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Pi equals 3.141592653
What a pain Why don't they just make it 3?
If you made it 3, you'd get a hexagon, not a circle
Hey, Root's here!
Rise
Bow
Sit
I'll be your math teacher for the next year
You already know... I'm Root
As you see, I'm having a bad-hair day
Today, I want you to learn a little about me
This isn't a lesson, so you don't have to take notes
They've been calling me "Root,"
for 19 years now
The way I came by the name Root, fell in love with math,
and ended up in front of you...
THE PROFESSOR AND HIS BELOVED EQUATION
My mother loved someone she couldn't marry
and raised me on her own
Uneducated and lonely, my mother became a housekeeper
because it was the only option available
for a person of her talents
Your new clients may be a bit of a handful
They've gone through 9 housekeepers in the past few years
Though the youngest housekeeper at the agency,
she already had 10 years experience
My spirited mother
pursued her profession with a fierce pride
Excuse me
I would like you to look after my brother-in-law
Brother-in-law...
Your husband's brother?
No one lasts long
Every time we get someone new, we have to start all over again
It's such a bother
I'm not asking for anything complicated
Just feed and look after him
from 11AM to 7PM
Where is your brother?
Don't come and go between the annex and the main house
You work in my brother-in-law's house
And it's up to you to solve
any problems with him yourself
You must promise me that
I will
Shall I meet your brother?
There's no need
Even if he meets you today, he won't remember you tomorrow
What do you mean?
In other words, frankly, his memory is impeded
He hit his head in a traffic accident
The same accident left me lame
My brother's memories
stop with the night we saw
a Noh play by bonfire at Kohfukuji Temple,
in the Spring of 1975
It's been 10 years since the accident, but in his mind,
we've always just seen the Noh play yesterday...
In other words, it always just happened last night
Ten years in a single day?
He doesn't even realize that I age with each day's passing
The way I was 10 years ago,
is all he can see...
All he will ever see
In any event, his memory lasts 80 minutes
That's exactly an hour and 20 minutes
Over and over again
So...
I'll see you at 11am, Monday morning?
Yes
And so my mother came to work as a housekeeper in the professor's house
The professor had been able to pursue his study of mathematics
all the way to Cambridge University in England,
thanks to his older brother's success in an inherited textile business
which financed the much younger man's education
After he earned his Ph.D.,
and found a position in mathematics research,
his older brother passed away
and his widow closed the factory,
built apartments on the property moved out to the country,
and lived on income from the apartments
But their comfortable lives
were shattered by the accident
The professor lost his position,
and became dependent on his sister-in-law’s charity
Hello! I'm the housekeeper
Hello!
Hello I'm your new housekeeper
Hello
What's your shoe size?
24 centimeters
My, what a noble number...
It's the factorial of 4
What is a factorial?
If you multiply all the whole numbers from 1 to 4,
you get 24
What's your telephone number?
576-1455
Did you say 5,761,455?
Why, that's wonderful
That's equivalent to the prime numbers up to one billion
In any event, come in
I'm busy working, so you're on your own
Go ahead and suit yourself
As of that day,
my mother and the professor repeated this mathematical greeting every morning
For the professor, whose memory spanned 80 minutes,
my mother was always the new housekeeper
For the professor, bringing up math
was a communication strategy
When he was confused about what to say,
numbers could always take the place of words
This character in the word "factorial"
is the character for staircase
The other character means multiply
Whole numbers,
refer to the integers which start 1, 2, 3, 4 and extend infinitely
Multiply these and you get 24
So 24 is the factorial of 4
Now, who knows what the factorial of 5 is?
Yes! 120
Correct
How about the factorial of 7?
5,040
Correct
You're fast
This character in "prime number"
means genuine
Like something genuine without embellishment
In other words, a number which is only divisible by 1 or itself
For instance...
2, 3, 5, 7,
11, 13, 17,
19, 23, 29...
These prime numbers
are as infinite as the stars in the night sky
No known rules govern them
I am here, utterly self-sustaining
In other words, just like all of you, each one is unique
Utterly noble and unbending,
these numbers remain aloof
"Aloof"
What the professor cherished most in this world,
were these prime numbers
Did he really love numbers?
Sure, the object of his affections may have been eccentric, but not his love
He cherished them, served them without compensation,
respected them, always
never straying from them for even a moment
I'm sorry to bother you
What would you like for lunch?
Any preferences, dislikes or allergies?
It would help to know
What do you think?
I can go ahead and just fix something, but what do you think?
I'd welcome your opinion
I have nothing to say
I'm thinking, now
You come barging in and interrupt my love for my numbers
It's as rude as peeping into a toilet
I'm terribly sorry Excuse me
My memory lasts only 80 minutes
The new housekeeper
Would you care for more? I made plenty
April 7th
Every day adds to the others
We should be grateful spring has finally come
Hello!
Hello
I'm your new housekeeper
What's your shoe size?
24,
the factorial of 4
That's wonderful
What a noble number...
Excuse me
Yes
Please send this to The Journal of Mathematics,
at this address
Sure, no problem
By regular mail?
Yes
That'll be 170 yen
Thank you
I'm home
Welcome home, thanks for your work
Not at all
Do you often submit your papers to magazines?
Right...
I sent my proof to The Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 37 today...
That's good
Oh, no!
I should've sent it express Only First Place takes a cash prize
No, there's no need to send it express
It's important to arrive at the truth before anyone else,
but it's more important that the proof be beautiful
There are such things as beautiful or ugly proofs?
Of course
In a truly correct proof,
air-tight and compelling reasoning coexists without contradiction,
with supple logic
Just as no one can prove why stars are beautiful,
it's difficult to express the beauty of mathematics
What's your birthday?
February 20th
What a charming number
Take a look at this
Back in college,
I won the President's award for my paper on Transcendental Number theory
What a great honor
No, that doesn't matter
Can you read the number?
"President's Award No. 284"
Does that mean you're the 284th person to receive the honor?
I suppose
The question is 284 and 220
This is no time to be washing dishes Come with me
What do you think?
Well, I...
Both have 3 digits...
How can I phrase this?
At the meat counter at the supermarket,
if there are two packets of ground beef, one 220 grams the other 284,
they seem the same to me
One quick glance and they look similar
They're both in the 200 range and all the numbers are even
That's a keen insight
Intuition is important
Grasp the numbers intuitively, from your heart
You know what a divisor is?
Yes, I think so I remember studying them...
Let's write out all the divisors for 220 and 284,
excepting themselves
1, 2, 4, 5, 10
11, 20, 22,
44, 55, 110,
1, 2, 4,
71, 142
You can calculate all those divisors in your head?
I'm just using the same intuition you did
Onto the next step
Add it up
Take your time
I'm done
Correct
Will you behold,
this beautiful chain of numbers
Add all the divisors for 284 and you get 220
Add all the divisors for 220 and you get 284
They're amicable numbers
Amicable numbers?
Amicable Numbers
Such pairs are very rare
Even Fermat and Descartes only discovered one pair each
They're numbers bound to each other by God's design
God's design...
Isn't it beautiful?
Your birthday and the number engraved on my wristwatch
are so perfectly intertwined
The first person to discover amicable numbers was Pythagoras
Pythagoras made his famous statement,
"Number is the within of all things"
In the 6th century, B.C.
Have numbers been around that long?
Of course Numbers existed before humans,
no, even much, much longer
They existed even before this world was born
But humans invented numbers, right?
Not at all. No human being witnessed the birth of numbers
They have always just been there, all along
All humans can do is express with words,
what numbers provide for us
What do you think?
Care to discover some more amicable numbers?
By the way, the next smallest amicable numbers are
1184 and
Four digits!
No way!
This pair...
In 1866...
Paganini, an Italian,
Nicolo Paganini, discovered this pair
Can you believe it, at the time, Paganini was 16 years old
In high school!
What matters is to think it through without giving up
I'm so glad you're not a Giants fan
Always been a Tigers fan
My son and I are huge Tigers fans, too
You have a son?
Yes
How old is he?
Ten years old
Ten?
Why, he's just a boy
And where is your son now, what's he doing?
Oh, I'm not sure
Probably playing ball with his friends
"Oh, I'm not sure"
You should be more concerned
It's going to get dark, soon
Don't worry, he has a daily routine
Routine?
You routinely abandon your son
to make hamburgers here?
I don't abandon him
It's just that this is my job...
Who looks after him while you're away?
Your husband comes home early?
Oh...
I get it
He has a grandmother
No, unfortunately,
he has no father or grandmother
My son and I live alone together
Does your son wait for you alone?
He waits for you with an empty stomach?
While his mother cooks supper for a stranger...
My supper...
This is awful
This can't be, it can't
You don't need to worry
It's always been just the two of us
He's 10 now, he's fine on his own
He knows the phone number here
Our landlord can always help
No, no, no You can't leave a child alone
What if the stove falls over and there's a fire?
Who will save him if a candy gets stuck in throat?
It's terrifying to consider
I can't bear it You must go home, now
Right now, go home
I won't be much longer I just have to cook the burgers
Forget about that
What if your son dies in a fire while you're cooking the burgers!
Just let me...
Now, listen
Starting tomorrow, just bring your son with you
Just have him come here, right after school
You'll cook supper here and the three of us will eat together
But that's...
How dare a grown man
stuff his face in front a hungry child
But my contract...
But if you don't cook him supper, until you get home from work,
your son can't eat until after 8PM
That's not right
Don't underestimate me, assuming
I'll have forgotten by tomorrow
I'll have none of that I won't forget
Her son
10 years old
If you break our promise, I won't forgive you
Hello!
You've come a long way Good boy, good boy
Thank you, thank you
I can tell you've got a wise heart in there
All right, you're a Root
You accept any number that comes your way, rejecting none
A truly generous symbol, Root
Come on in
Ever since that day, I've been called Root
My head...
was as flat as this root symbol
I remember well, the day the professor and I tried to find out,
what kind of magic happens,
when you put numbers inside this root symbol
The square root of 1
The root of 1...
There's +1 and -1, two of them
The square root of -1
The square root of -1...
Is this +1 or -1?
Impossible
Why?
Because the square roots of +1 and -1,
are both +1
Exactly
All right, so the square root of -1,
what exactly is it?
There is no such number
No, it's right here
To answer this,
the Italian mathematician, Rafael Bombelli...
Rafael Bombelli,
invented a new number, "i"
This was in the 16th century, "i"
"i" is an imaginary number
Because it's a very modest number...
It's written with the character for "candor,"
and...
the character for humility
It never appears in the visible world,
but it's always inside our hearts,
using its short little arms
to support its whole world
What do you imagine from this "i"?
Just try to imagine
The "I" in "I love you!"
That's right, that "I"
But that "I" naturally
leads to "love"
Excuse me... May I help you?
I like watching you cook
Why do you have to...
keep moving the meat around?
The temperature varies from the center to the sides of the pan
To cook things evenly, you have to shift them around
I see
They all share every spot, so that one can't
monopolize the best spot
What is... so fascinating?
I'm just cooking
Oh, it's so peaceful
Root will be back, soon
Root?
He's my 10 year old son
He has a flat head, so he's Root
Oh, I see, you have a son?
Yes
I'm home!
See, here's Root
What's more heartwarming than a child calling, "I'm home"
That's a good boy
I can tell you've got a wise heart in there
Wash your hands and let's eat
You've got to eat all you can A child's job is to grow
And don't leave anything just because you don't like it
And if you're still hungry,
just help yourself to some of mine
Sure, thanks!
Every time I see children happily playing,
an old poem comes to mind
"To see others' children frolic
"brings ceaseless tears for my own, now lost"
My heart is...
e^(Pi x i)'=-1
Just as this equation will forever yield -1,
the new life we made is now lost forever
To us, having stepped off course,
none will offer a friendly hand
To share in your misfortune
That is my only wish
To my beloved N
Can I ask you a favor?
If I can be of help, sure
Try me out
Can you fix the radio?
Fix the radio?
Yeah
When I come here, I can't follow the baseball games
There's no TV, the radio's busted
Oh... professional baseball
Which team are you for?
Can't you see from my cap? The Tigers
Oh, right, the Tigers
I'm an Enatsu fan
The Tiger's ace pitcher, Enatsu
Really! Oh, great
Then you have to fix the radio
What's Enatsu's Earned Run Average now?
How about his Strikeouts?
They traded Enatsu away
Besides, he's already retired
Retired?
Good night
Are the Tigers playing tonight?
I hope they're winning
I should've kept my mouth shut
I had no idea the professor was such an Enatsu fan
No matter the reason, we don't want him to suffer
Of course not
The professor repeats himself constantly
Let's promise
We'll never say, "You already told me that"
Sure, I promise
Don't worry, tomorrow he'll be back the way he was
In the professor's mind, Enatsu will be the Tiger's ace all over again
It's such a glorious day out
Would you like to take a stroll in the park?
What would be the point?
Walking improves your circulation,
so you might get some good math ideas
Blood circulates differently
to the legs and the brain
Now listen, I'm with you here
Don't you just go home alone
Sure, don't worry
Farming is the work most similar to mathematics
Farming?
That's right
You select and plough the land,
plant and grow your seeds
Mathematicians choose their field,
plant their seeds and work hard cultivating them
The seeds themselves do all the growing
Anything's edible
Do you see?
Vegetables aren't just things you buy in a store
Why, that's a weed
It's scent of the earth, good smell
Toss it with some mustard sauce for strength
I say it's time to head back Time for Root to come home
Root?
Root is my son
You have a son?
Yes!
Let's hurry home then, hardly the time for picking weeds
Listen, now Every problem has its rhythm
If you say the problem out loud and grasp its rhythm,
you can contemplate it in its entirety
and you'll begin to surmise the suspicious areas where traps lurk
"I bought 2 handkerchiefs and 2 pairs of socks for 380 yen
"The same 2 handkerchiefs and 5 pairs of socks,
"cost 710 yen
"How much did each item cost?"
It's true, this may be
your toughest problem today
But you read it out loud so beautifully
Handkerchiefs, socks, cost
You had the rhythm down perfectly
A boring assignment,
read like a complete verse
All right, let's try making a drawing of it
Come over here
Ready?
First the 2 handkerchiefs
Then the 2 pairs of socks
Those don't look like socks, they look like fat caterpillars
I'll draw them for you
In every situation,
the professor wasn't just after the right answer
The professor preferred...
the bizarre mistakes born of trying too hard, to my falling silent,
for lack of an answer
No matter what stupid dead end I wound up in,
the professor always found something positive for me to be proud of
You're right, right!
Teach me baseball, OK?
Baseball...
You played baseball in high school, right?
Yes, I loved baseball
In our junior year, we lost the Prefecturals in the semi-finals
Will you coach our practices? Please
Sure, all right
All right
Baseball...
Practice
Excuse me...
May I tell you what I discovered?
If you add up 28's divisors,
you get 28
Hmm...
That's a perfect number
A perfect number...
The smallest perfect number...
is 6
You're right, it's no big deal
Oh, yes it is
They're precious numbers which embody the meaning of perfection
Descartes said,
"just as perfect humans are rare,
"so are perfect numbers"
Over the past several thousand years,
barely 30 have been found
Only 30 of them?
Yes, the perfect number 28
is also Enatsu's number, the Tiger's ace pitcher
Inside my head,
I can recall every detail of his games,
from his first professional win with the Carps in 1967,
with 10 Strikeouts, to a game on August 30th, 1973,
when he hit that game-ending home run
in a no-hit, no-run, extra-innings game
Let me show you one more feature of perfect numbers
Perfect numbers,
can be expressed as a sum of consecutive whole numbers
Here goes 1 plus 2 plus
3 plus 4 plus
5 plus 6 plus
Wow, 28
Right! 28
See, 28
To this day, perfect numbers are shrouded in mystery
No one has ever proven
that an infinite number of perfect numbers exists
Teacher, did he also teach you baseball?
Of course
The professor had tried to pursue baseball
as a college math major, but he injured his shoulder
He gave it up
He injured his shoulder,
but his experience and the practice
he'd put in as a young man were the real thing
Shortstop
Second base
That's right
Right, here goes
As fast as you can
That's the Cycloid Curve
Right
The professor repeated the basics over and over again,
teaching us baseball with a great deal of love
My teammates and I promised that no matter how many times
he taught us the same thing, we'd never say, "You already taught us that"
"To my eternally beloved N...
"From the one you must never forget"
That's a high fly, call the ball
You didn't call the ball Get up!
Are you OK? Don't move
An ambulance!
Ambulance? He'll be fine if he doesn't move
Call an ambulance now
If I hadn't hit that fly ball
It's my fault
It happens all the time
Here
Try drawing a straight line here
It'll calm you down
Go ahead
That's right, that's a line
But think about it
The line you drew has a beginning and an end
Which means,
you've drawn a line segment linking the shortest distance
between two points
The definition of a line doesn't include ends
It's supposed to continue indefinitely
But there are limits to a piece of paper
as there are to your strength
So we agree to call what's
really a line segment, a line
Where can a true line be found?
Only...
in here
The eternal truth is invisible and unswayed by matter,
natural phenomenon or emotions
The invisible world
supports the visible world
The important things, we have to see with our hearts
You don't have to worry
The root symbol is sturdy
It protects every number
Hey! How are you?
How irresponsible
How could you leave him in the professor's care!
Is he really all right?
Yes, he treated him appropriately
He did nothing wrong?
A little more than necessary...
Look
There's the first star, up there
I'm sorry. What I said at the hospital was wrong
I won't...
ever forget the professor's sad face...
Ever
That I doubted the professor, even for a moment,
is something I'm ashamed of
I apologize
OK, I accept
Let's make-up
He said he'd come to our next game
You know the professor can't make promises, don't you?
I'll ask him
If only he could get to know
each of my teammates...
What about uniform numbers...
I know... numbers!
Leave everything to me
Sure!
So this leaf is 1, too
Right
That's one leaf
And that cedar tree with so many leaves
is one tree, too
It's funny each only counts as one
It truly is
Defining "one" is quite a challenge
Even for you?
So many things I don't know
Let me see
Ready?
Tell me,
what do you call this now?
It's like dust, it's not a leaf anymore
That's right
It's only a leaf when it's whole
It's true of you, Root
The harmony of the whole in an individual is beautiful
That's what it means to be good
Listen
The walk-off victory The no-hit, no-run game...
714 was
Babe Ruth's 1935 career home run record
Hank Aaron hit his career total of 715 home runs
on a pitch from the Dodger's Al Downing on April 8th, 1974
Here goes!
Retired number 11
is Murayama with the Zatopek pitch
Number 23 is Yoshida
Number 10 is Fujimura
There's Tabuchi, Miyake and...
Their coach and I did it for you
What's the root symbol?
That's my son
You have a son?
Yes!
A root symbol will share his friendship fairly with any player
I don't see #28, ace pitcher Enatsu's number
We've saved the perfect number, 28, for you
Play ball!
Go!
Root!
Go! Go! Tigers!
Go, go, Root!
Hold this
How are you? How are you feeling?
Tell me if you're thirsty
I shouldn't have insisted...
It's all my fault
Don't worry, it's not serious
You go to bed, now
Good night
You shouldn't be up You've still got a f ever
You have to rest
Get out of your clothes, let's change your underwear
You were drenched in sweat last night
I'll change the sheets and you'll feel refreshed
Cheering at the ballgame must have exhausted you
I'm sorry we insisted on inviting you
If you keep warm and eat well, you'll recover
Root's that way, too
We've got to get something into your stomach
Shall I bring some apple juice?
"My memory...
"lasts only 80 minutes"
I am your housekeeper
I'm the housekeeper, hired to help you
I am...
Useless...
You helped my son,
and taught me something precious
The eternal truth is invisible...
You must see it with your heart
At dusk, my son will join us
We call him Root, for his flat head
You named him
What is your birthday?
February 20th
220, eternally bound to
I thought...
women's hands were cold
Are they warm?
If only this warmth...
Sorry
This is no good
A complaint
What kind?
Don't pretend you don't know
You've made a terrible mistake
I hear you stayed over at the math professor's house
I've made no mistake
I'm offended by your vulgar insinuation
You know the rules of your job
Yes, very well
I was wrong to ignore them
You break the rules, spend 3 nights in a man's house
and are offended by insinuations?
But I couldn't abandon an invalid
I believed I was only fulfilling my obvious duties
I feel I've been especially accommodating about your son
It's a special arrangement
I'm grateful about my son
I can't thank you enough for your consideration
I was careless in my actions
I apologize
So... we'll reassign you
What? Please, wait a minute
Is that the professor's wish?
His sister's
I never troubled his sister
I followed her orders and kept the professor's troubles to myself
She's not involved with how I do my job
So, how can she fire me?
She knew that you'd been staying over
Then surely she knew he was ill
And that he required more care than most invalids
If I don't go today, the professor will be very...
He's probably getting out of bed,
reading the note on his jacket all alone...
I can't imagine anyone who can replace you...
But I've no choice
That's all, it's final
No room for discussion
1... 2...
The factorial of 4 is 24
My, what a noble number
Please, come on in
Now and then, I remember the professor's words
The laws of mathematics are exquisite, precisely
because they are useless in everyday life
Even if the characteristics of prime numbers were determined,
life wouldn't improve and no one would get rich
Of course, no matter how you turn your back on the world,
many mathematical discoveries have found practical applications
Even prime numbers collude in warfare, in the form of secret codes
It's an ugly fact
But that is not the purpose of mathematics
Its only purpose is to ascertain truth
Open your wise eyes with courage
I'm sorry I'm late
Welcome
Coffee, please
Why don't we visit the professor anymore?
Things changed
What things?
Complicated things
They say looking after someone, makes them your responsibility
You!
I'm not worried, because you're beautiful
Is that so? Mom's beautiful?
That's right, didn't you realize?
That's why it's fine Because you're beautiful
Done
Serial number 2311... I pronounce you a prime number
Housekeeper, a call for you
Yes
I'm sorry to trouble you, I know you're busy
Please, sit down
Some tea for our guest
Yes
What exactly are you thinking?
Has my son done something wrong?
That's not the issue
What do you mean by sending
your son to my brother-in-law's,
even after I fired you?
What do I mean?
He's a 10 year old child
He came to play because he wanted to Isn't that good enough?
Yes, I'm sure the child is innocent
I'm asking about your reasons
All I...
All I want is for my son to be happy
Taking him out with your son, staying over to nurse him...
I don't recall telling you to do such things
I acknowledge that I overstepped my duties
But it was not intentional or calculating
It was simpler
Is it money?
Money?
How... can you say that?
You're no longer involved with us
My time's up, I'm going home
It's because we're friends
What's wrong with coming to play with a friend?
My brother-in-law has no friends
No friend has ever visited him
Then Root and I are his first friends
My brother doesn't remember you for even a single day
Although he'll remember me his whole life
For Root and me,
the time we spent with the professor
was really precious
Even if his 80 minute memory,
was none at all
A line...
Just like a line
An invisible eternal truth
That's right
If you see things with your heart, time doesn't matter
What matters is right now
I just wanted to express Root's real feelings...
No
You can't torment a child
Children struggle
with much larger problems than ours
I, too...
have nothing...
left to lose
I can only accept what is, as it is
Leaving everything
up to nature,
living every moment as best I can
Pi is the circle ratio, right?
"I" is the square root of -1 and an imaginary number
Pi, a number that continues to the ends of the universe,
and the imaginary number "i" which never shows itself
What's tricky is "e"
"e" is also called the "Napier number," after John Napier,
the British mathematician. The Napier number
The Napier number is one of the constants, so critical to math
For now, I'll just tell you the conclusion
If you calculate this "e," its value is...
e = 2.7182818284...
This is just like Pi
It goes on and on and on forever
It's an irrational number
From an infinite universe,
Pi...
drifts down to "e"
And shakes hands
with bashful "i"
They come together,
and hold their breaths
None of them are connected
But, if a single human
adds just one thing...
The world is transformed
The contradiction is resolved...
Zero,
in other words,
the realm of nothingness embraces them
This formula was conceived by the greatest
18th century mathematician, Leonhard Euler
This is Euler's Equation
He found a natural relationship between apparently unrelated numbers
This is like...
A star falling through the darkness
This was the professor's beloved equation
The beauty of a single star in the night sky,
the beauty of a single flower in a field
Just as these elude description,
it's hard to explain the beauty of an equation
There's so much I don't know
But the professor taught me,
how important it is to feel
Polish your intuition
and nurture generous feelings
I know you can experience this beauty
So please love mathematics
and work together with me
My mother went back to work for the professor
Hello, I'm the housekeeper
What's your shoe size?
24, the factorial of 4
A truly noble number
Please, come on in
A letter from the Journal of Math You won their competition
It's the highest cash prize since they began publishing
I'll always remember
The day I first met you
"You come barging in, interrupting my love for my numbers!"
You scolded me
Let's celebrate
There's no need to celebrate
If we celebrate together, the joy will multiply
I don't want to celebrate
All I did was peep into God's notebook
and copy some ideas
No, we're celebrating
Root and I want to celebrate
Root...
My son
Oh, you have a son?
Yes
I know, we'll celebrate Root's birthday, too
It's May 18th
He'll be thrilled if you're there
How old will he be?
Eleven
11?
Yes, he'll be 11
A beautiful prime number
An especially beautiful prime
And it's Murayama's uniform number
That's wonderful
All right, let's celebrate Children need celebrations
May 18th
Root's birthday
Please have a seat
Root, happy birthday
Happy birthday
Here, Root
Here's your gift, Professor
What? For me?
This is...
Thank you
Kyoko san
Yes
My brother-in-law asked me to buy a baseball glove for his birthday
Would you care to join us?
Not this evening
I had invited my brother-in-law out when we had the accident
and he lost his memory
And the accident wasn't my only sin
I cast aside my parents, relatives and friends...
If I had had the courage to bear that child...
Our path might have...
I am a sinful woman
I leave everything to you
I am so grateful to the professor
From now on...
this door will always be open
I can tell you've got a wise heart in there
Like the root symbol, sharing your friendship fairly
with anyone
Since that day, until I quit baseball
because of an elbow injury in college,
I cherished that baseball glove
But what was far more valuable,
was the time I spent with the professor, living only in the present
Time doesn't matter
I'm still pursuing the dreams I dreamed with him
That's all for today's lesson
Rise
Bow
Teacher
Yes
Thank you
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour
- William Blake
professor TERAO Akira
housekeeper FUKATSU Eri
Root(child) SAITO Ryusei
Root YOSHIOKA Hidetaka
sister-in-law ASAOKA Ruriko
Director/Screenplay KOIZUMI Takashi
Executive Producer SHIINA Yasushi
Producers ARAKI Miyako SAKURAI Tsutomu
Original Story "Hakase no aishita sushiki" by OGAWA Yoko
Photography UEDA Shoji KITAZAWA Hiroyuki
Lighting YAMAKAWA Hideaki
Recordist BENITANI Kenichi
Art Director SAKAI Tadashi
Music KAKO Takashi
Editor AGA Hideto
Sound Effect SAITO Masatoshi
Decorator SHIBATA Hirohide
Costume Coordinator KUROSAWA Kazuko
Casting SUGINO Tsuyoshi
Assistant Director SAKAI Naoto
Production Manager MATSUMURA Ryuichi
Production Chief NAKAMURA Yasuko
Soundtrack avex-CLASSICS
Piano: KAKO Takashi Soprano: MORI Maki by the courtesy of avex-CLASSICS
English subtitles Linda Hoaglund
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