Su-ki-da,
Hey, Yosuke... Do you remember?
I remember.
Why the sudden change, ex-baseball player?
Some say that Murasaki Shikibu's father
created the story and made his daughter write it.
So there are manyopinions...
what's that song?
Yosuke plays it on his guitar.
He only plays the same part
so I've memorized it.
Is it his original song?
No, I don't think so.
Until recently,
he played ball with a shaved head,
but he quit and suddenly began playing the guitar.
Says he wants to make a living in music.
Sing some more.
No way.
6 months earlier, myolder sister
had lost a /oved one in an accident.
Someone she loved very much.
Ever since, for some reason,
she began to smile more often.
I'm hungry.
Yeah, hang on.
I'm home!
Hi, Mom.
Hi, girls.
Hi.
What a day...
Mom, you want tea?
Yes, please.
Yu?
Yes, thanks.
How's your sister?
Hmm...
She needs time.
But I'm sure she'll be okay.
Yeah.
Yosuke worried about my sister,
who smiled more than before.
Use it.
Three, four.!
Always the same part.
Whoops. Almost...
Once again.
Three, four.!
How's your sister?
Hmm...
I guess...
She's getting better than before.
Oh.
Yeah.
Your sister...
Hmm?
Was her high school uniform
a blazer or a middy?
What?
Uh...
Why do you ask?
Nothing.
Nothing?
But you're curious?
Hmm?
You wanna know?
Oh, forget it.
Well... let's see...
Let's see...
I'll tell you tomorrow.
You dwell on it tonight.
"Dwell?"
Stand up.
Bow.
Good morning.
Hey, what the...
yu.
What's up with that uniform?
My mom washed both of myother ones,
so I borrowed my sister's.
Oh, really?
I see...
Just for today?
Yes.
Oh.
Well, all right, then.
Oh, yeah, Yu... Stop by at Career Guidance later.
Yes.
And Yosuke.
Yes.
You, too.
Career Guidance.
Yes.
Thank you.
Sure.
Well...
You know, these things...
you should at least pretend to be serious
about your future.
Well, no, you shouldn't pretend...
Um...
I don't know exactly...
But...
Um...
I hope to pursue a career
in music...
I hope to make a living that way.
Well...
I see what you're saying, but...
Want to smell it?
What?
You're sick.
Do you like that song?
What?
Do you like it?
Yeah.
Yosuke wants to talk to you.
He said he'd wait at
the floodgate at 5 tomorrow.
I'm not sure why, but
go see him, okay?
Okay.
Good.
Hey...
That uniform.
It's mine, isn't it?
Yeah.
I borrowed it.
Looks good on you.
Your sister came yesterday.
Oh.
She knew it.
My song.
I might have sung it at home
'cause you play the same part.
It's a nice song, isn't it?
Yeah...
A boy named Yosuke wrote it. He's my sister Yu's friend.
Yeah.
It's a nice song, right?
Um...
I have a question.
What?
After school, come to the floodgate.
What about my sister?
Huh?
No, she won't come.
I told her I wouldn't go.
Oh.
Okay.
Yu.
Yu, do you...
Yeah?
Um...
What?
Huh?
What?
Your sister...
Yeah...
No...
Nothing.
What?
No, sorry.
What about my sister?
Nothing.
I'm sorry.
What's wrong?
Nothing.
About the same.
What?
Raise your hand.
No, like this...
Stretch it out like this.
What am I seeing?
Put more power in your finger...
What?
Why did I cry?
Why didn't / stop crying?
Why?
Three, four.!
I'm home.
Hi.
Yu.
What do you want for dinner?
Anything's fine.
Want some apples for now?
Yeah.
Need a dish?
Yes, thanks.
Dig in.
Can we talk?
Yeah.
When my sister was seeing you...
she seemed happy...
So...
Could you see her again?
Okay.
Take her to the movies.
How about 5 o'clock next Friday at the theater?
No.
Friday, at 5...
I'll be at the floodgate.
Tell her for me.
Okay.
Got it.
Then...
yeah.
Yosuke wants to see you on Friday.
Oh.
He'll be at the floodgate at 5.
Oh.
Okay.
Good.
The accident happened at 5 on Friday.
When my sister was on her way to see Yosuke.
Yu.
Don't...
Don't blame yourself.
Yeah.
That song...
you've written more of it.
The one you kept playing.
My sister used to sing it at home.
Someday...
Let me hear it when it's finished.
Yeah.
That was 17 years ago.
I haven't seen Yu since.
Yeah...
Okay!
Great!
How was it, Yosuke?
It was good.
Yep.
How was it?
- Yeah, great. - Yes.
Um... Can I play it again?
I am just barely
making a /iving on the edge
of the huge plate called music.
Mr. Kitada, phone call.
Yes, yes.
Hello?
Oh, hello. How are you?
We're doing another take. Sounds good.
It sounds lighter now...
Hear that? It's light... Yes...
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Sorry.
Yes, I understand.
Hey, listen...
Yes.
Right.
Things don't often work out.
At a place I can't be at,
someone I don't know
began to say, "No good. "
Are we almost finished?
Yes.
Yes, perfect.
Yes...
But that's not what we initially agreed to.
What did their staff say?
Yes.
Yes... Well...
yes, I understand.
Yes, fine. Yes, good-bye.
About today's recording.
It didn't work out.
It appears their manager rejected it.
He didn't like it.
I'm sorry.
No...
Want to grab a drink?
Yes.
Remember my boss, that
scary guy I told you about?
Oh, yes.
He called me a month ago, and
said, 'Get over here! '
So I did.
We went drinking.
In a bar like this. He grumbled...
And I listened.
Then he took me to his favorite bar.
Then, um... it was...
You know, sort of...
It was a bar, but...
yes?
It was one of those...
SM places.
Oh.
Get it?
I was stunned.
Couldn't believe it.
It was my first time.
Right.
Well, we sat down.
Everyone is dressed like, you know...
My boss is a scary guy, see?
Yes.
Well, I was really shocked, but...
He was like...
On his knees...
I'm like, "Oh my god. "
Then it was show time.
My boss went up
and began stripping...
'whee! '
Take me there sometime.
What? Oh, I ordered for you.
Oh, yes, thank you.
To see for myself.
Oh. Well...
I sure did get a kick out of it.
Thought I'd smack him.
You all right?
Do you know her?
No...
I thought
that he was pitiful.
That he was a wretch.
But...
I tried to run awayonce, too.
So I'm like him.
I'm all right.
Sure.
- Yes, I'm guite all right. - Are you?
Yes,
I'm all right.
Um...
Who are you?
Uh...
Well...
you were drunk.
Yes.
And asleep on the street.
Oh...
A nd...
I asked your address.
Yes.
But you wouldn't say.
And this weird guy was trying to rob you, so...
Oh.
Really?
Sorry. Thank you so much.
Uh, no...
I'm sorry.
Drink some water.
Oh. Yes.
Thank you.
What's your name?
Oh.
It's Torami.
Yes.
Torami?
Yes.
Using the letter meaning "tiger, '
and 'beautiful. " Torami.
Oh. That's a good name.
Really?
Sure.
Seriously?
Wow.
You're the first to say...
Really?
Yes.
No one's ever...
No...
No, that's not true.
The boy I dated in high school
said that to me, too, I think.
What?
Um... There's nothing here.
Oh.
I haven't moved in yet.
Oh.
You were about to move?
- Yeah, that's right. - Oh.
Is that so? Hmm.
You're not lying?
No.
You're not confining me, are you?
Me?
Yes...
you're not, are you?
Are you?
Do I look like I will?
No...
Well...
you...
Sort of do, and sort of don't...
The first place I remember...
From the second on, nothing.
I'm not sure when I passed out...
Probably at the second place... can't tell.
Sounds fun,
though.
It does?
Yeah.
Why?
It just does.
Oh.
I see.
Things seem easier
when you're drinking.
When...
When things don't work out,
what do you do?
When things don't work out?
Yeah.
Well...
When things are bad...
Hmm...
I close my eyes.
I close my eyes and
I try to remember a time
when I liked myself.
Then,
I feel a bit better.
I can't remember
when / ever liked myse/f.
Even if I cou/d,
I wonder if that part of me is sti/I inside?
Oh, we're still recording...
Thank you.
Finished.
Oh, thank you.
- I can go in now? - Yes.
That was good, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was good.
Okay, we'll listen to this.
Yes.
Takes 18 and 19...
18 and 19...
So...
Yes. Can you connect them?
Yes, I can try it once.
Yeah.
Let me hear it.
Yes.
"You're"
"Sick'
That was good.
Yes.
Well, then...
- Okay? - Okay.
It's okay.
Great, Yu. Thanks.
It's okay?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Um...
You're not obligated to use it...
Thank you.
Good job.
Thank you.
Here.
Thanks.
You play the guitar?
Well...
I don't "play ' it...
More like, "touch" itt...
They wanted an "amateurish guitar. "
Oh.
So I came.
But...
As I played,
I began to feel sorry...
Are you busy today?
Well...
No...
Not really.
Beer?
Yeah, beer.
A "shochu" on the rocks.
- Any brand? - Yes.
Anything else?
Japanese "sake. '
Any kind.
Any brand?
- That's fine. - Right away.
Thank you.
I went full circle, and came back to "sake. '
F ull cir cle, huh?
I don't think
I've even gone halfway.
So, making a living in music?
Sales section of a record company.
I don't know...
How about you?
Office work at a music production.
Oh. So that's why...
yeah.
I was asked at work
to help out.
Studios are amazing.
So dark...
So big...
Everyone is...
on the other side of the glass.
Yeah.
You can't tell what they're saying.
Yeah.
So you feel uneasy, sitting there alone.
Whiskey's about...
halfway around?
A little past halfway...
Do your fingers hurt?
Yeah.
Keep practicing and they won't anymore.
Mine'll probably hurt now...
What?
You quit?
Yeah.
You don't play anymore?
No.
Oh.
Did you recognize it?
Huh?
The song.
Oh.
I just thought I'd heard it before.
But it's your own song.
You have a good memory.
Yeah.
I guess.
When are you moving in?
Here?
Yeah.
Oh... w ell...
I keep telling myself to do it,
but I can't.
Before I move my stuff in,
it feels
like something new is gonna happen, but...
yeah.
Do you live alone, too?
Yeah.
I'm alone.
Yes.
What do you do when things
don't work out?
I laugh.
You laugh?
I just laugh.
I asked the same guestion before.
Yeah.
That person said, ' I close my eyes. '
'I close my eyes... '
yeah.
"And try to remember a time '
"when I liked myself. '
When did you like yourself best?
When you didn't know me.
How about you?
I wonder...
Do you remember
when we walked
in the rain together?
Of course not.
No... I do.
It just came back.
I remembered
the first part right away.
But the rest
I forgot.
I forget, too.
Really?
Oh, yeah!
You bought a dirty magazine.
That time...
You looked around...
No one...
You bought it...
Hid it...
Ran away...
How embarrassing!
How embarrassing...
I remember!
That was
the day before you wore that middy to school.
How's your sister?
She smiles at me.
When I go see her,
she smiles.
She smiles at me.
Wanna get some water?
Let's do that.
Yeah.
She's asleep.
My sister...
She's been sleeping all this time.
It's Yosuke.
I bumped into him
by accident.
So I brought him.
I'll be back.
I don't know how to say it,
but your sister...
I think...
I think she's sleeping out of her own will.
That's my impression
since back then.
I'm sorry
if I sound callous.
Well, then...
Your company.
Where do you work?
What?
Hey, Yu.
Back then,
why did I run away from you like that?
That time when we kissed
for the first time.
Hel/o, Boomerang.
Oh. Uh...
Does Ms. Yu Hirahara work there?
Yes, speaking.
It's Yosuke.
Hello?
Oh.
You found me.
Yeah.
I...
Yeah.
A long time ago...
I made a promise.
You might not remember.
Yeah.
And...
I want you to hear a song.
So can we meet again?
"A taxi driver died in his veh/cle"
"from a wound /n his neck. "
"Arrested for chi/d abuse. "
'"A strangled body found in apartment premises. "
Why?
What are you doing?
You play the guitar?
What can you play?
Huh?
What can you play?
Nothing.
See this?
Yeah.
Little by little...
yeah.
Your fingers, see?
They become hard.
Yeah.
When you keep playing.
I love you.
Sorry...
Things are still blurry...
I missed that.
"Su-ki-da'
Me, too...
I love you, too.
CAST
Aoi Miyazaki
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Hiromi Nagasaku
Eita
Sayuri Oyamada
Produced by Hisashi Tsuchiya
written and Directed by Hiroshi Ishikawa