Kabei: Our Mother Page #4

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Take a rest.

Just a bit more.

Hot, ain't it!

Are you all right?

Yeah.

The police picked you up?

They sure did!

'Next time we throw

you in jail,' they said.

Anyway, I wasn't charged.

Where was the campaign going on?

Shinjuku.

Just east of the station?

Yeah.

Me, too!

They got you, too?

Yes!

This nasty-looking old

lady came up and said...

'your clothes are a bit too

fancy,' and 'no more lipstick. '

What did you say?

I got mad.

'What's wrong with a girl

trying to look nice?' I said.

I said the same thing!

You two agreeing on

something? That's rare.

Good!

What's wrong with luxury?

Ah, me!

Teru-bei...

What?

If I had money, I'd be good to you.

I'll keep you all in luxury.

What would you buy me?

Cake, and chocolate... tons of it!

Yay!

And for Hatsu-bei?

She's beautiful.

I'd buy her hairpins and

kimonos fit for a princess.

Kayo...

She needs a new dress,

now I think of it.

Yes, it is getting a bit small.

She's really growing up.

Just think, not so long ago

I was putting her in the bath.

She's turning into a woman.

She's quite something from

the side. Breasts, too!

Stop it!

Hatsu-bei?

I'll go.

What's the matter with her?

I just said she was pretty.

You have to watch what you

say. It's a difficult age.

Did I say something wrong?

It was lacking delicacy, to be frank.

Isn't it about time you

told him to go home to Nara?

He simply has no manners!

That's true.

I'll start the rice.

Thank you.

Why do you have him hanging around?

He eats up all our rations...

makes us do his laundry,

and farts all the time!

Why doesn't that bother you?

I understand how you feel.

It's just... how can I put it?

When I see him I relax.

In the teachers' room at school,

or with the Association...

I can't say what I want.

I'm always tense, always telling lies.

But with him I can say anything I want.

To me he's not a bad man at all.

He's a very good man.

But you hate him, don't you.

Yes, I do.

Tonight I'll tell him to go, then.

I'm sorry.

Is she all right?

Yes. Come on.

Uncle seemed a bit sad...

but he took his little

suitcase and went back to Nara.

I'll be on my way.

Yama...

I came to help. Sorry I

ended up being a burden.

Take this and give it to Kayo...

as a token of thanks.

Tell her to sell it and

buy everyone sukiyaki.

But don't donate it.

The government says it

all goes for weapons...

but I don't believe it.

It goes into their

pockets, is what happens.

Tell her she's not to

donate it, no matter what.

All right.

I'll tell her.

Hurray for Keijiro Yokota!

Goodbye.

Serve your country with your life!

Iwao, take care of Mother.

Hatsu-bei...

What?

Take care of Kabei.

What are you going to do in Nara?

Well, I can't be much

use to the country.

I'll go die in the Yoshino

Mountains at cherry-blossom time.

Uncle, I'm sorry I said

those things to you!

That's all right!

Yama, you get along

with Hisako, you hear?

Soon after the war ended, word came

that Uncle had indeed been found...

dead in the mountains of Yoshino.

New Year's came in 1941...

without my father being released.

Shall we begin?

Tobei, Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

We greet the new year in good health.

The times are getting

harder and harder...

but we are determined

to keep our hopes up.

And now, a toast.

Cheers!

Girls...

sing that song Tobei likes.

Good and loud, so he'll hear you.

One, two...

'By the well...

'stands a linden tree.

'In adoration I came...

'and dreamed sweet dreams.

'In its trunk I carved... '

Yama! Sing with us.

Right!

He sounds like Tobei!

That was good!

Sugimoto, the Prosecutor.

Sit down.

I attended your lectures

in second-year university.

The text was Hermann Hesse.

It was a very good course.

You were in the same

class as Yamazaki...

In this situation, I will not use

polite forms of speech. Forgive me.

Your memorandum must be rewritten.

Why?

It cannot be seen as

atonement for your past.

Even the words you use.

For one thing, you refer to

the China Incident as a 'war'...

when it is obviously a 'crusade'.

'Crusade'?

Do you really think...

the China Incident is

a 'crusade', Sugimoto?

How dare you!

Who do you think you're talking to?!

I apologize... 'Prosecutor'.

Do you know what they call

people who think like you?

Traitors, sir!

Traitors!

As the 'China Incident' dragged on

and daily necessities ran short...

my grandfather, the ex-police

chief, came to Tokyo again...

and summoned us to an inn in Yotsuya.

We're going out!

You're here?

Oh, no!

Come this way.

Here.

I've brought the eggs.

They said we can have more

meat if there's not enough.

Can you break your own egg?

Yes.

What a waste!

I'll bring a cloth.

Father, who is that lady?

My new wife.

Why didn't you introduce us?

I was just about to.

Thank you.

You don't see much beef these days.

There. Another egg.

Thank you.

This inn's connected with the

police. You can get anything you want.

I'll do the beef now.

I should have spoken sooner.

I'm his eldest daughter, Kayo.

My father is in your care.

Not at all.

I understand your husband is in prison.

I'm sorry we're so much trouble.

I'm sure you're worried. The

food must be awful in there.

Sure it is!

Soldiers out fighting for the

nation don't even get decent food.

Japan doesn't have the

rice to feed traitors.

Yes, dear.

There you go.

Kayo, did you read my letter?

You resigned as head

of the Community Center?

I couldn't very well

be a public servant...

with my son-in-law in

jail for thought crimes.

Father, I'm sorry.

I wonder if Shigeru

could think about that?

Whose fault is it a little woman

like you has things so hard...

out working, not eating right,

keeping two girls in school?

Spouting those foolish ideas...

and bringing grief to

everyone around him!

How's he going to change the world...

when he can't even look

after his own family?

Isn't that so?

Let them eat, will you?

You keep quiet!

So Kayo...

Shigeru's written a

recantation, hasn't he?

He's written one, but

they threw it back at him.

I saw the Prosecutor today.

I said Shigeru's had

a change of heart...

and sincerely regrets his past mistakes.

Why?

Why does he have to ha

v e a change of heart?

I don't believe that his

ideas are foolish at all.

Can this be?!

My own daughter, professing treason?

Father...

I have never once

regretted marrying Shigeru.

If that's professing

treason, then I'm guilty.

Divorce Shigeru and

come home to Yamaguchi.

No. I will wait until he comes back.

Then cut your throat and

kill yourself here and now.

And I'll do the same!

Go on!

Stop acting like a fool!

The children are here!

Kayo...

forgive him.

Back home they're all talking about

how his son-in-law's a traitor.

It's like your father's

lying on a bed of nails.

I realize that.

Oh?

You understand my position,

yet you continue to defy me?

Then I've made up my mind.

I disown you.

You're no daughter of mine!

Stop it!

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