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written and directed by
Shuji TERAYAMA
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One a lacquered box,
two a tiny drum,
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three a long sleeved kimono.
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For whom you bought it?
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It's for Oharu...
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LABYRINTH IN THE FIELD
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Today I had a visit
from a strange young fellow.
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He said he was from
the noble Kuromon family.
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You were a servant there.
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He has been looking for you
for over a month.
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It's strange,
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he asked me if I knew the lyrics
of the handball song.
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How did you reply?
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The lyrics...
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I was so busy.
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He asked for my wife.
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I hit him and kicked him out.
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"I bought it for Oharu."
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"Where did she die?"
That's all I remember.
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After that, just the melody.
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It seems my mother sang it
with her friends.
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Why don't you ask your mother?
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I have no mother.
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They say she died in her native land.
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Dead?
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She sang it with my aunt.
My mother loved her a lot.
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With a red ribbon in her hair,
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my aunt was very pretty.
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Obliged to marry a tailor at 19,
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she went crazy the night
of the Girls' Festival.
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She is still in a mental hospital.
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I wrote her to ask for the lyrics.
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She answered a month later.
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She sent me a lot of love poems.
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Did you find the song
you were looking for?
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Not a line of the song of hand ball.
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I'm sorry but
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I don't know the words.
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I have had many pupils.
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I can't remember your mother.
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Besides, these days,
very few kids sing
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those songs.
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One a lacquered box,
two a tiny drum,
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three a long sleeved kimono.
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Who did I buy it for?
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I bought it for Oharu.
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Where did she die? I wonder.
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Akira!
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What are you thinking about?
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Once in a while,
you disappear right in front of me.
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Leaving your body behind,
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you go on a trip to a faraway land.
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Welcome home.
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Do you want to take a bath?
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Or do you want to eat first?
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Who are you?
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Why are you here?
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Eat.
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Chopsticks...
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My dear Shin.
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One a lacquered box,
two a tiny drum,
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three a long sleeved kimono.
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It's that song.
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Searching for
the handball song
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which his mother left him.
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He travels
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through the labyrinth in the field
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three thousand miles
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for one year, for two years
and for three...
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That was nice.
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Mom!
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Look, Mom!
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Mom.
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My underpants...
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My underpants...
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Mom... who is that woman
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in our neighbour's storehouse?
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You...
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Did you meet Chiyojo?
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Don't go near her.
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She is a nymphomaniac,
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- a devil.
- A devil?
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She went crazy waiting for a man.
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For a long time here,
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when a girl is 20
on the day of the Bull
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the cursed year of the Bull,
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she purifies her body,
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wears almost no lipstick,
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closes the door
and hangs a woman's soul
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praying to the wicked Bull.
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In her hand mirror,
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the girl sees the man she is
destined to marry.
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But...
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this woman couldn't see a man
in her mirror.
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While waiting for the man,
one, two, three years
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she finally went mad.
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Shut away in the storehouse,
as if in prison,
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sometimes on a beautiful
moonlit evening,
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she comes out in search of a man.
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What if she comes out
again and
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tries to take me away...
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Don't worry!
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Your mother will always be here.
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Your new mother?
Does she really exist?
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You know there is
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nothing new in the world.
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Sometimes forgotten things wake up.
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That's it.
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Please, please tell me.
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Why am I so obsessed with that song?
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Why should I go on travelling?
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Why do you ask me that question?
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Maybe, I have another mother.
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To find her. I have continued to travel.
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What a silly idea.
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Look at a bird,
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but don't you see the huge sky
across which the birds fly?
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Akira!
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Akira!
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You never listen to me.
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I told you not to go near her.
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You forget your homework.
You are attracted to that nymphomaniac.
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You are not my son, anymore.
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I'll never go there again.
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Sorry, excuse me.
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I'm going to town.
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You leave me like this?
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Don't worry.
To prevent her from approaching you,
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I'll write magic words.
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The handball escapes from her grasp
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and runs away from her.
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One a lacquered box,
two a tiny drum,
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three a long sleeved kimono.
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Whom
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did I buy it for?
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It's for Oharu
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that I bought it.
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Oh, Oharu,
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where did she die?
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Now, no devil can approach you.
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You will remain my son forever.
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She's an awful woman, who
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10 years ago shut away the servant
her husband raped.
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She treats her like a nymphomaniac.
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In any case, like a bird in a cage.
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Someone said
"Catch the floating ball."
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On the sunset reflecting river
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floats something round.
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Yes, a hand ball.
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I want to catch it
but I don't want to get wet.
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A policeman passing by
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takes off his cap and turns it,
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easily catches the ball.
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The policeman is also a lover
of Akira's mother.
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She says Akira's father is
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a naval officer. No one saw him.
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Precisely. No one saw him.
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Odd ties between mother and son.
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No, there is nothing odd
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where there is a school.
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Ready or not?
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Not yet.
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Ready or not?
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Ready.
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Her dead body was swept
upon the shore.
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She committed suicide
with the deserter.
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Impossible!
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What a bitch!
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Don't waste your time.
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Come on, hurry up!
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It's your turn.
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There is another one.
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Sleep well, little sweet boy.
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Ten pounds for a whore,
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one pound for
the whole basket of flowers.
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It's a lullaby!
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That's right.
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What about this one?
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Shut up.
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Stop singing.
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That's it.
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What comes next?
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No, I want to know the words.
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Let's see...
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Visited a temple of dead.
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Peonies, lilies, poppies.
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The same melody with different lyrics.
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You wanted to hear other lyrics.
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Yes?
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I made them up.
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I want to know the rest.
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Well, I'm at a loss.
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How does it go? I don't recall.
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Please, please remember.
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Please sing.
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Forget that song.
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And now...
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For Oharu, for Oharu,
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I bought it
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to give to Oharu.
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Where did Oharu
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die?
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Where did she die?
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My dear, the umbrella...
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Umbrella?
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Mom!
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The girl who ran into your house,
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the girl playing with a ball,
where is she?
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A girl? There is no one here,
besides me.
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Have a cup of tea.
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I've lived here alone
for the past 30 years.
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That looks like a hand ball.
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That one?
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It's called a pregnancy stone.
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Some very small ones exist
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and some as big as that one.
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When a sterile woman touches it
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she becomes pregnant right away.
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These days,
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old women sell these stones
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at their street stands...
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"Old lady, I don't need a child,"
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"but give me a woman,"
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young fellows tease her.
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Still, quite a lot of
young women buy them.
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It was my mother, and her partner
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was me.
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Mother!
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Don't worry.
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Your mother is near you.
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Is it Akira?
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I am pregnant with you, once again.
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Darkness fell in front of
the graveyard.
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Where shall we sleep
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tonight?
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There is a temple over there.
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Waking up in the temple
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the lady with a bridal headdress
is my mother.
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Using the clouds as my guide,
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crossing oceans
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and mountains,
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walking from one country to another
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all that to find the meaning...
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Don't ask me the reason.
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I want to hear the handball song.
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I continue to travel...
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cast:
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Hiroshi MIKAMI (Akira, as a child)
Takeshi WAKAMATSU (Akira, as an adult)
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Keiko NIITAKA (Mother)
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Yasumi NAKASUJI (Crazy girl)
Miho FUKUYA (Midori)
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Juzo ITAMI
(school director, old man, priest)
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with the collaboration of TENJOSAJIKI
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cinematography: Tatsuo SUZUKI
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music: J. A. SEAZER
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production design: Isao YAMADA
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production co-ordination:
Eiko KUJO and Yumi GOVAERS
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production:
FILMS DU JEUDI
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producer: Pierre Brannberge
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