1 00:01:15,031 --> 00:01:17,468 My dear son, 2 00:01:17,555 --> 00:01:19,644 I write this thinking of you 3 00:01:19,731 --> 00:01:21,516 with your chisel, 4 00:01:21,603 --> 00:01:26,086 shaping your dreams from unyielding stone. 5 00:01:26,173 --> 00:01:30,046 I have been chiseling my own dreams and recollections 6 00:01:30,133 --> 00:01:34,311 pulled from letters and journals kept through the years. 7 00:01:34,398 --> 00:01:37,836 They seem as scattered, and yet also as vivid, 8 00:01:37,923 --> 00:01:41,101 as the autumn leaves I walk through. 9 00:01:50,806 --> 00:01:53,069 At their heart, 10 00:01:53,156 --> 00:01:55,898 a strange meeting with an extraordinary man 11 00:01:58,030 --> 00:02:02,034 whose words brought us together in unexpected ways. 12 00:02:17,224 --> 00:02:19,008 Watch where you're going. 13 00:02:19,095 --> 00:02:20,966 S-Sorry, sorry. 14 00:02:21,053 --> 00:02:23,926 Uh, I was in a hurry. 15 00:02:29,236 --> 00:02:31,107 It is I. 16 00:02:32,282 --> 00:02:35,416 Yone Noguchi. The poet. 17 00:02:37,113 --> 00:02:39,115 You're very late. 18 00:02:39,202 --> 00:02:40,812 Please. 19 00:02:40,899 --> 00:02:43,641 You must accept my apology. Please. 20 00:02:43,728 --> 00:02:45,121 Do come in for tea. 21 00:02:48,994 --> 00:02:50,909 You're younger than I thought. 22 00:02:50,996 --> 00:02:52,737 Am I? 23 00:02:52,824 --> 00:02:55,566 Well, I grow older as we stand. 24 00:02:55,653 --> 00:02:57,089 And colder. 25 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:59,309 Please, do come in. 26 00:03:04,488 --> 00:03:07,448 On the shelf there, you will see some of my work. 27 00:03:10,146 --> 00:03:13,018 Already published, two volumes of poetry. 28 00:03:13,105 --> 00:03:15,586 Very impressive. 29 00:03:20,939 --> 00:03:26,380 It is only a small press in San Francisco, 30 00:03:26,467 --> 00:03:28,599 but the reviews were quite good. 31 00:03:31,036 --> 00:03:33,822 Some think I have real talent. 32 00:03:33,909 --> 00:03:36,825 No talent, though, 33 00:03:39,088 --> 00:03:41,133 for keeping house. 34 00:03:46,095 --> 00:03:48,706 I am sorry. 35 00:03:48,793 --> 00:03:50,839 Please, please do sit down. 36 00:03:56,584 --> 00:03:58,412 Go on. 37 00:03:58,499 --> 00:03:59,978 Read it out. 38 00:04:02,546 --> 00:04:06,855 "I see my soul floating upon the face of the deep, 39 00:04:06,942 --> 00:04:09,423 nay, the faceless face of the deepest deep. 40 00:04:10,946 --> 00:04:13,209 Ah, the seas of loneliness. 41 00:04:14,993 --> 00:04:17,866 The mute, waving, silent waters, 42 00:04:17,953 --> 00:04:20,956 ever shore less, bottomless, 43 00:04:21,043 --> 00:04:25,177 heaven less, colorless, 44 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:28,529 "have no shadow of my passing soul." 45 00:04:33,795 --> 00:04:38,669 Now you know a little of me. 46 00:04:38,756 --> 00:04:42,804 I only know that you're teaching at the girls' high school. 47 00:04:42,891 --> 00:04:44,675 Oh, yes. 48 00:04:44,762 --> 00:04:47,461 Yes, I, um... 49 00:04:47,548 --> 00:04:50,638 I went to a university in Philadelphia called Bryn Mawr. 50 00:04:52,161 --> 00:04:53,815 And in my sophomore year... 51 00:04:53,902 --> 00:04:55,991 I won a scholarship to the Sorbonne. 52 00:04:58,036 --> 00:05:01,779 I spent a year in Paris studying French literature. 53 00:05:09,526 --> 00:05:13,400 I'm afraid I'm only fluent in Japanese. 54 00:05:13,487 --> 00:05:16,533 And a little English, as you can see. 55 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:18,970 I studied so that I might express the 56 00:05:20,885 --> 00:05:24,106 joy and pain and profundity of being human. 57 00:05:25,455 --> 00:05:28,415 That's what poetry does, does it not? 58 00:05:28,502 --> 00:05:30,417 It can do this. 59 00:05:30,504 --> 00:05:33,028 Well, that's what I wish to learn. 60 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:34,943 No school can teach it... 61 00:05:36,988 --> 00:05:41,297 How to take what is at the deepest level of the soul and... 62 00:05:41,384 --> 00:05:43,299 And put it on a piece of paper. 63 00:05:48,957 --> 00:05:52,569 Nothing happens from hesitation. 64 00:05:52,656 --> 00:05:54,919 I have decided. 65 00:05:55,006 --> 00:05:56,878 What is that? 66 00:05:57,966 --> 00:05:59,576 My novel. 67 00:06:14,112 --> 00:06:16,811 American Diary of a Japanese Girl? 68 00:06:16,898 --> 00:06:18,334 I know. 69 00:06:18,421 --> 00:06:20,205 Ridiculous. 70 00:06:20,292 --> 00:06:21,816 Me, 71 00:06:21,903 --> 00:06:24,035 write a novel. 72 00:06:24,122 --> 00:06:26,211 But this novel... 73 00:06:26,298 --> 00:06:28,953 - From the female perspective? - Yes. 74 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,260 It must seem to you, um... 75 00:06:31,347 --> 00:06:33,610 Presumptuous. 76 00:06:33,697 --> 00:06:36,178 - Yes. - And ambitious. It's quite a challenge. 77 00:06:39,050 --> 00:06:40,574 When do we begin? 78 00:06:40,661 --> 00:06:43,228 Begin? I-I haven't even read it yet. 79 00:06:43,315 --> 00:06:45,056 Perhaps I am presumptuous. 80 00:06:45,143 --> 00:06:47,842 Perhaps. 81 00:06:49,104 --> 00:06:52,412 And perhaps we have already begun. 82 00:06:56,677 --> 00:07:00,898 "Any woman has elegance in the night sitting by a fireplace." 83 00:07:05,468 --> 00:07:07,383 More unique. 84 00:07:15,957 --> 00:07:20,048 Any woman appears well by night's time fire. 85 00:07:20,135 --> 00:07:23,181 When I think that even I appear beautiful... 86 00:07:23,268 --> 00:07:26,446 When I think that even I appear beautiful, I find bliss. 87 00:07:26,533 --> 00:07:29,057 Excellent. 88 00:07:29,144 --> 00:07:30,754 Perfect. 89 00:07:35,846 --> 00:07:40,111 I am sorry if I appeared strange when we met. 90 00:07:40,198 --> 00:07:44,942 I am now worried you may think of me as a woman without manners. 91 00:07:45,029 --> 00:07:48,163 As much of our future work will be done through letters, 92 00:07:48,250 --> 00:07:50,731 I wanted to send you the first. 93 00:07:55,387 --> 00:08:01,306 For me, creating poetry had been a dream since childhood, 94 00:08:01,393 --> 00:08:07,008 and so working side by side with this dashing poet from strange lands 95 00:08:07,095 --> 00:08:09,750 felt like a long-awaited gift. 96 00:08:13,318 --> 00:08:15,320 Note the subtle proportions, 97 00:08:15,407 --> 00:08:19,499 the attention to the axis of the hip. 98 00:08:19,586 --> 00:08:23,459 We see this is of particular importance 99 00:08:23,546 --> 00:08:26,854 to the great artists of the baroque period, 100 00:08:26,941 --> 00:08:29,726 especially the Italians. 101 00:08:29,813 --> 00:08:32,381 Caravaggio. 102 00:08:32,468 --> 00:08:34,339 Carracci, uh... 103 00:08:35,602 --> 00:08:37,125 Gentileschi. 104 00:08:37,212 --> 00:08:39,170 Orazio Gentileschi. Yes. 105 00:08:39,257 --> 00:08:41,085 Thank you, Miss Gilmour. 106 00:08:41,172 --> 00:08:43,218 No. Artemisia Gentileschi. Now, now. 107 00:08:43,305 --> 00:08:46,656 Let us be careful about who we include in the canon. 108 00:08:46,743 --> 00:08:49,311 Well, she's a first-rate example of the period. 109 00:08:49,398 --> 00:08:52,444 Well, one would have to actually see her work before including her. 110 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:55,273 I have seen her work. 111 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,146 - Have you now? - Yes, when I was at the Sorbonne. 112 00:09:05,153 --> 00:09:06,546 Wait. 113 00:09:08,417 --> 00:09:11,681 I'm just not accustomed to that sort of talk. 114 00:09:11,768 --> 00:09:13,422 What I'm saying is... 115 00:09:13,509 --> 00:09:17,339 What I'm trying to say is, don't take it to heart, Leonie. 116 00:09:19,297 --> 00:09:21,256 That is your name, isn't it? 117 00:09:21,343 --> 00:09:23,345 And who might you be? 118 00:09:23,432 --> 00:09:25,913 I am Catherine Burnell. I must say it's a pleasure to fin... 119 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,002 Might I suggest, Catherine Burnell, 120 00:09:28,089 --> 00:09:30,047 that you follow the example of your classmates, 121 00:09:30,134 --> 00:09:33,355 and not strain yourself too much with understanding me. 122 00:09:33,442 --> 00:09:36,837 You'll find it much more pleasant to simply disapprove. 123 00:09:36,924 --> 00:09:39,709 But I don't want to disapprove. Now you misunderstand. 124 00:09:39,796 --> 00:09:41,232 How should I put this? 125 00:09:41,319 --> 00:09:43,713 Yes, please. Put this. 126 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,150 What exactly do you mean? 127 00:09:46,237 --> 00:09:48,022 Well, I... I... 128 00:09:49,066 --> 00:09:51,025 Look at you. 129 00:09:51,112 --> 00:09:53,897 You're just waiting for someone to pull your strings. 130 00:09:53,984 --> 00:09:56,204 I'm sure I don't know what you mean. 131 00:09:59,337 --> 00:10:02,036 Don't bore me by being ordinary. 132 00:10:45,166 --> 00:10:47,124 In Japan, 133 00:10:47,211 --> 00:10:51,085 the government now advocates education for women. 134 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:53,435 However, it is not an education 135 00:10:53,522 --> 00:10:58,179 intended to give women intelligence or individuality. 136 00:10:58,266 --> 00:11:02,705 It is an education to train women in their obedient duty to their husbands. 137 00:11:02,792 --> 00:11:03,837 There you are. Thank you. 138 00:11:08,537 --> 00:11:11,671 I am not a madwoman. Pardon? 139 00:11:11,758 --> 00:11:14,543 It is not my habit to make speeches to walls. 140 00:11:15,326 --> 00:11:16,980 I was rehearsing. 141 00:11:17,067 --> 00:11:19,591 Oh. I see. Are you an actress? 142 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,115 No. 143 00:11:21,202 --> 00:11:23,160 I am a graduate student. 144 00:11:23,247 --> 00:11:25,336 But I will return to Japan soon, 145 00:11:25,423 --> 00:11:27,208 and there, I intend to speak. 146 00:11:27,295 --> 00:11:29,253 What about? 147 00:11:29,340 --> 00:11:31,125 About my university. 148 00:11:31,212 --> 00:11:33,736 The first university for women in Japan. 149 00:11:33,823 --> 00:11:36,347 - You don't have one? - No, Catherine. 150 00:11:36,434 --> 00:11:38,654 We do not. 151 00:11:38,741 --> 00:11:41,309 So perhaps I am a madwoman after all. 152 00:11:46,575 --> 00:11:48,316 Meeting Umeko 153 00:11:48,403 --> 00:11:53,147 had sparked in me a real interest in Japan's culture. 154 00:12:01,198 --> 00:12:04,027 Mr. Noguchi's words are attuned for American ears 155 00:12:04,114 --> 00:12:07,727 while preserving that... exotic tone. 156 00:12:10,512 --> 00:12:13,515 I'm sure you're quite aware of the current interest in Japanese art, 157 00:12:15,647 --> 00:12:19,303 the avid sensation surrounding the works of people like Lafcadio Hearn... 158 00:12:19,390 --> 00:12:21,001 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 159 00:12:21,088 --> 00:12:23,351 Madame Butterfly. Capital work. Capital. 160 00:12:25,222 --> 00:12:26,876 Yes, quite. 161 00:12:29,270 --> 00:12:32,708 It's a lovely approximation, 162 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:35,580 but, you see, Mr. Stokes, what we are offering your readers here 163 00:12:35,667 --> 00:12:39,062 is a story that is quite authentically Japanese. 164 00:12:44,676 --> 00:12:49,029 Which is why we propose to omit Mr. Noguchi's name entirely for the time being, 165 00:12:49,116 --> 00:12:51,205 and rather to allow his invention, 166 00:12:51,292 --> 00:12:53,816 Miss Morning Glory herself, 167 00:12:53,903 --> 00:12:55,862 to claim the authorship. 168 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,435 Well, then... 169 00:13:09,789 --> 00:13:12,226 Can you keep a secret? 170 00:13:14,532 --> 00:13:17,274 You must think me terrible. I don't know why I said that. 171 00:13:17,361 --> 00:13:19,320 It was the only thing I could think to do. 172 00:13:19,407 --> 00:13:22,279 They will publish my book? Yes, it seems so. Yes. 173 00:13:22,366 --> 00:13:24,586 Yes! 174 00:13:26,457 --> 00:13:28,938 You are a brilliant editor. 175 00:13:29,025 --> 00:13:32,072 And in this country, you are my voice. 176 00:13:44,084 --> 00:13:45,607 Mr. Noguchi. 177 00:13:47,174 --> 00:13:49,829 Not Mr. Noguchi. 178 00:13:49,916 --> 00:13:52,657 My name is Yone. 179 00:13:52,744 --> 00:13:54,094 You say it. 180 00:13:56,661 --> 00:13:58,446 Please say it. 181 00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:04,321 Yone. 182 00:14:16,377 --> 00:14:19,249 It was more than a book for us. 183 00:14:19,336 --> 00:14:21,904 It was almost our child. 184 00:14:21,991 --> 00:14:24,385 Our first creation. 185 00:14:24,472 --> 00:14:27,301 Miss Morning Glory herself. 186 00:15:15,566 --> 00:15:17,568 I can't stand it anymore. 187 00:15:17,655 --> 00:15:19,527 I can't stand it. I can't... No, I can't. 188 00:15:21,137 --> 00:15:23,009 Please. Leonie. 189 00:15:28,362 --> 00:15:30,016 I can't. 190 00:15:30,103 --> 00:15:32,018 We're not married. 191 00:16:05,660 --> 00:16:08,532 Tell me about Japan. 192 00:16:08,619 --> 00:16:11,057 Japan is like... you. 193 00:16:15,061 --> 00:16:16,976 Beautiful. 194 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,762 You're my Japan. 195 00:16:21,893 --> 00:16:23,591 My hakujin. 196 00:16:25,593 --> 00:16:27,247 Hakujin. 197 00:16:28,378 --> 00:16:30,032 Hakujin 198 00:16:31,077 --> 00:16:32,730 is beautiful, 199 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,343 white 200 00:16:36,430 --> 00:16:37,909 skin. 201 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,702 Love is one of life's most spiritual, 202 00:16:47,789 --> 00:16:50,009 and beautiful chapters, 203 00:16:50,096 --> 00:16:53,534 but life is not a fully written book. 204 00:16:53,621 --> 00:16:55,840 It is a blank one, 205 00:16:55,927 --> 00:16:59,844 each page inscribed anew by our actions. 206 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:21,214 I have returned! 207 00:17:21,301 --> 00:17:24,260 Well, hello, Miss, uh, Lady. 208 00:17:24,347 --> 00:17:27,307 The brilliant poet has returned from London. 209 00:17:27,394 --> 00:17:29,048 I ask you, 210 00:17:29,135 --> 00:17:33,878 has success ever fit a man as well as it fits Yone Noguchi? 211 00:17:33,965 --> 00:17:36,968 He is, perhaps, my greatest discovery. 212 00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:38,666 Who is this? 213 00:17:38,753 --> 00:17:41,190 Oh, I should introduce you to her. 214 00:17:44,367 --> 00:17:48,241 This is my famous friend, Charles Stoddard. 215 00:17:48,328 --> 00:17:50,112 Say hello. 216 00:17:50,199 --> 00:17:52,767 Yone is the most talked-about man in London, 217 00:17:52,854 --> 00:17:55,030 a man who walks ahead of the world. 218 00:17:55,117 --> 00:17:58,816 I think we should celebrate his success. 219 00:17:58,903 --> 00:18:01,732 Does this apartment have any champagne? 220 00:18:04,170 --> 00:18:06,955 Well. "Miss Morning Glory revealed." 221 00:18:07,042 --> 00:18:08,826 Please don't touch my things. 222 00:18:12,047 --> 00:18:14,223 Oh, Yone, 223 00:18:14,310 --> 00:18:18,184 it seems such a shame to hide the identity of a genius. 224 00:18:18,271 --> 00:18:20,186 Don't you agree? Mmm. 225 00:18:22,057 --> 00:18:24,538 Could you leave, please? 226 00:18:24,625 --> 00:18:27,715 You are being rude to my friend. I haven't seen you in months. 227 00:18:27,802 --> 00:18:32,633 You come back without warning with this... man. 228 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,765 That's the thing about talent. 229 00:18:34,852 --> 00:18:38,247 Everyone wants to keep it for themselves. 230 00:18:38,334 --> 00:18:41,555 I think I will go to a hotel. 231 00:18:41,642 --> 00:18:44,427 You know where I'll be. 232 00:18:44,514 --> 00:18:47,474 See you soon, Miss Morning Glory. Ta-ta. 233 00:18:55,046 --> 00:18:57,397 In my life with Yone, 234 00:18:57,484 --> 00:19:01,575 each day truly was like turning a fresh page 235 00:19:01,662 --> 00:19:05,405 on which the unexpected might appear at any moment. 236 00:19:16,111 --> 00:19:18,026 Yone. 237 00:19:28,428 --> 00:19:30,473 My God, what happened to you? 238 00:19:32,649 --> 00:19:34,347 There were men 239 00:19:34,434 --> 00:19:35,739 with sticks. 240 00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:37,872 What? 241 00:19:37,959 --> 00:19:39,917 Who were they? Don't. 242 00:19:44,748 --> 00:19:47,098 I don't understand. 243 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:48,926 Have you been asleep? 244 00:19:51,277 --> 00:19:53,931 Japan attacked the Russian navy 245 00:19:54,018 --> 00:19:55,890 at Port Arthur. 246 00:19:57,239 --> 00:19:59,415 Oh, God. 247 00:19:59,502 --> 00:20:01,287 And now 248 00:20:01,374 --> 00:20:03,376 they have their excuse. 249 00:20:07,554 --> 00:20:09,773 I must go home. 250 00:20:09,860 --> 00:20:11,297 What? 251 00:20:14,387 --> 00:20:16,432 This is not my country. 252 00:20:18,086 --> 00:20:20,828 There is nothing here for me now. 253 00:20:25,180 --> 00:20:27,313 You can't go home. 254 00:20:28,966 --> 00:20:31,186 My country is at war. 255 00:20:32,274 --> 00:20:33,971 I'm pregnant. 256 00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:10,704 You are lying! 257 00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:15,448 You think you can make up some lie to keep me here. 258 00:21:15,535 --> 00:21:17,363 No. No, it's... 259 00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:21,280 It's not a lie. 260 00:21:23,673 --> 00:21:26,502 It's not a lie. 261 00:21:33,466 --> 00:21:35,555 Will you not say good-bye? 262 00:21:37,731 --> 00:21:39,559 Good-bye. 263 00:21:41,038 --> 00:21:42,518 Gentlemen! 264 00:22:27,737 --> 00:22:29,826 Well, there you are. 265 00:22:36,485 --> 00:22:37,965 Oh, my. 266 00:22:39,270 --> 00:22:41,055 Congratulations. 267 00:22:44,145 --> 00:22:48,715 He went to his friends in Washington, D.C. for days at a time. 268 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:52,632 Sometimes he wandered at night and I had no idea where he was. 269 00:22:54,242 --> 00:22:56,070 He couldn't bear the sight of me. 270 00:22:57,941 --> 00:23:01,292 It was as if he could erase our history, 271 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,643 my existence, this child, 272 00:23:05,253 --> 00:23:07,777 simply by closing his eyes. 273 00:23:09,692 --> 00:23:12,739 He seems a bird that flew away from my window. 274 00:23:15,219 --> 00:23:17,483 I might never meet him again. 275 00:23:18,745 --> 00:23:20,747 What will you do? Oh, I don't know. 276 00:23:21,922 --> 00:23:23,837 My mother talks of California. 277 00:23:23,924 --> 00:23:26,100 California, yes. 278 00:23:26,187 --> 00:23:29,146 I always thought it seemed rather beautiful. 279 00:23:29,233 --> 00:23:30,974 It seems far away. 280 00:23:32,149 --> 00:23:34,021 It's lovely here. 281 00:23:35,544 --> 00:23:38,329 Quite. 282 00:23:40,462 --> 00:23:42,377 Catherine, are you all right? 283 00:23:42,464 --> 00:23:44,771 Of course. 284 00:23:44,858 --> 00:23:46,686 I want for nothing. 285 00:24:01,831 --> 00:24:04,094 I wake at 9:00. 286 00:24:04,181 --> 00:24:06,575 I have breakfast. 287 00:24:06,662 --> 00:24:10,013 I have tea at 2:00 and then again at 4:00. 288 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:13,234 Edward comes home at 6:00 and he's off to his club at 7:00. 289 00:24:13,321 --> 00:24:15,323 And I go to bed at 10:00. 290 00:24:17,064 --> 00:24:20,067 And I lie there and I think, 291 00:24:20,154 --> 00:24:23,113 this is the most glorious prison. 292 00:24:24,332 --> 00:24:25,768 Thank you. 293 00:24:28,597 --> 00:24:30,207 Wait. 294 00:24:30,294 --> 00:24:32,296 Do you remember when we went to school, 295 00:24:32,383 --> 00:24:36,562 how you used to tell me not to bore you by being ordinary? 296 00:24:36,649 --> 00:24:39,260 Do you remember that? 297 00:24:39,347 --> 00:24:41,567 I don't know. It was so long ago. 298 00:24:43,046 --> 00:24:46,485 We're not all given second chances. 299 00:24:46,572 --> 00:24:49,357 Don't you bore me, Leonie Gilmour. 300 00:24:49,444 --> 00:24:51,185 Don't you dare. 301 00:25:00,716 --> 00:25:03,980 After Yone left me, I too left New York, 302 00:25:04,067 --> 00:25:06,156 for my mother, 303 00:25:06,243 --> 00:25:10,378 the woman who had always taught me to chart my own course, 304 00:25:10,465 --> 00:25:14,513 even if it led through territories seldom charted by others. 305 00:25:20,431 --> 00:25:22,695 Thank you. 306 00:25:22,782 --> 00:25:26,525 Catherine, I consider that I might be happier than other women. 307 00:25:28,352 --> 00:25:31,573 I don't have to see my sweetheart grow old. 308 00:25:33,053 --> 00:25:35,708 My sweetheart remains forever young, 309 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:37,971 and forever poet. 310 00:25:41,148 --> 00:25:45,544 I have always believed that even when everything is lost, 311 00:25:45,631 --> 00:25:48,111 the future still remains. 312 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,552 The new life within me is now my future. 313 00:26:02,299 --> 00:26:03,736 Leonie! 314 00:26:05,912 --> 00:26:07,696 Oh, welcome! Hello, Mother. 315 00:26:07,783 --> 00:26:09,785 How do you feel? I'm fine. 316 00:26:09,872 --> 00:26:12,092 How was your trip? It was good. 317 00:26:12,179 --> 00:26:14,529 It was long. Well, come on in. 318 00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:16,879 Well, what do you think? 319 00:26:16,966 --> 00:26:19,186 Look at our beautiful garden. 320 00:26:19,273 --> 00:26:22,232 We have corn and tomatoes and lavender and herbs and... 321 00:26:23,625 --> 00:26:26,106 I know it's not exactly what you expected, 322 00:26:26,193 --> 00:26:28,935 but you are going to love it here. 323 00:26:29,022 --> 00:26:31,807 I don't know what it is. There's just something about the dirt. 324 00:26:31,894 --> 00:26:35,289 Everything grows. Oranges, beans, children. 325 00:26:37,073 --> 00:26:39,902 Welcome to the Gilmour home. 326 00:26:39,989 --> 00:26:41,425 Come on. 327 00:27:01,445 --> 00:27:03,926 You're doing beautifully, darling. 328 00:27:04,013 --> 00:27:07,843 But don't forget to breathe. Breathe with me! Breathe! 329 00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:10,629 Two, three, push. Gotta push. Gotta push. 330 00:27:10,716 --> 00:27:13,457 Have to push. Breathe! Breathe! 331 00:27:13,544 --> 00:27:15,416 Two, three! 332 00:27:15,503 --> 00:27:17,461 Make it crown. Oh, it's crowning! 333 00:27:17,548 --> 00:27:20,377 One, two, three! 334 00:27:20,464 --> 00:27:22,597 Push harder! Two... 335 00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:25,905 Baby's out! 336 00:27:29,343 --> 00:27:33,129 He's all right? 337 00:27:33,216 --> 00:27:36,176 Oh, you beautiful baby boy! 338 00:27:36,263 --> 00:27:39,048 My angel. My angel. 339 00:27:39,135 --> 00:27:42,617 Oh, sweet thing. Here's your mama. 340 00:27:45,098 --> 00:27:48,144 Hello, little boy. 341 00:27:48,231 --> 00:27:49,711 Hello. Shh. 342 00:27:51,887 --> 00:27:54,411 Shh. Shh. 343 00:27:55,978 --> 00:27:57,327 Shh. 344 00:27:57,414 --> 00:27:59,112 Shh. 345 00:28:10,906 --> 00:28:13,735 "Wife of a successful writer of American literature" 346 00:28:13,822 --> 00:28:16,259 gave birth to a son 347 00:28:16,346 --> 00:28:19,393 while the father Noguchi was as far away as Japan. 348 00:28:21,482 --> 00:28:24,703 By the side of an American mother, this little dark bundle of"... 349 00:28:24,790 --> 00:28:27,053 Oh, stop it. 350 00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:29,011 Stop it. 351 00:28:29,098 --> 00:28:31,405 They didn't even have consent. 352 00:28:31,492 --> 00:28:33,755 Violation of privacy. 353 00:28:33,842 --> 00:28:35,975 Oh, it's not so bad. 354 00:28:36,062 --> 00:28:39,761 Might bring a little sense to the father if you sent it. 355 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:49,466 I have found peace in these surroundings, 356 00:28:49,553 --> 00:28:51,730 and joy in motherhood. 357 00:28:54,297 --> 00:28:57,823 The land reveals how nature bestows gifts on every generation. 358 00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:01,609 My gift? 359 00:29:01,696 --> 00:29:04,699 Being to mine own self true, 360 00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:07,397 a right many women fail to fulfill. 361 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,754 My son is growing like a flower under the great heavens, 362 00:29:15,841 --> 00:29:18,582 playing like a squirrel on the rolling hills. 363 00:29:18,669 --> 00:29:21,542 No! Naughty boy. 364 00:29:23,587 --> 00:29:25,372 Howdy, Albiana. Hi! 365 00:29:25,459 --> 00:29:27,722 Howdy, Yo. Come here, cowboy. 366 00:29:27,809 --> 00:29:30,203 What did they just call him? Yo. 367 00:29:31,639 --> 00:29:33,249 Why? What's that? 368 00:29:33,336 --> 00:29:35,512 "Yosemite" was too long. 369 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:37,210 Yosemite? 370 00:29:37,297 --> 00:29:38,864 You love Yosemite. 371 00:29:40,343 --> 00:29:42,563 Bad luck not to have a name. 372 00:29:44,434 --> 00:29:47,437 It's a parent's job to name their child. 373 00:29:47,524 --> 00:29:49,613 Then name him. 374 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:53,182 You're not still waiting for him to decide. 375 00:29:53,269 --> 00:29:54,705 It's a father's right. 376 00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:56,533 What about a father's responsibility? 377 00:29:56,620 --> 00:29:58,840 Oh, please. 378 00:29:58,927 --> 00:30:01,974 I did not raise you to be that man's slave. 379 00:30:02,061 --> 00:30:05,891 I raised you to be strong and independent, and you were. 380 00:30:05,978 --> 00:30:09,720 You were single-minded and opinionated, and you had a future. 381 00:30:12,375 --> 00:30:13,899 I am independent. 382 00:30:22,255 --> 00:30:23,865 Mama! 383 00:30:29,001 --> 00:30:30,829 You're so fast! 384 00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,440 Fast! 385 00:30:38,053 --> 00:30:42,057 Yone still sends me his manuscripts. 386 00:30:42,144 --> 00:30:45,626 I often think his words got inside me somehow, 387 00:30:45,713 --> 00:30:49,282 like water in my ear I can't shake loose. 388 00:31:01,424 --> 00:31:05,298 Marriage between Americans and Japanese has been prohibited? 389 00:31:07,126 --> 00:31:09,084 I guess so. 390 00:31:10,825 --> 00:31:13,001 Dearest Catherine, 391 00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:16,526 A woman's life is far from fair. 392 00:31:16,613 --> 00:31:20,313 The new laws ask me to either renounce my citizenship, 393 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,968 or renounce my marriage. 394 00:31:23,055 --> 00:31:26,885 Being an American does not yet mean being free to love as we choose. 395 00:31:26,972 --> 00:31:31,019 Hey, look at that kid. Who does he think he is? 396 00:31:31,106 --> 00:31:33,587 He shouldn't be here. What is he, a Jap? 397 00:31:33,674 --> 00:31:35,284 Doesn't he know how to read? 398 00:31:35,371 --> 00:31:38,809 The sign says no Chinese or Japanese allowed. 399 00:31:42,335 --> 00:31:44,990 Go back to your own country! 400 00:31:45,077 --> 00:31:47,514 Hey! That kid's a damn Jap too. 401 00:31:48,776 --> 00:31:51,431 Hey! Hey! What are you doing? 402 00:31:51,518 --> 00:31:53,520 Don't you dare put a finger on my son! 403 00:31:53,607 --> 00:31:56,566 Go away! Go! Go! Get out of here! Go away! 404 00:31:56,653 --> 00:31:58,742 Get out of here! Are you all right? 405 00:31:58,829 --> 00:32:00,875 Come on. 406 00:32:03,660 --> 00:32:07,099 The schools now segregate children of Asian descent. 407 00:32:07,186 --> 00:32:09,884 I shudder to think what they will offer next. 408 00:32:12,147 --> 00:32:14,280 My son deserves better. 409 00:32:25,117 --> 00:32:27,423 Come to Tokyo, Leonie. 410 00:32:27,510 --> 00:32:30,600 A fatherless child is not right. 411 00:32:30,687 --> 00:32:34,039 I have prepared a house for you to live in. 412 00:32:34,126 --> 00:32:35,954 Another letter from him? 413 00:32:38,304 --> 00:32:40,001 No. 414 00:32:59,890 --> 00:33:01,675 I want to take him to Japan. 415 00:33:03,503 --> 00:33:05,331 You can't go to Japan. 416 00:33:07,333 --> 00:33:09,683 I want him to have a rich life. 417 00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:12,947 How can you work in a country 418 00:33:13,034 --> 00:33:15,123 where you don't speak the language? 419 00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:16,995 How can you raise a child? 420 00:33:18,866 --> 00:33:20,781 Yone said there's an English teaching job, 421 00:33:20,868 --> 00:33:22,609 and I'll be editing the poetry. 422 00:33:23,914 --> 00:33:25,394 His poetry? 423 00:33:25,481 --> 00:33:27,222 Yes, Mother. 424 00:33:27,309 --> 00:33:29,398 And you believe him? 425 00:33:29,485 --> 00:33:30,965 That man. 426 00:33:40,757 --> 00:33:42,890 Don't do this, Leonie. 427 00:33:42,977 --> 00:33:45,110 He doesn't love you. 428 00:33:45,197 --> 00:33:47,155 He doesn't love his son. 429 00:33:47,242 --> 00:33:49,636 I mean, you would be unhappy. 430 00:33:49,723 --> 00:33:53,335 Yo would be unhappy. 431 00:33:53,422 --> 00:33:56,991 The only time a person is guaranteed happiness is when they die. 432 00:33:58,558 --> 00:34:01,343 Do you forget his cruelty? 433 00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:03,824 He will break your heart. 434 00:34:06,131 --> 00:34:08,089 I've made my decision. 435 00:34:33,419 --> 00:34:35,377 Mother, if you won't talk to me, 436 00:34:35,464 --> 00:34:38,163 will you at least say good-bye to Yo? 437 00:34:48,216 --> 00:34:50,566 Nana will miss you very much. 438 00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:54,875 Please don't ever forget Nana. 439 00:35:01,273 --> 00:35:03,362 Come on up, buddy. Here. 440 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:26,211 Don't go! 441 00:35:45,926 --> 00:35:48,450 Catherine, perhaps it is a mistake, 442 00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:52,106 but I am resolved not to live my life in want of my mother's forgiveness. 443 00:35:54,587 --> 00:35:57,807 I can only do now as a mother must for her child. 444 00:36:02,682 --> 00:36:04,597 Hello. 445 00:36:06,816 --> 00:36:09,863 Look. What's that? What's that over there? 446 00:36:41,721 --> 00:36:44,202 You all right? 447 00:36:50,164 --> 00:36:51,861 Yone. 448 00:36:53,428 --> 00:36:54,821 Hello. 449 00:36:56,475 --> 00:36:58,477 Hello. 450 00:37:04,439 --> 00:37:06,485 This is your son. 451 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,793 He's been terribly seasick. 452 00:37:12,055 --> 00:37:14,188 Yo? It's your papa. 453 00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:19,019 I know how much you wanted to meet him. Say hello. 454 00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:22,501 Hey. Hello. 455 00:37:22,588 --> 00:37:26,461 No! No, no, no, no. 456 00:37:26,548 --> 00:37:28,942 Come on. Say hello. 457 00:37:29,029 --> 00:37:31,510 Say hello to your papa. 458 00:37:38,778 --> 00:37:41,955 What do you want to name him, Yone? 459 00:37:42,042 --> 00:37:43,957 Isamu. 460 00:37:44,044 --> 00:37:45,611 Isamu? 461 00:37:59,538 --> 00:38:01,453 Isamu. 462 00:38:01,540 --> 00:38:05,587 I-sa-mu. 463 00:38:05,674 --> 00:38:07,807 It means "courage, valor." 464 00:38:07,894 --> 00:38:10,462 I want him to live like a man, 465 00:38:10,549 --> 00:38:12,464 with courage. 466 00:38:12,551 --> 00:38:14,509 That is my wish. 467 00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:20,820 Isamu. 468 00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:24,302 I like that name. 469 00:38:26,434 --> 00:38:28,044 Thank you. 470 00:39:06,822 --> 00:39:08,520 Wait. Wait. 471 00:39:08,607 --> 00:39:10,304 Who are those men? 472 00:39:11,914 --> 00:39:13,612 Don't walk by my side. 473 00:39:13,699 --> 00:39:16,484 In Japan women follow men. 474 00:39:16,571 --> 00:39:18,138 Quietly. 475 00:39:44,817 --> 00:39:46,732 Hello. My name is Leonie. 476 00:39:57,786 --> 00:39:59,875 Sorry. How stupid of me. 477 00:40:02,661 --> 00:40:06,099 Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa! Wa-wa. Wa-wa. Wa! 478 00:40:12,845 --> 00:40:15,674 He's just woken up. 479 00:40:15,761 --> 00:40:17,502 Don't spoil the boy. 480 00:40:39,219 --> 00:40:43,571 I have found three students for you to teach English to. 481 00:40:46,618 --> 00:40:51,579 Uh, Second Lieutenant Tomoharu Iwakura, 482 00:40:53,146 --> 00:40:57,193 Toshu Send a, a master of tea ceremony, 483 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:01,937 and Michihiko Kawada, 484 00:41:02,024 --> 00:41:05,114 a student at Tokyo Imperial University. 485 00:41:05,201 --> 00:41:08,988 All of them are coming from good families. 486 00:41:09,075 --> 00:41:13,471 Their tuition is settled for 20 yen per month per person. 487 00:41:13,558 --> 00:41:17,257 Your share of the manuscript fee from Stokes 488 00:41:17,344 --> 00:41:20,260 is the same as before. 489 00:41:20,347 --> 00:41:23,219 You have this house. 490 00:41:23,306 --> 00:41:25,700 It should be enough for you both. 491 00:41:31,401 --> 00:41:33,403 You should rest tonight. 492 00:41:38,060 --> 00:41:39,627 Thank you. 493 00:41:53,598 --> 00:41:55,469 Come here. 494 00:41:59,255 --> 00:42:01,083 I bought them for you. 495 00:42:29,764 --> 00:42:31,287 Yone? 496 00:43:15,723 --> 00:43:18,160 "Lo now, the direful monster 497 00:43:18,247 --> 00:43:21,816 whose skin clings to his strong bones 498 00:43:21,903 --> 00:43:24,079 strides o'er the groaning rocks." 499 00:43:24,166 --> 00:43:26,821 Mr. Blake frightens me. 500 00:43:28,431 --> 00:43:33,393 But they are all so beautiful, his poems. 501 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,049 I never thought I'd have to come to Japan to find a true aficionado of William Blake. 502 00:43:37,136 --> 00:43:40,530 Oh, yes. I love poetry very much. 503 00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:43,751 And, uh, Blake is great. 504 00:43:43,838 --> 00:43:46,145 As great as Yone Noguchi, I think. 505 00:43:47,407 --> 00:43:50,410 Yone Noguchi? Yes. 506 00:43:50,497 --> 00:43:55,197 To go to America and become a great poet. 507 00:43:55,284 --> 00:43:58,679 This is a most important achievement for us Japanese. 508 00:44:21,876 --> 00:44:23,748 Good evening. 509 00:44:25,445 --> 00:44:29,188 What are you doing there? Come in and sit down. 510 00:44:29,275 --> 00:44:31,320 Where is Isamu? 511 00:44:31,407 --> 00:44:33,061 He's sleeping. 512 00:44:34,628 --> 00:44:36,499 Too late for a small boy. 513 00:44:40,634 --> 00:44:42,462 Hello. 514 00:44:49,512 --> 00:44:52,472 He is asking you why the Americans like my writing. 515 00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:54,953 You have a good editor. 516 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,956 This is not the place for humor. 517 00:45:01,524 --> 00:45:03,222 Incantation. 518 00:45:05,572 --> 00:45:06,921 In can... 519 00:45:11,752 --> 00:45:14,799 No, I truly believe that Yone has created a unique world 520 00:45:14,886 --> 00:45:17,236 by entrusting his soul to nature, 521 00:45:17,323 --> 00:45:19,499 as Basho did. 522 00:45:27,768 --> 00:45:32,381 And by absorbing the free and open mind of Whitman, 523 00:45:32,468 --> 00:45:36,168 as well as the eternal sadness of Poe. 524 00:45:38,518 --> 00:45:41,062 Although neither of them had wives who stayed up through the night, 525 00:45:41,086 --> 00:45:43,349 trying to work out how to scan their verse. 526 00:45:55,578 --> 00:45:57,624 Banzai, gentleman! 527 00:45:57,711 --> 00:45:59,800 What? 528 00:46:01,019 --> 00:46:03,021 Hi. Nice to meet you. 529 00:46:17,165 --> 00:46:19,689 How are you, Sensei? 530 00:46:21,387 --> 00:46:24,651 Are you interested in Japanese arts? 531 00:46:27,610 --> 00:46:29,830 Nice to meet you. I'm Leonie Gilmour. 532 00:46:31,005 --> 00:46:32,485 Please sit. 533 00:46:32,572 --> 00:46:34,487 Thank you. 534 00:46:42,582 --> 00:46:44,671 I must say I'm surprised. 535 00:46:44,758 --> 00:46:48,370 No one in this country seems to need help with their English. 536 00:46:48,457 --> 00:46:52,418 There are only a few Japanese who can speak English well. 537 00:46:52,505 --> 00:46:54,420 You must be one of them. 538 00:46:58,511 --> 00:47:00,774 May I ask, why did you hire me? 539 00:47:01,688 --> 00:47:03,821 For Noguchi-kun. 540 00:47:03,908 --> 00:47:06,780 He did not want you from so far away, 541 00:47:06,867 --> 00:47:10,088 such a foreign place, to be lonely. 542 00:47:12,917 --> 00:47:15,397 Oh, I see. I'm... 543 00:47:15,484 --> 00:47:18,139 That's what it was. I'm sorry I hadn't realized. 544 00:47:43,208 --> 00:47:45,427 Since you don't seem to need a teacher, 545 00:47:45,514 --> 00:47:48,691 perhaps you wouldn't mind having a student. 546 00:47:48,778 --> 00:47:50,432 A student? 547 00:47:51,825 --> 00:47:54,523 I don't understand much about the ways here. 548 00:47:56,047 --> 00:47:57,657 It's a strange place. 549 00:47:57,744 --> 00:47:59,354 It's very beautiful and 550 00:48:00,747 --> 00:48:02,705 very confusing. 551 00:48:09,930 --> 00:48:12,802 Perhaps you could teach me about Japanese culture. 552 00:48:14,804 --> 00:48:18,852 It will be my pleasure, Mrs. Noguchi. 553 00:48:42,397 --> 00:48:44,312 Hello. 554 00:48:44,399 --> 00:48:46,924 How do you do? 555 00:48:59,284 --> 00:49:02,026 I am Tomoharu Iwakura, 556 00:49:02,113 --> 00:49:04,028 your student. 557 00:49:04,115 --> 00:49:05,507 It's very nice to meet you. 558 00:49:09,511 --> 00:49:11,513 I brought goldfish for the boy. 559 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,386 Thank you. Thank you so much. 560 00:49:16,301 --> 00:49:20,783 "Ah, sunflower, weary of time, 561 00:49:20,870 --> 00:49:24,439 who countest the steps of the sun... 562 00:49:24,526 --> 00:49:28,008 Seeking after that sweet golden clime, 563 00:49:28,095 --> 00:49:31,142 where the traveler's journey is done, 564 00:49:32,795 --> 00:49:35,581 "where the youth pined away with death." 565 00:49:35,668 --> 00:49:37,409 Please excuse me for a moment. 566 00:49:43,850 --> 00:49:47,071 Wait a minute. Where are you going? 567 00:49:48,942 --> 00:49:51,466 Why won't you talk to me? 568 00:49:54,382 --> 00:49:57,168 Why did you ask me to come here? Hmm? 569 00:49:59,953 --> 00:50:02,912 Where do you go all the time? Stop this. 570 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,089 Keep your voice down.No. I won't. I will not. 571 00:50:05,176 --> 00:50:07,830 I won't lower my voice for you. 572 00:50:07,917 --> 00:50:11,269 I will no longer silence myself for Yone Noguchi! 573 00:50:25,935 --> 00:50:28,242 I was going to see my wife. 574 00:50:40,428 --> 00:50:42,909 Then you aren't welcome here any longer. 575 00:50:44,128 --> 00:50:46,913 You must understand. 576 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,090 In Japan, it is not unusual, 577 00:50:50,177 --> 00:50:52,397 for a man to have two families. 578 00:50:57,924 --> 00:51:00,144 Why are you so confrontational? 579 00:51:02,407 --> 00:51:04,539 I am Japanese. 580 00:51:04,626 --> 00:51:06,802 We are in Japan. 581 00:51:06,889 --> 00:51:09,153 This is the culture of this country. 582 00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:12,634 There is nothing you can do to change that. 583 00:51:43,056 --> 00:51:45,754 Sadois much like poetry. 584 00:51:47,234 --> 00:51:49,236 Part of the drama of life. 585 00:51:51,456 --> 00:51:54,415 The theme of Sadois tea. 586 00:51:56,809 --> 00:52:01,466 The expression is most important. 587 00:52:03,555 --> 00:52:07,776 The tension of drama lays in the dedicated grace of a perfect moment. 588 00:52:13,869 --> 00:52:16,089 The fragility of something beautiful. 589 00:52:21,094 --> 00:52:24,010 Kakuzo Okakura teaches 590 00:52:24,097 --> 00:52:27,405 that there is a value in things out of balance. 591 00:52:29,755 --> 00:52:33,062 It is not necessary for everything to be the same. 592 00:52:33,150 --> 00:52:38,024 Consistency is born from the inconsistent shape of things. 593 00:52:46,424 --> 00:52:49,253 Life is similar in this way. 594 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,878 I am sure that you understand more than most. 595 00:53:10,883 --> 00:53:13,277 I have decided to leave Yone. 596 00:53:46,353 --> 00:53:49,269 I have wonderful news. 597 00:53:49,356 --> 00:53:52,359 I have found a Japanese publisher for my book... 598 00:53:52,446 --> 00:53:54,709 Pilgrimage. 599 00:53:54,796 --> 00:53:56,145 Congratulations. 600 00:53:57,321 --> 00:53:58,844 Kiku? 601 00:53:58,931 --> 00:54:00,541 No, leave that where it is. 602 00:54:00,628 --> 00:54:02,151 It's all right. 603 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,284 I told her to put it all back. 604 00:54:08,636 --> 00:54:12,249 I am planning to dedicate the book to you. 605 00:54:15,121 --> 00:54:17,166 We have to make the evening train. 606 00:54:18,646 --> 00:54:20,126 Did you hear what I said? 607 00:54:21,736 --> 00:54:24,261 They paid a large advance. 608 00:54:24,348 --> 00:54:26,132 You can stay. You don't have to teach anymore. 609 00:54:26,219 --> 00:54:29,788 You can stay and be my editor. Full time. 610 00:54:29,875 --> 00:54:31,355 I like teaching. 611 00:54:37,535 --> 00:54:39,841 It's not a job 612 00:54:39,928 --> 00:54:44,672 worthy of the wife of a published author. 613 00:54:45,847 --> 00:54:48,459 Not the job for my wife. 614 00:54:52,027 --> 00:54:53,986 Well, you should be sure and tell her that. 615 00:54:57,598 --> 00:54:59,557 Don't make this hard on me. 616 00:55:04,257 --> 00:55:05,911 You've grown, Leonie. 617 00:55:08,043 --> 00:55:09,393 I'm coming back. 618 00:55:17,444 --> 00:55:19,838 Thank you. Stop this! 619 00:55:19,925 --> 00:55:21,535 Think of our son. 620 00:55:22,406 --> 00:55:24,277 What about our writing? 621 00:55:24,364 --> 00:55:26,671 Our business with Stokes? 622 00:55:26,758 --> 00:55:28,760 Oh, I'll still work for you if you can endure it. 623 00:55:30,588 --> 00:55:32,459 Leonie, what are you doing? 624 00:55:32,546 --> 00:55:34,243 You don't respect my writing. 625 00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,594 You don't respect our relationship. 626 00:55:38,639 --> 00:55:40,206 No, no! Thank you, Yone. 627 00:55:40,293 --> 00:55:42,339 I think Michihiko can handle the rest. 628 00:56:18,244 --> 00:56:20,202 It's all right. 629 00:56:20,289 --> 00:56:22,291 Thank you so much. 630 00:56:22,379 --> 00:56:23,902 It's all right. 631 00:56:32,737 --> 00:56:34,303 Dear Catherine, 632 00:56:34,391 --> 00:56:37,872 Isamu is learning Japanese very fast. 633 00:56:37,959 --> 00:56:41,006 He demands to grasp all aspects of life. 634 00:56:41,093 --> 00:56:43,661 The trees, the dirt, the air, the sun... 635 00:56:43,748 --> 00:56:45,576 They all live in him. 636 00:56:47,229 --> 00:56:51,190 But if they are to flower, they need the chance to grow. 637 00:56:55,716 --> 00:56:57,762 Where is the moon, Mama? 638 00:56:57,849 --> 00:56:59,546 Where is the moon? 639 00:57:06,118 --> 00:57:07,685 Come here. 640 00:57:08,555 --> 00:57:10,775 Are we poor? 641 00:57:13,038 --> 00:57:15,083 Are we poor? 642 00:57:17,782 --> 00:57:19,697 Yes. 643 00:57:19,784 --> 00:57:22,439 Yes. It seems we are. 644 00:57:24,353 --> 00:57:26,051 But that's all right. 645 00:57:27,922 --> 00:57:29,663 It doesn't matter how it looks. 646 00:57:29,750 --> 00:57:31,709 It matters that it's ours. 647 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,284 Where are we going? I keep telling you where we're going. 648 00:57:42,371 --> 00:57:43,938 We're going to meet my new students. 649 00:57:44,025 --> 00:57:45,331 Don't worry. 650 00:57:45,418 --> 00:57:47,289 You're going to like Setsu. 651 00:57:47,376 --> 00:57:49,509 She is like my own sister. 652 00:57:49,596 --> 00:57:52,991 Her husband, Lafcadio, was my most favorite teacher. 653 00:57:57,517 --> 00:57:59,911 Setsu. 654 00:58:09,442 --> 00:58:12,140 Konnichiwa. How do you do? 655 00:58:12,227 --> 00:58:13,925 Nice to meet you. 656 00:58:16,971 --> 00:58:20,322 Hai? Thank you, Mrs. Hearn. 657 00:58:20,409 --> 00:58:22,194 Call me Setsu. 658 00:58:24,762 --> 00:58:28,200 I am sure Lafcadio is smiling in heaven 659 00:58:28,287 --> 00:58:32,117 knowing that we have someone like you as a teacher. 660 00:58:34,206 --> 00:58:39,907 Shortly after my husband died, Mr. Noguchi paid me a surprise visit. 661 00:58:39,994 --> 00:58:45,347 He said he wanted to write an essay about my husband. 662 00:58:45,434 --> 00:58:48,960 Yes, I know that Yone identified very strongly with Mr. Hearn. 663 00:58:51,092 --> 00:58:56,010 My husband hated a man who showed no respect for his wife. 664 00:58:58,622 --> 00:59:00,145 Well, I'm not his wife. 665 00:59:04,889 --> 00:59:08,066 I heard that you helped your husband with some of his work. 666 00:59:09,981 --> 00:59:14,507 I told some Japanese folktales to my Lafcadio. 667 00:59:14,594 --> 00:59:18,119 He wrote a ghost story from that. 668 00:59:18,206 --> 00:59:21,993 I told this in mutual language of husband and wife, 669 00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,039 a language that only we know. 670 00:59:27,868 --> 00:59:32,177 What a beautiful memory of your own world together. 671 01:00:19,354 --> 01:00:21,052 In English. 672 01:00:21,966 --> 01:00:23,881 A most excellent fish. 673 01:00:29,060 --> 01:00:30,757 It is a "su-won." 674 01:00:30,844 --> 01:00:32,716 Swan. 675 01:00:32,803 --> 01:00:34,108 Swan. 676 01:00:34,195 --> 01:00:36,023 Swan. 677 01:00:36,110 --> 01:00:37,110 Swan. 678 01:00:37,982 --> 01:00:39,636 I'm so sorry to be late. 679 01:00:42,029 --> 01:00:44,031 Isamu. 680 01:00:44,118 --> 01:00:48,601 There is also great honor in making beautiful things. 681 01:01:07,664 --> 01:01:10,144 My goodness. That's beautiful. 682 01:01:11,668 --> 01:01:14,932 I thought you should have one. 683 01:01:32,210 --> 01:01:34,516 This fan matches your eyes. 684 01:01:36,736 --> 01:01:39,086 It's lovely. I'll buy it for you. 685 01:01:39,173 --> 01:01:41,349 No. You don't have to do that. Oh, it's all right. 686 01:01:41,436 --> 01:01:43,743 I want to do. 687 01:01:47,660 --> 01:01:51,359 The children speak better English than I do now. 688 01:01:54,058 --> 01:01:57,757 Well, I love each of them as my own. 689 01:01:57,844 --> 01:01:59,890 Thank you. 690 01:01:59,977 --> 01:02:02,980 And I can never repay you, Setsu. 691 01:02:04,111 --> 01:02:06,548 Stop. 692 01:02:06,635 --> 01:02:10,770 No, honestly I think I'd forgotten what it is to be happy. 693 01:02:11,945 --> 01:02:14,165 You reminded me as well. 694 01:02:15,296 --> 01:02:16,863 So we are even. 695 01:02:18,865 --> 01:02:20,867 Mother! 696 01:02:24,566 --> 01:02:25,959 Your lunch. 697 01:02:28,353 --> 01:02:31,835 Ah! I'd almost forgotten. 698 01:02:32,966 --> 01:02:35,055 From New York. 699 01:02:35,142 --> 01:02:37,928 Oh, my goodness, it's from Catherine. 700 01:02:38,015 --> 01:02:40,800 She's my oldest friend. 701 01:03:42,688 --> 01:03:44,037 Mother! 702 01:03:45,343 --> 01:03:46,779 Mother! 703 01:03:58,356 --> 01:03:59,531 Mother! 704 01:04:02,534 --> 01:04:03,665 Mother! 705 01:04:06,755 --> 01:04:08,279 It's all right. 706 01:04:19,464 --> 01:04:23,468 My mother taught me that freedom was a choice, 707 01:04:23,555 --> 01:04:25,252 whether things happen to us, 708 01:04:26,514 --> 01:04:28,473 or for us. 709 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,476 And so I forged my path ahead. 710 01:04:35,523 --> 01:04:36,523 Umeko. 711 01:04:38,613 --> 01:04:40,789 Isamu, come here. Read this for me, will you? 712 01:04:40,877 --> 01:04:43,053 What does that say? 713 01:05:05,510 --> 01:05:06,772 Umeko. 714 01:05:10,167 --> 01:05:12,082 It's been so long. 715 01:05:12,169 --> 01:05:15,128 You've made it, Miss Gilmour. 716 01:05:15,215 --> 01:05:16,608 Please take a seat. 717 01:05:16,695 --> 01:05:18,088 Thank you. 718 01:05:22,266 --> 01:05:25,182 My son reads the newspapers to me. 719 01:05:25,269 --> 01:05:28,272 I've been following you and this wonderful school. 720 01:05:28,359 --> 01:05:30,665 I just knew someday... 721 01:05:30,752 --> 01:05:33,842 Since you are my old Bryn Mawr friend, 722 01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:35,888 I will be honest with you Leonie. 723 01:05:38,021 --> 01:05:42,808 I'd like to help you, but I'm afraid I cannot offer you a job. 724 01:05:48,814 --> 01:05:53,166 All of our students are girls from conservative families. 725 01:05:53,253 --> 01:05:56,474 I'm hesitant to say so, 726 01:05:56,561 --> 01:05:59,694 but it takes much time for the society of this nation 727 01:05:59,781 --> 01:06:03,785 to accept a woman in such a condition as yours. 728 01:06:05,396 --> 01:06:07,267 My condition? What does that... 729 01:06:07,354 --> 01:06:11,619 You must understand that education for women is very new here. 730 01:06:11,706 --> 01:06:14,100 I'm challenging many old traditions, 731 01:06:14,187 --> 01:06:17,886 and if I make one false step or... 732 01:06:20,628 --> 01:06:23,327 We could lose everything. 733 01:06:28,114 --> 01:06:29,811 No, of course, I 734 01:06:32,118 --> 01:06:33,511 understand. 735 01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,523 Isamu. 736 01:06:47,873 --> 01:06:49,440 Sorry I'm late. 737 01:06:50,745 --> 01:06:52,095 Oh, it's okay. 738 01:06:56,577 --> 01:06:58,014 How was school? 739 01:07:08,372 --> 01:07:12,463 Once again I find my fortune cast to the wind. 740 01:07:14,900 --> 01:07:18,295 Questions of who and how would dog us if we remain here, 741 01:07:20,297 --> 01:07:24,431 and so I resume my journey as a vagabond. 742 01:07:26,781 --> 01:07:30,394 It has been an honor to spend this time with you. 743 01:07:32,135 --> 01:07:35,312 I have enjoyed very much watching Isamu grow. 744 01:07:36,748 --> 01:07:40,621 If only... you could be my teacher forever. 745 01:07:58,030 --> 01:07:59,423 Wait. 746 01:08:07,735 --> 01:08:12,000 I daresay that anyone would consider your English to be exceptionally eloquent. 747 01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:15,526 Ah. Even in America? 748 01:08:17,093 --> 01:08:19,182 Yes. Especially in America. 749 01:08:22,576 --> 01:08:24,448 It is because of my teacher. 750 01:08:26,537 --> 01:08:27,886 Thank you. 751 01:08:30,628 --> 01:08:32,760 No. Thank you. 752 01:08:36,677 --> 01:08:40,072 You have a very bright future ahead of you. 753 01:08:50,996 --> 01:08:54,042 I procured a teaching position in another town 754 01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:58,395 where my condition won't shine brighter than my skills or character. 755 01:09:01,311 --> 01:09:06,185 It seems I am fated to move wherever I seek to build my joy. 756 01:09:06,272 --> 01:09:08,144 Mother, our things are here. 757 01:09:11,582 --> 01:09:13,018 Thank God. 758 01:09:16,282 --> 01:09:18,197 Come on. It's this way. 759 01:09:23,028 --> 01:09:24,943 Come on. Let's look inside. 760 01:09:42,613 --> 01:09:44,789 Mother! Hurry up! 761 01:10:02,633 --> 01:10:03,982 God. 762 01:10:26,874 --> 01:10:29,442 She said to push! I know what she said! 763 01:10:30,835 --> 01:10:33,707 I know what you're saying, you mean... 764 01:10:33,794 --> 01:10:36,841 Oh, God! 765 01:10:36,928 --> 01:10:38,495 Where is the goddamn doctor? 766 01:10:44,762 --> 01:10:46,807 Do you even know what you're doing? 767 01:10:46,894 --> 01:10:49,114 Don't you people have doctors in this place? 768 01:11:07,219 --> 01:11:09,003 Hurry, please. 769 01:11:09,090 --> 01:11:11,005 Hurry. Please. 770 01:11:11,092 --> 01:11:12,093 Please. 771 01:11:17,403 --> 01:11:19,710 Conflict is the spark of creation. 772 01:11:19,797 --> 01:11:21,625 Hello. 773 01:11:21,712 --> 01:11:23,191 Shh. 774 01:11:25,542 --> 01:11:27,239 Shh, shh, shh. 775 01:11:28,414 --> 01:11:30,286 Shh. 776 01:11:30,373 --> 01:11:34,681 Something so fleeting has brought me a love that I will have forever... 777 01:11:36,509 --> 01:11:40,948 My precious jewel, my daughter, Ailes. 778 01:11:45,431 --> 01:11:48,304 I brought you the manuscript for Stokes. 779 01:11:53,396 --> 01:11:55,746 Hello. Shh. 780 01:11:56,486 --> 01:11:58,401 My name is Ailes. 781 01:12:00,098 --> 01:12:02,187 I'm Isamu's sister. 782 01:12:04,058 --> 01:12:05,495 Where is Isamu? 783 01:12:08,585 --> 01:12:10,195 Isamu? 784 01:12:10,282 --> 01:12:12,415 Come in here. 785 01:12:12,502 --> 01:12:14,591 I feel sorry for Isamu. 786 01:12:18,943 --> 01:12:20,553 Who is the father? 787 01:12:22,076 --> 01:12:23,948 Isamu! 788 01:12:24,035 --> 01:12:26,124 Don't you say hello? Come in here. 789 01:12:27,299 --> 01:12:29,736 I didn't think you could be such 790 01:12:32,130 --> 01:12:33,436 a slut. 791 01:12:45,578 --> 01:12:49,147 Yone, we met many times when I was pregnant, but you never noticed. 792 01:12:56,372 --> 01:12:57,938 Yes. 793 01:12:58,025 --> 01:12:59,462 Isn't that strange? 794 01:13:00,332 --> 01:13:01,855 Yes. 795 01:13:05,946 --> 01:13:08,862 Why should it be anyone's concern who the father is? 796 01:13:10,516 --> 01:13:12,823 My family is mine alone. 797 01:13:14,825 --> 01:13:18,916 Isamu struggles with his sister, but he will be fine. 798 01:13:19,003 --> 01:13:22,136 He does not see the use of arithmetic and spelling, 799 01:13:22,223 --> 01:13:25,226 although it is not for his want of learning. 800 01:13:25,313 --> 01:13:30,231 Every surface, every object, calls to him as a palette for his creation. 801 01:13:45,377 --> 01:13:49,163 In the end, he couldn't tread a common path any more than I. 802 01:13:49,250 --> 01:13:51,644 Wow! 803 01:13:51,731 --> 01:13:54,038 And so I set him free. 804 01:13:55,605 --> 01:13:57,563 Everything grows here. 805 01:13:59,739 --> 01:14:01,437 So what do you think? 806 01:14:09,793 --> 01:14:12,012 What did she say? 807 01:14:12,099 --> 01:14:14,450 She said it's the wrong shape for a house. 808 01:14:16,495 --> 01:14:18,454 You're a very pessimistic woman. 809 01:14:29,203 --> 01:14:30,857 I don't want to know what that was. 810 01:14:35,122 --> 01:14:37,864 She's right anyway. 811 01:14:37,951 --> 01:14:39,910 It's a damn triangle. 812 01:14:44,610 --> 01:14:46,960 You decide what kind of a house it should be. 813 01:14:47,961 --> 01:14:50,529 I can't. I'm just 10. 814 01:14:50,616 --> 01:14:53,227 Well, you don't act like you're 10. 815 01:14:53,314 --> 01:14:55,229 You're the perfect age for this. 816 01:14:59,016 --> 01:15:01,540 But... You can do it instead of school. 817 01:15:03,063 --> 01:15:04,674 You can build a house. 818 01:15:10,723 --> 01:15:13,204 I'll hire a carpenter. 819 01:15:13,291 --> 01:15:14,988 A mason, if necessary. 820 01:15:18,252 --> 01:15:23,170 So think of a house for you, for me and for your sister. 821 01:15:31,614 --> 01:15:33,224 I'm finished. 822 01:15:35,487 --> 01:15:36,967 What's this? 823 01:15:37,054 --> 01:15:38,490 A window. 824 01:15:46,106 --> 01:15:48,544 A round window is a great idea. 825 01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,873 The house is a joy to behold. 826 01:18:26,136 --> 01:18:27,833 It so fits with the land, 827 01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:32,142 like a stone in your palm or a tree rooted in the earth. 828 01:18:35,406 --> 01:18:38,409 Thank you, dearest Catherine. 829 01:18:38,496 --> 01:18:42,761 The generosity of your loan and love resonates on every surface. 830 01:18:42,848 --> 01:18:44,154 Mama. 831 01:18:52,379 --> 01:18:54,338 Mama! Come here! 832 01:19:03,173 --> 01:19:04,696 It is for you. 833 01:19:23,759 --> 01:19:26,500 "I am like a leaf, 834 01:19:26,587 --> 01:19:30,635 hanging over hope and despair, 835 01:19:30,722 --> 01:19:32,680 which trembles, 836 01:19:32,768 --> 01:19:37,163 and joins the world's imagination and ghost." 837 01:19:47,173 --> 01:19:49,045 Those are your father's words. 838 01:19:50,220 --> 01:19:52,396 His gift to you runs in your blood. 839 01:19:55,791 --> 01:19:58,837 Your art will be your weapon. 840 01:19:58,924 --> 01:20:01,318 Your art will be your voice. 841 01:20:01,405 --> 01:20:04,147 There are no boundaries for an artist. 842 01:20:04,234 --> 01:20:06,758 No borders. 843 01:20:06,845 --> 01:20:11,807 Through art you can speak all languages and lead a magnificent life anywhere. 844 01:20:16,986 --> 01:20:18,814 I want to go to America. 845 01:20:22,165 --> 01:20:24,384 Why? 846 01:20:24,471 --> 01:20:26,125 'Cause I'm American too. 847 01:20:28,606 --> 01:20:32,262 Isamu deserves this opportunity that is his birthright. 848 01:20:35,178 --> 01:20:39,269 America is a beacon beckoning him, and there he may fit best. 849 01:20:41,097 --> 01:20:45,144 He shall become Sam Gilmour, an American boy. 850 01:20:49,888 --> 01:20:53,326 I never knew it could feel so good to be so tired. 851 01:20:54,937 --> 01:20:56,677 My mother knew it. 852 01:20:57,809 --> 01:20:59,680 I know now that she knew. 853 01:21:08,776 --> 01:21:12,476 Sometimes when I look at you, I feel as though my mother were here. 854 01:21:14,652 --> 01:21:18,961 Haru, I believe you are my best friend. 855 01:21:29,710 --> 01:21:33,976 Beyond our little borders a world war now rages. 856 01:21:36,935 --> 01:21:40,199 The military pulls at each thread of our life here. 857 01:21:42,114 --> 01:21:44,508 As a Japanese boy, he might have been caught in its net, 858 01:21:44,595 --> 01:21:47,554 but at an American boarding school, 859 01:21:47,641 --> 01:21:50,906 he will retain his U.S. citizenship. 860 01:21:54,431 --> 01:21:56,476 They will show you to the train. 861 01:21:57,869 --> 01:22:00,350 It's three days from Seattle to Indiana. 862 01:22:01,438 --> 01:22:02,961 Don't be scared. 863 01:22:03,048 --> 01:22:04,441 I'm not. 864 01:22:05,877 --> 01:22:07,835 It's not forever, 865 01:22:07,923 --> 01:22:10,664 just until this madness is over. 866 01:22:10,751 --> 01:22:12,928 At least the Americans won't send you off to war. 867 01:22:14,930 --> 01:22:18,455 Dr. Rumely will greet you at the boarding school. I know. 868 01:22:18,542 --> 01:22:21,762 You'll write twice a week. Yes, Mother. 869 01:22:23,416 --> 01:22:25,114 When did you get so brave? 870 01:22:45,612 --> 01:22:47,005 Isamu! 871 01:22:53,969 --> 01:22:55,535 I'm always with you. Isamu! 872 01:22:55,622 --> 01:22:58,060 Go. Go! 873 01:22:58,147 --> 01:22:59,931 Isamu! 874 01:23:01,933 --> 01:23:03,195 Go! 875 01:23:03,282 --> 01:23:05,284 You have no right! 876 01:23:05,371 --> 01:23:08,331 I am his father. You have no right to send him away. 877 01:23:08,418 --> 01:23:10,681 Isamu is Japanese. My son is Japanese! 878 01:23:10,768 --> 01:23:13,553 Isamu is as Japanese as I am Japanese. 879 01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:16,165 He's as much your son as I am your wife. 880 01:23:18,689 --> 01:23:21,692 I am as much your wife as I am your dog, Yone Noguchi. 881 01:23:49,067 --> 01:23:50,460 Excuse me, miss. 882 01:23:51,287 --> 01:23:52,636 Pardon me. 883 01:23:57,684 --> 01:23:58,990 Ailes? 884 01:24:00,774 --> 01:24:02,428 I told you he wouldn't recognize me. 885 01:24:10,523 --> 01:24:11,959 Mother. 886 01:24:22,448 --> 01:24:24,537 You see that? Yes. 887 01:24:24,624 --> 01:24:27,105 You have a wonderful view from here. 888 01:24:27,192 --> 01:24:28,933 That's the Singer Building. 889 01:24:29,020 --> 01:24:31,109 It was the tallest building in the world for a year. 890 01:24:31,196 --> 01:24:33,503 Really? 891 01:24:33,590 --> 01:24:35,550 It's more beautiful than anything I could imagine. 892 01:24:35,635 --> 01:24:36,941 It is, isn't it? 893 01:24:40,597 --> 01:24:42,686 Will you both move in here? 894 01:24:42,773 --> 01:24:44,731 We could be a family again. 895 01:24:44,818 --> 01:24:46,429 Oh, Mother, can we? 896 01:24:56,265 --> 01:24:59,050 Dr. Rumely, I cannot possibly express to you 897 01:24:59,137 --> 01:25:02,923 my gratitude for helping Isamu in Indiana and now here in New York. 898 01:25:03,010 --> 01:25:05,491 It's been a pleasure. 899 01:25:05,578 --> 01:25:09,539 Isamu is an impressive young man with a very bright future. 900 01:25:09,626 --> 01:25:12,063 You've been a profound influence on him, I'm sure. 901 01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:16,609 But the sooner we put an end to this medical school nonsense the better. 902 01:25:16,633 --> 01:25:18,069 Mother! 903 01:25:19,549 --> 01:25:21,638 It's not that I'm not grateful to you. 904 01:25:21,725 --> 01:25:23,335 You meant well. 905 01:25:23,422 --> 01:25:27,383 But Isamu is not a doctor. He is an artist. 906 01:25:27,470 --> 01:25:31,169 I didn't force Isamu to go to medical school. He chose it. 907 01:25:31,256 --> 01:25:33,258 He chose to repay his debt to you. Mother! 908 01:25:33,345 --> 01:25:34,999 I know my son. 909 01:25:35,913 --> 01:25:37,262 Come with me. 910 01:25:39,046 --> 01:25:42,180 Forgive my mother. I am grateful to you even if she's not. 911 01:25:46,097 --> 01:25:49,753 You do not have the right to interfere in my life. 912 01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:51,600 I understand you more than anyone in this world, 913 01:25:51,624 --> 01:25:53,800 even more than you understand yourself. 914 01:25:53,887 --> 01:25:55,585 You're an artist, Isamu. 915 01:26:06,204 --> 01:26:08,337 Taxi! 916 01:26:08,424 --> 01:26:11,383 Now there are two kinds of pathology, classically. 917 01:26:11,470 --> 01:26:14,517 One is general pathology, disease processes, 918 01:26:14,604 --> 01:26:18,129 for which we'll cover degeneration, inflammation... 919 01:27:25,718 --> 01:27:27,242 The next Michelangelo. 920 01:27:28,591 --> 01:27:30,201 I thought we could go to dinner. 921 01:27:30,288 --> 01:27:32,943 I'm tired. I think I'd like to go home. 922 01:27:37,426 --> 01:27:39,079 Could you give me a hand? 923 01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:47,479 Let's go to dinner. I know a good place in the Village. 924 01:28:13,940 --> 01:28:15,551 Come, Mother. 925 01:28:15,638 --> 01:28:18,031 I've been here before. 926 01:28:18,118 --> 01:28:19,990 All by yourself in this part of town? 927 01:28:20,077 --> 01:28:22,079 I should hope not. 928 01:28:22,166 --> 01:28:24,037 I came to meet a man. 929 01:28:26,213 --> 01:28:28,390 More than 30 years ago. 930 01:28:34,961 --> 01:28:36,920 Where is this famous restaurant of yours? 931 01:28:44,057 --> 01:28:45,624 What are you doing here? 932 01:28:48,366 --> 01:28:50,107 Close your eyes. 933 01:28:50,194 --> 01:28:52,631 What? Why? 934 01:28:52,718 --> 01:28:54,241 Please. For me. 935 01:28:58,202 --> 01:28:59,943 All right. 936 01:29:02,206 --> 01:29:03,555 God. 937 01:29:17,569 --> 01:29:19,702 Open your eyes. 938 01:29:19,789 --> 01:29:21,965 All right, buddy, move it along. 939 01:29:22,052 --> 01:29:23,445 What's this? 940 01:29:32,802 --> 01:29:35,457 I'm sorry I did not ask before using that name. 941 01:29:39,548 --> 01:29:41,593 No, it's... a very good name. 942 01:29:49,645 --> 01:29:50,994 Congratulations. 943 01:29:56,129 --> 01:29:58,262 Isamu Noguchi. 944 01:31:05,024 --> 01:31:09,551 Isamu, I received your money with gratitude, 945 01:31:09,638 --> 01:31:13,511 and your words, as always, made me happy. 946 01:31:13,598 --> 01:31:17,776 I am in complete agreement with your idea of visiting Japan, 947 01:31:17,863 --> 01:31:21,867 of tracing the roots of your craft there. 948 01:31:21,954 --> 01:31:25,523 Please do find your father and embrace him warmly, 949 01:31:25,610 --> 01:31:28,047 for all the years of your lives spent apart. 950 01:31:31,268 --> 01:31:33,792 Tell him this for me... 951 01:31:33,879 --> 01:31:38,057 That I live every day in the nature of Maine, 952 01:31:38,144 --> 01:31:41,974 that my children stand on their own feet. 953 01:31:42,061 --> 01:31:46,805 In short, that I have reclaimed my own life, 954 01:31:46,892 --> 01:31:48,894 so don't worry about anything. 955 01:31:56,989 --> 01:32:01,472 I wonder sometimes, why was I so greedy in my youth? 956 01:32:04,910 --> 01:32:07,783 I now find beauty in simple existence, 957 01:32:09,045 --> 01:32:12,309 in abandoning all worldly desires, 958 01:32:14,224 --> 01:32:15,660 just like a tree, 959 01:32:16,661 --> 01:32:18,010 or a stone. 960 01:32:26,845 --> 01:32:29,631 I want to apologize. 961 01:32:29,718 --> 01:32:31,807 I did not treat you as I should have. 962 01:32:37,552 --> 01:32:40,598 You can say that now you know you'll never see me again. 963 01:32:48,737 --> 01:32:50,826 When I first returned to Japan, 964 01:32:52,349 --> 01:32:55,352 I longed for a traditional Japanese woman. 965 01:32:56,353 --> 01:32:57,920 I married one, 966 01:32:58,007 --> 01:33:00,183 as beautiful as she's ignorant. 967 01:33:03,969 --> 01:33:05,841 Sometimes I even doubt 968 01:33:07,190 --> 01:33:09,105 that was the right thing to do. 969 01:33:19,028 --> 01:33:21,247 We have our own poem, Yone. 970 01:33:22,814 --> 01:33:25,382 Our child carries our wishes to the future. 971 01:33:28,341 --> 01:33:30,866 The poem we wrote will last forever. 972 01:33:41,746 --> 01:33:45,924 I want to kiss you just as I used to in New York. 973 01:33:46,011 --> 01:33:48,448 But now, 974 01:33:48,535 --> 01:33:50,625 I would like to give you a kiss 975 01:33:52,757 --> 01:33:55,064 different from all other kisses. 976 01:33:58,676 --> 01:34:00,069 May I?