Excuse me.
Excuse, can I have this too? Right away.
Here.
I had a big presentation and the plan I submitted was accepted.
So it's a commercial you made?
Yeah. I think it'll be on tv.
Amazing. That's amazing! Congratulations.
Is this weird after all?
Should we put the old one back? It's fine.
It really brightens up the place.
I feel like I'm forcing it on you.
Thank you.
I'll make something. Please, sit.
Okay.
Here, Sonoda-san. We're done.
I'll come again.
I've been transfered from the main branch and I'll be working here.
My name is Ibuki Asahi.
It's nice to meet you.
Ibuki-san.
Didn't I tell you not to provide care for Sonoda-san? - Did you?
Sonoda-san is behind on her payment so we are having her evicted.
Ibuki-san.
Good morning. Morning.
Ah... She got the dog.
Oh, the person who found him. Thank you.
You have something.
Hinata-san.
My girlfriend. Nice to meet you.
I was thinking of taking the dog for a morning walk.
Today's no good. Yeah, okay.
See you. See you
I'll take a taxi after all.
That was a bit mean of me, wasn't it?
What?
You didn't have to introduce me like that.
"This girl likes someone else, but that person is married."
"Pitiful, isn't she?"
"That's why I'm just keeping her company."
Ah, here it comes.
Don't talk like that anymore.
At first, we both made many mistakes.
Those things...
happened because we needed to fill our loneliness.
But could you...
only have eyes for me now?
Let's be together.
What do you say?
Straightforward as ever.
I'm happy you feel that way. Thank you.
Here it comes.
Coming? No, I...
Okay. See you.
Where should I put the water? There is fine.
Okay.
What is his girlfriend like?
Hmm... Human, I think.
Shame.
But, after 50 years have passed, one-sided love becomes a treasure.
Shizue-san. Yes?
Do you really believe that? No... I just feel bad for you.
I'll give it a pass.
SOME DAY, WHEN WE REMEMBER THIS LOVE, WE WILL SURELY CRY
Translation: Sanashi Timing: Cubical Noses
How cute. I wonder if it was made in Italy.
It's IKEA.
Doesn't that bother you while you eat?
I wore it on purpose.
I was told I am a trend setter.
My relatives and everyone told me I should become a designer.
How am I unfashionable?
Ah, Haruta! Isn't that Haruta? Haruta!
Oh! It's been a while.
Why haven't you been in touch lately?
I've been a bit busy.
But I called you! No way, you did?
Aren't you working as a DJ these days? No. Lately I'm not doing that at all.
Is that so?
Say, call us again for that well-paying job. Yeah, let me do it too.
Oh, that.
Yeah, but, I'm talking to her right now, so we'll do it another time. See you.
I'll call you, I'll call. Bye bye.
Where are we going?
In Tokyo, there are plenty of girls like you.
Come. What?
Haruta-san. Hm?
If that girl a friend of yours? She is.
Do you want some macaron? I do, I do. Gimme.
Here.
Mm, delicious.
You have some on you. Take it off?
It looks good on you, Miss!
I'll take this. I'll take it all.
Let's head back. It was fun, right?
What is the well-paying job those girls mentioned earlier?
That's not for you. Ren-kun would get angry with me again.
No. I don't want to take these off.
That looks very nice.
Children from the nursery school are really looking forward to this.
Letter of invitation
Children of the Tsurumikita nursery school,
We are waiting for you to play
fun games and make cookies together.
February 2 (Wed), 10:30, ground floor
from grandpas and grandmas
Program: fishing game, drawing, concert
Sugihara-san?
Some dentures were forgotten in the changing room, but I don't know whose they are.
Ah. Hmm, let's see...
Oosawa-san, Koyama-san, Takahashi-san.
Oosawa-san, Koyama-san, Takahashi-san. Thank you! Sure.
Oh, that looks nice.
How about we try coloring it in a slightly deeper shade?
Yes? It's Haruta.
If they ask you for a phone number, give them this one.
Am I really only doing karaoke?
And I can get 100,000 for that? Isn't it dangerous?
It's not.
When regular girls meet with people they don't know for 3,000 yen it could be dangerous
but when cute girls are with company presidents for 100,000 yen, it's not.
What's with that? Tokyo rules? Some of them are moody, though.
What are you gonna to? Quit?
Hello!
I got my wages. Do you want to go out for dinner?
Kiho-chan
Stardust Melody
Stars singing on the night sky stage
Planetarium
Thank you.
Working hard!
Um... Since 3 stops ago.
Going home from work? Yes, I just finished.
Working hard!
It looks like you're about to drop something.
You're heading that way, right? That way, yes.
Have a nice evening.
Have you walked the dog?
I'm just about to do it. Oh, I see.
See you. See you.
Sugihara-san. Yes?
I am rooting for you.
I've been rooting for you, ever since that day.
So...
Let's both do our best.
You have to do your best, too. Okay.
They were so bad at karaoke! They were.
Bye bye!
Are you going clubbing? I want to, let's go!
Please take us to the Crossing.
Please~
Gimme some nori. No way!
What are you saying? Come on!
Hello? Hello?
It's me~!
What do you want?
You keep looking at your phone every day. Who are you waiting for?
Here are the beads.
Make some room here. They're filming.
No, now is not... It's the president.
Your father is here.
Good afternoon.
You're knitting?
Okay, please push here. That's good. Then let's pull it back.
Good. Now please push.
It suits you. It's cute, right?
Anyway, do your best.
My older brother.
Well, I say that, but he's the true heir, while I'm the son of a mistress.
There. It's complete.
Isn't this enough? Yes, that's good.
Thank you.
Don't treat me like an old person.
I can move my own chair at least.
We will have Sonoda-san evicted tomorrow.
If we do, I don't think she has anywhere else to go.
We are not a charity.
So we're just doing it for the money?
If you have a problem with that, you are free to leave.
That is what the president said.
The president entrusted this to me.
Let's see... Next is the interaction party.
There will be a lecture by Katakura-sensei of the Tokyo Assembly instead. - What?
But everyone has been preparing for it.
Please inform them this will be a very important lecture.
They were looking forward to children coming. That is all.
Before this, that little rich kid wanted to become a journalist.
There's plenty of those.
People who are all talk, but in reality, they're incompetent fools.
Crap. Are you kidding me?
You know, this chick. Yes?
That's my phone. What?
Please give it back. Please stop this.
Is Kiho-chan that Kiho-chan?
Ren-kun, you're going out with a woman like that?
Who is this Kiho-chan?
At the address we were delivering to, there was a woman who tried to commit suicide.
This guy saved her and took her to a hospital. Right?
It's that Kiho-chan, right?
Give it back.
You really are an idiot. An affair dirties a woman.
Why'd you take such a damaged thing?
Give it back!
Wha-
Ow. What are you...?
What are you doing? Stop this! Here.
So pitiful. Something like that.
Idiot. You're the one who's pitiful.
You are being connected to voicemail.
Please record you message after the tone.
Kiho-chan
See you. Ah!
I'll carry it, it's close. What is this?
I was told to throw it away because it was in the way.
Children, thank you for coming to see us today. Come visit us again!
But I just couldn't.
I was thinking of delivering them to the children who were supposed to come. - I see.
I'll take it, it's alright. Ah!
I'll go borrow my company's truck, so we can go and deliver these now?
No, but...
The bus is here.
Let's go.
Good afternoon. I'm Sugihara, we spoke on the phone. Good afternoon.
Let me see! Delivery! I've brought presents.
Wah, amazing! Here you go.
I'm glad it made them happy. Yeah.
Here. Thank you!
Eat this. What is this?
Amazing, did you make it? Yep.
It's delicious.
I'll give you this. Huh? May I eat it?
Yeah. Itadakimasu.
They also made me eat paper.
When I said "It's delicious," she said "It's paper!"
The paper you ate, what was it?
Fried prawn. Fried prawn?
Yeah. So it was a fried prawn?
I need to look at the GPS for a moment. Okay.
Hold on a second.
Okay.
Done.
Look!
Huh? The ferris wheel? What?
The ferris wheel? Yes.
Then, when we're done delivering these, shall we ride it?
Okay.
What?
You don't want to ride it?
I do.
It's bigger than I imagined.
It's so huge!
That part seems terrifying.
Sugihara-san. You'll scream.
Let's go!
Admission closed at 7:45.
Such a shame. A shame.
Planetarium? Ah, planetarium!
It's fine, it's fine. I'm telling you, it's fine!
Thank goodness.
It's this.
A concert? Yeah.
Can we listen?
Okay.
Are these taken? Seats A15 and A16.
This is actually my first concert. What?
Mine, too. You haven't been to any?
No, no. What about clubs?
I haven't! No, no, no. What about dancing?
I don't, I don't. Do you dance?
No, I don't.
To this day, the only dancing I've done is to Alps ichimanjaku.
It's a popular hand clapping game, to the music of Yankee Doodle.
Is that dancing?
Is it? Well, it's not dancing, but...
You mean this thing, right? Yes, yes, that.
On top of Koyari of the Alps, at 3030m,
Let's dance the Alpine dance.
That was perfect! Why do you know this?
I wonder. Let's try it one more time?
Ready, set...
On top of Koyari of the Alps, at 3030m,
Let's dance the Alpine dance.
This part and this. Yeah, yeah, that.
They'll chase us away. Yeah.
This is fun.
It's fun. Yeah.
The most fun since I came to Tokyo.
Is your work hard?
No. Well...
Something else?
I used to go to work by train in the morning.
Once every few days... It would happen once every few days.
jinshin jiko - train related accident that is often caused by people jumping on the tracks to commit suicide
There would be an announcement about an accident.
It means that, doesn't it?
Yeah.
At such a time, I heard the person next to me, just an average person, click his tongue.
Because the train might be a few minutes late.
When I heard that, somehow... I can't really understand it, but...
It turned into this indescribable feeling.
Yeah.
Such things...
Similar things happened every day, little by little. Many things happened.
However,
I was full of my own problems and there was nothing I could do, so I pretended not to notice.
6 years have passed since I came here and the whole time I've had this indescribable feeling.
Somehow...
I can't explain it.
I'm sorry, for saying strange things.
Today, during the day, I went outside to post the mail.
This was next to the mailbox.
It bloomed.
Well, that's all.
That's all there is.
There's nothing else in the photo.
I was going to show you that.
Someday...
I'll go return the truck, so you head back first.
Okay. I'll go buy dog food. Okay.
We have to come up with a name for him. Yeah. Ah.
Here.
The dog's name... It's a ticket for your girlfriend, right?
It's not going well?
The dog's name... Can I even say she's my girlfriend?
Isn't she?
Yeah, well, it doesn't matter. But you love her, right?
She's kind.
She works hard and I admire her.
That's not love.
Why...?
What you described is not love.
Well whatever.
She's in love with someone else.
They were lovers and it didn't work out, so she's with me.
And I, well... That's how it is.
Why?
How disappointing.
I'm done. Why?
Why are you-? Idiot!
Because I love you, of course.
Mr Mover,
it's because I love you, of course.
Ren! It's been so long!
Hold this. Hey, hold this!
Do you want a drink, too?
What happened?
Look. Today, I had my photos taken by the people from this magazine.
They told me I had style.
Then next month... Ah, here! They'll be on this page.
Isn't that great?
I spent 20,000 just on the shirt.
20,000 on the shirt?! Where did you get the money?
I'm popular, you know. They're not creepy guys.
It seems that rich people like to compete over gathering cute girls.
You can get 100,000 just for doing karaoke.
There are many cute girls there, so it's helped me improve my style too.
What about the theater troupe? It's not like that. We just sing and talk, that's all.
And the theater troupe? If it doesn't pay, there's no point in doing it.
Look at this. I'll be in here. That's not a local paper!
It's like a dream for any fashionable girl in Japan.
I've become cute, haven't I? Are you really okay with this?
So cold!
Cold, brrr. Why is the AC broken in here?
Ren-kun, I'll go use your bath.
Yes?
Excuse me, my name is Soda. Kiho...
Ah, no. How is Hinata Kihoko-san?
She's regained consciousness.
She's receiving an EEG scan at the moment.
Hinata-san was pushed by a man and strongly hit her head.
Please wait here.
Ah!
I had no courage to call you, so I'm sending you a message.
You see, I've lied to you a lot.
It's true that I work for an advertising agency,
but I don't do the kind of job I told you.
I have an office desk job.
Organizing the roster, collecting and sorting out receipts.
The kind of job where I'm not even invited to attend company meetings.
Everyone affectionately calls me Hikage-san.
Hikage means shadow, but sounds a little like her name
When I would go to meet you, I'd change in the train station toilet.
I'd put on make-up using the toilet mirror.
I'd transform from Hikage-san to Hinata-san.
My father also had an accounting job, and my mother was a housewife.
When a classmate saw my parents, he said they look like cartoon mice when they smile.
Withdraw
So I stopped smiling in front of people.
After entering a university in Tokyo, I started dating a man.
He didn't introduce me to his close friends.
The first time we slept together, he told me "I'm hungry, go buy me some nigiri."
I thought to myself it would always be like this.
I'm the type of person who, from the day she buys a new pen, imagines the day when that pen will stop writing.
If I can't become special to anyone, I'll date with that mindset from the start.
And so I met my current lover.
A relationship with no hopes or expectations.
Waking up in the morning, the first thing I'd do is give up on that day.
And yet, it appears that somewhere inside my heart, I hadn't entirely given up.
When you saved me, I thought I always wanted to be held like that.
I was afraid of you seeing the real me, so I lied to you a lot.
I was happy I could be a different version of myself with you.
I bought curtains.
I was happy I could be Hinata Kihoko.
I could smile. I could smile, without looking like a mouse.
But I was always making sure I wouldn't break up with you and wake up from this dream.
Let's be together.
But, I'm giving up on that too.
Ren. I want to be with you. I want to think of you as my lover.
With a brand new pen, I want to write how much I love you to my heart's content.
I am now going to tell him I'm breaking up with him.
I'll stop changing in the train station toilet.
Maybe you'll be surprised when you see the plain me, but that is the real me.
Well then, talk to you later. Kiho.
Kiho-chan.
You recognize it's me?
Kiho-chan.
Hey hey hey.
Why? What?
What part of me is not good enough? W-w-w-wait.
Are you doing well?
There, there. You're fine.
What do you know?
Have you found love?
But I know who you're in love with.
Will my dream come true some day?
Somewhere along this road
Wouldn't it be nice if we could fall in love with people who love us back?
Do you remember
That is...
life's greatest predicament, isn't it?
the shaking barley we saw that night?
Will Tokyo Tower cease to exist?
They are completing that, right? The Skytree.
I kept searching the endless sky on the horizon
This year? Next year, they said.
Oh.
Once they complete the Skytree, I wonder if they'll demolish Tokyo Tower.
How would they even demolish such a huge thing?
While imagining the future
Now inside this dream
Radiance of shapeless things
Gently, gently embrace it
Irreversible medical error - A chain of lies and cover up
"Did someone take my husband's life?"
Ibuki Asahi
And continue on
Ah, so cold!
That night, I saw the first snow of the year.
I saw it alone.