seems to be around here somewhere" "It's a male cat with brown and while coat" "His tail is thick and twisted" "If you touch it, you'll now" "If you call out Nora" "He will prick up its ears and stare at you" "A reward will be given to whoever finds him" "Please help us" "Yes" "Since then we received many phone calls" "That they have seen a cat like Nora" "But..." "Professor eating much" "I know" "He eats and drinks very little" "I can't sleep much either" "That's terrible" "Since Nora disappeared" "He hasn't take a bath" "Nora's cushion is on the top of the bath" "I must use the public bath far away" "Is it rain?" "I used to love the sound of rain" "Not any now" "When I think of Nora" "It's pain" "How about making flyers to insert in newspapers?" "I'll take them to the newspaper distributor" "That's a good idea" "I never thought of it" "What a fool I am" "I really am" "Thinking of Nora's return" "I wrote this announcement" "I meaning Nora" "I have been away for some time and I have worried my master terribly and given you a lot of trouble" "I have safety returned" "So please put your mind to rest" "Seeing my face" "My master burst into tear" "I write this letter in his place" "To celebrate my return my master wishes to invite you all to a drink" "Please feel free to" "Waiting for Nora's return" "Professor has a cloth ready specially with their address engraved on it" "But Nora still hasn't returned" "I received a letter saying" "I must wait eight months a stray cat to return" "This cat was in the letter after eight months" "We've received some calls" "There're strange ones, too" "The other day a person asked me if Nora mevis" "I said yes" "Then he said doesn't he bark Hee, hee... and hung up" "Has your cat returned?" "No" "He might have been stolen" "Ma'am, cats often get stolen" "There're cat catchers" "Catch cats and sell their skin" "The prices aren't bad" "Shamisen uses cat skin" "You could be stolen" "I'll check up on that" "Good bye" "Hello" "Dear Dear" "Dear, they found Nora" "Nora was in such a place" "It's Nora, it's Nora" "Nora" "Nora" "Nora's friend, the fish manger's wife says" "Must be true" "Thank you" "My wife will go, thank you" "Hello, Takayama?" "They found Nora, yes, that's right" "It's positive" "Can you tell the other?" "I saw a wonderful dream" "I dream of feeding Nora" "Nora will return" "I was going to tell you... and..." "I bought Nora's favorite fish" "Professor, congratulations" "From my boss" "Thank you indeed" "Cat's do return" "They were wrong" "It wasn't Nora" "I'll get it" "Yes" "That's right" "Who the hell are you?" "I'll smack you face" "What's up?" "Damn" "Nora's gone" "Already a Shamisen" "Saying so..." "He sounded the Shamisen" "Come here" "Come here" "This was intended for Nora" "But it's yours now" "Go on, eat it" "Is it good?" "Like Nora, you seems to like baby macerate" "That's a good cat" "Professor seems to have recovered" "Madam called" "The cat..." "Found Nora?" "Relaz, it's not Nora" "That black and white, black on white" "White, black" "You relax" "Calm down" "Give me water" "That's why..." "That's why what?" "Calm down" "What's this black and white cat?" "Oh, yes remember that cat?" "The one madam was feeding?" "It's there to stayed" "Professor now picks it up" "Kurz..." "What's this Kurz?" "Did you forget that simple German word?" "Kurz it means short in German" "It has a short tail" "What tail?" "The cat's tail" "The black and white cat has a short tail" "So professor named it Kurz" "Even named it" "He said he's okay" "I'm glad to hear that" "She wants us all to come tonight" "I'll catch Kinyama" "You fetch Sawamura" "Phone them" "Yes, the phone" "The phone's here" "Relax" "Kurz..." "You're a good baby" "Leave it to my wife and Kurz becomes kuru" "Kuru is not bad" "It's easy to pronounce" "Easy to pronounce" "Let it be at that" "I really went into piece over Nora" "And troubled all of you" "Because of that, I caused you so much trouble" "I'm sorry" "Where's Kurz?" "Sleeping in Nora's bed" "I was so angry to myself" "And I felt very regret" "Can you believe it?" "I still do that" "Not mosquito repellent" "Incantation to bring back missing cats" "I still do such a thing" "I'm disgusted at myself" "But I'm all right now" "I've always been a hare in the myth" "Saved by the Harves God" "Don't you all know" "There was a white hare in lnaba" "Raw flesh with skin peeled off this song?" "Carrying a large bag over his shoulder" "Who can the Harvest God?" "That's the fourth verse" "This song has many verse" "It's about an injured hare saved by the Harvest God" "I am that hare" "And who can the Harvest God be?" "It is no other than you all" "As far as Nora is concerned people who sent me kind letters people who called me all those who worried for Nora with me" "The Harvest God is those people" "Carrying a large bag over his shoulder" "The Harvest God's large bag is full of your kindness" "That kindness saved me from despair" "Carrying a large bag over his shoulder" "The Harvest God came around the road" "There he sees the white hare of lnaba" "Row flesh with skin peeled off" "The Harvest God took pity on the hare taught the hare to wash itself in clear water and wrap itself in reed mace cotton" "As the Harvest God taught him" "The hare washed itself in clear water and wrap itself in reed mace cotton" "He was once again the white hare" "Gentlemen" "Who could the Harvest God?" "Towers in memory of Nora and Kurz were erected in the professor's garden" "Nora was never found" "Kurz living a full life sleep here" "And the willow tree has grown to this height" "The 17th Maaoha Kai party" "I can remember the time" "When I became 60 years old" "At the time" "I thought I had become a genuine old man" "But now that I have turned 77 to celebrate" "my birthday once again" "I realize when I was 60" "I was nothing more than a young punk" "But now..." "I have become a genuine old man" "At one time, you confronted me with so many Maadha Kai calls that in response" "I thought of hanging myself from the willow tree in my garden" "So I can say Mouiiyo (I'm ready) to you" "In fact, this tree" "That tree was small and weak" "It could not be hanged" "But now" "The willow tree has grown" "It is good enough for hanging" "But I am still here" "I must ask your forgiveness" "My good friends and gentlemen" "Thank you for this occasion" "According to our customs" "I would drink this big glass of beer" "This glass is smaller than last year's" "Is this your idea?" "The glass gets smaller and smaller" "It's no longer a large glass" "Even that is too big for you now" "Don't complain and drink up" "Madadayo (Not yet)" "Let's toast for our professor" "Congratulation" "After we have finished the ceremony" "We will start the celebration then" "The celebration of 77th birthday" "First, the presentation of flowers" "They're your students' daughters" "Next" "A birthday cake from Maaoha Kai" "Oh no" "You'll have candles to equal my age and I must blow them out" "I can't do it" "Mustn't treat an old man so cruelty" "Since we can't have 77 candles" "Only 7 candles" "Even 7 candles may be a burden" "Some of my teeth are missing" "Much of the air leaks out" "These children?" "They're their grandchildren" "How lovely they are" "I feel like eating them" "I want to give the cake to the children who brought it" "Come here, children" "with the cake, there is something" "I want to give you" "Let me say this" "Please find something you really like" "Find something you'd able to reassure" "When you find it" "You must work hard" "To remember it in heart" "At that time" "You will have the treasure" "You must work hard for" "And will you are a career" "You put your heart into" "That is yours treasure" "Maybe it is too difficult" "I'm sorry" "Take it" "Thank you" "Now, all you grandpas and grandmas" "Dads and Moms" "Let's drink and have a good time" "Professor" "Let's do One-two again" "As you say there is many things in the world recently" "Many ridiculous things happened" "Graft bribery are at large One, two" "Let's go out dancing" "Professor" "Professor" "As the professor's family doctor" "I must say there is nothing to worry" "It is just one of his chronic irregular pulse lits" "I suggest he goes home and rest for a while" "I'm all right" "Don't worry" "Madadayo (Not yet)" "We officers will escort professor to his house" "Don't worry and continue the party for his sake" "Professor" "My husband's cane" "You don't look like to care about it" "Damn monk" "Don't worry, he's not ready for me yet" "All right" "Thanks" "Looking up to our teacher" "Thinking of our debt to our teacher" "Over the garden of teaching" "Years of time have already passed" "So fast is the passage of time" "The years and the months" "Nothing to worry" "If he rest well tonight, he'll be fine" "I'm worry about those guys" "They may cause trouble" "Don't wake the professor and have a drink" "You're joking" "We'll hit the sack" "Don't wet the bed" "That quack" "Mattresses are in there" "Shall I..." "We'll do it, ma'am" "There may not be enough" "I hope it won't be cold" "Don't worry" "If we have a drink" "That's good enough" "But..." "Like our student days" "Remember his speech?" "We'll soon be genuine old men, too" "Thank you, ma'am" "There's nothing" "Thank you, ma'am" "I'll sleep in the Kinkakuii" "If anything..." "Don't worry" "It's Okay" "You mustn't wake professor" "Yes ma'am" "Good night" "It's great" "What is it?" "When we used to stayed over" "He made us prepare for the lessons" "No need for that tonight" "No go to school tomorrow" "We've passed all that" "Madadayo (Not yet)" "He's sound asleep" "He must be dreaming" "I wonder what kind of dream he sees" "His dreams must be solid gold, too" "Maadha kai?" "Madadayo" "Maadha kai?" "Madadayo" "Maadha kai?" "Madadayo" "Maadha kai?" "Madadayo"