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DUMP TRUCK CHIVALRY

My daughter will be 4 soon.

I farm with my mother-in-law.

But my husband hated to be a farmer.

He left, as if he was fleeing.

And...

die in this...

unknown land.

Narimune!

Narimune!

Narimune! Narimune!

You...

worked in the coal mines in Hokkaido?

Yes.

My husband wrote about you in his postcards.

We haven't seen each other for 3 years.

And he died.

So silly!

DUMP TRUNK VAGABOND

Sorry.

Sorry!

Nothing good has happened to me.

He had always been far from me.

Not even sweet words from him.

I worked all day in the fields.

I took care of my mother-in-law.

While I waited for him.

He said, "I'm not cut out to be a farmer."

He didn't even come back for Bon nor New Year!

Please...

close your eyes.

If you want, just imagine I'm Narimune.

Thank you!

He...

never said anything about me, right?

And the kid too?

He preferred a dump trunk to us!

So he's my enemy!

Is it really OK?

Kurata?

Yes, come.

Kurata!

Hold me! Tight!

Yes!

Kurata!

Where do we come from?

What are we?

Where are we going?

O SEAGULL, HAVE YOU SEEN THE SPARKLING OCEAN?

AN ENCOUNTER

Executive Producers Kano Otsuka, Yosuke Taga

Producers Namio Miura, Takayoshi Miyagawa

Based on the Novel and Written by Yoshiki Iwama

Photographed by Koshiro Otsu

Music by Riichiro Manabe

♪ Oh seagull, ♪

♪ Have you seen the sparkling ocean? ♪

♪ Are broken hopes... ♪

♪ Floating on it? ♪

♪ The town in dazzling sunlight. ♪

♪ Their dry... ♪

♪ Footsteps of lies. ♪

♪ Do tears contain a salty ocean? ♪

♪ Who then, ♪

♪ Is crying in it? ♪

Starring

Ken Tanaka

Yoko Takahashi

Akemi Negishi

Masami Simojo

Taeko Shinbashi

Michio Hino

Ayako Kuroda

Fumiyo Sasada

Kenichi Ogiwara

Directed by Kenji Yoshida

Alright. Alright.

What are you doing?

Lovely-itchy!

- Hello, Yoko Trading. - Lend me this. - Yes.

Yes, we'll check it at once.

- Ms. Fujishita. - Yes.

- Send it with the accounts statement. - Yes.

Yuck!

You're getting married?

Sorry I didn't tell you, Kumi.

What a surprise.

I didn't want to tell you until it was for real.

Congratulations.

What's wrong?

- When did you... - It's been a while...

but not really a long time.

- Tell me about him. - An ordinary office worker.

- Handsome? - No!

Getting married...

- I'm home. - You're home.

That Takuya called you again.

- Satoru, want some chocolate? - Yes.

- Here. - Thank you. - Good for you.

- Your boyfriend? - No... an ex.

- Ignore him. - Oh?

Oh yes. Could you look after him this Sunday?

- Sure. - I have a date with a client.

It's part of my job!

Bye.

Let's go.

Bye, Satoru.

Ayako got married ahead of me.

So warm!

Thanks. Thank you very much.

She's Kumi...

her name is Kumi Fujishita.

Kumi!

Kumi!

What are you doing, fool! You're working!

Kumi shot me!

Kumi!

Kurata? Come in.

Coming in.

I'm home. You're home.

I'm so tired today!

♪ Without thinking, you jumped on a train. ♪

♪ And went to your Tokyo, your Tokyo. ♪

♪ You keep your dreams and hopes. ♪

♪ You were living in Tokyo. ♪

I got it!

It's burning my heart,

the maiden's beauty, her legs...

What is a maiden?

Spaghetti and omelet rice.

What do you think? What a silly face.

A man with that face must be doing some strange jobs!

Hello!

Hi.

Tastes better with Tabasco.

No! No!

Thanks.

I saw them. I saw them.

I saw your fat legs.

I saw them...

Kumi!

Kumi. Open up!

It's not easy to forget you.

I love you. I mean it.

I apologize. Please?

I'm sorry.

Please!

Kumi!

Kumi!

She dumped me just like that!

She got so classy after coming to Tokyo.

Well then!

What a guy!

Worse than the window cleaner.

So Ayako is getting married!

Too big a dream for me!

- This one? - Yes.

- How about this? - Yes.

OK.

Mont blanc and cream puff. Two each.

Kumi. Kumi.

Want to eat sauteed livers?

Let's go.

He's sick!

Bye.

I saw them. I saw them.

I saw your fat legs.

Kumi.

Kumi.

I miss you!

I miss you!

You're too aloof, and people stay away from you.

You want to be aloof.

Don't be so old-fashioned, Kumi.

Call me old-fashioned.

I want a vivid life.

Am I a country girl?

Sorry, Ayako.

I'm stubborn. I won't give in so easily.

You're a man.

That's why I think it's OK to introduce Yasu to you.

Your mom never stops mentioning you.

He said he wants to meet you.

- Where are you going next? - Chugoku... what is that?

Chugoku Expressway.

I'll work on its construction.

I'll work at the canteen.

Taking care of the young people.

Come with us!

He has his thing to do!

Oh yes.

One can make money anywhere.

Yes!

Want something?

- Well... - Soup? - Yes!

Two soups!

Where are you going?

Toilet.

He...

once had 20 workers in Akahira.

Toshio sent me this. It's for you.

Really?

The coal mines are closed one by one.

Dad died at the right time.

He didn't have to face this.

Have some.

He pees a lot.

Like a kid!

Katsuo!

Bastard!

Fool!

What should I do with her?

Stop!

You...

You do what you like.

"Come with us!"

What highway?

"He pees a lot."

Die, chimpanzee!

You're a fool, Mom.

We're going to rent an apartment in Yokohama.

I'll quit when I get pregnant.

I feel I've made the right decision.

Crap.

Yoko Trading.

- Yes. - It's ready.

Resporko is the place to go.

The sky is blue and transparent.

The white beach is endless.

Pink whales spray water right in front of you.

Wait, Kumi!

In Resporko, it's normal...

for a man to chat up a woman.

Hey! Who are you?

She shot me in the heart, and I died on the spot.

Re.. Re... Re...

Re... Re... Resi...

por...

Where is Resporko?

Resporko? I don't know.

Resporko...

Resporko...

There's no such place!

Your office told me.

What do you want?

I came to tell you more about Resporko.

There's no such place. I checked!

It's better for nobody else to know it.

Nothing to do with me.

It does!

How?

It does.

I thought I could tell you about it.

Don't come again!

Kumi!

It's rude to tell a woman she has fat legs!

What a guy!

No one has ever told me my legs are fat!

Fat?

I've been waiting.

You're harassing me! You are!

I have a lot to tell you!

I don't!

Oh?

Kumi! Please listen to me!

- You're so self-centred. - How?

Don't mess up my life!

- I'm messing it up? - Yes!

Really?

Yes, you are!

Go!

Grave of Kanamaru.

Grave of Seguchi.

Built by eldest son Bunzaemon.

Grave of Nakamura.

Built by relatives.

Grave of Sawamura.

Built in 1973.

Grave of Tanaka.

Stock... what... construction.

Grave of Daizaburo Kitamura.

Daizaburo? Good name.

Be clean... forever.

A kid.

Grave of Okazaki.

Okazaki... Xavier A. Horman.

What... church.

In Resporko, when people die, they're put to the sea.

The tides take them to heaven.

- The sea of Resporko... - I hate the sea.

I hate it.

- Let's go to the sea! - No!

- Yes! - No!

- Come! - No!

No!

Come!

No!

- Why? - Let me go!

Kumi!

A seagull.

It's alive.

Kumi!

Kumi!

Kumi! What are you doing?

What are you doing?

It's alive!

Don't! It's still alive!

It won't survive.

I hate to live shamefully!

Die.

Mom suffers because of me.

I hate to live shamefully!

No!

I can't... help it.

I can't help it.

Kumi!

Kumi!

Don't leave me, Kumi!

There are no fish. If you leave me, what would I be?

Please! Don't leave me!

Kumi!

Don't leave me!

I'll nurse it back to health.

Shameful...

but alive.

Let's break up.

It's for the best.

♪ The train pulling coal. ♪

♪ The toilet insect dragging its tail. ♪

♪ The prisoner... ♪

♪ Dragging his chains. ♪

♪ The prisoner... ♪

♪ Dragging his chains. ♪

♪ No painter... ♪

♪ Could capture those sights. ♪

- The seagull has recovered. - Good.

- Oh. - Thanks for the flowers.

- You like flowers? - Not really.

- I'm practicing growing flowers. - Why?

To...

go to Resporko and grow flowers.

Stop your loony talk.

Loony?

It's loony for a man to talk about fairy tales as if they're real.

That Resporko thing is stupid!

I...

came to Tokyo because I hate the stupid life back home.

But my dreams are realistic.

That's why...

I don't think you're right for me.

Your side of the window,

and mine, are different.

Our paths won't cross.

Cross them! Cross them!

Let's cross them!

Cross them!

Why wouldn't they cross?

Cross them!

I want to.

After I left the coal mine,

I worked in a village of reclaimed land.

I ploughed the soil,

In the summer, I planted rice.

When they were ripe,

the grains went splash!

Like a big bush!

In the 5th year that I stayed with that family,

they killed themselves with poison.

Is that something to cheer a girl up?

Because you hate hearing about Resporko.

How about that?

I fished for squids...

in a small village.

There were only old people.

I worked all night.

I slept all day,

naked.

I opened my eyes,

the old women were looking me all over.

Their eyes never left my body.

They said,

there were no young men.

Why tell me all that?

What's so funny?

It isn't funny!

That's all I can tell.

It's so dirty!

Listen!

This is me!

I have nothing nice to tell you!

No...

no... no...

No!

I came to Tokyo because I hate the stupid life back home.

You're nice, but...

I don't like you.

I don't.

Where do we come from?

What are we?

Where are we going?

"You're nice, but..."!

What's wrong? Drink!

No!

The check please.

Thanks.

You OK?

- Am I OK? - Take care.

You don't like me?

I'm not right for you?

You're too noisy!

What the hell?

- You're noisy. - Who's noisy?

Get up!

The train pulling coal.

The toilet insect dragging its tail.

The prisoner...

dragging his chains.

The prisoner...

dragging his chains.

No painter...

could capture those sights.

Congratulations!

Thank you! Thank you!

- Congratulations! - Thank you!

- Congratulations. - Thanks for all these years.

- Cherish your husband! - Yes!

- Congratulations! - Thank you!

- Where are you going for honeymoon? - Europe.

Hey you! Hands off me!

Fool!

Farmer!

Who do you think you are? Useless man!

What?

Sad?

Bastard!

What are you thinking of all day? Young man!

You came at the right time.

Without a night guard we can't use the warehouse.

This is a warehouse area.

It's the warehouse for products over there.

- You were a window cleaner? - Yes.

You'll work from 6 pm to 7 am.

I don't care if you take a job in the daytime.

Just be here at the right time.

Is that a stove?

You can do some simple cooking.

You'll eat out?

Be careful with fire.

- Yes. - What's this?

A seagull.

It's cute!

The sky is blue and transparent.

The white beach is endless.

There are fountains.

There are trees with red trunks.

There are brown-skinned women with fat legs and waists.

The men went fishing.

Yesterday the pink whale swallowed up a young man.

One man died,

but a boy was born yesterday.

Cancelling it out.

On this island,

there are no windows.

So there is no outside,

and inside.

Excuse me. Do you live here?

- No... Kurata... - What?

Who are you?

- I'm looking for... - Katsuo?

Yes.

I'm in a fix too.

I knew only this place.

I don't know his new place.

I'm his mother!

Come in. It's no fancy place.

Thank you.

It's nice here.

Oh! This is cute.

Cute!

My son isn't good enough for you.

- He's nice though. - Haha! You love him!

Of course not. He's strange.

- We had a fight. - A fight?

Did he give you trouble?

Good.

It's nice to meet you.

You saved me.

Nice bed!

I'll have nice dreams sleeping on this.

So nice!

Men!

I was going to dump him.

He beat me.

He scorned me for being old.

This cream is good.

Must be expensive.

He said some nice things.

And persuaded me to go with him.

To Kyushu.

Oh!

It's so refreshing!

Katsuo!

Katsuo!

Mom.

Where have you moved to?

And you quit the window cleaning job!

What have you done?

Katsuo! I had a bad time!

Yasu is a liar.

He dumped me!

- Bastard! - Mom!

There is no construction work in Chugoku!

I am a fool!

Excuse me. Please take us to Ueno.

I'll send you money at the end of the month.

Are you going to marry her?

- Think about Toshio too. - I do!

Don't worry about me.

She's good. Marry her.

But will you still send me money?

I can't get married.

- Stupid boy! - Auntie! Come!

Coming.

Thanks.

Take care.

Be good to each other.

Bye. Bye.

- Bye! - Bye!

Well...

- What? - Me...

Your mom is nice.

She is.

I like her.

Sorry for last time.

So you'll be my girlfriend?

Yes.

- Not like this. - What?

It is more classy in my dreams.

No soil, no tide.

It's in the city.

A modern life.

People like the countryside and the nature.

Not me. I don't need my country home and my past.

I prefer the city. It's more lively.

I draw plans for apartments.

For example, the living room and the dining room can be merged.

The drawing must be precise.

The furniture will fit in perfectly.

I like white furniture.

Your home is your castle...

your fortress.

A shelter from the wind outside.

No cracks or fractures are allowed.

I'm quitting my job...

to get married.

Peck her!

Peck her face!

Liar!

Who are you deceiving?

Bastard...

My hair...

is down on my shoulders.

Just like you.

Like we've promised.

In a church we'll...

Katsuo?

Coming in.

Who are you?

Get out!

What are you doing?

You can't forget me.

No!

What are you doing?

Go away!

Be good.

We'll have a baby.

Kumi. It's me.

- She's not in? - Yes.

There was sound coming out. She was home all day yesterday.

She took a day off?

You aren't a co-worker?

Kumi?

Kumi?

Strange. Must have gone out.

That's OK. I'll come again.

Resporko.

Res-por-ko?

Resporko.

Its sky is blue and transparent.

The white beach is endless.

Pink whales spray water right in front of you.

Kumi.

What is it?

May I come in?

Yes.

You live here?

Seagull.

Seagull, seagull, seagull.

You sleep in there?

Don't. It's messy in there.

Why not?

You're hanging such things?

This picture.

Where do we come from?

What are we?

Where are we going?

Paul Gauguin.

Interesting.

So this is your Resporko!

- No! - It is!

- Give it back. - No!

Give it back!

Brown-skinned women.

Proud. Big breasts.

Big waists.

The forest is facing the sea.

She looks like your mom.

Exactly!

Stop it! Give it back!

Give it back! Stop it!

Give it back!

Stop it!

Give it back!

I'm not the woman in your imagination.

Compared with them,

I stink of the sea!

What are you doing?

It is dirty, isn't it?

So it's good for you,

window cleaner?

Kumi.

I'm yours.

I'm yours!

It's over.

It's over!

Katsuo Kurata.

21 years old.

Unemployed.

Address?

Address?

None.

You sneaked on the ship.

What are you going to Hokkaido for?

Anyone to prove your identity?

What is this?

Seeds.

For flowers.

- I'll plant them. - Where?

Resporko.

Resporko?

Thanks for waiting.

Thank you very much.

- Kumi, phone call for you. - Yes.

Thanks.

I'm Fujishita.

Marine police?

Kurata? Yes, I know him.

What has he...

I see.

I understand. I'll be right there.

Just like that. That's what I did.

The seagull is OK.

I went to the warehouse again.

I wanted to say sorry for that night.

But you weren't there.

I thought I wouldn't see you again.

So I took it home.

It's nice to see you're fine.

I'm hungry!

I have no food on me. Let's go eat.

- Here. - Thanks.

Last night,

I was on a boat for South America.

I quit that job.

I'm now working at a gas station.

- You quit that job? - Yes.

Kumi.

Go away. Go away!

Fool!

What are you doing in me?

Thanks.

Are you digging a hole in me? Farmer!

- Go dig a coal mine! - Where are you going?

Fool.

- Hi. - You were a coal miner?

She was a farmer herself,

So she scolds me with "Farmer! Farmer!"

Where were you?

No. She's like... she's pregnant.

Her body and moods...

changed so much.

Sorry.

Kumi! It's me!

Kumi!

Kumi!

It's me!

Kumi! Open up!

Open up!

Kumi! Open up!

Kumi! Wake up!

Wake up! Kumi!

Take a deep breath!

Breathe!

Why did you do this?

I'm...

having...

I'm having a baby!

So you want to die?

Snow piled up.

At daybreak...

came the siren, the 4th shift could go home.

And then came the noise...

of the trolleys taking miners out.

The miners staggered on the snowy path home.

I...

heard their footsteps.

"Your dad is home, Katsuo."

"Wake up."

And Mom...

lighted up the stove and made miso soup.

I stopped warming myself on Mom's body,

and listened to Dad's footsteps,

thinking, it's time to go to school.

It was the best time for kids.

Don't die! No one should die!

It's tough for those who don't.

When we heard the accident siren,

the sons of miners...

would leave the school and ran to the mines.

Mom was crying.

"Your dad is dead."

She hugged me.

From that point, our family crumbled.

Let's get married.

Let's get married!

And have the baby!

- Impossible. - Why?

Have the baby! It would be fun!

You're on the other side of the window.

I'm on this side.

So the baby...

is the window!

Have the baby! Have it!

Let's have the baby!

Let's!

Go!

Go!

Go!

- Toku! - Oh?

Toku. You take a break today.

Let me do this!

- Something good happened? - I'm having a baby.

- A baby? - I'm having one.

Yes!

OBSTETRICS

NORISUGI, OBSTETRICS

Cute.

Congratulations.

Two and a half months.

Can you...

get rid of it?

I can, but...

is it because of money?

Yes.

Does your husband agree?

Yes.

Cute baby.

Cute baby.

Are you the caretaker of Seifu Apartments?

Is there a Mr. Kurada living with Ms. Fujishita?

- Careful. - Yes.

Turn.

The pillow.

Give her some blood.

- And a drip. - Yes.

Now.

Kumi.

What have you done?

Kumi!

She's not alright.

Can you take her to another hospital?

We're full.

Why did you do it?

You wanted this.

She'll be fine in a couple of days.

Home...

take me home.

Take me home.

Are you OK?

Hang on.

Fool! Fool!

Fool!

Fool!

Fool.

Hey.

Please step aside.

- Let a woman do this. - Thanks.

Thanks.

You OK?

Yes.

Don't look at me like that!

Nothing serious.

I was going to take the day off,

but I can't. Sorry.

Let's go.

- Thanks. - Tell him I'm at the bar.

Thanks.

Sorry.

Katsuo.

Why did you do it?

Why?

I want to be loved.

I love you!

But...

it's not your baby.

It's ours.

I think so.

So I want it!

Clumsy or shameful,

we should be strong and live on.

There's...

no way other than that!

Do you think this looks nice?

Is this nice?

Fool!

You're a fool!

What's wrong, Kumi?

Taxi!

Taxi!

Taxi!

Doctor! Please!

Doctor!

Doctor! Please!

Please!

Doctor! Please!

Please! Please!

Please! It's an emergency!

Please get a doctor!

Please!

Please!

- No. Please go on. - Yes.

Take me home.

I want to be with you.

You OK?

Take care.

You can't...

rely on anybody!

Are you cold, Kumi?

Are you cold?

Re...

Res...

por... Resporko.

Take me there.

What?

There is no Resporko!

This is Resporko.

Take...

me...

Res...

I won't.

We're in Resporko.

Take...

Take me...

We're in Resporko!

This is Resporko!

I'm... happy.

Resporko...

no one can laugh about it.

Nothing to cry about.

Live...

your life...

that's what everybody says.

To live, we love...

and have babies.

But there's no...

There's no Resporko!

No Resporko!

No.

The train...

pulling coal.

The toilet insect...

dragging its tail.

The prisoner...

dragging his chains.

Kumi.

Kumi.

Kumi.

Kumi.

Go.

Don't come back.

Go!

♪ Oh seagull, ♪

♪ Have you seen the sparkling ocean? ♪

♪ Are broken hopes... ♪

♪ Floating on it? ♪

♪ The town in dazzling sunlight. ♪

♪ Their dry footsteps of lies. ♪

♪ Do tears contain a salty ocean? ♪

♪ Who then, ♪

♪ Is crying in it? ♪

Where do we come from?

Where are we going?

♪ Oh seagull, ♪

♪ Have you seen the sparkling ocean? ♪

♪ Are you still... ♪

♪ Still waiting for your chance? ♪

♪ The sound of a lonely flute. ♪

♪ The far ends of the earth... ♪

♪ Have only dry land. ♪

♪ Is there a painful and warm ocean? ♪

♪ Who is then... ♪

♪ Waiting over there? ♪

THE END

Official permission was obtained to use seagulls in this film.