KAMATA PICTURES A SHOCHIKU FILM
APART FROM YOU
Written and Directed by MIKIO NARUSE
Cinematography by SUKETARO INOKAI
Production Design by TATSUO HAMADA
Starring
MITSUKO YOSHIKAWA
AKIO ISONO
SUMIKO MIZUKOBO
REIKICHI KAWAMURA TATSUKO FUJI, YOKO FUJITA
TOKKAN KOZO JUN ARAI
CHOKO IIDA
It's frightening, all the delinquents running around these days.
DERBY WORLD
NAKAYAMA RACES BEGIN TODAY
Care for some soba?
I need to rush home.
Yoshio had a headache this morning, and I'm worried.
I think he's caught a cold.
LONG LIFE APARTMENTS
Is Yoshio at school?
He said he had a headache, but apparently nothing serious.
Terugiku, will you pull out this gray hair?
Oh my, you still have a lot more.
I really am getting old.
No, Kikue, you're still young.
Shouldn't Yoshio be getting home soon?
Is this where Yoshio lives?
Has something happened?
He hasn't come to school in a long time,
so the teacher sent me to inquire.
He hasn't?
He hasn't felt well, but he should be back to school soon.
What could have happened?
He's really changed recently.
I know Yoshio really hates my working as a geisha.
But if I quit now,
I won't be able to give him a proper education.
I have to keep going at least until he graduates.
He hardly even talks to me these days.
You're the only one he's close to - like a sister.
If you have a chance, please tell him how worried I am.
Well, I'm off to the hairdresser's.
Kikue's not here yet?
Any minute now.
I've put up with that client because he's her patron,
but he's such a dirty old man.
Let's you and me go to the hot springs together.
I'm afraid of how Kikue would feel.
Who cares about that old crone?
Shouldn't you be at Mr. Yoshikawa's party?
I'm really sorry.
I don't mind.
If you have time,
would you go to my room and see if Yoshio's back?
Can we have a word?
Uh-oh!
Yoshio!
You've fallen in with a bad crowd, haven't you?
I hear you haven't been going to school.
Don't you know how worried your mother is?
I'm worried too...
You don't dislike me, do you?
Then won't you please go back to being your old self?
THE NEXT MORNING...
You drink now?
Yoshio!
Why shouldn't I drink? Look who I have for a mother.
Why are you always so hard on me?
Do you think what I'm doing is that bad?
You don't know how hard it's been trying to give you a good upbringing.
If you hate me that much, just kill me or do whatever you will.
Skipping school again today?
Why don't you come visit my family with me?
I have something to tell them.
Come on. It's a nice place near the sea.
Let's go. I'll tell your mother.
Are you embarrassed sitting next to me?
I wonder who these people take us for.
Brother and sister? Sweethearts?
I'm sure they think we're brother and sister.
I really wish I had a brother like you.
I have a younger sister and brother.
But they're both too young to listen to my troubles.
You have that many troubles?
I'll do whatever I can to help.
Thank you.
Hey Sis!
Was that Father's sake?
I'll give you some money. Go buy another bottle.
Sis!
Our big sister's here.
I brought a visitor: Kikue's son, Yoshio.
May we go upstairs, Mother?
We can see the ocean.
It's nice here!
Just a moment.
Did you speak with them about Misako?
That's why I've come.
I don't want Misako becoming a geisha.
But times are so hard.
I'll work and scrape to earn what she and I would earn together.
I don't want her to suffer as I have.
It sounds like you're blaming your mother and me.
That's right.
I'm resigned to my lot,
but I don't want Misako to share my wretched life.
Times aren't that tough. You're just a drunken loafer!
I'm sorry you had to see that.
But I actually did want to show you
just what my house and parents are like.
It so sad to watch you mistreat a mother as kind as your own.
I know for a fact your mother doesn't enjoy her work.
I wish I could go somewhere far away.
Would you go with me?
No, I was only joking.
But you'll always be there for me, won't you?
I'd do anything for you.
Thank you.
And be good to your mother too, okay?
Studying?
See you later.
What can I do?
You're tossing this old crone aside like tissue paper.
I never said I was leaving you.
I just said that business was slow these days,
so I might not be able to visit as often.
Don't bother denying it.
I'm prepared for what's coming.
Somebody help!
Water...
Thank you.
Forgive me, Yoshio.
Can we have a word?
Are you going with them?
I'll be right back.
He still hasn't changed.
Don't worry. He'll be back soon.
You haven't been coming out recently when we call you.
You trying to get out of the gang?
We want a straight answer right now.
A gang's gotta have discipline.
I'll go look for Yoshio.
Why aren't you saying anything?
I want to leave the gang.
I don't care what you do to me...
Fine! Here's how we say good-bye!
Everyone take a turn.
The son of a geisha slut - no wonder he's no good!
I don't care what they do to me,
but they can't talk about my mother that way!
Yoshio, don't!
Where's Yoshio?
Don't worry.
You don't know how happy I am
that you're back to your old self.
Please don't ever change.
Now I can leave without any worries.
Are you going somewhere?
I didn't tell you, did I?
I have to move far away in order to save my sister.
I'll do anything not to be apart from you.
Thank you. Just hearing that makes me very happy.
Take care of your mother.
As sad as life may get, I'll manage.
I might be happier if I could just die like this.
But I'll go on living.
I won't let hardship defeat me.
Yoshio, you have to be strong too.
AFTER TERUGIKU'S WOUND HAS HEALED...
I don't want to leave you or your mother.
If it weren't for my sister,
I wouldn't listen to a thing my father says.
But no matter how far I may fall,
I want my sister to remain pure.
Yoshio, please don't forget me.
And don't forget you're dearer to me than anyone else.
I feel the same...
If it weren't for my mother, I'd go anywhere with you...
Thank you. I'm glad.
Look after your mother.
Good-bye.
THE END
Translation by Kerim Yasar for Subtext Subtitling, Los Angeles