Occasionally,
she sneaks into Yamaga's house.
¿Yamaga?
The name of his first love. They are classmates.
But he doesn't know that she loves him.
He doesn't want her to know, but he doesn't care.
You want to know him more.
You want to know everything about him,
without him knowing anything about her.
Then it slips.
Yes.
When they are in class, she pretends to be sick to leave early.
Yamaga is an only child and his father is an office worker.
His mom is a teacher.
The girl knows that no one is home during the day.
And how does it get in? She is just a teenager.
He has the idea to look under a pot that is in the entrance.
There is a key.
What a careless family.
He uses it to enter the house.
Go up the stairs and open a door.
Seeing a soccer jersey hanging, you know it's your room.
There is a lot of order to be the room of a boy of 17 years,
and realizes that he has controlling parents, especially his mom.
Inhale.
Listen carefully.
Hear the silence.
An amplified silence, like the sound of a hearing aid, fills the room.
He lies down on Yamaga's bed.
Resist the urge to masturbate.
Why? Because of television censorship?
No.
She has her own rules.
What she allows herself to do and what she doesn't.
You can sneak into the house, but not masturbate inside.
That's how it is.
Then he leaves a clean tampon in his room.
A tampon?
- That's what you said yesterday. - It's very strange.
It is something very common. Can it be adapted for television?
Do not worry. The producer said that it will be shown at night.
If you say so.
So, he takes a clean tampon out of his backpack.
and puts it in a desk drawer.
What if the overprotective mother finds him?
He gets excited just thinking about it.
It's fetish.
The tampon is a symbol that it was there.
A symbol.
It keeps crashing from time to time after that.
Know the risks.
She is the type of girl trusted by her parents and teachers,
so the stakes are high.
Still, he is unable to stop.
It is not capable.
She sniffs the entire room for the slightest scent of him.
He always takes something from the room.
A pencil or anything that is not noticeable.
And in return, he leaves something of his own.
One day she feels fearless,
he takes off his underwear and puts it in the bottom of his chest of drawers.
Feel that they relate little by little by exchanging those symbols.
And that it's giving her the courage to escape her mother's control.
That's all for today.
I see.
Do you want to know the rest?
Yes, of course.
Should I wait or write it down? I do not know.
You can still wait.
Yes. But I also want to know.
How do you not know?
I never know.
I thought this time it was your first love.
Of course not!
Thank you.
- Hello. - Hello.
What time does the work start?
6:30 pm They open at 6:00.
It might not arrive on time.
You don't have to come. You shouldn't walk out of the meeting.
I will go. I want to see your work.
- Good luck. - Thanks.
It's no use.
Are you saying that tomorrow you have to come back?
Yes.
So, we'll bring a good rope.
That's it.
Didi.
Yes.
I can not continue like this.
That's a saying.
What if we split up? Maybe it would be for the best.
We'll hang ourselves tomorrow.
Unless Godot comes.
What if he comes?
We will have been saved.
What? Let's go?
Pull up your pants.
How?
Pull up your pants.
I can enter?
Happens.
What?
I liked.
Yes? I'm glad to hear it.
Can I introduce you to someone?
Yes, when I change...
Takatsuki.
Hi, I'm Takatsuki.
His kind wife invited me.
Don't say "wife."
I see you a lot on TV.
Thank you.
It will have a good role in my new project.
He always has them.
It is much better. He is the love interest of the main character.
Yes.
When I mentioned your play at the production meeting,
he said he wanted to come.
I learned about your method and it caught my attention.
It's very different. Multilingual.
I don't know if it's okay to say it, but it was touching.
Really? You are a strange young man.
Otto, please.
It's true.
Yes thanks.
Don't thank me.
I have to change, we'll talk later.
Excuse me.
Good job.
I'm sorry, did I wake you up?
You must be tired.
My flight leaves at 9:00 from Narita. I must hurry.
See you soon.
You didn't have to get up.
Taking. It's "Uncle Vanya".
I recorded it. You're going to need it, right?
Thank you.
You will miss the flight.
See you. Take care of yourself.
See you.
Have some tea.
I don't feel like it.
Maybe a little vodka.
If you knew.
My rage and my anger keep me awake at night.
For having wasted time.
when i could have had it all
how much now old age refuses.
Uncle Vanya, it's boring.
You seem to blame that on your previous convictions,
when the fault is not theirs,
but yours
NARITA AIRPORT
FLIGHT CANCELED DUE TO COLD SNAP. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW.
THE THEATER FESTIVAL WILL CONTINUE AS SCHEDULED,
AS WELL AS HIS JOB AS A JUDGE.
IF NECESSARY, STAY NEAR THE AIRPORT.
- Hello. - Hello. Did you arrive okay?
Yes.
Does your work start tomorrow?
Yes.
How was the hotel? Comfortable?
They are all the same.
Did you try any Vladivostok delicacies?
What kind of delicious?
I don't know, I ask you.
lazy
A WEEK LATER
For 25 years, it has occupied a place that did not belong to it.
And look, when he walks, his walk is that of a demigod.
It seems entirely that you have envy.
I'm envious, yes.
And what success his with women!
Not even Don Juan knew of such a resounding success.
His first wife, my sister...
Oye.
What a relief.
I'm good.
You are really fine?
I still do not know.
I was examined. I am waiting for the results.
Glaucoma in the left eye.
¿Glaucoma?
Optic nerve damage. It causes partial loss of vision.
Vision loss is difficult to detect because the other eye adapts.
Which means it does not affect your daily activities
and when it is discovered it is already too late.
You're lucky it was diagnosed in time.
I can drive?
It is not impossible.
Do you mean yes?
Yes, if the symptoms do not worsen.
How is it treated?
The origin of glaucoma is still unknown, so it cannot be cured.
The goal is to slow your progress.
These drops lower eye pressure.
You may doubt their effectiveness, but if you don't use them, you will lose your vision.
Use them twice a day.
FEBRUARY 25, 2001
You wanted to drive today, right?
Why?
They just delivered the car to you.
I love you so much, but...
Why all of a sudden?
There is something I can't stand.
What?
Your way of driving. Look forward.
Why didn't you change lanes here?
Hey, that could be considered verbal harassment.
Frankly speaking,
did you want to have more children?
I do not know.
No one can replace her.
We would have loved them like her.
It's no use that I want something that you don't.
Sorry.
It's not your fault. We make that decision together.
So it's OK.
Me...
I love you so much too.
Thank you.
I feel very happy to have you.
One day, she remembers her previous life.
Are you talking about the intrusive girl?
She was a lamprey in her past life.
A lamprey?
It was a noble lamprey.
did not attack the fish
passing by like the other lampreys.
It stuck its sucking mouthparts to a rock in the riverbed
and stood there rocking.
clung to the rock,
Letting go
as if it were river grass.
He doesn't remember how he died.
Did he starve?
Did a fish eat it?
Just remember that it was rocking at the bottom of the river.
In Yamaga's room, that's when he understands
who does the same in this life.
It cannot be detached from its room, like the rock lamprey.
On second thought, the silence in this room
It is very similar to the one under the water.
Time freezes.
The past and the present fade away.
Then,
he turns into a lamprey again.
Then,
starts masturbating on Yamaga's bed.
She takes off all her clothes, one item at a time.
She herself had forbidden it.
but can't stop.
Tears come out
and wet the pillow.
For her, those tears represent the symbol of that day.
Then someone comes home.
And enter through the front door.
She looks out the window and notices that it is getting dark.
Is it Yamaga?
Or is it his father?
Is it your mother?
Hear that person coming up the stairs.
It's over.
But now he can finally stop.
It will all end at last.
He can finally run away from the karma of his past life.
You will become a new person.
The door opens.
NEITHER EEL NOR FISH?: THE LAMPREY
Do you remember the story from yesterday?
I don't remember it very well. He was half asleep.
I understand.
Sorry.
Means it wasn't worth it.
I have to go.
Do you have plans today?
I will give a workshop. Didn't I tell you?
No.
Sorry.
will you drive
Yes.
Wait, I have the keys.
Thank you.
You can do it?
- I'll be fine. See you. - Yusuke.
Can we talk today when you get back?
Of course. Why you ask?
- You have a good day. - Equally.
And is he faithful to the teacher?
Yes, unfortunately.
Why "unfortunately"?
Because that fidelity is false from the beginning to the end.
He has too much rhetoric and no logic.
my life is lost
forever.
That thought anguishes me day and night.
My past was uselessly consumed in childishness,
and my present
it's stupid.
My love and life, what do I do with you?
Where do I put them?
Hear him talk about his love
it makes me embarrassed
and I don't know what to say to him.
Sorry, I can't say anything.
Sonia.
How much I suffer
If you only knew how much I suffer.
What are you going to do? We have to live.
We will live, Uncle Vanya.
We'll go through long, long days
of long evenings,
patiently enduring the tests that destiny sends us.
We will work for others without knowing rest,
the same now as in old age.
When our time comes
we will die submissive
and there, on the other side of the grave, we will say
that we have suffered,
that we have cried,
that we have suffered bitterness.
Auto.
Hello.
Send an ambulance.
FUNERAL DE OTO KAFUKU
How sudden. Cerebral haemorrhage.
For 25 years, it has occupied a place that did not belong to it.
And look, when he walks, his walk is that of a demigod.
It seems entirely that you have envy.
I'm envious, yes.
His first wife, my sister,
she was a wonderful and noble creature.
She loved him as only angels can love,
pure and wonderful like them.
His second wife, they just saw her, she's pretty and smart.
Why?
And is he faithful to the teacher?
Unfortunately if.
Why "unfortunately"?
Because...
that fidelity
It's false from start to finish.
Vania...
I don't like hearing you talk like that.
Please...
Shut your mouth, Vaflia.
No, let me. My wife eloped with a man she loved...
TWO YEARS LATER
Of course.
I understand
that the truth,
whatever it is, it's never that scary.
Because the scariest
is the uncertainty.
HIROSHIMA THEATER OF ARTS AND CULTURE
- Are you tired after the long journey? - Not at all.
Long time no see, Ms. Yuzuhara.
Let me introduce them. Yoon-su will participate as a playwright.
We talk by mail.
As we explained by mail,
his residency will be for two months, until December, starting today.
Six weeks of rehearsals and two of performances.
Auditions will start tomorrow.
Here are the postulates.
Thank you.
We inform all theaters in Asia
and we receive applications from Korea, China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and the Philippines.
Good.
I will be a Korean interpreter.
English speakers will communicate directly with you.
It's fine.
Foreign actors were recommended by theater directors.
Many Japanese also applied.
There are even some familiar faces.
I'll look. I am anxious.
Now let's go to your residence.
We found a place an hour's drive away, as requested.
Thank you.
On a picturesque island, as it is here.
An island?
And we hire a private driver by our own regulations.
You're going to drive your car, okay?
As for that, I'll drive myself.
I have insurance. Do not worry.
But it's not about hospitality. We can't allow it.
Why?
Once, an artist ran over someone by accident.
I understand.
It was terrible. Since then, it is in the regulation
designate a driver for residents, no exceptions.
I review my scripts while I drive.
It is an important routine for me.
That's why I asked them to book a hotel at that distance.
We are sorry.
We should have explained better.
There is a budget set aside for that and the festival must use it.
If you wish, you can test the driver.
But don't worry, he's a trained driver.
Let's go.
Thanks for understand.
I'll follow you in the official car.
She is the driver.
I am Misaki Watari.
This is Mr. Kafuku, our construction manager.
The festival always hires her. He knows the routes well.
She is an excellent driver.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
I'm sorry, but I haven't accepted you as my driver yet.
We'll do a test drive.
Yes, that's fine.
No, it's better if I drive.
Sorry.
Is it because I am a young woman?
That is not the reason.
This car is very old and has remnants. It's not easy the first time.
I understand.
If you feel I'm driving dangerously, you can take the wheel.
What do you think?
Do you like to go ahead?
Any problem
with the electrical components?
None.
Sorry, since you said it was an old car, I had to ask.
I've been driving it for 15 years with no problem.
It's fine.
Can you play the cassette?
The cassette?
Yes.
I'm leaving.
Vania, I demand that you shut up. Does she hear me?
I will not shut up.
Wait, I'm not done yet.
You were the one who ruined my life.
I have not lived.
Because of you
I lost my best years.
You are my worst enemy.
You are a nullity.
If the farm is yours, keep it.
I do not need it.
I'm leaving right now
of this hell.
I can't resist anymore.
I have talent, intelligence, courage.
Had he lived normally, he would have been another Dostoevsky or Schopenhauer.
I do not know what I say.
I go crazy.
I'm desperate, mother.
Obey the teacher.
Mother, what should I do?
Do not tell me. I already know what I have to do.
You will remember me.
I got this.
And what do you think?
The Setouchi Sea is calm and enchanting.
I mean her.
I'll pick it up tomorrow at 8 am
It's fine. Sorry for making you get up early.
No problem.
AUDITION PROFILE FOR "UNCLE VANIA"
I put the cassette?
Yes please.
Man, your eyes are full of tears.
What tears or what nonsense.
It's just that now you just looked at me like your late mother looked at me.
My dear. Your mother,
my sister, where is she now?
You have had this disease for a long time.
I remember that the late Vera, Sonia's mother,
he spent the nights awake.
How I loved you
Come on, Marina.
I haven't said all my lines.
Wow.
My legs hurt a lot too.
Well thank you very much.
Next Please.
Next one please.
Excuse me.
Hello, my name is Janice Chang.
I am from Taiwan and my native language is Mandarin.
My audition is for Yelena.
I am Koshi Takatsuki. My audition is for Astrov.
You chose the same scene,
so they will do it in pairs.
You guys chose the same scene, so you'll act as a couple.
Yes.
She is Yelena, but where do I start?
From "You are sneaky".
Okay.
From "You are sneaky".
Clear.
I don't understand what she says. Is it okay if I improvise a little?
Yes, go ahead. When you are ready.
When you are ready.
You are sneaky!
What do you mean by that?
¡Taimada!
Let us suppose that Sonia does indeed suffer.
But...
What does it mean?
You know very good
Why do I come here every day?
You know perfectly why and for whom I come!
Dear tigress!
- I'm... - Tigress?
I do not understand.
Cute and lovely tigress...
You need victims!
It has gone mad?
She is shy.
Know that I am better and more modest than you think.
I swear.
Why swear? No superfluous words are needed.
You are beautiful.
What hands of yours.
Enough!
Listen to me.
It is destiny. It is unavoidable.
Have mercy.
leave me
Come tomorrow to the forest field.
At about two o'clock.
Yes? Will come?
Will come?
¡I swallowed!
Enough. Sorry about that.
Thank you.
The next is the last. It's a little different.
Please come in.
Her name is Lee Yoon-a.
He says he uses Korean Sign Language.
Do you understand her?
Yes.
No one chose this scene, so you'll be auditioning alone.
She can hear.
I will interpret for you if necessary.
It looks good?
Yes.
Please start.
Uncle Vanya,
did you take the morphine?
Devuelvela.
Why scare us?
Give it back, Uncle Vanya.
I am perhaps no less unfortunate than you,
but I don't despair.
Until my life ends by itself,
I resist and I will resist.
So...
resist you too
My dear and only uncle...
Please.
Give it back.
Take pity on us.
you must resist
your pain.
Thank you.
There weren't many for the role of Vania.
That's how it is.
They must be thinking that you will play it.
VANIA
Sorry for arriving late.
Do not worry.
Hello.
You all passed the audition.
But nevertheless,
Some were assigned different roles than the ones they presented.
Now we will announce the list of actors.
They can sign the contract if they accept the paper.
Serebriakov, Roy Lucelo.
Yelena, Janice Chang.
Sonia, Lee Yoon-a.
Voinitzkaia, Kaoru Komagata.
Vania,
Koshi Takatsuki.
Astrov, Ryu Jeong-eui.
Teleguin, Takashi Kimura.
Marina, Yumi Eto.
Well that's it.
Sorry. Do you want me to play Vania?
Yes.
But I'm not old enough.
You can wear makeup. Nobody got a role that matches their age.
If you're not sure, don't sign.
We'll give it to someone else.
After signing, we will start reading the script.
Congratulations.
Magnificent.
How magnificent.
The views are wonderful.
They are wonderful, Excellency.
Mr. Kimura, say it a little slower.
- Slower? - Yes.
And state it clearly for everyone to hear.
Good.
continue.
They are wonderful, Excellency.
morning
We will go to the forest field.
Dad, do you want?
Gentlemen, to tea.
Be good...
Watch out, they can hear you.
Let me tell you about my love. Don't reject me.
That will be my greatest happiness.
It is martyr.
Thank you. Let's leave it like this for today.
Thank you. That's all for today. Good job.
He is not cold?
Not at all.
From now...
Yes?
You can wait inside the car when I'm running late.
It makes me uncomfortable to think that he waits for me in the cold.
No thanks.
I know how valuable it is to you, so I won't do that.
If you know that, I don't see anything wrong with it.
Just don't smoke inside.
It's fine. But only when it is very cold.
I put the cassette?
Yes.
But let this old man add to his parting words a remark:
Sirs,
have to work.
Keep working.
Sr. Kafuku.
Can I buy you a drink? My car is here too.
are you going to drive
Yes. If you don't mind, we can go to my hotel bar.
I will arrive a little late.
Do not worry.
Good.
So, I'll go get my car.
Follow me please.
In fact, sometimes I look up his name online.
That's how I found out about this audition
and that day was the deadline. Isn't that amazing?
Why so much interest in me?
I really liked Oto's scripts.
Saying what I wrote made me happy.
My plays and Oto's scripts are two different things.
I understand.
But when I saw his work that time,
It seemed to me that they did the same thing, but in a different way.
Explain yourself.
It makes it difficult for me.
I get the feeling that they both value
the smallest details that the public does not notice.
I like that kind of stuff.
But I wouldn't know if I hadn't worked with Oto.
When I saw the auditions, I knew it was my only chance.
I don't know if you know, but now I'm a freelancer.
I know. But, in my case, I didn't have to look for you.
I see.
I am sorry.
What a fool.
You were a star.
No, they set me up.
Do you do those things often?
What things?
With women you barely know.
You are not?
No.
You must have many women behind you.
You just have to say no.
I don't do it with just anyone.
If you connect and want to get to know her better, don't you try?
Sex is not the only way to meet someone.
But there are things you don't know until you try them.
- Like what? - What...
What's the matter?
Is that...
I don't know why I'm talking to you about this.
Oto must have been happy with someone like you.
Who knows?
If you don't mind, can you tell me something about her?
What do you want to know?
how they met
how he wrote his scripts,
your day to day. Anything.
This is what you're thinking:
"He and I share the same pain because...
We loved the same woman."
No Please. Mine was an unrequited love.
You were in love with her.
I do not deny it.
She was lovely. Too much.
Yes.
I'm jealous of you, Mr. Kafuku.
Excuse me.
You are jealous?
From my?
Excuse.
Did you just take a photo?
You just took it.
Borrala.
What's wrong?
I'm leaving.
It's fine.
- The check, please. - Yes sir.
Sorry about that.
I was a bad host.
No pasa anda.
I am glad to be here and to be able to act under your direction.
I think Oto put us together.
I look forward to working with you again tomorrow.
Good. Until tomorrow.
Why do you have such a sad face today?
Does the teacher pity you?
Let me.
Maybe you're in love with his wife.
He is my friend.
¿Yes?
What with that "already"?
For.
Did I put a lot of passion into it?
Ryu did well. Follow the rhythm. Keep going.
Let's go on.
The woman cannot become a "friend" of the man except in this order.
First, comrade.
then lover, and then "friend."
cynical philosophy.
Takatsuki.
Focus on your text.
You just have to read it.
We are not robots.
What do you say?
We all follow his instructions.
But we are not robots and I think we will do better if we know its purpose.
You don't have to do better.
Just read the text.
Let's pick up where we left off.
Let's continue where we were.
How? Yes.
I admit that I have become cynical.
You're already seeing that I'm also drunk.
I only get drunk like this once a month.
Didn't I tell him? Did my shot miss again?
Devils.
Curse.
Get me out of here. They kill me.
I can't be here anymore.
What happens to me? What am I doing?
Amita, amita.
Ready. Very well.
That's all for today.
They did a good job.
Sr. Kafuku.
Can we do an interview for the festival website?
We should record somewhere outside.
We only read and read the text.
When will we start moving?
Honestly, the foreign language parts make me sleepy.
- Me too! - And me.
- But not in a bad way. - Yes, it's like hearing a sutra.
It sounds like a blessing when they say it like that.
Yoon-su, where did you learn Japanese?
I studied Japanese noh theater at Waseda University for two years.
Korean, English and Japanese, and sign language. He is amazing.
Japanese and Korean are similar. Just learn the vocabulary.
I like English from a very young age.
And sign language?
Mr. Kafuku, you kindly offered to drive me home.
Can I invite you to dinner today?
No, I don't want to bother.
I have to apologize to you for something.
- What thing? - You'll know when we get there.
Both of you come in, please.
Let's go in. He won't feel comfortable if you wait here hungry.
Do not worry about that.
I wouldn't worry, but he would.
Let's go.
My wife.
He says he looks like me.
Than cruel.
These potatoes grew in the yard. She grew them.
Now you understand why I wanted to apologize to you.
Why did you not tell me?
She worried that it would be difficult for him to reject her if he found out.
Not me...
You wouldn't mind, I know.
But it is wise to keep quiet.
To answer your question, I learned signs after meeting her.
I wanted to communicate with her, so I learned it.
That is very admirable.
I was a dancer then
and I was the coordinator when his group showed up in Busan.
Love at first sight.
Do not tell her.
Why Hiroshima?
I was invited to the theater festival three years ago.
And Yoon-a accompanied him?
Yes. When I received the offer, I debated whether or not he should come with me.
He has family and friends in Korea who use sign language.
I thought you would be lonely here.
But I devised a way to listen to her as if I were a hundred people.
He felt that he was the only one who could support her.
Why did you decide to audition?
"I got pregnant and took a break from dancing,
but I had a miscarriage.
"Even though I wanted to go back to work, my body refused to dance.
That's when my husband told me about you and the audition."
Thank you.
Is there something difficult for you in rehearsals?
"Why do you ask me something that you don't ask others?
You don't have to be nicer to me than to other people."
"People not understanding me is normal for me."
"But I can see and hear.
Sometimes I can understand much more than words.
That's what matters in rehearsals, right?"
Yes.
"Now the days are more fun.
Chekhov's text reaches inside me
and move my body that was immobile before".
"I'm glad I steeled myself."
I am glad to hear.
Do you like spicy food?
Yes it's good.
How are you driving?
She is fabulous.
It speeds up and slows down so smoothly that I barely feel gravity.
Sometimes I forget I'm in a car.
I have experienced many people driving, but it was never so enjoyable.
I'm glad you've been assigned as my driver.
"Compliment us actors alike," he says.
Does this mean "congratulate"?
Yes.
Thanks for inviting me.
It was Yoon-su who invited us.
They are a lovely couple.
Yes.
Now I'm curious about rehearsals.
Yoon-a's Sonia.
I was listening to your tape - "Ella es Sonia".
You can go to rehearsals.
No thanks. Sorry.
- Come see us... - Shall I play the tape?
Yes.
You, Vania, are educated and intelligent,
And it seems that I should understand
that the world is not destroyed by bandits...
Don't you get tired of hearing this?
No.
Because I like the voice.
I understand.
Whose voice is it?
From my wife.
The flow of the entire work must be memorized with my method.
I listen to it over and over again.
I did Uncle Vania before, so those parts are gone.
When I say my line at my own pace, the next one comes in precisely.
Wow.
What I said before is true.
I forget that I am in the car and that you are here.
It's annoying, isn't it?
No, it's your job.
Where did you learn to drive?
In my home town.
Kami-junitaki en Hokkaido.
There you need a car for everything.
I see.
my mother taught me to drive
And I've done it since high school.
Secondary?
Yes.
My mother worked in a dive in Sapporo.
She used to take the train, so since high school,
He took her to and picked her up at the station.
The station was an hour away.
We left home at 5 pm and I picked her up at 7 am
During those two hours,
my mother just wanted to sleep.
If I woke her up on the way, she kicked my back
and he hit me when we arrived.
that's how i learned
to drive on rough roads without waking her up.
I see.
What he said made me very happy.
No.
I am grateful to my mother for teaching me to drive.
It was for his own good, but the way he taught me was perfect.
I see.
Yes.
There is no doubt that it was so.
Will you tell me the whole truth?
Of course.
I understand
that the truth,
whatever it is, it's never that scary.
the scariest
is the uncertainty.
Succumb to the charm of such a man.
forget
seems entirely
I'm also kind of in love with him.
Yes, I get bored without your company...
conscience hurt me
as if he had deliberately killed him.
I sat down...
I closed my eyes like this and thought:
those who will succeed us in 100 or 200 years,
and for those of us who now pave the way,
do they have a good word for us?
They won't.
People won't have it
but God yes.
Thank you. You spoke very well.
Very well!
Sorry for arriving late.
Vania and Yelena are in most of the scenes.
We repeat the same and begin the test.
We are very sorry.
In fact, it was for the best.
Why don't you two rehearse a little?
My life is lost forever.
That thought anguishes me day and night.
My past was uselessly consumed in childishness,
and my present is absurd.
My love and life, what do I do with you?
Where do I put them?
Hearing him talk about his love makes me embarrassed
and I don't know what to say to him.
Sorry, I can't say anything.
Goodnight.
If you knew...
Paren.
about his performance,
what do you think?
I think the director is the one who should judge.
Horrible.
I agree with you.
I think we did better at the audition.
Yes, do you know why?
Because I learned his dialogues too and I remembered my partner's stage directions.
But if I don't remember them, I can't act.
In agreement.
And I think that way I pay more attention to the emotions of others.
If I memorize my lines and theirs,
I can react better.
I understand.
What if we read the script again?
Let's start with the second act.
From the second act.
Can I record the reading?
Of course.
Good.
Let us begin.
Who's there?
Is that you Sonya?
It's Me.
Here, Leonechka?
What excruciating pain.
Your blanket has fallen to the floor.
I'm going to close...
Sr. Kafuku.
I'm so sorry about today.
Do not worry.
I was just paying attention to him.
You say that, but you don't know English or Mandarin.
She doesn't speak Japanese.
That's how it is.
So we're done...
Use good judgment.
Sorry.
I won't say anything else.
Can you take me somewhere else?
Elsewhere?
I haven't seen much of Hiroshima.
A place you like is fine.
It's fine.
Isn't it like snow?
Over there is the Peace Memorial Park.
The line between the Genbaku Dome and the cenotaph is called the "axis of peace".
The architect who designed this place created this atrium
so that the line continued to the sea without breaking.
Why did you come to Hiroshima?
No matter.
Behind my house was a hill.
Five years ago,
there was a landslide and the house was destroyed.
My mother died in that accident.
He had turned 18 shortly before
and I had just received my driver's license.
The car was intact, so I took it with me after the funeral.
So now you are 23 years old.
Yes.
I had nowhere to go, so I continued on my way west.
But my car broke down in Hiroshima and I had no money to fix it.
So, I started driving those garbage trucks.
Driving is the only thing I know how to do.
Do you plan to stay here?
I do not know.
My father's last name, Watari,
it is common in Shimane and Hiroshima.
But I never met him and I don't know if he's alive.
I understand.
Su apellido, Kafuku,
It's rare, right? It means "home" and "good luck".
It is auspicious.
My wife said the same thing before we got married.
Wow.
My wife's name is Otto.
Auto.
Oto, como "sonido".
Oto Kafuku. What name.
For that reason he hesitated to marry me.
Its name would be "House of Gospel".
He died two years ago.
Cerebral hemorrhage.
I was on the ground when I got home
and never regained consciousness.
Will the tape scare you now?
Not at all.
In fact, it is...
Sorry!
Thanks!
I like that car.
I see you've been treated with care,
so I want to drive it carefully.
Let's go.
Tell me something. My God.
I am 47 years old,
And assuming I live to be 60, I still have 13 left.
Its alot.
How to live these 13 years?
What good weather.
Yes.
Let's do it there.
Why are you crying?
You are welcome. It happened out of the blue.
Well, enough. IM such a fool. Now I cry too.
Your anger with me is because
You think I married your father by calculation.
If you believe in oaths,
I swear
that I married him for love.
I was attracted by the fact that he was wise and famous.
That love was not, of course, true, but false,
but it seemed true to me.
I'm not guilty.
You did not stop condemning me
with your intelligent and suspicious eyes since our wedding.
Well now, peace. Just peace.
Let's forget everything.
You shouldn't look like that.
It does not look good on you.
You have to have faith in others, otherwise it is impossible to live.
Oye.
Tell me frankly.
You are happy?
No.
I wish you with all my heart
the happiness you deserve.
As for me, I am a bland being, an episodic character.
The same in music, in my husband's house, in my love stories.
Nowhere did I stop being
an episodic character.
Really,
Sonia,
Thinking about it, the reality is that I am very unhappy.
There is no happiness for me in this world.
What are you laughing at?
I feel happy.
So happy.
Now I would like to play a little piano.
Play, yes.
I'd love to hear from you.
Good.
Something happened just now.
But it only happens between the actors.
There's the next step.
We open it to the public.
We recreated that moment on stage in its entirety.
Let's go to the third act.
Takatsuki.
Yes.
It is very cold.
Yes.
Thanks for today.
What thing?
Any.
We can talk?
If you don't mind, somewhere nearby. Only a moment.
Where's your car?
In the workshop.
In today's rehearsal,
What happened?
Between Janice and Yoon-a.
Only they have the answer.
One thing I can say is that this text has the power to do that.
Mr. Kafuku, why don't you play Vanya?
Chekhov is terrifying.
When you say his lines, the real you comes out.
You are not sorry?
I can not take it anymore.
Which means I can no longer give myself to paper.
But because I?
I feel out of place in this production.
I am not fit for this role.
I know the public will feel the same.
When I auditioned, I was desperate and a mess.
He didn't know what he was doing.
So why did you choose me?
Otto brought us together.
Please don't be simplistic. I'm serious.
I came here to change.
You can't control yourself very well.
No.
Socially, that's not good.
But it is not as such an inconvenience for an actor.
During the audition and rehearsals, you weren't bad.
Just as you give yourself to your co-star,
do the same with the text.
Surrender and respond to the text.
¿Responder?
The text is questioning you.
If you listen and respond, the same thing will happen to you.
Go ahead. I'll take you to the hotel.
The check, please.
Thank you.
Mr. Kafuku offered to take me.
Okay, the same as before?
I'll go pay for parking.
Where is Takatsuki?
I'm sorry, come on.
Sr. Kafuku.
I'm empty.
There is nothing inside of me.
The text that questions me...
I think he felt it with Oto's scripts.
I came here because I wanted to feel it again.
So...
that Oto joined us
it is true after all.
I finally get it.
Otto and I...
Yes.
We had a daughter.
He died of pneumonia at the age of four.
She would be 23 if she were alive.
The death of our daughter marked the end of our happy times.
Oto stopped acting.
I left television and returned to the theater.
Oto was lethargic for years.
But suddenly one day he started writing stories.
Rather, he began to count them.
His first story...
was born after having sex with me.
He suddenly started narrating it after having sex.
But the next morning, his memory was clouded.
I remembered everything, so I told him.
She wrote a script and submitted it to a contest.
He won an award and his screenwriting career took off.
"That" happened to him sometimes after sex.
He told me about it and made me remember it.
The next morning, I told him. She took notes.
It became a routine.
Sex and their stories were strongly connected.
Although it didn't seem like it.
A narrative thread began on the verge of orgasm and weaved it.
That's how she wrote.
It wasn't all the time.
But every time his career stalled, "it" would come.
A bond was formed...
who helped us get over the death of our daughter.
I think we were a compatible couple.
We needed each other to move on.
Our daily life and our sexual life
they were full.
At least they were for me.
But...
Oto saw other men.
Don't worry about her.
Oto slept with other men.
Not just one.
Probably with the actors from the dramas he wrote.
Every relationship ended with drama
and another began with the following.
Do you have proof?
My eyes were witnesses.
Sometimes he brought them to our house.
Still, I never doubted his love for me.
I had no doubt.
Oto cheated on me so naturally without ceasing to love me.
We had an endearing bond, more than with anyone.
Still, inside her was
a place he couldn't figure out, where something dark swirled.
Did you ever ask him any of this?
What he feared most was losing her.
If he found out that I knew, we would have been thrown off balance.
What if she just wanted me to listen to her?
Did Otto say something to you?
Can I tell you a story you told me?
Yes.
It is a very mysterious story.
A high school girl sneaks into the house of the boy she likes.
I know that story.
The girl who was a lamprey in her past life.
That's how it is.
He sneaks several times and leaves a symbol of his each time.
One day, he begins to masturbate on Yamaga's bed.
Someone arrives, but the story ends without saying who it was.
No.
It doesn't end there.
Do you know what happens next?
Yes.
So who was it?
Who went up the stairs?
Another intruder.
Other?
Yes.
It was not Yamaga, not his father, not his mother.
Just a thief.
The thief finds her half-naked in the room
and tries to rape her.
She grabs a pen and stabs him in the left eye.
She struggles desperately
and sticks the pen into his temple and neck, over and over again.
Notice that the man stopped moving.
He killed the thief.
He washes off the blood in the shower and goes home.
The symbol he left in Yamaga's room that day
It was the corpse of the thief.
The next day, she goes to school ready to confess
everything to Yamaga and face the consequences.
But Yamaga is the same as always.
He watches him play soccer after school, nonchalant as ever.
Everything is the same as the other day.
Nothing has changed. What happened to the body at Yamaga's house?
Was it your imagination?
She goes to Yamaga's house, but nothing seems out of the ordinary.
Except for one thing...
They installed a security camera at the front door.
In order not to appear suspicious, she walks past the house without stopping.
something terrible had happened
and she was to blame
and the world was serene as if nothing had changed.
However, the world had undoubtedly become more sinister.
She turns around.
"I must...
take responsibility for what I did.
I can't pretend it didn't happen.
Because it did happen.
Without a doubt, I killed him."
He looks under the flowerpot, but the key is no longer there.
Look at the security camera.
Because it is the only change that it generated in this world.
Staring
and repeat these words over and over again.
In a clear way, so that they understand:
"I killed him.
I killed him.
I killed him".
It is all that I know.
Maybe the story ends there or maybe it continues.
The story leaves a disappointment,
but still, when he told me,
I felt that Oto had given me something important.
Sr. Kafuku.
As far as I know, Oto was a lovely woman.
Sure, what I know must be a small fraction of what you know.
But that's what I believe for sure.
Who lived with a lovely person for more than 20 years,
and you should be thankful for that. That's my opinion.
But even if you think you know someone well,
Even if you love him deeply
you can't completely figure out his heart.
You end up hurt.
But if you try hard enough,
you could better decipher your own heart.
In the end what we should do
is to be true to our hearts
and accept it as such.
If you really want to figure someone out,
you should look first
your interior honestly and deeply.
That is what I think.
You can go.
I think he was being sincere.
I don't know if it's the truth
but he was telling him what he believed to be true.
I was able to notice it.
Because I grew up among liars.
He had to discern or he wouldn't have survived.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Look at the very geese!
Everyone acting rude!
Hold it! It has gone mad!
- Give it to me! "Leave me alone, Yelena!" Leave me!
Where is?
Oh, it's here!
¡No!
No the di?
Did I miss the shot again?
Devils!
Curse!
Get me out of here!
What am I doing?
Kill me, but I can't stay a moment longer!
What am I doing?
Very well.
If you do it the same way, Vanya could kill Serebriakov.
And that would end the story.
Takatsuki, that was fine.
- Takatsuki... - Excuse me.
What...?
I'm Kato, Hiroshima North Police.
Sorry.
¿ Koji Takatsuki?
Yes.
Could we talk somewhere else?
Here is OK.
On Sunday, November 24,
At about 7:30 pm, he got into a fight and beat up a man in Shintenchi Park.
It is right?
It was caught on camera.
The man died yesterday at the hospital.
Yes, I saw the news.
I did. It's true.
Join us at the police station.
- Can I change? - Yes.
HIROSHIMA NORTH POLICE
Lawyer
says that Mr. Takatsuki accepted the charge of death by unintentional injury.
I can see?
Not now.
More importantly, what will we do with the work?
Should we think about that now?
Yes. It is something we should think about.
We have two options.
we canceled it
or you play the role.
I can not do it.
You know the script.
That Vania is Japanese would be less counterproductive.
Yoon-su.
Why are we talking about this now?
I can not do it.
So let's cancel.
It looks good?
Give me a little time.
We can wait two days. That is the limit.
I understand.
I will communicate with you.
Do you know a place where I can...
think in peace?
I'll figure out something.
The Kami-junitaki people.
are you willing to show me
the place where you grew up?
There is nothing there.
But if that's what you want...
No matter.
I'll take the wheel later.
We should take turns arriving in one day.
There's no need.
Why not?
Because driving is my job.
I can go a day without sleeping.
Thank you.
You can rest a little more.
I can sleep on the ferry.
It's fine.
The day Otto died...
He asked if we could talk when he got home.
His tone was soft but determined.
That day I had no plans, but I kept driving.
I didn't want to get home.
I thought that, as soon as I came back, we would never be the same again.
I found it collapsed when I came back at night.
I called an ambulance
but never regained consciousness.
What if he had arrived a little earlier?
I think that every day.
Me...
I killed my mother.
When the landslide crushed the house,
I was inside too.
I was able to crawl out of the fallen house.
After escaping, I looked at the half-collapsed house for a while.
Then more earth fell and completely destroyed it.
They found her dead under the rubble.
He knew she was still in the house.
I don't know why I didn't ask for help or why I didn't save her.
He hated her, but it wasn't the only thing he felt for her.
This scar on his cheek is from that accident.
They told me that surgery would make it less conspicuous,
but I have no intention of deleting it.
If I were your father
I would take you by the shoulders and say:
"It's not your fault.
You did not do anything wrong".
But I can't tell.
you killed your mother
and I killed my wife.
Yes.
...altercation with Kazuya Yamauchi from Hiroshima
and assaulted him, punching him repeatedly in the face.
Yamauchi was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead.
Koji Takatsuki has acted in many series and movies,
but when it became known about his relationship with a minor last year,
he dedicated himself to freelance work and left his company in January.
Hello.
SALE OF FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES
This is where...
Probably.
It has changed a lot.
We climb?
That is our house.
My mother
she had another personality named Sachi.
Sachi.
Yes.
It appeared when I was 14 years old.
He said he was 8 years old,
but never aged in 4 years.
Sachi used to
show up after my mother hit me.
It was as if his consciousness did not fit with the body of an adult,
so he couldn't move well.
He tried to walk, but he fell,
then she sat still.
He liked puzzle rings.
We did crossword puzzles together.
Sachi cried a lot for no reason.
Whenever he did, he hugged her
and rubbed his back.
I liked those times.
The beautiful part of my mother
condensed into Sachi.
Sachi era
my only friend
I don't know if my mother had a mental illness
or if I pretended to stay by his side.
But, even if he was faking it,
he did it from the bottom of his heart.
Sachi was the way my mother
I was trying to survive a hellish reality.
When the slide occurred,
I knew that my mother's death
it meant that Sachi would also die.
Even so...
I didn't move
I am dirty.
Sr. Kafuku,
Otto's...
Is it difficult for you to accept
what she did as something genuine?
Maybe there was nothing mysterious about it.
What if she was just like that?
that he loved him very much
and look for other men constantly
I do not find it contradictory or false.
It's strange?
Sorry.
Maybe...
I was hurt properly.
I ignored something genuine.
I felt so hurt
to the point of distraction.
But...
because...
I pretended not to notice.
I didn't listen to myself.
And I lost Oto.
Forever.
Now I understand.
I want to see Otto.
If I could, I would yell at him.
I would scold her.
For lying to me all the time.
I would apologize.
For not listening to her.
For not being strong.
I want him to come back.
I want him to live.
I want to talk to her one more time.
I want to see.
But it's too late.
There is no way back.
I can not do anything.
those who survive
They keep thinking about the dead.
One way or another,
so it will continue to be.
You and me
We must continue to live like this.
We must go on living.
Everything will pass.
I'm sure
that we'll be fine.
I will not shut up! Wait, I'm not done yet!
You were the one who ruined my life. I have not lived.
Because of you I lost my best years.
You are my worst enemy!
I can not.
what do you want?
I leave.
What right do you have to talk to me like that?
You are a nullity!
If the hacienda is yours, keep it! I do not need it!
I'm leaving this hell right now. I can't resist anymore.
I have talent, intelligence, courage.
If he had lived normally, he would be a Dostoevsky or a Schopenhauer.
I do not know what I say!
I go crazy!
I'm desperate, mother!
Obey the teacher!
Mother, what should I do?
Do not tell me. I already know what I have to do.
You will remember me!
¡Jean!
Sonia.
How much I suffer!
If you only knew how much I suffer.
What are you going to do?
We have to live.
We will live, Uncle Vanya.
We'll go through long, long days
of long evenings,
patiently enduring the tests that destiny sends us.
Without knowing rest,
we will work for others
the same now as in old age.
When our time comes
We will die submissive.
And there, on the other side of the grave, we will say
that we have suffered,
that we have cried,
that we have suffered bitterness.
God...
he will take pity on us.
And then, dear uncle,
we will know a wonderful life,
clear and fine.
joy will come to us
and, with a smile,
we will remember with emotion our present misfortunes.
And finally
we will rest
I have faith.
I believe passionately. Ardently.
When that time comes
we will rest
SOUTH KOREA
Do you need a bag?
No it's good like that.
Do you accumulate points?
No.