Papa.
Ryuta.
What?
Will we play together?
What about your homework?
I need to have a break sometimes.
Papa! That's papa!
- Ryu! - Papa!
Are you keeping well?
Papa!
Oh! You've got a little heavier, Ryu.
What's that?
They're yellow! They're all in flower!
They're not flowers, they're fruits.
They're summer lemons.
Summer lemons?
Yes.
- Can you eat them? - Yes.
They're delicious!
I nearly get there, Then I lose my confidence.
I look at the sky and wonder, Will I get to where my dreams come true?
Life used to be so easy for me, And now time is running out.
I left my mistakes behind me, Because I wanted to change.
But I haven't changed.
I built a rainbow over the thunder clouds, And time and space, and I started to run.
I'll climb that rainbow to a world beyond, Where my heart will learn to sing.
And I will come to see tomorrow.
I can flow,
I can go endlessly.
If I find my peck of courage in time and space,
I will start walking again.
KINTARO RETURNS HOME
YAMATO CONSTRUCTION
Oh, good morning!
Morning. You're looking good.
It's because Kin-chan will be back soon.
Kazue has been a lost soul since Kin-chan left.
I'm looking forward to seeing him, too.
Kazue can't wait to see him.
Don't be silly! Kin-chan has a stunning girlfriend.
Good morning.
Section Chief Tanaka.
Oh, Sub-Section Chief Takatsukasa.
- Excuse me. - Excuse me.
I'm going to attend a Directors' meeting today.
Oh yes, I heard that.
Is that the guy who joined the company as an investigator for Sales Section 2?
Yeah.
What's the Directors' meeting for?
It's a special case. I heard he's going to make a big speech.
He was head-hunted by President Kurokawa.
He's a Tokyo University law department graduate,
and worked for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry for five years.
His family's also pretty influential.
Aren't we going to have lunch?
Oh, yeah. You hungry, Ryu?
You know how to use chopsticks?
Yes. Let's eat!
Let's eat.
America is now in the process of bringing into being a World Government,
in the course of the next fifty years.
That's the impression I received whilst living in America for a number of years.
America is a country which can survive by living on its own resources.
That's why they don't get upset, no matter how far the dollar falls.
They're not interested in Japan.
Now, when it's time for global revolution,
Japanese enterprises are all cutting back because times are hard.
Private companies are obsessed with forcing small economies on their employees,
like forbidding them to use chauffeur-driven hire cars,
and stopping them using corporate funds for golf matches and other entertainment.
They're all taking defensive action together. They're battening down the hatches.
Politicians and bureaucrats react to the efforts of the private sector to survive,
as if it were no business of theirs, and they never think in terms of positive intervention.
The problem lies in the absence of good leadership,
as a result of which, no-one takes responsibility or uses his initiative.
At the same time, the nation isn't prepared to give up its affluent lifestyle.
Thank you.
Sorry, Kintaro.
You don't even remember his face, do you? You were only three.
You must miss having a father.
I don't need a dad.
Your father's an honest person, a real man.
He doesn't like cheats and he cares about other people.
He really looked after me.
The companies which extended their business into China,
have been withdrawing one after another over the past few years.
The cause of this retreat is the blinkered vision of the companies
who pioneered the opening of the overseas markets.
If we go into Asia in a spirit of self-sacrifice and identify their needs with ours,
the result will be a change of outlook across Asia.
But if the Japanese people don't adapt themselves and live within their means,
the nation will become moribund,
and the economy will stagnate as it loses its competitive edge.
This is our last chance.
We should be embracing a policy of expansion.
The Japanese bureaucracy is lacking
in foresight, imagination and the ability to predict crises.
and has been that way ever since I joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
I sympathize with President Kurokawa, who has the same aspirations as I,
so I resigned as a bureaucrat and joined Yamato Construction.
There is no precedent
for a Japanese construction company to have gone successfully overseas.
But I would like to try forming relationships with other countries in Asia
and to create bonds based on real trust.
Recognizing our responsibilities in Asia is the only way to fulfill our mission in the world,
and to save Japan from economic disaster.
I propose that we forget thinking of ourselves as an exclusive corporate club,
and start employing more people from other countries in Asia as a priority.
Hey! Kintaro!
Huh! I keep calling him even though he's not here.
I know what you mean, Tanaka. And you work in the same section.
So, has he gone home with Ryu?
Yeah, I heard it's the anniversary of his mother's death.
He's visiting her grave then.
I haven't done it for a long time.
What? Is your mother...?
No, it's my grandfather. It's been ten years.
I heard Kintaro's mother was dead, but what about his father?
We're this close to him, but we don't know anything about his family.
He has an aura of being unapproachable about certain things.
Don't you think he seems to be sad sometimes?
Because of his childhood?
Possibly.
But he's a real man, who stays true to himself.
Great, wasn't it, papa? Those summer lemons we saw from the train.
Yeah, I'll get some for you later.
Here!
It's rough!
Aren't we at granny's yet?
Nearly there.
- Are you tired? - No, I'm fine.
Papa! It's the sea! I can see the sea!
Nice place, isn't it?
That's the sea I used to swim in every day when I was a child.
There it is. That's where granny sleeps.
There are lots of stones, papa.
Is granny sleeping in here?
Father?
Kintaro?
Yeah.
When did you come out?
Five years ago.
Your father always looked after me.
There have always been new flowers on her grave for the past five years.
It was you.
This is your grandson.
Do you want to hold him?
I don't deserve to hold him.
I'm a father myself now. I don't mind anymore.
I've become a salaryman. I work for Yamato Construction.
I see.
Are you still hanging about with the yakuza?
No, but I'll always be a bit of a drifter.
Come and see us anytime.
Whenever you want to hold your grandson...any time.
My goodness!
Has Ryu got this big?
Aren't you saying hello to aunty, Ryu?
Hello.
Ah, good boy.
Thank you for coming every year, Kintaro.
Hello, uncle.
Are you going to visit her grave now?
No, I've already done it.
Was there anyone there?
Yes.
I see.
I was expecting you to come across him one day.
It seems like my father has been here every year for the past five years.
Probably.
Though I only saw him twice.
We're not going to do anything to you two. Don't move!
H...hey! What?
Do it, Kanzaki?
Yes. Yes.
D...don't ! P...please.
Don't !
What was the noise?
Asshole! Couldn't you see he was a barber!
B...bro! I...l...
Our baby will be born soon.
This is totally screwed. I'll be inside for twenty years at least.
Go!
Just go!
I'm sorry.
It was twenty five years ago that your father wandered into this place.
He met your mother in a cafe in town.
She was my darling sister.
I strongly objected to it.
She was being manipulated by the yakuza.
But you were born.
You were three, same age as Ryuta now, when your father went to prison.
Now the gang is broken up.
Mitsuko clearly said to me,
that she was going to wait for your father to come out and be with you,
no matter how many years it would take.
Mum never said anything bad about father.
She only said he was a good father and treated her well.
She never complained that she was in pain or having a hard time before she died.
She nodded when I talked to her and then she died with a smile.
Though I was a child, I learned from her the lesson of how to die.
I'm very proud that I was born into the world as her child.
It's still branded on my eyeballs.
How beautiful she looked in death.
That's true.
She looked so peaceful in death after having such a hard time.
I always thought mum was beautiful,
but I think at that point, her face was exceptionally so.
Can I eat that, papa?
Don't be silly.
Eat as much as you like.
Yes.
You're young but you've been present at many people's deathbeds.
I won't die.
For his sake.
Yummy, papa!
We'll send you lots.
Yes. Thank you.
Bye-bye lemon! See you again!
Uncle and aunt, thank you for everything.
Don't worry. I'll look after your mother's grave.
He ought to stay here. He shouldn't be afraid of bothering us.
Why does he go to night school in Tokyo?
He was accepted by the best high-school in this prefecture without studying much.
Hey, don't cry!
It's time for leave-taking.
Kintaro wants to leave this place, full as it is of his mother's memories.
Kintaro!
- Kin-chan! - Kin-chan!
- Good luck! - Take care!
- Good luck!
I'll come back once a year.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
- You bastard! - Bastard!
- Excellent! - Bastard!
Hey, Yajima!
You're Kintaro from the mechanical engineering course, aren't you?
You're Ohkawa from the third year. Are these...?
Yeah, they're my soldiers.
Are you in a motorcycle gang?
Yeah.
It's Hasshu League of Kanto, it's small but I'm the founder.
We got no time for the rules, man.
Won't you run with us?
It helps to prove that you're alive.
I'm Yajima Kintaro, the Vice President from today.
No women! No sniffing glue!
Fighting is fine!
The motto is 'No Surrender'! Let's go!
Father, I'm beginning to think that your blood runs in my veins, too.
YAMATO CONSTRUCTION
Good morning.
Kin-chan!
Oh! Kintaro!
Welcome back!
Our bid for the Ushikiya Urayasu branch of Superstore was accepted.
We've already started the construction.
We've also signed a contract to build the Matsugaoka branch.
Really?
The President of Ushikiya was really pleased with Maeda's plan.
And you did a fantastic job overseeing that tunnel, so congratulations.
Thank you, Mr. Maeda.
Come on, Kintaro, you've got a mountain of work waiting for you.
Right.
You must be Yajima Kintaro.
He's Takatsukasa Seiji, he joined the company while you were at the building site.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
I've heard about you.
I don't worry about people's educational or social backgrounds.
Although they're important elements in the make-up of a human being.
People who rely on their position to avoid the truth about themselves are losers.
You can even call them evil.
You think so?
Yes.
I wanted to have you in my team but for some reason, the President refused.
I was looking forward to seeing you.
Right.
First, I wasn't sure that someone like you really existed.
A lot of entrepreneurs worked their way up, just like you.
But you're very rare as a member of an organization.
I don't really know myself.
I recognize you as my rival.
Oh.
And you two are...?
We represent the General Research Department,
set up today on the President's specific instructions.
We were appointed members under the Takatsukasa's Department Chief's supervision.
Our jobs are different but let's see if we can work together as a team.
Kin-chan, the gangster.
I'm pleased to meet you.
Oh, that's him, isn't it?
Yeah, he's the star the President headhunted as his successor.
He's someone to keep an eye on. I'll destroy him sooner or later.
After climbing up a long road,
The lights of the city flicker in the distance.
I realize why I look up at the sky,
And the dream I had that day comes into my mind.
I've kept searching for what never changes, And I've reached my goal at last.
It's you, in my arms, That will change everything in heaven.
We'll start walking together, Our long way journey to heaven.
As long as it's true that we're together again, I don't need anything else in heaven.