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A Himawari Theatre Group Production

Planning: Tosaburo Sunaoka

Producer: Fujio Sunaoka

Original work: Kaisei Lee "For Kayako"

Script: Kohei Oguri, Shogo Ohta

Starring:

Sunghil O, Minami Kaho

Jun Hamamura, Kayako Sono

Takuzo Kawatani, Masato Ise, Tokie Hidari

Taiji Tonoyama, Masato Furuoya, Keizo Kanie

Toshie Kobayashi, Tami Hiroshi, Kimiko Yoshimiya, Kazuko Shirakawa

Pyunsun Pei, Yuuko Kyo, Ryoko Takamitsu, Toshio Tanikawa, Debit AK Roger, Akari Kanehiro

Myunson Cho, Bokusun Kim, Itaro Kanagami, Sayami So, Sen Kanasada, Tamaren Jo

Takahiro Tamura, Takeshi Kato

Directed by: Kohei Oguri

For Kayako

1957

Going to Tokyo?

Yes.

But I intend to stop by Hakodate in the way.

That so?

- Are you also going to Tokyo? - Yes.

I couldn't sleep at all.

Aren't we going to ride this train until the day after tomorrow?

My daughter, who went to Tokyo through mass employment, got stuck there.

Giving a discount for coming, making a loan in the process.

How selfish of her.

My youngest daughter is named Tomoko.

When she fled Korea, she died suddenly.

In Busan, she came into contact with the water,

and suffered terrible diarrhea.

Her body lost a lot of water,

but even so, as if she was hungry, she kept crying against her mother's back.

Her miserable crying echoed throughout the ship.

Seemed like she was a goner anyway,

so I was about to throw her overboard - but someone gave her an apple.

It was dry and tasteless, but she ate it until she died.

I don't know how but suddenly her diarrhea stopped.

Want some?

No, thank you.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Do you know where the Matsumoto house is?

Excuse me.

Who's there?

Don't you recognize me?

I was in Maoka, Karafuto.

I'm Hayashi Sanjun.

Sanjun!

It's good to see you, Sanjun!

It's been quite a while, Kunaboji.

It's been ten years.

I don't remember Hayashi having a son like this.

How dare you say that? He's Hayashi's! He was only this high in Karafuto.

I came here on behalf of my father.

Come in, come in. Our home is your home!

I raised pigs, chopped firewood - anything.

Your dearly departed mother was a beautiful woman indeed.

Your family took great care of me until I got together with Toshi.

Was she born here?

No, she's not from Mori.

She was born in Shimokita.

I was thinking that wherever we are in this country,

as long as we live where we can hear each other work, we'll be fine.

Is that you, Kayako?

Yes.

Kayako, why don't you greet our guest?

It's not just any guest.

Kayako, come along - your big brother's here.

You're always such a baby no matter what.

It's alright, it's alright.

This is my only daughter, Kayako.

She'll be in her second year of high school this year.

She stopped for a year, so the truth is, she's actually a third year.

Did you know about her?

Kayako, if there's anything you don't understand at school,

he'll teach you anything.

I can understand it all.

Really? You'll understand everything?

That's true - you're a girl born from your mother and father.

You're smart.

To unite with the blue moon

Find the parents

The crying bird

Returns to its homeland

What are you doing?

I was singing a song.

What a beautiful mist.

There are times where you can't see what's right in front of you.

How about a film, Sanjun? We're all going tonight.

Okay.

What are they showing down there these days, anyway?

"Broken Drum"*. It's not very funny though. It's so old. [*1949 Shochiku film by Keisuke Kinoshita]

What? Sure it is.

I've seen it before, too.

It's not funny.

Yes it is!

No it's not.

Here.

Dad said to come again when it's winter.

Thank you.

I know.

About you, Sanjun.

You know about me?

I was taken away once - in Karafuto.

To a house in Maoka.

When was that?

The year the war ended.

Just once.

1945 Karafuto (Sakhalin)

Koreans!

Koreans! Alright!

No Japanese allowed!

Who's there?

Oh my, Sanjun!

You poor thing. Why did your mother have to die?

Oh, my destiny.

Oh, my destiny.

Fool!

If a child says that, their good luck will worsen.

Are you okay?

My, oh my...

Oh, my destiny.

Leaving my hometown,

to the country where thieves live.

I made it here, but how sad I am.

Why do you have to die in Karafuto?

My daughter, my daughter.

My gentle daughter.

I was robbed of my country and I lost my daughter, too.

If I cannot meet you in this world,

will I meet you in that one?

Hey!

Hey.

There are two other fellow countrymen in my class.

He's one, too.

How do you do?

Shall we all go and talk together sometime?

Yeah.

Autumn Bazaar

See anything you like?

Thank goodness for the sunny weather.

Yes.

There's a nice paperweight here. I'll give it to you as a gift.

- You don't need to-- - No, it's alright.

Hmm...

I'm glad that it seems you're able to enter the nursery

without causing too much of a fuss in the morning. Come along.

What do you think?

The warden threw a party in the county jail the prison band were playing, they began to wail

The band was jumping and the joint began to swing, You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing

Let's rock Everybody, let's rock, yeah

Everybody in the whole cell block Was dancing to the jail house rock

Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone, Little Joe was blowing on the slide trombone

The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang

Let's rock Everybody, let's rock, yeah

Everybody in the whole cell block Was dancing to the Jailhouse Rock

Lee Sung-koo

Who's there?

I'm sorry to startle you.

It was so nostalgic - I just came in without thinking.

Is there someone named Haruji here?

Are you a Korean?

That's right.

What do you think of Koreans?

You're an idiot.

You and your parents just drink all the time.

Furi!

Good evening.

What do you want?

I work with Haruji.

I haven't seen him in a while.

Is he doing okay?

He's a troublesome one.

I'm sorry.

I don't speak much Korean.

Oh, you're a Korean who was raised here.

Okay, come on in.

Come in and eat something.

I've already eaten.

What're you saying? Even though we're in a different country,

if you're called in, you accept. Come on.

Kunaboji!

Is that you, Sanjun?

Good evening.

Surprised to see you here, of all places.

Where is everyone?

They're right behind me.

Let me help you.

You didn't come last winter.

A lot of things happened.

Toshi thinks of you all as her real children.

It's not something easily forgotten, even after 100 years.

It's been decided since long ago.

Don't say that.

Kunaboji -

I'm going on ahead. Take your time, okay?

H-hey, Sanjun!

Sanjun!

Hey.

When did you arrive?

I didn't know.

I just came by.

I asked around the neighborhood, and thought I'd catch up with you.

You must've been tired... Shouldn't you have waited?

I'll push from behind.

Kids and adults would say: "Come and get it!"

I can't just keep silent like that.

- Better you should. - What'd you say?

I'm a raccoon, you damn gorilla!

Why the long face?

Your studies giving you trouble?

No - good grades all around, actually.

That's no good - what happens when you graduate?

You can't put grades into a bank account.

And now, the missing persons report.

Up until October 1945,

Jiro Yoshioka, who had been living in Toyohara, Karafuto.

Makoto Yoshioka, his father, has been searching for him in Sapporo.

You don't mind if I have one more tonight, do you, Kayako?

Oh, my. So Kayako has to give you permission!

Trains are so nice. Waiting for a train is like...

as if you're going somewhere you've never heard of.

Even when going to school, I sometimes feel like that.

Stay there.

We can't let our sales drop any further.

There's lots of people here in Onuma, isn't there?

We open shop here like this every year.

Seems like we'll sell a lot today.

How much did you bring?

Take this one instead, then.

Here.

Thank you.

It's like he's been doing it since birth!

I snuck away.

You sure that's okay? It seemed busy.

Dad's there.

Mom's no good in situations like these.

Well done!

Look at them all!

Kayako.

That's the first time you've called me by my name, Sanjun.

The first time?

Is that so?

Isn't it a strange name to say?

There's a Korean-style koto called "kayagun", right?

I think my Dad took the name from there.

Is that so?

My father was illiterate,

but Kunaboji wasn't.

I remember him writing a name tag for me when I was little.

I have another name.

Miwako.

It's the name given to me before I was taken in by my current dad.

Here - I'll switch with you.

You must be tired, right?

Thank you very much.

What is it?

I was just counting to 100.

I figured you'd appear by the time I got there.

Does that hurt?

It's not going to heal that fast - it was a truck accident after all.

The plate broke, too.

Thank goodness it wasn't more severe.

Don't be reckless again.

You shouldn't be out walking around like you were yesterday.

Just where did you go that made you so late home?

I went to the hospital.

The hospital is open until 12 midnight?

You leave the house, roughhouse a Jap and then don't even come home.

There'll be insurance money, right? Even just a little?

Use every single bit of it carefully,

get yourself a proper Korean woman.

Is that so hard?

Stop talking about women. I don't go out at night just to go and try to find one.

Then why do you go out?

I don't know.

It's this! It's always like this everyday!

If I'm here all day, I'll be killed - that's why I go out!

Get killed?!

People have to act like human beings.

When I was a child,

I didn't ever talk back to your grandfather, not once.

No - instead, no matter where I worked,

I brought home my hard-earned 10, 20 sen every day.

And your grandfather would happily say: "I see, I see".

I was so happy when I heard him say that.

Your grandfather died when I was 15.

Everything went dark then.

My two brothers and I all cried together.

But still...

we made your grandfather's grave,

and so that the foxes wouldn't disturb it,

your uncles and I took turns taking watch at night.

Some time after,

to protect the grave, my eldest brother stayed behind in Korea,

and my other brother and I came all the way to Japan, sailing through thick and thin.

That's right -

Sunchun Jong, from the same village, sailed together with us.

He's Akio Matsumoto now.

Back then, I didn't even imagine that we would be living in Japan...

for more than 40 years.

Hurry.

When will I be free of this resentment?

It's already too late.

The world just keeps getting darker.

That goes for you too. Where are you living in Tokyo?

Tell me the address!

Why can't you write me even one letter?

I'll even go and get it from Tokyo if that's what it takes!

Both of you fools are just as bad as each other.

Get a hold of yourselves!

Being in Japan makes everything, even my children, useless.

That's why I'm saying you should be Korean - like a rope becomes string!

If you'd only say something nice to me, I'd probably cry with gratitude -

but you don't even listen to what I say.

It's not only children that leave their family home, you know.

I'm in so much pain that I can't bear to be in this house any longer.

I'm leaving, don't stop me.

Where will you go?

You have to go pick up our order of kimchi this evening.

No, don't stop me. I don't have anything to do with this family anymore.

Hey, get me my glasses.

My eye drops too! My eyes hurt so much I can't walk.

What a selfish man.

He was like that even when we were married.

He said he had only one child,

but there were four of you.

I've always been with the sea.

There was a sea in Karafuto, where I was born.

The sea at Karafuto was always selfishly rough,

not even giving a thought about how I was only a child.

When I went closer, a dark wave would crest angrily towards me,

and then fall in a line outwards, trying to threaten me.

The breaking white waves would reveal a vast ocean,

rendering me unable to move.

Why did this ocean, so big and vast,

stare down so much at someone as little as me?

I still think about it, late at night, when all is quiet.

The sea I look at every day now is not the same as the one from my hometown,

so no towering waves reach here.

When I see an unselfish, smooth sea,

I want to believe that it's different to the one at Karafuto.

Sanjun.

Is it that I like the sea?

Or am I scared of it?

How long have you been doing it?

Who wants my daughter to write to them so badly?

I'm no homewrecker.

Before you get angry at me, think carefully about what you did.

Using your classmate's name, Saito,

and sending secret letters, keeping it all from your parents...

The stars are glittering in the night sky

There are many pebbles along the river side

My dearest, the butterfly soars

Where will I go, all alone?

Though my youth was only yesterday

Today, my white hair sways in the wind

The stars are glittering in the night sky

There are many worries in my heart

Let's go, let's go, come on, let's go

The rainy season is coming, let's hurry away

Hurry and finish the rice-planting

This year's harvest will be bountiful too

Pay due respect to your father and your mother

I pray that you and I will find happiness

It's nothing.

Let me take a look.

Don't.

What is this?

I'm just mucking around.

Quit teasing me.

I can't read it.

"My grandchild ate a fish."

"We will go play tomorrow."

"You and I will go together..."

It's well written.

I went to get a motorcycle license, but I forgot that I can't read the writing.

You idiot!

They were amazing words, though.

When I was a child,

I didn't understand what they meant at the time,

but the explanation was poor too.

Even though my father died when I was small,

our parents who came here in Japan,

I'm sure they studied here and there.

Do you know anything about goldfishes?

What?

When goldfishes look like they're kissing,

they're actually showing hostility,

fighting each other in rage.

I think my family is the same.

They turn their backs on what's important,

like a fish cuts through the water with its fin.

What do you think about returning to Korea?

I think the ocean will pave the way before too long.

That's when I'll think about going home.

Being shut out of my own motherland, north and south,

and dirtying the water like sewage here in Japan...

is something I don't think I can keep doing.

IS KAYAKO THERE? TELL ME - YOUR FATHER

CERTIFICATE OF ALIEN REGISTRATION

LEFT INDEX FINGER

Nice to meet you.

Hello.

My name is Im.

I'm Saito.

I knew it was you right away.

I'm sorry for the abruptness. There was no other way.

I was in two minds about telling you about Kayako myself.

She's there.

She said it was one of her old relatives.

I...

I like Kayako a lot.

Even when I gave her your letters at school,

I was happy, too.

If you hurry, you'll make it in time for the next express train.

I can't see you off, though.

Thank you.

You're a little soft.

Is there a woman named Kayako Matsumoto here?

Did you come from Morimachi?

No, I didn't.

I always relied on Miwako.

I'm going, Auntie.

I didn't know anything, either - how Miwako was doing, or...

We were the ones that were surprised!

Sanjun.

Let's go far away.

I hate them!

I hate Japan, and I hate Korea!

I'm always alone.

The woman I called my mother abandoned me - her only girl.

My father abandoned me because I was in the way - a burden.

Why?

Kayako...

Let's leave this place.

Let's leave and go to Tokyo.

Tsuruya Inn

It was because we were dragged around

by wars here and there,

that we were able to meet in the first place.

Excuse me.

Kayako!

Sanjun!

I did it again.

Where did you go today?

What is it?

You go first.

You're making fun of me.

No, I'm not!

I told you I went to an old work friend's place yesterday, right?

Five people lived there together in a tiny apartment.

In the morning,

while everyone is still lying in bed, they open a newspaper and read it.

The sound of high heels passes by outside at the same time every day,

and all of them rush to the window and listen out for it.

Those shoes have a really nice sound to them.

But they don't even see the feet,

let alone a face, before it disappears up the road.

When everyone goes back to their places,

The head of the group would say, "Well, it's morning",

which is everyone's signal to wake up.

I like hearing you tell stories.

Sanjun.

These leaves are so musty.

- Is that a Korean song? - Yeah.

It's a resistance song.

What do the lyrics mean?

"Garden balsam blooming from the fence,"

"please understand my heart."

During the Japanese imperialist era, when Korea was a Japanese colony,

everyone that was separated used flowers to sing of their sadnesses.

On a hot summer day

Beautiful flowers bloom

The lovely girls

flirt with you, as if in yearning

Did any letters arrive?

I'm sure they're always keeping an eye on us whenever we see each other.

I'm sorry, Sanjun.

What are you talking about?

Because...

They'll understand before too long.

I might write a letter after a little while.

What are these?

What will you do with them?

Taking them to a second-hand bookstore.

You'll sell them?

Buying old books is how second-hand bookstores do business.

That's why you have to bring them books sometimes.

You can't do that!

It makes me sad.

Don't worry about money.

Okay, that's enough.

Okay.

You're so good at that, Suni!

My brother's not here.

What did you see up there?

The sea.

Really?

That's a lie. I bet there's nothing at all.

That's all for today, then.

Thank you.

And with that,

the daughters of the aristocrats were able to see outside the wall.

Don't they say that you mustn't put pots and women outside?

That they'll get damaged...

There's no word as horrible as "border", isn't there?

I like them, though.

The feeling in the air here is so free.

There are a lot of people from Jeju Island here.

That old woman is, too.

Coming here, I remembered Hallasan.

In 1948,

during the Yeosu oppression,

out of a total 300,000 people living on the island,

80,000 were killed.

I was only 10 years old at the time,

but...

what I saw was forever burnt into my memory.

My older brothers barricaded themselves in at Hallasan and fought.

I arrived here on a smuggler's ship.

In 1949, to Japan.

The truth is, I should have also been killed together with everyone else....

because all the forces at Hallasan were executed.

On the island...

the policeman that found me turned a blind eye,

because I was a girl - a child.

I hid in the mountains during the day,

and went down into the town at night.

The same area shows a completely different side of itself when day turns to night.

It wasn't the sun that divided it into day and night.

AUTUMN FASHIONS, 1958

Let's go eat something greasy.

You've become a bit thin.

That's because I don't want to eat anything.

You should eat as much as you can, though.

Kayako.

They say that when you bring seeds from a Korean pumpkin to Japan,

they'll become the same pumpkin the following year.

But they say when the plant reaches its second year,

the pumpkin won't taste of Korea any longer.

I was once asked to go to a friend's birthday party.

At her house,

I kept having these thoughts, over and over again -

there was a vase...

and I thought, if I worked hard, I could buy it.

The lace tablecloth, the vinyl records... I thought I could buy each one of them.

In other words... I couldn't buy them all.

That's why I thought:

you can't buy the entire house.

It is now closing time.

Those who are still in classrooms, please ensure you make your way home promptly.

Sanjun.

Aren't you going to wake up?

The sun's gone down.

I dreamt that I went to go meet Father at Ueno station.

When I ran to him,

he suddenly stabbed my heart with a knife.

Sanjun. Sanjun!

So the truth comes out... you perverts!

Wait, please!

Shut up! Get off me!

Please, wait! Just calm down for a second!

Why'd you sleep with your sister, eh?

Put the bed away, Kayako.

Bet it was fun acting like a happily married couple, eh?

You been sharing the same futon for a long time, then?

Shut it, already.

Kayako, go and buy some alcohol.

Sit down.

I don't want to nitpick. What do you plan to do with Kayako?

That's all I want to hear.

I meant to send you a letter.

I'm sorry I never got around to contacting you.

But we didn't plan for it to turn out like this, Kunaboji.

I didn't even know she had left home.

We haven't eaten for a week.

It was such a trying experience, we lost our appetite.

Though we may not know who she was taken from,

we were the ones that provided for her and raised her -

the most precious thing to us.

And to think she would be taken again so easily...

Kayako, come here.

Didn't I tell you to go buy some alcohol?

The store's not open yet, Dad.

Don't cause a fuss.

What are you going to do with Kayako? Are you just going to leave her here?

In this cage of a house?

Kayako.

What do you think?

Are you just going to throw away your mother and father,

who came for you all the way from Hokkaido?

Why aren't you saying anything?

You've been deceived by him.

You poor girl. You've become so thin.

Do you know how hard we worked to raise you - even if it meant going without food?

Let's all go back home to Hokkaido, okay?

Say something, Kayako.

I don't think I'll ever forget what you and Father did for me.

But I don't want to leave Sanjun's side.

- What are you saying, you brat? - Auntie!

I'm going to show you that I can do just what neither of you couldn't!

You ungrateful brat!

Wait! Auntie!

Are you forgetting what you said back then? What was it you said?

That you wasted over 10 years of your life with a Korean - with Dad.

That it's something you'll never recover from your whole life -

that's what you told me.

How dare you say that?

Wait!

Do you realize what you've said? Kayako!

Get a hold of yourself! Stop it!

We'll go to Korea together someday.

No. No, you won't.

Don't say that.

My life has already changed paths.

Even if I return, my parents won't be waiting for me,

and I don't even know where my siblings are.

Kayako.

I'll go buy some alcohol.

She is precious to me.

She is the only thing I look forward to in my life.

Do you know how lonely I am every day, Sanjun?

Every day is pitch black.

When we return home from work, Kayako isn't there.

We have no will to eat, and no drive to work.

That's why I want to ask you a favor.

She may only be 18 years old,

but women no longer listen to their parents when they've intimately known a man.

What do you think?

Will you let us take care of Kayako until you graduate?

She doesn't have to come back right away.

Do you understand how I feel? Do you know why I'm asking you this?

Excuse me...

can I ask you a question?

What are you doing?

I'm checking for leaks in the water pipes.

If they're broken,

I can hear the sound of water flicking through sand under the ground.

Only when it's quiet at night, though.

Can you hear it, Sanjun?

Where are you going?

Where are you going?

People are saying that Kunaboji died.

Light some incense, and have the thorns removed from your body.

Where are you going?

We're going to cross the ocean.

On foot?

Mum and Dad are with me too.

Excuse me.

It's Sanjun.

I don't know you.

I've no idea who you are.

No, it's okay - I do this all the time.

When did she die?

Well...

it's already been three years.

She began sleeping a lot back then.

People don't always sleep easy, though.

They have heads, and they have hearts.

I've been searching for her.

For Kayako...ever since then.

It's already been ten years, hasn't it, Kunaboji?

The rumor was,

that it was you who died.

Kayako sometimes comes and looks after me.

She'll probably come today.

What's your name?

I'm Miwako. I'm 3 years old.

ENGLISH SUBS BY: ohakosubs with assistance by SkewedS Translations & Ais translation notes at: ohakosubs.tumblr.com

Directed by Kohei Oguri