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Elephant!
(National Airlines 35th Anniversary)
Hello, Mr. Kondo!
Thank you, sir.
What's he doing here?
Escorting the ambassador.
He's not wanted.
Ms Hida...
Ms Mitsui!
I'm sorry about the schedule change.
That's all right.
We all help each other.
My mother's sick...
Flight 123...
the jumbo that just arrived from Fukuoka, right?
I'll pay you back.
That won't be hard. I'm easy to please.
It's a help.
But I eat a lot.
Would you mind?
Here goes!
Thank you.
(This is the final boarding call
for National Airlines Flight 123 departing for Osaka.)
How's Shoichi?
Fine. Making a model.
Tell him I'm getting on the plane and I'm bringing him a present.
OK. I'll have dinner ready.
Here you go.
Now tell your mother you're on your way.
I'm on my way!
Off you go, Shinpei.
Don't worry.
Your uncle will be waiting at Itami.
Look after him.
I'll see Mom again soon, right?
Shinpei!
Member Aoyama!
You're not home visiting your district?
Thank you for coming.
Listen, Gyoten...
That young man I mentioned. He's a good, upright lad.
He'll devote himself to the airline.
I've already spoken to...
Mr. Gyoten!
Well! Mr. Sasamoto.
I'm off to Hokkaido next week. A rather dull story.
Tell me when you're going. I'll take care of you.
I've taken up golf, but dragging clubs all that way...
Leave them here. I'll arrange some for you.
How dare you come sleazing in here!
Who said you could come?
Get lost!
Then, sir
can you get someone to look after the Kenyan Ambassador?
What?!
Elephant dung!
How old?
Two, three hours.
Right!
(Tokyo Air Traffic Control)
(Destination Osaka 524 aboard)
There!
Can you get him?
National 123
do you have control of the aircraft?
Aircraft uncontrollable.
The mountain!
Right turn!
Full thrust!
Fit the oxygen masks down over your nose, please!
Masks down over your nose.
Fasten your seat belt tight, please!
Stay calm. Fasten your seat belt.
We're fine.
Ayumi, Yuya, Keiko.
Please get along, work hard
and help your mother.
I'm so very, very sorry.
I'm beyond help now.
I don't know what's wrong.
It's been five minutes. I never want to fly again.
Please, God! Help me!
Put on your oxygen mask, please!
I never dreamed yesterday would be our last meal together.
There was a bang in the cabin, and then smoke. What's going on?
Controls on full!
We're losing speed!
Bring the nose up! Bring it up!
It's OK.
We'll be fine. Stay calm! Hold your oxygen masks tight!
Don't worry. We'll be fine.
Fit your mask down over your nose!
Mommy!
As our national flag carrier, NAL has always dedicated itself
to comfort and safety in air travel.
Bring the nose up!
Flaps up full!
Thrust!
Nose up!
Thrust!
(THE UNBROKEN)
(Mt Osutaka, Gunma Prefecture)
Can anyone here move?
Is anyone alive?
Survivor! We've found a survivor!
We have a survivor!
Survivor!
A survivor! We have a survivor!
(National Airlines Bus 6)
Our mountaineering club members are here to help
but they won't let us near the site.
They say we are the perpetrators!
You people look after the families of the bereaved.
Bereaved? Some relatives are still hoping...
Arrange for coffins.
Don't let the bereaved see.
Make damn sure we've got enough!
The buses are here!
(NAL Jet Crashes With 524 Aboard)
(NAL 123 Next-of-Kin)
Excuse us for disturbing you.
We are from National Airlines.
We are here at your service.
If there is anything...
Take us up there!
They found four survivors didn't they?!
My daughters might be alive!
Yes!
They'll need some clothes and a cold drink!
Take us up there!
Please! May I ask you to reconsider?
The site is a two-hour drive.
Then it's a steep climb of three hours
for even police or military men.
If you'd just...
What have they found?
What we want now is information!
Tell us!
Unfortunately, our company is not allowed onto the site.
We can only wait for police reports.
Then why are you here saying you're at our service?!
I'm sorry!
What kind of a cheesy outfit is NAL, anyway?!
(Examination Center)
Give me back my husband!
Please! Give him back!
Please! Please!
Give him back!
Mrs. Oyamada!
(Child VIP)
I'm sorry!
Why?
Shinpei...
Why?!
(Winter 1962)
A 2.5- Month bonus instead of 4.2 with no contract extension
is unacceptable to this union!
Mr. Hiyama.
We have people's lives in our care!
Low salaries and poor conditions have an impact on safety!
Chairman Onchi try to understand.
We're asking for subsidies right now.
This is the best we can offer.
Our demands are not unreasonable, sir.
Textile workers, steel...
There is more danger in our work!
Gyoten
It's ridiculous to compare a government corporation like us.
With long-established primary industries.
Why?
The government has us by the neck.
We're not free to act!
Mr. Domoto!
This from the man who blamed a mechanic's death on his own error
when in violation of our contract his station was under-staffed?!
That's oppression!
Nakagawa's family was compensated.
Mr. Hachiuma!
You're the one who tricked them into accepting that!
What did you say?!
He was a martyr!
Aw, shut up!
You shut up!
Shikata...
If this is your answer
we must exercise our right...
to go on strike!
Strike?
That's a very frightening word.
If National Airlines went on strike
the public would be furious.
They'll be a lot madder if there's a crash!
That's right!
The strike will begin at midnight
the day after tomorrow, the 25th!
Wait, Gyoten!
That's the day the Prime Minister flies back from Europe!
Please! Any day but that!
You leave us no other choice.
Good day.
Chairman Onchi!
(NAL Workers Union 4.2- Month Bonus Campaign)
It wasn't me.
Vice-Chairman Gyoten thought of the Prime Minister.
We weren't getting anywhere.
The negotiations needed a boost.
It's not fair you didn't tell us.
I was as shocked as the President!
To fool an enemy fool a friend first.
I'd have thought at least Mr. Gyoten would tell you!
Why?
Oh, you hear rumors...
What rumors?
OK, OK! Listen, everyone!
If we do go on strike we have to be ready.
The future of National Airlines rides on this!
2.5 months bonus plus 8,000 across the board.
Revision of the labor contract to be tabled for the present
subject to further consideration.
Not a chance!
All right. That is most unfortunate.
As of tomorrow at midnight, we are on strike.
Onchi, wait!
We'll discuss this offer.
What are you doing?!
What do you mean?
They're not bargaining. We can't back down now!
The PM's flight was just a threat!
If we go through with this the public will blame us!
Look at the long-term!
We can't maintain safety if we go on like this!
Aye!
The company won't ride roughshod over us!
Chairman!
Come back, Chairman Onchi.
The company will reconsider.
We won!
We get 4.2 months' pay as a year-end bonus!
Onchi! Onchi!
Thank you!
We all stood together.
I'm proud to be one of you!
But we've only got half what we wanted!
Better working conditions mean greater safety!
Let's work for the day when everyone is secure in the air!
Onchi! Onchi!
Come in and celebrate Vice-Chairman.
I always get scared when push comes to shove.
I can't take that last step.
Pretty lame, huh?
No.
I support your sense of caution.
A car needs an accelerator but it needs brakes, too.
You like Onchi, don't you.
I...
Uh, hey...
I was rude to you. Forgive me.
Not at all.
I wasn't any help.
The police had just asked if my grandson had any cavities.
He'd only just turned a year old!
I was still angry about that.
I'm the one who told my son to bring the baby for me to see.
He said he'd drive, but I said that would take too long.
And his wife got carsick, so I said not to drive.
A jumbo’s safe.
They're designed never to crash, I told him.
Me...
I sent them the tickets!
Mrs. Fuse, this one's a woman.
In the shape they're in how can you tell?!
This is a child's...
This is my husband's...
It looks a bit small The fire shriveled him!
These fingernails...
my husband's fingernails.
He had beautiful fingers.
I'd know them anywhere.
There's no mistake.
Let's check the fingerprints.
It's my father.
May I?
Ayumi, Yuya, Keiko...
Please get along, work hard and help your mother.
I'm so very, very sorry.
I'm beyond help now.
I don't know what's wrong.
It's been five minutes.
I never want to fly again.
Please, God! Help me!
I never dreamed yesterday would be our last meal together.
There was a bang in the cabin and then smoke.
What's going on?
Yuya, take care of things now.
Mama, I'm truly sorry this had to happen.
Goodbye.
Look after the children.
It's 6:30.
The plane is circling and losing altitude.
My life has been a happy one.
I'm grateful.
I'm home.
Welcome back.
Hajime?
They let me come home tonight.
Tomorrow I go back.
Will you be all right?
You can't help anyone if you get sick...
Are you two here, too?
It must be hard for you.
And for you, too.
Dad...
you smell.
Katsuki!
I haven't had a bath.
I've run the bath. Do you want to go in now?
Yeah.
I'll be going. I've got work tomorrow.
Me, too.
What?
Talk to him, OK?
Night, Dad.
I told you to take these things down, didn't I?
Now I remember!
That smell...
it's like your house in Nairobi.
Night.
You two take care.
I'll call you.
Weren't you going in the bath first?
Yeah...
Well...
I'll bet it was hot!
What did Junko want?
Oh, Mr. Okura...
They've set the date?
Not yet.
Go take a bath first.
Why? Tell me.
Mr. Okura told his parents about Junko.
They checked you out.
I was so mad!
Not at him, at his parents.
Why?
I don't want to say.
Ritsuko!
They don't want him marrying a red.
(Winter 1964)
Excuse me
Mr. Onchi, please!
May I have a word, sir?
What's all the fuss, Onchi?
Why do I have to go to Karachi?!
You reap what you sow, Onchi.
It's true I served four years as union Chairman.
But now I'm working quietly in Accounts.
You're a wolf in sheep's clothing.
One day you'll bare your teeth.
That's not my opinion.
But almost everyone else here thinks so.
You were going to shut down the Prime Minister's flight!
We didn't stop that flight!
We couldn't let you!
I suggested this foreign posting.
Then I had to persuade people who hate you like the plague.
What do you mean?
Onchi
put up with it for two years.
I'll bring you back.
As far as I'm concerned you're exactly the kind of man
that NAL needs.
I believe you're exactly the kind of man NAL will need.
You're too kind.
You've heard
Onchi's posted to Karachi?
He'll probably come complaining to you for sympathy...
but don't fall for it.
He's cut a deal with the president
for a promotion when he gets back.
He's very good at using colleagues.
To change a company takes influence.
He made a deal to get promoted?
Gyoten...
would you like to take a step forward?
You are an NAL staff member
who can handle anything that comes.
I think I'm going to accept the posting.
It needs someone young.
You don't mind?
But I've set a condition.
Mr. Hiyama promised there'd be no other disciplinary transfers.
Is that all right with you?
If that's what you've decided.
Oh
there's a favor I want to ask you.
Sawaizumi, the new Chairman.
He's young and he'll need your help.
Two years isn't long.
I'll be back before you know it.
I'm home.
Hello!
I'm home.
Where's Mom?
Lying down in her room.
And the doctor?
He said it's nothing serious.
But she has to watch her blood pressure.
You haven't eaten, have you?
Ritsuko...
Could you make some tea?
Did something happen?
I'm being sent abroad.
To Karachi, in Pakistan.
Karachi? Why you?
They say stick it out for two years.
I'll go first.
You and the kids can come later.
Karachi? What's it like there?
I'll go see Mom.
Mom? I'm coming in.
I'm home.
Don't get up.
Hello.
I'm sorry about this.
Be careful.
High blood pressure runs in our family.
You, too.
Today
the company told me I'm being sent abroad for two years.
Ritsuko and the kids are coming. What would you like to do?
I could never go abroad now.
I'll be fine here alone.
Where are you going?
Yeah...
Two years won't be long.
I'll be back in a flash.
Good night.
Hajime!
Haven't you always worked yourself
to the bone for the people at work?
Yes.
Then why would they do this to you?
Past-Chairman Onchi has been transferred to Karachi!
No punishment postings!
(Karachi, Pakistan)
Ritsuko!
Dad!
Careful!
Am I glad to see you!
It's a long way, huh?
Hajime!
It's so hot!
It's Karachi.
Did you sleep on the plane?
A bit.
Up we go!
The car's waiting. Let's go!
Like a drink, Chairman?
It's the only way to beat this heat.
Don't make it too obvious. They're Muslims here.
That's the Chairman for you!
Straight as an arrow.
I keep telexing head office for a new air conditioner...
Head office probably doesn't even remember we're here.
Anyway
you've been promised a promotion in two years.
This new union...
...will appeal to those who are tired
of the class struggle we have now.
Our motto will be better working conditions
through greater productivity.
We'll get right to work on splitting them up.
It'll take time, though.
It's like a family of 3,000 people.
Get it done in six months.
Get a few hundred for now...
Four figures. We need more than a thousand.
I'm sleepy.
Just ten more to go.
Why does bird look like island when they mean different things?
Well, uh...
I'll look that up and tell you later.
I'm home.
Hello!
Hard at work, are you?
When's the Japanese school starting?
Soon.
You keep saying that!
You've still got ten characters!
He wants to go to school with other kids.
He has no friends nearby.
Hey, you want to play catch?
Katsuki!
(I want to go back to Japan!)
Here we go.
Onchi...
Yes.
Aren't you sick of this place yet?
You want to go home, don't you?
There's less than a year to go.
Write a letter of apology and I'll bring you back now.
This posting was to give you a chance to shape up.
Wait, Chief...
Vice-Director of Labor Management.
I can put you anywhere you want.
Just promise to cut your union ties
and devote yourself to work.
My union work served the company.
And I can't abandon my colleagues.
So your family suffers while you play hero?
You'll be sorry!
As you know
we now have an aviation agreement with Iran.
We start flying into Tehran next April 1st.
So it's been decided to send someone
from a Middle East office
who knows the region.
I've done two years in Karachi.
People go back to Japan after a hardship post!
I agree.
But...
you're a special case.
I can't accept this! This is crazy!
Onchi...
I'd really like to be able to help you.
But this is way above my head.
Forgive me.
Can't someone at head office help?
You could ask Mr. Gyoten...
Why him?
He was with you in the union.
Why is it only you...
who doesn't go home?
Dad!
Dad! Mom!
Look! The kite's flying!
What about you three?
Will you come with me?
No.
We can't leave your mother alone
any longer.
I'm sorry.
I can't quit now.
My pride won't allow it.
Well, as long as you're not too miserable about it...
Gyoten went to San Francisco.
A fast-track posting.
Hajime Onchi
the former Chairman of our union after two years in Karachi
has been shuffled off abroad yet again!
We firmly protest this!
Make the company change its attitude!
Hey! What are you doing?!
(Tehran, Iran)
Mother ill. Return immediately.
Sorry!
Sorry! Thanks.
Mr. Onchi!
This is from head office.
Dad?
Mom! Dad's back.
Hajime...
I'm sorry.
Could they be alone, please?
Mom...
I'm home.
As it happens
I saw your mother just last week.
I'd just come back from San Francisco to head office.
She phoned wanting to see me.
What did she want to see you about?
You, of course.
She asked if I could do anything to get you back here.
She was in tears. I told her I would.
Onchi...
I couldn't do it while she was alive
but I want to keep my promise.
I've talked to people.
If you'll just write a letter of apology...
Just a formality.
Just pretend to bow your head and you can come back!
Onchi...
leave it to me.
I'll do right by you.
Mr. Onchi!
Over here!
Mr. Onchi!
- Are you well? - Yes.
This is where we work now.
This is how they treat us
since they started the new union.
Supposedly we're taking in old parts
for resale as used fixtures
but there's no work at all.
Now they've got their own pet union,
it's bare-faced discrimination
against all of us from the old one.
Yagi at the downtown
sales office has it worst.
He sits by the door, like a receptionist
but no one talks to him the whole day long.
He's a scapegoat.
He can't even slouch over as he sits there.
And our boss now is from the second union, here to spy on us.
I see.
I'd heard about the new union, but...
How's it doing?
At its inaugural meeting,
they said they had 1,650 members.
They hold out better terms and better positions.
They're trying hard to split us.
Why didn't you tell me?
Sorry.
I'm not much help way off in Tehran.
What about Gyoten?
Couldn't he do anything?
We haven't seen hide nor hair of him
since you left Japan.
He just wants to get ahead.
Quiet!
The one behind it is Mr. Hachiuma
the Vice-Director of Labor Management.
And of course behind him is Mr. Domoto, the Managing Director.
You promised there'd be no action
against other union members!
Sawaizumi's selling old seats
and Yagi's a receptionist!
All right, Onchi, settle down...
I apologize.
I'm tired. What with being abroad all this time, and my mother...
I'm sorry.
I wasn't able to do anything for you.
This time I promise.
You'll come back as soon as we have scheduled flights to Tehran.
I promise.
A man's word is his bond.
How's it feel to be back?
Did you write your apology?
Give it to me.
I'll take it in for you.
Tell me...
what's the company?
Don't we fight for our co-workers in order to help the company?
What's to apologize for?
When are you going to smarten up?
Tehran isn't where you should be.
Hurry up and come home.
I won't write it.
I can't.
Mr. Domoto?
Sorry I'm late.
Is the guy starting to see the light?
No. He hasn't changed a bit.
He says he won't write a letter of apology.
Oh, well...
Thank you.
Oh, yes...
we need someone in Nairobi.
Someone who can set up scheduled flights to Kenya.
Someone with international experience.
Know anyone?
(February 1969)
(Onchi, Hajime: Ordered to Nairobi Branch)
Hello?
This is Onchi, in Tehran.
Could I speak with Mr. Hiyama, please?
It's a private matter...
Hello?
That was good!
Mom...
isn't Dad coming home with us?
He's going to work in Africa.
I want him to come!
Is he being shipped out?
Who told you that?
Is that when you do something bad?
No!
Katsuki
if you ever say that again I'll be very angry.
The other kids' fathers come home!
Shall we drop by the bazaar?
I realize you're very determined
but you're hurting the children.
Dad says let's drop by the bazaar.
Katsuki...
Look after Junko and your mother.
Ritsuko!
Ritsuko...
(Nairobi, Kenya)
The new NAL calendars are here
so I brought them over.
Thank you.
Japan's beautiful, isn't it.
It makes you want to go home.
I hope you'll use NAL when you fly home at year-end.
If you flew into Nairobi, we'd be glad to use NAL.
We're negotiating that
with the Kenyan government right now.
By the summer of next year I hope.
Go for it, Mr. Onchi.
I will.
Eat with me.
No thanks. I'm full.
(Vice-Minister of Tourism)
Did the baby come?
Not yet.
Junko?
The new term has started,
but I don't want to go to school.
Do you know what's happening to me?
No one in the class is on my side.
That's because they all know
my father's in Kenya.
They say you were sent there alone
for doing something wrong at work.
Dad, why are you in Africa?
Why is your work more important than your family?
Mom's always in a bad mood.
Katsuki won't talk to anyone.
I'm all alone.
Our family is falling apart.
To my self-centered father from Junko.
(This month's board meeting...
resolved as of 31 March...
to break off negotiations with Kenya government.)
(Metal Fatigue Shattered Bulkhead?)
(Crash Plane In 1978 Tail strike)
(Error Made In Bulkhead Repair)
(Osaka) Hello.
You're here?
Yes. Lots of the victims were from here.
Do you have a minute?
Is the president going up Mt Osutaka to pay homage?
He's resigning. What's the point?
He's just a decoration now.
Within the company, maybe.
But our top man should go up there and bow down.
The families want that.
Whose side are you on?
You know what we're going to face
after the crash investigation.
Sir! Time to go!
You handle the bereaved
as a NAL staff member.
Make way!
We are here today to offer our apologies and our prayers.
We fully appreciate how you must feel in your loss.
Our company will endeavor to do all in its power to assist you.
We are truly sorry.
And now we have other visits to make...
Sit.
Sit down, please.
Sir you needn't apologize to us.
Apologize to our daughters please.
Say their names and apologize to them.
You say you're here to pray for them
and you don't know their names?!
I'm very sorry.
You wipe off the president's trousers,
and not our carpet?
Is that how it is?
Get out!
Go away!
Get out! Now!
Mr. Domoto!
You're here to pray now?!
Where have you been?!
I'm very sorry!
We're visiting the families
of all the 520 who were lost.
You're resigning
to take responsibility aren't you?
Why bother talking to you?
I hope you're not getting a pay-out!
I will be resigning shortly...
but National Airlines will continue
to look into the cause of the accident
and compensate the...
We know the cause!
You packed 520 people
onto an old plane you were too cheap to fix!
Next is Natsuko Suzuki of Tennoji Ward.
When the New York Express came out with what caused this
I'm told Hachiuma, contacted you from New York first.
It was the next day when I heard the news.
Of course
I heard nothing about it from you.
I gave instructions for you to be told.
There must have been some
It's not the first time!
You're distancing yourself.
But you were quick to wipe my trousers
with your handkerchief.
It might be that you're a born con-man.
You'll come to a bad end someday.
Good!
Excuse me...
Would you know where the Hidas' house is?
English was her best subject.
She always said she wanted to be
either an English teacher or a flight attendant.
She said she wanted to be a flight attendant like you.
I'm sorry to have just dropped in on you.
Not at all.
Thank you for coming way out here.
Please don't forget Kyoko.
Um...
may I ask something?
Have you joined
the association of victims' families?
Yes.
I joined just recently.
Yes, she was a victim,
but at the same time she was a NAL employee
so I didn't feel right about it.
But then the magazines ran that snapshot...
someone took on board
of her putting an oxygen mask on a passenger.
People started praising how she'd carried on to the end
and so...
I see.
Why?
No reason.
We can't let the families unite.
And to have one of our attendants'
families with them criticizing us...
is even worse.
You really don't get it.
She switched flights with me.
That's hard as it is.
I couldn't ask her mother
to give me a list of names.
I need that list, Miki.
This is the perfect chance for me to rise.
Could you maybe ask Onchi for the list of names?
You could ask him.
Mr. Onchi would never agree to that.
And...
he's different from you.
How?
How are we different?
How?
How?!
That list...
get it.
Your son's annual income
was 5,192,865
Assuming he worked to 67,
we multiply by 32...
which comes to 166,171,680.
To calculate lost profits
we subtract living expenses of 50 per cent
and apply the Hoffmann Coefficient,
to arrive at 48,825,510.
And a consolation payment of 19 million.
Hold it!
You know what it's like to see a body
you can't even tell is your son's?
70 million when you killed him like that?
At least 100 million!
That isn't a serious offer!
I'm afraid it is.
Excuse me.
Where have you been?!
He's no good!
Why did you switch with him?!
Just pay some money and that's that?
I'm very sorry.
I'll take over.
No.
I am in charge of Mrs. Suzuki's case.
You shut up.
She can't think straight pickled in alcohol like that.
Nobuo was the son I suffered to bear!
He's worth more than this!
Let's step outside.
All right.
Excuse me.
Excuse us.
Why aren't you talking to the wife?
You're out of date.
It doesn't matter who puts their seal on the agreement.
That attitude is the problem!
You gain their trust first then talk about money!
Aw, man!
At that rate nothing will ever get settled.
You're back in Japan.
Catch up or shut up.
What?!
Say that again!
Stop it!
Stop it, please!
Did you know...
there are 230 widows in Osaka from this accident?
I hate how you write 'widow'.
Not yet, dead, and person.
(Taiji Tonegawa, Prime Minister)
(Masanari Totoki Chief Cabinet Secretary)
This ends today's cabinet meeting.
Prime Minister...
About the next NAL president...
If you haven't decided...
I have some ideas.
No, Minister.
I'm moving quietly ahead on that
don't worry.
With Mr. Domoto's resignation
announced it's as if they've had no president
these last few months.
It's a problem.
NAL is our national flag carrier Mr. Michizuka.
And especially now
after this unprecedented tragedy...
our decision must be flawless.
As you say, sir.
(The Prime Minister Tetsujiro Takemaru)
Deputy Prime Minister
must in his wisdom choose a man
to not only put NAL back on its feet
but who can also oversee
its forthcoming privatization
and our overall airlines policy.
Leave this to us.
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?
(Issei 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.
INTERMISSION (10 MINUTES)
(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.