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A SHOCHIKU FILM
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A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS
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Story by
JAMES MAKI
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Screenplay by
TADAO IKEDA
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Directed by
YASUJIRO OZU
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Photographed by
HIDEO MOHARA
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Art Director
TATSUO HAMADA
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With
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TAKESHI SAKAMOTO
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CHOKO IIDA
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HIDEO MITSUI
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RIEKO YAGUMO
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YOSHIKO TSUBOUCHI
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TOKKAN-KOZO
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Another show's coming?
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Some traveling actors.
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Kihachi Ichikawa's troupe.
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It's been a long time, Master.
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I'm going to stay here for a while.
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Your son's really grown up.
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It's been four years.
He's nine now.
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She was just a gawky little girl,
but look at her now.
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KIHACHI ICHIKAWA'S TROUPE!
OPENS JULY 7!
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You're going to see the show tonight?
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Kihachi was so handsome
when he was young.
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We used to all go
when he came here.
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Got any older sisters?
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Don't eat too much
or you'll wet the bed again.
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Do it again and I'll have Otoki
give you a moxa treatment.
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Did the boss wet the bed last night?
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Why don't you give him
bigger doses of moxa?
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Easy for you to say.
You don't know what it feels like.
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Just think about Goemon Ishikawa.
He was boiled alive.
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He was a famous robber.
I'm not.
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One of your plays is all about thieves.
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Don't be silly.
Get me a kimono.
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I'll pay a visit to some patrons
I have here.
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It's been a long time.
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I thought it was about time you came.
I've been waiting.
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Would you like a drink?
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How is your arthritis?
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Not bad, now that I use
the medicine you told me about.
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I get stiff shoulders lately.
I'm being treated with moxa.
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It's good to see
you're as well as ever.
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How is Shinkichi?
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He graduated
from agriculture college last year.
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He's a postgraduate now.
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The head of the troupe is here.
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He's a big boy now.
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He'll be eligible for the draft
next year.
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First class.
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He eats like a horse, doesn't he?
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No wonder we're old now.
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It must have been hard
raising him all these years.
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I don't mind hardship
as long as it's for his sake.
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He still thinks his father's dead,
doesn't he?
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He thinks his father
was a civil servant.
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Aren't you Ionely?
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No use complaining
about Ioneliness.
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Let him go on thinking
his father is dead.
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He wouldn't want
a no-good father like me.
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He has a great future ahead of him.
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Dace are in season.
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Want to go fishing with me?
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Some fish move slowly,
so you've got a chance.
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How long will you stay this time?
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It depends on the audience.
I'd like to stay a year.
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I think I'll go to the show tonight.
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Our show isn't for you.
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You're a student.
Your job is to study.
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If it were summer vacation,
I'd travel with you.
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Much in it?
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I doubt it.
It's floating, so no heavy coins.
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Did you ever think
it might be stuffed with bills?
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You never had any bills.
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Let's rehearse again
before the boss comes back.
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No matter how great the actor,
it's hard to play the horse.
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Look, the woman seated
in the second row isn't bad.
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Finally!
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Where's the dog?
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It's pouring.
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Rain's really the end
for traveling actors.
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I'm sorry it's become such a mess.
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It's been raining for days.
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We had long rains earlier,
in Takasaki.
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The radio says that
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it'll rain
for another four or five days.
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I wish I had
some really good tempura.
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I want some sake
with roasted eel.
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You got a smoke?
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You stole my money,
didn't you, Pop?
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My kitty bank was facing
the other way before.
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The boss is really something.
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We've got this crisis,
and he's out drinking every day.
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He has to,
as long as he stays here.
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You said an odd thing just now.
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It sounded like some kind of secret.
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I wouldn't mention your name.
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It's fun to checkmate.
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Check the king, not the father.
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You're finished, Uncle.
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I lost again.
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You've turned into
a good chess player.
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When you play the hero of <i>Konjiki,</i>
I'll lend you my cap.
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Give me a drink.
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Thank you for taking care
of the master every day.
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Somebody wants you.
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What brings you here?
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What do you think?
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Is she the patron you had to see?
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I should thank her too, then.
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Go home, Otoki.
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You must be happy
to have such a nice son.
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How old are you?
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What does your father do?
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No need to get upset.
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I have something to tell
the madame and her son.
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That's none of your business.
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What's wrong with me seeing
my own son?
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You can't talk to me that way.
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Have you forgotten
what happened in Takasaki?
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Who do you think got you
out of trouble back then?
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Who do you think asked
the big shots in town for help?
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Don't think you can
just walk out on me.
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All right, we're through
as of now!
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Don't ever come here again,
or I'll never forgive you.
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My son belongs
to a better world than yours.
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Is that fuss during the day
still bothering you? It's not like you.
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The boss gets mad so easily.
I thought you were used to it.
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I know.
I'd already forgotten about it.
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I'm glad. I was worried
because you seemed down.
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I have a favor to ask you.
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Try to seduce that boy
who was at the restaurant today.
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I'm not interested in children.
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You'd be doing me a favor.
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Try.
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Why?
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Take it or leave it.
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You really think I could?
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Bat your eyes and you could catch
any man you wanted.
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Just turn on the charm.
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We met yesterday.
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I have something to tell you.
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I'll be waiting here
after the show tonight.
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I don't know if I can.
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I'm going to take a walk, Mother.
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Are you angry
because I asked you to meet me?
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I wanted to see you.
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Don't you like talking with girls?
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How was it?
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I wish a peach
would come bobbing downstream.
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Bringing us good fortune,
just like in the fairy tales.
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Otoki isn't around.
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She goes out a lot these days.
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Where does she go, anyway?
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We're going to have to part soon.
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What will we be doing
this time next year?
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But let's not think
about a silly thing like that.
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Why don't we tell
my mother about us?
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I'm sure she'll help us.
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I'm not the girl you think.
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I'm not worthy of a man like you.
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I tried to make
a fool of you at first.
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It started that way, but...
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Never mind how it started.
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Don't get mixed up
with a traveling player like me.
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He's been out every night this week.
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I'm going to have to leave soon.
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I want to see him
as often as I can.
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You must be careful.
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About that woman.
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Her? I have no excuse.
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Don't take it wrong. I'm too old
to be jealous. I'd be embarrassed.
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It'd be awful if she told
Shinkichi the truth.
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Where the hell have you been?
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What's that boy to you?
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Is it for money?
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Is that what you think?
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I wouldn't blame you.
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Otaka, too,
offered me money at first.
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What did she want?
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She wanted me to seduce him.
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But now it's not for money.
I love him.
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I want Otaka here.
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I'll speak with you later.
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You sent for me?
What do you want?
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What did you plan
to do with my son?
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Who cares about your son?
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He's cheap, like you,
playing around with actresses.
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Are you sorry?
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I hope you'll be very sorry.
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The world is like a lottery.
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You take your ups and your downs.
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Let's make up, please?
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This makes us even, you see.
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Just think how I feel.
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Where's Otoki?
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Looks like she just stepped out.
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Is Shinkichi in?
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You mean you didn't send for him?
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He just went out
with that girl from your troupe.
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This is terrible.
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I'm afraid I've let Shinkichi
ruin his future.
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We'll give you this much
for everything.
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All right.
It's enough to pay them off.
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We've been together
for a long time, Master.
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Where will you go, Kichi?
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To Ueda.
I have family there.
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I'll go back to working
at the butcher's shop.
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Get a steady job.
That's the best.
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I'm sick of show business.
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It's our last night.
Go on, make up with Otaka.
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Let's enjoy ourselves
before we break up.
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Sing, will you, Otaka?
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My troupe's finally disbanded.
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No word from Shinkichi yet?
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Like father, like son.
So fast with the girls.
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I'm finished this time.
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I'll fix you a drink.
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No sake for me.
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Then you won't travel anymore?
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You can stay as long as you like.
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Shinkichi is old enough to know by now.
He'll understand.
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He'll be back sometime or other.
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Let's live together like a family.
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It isn't good
to be alone all the time.
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Let's have a drink.
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Thank you for everything.
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When did you get back?
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Where have you been?
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Why act like nothing's happened?
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Forgive me, Master.
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She apologized.
Why hit her?
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You're to blame, too.
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Don't you know
your mother worries about you?
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What are you doing?
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Who do you think he is?
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The man you hit just now
is your father.
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I have no father like him.
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My father was a civil servant.
He's dead.
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If my father were alive,
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he'd never have abandoned us
for 20 years.
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All these years it's just been us.
Right, Mother?
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No father could be that selfish.
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What if, out of respect for his son,
he couldn't call himself father?
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He didn't want you to be
a traveling actor like him.
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He wanted you to have
an education and a good job.
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That's why he had to lie
and live in Ioneliness.
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He's been poor,
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but wherever he was,
he always paid for your schooling.
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Aren't you sorry for striking
such a considerate father?
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I'm sorry.
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I didn't know.
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My son has been to school.
His words make sense.
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I abandoned him,
and now I call myself his father.
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01:17:04,019 --> 01:17:06,453
It's natural for him to object.
257
01:17:34,182 --> 01:17:36,514
I'll go away again.
258
01:17:41,289 --> 01:17:45,123
Shinkichi has accepted you
in his heart.
259
01:17:55,237 --> 01:17:58,866
I don't want him
to feel awkward because of me.
260
01:18:03,578 --> 01:18:07,674
Let me go as the usual carefree uncle
one last time.
261
01:18:16,625 --> 01:18:21,153
I'll start up in business again.
If I do well, I'll return.
262
01:18:25,934 --> 01:18:30,598
I'll be a great actor
so Shinkichi won't be ashamed of me.
263
01:18:40,248 --> 01:18:43,342
And you can thank me
with a curtain call.
264
01:18:52,327 --> 01:18:55,455
Will you take me with you?
265
01:18:59,367 --> 01:19:04,236
I don't want to leave
without returning your kindness.
266
01:19:09,444 --> 01:19:12,811
I'll work hard.
I'll start a new life.
267
01:19:23,859 --> 01:19:27,386
Did you hear that?
How sweet!
268
01:19:33,869 --> 01:19:37,168
Will you take care of her?
269
01:19:49,684 --> 01:19:54,087
She's a good, gentle girl.
270
01:20:01,696 --> 01:20:04,290
I'm sorry for hitting you.
271
01:20:08,170 --> 01:20:10,661
Help my son become a great man.
272
01:20:47,709 --> 01:20:48,971
Uncle?
273
01:21:03,325 --> 01:21:04,417
Where is Uncle?
274
01:21:08,463 --> 01:21:09,555
You mean Father?
275
01:21:14,769 --> 01:21:17,237
He went on the road again.
276
01:21:24,279 --> 01:21:26,008
Don't try to stop him.
277
01:21:31,753 --> 01:21:35,086
Just be a great man.
That's all he wants.
278
01:21:42,197 --> 01:21:46,031
Since you were born,
he's been coming here
279
01:21:46,101 --> 01:21:48,592
with that one hope in mind.
280
01:24:00,935 --> 01:24:03,096
Where are you going?
281
01:24:06,841 --> 01:24:08,103
Kamisuwa.
282
01:24:16,618 --> 01:24:18,017
And you?
283
01:24:21,623 --> 01:24:23,784
No place in particular.
284
01:24:33,835 --> 01:24:37,464
How about organizing
a new troupe with me?
285
01:24:45,547 --> 01:24:47,947
I don't know if I can pull it off.
286
01:24:58,693 --> 01:24:59,625
One more to Kamisuwa.
287
01:26:03,958 --> 01:26:06,392
THE END
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