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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,191 --> 00:00:08,410 SHŌCHIKU FILMS 2 00:00:10,324 --> 00:00:16,946 KOTO 3 00:00:21,774 --> 00:00:25,925 From the novel by Yasunari KAWABATA 4 00:00:28,050 --> 00:00:33,073 Screenplay: Toshihide GONDO Executive Producer: Ryôtarô KUWATA 5 00:00:33,855 --> 00:00:38,122 Music: Tôru TAKEMITSU Art Direction: Junichi ÔSUMI Cinematography: Tôichirô NARUSHIMA 6 00:00:40,763 --> 00:00:45,738 Shigetoshi ROKUKAWA Asst. Director: Shouji TAMBA Film Editor: Hisashi SAGARA Lighting: Takeharu SANO Recording: Katahiro FUKUYASU Sound Director: Kenyo FUKUYASU 7 00:01:05,773 --> 00:01:07,357 STARRING 8 00:01:08,725 --> 00:01:12,334 Shima IWASHITA (dual roles) 9 00:01:13,608 --> 00:01:17,925 Hiroyuki NAGATO Tamotsu HAYAKAWA Teruo YOSHIDA 10 00:01:20,112 --> 00:01:24,643 Eijirou TONO Yoshiko NAKAMURA Michio TAMAKI Seiji MIYAGUCHI 11 00:01:25,971 --> 00:01:29,622 Chieko NANIWA Haruo TANAKA Kakuko CHINO Eijirô YANAGI 12 00:01:30,777 --> 00:01:34,910 Shigeru SANO Isao IMAMURA Sôshirô MATSUMOTO Shinpachi Kura Shigekazu TAKAOKA Kenji NISHIMIYA Kôzô YAMAMURA 13 00:01:36,591 --> 00:01:39,606 Keiko TANIGUCHI Tozuki SUMI Kazue TACHIBANA Kazue MITA Junko HARA Fusako SUZUKI Katsuyo KOYAMA Haruka SHIBUYA 14 00:01:42,755 --> 00:01:47,161 Directed by Noboru NAKAMURA 15 00:01:50,738 --> 00:01:54,011 The 'machiya' of Nakagyo were burnt down... ( Kyoto style traditional narrow houses. ) 16 00:01:54,066 --> 00:01:58,136 in the 'Teppo' and 'Dondoin' revolts before the Meiji revolution. ( Uprisings that caused large fires. ) 17 00:01:59,245 --> 00:02:00,331 Therefore... 18 00:02:00,433 --> 00:02:04,276 even though there are many traditional Kyoto long-houses here... 19 00:02:04,377 --> 00:02:07,802 they are in fact no more than a century old. 20 00:02:09,327 --> 00:02:14,957 The Kyoto kimono shop of Sadatakijiro didn't excape the fires either. 21 00:02:16,114 --> 00:02:21,303 Only the earthen walled storage shed survived unscathed. 22 00:02:32,260 --> 00:02:34,432 They blossomed this year too. 23 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,916 A violet blooming above... one blooming below... 24 00:02:39,010 --> 00:02:41,525 have they ever met? 25 00:02:42,452 --> 00:02:45,603 Are they aware, each of the other? 26 00:03:03,715 --> 00:03:06,324 Here is this year's new design. 27 00:03:10,091 --> 00:03:14,862 Don't you have something more alive, so brighter it jumps out at you! 28 00:03:15,052 --> 00:03:19,104 That's just it. We don't do that sort of thing. 29 00:03:19,171 --> 00:03:20,334 These days... 30 00:03:20,506 --> 00:03:24,465 the woman living in these "long houses"... do like this... like this... 31 00:03:24,647 --> 00:03:25,602 Exactly so!! 32 00:03:25,733 --> 00:03:28,022 Can't you keep them quiet? - Yes. 33 00:03:28,217 --> 00:03:29,615 It's an Osaka customer. 34 00:03:29,702 --> 00:03:32,502 Let them buy elsewhere. There's lots of other wholesalers. 35 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,569 They're old customers. 36 00:03:34,678 --> 00:03:36,513 'Kimono' cloth is judged by sight... ( Traditional robe. ) 37 00:03:36,584 --> 00:03:39,745 A purchaser can tell at a glance. No need for babble. 38 00:03:39,823 --> 00:03:41,770 Although much of our stuff is cheap. 39 00:03:41,817 --> 00:03:43,499 What are you saying? 40 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:46,825 You shouldn't take it out on him. 41 00:03:47,140 --> 00:03:50,700 That's all. Carry on. - Yes. 42 00:03:52,134 --> 00:03:54,499 My goodness...! 43 00:04:03,619 --> 00:04:04,939 Father... 44 00:04:05,330 --> 00:04:10,322 The persian cloth hanging here... how many 'obis' could you make from it? ( A kimono's waist sash. ) 45 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:12,681 It's too good to use for bags... 46 00:04:12,767 --> 00:04:16,093 and too big to cut for tea wrappers. 47 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:28,637 Here you go... this'll make an 'obi' for you. 48 00:04:28,739 --> 00:04:31,784 Oh no, father... - It's fine, it's fine. 49 00:04:31,938 --> 00:04:35,405 If you... wear an 'obi' from this Persian print... 50 00:04:35,524 --> 00:04:40,060 it might give me... new design ideas for something original. 51 00:04:40,461 --> 00:04:43,594 Let's be bold, try something classic. 52 00:04:47,067 --> 00:04:50,861 Father... why don't you work somewhere quieter. 53 00:04:50,924 --> 00:04:52,761 Why not rent a small room at a temple? 54 00:04:52,794 --> 00:04:55,307 No need to hide away at a temple. 55 00:04:55,354 --> 00:04:58,171 When the shop master has to create new designs... 56 00:04:58,226 --> 00:05:00,914 the business is surely failing. 57 00:05:02,781 --> 00:05:05,606 Miss... a call for you... Mr. Mizuki. 58 00:05:05,742 --> 00:05:08,007 Oh... thank you. 59 00:05:12,556 --> 00:05:13,916 Hello. 60 00:05:14,244 --> 00:05:15,337 Shinichi-san... 61 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:18,079 Wanna go see the blooms at Heyan shrine now. 62 00:05:18,211 --> 00:05:21,014 Right now? - Ya. 63 00:05:21,092 --> 00:05:23,725 The weather could change by tomorrow. 64 00:05:23,811 --> 00:05:27,100 I'll wait for you under the tree in the garden. 65 00:05:27,202 --> 00:05:30,078 Even alone, I never tire of looking at those blossoms. 66 00:05:30,165 --> 00:05:33,790 Then why don't you go see them by yourself? 67 00:05:33,836 --> 00:05:37,502 Still... one evening shower... don't cry to me, if they're gone. 68 00:05:37,573 --> 00:05:39,624 Fallen blossoms still have a charm. 69 00:05:39,781 --> 00:05:42,855 What's charming about flowers muddied in the rain? 70 00:05:42,957 --> 00:05:45,075 They're fallen, you know. 71 00:05:45,169 --> 00:05:46,278 You're being difficult. 72 00:05:46,325 --> 00:05:47,802 Who is?? 73 00:05:48,593 --> 00:05:51,588 OTEMON ( OTE GATE ) 74 00:05:51,815 --> 00:05:55,627 The Heyan Shrine was built in Meiji 28 ( 1895 ) 75 00:05:55,776 --> 00:05:58,955 for the Kamu Emporer who had made his capital here 76 00:05:59,041 --> 00:06:01,752 a thousand years before. 77 00:06:01,892 --> 00:06:04,623 Thus the main building is not so old. 78 00:06:05,222 --> 00:06:07,714 However, Ishin gate and the front shrine... 79 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:12,723 are copied from Ote gate and the Daimoku Hall in the old capital. 80 00:06:13,206 --> 00:06:17,993 Ukon's wild oranges and Sakon's cherry trees bloom here. 81 00:06:24,580 --> 00:06:25,486 Chieko-san... 82 00:06:25,626 --> 00:06:27,938 Sleeping like this, looks so unseemly. 83 00:06:28,001 --> 00:06:30,072 People will stare at you. 84 00:06:30,150 --> 00:06:33,944 I wasn't sleeping. I knew when you came. 85 00:06:34,069 --> 00:06:37,007 You're terrible! Were you just pretending? 86 00:06:37,093 --> 00:06:40,390 I was thinking what a lucky young lady this is. 87 00:06:40,485 --> 00:06:43,930 Me...? I look lucky. 88 00:06:51,367 --> 00:06:53,408 Chieko... 89 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:56,212 Chieko... 90 00:06:56,243 --> 00:06:57,446 Masako. 91 00:06:57,508 --> 00:07:00,828 I need your help for a bit. I'm all worn out. 92 00:07:00,898 --> 00:07:02,682 I'm supposed to help the Tea Master. 93 00:07:02,783 --> 00:07:04,720 This kimono would only do for bringing water. 94 00:07:04,830 --> 00:07:07,783 For bringing water's fine... it's only serving. 95 00:07:08,338 --> 00:07:10,689 I'm with someone. 96 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:15,322 Fiance? - No. 97 00:07:15,431 --> 00:07:18,139 Boyfriend? - Uh uh. 98 00:07:25,324 --> 00:07:28,105 A Tea Ceremony friend. Isn't she beautiful. 99 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:29,949 A rather ordinary beauty. 100 00:07:30,042 --> 00:07:32,199 She might hear you. 101 00:07:53,399 --> 00:07:56,055 I wanted to carry you across here on my back. 102 00:07:56,207 --> 00:07:58,930 Those who saw... would be impressed. 103 00:08:03,152 --> 00:08:06,969 The composition of these stepping stones is abstract, right? 104 00:08:07,156 --> 00:08:10,620 Don't all Japanese gardens use abstract designs. 105 00:08:11,101 --> 00:08:13,937 Like Daigo temple, and the moss on its cedar tree. 106 00:08:14,069 --> 00:08:18,819 Abstract, abstract... get's a bit too much. At least for me. 107 00:08:23,402 --> 00:08:25,479 Would you like some? 108 00:08:26,481 --> 00:08:28,817 What are you thinking? 109 00:08:29,097 --> 00:08:31,643 Well... what do you think? 110 00:08:31,832 --> 00:08:34,571 I'm sitting next to a lucky young lady. 111 00:08:35,112 --> 00:08:37,247 I'm lucky? 112 00:08:41,182 --> 00:08:44,074 I think I'd like to go to Kiyomizu temple. 113 00:08:44,567 --> 00:08:46,602 Kiyomizu temple? 114 00:08:48,881 --> 00:08:52,998 I wanted... to see the sunset over Kyoto from here... 115 00:08:54,064 --> 00:08:57,392 to see it over the skyline of the western mountains. 116 00:08:57,563 --> 00:08:58,906 Chieko... 117 00:09:00,356 --> 00:09:03,918 Sinichi... I was an abandoned child. 118 00:09:04,059 --> 00:09:07,105 Abandonded? - Yes. I'm an orphan. 119 00:09:07,258 --> 00:09:11,101 I was left by the shopfront's slat doors... orphaned. 120 00:09:11,461 --> 00:09:14,406 What are you saying? - Don't touch. I'm an orphan. ( Orphan = low status, bad luck. ) 121 00:09:14,414 --> 00:09:16,773 Is there proof you're an orphan? ( Orphan = low status, bad luck. ) 122 00:09:17,812 --> 00:09:21,583 The proof is... our old ochre slat doors. 123 00:09:28,396 --> 00:09:31,474 Those old doors are inside me. 124 00:09:32,286 --> 00:09:35,608 About the time I entered junior highschool... 125 00:09:35,723 --> 00:09:37,844 Mother called me and said... 126 00:09:37,957 --> 00:09:41,027 "you are not my biological daughter." 127 00:09:41,262 --> 00:09:45,684 "I took a lovely baby and ran off with it." 128 00:09:46,825 --> 00:09:49,127 Do you know... your real parents? 129 00:09:49,348 --> 00:09:54,349 The way my present parents love me... I no longer feel a need to know. 130 00:09:54,529 --> 00:09:56,294 Knowing you were an orphan... 131 00:09:56,449 --> 00:10:01,472 were you lonely... or sad? - No... not in the least. 132 00:10:01,889 --> 00:10:04,380 When I said I wanted to go to university... 133 00:10:04,568 --> 00:10:08,325 Father said it would only detract from taking over a traditional shop. 134 00:10:08,411 --> 00:10:11,349 Better to stay and observe closely. 135 00:10:11,999 --> 00:10:16,167 That was the only time I felt sad... a little. 136 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:21,216 And Chieko... always obeys her parents? 137 00:10:21,395 --> 00:10:24,168 Yes... I'm very obedient. 138 00:10:24,387 --> 00:10:26,004 About marriage too? 139 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:28,824 Yes... I expect so. 140 00:10:29,386 --> 00:10:32,124 Don't you have your own feelings? 141 00:10:32,939 --> 00:10:35,429 I have many and they trouble me, only... 142 00:10:35,515 --> 00:10:37,921 Only you bury them... you kill them? 143 00:10:37,976 --> 00:10:40,970 No... I don't kill them. 144 00:10:41,782 --> 00:10:44,517 You might as well be talking in riddles. 145 00:10:45,494 --> 00:10:48,321 I want to see this enigmatic orphan's face. 146 00:10:48,666 --> 00:10:51,079 It's getting too dark. 147 00:10:54,174 --> 00:10:56,494 How frightening it is. 148 00:11:19,483 --> 00:11:21,153 Father... 149 00:11:21,272 --> 00:11:23,250 Oh... good you've come. 150 00:11:23,405 --> 00:11:27,287 Studying caligraphy? - Ahh, never too late to learn. ( Still a beginner at sixty. ) 151 00:11:27,412 --> 00:11:30,137 Though the fluid lines of Fujiwara's brush style... 152 00:11:30,196 --> 00:11:33,285 can't be said to be uninteresting for design. 153 00:11:33,751 --> 00:11:36,633 Old age is sure a pain. My hand shakes. 154 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,430 Couldn't you write bigger? 155 00:11:38,508 --> 00:11:40,906 But this is big for me. 156 00:11:41,010 --> 00:11:43,438 Well... come inside. 157 00:11:47,516 --> 00:11:50,052 It's quiet here, no? 158 00:11:57,311 --> 00:12:00,006 Already the bamboos are turning. ( Lit. - Already it's bamboo autumn. ) 159 00:12:00,115 --> 00:12:04,149 The mud wall's crumbling and losing its colour. 160 00:12:04,608 --> 00:12:07,318 A lot like me. 161 00:12:08,959 --> 00:12:12,430 Bamboo's autumn. ( When bamboo turns colour in late spring. ) 162 00:12:13,662 --> 00:12:15,912 The cherry blossoms along the shady path...? 163 00:12:16,045 --> 00:12:19,332 Fallen blossoms all around... floating on the pond too. 164 00:12:19,404 --> 00:12:23,245 In the fresh tree growth on the hill... a few cherry blossoms remain. 165 00:12:23,353 --> 00:12:25,719 Seen from a little distance while passing... 166 00:12:25,790 --> 00:12:28,868 it's lovely too, no? - Yes. 167 00:12:29,258 --> 00:12:33,235 Father... I bought you a Paul Klee catalogue. 168 00:12:33,275 --> 00:12:38,439 In here's Morika's boiled tofu. Like some? - Oh, thank you. 169 00:12:40,754 --> 00:12:45,134 I'm glad for the Morika tofu... but even more that you're here. 170 00:12:45,229 --> 00:12:48,494 Stay till evening... it'll relax your old man's brain. 171 00:12:48,603 --> 00:12:50,416 I'll make some good designs. 172 00:12:50,494 --> 00:12:55,673 Give me a just a few minutes. I'll make the tofu ready. 173 00:13:48,351 --> 00:13:50,882 Sorry to keep you waiting. - Okay. 174 00:14:18,984 --> 00:14:22,907 Will you have some with me? - Yes... thank you. 175 00:14:23,206 --> 00:14:25,972 This obi... how is it for young people? 176 00:14:26,081 --> 00:14:28,116 For me... I like it. 177 00:14:28,206 --> 00:14:30,562 Also your kimono... is plain. 178 00:14:30,648 --> 00:14:33,993 Chieko, you always wear my designs. 179 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,850 You're the only one who wears them... 180 00:14:36,923 --> 00:14:38,680 the ones that don't sell well. 181 00:14:38,774 --> 00:14:40,836 I wear them because I like them. 182 00:14:40,962 --> 00:14:43,037 So it's fine. - Right. 183 00:14:43,170 --> 00:14:46,381 A young woman wearing a subtle desing... is nothing bad. 184 00:14:46,514 --> 00:14:49,555 Those who notice such things appreciate them. 185 00:14:49,687 --> 00:14:51,655 You don't have to wear only what I design. 186 00:14:51,734 --> 00:14:53,546 You shouldn't feel obliged. 187 00:14:53,633 --> 00:14:56,890 Obliged... I don't do it as an obligation. 188 00:14:56,966 --> 00:14:58,973 If you wear more decorative designs... 189 00:14:59,036 --> 00:15:00,622 people will think you've got a lover. 190 00:15:00,724 --> 00:15:02,302 Oh no... 191 00:15:07,175 --> 00:15:08,982 Those prayer beads...? 192 00:15:10,436 --> 00:15:11,943 Oh... those ones. 193 00:15:12,154 --> 00:15:15,210 I kept asking the nun here until she gave me them. 194 00:15:15,312 --> 00:15:18,048 Do you use them father... when you pray? 195 00:15:18,103 --> 00:15:22,305 In todays world... it's more like a mascot. 196 00:15:23,226 --> 00:15:27,735 There are times I feel like breaking them between my teeth. 197 00:15:28,158 --> 00:15:29,829 Aren't they dirty though. 198 00:15:29,987 --> 00:15:32,313 They've been handled for years, so they must be. 199 00:15:32,399 --> 00:15:33,844 Why say that? 200 00:15:33,994 --> 00:15:38,721 It attests to the faith of the nuns who've used them for generations. 201 00:15:45,683 --> 00:15:52,143 ADASHINO NEMBUTSU JI 202 00:15:57,054 --> 00:15:58,586 What's happening there? 203 00:15:58,773 --> 00:16:02,686 This area doesn't usually attract tourist buses. 204 00:16:23,747 --> 00:16:27,082 That didn't sound very good. It's more difficult than I thought. 205 00:16:27,114 --> 00:16:29,320 It's a question of breath. 206 00:16:45,434 --> 00:16:47,004 Father... 207 00:16:47,356 --> 00:16:50,980 I'm an orphan, aren't I? - That's completely wrong. 208 00:16:51,107 --> 00:16:53,467 I've told you about this all before. 209 00:16:53,592 --> 00:16:57,341 When your mother and I viewed the night blossoms in Gion... 210 00:16:57,904 --> 00:17:00,857 Gion's night cherry blossoms... - That's right. 211 00:17:01,052 --> 00:17:02,770 On a chair under the cherry tree... 212 00:17:02,841 --> 00:17:05,638 a very lovely baby lay there quietly. 213 00:17:05,809 --> 00:17:08,953 She smiled at us like a lovely flower. 214 00:17:09,075 --> 00:17:12,403 Your mother instantly picked her up and held her close. 215 00:17:12,561 --> 00:17:17,003 She looked directly at me... "Dear, lets take it and run away," she said. 216 00:17:17,212 --> 00:17:19,415 Sure, let's do it. 217 00:17:19,696 --> 00:17:21,837 After that it's all hazy. 218 00:17:21,954 --> 00:17:24,992 We were in front of the Hirano shop in Inubo... 219 00:17:25,118 --> 00:17:28,256 I think we caught a taxi from there. 220 00:17:28,709 --> 00:17:33,736 The parents likely... left the baby for just a few moments. 221 00:17:34,124 --> 00:17:37,350 You have been our daughter since that night. 222 00:17:37,463 --> 00:17:40,233 Twenty years have passed now. 223 00:17:43,549 --> 00:17:46,952 Was it a good thing for you... or bad... 224 00:17:47,054 --> 00:17:50,475 Even if it was good, I always feel guilty. 225 00:17:50,616 --> 00:17:53,004 Your mother feels the same. 226 00:17:54,209 --> 00:17:55,513 It was good. 227 00:17:55,644 --> 00:17:58,232 I think what you did was good. 228 00:18:40,056 --> 00:18:43,879 Flowers for sale... 229 00:18:45,048 --> 00:18:48,399 Flowers for sale... 230 00:18:48,581 --> 00:18:50,421 Flowers for the alter? 231 00:18:50,511 --> 00:18:52,604 Yes, thank you. 232 00:18:57,455 --> 00:18:58,501 Ah, welcome. 233 00:18:58,572 --> 00:19:01,438 I'm back now. - Welcome back. 234 00:19:16,245 --> 00:19:17,550 I'm home. 235 00:19:17,730 --> 00:19:21,182 Welcome back. How's father getting on? 236 00:19:21,276 --> 00:19:22,628 That's just it... 237 00:19:22,761 --> 00:19:24,839 He was studying caligraphy. 238 00:19:24,956 --> 00:19:26,762 Caligraphy? 239 00:19:27,878 --> 00:19:31,485 Mastering such a skill calms his mind. 240 00:19:32,321 --> 00:19:33,854 Our business... 241 00:19:33,995 --> 00:19:37,854 doesn't rely at all on father creating original designs. 242 00:19:38,073 --> 00:19:41,698 We can as easily sell designs from other workshops. 243 00:19:42,229 --> 00:19:45,019 But then father is... 244 00:19:49,628 --> 00:19:52,924 They're closing up without even waiting for closing time. 245 00:19:53,026 --> 00:19:55,815 Now it's a company, not like before. 246 00:19:55,964 --> 00:19:59,515 Have our household workers become just company employees? 247 00:20:01,225 --> 00:20:03,990 It's a bit early, but I've closed up. 248 00:20:04,318 --> 00:20:05,350 Thank you. 249 00:20:05,435 --> 00:20:08,275 Tonight there's a union meeting. We're going just now. 250 00:20:08,346 --> 00:20:09,869 You've done well. 251 00:20:09,940 --> 00:20:10,832 We're leaving now. 252 00:20:10,936 --> 00:20:14,184 Good night, madam. - Thanks you. Good night. 253 00:20:14,770 --> 00:20:16,762 Thank you. 254 00:20:32,126 --> 00:20:33,887 Mother... 255 00:20:34,173 --> 00:20:35,743 What? 256 00:20:38,172 --> 00:20:40,900 Mother, in your whole life... 257 00:20:40,989 --> 00:20:45,039 what was your most moving experience, would you say? 258 00:20:46,229 --> 00:20:47,533 That would be... 259 00:20:47,705 --> 00:20:50,588 when I married your father, and... 260 00:20:51,198 --> 00:20:53,455 then when your father and I... 261 00:20:53,729 --> 00:20:57,634 ran off together with the lovely baby Chieko. 262 00:20:57,976 --> 00:21:01,718 At the bank of the Kamo river... we took you away. 263 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,185 At the bank of the Kamo river...? 264 00:21:04,396 --> 00:21:06,802 That was twenty years ago now. 265 00:21:06,972 --> 00:21:10,130 Yet when I remember it my heart still races. 266 00:21:11,247 --> 00:21:13,581 In a human being's life... 267 00:21:14,066 --> 00:21:17,988 we all do something terrible once or twice, no? 268 00:21:18,265 --> 00:21:23,724 To take someone's baby is a more serious sin than stealing money. 269 00:21:24,195 --> 00:21:27,583 Even worse perhaps than killing. 270 00:21:28,812 --> 00:21:33,116 Father and I, we have resigned ourselves to going to hell. 271 00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:35,586 But then what's hell? 272 00:21:35,773 --> 00:21:39,345 It's nothing to pay for having such a lovely daughter. 273 00:21:41,493 --> 00:21:44,213 Mother... tell me the truth. 274 00:21:44,455 --> 00:21:46,478 Abandoned at the old red ochre gate... 275 00:21:46,549 --> 00:21:48,181 you think it too pitiful? 276 00:21:48,251 --> 00:21:51,900 Both you and father... - Wrong, wrong. That's all wrong. 277 00:21:52,899 --> 00:21:57,045 Why do you want to believe so badly you were abandoned? 278 00:21:58,469 --> 00:21:59,820 Your real parents... 279 00:21:59,891 --> 00:22:02,593 must have cried so much they went mad. 280 00:22:02,661 --> 00:22:06,684 To think of it, even now I feel I should give you back... 281 00:22:06,926 --> 00:22:09,254 only I can't. 282 00:22:09,872 --> 00:22:11,232 Chieko... 283 00:22:11,348 --> 00:22:15,817 if you want to go to your real parents, I won't oppose you. 284 00:22:16,538 --> 00:22:19,304 But then again... if you did... 285 00:22:19,384 --> 00:22:22,544 this mother just might die. 286 00:22:23,517 --> 00:22:26,876 Mother... don't say such things. 287 00:22:27,494 --> 00:22:30,992 You are my mother... I have no other mother. 288 00:22:31,086 --> 00:22:33,792 I have always believed that. 289 00:22:33,885 --> 00:22:36,294 I know that. 290 00:22:36,971 --> 00:22:40,405 But that is also.... why our sin is so profound. 291 00:22:40,490 --> 00:22:43,604 Let's talk no more of this old story. 292 00:22:44,287 --> 00:22:48,287 For dinner tonight... I'll fetch something from Nishiki. 293 00:22:48,467 --> 00:22:49,920 That's good. 294 00:22:50,139 --> 00:22:51,568 Please do that. 295 00:23:01,618 --> 00:23:05,158 I don't want to meet my real parents... 296 00:23:05,754 --> 00:23:11,671 but in their case... their suffering may be much more than ours. 297 00:23:12,106 --> 00:23:13,480 Or they... 298 00:23:15,570 --> 00:23:21,168 may rest in a place near Adashino with no offspring to tend their graves. 299 00:23:21,867 --> 00:23:23,531 Thier gravestones... 300 00:23:23,601 --> 00:23:26,671 will be old now though. 301 00:23:38,043 --> 00:23:39,957 NISHIJIN 302 00:23:48,296 --> 00:23:50,288 Nishijin Weaving they say... 303 00:23:50,452 --> 00:23:53,952 has managed to survive for three generations. 304 00:23:55,731 --> 00:24:00,314 Even if the parents possessed the rare hands of great weavers... 305 00:24:00,463 --> 00:24:03,777 it'd be rather exceptional if their children did too. 306 00:24:16,465 --> 00:24:18,944 This one... I'd like you to do it. 307 00:24:19,684 --> 00:24:22,145 Oh... it's for an 'obi'. 308 00:24:22,325 --> 00:24:24,700 Very modern and bold. 309 00:24:24,942 --> 00:24:27,609 It's for my daughter. 310 00:24:28,297 --> 00:24:31,906 When your daughter saw this design... she must've been stunned by it. 311 00:24:32,008 --> 00:24:35,689 Actually Chieko gave me a Paul Klee catalogue. 312 00:24:35,852 --> 00:24:38,000 Klee...? Klee is? 313 00:24:38,047 --> 00:24:42,461 He's a French artist who paints modernist themes. 314 00:24:42,654 --> 00:24:46,029 He's honest, with a good design sense and dream elements. 315 00:24:46,170 --> 00:24:49,038 It makes contact with this old Japanese man's heart. 316 00:24:49,227 --> 00:24:52,023 Going over it again and again at the convent, 317 00:24:52,102 --> 00:24:54,431 this design came to me. 318 00:24:54,533 --> 00:24:57,958 I ruminated on it day and night for a fortnight. 319 00:24:58,155 --> 00:25:01,534 Is this obi's line and colour well conceived? 320 00:25:02,444 --> 00:25:04,202 Yes, very well conceived. 321 00:25:04,483 --> 00:25:06,889 Though completely original, it still holds... 322 00:25:06,967 --> 00:25:09,259 an elegant Japanese sensibility. 323 00:25:09,352 --> 00:25:11,257 It will be difficult to weave... 324 00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:14,648 but I'll work... with all my heart to realize it. 325 00:25:14,703 --> 00:25:15,978 Thank you. 326 00:25:16,758 --> 00:25:17,861 Oh, yes... 327 00:25:18,031 --> 00:25:22,447 the weaver... shouldn't be me. Hideo would be better. 328 00:25:22,594 --> 00:25:24,281 Though he's my eldest son... 329 00:25:24,392 --> 00:25:26,606 his weaving is more precise than mine. 330 00:25:26,684 --> 00:25:29,454 Well... I'm counting on you. - Of course. 331 00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:32,626 Hideo... Hideo... Mother... 332 00:25:32,696 --> 00:25:36,009 call Hideo for me. - Certainly. 333 00:25:41,629 --> 00:25:43,043 By and by, it might... 334 00:25:43,137 --> 00:25:45,508 just be useful for your daughter's marriage. 335 00:25:45,578 --> 00:25:47,176 No, no. 336 00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:52,920 Thank you, Sir. 337 00:25:52,990 --> 00:25:55,829 Master Sada... brought a new obi design. 338 00:25:55,881 --> 00:25:58,044 He has kindly come to ask us to weave it. 339 00:25:58,185 --> 00:25:59,358 Is that so? 340 00:25:59,404 --> 00:26:02,646 He drew it while on retreat at the Saga convent. 341 00:26:02,732 --> 00:26:04,500 It's not just a sale piece. 342 00:26:04,724 --> 00:26:05,786 It's for your daughter? 343 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,162 Ya... - Oh. 344 00:26:10,708 --> 00:26:13,344 Hideo is very tired from working since morning. 345 00:26:13,396 --> 00:26:16,685 It's that kind of dedication that creates fine work. 346 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:20,122 Here... have a look at this. 347 00:26:20,367 --> 00:26:21,632 Yes. 348 00:26:31,314 --> 00:26:33,000 You don't like it? 349 00:26:38,654 --> 00:26:40,544 Isn't it good? 350 00:26:43,498 --> 00:26:44,505 Hideo... 351 00:26:44,685 --> 00:26:46,130 Speak up, don't be impolite. 352 00:26:46,185 --> 00:26:48,081 I'm studying it. 353 00:26:48,184 --> 00:26:50,526 I'm not being impolite. 354 00:26:50,779 --> 00:26:53,518 Is it for Miss Chieko? - It is. 355 00:26:54,753 --> 00:26:56,456 It's no good? - Well. 356 00:26:56,581 --> 00:26:58,452 I didn't say not good. 357 00:26:58,886 --> 00:27:01,261 You're not saying it, but your eyes are! 358 00:27:01,363 --> 00:27:02,811 Is that so? 359 00:27:03,238 --> 00:27:05,579 What's this? 360 00:27:10,867 --> 00:27:13,889 I didn't say it wasn't interesting. 361 00:27:14,313 --> 00:27:15,984 Forgive me. 362 00:27:25,613 --> 00:27:28,945 This obi... please let me weave it. 363 00:27:29,067 --> 00:27:30,295 Really? 364 00:27:30,684 --> 00:27:32,669 Me too... please forgive me. 365 00:27:33,012 --> 00:27:34,488 My hand still hurts. 366 00:27:34,576 --> 00:27:37,503 Better let me use my hand. 367 00:27:37,613 --> 00:27:40,531 Weavers' hands have thick skin. 368 00:27:45,674 --> 00:27:48,252 Are you... going to the Saga convent today too? 369 00:27:48,299 --> 00:27:50,221 Yes, yes... for another fortnight. 370 00:27:50,284 --> 00:27:52,252 Don't go. Go back home. 371 00:27:52,323 --> 00:27:54,634 My house isn't conducive to work. 372 00:27:56,404 --> 00:27:58,099 This surprises me... 373 00:27:58,233 --> 00:28:01,283 it's colourful, decorative and modern. 374 00:28:01,459 --> 00:28:05,615 But... I studied deeply but saw no inner harmony. 375 00:28:05,722 --> 00:28:09,651 It has an appeal... in a silly, sickly way. 376 00:28:10,620 --> 00:28:12,620 The convent may be quiet... 377 00:28:12,698 --> 00:28:15,274 but maybe foxes and racoons tricked you. ( mischievous spirits ) 378 00:28:15,363 --> 00:28:17,307 What are you saying?! 379 00:28:24,247 --> 00:28:26,129 Your criticism is valid. 380 00:28:26,294 --> 00:28:28,317 You're a wise young man, I see. 381 00:28:28,395 --> 00:28:29,442 Thank you. 382 00:28:29,622 --> 00:28:31,825 I will think deeply about it and do it again. 383 00:28:31,896 --> 00:28:34,217 No... let me weave it as it is. 384 00:28:34,337 --> 00:28:35,923 Woven, the effect is different. 385 00:28:36,009 --> 00:28:38,618 Water colour and dyed yarn differ... - Thank you. 386 00:28:38,751 --> 00:28:39,806 Hideo... 387 00:28:39,929 --> 00:28:42,673 you want to weave this... for my daughter. 388 00:28:42,782 --> 00:28:45,015 You're doing it for Chieko? 389 00:28:45,164 --> 00:28:46,478 Alright then. 390 00:28:46,692 --> 00:28:49,366 Sorry... don't let me distrub you. 391 00:28:49,629 --> 00:28:50,669 Sada Sir... 392 00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:52,963 Master Sada...! 393 00:29:09,524 --> 00:29:13,350 Takao's maples have new leaves. They must be beautiful now. 394 00:29:13,467 --> 00:29:15,617 The crowds will be less than in autumn. 395 00:29:15,727 --> 00:29:17,186 Isn't it already too late? 396 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,811 It's cooler than in town so I think it's still okay. 397 00:29:23,439 --> 00:29:25,791 I'd love to see the Kitayama cedars. 398 00:29:25,854 --> 00:29:28,192 It's not far from Takao. 399 00:29:30,014 --> 00:29:33,728 When I see Kitayama's cedars standing so straight and true... 400 00:29:33,829 --> 00:29:36,720 it refreshes my soul. 401 00:29:37,727 --> 00:29:39,892 Would you like to see the cedars? 402 00:29:39,986 --> 00:29:43,617 More than maples... I'd love to see Kitayama's cedars. 403 00:29:59,882 --> 00:30:01,622 They look hand crafted, no? 404 00:30:01,889 --> 00:30:04,709 I hear they're popular in 'Skia' style houses. ( Japanese minimalist style ) 405 00:30:04,795 --> 00:30:08,045 They're shipped to Tokyo and Kyushu too. 406 00:30:08,502 --> 00:30:12,568 The women in this village are very hardworking. 407 00:30:12,666 --> 00:30:14,690 The women work alongside the men. 408 00:30:14,744 --> 00:30:16,830 That's not so unusual. 409 00:30:16,892 --> 00:30:18,898 Farmers do much the same. 410 00:30:19,068 --> 00:30:21,958 As do vegetable sellers and fish mongers. 411 00:30:22,044 --> 00:30:25,311 For a girl like you, everything's amazing. 412 00:30:25,447 --> 00:30:27,786 I think I'm a working woman too. 413 00:30:27,833 --> 00:30:29,291 You're more that type. 414 00:30:29,362 --> 00:30:31,530 Yes... I don't work. 415 00:30:31,588 --> 00:30:33,432 It's easy to say the word 'work'. 416 00:30:33,557 --> 00:30:35,799 I'd like you to see these young women... 417 00:30:35,862 --> 00:30:38,275 and how hard they work. 418 00:30:39,136 --> 00:30:41,595 I suppose the trimming of the branches has already begun. 419 00:30:41,657 --> 00:30:43,720 What is that? 420 00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:47,363 To grow cedar that are straight they have to trim them. 421 00:30:47,527 --> 00:30:50,261 Sometimes they use ladders, but... 422 00:30:50,394 --> 00:30:54,131 often they jump from tree to tree like monkeys. 423 00:30:54,230 --> 00:30:56,548 No... how dangerous! 424 00:31:01,703 --> 00:31:04,488 Wait, Chieko... That girl? 425 00:31:08,628 --> 00:31:12,076 So similar... she's exactly like you. 426 00:31:12,191 --> 00:31:13,091 Really? 427 00:31:13,159 --> 00:31:14,635 You don't find it strange, Chieko? 428 00:31:14,722 --> 00:31:16,157 Look carefully. 429 00:31:16,235 --> 00:31:17,834 Ah the scatterbrain you. 430 00:31:17,905 --> 00:31:21,673 Scatterbrain or not... she has a special beauty. 431 00:31:28,126 --> 00:31:29,970 She may be beautiful, but... 432 00:31:30,189 --> 00:31:32,259 She could easily be your twin. 433 00:31:32,337 --> 00:31:34,680 See... scatterbrained. 434 00:31:35,548 --> 00:31:36,860 But it's strange. 435 00:31:36,954 --> 00:31:40,646 Perhaps she's a look-alike, but so alike is spooky. 436 00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:51,133 What's so similar? - It's her... 437 00:31:51,226 --> 00:31:52,986 her presence. 438 00:31:53,117 --> 00:31:55,751 It's hard to say what exactly, but... 439 00:31:55,946 --> 00:31:58,336 eyes, nose... 440 00:31:58,985 --> 00:32:01,438 Not that good Nakagyo family's daughter and... 441 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:03,639 a village girl are the same. Don't mind, eh. 442 00:32:03,695 --> 00:32:04,602 Not at all. 443 00:32:04,702 --> 00:32:08,300 Say Chieko... let's follow her home and check her out. 444 00:32:08,347 --> 00:32:11,856 There's that Masako again... - The scatterbrain...? 445 00:32:23,715 --> 00:32:25,001 Father... 446 00:32:25,109 --> 00:32:28,030 is going to Mt. Kurama cancelled? - I guess so. 447 00:32:28,140 --> 00:32:29,804 At least once I wanted to show you... 448 00:32:29,890 --> 00:32:32,405 the bamboo cutting on Mt. Kurama. 449 00:32:32,491 --> 00:32:34,299 But not in this rain. 450 00:32:34,374 --> 00:32:37,747 There's always next year. Forget it for now. 451 00:32:47,179 --> 00:32:49,381 Close all the doors and windows. 452 00:32:49,451 --> 00:32:52,451 The humidity will dampen the cloth. - Right, right. 453 00:32:55,802 --> 00:32:57,222 Excuse me. 454 00:32:57,707 --> 00:32:58,995 Hi. 455 00:32:59,574 --> 00:33:00,573 It's just... 456 00:33:00,832 --> 00:33:03,729 I've finished weaving you daughter's obi. - Obi? 457 00:33:03,847 --> 00:33:05,826 Chieko's obi? - Yes. 458 00:33:07,168 --> 00:33:09,371 Please excuse my immature behaviour the other day. 459 00:33:09,457 --> 00:33:12,556 What... it was I who lost it for a moment. 460 00:33:12,645 --> 00:33:15,381 Your reproval woke me up. 461 00:33:15,457 --> 00:33:16,808 I should thank you. 462 00:33:16,894 --> 00:33:19,496 Well... come in for a minute. - Yes. 463 00:33:22,198 --> 00:33:23,175 Well... 464 00:33:23,417 --> 00:33:25,620 The design you drew in the convent at Saga... 465 00:33:25,831 --> 00:33:28,054 I decided to weave this obi from it. 466 00:33:28,265 --> 00:33:29,610 That design...? 467 00:33:29,773 --> 00:33:31,898 I crushed it into a ball... 468 00:33:31,984 --> 00:33:34,729 and chucked it in the canal outside your house. 469 00:33:34,851 --> 00:33:36,461 You threw it? 470 00:33:36,934 --> 00:33:38,125 Is that so? 471 00:33:38,332 --> 00:33:40,894 But after studying it, it stayed in my mind. 472 00:33:41,036 --> 00:33:42,911 But why then Hideo... 473 00:33:42,989 --> 00:33:44,801 did you take the trouble to weave... 474 00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:46,598 what I threw in the canal. 475 00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:47,550 What? 476 00:33:47,629 --> 00:33:49,643 What made you weave it? 477 00:33:49,838 --> 00:33:51,415 No inner harmony... 478 00:33:51,502 --> 00:33:52,790 a silly, sickly appeal... 479 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,525 that's what you said... isn't that so? 480 00:33:55,627 --> 00:33:58,219 Please... forgive me. 481 00:33:58,407 --> 00:34:00,797 I do so many ordinary jobs... I tire... 482 00:34:00,866 --> 00:34:02,265 and I get all irritable. 483 00:34:02,343 --> 00:34:06,156 No, no. I too... get that way. 484 00:34:07,677 --> 00:34:10,247 Only... please see the obi. 485 00:34:10,325 --> 00:34:13,356 If you don't like it, you can cut it up in front of me. 486 00:34:13,442 --> 00:34:14,559 Okay. 487 00:34:15,083 --> 00:34:16,240 Chieko... 488 00:34:16,498 --> 00:34:18,865 Chieko... - Coming. 489 00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:26,559 Welcome. 490 00:34:26,770 --> 00:34:28,246 Please look at this, Miss. 491 00:34:28,395 --> 00:34:30,129 Your father's design. 492 00:34:32,889 --> 00:34:37,077 Father... you got the idea from the Klee catalogue, no? 493 00:34:37,594 --> 00:34:39,602 Ah... it's good. 494 00:34:39,735 --> 00:34:42,558 Father, it's a really good obi. 495 00:34:43,506 --> 00:34:46,231 You wove it very precisely. - Yes. 496 00:34:46,342 --> 00:34:50,412 Shall I spread it out here and see? - Yes. 497 00:34:58,286 --> 00:35:02,089 Father... what do you think? Isn't it fine? 498 00:35:02,207 --> 00:35:04,488 Is it really good? - Yes. 499 00:35:04,615 --> 00:35:06,488 Thank you, Father. 500 00:35:06,741 --> 00:35:10,618 It's a different pattern. It will depend on the kimono. 501 00:35:10,743 --> 00:35:12,610 What a fine obi! 502 00:35:12,686 --> 00:35:16,977 Well... if you like it, you should thank Hideo-san. 503 00:35:17,116 --> 00:35:19,411 Hideo-san... thank you. 504 00:35:19,671 --> 00:35:21,053 Chieko... 505 00:35:21,319 --> 00:35:23,832 In this obi... is there harmony? 506 00:35:23,978 --> 00:35:25,387 Inner harmony... 507 00:35:25,486 --> 00:35:27,699 Harmony? 508 00:35:28,797 --> 00:35:33,097 It would depend on the kimono and who's wearing it. 509 00:35:33,278 --> 00:35:35,129 Actually Chieko... 510 00:35:35,231 --> 00:35:37,951 when I showed Hideo this design... 511 00:35:38,020 --> 00:35:40,181 he said it lacked harmony. 512 00:35:40,293 --> 00:35:43,563 That's why I threw it in the canal. 513 00:35:43,890 --> 00:35:46,019 But he wove it anyway... 514 00:35:46,187 --> 00:35:49,654 and it's exactly as I designed it. 515 00:35:51,046 --> 00:35:53,240 Please forgive me. 516 00:35:53,742 --> 00:35:56,964 Miss... though it may be selfish of me... 517 00:35:57,351 --> 00:36:00,142 please hold it at your waist for us. 518 00:36:00,437 --> 00:36:02,296 With this kimono? - Yes. 519 00:36:10,117 --> 00:36:13,226 Miss... it's your father's work. 520 00:36:14,954 --> 00:36:16,960 It's his creation. 521 00:36:27,394 --> 00:36:31,730 GION FESTIVAL 522 00:36:34,802 --> 00:36:36,856 Chieko was a Kyoto girl... 523 00:36:36,982 --> 00:36:39,544 the daughter of a main street merchant... 524 00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:42,028 and raised in Gion's Yasaka Shrine community. 525 00:36:42,146 --> 00:36:45,818 So for her, the annual Gion Festival was a regular event. 526 00:36:48,050 --> 00:36:51,147 More than the Grand Cart Procession on July 17th... 527 00:36:51,386 --> 00:36:53,779 the locals enjoy the vibrant ambiance... 528 00:36:53,904 --> 00:36:57,294 of the Yoi-Yama street party on the 16th. 529 00:39:38,544 --> 00:39:40,911 What did you pray for? 530 00:39:43,052 --> 00:39:45,083 Were you watching me? 531 00:39:48,973 --> 00:39:51,429 I prayed to know my sister. 532 00:39:57,709 --> 00:40:01,385 You are my big sister... god brought us together. 533 00:40:03,623 --> 00:40:05,751 I'm an only child. 534 00:40:06,006 --> 00:40:08,656 I don't have a little sister. 535 00:40:12,357 --> 00:40:13,723 Forgive me... 536 00:40:13,879 --> 00:40:15,660 Forgive me Miss. 537 00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:17,738 I understand well. 538 00:40:18,018 --> 00:40:19,314 Always my big sister... 539 00:40:19,385 --> 00:40:22,361 since I was littlle I've longed for her. 540 00:40:22,478 --> 00:40:24,757 I've made a big mistake. 541 00:40:28,367 --> 00:40:30,031 They said I had a twin... 542 00:40:30,141 --> 00:40:33,070 but I don't know if she was elder. 543 00:40:35,687 --> 00:40:38,193 We must be look-alikes. 544 00:40:44,420 --> 00:40:45,998 Miss... 545 00:40:46,170 --> 00:40:48,397 where were you born? 546 00:40:49,593 --> 00:40:52,666 The merchant quarter... not far from here. 547 00:40:52,828 --> 00:40:54,588 I see. 548 00:40:56,289 --> 00:40:59,867 What was it... you asked the god for? 549 00:41:00,523 --> 00:41:04,784 The health and happiness... of my parents. 550 00:41:08,997 --> 00:41:11,070 Your father...? 551 00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:14,564 A long time ago... 552 00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:17,242 when he was trimming cedars in Kitayama... 553 00:41:17,325 --> 00:41:20,282 he fell while jumping between trees. 554 00:41:21,123 --> 00:41:23,372 That injury finished him. 555 00:41:23,834 --> 00:41:25,607 That's what the villagers told me. 556 00:41:25,724 --> 00:41:29,520 I was just a baby... so I don't remember anything. 557 00:41:37,242 --> 00:41:40,609 The reason I often felt to visit that village... 558 00:41:40,850 --> 00:41:44,351 the reason I love to see those beautiful cedars... 559 00:41:44,492 --> 00:41:48,811 could it be my father's spirit calling me. 560 00:41:52,991 --> 00:41:54,686 Your mother...? 561 00:41:56,444 --> 00:41:58,185 Mother too. 562 00:41:59,678 --> 00:42:02,334 They say that she was born... 563 00:42:02,506 --> 00:42:05,490 in a village much deeper in the mountains. 564 00:42:07,084 --> 00:42:08,873 That mother... 565 00:42:13,715 --> 00:42:15,494 Miss... 566 00:42:33,977 --> 00:42:36,136 Miss... good bye. 567 00:42:36,261 --> 00:42:38,105 What's your name? 568 00:42:39,656 --> 00:42:41,288 It's Naeko. 569 00:42:41,538 --> 00:42:43,478 Naeko? 570 00:42:44,343 --> 00:42:46,671 My name is Chieko. 571 00:42:47,046 --> 00:42:50,603 I won't tell anyone we met tonight... I swear. 572 00:42:50,850 --> 00:42:51,945 Only he knows... 573 00:42:52,023 --> 00:42:54,750 the god of Gion's temple. 574 00:43:10,266 --> 00:43:11,805 Miss... 575 00:43:12,266 --> 00:43:14,267 There's a lot to talk about. 576 00:43:14,429 --> 00:43:16,468 Please come to Kitayama someday. 577 00:43:17,008 --> 00:43:18,492 Now I'm working for someone... 578 00:43:18,578 --> 00:43:22,565 but it's a small village. Just ask for Naeko. You'll find me. 579 00:43:23,138 --> 00:43:24,981 Thank you. 580 00:43:25,521 --> 00:43:27,449 Good bye. 581 00:43:54,363 --> 00:43:55,589 Miss... 582 00:43:56,285 --> 00:43:59,009 Miss... Miss Chieko. 583 00:43:59,621 --> 00:44:02,284 Miss Chieko... alone? 584 00:44:02,937 --> 00:44:04,386 Yes. 585 00:44:09,643 --> 00:44:12,212 It's a fine evening. Tomorrow will be fine too. 586 00:44:12,298 --> 00:44:14,149 So many stars. 587 00:44:15,901 --> 00:44:18,424 Sorry for the other day... 588 00:44:18,549 --> 00:44:20,291 but the obi was good, no? 589 00:44:20,416 --> 00:44:21,385 Yes. 590 00:44:21,505 --> 00:44:23,302 Have you tried it on? 591 00:44:23,427 --> 00:44:25,612 Yes. - How was it? 592 00:44:32,485 --> 00:44:33,697 Miss... 593 00:44:33,845 --> 00:44:37,623 allow me this once... to design from my heart... 594 00:44:37,875 --> 00:44:41,661 and weave an obi just for you to mark my turning 30. 595 00:44:41,912 --> 00:44:43,864 Yes... thanks. 596 00:44:44,004 --> 00:44:46,602 That we met on this Gion festival evening... 597 00:44:46,724 --> 00:44:49,722 must be a sign from the god. 598 00:44:51,696 --> 00:44:52,931 Good bye. 599 00:44:53,586 --> 00:44:55,394 Oh... Miss... 600 00:44:55,602 --> 00:44:58,578 You'll let me do the obi... please? - Yes. 601 00:44:58,688 --> 00:45:00,672 I'll do it before the maples... - Good bye. 602 00:45:00,782 --> 00:45:02,328 Good bye. 603 00:45:29,901 --> 00:45:31,151 Miss Chieko... 604 00:45:31,339 --> 00:45:34,361 Why are you wandering all alone? - Ah Shinichi... 605 00:45:34,456 --> 00:45:36,878 This is my big brother. He's a PhD student. 606 00:45:37,370 --> 00:45:38,605 I'm Kyusuke. 607 00:45:43,121 --> 00:45:46,277 You look rather pale... a bit sad as well. 608 00:45:46,371 --> 00:45:47,889 It must be the light. 609 00:45:48,006 --> 00:45:51,824 And with the Gion festival crowd... rushing happily about... 610 00:45:52,092 --> 00:45:54,396 just one girl looking a bit sad... 611 00:45:54,506 --> 00:45:55,709 is that so unusual? 612 00:45:55,771 --> 00:45:57,451 Yes, quite. 613 00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:58,780 You hot...? 614 00:45:58,990 --> 00:46:00,802 You chilled? - No. 615 00:46:00,974 --> 00:46:03,114 A summer cold's nasty. Hurry home. 616 00:46:03,177 --> 00:46:05,993 We'll go with you. - Right brother? 617 00:46:06,888 --> 00:46:08,926 It's not necessary. It's nearby. 618 00:46:08,997 --> 00:46:11,150 If it's nearby, then we must. 619 00:46:11,927 --> 00:46:13,208 But... 620 00:46:14,825 --> 00:46:16,442 Were you with someone? 621 00:46:16,544 --> 00:46:17,724 No. 622 00:46:17,802 --> 00:46:19,559 So... let's go. 623 00:46:25,692 --> 00:46:29,570 You served as 'chigo'... and rode on the Naginata Chariot. ( chigo = festival page/acolyte ) 624 00:46:29,649 --> 00:46:30,813 How old were you? 625 00:46:30,895 --> 00:46:32,113 Oh well... 626 00:46:32,223 --> 00:46:34,421 around seven... as I remember. 627 00:46:34,523 --> 00:46:37,246 I think it was the year before I entered primary school. 628 00:46:37,511 --> 00:46:39,925 When Shinichi was small... he was timid... 629 00:46:39,995 --> 00:46:43,308 cute looking... pretty as a girl. 630 00:46:43,394 --> 00:46:46,939 So they chose him as a 'chigo'... such a silly boy. 631 00:46:50,529 --> 00:46:53,818 Shinichi, I followed you when you rode in the chariot procession. 632 00:46:53,897 --> 00:46:55,360 Did you notice? 633 00:46:55,478 --> 00:46:57,135 Of course... of course. 634 00:46:57,307 --> 00:46:59,947 We were so small. - Ya, we really were. 635 00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:03,708 Such a small girl following the whole way, impressed me. 636 00:47:03,818 --> 00:47:05,977 We can't be small anymore. 637 00:47:06,062 --> 00:47:08,367 What an idea? 638 00:47:40,182 --> 00:47:42,184 Welcome home. 639 00:47:45,533 --> 00:47:47,886 I'm home. - Come in. 640 00:47:48,011 --> 00:47:51,570 How was it? Lively this year too? 641 00:47:52,081 --> 00:47:55,362 Mother... I'm so late. I wasn't here to help you. 642 00:47:55,464 --> 00:47:57,492 Don't worry about it... 643 00:47:58,229 --> 00:47:59,706 Chieko... 644 00:48:00,175 --> 00:48:03,639 You seem pale... a little unsteady. 645 00:48:04,393 --> 00:48:06,177 You don't have a fever. 646 00:48:06,315 --> 00:48:09,018 Don't worry about us and go lie down. 647 00:48:09,088 --> 00:48:09,833 Thanks. 648 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,333 You father too. It upset him so few guests came. 649 00:48:13,404 --> 00:48:16,751 Though there were 5 or 6 for dinner... 650 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,233 I am... the child of this house. 651 00:48:38,553 --> 00:48:43,111 And that girl Naeko... was I perhaps too unkind? 652 00:48:53,221 --> 00:48:56,177 As the mother and father in this house... 653 00:48:56,971 --> 00:48:59,662 should I tell them... 654 00:49:01,111 --> 00:49:03,822 or should I not tell them? 655 00:49:09,274 --> 00:49:12,688 Sada sir... Sada sir... 656 00:49:15,891 --> 00:49:19,042 Good afternoon. Hot isn't it? 657 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,847 Well... it's been a long time, eh? 658 00:49:22,941 --> 00:49:24,448 Where'd you go in this heat? 659 00:49:24,511 --> 00:49:25,581 Just nearby. 660 00:49:25,699 --> 00:49:27,744 I came to see the exhibition. - I see. 661 00:49:27,861 --> 00:49:30,204 Once again... with such a pretty girl. 662 00:49:30,314 --> 00:49:32,675 Where were you hiding her? - Foolish man. 663 00:49:32,767 --> 00:49:35,212 You know very well she's not my girl. 664 00:49:35,345 --> 00:49:37,829 She works in the teahouse next door. 665 00:49:38,447 --> 00:49:39,846 How old are you? 666 00:49:39,956 --> 00:49:42,620 I just started junior high. 667 00:49:43,667 --> 00:49:45,135 If you aren't in a rush... 668 00:49:45,229 --> 00:49:47,025 please visit Tenjin Shrine in Kitano... (Students pray there for good results) 669 00:49:47,025 --> 00:49:48,858 if she attracts you. ( Students pray there for good results. ) 670 00:49:49,007 --> 00:49:52,034 Why should I be drawn all the way to Tenjin? 671 00:49:52,182 --> 00:49:55,323 Is this girl a descent of Tenjin? - That's right. 672 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,559 Quite right! ( Tenjin - can mean "heavenly one". ) 673 00:50:03,822 --> 00:50:05,040 This girl... 674 00:50:05,314 --> 00:50:08,181 I'm thinking to prepare her to start as a 'Maiko' in Gion. (Apprentice geisha) 675 00:50:08,228 --> 00:50:09,282 An only child? 676 00:50:09,368 --> 00:50:11,657 No. She has an elder sister. 677 00:50:11,735 --> 00:50:14,571 The older sister... just as beautiful? 678 00:50:14,762 --> 00:50:16,571 Well Sir... 679 00:50:18,293 --> 00:50:20,895 Please excuse Chi-chan for now. - Right. 680 00:50:20,988 --> 00:50:23,637 You can go now. - Thank you. 681 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,012 Go carefully. 682 00:50:28,645 --> 00:50:30,988 It appears you're taken by her. 683 00:50:31,121 --> 00:50:34,746 You have 2 years 'til she comes up to savour the anticipation. 684 00:50:34,839 --> 00:50:36,467 It's so hot! 685 00:50:36,780 --> 00:50:38,092 I'm getting tired. 686 00:50:38,210 --> 00:50:40,053 I'll come to your place for a little rest. 687 00:50:40,131 --> 00:50:42,421 All along I expected you might. 688 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,445 Goodness... it's been such a long time. 689 00:50:53,062 --> 00:50:55,617 NAKAZATO 690 00:50:57,731 --> 00:50:58,753 How long... 691 00:50:58,863 --> 00:51:00,661 have you been working here? 692 00:51:00,770 --> 00:51:04,697 Well let's see... two years, a little more than that. 693 00:51:04,738 --> 00:51:06,753 In that time how many patrons did you have. 694 00:51:06,855 --> 00:51:08,494 Forty-seven! 695 00:51:08,526 --> 00:51:10,261 Like the Ako ronin. ( 47 ronin - Chushingura ) 696 00:51:10,324 --> 00:51:12,753 And now...? - I'm single now. 697 00:51:12,831 --> 00:51:14,702 Is that true? - Yes. 698 00:51:15,152 --> 00:51:16,777 The third day after my debut... 699 00:51:16,886 --> 00:51:19,184 I was showing a guest to the toilet... 700 00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,059 and suddenly he stole a kiss. 701 00:51:21,145 --> 00:51:25,285 I panicked and bit down... right into his tongue! 702 00:51:25,356 --> 00:51:26,738 Did he bleed? - Ya... 703 00:51:26,903 --> 00:51:28,545 Of course... right away. 704 00:51:28,614 --> 00:51:32,424 He angrily demanded compensation and I began to cry. 705 00:51:32,690 --> 00:51:34,386 It was a big drama. 706 00:51:34,464 --> 00:51:37,273 But it was his action that caused it. 707 00:51:37,472 --> 00:51:41,310 Though now I can't even remember his name. 708 00:51:42,776 --> 00:51:45,020 Show me your teeth. - Teeth? 709 00:51:45,136 --> 00:51:46,528 You want to see them? 710 00:51:46,699 --> 00:51:48,668 While I was talking you saw them. 711 00:51:48,723 --> 00:51:52,626 A better look... open wide. - No, it's embarassing. 712 00:51:52,819 --> 00:51:54,684 You're being insensitive, Sir. 713 00:51:54,754 --> 00:51:57,277 Now I'm nervous to even open my mouth. 714 00:51:57,410 --> 00:51:59,973 They get chipped? Did you get them repaired? 715 00:52:00,137 --> 00:52:02,433 Don't you know the tongue is soft? 716 00:52:02,559 --> 00:52:04,752 No... Oh no! He's teasing! 717 00:52:04,838 --> 00:52:06,166 Careful, look what...! 718 00:52:06,267 --> 00:52:07,720 I'm so sorry. 719 00:52:08,179 --> 00:52:11,284 Father... where can he have gotten to? 720 00:52:11,385 --> 00:52:14,395 I feel better when he wanders around Gion... 721 00:52:14,471 --> 00:52:18,902 than when he hides himself away all the time in that convent. 722 00:52:20,096 --> 00:52:21,495 Chieko... 723 00:52:21,706 --> 00:52:26,158 don't feel... obliged to take over the family business. 724 00:52:27,792 --> 00:52:31,671 If you want to marry into another family, you can. 725 00:52:34,067 --> 00:52:35,944 Are you listening? 726 00:52:36,053 --> 00:52:38,764 What makes you ask that? 727 00:52:38,988 --> 00:52:41,205 I'm already 50 years old, you know... 728 00:52:41,379 --> 00:52:43,606 so I think about it. 729 00:52:43,700 --> 00:52:46,778 This business... why don't you close it? 730 00:52:46,872 --> 00:52:50,215 Why react that way so quickly? 731 00:52:51,809 --> 00:52:53,497 Do you really mean it? 732 00:52:55,027 --> 00:52:56,645 I really do. 733 00:52:59,177 --> 00:53:00,808 I'm not angry. 734 00:53:00,879 --> 00:53:03,509 Don't make such a face. 735 00:53:04,638 --> 00:53:06,287 The young who say that... 736 00:53:06,521 --> 00:53:08,372 or the elders who hear it... 737 00:53:08,451 --> 00:53:11,288 which will feel more lonely do you think. 738 00:53:11,416 --> 00:53:14,322 Mother... forgive me. 739 00:53:14,986 --> 00:53:18,445 Have you ever said that to your father? 740 00:53:18,556 --> 00:53:19,625 No. 741 00:53:19,844 --> 00:53:22,172 I've said nothing to father. 742 00:53:22,375 --> 00:53:23,830 I see. 743 00:53:24,445 --> 00:53:26,402 Try to tell your father... 744 00:53:26,539 --> 00:53:28,312 Tell him. 745 00:53:29,756 --> 00:53:32,107 Though he might seem angry... 746 00:53:32,537 --> 00:53:36,103 deep down he'll likely be relieved. 747 00:53:37,773 --> 00:53:40,708 Your father wasn't made to be a salesman... 748 00:53:40,898 --> 00:53:44,827 he's someone who enjoys creating things. 749 00:53:46,529 --> 00:53:49,196 The other night he mentioned... 750 00:53:49,513 --> 00:53:54,306 we could sell up and buy a small, quiet house in Nanzenji or Okazaki maybe. 751 00:53:54,399 --> 00:53:58,583 He could spend his time creating fabric designs for obi and kimono. 752 00:53:59,206 --> 00:54:03,020 He was speaking quietly but he sounded serious. 753 00:54:04,086 --> 00:54:06,748 It would mean having less money though. 754 00:54:06,841 --> 00:54:09,565 I would't mind that at all. 755 00:54:10,012 --> 00:54:13,016 I've been so happy living here. 756 00:54:17,395 --> 00:54:20,530 Miss... a guest for you. 757 00:54:28,470 --> 00:54:29,985 Welcome. 758 00:54:30,071 --> 00:54:34,023 It's just... I've finished the obi design... please have a look. 759 00:54:34,103 --> 00:54:35,360 Obi design...? 760 00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:37,985 The one I promised you at the Gion festival. 761 00:54:38,113 --> 00:54:40,383 At the Gion Festival? 762 00:54:40,683 --> 00:54:43,914 Ah... then come in. 763 00:54:46,379 --> 00:54:47,883 Please... 764 00:54:55,823 --> 00:54:57,524 They're good. 765 00:54:57,663 --> 00:54:59,561 I'm very pleased that you like them. 766 00:54:59,726 --> 00:55:02,295 Please... sit. - Yes. 767 00:55:02,913 --> 00:55:05,155 Then... which one should I make? 768 00:55:05,264 --> 00:55:06,400 Ah... I.. 769 00:55:06,546 --> 00:55:08,744 The flower can be worn all year. 770 00:55:08,814 --> 00:55:11,884 So should I make the flower design? 771 00:55:12,142 --> 00:55:15,035 Although both are very nice... 772 00:55:17,517 --> 00:55:20,769 Would a hillside of cedar and red pine be possible? 773 00:55:21,184 --> 00:55:23,462 A hillside of cedar and red pine? 774 00:55:24,676 --> 00:55:26,934 That could be difficult... 775 00:55:27,723 --> 00:55:29,774 I'll need to think about it. 776 00:55:30,578 --> 00:55:33,378 Hideo-san... I should apologize. 777 00:55:33,503 --> 00:55:35,367 Please... there's nothing to be sorry about. 778 00:55:35,438 --> 00:55:37,839 That is...the night of the festival... 779 00:55:37,894 --> 00:55:41,606 on the Shijo Bridge the one you promised an obi to... 780 00:55:41,630 --> 00:55:43,690 actually that wasn't me. 781 00:55:43,793 --> 00:55:45,450 It was someone else. 782 00:55:45,551 --> 00:55:47,252 Someone else? 783 00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,535 That is... it was my sister. 784 00:55:52,815 --> 00:55:54,749 She's my sister. 785 00:55:55,253 --> 00:55:57,321 I met her for the first time that night. 786 00:55:57,385 --> 00:56:00,733 I haven't even told mother or father yet. 787 00:56:01,136 --> 00:56:03,792 You know the Kitayama village famous for cedar. 788 00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:07,354 That girl's called Naeko. She works there. 789 00:56:08,317 --> 00:56:10,457 Since she's not the daughter of the landowner. 790 00:56:10,513 --> 00:56:12,824 She's had to work hard. 791 00:56:13,138 --> 00:56:16,856 Compared to me, she's much, much more mature. 792 00:56:18,820 --> 00:56:23,579 Please weave... one of your obi designs for her as well. 793 00:56:24,047 --> 00:56:24,947 Yes. 794 00:56:25,015 --> 00:56:27,060 Please weave one for her. 795 00:56:28,677 --> 00:56:29,912 Yes. 796 00:56:30,911 --> 00:56:32,233 Regarding... 797 00:56:32,692 --> 00:56:36,618 what you've asked... I will do my best work. 798 00:56:37,330 --> 00:56:38,553 But... 799 00:56:39,252 --> 00:56:41,236 why is she so similar to you? 800 00:56:41,361 --> 00:56:43,619 We're sisters. - Sisters maybe, but... 801 00:56:43,690 --> 00:56:44,736 When the obi's ready... 802 00:56:44,822 --> 00:56:48,855 can you take it to her personally at her place? 803 00:56:49,777 --> 00:56:51,089 Sure. I can.. 804 00:56:51,207 --> 00:56:54,378 Yes, please do that. Though it's quite far. 805 00:56:54,456 --> 00:56:56,894 Not so far... it's nearby. 806 00:56:57,531 --> 00:57:00,425 How happy Naeko will be! 807 00:57:02,297 --> 00:57:04,678 Will she accept it? 808 00:57:05,694 --> 00:57:08,143 I'll explain to her nicely. 809 00:57:08,252 --> 00:57:09,516 I see. 810 00:57:10,908 --> 00:57:13,156 Though there are two Chiekos... 811 00:57:13,331 --> 00:57:16,361 I'll weave the obis for you... my best. 812 00:57:16,690 --> 00:57:18,876 I'll take one to her. 813 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:21,673 Thank you. 814 00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:26,856 But Hideo-san... they're not just my obis... 815 00:57:27,035 --> 00:57:29,418 please weave one as Naeko's obi. 816 00:57:29,900 --> 00:57:32,833 Yes. I understand. 817 00:57:34,713 --> 00:57:36,673 It seems to me as if... 818 00:57:36,767 --> 00:57:38,974 the Shijo bridge Chieko... 819 00:57:40,649 --> 00:57:43,781 was like your spirit double. 820 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,079 My spirit double...? 821 00:58:00,047 --> 00:58:02,851 On August 16th, by burning the 'Dai' symbol... 822 00:58:02,968 --> 00:58:06,046 the Bon Festival welcomes returning souls. 823 00:58:07,430 --> 00:58:12,014 At this summer's Bon... Chieko feels a new sadness. 824 00:58:13,317 --> 00:58:15,629 The Gion Festival meeting with Naeko... 825 00:58:15,692 --> 00:58:21,063 had revealed that... her birth parents had passed away some years before. 826 00:58:40,507 --> 00:58:46,358 Miss... you're very welcome. Really you're very welcome. 827 00:58:51,740 --> 00:58:54,497 The cedar smell is so nice. 828 00:58:54,599 --> 00:58:58,427 It's my first time on the mountain in a cedar forest. 829 00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,519 All the cedar here were planted by men. 830 00:59:01,675 --> 00:59:04,393 These ones are about 40 years old. 831 00:59:04,510 --> 00:59:07,862 Most of them will be cut and made into pillars. 832 00:59:07,996 --> 00:59:12,105 Left alone they'd live a thousand years and grow very big. 833 00:59:12,411 --> 00:59:16,235 People here harvest them like cutting flowers. 834 00:59:19,909 --> 00:59:23,981 If there were no people in this world the city of Kyoto wouldn't exist. 835 00:59:24,059 --> 00:59:28,463 And this area... would be home to deer and wild boar, no? 836 00:59:28,643 --> 00:59:31,041 It's quite scarry the impact of people. 837 00:59:31,157 --> 00:59:34,657 Naeko-san... is this how you see things? 838 00:59:34,829 --> 00:59:36,204 Yes... 839 00:59:36,548 --> 00:59:38,055 sometimes. 840 00:59:38,421 --> 00:59:41,233 Naeko-san... don't you like people? 841 00:59:41,462 --> 00:59:43,702 I like people very much, only... 842 00:59:43,897 --> 00:59:46,614 if there were no people in this world... 843 00:59:46,676 --> 00:59:48,344 what would it be like. 844 00:59:48,465 --> 00:59:50,191 I fell asleep on the mountain once... 845 00:59:50,230 --> 00:59:52,758 afterward I began thinking that way. 846 01:00:00,307 --> 01:00:03,674 A shower's coming! Come on. 847 01:00:11,316 --> 01:00:13,229 Ah... I'm afraid! 848 01:00:13,386 --> 01:00:16,011 Bend down. Make yourself small. 849 01:00:17,722 --> 01:00:19,886 The lightning will strike! 850 01:00:20,156 --> 01:00:24,582 If it does... it won't hit us. That won't happen. 851 01:00:29,723 --> 01:00:30,981 Thank you. 852 01:00:31,051 --> 01:00:33,504 You're... going to get soaked. 853 01:00:33,688 --> 01:00:36,830 These are my work clothes. I could care less. 854 01:00:38,926 --> 01:00:42,154 I'm... I'm happy. 855 01:00:45,381 --> 01:00:47,965 That shining in your belt... What is it? 856 01:00:48,023 --> 01:00:50,998 Ah... I forgot it. It's my scraper. 857 01:00:51,123 --> 01:00:53,148 I was scraping cedar bark when I saw you. 858 01:00:53,195 --> 01:00:54,663 It's my scraper. 859 01:00:54,750 --> 01:00:56,797 It's dangerous. 860 01:00:57,031 --> 01:00:59,915 I'll pick it up on my way back. 861 01:01:02,586 --> 01:01:04,909 Though I don't want to go back. 862 01:01:12,825 --> 01:01:15,208 Even in our mother's belly... 863 01:01:15,310 --> 01:01:19,313 Naeko-san... you held me like this. 864 01:01:27,413 --> 01:01:32,640 I'm sure... we pushed... and kicked each other. 865 01:01:33,084 --> 01:01:34,925 We must have. 866 01:01:35,259 --> 01:01:37,511 I'm sure we did. 867 01:01:38,416 --> 01:01:40,352 You're soaked. 868 01:01:40,422 --> 01:01:42,274 Don't you feel cold. 869 01:01:42,344 --> 01:01:45,205 I'm used to it. It doesn't bother me. 870 01:01:45,316 --> 01:01:47,993 Rather, you being here makes me so happy... 871 01:01:48,103 --> 01:01:50,304 I feel all warm inside. 872 01:01:52,386 --> 01:01:56,542 When father... fell trimming cedar... was it near here? 873 01:01:56,745 --> 01:01:58,120 I can't say. 874 01:01:58,316 --> 01:02:00,465 I was a baby. 875 01:02:00,582 --> 01:02:02,587 Where was our mother born? 876 01:02:02,789 --> 01:02:04,613 Why do you ask me that? 877 01:02:04,691 --> 01:02:07,637 It's of no consequence to you. 878 01:02:08,097 --> 01:02:11,909 I'm glad if you think of me as your only blood family. 879 01:02:12,547 --> 01:02:15,717 At the Gion Festival... I may have said too much. 880 01:02:15,946 --> 01:02:17,352 Uh uh. 881 01:02:17,711 --> 01:02:19,617 I was glad. 882 01:02:19,977 --> 01:02:21,586 Me too. 883 01:02:22,951 --> 01:02:23,971 But still... 884 01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:27,052 I won't come... to your shop okay? 885 01:02:27,194 --> 01:02:29,568 I'll manage. You can come. 886 01:02:29,654 --> 01:02:32,046 I'll speak to Mother and Father. 887 01:02:32,142 --> 01:02:33,219 Don't do that! 888 01:02:33,298 --> 01:02:35,291 If you're ever in need like just now... 889 01:02:35,369 --> 01:02:38,462 I'd risk my life to help you. 890 01:02:39,385 --> 01:02:41,837 Only please understand. 891 01:02:46,654 --> 01:02:48,052 Naeko-san... 892 01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:49,474 that night at the Festival... 893 01:02:49,513 --> 01:02:52,709 when he thought you were me, weren't you confused? 894 01:02:52,858 --> 01:02:53,904 Yes. 895 01:02:54,005 --> 01:02:55,826 He told me about the obi. 896 01:02:55,922 --> 01:02:57,169 That young man... 897 01:02:57,216 --> 01:03:00,122 is from Neishijin, an obi weaver. 898 01:03:00,224 --> 01:03:03,765 He thought I was you and said he would weave me an obi. 899 01:03:03,867 --> 01:03:07,826 Just before I came, he showed me designs for that obi. 900 01:03:07,922 --> 01:03:10,789 It was then... I told him that it wasn't me... 901 01:03:10,890 --> 01:03:13,500 it was my sister he met. 902 01:03:13,634 --> 01:03:14,726 Really...? 903 01:03:14,891 --> 01:03:16,570 That you were called Naeko... 904 01:03:16,618 --> 01:03:19,883 and asked him to weave two obis, one for you. 905 01:03:20,318 --> 01:03:21,431 For me...? 906 01:03:21,493 --> 01:03:23,302 He promised you, didn't he? 907 01:03:23,380 --> 01:03:25,404 But that was a misunderstanding. 908 01:03:25,490 --> 01:03:27,372 If you're ever in trouble I'd be happy... 909 01:03:27,411 --> 01:03:29,832 to stand in for you however I can, but... 910 01:03:29,904 --> 01:03:31,794 to receive your gift while impersonating you... 911 01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:32,857 I can't accept. 912 01:03:32,926 --> 01:03:36,424 You weren't impersonating me. - I was too! 913 01:03:37,919 --> 01:03:42,097 That weaver... he's very fond of you, right? 914 01:03:42,373 --> 01:03:46,631 I'm a woman too... so I fully understand. 915 01:03:46,811 --> 01:03:49,928 In that case... won't you accept it? 916 01:03:50,100 --> 01:03:51,443 If I gave it as your sister... 917 01:03:51,521 --> 01:03:52,834 to mark our relationship... 918 01:03:52,881 --> 01:03:55,604 wouldn't you accept it then. 919 01:04:01,072 --> 01:04:02,548 To give to Naeko-san... 920 01:04:02,650 --> 01:04:04,408 I wanted an obi... 921 01:04:04,470 --> 01:04:06,980 so I asked him to weave one. 922 01:04:08,330 --> 01:04:11,658 I'll accept that... Miss. 923 01:04:37,779 --> 01:04:40,435 I can close them. 924 01:04:42,333 --> 01:04:45,779 I'd like to speak a minute... with you alone. 925 01:04:46,101 --> 01:04:48,502 Let's go upstairs, shall we? 926 01:05:09,669 --> 01:05:11,860 Talk about what? 927 01:05:12,340 --> 01:05:16,463 Today... I went to Kitayama cedar village. 928 01:05:16,692 --> 01:05:20,008 There... I met my sister. 929 01:05:20,111 --> 01:05:22,502 What's that? - I'm a twin. 930 01:05:22,572 --> 01:05:25,668 At this Gion Festival I met her for the first time. 931 01:05:26,682 --> 01:05:31,040 Our real mother and father passed away long ago. 932 01:05:31,224 --> 01:05:33,299 Kitayama cedar village...? 933 01:05:33,427 --> 01:05:36,306 Mother, I can't hide anything from you. 934 01:05:36,408 --> 01:05:38,498 At the Gion Festival and today... 935 01:05:38,599 --> 01:05:41,064 are the only times we've met. 936 01:05:42,914 --> 01:05:44,500 What does she do? 937 01:05:44,571 --> 01:05:47,675 She lives with a family working in the cedar village. 938 01:05:47,821 --> 01:05:49,923 She's a good girl. 939 01:05:51,402 --> 01:05:54,018 I'm very glad you told me. 940 01:05:54,831 --> 01:05:56,479 Does she look like you? 941 01:05:56,569 --> 01:05:58,581 Very much so. 942 01:05:59,018 --> 01:06:00,870 I see. 943 01:06:02,612 --> 01:06:04,301 Actually... 944 01:06:04,513 --> 01:06:06,836 from the day of the Gion Festival... 945 01:06:06,914 --> 01:06:11,328 your thoughts... sometimes seemed miles away. 946 01:06:11,762 --> 01:06:14,288 I wondered if you'd fallen in love. 947 01:06:14,392 --> 01:06:17,314 I was thinking to ask you. 948 01:06:19,007 --> 01:06:22,986 That girl... will you bring her here sometime? 949 01:06:23,154 --> 01:06:26,699 After the shop people go home... in the evening. 950 01:06:26,792 --> 01:06:28,730 She won't come. 951 01:06:28,916 --> 01:06:32,732 She refers to me... as Miss. 952 01:06:40,252 --> 01:06:42,767 Hey... which one d'you like best. 953 01:06:42,838 --> 01:06:46,095 I like this one better than that. 954 01:06:48,314 --> 01:06:50,449 Will he like it? 955 01:06:50,527 --> 01:06:52,183 How could I know that? 956 01:06:52,261 --> 01:06:54,199 I'll introduce him next time. 957 01:06:54,324 --> 01:06:55,550 Shall we go together now? 958 01:06:55,613 --> 01:06:57,152 Yes... thank you. 959 01:06:57,246 --> 01:07:01,329 But... I don't won't to be a nuisance. 960 01:07:04,340 --> 01:07:06,578 Excuse me a minute. 961 01:07:07,598 --> 01:07:10,036 After a long time. - Since that evening. 962 01:07:10,114 --> 01:07:13,098 I saw you here earlier on. 963 01:07:13,340 --> 01:07:15,520 You were helping that lady customer. 964 01:07:15,637 --> 01:07:18,882 I wasn't helping her, she asked for me. 965 01:07:19,153 --> 01:07:22,567 I prefer to show Tatsumura's woven products... but my duties... 966 01:07:22,701 --> 01:07:24,138 include showing minature radios. 967 01:07:24,224 --> 01:07:28,185 I also looked at a radio when I came the very first time. 968 01:07:28,255 --> 01:07:29,733 Minature radios or silks... 969 01:07:29,771 --> 01:07:33,073 a dollar's a dollar. Foreign currency is always good. 970 01:07:34,599 --> 01:07:36,925 This is from your companion. 971 01:07:38,872 --> 01:07:42,673 "The nuisance is leaving so as not to disturb." 972 01:07:42,845 --> 01:07:44,103 My goodness... 973 01:07:44,251 --> 01:07:45,861 Has she gone, your friend? 974 01:07:45,931 --> 01:07:49,426 Yes, yes... it's okay. - That so. 975 01:07:49,972 --> 01:07:51,831 Shall we go see the 'coi'? (ornamental carp) 976 01:07:51,884 --> 01:07:53,246 You're finished with those ladies? 977 01:07:53,325 --> 01:07:55,379 Sales people here all speak good English. 978 01:07:55,458 --> 01:07:57,793 Anyway they go to their hotel for tea about now. 979 01:07:57,881 --> 01:08:00,702 I'll just inform them. - Okay. 980 01:08:11,549 --> 01:08:13,237 I met your father... 981 01:08:13,315 --> 01:08:16,153 two or three times... 982 01:08:16,525 --> 01:08:18,828 but perhaps he doesn't like our business? 983 01:08:18,979 --> 01:08:23,218 If he saw the minature radios, he would have rolled his eyes. 984 01:08:24,308 --> 01:08:27,024 Your father... isn't a businessman. 985 01:08:27,133 --> 01:08:28,555 He's an artist. 986 01:08:28,672 --> 01:08:31,253 In less polite terms, a 'dreamer'. 987 01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,268 A "dreamer"...? 988 01:08:36,506 --> 01:08:39,939 A fine old shop like Maruta doing such slack trade. 989 01:08:40,037 --> 01:08:43,537 What could be the reason for such weak sales? 990 01:08:46,098 --> 01:08:47,364 The shop's head clerk... 991 01:08:47,411 --> 01:08:49,543 is like a managing director in modern terms. 992 01:08:49,715 --> 01:08:51,761 You need to talk to him firmly. 993 01:08:51,802 --> 01:08:54,833 If you don't feel you can, I can. 994 01:09:04,964 --> 01:09:06,847 Did I upset you? 995 01:09:07,597 --> 01:09:08,597 No. 996 01:09:08,753 --> 01:09:10,175 Speak strictly. 997 01:09:10,308 --> 01:09:12,641 Chieko, you can do it! 998 01:09:23,538 --> 01:09:28,521 Yes... I've been working in this shop for twenty years. 999 01:09:29,397 --> 01:09:31,740 The boss is a certain type. 1000 01:09:31,842 --> 01:09:34,081 He entrusts all the business to me. 1001 01:09:34,190 --> 01:09:36,807 I've never made even a single mistake. 1002 01:09:36,909 --> 01:09:39,656 Are you saying I've done something wrong? 1003 01:09:39,734 --> 01:09:41,703 Mr. Uemura, don't misunderstand me. 1004 01:09:41,766 --> 01:09:44,065 Please think carefully about it. 1005 01:09:44,151 --> 01:09:48,404 I am the only child of the Sada family, as such I cannot work outside. 1006 01:09:48,693 --> 01:09:52,639 Gradually I want to study and understand the family business. 1007 01:09:52,702 --> 01:09:54,860 So I kindly request your help. 1008 01:09:54,967 --> 01:09:57,179 In that case... yes. 1009 01:09:57,295 --> 01:09:58,654 If tomorrow's okay with you... 1010 01:09:58,709 --> 01:10:01,092 can you show me 'the books', please? 1011 01:10:01,178 --> 01:10:02,754 Books!? 1012 01:10:02,857 --> 01:10:04,918 The young mistress wants to examine the books? 1013 01:10:05,012 --> 01:10:08,428 I doubt I'm capable of such a complex thing on my own, only... 1014 01:10:08,512 --> 01:10:11,410 if I don't try, how can I understand the business? 1015 01:10:11,528 --> 01:10:12,716 Is that so? 1016 01:10:12,847 --> 01:10:15,850 You say the 'books' but actually it's more than you think. 1017 01:10:15,898 --> 01:10:18,405 There are also books for the taxation office. 1018 01:10:18,468 --> 01:10:21,171 Our shop keeps double books? - What are you saying? 1019 01:10:21,219 --> 01:10:24,481 Any misrepresentation would reflect badly on your family. 1020 01:10:24,582 --> 01:10:26,231 The books are correct and accurate. 1021 01:10:26,293 --> 01:10:28,246 Tomorrow you can show me then, Mr. Oemura? 1022 01:10:28,301 --> 01:10:29,270 Miss... 1023 01:10:29,348 --> 01:10:33,829 I've been taking care of this shop since before you were born. 1024 01:10:33,922 --> 01:10:36,114 What's all this? 1025 01:10:36,628 --> 01:10:38,698 A pain in the ass. 1026 01:10:42,590 --> 01:10:44,035 Chieko... 1027 01:10:44,340 --> 01:10:47,419 what you did was really good. 1028 01:10:47,489 --> 01:10:49,353 It was hard for me, mother. 1029 01:10:49,465 --> 01:10:52,362 Young people are scarrier than they look. 1030 01:10:52,403 --> 01:10:54,980 It felt rather hard just to listen. 1031 01:10:55,090 --> 01:10:57,262 I got the idea from someone else. 1032 01:10:57,325 --> 01:10:59,467 Who was this someone? 1033 01:10:59,654 --> 01:11:03,941 Shinichii's older borother, Ryusuke... of the Tatsumura Shop. 1034 01:11:04,058 --> 01:11:07,809 Shin-san's father is doing a steady busiiness there. 1035 01:11:07,951 --> 01:11:11,181 They have two good head clerks. 1036 01:11:11,283 --> 01:11:14,974 If Uemura were to leave, one could come here... 1037 01:11:15,115 --> 01:11:19,375 "Or even I could come," he said. 1038 01:11:26,221 --> 01:11:28,032 You mean Ryusuke could? 1039 01:11:28,140 --> 01:11:31,194 Yes. He said he will eventually enter business... 1040 01:11:31,265 --> 01:11:35,046 and so can drop his degree at any time. 1041 01:11:39,243 --> 01:11:42,516 About father... he said he's a dreamer. 1042 01:11:42,602 --> 01:11:44,633 Ryusuke said that too? 1043 01:11:44,767 --> 01:11:46,014 Yes. 1044 01:11:47,633 --> 01:11:50,783 He seems to understand a lot. 1045 01:12:08,399 --> 01:12:10,412 That's a nice obi. 1046 01:12:11,158 --> 01:12:14,103 It's unique. Which client? 1047 01:12:14,173 --> 01:12:15,211 Miss Naeko. 1048 01:12:15,322 --> 01:12:18,134 No... Miss Chieko, Mr. Sada's daughter. 1049 01:12:18,250 --> 01:12:19,242 The design...? 1050 01:12:19,336 --> 01:12:20,671 Miss Chieko's idea. 1051 01:12:20,820 --> 01:12:24,685 Oh... Miss Chieko... is that right! 1052 01:12:26,134 --> 01:12:29,860 A nice tight weave. Keep it up. 1053 01:12:35,068 --> 01:12:36,507 Hideo... 1054 01:12:37,632 --> 01:12:40,499 Remember what I said before. 1055 01:12:40,725 --> 01:12:43,097 We owe Mr. Sada a lot. 1056 01:12:44,124 --> 01:12:45,792 I hear you, father. 1057 01:12:48,358 --> 01:12:50,191 As I said before... 1058 01:12:50,835 --> 01:12:54,709 I started as a sales boy... then started on my own. 1059 01:12:54,815 --> 01:12:58,321 Finally I managed to pay for a loom. 1060 01:12:59,011 --> 01:13:01,919 Even then, half was borrowed. 1061 01:13:02,659 --> 01:13:04,770 Each time I finished an obi... 1062 01:13:04,965 --> 01:13:08,237 I'd always take it to Mr. Sada. 1063 01:13:08,731 --> 01:13:10,965 I used to feel shy bringing only one obi... 1064 01:13:11,035 --> 01:13:13,640 so I'd go quietly in the evening. 1065 01:13:15,683 --> 01:13:17,925 But Mr. Sada never once... 1066 01:13:18,003 --> 01:13:20,588 made a face. 1067 01:13:22,199 --> 01:13:25,349 One loom somehow became three... 1068 01:13:25,777 --> 01:13:28,482 well, we manage. 1069 01:13:31,872 --> 01:13:33,763 We're different, Hideo... 1070 01:13:34,224 --> 01:13:36,692 our class is still lower. 1071 01:13:40,922 --> 01:13:42,445 As for you Hideo... 1072 01:13:42,742 --> 01:13:44,953 Mr. Sada's daughter... 1073 01:13:45,868 --> 01:13:48,040 That's as it is. 1074 01:14:30,232 --> 01:14:33,310 You've come a long way up the hills. 1075 01:14:33,670 --> 01:14:36,138 The promised obi... is finally done. 1076 01:14:36,232 --> 01:14:37,794 So I brought it. 1077 01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:41,023 An obi for the pretend Chieko. 1078 01:14:48,926 --> 01:14:50,626 What d'you think? 1079 01:14:51,754 --> 01:14:54,414 This will be the front... 1080 01:14:55,366 --> 01:14:57,210 This part comes at the back. 1081 01:14:57,569 --> 01:15:01,328 Wah... it's too fine for me. 1082 01:15:01,462 --> 01:15:04,266 The work of a novice isn't too fine. 1083 01:15:08,141 --> 01:15:11,141 Miss Chieko's idea to use cedar and red pine... 1084 01:15:11,227 --> 01:15:13,227 only now I'm here, I understand. 1085 01:15:13,297 --> 01:15:15,505 Day before yesterday Miss Chieko's shop... 1086 01:15:15,583 --> 01:15:19,610 even sent a kimono and slippers for me. 1087 01:15:19,726 --> 01:15:22,245 For me... when will I wear it. 1088 01:15:22,356 --> 01:15:25,289 On the 22nd is the Jidai Festival... can you leave? 1089 01:15:25,357 --> 01:15:27,482 Yes... they'll let me. 1090 01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:29,695 Please definitely wear this then. 1091 01:15:29,864 --> 01:15:32,423 I also want Miss Chieko to see this. 1092 01:15:35,013 --> 01:15:37,221 Hideo... truthfully... 1093 01:15:37,323 --> 01:15:41,807 now that I've found Miss Chieko... I want to stop seeing her. 1094 01:15:42,052 --> 01:15:45,810 Though I'm grateful for the kimono and obi, just this once... 1095 01:15:45,985 --> 01:15:48,059 hopefully you understand. 1096 01:15:48,188 --> 01:15:49,392 Yes. 1097 01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,134 This time I won't call Miss Chieko. 1098 01:15:52,485 --> 01:15:55,181 The Jidai Procession starts from the Kyoto Palace. 1099 01:15:55,313 --> 01:15:59,383 I'll wait at the Sakaimachi Gate on the south side... Is that okay? 1100 01:16:11,243 --> 01:16:14,733 Thank you. Sorry. 1101 01:16:28,196 --> 01:16:30,773 Around here... we make the cedar beautifull. 1102 01:16:30,828 --> 01:16:34,164 We don't bother much about how we look. 1103 01:16:36,281 --> 01:16:38,718 Sorry to repeat, Naeko... 1104 01:16:39,056 --> 01:16:41,415 Jidai Festival, meet me... 1105 01:16:42,001 --> 01:16:44,540 south of the Sakaimachi Gate. 1106 01:16:45,993 --> 01:16:47,531 Yes. 1107 01:16:56,991 --> 01:17:01,638 The Jidai Festival... commemorates Kyoto's history as Japan's capital. 1108 01:17:01,715 --> 01:17:07,131 The procession shows the various periods during its 1000 year plus reign. 1109 01:17:08,056 --> 01:17:10,931 On each float people in authentic costumes... 1110 01:17:10,993 --> 01:17:15,023 portray famous and popular characters from a specific era. 1111 01:17:30,634 --> 01:17:34,142 Miss, what a beautiful obi. Where did you buy it? 1112 01:17:34,183 --> 01:17:36,322 The combination looks so good on you 1113 01:17:36,431 --> 01:17:39,766 Could I see it from the back for a second? 1114 01:17:42,619 --> 01:17:46,150 Thank you. Sorry to have bothered you. 1115 01:17:51,249 --> 01:17:52,991 Naeko-san... 1116 01:17:54,616 --> 01:17:56,240 We meet again. 1117 01:17:56,365 --> 01:17:58,107 Yes. 1118 01:18:27,745 --> 01:18:29,385 Brother... 1119 01:18:34,347 --> 01:18:36,448 Hideo, what are you looking at? 1120 01:18:36,601 --> 01:18:38,341 The green of the pine trees. 1121 01:18:38,461 --> 01:18:40,906 Of cousre, the procession too... that is... 1122 01:18:40,992 --> 01:18:44,255 the green background highlights it beautifully. 1123 01:18:44,867 --> 01:18:48,903 The wide Imperial compound, the black pines... I love it. 1124 01:18:50,534 --> 01:18:53,726 You must have caught a glance of it... didn't you notice? 1125 01:18:53,812 --> 01:18:55,788 You're teasing me! 1126 01:19:25,361 --> 01:19:28,157 Hello... Chieko...? 1127 01:19:28,415 --> 01:19:32,603 You two seemed to be enjoying the Jidai procession. - What? 1128 01:19:33,758 --> 01:19:37,108 You were there too? Why didn't you say something to me then? 1129 01:19:37,217 --> 01:19:41,329 Ah, I was going to... but my brother stopped me. 1130 01:19:41,772 --> 01:19:46,086 Chieko... Chieko... Why don't you say something? 1131 01:19:46,817 --> 01:19:50,164 The one who placed this call was you, wasn't it? 1132 01:19:50,364 --> 01:19:53,799 Ah... right... you're right. 1133 01:19:54,364 --> 01:19:58,317 Actually... there's someone who wants to meet you. 1134 01:19:58,434 --> 01:20:01,112 What... see me? 1135 01:20:01,286 --> 01:20:03,840 Can you come to the Botanical Gardens? 1136 01:20:03,949 --> 01:20:06,910 Right. Of course I'll come too. 1137 01:20:15,890 --> 01:20:17,978 Thank you for waiting - No. 1138 01:20:18,054 --> 01:20:22,026 Actually, when I called you... it was for him. 1139 01:20:29,416 --> 01:20:31,213 Chieko... thanks for last time. 1140 01:20:31,338 --> 01:20:32,788 From me too. 1141 01:20:32,866 --> 01:20:34,635 Did you speak to the head clerk? 1142 01:20:34,713 --> 01:20:35,841 Yes. 1143 01:20:36,571 --> 01:20:40,969 It was a tough task. So today I wanted to ask how it went. 1144 01:20:52,435 --> 01:20:55,591 The accounts, the bank pass book in the safe... 1145 01:20:55,724 --> 01:20:59,263 the bank bonds... all that sort of thing I saw. 1146 01:20:59,334 --> 01:21:01,732 That's great... really great. 1147 01:21:01,794 --> 01:21:03,568 Chieko, your a kindhearted lady. 1148 01:21:03,943 --> 01:21:05,459 My brother's coaching you. 1149 01:21:05,513 --> 01:21:06,373 It's true. 1150 01:21:06,431 --> 01:21:08,461 I'm not just coaching you. 1151 01:21:08,564 --> 01:21:12,352 There's a strange rumour going round the shops near me. 1152 01:21:14,462 --> 01:21:16,503 If you weren't confident to deal with it... 1153 01:21:16,628 --> 01:21:19,604 I had already decided to come to your shop. 1154 01:21:20,487 --> 01:21:23,558 Only... it's better you dealt with it yourself. 1155 01:21:23,659 --> 01:21:25,901 Will the clerk change his attitude? 1156 01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:28,782 Yes... it seems so. 1157 01:21:29,132 --> 01:21:31,329 That's how it is then. 1158 01:21:32,976 --> 01:21:35,173 That's good, no? 1159 01:21:35,539 --> 01:21:36,874 Yes. 1160 01:21:40,453 --> 01:21:44,312 Chieko... are you free this evening? - What... 1161 01:21:45,008 --> 01:21:47,515 Oh yes. - Turtle soup is in season now. 1162 01:21:47,601 --> 01:21:48,560 I'm in! 1163 01:21:48,654 --> 01:21:50,589 Will you come? 1164 01:21:50,755 --> 01:21:52,177 Okay. 1165 01:22:02,034 --> 01:22:04,909 Chieko... you're all peachy pink. 1166 01:22:05,049 --> 01:22:07,501 I didn't drink even a little sake. 1167 01:22:07,586 --> 01:22:10,086 This soup stock is at least half sake. 1168 01:22:10,144 --> 01:22:11,515 Oh my... 1169 01:22:14,950 --> 01:22:16,840 Shinichi... - What? 1170 01:22:16,965 --> 01:22:19,754 The couple you saw in the Imperial compound at the Jidai procession... 1171 01:22:19,801 --> 01:22:21,925 You mistook someone else for me. 1172 01:22:22,004 --> 01:22:23,552 You saw from far off. 1173 01:22:23,650 --> 01:22:25,432 You don't have to hide it. 1174 01:22:25,483 --> 01:22:27,959 I'm not hiding anything. 1175 01:22:28,850 --> 01:22:33,391 Actually... that girl... is my sister. 1176 01:22:33,608 --> 01:22:34,872 What? 1177 01:22:35,076 --> 01:22:40,146 We are twins. She's my other half. 1178 01:22:44,155 --> 01:22:46,941 I was abandoned. 1179 01:22:48,354 --> 01:22:53,026 If that's true... they should have abandoned you by our shop. 1180 01:22:54,659 --> 01:22:57,611 Brother... she wasn't like she is now. 1181 01:22:57,689 --> 01:22:59,525 Chieko was just a baby. 1182 01:22:59,603 --> 01:23:01,049 A baby'd have been fine. 1183 01:23:01,127 --> 01:23:04,359 But brother... you say that because of how she is now. 1184 01:23:04,447 --> 01:23:05,347 No. 1185 01:23:05,408 --> 01:23:08,348 At that time... you were also just a child. 1186 01:23:08,429 --> 01:23:10,451 Can a child bring up a baby? 1187 01:23:10,562 --> 01:23:12,166 I could have. 1188 01:23:12,273 --> 01:23:14,356 You're cocksure as always. 1189 01:23:14,442 --> 01:23:15,415 You can't give in. 1190 01:23:15,517 --> 01:23:17,219 That's what you think, only... 1191 01:23:17,329 --> 01:23:20,243 I could have raised the baby Chieko. 1192 01:23:20,571 --> 01:23:23,282 Mother would've surely helped me. 1193 01:23:23,603 --> 01:23:25,843 Father would've been supportive too. 1194 01:23:25,921 --> 01:23:28,581 Brother, I'm no match for you. 1195 01:23:30,103 --> 01:23:33,468 We call my brother... wild boar warrior. 1196 01:23:33,604 --> 01:23:34,992 Wild boar warrior...? 1197 01:23:35,096 --> 01:23:37,919 If you're not careful he'll knock you flying. 1198 01:23:37,987 --> 01:23:40,924 Of course a festival acolyte can't beat a wild boar warrior. 1199 01:23:40,987 --> 01:23:41,887 What...? 1200 01:23:41,940 --> 01:23:45,071 The one who gets knocked flying is obviously the weaker one. 1201 01:23:45,124 --> 01:23:47,678 I can't get a break here. 1202 01:23:47,991 --> 01:23:51,875 But, you're not the only weak one, Shinichi. 1203 01:23:53,748 --> 01:23:55,537 Who else? 1204 01:23:55,762 --> 01:23:58,482 Who is it... this other one. 1205 01:24:09,666 --> 01:24:11,032 You still biting? 1206 01:24:11,111 --> 01:24:13,861 My... you still remember that. 1207 01:24:13,947 --> 01:24:15,815 I won't bite. Wan't to try? 1208 01:24:15,901 --> 01:24:17,470 That's scarry! 1209 01:24:18,370 --> 01:24:20,961 It's true I don't bite. 1210 01:24:24,384 --> 01:24:26,193 You're fully depraved now! 1211 01:24:26,271 --> 01:24:28,529 Was that depraved? 1212 01:24:29,236 --> 01:24:31,595 Wait just a second. 1213 01:24:32,603 --> 01:24:37,069 Good... that's much better. - Right... thank you. 1214 01:24:43,838 --> 01:24:46,939 Ah... this is the girl I met the other day. - Yes, she is. 1215 01:24:47,064 --> 01:24:49,509 I called her to say hello to you. 1216 01:24:49,619 --> 01:24:51,453 I'm glad you came. 1217 01:24:51,627 --> 01:24:54,916 Mr. Sada, you see, really likes Chie-chan. 1218 01:24:55,136 --> 01:24:58,855 Ah, you have good taste, although... you'll have to wait a long time. 1219 01:24:58,918 --> 01:25:02,073 Also next year in the spring she's moving to Ponto town. 1220 01:25:02,113 --> 01:25:03,975 Ponto town... Why? 1221 01:25:04,107 --> 01:25:06,888 She wants to study as a 'maiko'. ( Aprentice geisha ) 1222 01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:11,293 It's her dream to become a 'maiko', you see. 1223 01:25:14,284 --> 01:25:18,942 So chilly... and it's still only November. 1224 01:25:33,422 --> 01:25:35,046 I'm going out for a bit. 1225 01:25:35,086 --> 01:25:38,656 Up the mountain? Your outfit gives you away. 1226 01:25:38,875 --> 01:25:41,173 Well... I'm off then. 1227 01:25:43,772 --> 01:25:45,946 Ah... Chieko... 1228 01:25:50,765 --> 01:25:53,663 If you meet the Kitayama cedar girl... 1229 01:25:53,779 --> 01:25:57,874 if she's ever in trouble... or encounters some hardship... 1230 01:25:57,991 --> 01:26:01,511 any time you can bring her. We'll take her in. 1231 01:26:01,605 --> 01:26:03,238 Okay? 1232 01:26:03,441 --> 01:26:08,355 Your mother and I would be thrilled to find we have two daughters. 1233 01:26:09,208 --> 01:26:12,123 Father... thank you. 1234 01:26:12,567 --> 01:26:14,034 Thank you. 1235 01:26:14,976 --> 01:26:18,328 Chieko... we've raised you from a baby... 1236 01:26:18,437 --> 01:26:21,352 nothing you could do would make us love you any less. 1237 01:26:21,414 --> 01:26:25,283 So for this girl, we'd try to love her the same as you. 1238 01:26:25,467 --> 01:26:28,763 Being like you, she must be a nice girl. 1239 01:26:28,881 --> 01:26:30,859 Bring her, okay? 1240 01:26:31,444 --> 01:26:32,928 Father... 1241 01:26:33,213 --> 01:26:35,857 I am deeply thankful, only... 1242 01:26:35,959 --> 01:26:39,310 that girl... Naeko would never stay here. 1243 01:26:39,365 --> 01:26:40,962 Why? 1244 01:26:41,834 --> 01:26:45,383 She must feel she doesn't want to spoil my happiness even a little. 1245 01:26:45,462 --> 01:26:48,159 Why should she spoil it? 1246 01:26:48,665 --> 01:26:51,157 How could she spoil it? 1247 01:26:51,431 --> 01:26:54,819 Of course twenty years ago people didn't like twins... 1248 01:26:54,944 --> 01:26:57,487 but now it's no problem. 1249 01:27:37,309 --> 01:27:38,618 Today... 1250 01:27:38,848 --> 01:27:40,571 Chieko... 1251 01:27:41,091 --> 01:27:43,434 I have something to tell you. 1252 01:27:43,489 --> 01:27:45,223 What is it? 1253 01:27:46,177 --> 01:27:47,633 Actually... 1254 01:27:48,174 --> 01:27:49,897 Hideo-san... 1255 01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:54,482 said he wants to... marry me... and then... 1256 01:27:55,228 --> 01:27:56,807 And then...? 1257 01:27:57,017 --> 01:28:00,146 How did you answer him? 1258 01:28:00,775 --> 01:28:04,740 I couldn't answer such a question right away, you know. 1259 01:28:06,595 --> 01:28:08,587 After the Jidai Festival procession ended... 1260 01:28:08,665 --> 01:28:10,985 he invited me home. 1261 01:28:11,267 --> 01:28:15,995 To his house? Hideo-san's house? - Yes. 1262 01:28:16,204 --> 01:28:18,970 He has two younger brothers too. 1263 01:28:19,743 --> 01:28:22,720 He showed me their back garden, and... 1264 01:28:25,539 --> 01:28:27,608 when we become a couple... 1265 01:28:27,742 --> 01:28:30,085 he wants to build a small hut there... 1266 01:28:30,203 --> 01:28:34,417 and then... as much as possible he'll weave his own designs. 1267 01:28:34,877 --> 01:28:38,537 Hideo-san... told me that. 1268 01:28:45,315 --> 01:28:47,151 That's good, isn't it? 1269 01:28:47,529 --> 01:28:52,201 Good but... I think Hideo-san... sees me as your spirit double... 1270 01:28:52,294 --> 01:28:54,852 and is only marrying me as a proxy you. 1271 01:28:55,562 --> 01:28:58,343 As a young woman, it's obvious to me. 1272 01:28:58,492 --> 01:28:59,937 A spirit double? 1273 01:29:00,085 --> 01:29:02,289 What do you mean by spirit double? 1274 01:29:04,007 --> 01:29:07,615 A spirit double has no shape, no solid form. 1275 01:29:07,711 --> 01:29:11,876 But then... that it has no form is what makes it scarry. 1276 01:29:12,843 --> 01:29:15,722 A spriit double may be just a man's imagination... 1277 01:29:15,869 --> 01:29:18,068 or even appear in different places. 1278 01:29:18,175 --> 01:29:20,159 Can we ever be sure? 1279 01:29:20,815 --> 01:29:22,919 Even if I were a 60 year old grandma, 1280 01:29:23,011 --> 01:29:26,400 Chieko's spirit double would still appear as young as now. 1281 01:29:26,538 --> 01:29:28,600 Such an idea, really? 1282 01:29:29,038 --> 01:29:33,238 A beautiful spirit double would never be boring. 1283 01:29:33,772 --> 01:29:37,622 In fact... does such a thing really exist? 1284 01:29:38,499 --> 01:29:40,168 It does. 1285 01:29:41,530 --> 01:29:43,377 It's here. 1286 01:29:45,217 --> 01:29:49,874 There is no spirit double. You are my twin sister. 1287 01:29:51,972 --> 01:29:56,303 See... feel them... aren't my hands warm? 1288 01:30:02,531 --> 01:30:05,741 But still... Hideo-san... 1289 01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:10,148 misunderstanding me for you... 1290 01:30:10,249 --> 01:30:12,845 now is no longer a factor. 1291 01:30:12,971 --> 01:30:14,986 But deep down in Hideo-san's unconscious, 1292 01:30:15,072 --> 01:30:17,087 isn't Chieko's presence still deeply rooted. 1293 01:30:17,165 --> 01:30:19,925 It's not like that. - No... 1294 01:30:20,074 --> 01:30:22,183 even with no misunderstanding... 1295 01:30:22,416 --> 01:30:25,175 he'd still be marrying Chieko's proxy. 1296 01:30:26,184 --> 01:30:30,502 And... Hideo-san is an obi weaver... 1297 01:30:30,653 --> 01:30:33,372 in which case... I would also... 1298 01:30:33,434 --> 01:30:36,023 come into contact with Chieko's shop. 1299 01:30:36,114 --> 01:30:39,455 It would be awkward for you. People would look at you. 1300 01:30:39,704 --> 01:30:42,002 I'd feel so guilty I'd die. 1301 01:30:42,084 --> 01:30:45,179 I'd want to hide far, far away in the mountains, or.... 1302 01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:48,161 Do still you think like that? 1303 01:30:53,756 --> 01:30:55,242 Naeko... 1304 01:30:55,469 --> 01:30:58,623 please, just once, come to my shop. 1305 01:30:59,797 --> 01:31:01,694 Please come. 1306 01:31:03,359 --> 01:31:05,907 In the evening when everyone's gone home. 1307 01:31:06,029 --> 01:31:07,545 In the evening? 1308 01:31:07,861 --> 01:31:09,564 Stay over. 1309 01:31:10,017 --> 01:31:14,386 My mother and father know all about you, so... 1310 01:31:17,546 --> 01:31:20,124 At least... just one night... 1311 01:31:20,249 --> 01:31:23,096 I want to sleep beside you. 1312 01:31:41,157 --> 01:31:43,331 You should go back. 1313 01:31:45,414 --> 01:31:49,030 A shower's moving from Shyu ridge toward Kitayama. 1314 01:31:49,892 --> 01:31:52,582 It'll probably hail too. 1315 01:32:27,182 --> 01:32:31,048 Has your daughter... told you about our Ryusuke... 1316 01:32:31,127 --> 01:32:33,572 our "wild boar warrior"? - Yes. 1317 01:32:33,682 --> 01:32:36,268 I'm well aware I'm not that astute in business. 1318 01:32:36,362 --> 01:32:39,799 I realize that Ryusuke's offer to help is a kind one. 1319 01:32:40,096 --> 01:32:44,493 I'm very thankful he's willing to help in our shop, only... 1320 01:32:44,620 --> 01:32:47,588 if Ryusuke helped us, wouldn't it cause problems... 1321 01:32:47,651 --> 01:32:49,854 for you? - Well but... 1322 01:32:49,908 --> 01:32:53,229 if Ryusuke leaves... to help in your shop... 1323 01:32:53,315 --> 01:32:56,603 my hope is that his younger brother Shinichi would become more responsible. 1324 01:32:56,665 --> 01:32:58,641 That would be good for me too. 1325 01:32:58,759 --> 01:33:01,829 Shinichi is a kind hearted boy... 1326 01:33:01,907 --> 01:33:05,002 so his brother still teasingly calls him a 'temple acolyte'. ( think choir boy ) 1327 01:33:05,065 --> 01:33:07,143 He must have been very sweet... 1328 01:33:07,229 --> 01:33:09,948 he and my Chieko have been friends since those days. 1329 01:33:09,994 --> 01:33:12,402 Talking about your Chieko... 1330 01:33:12,502 --> 01:33:16,092 Ryusuke, wants to help at your shop... 1331 01:33:16,171 --> 01:33:19,233 even for half an hour... or one hour... 1332 01:33:19,319 --> 01:33:23,334 so he's near Chieko. That's his real motive. 1333 01:33:25,759 --> 01:33:28,087 Though my son is an ordinary boy... 1334 01:33:28,157 --> 01:33:30,399 I believe he's a good worker. 1335 01:33:30,461 --> 01:33:33,973 Never... would I try to influence you, but... 1336 01:33:34,110 --> 01:33:36,899 if there's a chance... Chieko might ever... 1337 01:33:36,970 --> 01:33:41,703 see Ryusuke as acceptable... even the slightest chance... 1338 01:33:41,766 --> 01:33:44,970 though I know... it would be too much to ask... 1339 01:33:45,032 --> 01:33:48,458 could you please adopt him into your family? 1340 01:33:48,540 --> 01:33:50,352 My family would disinherit him. 1341 01:33:50,446 --> 01:33:51,829 Disinherit...?! 1342 01:33:52,023 --> 01:33:54,352 Surely a large wholesaler mustn't lose its successor...? 1343 01:33:54,446 --> 01:33:59,270 Such conventions... don't ensure human happiness. 1344 01:33:59,364 --> 01:34:03,954 Having watched Ryusuke lately... this is how I feel. 1345 01:34:07,465 --> 01:34:11,028 You're too kind. Your offer is very generous. 1346 01:34:11,168 --> 01:34:13,410 Finally the young people must decide. 1347 01:34:13,504 --> 01:34:17,129 In the end it depends on how their relationship develops. 1348 01:34:17,852 --> 01:34:20,046 Chieko... was an orphan. 1349 01:34:20,194 --> 01:34:22,727 An orphan, so what? 1350 01:34:23,227 --> 01:34:25,406 Well... this conversation... 1351 01:34:25,453 --> 01:34:28,224 let's please keep this to ourselves. 1352 01:34:28,309 --> 01:34:31,809 So Ryusuke... shall I send him to help in your shop? 1353 01:34:31,887 --> 01:34:36,145 Certainly. - So... thank you, thank you. 1354 01:34:42,843 --> 01:34:45,218 Number 2,507... 1355 01:34:45,522 --> 01:34:46,726 Right. 1356 01:34:47,405 --> 01:34:49,694 Number 2,508... 1357 01:34:50,046 --> 01:34:51,413 Right. 1358 01:34:52,007 --> 01:34:54,436 Number 2,509... 1359 01:34:55,093 --> 01:34:56,389 Right. 1360 01:34:57,324 --> 01:34:59,566 Number 2,600... 1361 01:35:00,964 --> 01:35:03,066 Excuse me, but that one... 1362 01:35:05,519 --> 01:35:07,935 Number 2,601... 1363 01:35:09,228 --> 01:35:09,751 Right. 1364 01:35:09,837 --> 01:35:11,868 Number 2,602... 1365 01:35:12,595 --> 01:35:13,641 Right. 1366 01:35:13,758 --> 01:35:16,189 Number 2,603... 1367 01:36:10,832 --> 01:36:12,699 Excuse me... 1368 01:36:21,323 --> 01:36:24,416 Goodness... Naeko! 1369 01:36:25,847 --> 01:36:29,928 You are so welcome. Come. 1370 01:36:43,543 --> 01:36:47,648 Really you are very welcome. This evening has turned quite cold. 1371 01:36:47,825 --> 01:36:49,622 Listen Chieko... 1372 01:36:49,724 --> 01:36:53,610 Father and mother... how should I greet them. 1373 01:36:53,682 --> 01:36:57,197 I explained it all to them. So just say, "I'm Naeko." 1374 01:36:57,299 --> 01:36:59,848 Come... come in. 1375 01:37:06,380 --> 01:37:07,704 Come. 1376 01:37:08,037 --> 01:37:09,719 Come, come. 1377 01:37:17,557 --> 01:37:19,285 I'm Naeko. - Ahh... 1378 01:37:19,382 --> 01:37:23,366 You're welcome... truly very welcome. 1379 01:37:23,577 --> 01:37:25,241 Right? - Yes. 1380 01:37:27,565 --> 01:37:32,291 Chieko or... Naeko or... Naeko or... Chieko or... 1381 01:37:32,361 --> 01:37:34,940 What are you saying? 1382 01:37:35,101 --> 01:37:38,265 Chieko... take her up to the inner room... 1383 01:37:38,343 --> 01:37:41,394 and talk together comfortably. 1384 01:37:41,664 --> 01:37:42,825 Yes. 1385 01:37:43,156 --> 01:37:45,368 Come... Naeko. 1386 01:38:06,382 --> 01:38:10,553 If all people... were born twins... how would it be? 1387 01:38:11,214 --> 01:38:14,644 All the confusion, wouldn't it cause trouble. 1388 01:38:15,389 --> 01:38:19,681 We can never know... a person's destiny. 1389 01:38:24,476 --> 01:38:29,224 Naeko... wouldn't you like to stay a little longer? 1390 01:38:29,333 --> 01:38:32,069 Father and mother said so too. 1391 01:38:32,224 --> 01:38:35,240 I also feel lonely by myself. 1392 01:38:36,672 --> 01:38:40,810 On the cedar mountain... I don't know how free you are. 1393 01:38:41,770 --> 01:38:43,247 Miss... 1394 01:38:43,653 --> 01:38:46,347 our life now is very different... 1395 01:38:46,457 --> 01:38:49,190 our upbringing too was very different. 1396 01:38:49,903 --> 01:38:52,856 I can't spend my life living in town. 1397 01:38:52,926 --> 01:38:57,477 Only once... this one time I've come to your shop. 1398 01:38:58,098 --> 01:39:01,207 I wanted to show you the kimono you gave. 1399 01:39:03,494 --> 01:39:04,976 Miss... 1400 01:39:05,158 --> 01:39:07,580 My parents abandoned one baby. 1401 01:39:07,744 --> 01:39:09,910 You were that one. 1402 01:39:09,989 --> 01:39:13,777 That sort of thing... I've completely forgotten it. 1403 01:39:14,051 --> 01:39:17,463 I think both parents have been punished. 1404 01:39:18,778 --> 01:39:21,927 Even though I was just a baby... please forgive me. 1405 01:39:22,006 --> 01:39:26,254 In what way could you... be guilty or responsible? 1406 01:39:26,639 --> 01:39:27,654 Myself... 1407 01:39:27,756 --> 01:39:31,669 I don't want to disturb your happiness even the slightest. 1408 01:39:32,531 --> 01:39:34,747 I wish I could disappear! 1409 01:39:34,827 --> 01:39:39,244 I can't accept that! It'd be like losing my arm. 1410 01:39:42,281 --> 01:39:46,295 Naeko... are you unhappy? 1411 01:39:47,170 --> 01:39:48,756 No. 1412 01:39:49,709 --> 01:39:51,808 But I am lonely. 1413 01:39:58,573 --> 01:40:00,088 Naeko... 1414 01:40:00,237 --> 01:40:03,860 Hideo-san... you should marry him. 1415 01:40:04,397 --> 01:40:07,381 Though you say you're only my spirit double or proxy... 1416 01:40:07,897 --> 01:40:12,451 Naeko... just for once, considered getting married? 1417 01:40:18,411 --> 01:40:21,898 I'm also getting maried. - What! 1418 01:40:22,903 --> 01:40:27,444 He's from a big wholesale house, MIZUKI Ryusuke is his name. 1419 01:40:27,913 --> 01:40:31,482 Chieko... that man... 1420 01:40:31,780 --> 01:40:33,488 I like him. 1421 01:40:35,449 --> 01:40:38,500 I'm marrying him because I like him. 1422 01:40:49,472 --> 01:40:51,245 Drizzle... 1423 01:40:52,323 --> 01:40:53,870 Sleet... 1424 01:40:55,229 --> 01:40:57,634 Maybe it's wet snow 1425 01:40:58,120 --> 01:40:59,637 Snow... 1426 01:41:02,104 --> 01:41:04,383 It's silent, eh. 1427 01:41:05,323 --> 01:41:08,590 It's snow but not actually snow. 1428 01:41:09,193 --> 01:41:12,114 It's very fine light snow. 1429 01:41:44,139 --> 01:41:45,820 This must be happiness. 1430 01:41:45,991 --> 01:41:48,761 Could this be it? 1431 01:41:49,706 --> 01:41:51,941 Happiness rarely lasts. 1432 01:41:52,191 --> 01:41:55,694 Loneliness lasts longer, no? 1433 01:41:57,745 --> 01:42:00,589 Naeko... I feel warm. 1434 01:42:00,737 --> 01:42:01,925 I knew it. 1435 01:42:02,081 --> 01:42:04,230 Our work is different. 1436 01:42:04,331 --> 01:42:06,370 And where we stay. 1437 01:42:16,161 --> 01:42:19,496 The evening is getting much colder. 1438 01:42:19,795 --> 01:42:23,459 Powder snow... sparkles like diamonds. 1439 01:42:23,724 --> 01:42:26,279 Sometimes it stops... 1440 01:42:26,396 --> 01:42:28,981 then it sparkles again. 1441 01:42:40,341 --> 01:42:43,395 Chieko your place is warm now. 1442 01:42:43,528 --> 01:42:47,083 I'll move... to the other side. 1443 01:43:45,217 --> 01:43:46,951 Miss... 1444 01:43:47,271 --> 01:43:50,506 This was the happiest night of my life. 1445 01:43:51,248 --> 01:43:53,092 Before anyone sees me... 1446 01:43:53,428 --> 01:43:55,411 I'll go home. 1447 01:43:57,069 --> 01:44:00,733 Please... won't you come again? 1448 01:44:07,711 --> 01:44:11,630 Please... you must come again. 1449 01:44:23,632 --> 01:44:25,178 Miss... 1450 01:44:28,397 --> 01:44:30,592 goodbye. 1451 01:45:08,560 --> 01:45:15,812 Translation by Keiko Mima and Yuko W. Subtitles by salmond 1452 01:45:17,805 --> 01:45:22,705 THE END 106871