It's your child.
If you won't say anything...
I’ll leave you.
'Father's Role in Birth'
Get out.
Don't go.
Darling...
To my dear Mother...
Should I give birth to this child?
Morita?
Ms. Yukie Morita, are you okay?
Ms. Morita, Ms. Morita, can you hear me?
Are you okay? Ms. Morita?
It's terrible! It's terrible!
It's terrible!
At this critical time you loaf around?!
Yukie fell from an overpass, she's unconscious!
Yukie?
Your beloved wife and your child are dying!
Tamai Hospital!
Ms. Morita. Ms. Morita.
Hurry, hurry!
One, two, three.
Mother, is this your answer?
Morita.
And also there’s Kumamoto.
What's that?! Both forgot to bring the materials fee again?
You both get this month's non-payment reward.
Keep on collecting.
Okay, until you pay you have to clean toilets.
Toilet cleaning again! What a stink!
Too poor!
Please stop that everyone!
They're pitiful.
Quiet down! Today I’ll tell you where our tuna comes from.
It's from Africa, that's far from here...
Morita, why are you hiding your lunch?
You are too, Kumamoto.
It’s desperate.
Then don't ask.
You're poor!
You’re poor! Let's go.
Are you okay?
It's okay.
Hey, get back inside.
See you.
See you later.
Don’t be so noisy. Be quiet!
There’s a saying that ''All are equal under heaven.''
So even the poorest people are equal and have rights...
If I could be reborn, I'd like to be just like Fujisawa.
She's pretty and smart,
she’s rich and smells like a flower.
If that's how you feel, go and join her.
Ouch!
Yukie, today I have a surprise announcement for you.
I'm surprised before telling!
Again, my announcement.
Your father is getting remarried, to her.
Miwako will be your new mother!
I'm Miwako!
You're Yukiko?
She's Yukie, Yukie.
Oh, Yukie. I finished junior high, so...
What's that?!
If you need help studying, don't hesitate to ask me.
You really are pretty.
Morita, will you eat with us?
I’m so grateful.
Go ahead!
I’m so grateful.
Morita is so cute!
You're too poor! I’m finished with you.
Miwako, don't say such a thing.
But ever since I was young I’ve dreamed about my wedding.
You can't even give me a diamond engagement ring.
Can't we just register as a couple?
Of course not. It faces west! You're so poor!
I want a hotel wedding in a wedding dress and three changes of clothes.
The honeymoon will be to coconut Hawaii. Hawaii, coconut.
Actually, the moon isn't made of honey...
We can’t afford a house, so a leased apartment is fine.
A big, beautiful place overlooking Kesennuma Bay.
It’ll have a lovely bathroom, with just the two of us living there.
Miwako, you mean I have to give up Yukie?
Who is more important to you, Yukie or me? Tell me clearly!
- But l... - Tell me. Poor!
- Don't torment me... - Too poor!
The money!
'Hawaii'
Father!
Yukie,
abandoned by your mother.
No delivery from tomorrow.
Too poor!
Now what'll you do?
Pitiful.
She may die.
She'll die, she'll die.
There's nothing between you, your father and l.
Long ago, abandoned by your mother.
Too poor!
Kumamoto, thank you.
We can be friends forever from now on, right?
What do you mean, friends?! You betrayed me!
That's 15 slaps. You have nothing to say?
Kumamoto, I’m sorry.
16 slaps! 17 slaps!
Will you say sorry for your whole life?
You’ll let me just keep hitting you?
You think we’ll stay friends if you're so weak?
I’ve had enough of hitting, why not hit me back?!
Don't run from your fate.
Kumamoto?!
Kumamoto? Kumamoto, you've got to pull through.
Kumamoto! You can’t die!
If you die, I’ll have nobody!
Let's be friends our whole lives. Friends forever!
You mean that?
I mean it, I’ll never betray you.
Morita, give me your hand.
Whether we are near or far, I will never forget you.
Whether happy or sad, we will remain friends.
We'll always be friends.
Whether happy or sad, we will remain friends.
We'll always be friends.
Do you want to find happiness?
Yeah, even a bit is fine. I want to feel happy.
You can be.
Is that true?
Just leave this town.
But you can’t ever come back.
If you really try, you can change that poor face.
And then you may become happy.
Then I’ll be alone again.
Idiot, we said that no matter how far apart, we’ll be friends.
I can't stop the bleeding.
HP dropping from 10 to 8.
Shock from blood loss!
Doctor!
Next stop, Momoura Station.
Ku...Kumamoto?!
Morita, eat this.
I don't need it, Kumamoto, your lunch isn’t good.
You don't need to eat it, take it with you.
I don't really want to go to Tokyo!
idiot!
Kumamoto!
Good-bye. Don't give up, Morita.
Morita, don't give up!
Kumamoto!
Don’t give up, find your happiness.
Isao...
''SURGERY''
You can t!
Yukie!
Stop now. In utero bleeding...
We might lose the baby. Another ultrasound.
The UFJ Bank.
Is it a good bank?
Good deposit interest.
Where is it?
Come over here!
Let's have fun.
How about three juicy fruits?
Go back to Russia.
You make me sick.
Addict!
Foreigner!
Matryoshka dolls! Caviar!
Hey...
Borscht!
Hey, hey! You...
You'll do anything for 1,000 yen?
I'm not 1,000 yen!
I'm 10,000 yen.
That's too much for an addict like you.
Old jerk!
Ouch!
Apologize.
What?!
Go ahead, apologize to her!
Let go of me!
You're only worth 500 yen!
I Il take the three of you.
All of us!
You again?
We pay your gang fee.
You're always interfering.
What's going on?
Maybe you... want to buy my services?
If you're just looking, get out of here!
I really...you.
Huh?
I really...you.
What? I can't hear.
I really love you.
Don't joke around.
Think I'm stupid cause I’m a hooker?
That was great! That was great!
You know him?
Yakuza? Matrix?
I don’t know him.
Mr. Company Boss!
I m just a clerk...
- Come again, Boss! - I'll be back.
Give me a break, you are an addict. I can't do it.
Enough of this!
Stop making fun of me!
I’m not making fun of you.
I really love you.
Is that so?
All right...
If you actually do love me,
you can have me for money.
You can have me if you pay.
You're my customer.
What are you doing?
What's good about me?
Everything.
Everything...about you.
Let's leave here and go far away.
Are you some kind of idiot?
idiot, idiot!
Are you an idiot?!
Go back to Russia.
Stop that, stop that! Ouch! Stop that!
Go back to Russia!
Stop that!
Mother!
Yukie!
What happened to your finger?
I wanted to make myself clean... before meeting you.
Let's come again...
to the sea.
For luck.
I talked to your father and we decided on your name.
It means ''may happiness be yours.'
Since you're a girl, it's Yukie.''
You like it?
It's a great name!
Right, Yukie?
Mother?
For a long time you were not aware of it,
but you are loved... by many people.
Look, just open your eyes.
Bleeding has stopped.
Good. Vital signs stable.
Doctor...
Come...
Yukie.
Did you have a nightmare?
No.
I had a happy dream.
Father...
Yes?
I just met with Mother.
She was beautiful.
Really?
Darling...
Yukie.
I'm sorry to have worried you.
Let's go...
...to the sea,
all three of us.
You mean... I can have the baby?
The sea...
But don't...
steal a car to go.
Idiot.
To my dear Mother,
maybe there is no happiness or unhappiness in this world.
Really? You don't accept...
Whenever you get something, you lose something.
Whenever you discard something, you acquire something.
For example,
what happens if the one thing that's most precious to you,
that important thing becomes lost?
We run around crying out loud and are horrified,
but does that thing really decide our happiness or unhappiness?
What about cleaning and preparation?
Our sales fell a lot this month!
Hello, sir.
I was waiting for you. Come here!
Losing that which is most precious means acquiring,
totally and forever, that which is most precious. I realized that.
My shop is being taken over.
Mother, when I was a child I lost your love.
Yes.
Koharu, You’re really beautiful!
And then, I became confused and desperately looked for love.
I wanted to be loved.
Right now it's 243 thousand yen.
It's worth 1.2 million yen. A real deal! Name seal, please...
But just at that moment,
I found it in my own heart.
As if I’d simply opened the hand I’d been grasping it in.
That’s how it seemed...
Yukie...
Mother, from now on whatever happens, I won't be afraid.
I’m filled with courage.
Mother, I’d like to meet you sometime.
And then, Mother, I’ll say I’ve always loved you.
May a healthy child be born.
Make it stop!
Sincerely, Yukie Hayama.
P.S. I too will soon give birth to a child.
The precious life that was saved by everyone...
will soon be born.
To my dear Mother...
Hello, Hayama here.
What?! Kumamoto?!
It can't be! That same Kumamoto!
It’s been so long!
Really?!
Okay...I understand. I m on my way, just wait.
Here it is!
Darling, I m going out. Kumamoto is here.
Her husband has been transferred from Dubai. She's at the airport.
Sorry, can you skip lunch today?
I want Kumamoto to eat this.
I m leaving.
Wait a minute.
For luck.
Thank you.
I’m off.
Okay.
''FAREWELI’
So many of them!
With thanks.
Kumamoto?
Morita?
Long, long time no see.
Nothing's changed?
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Happiness or unhappiness doesn’t matter.
They both have the same worth.
There clearly is meaning in life.
English Subtitles by Paul Bryden
copyright 2007 HAPPILY EVER AFTER FILM PARTNERS