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When I was ten, my parents took me
to see a movie called 'La Strada'...
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...by a director named Fellini.
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It was about poor street performers,
depressing, and in black-and-white.
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I couldn't see the point.
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We should've seen the Disney!
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Sorry!
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Just let me get by here.
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Bye!
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At 20, I was in university.
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I was searching for something
to dedicate my life to.
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But my student days
were flying by too fast.
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The lecture was cancelled!
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Didn't you hear?
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No.
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She blew the interview.
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Everyone was starting out
job-hunting.
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I had no idea of
what I wanted to do.
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There'll be things you don't like
about any job.
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But if you like it...
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Stay here tonight.
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I was planning to.
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Cousin Michiko lived alone.
She'd come to Tokyo for school.
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You go with the flow.
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Whereas Noriko...
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What?
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You analyze too much.
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Shut up.
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With Michiko,
everything seemed clear-cut.
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But people said I was dull,
too analytical, a plodder.
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You know...
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...she's really something.
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Mrs Takeda. No one bows like her.
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Mrs Takeda bows differently?
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It's a regular bow,
but it's different somehow.
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'My name is Takeda.'
Just the way she said that and bowed.
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It was beautiful.
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Huh?
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I'm told she teaches Tea.
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You didn't know?
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No.
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She's been doing it for years.
All alone in that big house.
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Why don't you study Tea?
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Why?
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Why not?
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I'd prefer flamenco or Italian.
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Great idea!
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I'd like to.
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Then do it! It's a fine thing.
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Every girl used to
before she got married.
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So why not?
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Michiko's going to.
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Come with me, Noriko.
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What a klutz!
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Yes, they called me a klutz, too.
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I hated it.
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Anyway, now I was going to study Tea.
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It was spring.
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Around here, right?
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Let's see...
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This way.
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That way.
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There it is.
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Takeda
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I'm nervous.
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Hello!
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Hello.
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Oh, hello.
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Please come in.
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The other students
come on Wednesdays...
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You're all right?
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But you're students,
so we'll do Saturdays. Come in.
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Thank you.
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Just wait here, will you?
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Wow.
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It's huge.
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Noriko...
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What does that say?
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I don't know.
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'Every day a good day,' it says.
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Haru Kuroki
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Kilin Kiki
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Mikako Tabe
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Original Story
Noriko Morishita
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Written & Directed by
Tatsushi Omori
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EVERY DAY A GOOD DAY
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All right...
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'A balmy breeze comes from the south,'
the wall hanging says.
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The spring breeze blows in
two nice young ladies.
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It's perfect.
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Now, this silk cloth...
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...is the napkin.
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If you don't fold it properly
it won't unfold the right way...
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...so remember this.
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Take the unstitched side...
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...not the stitched sides,
and put it on the right.
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Good.
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Now from the left,
you fold it over.
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Then bottom to top.
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That's right.
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Pick it up...
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...fold again.
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With your right hand, like this...
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...take it and put it
into your kimono.
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Pretend you were wearing one.
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Now take it out again.
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Open it...
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...and lift it by this corner.
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Now bring the two corners
together.
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Yes, like that.
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And hook it in your sash.
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Pretend you had one.
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All right? Now you fold it in half...
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...and in half once again,
and pull it out.
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Then take this triangle...
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Yes, let it drop.
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Hold it with your forefingers
and turn it sideways.
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Snap it to shake off any dust.
You try it.
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Once more.
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That's the sound.
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Now raise it in your right hand...
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...and fold it in three.
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In three.
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Like this...
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Now fold that in half again...
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...and holding it like that,
fold once again.
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Towards that other hand,
and fold back where it sticks out.
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Hold it away, then fold again.
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Then with your right hand,
place it on your knee.
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That's the 'napkin folding'.
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That's how it's done.
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Now, here we have the tea caddy.
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Take one.
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With your napkin...
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...you wipe the lid to purify it.
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Left to right, far side and near side.
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Far side, near side.
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You wipe it clean.
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Then back to the knee.
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Now, since today
is your first day...
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...I'll make you some tea.
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Help yourselves.
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To the sweets.
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There's no tea.
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In tea ceremony,
you eat the sweets first.
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They're so cute!
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'Iris buns'.
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Use the paper there.
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I give thanks.
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You drink all the tea in the bowl,
and make a noise at the end.
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A noise?
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Yes. That's a sign
that you've finished all the tea.
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That's so weird!
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It is?
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Really weird!
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The next week
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Now we'll practice the basic motions.
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We'll do them separately.
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You'll need to master each of them.
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This is the tea whisk,
and this is how you use it.
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You lay the whisk...
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...in the far side of the bowl,
draw it towards you like this...
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...and back with a turn of the wrist.
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Set it down gently,
hold the bowl with your left hand...
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...and raise it,
turning it as you go.
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I'll do that again.
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Turn it the first time, yes,
all the way around.
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Once more, turning it.
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And the third time.
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What does this do?
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That's to soften the whisk
while making sure...
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...the tips aren't frayed.
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When you bring it down
the fourth time...
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...you don't raise it again.
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Swish, swish, swish, swish...
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You draw it towards you,
then around, and out.
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Why do you roll the wrist like that?
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'Why'?
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Um...that's just how it's done.
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You put it back in...
wait, no you don't.
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You roll the bowl around to warm it.
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One, two, three, and again.
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Hold it, let go...
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Hold it lengthwise,
one, two, three.
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Then fold it away from you
three times. Once...
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Hold it facing down,
and then into the bowl.
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Then take it again,
and in the bowl...
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...bring it down on the left...
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...then circle to the right, back up,
then down, out, and back in.
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Why that pattern?
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'Why,' you ask?
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I wouldn't know.
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It doesn't matter what it means.
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That's how it's done.
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It might not make sense to you...
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...but that's the Way of Tea.
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The week
after that
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Today we'll practice making the tea.
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This we call 'the procedure'.
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First comes the simple
'thin tea' procedure.
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This is the preparation area.
It's like the tea room kitchen.
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She was my Tea sensei.
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Pick that up and take it
to the tea room entrance.
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Where you went in.
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Oh, OK.
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Set the water jar down
in front of your knees.
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With your left hand,
slide the door open part way.
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Then change hands.
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And bow.
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The guest, too.
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Hold the water jar at chest height,
and come in.
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Don't let the water splash.
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Keep your elbows in.
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Fingers together.
When you set the jar down...
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...it's as if the mid part of both baby fingers
was touching the tatami mat.
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As if you were carrying an egg
under your arm.
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No noise.
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OK.
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And say 'yes'.
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Yes.
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Carry heavy things as if they were light,
and light things as if they were heavy.
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No! Come in on the left foot.
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On the left foot.
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And never step on the edging.
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And now...
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...you walk towards the kettle...
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...taking six steps
on the tatami mat.
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Which is that, the seventh?
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You cross on the seventh.
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Yes.
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That should be your left foot.
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Like a cat burglar!
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Was the count right?
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Don't take the water from the top.
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Scoop it from the bottom.
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In Tea we say
'middle cold, bottom hot.'
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Water in the middle is cold,
and water at the bottom is hot.
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And no noise.
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Yes.
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Hold the ladle
over the middle of the bowl.
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Yes.
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Don't put the ladle down so far
into the bowl.
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Pour from about one length above it.
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Don't shake it.
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Hold it until that last drop falls.
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Don't wait forever.
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It doesn't have to foam that much.
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Just until you can see a crescent moon
along the edge of the tea.
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A crescent moon?
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Yes.
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My legs are numb.
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It hurts!
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You must be tired.
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With Tea, the form comes first.
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First you create that form.
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It's the container that you put
the spirit into later.
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That's just formalism, isn't it?
Tracing out a pattern?
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Michiko!
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That's all right.
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What does it mean?
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I guess that's what you'd think
when you try to analyze everything.
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Tea is very difficult.
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I feel like a baby.
I don't know anything.
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Mrs Takeda has gone somewhere far away
and become 'Takeda-sensei'.
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Can I keep on with this?
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Two months later
'Season of Minor Heat'
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Left hand above the knot.
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Yes.
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And bow. Good.
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Reposition yourself,
take a breath.
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Bring the rinse-water jar
to your knee.
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And then?
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What are you going to wipe
with that napkin?
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Yes.
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That's not right, is it?
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You curve your hand
to pick up the tea caddy.
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Rinse jar, tea bowl, caddy,
then napkin...
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Don't think about it.
Absorb, don't learn.
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With practice your hands
will come to move by themselves.
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We're off for all of August.
I'll forget everything.
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An announcement.
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I'm going on a trip
to France and England.
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Really?! That's not fair!
How can you do that!
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I'll miss the first week of September.
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I'll be there alone?
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Sorry.
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I can't believe this!
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Bow. A breath.
Rinse-water jar.
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What are you going to do
with that mike?
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I'm going to sing with it!
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I can't stand it!
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Kiss me like tequila
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So even my bones melt away
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Under the hot summer sky
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'Let's dance and go wild'
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The summer vacation flew by.
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In that time
I didn't even touch a napkin.
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And at the last, look at me again
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'As if you were burning to a crisp'
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One month later
'Season of White Dew'
00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.406
Michiko's not coming today.
00:26:12.489 --> 00:26:13.866
Why not?
00:26:13.949 --> 00:26:15.993
She's in Europe.
00:26:16.076 --> 00:26:18.704
I wish I could do that!
00:26:18.787 --> 00:26:20.289
It's ready!
00:26:21.957 --> 00:26:23.667
I give thanks.
00:26:23.750 --> 00:26:27.713
There's loads of it!
00:26:27.796 --> 00:26:29.131
Eat lots.
00:26:29.923 --> 00:26:31.425
I give thanks.
00:26:37.973 --> 00:26:41.351
Should we leave about 2?
00:26:41.435 --> 00:26:42.686
Sure.
00:26:44.271 --> 00:26:45.314
You've got Tea.
00:26:45.397 --> 00:26:46.565
Where are you going?
00:26:46.648 --> 00:26:47.649
For dim sum.
00:26:47.733 --> 00:26:49.276
I want to come!
00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.403
You've got Tea.
00:26:51.486 --> 00:26:53.155
I'll skip it.
00:26:54.156 --> 00:26:55.407
Should you?
00:26:55.490 --> 00:26:57.034
I don't want to go.
00:26:59.077 --> 00:27:00.662
It's up to you.
00:27:10.047 --> 00:27:11.340
I'll skip it.
00:27:13.675 --> 00:27:15.844
I'll call Sensei later.
00:27:40.744 --> 00:27:42.037
What's wrong?
00:27:42.746 --> 00:27:44.248
I'll go to Tea.
00:27:44.331 --> 00:27:45.541
You will?
00:27:45.624 --> 00:27:47.000
Shall we bring you some?
00:27:47.084 --> 00:27:48.544
No, thanks!
00:27:50.754 --> 00:27:52.422
Yes, please!
00:28:03.308 --> 00:28:05.894
Now spread the tea.
00:28:07.229 --> 00:28:10.566
Hit it twice, lightly.
00:28:24.037 --> 00:28:26.081
Not the hot water yet.
00:28:26.164 --> 00:28:29.543
You're forgetting something.
00:28:29.626 --> 00:28:30.711
I am?
00:28:30.794 --> 00:28:35.382
The cold-water jar.
Take the lid off.
00:28:51.815 --> 00:28:53.609
Pull the rinse jar.
00:30:52.978 --> 00:30:53.937
Huh?
00:30:54.938 --> 00:30:56.023
You see?
00:30:57.566 --> 00:30:59.902
My hands moved by themselves.
00:30:59.985 --> 00:31:02.196
Yes. Your hands know it.
00:31:03.071 --> 00:31:07.784
Don't think. Just trust in your hands.
00:31:10.954 --> 00:31:15.125
My hands had moved as if
something controlled them.
00:31:15.209 --> 00:31:17.794
It felt strange, and wonderful.
00:31:21.924 --> 00:31:23.175
Great!
00:31:31.141 --> 00:31:34.770
Two months later
'First Day of Winter'
00:31:48.784 --> 00:31:50.536
Stop.
00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:53.956
Turn your body towards the hearth.
00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:58.544
You turn, holding the ladle rest
in your left hand...
00:31:58.627 --> 00:32:04.299
...so your knees line up
with the edge of the hearth.
00:32:05.050 --> 00:32:09.388
Set the ladle rest inside
the mat edging.
00:32:09.471 --> 00:32:13.308
Third weave. Third.
00:32:15.769 --> 00:32:19.648
Now set the ladle to your right...
00:32:19.731 --> 00:32:22.484
...parallel to your leg.
00:32:24.903 --> 00:32:28.824
Since it's winter,
we'll be using the hearth.
00:32:28.907 --> 00:32:32.494
You maintain this angle to it
as you make the tea.
00:32:33.745 --> 00:32:35.205
But we've always...
00:32:35.289 --> 00:32:38.917
That was Summer Tea.
This is Winter Tea.
00:32:40.627 --> 00:32:44.506
It's all right.
Forget about Summer Tea now.
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:48.093
Just change the feel.
00:32:48.177 --> 00:32:52.014
In hearth season,
focus on the hearth.
00:32:52.097 --> 00:32:59.104
Line the tea holder and the whisk
there on the fifth weave.
00:32:59.188 --> 00:33:02.399
With the same hand
draw the tea bowl back.
00:33:03.567 --> 00:33:06.862
With the napkin in your right hand,
lay it beside your right knee.
00:33:08.197 --> 00:33:09.198
Good.
00:33:10.073 --> 00:33:14.703
Just when I'd started to enjoy it,
I was back at the start again.
00:33:14.786 --> 00:33:16.914
As if it was a cruel joke.
00:33:18.165 --> 00:33:22.586
'Focus on what you see,' she said.
00:33:23.670 --> 00:33:24.922
'Huh?'
00:33:26.423 --> 00:33:30.219
As if you were picking it up
in a piece of paper.
00:33:39.645 --> 00:33:41.480
The sea!
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.499
I'll bet it's cold.
00:34:00.582 --> 00:34:01.917
Freezing!
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.210
No, it's not.
00:34:03.293 --> 00:34:04.711
It's not that cold.
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:25.607
So you're not getting a job?
00:34:27.609 --> 00:34:28.777
No offers.
00:34:30.779 --> 00:34:35.951
There's more than just publishing.
There's banks and manufacturers, too.
00:34:39.288 --> 00:34:41.373
That's not what I want to do.
00:34:43.625 --> 00:34:45.961
You always wanted to write.
00:34:57.306 --> 00:34:59.308
I'm getting a job.
00:35:00.851 --> 00:35:05.647
Join a trading company, work hard,
and get sent abroad...
00:35:05.731 --> 00:35:07.316
You'll love it.
00:35:19.661 --> 00:35:20.954
Damn.
00:35:22.497 --> 00:35:23.582
What?
00:35:26.293 --> 00:35:28.837
I'll be alone at Tea again.
00:35:48.899 --> 00:35:52.569
Zampano! Zampano!
00:36:06.291 --> 00:36:10.379
When I was a kid I saw a movie
called 'La Strada'.
00:36:11.296 --> 00:36:13.799
I didn't understand it at all.
00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:19.847
But then...
00:36:21.723 --> 00:36:23.684
...a while ago I saw it again.
00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.436
It was fantastic!
00:36:27.855 --> 00:36:32.109
If that film doesn't move you,
your life's not worth living.
00:36:41.368 --> 00:36:42.703
And?
00:36:43.912 --> 00:36:45.205
'And'?
00:36:45.706 --> 00:36:47.791
Yeah. And?
00:37:02.472 --> 00:37:07.311
Maybe that's what Tea means to you.
00:37:17.112 --> 00:37:18.780
You love Tea.
00:37:22.784 --> 00:37:24.494
No, I don't.
00:37:26.121 --> 00:37:28.498
Don't be so contrary.
00:37:33.921 --> 00:37:35.422
Contrarian!
00:37:36.256 --> 00:37:37.883
Hey!
00:37:38.842 --> 00:37:40.177
Hold it!
00:37:57.236 --> 00:37:58.904 line:10%
New Year
00:37:58.987 --> 00:38:00.447 line:10%
Hello!
00:38:20.843 --> 00:38:22.886
Please come in.
00:38:28.016 --> 00:38:29.977
Happy New Year.
00:38:30.060 --> 00:38:32.771
Happy New Year.
00:38:32.855 --> 00:38:36.525
Thank you for coming
in this cold weather.
00:38:37.734 --> 00:38:42.030
Thank you for inviting us
to this First Kettle of the year.
00:38:43.407 --> 00:38:47.494
All of us who study under you
will devote ourselves again this year.
00:38:47.578 --> 00:38:50.247
We humbly ask your instruction.
00:38:52.916 --> 00:38:54.710
Everybody...
00:38:57.462 --> 00:39:01.884
Happy New Year.
00:39:44.384 --> 00:39:51.391
As this is the year's First Kettle,
we'll do the full 'thick tea' ceremony.
00:39:51.475 --> 00:39:57.064
Please watch me carefully,
because I make mistakes.
00:39:57.147 --> 00:39:59.525
I usually just watch you.
00:39:59.608 --> 00:40:03.237
All I do is talk,
so I'm not very good at this.
00:40:04.821 --> 00:40:08.408
Please help yourselves.
How is the food?
00:40:08.492 --> 00:40:09.952
It's very good.
00:42:27.965 --> 00:42:31.552
There was a fluidity to Sensei's movements.
00:42:32.302 --> 00:42:36.515
It was like a mountain stream
flowing through me.
00:42:38.892 --> 00:42:43.021
Comforting, and refreshing.
00:42:45.148 --> 00:42:46.775
Not very good?
00:42:46.859 --> 00:42:48.277
It was!
00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:52.197
This is for the thin tea.
00:42:52.281 --> 00:42:52.948
Boar?
00:42:53.031 --> 00:42:55.367
'Dog', of course.
00:42:55.450 --> 00:42:57.995
This is the Year of the Dog.
00:42:59.872 --> 00:43:04.334
So you only use this bowl
once every twelve years?
00:43:04.418 --> 00:43:05.586
That's right.
00:43:06.253 --> 00:43:09.464
So three or four times in your life?
00:43:09.548 --> 00:43:11.216
Yes, you're right.
00:43:13.802 --> 00:43:15.137
That's a dog?
00:43:16.513 --> 00:43:18.056
What's this?
00:43:18.140 --> 00:43:19.766
I don't know.
00:43:21.143 --> 00:43:24.897
One month later
'Season of Great Cold'
00:43:35.407 --> 00:43:38.035
'My oh my oh my'!
00:43:38.118 --> 00:43:42.748
I thought it'd be more dignified.
Like in 'The Makioka Sisters'.
00:43:45.167 --> 00:43:47.085
Sensei's saying it, too.
00:43:47.169 --> 00:43:48.003
Yes!
00:43:55.344 --> 00:43:58.764
Noriko and Michiko,
don't get lost.
00:43:58.847 --> 00:44:00.641
Hold onto your shawl!
00:44:23.413 --> 00:44:26.708 line:10%
Every Day a Good Day
00:44:35.634 --> 00:44:39.555
Thank you for waiting.
Please come in.
00:44:40.138 --> 00:44:44.852
This way, please.
00:44:48.063 --> 00:44:50.482
Please.
00:44:51.149 --> 00:44:53.443
There's room over here.
00:44:56.488 --> 00:44:59.449
Two on each half-mat, please.
00:44:59.533 --> 00:45:01.827
Push in as far as you can.
00:45:01.910 --> 00:45:06.206
There's room right here.
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:13.922
It's like a bargain sale!
00:45:18.427 --> 00:45:20.971
There's space over here.
00:45:23.557 --> 00:45:25.475
Oh, I couldn't!
00:45:29.646 --> 00:45:32.566
There's room over there.
00:45:32.649 --> 00:45:35.110
I wouldn't dare sit at the end!
00:45:36.695 --> 00:45:38.447
Excuse me.
00:45:39.656 --> 00:45:42.618
I wouldn't think of it!
00:45:43.285 --> 00:45:44.870
No, allow me!
00:45:44.953 --> 00:45:47.831
Could someone act as Guest of Honor?
00:45:50.709 --> 00:45:53.337
Uemura-sensei, would you?
00:45:55.172 --> 00:45:58.133
Uemura-sensei, if you please.
00:45:58.217 --> 00:46:03.347
I couldn't possibly!
I'm a complete beginner.
00:46:05.974 --> 00:46:09.228
We can't start without
a Guest of Honor.
00:46:09.311 --> 00:46:11.438
Please, Uemura-sensei.
00:46:11.522 --> 00:46:12.940
Please!
00:46:16.318 --> 00:46:18.111
You come, too.
00:46:20.572 --> 00:46:22.366
Thank you.
00:46:41.552 --> 00:46:47.349
Although I am unworthy,
I will then occupy the seat of honor.
00:46:47.432 --> 00:46:50.018
I beg your indulgence.
00:46:50.102 --> 00:46:52.521
As we beg yours.
00:47:15.335 --> 00:47:20.048
Handmade earthenware.
Made by Raku Ryonyu IX.
00:47:22.092 --> 00:47:24.052
Examine it carefully.
00:47:25.053 --> 00:47:28.015
The weight, the texture.
00:47:28.098 --> 00:47:31.810
How it fits naturally into your hand.
00:47:34.521 --> 00:47:37.232
See as many of these bowls as you can.
00:47:37.816 --> 00:47:39.651
Train your eye.
00:47:50.746 --> 00:47:53.498
It's light and warm. Like a squirrel.
00:48:13.352 --> 00:48:15.854
Sensei had this one.
00:48:15.938 --> 00:48:17.105
Yep.
00:48:18.357 --> 00:48:21.276
But what does it really mean?
00:48:23.612 --> 00:48:27.741
'Every day a good day.'
00:48:28.700 --> 00:48:29.785
So what?
00:48:30.452 --> 00:48:35.582
So maybe every day is a good day?
00:48:36.625 --> 00:48:38.836
Even I understand that.
00:48:40.629 --> 00:48:42.297
Just that?
00:48:42.381 --> 00:48:44.466
What do you mean, 'just that'?
00:48:47.052 --> 00:48:48.303
Yeah.
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:54.309
The letters are hard to read.
00:49:01.984 --> 00:49:08.991
The scent of the plum blossom
penetrates three thousand realms
00:49:16.456 --> 00:49:22.171
The bamboo leaves send
a cool breeze
00:49:28.969 --> 00:49:30.679
Ten thousand leagues
of autumn breeze
00:49:30.762 --> 00:49:33.515
Two years since we'd taken up Tea.
00:49:34.016 --> 00:49:37.686
Somehow we'd both managed
to graduate.
00:49:38.854 --> 00:49:41.273
I had part-time publishing work.
00:49:44.443 --> 00:49:48.238
As she had planned,
Michiko joined a trading company.
00:49:59.374 --> 00:50:00.959
New people joined.
00:50:01.043 --> 00:50:02.336
Snap it clean.
00:50:05.214 --> 00:50:07.216
Yumiko, a housewife.
00:50:09.885 --> 00:50:11.428
Sorry!
00:50:11.512 --> 00:50:13.722
Ms Tadokoro, a policewoman.
00:50:16.767 --> 00:50:19.061
Sanae, a beautician.
00:50:37.120 --> 00:50:40.207
Left foot onto the next mat.
00:50:44.002 --> 00:50:47.297
That was you once.
00:50:48.382 --> 00:50:49.591
Yes.
00:51:06.733 --> 00:51:10.612
Wrap it around from above.
00:51:16.994 --> 00:51:21.623
I'll say this: I'm still in the fog.
00:51:24.877 --> 00:51:26.712 line:10%
'Summer Solstice'
00:51:26.795 --> 00:51:28.463 line:10%
And then one day...
00:51:58.994 --> 00:52:01.705
The sound of rainy season.
00:52:10.172 --> 00:52:13.509
It was different than the sound
in autumn.
00:52:21.892 --> 00:52:27.314 line:10%
'First Day of Autumn'
00:52:27.397 --> 00:52:28.857 line:10%
Hello!
00:53:30.627 --> 00:53:34.173
Waterfall
00:53:48.687 --> 00:53:53.358
Don't read the characters.
See them as a picture.
00:53:54.443 --> 00:53:57.029
These hangings are great!
00:54:00.616 --> 00:54:07.539
It's hot today, so I ran more water
in the stone basin outside.
00:54:24.139 --> 00:54:29.019
The sound of the water
seeped into my soul.
00:54:35.609 --> 00:54:41.448 line:10%
'First Day of Winter'
00:54:49.122 --> 00:54:53.043
One day I noticed
a slight difference in sound.
00:55:19.778 --> 00:55:21.321
Hot water.
00:55:28.203 --> 00:55:30.122
I will conclude.
00:55:47.764 --> 00:55:49.308
Cold water.
00:55:58.525 --> 00:56:04.740
They were different.
The hot water made a deeper sound.
00:56:17.336 --> 00:56:22.216 line:10%
'Season of Great Heat'
00:56:26.345 --> 00:56:27.971
I thank you.
00:57:14.977 --> 00:57:18.063
I want to go to the festival!
00:57:19.314 --> 00:57:24.152
The loneliness of being
a sickly child came back to me.
00:57:24.236 --> 00:57:29.658
Forgotten feelings would awaken
and disappear again.
00:57:33.996 --> 00:57:37.457
Something in me had changed.
00:57:51.680 --> 00:57:54.600
Three years since I'd finished school.
00:57:55.601 --> 00:57:58.520
Yumiko was too busy at home now.
00:57:58.604 --> 00:58:03.150
Officer Tadokoro had a baby now,
and was taking time off.
00:58:04.026 --> 00:58:09.281
Other young wives joined, had babies,
were transferred, and left.
00:58:10.949 --> 00:58:12.701
And Michiko...
00:58:15.829 --> 00:58:17.456
Noriko...
00:58:18.373 --> 00:58:19.541
What?
00:58:21.251 --> 00:58:22.961
I'm quitting work.
00:58:26.798 --> 00:58:28.050
Really?
00:58:29.551 --> 00:58:31.053
You're sure?
00:58:31.720 --> 00:58:33.805
Yes. I'm sure.
00:58:36.391 --> 00:58:38.101
Wow.
00:58:39.102 --> 00:58:40.521
I'll get married.
00:58:44.316 --> 00:58:46.026
Who to?
00:58:46.860 --> 00:58:51.406
I don't know. I'll go home
and do an arranged marriage.
00:58:54.826 --> 00:58:56.411
Really?
00:59:00.249 --> 00:59:02.626
There's no future for me at work.
00:59:04.294 --> 00:59:07.089
And it's not work I want to do.
00:59:15.430 --> 00:59:20.435
Three years out of university,
and I was still writing part-time.
00:59:22.271 --> 00:59:24.064
Just drifting.
00:59:24.982 --> 00:59:28.360
While Michiko was forging ahead.
00:59:33.949 --> 00:59:37.411
I decided to take
the publisher's test again.
00:59:38.120 --> 00:59:41.665
I'm sorry, Sensei.
I'm afraid I can't make it today.
00:59:42.291 --> 00:59:47.754
You have an important test
tomorrow, don't you.
00:59:47.838 --> 00:59:49.256
Good luck.
00:59:49.339 --> 00:59:52.885
I'm sorry. Thank you.
01:01:00.369 --> 01:01:01.370
Hello!
01:01:02.162 --> 01:01:05.082
Yes? Noriko?
01:01:05.165 --> 01:01:09.336
I just couldn't concentrate.
I came to have some tea.
01:01:09.419 --> 01:01:11.213
Am I too late?
01:01:12.214 --> 01:01:14.174
Come in.
01:01:14.258 --> 01:01:18.762
That's all right.
I'll make the tea.
01:01:31.316 --> 01:01:34.903
You've got an important test
tomorrow.
01:01:35.487 --> 01:01:39.324
I thought the Bodhidharma
glaring at you might help.
01:01:40.033 --> 01:01:43.871
He's the darma of victory,
after all.
01:01:43.954 --> 01:01:47.249
And I suppose there's always
'try, try again.'
01:01:50.961 --> 01:01:52.296
I guess, uh...
01:01:55.799 --> 01:01:57.217
...thank you.
01:01:57.301 --> 01:02:01.388
Hurry up and eat your sweet.
01:02:04.266 --> 01:02:05.392
Yes.
01:02:21.909 --> 01:02:25.954
I still failed the exam,
and didn't get hired on.
01:02:29.458 --> 01:02:34.880
But gradually I became what
they now called a 'freelance writer'...
01:02:34.963 --> 01:02:37.216
...so I could relax.
01:02:37.799 --> 01:02:42.054
I hope that you will build
a happy family together.
01:02:42.137 --> 01:02:45.098
I pray for your happiness.
01:02:46.642 --> 01:02:47.976
Michiko...
01:02:50.145 --> 01:02:51.813
...congratulations.
01:03:01.657 --> 01:03:04.493
Michiko married a doctor
from where she was from.
01:03:05.160 --> 01:03:09.248
She had children,
and put down family roots.
01:03:09.331 --> 01:03:11.583
Happy New Year 2003
01:03:11.667 --> 01:03:14.336
Michiko was forging ahead.
01:03:17.172 --> 01:03:20.175
And all of a sudden I was 30.
01:03:37.025 --> 01:03:42.281
Hitomi, a 15 year-old in Grade 10,
was the latest newcomer.
01:03:46.535 --> 01:03:47.995
I'm sorry!
01:03:50.581 --> 01:03:53.458
My foot's gone to sleep!
01:03:57.045 --> 01:04:00.174
That's all right.
we were all the same.
01:04:01.049 --> 01:04:04.303
Will I ever be able to do this right?
01:04:07.723 --> 01:04:10.893
But it turned out
that Hitomi was a natural.
01:05:40.190 --> 01:05:41.733
Look!
01:05:41.817 --> 01:05:45.153
Isn't that cute! Perfect for fall.
01:05:46.154 --> 01:05:48.657
Do we use the bamboo rest today?
01:05:48.740 --> 01:05:49.992
I think so.
01:05:50.075 --> 01:05:53.996
But today we use the utensil stand.
Shouldn't it be the ceramic?
01:05:54.663 --> 01:05:57.875
You're right. I'm sorry.
01:06:04.423 --> 01:06:07.176
The bowl in the middle?
01:06:07.718 --> 01:06:10.304
No! Two thirds of the way over.
01:06:10.804 --> 01:06:12.764
Towards the guests.
01:06:12.848 --> 01:06:14.141
Sorry.
01:06:35.537 --> 01:06:37.706
Rinse jar?
01:06:41.210 --> 01:06:45.130
You know,
I've been thinking for a while...
01:06:45.214 --> 01:06:51.428
...the way you hold the ladle
looks very rough.
01:06:51.512 --> 01:06:54.223
Try to be more gentle, will you?
01:06:56.099 --> 01:07:02.147
It's been more than ten years now.
It's time you took this to heart.
01:07:11.740 --> 01:07:13.075
'Rough'...
01:07:18.539 --> 01:07:21.375
I'm clumsy, and slow to catch on.
01:07:22.626 --> 01:07:25.212
There's no place for me here.
01:07:55.450 --> 01:08:00.706
I had a long-time boyfriend.
We were getting married.
01:08:01.290 --> 01:08:02.791
Supposedly.
01:08:05.961 --> 01:08:10.716
Two months before the wedding
I found out he'd been cheating.
01:09:18.033 --> 01:09:22.579
I could have just accepted it,
married him, not made waves...
01:09:23.747 --> 01:09:26.542
...and not disappointed my parents.
01:09:30.921 --> 01:09:32.214
Noriko?
01:09:34.591 --> 01:09:36.343
Shall we go eat?
01:09:38.262 --> 01:09:40.138
You have to eat.
01:09:45.352 --> 01:09:49.940
But I couldn't find it in my heart
to forgive him.
01:09:55.028 --> 01:09:56.738
Let's stay home.
01:09:59.408 --> 01:10:00.534
I guess so.
01:10:13.046 --> 01:10:17.467
Mom, Dad, I'm sorry.
01:10:27.436 --> 01:10:30.189
I told Takeda-sensei about it...
01:10:30.272 --> 01:10:33.442 line:10%
...and took three months off.
01:10:33.525 --> 01:10:37.196 line:10%
'Season of Great Cold'
01:10:41.742 --> 01:10:42.784
I'm leaving.
01:10:43.911 --> 01:10:45.245
Off you go.
01:10:46.496 --> 01:10:48.207
Noriko...
01:10:48.290 --> 01:10:49.416
What?
01:10:54.129 --> 01:10:55.589
I'm fine.
01:11:00.052 --> 01:11:01.470
Bye.
01:11:09.895 --> 01:11:12.064
She likes Tea that much?
01:11:12.147 --> 01:11:15.400
I don't know.
But she keeps at it.
01:11:16.652 --> 01:11:17.986
Yeah?
01:11:20.739 --> 01:11:22.741
Let's have a drink.
01:11:22.824 --> 01:11:25.744
What? It's still only noon!
01:11:25.827 --> 01:11:27.246
Who cares?
01:12:05.701 --> 01:12:11.039
Another name for witch hazel
is 'winterbloom'.
01:12:12.791 --> 01:12:19.256
Even at the coldest time of year,
there's still one flower that blooms.
01:12:32.060 --> 01:12:34.521
Can you read this?
01:12:34.605 --> 01:12:39.526
It's a pun on 'good fortune in',
like you say on the last day of winter.
01:12:39.610 --> 01:12:42.988
It means 'the wise are untroubled.'
01:12:44.740 --> 01:12:48.827
And today is the last day of winter.
01:12:48.911 --> 01:12:52.080
So as of tomorrow
we're looking at spring.
01:13:01.256 --> 01:13:03.842
This sweet is 'underground shoot'.
01:13:04.510 --> 01:13:10.432
It expresses how the plant buds
in the barren winter soil.
01:13:10.516 --> 01:13:12.684
Please help yourself.
01:13:36.333 --> 01:13:37.543
It's good.
01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:47.386
You can quit anytime.
01:13:49.012 --> 01:13:53.809
Or you can just come
for a nice cup of tea.
01:14:00.607 --> 01:14:01.775
Yes.
01:14:07.823 --> 01:14:12.202
The first day of spring comes
at the coldest time of the year.
01:14:12.286 --> 01:14:15.163
'Spring is almost here'...
01:14:15.247 --> 01:14:18.292
...people used to say
to get through the cold season.
01:14:19.543 --> 01:14:22.004
I was just like those people.
01:14:22.671 --> 01:14:27.259
Just managing to breathe,
to get through the winter.
01:14:31.221 --> 01:14:34.558
And a year later,
after another winter ended...
01:14:41.607 --> 01:14:43.650
...I was in love again.
01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:51.783
That this day would come again!
01:14:56.038 --> 01:15:00.834 line:10%
At 33, I finally got my own place...
01:15:00.918 --> 01:15:01.752 line:10%
'First Day of Spring'
01:15:01.835 --> 01:15:05.047 line:10%
...about half an hour by train from my parents.
01:15:14.723 --> 01:15:15.891
Hello?
01:15:17.392 --> 01:15:21.021
Yeah...
01:15:22.731 --> 01:15:24.191
Yeah...
01:15:24.274 --> 01:15:29.321
Saturday, huh?
01:15:34.076 --> 01:15:38.080
I have to stop in at home,
but let's meet later for dinner.
01:15:38.664 --> 01:15:40.082
I'm back!
01:15:42.167 --> 01:15:43.418
Hello.
01:15:44.503 --> 01:15:45.879
Let's have dinner.
01:15:45.963 --> 01:15:48.841
Sorry. I have to go
right back out again.
01:15:48.924 --> 01:15:51.468
At least stay a while sometimes.
01:15:51.552 --> 01:15:54.263
He's lonely without you.
01:15:54.763 --> 01:15:56.265
No, I'm not.
01:15:58.892 --> 01:16:00.644
I'll have a drink, then.
01:16:03.105 --> 01:16:04.565
Cheers.
01:16:07.651 --> 01:16:09.862
Ah, that's good.
01:16:10.654 --> 01:16:12.364
Next week, then.
01:16:12.447 --> 01:16:13.532
OK.
01:16:14.867 --> 01:16:15.701
Have this.
01:16:15.784 --> 01:16:16.785
Can I?
01:16:19.913 --> 01:16:22.875
I miss Mom's cooking.
01:16:22.958 --> 01:16:24.877
She's the best.
01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:26.879
It's great.
01:16:30.799 --> 01:16:34.636 line:10%
We've been practicing 'tea gatherings'...
01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:35.554 line:10%
'Season of Rain Water'
01:16:35.637 --> 01:16:38.849 line:10%
...for larger groups of people.
01:16:39.683 --> 01:16:43.645
For your hosts,
for your guests...
01:16:43.729 --> 01:16:50.736
...you must cherish each of these
as 'once in a lifetime' events.
01:16:50.819 --> 01:16:53.655
Take them very seriously.
01:16:59.870 --> 01:17:06.210
Yukino was related to Sensei.
I really admired her taste.
01:17:06.793 --> 01:17:13.509
Even if tea gathering is always with
the same host and guests...
01:17:14.426 --> 01:17:19.473
...that one particular day
will never come again.
01:17:22.184 --> 01:17:28.106
Perform the tea ceremony as if
it will only ever happen once.
01:17:45.916 --> 01:17:50.254
Sensei was really something today.
01:17:51.129 --> 01:17:53.131
'Once in a lifetime.'
01:17:55.759 --> 01:18:00.472
It's a very old saying, from when
Rikyu was evolving the tea ceremony.
01:18:02.224 --> 01:18:06.728
A friend who was fine one day
might turn up dead the next.
01:18:07.396 --> 01:18:09.565
It was common.
01:18:12.109 --> 01:18:15.571
Anyone you met
you might never see again.
01:18:17.906 --> 01:18:20.993
And there were no planes,
trains or phones.
01:18:21.869 --> 01:18:27.916
Once you'd parted, you never knew
if you'd see someone again.
01:18:29.376 --> 01:18:30.919
That's true.
01:18:39.595 --> 01:18:43.974
Today's the day
Shinoda-sensei died.
01:18:44.641 --> 01:18:47.269
She was Sensei's teacher.
01:18:48.937 --> 01:18:51.356
That photograph?
01:18:51.440 --> 01:18:52.608
Yes.
01:18:53.108 --> 01:18:55.152
I never met her.
01:18:55.861 --> 01:18:59.573
Sensei stopped studying Tea
when she got married.
01:19:00.324 --> 01:19:08.165
Shinoda-sensei cried at the wedding.
'I've lost a daughter,' she said.
01:19:10.584 --> 01:19:13.295
Then she died.
01:19:15.756 --> 01:19:17.841
Quite soon after.
01:19:19.301 --> 01:19:25.641
She was quite old by then,
but Sensei took it hard.
01:19:27.309 --> 01:19:29.186
She blamed herself.
01:20:07.641 --> 01:20:12.688 line:10%
Season of
'Clear and Bright'
01:20:18.318 --> 01:20:19.444
Hello?
01:20:19.528 --> 01:20:21.822
Hi, Dad. What's up?
01:20:21.905 --> 01:20:25.075
I'm close by.
I thought I'd drop in.
01:20:25.158 --> 01:20:27.536
I'm just heading out.
01:20:28.036 --> 01:20:31.582
All right. I'll see you next time.
01:20:31.665 --> 01:20:33.709
OK. Sorry.
01:20:34.334 --> 01:20:35.544
No problem.
01:21:32.392 --> 01:21:34.061
Hello, Mom?
01:21:34.811 --> 01:21:37.314
Why are you calling so late?
01:21:37.397 --> 01:21:38.732
Is Dad there?
01:21:40.943 --> 01:21:42.486
He's in bed.
01:21:42.569 --> 01:21:43.612
Oh.
01:21:45.280 --> 01:21:47.366
Why?
01:21:47.449 --> 01:21:48.825
Nothing.
01:21:50.285 --> 01:21:53.247
He called me earlier today.
01:21:53.330 --> 01:21:58.627
He did? That's unusual.
We'll see you after Tea, won't we?
01:21:58.710 --> 01:22:01.797
Yes. See you Saturday.
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:03.090
Bye.
01:22:37.374 --> 01:22:38.250
Noriko?
01:22:38.333 --> 01:22:39.334
Mom?
01:22:39.918 --> 01:22:43.130
Your dad's been taken ill.
01:23:05.611 --> 01:23:07.112
Dad said...
01:23:09.573 --> 01:23:17.414
...'Noriko's coming tomorrow,
so let's have rice and bamboo shoots.'
01:23:43.148 --> 01:23:44.441
Noriko?
01:23:48.570 --> 01:23:50.239
When was it?
01:23:53.617 --> 01:23:57.037
When did we last eat together?
01:24:19.309 --> 01:24:24.439
On April 5th, with the cherry blossoms
at their peak, Dad died.
01:24:54.469 --> 01:24:56.305
So Noriko...
01:24:57.639 --> 01:25:03.353
...now cherry blossoms will hold
sad memories for you.
01:25:04.313 --> 01:25:05.647
That's right.
01:25:06.690 --> 01:25:10.068
He's gone, just like they go.
01:25:11.653 --> 01:25:15.032
Just like they go.
01:25:15.741 --> 01:25:17.451
Sensei...
01:25:31.006 --> 01:25:33.175
Noriko...
01:25:33.926 --> 01:25:39.348
...you mustn't blame yourself,
you know.
01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:46.605
Sensei!
01:25:46.688 --> 01:25:48.023
I know.
01:26:04.414 --> 01:26:09.711
Like the finale of a drama,
the cherry blossoms fluttered down.
01:26:29.398 --> 01:26:35.571
So much that happens in life
comes suddenly.
01:26:36.572 --> 01:26:38.907
You can't prepare for it.
01:26:42.661 --> 01:26:47.332
All you can do with grief
is take time and get used to it.
01:26:49.126 --> 01:26:51.587
Hurry up, now.
01:27:01.763 --> 01:27:03.015
Beautiful!
01:27:14.735 --> 01:27:16.778
Allow me to go first.
01:27:25.579 --> 01:27:27.664
Thank you for this tea.
01:27:52.064 --> 01:27:53.315
Very good.
01:29:07.055 --> 01:29:09.391
Dad!
01:29:34.875 --> 01:29:37.628
Thank you!
01:29:53.435 --> 01:29:56.396
Thank you!
01:30:27.886 --> 01:30:32.224
Listen to the Rain
01:30:32.766 --> 01:30:35.227
On a rainy day,
listen to the rain.
01:30:35.310 --> 01:30:39.982
Savor the moment with all five senses,
with your whole body.
01:30:40.816 --> 01:30:43.318
On a snowy day,
look at the snow.
01:30:43.986 --> 01:30:46.572
In summer, feel its heat.
01:30:46.655 --> 01:30:49.449
In winter, the freezing cold.
01:31:06.550 --> 01:31:11.263
'Every day a good day.'
So that's what it means!
01:32:10.364 --> 01:32:15.077
12 years later
'Season of Minor Cold'
01:32:18.330 --> 01:32:23.710
It's 24 years since I took up Tea.
The world has changed.
01:32:23.794 --> 01:32:27.756
Things have happened
that no one would have believed.
01:32:29.591 --> 01:32:34.721
Still, every Saturday,
I go to Tea.
01:32:44.857 --> 01:32:47.067
Happy New Year.
01:32:47.150 --> 01:32:50.070 line:10%
Happy New Year.
01:32:57.911 --> 01:33:02.082
It's a new year. That's wonderful.
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:09.464
Thank you very much
for staying so long...
01:33:10.299 --> 01:33:15.053
...with one as unworthy as myself.
01:33:16.346 --> 01:33:20.475
You have my heartfelt gratitude.
01:33:24.062 --> 01:33:28.483
Gathered here for
another First Kettle like this...
01:33:28.567 --> 01:33:32.905
...we are simply doing the same thing
year after year.
01:33:33.989 --> 01:33:37.951
But lately I've come to think...
01:33:39.620 --> 01:33:44.625
...that being able to do the same thing
every year this way...
01:33:44.708 --> 01:33:50.964
...is true happiness,
wouldn't you say?
01:33:59.765 --> 01:34:02.434
This is for the thin tea.
01:34:02.518 --> 01:34:03.435
Boar?
01:34:03.519 --> 01:34:05.604
'Dog', of course.
01:34:05.687 --> 01:34:08.148
This is the Year of the Dog.
01:34:09.483 --> 01:34:14.071
So you only use this bowl
once every twelve years?
01:34:14.154 --> 01:34:15.280
That's right.
01:34:15.364 --> 01:34:18.158
So three or four times in your life?
01:34:18.700 --> 01:34:20.577
Yes, you're right.
01:34:37.261 --> 01:34:42.558
I wonder what the world will be like
next time we use this bowl.
01:34:43.892 --> 01:34:46.270
I hope we're both all right.
01:34:49.231 --> 01:34:51.942
I'll be 100 years old then!
01:34:56.864 --> 01:34:57.906
It's true!
01:35:00.033 --> 01:35:01.577
Some things...
01:35:02.077 --> 01:35:06.999
...are quickly understood,
and some things take time.
01:35:07.791 --> 01:35:12.880
The things easily understood
need only be gone through once.
01:35:13.755 --> 01:35:17.301
But those other things...
01:35:17.926 --> 01:35:22.472
...you come to understand
only with time, little by little.
01:35:24.099 --> 01:35:28.061
As a child
I saw Fellini's 'La Strada'.
01:35:28.854 --> 01:35:33.108
Now when I see it,
I can't hold back my tears.
01:35:34.818 --> 01:35:37.404
Yukino, Noriko...
01:35:37.487 --> 01:35:40.574
...you should teach Tea as well.
01:35:40.657 --> 01:35:47.080
By teaching, you are taught.
01:36:02.304 --> 01:36:06.391
Perhaps my real beginning
comes now.
01:39:37.102 --> 01:39:42.608
Written & Directed by
Tatsushi Omori
01:39:44.318 --> 01:39:46.320 line:10%
Subtitles Ian MacDougall
01:39:46.403 --> 01:39:49.698 line:10%
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