All language subtitles for PLATONIC.E01.720p.HDTV.x264.AAC-YYeTs

Men have it easy.

When they become fathers,
it is just an extension of their current selves.

However, it is different for women.

Once we give birth to a child,
we are either a woman or a mother...

...these are two very distinct separate beings.

The baby's coming out soon.

Normally, we aren't really aware of that.

While living our lives,
we don't really draw a line to separate the two

It's out.

A woman and a mother.

I wasn't allowed to be both.

My daughter was born with a weak heart.

A lifespan that is limited.

My poor little baby...

I gave up being a woman.

I could only be a mother that prays for her child...

Tokyo Medical University General Hospital

Sari... Sari!

Sari-chan... the doctor will be here soon.

Hello, Doctor? Where are you now?

Sari-chan, everything will be fine.
Let's take a look now. Okay, excuse me.

- Try to hold on.
- Excuse me.

Let's head to the ICU. Bring along the oxygen tank.

- What shall we do? Shall we go to the Karaoke?
- That sounds good.

How many times do I have to tell you before you get it?
Work in silence.

You will be bothering the customers!

No, no. There aren't any customers, are there?

I understand. If there aren't any customers and you are still
bothered over it, aren't you just being inefficient?

Don't be impudent!

- Ah ~ I QUIT!
- Oi...Wait...

- Welcome back
- Hi.

- Today's deliveries.
- Thank you.

- Who's that?
- The owner. She lives on the second floor.

- She is amazingly beautiful.

- Quit. You can just quit.
- Why?

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

...congenital heart disease...

- ... Jan 17th, 2011... Fetus' heart...
- ... five years survival rate...

... difficult to cure...

... high fatality...

Manga and Internet cafe

Suicide candidates' club

Suicidal Anonymous

- There is no way out but death
- I want to die. I want to die

If you really do die, my daugh...

Tsuru (crane)
If you really do die, please give your heart to my daughter.

- Why are there so many of such terrible people?
- This joker is not worrying over it
- F*ck. Administrator, please delete it ASAP.

How idiotic.

I offer you my heart.

Can I have another one of this? And the Belgian Waffles.

The Belgian Waffles will take some time to prepare.

Aren't you at work now? Is it okay to
not go back to the office?

You shouldn't be listening to such absurd things.

If you do that, there will be no turning back for you.

- Why?
- Why, she asks... Sis...

She needs a transplant. There isn't any other way
to save Sari, other than that.

And so, you honestly believe it?
Someone you'd met on the internet.

You take the words of such a fishy fella seriously?

That's because, if I do not do anything at all,
my thoughts start to run wild.

You're just tired. You should just rest and
not do such things.

I am always tired.

Al-ways. My body is used to it.

- Elder brother is worried too.
- He is no longer your elder brother.

How many years has it been since we'd divorced?

General Manager Saiki is worried too.

General Manager? Aah... that man is promoted again.

- It is cause he is a capable person.
- That's right.

That is why I've been saying. There is no way
he can forget about you, sis, and Sari...

Enough of such talk.

Your orange float.

What about you, Kazu? Your family.

Look, you had a big argument previously.

It's been cold war like.
She refuses to speak to me.

Why do women become so insolent after they've given birth?

They become someone else completely.
Like a demonic warrior. Demonic.

Recently, Haruhisa had his school entrance ceremony.

No matter how I hated it, I have no choice but to do that.

That's right... Haru-kun started elementary school .
Sorry. I didn't prepare any gifts...

No... that is not why I'd brought it up.

You patched up? With Mai-san.

I was reluctant to back down.

In the end, nothing good can come out of
having my wife in a foul mood.

- You've learnt.
- It's just such a pain.

It's already 5 o'clock.

Go home. I will send you to the hospital.

Smile.

He may be looking at us from somewhere.

If you are looking all irritated, even if you
have the folded paper crane to identify yourself...

- That's just idiotic.
- Smile.

- Sis...
- Please.

Someone who visits suicide websites is probably
a cowardly bum who locks himself in his room, right?

That's just a perception.

I think differently. If he does turn up, he will
look like a delinquent swindler.

- Swindle?
- He will just deceive you and ask for a huge sum of money.

- Swindle by offering their hearts?
- Is that so? I guess such things do happen.

Don't be using such a tone of voice.
As I'd mentioned earlier.

...it's probably a gang out to scam people
by taking advantage of their weaknesses.

The world is full of such people. For sure, it is as per what I'd said...

Smile!

- SIs.
- If you don't want to smile, then go home.

I say...

Can I?

- Doesn't have the aura of a recluse.
- What?

Doesn't seem like delinquent swindler either.

Welcome. Have you decided on your order?

Coffee. Aah~ Iced milk please.

Caffeine... how shall we say it...
My body from now on...

I need to take care of it, right?

Well, it is no longer just my body per se.

But then again, it may not be good if I
take too good care of it, right?

You... who are you? What are you planning?

- What are your intentions?
- Intentions...

It's as per our chat exchange.

Your heart for my daughter.

- How much?
- How much? Money?

What's so funny?

Well, when I give my heart, that is when I die, no?
It's meaningless, right?

Oh, I guess I can use it for my cremation fees.

Forgive me, but can you pay that at least?

Once I've been cremated, you can scatter my ashes
in the sea, or anywhere.

But to be asking for these now, is a little hard, right?

Excuse me, your iced milk.

Your Belgian Waffles. Sorry to have kept you waiting.

You shouldn't be just slurping...

Sorry. I ran because I was running late.
So I am thirsty now.

Are you making a fool of me? You don't want money.
You are giving it for free?

- Yes.
- Do you think there will be anyone who will seriously believe such good fortune?

Is it good fortune? Well, normal people do not desire others' hearts, do they?

- They won't know what to do with it.
- You have a point.

It so happens there is someone who wishes for it, while another
doesn't want it. That's all there is to it.

Is it like a crib? You don't want to use it anymore
so you give it away?

I rather think that would have more takers.

That's not the case. Many end up being oversized garbage.

- I guess it's due to the low birth rates.
- I guess.

- Anyway, who cares about that?
- That's true.

Don't be changing the subject.

- The one changing the subject is you, no?
- Well, now that you've mentioned it... you're right.

- For argument's sake, let us assume you are sincere.
- Yes.

- It's just too weird.
- Shall I go for a body check-up?

We need to know if I can give my heart.

Up till high school, I was a long-distance runner.

- Just hearing that is so creepy. Why?

- Did I say it?
- The reason. Reason.

Reason?

- The reason why you want to die.
- Is there a need for you to know?

I guess it is easy for me to say.

- Easy?
- Yes. Easy.

To make lightly of life and death. It makes me mad.

When a person wishes to die, there must be something that can be done.

Perhaps you've just lost the will to live.

Well, for sure sometimes things can get difficult.
But through it all...

Take me, for example. I work till exhaustion.

Back home, I am feuding with my wife.

I guess it's the children's cute sleeping faces that make up for it.

- Oi! Pay attention.
- Sorry.

You're one of those workers, right?

NPO? Or some society that is out to help the suicidal young or something?
- No...

- Excuse me.
- Oi! Wait a minute...

- What are you doing?
- Sis! Sis!

That fella is definitely a psycho.

If it isn't a prank, then it has to be a woman,
that is what I'd thought.

Must be a desperate mother.

- That person?
- Newbie. I'd heard from the owner.

He will be taking over the midnight shifts,
so that helps me a lot.

That will be 250 yen.

I'd received the exact amount.

Glioblastoma. Malignant brain tumor.

It has infiltrated into the nervous system.

At Yokohama Kouhoku University...

Yes. They are the leading experts on brain surgery.

Do you think we can make some enquiries?

With regards to this patient?

You know right? About the patient-doctor's confidentiality?

The person in charge at their cancer unit is my junior in college.

I'm sorry.

Mama? Has something happened?

- Not really.
- You're lying. I can tell. Is it something good?

- I am not sure if it is a good thing or not.
- Tell me.

I will be happy if Mama, you have something good happened to you.

But it's nothing big. I found someone for the midnight shift.

Is that so? What kind of person? A student?

- No. I am not very sure.
- Did you not meet?

I did meet him, but I have yet to read his resume.

- Is that so?
- Yup.

Are you from around here?

Eh?

As long as you haven't made it through the door,
it is still not a crime.

But once you make it past, then I will have
no choice but to give chase.

Then, as per the work manual,

...I will have to call the police.

- What?
- It will be too much trouble.

For you too, as you will no longer be able to come here again.

You will have no choice but to shop at the
convenience store in front of the station.

That will be inconvenient for you too. So, it will be
advantageous for both of us.

- What are you going on about?
- Please exercise rational judgement.

Things will be bad if you are found out.

From now on, you will find it hard to come here...

But that doesn't have to be the case.
I have not taken a look at your face yet.

Can you either return them to shelf, or pay for them?

I like these too.

Heavy!...

Sorry. You find it difficult to eat with me looking on, right?

- No, it's fine.
- Erm... how shall I address you?

There isn't any need for you to call me by name, right?

Like the pet shop owner. By giving them names,
he will start to emphatise with the animals.

- No matter how much you want to do it for your daughter.
- But that...

"You" is fine. You can call me "you".

I understand. But...

But?

- When did you find out about your illness?
- Two years ago.

- At that time...
- The usual.
- Usual?

You can say I was just the usual salaryman.

Your family...? Or your girlfriends?

Well, how was it... I have forgotten.

Sorry. I didn't mean to pry or anything...

I know. You live by day and I by night.

But there will be times that coincide.

And we will have no choice but to share the same space.

If we do not at least know the basics about each other,
then it will be rather uncomfortable, right?

- But...
- Yes. But we have to stay close.

Unlike other organ transplants, like the liver or the kidney,
a heart transplant is a race against time.

We need to call the ambulance and rush over
to your daughter's hospital immediately.

So to speak, it needs to be really fresh.

It's good if I am here at the shop. If I should have a
severe attack at the internet cafe, for example...

...by the time I am found, the time limit may have been breached.

- Yes.
- It is a rational decision.

I... how shall I put it...

- Lucky.
- No. That's not...
- I think it is fine to think that way.

Coincidentally, we were at the same website at the same time.

For me, while surfing the net, it is common for me
to visit those sites.

But for you, it was probably your first time.

- Yes.
- The chances of us meeting were astronomically low.

Therefore, we should say it was more of an inevitability than a coincidence.

Inevitability?

Fate... you can call it that too.

- Welcome...
- Excuse us...

- We're coming in.
- Wait a minute. What is it? Hey!

Is it this guy? That dodgy fella...

Stop it! What's this? Don't just barge in.

Sara, what on earth are you thinking?
We'll find a way.

- It's none of your business.
- Sis, you can't say that.

Brother was so worried, he had cancelled his meeting
to come all the way here.

I didn't ask him to! We're divorced.

Even if we are divorced, it doesn't change the fact
that I am Sari's father.

That's right. He has been paying the child support,
hospital fees and medical fees. He has fully cooperated, no?

- You should discuss with brother...General Manager first.

- Even if I had discussed with you, you wouldn't have understood.

That's a given. For you to be living together with
this fella is beyond reason.

I can only think that you've gone mad!

Get out! Right now!

Stop that! For Sari and for us, this person's heart...

You're suicidal, right? Fine. If that's the case, then die.

Right now, let me see you die here!
What's wrong? Just die!

- Kazuhisa, bring the knife.
- Eh? Okay.

- Hold on. What's this? Stop it.
- Sis...

Bring it quick.

I'll cut you up. You don't mind, right?
In order to get to where I am

I have had to fight with it out with
all the sly foxes at my workplace.

- I'm not messing around, brat!
- Stop it!

Sara...

- Go home!
- You'd suddenly...

I'm fine. Just go!

Sara. I still...

I'm sorry. We've been living apart for over 10 years.

We'd gone through various mediations.

- Your husband didn't want the divorce?

- If we had gone to court, it would have damaged his image at work.

Finally, 3 years ago.

He looks like someone who is into power and
moral harrassment?

He is a gentle man by nature.
The reason is probably me.

I became a 100% mother, and I wasn't able to be a wife.

He was very understanding. But Sari...

Due to my daughter's condition, all my energy and thoughts
were for her only.

- It couldn't be helped.
- Yes.

Even though he had demanded nothing from me,
the woman in me could feel his expectations of me.

Well, it was what you'd call a heavy burden.

And you felt guilty too?

It has been said, "nothing comes from nothing", right?

I am Sari's mother. I discarded the woman in me.

Discarded the woman?

Yes.

Is that something possible?

Two years ago he was diagnosed at Kouhoku University Hospital,
after which he had returned for a second and third opinion.

Yes. I heard that from him too.

There isn't anything more that can be done.
Anyway, it is a young patient.

- It leaves one feeling shaken.
- Is that so?

I heard he had suddenly cut off all contacts with everyone.

In the beginning, he had been calling home
to Nagoya frequently though.

Most likely, the family must be worrying that something
bad had happened, and had gone to the police.

- Mochizuki-san.
- Yes?

Could it be that this patient is with you?

Yes. And that is why I am here to consult you, doctor.

- Over the heart transplant matter?
- Yes

- We can't. We cannot, Mochizuki-san.
- But that is Sari's only hope.

She is finally of age to be able to received an adult's heart,
that is what you, doctor, had...

That and this are two totally different matters.
It is not as straightforward as that.

- But, for Sari, he is is willing to...
- Let's go outside for a while.

Let's go to somewhere more public to talk this over.

Who are you?

I am working the night shifts at your Mama's shop.

Aah. The newly hired part-timer.

We had talked about it before.
Mama brought you along, right?

I... look, I have always been in here, right?

And so, I can only read books and
let my imagination run wild.

But, the people who come here, are always the same old faces.

I understand. It feels like the world is so suffocatingly small.

That's right. That is why I had always selfishly requested
to meet Mama's acquaintances, no matter what it takes.

Then, I can now become someone from some story.

From now on, yes.

- If that's the case, I am honoured.
- Which character will you be?

Hmm... I can be anything you wish each time.

One complete character.

I see...well, I'm past the age of being you prince charming.

No. Let's keep everything blank.

If we let reality creep in, then it will be a bitter story.

- Bitter? Why?
- Because, in my story...

I will be walking as per normal.

No. I can even be running on the sandy beach along the sea.

If Prince Charming has reality factored in.

Then in that moment, I would tumble and fall.

- I see.
- But since you've come all the way here,

...it's not possible for you to be playing a minor role.

It's fine. You don't have to worry over that.

Someone who has magical powers. What do you think?

Hmm... you are not keen on that?

No such thing. Of course I am keen.

Really? Then that's good.

For heart transplants, we can only accept those from
patients who are 100% brain dead.

Yes.

That is why we are limited in terms of donors.

Due to that, there have been quite a few cases where
the operations carried out were non-compliant with the rules.

Yes. That is why, he is staying near us...

It will be deem as an organ trade.

Even if the donor himself allows it.

If we can choose the recipients, there are
people who will go to the extent of murder.

For example...

- A mother that is trying to save the life of her daughter.
- That's...

Sara-san, please pull yourself together.
I understand how painful it is for you.

As your attending doctor , I have been watching over you both.

At the beginning, they had said that she wouldn't live past 5 years old.

But she had struggled. She struggled really hard.

It has been heart-breakingly painful...

What was it for? What the hell was it for?

Sorry. I am so sorry.

Please forgive Mama.

Oh...it's you.

Good morning. Did I wake you up?

They have expired, but from now on
I will be bringing them over now and then.

I started working at the convenience store.

- There's tea too.
- Looks like you've found it.

How shall I put it... the thing you were looking for...

Yes, yes. You're the fella that is looking for something.

How did you know?

Well, if that is not the case, you wouldn't be
looking in on me now, would you?

Wah? Do you think of me as such a cold person?

Us humans, we are all cold. Fundamentally...

Are you still so cynical about life?

Yes, I am cynical. That is why, I intend to live this
way till the end.

Did you not say you intend to be carefree?

So I did. I guess that's the most important thing when we age.

Yes.

But, it's different for the young.

When a young fella says he wants to lead a carefree life.

It's a lie.

Of late, it seems to be that way.
Men who are not the traditional stereotypes...

And women who are... what do they call it?
A dried up young woman uninterested in love.

They've all become insincere.
For a sincere young human being,

To be carefree is to be bitter.

That rainy day, sitting over there,
you were just like that, right?

You will freeze to death.

I am just another man.

Rolling about, it was just the usual.

But when a fire was lit under my butt

The scenery in front of me changed completely.

The world had changed completely.

I wonder what will be my legacy to this world...

Who are you? Don't come near me!

Don't come near me!

Don't come near me!

- Leave! Leave!
- I will come by again.

The food is ready.

Yes.

Your salary for the part-time work.
I've added a little extra.

Are you firing me?

I am sorry.

Is it due to your husband or brother's further objections?

No. That has nothing to do with it.
Those 2 have nothing to do with it.

I only care about my daughter and I.

In the end, I'm unable to accept your kind gesture.

If I think it over rationally, that should be the case.
That's a given.

What was I thinking?

I am truly sorry for this 180-degree turn.

My heart cannot be used?

There are many people waiting their turns.
They do not allow people to specify who gets the transplant.

It will be deemed organ trading?

Thanks. I will not forget your offer.

I am truly grateful. Since your diagnosis...

Since then till now, the feelings that you've gone through.

Even after hearing from the doctor,
I've never once thought of them.

I am so ashamed to call myself human.
I will repent from now on.

You are short of staff for the late night shift.

Usui-san will take over until we find someone else.

Here.

Home-made perfume.

You didn't sleep well last night, right?
Even for a brief time only...

... you need to sleep soundly.

Rose, Geranium, Cypress, Patcholi.
I also added 3 drops of Lemon.

I still have things to say.

Since meeting your daughter...
since meeting Sari-chan,

I've relooked at the issue of heart transplants.

There is always an exception to the rule.
For everything.

We can call it a loophole in this case.

No matter what, I am dying.

I should be the one thanking you.

You will be helping me with the only possible way
for me to make my having lived significant.

You can just say it out.

Or in such cases, I guess...

... it has to be the man who say the words?

That is... if the relationship is that of a first-degree kinship.

In other words, it isn't a problem when it's the father
who wants to leave his daughter his heart.

Let's get married.

- Wh...what?
- Just nod, please.

These magical words will make that moment come true.

Magic?

Are you aversed to a younger man?

It's time for me to start work at the shop.

Me, by choosing motherhood,

I had abandoned the woman in me.

Together with my daughter, in a suffocatingly tiny world,

... we had closeted ourselves in for the longest of seasons.

One day, a ray of light crept in.

All of a sudden, without us realising it, gently.

An orange colored sunlight like that of the setting sun's.

The me who reached out for that light,
eventually became all confused.

I knew the sweet, sweet light is something forbidden...

The door must not be opened. Can I still make it?

Yes, never, never...

...fall in love with that man.

From: Koizumi Mioko
Tonight at 8. Be on time.

�- Have a good evening.
- Have a good evening.