Mr. Takemaru
I just meant to say that as Transport Minister...
this comes under my portfolio.
All right.
A man concerned only with his people
and his wallet can be such a problem!
As you say Mr. Deputy Prime Minister.
And our man in Osaka?
(lssei Ryuzaki)
I'll go to Osaka again next week...
and speak with him.
It's been a difficult decision Mr. Ryuzaki.
But given his success in labor relations
I feel he's best for the job.
He's a leading businessman there.
I've never met him.
We move in different circles.
But I've come to feel as you do Prime Minister.
I'm getting static from all over on this.
It's very annoying.
That's only natural.
You're making a lone sortie
into the Transport Minister's territory.
I leave this to you.
(Kansai Cotton Spinning Co.)
Conventional spinning
machines offer widths of from 15 to 35 inches...
while this machine can be set at from 10 to 40 inches.
Mr. Kunimi...
(Masayuki Kunimi President Kansai Cotton Spinning Co.)
Well, well!
I'm sorry to make you come all the way to Osaka again.
Please.
Mr. Kunimi...
For most of the last war...
I served in Tokyo at Imperial Headquarters.
However, as it ended...
I went to Manchuria with
surrender orders for the Army there
and with 650,000 of our soldiers...
spent 11 years as a prisoner of the Soviet Union.
I understand you went to
the Army Officers' Training School
I never went to the front.
I was kept behind as an instructor.
But I'm sure you understand those people
who went out to die for their country.
Most of my classmates were lost.
The Prime Minister says he will welcome you with open arms.
This is a very great honor
but I'm afraid...
Could you possibly undertake this for the sake of the nation?
For the nation?
I would like...
your answer soon.
The Prime Minister is waiting anxiously.
Hello?
Mr. Sakaguchi...
It's been a long time.
If this is about compensation you're wasting your time.
My wife died five years ago.
Now my son, his wife,
and my grandson, all dead.
My family's gone.
I have no need of compensation.
The next time you come
I won't be here.
I don't know what plant this is
but when it blooms
I'm going on a pilgrimage.
I brought this plant back from Mt Osutaka.
Please, Papa, hold me again.
Let's eat together again.
Eat supper with us again.
Hurry up...
and come home...
And let's talk.
Please, Papa...
hold me again.
I will accept.
For those who died...
and for those who lost family and friends.
(Kunimi Appointed National Airlines Chairman)
I believe the four labor unions into which the staff is split
are the greatest barrier to reviving the company.
You were active in the first union.
I would like to ask for your help.
I plan to set up a Chairman's Office
a section answering directly to me.
I'll bring talented people together to lance the company's wounds...
Sir!
I'm sure you know my background.
Any involvement of mine would be a hindrance.
I am grateful for the offer...
but I'd like to continue
with the victims' families.
Leave that!
I want you operating on a higher level.
You can do that.
I need you to do this!
Why wouldn't a man with more than 30 years experience
help an outsider concerned about the company?
I spent a third of that time...
stuck out too far away to do anything.
Sir...
lately I keep having dreams about the African savanna.
Most of them aren't pleasant...
but when I wake up I feel strangely at peace.
When I was there all I wanted was to come home.
But now I'm here...
it bothers me how vicious it is.
Sir, this company...
won't respond to anything!
Those nine years...
must have been very hard
for both you and your family.
I was asked to take this job for the sake of the nation.
At that time I saw the faces of my comrades lost in the war.
I want to do this for them, and for those of us who survived.
I am going to climb Mt Osutaka
and tell those 520 souls...
we will reunite the unions
and achieve absolute safety.
That is the prayer I wish to make.
All roads lead to Rome they say.
All roads in the rebuilding of National Airlines...
lead to the absolute safety of our aircraft.
Customer faith is where we start.
You are all very well versed in the airline business.
I would like your candid opinions
as experts in your different fields.
70 per cent of air accidents are due to human error.
Poor pilot working conditions lead to accidents.
NAL classifies its pilots as management...
making them stakeholders to keep them quiet.
We are the only airline in the world
whose pilots are management.
We in the Attendants Union
suffer discrimination in promotion.
89 people have gone between eight and 12 years
without promotion from Purser to Chief Purser.
And as well...
You hold meetings
and pass out posters during working hours.
You're not there to work!
That's right.
Those who work, eat.
The pet union can speak later.
The what?!
We're in the mess we're in
because you maggots feed on us!
Maggot? Look who's talking!
You commie pup!
- You poodle! - Think of the company!
Sakomoto!
We're not here to throw mud.
We want to work, but we can't!
That's your own fault!
Right!
Did you plan that?
Gyoten!
I always trusted in you.
No matter what anyone said.
How's life in the Chairman's Office?
Is it you splitting the families?
Why?!
That's a stupid question.
For me, of course.
Are you serious?!
So keep out of the way.
You're in the way!
You don't get it. You're stuck in the past.
I only see the future.
(Noboru Umino President National Airlines)
Excellent!
The first Chairman's Office meeting ends in chaos!
I'll bet that put Kunimi's nose out of joint.
That's what he gets for starting this...
(Michio Mitsunari Vice-President) Without asking his new Board.
It blew up in his face.
The Chairman's Office will be rendered harmless.
Have no fear.
More than that, Gyoten...
could you encourage him not to have meetings on weekends?
I play golf then.
Without that I'll get all out of shape!
I agree.
In the civil service
I'd play once or twice a week.
I wasn't NAL President when the plane crashed.
All this compensation, apologies what do we know about that?
I know what you mean.
I was sent to a group company six months before it happened.
There's no way I feel responsible for it.
I'll mention your and Mr. Umino's concerns to the Chairman.
But enough of business...
Good evening and welcome!
Here we go!
Gyoten, you're even smarter than I thought!
You always know how to get right down to it.
Oh, thank you, thank you!
(1 January 1986)
Onchi!
Sir...
Happy New Year.
Same to you.
I'm sorry to call you out here.
The year's first flight?
Yes.
I wanted you to see off the first flight of the new year.
So how was the first sunrise of the new year?
(Tadatsugu Hachiuma Chairman NAL Enterprises)
Do you like our NAL Enterprises yacht?
Whose slush fund?
Just kidding.
This won't be a great year.
But it won't be as bad as looking into the abyss last year.
In New Year's Day you see a whole year.
I hereby inform the Transport Ministry
of our advance into London.
A hotel?
The Elizabeth Hotel is for sale.
You just bought the New York Grand
last year, Mr. Hachiuma.
Where NAL lands A NAL Hotel stands.
That's my motto.
Head office won't go for it.
As Executive Director that's where you come in.
I see our hotels division...
restoring the NAL image after the Mt Osutaka crash.
You just like the slush fund that came out of the New York deal.
Bite your tongue!
As the president-in-waiting
Mr. Gyoten just wants things clean.
Be serious!
Fog's rolled in from Osaka.
Visibility nil.
We're grounded.
Sit down.
Anyway, to the New Year.
May it be a good one.
This is line maintenance.
We've had a report of vibration noise from the landing gear.
How much longer?
We've tightened the latch bolts but haven't found the noise.
We'll confirm visual check and OK it for take-off.
Roger.
Time to go!
You're done?
No. We don't know if the bolts caused the noise.
But it's take-off time.
The repair's carried over till next time.
We're not hiring new mechanics so we're short of people.
We should have a dedicated system.
Which is?
Mechanics given charge of specific planes.
They'd be more responsible and there'd be fewer carry-overs.
Let's do that.
Anything for safety.
Yes, sir.
A journalist should never be drunk!
Or made to drink!
Thus, I have never been drunk!
Isn't that great?
Isn't that something?
A journalist must always be in control.
OK?
A journalist�s work...
OK? Listen!
Mr. Sasamoto...
This is Takayanagi
of our New Labor Union.
What?
He's a prospect for Union Chairman.
He has something you might find interesting.
I'll listen to anything!
I'm in a good mood.
Whatever you want.
What is it? Dirt on Kunimi?
I wouldn't put it quite that way, but...
About Kunimi I'll write anything you want.
That's what journalists do!
I'm really getting sick of that drunk, you know.
Take care of him.
(NAL New Union Protests
Appointment Of Old-Union Leader)
(Arbitrary Management Not Credible)
Don't let the mass media get under your skin, Mr. Kunimi.
They bash me all year long.
I do business in Osaka
and the papers write about it...
but here they'll take anything I do
and make a fuss over it.
I'm more disgusted than angry.
Mr. Kunimi
my faith in you has not wavered...
even a hair's breadth.
I will support your rebuilding of National Airlines
from the moment it takes off till the moment it touches down.
Just follow the royal road the best way to your destination.
Prime Minister!
What you just said...
I would like to keep those words by me.
Could I ask you to write them in calligraphy for me?
Gladly.
This has been very encouraging.
(Royal Road)
From the Prime Minister!
Royal road, huh?
So Mr. Kunimi thinks
Prime Minister Tonegawa's influence...
will put him back on the rails!
He's got it in writing!
Kunimi's really something!
He sets up his own little KGB and who does he choose?
The radical union leader...
who wanted to use
the Prime Minister's flight
as a bargaining chip!
The Party's Traffic Department meets next week, right?
I'll nail him in the Air Transport Committee.
But really!
The PM helping himself
to our rights over Transport Ministry appointments?
Aoyama a politician is careful when he talks about rights.
You leave yourself open.
Sorry.
We ask that you do what you can for us.
But within the Party...
the Transport interests will need pacifying.
We know that and we're ready for them.
Right, Gyoten?
Leave that to me.
Hello? Yagi speaking.
I'll see to it.
(Tickets, Coupons Bought and Sold)
(Created funds for Mr. G.)
(8pm: Met him at the usual place.)
Another?
All right, a beer.
Beer!
Look forward to your next posting.
Thank you.
Just let me know what you need.
Thank you for coming all the way from Osaka.
Junko came down to visit us the other day.
She's very well-bred for a girl
who spent so much time abroad.
She still has a lot to learn.
I worry about her.
Please.
Thank you.
Mr. Onchi, you graduated in law from Tokyo University?
That's a long way over our heads, isn't it.
Not at all.
Mr. Onchi...
I had you wrong.
The president of Kansai Cotton
the Prime Minister's choice for NAL
personally picked you for his staff?
May this be the beginning of a long acquaintance.
Then we should decide the betrothal and wedding plans.
The two of us have done most of that.
Could you ask Chairman Kunimi to attend as your guest of honor?
Wait...
so you'll accept my daughter because of my education...
and because I know Mr. Kunimi?
Dad!
Junko, didn't you say you two
were planning your own simple wedding?
Excuse my father.
He's blown this out of proportion.
Our feelings haven't changed.
Hey!
How will I look if you two marry like poor folk?
Dad?
Excuse me.
I'm sorry.
What?
Junko's marrying Kozo.
Not his father.
He'll be her father-in-law!
They'll be fine. She won't back down.
And Kozo's very nice, as well.
I'm going over there.
That's fine.
Be angry when you're angry.
The children used to wonder.
Doesn't Dad ever get angry?
At work or at us? It's weird!
Damn kids!
OK, let's go.
Tell me...
Was it for me and the children you never got angry?
Did you bottle it all up inside?
Because I sure did.
Come on.
Hajime!
What?
I think this is a really nice place!
Gyoten...
The Traffic meeting went well.
Thanks to you.
What do you think of this as your private office?
It's the best place we have.
Wow! This is great!
Come and see, Mr. Ishiguro!
It's great!
You see, Mr. Ishiguro?
Chief...
We'd like Ministry approval for those new scheduled flights.
I can't get three into Haneda.
Be reasonable!
If you can...
As it happens...
last August 12th,
coming back from a business trip...
I took a plane from Fukuoka to Haneda.
That plane then became...
Flight 123.
I have three grand-children.
When I got on at Fukuoka...
I asked the flight attendant for some toys.
She was nice, and gave me three.
Her name was Kyoko Hida.
She was in the Flight 123 crew...
and died.
The other day...
watching my grand-children playing...
I thought of her.
I started feeling guilty.
I wondered if, as an auditor
I could help rebuild the company.
Something to make it up to her...
for how she died.
Excuse me.
Onchi
could you come in here right now?
(Auditor's Report: Long-Term Strategies)
(Auditor's Report: Hotel Operations)
Excuse me.
Onchi... it's been a long time.
Mr. Wako!
You know each other?
We were together in Karachi.
I still feel bad I wasn't able to help you.
I'm sorry I was a problem.
Sit down.
Excuse me.
Mr. Wako brought these.
They indicate two major accounting errors.
Very serious illegal activities.
One is in yen-dollar exchange,
and the other in hotel purchasing.
Onchi...
look after the hotel side for me.
Get over to New York.
(New York)
Welcome, Onchi!
You're here?
This is my hotel.
It took you a while to get in.
My luggage took ages.
Oh dear, oh dear!
This is a very nice hotel.
I thought I'd died and gone to heaven
when we got it so cheap.
What brings you to New York,
by the way?
A friend from Nairobi.
At 200 to the dollar then...
that's 900 million!
How did I find you here?
I tailed you.
'Follow Onchi,' Mr. Gyoten said.
I've been his spy for years you know.
His spy, and his mistress.
You knew that, didn't you?
Look, Miki.
It's designed so our eyes are on a level with theirs.
I think it's meant to instill respect in us.
But look at that lion.
No snap in his jaws or luster in his fur.
He doesn't catch prey, I guess.
It's hard for a lion here to live like a lion should.
Mr. Onchi...
throw me in front of that lion.
That might give him
his wildness back.
I got the families' association list
from Kyoko's mother.
For Gyoten.
I switched flights with Kyoko
so I could be with him.
I should've died.
I should've died in her place.
I'm horrible.
Stop it.
That's enough.
I go home tomorrow
but call me if you need me.
Mr. Onchi!
Save Gyoten.
He's been running all this time.
Without rest.
If he goes on, he'll break down.
He knows it.
The more he struggles the worse he gets.
So...
save him.
Please.
National Airlines?
(Yasutomo Ikenobo Chairman Japan Industrial Bank)
Kunimi the Prime Minister's man...
is investigating irregularities in the 10-year dollar accounts.
Has he caught wind
of what's behind it?
Not a chance.
Nobody at National Airlines
knows anything about foreign exchange.
Kunimi can look but he won't find anything.
But to be safe
we should hide the forward contract itself.
And that involves Indonesia Mr. Ikenobo?
Development aid.
The difference between our yen loan for the Jakarta airport...
and National Airlines' 10-year dollar-denominated commitment.
Foreign exchange is beyond me.
I've left that all to you.
And bit by bit
we've been delivering...
your 'souvenirs of Indonesia'.
But on the off chance they do find something...
I'd pay a political price.
Use all your judgment Mr. Ikenobo.
I intend to.
The Transport Ministry called.
We have unofficial approval for our three new Haneda flights.
Oh? Well done.
This is the most important issue we have now, I believe.
I agree.
I thought you'd be delighted.
Mr. Gyoten, I understand...
you and Mr. Onchi were once union colleagues.
So long ago I've forgotten.
I hear many things about both of you.
I ignore what I hear about Mr. Onchi...
I'm honored that I stick in your mind.
So how was New York?
Ginger ale.
I want to see your trip report.
Understand?
I saw Miki there.
She's worried about you.
What are you going to do?
None of your business.
Keep your mouth shut.
Remember that report.
It's not for you.
Is this revenge?
I hear Junko's getting married.
So what?
Okura Pharmaceuticals the president's son?
I know someone who's a good friend of his.
Will he want a...
Don't you dare!
She was small when I saw her last
but I don't want to hurt her.
Don't drag her into it, OK?
Think about it.
I said I'd pay. You really want to eat here?
Yeah. I like this place.
And I have to get back.
Mom said you were in New York.
I got back two days ago.
Are you enjoying your work?
Yeah, I guess.
It's what I chose,
so I can't complain.
Junko said something like that.
Both me and Junko...
We said we wouldn't work anywhere
where you'd be a problem.
Sorry.
I didn't mean anything by that.
So? Another problem at work?
Why not quit?
You know...
the day the war ended
I saw a bright red sunset.
A loud, gaudy red
but beautiful.
Somehow, it just didn't fit.
That day...
I decided never to swallow what everyone was sure of.
Never to believe fine words or conventional wisdom.
That's because you're always going against the flow.
That might be it.
But you know
the ones who go with the flow might have it harder.
They have to fight to stay in it.
Katsuki...
treasure your friends.
Here you go.
Where are you off to?
I thought I might get a drink.
I feel like one.
What the hell. Maybe I'll come with you.
Here's your soup.
Not bad!
This is good!
(Keisuke Inoyama Diet Member Japan Socialist League)
Member Inoyama!
A 'briefing'?
Yes... sort of.
Goodbye.
You've been moved to a suite upstairs.
Your lady's waiting there.
We miss your sharp questions in the Transport Committee.
Study this.
Thank you.
I have, from a reliable source...
obtained an auditor's report for National Airlines.
(Lower House Transport Committee)
This gives a clear picture...
of the dreadful management...
prevailing at National Airlines.
First, about U.S. Dollar forward contracts.
Transport Minister...
NAL has purchased aircraft
through expensive forward contracts...
without registering the losses on its books.
To do this over ten years
with unpredictable exchange rates...
seems highly speculative.
Minister...
what do you think about this?
Transport Minister Michizuka.
I think that ten years is far too long.
We have always tried to leave NAL to manage itself...
but looking at the fluctuations
in the exchange rate...
this was not appropriate policy.
Mr. Chairman...
Member Inoyama.
I put the same question to the Prime Minister.
This is one point.
My second point is...
Will I bother you?
Shall I come back?
No, not at all.
Sit down, Mr. Takemaru.
I'll have a quick shave.
No, no. Take your time.
Good work at the Committee, sir.
It tired me out.
Prime Minister...
this is not the time to lose your nerve.
The enemy is trying to shake us both...
to make us let go of our grip...
on National Airlines.
I'll bear that firmly in mind.
But we should quickly
draw the curtain on this or we will crash, too.
Sorry. A slip of the tongue.
Say the wrong thing these days and the media will eat you up!
I want something done about
this forward-dollar matter.
Otherwise the public
is going to think...
NAL is adding huge exchange losses
to the cost of its aircraft...
and be furious that
ticket prices are jumping up.
Neither can the cabinet let this go any longer.
I think this is poor management on the part of the airline.
Mr. Totoki...
NAL is not just another private airline.
It is a government corporation
and our national flag carrier.
We can be held responsible.
But Mr. Kunimi is the one
who lit this particular fire.
Perhaps he plans to put it out.
But in a strong wind the fire will spread.
A cabinet decision must settle this.
Yagi...
Sorry I'm late.
Thank you for coming.
How are you? Good?
Yes.
Are you still at that downtown office?
Yes. I'm doing fine there.
Yeah?
That's good.
Coffee, please.
So what's up? Tell me.
Nothing.
I just wanted to see your face.
That sounds weird!
What's going on?
I remembered...
Chairman Onchi Vice-Chairman Gyoten...
Those were good days.
You shone.
Me, too...
a little.
Yagi?
I've got to go.
Thanks for coming.
What?
Hey! Yagi!
Well done.
In the matter of
foreign-exchange forward contracts...
the government believes that NAL management...
undertook these to mitigate the risk of exchange fluctuations
and that this is a matter for the company to judge.
This is the government's decision in this matter.
This ends today's cabinet meeting.
(Cabinet Says NAL Can Judge On Forward Exchange Contracts)
The money I made on Mr. Gyoten's orders...
will, it seems, open the future for NAL, and for Japan.
At last I have been of service to society.
What a laugh!
Don't call me here!
I call you.
I won't call again.
I just wanted to say thank you.
Oh, and soon...
you'll be getting some good news.
Look forward to it.
(Tokyo Prosecutors' Office)
We won!
Mr. Onchi! Mr. Onchi!
I have come with
a message from the Prime Minister.
I am sure you can guess.
He would like you to resign
as National Airlines Chairman.
May I ask why?
Why?
I believe at the start I said this was 'for the nation'.
It is not serving the nation,
so you are asked to resign.
I did not say for the nation.
I said for the 520 who died on Mt Osutaka...
and for their families.
To soothe their grief
quiet their anger...
and for National Airlines to repent
will take more time.
I ask to be allowed to continue.
To cut through opposition
takes strategy and tactics.
I'm sorry.
Prayer is another matter.
Will you come pray with me?
Who are you praying for?
For whom?
For what?
This matter has been decided.
Please understand that.
You all climbed the mountain?
How was the trail?
I would've come with you.
As if you had time!
I'm sorry.
Mr. Onchi, it's been a while.
Is Mr. Kunimi really resigning?
Is NAL going back into the dark ages?
No. That won't happen.
Excuse me.
Well done.
You came, too?
Everyone invited me
so I climbed it for the first time.
How was it?
You must be tired.
I wanted to go to the NAL head office, too...
and throw a big rock at it.
But the mountain tired me out.
Mr. Onchi
have you noticed?
I don't reek of alcohol, do I.
It's true.
I haven't drunk for a long time.
I'm not woozy and staggering any more.
And when I see the news on TV or in the papers...
I get so mad!
If NAL
can spend money like water on currencies or foreign hotels
why can't they spend more time and money...
on the bodies of the dead?
My husband...
and lots of the other victims...
still have body parts missing.
It's like National Airlines...
has killed us twice.
It's hard.
When two years go by
or ten years go by...
When will I ever feel at peace?
I want...
I want to see my husband!
The mechanics are happy.
They know their planes,
and they can focus on maintenance.
It's much safer now.
The dedicated system was a good idea.
A lot of people were against it!
You achieved great things.
No, I failed.
There's so much left to do.
The politicians pushed me all over the place.
But I will settle that New York case of yours.
I've got my pride, too.
Right.
The Chairman's Office is dissolved.
What do you want to do next?
I'd like to do something for you
with my last breath.
I'd like to
go back to working with the victims' families.
You would?
A man like you should be
at the heart of the company, though.
You were waving like that on New Year's morning.
It looked to me as if
you were praying for a safe flight.
Like a father watching a child set out.
That determination will revive this company.
Don't lose it.
I believe
that National Airlines will revive.
But that will not be at the hands of some outsider.
You are the only ones
who can rebuild this company.
It is a steep and narrow road...
but I believe...
that atonement to
the 520 silent voices of Mt Osutaka...
is a mission for
every National Airlines employee
from which nothing can sway you.
My job is not done...
but as of April 30th...
I resign as Chairman
of National Airlines.
Chairman...
I for one was astonished
to learn of your resignation.
Can you not reconsider
and join with us again...
in rebuilding National Airlines?
I agree with the President.
You have undertaken...
a bold and yet sensitive reform and rebuilding.
You still have work to do.
I urge you to reconsider.
I'm sorry but my decision is firm.
But I wish you to continue rebuilding,
with 'absolute safety'...
as your goal.
To that end,
I have a motion to make.
This is a report
on the haphazard management of NAL Enterprises.
What's nonsense like this
doing at a board meeting?!
Mr. Hachiuma I ask for your resignation.
I move that Tadatsugu Hachiuma be removed from his post.
All in favor raise your hands.
It's that commie who wrote this report!
Gentlemen!
The very union leader
who got NAL into the mess it's in!
A show of hands?
NAL Enterprises has hotels wherever NAL flies.
We raise NAL's profile!
By a majority vote
Mr. Hachiuma is removed from his position.
Kunimi!
One day I'll wipe that smirk off your face!
Mr. Hachiuma!
Call Security.
Gyoten! Don't forget!
I'm the one who put you where you are!
Gyoten!
Chairman...
I would also like to say...
in recognition of your unsparing efforts...
a heartfelt 'well done'.
Onchi...
Moving?
I'm going to Osaka tomorrow
back to the victims' families.
I'll be able to work in peace away from the politics.
Nairobi.
Cancel your Osaka flight.
You're transferred to Nairobi.
What?! Mr. Kunimi said...
He's gone April 30th.
This is effective May 1st.
Who knows what you'll start with the families.
If you're in Japan,
for the company you're trouble.
You're not wanted.
Gyoten, you...
You've...
become a sad man.
You're the loser!
Get going.
I'm against it.
Why do you have to go to Nairobi at your age?
There's other people!
They sent you all over the place when you were younger.
Kozo thinks so, too.
Ah, newlyweds!
Don't make fun, Katsuki. Talk to him!
It's Dad's problem.
Do you plan to be left alone
in Japan again, Mom?
Here we are.
We're here...
We'll bring our noisy kids.
You're always welcome.
You're not against it?
He's going back to Nairobi!
If that's what he decides.
That's so out-of-date!
Junko...
They grew up in
a different age to us.
Whose side are you on?!
No one's.
They've both always faced life and never run away.
It's just that I kind of understand.
Well, I don't!
Thank you.
I'm happy you're concerned.
I'm...
not going to quit.
Can I say something else?
I can't say exactly
but I'm going in a different spirit than before.
This time I just want to go to Africa.
You'll come visit?
We start!
Hey.
There.
Thanks.
Prosecutors' Office.
Go inside.
We're here in the case of Kazuo Yagi...
found dead a few days ago in Fukui Prefecture.
Dear Mr. Sakaguchi.
Where are you now
on your pilgrimage?
Tomorrow I leave for Nairobi.
Before I left
I thought I'd climb Mt Osutaka again...
and bid farewell to the 520 souls.
I still have no words
appropriate to your despair.
The suffering I have known
multiplied a million times would not equal yours.
Should I curse and consider myself unfortunate...
over the trivial
insignificant things that have hurt me?
Mr. Sakaguchi...
after your long pilgrimage
could you perhaps visit Africa?
On its vast, unbroken plains...
is great Nature in all its awesome majesty.
I would very much like you to see it.
The African sun on the horizon loosing arrows of gold...
shines with a magnificent light.
To me
it is love for the human heart through its barren days...
promising tomorrow.
It is a sun that never sets.
Presented by Kadokawa Pictures
Toho, K Dash Shinchosha Publishing
Nippon Shuppan Hanbai
This film is a work of fiction.
Any resemblance to real persons or organizations is coincidental.
This film is dedicated to
victims of air disaster everywhere...
with a view to promoting safety in travel.