The Teahouse of the August Moon Page #5

you'd like to ask me. Ask them, Sakini.

Oh, she say, "What time it is?" boss.

Time? It's quarter to 5. Why?

Oh, they got to go then, boss.

They not want to miss sunset.

Every afternoon they like to go sit

in the pine grove and sip tea...

...watch the sun go down.

Isn't that nice. All right, Sakini,

you thank them all for me and tell them...

...they can go to the pine grove and

sip tea and watch the sun go down.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

How do you think we did?

Oh, they cooperate, boss.

Future look very rosy.

I wonder where I can find a cricket.

Well, maybe have cricket

in your house now, not know.

- I'll take these.

- Okay.

- Thanks, Sakini.

- Sure.

- I'll be right here you want me, boss.

- Right.

Yes?

- You busy, boss?

- No. What is it, Sakini?

Boss, Mr. Sumata leave

a present for you.

Put it on the shelf where it

will be out of the way.

Not able to, boss, the present get mad.

What?

- Who's she?

- Souvenir.

What...? What are you talking about?

This the present from Mr. Sumata, boss.

Introducing Lotus Blossom,

geisha girl first-class.

America-san, Captain Fisby.

She say she very happy

to belong to handsome captain.

- She say she gonna serve you well.

- She's not gonna serve me at all.

I want you to get your friend. I want

you to tell him I'm returning his gift.

- Impossible to do, boss.

- Why?

Mr. Sumata go to mountain, visit cousin.

He leave present for you and

wish you very best success in Tobiki.

What? What did she say?

She said she want know where

you want her to stay, boss.

I d... I don't care where she stays,

but she can't stay here.

Where she go, boss?

She got no home now.

- Look... Wait a minute.

- She want to put your kimono on for you.

- She trained to please you.

- I know what she's trained to do.

And I don't need any translation there.

Now, you get my stuff

out of the supply shack...

...and you... You know,

and we'll put her up over there.

Not very democratic, boss.

You make her lose face.

- She think she bad geisha girl.

- I've got a bit of face to save.

Now, don't give me any of that

Oriental hanky-panky business, you know.

All right, what...? What's she saying?

Oh, she say for me

to go home to grandpa, boss.

She first-class geisha girl.

She know her business.

- Good night, boss.

- Sakini?

This is all a big mistake. You kn...

S... Sakini.

- Me.

- Me.

- Me, no.

- Me, no.

No, this is not a kimono.

This is a bathrobe...

...and I don't want to put it on, you see?

Sakini!

This is against regulations.

Hello!

You don't have to shout. I can hear you.

- This is Colonel Purdy.

- Yes, sir.

Just thought I'd check up on you.

How are things going?

Anything I can do for you?

I can't think of a thing, sir.

I realize it's bound to get

lonely for you down there.

So you know

what I'm gonna do, my boy?

- Now, what are you gonna do?

- I'll tell you.

I'm gonna send you some of

my old Adventure magazines.

No, I don't want them.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir, very much.

I would like something to read, sir.

How are you getting

along with the natives?

Well, it's an age-old problem, sir.

It's a question... Or a struggle to see

who's going to lose face.

I understand.

As Mrs. Purdy says, "East is East, and

West is West and there can be no twain."

But you are making progress?

Well, nothing that I'd like

to put on paper, sir.

Well, send in a detailed progress report.

Well, if that's what

you'd like me to do, sir. Yes, sir.

You'll find that these people lack

the capacity for sustained endeavor.

Don't hesitate to build a fire under them.

I don't think that that

will be necessary, sir.

Don't forget, the eyes of

Washington are on you, Fisby.

Oh, I hope not, sir.

It just occurred to me. Have you given

any thought to physical education?

Well, I don't think that...

You know, sir, that was a

masterpiece of timeliness, sir.

Thank you, my boy.

Could you use a deck of cards?

Sir, I...

Hello? Hello?

Fisby, you're getting weak.

No. No.

Well, be good, my boy.

Keep up the good fight.

Bye-bye.

No.

No, wait.

Sakini!

Sakini!

Good morning, good morning, listen...

...do you know where Sakini lives?

Good morning.

Do you know where S...?

Do you know where my chief of police...?

Do you know...?

Do you know where my chief

of police is? My chief of agricul...

Sakini!

Oh, boss. Say, where you been?

Been looking all over for you.

Where have you been?

Now, where's my chief of agriculture?

There's not a man

working this morning, Sakini.

Look around for yourself. Not a man...

Wait a second, boss. Lotus Blossom

leave all her things at Awasi, boss.

She got no way to come here, boss,

so everyone take a wheelbarrow...

...and go help bring Lotus Blossom.

Do you mean to tell me that she has

so much stuff, it takes my entire staff...

...to move this woman...?

This girl to my village?

No, boss, but chief of police

not trust chief of agriculture...

- No.

...and Mr. Mayor not trust Mr. Oshira...

...so all got to go, boss.

- Oh, I see.

Mr. Oshira? That old man?

He old, boss, but he not dead.

Well, that's a fine way for a... That's a

great way for officials to act. That's...

As soon as they get back,

I want to see them.

Okay, boss.

- What's going on?

- I don't know, boss.

- What's the trouble?

- Don't know, boss.

You know what they say?

They say they got

discrimination here, boss.

Discrimination? Where? Where?

Boss. Hey, boss, she gonna tell.

- Lookit...

- She gonna show you, boss.

- She gonna show you. They'll wait...

- All right.

They're waiting for the rice, boss.

- Yes?

- At the rice place.

Lotus Blossom come along.

- That's Lotus Blossom?

- That's Lotus Blossom.

Ration clerk come out there.

All right, all right. Listen... No.

I wish you wouldn't use...

No, boss. She still use it.

She the ration clerk.

He invite her in.

Wait.

Look, wait a minute! Look.

This is what undermines

the democratic ideal.

You tell her that I intend to do

something about it. You tell her.

No. Wait a minute. Wait.

Hold it, hold it, hold it.

Just... Now, wait a minute,

I'm gonna see right now...

...we'll have to get rid

of this disrupting factor...

...in our recovery program.

- McEvoy at Awasi, please.

- What you gonna do, boss?

This village isn't big enough

for plan B and a geisha.

Tobiki never have a geisha girl before.

We like very much.

She's got to go, she's... No.

Major McEvoy?

This is Captain Fisby at Tobiki.

Just a moment.

I have a request, sir, from one of my people

to transfer to your village.

It's... Yes, sir. It's a female citizen, sir.

Her job?

Boss, please, do not make her go.

Not democratic, boss.

Yes, as a matter of fact.

Yes, her name is Lotus Blossom, major.

How did you know?

No, no, sir. No, sir, I am not trying

to put anything over on you, sir.

It's... Major...

Oh, you did?

Oh, you did?

Oh, he know Lotus Blossom, boss?

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