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Chester, we cannot tell the future.

It is written by too many hands.

Mrs. Furuya, you don't have to do this.

I'll have it for you in a week's time.

Then all will be right.

Furuya-san, I'm sorry for your loss.

Smile, boy.

Your mother's watching you.

Mom, Pop.

A photo.

Furuya-san, with your wife's portrait, please.

You forgot this.

Coward.

An ill omen, from across the sea.

Stop talking nonsense.

Anyone can see it!

Not even the dead can rest.

- We're not in Japan anymore. - Exactly!

We forget when the old spirits call to us.

A spirit?

After so many years?

So many miles?

Pop, do you want to check the catch?

Hey, fat boy!

Fight the fish. You the master.

I was 110 pounds

when they named me Tuna Boxing Champion of San Pedro.

You boxed against a tuna?

Nineteen-fifteen.

I'd just come from San Francisco.

I was tea farmer.

Never fished before.

But I catch 200 pound bluefin down by Newport Bay.

I reel it in.

Fish sit up on deck, like this.

I punch it in the face, knock it out.

One punch!

They call me Tuna Boxing Champion of San Pedro after that.

Pop, you're fishing for sport now?

Seven for us.

Four into the ocean.

For luck.

For Mrs. Furuya.

There was bakemono at funeral.

You know bakemono?

The kind you can see, or did you just feel it?

Come on, I thought we left that old country stuff behind.

Even if they did exist, why would they come all the way here?

Why not? We did.

Chester, be useful.

Beautiful catch for you, Mr. Grichuk!

The water is cold today.

Good for mackerel.

Henry-san, you say everything's good for mackerel.

Jesus.

What is this?

You're going to give my girls a heart attack.

Too much bycatch.

It'll take ten girls to sort through this.

Twenty a ton.

- Mr. Grichuk, the price is 40. - Twenty.

Some folks say I shouldn't even be buying from you people.

- You know how they talk these days. - Maybe too cold.

Bottom fish come to surface.

Mr. Grichuk, my father's given this cannery

the best fish in the bay for years.

He deserves 40.

Forty dollars is for a ton of mackerel, son.

Not mackerel mixed with devil fish, or squid, or anything else.

We'll sort through it all ourselves.

Pull out all the trash fish. Frankly it's better eating.

But you'll have your mackerel, at 40 a ton.

You want to be a captain? Learn to fish.

- Henry-san! - Chester!

Hey, Chet.

What's buzzing, cousin?

- Hell of a jalopy. - Packard.

Only six Japanese on the island have their own car.

Pop, this is Marlon. From the naval station.

Oh, you are the hakujin going to LA all the time.

Don't listen. He thinks I'll be on the island forever.

Hey, I got us those tickets for tomorrow night.

We're taking Walt Yoshida to the movies.

Down Mexico Way at the Orpheum. Gene Autry.

When do they let you off?

Not for another eight hours.

The entire coast is on alert.

Supposed to keep my eyes peeled for spies, especially Jap ones.

Hey, Marlon.

Keep my son away from the naval station, OK?

They see him, they don't know who to shoot.

Your heart's beating so fast.

I thought you said you had experience.

It's not that.

Your father is down the hall.

Shh!

Don't remind me.

Fine. Let's not and say we did.

Or... let's.

And not say anything.

Yeah.

That sounds better.

Yeah.

Hey.

Have you got it?

Take the darker one first.

The gaiyo.

On the second day, add in the lighter one. Toki.

Once the bleeding starts...

you can stop.

An offense to God.

It would kill my father if he knew.

And it's killed us.

What are we supposed to do after this?

I haven't thought that far.

All I keep seeing in my head is Mrs. Furuya.

Laying there.

All made up, pristine.

Stop! You can't blame yourself for that.

We asked for this.

If she thought it was wrong...

She didn't want to do it but she did it because it was me.

She tried to help us with this terrible thing we did, and now...

So...

What do we do next?

After it's over,

tell your father you're OK.

Food poisoning.

You'll need to see a doctor.

Then by Christmas,

we can forget.

All of it.

You go to nursing school.

I go see the country.

Nothing to get in the way.

You know...

my father always wanted me to be a nun.

Maybe as a penance for my mother.

I was going to do it too.

Sister Illuminata.

Then one day I realized that it was all because I liked the sound of it.

Not the thing itself.

Anyway, I just...

I always meant to tell you that.

I wish I could have taken you on my Pop's Packard.

It's jet black.

So pretty.

All he does is take it in circles around that tiny island.

They come from one island to an even smaller island.

That's their entire world.

I can't do that.

Thanks for this.

You should probably go first.

If quality of the catch is deteriorating,

you've got to adapt.

Sorry Mr. Grichuk, but the quality is the same.

You say that... Look.

These splitters are for eight to ten-ounce mackerel.

Guppies like yours, the girls have to split them by hand.

Now you got to understand, I can't pay you 40 for that.

OK. How much?

I don't know, 20?

Fifteen? What do you think it's worth?

Shit.

Jesus Christ! Help! Help! Help me!

Stan?

Stan, what happened?

Chester? Supper.

- We're not waiting for Walt? - He's home. Preparing.

Betty's sailing back from Tokyo. Walt hasn't seen her in a year.

She still has one semester, but better to leave while you can.

Wedding will be in March.

And soon, a grandson.

It's the season of life when our seeds bear fruit.

It's true.

They tell you I'm moving to the mainland?

Magazines are looking for photographers out West.

We'll see.

Should I haul fish the rest of my life?

Chester, it's safe here.

It's a good life.

There's war all over the world.

So many people dying.

I remember, 23 years ago, I sailed three weeks

with nothing but photo of this man.

I so relieved he looked like his picture!

Life is hard, Chester.

You cannot do it without family.

Just ask Mrs. Furuya.

Let's eat.

Let's eat.

I'm so sorry about that.

Actually, I'm kind of glad.

I've been going with a hakujin from the naval station.

So I'm taking this as a sign my folks don't know.

- Seriously? - Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it's probably best they don't.

- They'd die. Or I would. - Haven't told Walt, have you?

No. My brother's as Japanese as rice.

I don't think he could even imagine it.

You know what's truly scary?

That Hideo Furuya would get blind drunk,

beat his wife and awake with no memory,

see the bruises and then beat her again,

thinking she was stepping out on him.

That's a monster.

Here. Is this it?

Where Mrs. Furuya did it?

Police trampled all over it.

Give it a week and it will look like it never happened.

Do you have any idea why?

I...

I hadn't seen her in a while.

Who knows?

Jeez.

Of all the ways...

Maybe she wanted us to remember her...

intact.

- Sorry for the late hour. - You want coffee, Mr. Grichuk?

You don't look so good.

This won't take long.

I wanted you to be the first to know.

They canned me. That's ironic.

What? Why?

When their machine craps out, someone's got to take the blame.

You are a good man.

Thirteen years I gave those sons of bitches.

Now what?

What do I got?

You have your health. Your life.

I got my life.

With no livelihood and...

that puts me in a tough spot, Nakayama.

If only you had brought me some decent-sized fish.

It was an accident.

Nobody's fault.

I always treated you square.

If you were a little short on your catch

I'd cut you some slack.

And now you walk me into this pile of shit.

I need reparation.

Mr. Grichuk.

You're the boss. I'm just a fisherman.

I have nothing to give.

You remember last year,

when the anti-spying laws went on the books?

You and all the other Jap fisherman had to register your boats?

A formality.

- But you never did. - I was fishing.

For you.

In Mexico.

All those extra gas tanks for the emperor's submarines?

I'm not a spy.

It's only natural to want to help your own kind, but still...

"If you question it, report it."

You know I love this country.

I'm not a spy.

Probably not.

Don't make me the kind of asshole who reports these things.

What do you have in mind?

Hey...

I never got to say.

Thank you for saving my life today.

I really do appreciate it.

Why didn't you wait for me?

Nothing to be done.

Stop saying that.

People don't think that way anymore.

We can do something.

You can't let Grichuk push you around. That's your car.

You own it.

Be a man.

In Japan,

my father don't even have his own ox.

I pull cart myself.

I come here.

All I ever want is automobile.

A car to pull me.

It took 20 years, but I got it.

So what if they take my car?

I'm still the same man.

A man who earned his Packard.

Don't you tell me how to be a man.

Boy.

Hello, Furuya-san.

Has your son eaten yet?

Delicious.

What are you doing?

- Purification. Cleaning the house. - Nothing's haunting the house.

- The old spirits are here. - I didn't need protection before!

I don't need it now!

Get out!

Next Christmas,

you'll have a Cadillac.

If we make it that far.

Furuya-san.

Apologies for Asako bothering you.

You know how wives are.

At least you have one.

I got to take a leak.

Oh, wait, wait.

Is it Gene Autry or Roy Rogers?

Autry.

Autry.

Down Mexico Way is what we saw tonight.

Anybody seen it?

In case our folks ask how the movie was?

Gene and Smiley sing a few songs, track down the bad guys

and it ends with a fiesta.

Speaking of old folks. A drink.

To Old Man Furuya. Poor bastard may never see again.

- To Furuya. - Evil spirit strikes again.

If anyone deserved it, it's that SOB.

He went blind the same week his wife died.

Doesn't spook you?

Come on, Chet. Lighten up.

It's Walt's sayonara.

- Last chance to get a piece, Walt. - Last chance? First chance!

Shh! She's coming.

I got you guys a white man discount, so don't embarrass me.

- Ensign Harris. - Miss Antoinette.

Boys, meet the boss.

She'll take care of us.

Got my best girls for you.

Ladies? Gentlemen calling.

Wow.

Which one of you is the groom?

That would be Walt.

Lucky you! You get first pickings.

- Go on up. - Come on.

- Let's go. - Last chance, man.

Everyone, all negotiations in the room.

Come on. You sure?

Someone needs to pay for Walt.

Lover boy's got a steady girl!

Mexicali Rose, stop crying...

You Japanese?

I am.

Miss Antoinette asked me to serve tea to the gentleman in the parlor.

Please.

What is your name?

Yuko.

Why aren't you upstairs with the others?

My mind has been on other troubles.

Your heart...

is so burdened.

There's a girl.

And things have happened.

We made a mistake.

Do you believe in tea leaves?

I have some in my room.

Maybe we can find an answer.

Please.

The blood attracts the spirits.

The good and the evil.

They can tell us the future.

They say you are two people.

Light and darkness.

Life and death.

You live in two worlds,

but are home in neither.

You are a sparrow in a swallow's nest.

The moment you believe you are safe, the swallows will peck you to death.

I once felt safe.

Not anymore.

We all long for restitution. We mourn for a life lost to us.

That perfect world we once had.

I've never lived...

in a perfect world.

Then it lies ahead of you.

Look within yourself.

What do you see?

An open plain...

a fenced acre...

a house of wood...

a child.

It is not lost to you.

The house...

The child...

can still be yours.

Restore your path.

Or else you will hunger for it forever.

Goddamn Nip.

Luz, it's me.

Chester, what are you...

- Did you take it? - You're loaded.

Doesn't matter. The gaiyo, the toki.

- Did you take it? - It's not your concern.

Please just tell me if you took it.

No.

Not yet.

Thank God.

- Why? - I won't stay long.

I realized something tonight.

Everything that's happened, on my island, with you and me...

It's a sign.

- Like an omen? - I don't know.

- I've got the car. Let's just go. - Go where?

Wherever you want. Wherever sounds good.

Our own acre.

Just you...

and me...

and the baby.

How well do you know me?

Enough to run off?

Enough to raise a baby?

There's no future if we stay in California.

- Unless the law changes. - Forget marriage.

How much money have we got?

Who do we know?

How are we going to find work?

What if we get stopped crossing state lines?

- We'll figure it out. - Chester.

In the morning, you'll see we can't.

There's no future for us.

Anywhere.

OK.

Yeah, maybe you're right.

Are you going to take it?

The herbs?

I don't know.

Because I'm scared.

Just let me be scared.

What the...

Pop!

Pop, why didn't you tell me you were going out?

Why not tell me where you've been?

Someone knock over our kerosene can last night. It's a mess.

Henry.

Somebody messing with your net.

Hand, please! It's stuck.

I trust Marlon. Shore Patrol knows we did nothing.

- We've got nothing to fret over. - There's something evil.

I can feel it.

But why would a spirit go after Grichuk?

- He's not Japanese. - But we are.

It brought Grichuk to us. Now look.

We tell them what a drunk he was. He fell off the dock. Accident.

No accident.

We deserve it.

We come all the way over the ocean, but we are not safe.

Furuya beat his wife. He pay for it.

My own son bring shame.

I pay for it.

Gaiyo.

Toki.

I went to see Furuya. He told me what you did.

Pop, now is not the time...

Who is she?

Who is she?

I was going to tell you.

A girl from college. It was a mistake.

Mistake.

Mistake was mine.

To let my son go to LA.

Too weak to resist.

Weak?

I'm making my own way, Pop.

How about you?

Spending half of your life in this country

and never leaving your tiny island?

Shuffling around and begging for scraps from a lousy drunk.

That's the kind of thing that makes them look down on us.

The kind of man I'll never be.

Because you know what they call that?

Marlon!

What's going on?

Go. Get the hell out of here. Now!

Come on, let's go.

Come on!

This morning, at 7:48 Honolulu time,

300 to 400 bombers swooped down on the naval installation

at Pearl Harbor,

releasing their charges and causing widespread damage and death.

The totality of such is still unknown at this point.

Similarly, the exact launching point of these bombers

is still unknown.

But what is irrefutable

is that these bombers are of Japanese origin,

and that this assault was done swiftly and with the utmost malice.

There was no warning, no attempt to resolve...

Chester. Chester, over here!

Hey!

Who are they?

Ask them why!

You did nothing!

FBI. It's OK.

It's for safety.

You're a citizen, boy. You were born here.

Move it.

Show them you're a patriot.

You're going to be OK.

Fight for your country.