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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:03,133 --> 00:00:06,126 A SHOCHIKU PRODUCTION 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:15,178 --> 00:00:21,743 THE IDIOT 5 00:00:23,753 --> 00:00:27,884 Produced by TAKASHI KOIDE Developed by SOJIRO MOTOKI 6 00:00:28,091 --> 00:00:31,550 Based on the Novel by FYODOR M. DOSTOYEVSKY 7 00:00:31,761 --> 00:00:36,222 Screenplay by EIJIRO HISAITA and AKIRA KUROSAWA 8 00:00:36,433 --> 00:00:40,200 Director of Photography TOSHIO UBUKATA 9 00:00:40,403 --> 00:00:42,235 Production Design by TAKASHI MATSUYAMA 10 00:00:42,439 --> 00:00:44,271 Music by FUMIO HAYASAKA 11 00:00:47,010 --> 00:00:49,241 Starring 12 00:00:49,446 --> 00:00:52,041 SETSUKO HARA MASAYUKI MORI 13 00:00:52,248 --> 00:00:54,649 TOSHIRO MIFUNE YOSHIKO KUGA 14 00:00:54,851 --> 00:00:56,820 TAKASHI SHIMURA CHIEKO HIGASHIYAMA 15 00:00:57,020 --> 00:00:59,990 EIJIRO YANAGI, MINORU CHIAKI NORIKO SENGOKU 16 00:01:00,190 --> 00:01:05,288 KOKUTEN KODO BOKUZEN HIDARI, EIKO MIYOSHI 17 00:01:05,495 --> 00:01:10,024 CHIYOKO FUMIYA MITSUYO AKASHI, DAISUKE INOUE 18 00:01:12,035 --> 00:01:17,133 Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA 19 00:01:19,409 --> 00:01:24,905 PART 1 LOVE AND AGONY 20 00:01:27,584 --> 00:01:29,348 HOKKAIDO - DECEMBER 21 00:02:04,387 --> 00:02:06,856 That was some scream. 22 00:02:13,363 --> 00:02:15,195 Forgive me. 23 00:02:15,665 --> 00:02:17,634 I was dreaming. 24 00:02:20,570 --> 00:02:22,232 Dreaming? 25 00:02:24,274 --> 00:02:26,937 Sounded like you were being murdered. 26 00:02:29,345 --> 00:02:30,836 I was... 27 00:02:31,981 --> 00:02:34,177 about to be shot. 28 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,620 It's a recurring nightmare of mine. 29 00:02:42,425 --> 00:02:46,487 You see, I was convicted as a war criminal 30 00:02:47,130 --> 00:02:49,622 and sentenced to death. 31 00:02:50,567 --> 00:02:52,832 Then why are you still alive? 32 00:02:54,003 --> 00:02:57,201 My sentence was commuted at the last minute. 33 00:02:57,407 --> 00:02:59,603 They realized they had the wrong man. 34 00:03:00,209 --> 00:03:04,169 But I went crazy from the shock. 35 00:03:04,847 --> 00:03:08,181 I spent a long time in a US military hospital. 36 00:03:08,751 --> 00:03:10,117 In the south? 37 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,620 In Okinawa. But I'm better now. 38 00:03:13,823 --> 00:03:16,622 They put me on a boat ten days ago. 39 00:03:16,826 --> 00:03:18,624 What ails you? 40 00:03:18,828 --> 00:03:20,387 Idiocy. 41 00:03:20,763 --> 00:03:24,666 They call it epileptic dementia. 42 00:03:25,168 --> 00:03:28,696 I had so many fits that I eventually became an idiot. 43 00:03:29,272 --> 00:03:30,763 An idiot? 44 00:03:36,512 --> 00:03:41,849 "Dostoyevsky wanted to portray a genuinely good man. 45 00:03:42,051 --> 00:03:46,489 It may seem ironic, choosing a young idiot as his hero, 46 00:03:46,689 --> 00:03:51,389 but in this world, goodness and idiocy are often equated. 47 00:03:51,594 --> 00:03:57,591 This story tells of the destruction of a pure soul by a faithless world." 48 00:04:07,176 --> 00:04:09,873 Get up! This man is sick! 49 00:04:10,079 --> 00:04:13,572 That's all right. Please, take your seat back. 50 00:04:13,783 --> 00:04:15,684 Accept the favor, idiot! 51 00:04:24,527 --> 00:04:27,122 I didn't mean it that way. 52 00:04:27,330 --> 00:04:29,265 I say things like that a lot. 53 00:04:31,167 --> 00:04:33,898 It's all right. I don't mind. 54 00:04:35,805 --> 00:04:37,330 Good. 55 00:04:46,282 --> 00:04:48,217 Are you cold? 56 00:04:48,418 --> 00:04:50,717 Yes, in fact, I am. 57 00:04:52,655 --> 00:04:54,556 You're an odd one! 58 00:04:58,861 --> 00:05:03,265 "Akama hadn't laughed in years. He was the son of an old Sapporo family, 59 00:05:03,466 --> 00:05:08,427 and his father's harsh discipline had made him feel like a caged animal. 60 00:05:08,638 --> 00:05:13,508 Oddly, he came to like Kameda, who made him laugh heartily. 61 00:05:13,710 --> 00:05:18,739 Akama told him about Taeko Nasu, whom he'd met six months earlier. 62 00:05:18,948 --> 00:05:24,444 One look at her had been enough to release his pent-up passions. 63 00:05:24,654 --> 00:05:28,785 He bought her a diamond ring with money stolen from his father. 64 00:05:28,991 --> 00:05:32,553 Enraged by this, his father disowned him. 65 00:05:32,762 --> 00:05:37,200 But now his father has died, and Akama has come into his fortune. 66 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,268 He's returning home to Sapporo, 67 00:05:40,470 --> 00:05:45,499 where Kameda is also headed to see Mr. Ono, 68 00:05:45,708 --> 00:05:49,406 his only relative in the world." 69 00:05:59,122 --> 00:06:01,785 Another snowstorm in Sapporo. 70 00:06:04,727 --> 00:06:07,891 Come on, follow me. 71 00:06:57,814 --> 00:07:00,579 That's her - Taeko Nasu. 72 00:07:13,062 --> 00:07:16,658 What do you think? Isn't she amazing? 73 00:07:17,466 --> 00:07:19,298 Very pretty. 74 00:07:20,203 --> 00:07:21,671 But - 75 00:07:22,839 --> 00:07:24,501 But what? 76 00:07:24,707 --> 00:07:30,613 When I look at her face, I feel a pain in my chest. 77 00:07:31,113 --> 00:07:32,741 Why? 78 00:07:34,684 --> 00:07:39,987 She seems very unhappy. 79 00:07:54,871 --> 00:07:57,306 Why are you crying? 80 00:07:58,174 --> 00:08:02,635 I don't know. I was just looking at her picture, and - 81 00:08:14,724 --> 00:08:17,853 You really are a strange one! 82 00:08:21,564 --> 00:08:24,534 I get a peculiar feeling looking at you. 83 00:08:27,403 --> 00:08:32,273 A tender feeling, like I'm looking at a newborn lamb. 84 00:08:41,083 --> 00:08:42,745 Well, I'm off. 85 00:08:42,952 --> 00:08:46,150 The world's full of wolves. Be careful. 86 00:09:01,837 --> 00:09:04,739 Kameda wept upon seeing Taeko Nasu's picture. 87 00:09:04,941 --> 00:09:07,911 She was, however, a woman of ill repute. 88 00:09:08,110 --> 00:09:09,942 Rumor had it 89 00:09:10,146 --> 00:09:13,241 that she'd been Tohata's mistress since childhood. 90 00:09:13,449 --> 00:09:15,645 Fearing now for his reputation, 91 00:09:15,851 --> 00:09:19,583 he has offered a dowry of 600, 000 yen to marry her off. 92 00:09:19,789 --> 00:09:22,918 Unbeknownst to Kameda, her shadow now falls upon 93 00:09:23,125 --> 00:09:25,651 his destination, the Ono residence. 94 00:09:33,499 --> 00:09:37,231 Dear, what do you plan to do about Kameda? 95 00:09:38,904 --> 00:09:40,873 Plan to do? Well... 96 00:09:42,508 --> 00:09:46,604 he's coming all this way in need of our help. 97 00:09:46,812 --> 00:09:49,782 I'll try to find him work. 98 00:09:49,982 --> 00:09:55,285 And Kayama has rooms for rent. He can lodge there. 99 00:09:55,487 --> 00:09:58,924 - Is that all? - What do you mean? 100 00:09:59,124 --> 00:10:01,559 You know, your recent little tricks. 101 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,093 What's that supposed to mean? 102 00:10:04,296 --> 00:10:08,165 I mean all your secrets and funny business. 103 00:10:09,101 --> 00:10:11,536 All those meetings with Tohata. 104 00:10:11,737 --> 00:10:15,902 He may indeed have a lot of influence, 105 00:10:16,108 --> 00:10:18,373 but forcing his mistress onto Kayama - 106 00:10:18,577 --> 00:10:20,910 You don't understand. It's in Kayama's best interest. 107 00:10:21,346 --> 00:10:23,815 I'm glad I don't understand. 108 00:10:24,116 --> 00:10:29,248 But any man who accepts such a dirty deal isn't welcome here. 109 00:10:29,454 --> 00:10:32,549 - But - - I'll discuss it no further. 110 00:10:32,758 --> 00:10:36,422 Right now I want to talk about the idiot. 111 00:10:36,628 --> 00:10:40,190 I don't like how you're taking advantage of him. 112 00:10:40,399 --> 00:10:44,700 "The army had reported Kameda officially dead. 113 00:10:44,903 --> 00:10:48,840 Kameda's father had left him a large ranch, 114 00:10:49,041 --> 00:10:51,033 which Ono sold through Kayama." 115 00:11:06,058 --> 00:11:09,790 "Kayama is now about to marry Taeko Nasu 116 00:11:10,062 --> 00:11:13,396 in exchange for the 600,000 yen. 117 00:11:13,599 --> 00:11:17,832 He plays the scoundrel, but he's really an unassertive coward, 118 00:11:18,036 --> 00:11:22,440 as shown by the fact that he secretly loves Ono's daughter Ayako." 119 00:11:24,242 --> 00:11:25,801 Good morning. 120 00:11:26,011 --> 00:11:28,071 - Sleep well? - Yes. 121 00:11:29,414 --> 00:11:31,781 Am I intruding? - Not at all. 122 00:11:31,984 --> 00:11:36,979 I was just listening to Kayama's views on life. 123 00:11:50,402 --> 00:11:55,397 Taeko's birthday party is tomorrow. Don't forget. 124 00:11:55,774 --> 00:11:56,935 I know, sir. 125 00:11:57,142 --> 00:11:58,633 That's good. 126 00:11:58,844 --> 00:12:02,281 Mr. Tohata and I were able to convince her 127 00:12:02,481 --> 00:12:06,179 to give you her answer at the party. 128 00:12:06,385 --> 00:12:08,945 You'd better be there. 129 00:12:09,154 --> 00:12:10,452 I understand. 130 00:12:11,823 --> 00:12:13,086 Knock first! 131 00:12:13,291 --> 00:12:16,489 Why? Discussing something I shouldn't hear? 132 00:12:16,895 --> 00:12:19,262 Mr. Kameda, lunch is ready. 133 00:12:20,232 --> 00:12:23,725 "Ayako - straight-laced and strong-willed, like her mother. 134 00:12:23,935 --> 00:12:26,871 So straight-laced at times that she turns mean." 135 00:12:34,112 --> 00:12:36,980 What would you say if all this were yours? 136 00:12:37,182 --> 00:12:39,583 - Mine? - Would you be happy? 137 00:12:39,785 --> 00:12:41,344 Yes, of course. 138 00:12:44,990 --> 00:12:47,084 These cows may well be yours. 139 00:12:47,292 --> 00:12:49,352 I'm afraid I don't understand. 140 00:12:59,604 --> 00:13:02,164 What a beautiful path! 141 00:13:03,475 --> 00:13:08,311 What's wrong? Why do you look at me like that? 142 00:13:08,513 --> 00:13:12,951 Somehow I just can't believe you're ill. 143 00:13:13,452 --> 00:13:15,353 I wish I weren't. 144 00:13:17,389 --> 00:13:19,756 But I do behave oddly, don't I? 145 00:13:21,093 --> 00:13:24,291 No, it's all right. I don't mind. 146 00:13:24,496 --> 00:13:26,556 People always laugh at me. 147 00:13:26,765 --> 00:13:29,860 I can tell I'm odd, but I'm not sure how. 148 00:13:36,374 --> 00:13:38,809 Tell me, what are you like? 149 00:13:39,377 --> 00:13:41,778 I want to know more about you. 150 00:13:42,414 --> 00:13:45,145 What did you do before the war? 151 00:13:45,350 --> 00:13:47,979 - Well - - You'd rather not say? 152 00:13:48,186 --> 00:13:50,121 It's not that. 153 00:13:50,322 --> 00:13:53,850 I remember the day my life was spared, 154 00:13:54,059 --> 00:13:58,554 but everything before that feels like it happened to someone else. 155 00:13:58,764 --> 00:14:01,893 Then tell me that story. 156 00:14:03,001 --> 00:14:07,803 How did it feel when you were facing certain death? 157 00:14:10,142 --> 00:14:14,136 Everyone in the world 158 00:14:14,579 --> 00:14:18,607 suddenly seemed so dear to me. 159 00:14:18,817 --> 00:14:20,410 Everyone in the world? 160 00:14:21,787 --> 00:14:25,349 Each and every person I'd ever known. 161 00:14:25,857 --> 00:14:28,349 Everyone I'd ever passed on the street. 162 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,995 And not just people - 163 00:14:32,130 --> 00:14:36,067 the puppy I'd thrown a rock at as a child. 164 00:14:38,303 --> 00:14:42,172 Why hadn't I been kinder? 165 00:14:44,075 --> 00:14:45,134 To the puppy? 166 00:14:45,911 --> 00:14:49,609 No, everyone! 167 00:14:51,349 --> 00:14:55,810 I told myself that if I were spared... 168 00:14:56,855 --> 00:15:03,659 I would be kinder and more considerate to everyone. 169 00:15:05,030 --> 00:15:09,730 But I knew all was lost. They were sure to execute me. 170 00:15:11,002 --> 00:15:13,096 That thought alone... 171 00:15:16,775 --> 00:15:20,712 was so unbearable that it drove me mad. 172 00:15:40,832 --> 00:15:43,097 Where on earth have you been? 173 00:15:44,269 --> 00:15:47,433 Mr. Kayama's been waiting to take you home. 174 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:49,835 Really, where did you go? 175 00:15:55,313 --> 00:15:59,409 Why even ask? She won't answer just to spite us. 176 00:15:59,618 --> 00:16:00,779 Be careful. 177 00:16:01,486 --> 00:16:04,786 She'll never admit it, 178 00:16:04,990 --> 00:16:07,653 but she's extremely proud of her looks. 179 00:16:07,859 --> 00:16:11,193 That's why she's so selfish and mean. 180 00:16:12,931 --> 00:16:14,490 See that? 181 00:16:14,699 --> 00:16:20,161 See how she glares at me? Isn't her simmering rage becoming? 182 00:16:21,006 --> 00:16:23,566 Yes, quite. 183 00:16:24,042 --> 00:16:27,171 I felt the same way when I saw Taeko Nasu. 184 00:16:27,379 --> 00:16:29,348 She's also very beautiful. 185 00:16:29,547 --> 00:16:32,574 Goodness! Where did you see her? 186 00:16:32,784 --> 00:16:36,084 I saw her portrait in a photo studio near the station. 187 00:16:36,288 --> 00:16:37,688 I must see it! 188 00:16:39,724 --> 00:16:42,455 Say what you will. I'm just curious. 189 00:16:42,661 --> 00:16:44,527 I'd like to see it too. 190 00:16:44,729 --> 00:16:46,561 I have no urge whatsoever. 191 00:16:46,898 --> 00:16:48,457 I wonder. 192 00:16:48,667 --> 00:16:51,432 But it's about time I spoke to Mr. Kayama. 193 00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:53,798 Would you call him? He's in the study. 194 00:16:54,005 --> 00:16:55,029 Mother! 195 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,268 I'm sorry not to send the girls, but I have my reasons. 196 00:17:01,413 --> 00:17:03,109 Madam sent for me? 197 00:17:05,917 --> 00:17:09,183 I wonder why. Any idea? 198 00:17:09,721 --> 00:17:11,280 Not really. 199 00:17:14,259 --> 00:17:17,491 I mentioned Taeko Nasu, and then - 200 00:17:17,896 --> 00:17:19,387 What? 201 00:17:20,231 --> 00:17:22,359 You know her? 202 00:17:24,602 --> 00:17:26,070 How? 203 00:17:43,688 --> 00:17:46,123 You must have overheard us. 204 00:17:46,324 --> 00:17:48,759 Did you tell them what Mr. Ono said to me? 205 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,189 No, I just - 206 00:17:50,395 --> 00:17:52,364 Why did you do that? 207 00:17:52,564 --> 00:17:56,399 I only mentioned her picture near the station. 208 00:17:58,303 --> 00:18:01,273 Well, what's done is done. Let's go. 209 00:18:11,683 --> 00:18:15,814 Listen, I need you to do me a big favor. 210 00:18:16,688 --> 00:18:20,181 Give Miss Ayako a letter for me. 211 00:18:27,232 --> 00:18:28,860 Am I imposing? 212 00:18:29,067 --> 00:18:32,504 No, but why can't you do it yourself? 213 00:18:32,704 --> 00:18:34,764 You're about to go see her. 214 00:18:37,509 --> 00:18:40,274 I have my reasons. 215 00:18:40,478 --> 00:18:44,848 I can't let anyone see me do it. Besides, it's urgent. 216 00:18:45,216 --> 00:18:46,878 Please. 217 00:19:00,899 --> 00:19:03,562 Mr. Kayama, Mother's in the parlor. 218 00:19:09,441 --> 00:19:11,876 Mr. Kameda, shall we go upstairs? 219 00:19:17,082 --> 00:19:22,316 Mr. Kayama asked me to give you this. 220 00:19:42,507 --> 00:19:46,638 I know I often tend to be too blunt. 221 00:19:46,845 --> 00:19:51,249 Don't be offended. I just can't abide dishonesty. 222 00:19:52,117 --> 00:19:55,315 We've become like family, 223 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,854 so I'll speak to you like a mother. 224 00:19:59,991 --> 00:20:03,291 You're planning to marry soon, aren't you? 225 00:20:03,495 --> 00:20:05,225 No, I - 226 00:20:07,065 --> 00:20:08,124 No. 227 00:20:08,333 --> 00:20:11,394 No? Are you certain about that? 228 00:20:12,403 --> 00:20:13,871 Well, I - 229 00:20:14,339 --> 00:20:16,808 So you won't come out and say it. 230 00:20:17,008 --> 00:20:21,571 I must say, such secrecy about something so joyous 231 00:20:21,779 --> 00:20:23,975 does make one wonder. 232 00:20:24,182 --> 00:20:26,344 That's all I had to say. 233 00:20:26,551 --> 00:20:28,679 Now if you'll excuse me. 234 00:20:43,301 --> 00:20:48,296 I just got raked over the coals thanks to you. 235 00:20:48,506 --> 00:20:50,805 - But I - - No excuses! 236 00:20:51,242 --> 00:20:54,269 What was her reply to my letter? 237 00:20:54,479 --> 00:20:56,846 Mr. Kameda, do you have a moment? 238 00:20:59,984 --> 00:21:04,718 I'm taking you home, right? I'll wait outside. 239 00:21:27,812 --> 00:21:29,440 Please read this. 240 00:21:30,949 --> 00:21:34,386 Isn't that Mr. Kayama's letter? 241 00:21:34,586 --> 00:21:36,578 Yes. Now read it. 242 00:21:36,788 --> 00:21:39,587 Read it to me aloud. 243 00:21:39,791 --> 00:21:41,555 That's for being his messenger. 244 00:21:54,606 --> 00:21:57,075 "Tomorrow my fate will be decided. 245 00:21:58,009 --> 00:22:02,640 If you still feel the friendship for me that you once did, 246 00:22:02,847 --> 00:22:05,942 simply say the word. 247 00:22:09,254 --> 00:22:12,019 Tell me to call the whole thing off, 248 00:22:12,223 --> 00:22:15,557 and I will gladly do so." 249 00:22:20,765 --> 00:22:24,133 He's entering into a sham of a marriage, 250 00:22:24,335 --> 00:22:28,773 all for the sake of power and 600,000 yen. 251 00:22:30,608 --> 00:22:34,807 Now he wants me to tell him to call it off. 252 00:22:36,214 --> 00:22:40,174 He'll give up 600,000 yen in return for my pledge of friendship. 253 00:22:43,788 --> 00:22:46,883 If he'd resisted that enticement from the outset, 254 00:22:47,091 --> 00:22:49,822 I might have given him my friendship. 255 00:22:51,796 --> 00:22:54,561 But I won't! Give him his letter back. 256 00:22:54,766 --> 00:22:59,966 Tell him I won't barter my friendship. 257 00:23:03,207 --> 00:23:05,767 I won't barter my friendship. 258 00:23:06,544 --> 00:23:08,638 That's my answer. 259 00:23:09,847 --> 00:23:11,509 What did she say? 260 00:23:14,886 --> 00:23:18,015 What's this? Didn't you give it to her? 261 00:23:18,222 --> 00:23:22,318 Yes, I did. Then she asked me to read it. 262 00:23:22,527 --> 00:23:24,052 You read it? 263 00:23:24,262 --> 00:23:26,595 Then she said to give it back to you. 264 00:23:28,166 --> 00:23:32,069 She herself told you to read it? 265 00:23:32,270 --> 00:23:35,104 Yes, though I didn't want to. 266 00:23:37,675 --> 00:23:39,337 What an idiot! 267 00:23:40,345 --> 00:23:43,338 She'd never ask you to do that. 268 00:23:43,548 --> 00:23:46,143 But she did. I have her answer too. 269 00:23:46,351 --> 00:23:47,444 Well? 270 00:23:47,819 --> 00:23:49,811 "I won't barter my friendship." 271 00:23:54,592 --> 00:23:56,959 That's what she said to tell you. 272 00:23:57,161 --> 00:23:59,392 "I won't barter my friendship." 273 00:24:33,064 --> 00:24:36,592 KAYAMA INN 274 00:24:42,874 --> 00:24:44,934 You again! 275 00:24:49,113 --> 00:24:51,742 Telling your tales here too. 276 00:24:51,949 --> 00:24:53,611 Have you no shame? 277 00:24:53,818 --> 00:24:56,344 - You're one to talk. - Takako! 278 00:24:58,823 --> 00:25:02,191 Apologize to Mr. Kameda. 279 00:25:02,527 --> 00:25:06,487 You're the one acting strangely. That's why I sent for him. 280 00:25:07,064 --> 00:25:09,397 So he told you everything, the little - 281 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,662 What are you saying? He just came in this minute. 282 00:25:14,038 --> 00:25:18,203 I'm just worried about what tonight holds in store. 283 00:25:18,409 --> 00:25:21,868 Who but Kameda would blab about that? 284 00:25:22,547 --> 00:25:24,209 It was me. 285 00:25:26,551 --> 00:25:28,281 That's right. 286 00:25:29,287 --> 00:25:31,347 Tell me, why - 287 00:25:31,556 --> 00:25:34,390 - Why marry another man's mistress? - No. 288 00:25:34,592 --> 00:25:37,118 She's not my concern. 289 00:25:37,328 --> 00:25:39,695 It's you I'm worried about. 290 00:25:44,101 --> 00:25:49,005 I want to know your feelings. Why marry like this? 291 00:25:49,674 --> 00:25:51,540 That's easy. 292 00:25:51,742 --> 00:25:54,871 He's sick of being poor. - You hush! 293 00:25:56,047 --> 00:26:00,314 I can't stand it anymore! You're a worthless fool! 294 00:26:00,518 --> 00:26:03,215 What? I dare you to repeat that. 295 00:26:03,454 --> 00:26:06,185 I will. Any number of times. 296 00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:09,986 You're a worthless fool, and so is she. 297 00:26:10,194 --> 00:26:14,757 If you bring that woman here, I'll leave home. 298 00:26:16,935 --> 00:26:18,733 I couldn't care less. 299 00:26:20,038 --> 00:26:24,976 Don't think it ends here. There's more: 300 00:26:25,210 --> 00:26:29,409 I wrote her and told her everything I just told you. 301 00:26:30,148 --> 00:26:31,673 You bitch! 302 00:26:31,883 --> 00:26:34,717 Takako, run! 303 00:27:17,578 --> 00:27:21,982 What is it? You look like you've just seen a ghost. 304 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,785 Go announce me. 305 00:27:31,259 --> 00:27:32,750 Wait! 306 00:27:32,961 --> 00:27:35,692 Who are you going to announce? 307 00:27:37,565 --> 00:27:39,500 What a strange man! 308 00:27:41,235 --> 00:27:42,635 Taeko Nasu. 309 00:27:45,073 --> 00:27:47,008 How do you know me? 310 00:27:49,344 --> 00:27:51,370 I... 311 00:27:53,114 --> 00:27:56,846 Never mind. Just announce me. 312 00:27:58,553 --> 00:28:01,182 I'll marry her, no matter what anyone says! 313 00:28:02,790 --> 00:28:05,555 It's worth it just to see that look on your face! 314 00:28:06,027 --> 00:28:08,223 Miss Taeko Nasu is here. 315 00:28:19,540 --> 00:28:24,137 Your entryway is freezing. I let myself in. 316 00:28:29,450 --> 00:28:32,511 Why on earth do you look so pale? 317 00:28:41,796 --> 00:28:43,628 Introduce me. 318 00:28:56,844 --> 00:28:58,312 My younger sister. 319 00:28:58,513 --> 00:29:00,243 Miss Taeko Nasu. 320 00:29:26,707 --> 00:29:28,369 My mother. 321 00:29:28,810 --> 00:29:30,369 Miss Taeko Nasu. 322 00:29:32,246 --> 00:29:36,047 How do you do. I'm glad you came. 323 00:29:37,218 --> 00:29:38,914 Are you really? 324 00:29:41,989 --> 00:29:45,084 How foolish of me. 325 00:29:45,493 --> 00:29:48,224 I thought perhaps a woman like me 326 00:29:48,429 --> 00:29:53,060 wouldn't be welcome in such a magnificent home. 327 00:29:53,267 --> 00:29:54,496 I don't - 328 00:29:54,702 --> 00:29:58,070 - Mother. - Go make some tea. 329 00:30:03,778 --> 00:30:06,407 Might I have a seat as well? 330 00:30:08,082 --> 00:30:09,812 Please do. 331 00:30:16,090 --> 00:30:19,754 Don't be a nuisance! We have visitors! 332 00:30:25,032 --> 00:30:26,591 My father. 333 00:30:26,801 --> 00:30:28,429 Miss Taeko Nasu. 334 00:30:29,704 --> 00:30:32,139 Jumpei Kayama... 335 00:30:33,341 --> 00:30:36,937 a former soldier, dishonorably discharged. 336 00:30:41,182 --> 00:30:45,415 Fifty years old, with nothing to show for it. 337 00:30:46,521 --> 00:30:50,652 Allow me to introduce Mr. Kameda, a very interesting fellow. 338 00:30:50,858 --> 00:30:53,259 A relative of Mr. Ono's. 339 00:30:53,794 --> 00:30:56,787 Forgive me. I took you for a servant. 340 00:30:56,998 --> 00:30:58,796 Not at all. I - 341 00:30:59,667 --> 00:31:02,398 But how do you know me? 342 00:31:02,603 --> 00:31:06,335 And why did you look so surprised 343 00:31:06,541 --> 00:31:08,840 when you saw me? 344 00:31:10,011 --> 00:31:12,037 I felt... 345 00:31:12,678 --> 00:31:16,137 as if I'd seen your eyes somewhere before. 346 00:31:41,573 --> 00:31:44,099 So it's true! 347 00:31:46,345 --> 00:31:48,507 Which of you is my rival? 348 00:31:49,548 --> 00:31:52,416 What are you doing here? 349 00:31:54,419 --> 00:31:56,388 Who are all of you? 350 00:31:59,124 --> 00:32:01,320 Him? 351 00:32:01,927 --> 00:32:03,486 Who are you? 352 00:32:05,631 --> 00:32:09,261 I'm Denkichi Akama, and I'm rich as hell! 353 00:32:09,701 --> 00:32:13,331 I can buy and sell the likes of you! - Get out of here! 354 00:32:14,006 --> 00:32:17,773 Are you really going to marry him? 355 00:32:19,811 --> 00:32:21,837 Now I remember you. 356 00:32:22,614 --> 00:32:27,416 You gave me a diamond ring once. 357 00:32:30,422 --> 00:32:32,323 But why... 358 00:32:32,524 --> 00:32:34,652 are you asking these questions? 359 00:32:35,827 --> 00:32:41,459 How does my marriage to that man concern you? 360 00:32:50,042 --> 00:32:54,810 I'll pay you 600,000 yen to give her up. 361 00:32:55,314 --> 00:32:57,374 What are you saying? 362 00:32:58,350 --> 00:33:00,080 You must be drunk. 363 00:33:00,452 --> 00:33:03,217 700,000! No, 800,000! 364 00:33:03,422 --> 00:33:06,415 You fool! Leave or I'll call the police! 365 00:33:07,793 --> 00:33:09,227 Damn it! 366 00:33:09,728 --> 00:33:12,459 One million yen! By tonight. 367 00:33:14,266 --> 00:33:17,031 Have one million ready by 9:00 tonight. 368 00:33:22,574 --> 00:33:27,706 So suddenly my price has shot up by 400,000 yen? 369 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,839 Insolent bastard! 370 00:33:30,048 --> 00:33:31,448 Father! 371 00:33:31,650 --> 00:33:34,950 He's made you look even more foolish! 372 00:33:35,153 --> 00:33:36,348 You shut up! 373 00:33:36,555 --> 00:33:40,253 I will not! Not while we're being disgraced like this! 374 00:33:40,459 --> 00:33:43,224 Either kick her out or I will! 375 00:33:49,501 --> 00:33:50,662 Bitch! 376 00:33:50,869 --> 00:33:52,462 That's enough. 377 00:33:52,671 --> 00:33:55,038 Stay out of this! Let me go! 378 00:34:21,133 --> 00:34:22,829 Stupid brother! 379 00:34:32,210 --> 00:34:35,305 It's all right. 380 00:34:36,982 --> 00:34:38,041 It's all right. 381 00:34:42,454 --> 00:34:46,516 You should be ashamed! That man is a lamb! 382 00:34:53,098 --> 00:34:55,090 It was nothing. 383 00:34:56,535 --> 00:34:58,197 Nothing at all. 384 00:34:59,938 --> 00:35:01,372 Nothing at all. 385 00:35:19,324 --> 00:35:21,657 You're not that kind of person. 386 00:35:25,197 --> 00:35:27,029 That's not who you are. 387 00:35:58,663 --> 00:36:04,534 What he said about me is true. 388 00:36:05,270 --> 00:36:07,398 Can you forgive me? 389 00:36:16,448 --> 00:36:19,680 Good-bye, Mr. Kayama. I'll see you tonight. 390 00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:24,913 Please come along too, Mr. Kameda. 391 00:36:49,463 --> 00:36:53,730 What's the matter? Why are you neglecting your guests? 392 00:36:55,736 --> 00:36:58,672 You look pale. 393 00:36:59,473 --> 00:37:01,101 Do you have a fever? 394 00:37:03,945 --> 00:37:08,212 Why else would I sit bundled up here by myself? 395 00:37:08,716 --> 00:37:10,844 Why not rest a while? 396 00:37:11,185 --> 00:37:15,179 There's something I must tell you. 397 00:37:15,423 --> 00:37:17,654 You're very kind, 398 00:37:17,858 --> 00:37:19,884 but I prefer to keep drinking. 399 00:37:22,363 --> 00:37:26,095 What's wrong, everyone? Enjoy yourselves. 400 00:38:53,754 --> 00:38:56,553 A Mr. Kameda has arrived. 401 00:38:58,125 --> 00:39:01,721 Mr. Kameda. He met Taeko at my place today. 402 00:39:01,929 --> 00:39:05,957 I asked you to bring him. Why didn't you? 403 00:39:06,167 --> 00:39:07,726 Show him in. 404 00:39:09,737 --> 00:39:11,831 Why him of all people? 405 00:39:12,606 --> 00:39:15,337 You mean, because he's an idiot? 406 00:39:17,978 --> 00:39:20,004 I don't believe he is. 407 00:39:20,481 --> 00:39:23,417 On the contrary... 408 00:39:24,819 --> 00:39:28,779 he may be a good deal more astute than either of you. 409 00:39:32,026 --> 00:39:36,259 Especially at seeing into another person's heart. 410 00:39:43,270 --> 00:39:44,602 Now do you see? 411 00:39:44,805 --> 00:39:47,070 How dare you! 412 00:39:47,274 --> 00:39:48,708 I just - 413 00:39:48,909 --> 00:39:51,572 Do you know how much that vase was worth? 414 00:39:51,779 --> 00:39:56,479 Let me ask you: Didn't you give those vases to me? 415 00:39:56,984 --> 00:39:59,579 Then let me do with them as I wish. 416 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,721 I meant to smash them anyway. 417 00:40:20,741 --> 00:40:23,176 I won't bother with introductions. 418 00:40:23,444 --> 00:40:27,245 There's no one here worthy of it. 419 00:40:35,756 --> 00:40:37,884 What a thing to say! 420 00:40:40,494 --> 00:40:45,990 Fortunately, we've already met. 421 00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:56,534 What's wrong? Why are you staring like that? 422 00:41:04,285 --> 00:41:05,844 Really... 423 00:41:06,954 --> 00:41:09,185 what's the matter? 424 00:41:09,390 --> 00:41:12,724 It just came to me. 425 00:41:14,962 --> 00:41:18,831 I was sure I'd seen eyes like yours before. 426 00:41:19,033 --> 00:41:20,934 I just remembered where. 427 00:41:22,703 --> 00:41:24,638 Eyes like mine? 428 00:41:26,373 --> 00:41:29,104 How could I not remember? 429 00:41:31,846 --> 00:41:35,010 What was the person like? 430 00:41:36,183 --> 00:41:40,052 He and I faced a firing squad together. 431 00:41:47,928 --> 00:41:50,454 There were three posts. 432 00:41:51,665 --> 00:41:54,635 We were to be shot three at a time. 433 00:41:58,072 --> 00:42:02,669 I was the fifth man in the second row of prisoners. 434 00:42:03,744 --> 00:42:06,714 I was to be in the fourth group killed. 435 00:42:11,919 --> 00:42:17,153 Just minutes before I was to die, an order came down for a retrial. 436 00:42:17,525 --> 00:42:21,553 I never dreamt I would walk away alive. 437 00:42:23,497 --> 00:42:29,733 And the man with eyes like mine? 438 00:42:32,506 --> 00:42:35,032 He was in the first group to be shot. 439 00:42:41,916 --> 00:42:44,886 He was barely 20 years old, 440 00:42:45,085 --> 00:42:47,680 with the face of a boy. 441 00:42:50,291 --> 00:42:55,423 He seemed as if in a trance, tied there to that post. 442 00:42:56,730 --> 00:43:00,690 Suddenly he began to tremble. 443 00:43:02,102 --> 00:43:09,373 He looked over at us, his eyes filled with reproach. 444 00:43:13,914 --> 00:43:18,909 They were the eyes of a man who had suffered alone, 445 00:43:20,087 --> 00:43:22,647 day and night, for a very long time. 446 00:43:23,591 --> 00:43:25,583 They seemed... 447 00:43:26,594 --> 00:43:32,295 to be crying out, "Why must I suffer like this?" 448 00:43:37,671 --> 00:43:40,402 What torment he must have endured! 449 00:43:42,276 --> 00:43:48,113 His eyes seemed ready to burst and spew blood. 450 00:43:51,852 --> 00:43:56,756 I forgot that I too was about to be shot. 451 00:43:56,957 --> 00:43:59,586 I looked away. 452 00:44:10,337 --> 00:44:12,306 At times... 453 00:44:14,541 --> 00:44:18,603 your eyes are exactly like his. 454 00:44:21,882 --> 00:44:23,475 And then? 455 00:44:23,951 --> 00:44:27,979 What happened to him? 456 00:44:35,029 --> 00:44:37,294 And then... 457 00:44:37,498 --> 00:44:39,626 shots rang out. 458 00:44:41,568 --> 00:44:43,730 I looked up. 459 00:44:47,174 --> 00:44:52,909 There he was, limp as a rag. 460 00:44:53,681 --> 00:44:55,479 That's enough! 461 00:44:56,550 --> 00:44:59,679 This is absurd! This is supposed to be a birthday party! 462 00:44:59,887 --> 00:45:01,378 Please be quiet. 463 00:45:03,123 --> 00:45:07,390 Do you even care that it's my birthday? 464 00:45:07,995 --> 00:45:09,793 Mr. Kameda... 465 00:45:10,898 --> 00:45:13,026 the fact is... 466 00:45:13,233 --> 00:45:17,068 I've been asked to marry Mr. Kayama. 467 00:45:19,306 --> 00:45:22,640 I'm supposed to give him my answer tonight. 468 00:45:23,210 --> 00:45:25,702 Should I marry him or not? 469 00:45:26,146 --> 00:45:27,546 What should I do? 470 00:45:27,748 --> 00:45:29,307 - Taeko! - This is outrageous! 471 00:45:29,516 --> 00:45:31,508 I'll do whatever you say. 472 00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,052 - Are you mad? - This is serious! 473 00:45:34,254 --> 00:45:37,782 Mr. Kameda, please tell me. 474 00:45:37,991 --> 00:45:40,927 Why are you asking him? Who is he to you? 475 00:45:41,128 --> 00:45:42,960 Don't you understand? 476 00:45:44,932 --> 00:45:51,338 He trusted me from the moment he met me. 477 00:45:54,074 --> 00:45:58,170 That's why I trust him. 478 00:46:00,514 --> 00:46:03,279 So tell me. 479 00:46:04,952 --> 00:46:07,251 Please tell me. 480 00:46:10,791 --> 00:46:13,556 Don't do it. Don't marry him. 481 00:46:14,528 --> 00:46:16,326 Then I won't. 482 00:46:17,030 --> 00:46:20,398 Did you hear that, Mr. Kayama? 483 00:46:21,668 --> 00:46:23,569 That's my answer. 484 00:46:23,771 --> 00:46:24,898 This is absurd! 485 00:46:25,105 --> 00:46:29,736 What about the promise you made just days ago? 486 00:46:33,981 --> 00:46:36,450 Mr. Tohata, what on earth is going on? 487 00:46:39,653 --> 00:46:43,613 Oh, I see! You're pleased about all this. 488 00:46:43,824 --> 00:46:45,292 What? 489 00:46:45,492 --> 00:46:49,725 It's obvious you're loath to part with your treasure. 490 00:46:53,801 --> 00:46:55,269 I look like a fool. 491 00:46:56,036 --> 00:46:57,163 You? 492 00:46:57,371 --> 00:46:59,340 I'm the one who looks like a fool! 493 00:47:08,182 --> 00:47:10,174 This is all your doing. 494 00:47:10,384 --> 00:47:12,285 Friends shouldn't quarrel. 495 00:47:15,022 --> 00:47:17,082 Mr. Ono, Mr. Kayama... 496 00:47:18,091 --> 00:47:20,060 don't try to blame Mr. Tohata. 497 00:47:24,865 --> 00:47:28,097 I have no intention 498 00:47:28,302 --> 00:47:29,930 of going back to him. 499 00:47:31,471 --> 00:47:33,372 Why that face? 500 00:47:35,576 --> 00:47:40,241 You needn't pay anything to be free of me. 501 00:47:42,349 --> 00:47:46,309 You can put away your 600,000 yen. 502 00:47:47,588 --> 00:47:52,219 This house, and everything in it - you can have it all back! 503 00:47:53,026 --> 00:47:54,551 Taeko! 504 00:47:58,526 --> 00:48:04,227 I'm leaving here tonight... with nothing. 505 00:48:04,432 --> 00:48:05,957 No, Taeko! 506 00:48:06,801 --> 00:48:10,294 I was wrong. I've been such a fool. 507 00:48:13,708 --> 00:48:15,199 I've had enough. 508 00:48:18,512 --> 00:48:20,572 I'm no longer... 509 00:48:21,615 --> 00:48:23,811 your 14-year-old mistress. 510 00:48:25,586 --> 00:48:27,418 Listen to me. 511 00:48:28,356 --> 00:48:29,949 I swear to you. 512 00:48:30,891 --> 00:48:34,692 I don't care anymore what the world thinks. 513 00:48:35,963 --> 00:48:37,659 I'll marry you. 514 00:48:50,945 --> 00:48:52,880 Don't flatter yourself! 515 00:48:53,481 --> 00:48:58,510 To think I'd ever marry you! 516 00:49:11,365 --> 00:49:12,560 Who are you? 517 00:49:12,767 --> 00:49:14,395 What is this? 518 00:49:17,104 --> 00:49:18,732 One million yen. 519 00:49:20,041 --> 00:49:22,533 So you kept your promise? 520 00:49:23,544 --> 00:49:25,172 Thank you. 521 00:49:26,747 --> 00:49:29,911 This man raised a million yen to pay for me. 522 00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:34,253 That's 400,000 more than you. - Fool! 523 00:49:34,455 --> 00:49:37,118 No, I'm tired of putting on airs! 524 00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:41,123 As of tomorrow I'm penniless. 525 00:49:41,595 --> 00:49:45,965 Who would take in a penniless woman, 526 00:49:46,167 --> 00:49:48,363 and another man's castoff no less? 527 00:49:49,003 --> 00:49:50,733 Right, Mr. Kayama? 528 00:49:55,810 --> 00:49:58,143 Why ask me? Isn't Mr. Kameda your confidant? 529 00:50:01,649 --> 00:50:03,277 I... 530 00:50:04,552 --> 00:50:06,714 I would take you in. 531 00:50:13,961 --> 00:50:16,897 What did you just say? 532 00:50:18,265 --> 00:50:23,795 I said I would take you in. 533 00:50:27,341 --> 00:50:30,607 A woman like me? The way I am? 534 00:50:31,045 --> 00:50:32,411 Yes. 535 00:50:33,414 --> 00:50:39,081 But what do you mean, "A woman like me?" 536 00:50:40,754 --> 00:50:43,121 I don't understand. 537 00:50:54,435 --> 00:50:56,597 Why do you all laugh? 538 00:50:58,339 --> 00:51:00,706 I guess I didn't phrase it well. 539 00:51:00,908 --> 00:51:06,006 All I meant to say... 540 00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:10,842 is that Miss Nasu is very pure. 541 00:51:13,354 --> 00:51:15,880 Stop it, you idiot! 542 00:51:17,391 --> 00:51:19,792 How dare you mock me? 543 00:51:30,237 --> 00:51:34,038 I really am sick. 544 00:51:34,842 --> 00:51:37,038 My brain's gone bad. 545 00:51:40,748 --> 00:51:45,243 I guess that's why it didn't come out right. 546 00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:51,215 But I said what I honestly feel. 547 00:51:52,459 --> 00:51:58,888 I don't care how much people laugh at me. 548 00:51:59,099 --> 00:52:01,864 I believe you're a pure woman. 549 00:52:04,572 --> 00:52:10,443 You just said you'd leave here and give everything up. 550 00:52:11,378 --> 00:52:15,145 That says it all. That's enough for me. 551 00:52:17,851 --> 00:52:21,879 And I'll let no one speak ill of you. 552 00:52:27,928 --> 00:52:31,456 So why feel ashamed? 553 00:52:31,765 --> 00:52:37,500 Why sell yourself to him for a million yen? 554 00:52:43,444 --> 00:52:45,106 Butt out! 555 00:52:45,312 --> 00:52:47,008 I won't remain silent. 556 00:52:49,083 --> 00:52:53,453 You've suffered alone for so long... 557 00:52:55,122 --> 00:53:00,151 that it feels wrong if you're not in pain. 558 00:53:01,962 --> 00:53:03,726 You are ill. 559 00:53:04,832 --> 00:53:07,324 You need a kind nurse. 560 00:53:08,702 --> 00:53:12,571 I'll nurse you back to health. 561 00:53:12,773 --> 00:53:18,235 She's accustomed to luxury. How will you support her? 562 00:53:18,812 --> 00:53:20,713 You're penniless yourself. 563 00:53:26,654 --> 00:53:29,920 I'll find work somehow. 564 00:53:30,524 --> 00:53:33,983 Listen to him! What, shoveling snow? 565 00:53:34,194 --> 00:53:38,029 For that you'd make about 300 yen. 566 00:53:38,999 --> 00:53:42,959 Not even enough to buy her cosmetics. 567 00:53:43,804 --> 00:53:45,568 That's enough! 568 00:53:46,707 --> 00:53:49,267 Stop ridiculing him. 569 00:53:52,313 --> 00:53:53,781 Thank you. 570 00:53:54,615 --> 00:54:00,213 No one's ever said anything like that to me before. 571 00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:11,389 Miss Taeko... 572 00:54:14,501 --> 00:54:15,901 I... 573 00:54:18,105 --> 00:54:20,836 Somehow, I'll - 574 00:54:26,413 --> 00:54:31,943 When I first saw your picture... 575 00:54:33,287 --> 00:54:36,724 you seemed to be calling to me. 576 00:54:42,363 --> 00:54:44,332 You see... 577 00:54:45,866 --> 00:54:49,064 I've been waiting for somebody like you. 578 00:54:53,874 --> 00:54:57,868 Ever since I began this awful life as a kept woman, 579 00:54:58,078 --> 00:55:00,047 I've been waiting. 580 00:55:01,315 --> 00:55:03,307 I hoped and prayed... 581 00:55:04,017 --> 00:55:07,078 imagining someone like you. 582 00:55:10,557 --> 00:55:12,321 Hoping... 583 00:55:14,027 --> 00:55:17,987 that a good, honest, kind man would appear. 584 00:55:20,367 --> 00:55:24,168 "Taeko, it's not your fault. 585 00:55:26,874 --> 00:55:30,504 I still respect you." 586 00:55:32,312 --> 00:55:38,946 How I longed to hear those words! 587 00:55:49,463 --> 00:55:53,457 But instead it was always just him. 588 00:55:54,968 --> 00:55:59,201 He'd do lewd and shameful things to me and then leave. 589 00:56:22,162 --> 00:56:26,623 I can't take it anymore. 590 00:56:29,036 --> 00:56:31,596 I'd rather die in the street... 591 00:56:34,241 --> 00:56:37,507 than go on living like this. 592 00:56:39,112 --> 00:56:40,444 Yet... 593 00:56:44,084 --> 00:56:45,985 I'm afraid... 594 00:56:47,354 --> 00:56:49,823 the life you envision for us... 595 00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:54,594 is a fairy tale. 596 00:56:56,897 --> 00:57:00,459 Everyone, I have an announcement. 597 00:57:08,141 --> 00:57:12,101 Actually, it's more of a confession. 598 00:57:25,792 --> 00:57:28,728 In truth... 599 00:57:29,096 --> 00:57:31,759 I'm an utterly despicable man. 600 00:57:33,500 --> 00:57:37,904 Until this moment, I've hidden the fact 601 00:57:38,572 --> 00:57:43,738 that Mr. Kameda possesses a considerable fortune. 602 00:57:48,248 --> 00:57:54,051 As his relative, I thought it was in his best interest. 603 00:57:54,821 --> 00:57:56,915 Anyway... 604 00:57:57,157 --> 00:58:02,357 I wish to announce that Mr. Kameda is the owner of a 125-acre farm. 605 00:58:03,830 --> 00:58:05,458 Get back! 606 00:58:10,571 --> 00:58:14,338 You really feel that way about her? 607 00:58:31,158 --> 00:58:33,127 Don't be ridiculous. 608 00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,194 What? So you mean you'll - 609 00:58:36,797 --> 00:58:40,564 Isn't it obvious? I'm going with you. 610 00:58:40,767 --> 00:58:43,760 Taeko! A man like him? 611 00:58:43,971 --> 00:58:45,269 Get lost! 612 00:58:49,276 --> 00:58:50,904 I can't... 613 00:58:56,516 --> 00:59:03,446 I can't ruin the life of an innocent child like you. 614 00:59:04,324 --> 00:59:06,088 Out of the way! 615 00:59:07,294 --> 00:59:11,629 Hey, don't forget this - the million yen. 616 00:59:11,832 --> 00:59:14,427 I worked hard to scrape it together. 617 00:59:32,185 --> 00:59:35,212 Everyone stay back! 618 00:59:35,422 --> 00:59:37,516 I give it to Mr. Kayama. 619 00:59:37,724 --> 00:59:42,958 Pull it out with your bare hands and it's yours! 620 00:59:44,631 --> 00:59:45,860 It's burning! 621 00:59:46,266 --> 00:59:48,861 It's burning! 622 00:59:49,636 --> 00:59:54,006 A million yen! I wrapped it with my own hands! 623 00:59:54,207 --> 00:59:56,301 Be quiet! Let me go! 624 00:59:57,911 --> 01:00:00,676 Mr. Kayama, don't just stand there. 625 01:00:00,881 --> 01:00:02,816 Hurry or it'll all burn. 626 01:00:08,655 --> 01:00:13,320 What's the matter? Don't you want it now? 627 01:00:14,127 --> 01:00:16,096 Please have mercy! 628 01:00:16,296 --> 01:00:19,858 It's all burning! 629 01:00:22,903 --> 01:00:25,065 You little worm! 630 01:00:26,606 --> 01:00:28,404 Take a good look. 631 01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:31,011 That's how we do things! 632 01:00:36,550 --> 01:00:40,351 Mr. Kayama, drop the act... 633 01:00:41,755 --> 01:00:43,690 or you'll regret it later. 634 01:01:02,743 --> 01:01:05,338 Pull it out, man! 635 01:01:05,545 --> 01:01:08,811 What's a little pride? 636 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:35,235 Hurry! 637 01:01:36,576 --> 01:01:39,740 It's all burning! Hurry! 638 01:01:41,148 --> 01:01:44,607 It'll burn up! Hurry! 639 01:01:56,797 --> 01:01:58,766 It's safe. 640 01:02:01,168 --> 01:02:02,898 It's safe. 641 01:02:03,737 --> 01:02:07,230 A few thousand yen got burned, that's all. 642 01:02:29,529 --> 01:02:31,020 Move! 643 01:02:39,039 --> 01:02:40,507 Listen, everybody. 644 01:02:41,975 --> 01:02:45,810 This is all for Mr. Kayama. 645 01:02:47,614 --> 01:02:51,381 He didn't pull it out. He would have let it burn. 646 01:02:51,852 --> 01:02:53,980 It's his by right. 647 01:02:54,754 --> 01:02:56,484 Is that clear? 648 01:02:57,958 --> 01:03:01,486 And now, farewell to you all. 649 01:03:01,695 --> 01:03:03,823 Out of the way! 650 01:03:16,543 --> 01:03:19,479 Farewell, Mr. Kameda. 651 01:03:22,582 --> 01:03:24,744 Come on, men! Time to drink! 652 01:03:43,370 --> 01:03:45,896 Kameda, don't go after her! 653 01:03:46,106 --> 01:03:49,076 She's a fallen woman! You can't save her! 654 01:03:55,215 --> 01:03:56,877 Kameda! 655 01:04:03,023 --> 01:04:05,549 FEBRUARY 656 01:04:08,995 --> 01:04:12,432 Ayako, don't play with your food. 657 01:04:14,567 --> 01:04:17,093 And why are you all so quiet? 658 01:04:18,171 --> 01:04:21,107 You've all been acting so strange lately. 659 01:04:21,474 --> 01:04:23,033 It's the weather. 660 01:04:23,243 --> 01:04:26,805 Weeks without sun. Everybody gets depressed. 661 01:04:27,013 --> 01:04:31,383 It's not the weather, that much I know. It's that man. 662 01:04:32,919 --> 01:04:35,514 I really misjudged him. 663 01:04:37,791 --> 01:04:43,662 Why give him the ranch if he's going to spend his money on that hussy? 664 01:04:43,863 --> 01:04:45,058 But - 665 01:04:45,265 --> 01:04:49,202 And what bothers me the most is how you did it. 666 01:04:49,402 --> 01:04:52,133 Wasn't there a more straightforward way? 667 01:04:52,339 --> 01:04:54,934 Why bring that Karube in as an agent? 668 01:04:55,141 --> 01:05:01,103 And you, acting so secretively, as if you were the guilty one! 669 01:05:02,449 --> 01:05:06,978 And Kameda could have at least stopped by to thank you. 670 01:05:08,188 --> 01:05:10,657 Perhaps he's an idiot after all. 671 01:05:13,660 --> 01:05:15,288 What's so funny? 672 01:05:15,862 --> 01:05:16,989 It's just - 673 01:05:17,197 --> 01:05:21,191 That again? That's all you seem to say. 674 01:05:21,401 --> 01:05:23,734 It's just that Ayako - 675 01:05:36,716 --> 01:05:41,347 She's up to something again. Some fine young ladies you are. 676 01:05:41,855 --> 01:05:44,381 Out with it. What's going on? 677 01:05:44,591 --> 01:05:46,924 Mr. Kameda sent her a strange letter. 678 01:05:47,127 --> 01:05:49,187 A letter? When? 679 01:05:49,396 --> 01:05:52,855 Kayama's brother gave it to her last week at the skating rink. 680 01:05:53,066 --> 01:05:58,061 Little Kaoru? Not surprising, given his older brother. 681 01:05:58,271 --> 01:06:01,969 But Kameda's in Tokyo. How is that possible? 682 01:06:02,175 --> 01:06:05,043 It was enclosed in a package to Kayama. 683 01:06:05,845 --> 01:06:07,939 What was in the letter? 684 01:06:29,102 --> 01:06:36,236 "I have no idea why I'm writing to you like this. 685 01:06:38,278 --> 01:06:44,343 But I simply cannot suppress the hope 686 01:06:44,551 --> 01:06:49,114 that perhaps you remember me fondly. 687 01:06:49,322 --> 01:06:53,692 For reasons I don't understand, you're very important to me, 688 01:06:53,893 --> 01:06:56,488 extremely important. 689 01:06:56,696 --> 01:07:00,895 I have nothing else to write about myself, nor any desire to do so. 690 01:07:01,101 --> 01:07:04,071 I wish you every happiness." 691 01:07:30,964 --> 01:07:32,796 What's so funny? 692 01:07:32,999 --> 01:07:36,959 You're laughing at the letter - do you know why? 693 01:07:38,171 --> 01:07:43,803 Because there's not a single lie in it. It's so honest that it's funny. 694 01:07:44,577 --> 01:07:48,878 Not laughing now, are you? 695 01:07:56,289 --> 01:07:59,555 Well, well. You lost that one, didn't you? 696 01:08:00,026 --> 01:08:02,586 But why did he send it? 697 01:08:02,795 --> 01:08:06,527 Have you heard any more gossip about our idiot? 698 01:08:06,733 --> 01:08:12,365 It seems he and that roughneck Akama are both still chasing Taeko. 699 01:08:23,483 --> 01:08:25,782 Taeko, being who she is, 700 01:08:26,452 --> 01:08:31,083 swings like a pendulum from one to the other. 701 01:08:31,291 --> 01:08:35,251 She agreed to marry Akama 702 01:08:35,461 --> 01:08:38,192 but then ran away with Kameda. 703 01:08:38,398 --> 01:08:41,027 Things are bound to end badly. 704 01:08:51,077 --> 01:08:53,444 Did you forget something? 705 01:08:53,646 --> 01:08:57,344 No, but I felt I was being watched. 706 01:08:59,719 --> 01:09:02,917 You mean murder or something? 707 01:09:03,122 --> 01:09:05,421 Akama's not above it. 708 01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:10,330 Stop that. It's too morbid to think about. 709 01:10:02,715 --> 01:10:04,183 Come in. 710 01:10:52,432 --> 01:10:54,697 Don't bother taking off your shoes. 711 01:11:32,772 --> 01:11:34,798 Watch your step here. 712 01:12:27,193 --> 01:12:31,688 What's wrong with you? Stop staring at me like that. 713 01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:35,067 Sit down. 714 01:12:36,135 --> 01:12:40,903 Akama, I want you to tell me the truth. 715 01:12:41,741 --> 01:12:44,108 Was that you at the station? 716 01:12:44,310 --> 01:12:46,870 I don't know what you're talking about. 717 01:12:47,079 --> 01:12:52,780 I glimpsed a pair of eyes in the crowd exactly like yours. 718 01:12:54,020 --> 01:12:55,921 I wonder who it was. 719 01:12:57,089 --> 01:12:59,558 Maybe I was just imagining things. 720 01:13:00,226 --> 01:13:02,991 That happens to me a lot. 721 01:13:09,969 --> 01:13:12,302 What a dark room! 722 01:13:13,406 --> 01:13:15,375 It's an old house. 723 01:13:16,742 --> 01:13:22,807 I could tell from a block away that this was your house. 724 01:13:25,151 --> 01:13:26,619 How? 725 01:13:29,889 --> 01:13:35,590 I just knew your house would be like this. 726 01:13:37,363 --> 01:13:39,491 It really is dark. 727 01:13:41,133 --> 01:13:46,902 There's something dark and gloomy about you too. 728 01:14:15,568 --> 01:14:18,595 Will you two live here after you marry? 729 01:14:18,804 --> 01:14:21,137 Of course. This is my home. 730 01:14:22,241 --> 01:14:23,937 Is the wedding soon? 731 01:14:24,143 --> 01:14:29,878 You know I can't decide a thing like that on my own. 732 01:14:30,683 --> 01:14:34,620 Akama, please don't hide anything from me. 733 01:14:34,820 --> 01:14:39,190 I have no intention of standing in your way. 734 01:14:40,660 --> 01:14:44,654 She's back in Sapporo too, isn't she? 735 01:14:47,366 --> 01:14:49,597 You've come to an agreement, haven't you? 736 01:14:49,802 --> 01:14:51,600 What if we have? 737 01:14:55,942 --> 01:14:58,207 Is that what you came to find out? 738 01:14:58,411 --> 01:15:00,073 No. 739 01:15:01,347 --> 01:15:04,647 But I honestly feel it's best 740 01:15:05,351 --> 01:15:08,116 for you two not to marry. 741 01:15:10,723 --> 01:15:12,715 I've said so many times. 742 01:15:13,225 --> 01:15:19,165 It would mean ruin for her and for you. 743 01:15:21,067 --> 01:15:26,199 But there's nothing I can do to stop you. 744 01:15:32,011 --> 01:15:34,742 You understand, don't you? 745 01:15:36,415 --> 01:15:40,409 I simply feel sorry for her. 746 01:15:42,922 --> 01:15:45,653 Everything she does worries me. 747 01:15:46,392 --> 01:15:49,226 I can't just sit by and watch. 748 01:15:49,629 --> 01:15:53,999 We discussed this in Tokyo, didn't we? 749 01:16:00,539 --> 01:16:06,740 I simply want her to be happy, that's all. 750 01:16:11,817 --> 01:16:14,048 Why are you glaring at me like that? 751 01:16:15,621 --> 01:16:17,817 I'll be going now. 752 01:16:19,325 --> 01:16:20,816 Good-bye. 753 01:16:22,228 --> 01:16:25,323 Stay. It's been a while. 754 01:16:28,834 --> 01:16:34,705 The minute you leave, I know I'll start hating you again. 755 01:16:36,142 --> 01:16:41,171 You made me boil for a month after we parted in Tokyo. 756 01:16:41,947 --> 01:16:43,973 I wanted to poison you. 757 01:16:46,385 --> 01:16:47,785 It's true. 758 01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:54,961 But ten minutes in your presence and my anger evaporates... 759 01:16:57,496 --> 01:17:01,092 and amazingly, I like you as much as ever. 760 01:17:08,074 --> 01:17:10,339 You're a strange one. 761 01:17:11,110 --> 01:17:14,569 We're opposites in so many ways. 762 01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:21,680 Have a drink. 763 01:17:23,355 --> 01:17:24,983 Now listen. 764 01:17:25,791 --> 01:17:29,489 You love her because you feel sorry for her. 765 01:17:30,563 --> 01:17:34,193 But I hate her as much as I love her! 766 01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:38,860 Sometimes I think it'd be easier if she were dead. 767 01:17:40,740 --> 01:17:43,801 She hates me too, with all her might! 768 01:17:45,811 --> 01:17:51,717 Once I beat her black and blue for the way she looks down on me. 769 01:17:51,917 --> 01:17:53,613 You didn't! 770 01:17:53,819 --> 01:17:55,310 Yes, I did! 771 01:17:57,456 --> 01:18:03,362 I sat outside her door for two days without eating or drinking to apologize. 772 01:18:04,697 --> 01:18:08,657 I terrified the maid at the inn. She stopped coming to the room. 773 01:18:09,034 --> 01:18:11,970 Taeko finally got fed up and came out. 774 01:18:12,171 --> 01:18:14,140 Know what she said? 775 01:18:14,340 --> 01:18:18,072 "What would you do if I never forgave you?" 776 01:18:19,378 --> 01:18:23,145 I told her over and over that I would die. 777 01:18:24,483 --> 01:18:30,445 Then she said, "You'll probably kill me first." 778 01:18:36,929 --> 01:18:41,993 When I saw her here in Sapporo about a week ago, she said, 779 01:18:43,035 --> 01:18:45,504 "I've made up my mind. 780 01:18:46,739 --> 01:18:53,111 I'm an outcast anyway, so I'll do as you say. 781 01:18:54,346 --> 01:18:57,976 But I want to be free just a little longer... 782 01:19:00,052 --> 01:19:05,514 until I've had my fill of freedom." 783 01:19:06,625 --> 01:19:08,093 What do you think? 784 01:19:09,228 --> 01:19:12,255 I don't understand it. 785 01:19:15,301 --> 01:19:17,167 Are you sure? 786 01:19:19,638 --> 01:19:21,834 Want me to spell it out? 787 01:19:22,074 --> 01:19:25,135 She's in love with another man, 788 01:19:25,811 --> 01:19:28,440 and that man is you! 789 01:19:30,883 --> 01:19:33,580 It's the hand of fate! 790 01:19:34,687 --> 01:19:36,918 She can never marry you. 791 01:19:37,489 --> 01:19:41,051 Why? Because she doesn't want to ruin you! 792 01:19:41,627 --> 01:19:45,394 So she'll ruin me and drag me down to hell with her! 793 01:19:46,398 --> 01:19:48,299 What a thing to say! 794 01:19:48,500 --> 01:19:53,302 You're just imagining things. 795 01:19:54,106 --> 01:19:56,371 It's simply jealousy. 796 01:19:57,810 --> 01:19:59,335 Stop that! 797 01:20:00,145 --> 01:20:03,411 I shouldn't have come 798 01:20:03,616 --> 01:20:07,417 if my being here makes you think these thoughts. 799 01:20:08,287 --> 01:20:10,313 Something told me not to come, 800 01:20:10,522 --> 01:20:15,392 but I wanted us to part on good terms. 801 01:20:15,594 --> 01:20:19,554 I wanted our memories of Sapporo to be pleasant ones. 802 01:20:29,708 --> 01:20:33,975 You use that for cutting paper? 803 01:20:34,513 --> 01:20:35,572 Yes. 804 01:20:37,283 --> 01:20:41,448 But it's not a paper knife, is it? 805 01:20:43,222 --> 01:20:45,214 It's a butcher's knife. 806 01:20:45,891 --> 01:20:48,417 But there's no law against cutting paper with it. 807 01:20:48,627 --> 01:20:50,255 I suppose not. 808 01:20:51,563 --> 01:20:52,997 But... 809 01:20:54,566 --> 01:20:56,558 it looks brand-new. 810 01:20:57,542 --> 01:21:00,512 You saying I can't afford a new knife? 811 01:21:06,585 --> 01:21:09,453 What got into me? 812 01:21:10,722 --> 01:21:16,286 When my head starts to get heavy, 813 01:21:16,995 --> 01:21:21,524 I say and do things without even realizing it. 814 01:21:23,468 --> 01:21:27,064 It's been getting worse lately. 815 01:21:28,206 --> 01:21:32,405 Maybe it's a sign of an approaching fit. 816 01:21:41,586 --> 01:21:45,785 Well, please excuse me. Be well. 817 01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:51,930 It's not safe. I'll go with you. 818 01:22:06,716 --> 01:22:08,480 What's that? 819 01:22:09,952 --> 01:22:14,447 My mother. She prays to the Buddha every day. 820 01:22:23,900 --> 01:22:27,166 And you? Do you ever pray? 821 01:22:29,939 --> 01:22:34,001 I mean, do you believe in a god? 822 01:22:34,210 --> 01:22:38,409 Not really. 823 01:22:38,948 --> 01:22:41,747 I was made to pray as a child. 824 01:22:42,652 --> 01:22:47,022 That's how my mother is. I always had to carry an amulet. 825 01:22:47,623 --> 01:22:50,457 I still do, in my wallet. 826 01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:55,825 I carry a sort of charm too. It's just a plain stone. 827 01:22:56,032 --> 01:22:57,227 A stone? 828 01:22:58,834 --> 01:23:04,364 It's nothing special, but it has great meaning for me. 829 01:23:05,041 --> 01:23:08,910 I told you, right? About my death sentence? 830 01:23:09,445 --> 01:23:14,076 How the shock of being pardoned drove me insane? 831 01:23:14,383 --> 01:23:18,377 Just then I went into a trance and picked up this stone. 832 01:23:18,588 --> 01:23:21,057 It's still precious to me. 833 01:23:23,226 --> 01:23:24,854 You have it now? 834 01:23:27,530 --> 01:23:29,123 Show it to me. 835 01:23:43,613 --> 01:23:44,911 Can I keep it? 836 01:23:46,582 --> 01:23:47,811 What for? 837 01:23:50,219 --> 01:23:51,744 I don't know. 838 01:23:52,855 --> 01:23:54,881 I'd just like to have it. 839 01:23:55,858 --> 01:23:57,918 I'll trade you my amulet for it. 840 01:24:00,129 --> 01:24:02,121 You want to swap charms? 841 01:24:02,331 --> 01:24:06,996 I remember doing that with friends as a boy. 842 01:24:26,455 --> 01:24:28,447 Let's have tea with Mother. 843 01:24:33,863 --> 01:24:39,996 Mother, this is Mr. Kameda, a very close friend. 844 01:24:40,336 --> 01:24:42,168 Make us some tea. 845 01:24:47,176 --> 01:24:49,338 Tea! 846 01:24:56,786 --> 01:24:58,550 Relax. 847 01:24:59,588 --> 01:25:06,495 She's oblivious to everything - even what a useless bum I am. 848 01:25:06,696 --> 01:25:07,823 Right, Mother? 849 01:25:19,442 --> 01:25:24,346 She seems to like you. She'll share the cake offering with you. 850 01:26:32,047 --> 01:26:34,243 Eat it. It'll make her happy. 851 01:27:00,142 --> 01:27:01,576 Well... 852 01:27:07,683 --> 01:27:09,743 We don't need to shake hands. 853 01:27:10,386 --> 01:27:12,378 We've already exchanged charms. 854 01:27:17,092 --> 01:27:20,187 All right, take her! It's the only way! 855 01:27:20,996 --> 01:27:24,831 I'm giving her to you! Don't forget me! 856 01:30:47,169 --> 01:30:52,130 What was it I saw that shone so? 857 01:33:03,105 --> 01:33:06,337 END OF PART 1 858 01:33:09,053 --> 01:33:13,013 PART 2 LOVE AND LOATHING 859 01:33:40,018 --> 01:33:41,987 The juvenile delinquent! 860 01:33:45,088 --> 01:33:48,081 So you don't like being called that? 861 01:33:48,291 --> 01:33:52,729 How about postman? Messenger boy? Errand boy? 862 01:33:53,196 --> 01:33:55,665 Cat got your tongue? 863 01:33:55,865 --> 01:34:00,394 It shows you know it's wrong to deliver strange letters to young ladies. 864 01:34:00,603 --> 01:34:02,902 But you were quite tactful with today's delivery. 865 01:34:03,106 --> 01:34:05,371 Anyway, stop gaping and tell me: 866 01:34:05,575 --> 01:34:08,272 Where's Mr. Kameda hospitalized? Or is he asleep inside? 867 01:34:08,478 --> 01:34:10,504 He's come to already. 868 01:34:10,713 --> 01:34:13,308 People can recover that easily? 869 01:34:13,516 --> 01:34:15,576 Disappointed? 870 01:34:15,785 --> 01:34:18,914 Nice try, but you won't get even that way. 871 01:34:19,122 --> 01:34:23,184 But I was a fool, rushing to get here. 872 01:34:23,325 --> 01:34:24,759 Then go home. 873 01:34:24,895 --> 01:34:28,127 That's enough. I'll do as I please. 874 01:34:33,404 --> 01:34:37,034 Mr. Kameda, you're really quite an ingrate. 875 01:34:37,241 --> 01:34:39,608 Not so loud. He's not well. 876 01:34:39,810 --> 01:34:43,577 I know that. That's why I'm letting him off easy. 877 01:34:44,482 --> 01:34:47,782 Didn't you go too far about the ranch? 878 01:34:47,985 --> 01:34:51,080 Sending this man to our house 879 01:34:51,289 --> 01:34:53,451 like some kind of debt collector! 880 01:34:53,658 --> 01:34:56,423 What did you do, Mr. Karube? 881 01:34:58,262 --> 01:35:00,197 Well, you see, 882 01:35:01,065 --> 01:35:04,695 you have a right to what's yours. 883 01:35:04,902 --> 01:35:06,837 A right? 884 01:35:07,471 --> 01:35:09,702 Just what did you do? 885 01:35:09,907 --> 01:35:13,503 Well, I never! You really don't know? 886 01:35:14,245 --> 01:35:19,741 May I ask who's paying all your expenses? 887 01:35:20,451 --> 01:35:23,944 This may sound quite forward of me, 888 01:35:24,155 --> 01:35:29,526 but Mr. Ono said I owned the rights to a large ranch. 889 01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:34,994 Mr. Karube said he'd lend me money with the ranch as collateral. 890 01:35:35,199 --> 01:35:36,667 This is outrageous! 891 01:35:36,867 --> 01:35:41,305 He said he was your agent and forced my husband to pay. 892 01:35:41,872 --> 01:35:44,740 Just like my husband, to be fooled by such a man! 893 01:35:44,942 --> 01:35:48,902 You can't run away! I'll be filing a formal complaint! 894 01:35:49,313 --> 01:35:51,942 Please, don't be rash. 895 01:35:54,752 --> 01:35:58,382 I intended all along to settle accounts fairly. 896 01:35:58,589 --> 01:36:04,256 Bilk this poor innocent of one penny and you'll settle them from a jail cell. 897 01:36:11,569 --> 01:36:13,470 Step outside, please. 898 01:36:13,671 --> 01:36:17,073 I have something to discuss with Mr. Kameda. 899 01:36:31,489 --> 01:36:33,924 You really are something. 900 01:36:40,865 --> 01:36:43,164 No, I can't say any more. 901 01:36:43,367 --> 01:36:46,633 One look at you and the words melt away. 902 01:36:46,837 --> 01:36:50,171 I'm not mocking you. In fact, it's your - 903 01:36:50,508 --> 01:36:51,601 forgive me - 904 01:36:51,809 --> 01:36:57,043 it's your dimwittedness that's almost mocking. I mean - 905 01:36:57,248 --> 01:36:59,774 Just what do I mean? 906 01:36:59,984 --> 01:37:03,819 What got me going like this? Ah, that's right. 907 01:37:04,021 --> 01:37:07,549 It's time I asked after you. How are you feeling? 908 01:37:07,758 --> 01:37:09,556 Much better. 909 01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:14,027 Still, please be careful. You're quite pale. 910 01:37:16,033 --> 01:37:20,061 Are you still on your own? Married yet? 911 01:37:21,872 --> 01:37:22,999 No. 912 01:37:23,207 --> 01:37:25,233 What are you grinning about? 913 01:37:25,443 --> 01:37:28,936 Of course I was being sarcastic. 914 01:37:31,182 --> 01:37:34,983 Anyway, I'm here for a reason. I must ask you something. 915 01:37:35,186 --> 01:37:36,552 What is it? 916 01:37:36,754 --> 01:37:40,020 I read your letter to Ayako. 917 01:37:40,391 --> 01:37:42,417 What was the meaning of that? 918 01:37:46,063 --> 01:37:49,932 It was such a fine day when I wrote it. 919 01:37:51,802 --> 01:37:53,771 I didn't ask about the weather! 920 01:37:54,371 --> 01:37:59,833 I know, but on such a bright, sunny day, 921 01:38:00,411 --> 01:38:02,573 a man burns with hope. 922 01:38:02,947 --> 01:38:06,281 What kind of hope? For Ayako? 923 01:38:06,484 --> 01:38:08,715 Are you in love with her? 924 01:38:09,286 --> 01:38:10,276 No. 925 01:38:10,488 --> 01:38:12,457 Are you sure? 926 01:38:16,927 --> 01:38:18,054 I think so. 927 01:38:18,262 --> 01:38:20,288 See? You're not sure at all. 928 01:38:20,498 --> 01:38:23,195 But I wonder how she feels about you. 929 01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:26,427 She has more disdain for you than praise. 930 01:38:26,637 --> 01:38:30,369 She calls you an invalid and an idiot. 931 01:38:30,774 --> 01:38:32,367 But don't be offended. 932 01:38:32,576 --> 01:38:37,844 She really takes after me - willful with a touch of craziness. 933 01:38:38,048 --> 01:38:43,419 If she likes someone, she'll call him names and tease him. 934 01:38:43,621 --> 01:38:48,059 But don't get your hopes up just yet. 935 01:38:49,093 --> 01:38:53,793 It's a constant worry having grown-up daughters. 936 01:38:53,998 --> 01:38:56,126 Did you hear about Mr. Kayama? 937 01:38:56,333 --> 01:38:58,427 No. What about him? 938 01:38:58,636 --> 01:39:02,334 He has "hopes" regarding Ayako as well. 939 01:39:02,997 --> 01:39:07,992 He regained her trust after that incident with the money. 940 01:39:08,203 --> 01:39:13,437 Giving it back to Taeko was a real masterstroke. 941 01:39:13,641 --> 01:39:16,042 But be that as it may - 942 01:39:16,244 --> 01:39:20,773 Oh, yes, I'd better give him a talking-to as well. 943 01:39:22,517 --> 01:39:24,509 Take good care of yourself. 944 01:39:25,687 --> 01:39:29,749 By the way, I'd rather you didn't come visit for a while. 945 01:39:29,958 --> 01:39:34,225 Especially not on a nice day. You get my drift? 946 01:39:36,097 --> 01:39:37,360 Yes. 947 01:39:37,565 --> 01:39:42,868 Ayako already forbade me to visit. 948 01:39:43,071 --> 01:39:44,664 What? When? 949 01:39:45,406 --> 01:39:48,865 She wrote back to me while I was in Tokyo. 950 01:39:49,244 --> 01:39:51,236 That postman again! 951 01:39:51,446 --> 01:39:52,914 Postman? 952 01:39:53,114 --> 01:39:56,744 Never mind. What did she write? 953 01:40:03,324 --> 01:40:05,657 "There's no hope at all. 954 01:40:06,327 --> 01:40:08,887 I have no wish to ever see you again." 955 01:40:09,097 --> 01:40:11,362 That was the gist of it. 956 01:40:14,335 --> 01:40:20,104 Knowing her, it could mean there's hope and that she wants to see you. 957 01:40:21,342 --> 01:40:25,302 I'll feel her out and get to the bottom of this! 958 01:40:33,342 --> 01:40:36,506 Leaving already, Mrs. Ono? 959 01:40:36,712 --> 01:40:38,704 Is your family well? 960 01:40:38,915 --> 01:40:40,975 Won't you stay for tea? 961 01:40:47,523 --> 01:40:49,151 It's so cold. 962 01:40:53,930 --> 01:40:58,334 What did Mrs. Ono say to you in the hallway? 963 01:41:01,003 --> 01:41:04,940 I think I can guess. You went completely red in the face. 964 01:41:05,141 --> 01:41:06,734 Then don't ask. 965 01:41:06,943 --> 01:41:11,643 Why are you acting like this? Still holding a grudge? 966 01:41:11,848 --> 01:41:16,081 I'm on your side, especially in this matter. 967 01:41:16,352 --> 01:41:17,820 What matter? 968 01:41:18,020 --> 01:41:22,390 Still playing dumb? She warned you about Ayako, right? 969 01:41:22,992 --> 01:41:28,295 It makes me so mad. Does she think we're beneath her? 970 01:41:28,664 --> 01:41:30,826 I'm merely their employee. 971 01:41:31,033 --> 01:41:32,865 You don't really mean that. 972 01:41:33,870 --> 01:41:37,773 So don't be like this. Pull yourself together. 973 01:41:39,275 --> 01:41:41,744 Ayako's just shy. 974 01:41:41,944 --> 01:41:45,779 That's why she acts so crazy. 975 01:41:45,982 --> 01:41:48,474 It's just a smoke screen. 976 01:41:54,524 --> 01:41:57,153 - Is that from Kameda's room? - Yes. 977 01:41:57,593 --> 01:42:01,689 Kaoru's putting on his costume for the ice carnival. 978 01:42:05,868 --> 01:42:08,030 Kameda seems in a good mood. 979 01:42:09,839 --> 01:42:11,899 Be careful. 980 01:42:12,408 --> 01:42:16,106 Mrs. Ono gave him a talking-to as well. 981 01:42:16,379 --> 01:42:21,079 And then she rushed out. Something's definitely going on. 982 01:43:06,596 --> 01:43:09,623 - They're all crazy. - Mother! 983 01:43:13,636 --> 01:43:16,196 Who are you looking for? 984 01:43:16,405 --> 01:43:21,241 Don't worry. The invalid won't dare come out in this cold. 985 01:43:33,055 --> 01:43:36,025 - Who's that fool? - He's a clown. 986 01:43:40,396 --> 01:43:42,695 It's me, the postman! 987 01:44:04,854 --> 01:44:06,550 I hope he falls! 988 01:44:07,823 --> 01:44:09,052 Be careful! 989 01:44:13,896 --> 01:44:17,389 Laugh all you want. You'll pay later. 990 01:44:18,167 --> 01:44:22,229 You too, Ayako. You ridicule me no end. 991 01:44:22,438 --> 01:44:25,067 What were you two whispering about? 992 01:44:25,274 --> 01:44:29,268 Spit it out! What did the postman tell you? 993 01:44:30,046 --> 01:44:31,275 Good evening. 994 01:44:31,480 --> 01:44:34,245 I looked all over. I thought you'd be here. 995 01:44:34,450 --> 01:44:35,941 Good evening. 996 01:44:36,152 --> 01:44:39,418 Kaoru just told me you were here. 997 01:44:40,256 --> 01:44:42,384 Let's go over there. 998 01:44:42,892 --> 01:44:45,862 My feet are frozen from standing still. 999 01:44:48,264 --> 01:44:49,892 You little liar! 1000 01:45:04,947 --> 01:45:08,884 It's hideous! What were they thinking? 1001 01:45:09,652 --> 01:45:13,453 I'm going. Enough of this nonsense! 1002 01:45:16,392 --> 01:45:17,985 I knew it! 1003 01:45:23,399 --> 01:45:28,337 Why do you stare like that? Can't you greet a person? 1004 01:45:30,039 --> 01:45:32,008 Let's go over there. 1005 01:45:32,208 --> 01:45:36,646 Mother, go on without me. Mr. Kayama will see me home. 1006 01:45:42,151 --> 01:45:44,245 What are you doing here? 1007 01:45:44,453 --> 01:45:48,015 Don't be too smug. You have no right. 1008 01:45:48,224 --> 01:45:52,753 Have you forgotten what you were willing to do for 600,000 yen? 1009 01:46:01,404 --> 01:46:03,839 Was that her? 1010 01:46:04,039 --> 01:46:07,339 I want to ask you something. Be here tomorrow at noon. 1011 01:46:07,543 --> 01:46:10,604 Come along. How dare she insult us! 1012 01:46:10,946 --> 01:46:13,074 Noriko, come on! 1013 01:46:21,257 --> 01:46:23,419 Tough luck, huh? 1014 01:46:23,626 --> 01:46:26,061 You have no business being here. 1015 01:46:33,936 --> 01:46:39,239 Aren't you angry at me after what I did? 1016 01:46:39,442 --> 01:46:43,243 We traded charms. Of course I trust you. 1017 01:46:45,347 --> 01:46:47,316 Well, I'm no good. 1018 01:46:49,051 --> 01:46:53,421 Do you know Taeko wants you to marry Ayako? 1019 01:46:55,157 --> 01:46:57,649 But a lot of good that does me! 1020 01:46:57,860 --> 01:47:00,796 She wants you to be happy. 1021 01:47:00,996 --> 01:47:03,488 That means she loves you after all! 1022 01:47:43,906 --> 01:47:46,432 What? You fell asleep? 1023 01:47:48,911 --> 01:47:50,903 You actually fell asleep? 1024 01:47:52,314 --> 01:47:54,977 Oh, it's you. 1025 01:47:55,184 --> 01:47:57,153 I must have dozed off. 1026 01:47:59,121 --> 01:48:03,081 Didn't someone else try to wake me? 1027 01:48:08,998 --> 01:48:12,958 I thought another woman was here. 1028 01:48:13,168 --> 01:48:16,764 I must have dreamt it. Yes, it was a dream. 1029 01:48:19,275 --> 01:48:23,144 I see. You mean her, don't you? 1030 01:48:23,712 --> 01:48:27,672 What did you dream about her? 1031 01:48:29,184 --> 01:48:31,415 No, I don't want to know! 1032 01:48:33,956 --> 01:48:37,893 But why did you fall asleep? Really! 1033 01:48:40,696 --> 01:48:42,164 Look at that! 1034 01:48:45,668 --> 01:48:47,933 Doesn't it look silly? 1035 01:48:49,104 --> 01:48:51,596 It seemed so impressive last night. 1036 01:48:52,841 --> 01:48:56,005 Why on earth did I come here? 1037 01:48:57,246 --> 01:49:00,512 You made me promise to meet you here. 1038 01:49:01,584 --> 01:49:05,453 I have no use for men who fall asleep like that. 1039 01:49:05,654 --> 01:49:08,385 I didn't get any sleep last night. 1040 01:49:08,591 --> 01:49:11,425 Mr. Kayama attempted suicide. 1041 01:49:13,329 --> 01:49:17,027 - Wasn't he just pretending? - You may be right. 1042 01:49:24,373 --> 01:49:27,400 In that case, I'll go easy on you. 1043 01:49:28,777 --> 01:49:31,110 I'll get to the point. 1044 01:49:33,749 --> 01:49:39,347 Do you know why I asked to meet you here? 1045 01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:55,970 Because I can't stand it when people make fun of you. 1046 01:49:57,506 --> 01:49:59,998 You're a bit - 1047 01:50:00,776 --> 01:50:02,870 I'll be frank. 1048 01:50:04,313 --> 01:50:09,047 At times your illness makes you seem comical. 1049 01:50:09,251 --> 01:50:13,245 But in wisdom, the most important thing, 1050 01:50:13,455 --> 01:50:16,948 you're far ahead of everyone else. 1051 01:50:18,694 --> 01:50:24,429 Wisdom comes in two kinds: important and unimportant. 1052 01:50:31,874 --> 01:50:34,844 But nobody realizes that. 1053 01:50:35,878 --> 01:50:38,541 No, actually Mother does. 1054 01:50:39,281 --> 01:50:42,251 And I do too, but we're different. 1055 01:50:44,353 --> 01:50:50,224 I've waited a long time for a chance to tell you this. 1056 01:50:51,060 --> 01:50:54,758 Remember that letter you sent me? 1057 01:50:55,431 --> 01:51:00,199 Ever since then - no, even before that - 1058 01:51:03,605 --> 01:51:06,404 But why did you chase after that woman? 1059 01:51:06,608 --> 01:51:10,010 I'll bet you even came back for her! 1060 01:51:11,447 --> 01:51:13,678 I detest you! 1061 01:51:16,118 --> 01:51:18,952 I love Mr. Kayama. 1062 01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:27,823 - That's a lie. - No, it's true! 1063 01:51:28,030 --> 01:51:32,263 Ask this bench. We often meet here. 1064 01:51:37,406 --> 01:51:38,874 Another lie. 1065 01:51:39,074 --> 01:51:44,206 So what if it is? Anyway, he's completely changed. 1066 01:51:44,413 --> 01:51:49,351 To prove it, he cut off his finger right before my eyes. 1067 01:51:49,585 --> 01:51:51,213 Which hand? 1068 01:51:52,321 --> 01:51:55,814 What's the difference? He cut it off! 1069 01:51:56,024 --> 01:51:59,984 I saw his hands last night. They looked just fine. 1070 01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:13,905 Tell me the truth. 1071 01:52:15,277 --> 01:52:18,247 You're crazy about Taeko, aren't you? 1072 01:52:18,580 --> 01:52:22,517 Yes, but not in the way you think. 1073 01:52:22,718 --> 01:52:24,744 How would you know what I think? 1074 01:52:24,953 --> 01:52:26,546 Let me rephrase that. 1075 01:52:26,755 --> 01:52:30,021 My feelings for her are a mystery to me, 1076 01:52:30,225 --> 01:52:33,059 so I assumed you wouldn't understand either. 1077 01:52:34,363 --> 01:52:36,491 What would you do 1078 01:52:36,698 --> 01:52:40,760 if your closest friend, as close as a sibling, 1079 01:52:40,969 --> 01:52:46,601 were thrown in a cage and brutally beaten? 1080 01:52:50,813 --> 01:52:52,975 You'd be miserable. 1081 01:52:53,182 --> 01:52:57,176 You'd wish to be beaten instead, right? 1082 01:52:57,586 --> 01:53:03,457 Whenever I see her, that's how I feel. 1083 01:53:05,627 --> 01:53:08,119 Perhaps you can't understand her pain. 1084 01:53:10,499 --> 01:53:12,468 But I do. 1085 01:53:12,668 --> 01:53:18,665 No, you only know that she was a kept woman... 1086 01:53:20,108 --> 01:53:25,411 that it began when she was only a child, and that it traumatized her. 1087 01:53:25,881 --> 01:53:32,014 But there's more to her unhappiness than that. 1088 01:53:33,188 --> 01:53:37,785 If you take a piece of candy from a sensitive child, 1089 01:53:37,993 --> 01:53:43,557 she'll throw a tantrum and stomp on the candy she has left. 1090 01:53:43,899 --> 01:53:46,095 That's how she is. 1091 01:53:48,871 --> 01:53:50,669 It drives me mad 1092 01:53:51,039 --> 01:53:55,204 to think how things might be if she weren't like that. 1093 01:53:55,744 --> 01:53:59,704 She thinks her happiness will always be tainted by that wound, 1094 01:53:59,915 --> 01:54:04,649 so she crushes whatever happiness comes her way. 1095 01:54:12,661 --> 01:54:16,029 - I can't take it anymore! - What do you mean? 1096 01:54:18,133 --> 01:54:21,968 Don't you know? She wrote to me three times. 1097 01:54:22,337 --> 01:54:23,805 Wrote to you? 1098 01:54:25,641 --> 01:54:27,439 Here's one of her letters. 1099 01:54:27,776 --> 01:54:30,336 She insists I marry you. 1100 01:54:30,545 --> 01:54:34,949 She cajoles, entices, and even pleads with me. 1101 01:54:35,884 --> 01:54:37,750 Last night too. 1102 01:54:37,953 --> 01:54:42,118 Mr. Kayama got in the way between us, 1103 01:54:42,324 --> 01:54:44,555 and look how she behaved! 1104 01:54:44,760 --> 01:54:47,753 I've never seen anyone so presumptuous! 1105 01:54:47,963 --> 01:54:51,127 Try to forgive her. As I said before - 1106 01:54:51,333 --> 01:54:53,768 No, I can't think as you do. 1107 01:54:53,969 --> 01:54:56,029 It's all here in her letter. 1108 01:54:56,238 --> 01:55:00,369 She feigns a stupid sentimentality, saying she wants to see you happy. 1109 01:55:00,575 --> 01:55:01,543 Don't say that! 1110 01:55:01,743 --> 01:55:05,145 Either that or she's jealous - or even worse! 1111 01:55:05,347 --> 01:55:08,442 She's not uniting us, she's dividing us! 1112 01:55:08,650 --> 01:55:12,519 - You can't believe that. - I certainly do! 1113 01:55:12,721 --> 01:55:15,088 You certainly what? 1114 01:55:20,028 --> 01:55:23,658 Ayako asked me to meet her there. 1115 01:55:24,199 --> 01:55:27,431 I got there at noon and then fell asleep. 1116 01:55:27,636 --> 01:55:28,899 You what? 1117 01:55:29,104 --> 01:55:31,073 I fell asleep while waiting. 1118 01:55:31,273 --> 01:55:32,798 Well, I never! 1119 01:55:33,008 --> 01:55:35,671 Just how do you feel about Ayako? 1120 01:55:36,411 --> 01:55:37,640 Feel about her? 1121 01:55:37,846 --> 01:55:41,078 Do you like her, or what? 1122 01:55:41,850 --> 01:55:43,512 I like her a lot. 1123 01:55:43,719 --> 01:55:47,178 Then how you could fall asleep is beyond me. 1124 01:55:52,661 --> 01:55:55,324 Fine. Don't bother to explain. 1125 01:55:56,431 --> 01:55:58,832 But assure me of one thing. 1126 01:55:59,368 --> 01:56:04,898 Did anything happen that might make a mother worry? 1127 01:56:09,077 --> 01:56:11,046 I don't think so. 1128 01:56:11,680 --> 01:56:17,415 Then you can meet again. But not outside - she catches cold easily. 1129 01:56:18,687 --> 01:56:22,283 Come visit her at our home if you wish - 1130 01:56:22,491 --> 01:56:25,484 but come in through the front door! 1131 01:56:32,401 --> 01:56:36,099 You really are a mystery. 1132 01:56:37,439 --> 01:56:41,399 You suddenly show up... 1133 01:56:42,644 --> 01:56:45,614 during a blizzard to pay a visit. 1134 01:56:46,081 --> 01:56:49,381 Nothing you do ever fails to surprise. 1135 01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:57,655 You know how, in late March, the clouds suddenly part after a blizzard? 1136 01:56:57,859 --> 01:57:01,227 Blue skies, then a sudden crack of thunder. 1137 01:57:03,065 --> 01:57:05,967 That's exactly how you are. 1138 01:57:11,339 --> 01:57:13,308 I can't stand it! 1139 01:57:15,010 --> 01:57:21,439 You sat with her like this when you went away. 1140 01:57:22,984 --> 01:57:25,954 And you talked about me, didn't you? 1141 01:57:28,290 --> 01:57:30,259 Leave right now! 1142 01:57:31,993 --> 01:57:34,462 And never come back! 1143 01:57:35,464 --> 01:57:39,026 I'm like a bride-to-be 1144 01:57:39,234 --> 01:57:43,899 sealed up and on display in a bottle. 1145 01:57:44,639 --> 01:57:47,905 Then it's straight from bottle to altar. 1146 01:57:54,249 --> 01:57:55,717 I can't stand it! 1147 01:57:55,917 --> 01:57:58,785 Let's take a trip together! 1148 01:58:01,990 --> 01:58:04,516 Why do you come here every day? 1149 01:58:05,026 --> 01:58:08,087 Don't you realize everyone's laughing at you? 1150 01:58:11,867 --> 01:58:15,929 And I'm sick of seeing your face every day. 1151 01:58:17,973 --> 01:58:23,310 I sometimes say terrible things to you, don't I? 1152 01:58:25,213 --> 01:58:29,674 Are you going to hold it against me... 1153 01:58:31,419 --> 01:58:33,217 later on? 1154 01:58:33,922 --> 01:58:38,519 Another letter from her! It's shameful! 1155 01:58:39,461 --> 01:58:43,398 She says she'll marry when we do. 1156 01:58:44,399 --> 01:58:46,493 What is it? You look pale. 1157 01:58:48,503 --> 01:58:50,836 That upsets you, doesn't it? 1158 01:58:53,074 --> 01:58:57,478 Don't worry. I'd never marry you, no matter what! 1159 01:59:08,623 --> 01:59:10,819 Why are you all laughing at Mr. Kameda? 1160 01:59:11,793 --> 01:59:15,821 What's so funny about him bringing me carnations? 1161 01:59:16,665 --> 01:59:19,692 - No one's laughing. - Liar! 1162 01:59:19,901 --> 01:59:23,599 You deliberately set them in front of me 1163 01:59:23,805 --> 01:59:26,639 and then smirked at Mr. Kayama. 1164 01:59:26,841 --> 01:59:29,868 We always put flowers in the center. 1165 01:59:30,212 --> 01:59:33,410 Calm down. Don't get upset over nothing. 1166 01:59:33,615 --> 01:59:36,483 It's not nothing to me. 1167 01:59:43,835 --> 01:59:48,296 Mr. Kameda is more noble than anyone here. 1168 01:59:49,607 --> 01:59:51,735 He has a better nature... 1169 01:59:53,311 --> 01:59:55,906 and a purer heart. 1170 02:00:00,218 --> 02:00:04,952 Yet you all make fun of him! 1171 02:00:07,392 --> 02:00:09,190 And of me too. 1172 02:00:09,594 --> 02:00:11,187 Are you crying? 1173 02:00:11,396 --> 02:00:13,661 No, certainly not. 1174 02:00:15,734 --> 02:00:19,830 But why is it so funny that he brought me carnations? 1175 02:00:21,906 --> 02:00:24,239 Well, they're red! It's absurd! 1176 02:00:24,442 --> 02:00:25,375 Why? 1177 02:00:26,010 --> 02:00:28,070 You don't know? 1178 02:00:28,813 --> 02:00:30,873 Red carnations mean - 1179 02:00:31,483 --> 02:00:32,644 Right, Mr. Kayama? 1180 02:00:34,586 --> 02:00:36,555 I'll ask Mr. Kayama. 1181 02:00:36,755 --> 02:00:40,920 Answer me clearly. What makes red carnations so funny? 1182 02:00:42,293 --> 02:00:47,322 I guess... it's because red carnations signify love. 1183 02:00:47,532 --> 02:00:52,994 I didn't know that. I just thought - 1184 02:00:53,204 --> 02:00:54,672 Just a moment. 1185 02:00:55,507 --> 02:01:00,571 Even if he brought them 1186 02:01:00,779 --> 02:01:03,840 knowing full well what they meant, 1187 02:01:04,315 --> 02:01:07,285 it wouldn't seem funny to me. 1188 02:01:07,786 --> 02:01:10,984 I'd be delighted and accept them gratefully. 1189 02:01:11,723 --> 02:01:13,191 Ayako! 1190 02:01:16,594 --> 02:01:18,563 What's it matter anyway? 1191 02:01:18,763 --> 02:01:22,928 That language of flowers is foreign. It doesn't apply in Japan. 1192 02:01:23,134 --> 02:01:25,535 But what if it did? 1193 02:01:27,806 --> 02:01:31,766 He just got through saying he didn't know. 1194 02:01:31,976 --> 02:01:34,707 Isn't that right? - Yes. 1195 02:01:34,913 --> 02:01:38,077 But it's true that I love her. 1196 02:01:40,051 --> 02:01:45,490 Well, that could mean a lot of things. Surely you're not proposing to her! 1197 02:01:45,723 --> 02:01:47,316 I... 1198 02:01:50,328 --> 02:01:51,956 I am. 1199 02:02:13,785 --> 02:02:15,378 This is - 1200 02:02:16,521 --> 02:02:18,490 Right, Satoko? 1201 02:02:20,358 --> 02:02:23,795 I won't allow it. I simply won't. 1202 02:02:28,867 --> 02:02:32,634 I'd like to speak with him in private. 1203 02:02:39,010 --> 02:02:45,075 We certainly didn't expect this. How did this come about? 1204 02:02:45,416 --> 02:02:48,648 Father, Mother would like to see you. 1205 02:02:50,388 --> 02:02:54,826 Wait here and think it over, all right? 1206 02:03:16,014 --> 02:03:18,813 Look at her. 1207 02:03:19,017 --> 02:03:20,747 The poor child! 1208 02:03:28,860 --> 02:03:30,419 But - 1209 02:03:30,628 --> 02:03:36,192 We have no choice but to let her follow her heart. 1210 02:03:37,135 --> 02:03:39,366 But of all people! 1211 02:03:39,571 --> 02:03:45,203 I know, but deep in my heart, 1212 02:03:45,410 --> 02:03:48,403 I feel she's made the right choice. 1213 02:03:59,057 --> 02:04:01,026 No, don't look. 1214 02:04:06,297 --> 02:04:08,926 You mustn't see my face right now. 1215 02:04:11,169 --> 02:04:14,333 But what an expression. 1216 02:04:14,539 --> 02:04:16,838 What do you mean? 1217 02:04:17,041 --> 02:04:19,510 I see your reflection in the window. 1218 02:04:24,182 --> 02:04:28,586 I think I know why you look so sad. 1219 02:04:28,786 --> 02:04:30,414 You mustn't say it! 1220 02:04:30,822 --> 02:04:34,122 But it needs to be said. 1221 02:04:36,828 --> 02:04:41,357 There's someone standing between us. 1222 02:04:41,566 --> 02:04:43,262 Don't say it! 1223 02:05:25,677 --> 02:05:28,442 Please get up. 1224 02:05:33,084 --> 02:05:37,988 Are you happy? That's all I need to know. 1225 02:05:40,091 --> 02:05:43,892 Are you happy? What did she say? 1226 02:05:47,231 --> 02:05:50,395 I understand. I'm so glad. 1227 02:05:51,035 --> 02:05:56,804 Then this will be the last time we meet. 1228 02:05:58,843 --> 02:06:00,778 Farewell. 1229 02:06:12,123 --> 02:06:14,183 We're leaving tomorrow. 1230 02:06:14,859 --> 02:06:17,454 We'll probably never meet again. 1231 02:06:18,096 --> 02:06:22,796 Why didn't you answer her question? 1232 02:06:23,601 --> 02:06:25,900 Are you happy or not? 1233 02:06:29,006 --> 02:06:30,838 I see. 1234 02:06:31,275 --> 02:06:33,176 Of course you can't answer. 1235 02:06:52,063 --> 02:06:55,500 We just had an unexpected guest — Miss Ayako. 1236 02:06:55,967 --> 02:06:57,731 No, not for you. 1237 02:06:57,935 --> 02:07:00,404 You get your hopes up so easily. 1238 02:07:00,605 --> 02:07:04,440 Last night you seemed pleased about their engagement. 1239 02:07:04,642 --> 02:07:06,076 She's here to see Kameda? 1240 02:07:06,277 --> 02:07:09,441 You need to ask? Of course she is. 1241 02:07:10,181 --> 02:07:11,979 What a slap in the face! 1242 02:07:12,183 --> 02:07:15,551 They just went out together in the storm. 1243 02:07:17,488 --> 02:07:19,582 Are you afraid to take me to her? 1244 02:07:19,791 --> 02:07:21,657 No, but still I'm worried. 1245 02:07:21,859 --> 02:07:25,159 Don't worry. I just want to see for myself. 1246 02:07:25,363 --> 02:07:28,424 I want to understand her the way you do. 1247 02:07:28,633 --> 02:07:30,192 No, just listen. 1248 02:07:30,401 --> 02:07:35,430 Last night I thought and thought, and it finally hit me. 1249 02:07:36,741 --> 02:07:40,769 If I talk to her, it might clear everything up. 1250 02:07:45,650 --> 02:07:48,848 I may even come to like her. 1251 02:08:26,591 --> 02:08:29,493 - Is she inside? - Yes. 1252 02:08:29,861 --> 02:08:32,296 But I - 1253 02:08:54,585 --> 02:08:57,214 Frightened of a mere girl? 1254 02:09:01,993 --> 02:09:03,461 Yes, I am. 1255 02:09:05,763 --> 02:09:09,723 I'm afraid to even look at her. 1256 02:09:14,105 --> 02:09:18,975 She's everything I ever dreamed of being. 1257 02:09:23,781 --> 02:09:25,579 She possesses... 1258 02:09:27,885 --> 02:09:32,846 everything I've ever lost. 1259 02:09:56,514 --> 02:09:58,449 She represents... 1260 02:10:00,518 --> 02:10:03,886 an ideal for me. 1261 02:10:09,193 --> 02:10:10,821 That's why... 1262 02:10:12,830 --> 02:10:14,890 I wrote to her. 1263 02:10:18,970 --> 02:10:20,939 I want her... 1264 02:10:24,008 --> 02:10:27,137 to have the kind of life I dreamed of. 1265 02:10:36,420 --> 02:10:37,888 But - 1266 02:10:39,190 --> 02:10:43,787 But if you meet her, you may not like her. 1267 02:10:49,433 --> 02:10:53,529 Please, let's go back. I'm afraid. 1268 02:10:53,738 --> 02:10:56,572 What's wrong? Why that look? 1269 02:10:57,174 --> 02:10:59,370 You're pale too. 1270 02:11:02,279 --> 02:11:08,480 This is important for us. 1271 02:11:09,186 --> 02:11:12,714 I won't be impetuous like I usually am. 1272 02:14:28,150 --> 02:14:34,147 I assume you're fully aware... 1273 02:14:35,557 --> 02:14:40,586 of why I asked to see you. 1274 02:14:42,498 --> 02:14:45,229 No, I'm afraid I'm not. 1275 02:14:47,135 --> 02:14:49,468 Yes, you are. 1276 02:14:51,406 --> 02:14:56,037 What would I possibly gain by pretending? 1277 02:14:57,946 --> 02:15:00,245 Very well. Never mind that. 1278 02:15:01,650 --> 02:15:05,382 But there seems to be a misunderstanding. 1279 02:15:07,022 --> 02:15:10,151 I didn't come here to quarrel with you... 1280 02:15:11,293 --> 02:15:17,096 but I'm also not the sort to let things pass unnoticed. 1281 02:15:17,733 --> 02:15:21,966 I came to give you a reply to your letters. 1282 02:15:24,706 --> 02:15:28,143 But first there's something I'd like to ask. 1283 02:15:28,710 --> 02:15:32,112 Do you have any idea... 1284 02:15:34,249 --> 02:15:36,775 what sort of person Mr. Kameda is? 1285 02:15:39,721 --> 02:15:41,280 I certainly do. 1286 02:15:42,257 --> 02:15:45,022 I daresay I know far better than you. 1287 02:15:47,062 --> 02:15:50,396 That's a lie! You couldn't possibly know. 1288 02:15:50,599 --> 02:15:51,396 Why not? 1289 02:15:52,334 --> 02:15:53,802 Why not? 1290 02:15:56,572 --> 02:16:00,065 Because you only ever think of yourself. 1291 02:16:00,275 --> 02:16:02,369 Drunk on your own misery, 1292 02:16:02,578 --> 02:16:06,106 you don't see the grief you cause others. 1293 02:16:06,315 --> 02:16:09,376 If you really understood Mr. Kameda, 1294 02:16:09,585 --> 02:16:12,453 you wouldn't subject him to such ridicule. 1295 02:16:13,422 --> 02:16:17,917 I don't recall ever subjecting him to ridicule. 1296 02:16:18,193 --> 02:16:21,163 Then why did you walk out on him? 1297 02:16:21,363 --> 02:16:25,733 He's a simple man. You deceived and mistreated him. 1298 02:16:25,934 --> 02:16:27,402 Ayako! 1299 02:16:32,474 --> 02:16:34,272 Look at him. 1300 02:16:35,777 --> 02:16:38,770 Even now he's trying to defend you. 1301 02:16:45,053 --> 02:16:51,015 I've never met a man with a heart so big and so pure. 1302 02:16:54,463 --> 02:16:59,492 That's why I love him with all my soul. 1303 02:17:19,588 --> 02:17:23,855 Is that all you came to say? 1304 02:17:24,126 --> 02:17:26,994 No, there's still the most important thing: 1305 02:17:27,462 --> 02:17:31,229 my reply to your obnoxious letters. 1306 02:17:31,900 --> 02:17:34,131 I'll be frank. 1307 02:17:34,770 --> 02:17:38,172 You have no right to meddle in our affairs. 1308 02:17:38,440 --> 02:17:41,000 Stop coming between us! 1309 02:17:41,410 --> 02:17:44,175 Stop playing the martyr at our expense! 1310 02:17:44,579 --> 02:17:49,745 You act as if you're Violetta from La Traviata! 1311 02:17:49,951 --> 02:17:51,977 You mustn't say that! 1312 02:18:09,071 --> 02:18:13,065 You were right. 1313 02:18:14,076 --> 02:18:17,535 How could I have been such a fool? 1314 02:18:21,216 --> 02:18:25,654 For some reason I imagined this jealous little princess 1315 02:18:25,854 --> 02:18:30,053 to be some kind of angel. 1316 02:18:37,332 --> 02:18:39,301 Listen to me, young lady. 1317 02:18:40,168 --> 02:18:44,868 You don't even know yourself why you came here, do you? 1318 02:18:47,008 --> 02:18:48,977 Shall I tell you why? 1319 02:18:49,511 --> 02:18:54,142 You wanted to see what it is you're afraid of. 1320 02:18:54,349 --> 02:18:56,250 What would I be afraid of? 1321 02:18:56,451 --> 02:18:58,147 Me, of course. 1322 02:18:58,353 --> 02:19:03,951 You're terrified that he might love me more. 1323 02:19:04,860 --> 02:19:06,726 That's why you're here. 1324 02:19:08,130 --> 02:19:09,598 You're wrong. 1325 02:19:09,798 --> 02:19:13,929 It's pity he feels for you, not love. 1326 02:19:14,136 --> 02:19:17,629 It amounts to the same thing. 1327 02:19:19,074 --> 02:19:24,274 But I know I have no right to accept his love. 1328 02:19:26,348 --> 02:19:27,976 That's why I - 1329 02:19:30,185 --> 02:19:31,949 No, enough of this! 1330 02:19:32,387 --> 02:19:36,017 Take your precious man and go! 1331 02:19:37,359 --> 02:19:40,056 I can't bear to look at you. 1332 02:19:40,262 --> 02:19:45,826 But know that you're the one causing him all this suffering! 1333 02:19:48,737 --> 02:19:51,002 Now go! Take him away! 1334 02:19:51,373 --> 02:19:53,706 Get out of here! 1335 02:19:54,009 --> 02:19:55,534 Now! 1336 02:20:16,464 --> 02:20:19,332 No, I've changed my mind. 1337 02:20:31,446 --> 02:20:35,178 We'll fight for him. Are you ready? 1338 02:20:36,518 --> 02:20:38,851 I'll command him to leave you... 1339 02:20:39,955 --> 02:20:45,553 and he'll abandon you and stay with me forever. 1340 02:20:48,697 --> 02:20:50,893 He'll marry me... 1341 02:20:52,434 --> 02:20:55,700 and you'll go home alone and in tears. 1342 02:20:57,472 --> 02:21:01,034 Is that what you want? Is it? 1343 02:21:01,843 --> 02:21:05,644 Mr. Kameda, which of us will you choose? 1344 02:21:06,147 --> 02:21:09,584 No, I'll never let you go again. 1345 02:21:10,085 --> 02:21:12,748 Say you'll marry me! 1346 02:21:12,954 --> 02:21:14,752 Please, don't do this! 1347 02:21:15,624 --> 02:21:17,718 Are you ready? 1348 02:21:19,728 --> 02:21:26,191 If he refuses to take my hand and say he's leaving you, 1349 02:21:26,401 --> 02:21:28,427 then you win. 1350 02:21:29,037 --> 02:21:34,101 In that case, you can take him away. I have no need of him. 1351 02:21:35,810 --> 02:21:41,306 Now then: Which of us will it be? 1352 02:22:45,513 --> 02:22:47,744 How did it ever come to this? 1353 02:22:55,256 --> 02:22:58,658 Please, please... 1354 02:22:59,828 --> 02:23:02,093 you mustn't blame her. 1355 02:23:04,799 --> 02:23:06,734 She's so... 1356 02:23:08,236 --> 02:23:10,899 deeply unhappy. 1357 02:23:25,620 --> 02:23:27,782 Are you going after her? 1358 02:23:29,090 --> 02:23:31,355 Are you? 1359 02:24:05,527 --> 02:24:07,996 I'll take care of things here. 1360 02:24:09,631 --> 02:24:11,793 You go after Ayako. 1361 02:24:50,772 --> 02:24:52,934 Ayako hasn't come home! 1362 02:24:53,174 --> 02:24:57,908 You took her to see that woman and didn't escort her home 1363 02:24:58,113 --> 02:25:00,082 in this blizzard! 1364 02:25:11,126 --> 02:25:12,355 Please hurry! 1365 02:25:12,560 --> 02:25:16,497 Ayako came to our house with a raging fever. 1366 02:25:16,698 --> 02:25:19,429 I ran here because the phone wasn't working. 1367 02:25:19,634 --> 02:25:22,103 We'll be right there! 1368 02:25:26,741 --> 02:25:28,300 Listen here: 1369 02:25:28,510 --> 02:25:32,572 It's all over. I've had enough of you. 1370 02:26:10,218 --> 02:26:13,120 AKAMA RESIDENCE 1371 02:26:44,786 --> 02:26:46,812 Come with me. 1372 02:26:48,022 --> 02:26:49,923 I have to talk to you. 1373 02:27:00,735 --> 02:27:03,102 Is she at your place? 1374 02:27:03,705 --> 02:27:05,173 Yes. 1375 02:27:05,473 --> 02:27:11,037 Was that you peeking out at me? Has she been there all this time? 1376 02:27:11,379 --> 02:27:14,178 I told you: Don't walk so close to me. 1377 02:27:57,425 --> 02:27:59,553 Remember: You never saw me here. 1378 02:29:46,968 --> 02:29:48,664 It's very cold. 1379 02:29:50,138 --> 02:29:52,130 Won't you light the stove? 1380 02:29:54,275 --> 02:29:55,903 No, I can't. 1381 02:29:56,177 --> 02:29:57,645 Why not? 1382 02:30:00,114 --> 02:30:03,983 I had to see you, no matter what. 1383 02:30:04,719 --> 02:30:07,188 Really? So I was right. 1384 02:30:08,423 --> 02:30:13,418 I got that feeling somehow, so I came looking for you. 1385 02:30:36,217 --> 02:30:40,712 You've been on my mind a lot. 1386 02:30:41,189 --> 02:30:45,957 I thought I'd bring you here so we could talk through the night. 1387 02:30:57,305 --> 02:31:01,299 Is she asleep in there? 1388 02:31:12,320 --> 02:31:14,084 That's right. 1389 02:31:15,923 --> 02:31:17,687 Want to look? 1390 02:32:01,168 --> 02:32:02,602 Listen - 1391 02:32:04,438 --> 02:32:06,839 No, never mind. Go in. 1392 02:32:17,885 --> 02:32:20,514 It's so dark here. 1393 02:32:20,955 --> 02:32:22,890 You'll see enough. 1394 02:32:48,683 --> 02:32:50,948 You're trembling like a leaf. 1395 02:32:51,152 --> 02:32:53,712 Careful you don't have another fit. 1396 02:33:15,409 --> 02:33:19,369 Did you... do that? 1397 02:33:20,381 --> 02:33:21,849 Yes. 1398 02:33:30,825 --> 02:33:35,354 What do you intend to do now? 1399 02:33:36,263 --> 02:33:39,927 I don't get it. Why are you trembling like that? 1400 02:33:43,070 --> 02:33:45,801 Anyway, let's spend the night here. 1401 02:33:49,377 --> 02:33:51,278 I'm hot. 1402 02:33:52,213 --> 02:33:54,239 It's hot, isn't it? 1403 02:33:55,683 --> 02:33:59,085 What? I thought you were cold. 1404 02:34:05,059 --> 02:34:08,826 Listen! Do you hear someone in the hall? 1405 02:34:11,532 --> 02:34:14,195 I don't hear anything. 1406 02:34:29,116 --> 02:34:32,143 You see? She's sleeping in there. 1407 02:34:33,569 --> 02:34:35,868 She's not going anywhere. 1408 02:34:37,273 --> 02:34:39,435 She's all ours now. 1409 02:34:56,592 --> 02:35:00,552 We won't let some worthless fool take her, will we? 1410 02:35:04,934 --> 02:35:07,460 Let's take turns keeping watch. 1411 02:35:16,145 --> 02:35:18,376 She has a beautiful body! 1412 02:35:18,581 --> 02:35:20,607 Take a look in the morning. 1413 02:35:23,552 --> 02:35:26,579 I spent all day by her side. 1414 02:35:27,957 --> 02:35:30,517 I've never seen such a beautiful woman. 1415 02:35:39,001 --> 02:35:42,165 But I'm worried she may start to smell. 1416 02:35:42,838 --> 02:35:45,535 The stove was lit earlier. 1417 02:35:48,544 --> 02:35:50,137 You smell anything? 1418 02:35:53,115 --> 02:35:55,710 I don't think so. 1419 02:35:58,687 --> 02:36:03,250 I wish we had flowers to offer. 1420 02:36:06,061 --> 02:36:08,895 Mother always has some on the family altar, 1421 02:36:09,231 --> 02:36:12,201 but she'd notice if any were missing. 1422 02:36:13,769 --> 02:36:15,829 Shall I go buy some? 1423 02:36:19,708 --> 02:36:23,042 Let's bury her in lots of different flowers. 1424 02:36:26,181 --> 02:36:30,619 No, that would be too sad. 1425 02:36:46,735 --> 02:36:50,297 Oh, right! There's something I wanted to ask. 1426 02:36:52,341 --> 02:36:56,210 How did you kill her? 1427 02:36:56,679 --> 02:36:58,705 Did you use that knife? 1428 02:36:58,914 --> 02:37:01,076 Yes, the butcher's knife. 1429 02:37:01,283 --> 02:37:02,945 Wait a minute. 1430 02:37:06,355 --> 02:37:09,553 There are other things I want to ask. 1431 02:37:09,925 --> 02:37:11,553 Lots of things. 1432 02:37:12,227 --> 02:37:14,219 Tell me everything. 1433 02:37:16,198 --> 02:37:21,102 I went rushing off, right? 1434 02:37:22,771 --> 02:37:24,865 Is that when you did it? 1435 02:37:25,307 --> 02:37:29,335 Right after that. The knife was on the desk. 1436 02:37:35,751 --> 02:37:38,277 But something puzzles me. 1437 02:37:38,487 --> 02:37:42,390 It went in three inches - no, even deeper - 1438 02:37:43,559 --> 02:37:46,654 right around here... 1439 02:37:47,696 --> 02:37:51,360 but hardly any blood came out. 1440 02:37:52,067 --> 02:37:53,592 You know why? 1441 02:37:54,603 --> 02:37:56,731 I can explain that. 1442 02:37:59,608 --> 02:38:02,100 It's called internal bleeding. 1443 02:38:17,760 --> 02:38:19,058 Listen! 1444 02:38:20,996 --> 02:38:22,624 You hear that? 1445 02:38:23,665 --> 02:38:25,133 Yes! 1446 02:38:26,735 --> 02:38:28,363 Footsteps! 1447 02:38:30,239 --> 02:38:34,301 You hear that? Someone's outside. 1448 02:38:34,610 --> 02:38:36,238 I hear it. 1449 02:38:37,179 --> 02:38:39,171 Someone's walking around. 1450 02:38:39,381 --> 02:38:41,009 That's right. 1451 02:39:41,243 --> 02:39:43,405 Amazing! 1452 02:39:43,679 --> 02:39:45,910 Look at that cloud! 1453 02:40:04,399 --> 02:40:06,368 It's like a rainbow. 1454 02:40:14,343 --> 02:40:16,676 Look how strangely it shines! 1455 02:40:21,183 --> 02:40:24,620 It's coming this way! It's coming! 1456 02:40:24,987 --> 02:40:26,956 It's racing toward us. 1457 02:40:28,657 --> 02:40:31,752 And she's riding on it! 1458 02:40:34,930 --> 02:40:36,899 She's laughing! 1459 02:40:39,868 --> 02:40:41,837 Mother's there too. 1460 02:40:46,041 --> 02:40:48,340 They're here! 1461 02:40:51,180 --> 02:40:54,480 Hurry, get on! 1462 02:42:56,438 --> 02:42:58,669 Someone come quickly! 1463 02:43:10,085 --> 02:43:13,613 You hear that thunder? Even the weather's gone crazy. 1464 02:43:13,822 --> 02:43:16,348 I hate having to visit the sick. 1465 02:43:16,558 --> 02:43:20,359 Ayako, do something for him. He's terrified. 1466 02:43:20,562 --> 02:43:22,190 I told him not to come. 1467 02:43:22,397 --> 02:43:24,866 And he's in middle school, no less. 1468 02:43:25,067 --> 02:43:27,127 What could be so frightening about that idiot? 1469 02:43:48,390 --> 02:43:51,326 Kaoru, come with me. 1470 02:44:28,730 --> 02:44:33,134 Poor thing. I feel so sorry for him. 1471 02:44:35,437 --> 02:44:40,000 No matter what anyone says, he was a fine person. 1472 02:44:40,409 --> 02:44:43,709 He was too good for this world. 1473 02:44:44,312 --> 02:44:50,252 Even that worthless Karube came, flowers in hand. 1474 02:44:53,188 --> 02:44:55,885 He actually had tears in his eyes. 1475 02:45:06,935 --> 02:45:11,270 I don't want to talk about it. 1476 02:45:12,574 --> 02:45:15,703 I promised you... 1477 02:45:16,678 --> 02:45:22,174 I'd keep an eye on him and tell you what he was doing. 1478 02:45:22,384 --> 02:45:24,182 But it was too - 1479 02:45:25,720 --> 02:45:27,552 Was it that awful? 1480 02:45:30,559 --> 02:45:33,723 All I know 1481 02:45:33,929 --> 02:45:38,128 is that I'll remember what a good man he was. 1482 02:45:42,003 --> 02:45:46,873 If only we could all love as he did... 1483 02:45:47,742 --> 02:45:49,870 without hatred. 1484 02:45:50,612 --> 02:45:54,743 What a fool I've been. 1485 02:45:56,585 --> 02:45:58,796 I was the idiot. 1486 02:46:15,237 --> 02:46:18,571 THE END 1487 02:46:20,108 --> 02:46:24,068 Translation by KERIM YASAR for SUBTEXT SUBTITLING 99144

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