A Story of Floating Weeds Page #2

This is terrible.

I'm afraid I've let Shinkichi

ruin his future.

We'll give you this much

for everything.

All right.

It's enough to pay them off.

We've been together

for a long time, Master.

Where will you go, Kichi?

To Ueda.

I have family there.

I'll go back to working

at the butcher's shop.

Get a steady job.

That's the best.

I'm sick of show business.

It's our last night.

Go on, make up with Otaka.

Let's enjoy ourselves

before we break up.

Sing, will you, Otaka?

My troupe's finally disbanded.

No word from Shinkichi yet?

Like father, like son.

So fast with the girls.

I'm finished this time.

I'll fix you a drink.

No sake for me.

Then you won't travel anymore?

You can stay as long as you like.

Shinkichi is old enough to know by now.

He'll understand.

He'll be back sometime or other.

Let's live together like a family.

It isn't good

to be alone all the time.

Let's have a drink.

Thank you for everything.

When did you get back?

Where have you been?

Why act like nothing's happened?

Forgive me, Master.

She apologized.

Why hit her?

You're to blame, too.

Don't you know

your mother worries about you?

What are you doing?

Who do you think he is?

The man you hit just now

is your father.

I have no father like him.

My father was a civil servant.

He's dead.

If my father were alive,

he'd never have abandoned us

for 20 years.

All these years it's just been us.

Right, Mother?

No father could be that selfish.

What if, out of respect for his son,

he couldn't call himself father?

He didn't want you to be

a traveling actor like him.

He wanted you to have

an education and a good job.

That's why he had to lie

and live in Ioneliness.

He's been poor,

but wherever he was,

he always paid for your schooling.

Aren't you sorry for striking

such a considerate father?

I'm sorry.

I didn't know.

My son has been to school.

His words make sense.

I abandoned him,

and now I call myself his father.

It's natural for him to object.

I'll go away again.

Shinkichi has accepted you

in his heart.

I don't want him

to feel awkward because of me.

Let me go as the usual carefree uncle

one last time.

I'll start up in business again.

If I do well, I'll return.

I'll be a great actor

so Shinkichi won't be ashamed of me.

And you can thank me

with a curtain call.

Will you take me with you?

I don't want to leave

without returning your kindness.

I'll work hard.

I'll start a new life.

Did you hear that?

How sweet!

Will you take care of her?

She's a good, gentle girl.

I'm sorry for hitting you.

Help my son become a great man.

Uncle?

Where is Uncle?

You mean Father?

He went on the road again.

Don't try to stop him.

Just be a great man.

That's all he wants.

Since you were born,

he's been coming here

with that one hope in mind.

Where are you going?

Kamisuwa.

And you?

No place in particular.

How about organizing

a new troupe with me?

I don't know if I can pull it off.

One more to Kamisuwa.

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