Get on, Miss...
...and leave the rest to...
Be careful! You'll strain yourself!
Such kindness to a humble man!
Miss! I'll never for get...
Playing truant, are we?
Off to meet a certain "human-rights" agitator?
I don't understand...
We have proof!
He left you a little memento on your storeroom wall.
He did?!
So you do know him.
That's all I need to know. We'll continue at the station.
You can tell us everything there.
Another stubborn one!
Tell them what they want to know.
I can't tell them what I don't know.
But I wouldn't tell them even if I knew.
I'd never betray him!
You little fool!
That's what you say now...
But feelings change.
I won't be like that! I love him more every day!
Everyone's like that.
They say Eiko gave her man all the money she'd earned!
Then he ran off with someone else!
I wish she'd pass some my way!
Huh?
Now what?
Miss! I'm here to save you!
Who are you?
Have you forgotten?
I'm Gen the rickshaw man! I've come, just as I promised...
...to repay your kindness!
Am I really being set free?
Didn't I say you would be?
We don't need you any more. We caught the guy.
Wait! Please!
Open the door!
Please! I just want to see him once!
Please! Open the door!
What's next?
What is this? Science-fiction?
Idiot!
Is this your idea of gratitude?!
But the storehouse is on fire!
You little fool! What makes you think you can just die too?!
Chiyo!
Chiyoko, come back!
Hurry!
Chiyoko!
Get back here!
Come on!
Wisteria Sweets
I know this!
Some day, for sure.
Chiyoko!
Are you all right?!
Chiyoko!
You cannot escape...
You cannot escape!
Are you all right?
Are you feeling ill?
I'm fine. If you listen to doctors...
...you think that old people are always sick.
We'll come back another day.
No.
By tomorrow I won't remember...
After the war, it was all we could do to survive.
We had no food, no clothes...
Wanting to make good films was all that kept us going.
Every single day was busy.
But I always believed that some day...
...we'd meet again.
The world had changed, and I had no idea how to find him...
...there was always the chance...
...he'll see one of my films.
Yes, the mid-50s were the peak of your career...
Huh?!
Now you know.
You were at Ginei? In the Otaki unit?
Uh, yes, but in far too minor a position...
...for you to have noticed me.
You should have told me!
Well, you know...
...I was never a director or even a crew chief.
And I was always getting Mr Otaki angry.
Tachibana Genya. How do you do.
Do a good job.
Eiko, this is Genya, a new apprentice.
I've always loved the dialogue between you and Fujiwara Chiyoko.
Yes, I set her off very well.
Never mention Chiyoko to her!
Remember one thing:
In this business we flatter both the audience and the actresses.
I'll show you one of these days.
Uh... yes, sir.
Well, I certainly fell for it.
A film director is a lot like a painter, Chiyoko.
A painter puts the colors he likes on a canvas.
And I've found a great color for my canvas.
That color is you.
He seduced her with a line like that?
I should try that one...
I'm sorry!
Bastard!
Sorry.
I'm home!
I told you to tell them no!
You won't be everyone's "madonna" forever, you know!
A woman's happiness comes from making a home!
But I've got...
All the thought criminals have long been set free. 121
He hasn't even come to see you!
No!
I'm going to him!
You don't know if he's alive or dead!
He's alive! I know it!
You won't be young forever!
We promised to meet some day!
You're too old for these little-girl dreams!
Cut!
What's wrong, Chiyoko?
Here we go again! I'm tired.
The old lady wants a break.
Take five!
It's gone!
Yes! This is the day it happened!
Miss Eiko!
Is it lunch time?
Not yet.
Genya, get out to the stage.
The princess is not amused.
Please! Look everywhere!
I have to have it!
Don't just stand there! Get looking!
Yes, sir!
Looking for what?
Chiyoko's key!
So Eiko took it...
No one knew that then.
And we couldn't find it anywhere.
It didn't get up and walk away! It's here somewhere!
What's it the key to, Chiyoko?
Yeah!
I'd like to know!
Me, too!
Tell us, Miss!
Someone very dear to me gave it to me to keep.
Your boyfriend?
Her steady!
I wonder what he's like!
What's he like?
Is he handsome?
What did he look like...
Like an actor?
Who does he look like?
Who...
I can't remember!
Not even his face!
I loved him so much!
Now I can't remember his face!
I'm sorry.
Not at all.
This tea has a wonderful aroma.
It's herb tea from my garden. It's very good for you.
Shall we continue?
Soon after the key disappeared, you got married...
Yes, to Otaki.
It was as if I'd lost part of my heart with that key.
And I was too old to be dreaming any more.
Yesterday, the 20th, at 11:47 p.m. Japan time...
...seven American astronauts...
...were launched into space from Cape Canaveral.
Darn!
Well, now she knows.
Eiko! What does this mean?
A farce by a great director...
...to win a popular actress.
And silly me took the role of the thief.
But...
...I've always had a guilty conscience about you.
That fortune-teller...
...was a dirty trick.
It was wrong.
But I would have done anything to get rid of you.
Did you know where he was?
How would I know?
But a certain someone found out about my trick.
What did I ever do to you?
I was jealous!
Of your youth!
And how chasing after one man kept you young!
And I got stuck playing the older woman you'd run up against.
Now I've lost even the energy to hate you any more.
Isn't this all far in the past?
Um...
We're in a meeting. Come back later.
There's someone here to see Miss Chiyoko.
You're Miss Fujiwara Chiyoko, aren't you.
What do you want now?
I'm sorry... you know me, then, don't you.
Go away!
I'm sure you hate me.
I was as evil as those I served in their abuse of power.
I am on a journey of atonement...
...for my sins before the war.
A painter we held for thought crimes left you this.
He said he was in your debt, and wanted to thank you.
I am most truly sorry.
Chiyoko!
"It bothers me that I was not able to thank you.
"I want to see you, but this war...
"...grows more intense by the day.
"When the war is over, and real peace has come...
"...I will go home to Hokkaido and finish that painting.
"Some day I'd like to show you that starry, starry sky...
"...as I promised I would."
This?
It's the key to the most important thing there is.
The most important thing?
Promise?
Last call for the 19:37 "Snow and Sky Express"...
...now boarding on Platform 12.
You're in love with someone!
Not till tomorrow.
With the 14th night, there's still tomorrow...
...and hope.
Bandits again?!
Idiot!
Attention passengers....
This train will stop temporarily due to a rock slide on the tracks.
Open the door!
There are buses coming!
Train staff will conduct you down to the highway!
You poor fool!
You cannot escape your fate.
You will burn forever in the flames of eternal love!
Kyoto?!
I will go to him!
Wait!
Keep it till we meet.
Have pity!
He's alive! I know it!
I'm going to him!
I love him more every day!
You don't look like you're out for a walk... hop in!
Here's a role that suits you!
Leave it to me!
Hokkaido or bust!
No, Doctor! Stop!
He's waiting for me!
In that pure white landscape...
...you feel like you're on some strange, distant world.
Doctor!
Come back!
I'm going to give him this key!
Wait!
Please! Wait!
Wait!
I'll come to you! Wherever I must go!
Must you go?
I promised.
I said I'd go to him.
But you'll never make it back!
Chiyoko!
Boss! Look out!
Chiyoko! I've always...
It's a big one!
Chiyoko, look out!
Chiyoko! Run!
Chiyoko!
Are you all right?!
Move that stuff!
Chiyoko!
Everyone help!
Quick!
Chiyoko!
Hurry!
She's here! And Genya!
Are you all right?!
Ow!
Did you shield me?
Yes.
Way to go, Genya!
I hate you!
And I love you! More than I can bear!
Chiyoko!
Chiyoko, what's wrong?!
Chiyoko!
Genya, what did you do?!
Nothing!
Imagine for getting someone who saved my life!
No... I look different now.
It's been 30 years... I've lived quietly since then.
Why did you do it?
After you vanished in Hokkaido, you went back to films.
After that studio accident...
...why did you go into hiding?
I never thought I'd see him again, even though...
...I'd resolved...
...to follow him anywhere.
So then why?
After the accident, I realized something.
I wasn't the girl he'd remember any more.
I hate you!
More than I can bear!
I didn't want him to see me old.
Chiyoko?
It's a big one!
Chiyoko!
You're always there to help me...
Chiyoko! Chiyoko!
In the end...
...she never met the guy who gave her the key.
That old policeman...
That painter...
...refused to talk, right to the end. So I tortured him.
I killed him.
So Chiyoko...
...was just chasing a shadow.
I'm sorry! We asked too much of you.
No... I enjoyed it very much.
But I guess this is goodbye.
The doctor says you'll be fine!
You're a poor liar, aren't you.
Don't feel sad.
After all, I'm going...
...after that man again.
See? I have the key, thanks to you.
It's opened the door to my memories of him.
It's as if while I was talking to you...
...the girl I was came back to life.
This time you'll find him. I'm sure of it!
I wonder...
But maybe it doesn't matter.
After all...
After all, it's the chasing after him I really love.
The golden moons In the dewdrops in the weeds
Refracted a million times.
Billions of nights In the nets of your dreams
Yet you are In chains, Captive of this one night.
You millions of moons,
It's time right now to call up the parallel mornings.
Let this prisoner run!
You ships of the mornings, Go load up the lists of the days.
A metaphor for birth.
Your birthdays expand, Rhyming the infinite possibilities,
This universe rhymes.
Echoing! Echoing to all the moons.
Bloom, you lotuses Reflecting Your Every Universe one after another
Like the reincarnation.
Bloom, you lotuses Releasing the echoes of a thousand years
In every second.
The far past, The far present and even tomorrow will be here
Right now, every golden day.
Remember the gold Which indwells in you,
Release billions of glorious nights!
Like the stars Scattered across the sky,
You, Your Every Universe, recorded
In every single flower sprinkled over this field.
Bloom, you lotuses Reflecting Your Every Universe one after another
Like the reincarnation.
Bloom, you lotuses Releasing the echoes of a thousand years
In every second.
Bloom, you lotuses Reflecting Your Every Universe one after another
Like the reincarnation.
Bloom, you lotuses Releasing the echoes of a thousand years
In every second.