1 00:00:11,391 --> 00:00:17,421 BEING TWO ISN'T EASY 2 00:00:18,832 --> 00:00:25,135 Original Story: MATSUDA Michio Sreenplay: WADA Natsuto Planning: FUJII Hiroaki 3 00:00:29,910 --> 00:00:33,846 Photography: KOBAYASHI Setsuo 4 00:00:35,215 --> 00:00:39,845 Music: AKUTAGAWA Yasushi 5 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:30,736 Directed by: ICHIKAWA Kon 6 00:01:41,915 --> 00:01:45,043 The first thing I saw after I was born... 7 00:01:45,619 --> 00:01:47,519 .. were shadows. 8 00:01:48,488 --> 00:01:51,855 Moving all the time, 9 00:01:52,692 --> 00:01:56,219 they were the rays of the sun, 10 00:01:56,997 --> 00:01:59,932 or leaves in the wind, 11 00:02:00,567 --> 00:02:03,968 or red toys hanging from the ceiling, 12 00:02:04,471 --> 00:02:07,599 or, perhaps, faces with dark eyes 13 00:02:08,108 --> 00:02:12,238 or nurses in white dresses. 14 00:02:12,612 --> 00:02:15,604 But I found this things out long after. 15 00:02:16,583 --> 00:02:23,512 I felt like I was floating in a tranquil wind. 16 00:02:24,591 --> 00:02:30,291 Sometimes I heard other noises, like big waves. 17 00:02:30,764 --> 00:02:34,598 And I would move my arms and legs. 18 00:02:35,602 --> 00:02:41,404 Then, I felt the weight of my body for the first time. 19 00:02:42,309 --> 00:02:47,406 And moved my hands and feet. 20 00:02:48,748 --> 00:02:52,946 I felt lonely when I was cold and hungry. 21 00:02:53,987 --> 00:02:59,118 When I think I am all alone, I am sad. 22 00:03:07,334 --> 00:03:08,562 He has smiled. 23 00:03:09,970 --> 00:03:11,164 My baby can smile. 24 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:15,507 He knows his Mommy. 25 00:03:17,043 --> 00:03:18,874 He's happy to see her. 26 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:23,413 Smile again for Mommy! 27 00:03:25,552 --> 00:03:30,387 We'll tell Daddy when he comes home that you have smiled. 28 00:03:32,592 --> 00:03:34,685 You smiled at Mommy! 29 00:03:37,197 --> 00:03:43,625 I was only trying out my muscles. 30 00:03:44,304 --> 00:03:50,243 I just moved my facial muscles a little. 31 00:03:51,211 --> 00:03:58,242 The lady who thought I smiled is my mother. 32 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:01,810 Only 19 days old... 33 00:04:02,188 --> 00:04:05,180 .. I didn 't know you were my mother. 34 00:04:05,692 --> 00:04:08,183 I thought you were... 35 00:04:08,361 --> 00:04:14,789 .. just a nice shadow. 36 00:04:15,201 --> 00:04:16,964 That's my boy! Good! Good! 37 00:04:17,604 --> 00:04:20,300 Look! Ta-chan can walk! 38 00:04:22,576 --> 00:04:27,275 Quitting already? Keep at it! You're a boy. 39 00:04:29,215 --> 00:04:32,446 This impatient man seems to be my father. 40 00:04:33,587 --> 00:04:35,885 These are my first steps alone, 41 00:04:36,590 --> 00:04:38,820 so my feet wobble. 42 00:04:39,826 --> 00:04:41,589 I am human being. 43 00:04:42,529 --> 00:04:45,464 I don 't know whether I am a boy or not, 44 00:04:45,899 --> 00:04:47,298 but I'm a human being. 45 00:04:48,201 --> 00:04:52,570 I can 't walk a lot, at fiest, like other animals. 46 00:05:50,697 --> 00:05:51,425 What is it? 47 00:05:53,466 --> 00:05:54,728 What's the matter? 48 00:05:55,301 --> 00:05:57,735 Let go of him! 49 00:05:58,138 --> 00:06:01,471 Not so tight! He can't breathe! 50 00:06:01,675 --> 00:06:06,703 Look at him! He's all hot and sweaty! 51 00:06:15,121 --> 00:06:19,888 He was napping, so I was in the kitchen, 52 00:06:20,026 --> 00:06:22,051 next thing, he was up there! 53 00:06:22,529 --> 00:06:28,024 He might have fallen if I had called him, so I held my breath to get him! 54 00:06:30,303 --> 00:06:31,565 I was terrified... 55 00:06:40,847 --> 00:06:43,680 If he falls, it's the end for him. 56 00:06:44,384 --> 00:06:48,753 I think wooden Japanese houses are the best for babies. 57 00:06:49,856 --> 00:06:52,290 Apartments are dangerous. 58 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:56,593 Don't you make your living from them?! 59 00:07:06,740 --> 00:07:08,731 Isn't he heavy?! 60 00:07:09,709 --> 00:07:12,610 He'll be a handful, 61 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,813 from now on, until he goes to kindergarten. 62 00:07:17,016 --> 00:07:18,483 Mine were also a handful. 63 00:07:19,152 --> 00:07:20,710 Watch him constantly. 64 00:07:21,054 --> 00:07:22,954 - We made a fence. - A fence?! 65 00:07:23,089 --> 00:07:24,351 At the door. 66 00:07:54,487 --> 00:07:56,421 Daddy. Potty. 67 00:07:57,290 --> 00:08:00,020 Don't lie, you just went! 68 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,250 Take your nap. 69 00:08:02,862 --> 00:08:04,227 I fixed your crib. 70 00:08:16,709 --> 00:08:17,801 Sleep, baby. 71 00:08:29,389 --> 00:08:31,721 Go to sleep! Understand? 72 00:08:32,325 --> 00:08:33,019 I'm home! 73 00:08:34,093 --> 00:08:35,822 He won't sleep! 74 00:08:36,095 --> 00:08:40,532 So hot and crowded at the beauty parlor! Am I late? 75 00:08:41,367 --> 00:08:45,497 Did you behave with Daddy? That's a good boy. 76 00:08:46,506 --> 00:08:47,632 Look this way. 77 00:08:48,975 --> 00:08:52,206 - Funny? - It's nice. Very pretty. 78 00:08:53,580 --> 00:08:55,480 Looks nice all the time. 79 00:08:56,149 --> 00:08:59,550 Before he was born, we went out on Sundays. 80 00:09:00,753 --> 00:09:03,950 - Let's go see a movie. - He didn't wet his crib? 81 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,291 I just took him. 82 00:09:11,798 --> 00:09:16,929 He knows we come if he says ''potty''. It's to get out. 83 00:09:18,571 --> 00:09:21,665 He left all this... 84 00:09:22,141 --> 00:09:24,473 You should have fed him everything. 85 00:09:24,777 --> 00:09:28,611 - He wouldn't eat. - You didn't try! 86 00:09:29,148 --> 00:09:34,848 You don't love him enough to make him eat. 87 00:09:37,390 --> 00:09:38,482 Don't joke! 88 00:09:39,259 --> 00:09:42,057 I'm sweating to make his fence! 89 00:09:43,596 --> 00:09:46,827 It takes me an hour to feed him, 90 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,034 30 minutes to prepare it, 41 / 2 hours a day 91 00:09:51,604 --> 00:09:54,266 Same hours as office work. 92 00:09:54,774 --> 00:09:57,004 The other hours smoking or baseball talk. 93 00:09:58,778 --> 00:09:59,836 It's worse for me. 94 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,748 You don't have to bow down as I do. 95 00:10:05,285 --> 00:10:08,083 It's not the same thing. 96 00:10:18,564 --> 00:10:21,294 - He's not hurt! - How did he get out! 97 00:10:22,835 --> 00:10:24,598 Tying with a string doesn't work. 98 00:10:25,772 --> 00:10:29,708 - I fixed the screw. - He loosens it! 99 00:10:31,711 --> 00:10:36,512 - Nail it down? - Can't close the bed. We're cramped. 100 00:10:36,683 --> 00:10:38,708 I give up. 101 00:10:39,319 --> 00:10:43,619 - Look here son, behave yourself! - So naughty lately! 102 00:10:50,964 --> 00:10:56,903 Undoing strings and screws is very hard. 103 00:10:58,071 --> 00:11:04,067 But I learned how. Why won 't they praise me?! 104 00:11:04,944 --> 00:11:09,404 Always finding fault. That's why grown-ups are unhappy. 105 00:11:31,437 --> 00:11:34,270 Ta-chan, stand up. 106 00:11:38,411 --> 00:11:41,812 Just right. Can't get out now. 107 00:11:43,883 --> 00:11:46,249 I want to grow up fast! 108 00:12:06,606 --> 00:12:10,064 Well? Isn't Daddy clever? Impressed? 109 00:12:10,510 --> 00:12:12,478 Great, you admire me. 110 00:12:13,146 --> 00:12:16,912 Those who do are great. My fool of a boss doesn't. 111 00:12:43,342 --> 00:12:44,274 Doggie. 112 00:12:45,812 --> 00:12:47,211 It's taking a walk. 113 00:13:22,315 --> 00:13:24,647 Does it hurt? 114 00:13:27,153 --> 00:13:29,178 The doctor says it's all right. 115 00:13:29,989 --> 00:13:35,484 Two teeth marks, bled a little, the doctor put medicine on it. 116 00:13:36,129 --> 00:13:39,462 It's all right if the dog doesn't have rabies. 117 00:13:40,099 --> 00:13:45,401 He said to check the dog. I had a hard time finding the owner. 118 00:13:46,706 --> 00:13:52,542 It had shots, but he took it to a veterinarian. It's okay. 119 00:13:53,412 --> 00:13:58,372 If you'd asked first, you needn't have searched. 120 00:13:59,785 --> 00:14:04,279 But he apologized, and it wasn't a serious wound. 121 00:14:05,358 --> 00:14:09,488 - I couldn't have acted like a cop! - I'd have asked! 122 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:21,135 I hate dog owners! Can't love people, so they love dogs! 123 00:14:23,109 --> 00:14:25,509 I had a dog when I was a child. 124 00:14:26,445 --> 00:14:30,404 Mother said rising children with dogs was a fine thing. 125 00:14:31,584 --> 00:14:34,348 It gives children something to love. 126 00:14:35,621 --> 00:14:37,248 Aren't we enough for him? 127 00:14:44,630 --> 00:14:50,660 Let's take him to the ZOO next week! He'll love it! 128 00:15:10,890 --> 00:15:12,289 ''LOST CHILDREN'S ROOM'' 129 00:15:27,073 --> 00:15:34,036 A girl, three years old, wearing a red and white dress. 130 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:39,977 If you're looking for her, please come to our office. 131 00:15:44,757 --> 00:15:50,525 I'm not lost! It's my father who got lost! 132 00:15:51,097 --> 00:15:55,966 Something's wrong with parents who lose their children. 133 00:15:57,470 --> 00:16:02,931 Was I abandoned? All right, I'll never go home! 134 00:16:04,277 --> 00:16:06,871 I'm thirsty. Give me some tea. 135 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:13,716 What a noise! Such crying! My voice is the loudest! 136 00:16:15,321 --> 00:16:17,983 - Are you the mother? - Yes. I'm very grateful. 137 00:16:23,095 --> 00:16:25,359 So many lost children?! 138 00:16:25,698 --> 00:16:31,227 Yes, it'd save us time if they had tags, like your child. 139 00:16:32,705 --> 00:16:34,297 It's bets not to lose them. 140 00:16:35,641 --> 00:16:36,801 Stop crying. 141 00:16:40,146 --> 00:16:41,272 There he is! 142 00:16:43,649 --> 00:16:47,176 You lost him as soon as I went to the bathroom! 143 00:16:49,955 --> 00:16:55,894 It's too stupid! What kind of a mother are you? 144 00:16:56,762 --> 00:16:58,627 I thought you had more sense! 145 00:16:59,598 --> 00:17:02,533 - I'm going home. - Going home? 146 00:17:03,169 --> 00:17:07,003 I'm silly, stupid and not fit to be a mother! 147 00:17:08,541 --> 00:17:09,974 I'm going home. 148 00:17:10,643 --> 00:17:12,975 Don't be silly! 149 00:17:16,949 --> 00:17:19,179 Don't make a scene! Everyone's looking at us. 150 00:17:21,887 --> 00:17:25,084 Look, I apologize. I'm sorry. 151 00:17:47,213 --> 00:17:51,513 Here we are and he's only interested in the monkeys. 152 00:17:53,185 --> 00:17:56,951 They seem like people. Isn't that why? 153 00:18:02,995 --> 00:18:04,963 He's still too young. 154 00:18:06,065 --> 00:18:09,432 In his picture book elephants are so small. 155 00:18:10,302 --> 00:18:12,361 The real ones are too big. 156 00:18:13,172 --> 00:18:19,270 The dog that bit him was small. He thought it was a friend. 157 00:18:19,912 --> 00:18:25,782 - Dogs are big when they stand up. - Babies don't know that! 158 00:18:29,321 --> 00:18:32,757 His temperature is low. Only about 97 degrees. 159 00:18:33,559 --> 00:18:39,088 - But something's wrong... - I'm so worried.. What'll I do? 160 00:18:39,765 --> 00:18:46,329 He hasn't eaten at all, he can't hold food No fever, but he sleeps. 161 00:18:47,106 --> 00:18:49,165 - Children's dysentery? - D'you think so?! 162 00:18:50,409 --> 00:18:54,505 Were you out yesterday? You must have fed him something bad! 163 00:18:54,880 --> 00:19:00,318 - To the ZOO. We took our own food. - I'll call a doctor. 164 00:19:00,886 --> 00:19:02,410 The apartment clinic, please! 165 00:19:03,622 --> 00:19:08,992 Exceptions occur, but usually there's a fever with diarrhea. 166 00:19:09,929 --> 00:19:13,228 - It's autointoxication. - What's that? 167 00:19:13,632 --> 00:19:16,692 A children's nervous disorder, 168 00:19:17,002 --> 00:19:22,497 It happens to highly-strung or pampered children. 169 00:19:22,908 --> 00:19:27,607 If something new upsets them, they react this way. 170 00:19:28,614 --> 00:19:32,345 - Do they ever die? - No. Never. 171 00:19:33,185 --> 00:19:37,485 It usually happens to older children. He's precocious. 172 00:19:38,958 --> 00:19:41,722 I had it often from age three to six. 173 00:19:48,033 --> 00:19:49,557 How's our Taro? 174 00:19:53,105 --> 00:19:56,404 He scared us. He seems better. 175 00:19:56,642 --> 00:20:03,275 But he was limp when I phoned this morning. I was so worried... 176 00:20:03,382 --> 00:20:06,818 - I'm glad he's well. - Careful! He'll start again! 177 00:20:13,993 --> 00:20:15,255 Potty, Ta-chan ? 178 00:20:16,128 --> 00:20:18,756 - Didn't you take him? - Yes, I did. 179 00:20:19,031 --> 00:20:25,027 - I'm so groggy! - Is there an ant or a bee? 180 00:20:25,871 --> 00:20:26,769 Bee? 181 00:20:50,396 --> 00:20:53,832 Stop playing. Take it off. 182 00:21:15,220 --> 00:21:16,448 Nothing... 183 00:21:16,855 --> 00:21:17,822 None here. 184 00:21:19,091 --> 00:21:23,858 Be still! Hurry, or you'll catch cold! 185 00:21:44,516 --> 00:21:46,450 Let him be. 186 00:21:48,587 --> 00:21:50,817 But, the neighbors... 187 00:22:01,567 --> 00:22:05,333 Hungry? Feed him something. 188 00:22:05,704 --> 00:22:11,301 He had tea and candy. He's begun to hold his food. 189 00:22:12,311 --> 00:22:15,007 The doctor said to feed him. 190 00:22:15,581 --> 00:22:17,378 He's only an assistant. 191 00:22:17,750 --> 00:22:20,810 Don't call him if you don't trust him! 192 00:22:22,421 --> 00:22:23,649 Give him milk. 193 00:22:25,424 --> 00:22:28,086 You shouldn't trust everything he says. 194 00:23:15,708 --> 00:23:16,675 Drink it slowly. 195 00:23:23,716 --> 00:23:29,211 See? It's good for him. Give him a lot. 196 00:23:29,855 --> 00:23:34,053 Foreigners drink a lot as children, so they're big. 197 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,060 Five or six bottles a day? 198 00:23:38,597 --> 00:23:45,059 When you'll be paid as well as foreigners, I'll buy that many. 199 00:23:45,270 --> 00:23:48,831 Go to sleep. Sleep tight and grow up big. 200 00:24:02,254 --> 00:24:05,951 I am not sleepy. I was sick but now I'm fine, 201 00:24:06,091 --> 00:24:10,357 and full of energy. 202 00:24:11,497 --> 00:24:15,126 I slept in the daytime, I'm not sleepy now. 203 00:24:15,134 --> 00:24:17,694 I want to play now. 204 00:24:18,837 --> 00:24:22,170 My parents never catch on. Really! 205 00:24:29,047 --> 00:24:32,448 It's not fair that you sleep! 206 00:24:47,332 --> 00:24:48,424 Very good! 207 00:24:49,668 --> 00:24:52,933 Surprised, the Daruma falls down. 208 00:24:54,339 --> 00:24:56,102 He looks like my boss. 209 00:25:06,585 --> 00:25:08,109 Down with him! Down with him! 210 00:25:31,076 --> 00:25:35,638 Daddy left, saying he was sleepy. 211 00:25:36,281 --> 00:25:41,617 How silly, it's raining. Where does he go each day? 212 00:25:42,154 --> 00:25:46,454 Why doesn 't he work at home, like Mommy does? 213 00:25:47,125 --> 00:25:49,992 Does he go to beat up the bad boss? 214 00:25:50,929 --> 00:25:55,992 He's not big enough. He should drink more milk. 215 00:27:07,506 --> 00:27:11,033 - A child fell! From the second floor! - Whose child? 216 00:27:11,810 --> 00:27:16,008 I don't know! Next apartment! Girl with rampers on! 217 00:27:16,214 --> 00:27:21,880 That's my apartment. It's Kazuko. 218 00:27:22,854 --> 00:27:25,584 Is she dead? Was she taken to the hospital? 219 00:27:25,757 --> 00:27:30,694 A milkman below caught her, not even a scratch! 220 00:27:33,298 --> 00:27:37,132 Wow, wasn't that nice! 221 00:27:37,502 --> 00:27:41,438 When I heard about it, I couldn 't help myself running over. 222 00:27:42,007 --> 00:27:44,032 Ta-chan 's fine. 223 00:27:45,644 --> 00:27:51,048 It wasn't that I don't trust you. I ran without thinking. 224 00:27:55,787 --> 00:27:59,484 I'm sure it's God that caught Kazuko. 225 00:28:00,058 --> 00:28:05,018 - The milkman?! - But, of courde, you can call it luck. 226 00:28:05,130 --> 00:28:08,691 You're right, it's God. 227 00:28:09,167 --> 00:28:12,398 - Wasn't it wonderful? - It really was 228 00:28:19,378 --> 00:28:21,471 We need a nursery... 229 00:28:22,214 --> 00:28:27,208 We have to keep babies in, or watch them all the time. 230 00:28:27,853 --> 00:28:30,219 No freedom for parents; kids are so nervewracking! 231 00:28:31,056 --> 00:28:38,724 Our office says nurseries are for the poor, not for apartment dwellers. 232 00:28:39,531 --> 00:28:43,592 No help there, so we talked about opening one ourselves. 233 00:28:44,503 --> 00:28:45,435 Ourselves?! 234 00:28:46,438 --> 00:28:51,398 A couple of mothers with children. There'll be more now. 235 00:28:51,777 --> 00:28:52,903 Count me in, too! 236 00:28:53,845 --> 00:28:58,475 - He's so small, though... - He's not a baby anymore. 237 00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:07,649 No, before we know it, they're not babies anymore, they're children. 238 00:29:14,833 --> 00:29:16,858 My son has the measles! 239 00:29:17,436 --> 00:29:22,840 He has played with Taro, so I came to tell you and apologize. 240 00:29:22,941 --> 00:29:24,203 Any fever? 241 00:29:24,609 --> 00:29:29,637 High. He won't eat. He'll get shots, so he'll be safe. 242 00:29:29,781 --> 00:29:31,408 At the clinic? 243 00:29:31,817 --> 00:29:35,150 We don't go there, but I think I will. 244 00:29:39,658 --> 00:29:43,059 There, there, all through. Don't cry. 245 00:29:47,199 --> 00:29:50,134 These shots just make it easier. 246 00:29:50,735 --> 00:29:52,635 How light, doctor? 247 00:29:53,305 --> 00:29:56,741 A rash after a few days of low fever. 248 00:29:57,375 --> 00:30:01,971 - He needn't stay to bed. - Atsushi-chan has a 1 20 fever. 249 00:30:02,447 --> 00:30:05,974 - It'll last about four days. - So long?! 250 00:30:07,919 --> 00:30:11,946 - Poor boy! Taro's lucky. - Thank Atsushi. 251 00:30:12,324 --> 00:30:16,260 - Yes, really. - That mother's a fine woman. 252 00:30:17,362 --> 00:30:22,527 She needed courage to admit her son may have given a disease. 253 00:30:23,802 --> 00:30:25,827 She behaved admirably. 254 00:30:29,007 --> 00:30:29,769 Please, come in. 255 00:30:35,547 --> 00:30:39,449 Her brother had the measles last week. Give her a shot, please. 256 00:30:39,618 --> 00:30:40,642 It's of no use. 257 00:30:41,353 --> 00:30:43,287 I'll pay, even if it's expensive. 258 00:30:45,023 --> 00:30:49,460 No, it's too late. She's been exposed for a whole week. 259 00:30:50,095 --> 00:30:53,121 Six days is the limit. 260 00:31:03,542 --> 00:31:06,875 - She's got it. - No, it's only a cold. 261 00:31:07,312 --> 00:31:10,076 Early simptoms are similar. 262 00:31:11,383 --> 00:31:13,078 It's the measles. 263 00:31:13,885 --> 00:31:16,547 Keep her in, so she doesn't spread it. 264 00:31:21,726 --> 00:31:24,923 He's safe. Better catch it. 265 00:31:25,964 --> 00:31:29,832 - On purpose?! - Sots are good for 3 weeks. 266 00:31:30,769 --> 00:31:36,469 If he doesn't catch it, all his pain is for nothing. 267 00:31:39,010 --> 00:31:40,375 Here, you're welcome to it! 268 00:31:43,215 --> 00:31:43,909 Here! 269 00:32:25,991 --> 00:32:28,459 I'm sorry to make you do it. 270 00:32:32,764 --> 00:32:35,232 I'm not much help. 271 00:32:35,767 --> 00:32:40,898 Taro-chan was a baby so recently, yet I can't handle one now. 272 00:32:41,773 --> 00:32:48,042 After seven years, I had to look up things, too. 273 00:32:49,180 --> 00:32:52,616 Toshikazu-chan is in 2nd grade, isn't he? 274 00:32:52,617 --> 00:34:03,477 What cute little feet! 275 00:34:06,391 --> 00:34:09,792 I first saw her through a glass partition 276 00:34:10,962 --> 00:34:12,896 She's a fat little thing. 277 00:34:25,744 --> 00:34:26,711 Just a sec, sis'. 278 00:34:56,808 --> 00:35:02,974 Toshikazu asked me the other day if I used to bathe him too. 279 00:35:03,782 --> 00:35:09,015 ''Babies are bathed every day''; guess what he said? 280 00:35:09,821 --> 00:35:11,345 ''How hard for you, mother!'' 281 00:35:16,361 --> 00:35:21,890 I was really glad I had him when I heard that. 282 00:35:23,868 --> 00:35:25,335 This child is a girl. 283 00:35:25,670 --> 00:35:33,042 So she'll have the same hard times with her babies. 284 00:35:34,279 --> 00:35:40,115 But boys will never know. Yet, Toshikazu understood. 285 00:35:40,919 --> 00:35:45,288 - He must love Emi-chan. - Too much! 286 00:35:45,990 --> 00:35:50,620 His grandmother spoils him, so I was worried. 287 00:35:50,995 --> 00:35:54,123 But he's more reliable now. 288 00:35:54,666 --> 00:35:59,501 Grandmother must be a problem... Excuse me! 289 00:35:59,904 --> 00:36:03,396 My husband's the eldest. I'm resigned to it. 290 00:36:04,442 --> 00:36:07,309 But she really amazes me. 291 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:13,913 I've bathed Emi alone since my return from hospital. 292 00:36:15,787 --> 00:36:21,623 If the baby got hurt, she says she couldn't forgive herself. 293 00:36:23,728 --> 00:36:28,222 She just doesn't want to be bothered with helping me. 294 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:36,429 - After-childbirth care is important. - But she doesn't care! 295 00:36:38,843 --> 00:36:43,075 I'd like a garden like this for Taro. 296 00:36:43,214 --> 00:36:46,706 - I'd gladly change with you. No! 297 00:36:51,789 --> 00:36:57,056 - If she heard that... - She's late. Where did she go? 298 00:36:57,462 --> 00:37:01,398 Buying her two grandchildren things to eat. 299 00:37:09,908 --> 00:37:15,312 - Candy?! - I tried telling her to stop, but I've given up 300 00:37:18,883 --> 00:37:19,872 Wet herself? 301 00:37:23,154 --> 00:37:29,150 She's thirsty. She always want swater after her bath. 302 00:37:29,427 --> 00:37:36,833 - Do you let her?! - A tiny cupf boiled water. She loves it. 303 00:37:51,883 --> 00:37:57,913 It's a wonder you can live in such a vault-like place. 304 00:37:58,456 --> 00:38:01,220 I'd have come for you if I'd have known. 305 00:38:01,492 --> 00:38:05,553 We haven't married since I got married, have we? 306 00:38:06,864 --> 00:38:13,167 I joined the Agricultural Union. We take trips twice a year. 307 00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:19,303 It's easier now. My youngest child is in grade schol now. 308 00:38:19,777 --> 00:38:21,677 Eight children?! 309 00:38:23,348 --> 00:38:30,584 Our women used to be prolific, but I'm the only now. 310 00:38:31,289 --> 00:38:33,951 A shame you only have one child. 311 00:38:38,329 --> 00:38:41,423 I'd like to have another. 312 00:38:41,733 --> 00:38:44,395 Stingy, have ten! 313 00:38:45,103 --> 00:38:49,836 That's impossible for an office worker's family! 314 00:38:51,109 --> 00:38:53,202 It's hard for farmers, too. 315 00:38:54,545 --> 00:39:01,451 When all those kids cried, I felt like killing two or three. 316 00:39:03,154 --> 00:39:11,084 But I can't tell you nice it is to see them grown up now. 317 00:39:11,896 --> 00:39:18,028 I only bore them and fed them. But they've all become fine people. 318 00:39:20,238 --> 00:39:24,106 - That's only natural! - It isn't. 319 00:39:25,009 --> 00:39:28,911 It's a world of rockets and missiles now. 320 00:39:29,514 --> 00:39:31,141 Man can do anything, it seems, 321 00:39:31,582 --> 00:39:37,248 but can he invent a machine to have children? 322 00:39:37,922 --> 00:39:43,622 Only women can bear children Only we can do that. 323 00:39:44,762 --> 00:39:47,026 I never thought of that. 324 00:39:48,199 --> 00:39:50,326 They're truly our treasures. 325 00:39:52,370 --> 00:39:56,500 Three out of school, so it'll be easier soon. 326 00:39:58,342 --> 00:40:00,867 By the way, Chiyo, can you lend me 5,000 yen ? 327 00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:06,810 - 5,000 yen ?! - Life in the country's getting much easier. 328 00:40:07,885 --> 00:40:13,881 I want a refrigerator, but the downpayment is 12,000 yen. 329 00:40:14,625 --> 00:40:19,392 I have 7,000. It's off-season, so they'll make it cheap. 330 00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:24,635 I want the children to have cold drinks. 331 00:40:27,705 --> 00:40:30,936 Give up your trips and buy it. 332 00:40:31,275 --> 00:40:33,300 That's a different story. Not my good times! 333 00:40:33,878 --> 00:40:39,475 No wonder you bore eight children. It's big money! 334 00:40:40,618 --> 00:40:43,587 Just until the end of the year. 335 00:40:44,589 --> 00:40:49,083 I'll return it when the kids get their bonuses. 336 00:40:49,260 --> 00:40:51,694 I don't have an extra 5,000 yen. 337 00:40:52,797 --> 00:40:57,894 When you were a baby, I was like a mother to you! 338 00:40:58,302 --> 00:41:03,365 So I love you the most. You're about the only one I write to. 339 00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:15,114 Forget what I've just said, I'll find another way to buy it. 340 00:41:17,088 --> 00:41:20,057 I didn't come to pick up a fight. 341 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,626 When parents die, sisters drift apart. 342 00:41:28,166 --> 00:41:31,033 Let's try to keep close to each other. 343 00:41:31,869 --> 00:41:35,305 - I must go now. - Stay until Goro returns. 344 00:41:35,773 --> 00:41:38,537 No, I'm with a group. 345 00:41:39,310 --> 00:41:41,778 - Coming again? - I'm not sure. 346 00:42:19,851 --> 00:42:22,445 - Isn't he sweet? - Yes, he is. 347 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:28,854 - Kids really make us forget things. - Looking at him makes me smile. 348 00:42:32,930 --> 00:42:35,125 Has anything happened at the office? 349 00:42:36,701 --> 00:42:37,725 Let's talk. 350 00:42:59,523 --> 00:43:06,361 My brother phoned and I met hm after work. 351 00:43:07,298 --> 00:43:09,027 That's why I got back home late. 352 00:43:09,934 --> 00:43:16,567 - He's been transfered to Osaka. - Osaka?! What about his family? 353 00:43:16,674 --> 00:43:18,869 He'll have to stay for four or five years. 354 00:43:19,610 --> 00:43:23,603 - Are they all moving? - That's the problem. 355 00:43:24,815 --> 00:43:29,650 Mother hates strange places. She's remaining here. 356 00:43:30,187 --> 00:43:32,678 All alone in the house? 357 00:43:34,358 --> 00:43:37,657 He wants us to live with her. 358 00:43:57,548 --> 00:43:59,015 Did you give him an answer? 359 00:44:01,085 --> 00:44:02,609 Not right away. 360 00:44:05,890 --> 00:44:07,414 The tea 's not cold. 361 00:44:07,625 --> 00:44:15,589 The others have gone away. I'm her only son in Tokyo. 362 00:44:17,068 --> 00:44:22,870 It's a demotion, so my brother's upset. I couldn't just refuse. 363 00:44:24,208 --> 00:44:27,302 What do you intend to do? Do you want to move in? 364 00:44:28,179 --> 00:44:28,975 It depends on you. 365 00:44:30,748 --> 00:44:36,812 You're worried about the promise you made to me when we married. 366 00:44:39,857 --> 00:44:41,552 It's all right with me. 367 00:44:42,193 --> 00:44:44,684 - What is? - Living with your mother. 368 00:44:45,596 --> 00:44:48,690 Really?! 369 00:44:50,301 --> 00:44:55,534 Thank you. To tell you the truth, I was worried about leaving her alone. 370 00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:07,378 I think I can do better than Setsuko. 371 00:45:07,651 --> 00:45:12,987 She's some bother. She complained a lot to my brother. 372 00:45:13,290 --> 00:45:16,054 I'll be more open. 373 00:45:16,794 --> 00:45:20,389 Living together, I think it's most important... 374 00:45:21,098 --> 00:45:23,089 .. that we understand each other and learn to give and to take. 375 00:45:24,402 --> 00:45:26,802 My brother will pay for her board. 376 00:45:27,738 --> 00:45:30,935 No rent, it's her house. That'll be a big help. 377 00:45:31,709 --> 00:45:33,768 Handy with an old person around. 378 00:45:36,047 --> 00:45:41,212 As it is, we can't be free until he goes to junior high school. 379 00:45:41,886 --> 00:45:46,414 A house is a better place to raise a child than an apartment. 380 00:45:46,924 --> 00:45:51,827 - This is too small for a larger family. - Larger? 381 00:45:53,831 --> 00:45:55,594 Another baby. 382 00:45:56,500 --> 00:45:59,401 No more babies for me. 383 00:46:02,373 --> 00:46:09,609 - Even if I say I want another one? - More trouble?! 384 00:46:10,181 --> 00:46:13,116 Have it, afterwards... 385 00:46:13,617 --> 00:46:18,486 .. he won't drink milk, drinks too much, sick tummy, a cold, 386 00:46:18,789 --> 00:46:23,920 vaccination, shots, cramps, eczema, 387 00:46:24,428 --> 00:46:26,919 measles, bruises, polio, 388 00:46:27,298 --> 00:46:33,259 earthquake, fire and thunder, all in one! No peace at all! 389 00:46:37,875 --> 00:46:43,836 - What? - You're not at home. I'm the one who has no peace. 390 00:46:44,448 --> 00:46:45,915 That's not so. 391 00:46:46,584 --> 00:46:52,079 If you're upset, I feel it and become upset too. 392 00:46:53,557 --> 00:46:57,220 - You really are selfish. - What if I am? 393 00:46:58,295 --> 00:47:02,891 Afraid to leave your mother alone, you say. 394 00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:07,737 But you want to make her baby-sit, so we can go out?! 395 00:47:08,172 --> 00:47:09,537 You can't say that. 396 00:47:10,407 --> 00:47:14,969 - You hate it here, you want to move out. - I don't! 397 00:47:15,279 --> 00:47:20,376 - Wanting another baby! Stupid! - Yes, I'm stupid! 398 00:47:24,355 --> 00:47:28,155 Potty? Let's get up. 399 00:47:53,684 --> 00:47:58,280 - Good boy, Ta-chan. - Banana moon. 400 00:48:04,495 --> 00:48:05,826 Where? 401 00:48:07,798 --> 00:48:11,234 He's right. It's the moon. 402 00:48:13,571 --> 00:48:15,539 Come here a minute, dear. 403 00:48:22,079 --> 00:48:26,413 - He said: ''banana moon. '' - ''Banana moon''? 404 00:48:28,319 --> 00:48:34,189 - So it is... - Why does he love it so? 405 00:48:34,758 --> 00:48:41,220 Even in daytime, he can find it. It's hard to find then... 406 00:49:52,936 --> 00:49:55,962 They say she's my grandmother. 407 00:49:56,740 --> 00:50:03,009 She loves playing even the simplest games with me. 408 00:50:44,988 --> 00:50:46,888 No, don't pick the flowers! 409 00:50:47,691 --> 00:50:52,685 - They're grandmother's! - Never mind. There're lots of them. 410 00:50:53,030 --> 00:50:56,363 - I'll do it. - You needn't, grandmother. 411 00:50:57,334 --> 00:51:02,533 - Children like pretty things. - He'll throw them away. 412 00:51:03,374 --> 00:51:04,636 Never mind. 413 00:51:06,110 --> 00:51:09,477 He might pick other people's. 414 00:51:09,780 --> 00:51:14,683 Flowers are to look at and they're alive. 415 00:51:15,319 --> 00:51:17,219 It's the first lesson in social morality. 416 00:51:18,088 --> 00:51:24,459 You only want pretty flowers, but Mommy's mad. Isn't it funny? 417 00:51:28,065 --> 00:51:32,195 Tumbled again! Really! 418 00:51:34,104 --> 00:51:35,298 Fall. 419 00:51:35,739 --> 00:51:38,640 You didn't fall, you tumbled. 420 00:51:38,976 --> 00:51:41,069 Can you get up alone? Good boy. 421 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:44,504 What happened? 422 00:51:46,083 --> 00:51:51,248 Please, leave him alone, grandma. He's trying to get up. 423 00:51:51,555 --> 00:51:53,216 Aren't you hurt? 424 00:51:54,158 --> 00:51:58,595 He's dirtied his forehead. Poor thing! There, there. 425 00:52:00,464 --> 00:52:04,867 He's not hurt. It happens all the time. He's used to it. 426 00:52:05,235 --> 00:52:11,140 If he was hurt, he'd cry. We mustn't teaach him to be weak. 427 00:52:11,809 --> 00:52:17,770 Mommy's mad again? Yes, yes, I'm sorry. 428 00:52:24,021 --> 00:52:27,047 Does it hurt? Does it hurt? 429 00:52:27,591 --> 00:52:35,726 Grandma asked me so many times, I began thinking it really hurt. 430 00:52:36,433 --> 00:52:40,096 She used to give me a cracker when I cried. 431 00:52:40,671 --> 00:52:43,469 I love grandma. 432 00:53:01,291 --> 00:53:07,389 He's caught a cold. I'd hate to think I let it happen. 433 00:53:09,700 --> 00:53:11,190 No one said that. 434 00:53:11,635 --> 00:53:18,040 Thin clothes are good to the skin, but he'd wear more in the fall. It's cold 435 00:53:19,309 --> 00:53:27,444 It's his constitution. When seasons change he'll get well. Don't worry. 436 00:53:28,385 --> 00:53:32,583 Chiyo-san says so too, but we must be careful. 437 00:53:33,323 --> 00:53:38,761 Toshikazu coughed like this at first, and then it tuned into asthma. 438 00:53:40,664 --> 00:53:47,570 You fuss too much. He wrote he hasn't had an attack in Osaka. 439 00:53:48,238 --> 00:53:52,971 Does it mean my fussing made him get attack? 440 00:53:53,911 --> 00:53:56,209 That's plain silly! 441 00:53:59,683 --> 00:54:06,851 Poor thing, he coughs, but he can't even see a dcotor. 442 00:54:09,693 --> 00:54:14,892 He has no fever, but he coughs and wheezes. 443 00:54:15,599 --> 00:54:19,535 He plays, but he threw up his milk. 444 00:54:19,770 --> 00:54:23,536 Threw up?! Does he cough like this? 445 00:54:37,754 --> 00:54:40,655 No, it's not that severe. 446 00:54:41,558 --> 00:54:43,753 Not the whoopping cough. 447 00:54:44,761 --> 00:54:47,958 Usually it's the whooping cough when they throw up. 448 00:54:48,932 --> 00:54:49,796 Let me see. 449 00:55:01,979 --> 00:55:02,604 Back. 450 00:55:06,183 --> 00:55:08,276 Leave his shirt on. Just rollit up. 451 00:55:13,223 --> 00:55:19,025 A clogged throat makes him wheeze, asthmatic bronchitis. 452 00:55:19,863 --> 00:55:23,060 - Asthma? - Not an adult's athma. 453 00:55:24,101 --> 00:55:28,538 - I see... - Excessive bronchial secretion. 454 00:55:29,439 --> 00:55:30,997 Will it become asthma? 455 00:55:31,642 --> 00:55:35,305 About one third of the children have the same constitution. 456 00:55:36,380 --> 00:55:39,042 But only one in fifty get it. 457 00:55:40,050 --> 00:55:45,181 It's a sort of nervous disorder. Too much fussing causes it. 458 00:55:46,523 --> 00:55:48,423 Don't worry to much. 459 00:55:49,326 --> 00:55:51,590 He'll be fine by the time he enters school. 460 00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:09,373 Fool! 461 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,213 Don't force him. I'll trick him into taking it. 462 00:56:15,952 --> 00:56:18,614 Don't if he doesn't like it. 463 00:56:19,356 --> 00:56:24,953 A shot've been better. I'll take him tomorrow. 464 00:56:28,298 --> 00:56:33,668 The medicine tastes bad, but it must be taken. 465 00:56:34,805 --> 00:56:37,330 Mix it with sugar. 466 00:56:40,043 --> 00:56:42,136 He drank some, didn't he? 467 00:56:42,379 --> 00:56:47,874 It makes him cough all the more. Please, doctor, a shot. 468 00:56:48,819 --> 00:56:55,349 It's his constitution. Shots won't cure him. 469 00:56:58,261 --> 00:57:00,388 It may only help temporaily. 470 00:57:00,997 --> 00:57:06,401 That's why. Please, make him stop coughing now. 471 00:57:06,570 --> 00:57:11,940 - Shots won't help his cough. - Very well, we'll go elsewhere! 472 00:57:12,409 --> 00:57:17,005 Do that! Shots are all some doctors are good at. 473 00:57:28,358 --> 00:57:30,724 It won't be long now. 474 00:57:31,595 --> 00:57:34,689 I'll buy you a red fire engine. 475 00:57:36,533 --> 00:57:43,166 He coughs in the morning, at night at 2 a. m. and then... 476 00:57:43,507 --> 00:57:45,065 He coughs? 477 00:57:59,055 --> 00:58:00,955 A shot for bronchitis. 478 00:58:24,347 --> 00:58:25,644 Add a glucose shot, too. 479 00:58:26,750 --> 00:58:31,778 What do you mean ''add''? Can 't you hear I'm crying? 480 00:58:32,856 --> 00:58:35,290 We babies put up with anything for a toy. 481 00:58:35,759 --> 00:58:41,755 It's not fair, taking advantage of this. 482 00:58:42,566 --> 00:58:47,026 My parents love and I love them. 483 00:58:47,904 --> 00:58:52,671 But even they make me take nasty medicine. 484 00:58:53,443 --> 00:58:55,911 I don 't trust grown ups. 485 00:59:01,718 --> 00:59:05,711 Listen, I'm really trying... 486 00:59:06,423 --> 00:59:09,654 As hard as I did for my junior high relay race... 487 00:59:10,894 --> 00:59:12,987 I was the winner. 488 00:59:13,763 --> 00:59:19,360 - Mother means well... - Don't tell me that! 489 00:59:20,270 --> 00:59:25,207 A washing machine's faster but she uses the tub. 490 00:59:25,775 --> 00:59:31,805 She says it's cheape and easier on the clothes. 491 00:59:32,415 --> 00:59:38,547 - She hasn't enough to do. Let her. - Gladly, if that was all! 492 00:59:38,989 --> 00:59:43,756 But she keeps saying her back aches! I get fed up! 493 00:59:44,227 --> 00:59:50,598 I have to do everything, before she gets to it. 494 00:59:51,234 --> 00:59:56,763 You never help me. Not even with the bedding. 495 00:59:57,173 --> 01:00:00,165 Mother said to stop doing it. 496 01:00:00,777 --> 01:00:06,773 - Mother did? Why?! - Ssh. Not so loud. She'll hear you. 497 01:00:08,718 --> 01:00:09,616 Why? 498 01:00:18,495 --> 01:00:20,486 A man shouldn't do housework. 499 01:00:21,564 --> 01:00:26,661 I said it was a question of who was free, that was all. 500 01:00:26,803 --> 01:00:27,497 True. 501 01:00:28,305 --> 01:00:33,572 But she says not to, here. Someone might see me. 502 01:00:33,677 --> 01:00:34,575 You see?! 503 01:00:51,962 --> 01:00:57,229 She won't try to understand our ways! 504 01:00:58,435 --> 01:01:01,165 Ta-chan won't mind us anymore. 505 01:01:02,172 --> 01:01:07,576 It's her fault, always interfering. I can't bring him up properly. 506 01:01:08,345 --> 01:01:11,041 Don't blame me if he doesn't turn out well. 507 01:01:12,515 --> 01:01:17,179 Do something, dear, or I'll go out of my mind. 508 01:01:18,688 --> 01:01:24,092 But, I can't get rid of Taro, or mother, can I? 509 01:01:26,896 --> 01:01:31,526 Setsuko-san was lucky to run awy to Osaka. 510 01:01:33,169 --> 01:01:37,037 Don't say that, she's my mother. 511 01:01:39,943 --> 01:01:44,971 But those shots... How many days did she go... 512 01:01:45,548 --> 01:01:48,949 He still coughed, so she gave up. 513 01:01:49,586 --> 01:01:51,520 And then, his cough stopped. 514 01:01:53,089 --> 01:01:55,523 She'll catch on in time. 515 01:01:56,092 --> 01:01:58,686 Such a bother! She offended the doctor. 516 01:01:59,195 --> 01:02:01,595 I had to apologize. 517 01:02:02,999 --> 01:02:07,459 It's funny the way Ta-chan gets sick. 518 01:02:08,438 --> 01:02:14,570 Does he take after you? I was never sick as a child. 519 01:02:14,878 --> 01:02:18,143 - I was, a lot. - It's hereditary! 520 01:02:18,882 --> 01:02:23,717 Stop saying that. Other kids get sick, too. 521 01:02:24,054 --> 01:02:26,420 No, I know it's so. 522 01:02:27,357 --> 01:02:31,487 Look at the way he sleeps. Just like you. 523 01:02:32,362 --> 01:02:33,226 Think so? 524 01:02:41,037 --> 01:02:43,631 Will you buy a TV? 525 01:02:43,940 --> 01:02:47,137 - TV?! - For mother. 526 01:02:47,610 --> 01:02:53,048 Then she won't be a b other anymore. Just the thing to kill time. 527 01:02:53,216 --> 01:02:57,277 I'm not going broke to help her kill time. 528 01:02:57,821 --> 01:03:01,780 - She is your mother, isn't she? - No way to get back at me. 529 01:03:02,459 --> 01:03:06,395 I can't tear Ta-chan away from our neighbor's set. 530 01:03:06,796 --> 01:03:10,391 Cartoons during supper time. 531 01:03:12,702 --> 01:03:14,363 He likes cartoons already? 532 01:03:57,814 --> 01:04:00,282 Stop it! You're making me cough. 533 01:04:02,652 --> 01:04:05,519 I'm busy. Go and play by yourself. 534 01:04:15,598 --> 01:04:18,066 Why're you so naughty? 535 01:04:35,518 --> 01:04:37,383 We're home. 536 01:04:39,689 --> 01:04:40,553 Welcome home. 537 01:04:40,857 --> 01:04:44,520 Why do so any people go to department stores? 538 01:04:45,595 --> 01:04:47,927 I'm so tired... Are you, Chiyo-san ? 539 01:04:48,698 --> 01:04:51,462 Thanks for comng with me. 540 01:04:52,302 --> 01:04:54,065 - A present. - What is it? 541 01:04:54,204 --> 01:04:54,932 Cakes. 542 01:04:55,438 --> 01:04:57,099 - Ta-chan ? - Isn't he here? 543 01:04:58,208 --> 01:04:58,936 Ta-chan ! 544 01:04:59,442 --> 01:05:02,775 - Is he outside? - No, he was playing around here. 545 01:05:03,313 --> 01:05:06,043 - Ta-chan ! - Ta-chan ! 546 01:05:23,633 --> 01:05:26,101 Ta-chan ! Hey, Ta-chan ! 547 01:05:27,637 --> 01:05:28,661 What're you doing? 548 01:05:36,579 --> 01:05:38,547 He's limp. A doctor! 549 01:05:38,715 --> 01:05:39,875 There's no time! 550 01:06:46,115 --> 01:06:46,979 Water. 551 01:06:55,091 --> 01:06:56,388 Won't drink much. 552 01:07:04,667 --> 01:07:05,998 He's sleeping again. 553 01:07:13,776 --> 01:07:16,677 I almost lost my life. 554 01:07:17,246 --> 01:07:19,806 Then the trouble began again. 555 01:07:20,316 --> 01:07:24,946 Grandma and mommy really gave it to daddy. 556 01:07:25,655 --> 01:07:27,418 It doesn 't pay to be a man. 557 01:07:28,124 --> 01:07:32,493 He has to go to work, even if he's scolded... 558 01:07:33,029 --> 01:07:35,793 .. to bring home the bacon. 559 01:07:36,232 --> 01:07:41,101 Goro, you die! How can you apologize to Chiyo-san ? 560 01:07:41,404 --> 01:07:45,135 I said to be careful with plastic bags! 561 01:07:45,608 --> 01:07:46,370 Yes! 562 01:07:47,310 --> 01:07:49,642 The laundry came in it. 563 01:07:51,314 --> 01:07:55,512 I thought I had put everything away. 564 01:07:56,319 --> 01:07:59,652 - You shouldn't bother! - Always like that! 565 01:08:00,089 --> 01:08:07,427 Dying to help, but you won't do anything properly! Look at the result! 566 01:08:07,797 --> 01:08:12,325 Right! If you had put it away, it wouldn't have been on the floor! 567 01:08:13,469 --> 01:08:16,370 Maybe it wasn't the laundry bag. 568 01:08:17,573 --> 01:08:19,598 He may have pulled it out. 569 01:08:19,776 --> 01:08:22,142 We aren't that careless. 570 01:08:22,645 --> 01:08:28,845 All children his age ransack drawers and mess up clothes. 571 01:08:29,652 --> 01:08:33,418 Dangerous things are out of their reach. 572 01:08:33,956 --> 01:08:39,223 - How else d'you think we raise them? - You're right, mother! 573 01:08:39,729 --> 01:08:46,794 You bought a TV set. Don't always watch sporrts. Study! 574 01:08:47,537 --> 01:08:49,869 There're lots of good programs. 575 01:08:50,940 --> 01:08:56,310 Plastic bags are deadly for babies. 576 01:08:56,679 --> 01:09:00,672 A baby doctor said so last week on TV. 577 01:09:06,622 --> 01:09:08,817 I can't watch TV during the day. 578 01:09:09,792 --> 01:09:12,488 A high-brow before marriage! 579 01:09:13,029 --> 01:09:16,692 Now you only read newspapers and magazines. 580 01:09:17,133 --> 01:09:19,260 Papers have useful news. 581 01:09:24,006 --> 01:09:26,839 Nowadays TV has cultural programs. 582 01:09:27,910 --> 01:09:30,276 You'll become an idiot. 583 01:09:53,269 --> 01:09:57,228 Say hello to Ichiro. Tell him I'm well. 584 01:09:57,406 --> 01:09:59,431 - I will. - Take care. 585 01:09:59,709 --> 01:10:02,678 Don't worry. it's only a three day trip. 586 01:10:03,379 --> 01:10:06,246 In three days there can be a train wreck. 587 01:10:09,151 --> 01:10:10,379 What present do you want? 588 01:10:12,989 --> 01:10:14,650 A boat. 589 01:10:15,424 --> 01:10:17,551 A boat? What kind of boat? 590 01:10:18,394 --> 01:10:23,764 - Shin has a yacht. A wooden one - Water too? 591 01:10:25,801 --> 01:10:27,735 That's a hard one. 592 01:10:28,004 --> 01:10:30,905 - What? - Water. 593 01:10:31,307 --> 01:10:35,403 That's right. Boats float on water. 594 01:10:35,745 --> 01:10:37,713 For grandma too. 595 01:10:40,650 --> 01:10:43,118 He says a present for grandma too. 596 01:10:45,187 --> 01:10:48,486 You make me so happy, Ta-chan . 597 01:10:53,229 --> 01:10:56,096 All right! All right! I'll buy presents for everyone. 598 01:11:13,916 --> 01:11:15,178 Another death. 599 01:11:16,352 --> 01:11:22,291 A speeding motocyclist crashed into a pole. Killed instantly. 600 01:11:23,159 --> 01:11:24,683 Only 21. 601 01:11:25,761 --> 01:11:31,563 No feelings at all for his parents who raised him. 602 01:11:32,702 --> 01:11:35,796 Good riddance! Serves him right! 603 01:11:36,505 --> 01:11:41,738 Boys who think they grew up alone can go ahead and die! 604 01:11:42,778 --> 01:11:45,872 Japan's overpopulated, isn't it, Chiyo-san ? 605 01:11:48,250 --> 01:11:48,978 You're right. 606 01:11:49,285 --> 01:11:53,779 The fewer useless people, the better. 607 01:12:24,453 --> 01:12:28,719 Were we too noisy for Taro to take his nap? 608 01:12:28,891 --> 01:12:29,949 He is sound asleep. 609 01:12:43,406 --> 01:12:49,276 Legs apart. Exactly like Goro when he was small. 610 01:13:00,556 --> 01:13:03,821 - I'll clean up. - Yes, please. 611 01:13:33,589 --> 01:13:36,319 Oh the tray, I forgot it. 612 01:13:37,893 --> 01:13:40,259 Anything the matter? 613 01:13:47,002 --> 01:13:47,696 Mother! 614 01:13:49,805 --> 01:13:50,772 Mother! 615 01:15:52,394 --> 01:15:55,022 - What's the matter? - I thought it was her. 616 01:15:56,332 --> 01:15:57,162 Mother? 617 01:16:03,939 --> 01:16:06,237 You were with Ta-chan . 618 01:16:06,775 --> 01:16:10,871 I thought no one was here. Don't scare me. 619 01:16:11,046 --> 01:16:12,707 - Where'd you go? - To the bathroom. 620 01:16:12,948 --> 01:16:15,382 - Oh, there... Here. - What? 621 01:16:16,385 --> 01:16:17,113 It rolled. 622 01:16:17,486 --> 01:16:19,215 - Why? - I don't know. 623 01:16:19,722 --> 01:16:21,451 When I got up, I guess. 624 01:16:21,457 --> 01:16:36,964 Even after a month, it seems strange without mother. 625 01:16:40,976 --> 01:16:47,347 - It's lonely. Only 21 / 2 instead of 31 / 2. - Half? 626 01:16:48,317 --> 01:16:51,445 - Ta-chan . - He's only half? 627 01:16:55,024 --> 01:16:59,757 Anyway, mother went peacefully. That's a comfort. 628 01:17:01,163 --> 01:17:08,035 She chatted, reached for a tray and that was the end. 629 01:17:10,005 --> 01:17:15,375 - I feel so responsible. - Because I was away? 630 01:17:16,178 --> 01:17:19,944 I was in the same house, but I didn't see her go. 631 01:17:21,183 --> 01:17:22,309 When I came, she... 632 01:17:27,456 --> 01:17:30,653 Never mind. Don't cry again. 633 01:17:37,466 --> 01:17:41,664 Didn't you know she had high blood pressure? 634 01:17:42,504 --> 01:17:43,937 Never knew it. 635 01:17:45,507 --> 01:17:49,568 - She didn't, either? - She seemed well... 636 01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:57,512 - We should've been careful. - But she's dead. 637 01:17:58,654 --> 01:18:00,349 Don't talk that way! 638 01:18:11,700 --> 01:18:12,667 What is it? 639 01:18:13,702 --> 01:18:14,498 Potty? 640 01:18:15,304 --> 01:18:17,238 Grandmother? 641 01:18:19,641 --> 01:18:20,972 She's half asleep. 642 01:18:21,877 --> 01:18:23,242 Come. 643 01:18:32,488 --> 01:18:36,117 She went far away on a trip. 644 01:18:37,326 --> 01:18:43,026 But she's watching to see if you're a good boy. 645 01:18:44,099 --> 01:18:46,431 - Present. - Present? 646 01:18:48,370 --> 01:18:50,838 When you're bigger, she'll return with lots of presents. 647 01:18:55,577 --> 01:18:57,169 Where'd you come from? 648 01:18:57,679 --> 01:18:58,611 Home. 649 01:19:00,883 --> 01:19:06,913 Home's where you are. Before you were born? 650 01:19:08,257 --> 01:19:10,725 - Silly. - But... 651 01:19:13,695 --> 01:19:17,756 What was it like before you were born? 652 01:19:18,901 --> 01:19:22,029 A pretty place with flowers. 653 01:19:23,238 --> 01:19:26,401 - Dark? Scarry? - It wasn't, was it? 654 01:19:28,077 --> 01:19:29,635 God was there? 655 01:19:30,779 --> 01:19:31,939 Buddha? 656 01:19:32,881 --> 01:19:34,007 I don't know. 657 01:19:41,790 --> 01:19:46,022 - You go back when you die? - I wonder... 658 01:19:47,796 --> 01:19:51,459 It'd be nice, if someone knew... 659 01:19:52,468 --> 01:19:57,064 Everyone fogets when he's born. What a shame... 660 01:19:57,506 --> 01:19:58,700 Potty. 661 01:20:54,930 --> 01:21:01,699 The day before she died, she read about a motorcycle accident. 662 01:21:03,438 --> 01:21:08,637 She was angry; she said: ''The more who died, the better. '' 663 01:21:09,478 --> 01:21:11,708 She followed her own advice? 664 01:21:12,181 --> 01:21:13,205 Nonsense! 665 01:21:21,723 --> 01:21:25,625 - She'd improved lately. - True. 666 01:21:27,396 --> 01:21:33,096 The TV said old people should have interesting things to do. 667 01:21:36,205 --> 01:21:43,805 That day, she got her friends together to take up dyeing. 668 01:21:44,046 --> 01:21:47,607 They were going to find a teacher. 669 01:21:48,617 --> 01:21:50,881 She said she'd give me what she made first! 670 01:21:52,387 --> 01:21:55,845 That she'd give it to me! 671 01:22:01,697 --> 01:22:06,828 She wasn't bad at all! She was really nice. 672 01:22:20,182 --> 01:22:22,912 I'm really glad to hear you say that. 673 01:22:25,487 --> 01:22:30,789 Since we've moved here, I've been watching her and Ta-chan . 674 01:22:31,960 --> 01:22:36,260 For the first time, I understood family ties. 675 01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:44,799 From parents, to children, to grandchildren. 676 01:22:46,675 --> 01:22:48,233 That's why they have meaning. 677 01:22:51,947 --> 01:22:55,713 A sad world it'd be, if there were no children. 678 01:23:18,540 --> 01:23:20,531 You've really become an adult. 679 01:23:21,376 --> 01:23:24,573 Me? Have I? 680 01:23:26,181 --> 01:23:30,379 Don't you feel you'd like another child? 681 01:23:31,586 --> 01:23:33,281 If it happens... 682 01:23:39,094 --> 01:23:43,497 Is it for a baby? Are we having another one? 683 01:23:44,032 --> 01:23:46,830 Hardly... It's a sweater for Ta-chan . 684 01:24:00,582 --> 01:24:03,517 Come here, Ta-chan . It's your cake. 685 01:24:15,197 --> 01:24:17,028 Moon. 686 01:24:33,215 --> 01:24:38,517 - Moon again. - It's not a banana moon. 687 01:24:38,653 --> 01:24:41,451 - Grandmother. - Where?! 688 01:24:44,159 --> 01:24:49,563 Remember? You said she went far away on a trip. 689 01:24:50,298 --> 01:24:52,562 He might think she's there. 690 01:24:52,667 --> 01:24:56,694 She went on a rocket? Would he know that! 691 01:24:57,639 --> 01:24:59,231 He wouldn't know that... 692 01:25:00,375 --> 01:25:04,334 You said she'd know, if he was a good boy. 693 01:25:06,681 --> 01:25:10,947 He thinks she can see him from the moon. 694 01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:15,980 How would he know that?! Silly woman! 695 01:25:18,126 --> 01:25:21,118 Still, he might just know... 696 01:25:29,404 --> 01:25:30,666 Turn off the light. 697 01:25:43,118 --> 01:25:47,851 I'm 2 years old, so I have 2 candles on my cake. 698 01:25:48,356 --> 01:25:51,120 Grandmother would have had lots. 699 01:25:51,893 --> 01:25:56,660 They'd have been brighter than the moon. 700 01:25:57,466 --> 01:26:00,799 Too many to put on this cake. 701 01:26:13,615 --> 01:26:15,276 Blow them out. 702 01:26:48,984 --> 01:26:52,784 I am two years old. My name is Taro. 703 01:26:53,522 --> 01:26:55,513 This is my father. 704 01:26:56,258 --> 01:26:58,283 This is my mother. 705 01:26:59,528 --> 01:27:01,723 I used to be a baby. 706 01:27:02,931 --> 01:27:04,660 I am big now! 707 01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:08,369 I was born from my mother. 708 01:27:09,204 --> 01:27:12,605 I am growing very fast. 709 01:27:13,742 --> 01:27:15,869 I will become a man. 710 01:27:24,252 --> 01:27:28,450 - THE END -