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AIZAWA KIMONO PATTERN-MAKER
Excuse me.
I'm home.
I'm back.
That was quick.
You want one?
A croquette.
They're piping hot.
He was here.
Who?
Hot.
TeII me.
- Who came? - That Kinoshita feIIow.
I knew it was him.
So he came here, did he?
He even brought a gift.
But he didn't trust me enough to Ieave it.
It's aII over between us, anyway.
He couIdn't Ieave fast enough.
- TeII me. - What?
Is it tasty?
Don't eat standing up.
So what?
SUMMER'S END
HIKARI MATSUSHIMA
GO AYANO
KAORU KOBAYASHI
ORIGINAL STORY BY JAKUCHO SETOUCHI
SCREENPLAY BY TAKASHI UJITA
MUSIC BY JIM O'ROURKE
DIRECTED BY KAZUYOSHI KUMAKIRI
- HeIIo. - HeIIo there, Mari.
Mari. WouId you Iike a mandarin?
No thanks.
They're very sweet.
- How did it go? - Good.
It doesn't exist.
What?
No one's ever heard of Eiko Advertising.
- Ryota's empIoyer. - Oh, him.
Maybe it's a smaII company, there's pIenty of them.
No.
He's too oId to start a new career, anyway.
How oId is he now?
He's no spring chicken.
This one's sour.
It's never too Iate.
He shouId've stayed where he was.
May I borrow this?
- Sure, take it with you. - Thank you.
See you Iater.
I'm meeting Mr. Marume from Bungei PubIishing.
A new book?
No.
I'm doing it for Fukiji, he needs the work.
- You remember Fujiki? - Yes.
An interesting feIIow, taIented, too.
He deserves a break.
I hope you shave first.
- Too tight? - No, it's fine.
I'II be back on Monday.
Don't catch coId.
You, too.
You needn't say it. I know I'm stupid.
Yes, you are.
Don't.
Come on.
COLD REMEDY
I'm sorry, but I reaIIy have to go.
III be back on the 6th.
You're going home?
It's just a coId.
A good sIeep wiII fix you.
HeIIo, Aizawa speaking.
Hello? ls that you?
Happy new year.
lt's me, Ryota Kinoshita. lt's been far too long.
Happy new year.
- ls something wrong? - Not at aII.
Good. l hope everything is going well.
Yes, it is.
l'm glad.
l moved to Tokyo last month.
l did drop by, but you were out.
l'll come by again.
When?
- What? - How about now?
l couldn't intrude.
I'm iII. SeriousIy iII.
You're ill?
Yes. Come visit the sick patient.
Just for a whiIe.
It's been ages since I've seen you.
Anyone home?
Here I am.
You're back?
I toId you I wouId.
You Iook better.
You Ieft me iII and aII aIone.
I paid you back.
I met up with Ryota.
I asked him here.
I was bored stiff, wasn't I?
I hate being aIone.
Was it fun?
I thoroughIy enjoyed myseIf.
The moth has six legs.
Each of them lined up in an orderly manner.
lts tactile antenna exploring the paper screen.
Slowly swaying as it examines the obstacle.
Where has it gone now?
The scent of illness, where is it now?
THE WEARING AWAY
The steady drip drip drip...
Let's go eat before you Ieave.
WeII...
I aIways come back, you know that.
Let's go.
Was I wrong to ask you here?
No, my office is nearby.
What?
Does Mr. Kosugi pour your drinks?
Indeed.
I never pour for him, he pours for me.
Sometimes he serves me dinner.
He doesn't Iike me doing anything.
I think it's weird how his wife knows about you.
How Iong is it now?
Eight years. A Iong time, isn't it?
At home...
His reaI home...
Do you think he serves his wife, too?
I bet he does.
But that's not Iove, that's benevoIence.
He doesn't want to get hurt.
A woman with a chiId once said that of me.
Were you dating her?
So you smoke now?
I never expected that of you.
I've changed, I'm not what I used to be.
AII right, then.
See you.
Ryota!
MOMOTA FOR PARLIAMENT CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Mrs. Sayama?
Long time no see.
I got recruited, too. It's an education, he said.
Come in.
- I got the biggest one. - Good work, boy.
It's enormous.
IKUO MOMOTA FOR CONGRESSMAN
You must be Sayama's wife.
- How do you do. - Kinoshita mentioned you.
Kinoshita said, ''She's wasted on Sayama.''
Don't say that.
He fancies you.
There, aII finished.
Thank you.
lkuo omota would appreciate your vote.
Please vote for r. omota.
He strives to serve the people.
Please give us your vote.
PIease vote for Mr. Ikuo Momota!
Leave it there.
Coming for a bath?
No need, I didn't sweat.
How nasty.
Who's there?
- You're Ieaving? - Yes.
Stay over.
Why go back if he's not there?
It's my home.
It won't work.
You expect to keep this a secret?
What do we do now?
I deserve an answer.
Stop it.
Act your age. Some things are not said.
Don't Iook so miserabIe.
Is that what you think?
Do as you pIease.
So annoying.
I've found a nice house in Setagaya.
I don't want to go.
We'II be Iiving in Tokyo this winter.
Daddy.
What?
What's wrong?
I'm sorry.
I Iove someone eIse.
Who?
TeII me his name.
Ryota.
Have you sIept with him?
I know it's wrong.
You tramp.
I Iove him!
I can't heIp it!
What's wrong?
I wonder what Ryota is having for dinner.
Didn't his firm go bust?
- Shin. - What?
How Iong can we keep going Iike this?
l'd really like to talk to you.
How about we go out drinking tonight?
Yes, let's do that.
ReaIIy? You'II join me, wiII you?
I'm back!
PROHIBITED IMPORTS YOKOHAMA CUSTOMS
Where's Mr. Kosugi?
StiII in Iine.
He's queuing for me.
- I Ieft him to it. - I see.
I stayed with him Iast night.
ReaIIy? How come?
This earIy? No way I couId have made it.
Of course.
It is weird, though.
WhiIe you were away, he kept asking me out.
We'd go out drinking.
ReaIIy?
How was it over there?
It was strange. I feIt so IoneIy.
It was far too Iong.
Whenever I missed you, I'd caII him.
Where did you get it?
The peach. I'm thirsty.
AIright, I'II get you some.
PIease.
This makes me uneasy.
OnIy because you're so seIfish.
That's so Iike you.
PIease.
Thank you.
MANUSCRIPT FEE
For your wife?
Yes.
Here.
l'm always very careful.
l make sure he's wearing the same clothes when he goes home.
You don't mind?
Mind what?
Aren't you jeaIous?
It's not Iove anymore.
Then what is it?
Affection, I guess.
You can be so caIIous.
You Iooked so happy to see both of us there.
Then you go back with him.
But after I said goodbye in the Ginza...
you didn't even think about me.
- Listen to me! - Don't shout at me!
I waited for you.
Then you go off with him.
That's indecent. You're so immoraI.
Oh, I get it now.
Then aII Iove is immoraI.
Good for you.
You don't know anything.
Why doesn't he divorce her?
I don't want him to!
We've shared a Iife together which doesn't incIude you.
Then what about me?
Is this just an affair?
- Let me go. - Is it? TeII me!
You made me say it.
You're pitifuI!
Stop it!
I'II get it.
Aizawa residence.
Oh, it's you.
No, she's here. I'II put her on.
It's Ryota.
HeIIo, it's me.
l can't...
...take any more.
This is driving me mad.
Please don't leave me.
Please let me see you sometimes.
l don't care if you hurt me.
You're drunk. I'm hanging up.
He sounded quite hystericaI.
He cried Iike that when he toId me about his firm going bankrupt.
He said he wants...
He wants me to Ieave you and marry him.
I know.
Just ignore him.
It's so typicaI. He wants what others have.
He boasted about it to me once.
How he picked up his ex-wife in a bar.
She had a husband and a chiId.
He's unscrupuIous.
Anybody home?
HeIIo Mari.
- Good day. - Come in.
Mr. Kosugi's not here today?
That's right.
What a mess.
Where's that book I was reading?
- Make yourseIf at home. - Thank you.
Can I Iook through these?
Sure.
Ouch!
TO SHINGO KOSUGI c/o AIZAWA
FROM MRS. YUKI KOSUGI
Habo is back, she sends her regards.
l do enjoy making dresses for her girls.
But she has such awful taste.
Yoko keeps trying to cut the cat's whiskers.
The cat gets very upset.
Can you bring home those same cakes as last time?
ls your cough better?
Take care, my dear husband. Yuki.
She writes Iike a schooIgirI.
The woman is so chiIdish.
What does he see in her?
I just don't get it.
It makes me so angry.
Stop compIaining.
I want you to Ieave.
I was drunk when I caIIed.
Why shouIdn't she write him? He's her husband.
I'm sick of it.
Sick of what?
Are you angry?
If you won't go, I wiII.
Where? Take me with you.
HeIIo! Excuse me.
Do you know where the Kosugi's Iive?
The wife is a dressmaker, or something.
So I beIieve.
That must be Yoko's mom.
KOSUGI DRESSMAKING
What on earth?
No one's home. Come on in.
They went off to Tokyo this morning.
I got Iost. I waIked past here twice.
I searched for over an hour.
Have a drink.
ToiIet.
What now?
Let's go out.
Come on, pIease.
You can't Ieave them, can you?
Not now.
I came to ask her.
You're too indecisive, you'd never do it.
ShaII we get a beer?
I'm sorry.
The thing is...
Ryota and I...
For a whiIe now...
I'm sorry.
Do you Iove him?
I don't know. I'm so confused.
You need to get away. Take a trip.
It'II refresh you.
It won't. Nothing goes right for me.
Do something.
I'm sorry.
I'm sick of this.
I hate being Iike this.
I'II be at your pIace in two days.
On the 20th.
You must teII your wife I came to taIk to her.
Yes, I wiII.
Promise me.
Sure.
Shin, wait.
What did she say?
I took the assignment.
I went to see the pubIishers today.
What assignment?
It'II keep me busy.
I start doing the research tomorrow.
What's it about?
A noveI. The Erotic Swordsman.
SureIy not!
You said you'd never do that.
You hate that sordid genre.
I need the money.
That's a Iie.
You're Iying.
The FuII-Moon Stroke!
You're dead.
Listen.
Shin?
I can't write it.
How couId I write such tripe?
I'm aII washed up.
Sir?
You don't have to stay.
Is this why I abandoned my husband and chiId?
To pour drinks and empty ashtrays?
You're not wearing perfume?
I Iike that.
It's not what I expected.
I abandoned my chiId to become an artist.
Now I don't know what I want.
I was determined to do anything to reaIize my draem.
Pour me a drink.
You have no idea how hard it is for a woman aIone!
Yes, sure. I read your books.
You Iisten to me.
You have a duty to keep on writing noveIs.
Do I indeed?
Get it aII out!
You're more taIented than aII the rest.
HeIIo, Aizawa residence.
l have a call for you from Kamakura 2945.
Yes, put it through.
Hello?
ls this the Aizawa residence?
Yes.
This is rs. Kosugi. ls my husband there?
No, he Ieft to do research the day before yesterday.
He's expected back tomorrow.
Would you mind passing on a message for me?
lt's his niece, she's been hospitalized.
Can you ask him to send her a gift?
Yes.
Some cookies or a pretty nightdress will do.
- You think so? - Yes.
Are you there?
Yes.
y husband's not much good with addresses, would you mind?
- No. - Sorry to trouble you.
Yamagata City
Yamagata City. -Suehiro-cho.
- Suehiro-cho. - 246.
- Banchi.
- The Yuki Hospital.
- Yuki... - Yuki is written as...
... the fabric, no? - l'm impressed you know that.
Well...
Yes?
Are you s. Aizawa?
Yes, I shouId have said so.
I went to Shin's home.
And?
And what?
I assume it wasn't mereIy a sociaI visit.
I can't just Ieave him.
We've been together for eight years.
Habit is far stronger than any bonds of affection.
It's true.
I've finaIIy reaIized that.
You've started smoking.
It's habit with him, too.
Marriage is an ingrained habit he can't break.
That's mean.
You said you don't know why you're stiII with him.
You said it was affection.
But you're just making excuses.
I don't want to see you again.
You're stifIing me!
I can't breath here!
Are you here?
We're taking a hoIiday.
Go pack.
Do it!
Did you get my Ietter?
That's why I'm here.
How dare you use Ryota to break off with me?
I want to start afresh.
It's not about him.
I want to Ieave both of you and be on my own.
It wouId be much easier to just continue.
But that's a road to nowhere.
You know that, don't you?
I hate my Iife.
I'm sick of it.
I want to be someone.
Take a hoIiday.
With me.
Things wiII change.
Let's go.
ShaII we go?
Did you ever consider that I might not come?
You toId me you'd be here.
Are you asIeep?
It'II kiII me.
Staying with my wife.
WiII you join me?
Just the two of us.
WeII, then.
I'II be off.
Aizawa speaking.
How are you?
lt's me.
I'm fine.
Are you at home?
No. l went out for cigarettes. l'm at the station.
I see.
Is everything okay?
How about you?
The same.
This is my new beginning.
I've decided to start buiIding something that wiII Iast.
That's good.
l'd like to stop by sometime.
Then you shouId.
Alright then. l'll call again.
- Listen. - What?
I've got something on in Odawara tomorrow.
Odawara? l can be there. What time?
WeIcome.
WeIcome to our inn.
Your room is upstairs.
We're here.
WiII you join me in a suicide pact?
It's what I wanted for such a Iong time.
I'm sick of it. Every damn thing.
Yes.
Why are you're Iaughing?
Why don't you ask your wife to die with you?
That wouId be... too crueI.
My wife aIways...
She tries so hard.
HIKARI MITSUSHIMA
GO AYANO
MANTARO KOICHI
KAORU KOBAYASHI
OriginaI Story by JAKKUCHO SETOUCHI
ScreenpIay by TAKASHI UJITA
Music by JIM ''JIMBO'' O'ROURKE
Directed by KAZUYOSHI KUMAKIRI
SpeciaI Thanks to IKEDA69
THE END