Ooh!
Good morning.
You must be doctor Minetaro Kishi.
Yes.
We're the receptionists at Beauty Surgery Clinic. I'm Sato and this is Taguchi. It's nice to meet you.
It's nice to meet you too.
Sensei, there's parking in the basement, but it's not free. You might want to put your bicycle there.
Not if it costs.
OK ... Alright, this way please.
Today's A lunch is ... steamed sea bream.
And B's grilled mackerel.
- Oh! It's Moe-chan! - Really! Where!?
Here.
- Hey! Hey! The new doctor's here! - What's he like?
Uh, kinda like this ...
- Huh? - Like ... uh, how can I put it ... ?
I sure hope he's not some ugly university doctor who's all stuck up.
- Moe-chan, is this from the day you took off for a modeling shoot? - Yes!
- Isn't it kind of small? - I don't really think so.
If you want to become a famous amateur model you need to make your face spectacular. Have epicanthoplasty and get a sharper nose.
- I'll work on it. - You've gotta make sacrifices to succeed.
- At least you've got nice looks from the start, Moe-chan. - I'll keep working at it. Bye.
She's pretty cute in this, though.
Here he comes! Here he comes!
This is the staff lounge.
- It's Mine sensei! - Huh?
My name's Kishi.
I'm Hoshida, one of the doctors.
- My name's Nakao. I'm a nurse. - I'm Kishitani, another nurse.
Nice to meet you.
- It's kind of a pain since there's a Kishi and a Kishitani ... So you're Mine sensei. Thanks! - What!?
You can put your bag back there. Ao-chan, you take over from here.
- Sure thing! - Good-bye.
I'm Minetaro Kishi.
It's nice to meet you.
- Would you like some coffee? - No, thanks.
Hoshida sensei, if Mine sensei fixed his face from here down, he'd be really handsome, don't you think?
- If he trimmed his jaw-bone down a little ... - That's rude. He just got here.
But, if you'd like to, we'll gladly do it.
I've had my eyelids cut to make my eyes bigger. I've also got nose and chin implants, and the corners of my mouth turned up.
Bet you can't tell, can you?
We get our patients because our clinic allows them to shape their own lives as well as their own looks.
OK, Mine sensei. I'll show you around.
My name's ...
Kishi.
This is the head doctor's private examination room! The inchou is a breast reconstruction specialist.
- And this chair ... ? - She examines the patients while they're sitting.
If they're lying down, their breasts slide off to the side.
Fifty-five thousand yen a night!
This is the ladies restroom and makeup area.
The changing room in the staff lounge is women-only. So you'll have to change here in the men's restroom.
So, what's your specialty, sensei?
Eyes? Nose? Facelifts?
I have no cosmetic surgery experience.
- You are a plastic surgeon, aren't you? - Yes, I am.
At the university hospital, we repair congenital malformations or ... do post-traumatic face and limb reconstruction or ...
Skin replacement for people with burns or after skin cancer surgery. My work was to repair things back to normal.
I have never once operated on anyone that was perfectly healthy.
Then why did you decide to work here?
BSC is a full-on cosmetic surgery clinic.
- Good morning. - Morning.
Good morning.
- Oh, yes. You start today. - Yes.
Come with me.
The environment here is a lot different than the university hospital plastic surgery department. You'll have to get used to it.
Yes, ma'am.
Even if you're eventually returning to the university, you won't be wasting your time here because you'll be learning BSC's most advanced techniques. They'll be useful there.
I understand.
Sensei ...
Look ...
I have no desire to have chin reduction done.
Come in.
Excuse me.
This is doctor Minetaro Kishi.
It's nice to meet you.
I'm Ichii. Nice to meet you too.
I want you to learn about meeting with patients and surgery procedures with Ichii sensei.
I look forward to working with you.
I've spoken only to Ichii sensei about why you've come to work here.
Excuse me?
OK ... Please wait in the staff lounge.
Yes, ma'am.
Good-bye.
My professor from Towa University Hospital asked me to help him out, so I couldn't refuse.
It's your decision as head doctor, so it's not my place to raise objections.
He doesn't have any cosmetic surgery experience ...
And he's only ever worked at the university hospital, so it might not be easy to get him to fit in here ...
But he must be pretty talented if he got his plastic surgeon qualification at age 32.
I'll train him up so he's a benefit to our team.
Beautiful! You're the greatest, Mu-chan!
Mine sensei.
Yes?
The next one is a regular customer.
A regular customer ... ?
She had epicanthoplasty done last week.
Today we're removing her stitches.
Good morning.
Sensei! The swelling won't go down at all this time!
Is it going to be OK?
It'll go down after we remove your stitches.
And my eyes don't seem any bigger either.
By next week they'll be open so wide, people won't know who you are. Don't you worry.
Maybe I should have had them made even bigger.
Can you hold this mirror for a moment?
Look straight on.
If your epicanthal folds were cut any more than this ... this pink part here would start showing, and you'd look frightening.
You're right. That's scary.
You see a lot of people like that on TV, right?
And this roundness of the eyes is a beauty that's unique to Japanese.
They're perfect the way they are now, Tamaru-sama.
You think so?
OK, I'll remove your stitches now.
- Please lie down over here. - OK.
- Please place this on your legs. - OK.
Oh! Sensei!
Do you think I should have made my nose sharper too?
- I wonder if I should have had it done with my eyes! - Once your eyes have healed, we can talk about your nose.
Alright ...
The light's bright, so close your eyes, please.
OK.
I wish you had something like a discount for regular customers or a point system.
I'll tell the head doctor about your idea.
- Do you have a price list for noses? - Yes.
Here you are.
What's the difference in prices?
Having just a Gore-Tex implant costs 680,000 yen.
Removing cartilage from your ear to implant in your nose costs 850,000 yen.
I'm going to rub here a little now.
Does that hurt?
What size cup would you like your breasts to be?
I'd like to be at least C-cup or D-cup.
Then let's do a silicone implant and move your nipples and areolas higher.
Hello. Beauty Surgery Clinic. Can I help you?
You must be Jojima-sama. We've been expecting you.
Could you fill this out please?
Please have a seat on the sofa over there.
It's the first time for this next patient ...
But I'd like you to take care of it.
Sure.
[Karen Jojima, university student]
- The patient is here. - Come in.
This is Karen Jojima. This way.
Have a seat.
Please.
Good morning.
I see you'd like to have a mole removed.
May I touch it?
Excuse me again for a moment.
Small moles can be removed with a laser ...
But ones this large are better if they're cut out because it leaves less of a scar.
[6mm mole]
A local anesthetic is used for the procedure, and the mole is removed with a scalpel.
The incision is then carefully sewn together, but it will still leave a scar.
Is that alright?
As for me personally, like Budda's own mole, there's no need to scar a perfectly healthy body to remove it.
It's alright. We can remove it, Jojima-san.
- Bring the mole pamphlet. - Yes, ma'am.
Also, this may not be any of my business, but ... national health insurance will pay for removal if it's malignant.
- At this clinic you have to pay for everything yourself. It'll cost a lot. - I don't care if it does!
I see.
Then today we'll give you a blood test, and the day for the surgery will be ...
Huh?
Can't you ...
Do it today?
We can't perform the procedure until we test your blood to make sure you don't have any illnesses.
D... Do it as soon as possible.
I don't care ...
How much it costs.
I understand, but ...
Please, sensei!
Do it today ...
We'll do it as soon as we get the blood test results back.
You won't do it ...
You're cruel ...
If you won't do it ...
I'll kill myself!
What!?
Just forget it!
Wait! Come back!
Go to a university hospital. I'll write you a referral.
At a university hospital, something as simple as a mole can be removed for a fraction of the cost.
"As simple ... as a mole" ... ?
No, I mean ...
Hey!
- Removal of stitches is a week later. - OK. Thanks.
That girl ... she'll be back.
- People who say "I'm gonna kill myself" never actually do. - How dare you say that!
If I'm saying it, then it must be true.
Mine sensei.
Yes?
People like that want to have their mole removed because they want to face life with a more positive outlook.
Everybody dies. We're all the same in that.
But while we're alive, each person has their own individual life to lead.
It's our responsibility to provide the most advanced medical techniques to improve their motivation to live their lives.
I understand that.
Oh, you do?
Then I've got one more thing to say.
Unlike insurance supported care, results here are a based solely on the value of the service.
Breast implant surgery performed by the inchou costs 1,500,000 yen, but that's not because it costs a lot ...
But because its value is greater than any other place can offer.
If you intend on working here ... don't you ever say such immature foolishness again.
Ichii sensei. The operating room is ready.
OK.
Let's go.
Huh?
There's no time for staring off into space at this clinic!
Ohh! I'm so hungry!
- Let's eat! - Let's eat!
Just being able to have Tama-chan's lunch is enough to make you glad you came here. Don't you agree, Mine sensei?
- Yeah ... - Don't you like fish?
No, it's very good.
Doi-san's lunches are from 500 to 600 calories.
So there's not a single fat person at our clinic.
I lost three kilos after I joined BSC.
And my skin is much clearer now.
Mine sensei, didn't you think Ichii sensei's surgery was fast?
- Yeah. - I want to be like Ichii sensei someday.
Not only is she a famous plastic surgeon ... but her husband's a wonderful neurosurgery professor, and she has a cute son.
We almost never have night duty, and no on-call duty, so you can be like her too, Hoshida sensei.
- But I just never have the chance to meet guys ... - You met one today, didn't you?
- This looks delicious! - Enjoy!
Mine sensei, I want you to watch my breast implant surgery this afternoon.
Yes, ma'am.
Ohh! I'm starving!
Hi!
You're the newbie!
That's Muramatsu sensei, the anesthesiologist.
- Here you go. - Thanks. Is this sea bream?
- It's grilled mackerel. - It looks so good!
I'm Kishi. It's nice to meet you.
Same here.
What'd you hire a male doctor for?
There are a lot more male patients lately.
I just don't know what we'll do if we make any more money than we already are!
This is delicious!
What's your name again?
You know, if you trimmed your chin down a little here, you could be really handsome.
I bet you're thinking, "How could somebody with a face like yours say that?"
No.
Muramatsu sensei, Mine sensei is the type that believes that we should treat the face our parents gave us with respect.
Really!? He'll never fit in at BSC!
You should tell them what you think. We're all friends here, after all.
OK.
You may have gotten your face from your parents ... but your face is, after all, your own face.
Mine sensei, tell me ...
What is beauty to you?
How about you, Ichii sensei?
The golden ratio of 1 to 1.6.
Throughout history, the 1 to 1.6 ratio has never failed in regards to what's considered beautiful.
No matter the face, when it's adjusted to a 1 to 1.6 width vs. height ratio using computer graphics, it becomes better looking. Did you know that?
What is beauty to you, Hoshida sensei?
Let me see ...
Having a purpose in life and pursuing it with all your might.
But in order to do so, you have to have confidence in your work and in your looks.
Mine sensei, I bet you think that us cosmetic surgeons are out of touch with real life.
But you're wrong.
Changing the face is exactly the same as changing life.
That's because your face is your life.
- Today's lunch is like a lecture. - Well, I'm sorry!
It's not your fault, Incho!
- It's cause you're looking so damn serious! - What!?
- A real guy would tell a funny story and make us all laugh. - That's right!
Tell us a funny story.
Give us a funny story!
Oh, come on! ... Fine, then just eat and cheer up, would you!
Tama-chan, give me seconds.
- OK. - Me too.
[How's the new clinic? Hope it's going well. Yu]
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office
[It sucks!]
- Kurosaki-san. - Yes?
- Takimoto-san from maintenance called. - OK, thanks.
It's become quite a fine aquiline nose.
- I think this almost exactly what the patient wished for. - Thank you.
- OK, we'll begin suturing now. - Ichii sensei. The liposuction patient is waiting.
OK, I'll be there in a moment.
There's a lump here too.
- Incho, the breast implant prep is ready. - Alright.
- Mine sensei, did you ever do a breast implant at the university hospital? - No, I didn't.
- I assisted in breast reconstruction for a breast cancer survivor. - OK, then what do you think is the ideal shape for breasts?
Huh!?
I've never given it thought.
Listen up. Breasts are the symbol of femininity. Even though the big-breast boom is over, the number of breast implants is as great as ever.
Plus, thanks to high-quality silicone implants, we can get as close to the patient's desired shape as is possible.
Of course the surgeon's skill plays a big part.
Sorry I kept you waiting.
- She's under nicely. - OK.
OK, let's begin.
Anesthetic.
I'm injecting the anesthesia now.
- That reminds me, has the mold for Koizumi-san's face arrived? - It arrived this morning.
OK, after this prepare the bone cement.
- We'll pack it full of it to build her a northern European style face. - Yes, ma'am.
- I'm removing it now. - I've got it.
How is it?
- I think it's perfect. - There's not quite enough separation on the underside.
I'm going to do it again.
Change with me.
Yes, ma'am.
- OK, you can finish up. - OK.
There's no creativity in suturing, so I hate it.
Mine sensei.
Incho stakes her reputation on creating beautiful breasts.
She's like an artist.
- This one's an express request. - OK, I'll take care of it.
I saw your photo in JULIET, Moe-chan!
Thanks!
Oh, wait! Wait! Aren't you throwing a welcome party for the new doctor?
I can organize it!
- I don't think he'll be around for long. - Oh, really? Hey, that's really cute.
I don't care if he quits. The selling point of this clinic was that it was all women.
Hey, Aya-chan. Let's go have some fun drinking tonight!
Mine-chan, you're pretty good. Your suturing is very precise.
- Thank you. - Admirable. Very admirable.
"Mine-chan" ... ?
Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Tomisaka from the blood testing company, Mediate.
Hi.
Sensei, it must be great working at a clinic full of beautiful ladies.
Why are you looking at that for so long?
No reason.
Good night.
You know, Ichii sensei always rolls her shoulder when she leaves in the evening.
Didn't you see her do it just now?
I guess she has stiff shoulders. I wish I could make her feel better. That Ichii sensei's a real beauty.
- Don't you agree? - No, I don't.
Night!
Good night.
This guy's like a detective. Better be careful around him.
- Good bye. - Yeah.
I wonder why Muramatsu sensei doesn't get a facelift.
Are you angry?
- Good night. - Good night.
- Hoshida sensei! Ao-chan! I found a Kyoto Obanzai restaurant in Ebisu. Wanna go?
- You can join us too, Mine sensei! - No thank you.
And my name's Kishi!
Huh?
What the ... ?
- Welcome home! - Woah!
- Your message this afternoon got me worried, so I came home. - You gotta be kidding me!
- You're being paid with Tokyo citizens' taxes! - I've done nothing to betray the citizens' trust.
I'm always doing three times the average worker, so today won't hurt anything.
I'm so tired!
You know you're my reason for living, Mineta.
And you're my only ally, Yu.
Two times six is ... ?
I'm home!
Welcome home!
- Today Ta-chan was able to do a back hip circle. It was amazing! - Really!?
When I asked him what he wanted to eat to celebrate, he said he wanted menchi katsu.
So tonight we're having menchi katsu.
Grandma's special menchi katsu. I'll fry them up now.
- I'll help you. - No, it's alright. You go change.
But ...
I'm home.
- Welcome home, Daddy. - Hi, son.
- Welcome home. - Thanks.
When he comes home early sometimes like this, it makes you think he's having an affair, doesn't it, Mutsumi-san?
The professors' dinner was cancelled.
- Here, Mom. I bought that detergent. - Thank you.
- They didn't have the usual. - That's alright.
You should have asked me to do that, okaa-sama.
That's alright. You're tired from work.
I don't mind doing it. I'm gonna go change.
- Everyone there's had a facelift, except for the anesthesiologist. Everyone! - Really ...
- Isn't that incredible!? All of 'em! They say they're like samples for the patients. - Yes!
- The face isn't the person! Their heart is! - Yes! I did it!
- Are you listening? - Yeah. I'm listening.
Half the patients are regulars.
A new patient wanted a mole removed that doesn't need to be ... Then starts saying she'll kill herself if we don't ...
That clinic is making money hand over fist!
- Don't you think it's crazy to cut up a body that's perfectly able and healthy? - But you expected that, didn't you?
- That place goes way beyond my expectations. - But if you don't work there, you can't pay off your debts.
- I know that. - Then deal with it.
Look! I understand all that. That's why I decided to sell my soul to them for the next three years.
But ...
When they say I ought to have my chin fixed, I can't deal with it. I'm happy with my face!
- I like it too. - See!
I won't last three years. ... I'll lose my mind.
I'll be there for you.
Ever since junior high, the whole reason I'm here is to help you out, Mineta.
Here.
Thanks.
- You really have been a big help to me. - You're welcome.
Since I'm living free of charge here, I think it's best we talk about this.
Yeah?
- My debt payment schedule. - Don't worry about that.
It's important!
Annual salary at BSC is 18 million yen ... so my monthly gross is 1.1 million.
So each month I'll give you 50,000. Sorry it's not much. I'll also put aside 50,000 for various expenses ...
And pay back 1 million a month.
That way I can pay off the debt plus interest in three years.
- That's sounds pretty impossible. - I can do it!
You said I could live here, so I'll do it for sure.
- You know you can stay here forever if you like. - No. I'll pay it all back in three years.
Then I'll go back to the university.
So ...
Until then, please let me stay here.
I really appreciate it.
It was so nice when it was just women at the clinic.
But then that long-faced guy comes in and acts all haughty, looking down on us nurses.
It sucks!
- Well, maybe he was just being defensive since it was his first day. - Who gives?
Mine sensei was from Towa Medical University, right?
Uh-huh.
Incho and Professor Inoue at Towa were in the same class.
So, what about it?
I'm just saying.
C'mon, let's go somewhere.
- Sure. Another bar? - Well, maybe ...
How about a hotel?
- Good idea! - Yes!
Let's goooo! - Yeah! Let's goooo!
Who's this?
Hello?
It's your father.
What do you want?
I was just wondering how the new job was.
The pay's good.
I really do ... feel bad about making my own son take on my debt. ... I mean it.
Hey, where are you now?
Huh? Oh ... Sanami's bar.
If you really feel that bad about it, then why are you calling from your lover's bar!?
Hang in there and do your best.
Oh, and say hello to Kurosaki-kun for me.
What did I ever do to deserve this ... ?
- Sorry. - It's OK.
Bone that's been ground down can't be replaced. And we can't return your eyelids back to being single-fold after double-fold surgery.
But, sensei ...
My husband will divorce me if I can't go back to the way I was.
What is it that your husband doesn't like? You've become so pretty now.
It's exactly because I've become pretty now ...
He thinks I'm going to have an affair.
But ... he always told you that you looked old, and didn't like looking at you any more. That's why you wanted this surgery, right?
That's right, but ... Now that I look younger, he's become so worried.
Men are so selfish.
Can't you ... do something to make me look awful like I did before?
I'll say it again, but we can't do that.
There's not a plastic surgeon in the world that can do that.
What will I do!?
Kawahara-san ...
If you bring your husband in ... I can explain to him ... that we can't return you back to the way you looked before.
He's waiting outside now ...
But ...
He won't come up here.
- Then ... how about if he goes out to explain to him? - What!?
Over there ... Thank you ...
Dear!
I knew it! You've got a younger man!
No, he's no such thing.
You made him go alone?
The consultation was just going around in circles anyway.
- For thick-headed people like that, it's best to just speak frankly with them. - I hope you're right ...
- Ichii sensei, your patient's in examination room two. - OK.
Sensei ...
If your girlfriend or wife got plastic surgery and became all pretty ...
Would you be happy?
No, I wouldn't.
See! I'm right!
Then why did you keep calling me an ugly old woman over and over again?
You said "I don't wanna look at your face!"
You were living alone where your company transferred you and never came back for so long!
This surgery took months to complete.
You see, sensei ...
I planned to grow old and die with this ugly old woman.
But I called her that from the bottom of my heart.
I knew I could live away from her for a long time and not worry about her having an affair.
I understand how you feel ...
But your wife's face cannot be returned to the way it was before.
This woman isn't my wife!
But ...
But her heart hasn't changed. It's the same as before.
She's the same wife you had before.
- The looks make the person! - What!?
If a person's looks change, it's the same as their heart changing.
I wouldn't agree with that. Don't you think that what's in a person's heart is most important?
My heart's saying, "I don't want to split up with you!"
- I don't want a wife with a face like that. - A face isn't just some kind of object!
You plastic surgeons treat faces like objects, right!?
That's why you can go changing them around without feeling any guilt!
I don't understand it ...
How can you be called doctors!?
You've twisted my wife into this ...
You call this medicine!?
I understand how you feel, but ...
Our kind of treatment ...
Is to improve the patient's motivation to live.
Everybody dies.
We're all the same in that.
But while we're alive, each person has their own individual life to lead.
We believe that we perform plastic surgery in order to improve those lives.
You've decreased my motivation ...
Your wife got the surgery for you, her husband.
- Can't you ... find a way to understand her feelings? - How can I possibly understand them!?
Then ... why don't you get a facelift too?
Hey!
Is this some kind of sales pitch?
Huh?
How dare you! You money grubbers!
I'm sorry.
I'm really not even sure myself why I said such a thing.
There's no reason to apologize.
That's right.
Your decision, Mine sensei ... is in line with BSC policy.
It's the first time you've been useful.
I don't want anything bad written about us on the Internet, but I doubt that husband will do such a thing.
Let's just call this issue settled.
Shall we go to lunch? What's on the menu today?
- It's ratatouille curry. - Ratatouille curry!
Excuse me ...
I believe that ...
Hana Kawahara san's surgery shouldn't have been performed in the first place.
What?
If we hadn't performed that facelift, then even though things may not have been perfect, they could have gotten along and grown old together.
This is what happens when ... with surgery we so easily wipe away everything accumulated over a long life.
A change in a patient's identity due to plastic surgery is an important issue, so we always advise them carefully on this.
But to meddle in the affairs of the patient's partner is overstepping our authority.
In addition, for all surgeries, naturally the first thing we explain is that their face cannot be returned to the way it was before.
Anything that happens after that is their own responsibility.
- But they could get divorced ... - That's none of our concern!
Shall we go?
If we perform blepharoplasty on you ...
You'll look like this.
That's nice.
You'll be so handsome, dear!
With the other procedures I recommend ...
Rhinoplasty to reduce nose width ... alar reduction ...
Jaw reduction ...
Lower eyelid blepharoplasty ...
You should come out looking like this.
Well ... I certainly won't feel jealous any more.
I'll be the one feeling jealous of you!
Sensei ...
- If you would please. - Certainly.
Kawahara-sama, Ichii sensei is one of the five best plastic surgeons in Tokyo.
She's amazing, and still so young!
I put myself in your hands.
I'll do my best.
How long do you plan on moping around.
Snap out of it, would you!
Yes, ma'am.
- Ichii sensei, after his eyes, we'll be doing his jaw and then finally his nose, right? - Right.
- After you've finished anesthetizing him, take care of cleaning his teeth. - Certainly.
- Haru sensei. Can we begin? - Yes, he's ready.
OK, I'm going to inject you now.
- Mine sensei. - Yes?
Be careful with his lips.
Gently with the muscle hook ...
Pull it away firmly.
Excuse me! Can I have some help here?
- You can go assist her. - Yes, ma'am.
OK, let's move her.
- OK! - Ready ... lift!
Harder.
Yes, ma'am.
If you don't strike it at least this hard, you'll never cut the bone.
You must be sensitive to the feeling in your fingers, and get a good picture in your mind of where the chisel is placed.
Yes, ma'am.
Excuse me.
Kawahara-san ... How are you feeling?
Are you in pain?
I'm just fine. ... I'm so elated, I don't feel any pain at all.
I see.
Once I've recovered, I just might have liposuction done as well.
You've learned a lot about this, haven't you, Kawahara-san.
You know what?
I think I am going to divorce my wife.
I still haven't seen my new face ...
But after having this surgery, I feel like starting a new life!
You're kidding ...
Who know's what life holds!
That's what makes life so interesting! Right?
- But ... - I'm so glad I met you, sensei.
Thank you so much.
What did you expect? That's the way people are.
Sensei ...
I guess you lived a really sheltered life, didn't you?
Arrrgh! I can't understand this!
What's going to happen to his wife now?
It'll turn out OK. I mean, I turned out OK, didn't I?
Mine sensei, there's a patient for you.
Huh?
Quit just sitting there.
She's in examination room one.
Your mother?
I don't remember anything about her.
She left when I was only two.
I wonder if I keep looking at this ... because she's so beautiful.
Doesn't matter what she looks like. You mother is your mother.
Yeah, you're right ...
C'mon, Mineta ...
Quit worrying so much, would you?
Everyone's living their lives to the fullest.
Your father ... your mother, everyone at the clinic.
People can't live without loving or being loved, right?
Whether it's with a man or a woman ... that kind of love I can do without.
What a lonely life you'll lead.
Hey! Don't preach to me!
- I have lived my life loving people. - I know you have.
And I've loved my patients.
Abandoned by my mom ... then by my father, and forced to take on his debt ...
I'm only working at that clinic to make money.
But what have I done in my life to deserve all this.
- Maybe it's bad karma from a previous life. - Quit talking like some kind of spiritualist!
Hey, you wanna go to a factory this weekend?
- BSC doesn't ever close all year long. No holidays. - Really?
Patients want their treatments done on holidays, so it's impossible to get weekends off.
No wonder the pay's so good.
This way please.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Good to see you.
- Sorry, but I've come again. - Oh, no ... no problem.
Please!
I really do ...
Want it removed ...
Like I told you the other day ...
Without a blood test, we can't go ahead with the surgery.
Will you take a blood test, then? The surgery will still be a week away ...
- Nakao-san. - Yes, sir.
OK, I'm going to draw some blood, so please put out your left arm.
OK, I'm going to tighten this.
I was going to go ...
To another clinic ... but ...
Thank you for coming back here.
OK, make a fist please.
I've researched this for years ...
And I felt this place ... was the best.
It makes you proud, doesn't it, Mine sensei.
- Yes, it does. - This will hurt a little.
Last time, sensei ...
You told me you'd refer me to a hospital that ...
Accepts national health insurance.
I'm sorry. ... It was none of my business to say that.
That made me think you were ... a kind doctor.
So, I decided ...
That I want you to do this.
OK, hold this in place.
OK, first I'll mark the cuts.
OK, I'm going to inject the anesthesia. It will hurt a little, but you'll be fine.
He's going to inject again.
Has it started to become numb?
Yes.
One more time.
OK, I'm going to begin now.
Bipolar electrocautery.
- You were scouted in Shibuya when you were in high school, right? - I've forgotten.
What're you acting like that for, dummy?
- Here. - Thanks.
That's because I'm much happier now.
- Oh! You've got something stuck to your mouth. - Hn?
- You want me to get it for you? - No, it's OK.
- Really? Does that kind of thing really happen? - Yeah, it does.
Sorry!
What's wrong?
I just can't do it ...
I can't trust women.
- Hana-san, so ... - Call me Hana-chan, OK?
OK, Hana-chan ...
The light will be bright, so close your eyes.
Here.
Sensei ...
Thank you!
I'm ...
So happy ...
Isn't it great?
I always hated that thing.
Because it's like a Buddha's mole ...
My nickname was Buddha ...
I've always wished I could just die.
Mine sensei's so good, it looks perfect.
Thank ...
Thank you so, so much.
Your face is your life.
- Hey! - Yeah?
Do I really look that different with a mole?
Looks nice. Very cute.
OK!
Since I was little, people always told me my eyes were big, so I'd have to say my eyes.
Do you like your face?
Model, age 21
Housewife, age 47
My cheeks, I guess ... I don't really like them so much
Office worker, age 26
I don't like any of it. My mouth doesn't open very wide.
High school student, age 17
I'd like to remove the fat in my cheeks.
Bridal consultant, age 31
My eyes are kind of wide apart and droopy, so people say it's an unusual face. But that's what I really like about it.
Self-employed, age 46
Probably my eyes. I don't know why, but people say they look soft and warm.
Housewife, age 32
Friends with the same kind of round face I don't like say I look charming and wanna be with me so we can make each other feel better. So I've learned to like my face.
Housewife, age 49
- My big forehead. - Can you show us?
It's really pretty.
But still, I'd rather hide it.
University student, age 27
I've grown to like it a lot. Hmmm ... my mole?
Temp worker, age 48
My crooked tooth. I dunno, it's kinda nice.
Voice actress, age 22
I don't think my nose is so bad. And my eyelashes I like to do up too.
University student, age 20
There isn't just one thing that I like in particular. Looking in the mirror, I just think, "Oh, that's me!"
Housewife, age 25
I like that my eyes are very moist.
Stage actress, age 24
My boyfriend says he likes my face, so I'm satisfied with it.
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