Original subtitles

Yomiuri Television Production

Heads up out there!

Tackle him!

Tackle! Come on!

Sugita, that's not fair!

- Get clear! - Shrimp!

Call for it! Call for it!

Sugita, that's cheating!

Damn it! You jerk!

Stop it! That's enough!

Cut it out!

That's a foul!

A foul on who, sir?

Against Kawabe.

Me? I didn't do anything, sir!

You charged him from behind. All right, line up!

Hey! Cut it out, I said!

Get back... get back... you too...

All right, all right, that's good.

The guy's going to aim at your head...

Yamashita's grandma died. The one out in the country.

Fatso Yamashita's away. Today makes three days.

- He went to the funeral. - Yeah?

Yamashita came back to school.

Hey, fatso!

I shouldn't have said that. Now he's mad.

Yo, Kiyama.

You were gone three days!

That's a pretty long time.

Hey, fatso!

So your grandma croaked?

Yeah, that's right. She did.

How did they do the funeral?

- "How"? - Was it cool?

No, it wasn't cool... I mean, someone died...

Don't get pompous, fatso!

Well, you know... it was a funeral.

But when somebody dies, they burn them...

It's called a 'crematorium'.

The coffin goes in this big furnace, then bang!

The doors slam shut.

Then, about two hours later...

Two hours later what?

They're just bones.

They're all burned. All that's left is bones.

All white and crumbly.

They burn them for two hours?

That must be hot! Just burning and burning...

Then you take chopsticks and put the bones in a jar.

- I had a dream... - A dream?

There was a teddy-bear wrestling.

But suddenly, I saw it wasn't a teddy bear.

It was Grandma's body.

Hey! I'm immortal!

...52...53...

I read once that in your whole life you breathe...

600-800 million times.

So in bed, I would count how many times I breathed.

But, high as I might count, this night I couldn't sleep.

...62...

SUMMER GARDEN aka 'The Friends'

You could've got that!

Quick, get ready!

Come on, grab it!

So what's this great thing you want to tell us?

You know that calligraphy teacher's place...

off the street the bus goes down?

You mean by the park?

Two doors down there's this old guy who lives alone.

My mom says...

that he's going to die one of these days.

So what do you think happens if some old guy all alone...

just up and dies one day?

What happens? Well, he just dies alone, I guess.

All alone... a body...

Yeah. And then someone finds him.

What?

The old guy dies all alone, and he gets found.

- By who? - By us, stupid!

I'm going home.

Listen... we keep a watch on the old guy.

Yamashita, you're the one who should know best...

if he's about to drop dead or not.

- You're nuts! - Move!

What are you, a vulture? You jerk!

Kawabe, what're you doing?

These days I keep thinking about dead people...

and what it's like to die.

But somehow I just can't believe it.

Me neither!

But when you think about something you can't believe...

don't you start to feel kind of weird?

- Like you have to pee real bad. - Yeah, sort of.

- Be careful! - I couldn't fight it...

Yesterday, when I was up here.

You did this yesterday?

All the cars were just whipping by under me.

Kawabe, quit it!

I thought if I fell then I'd die for sure.

Come on, Kawabe, stop it!

But I couldn't stop myself... like this.

But if I died, I guess I couldn't tell you guys...

what it's like.

- I get it. - You get what?

Let's go and have a look at this old guy.

Come on, Kiyama, let's go!

You can't see from here.

- Look, there's grass growing on the roof! - Yeah.

There's spider webs everywhere.

It's filthy!

- Is there really someone living here? - I wonder...

He's alive!

My dad's a detective...

Yeah? Cool!

You know the barber murder? The one with the scissors?

Yeah...? No, I don't.

He cracked that case. That was my father.

Here we go again! Kawabe doesn't have a father.

He died when Kawabe was a baby.

...and that night he went to the barbershop alone...

and he thought he could smell the blood!

It'd be great to be able to just watch TV like that!

I can only watch for an hour and a half a day!

You know what?

You know what?

What if the old guy's lying there dead with the TV on?

Sitting there at his foot warmer?

Can you prove he isn't?

No way!

He might be! Who'd have a foot warmer on...

when it's boiling hot, like this?

Yamashita... let's go in.

Quiet, will you?

Hey... do you guys smell something funny?

What a stink!

Let's go home.

Kiyama, you go first.

Yamashita, you go.

What are you doing...?

Same thing every day! I'm tired of this!

Not every day. Every three days.

That's right. To be exact, the old man only goes out...

once every three days.

And all he does is go to the convenience store and back.

Yeah...

- But he sure doesn't eat very well. - What?

Well, he usually just buys two box lunches.

I'm sure he must eat one that night...

and the other the next morning for breakfast.

Summer holidays began.

Summer school started earlier than normal school.

I'd never seen the house in the morning before.

Kiyama... what're you doing?

Taking out the garbage.

Garbage?

I can't take the stink while we're keeping watch.

Today's garbage day.

Yeah, but...

Don't worry about it. Help me.

Yamashita, quiet!

It stinks!

Even the newspapers are rotten... Wow!

You kids...

What are you doing here?

We thought we'd put out the garbage.

D'you think I'm stupid? Get out of here.

I told you to get out of here now!

Go on! Get out of here!

- What, do you think we did something bad? - Quiet!

You come waltzing into someone's yard...

I'd like to talk to your parents!

My father...

My father was a fireman, you know!

He got killed helping someone escape from a fire.

He was really brave, you know!

Cut it out, Kawabe!

Listen, you old fart! We've been watching you!

We're watching you 'cause we heard you're going to die!

We're watching 'cause we want to see how you die!

Kawabe, that's enough!

You hear me?!

Hey!

- Did you find him? - No.

So we lost him?

What do we do?

- Maybe he's at the hospital. - What?

I went there when I had pinkeye.

The waiting room was all full of old people.

- So maybe... - Right! Kiyama, you take the hospital.

- What about you? - The supermarket.

- I'll look around here. - OK. We'll meet back here.

Have a seat over there, please.

My name's Hashimoto. I'd like to pay my bill.

What's the matter?

'Surgery'... 'Dermatology'...

Excuse me...

No... I'm sorry.

I wonder how many people I've taken to their funeral?

My wife always says that when I'm asleep...

I look like I'm dead.

Because I look so happy, she says.

All this looking after people when they die...

sure isn't something I do because I like it.

Rest in peace.

- Did you find him? - Yeah... but...

It was scary; I got lost in the hospital.

My dad... he's not dead, you know.

He's got a kid. Another one.

And that kid... has a mother.

A different mother from mine.

To hell with him!

The TV's not on today.

You're right. I can't hear anything.

It's weird.

- Kiyama... - What?

You said you saw the old guy in the hospital, didn't you?

Yeah...

You saw him way back in the middle of it somewhere...

in a dark hallway, like in a maze.

Isn't that right?

I'm not really sure...

It might've been someone else.

Now you tell me!

Does he go to the hospital?

Is the old man sick?

The bodies talk to him.

The old man talks to dead bodies.

That's why I said I'm not sure!

But you saw him, didn't you?

I heard a voice.

This is really weird!

- I'm going home. - I can't hear anything.

- Now it's the old man's turn. - What?

Now it'll be the old man who turns into a dead body.

No way!

It's too soon. He was too healthy.

My grandma was like that.

She was cooking rice the day before she died.

Hey, stand up!

You know what?

What?

I shouldn't have said what I did. I get mad too fast.

I should've said sorry.

Boo!

What's he doing?

Hey, old man! Quit it!

Don't mess with us!

He's working real hard.

He's just pissed off.

He just acts energetic 'cause we're watching him.

The old fool!

Hey, what're you guys doing?

You guys are always peering in over this wall.

Nothing.

You don't ever come to the pool! What are you doing?

- None of your business! - Oh yeah?

Look, fatso, my mom buys her fish at your mom's store.

- So what? - Maybe I'll ask her...

what you're doing spying on someone else's house.

Don't you go squealing on us, Sugita.

You're just the kind of weirdo who would!

Who are you calling a weirdo?

There's only two weirdos here. You babies!

It's you two who're the babies!

Watch out: his dad's a famous detective!

Sorry.

Oh yeah? Wasn't Kawabe's dad a pilot?

- Shut up! - And before that...

- he was an explorer! - Kiyama, move!

Yeah, he crossed Antarctica on a motorcycle, didn't he.

How many dads have you got, Kawabe?

Quit it, Kawabe!

- Hey, hey! - Let me go, Kiyama!

Hey, hey, what're you kids doing there?

Oh, new faces... Well, come in here, all of you.

OK.

- Jerk! - Idiot!

Yamashita, quit it!

Sugita! Matsushita! I'll see you later!

Put me down!

Where's the sumo wrestler?

Oh, there you are...

Tie this to that tree over there, will you?

Tie it good and tight, you hear?

You OK?

- Well? - OK!

OK, Bones. Your turn.

No, no, no...

Watch carefully now...

OK? Like this.

Knot it this way.

OK? And then...

pass it around, like this...

and pass it through in here... see?

Then you pull it tight.

- There. See how tight it is? - Yeah.

A butterfly...

Here. Hang these out.

No, no...

Spread them out, so they don't wrinkle.

- That's real good. - Yeah?

No, not you... Specs there.

He's good at hanging out laundry.

The laundry's my job.

Yeah, it is.

I don't like to put all the work onto my mom.

Well, that's all my clothes washed.

Kiyama... let's go.

I guess so.

Hey, this butterfly's dead.

No, don't pick it up...

It's huge!

Leave it there.

Did you throw it in the well?

Yeah. It's a dry well.

You don't want to fall in there. Keep away from it.

You OK?!

- Gramps, are you OK? - Yeah.

Well, your work's all done here.

Away you go.

- Want to go? - Yeah.

Kawabe... let's go.

Let's all walk, let's all walk...

I'm feeling just great...

I just love to walk...

You're going to go spy on that house again, huh?

We're not spying on it.

Yeah, we're picking up the garbage and helping out.

Yeah, but you were spying.

We were working there this morning, too.

My mom buys fish at your mom's store.

- So? - I'm going to tell.

I'll tell her Yamashita's spying on someone's house.

I don't know what to do!

There's so many weeds in my yard...

I can't open the windows for all the mosquitoes.

What do you think I should do, eh?

Matsushita!

Wow!

Hey, Sumo, you've got to put your back into it more.

Specs, pull them right out, roots and all.

Come on, Bones, you're not getting anything done.

- How about you come and do it? - Me? Well...

my legs hurt and I can't bend over.

- Yamashita... - Huh?

The shovel's here.

Clearing the weeds took us three days...

This dirty old place?

You mean someone lives in a place like this?

- Kiyama! - Hi!

You're helping the old man? That's great!

My mom said why don't we come and help you.

OK. Come here.

I'm sorry, but this is something...

the three of us are doing.

We'll finish it. Just the three of us.

Wow, you're really working!

- Well, then... this is a present. - Thanks. Scram!

This way!

What's all this about?

I don't know. Hey, Yamashita!

- Here's a present you'll like. - Alright!

I'll help you.

Come on, Yamashita. Work!

Yamashita!

Come on! Work!

Well, we did it.

The yard looks a lot bigger now.

Like it's not the same place.

Gramps...

- Can I light it? - Sure, go ahead.

Bearing the torch...

he mounts the dais and lights the Olympic flame!

Gramps...

- Oh, you want to see? - Yeah!

It's deep. You can't see anything.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

It's just ripe, this one!

Why don't you cut it, Specs?

- I can't! - Why not?

- I don't know how. - What's that?

You've never cut up a melon?

No. They're always ready-cut when we buy them.

I see. Well...

Wait!

What's wrong?

I'll be right back. Wait for me.

Where're you going?

Look... there's no edge on this.

Hello...

What'll it be today?

- I'm home! - Oh, hi.

- I'll be right back. - Where're you going?

What have you got there?

We need that in the shop, you know!

Wait a minute!

Takeshi!

Ah, here he is.

A knife's something you've got to sharpen!

Yep, looks like he's used to it.

Sure I am; our place is a fishmonger's.

The taste of food changes with the way you cut it.

So are you going to be a fishmonger too, Sumo?

I don't know. My mom says what's the use...

in being a stingy old fishmonger like my dad.

She says that way I'll only get a dumb wife!

She says I should study hard and do something else.

I don't know... I kind of like my dad's work.

He must be a fine father.

Ah, this is good!

Here.

Here.

It's raining.

Let's plant something in the fall.

What...? Some marigolds, maybe?

We don't have to wait till fall. Let's do it tomorrow.

You're a busy little character, aren't you!

You don't plant things in summer, do you?

- Sure you do. - No problem!

They just wait in the earth until it's time to bloom.

Yeah, let's do it tomorrow!

What should we plant?

- Snowdrops? - Um... narcissus? - Violets!

- Horse radish! - What?! Horse radish?

- They have flowers! - They sure do.

Little ones, just like canola.

Yeah? I didn't know that.

- Four o'clocks? - Um... babies' breath! - Wild asters!

Amaryllis... dogtooth violet.

Japanese rose...

or maybe wild peony...

fox's razor... campanula...

Lilies would be nice...

- with some bellflowers. - Yeah!

Let's all walk, let's all walk...

I'm feeling just great...

I just love to walk...

Let's keep on walking.

Through short-cuts and tunnels...

Bones... turn on the tap.

Sumo...

Let's get Specs while he's not looking...

Argh, it's freezing! Stop it, you guys!

Cut it out!

Hey, quit it!

Here... watch this...

Oh, isn't that pretty!

What a beautiful rainbow!

How nice of you boys!

- Are you helping out? - Yes, ma'am.

Did you see that?

Women get everything handed to them.

Goodbye, Miss Kondo!

Goodbye!

That pretty woman's our teacher,

Shizuka Kondo.

Oh, no!

Gramps!

This floor mat's damp. I'm going to dry it out.

- Watch yourself. - Yamashita, take this!

I'll leave this here.

- Here's the next one! - OK.

- And what are we doing? - Thanks, Yamashita.

- Gramps, can I throw this out? - Huh? What?

One, two, three!

Yeah!

Careful!

Sorry!

Don't push on it...

You try it.

Take it...

Here we go.

- I'm here to fix the glass. - Hello.

- Where that tape is, there. - Alright.

The broken ones too, please.

Thanks.

That's sharp!

What do you two want?

Hey, you guys...

Pass me that paint.

I don't have time to come down.

What about soccer?

You were late for practise last time, too.

So, are you coming?

No, I can't leave this.

I already told the coach.

These guys, too?

Hey, there's soccer today. What're you going to do?

I'm not going. I've got to do this.

Me too!

I guess we're not going. Pass me the paint, will you?

No! Losers!

- There you go. - Thanks.

Help me... I'll join your gang.

Let me join your gang! Please! Please!

You can climb out of there! Come on, do it!

It doesn't look like my house anymore!

Yeah. Before it looked like nobody lived here.

Yeah, that's the truth.

For a long time, I didn't pay any attention to it.

Now it's something!

You're right. Now it's really something to see.

Did you ever get married?

Me? Yeah, I did...

What happened to the woman?

Did she die?

Oh, she might be dead by now.

Did you split up?

- Yeah, something like that. - Why?

Why? I don't know.

And you never got married again?

- No, I never did. - Why not?

- Didn't I say I don't know? - What was her name?

'Yayoi'...

Her name was Yayoi Koko.

'Koko'? What kind of a name's that?

Oh, it's just a name.

The character for 'old'...

then for 'fragrant', and for the first name, 'spring'.

Was she pretty?

- Oh, I don't remember. - Did you have kids?

- No, we didn't. - That's weird. - Why?

Well, my dad's been married twice...

and he had kids with both his wives.

Maybe if you'd had a kid...

my dad wouldn't have had to get married twice.

You're a strange kid, you know that?

Sometimes I wonder...

if there isn't a better way for people to do things.

You mean people in society?

The earth has air, and the wind blows...

and birds fly.

And that all works, and people come and find that.

And because of that, planes fly.

There are planes that fly so high up, you can't hear them.

So why isn't my father around?

Why does my mom have to work in a department store...

and look scared all the time?

Why do people always tell me that I have to feel guilty?

Why?

Why?

There was a typhoon.

Jun, where are you going?

There's a typhoon on!

I want to go see something.

- What? - My flowers. - Flowers?

The cosmos I planted.

Stupid!

Bones! Get in here! Hurry up!

It's pouring rain!

- I knew you'd come! - Huh?

Take your socks off.

Come here.

I was at home looking out the window upstairs...

and guess who I saw come walking along like this...

with his umbrella blown inside-out? Kawabe!

He was worried about the cosmos, so I came with him.

You too?

I washed your socks!

Sit down.

What were you all doing?

- Oh, nothing! - We weren't doing nothing.

What?

OK then, don't tell me.

We had a bet... whether you'd come or not.

- That's right! - Is that all?

"Is that all?" That's enough!

So who won?

Hmm...? I did.

Come on, Sumo, you promised. You owe me a massage.

"Thank you very much!"

- Gramps... - Yeah?

Can I watch the weather on TV?

Sure you can. Turn it on.

- Keep the sound down, though. - OK.

- Ouch! - What're you doing?

There's a war started!

- Where? - I don't know...

Were you ever in a war?

- Yeah. - Did you fly in a plane? - No.

- What did you do? - Not a damn thing.

Come on, tell us about the war.

What did you do?

All I did was walk.

- You just walked? - Yeah.

Didn't you do any fighting?

No, it was just me and some other soldiers...

wandering around, trying to get out of the jungle.

How pathetic!

Well, it's a good thing you got out.

There's a moth...

No, don't touch it!

No matter how often you chase those moths away...

they always come back.

Just like someone who's dead wants to come and say hello.

- Someone who's dead? - Yeah.

Maybe one of the guys I went to the war with.

Or else...

- Or else...? - Huh? Oh...

One day...

when we were all...

trying to find our way out of the jungle...

we finally found a little house.

A little house with a roof made of leaves.

Lucky!

And the only people in the house...

were a young woman, some children and some old people.

We killed them all...

The young woman, the kids and the old people.

Why?

If we'd let them live, they'd tell the enemy about us...

so we killed all of them.

- With a machine gun? - No, not like that...

It was called a .38 infantry rifle, an old-fashioned rifle.

- What's it feel like to kill someone? - Shut up!

The woman ran off...

I went after her.

We'd had no food or water for days.

My legs were getting all tangled up as I ran.

The woman could run as fast as a deer.

She had long black hair, and as she ran...

it bounced on her back, just like it was dancing.

I couldn't breathe anymore...

and my head was pounding like it was a bell...

someone was hammering on.

But I caught up to her...

and shot her with my rifle.

Wow!

I went up beside the woman there where she'd fallen...

to find out if she was dead or not.

I prodded at her body, and it was only then...

that I realised...

Her stomach was out this big.

She was pregnant?

Yes, she was. I reached down...

and put my hand on her stomach...

and the baby moved inside.

Bam! Bam! Just like that.

So what'd you do then?

Oh, I went back to the rest of the guys...

and we stuffed ourselves on the food there.

And now I'm alive.

Ready, go!

- Hey... - What?

- What do you think? - About what?

About what Gramps said.

Oh... I wish I hadn't heard it.

Yeah!

I've been thinking about it ever since he told us.

I'll bet you that's the reason...

he broke up with his wife.

He couldn't go back to her...

Not after he'd killed a woman.

A superb piece of deduction, Detective Kawabe!

No, Kiyama, I'm serious!

You turkey!

Jerk!

Kiyama!

Hey, where'd Yamashita go?

Hey, Yamashita! Come here!

For now, let's just stick to Kobe.

After all, Gramps did say...

that Yayoi Koko was from around here.

- What do we do? - We phone them.

There's no one here named Yayoi.

In a phonebook...

only the head of the household is listed.

She might be living with someone else.

This won't work if she's living somewhere else.

What if she got married again?

Gramps said she might have.

Yeah... she might have.

Some people aren't listed in the phonebook.

I'm just saying that all we need to find is a clue.

We might get lucky and hit on a relative or something.

We got lucky...

We found Yayoi Koko.

In here.

Thank you very much.

Kiyama, you go first.

But I phoned everyone, and I talked to the staff here.

You guys haven't done anything!

You're the best at this kind of thing.

Yeah, you're the one who should do it.

Yes?

Shock! Our teacher, Miss Kondo...

was Yayoi Koko's grand-daughter.

Good morning.

I'll go out and get some juice, alright?

- How's this? - What is it?

I was thinking yesterday...

When Gramps went to the war...

he was a young man.

It'd be too much of a shock to just bring them together.

Especially since he's gotten so old.

Is that supposed to be Gramps?

You know who this is, don't you?

He's gotten a little old, though.

No way she's going to know him from that.

Come on!

We know where this person is, you know.

Great, huh?

Something terrible happened to this old man...

when he went to the war.

And that's why he couldn't ever come back home.

But he could never forget...

about his wife.

And to prove that...

he's lived alone ever since then.

There were many things that happened...

during the war, you know?

Yeah, sure.

But now he's living all by himself.

He's not like my father, you know.

Don't you think that's a terrible thing?

Do I think that's terrible?

Are you asking me if I would be angry...

if I were this gentleman's wife?

Yes, ma'am.

I'm not angry, or bitter.

There's no point in being angry.

And anyway...

I make a point of forgetting...

everything that is unpleasant to me.

What's this man's name?

Uh... what is Gramps' name, anyway?

The nameplate on his gate's so black you can't read it.

They're hard characters to write.

- The only one I could read was 'hachi'. - Hachi?

It wasn't 'Kihachi', was it?

I'm sorry, dear, but my husband died...

a very, very long time ago.

The last thing she said was that he died...

a very long time ago.

- It was like she was really tired. - Yeah.

You think she's gone senile?

Boys, wait a minute.

That man you were talking about...

is he that old man?

He is?

I was really surprised...

when I heard you were Yayoi Koko's grand-daughter.

My grandfather...

Yayoi Koko's husband isn't dead.

For several reasons...

we've acted as if he died a long time ago...

as if he had been killed in the war.

Hey! Look!

Hey!

We'll come back again!

Bye!

Take care of yourself!

We'll write you a letter!

Hello!

Hello!

Hello!

Hello?

Hello!

Hello.

What is it?

You're Kihachi Denpo, aren't you?

My name is Shizuka Kondo.

I teach the three boys you've been so kind to.

Would you mind if I came in?

Uh... but I don't...

Please accept this.

Oh... thanks very much.

Your pupils came and planted those for me.

Well, they should be beautiful when they bloom.

A long time ago there was a woman named Yayoi Koko.

She got married and changed her name to 'Denpo'...

'Yayoi Denpo'.

Her husband's name was Kihachi Denpo.

They were very happy together, I'm told.

But a conscription notice arrived...

and the man who was her husband went to the war.

They say he fought in The Philippines.

I'm sorry this tea is so weak, Miss.

Yayoi Koko was pregnant.

When the baby was born, she named it 'Kaoru'.

It was a girl.

Boy or girl, its name was to be 'Kaoru'...

Apparently they had decided that.

Kaoru Koko was her name.

When the war ended and her husband didn't come back...

Yayoi Denpo went back to her maiden name.

She couldn't bring herself to return to his family.

And Kaoru...

What became of her?

She was raised by her mother.

She married at 20.

The baby she had was me...

I am Kihachi Denpo's grand-daughter.

- Is that true? - Yes.

And... what about Kaoru now?

My mother is dead. She and my father were killed...

- in a traffic accident. - She's dead?

Yes.

When Grandma heard the news...

the shock sent her a little bit senile.

She started saying her husband was a hero...

who'd charged the enemy with a bomb strapped to him.

Well, maybe that's all for the best.

I wonder...

Would you mind...

looking at this, please?

This is certainly a very old picture, isn't it?

The Kihachi Denpo in this picture is you, isn't it?

This?

No, it isn't.

But the name and the face are the same!

Perhaps, but it's a very big world.

There are lots of people who have the same names.

- What? - I'm trying to tell you.

My name is Kihachi Denpo.

But the Kihachi Denpo in this photograph...

is not the same person as me.

I don't understand!

Try to understand, please.

Did you really do that terrible thing in the war?

That was the first time I'd heard...

that Gramps' name was Kihachi Denpo.

Also that it was a name he wanted to erase.

Gramps' heart was still closed to us.

- Think he's still angry? - He's angry. I'm sure of it.

But he always looks like he's angry!

Well, he's angry.

You know...

I think I'm going to go pay a visit...

to the old folks' home...

where Miss Kondo's grandmother lives.

Yay!

There can't be any harm in just taking a look at her.

"Just taking a look"? You're not going to talk to her?

Yeah, it'll be enough to just see her face...

- from a distance. - When are you going?

Tomorrow.

We've got a soccer game tomorrow.

Oh? Well, best of luck to you.

- You too, Gramps. - Right.

Matsushita!

Matsushita!

Matsushita!

I'm going right, fat boy! Right! Right!

Oh, no!

Yamashita! Move!

Nice save, Yamashita!

Nice save!

Look at them all!

Hey, let's make a bet.

Whether Gramps met Yayoi Koko or not.

- Did! - Definitely!

Right, forward march!

He's taking a nap!

Gramps! Gramps!

Gramps!

He'd even bought some damn grapes!

Like some jerk kid going on a school trip!

He bought them to eat with us. I know it.

Gramps!

Come on!

Eat them!

Come on!

It's not fair!

Dying this soon...

It's not fair!

Quit it!

Gramps!

Let's go!

We'll go to Grandma's... come on, let's go!

We'll take some cosmos. Let's go!

Gramps!

OK?

The priest's late. Must be because we got him cheap!

And the longer he takes, the more people show up!

He's not here yet.

You sure you didn't try to beat him down even lower?

Ow!

What're you doing?

Let me offer some incense.

- Did you know him? - Yes.

OK, do it.

And put that camera down.

Can't you do that? Is it stuck to your eye?

Hey! You three!

Come here!

I'm the late Mr Denpo's nephew.

His older brother's son.

I'm here in place of my father.

But I never met the man,

not once since the day I was born.

It's strange, isn't it, having to preside...

at the funeral of an uncle you never even saw!

And there's something I wanted to ask you...

There's a woman my uncle left money to.

I was surprised. He'd saved up quite a lot.

- Was there a will? - Yeah...

Go shoot somewhere else. Get out of here!

Anyway...

Stupid kid!

You really don't understand anything, do you?

Give me that thing! Give it here!

Go away! Scram!

And he said that, if he died...

to contact Kiyama, Kawabe and Yamashita.

It's my fault!

I caused it! I wanted to see a dead body!

Do you know someone named Yayoi Koko?

Yeah.

So there really is a woman by that name?

- She was Gramps'... wife. - So she's old?

I mean, is she still alive?

Yeah, she's alive. She's fine.

Oh, damn it!

And I thought we were his only relatives!

You want your camera? Here.

Why did he die?!

Why did he die?!

Hey!

Hey! You boys... Hurry up!

This is the Farewell. Hurry up.

I'm sorry.

Incense first...

Offer some incense first.

We now take our final leave of the departed.

- Wait a minute, please! - It's Granny!

Wait a minute, please! Wait!

Wait, wait, hold on!

What?! Stop!

- What is it? - Let me see him!

- We can't open it here! - They were married!

-Yeah, but here... - Married?!

Do you realise how long ago the war was?!

How many years do you think it's been?!

Stop it! Stop it!

His family does not recognise that marriage!

- You don't have to recognise it! - What?!

Who cares how long they hadn't seen each other for?

These two loved each other!

At least you can...

- let them say goodbye. - Open the lid at least!

I can't do that.

My family's been doing this for five generations...

and I don't think you're allowed to do that here.

- It's alright. - What? It is?

For him, it's alright.

I know this young man slightly. It's alright.

Death is nothing impure. It is a thing to be respected.

Gramps looks a little bit different, though.

Grandma, let's say goodbye.

Kihachi Denpo is saying goodbye.

Thank you.

Welcome home.

What'll they do here?

Build condominiums or something, I guess.

There won't be anything left of it, will there?

A butterfly...

- Let's give it a service. - Yes.

Hey!

We're giving you a funeral!

- What was all that? - Butterflies!

- Dragonflies, fireflies! - Birds, too... canaries!

- It's Gramps! - What?

It's Gramps talking to us! It has to be!

He's saying goodbye!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

- Shall we go? - Yeah.

One, two, three!

Well, he just dies alone, I guess.

All alone... a body...

Jerk!

You guys are spying on that house again today, huh?

We're not spying on it!

Yeah, we're picking up the garbage and helping out!

- What, you think we did something bad? - Quiet!

You come waltzing into somebody's yard...

Think he's still angry?

He's angry, I'm sure of it.

But he always looks like he's angry!

- Well, he's angry. - Boo!

- Kiyama, move! - Hey!

What are you kids doing there?

Oh, new faces...

Hey, old man! Quit it!

Don't mess with us!

Did you ever get married?

Yeah, I did.

Did you split up?

- Yeah, something like that. - Why?

- The laundry's my job. - Sumo...

I don't like to put all the work on my mom.

I got lost in the hospital.

My dad... he's not dead, you know?

He's got a kid. Another one. And that kid has a mother.

Let's plant something in the fall.

Rentaro Mikuni

Naoki Sakata Taiki Oo Kenichi Makino

Naho Toda Ritsuko Nemoto Tsurubei Shofukutei

Minori Terada Akira Emoto Shigeru Yazaki

Chikage Awashima

Executive Producers: Kei Ijichi & Masahiro Yasuda

Producers: Yoshihiro Kato & Hiroyuki Fujikado

Planning: Shuntaro Yoshino & Tatsuya Ooki

Original Story: Kazumi Yumoto

Scrrenplay: Yozo Tanaka

Cinematography: Noboru Shinoda

Lighting: Hideo Kumagai

Art Direction: Kyoko Heya

Sound Mixer: Hidetoshi Nonaka

Editor: Yoshiyuki Okuhara

Continuity: Mitsuko Kawabe

Music: Sergio Assad

Music Prodcued by Assad Brothers (Sergio & Odair)

Original Soundtrack 'Summer Garden' Composed by Sergio Assad Performed by Assad Brothers Elektra Nonesuch/Warner Music Japan

Directed by Shinji Somai

English translation: Ian MacDougall Subs ripped & retimed by lordretsudo