Yearning for Youth and Purpose
Toyo:
What help am I?
Kanji: [[life]
You — just to look at you makes me feel better. It warms this — this mummy's heart of mine. And you're so kind to me. No; that's not it. You're so young, so healthy. No; that's not it either... You're so full of ]. And me... I'm jealous of that. If I could be like you for just one day before I died. I won't be able to die unless I can do that. I want to do something. Only you can show me. I don't know what to do. I don't know how. Maybe you don't know either, but, please... if you can... show me how to be like you!
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The Tragedy of Life's Beauty and Mortality
Novelist:
How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.
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Art and Its Directness in Expression
Novelist:
That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!
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Fear of Being Replaceable
Toyo Odagiri: [telling a joke]
:"You've never had a day off, have you?" "No." "Why? Are you indispensable?" "No. I don't want them to find out they can do without me.
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Struggling with the Meaning of Existence
Kanji Watanabe:
I just can't die — I don't know what I've been living for all these years. This expensive saki is a protest against my life up to now.
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The Challenge of Facing Death
Kanji Watanabe:
Dying is very difficult.
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Inability to Afford Emotional Connections
Kanji Watanabe: [[hate; [time]
I can't afford to ] anyone. I don't have that kind of ].
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Embrace Love Before Time Runs Out
Kanji Watanabe: [[Life]
] is brief, fall in love, maidens... Before the crimson bloom fades from your lips... Before the tides of passion cools within you... For those of you who know no tomorrow... Life is brief, fall in love, maidens... Before our raven tresses begin to fade... Before the flames in your hearts flicker and die... For those to whom today will never return...
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Facing Mortality and Seeking Connection
Kanji Watanabe: [[child; [feeling; [Darkness; [nothing]
I have less than a year to live. When I found that out... somehow I was drawn to you. Once when I was a ], I almost drowned. It's just like that ]. ] everywhere, and ] for me to hold onto, no matter how hard I try. There's just you.
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