The root symbol is sturdy
It protects every number
Hey! How are you?
How irresponsible
How could you leave him in the professor's care!
Is he really all right?
Yes, he treated him appropriately
He did nothing wrong?
A little more than necessary...
Look
There's the first star, up there
I'm sorry. What I said at the hospital was wrong
I won't...
ever forget the professor's sad face...
Ever
That I doubted the professor, even for a moment,
is something I'm ashamed of
I apologize
OK, I accept
Let's make-up
He said he'd come to our next game
You know the professor can't make promises, don't you?
I'll ask him
If only he could get to know
each of my teammates...
What about uniform numbers...
I know... numbers!
Leave everything to me
Sure!
So this leaf is 1, too
Right
That's one leaf
And that cedar tree with so many leaves
is one tree, too
It's funny each only counts as one
It truly is
Defining "one" is quite a challenge
Even for you?
So many things I don't know
Let me see
Ready?
Tell me,
what do you call this now?
It's like dust, it's not a leaf anymore
That's right
It's only a leaf when it's whole
It's true of you, Root
The harmony of the whole in an individual is beautiful
That's what it means to be good
Listen
The walk-off victory The no-hit, no-run game...
714 was
Babe Ruth's 1935 career home run record
Hank Aaron hit his career total of 715 home runs
on a pitch from the Dodger's Al Downing on April 8th, 1974
Here goes!
Retired number 11
is Murayama with the Zatopek pitch
Number 23 is Yoshida
Number 10 is Fujimura
There's Tabuchi, Miyake and...
Their coach and I did it for you
What's the root symbol?
That's my son
You have a son?
Yes!
A root symbol will share his friendship fairly with any player
I don't see #28, ace pitcher Enatsu's number
We've saved the perfect number, 28, for you
Play ball!
Go!
Root!
Go! Go! Tigers!
Go, go, Root!
Hold this
How are you? How are you feeling?
Tell me if you're thirsty
I shouldn't have insisted...
It's all my fault
Don't worry, it's not serious
You go to bed, now
Good night
You shouldn't be up You've still got a f ever
You have to rest
Get out of your clothes, let's change your underwear
You were drenched in sweat last night
I'll change the sheets and you'll feel refreshed
Cheering at the ballgame must have exhausted you
I'm sorry we insisted on inviting you
If you keep warm and eat well, you'll recover
Root's that way, too
We've got to get something into your stomach
Shall I bring some apple juice?
"My memory...
"lasts only 80 minutes"
I am your housekeeper
I'm the housekeeper, hired to help you
I am...
Useless...
You helped my son,
and taught me something precious
The eternal truth is invisible...
You must see it with your heart
At dusk, my son will join us
We call him Root, for his flat head
You named him
What is your birthday?
February 20th
220, eternally bound to
I thought...
women's hands were cold
Are they warm?
If only this warmth...
Sorry
This is no good
A complaint
What kind?
Don't pretend you don't know
You've made a terrible mistake
I hear you stayed over at the math professor's house
I've made no mistake
I'm offended by your vulgar insinuation
You know the rules of your job
Yes, very well
I was wrong to ignore them
You break the rules, spend 3 nights in a man's house
and are offended by insinuations?
But I couldn't abandon an invalid
I believed I was only fulfilling my obvious duties
I feel I've been especially accommodating about your son
It's a special arrangement
I'm grateful about my son
I can't thank you enough for your consideration
I was careless in my actions
I apologize
So... we'll reassign you
What? Please, wait a minute
Is that the professor's wish?
His sister's
I never troubled his sister
I followed her orders and kept the professor's troubles to myself
She's not involved with how I do my job
So, how can she fire me?
She knew that you'd been staying over
Then surely she knew he was ill
And that he required more care than most invalids
If I don't go today, the professor will be very...
He's probably getting out of bed,
reading the note on his jacket all alone...
I can't imagine anyone who can replace you...
But I've no choice
That's all, it's final
No room for discussion
1... 2...
The factorial of 4 is 24
My, what a noble number
Please, come on in
Now and then, I remember the professor's words
The laws of mathematics are exquisite, precisely
because they are useless in everyday life
Even if the characteristics of prime numbers were determined,
life wouldn't improve and no one would get rich
Of course, no matter how you turn your back on the world,
many mathematical discoveries have found practical applications
Even prime numbers collude in warfare, in the form of secret codes
It's an ugly fact
But that is not the purpose of mathematics
Its only purpose is to ascertain truth
Open your wise eyes with courage
I'm sorry I'm late
Welcome
Coffee, please
Why don't we visit the professor anymore?
Things changed
What things?
Complicated things
They say looking after someone, makes them your responsibility
You!
I'm not worried, because you're beautiful
Is that so? Mom's beautiful?
That's right, didn't you realize?
That's why it's fine Because you're beautiful
Done
Serial number 2311... I pronounce you a prime number
Housekeeper, a call for you
Yes
I'm sorry to trouble you, I know you're busy
Please, sit down
Some tea for our guest
Yes
What exactly are you thinking?
Has my son done something wrong?
That's not the issue
What do you mean by sending
your son to my brother-in-law's,
even after I fired you?
What do I mean?
He's a 10 year old child
He came to play because he wanted to Isn't that good enough?
Yes, I'm sure the child is innocent
I'm asking about your reasons
All I...
All I want is for my son to be happy
Taking him out with your son, staying over to nurse him...
I don't recall telling you to do such things
I acknowledge that I overstepped my duties
But it was not intentional or calculating
It was simpler
Is it money?
Money?
How... can you say that?
You're no longer involved with us
My time's up, I'm going home
It's because we're friends
What's wrong with coming to play with a friend?
My brother-in-law has no friends
No friend has ever visited him
Then Root and I are his first friends
My brother doesn't remember you for even a single day
Although he'll remember me his whole life
For Root and me,
the time we spent with the professor
was really precious
Even if his 80 minute memory,
was none at all
A line...
Just like a line
An invisible eternal truth
That's right
If you see things with your heart, time doesn't matter
What matters is right now
I just wanted to express Root's real feelings...
No
You can't torment a child
Children struggle
with much larger problems than ours
I, too...
have nothing...
left to lose
I can only accept what is, as it is
Leaving everything
up to nature,
living every moment as best I can
Pi is the circle ratio, right?
"I" is the square root of -1 and an imaginary number
Pi, a number that continues to the ends of the universe,
and the imaginary number "i" which never shows itself
What's tricky is "e"
"e" is also called the "Napier number," after John Napier,
the British mathematician. The Napier number
The Napier number is one of the constants, so critical to math
For now, I'll just tell you the conclusion
If you calculate this "e," its value is...
e = 2.7182818284...
This is just like Pi
It goes on and on and on forever
It's an irrational number
From an infinite universe,
Pi...
drifts down to "e"
And shakes hands
with bashful "i"
They come together,
and hold their breaths
None of them are connected
But, if a single human
adds just one thing...
The world is transformed
The contradiction is resolved...
Zero,
in other words,
the realm of nothingness embraces them
This formula was conceived by the greatest
18th century mathematician, Leonhard Euler
This is Euler's Equation
He found a natural relationship between apparently unrelated numbers
This is like...
A star falling through the darkness
This was the professor's beloved equation
The beauty of a single star in the night sky,
the beauty of a single flower in a field
Just as these elude description,
it's hard to explain the beauty of an equation
There's so much I don't know
But the professor taught me,
how important it is to feel
Polish your intuition
and nurture generous feelings
I know you can experience this beauty
So please love mathematics
and work together with me
My mother went back to work for the professor
Hello, I'm the housekeeper
What's your shoe size?
24, the factorial of 4
A truly noble number
Please, come on in
A letter from the Journal of Math You won their competition
It's the highest cash prize since they began publishing
I'll always remember
The day I first met you
"You come barging in, interrupting my love for my numbers!"
You scolded me
Let's celebrate
There's no need to celebrate
If we celebrate together, the joy will multiply
I don't want to celebrate
All I did was peep into God's notebook
and copy some ideas
No, we're celebrating
Root and I want to celebrate
Root...
My son
Oh, you have a son?
Yes
I know, we'll celebrate Root's birthday, too
It's May 18th
He'll be thrilled if you're there
How old will he be?
Eleven
11?
Yes, he'll be 11
A beautiful prime number
An especially beautiful prime
And it's Murayama's uniform number
That's wonderful
All right, let's celebrate Children need celebrations
May 18th
Root's birthday
Please have a seat
Root, happy birthday
Happy birthday
Here, Root
Here's your gift, Professor
What? For me?
This is...
Thank you
Kyoko san
Yes
My brother-in-law asked me to buy a baseball glove for his birthday
Would you care to join us?
Not this evening
I had invited my brother-in-law out when we had the accident
and he lost his memory
And the accident wasn't my only sin
I cast aside my parents, relatives and friends...
If I had had the courage to bear that child...
Our path might have...
I am a sinful woman
I leave everything to you
I am so grateful to the professor
From now on...
this door will always be open
I can tell you've got a wise heart in there
Like the root symbol, sharing your friendship fairly
with anyone
Since that day, until I quit baseball
because of an elbow injury in college,
I cherished that baseball glove
But what was far more valuable,
was the time I spent with the professor, living only in the present
Time doesn't matter
I'm still pursuing the dreams I dreamed with him
That's all for today's lesson
Rise
Bow
Teacher
Yes
Thank you
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour
- William Blake
professor TERAO Akira
housekeeper FUKATSU Eri
Root(child) SAITO Ryusei
Root YOSHIOKA Hidetaka
sister-in-law ASAOKA Ruriko
Director/Screenplay KOIZUMI Takashi
Executive Producer SHIINA Yasushi
Producers ARAKI Miyako SAKURAI Tsutomu
Original Story "Hakase no aishita sushiki" by OGAWA Yoko
Photography UEDA Shoji KITAZAWA Hiroyuki
Lighting YAMAKAWA Hideaki
Recordist BENITANI Kenichi
Art Director SAKAI Tadashi
Music KAKO Takashi
Editor AGA Hideto
Sound Effect SAITO Masatoshi
Decorator SHIBATA Hirohide
Costume Coordinator KUROSAWA Kazuko
Casting SUGINO Tsuyoshi
Assistant Director SAKAI Naoto
Production Manager MATSUMURA Ryuichi
Production Chief NAKAMURA Yasuko
Soundtrack avex-CLASSICS
Piano: KAKO Takashi Soprano: MORI Maki by the courtesy of avex-CLASSICS
English subtitles Linda Hoaglund
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