Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Kindai Eiga Kyokai Production
LIVE TODAY, DIE TOMORROW
YOKOSUKA U.S. NAVY CAMP
We're from Hosoyanagi Junior High School.
I'm Shiozawa from Hirosawa School.
I'm Yanagida from Morigasaki School.
I'm Yamada from Hosoyanagi School.
I'm Onishi, chief of the Fruit Section.
Meet your seniors.
You must be hungry. Have lunch first.
Go ahead.
Listen to Director Nogawa as you eat.
Our Hayase Fruit Parlor is in the midst of
Shibuya, in downtown Tokyo. It's a big, modern building.
On the first floor is our fruit market.
The fruit parlor and tearoom
on the second and third floors are always crowded.
In the restaurant on the fourth floor, we serve European food.
Tokyo is different from your home towns.
Workers from out of town often resign too soon.
Because the supposed intrigue of the city captivates them.
The lunch was good.
I'm glad to work here. It's a big shop.
I made a good choice after all.
The people here look great. I want to be like them.
You seen Mt. lwaki?
Yes.
I climbed it once. There was snow.
Your book? A good student.
I didn't study hard at school. I'll study here.
That's mine.
Mine is beside yours.
Lady customers bring good luck.
True?
True.
Let's eat.
What fruit?
Peach juice for me.
Me, too.
Me, too.
What are you doing?
The noon recess.
Come.
Even if you have money, don't eat or drink in our shop.
You work here. You can't be our customers.
That's definite.
Maybe you don't understand what I mean. But some day you will.
Go to other shops, and you'll be customers.
Very nice. Blue is your color.
Hi.
Come.
Aren't you busy?
That's all right.
Working in a small factory is tough.
I have few holidays.
But the boss is kind.
Have some tea.
I'll be going.
I'll get tea.
What are you doing, Ihara?
We're too busy to take a rest. Don't you see?
No hot water.
I'll be going.
The boss is kind, but not in every way.
I'll deliver this first.
Did you buy the suit?
On credit.
Except underwear.
I want one.
Go to my tailor.
Zengakuren.
How many protesters!
One works with me.
Your night school?
I quit. I sleep at night.
Wait!
What?
Why kick it?
Sorry.
What?
Come.
You a nut?
What do you want?
What's going on?
We're really sorry.
Why are you bothering the customer?
Will you quit?
We don't mind if you quit.
We employed twenty, but we wanted five.
We expected some would quit.
You can quit.
I will.
What will you do?
Find a new job?
Young men are wanted at many shops.
Will you work for another month and quit again?
But you haven't many years to live that way.
If over twenty-five, You'll find no job.
What'll you do then? Go back to your home town?
You had little hope there, so you came here.
You have to work till you die.
If you want to stay here, I'll help you.
Will you stay, or quit?
I'll stay.
All right. I'll take care of you.
Get a grip. Let's drink tea.
I'm sorry for yesterday.
I'm sorry for yesterday.
I'm sorry for yesterday.
He'll be transferred.
He's quitting.
A bar waiter.
Better pay.
I'll get tips too.
The Bar "Acacia".
Come for a drink some day. Goodbye.
He has his way.
What is it?
I like the poster.
Everything in here is beautiful.
You quit?
My mother is ill.
I want to nurse her.
I want to go to high school too.
All right.
Good luck.
Come back here later if you find no place to.
I'll see you off.
Never mind.
I will.
Goodbye.
Let's eat.
Your train?
I'm not going home.
I thought so. Where to?
A foreign country.
What?
Can you go to America?
I'll work on a ship.
I see.
The ship I'll be aboard will sail to Hawaii
then America.
The tropical sea is as blue as the sky.
You can see fish swimming.
I saw a movie. Sharks were swimming.
I'll find a job at a hotel.
I'll write you.
Thanks.
His eldest brother?
He didn't talk, so we couldn't find you.
He told me yesterday.
I'm sorry.
Your job?
Truck driver.
You're his guardian. He'll be placed under your care.
The district court will summon you later.
Come in.
Fool! You can't go abroad.
It's been two weeks.
How long will he stay here?
They said one year.
One year?!
Quiet! He'll wake up.
What can we do?
Let him hear us.
It's his payday. He has money.
Send him away.
I can't.
I'm nervous these days.
He knows everything we do at night.
Sometimes I feel awkward to see him in the morning.
We can't make love to each other.
Will your mother come to Tokyo?
Takao said so.
Hiroko is going to work.
Don't bring her here when she comes.
She'll go to Takao's.
My customer has a dressmaker relative in Nagoya.
She wants Hiroko to help her. But Hiroko is a student.
She agreed to let her go to school.
So Hiroko accepted her invitation.
She bought us two tickets.
You'll be a dressmaker too.
Why doesn't Yoshiro come?
He's busy.
But he should come to see Hiroko.
That's right. He should see how Hiroko has grown up.
I don't want to see him.
What's your job?
A fruit parlor clerk.
No. I got a better job.
Where?
Osaka.
Osaka?
They make automobile parts.
There's a dormitory for the employees.
My friend introduced me to the company.
The name?
An English one.
It says Universal something.
A foreigner runs it. They prepared a room for me.
I'll write you.
When'll you go?
Today.
Take me.
It's not far from Nagoya to Osaka.
Go day after tomorrow.
We could go sooner, huh?
But we thought we'd do the sights in Tokyo.
You could stay here if we had beds.
Shall we borrow some?
They'll be glad to see you sooner.
You're right.
Hiroko, shall we go to Nagoya today?
Yes.
Go with them, Michio.
Let's ride a super-express together.
It'll be fun.
Write to me, Michio.
Take care of yourself.
Keep well.
Osaka's gay street is Dotonbori.
Your name and address.
I could call a nice girl for you.
She works in a bar. She's free after eleven o'clock.
She would drop in if you like.
Shall I call her?
She's nice.
How much?
Six thousand. It's a bargain.
It's a deal.
Pay in advance.
Thanks.
Chonko is her name. She's nice.
Cigarettes?
What brand?
Foreign.
No?
I'll buy it. What brand?
Any foreign one.
Thank you. Upstairs?
I know.
Hello, young man.
Chonko's here.
Hello.
Thanks.
I'll take a bath.
Excuse me.
Hot, isn't it?
Give me a smoke.
Kiss me.
Massaging me?
Are you wearing shorts?
Students often come here.
Let's have fun like them.
Are you a ***?
I want a job.
Any acquaintances?
I live with my brother.
Can you live-in here?
Yes. My brother is going to get married.
Your family register?
I'll have a copy sent.
I'll take a bath.
Go ahead.
He was born in Abashiri, Hokkaido.
There is a prison in the town.
Born in the prison?
He's a good worker anyway.
He's deceiving us.
Sada told me
he went ***.
He looks like a good boy, but you can't tell.
Why quit?
I'll go to school.
I can't study here.
The school?
I've been there.
My academic record?
The teacher said you had to come for it yourself.
Is it true?
I told him you wanted to go to night school.
He wants to see you and talk with you.
I won't see him. You go.
He wants you.
I don't want to go.
Go to his house and get it.
Now?
You know where.
Hurry!
Why quit your company?
I want an education.
Don't go to Tokyo.
Live here with me.
What can I do here?
Peddle fish?
Get going!
Mother.
I have to go to high school.
If I stay here, I'll be an outcast.
I know. I'll get it.
Damn demonstration!
Let's go.
SELF-DEFENSE CORPS
Quit your school?
No use studying. I'll join the Self- Defense Corps.
If there's war, you'll die.
The country teaches me to kill. It'll be fun.
Can you pass the exam?
Of course.
The Self-Defense Corps wants soldiers.
Soon many young people will volunteer.
Now is the time you join the corps.
I've received no notice.
Mr. Michio Yamada?
Rejected.
Why?
I don't know. You're unfit.
We already dispatched the notice.
Why reject me?
I don't know.
Who does?
The Corps is the people's.
I'm one of the people.
Why reject me?
What's wrong with me?
What are you doing?
Speak up.
Watching.
Watching what?
Watching what?
Come!
Series of Murders by a Boy!
Michio Yamada's mother?
Tell me about him.
Don't be afraid.
OKUSHIRI ISLAND, HOKKAIDO
March, 1913. Takeh Yamada was four years old.
Her mother was 26 when she was widowed.
Her fisherman husband went to sea and never returned.
His boss took care of the young widow.
Then she took her daughter to Aomori Prefecture
to get married again.
Hosoyanagi is the land of apples.
When the apple blossoms are in bloom
girls go to work in apple orchards.
Takeh was twenty then.
It was 1929.
Hanjiro Yamada, 21.
A good worker.
A pruner of apple trees.
He came from Akita.
You're helping Hanjiro. That's why he's winning.
What're you saying?
Oh, no!
Hanjiro saw her thigh, so his luck is gone.
Takeh married him despite her parents' objection.
She had to.
Because she was pregnant.
Come in.
You're Mrs. Yamada, aren't you?
He'll explain what has happened.
Take him home.
He's been confined.
For ten days! Gambling!
I was confined for a day, because I lost.
What's the difference?
I paid my debt by this house.
Hanjiro! You've done a terrible thing!
We've lost our house.
What are you going to do?
My late husband would be mad.
Mother!
She died.
In 1933, Takeh went to Hokkaido with her family to work in an apple orchard.
Abashiri, Hokkaido, is bound by snow and ice.
They rented a house from the orchard owner.
Two more children were born, adding to two others.
Time passed.
The dark valley of war came.
1945. THE WAR ENDED.
ABASHIRI POLICE STATION
What did you do? Gambling?
He tried to *** a schoolgirl during the day.
During the war you must have *** many native girls.
This is not a tropical island. Fool!
Do you refuse him in bed?
Sleep with your wife.
The victim's family is respectable. They hate rumors.
We won't publicize this case by prosecuting him.
Pig!
Take him home.
Let's go home.
No!
My dear!
Cold soup isn't good. I'll warm it.
Stop it!
No!
I don't want any more babies.
You make me bear babies, but never raise them.
Michio, I won't have any more babies.
You're the last.
Nothing to burn, Mother.
We're broke. Pick up some at the mountain.
Father isn't home. We must work.
I know how my father feels. Seven people in one room!
It's awful.
It's his responsibility.
He doesn't always gamble.
But he works only when he likes to.
He's a born loafer.
Your father?
I haven't. My parents are dead.
I'm working at my uncle's house.
My mother is a fool. She should get rid of him.
Who?
My dear!
What's the matter? Why don't you come in?
Sake?
Yes. Drink a lot. It'll warm you.
This is your home. You don't have to feel awkward.
Where have you been? Are you fired?
I apologized to the boss.
I'm glad to hear that.
It's cold tonight. You must be cold.
Warm yourself.
He's a night school student.
Michio's grown up.
Michio, meet your father.
Have an operation so you won't get pregnant again.
But babies are God's gifts.
I have to bear them.
I'm from the Municipal Hospital.
He's from the Juvenile Rehabilitation Council.
She's a welfare officer.
Is Yoshiro in?
No.
He left home a month ago.
Frankly speaking, this is his baby.
My son's baby?
Born in our hospital two weeks ago.
Yoshiro's schoolmate is her mother.
She escaped leaving her behind.
Are you sure it's his baby?
Everybody says so.
The woman wrote so too.
You must know where he is.
Tell us.
I don't know.
I think he went to the mainland. I don't know where.
Somebody must take care of this baby. Will you?
Yes, if it's surely my son's baby.
I have to raise her.
Come to the hospital later.
I'll give you the certificate.
We're starving to death. How can you raise the baby?
Yoshiro's baby is our responsibility.
Damn Yoshiro! He did this and ran away.
Look for Father, Hatsuko.
If you can't find him, go to the boss.
Ask him to lend us money.
Come in.
Can I see the boss?
He's out. I'll give you money. Put him down.
Take it.
Thank you.
Obey me.
Sis!
Yoshiro's sister.
Yoshiro has a baby at his age.
He's lucky.
I want to have children too.
Sister. Tell me how.
Let's do what Yoshiro did.
Silence the kid!
Give him cards.
Mother!
What's the matter, Hatsuko?
What happened?
No! No!
Money, Mother. Here's money.
He gave it to me. He gave me!
ALIENISM
It's no use living here like this.
As things are, we'll starve to death.
We'll go to Aomori.
We can afford the fare for two.
I'll take you and two babies.
Babies can ride free.
You leaving us?
I can't help it.
I'll work there and send you money so you can come.
Let's wait till we all can go there together.
We can't wait.
Then, take the little boys. I'll stay.
The rate for children is half.
Who'd take care of the babies?
With them, I couldn't work.
I'll buy food so you can eat for two weeks.
Father will be back.
If I'm gone, he'll stay here to take care of you.
We'll meet again soon. Be obedient to your sisters.
Keep well.
Take me with you!
Michio! We'll meet again!
KYOTO
YASAKA SHRINE
You can't sleep here.
What are you doing? Stop joking.
Outrageous!
I came to collect the rent and found out.
Your sisters?
They gave their little brothers all the food they had.
Go home!
Ten years later
Michio is a junior high school student.
Takeh is fifty-three.
She peddles fish. She goes to Aomori every day.
Her children left home as soon as they left school.
She lives with three children.
Tomiko is a schoolgirl.
Yoshiro's child, Hiroko, is of the same age.
Let's go to school.
After you.
Together.
Let's go.
Let's play.
Okay!
Help me, Hiroko.
What are you doing?
Get out of here!
I always cook and wash alone.
My mother isn't yours.
Get out!
I will!
Go away!
HOLY GROUND ON MT. OSORE
You want to see your husband who left home?
He's been missing for six years.
I and the children... we love him.
Why did he leave home?
It was August 23. He just left home.
What's his name?
Hanjiro Yamada.
It's his voice! My dear!
Come back to me.
Come back, my dear!
My dear!
Why don't you speak? Are you a ghost?
Damn you! Get out!
I'm your father.
No!
Get out!
How dare you come back!
Get out! Or I'll beat you!
Where are you going? Apologize to him.
Let him go.
Mother!
GIFU STATION
Is he your husband?
Looks like him, but he's changed.
Your opinion?
It's my father.
You agree?
My son says it's him, so it's him.
He was found lying in a train.
When he was sent to the hospital he could talk.
That's why he cabled me.
It's over.
Hello, Yamada.
A heavy snow.
Hard work.
Where to?
School.
It's Sunday.
Yes. But we have a special lesson.
What do you think?
Michio is my youngest son. I don't want him to go away.
His brothers left home and rarely write to me.
But I don't know what Michio thinks.
Well?
I don't know.
Work in Tokyo.
Why?
Frankly speaking
he's had a bitter life because of his father and poverty.
He'd better work where people aren't curious.
Anyway, Tokyo is Japan's capital.
What'll you do, Michio?
I'll go.
HOSOYANAGI SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
Sakie?
Speaking.
It's me Yamada.
Who?
Michio Yamada.
Hi, Yamada.
What is it?
I'm going to Tokyo to work.
Tomorrow.
That's nice.
You?
What about me?
The entrance exam.
I passed if. The teacher's here.
Teacher?
Yes. Mr Gondo is here.
Hallo?
Mother! Here!
Glad I came in time.
Take care of yourself. I'll send money.
Keep well. Good luck!
Yamada!
Hello. What a surprise!
Fine?
Yes. Where are you going?
I quit the fruit parlor.
I worked at various places. I'm going home.
Going home?
You said you'd go to America.
I couldn't catch a ship.
I'm working in a big company.
I'm going to Hokkaido.
You're lucky.
Not very.
That's my train.
I'll go too.
It's out of your way.
Never mind. I can be late.
I worked at a bar, a factory, a milk shop.
But I failed.
Onishi was right. I couldn't settle down.
I lost confidence.
I won't see Tokyo again.
After all, home is best.
Three years in Tokyo were like ten to me.
ABASHIRI STATION
Who are you?
Her brother.
She has no relatives in Hokkaido.
I came from Tokyo to see her.
Come in.
Sis!
"I went to my home town intending to die.
"But I couldn't die.
I WILL LIVE
UNTIL THE DAY I AM TWENTY.
I BEG NO FORGIVENESS, BUT I WILL LIVE.
"My mother, brothers, sisters.
"I will live.
"In the short, probably my last, fall in a northern land
"I decide so."
Your bill, breakfast charge included.
Two thousand.
You want a girl?
I'm broke. Look.
The park.
Melon is good this year.
Mine is a trading company.
I'll work in Yokohama.
That's fine. You didn't write to me. I've been worried.
Eat.
I'm busy. I travel a lot on business.
How's Hiroko?
She's fine.
She can make dresses.
Her shop?
Her address.
Go see her on your day off.
You used to say, when you were a child, you'd marry her.
I think I'll see her.
Tomiko works in a spinning mill. Isamu is in Fukushima.
They don't write to me.
Living alone isn't bad.
Let's eat sukiyaki.
I'll be going.
I don't see you often. Eat with me.
My friend is waiting.
Stay a little longer.
I'm lonely.
I'll buy meat.
I must go.
Goodbye, Mother.
Don't go. Stay and eat.
I'd be late for my train.
Please stay!
No!
Are you back?
I came back yesterday.
I'm going to a university in Tokyo.
You work in Tokyo?
Where?
Shibuya.
My dormitory is in Meguro.
You live in a dormitory?
Yes. I'm going to night school.
I'll go to Tokyo in five days. See me there.
So long.
Goodbye.
NAGOYA STATION
What did you say to the waitress?
This tastes awful.
You can't charge for it.
Don't eat.
I'm your customer.
Young men are fresh. Beat him!
Beat him!
Can I stay here?
I'm broke.
No additional charge.
I'd been standing all evening. I'm tired.
That's your business.
From Aomori?
Yes.
Your accent sounds like my friend's. Group employment?
Correct.
Most any loafer of your age is a drop-out from group employment.
You too?
Yes. I was a spinner.
What happened?
Don't ask that.
You don't ask my name.
Why? We won't stay together.
But men usually want to know our names.
They cherish memories of their women to live.
I won't live long.
I'm Tomoko.
I'm Michio Yamada.
Your legs are cold.
Yours are warm, like a bedpan.
What have you done, Yamada?
Why ask?
Why quit your job?
You quit it, didn't you? I can tell.
Otherwise we wouldn't have met.
You look like my old lover.
Cut it out.
Look at me!
I'll kill you.
Tell me where you'll go.
Where will you go?
Shinjuku is my home.
Let's go there.
I picked him up.
He's just a kid.
I fell for him.
You're funny.
I'll be ready soon.
We need a straight woman to rent an apartment.
She runs a stand.
It's small.
Who's renting?
My son. He'll go to a university next year.
My place is too noisy to study. His sister lives with him.
4000 a month?
Pay two months' rent in advance.
It's quiet. A nice place to study.
You're back.
I bought these things. It was fun.
Mats, too.
I love shopping.
Like newly-weds.
I'll pay.
No. You're poor. I'll make money.
Sleep with men?
You jealous?
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST JAPAN-U.S. SECURITY TREATY
Are you Michio?
I like you.
They call me Morning-Glory.
Apartment?
Where?
Kashiwagi.
Can we sleep in your room?
No. My sister's there.
"My sister!"
Hello.
Breakfast.
Thanks.
I'll sleep.
You work all night?
Don't work so hard.
Your salary for two weeks.
You worked hard. You'll find a bonus in there.
Loan me, please.
It's too early to ask that.
Forget it.
You quit?
I'm glad you're back. I'm leaving.
Is this your boy?
He brought me back here.
Say something.
Lay off!
Leaving?
I met him.
He's my old lover.
We'll go far.
To Kyushu.
Come to me if you want help.
But you promised.
I can't keep it. I love him.
Your "sister" is worried.
Come to my place.
How hot!
I'll sleep.
Move over!
Yes?
Be quiet!
Certainly.
Are you infected?
By what?
VD.
No!
Testify.
What for?
A man claims I infected him.
What an insult!
I don't carry VD.
You can prove it.
I'm on duty.
I'll release you.
I'll take him out.
I often sleep with Michio.
So if he's not infected, I'm not infected, either.
I'm not.
I don't sleep with other girls than you. Still I'm infected.
You do with Mari.
Then I'll sleep with Michio.
If he stays clean, I'm clean.
I won't do that.
Do. That'll settle the problem.
Pay him money.
That's the point.
It's a racket.
I have no money.
Get some.
How?
Do that. That!
That's risky.
No other way.
We'll be through.
It's against the law.
Bring your seal next time.
Thanks.
Come on!
Nice bar, isn't it?
Very nice.
The "Red River".
The Manager.
Welcome.
She's my friend.
Drink on me.
I'll give you something.
Drug.
Tonic?
No! It has an instant effect.
Men like you need it. It changes you into a horse.
Horse?!
You bought me a drink, so I'll give it to you.
I'll pay you.
Never mind.
Water.
Let's go.
Good luck.
So soon?
He fell asleep before the hotel.
He's heavy. I'm tired.
Is he loaded?
Forty thousand.
This doesn't mean I carry VD.
We must help each other.
To you.
I worked too.
The victim came.
The manager helps us.
You're wicked.
I'm tired.
Don't tickle me.
I carry VD.
That's a lie. I won't infect you.
I had a bitter life, but yours was worse.
My mother was a Korean.
She went back to North Korea.
She deserted my father.
He fell ill and died.
I'm a Korean Morning-Glory.
Your real name?
Hanako.
I'm pure and pretty like the flower.
I renamed myself.
"Pure and pretty!"
Buy me the drug.
You go.
Get him drunk. Okay?
You hunted game in our territory.
I didn't.
Don't give me that. She confessed.
You worked without our approval.
Only once.
Get dressed.
Forgive me. I won't do it again.
You fooled us.
I'll pay you.
We lost face.
I'll teach you a lesson so you won't cheat us again.
Out!
Hurry!
Say something, Michio. Help me!
She's my girl.
Let it be a lesson to you.
Yes?
Come with me.
You're brave. You want a fight?
You think it can scare me?
Not a toy.
We sent the girls back to your place.
What I don't like is your face!
Hold on!
You all right?
I'll get a doctor.
Who is it?
Wait.
Where from?
That way.
What for?
Marathon.
Your job?
What's this?
You did it?
Tell me something about your son.
Don't be afraid.
I want to tell the people how you feel.
Michio was arrested as a killer.
What was he like as a child?
Was he a good boy?
Was he filial to you?
Do you think this contorted society is responsible?
Is group employment good?
Was a difficult birth?
Was he a good runner?
Is poverty vice?
Junior high school students can graduate even if they play truant.
His record of attendance was 160 days in three years.
Running was his merit. He loved marathon races.
It's a showy game with cheers of spectators around.
He seemed like a good student. But he was idle.
He had a "Ronson" lighter and imported cigarettes.
I know how he felt.
I want them too.
Are you nineteen?
Yes. The same age.
You like your job?
No. But I have no other job.
Dirty and unpaying!
I want a better job.
I want a gun too.
That's a joke.
There were thirteen of us.
I wonder what happened to them.
He killed four people for pocket money.
He was unlucky.
You doing fine?
Look at me. Am I doing fine?
His weak character beat him.
He hasn't any will.
That's why he depended on a gun.
Mother.
That time
you left me behind.
Why, Mother? Why?
Forgive me.
You were starving.
I was wrong.
Forgive me!
Time's up.
"I will live
"until the day I am twenty.
"In the short, probably my last, fall in a northern land
"I decide so."
NOBUKO OTOWA
DAIJIRO HARADA
DAIGO KUSANO
CHOICHIRO KAWARASAKI
ROKUHIRO TOURA
Narrator: JUKICHI UNO
Directed by KANETO SHINDO
THE END