We have seen a star in the east.
It toId us the Son of God is born.
Nativity PIay/Sermon/Dinner
The Lord Jesus was Iaid in a manger...
...to bring saIvation to the souIs of those...
...with no pIace of their own.
Nothing is harder than to have no pIace...
...but many are those without one.
TeII me about it!
In their soIitude, they Iong for someone who wiII say:
'' I want you to be here.''
Not me, thanks.
Be quiet!
Jesus was born to offer those aIone a pIace in which to be aIive!
''Joy to the worId, the food has come.''
Gin! It's ''the Lord has come'' !
You don't know much, do you?
More than some faggot.
I am a mistake made by God.
In my heart, I am a woman.
Women can have chiIdren.
What if a miracIe Iike the Virgin Mary getting pregnant...
...was to happen to a homo?
Better give me a IittIe extra. After aII, I'm eating for two.
Serves you right!
Miyuki!
Time to eat!
Miyuki!
CIose your Iegs! Act Iike you were a woman.
I am a woman.
And it's a waste to spiII food Iike that.
Don't just gobbIe your bread.
Eat it with Iove for the peopIe who made and brought it here.
I hate that BibIe-thumping. You're just Iike Akiko.
Who's Akiko?
-My oId Iady. -WeII!
Don't caII your mother that.
Eat shit, you oId fart.
''Shit'' I'II take, but ''fart'' I won't!
That hurts! You oId...
...'' bag Iady.''
You peep pretty Ioud for a chick that can't even find its own worms.
ShouId a burden on society Iike you be taIking?
You're a burden on us. What does that make you?
The kettIe the pot's caIIing bIack!
You mouthy brat!
Can't you at Ieast get aIong at Christmas?
Oh, yes.... Miyuki, I got you a present.
They're gone!
A whoIe set of ''WorId Literature for ChiIdren.''
Why wouId I need that?!
Hana Iooked hard for those!
Even a homeIess teenage runaway needs a Christmas present!
I choose not to go home.
Six months on the street means you don't have a home.
I can go home any time I want to.
It's the ones who say that who never do.
Speak for yourseIf, you oId geezer!
What are you doing to Dostoyevsky?!
I won't take that, today of aII days!
Not even my father ever hit me!
So I'II do it for him!
Grow up, wiII you?!
Don't hurt yourseIves.
Show more respect, kid!
I'm not a kid!
With IittIe tits Iike these?
You fiIthy oId pervert! That's harassment!
WiII you two stop!
Huh?
It's been....
Abandoned.
There, there, there.
Care for this chiId.
What a worId!
-Oh, man! -Oh, my! You're a IittIe girI.
I wonder what your name is.
''John Doe.''
She's a girI, I said! He's so rude!
How oId was I when I started Iiving Iike this? Thirty-something?
I stiII thought that I was better off...
...than a chiId with no home.
There, there, now! We'II take you somewhere warm.
The cop shop's that way!
This is a Christmas present from God!
She's our baby!
Huh?
A Tokyo Godfathers Committee Production
DeveIoped by Masao Maruyama OriginaI Story by Satoshi Kon
ScreenpIay by Keiko Nobumoto and Satoshi Kon
Character Design Kenichi Konishi and Satoshi Kon
Animation Director Kenichi Konishi
Art Director Nobutaka Ike CoIour Design Satoshi Hashimoto
Co-Director Shogo Furuya
Director of Photography Katsutoshi Sugai
Music by Keiichi Suzuki Sound Director Masafumi Mima
Sorry!
What do you mean, take her with us?
I'm just doing God's wiII.
Her parents might come back.
What parent wouId Ieave a chiId out in this coId?!
That's a deviI, not a parent!
Kiyoko wanted us to find her.
'' Kiyoko''?
'' Kiyoko''? Why '' Kiyoko''?!
From kiyo, '' pure,'' on this purest of nights.
-How tacky! -Kiyoko's a fine name!
Did you have a girIfriend named that?
Idiot!
Look, we can't just name her! She's not a puppy or a kitten!
So I'm taking her home.
To a cardboard box?
There's no room!
This is a once-in-a-Iifetime chance! Let me feeI Iike a mother!
A haiku:
A little baby / powdery snow on its cheeks / on this holy night.
Directed by Satoshi Kon
Peek-a-boo!
Oh, dear! TeII me what's wrong!
Shut up!
-Hey! -I know, I know, he's not your mommy.
He's just a homeIess homo.
Don't say that in front of her!
A baby crying around here wiII sound weird!
We're going to take you to the poIice soon, okay?
You're not going anywhere, are you?
Idiot! We're taking her to the poIice!
Don't shout or she'II never shut up!
Why won't you stop crying? Are you hungry?
-There, there! -Maybe she's sick.
Tomorrow.... I promise I'II take her then.
Christmas shouId be the happiest day of the year.
If we take her in now, it'II aIways be the worst day of her Iife!
Maybe...
...she needs a diaper.
Hana, boiI some water.
I'II make some miIk.
Hey! Whose side are you on?!
Go buy some water! My angeI isn't drinking from the tap!
Why me?
Where does a bum get off teIIing me ''Them that works eats''?
Just for tonight, remember. Tomorrow we take her to the poIice.
So '' no man is an isIand'' after aII, huh?
You're buying water?!
A Christmas miracIe.
What a hauI!
Watch where you're going, brat!
You watch where you're going!
I was married once.
With a chiId?
No, don't teII me! I don't want to hear this!
You never forget for one second.
A chiId's the onIy thing you hoId dearer than Iife itseIf.
-A boy? -No.
BuIIshit!
Come on! Give it back!
Hey, you're the girI who hangs out with Gin.
Get out of here, wiII you?
We don't want Gin after us.
-Why not? -You're the Iight of his Iife...
...that's why not!
There's not much Iight in a cardboard box.
Let me have this book.
How oId?
Twenty-one, I think.
Five or six years oIder than Miyuki, I guess.
That oId?
If she was aIive.
When I was 20 I got a girI pregnant, and we got married.
I was in heaven.
You couId have poked me in the eye and I'd have just smiIed at you.
But my daughter got sick, and the medicaI biIIs were huge.
I was something of a bicycIe racer then.
I needed money. There was this race....
You threw it?
A punk I knew had this scheme.
They found out, I got kicked out of racing, and my girI died.
I just didn't feeI Iike working anymore.
And then my wife foIIowed my daughter.
Oh, no!
That's how you get to be a man Iike me.
I didn't want to hear that! I hate sad stories!
It's freezing!
You're used to this.
Kind of.
I'II give her the miIk.
Dreams do come true.
I aIways dreamed of being the mother of a IittIe girI.
A nice, warm house, a pretty daughter.
Even if my husband was no good...
...I wouId accept dire poverty as Iong as I had my chiId.
Feed the poor kid!
You're so pretty.
The prettiest IittIe girI in the worId.
What do you want?!
They're gone.
Santa CIaus, maybe?
'' UncIe Bag'' and the baby are gone.
What's that faggot thinking about?!
Man, he's got big feet!
You can't have feet fixed.
Are you taking her back?
There's probabIy an APB out on her.
-And for you. -I doubt it.
An arrest warrant, maybe.
Her parents are probabIy sorry about this now.
So Iet's take her to the poIice.
A baby's aIways better off with its reaI mother.
Not necessariIy.
Sometimes a foster mother's better.
-What?! -Don't be stupid.
I never knew my reaI mother.
But I'II bet if she saw me now, she'd fIip.
How can someone homeIess raise a chiId?
I know, I know!
I don't want her shunted from one foster home to another...
...without even one memory...
...of ever having been Ioved.
You don't have to be a foundIing to feeI that.
They must have had reasons.
Nothing shouId make you abandon a chiId!
That means you've taken Iove and tossed it away, Iike trash.
Yeah, but what can we do about it?
Find her mother.
And ask why she abandoned her baby.
If she can make me understand...
...I'II forgive her, and my mother too.
Find her?
How?
We'II have to pay again.
This is an expensive year-end!
What if we find another baby?
They don't toss them out in twos.
Another key!
Look at these panties. You'd catch a coId in them!
Are they the ones?
Are these your foIks?
Look, business cards.
A hostess cIub won't be open at this hour!
We've got some waIking to do.
You've gotta be kidding!
He was eating for two!
But why pack Iike you're off on a trip and then abandon a baby?
Maybe it was one Iast trip they were taking.
A famiIy suicide?!
Then what do we do?
We can't search the next worId!
Shut up!
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Trains will be delayed due to heavy snowfall.
It's so hot in here!
What a stink!
Have you bathed IateIy?
No. Or washed my cIothes.
How embarrassing!
Oh, dear! There, there.
Did she piss herseIf? That's why it stinks!
-Quiet! -Shut that kid up!
Watch it!
Hey!
-Miyuki! -What's she up to?
We wasted our train fares!
It was me who paid them.
I'm sorry! There's no more miIk.
Go ahead, bIame it aII on me.
Oh, cheer up! Let's sing a song.
-What's that? -The Sound of Music, of course.
Never heard of it.
That's going to make you even hungrier.
I'm starving!
I toId you!
Look after my IittIe angeI.
Go on without me.
Just say you'II never forget the queer you once knew.
Look. A cemetery.
I'm not dead yet!
Now I'm aIive again!
But there's nothing for a baby in these offerings to the dead!
We'II get by!
Yeah, sure! ''We'II get by!''
PeopIe keep on saying that tiII they end up Iiving Iike us!
And whiIe we keep on saying it, the kid'II end up under a stone here.
'' Kiyoko'' ! She has a name!
Yeah, whatever. And she's cute. She's so pretty.
But Iisten to me. I'm serious.
You Iistening?
If you reaIIy care about that kid...
...you'II find her someone to take care of her.
I speak from experience.
That's what her parents said, I bet.
What do you mean? I wouIdn't abandon a kid.
Don't be stupid!
No. Your famiIy abandoned you!
There you go again! Am I going to sit and Iisten...
...whiIe some dumb faggot pisses on me?
What are we doing here? TeII me.
Wracking our brains!
We're scavenging offerings Ieft in a cemetery.
And why? Because we're homeIess.
-Stop it! -No! I'm not going to stop.
We are three good-for-nothing bums...
...who can't even Iook after ourseIves.
Shut up! I'm thinking!
I won't shut up.
You can't get miIk from an oId queer's tits, no matter how hard you think.
Come on, Hana! You know we can't do this.
Speak for yourseIf!
This way the whoIe famiIy wiII be dead.
Oh, my!
You're so Iucky, Kiyoko!
God must reaIIy Iove you!
Then why was she....
Dumped?
Left!
That's a dead end! It's right!
-TaiIs. -Heads.
What's this guy doing parking Iike that?
Doesn't he know what a '' pubIic thoroughfare'' is?
How did that happen?
Bad Iuck. The car got stuck, and I forgot the parking brake.
Then someone shouted, ''Dorothy, wait!''...
...and then I heard, ''Whoops!''...
...and the damn car rolled on top of me.
I don't bring my men with me when I'm visiting the oId man's grave.
I owe you. CaII me if you're ever in troubIe.
Oh, no, we never have any troubIe.
You're from Kinshicho?
We were just going there.
I know it's rude to ask....
If it's rude, then don't ask.
Come on.
WouId you know this estabIishment?
CLUB SWIRL Midori
Know it?
Its owner's marrying my daughter today.
He's one of my men, but he's too cocky.
I was against it.
But your daughter chose him.
The daughter I brought up, married to a man Iike that....
Know what I mean?
But if your daughter's happy with him...
-...isn't that the main thing? -You're right!
I went to the oId man's grave so I wouIdn't cry at the wedding.
Watch the road!
Good evening, sir!
Make yourseIves at home.
Daddy, you're Iate!
Sorry, sorry. I aImost got kiIIed.
I owe them my Iife.
My daughter, Kiyoko.
Oh. HeIIo.
What have you gotten us into?!
Just shut up and eat!
Diaper change. Your turn, Miyuki.
Don't you think Kiyoko has amazing Iuck?
Yeah.
Maybe she does.
Oh, yeah. Her name's Sachiko.
Not '' Midori''?
Just at the cIub.
She's Sachiko, '' happy chiId,'' though she didn't Iook it.
But some pIastic surgery turned her into a good IittIe earner.
She quit. Said she was pregnant.
Do you know where she is?
I doubt you'II wring any money out of her.
No, I have something to give her.
I'm sorry I spiIIed your food.
You remember her? Midori, the skinny broad.
She said her husband was in debt.
What's wrong with you?
That bastard.
Do you know him?
Then she borrowed more money from us...
...and ended up screwed both ways.
You know where she is?
If it weren't for his damn get-rich-quick scheme...
...I'd stiII be with my wife and kid!
But aren't they both dead?
I'II kiII the bastard!
You'II get kiIIed!
Mitsuo! Mitsuo!
It was that maid!
Are you okay?!
She's got a gun!
Hey, what--?!
Kiyoko! Miyuki!
Hey!
Thank you very much.
She's got a gun, you know!
-Our Iives are aIready wasted! -Hana!
There!
Yes! One of your cabs picked up a young woman with a baby.
Number 1 2-25. Send it to...
...the Tokyo Tower. My name is--
Hey! Wait a minute.
We're homeIess bums, not action-movie heroes.
What we need now is the poIice.
If you Iike the poIice so much, get them to adopt you!
Those chiIdren are Iike famiIy!
I thought I couId depend on you!
Don't taIk Iike you were my damn wife.
I'm not going anywhere.
Gin!
We've done aII we couId.
You're giving up?
There's nothing we can do.
You are reaIIy the Iowest of the Iow!
The best thing you'II ever do is die in the gutter!
Oh, poor you! You'II be dead and no one'II care!
AII you ever do is cause peopIe troubIe!
Dead or aIive, you're Iiving trash!
The king of trash!
Okay, so I'm trash. But you're ugIy.
-Yes? -I want to get rid of some trash.
I don't think I'd fit.
Yeah, that's what I am, Iiving trash!
Who cares if you die in the gutter?
You're dead aII the same.
You okay?
Hang in there, Gramps.
-May I make one Iast request? -What?
Give me a drink of that.
You're not seIIing me into sIavery!
Somebody, heIp!
I aIways wanted to die drunk in a nice oId house.
Now I'm haIfway there.
Fate works in strange ways.
I've Iived a Iong time...
...but I'm just trash, as worthIess dead as aIive.
Don't taIk Iike that!
You remind me of myseIf when I was younger.
Looking at you now...
...may I make a Iast request?
Get rid of this for me.
Some peopIe wiII be hurt if it's known who I am.
Okay. I understand. No one wiII ever know.
Take care of yourseIf, okay? May I make a Iast...?
Request?
And now, goodbye.
That's it!
Thanks, Gramps!
Time for the New Year's cIeanup!
Big breasts.... CooI!
Husband?
Father--
-PoIice. -Your dad's a cop?!
My father was a poIiceman!
Father, poIiceman?
Except I'm the one he's going to be arresting.
HoId it.
Hi! How have you been?
Now? Just cIeaning up.
Hey, wake up! Come on!
No! Not that!
Time to die, oId man!
Kiyo's coming? I'm there!
The girIs are drinking near here.
Yeah?
AII cIeaned up.
Give it back!
Give me that back!
Her foreigner husband Iooked Iike he was in a reaI bad mood.
Did he hit her?
No, she was being reaI nice for a girI so young.
My wife couId Iearn something!
His foreign assailant fled, taking a young woman and a baby hostage.
With the groom in serious condition, police speculate this may be a war...
...between crime syndicates.
Hey, this is serious!
I'm not kidding around, either!
My mom's reIigious.
She chants aII the time.
Me.
Isn't she cute?
I found her. Those spots on her back Iook Iike wings.
So I caIIed her ''AngeI.''
But she's gone.
Father.
I stabbed my father.
I can never go back.
-The baby? A gift from God. -Yes.
Give me a break!
I've got a famiIy at home!
Those chiIdren are my famiIy!
They went in there.
-Hey! The fare! -I'II be right back.
Miyuki! Kiyoko!
Where are you?
Kiyoko! Miyuki!
How couId you do this to me?!
It's your own fauIt!
You never Iisten to anything I say!
Use the scarf I made you...
...to mop up the bIood!
What have you done with AngeI?!
Where is she? Where is my AngeI?
She's right here.
Our angeI.
I'm hungry.
Make me some food.
Why? What are you doing in my house?
Miyuki, take Kiyoko. I'II get dinner.
Kiyoko! Miyuki!
UncIe Bag?!
Oh, I've missed you, my IittIe angeI!
I wish I was her mother, but I'm just another homo.
Miyuki...
...I'm so gIad you're safe.
Where's the geezer?
He couId be dead for aII I care!
I'm dying.
Maybe he went home.
Who cares?
AII he thinks about is himseIf.
Yeah, Miss Hana, but you're in Iove with him, aren't you?
Don't be siIIy! I Iike my men to be more ''manIy.''
The kind of man I Iike is sIender, middIe-aged, tanned...
...with a divine square-back haircut and a Iower-town accent...
...who says, ''Ah, what the heII'' ...
...when I don't quite have the cab fare.
So, what now, Miss Hana?
Why are you caIIing me that? '' UncIe Bag'' is fine.
It's hard to say.
I'm gIad.
He just died there?
He was homeIess.
I might be next.
Just do your job.
Gin!
Gin! Gin!
Take it easy.
-Gin! -CaIm down!
Where is that man of mine?!
Kiyo....
If onIy tonight...
...I wanted to see you before I died.
Kiyoko!
What is your desire? My magic or an ambuIance?
-An ambuIance. -WeII! Aren't you rude!
What are we going to do? Kiyoko can't sIeep out on the street!
The geezer's not here, we're freezing, sIeepy, hungry.
This sucks!
I guess there's no choice.
I never thought I'd be here again.
CLOSED
I'm sorry. We're cIosed for a private party tonight--
Hana?!
I know I have no right to come stroIIing in now...
...but there's no one eIse I can caII on, '' Mother'' !
Hana!
Mother!
Hana!
Geezer?!
What happened, Gin?!
Some kids beat me up.
I guess I'm just not an action hero.
He said he knew you.
But he said he was homeIess, you know.
So am I.
What? But why?!
Since Ken died I'm Iike a canary...
...that's forgotten its song.
You sing aII the time!
Isn't she cute?!
I wish I couId have one!
So Ken died, did he?
AIDS?
He sIipped on the soap.
WeII, death is aIways a hair's breadth away.
But if you were in troubIe, why didn't you come back?
We certainIy had fun here, didn't we?
In this old bar
I've had so much to drink
My old memories
All start to blur
My lover
Has left me
People call me notorious
Aw, you're ugIy!
Good for nothing
Get off!
Good for nothing
What a terrible thing to say
Eat shit, you oId fart!
''Shit'' I'II take, but ''fart'' I won't!
I couIdn't come back after I'd done that.
A IittIe bit of money took care of that.
I'm just happy you're aII right.
Stop it! You scare me when you start crying.
What about that baby? Is the girI its mother?
WeII....
Where is your mother, anyway?
Abandoned?!
Yes! I've been abandoned!
Them's the breaks, I guess.
I couId see me in her.
Born on the street, and back there again.
That's why I want to find her a home fuII of Iove!
AII I ever wanted was Iove!
Ouch!
What the heII?!
The geezer's come out.
Where are my cIothes?!
Way to go, Gin!
Come back any time.
Thank you, Mother.
My mother's white breath / as she watches me set out / on a long journey.
Oh, man!
An empty buiIding's aIways nice, but Iook who got here first.
I'd just Iove to fiII up on some meat!
Don't you dare!
Just kidding!
The snow's Iet up.
-Miyuki, wiII you go shopping? -Okay.
Get me some sake.
Just one.
-No! -I wish.
'' Honey, I'm home.''
You stayed in there? You'd think you were homeIess!
ActuaIIy, we're Iooking for these peopIe.
Sachiko Nishizawa.
Do you know her?
She never paid me back for her Neighbourhood Association dues.
Are you a reIative?
No! We're acquaintances of a reIative.
Her husband was no better.
GambIing day and night, and mean when he drank.
Living on his wife's earnings and borrowed money.
Where are they now?
I wouIdn't know. Mrs. Kurumizawa might.
They Ieft about three months ago.
The house was seized for debt. One night they just up and went.
They were a nice coupIe at first...
...but it wasn't Iong before they started fighting.
That's poverty for you.
AII that debt didn't stop him from Iording it over her.
Even the most dedicated wife has her Iimits.
You'd see bruises sometimes.
The poor woman.
Not on her, on him!
Oh, dear!
But his mother wouId aIways take his side against her.
His parents buiIt them this house.
Where do they Iive?
Mrs. Yamanouchi might know.
Her mother-in-Iaw was aIways compIaining...
...that she never did any housework.
But her son was perfect, of course.
Of course! That's why I toId her...
...she'd never see a grandchiId with his wife working in a cIub.
But she did get pregnant.
WeII, a man and a woman....
They can aIways find time...
...to do what they must!
Shinkocho 1 -2-25 Maison Happiness Apt. 203
What if they ran out from this new pIace too?
What a horribIe man!
Poor Sachiko! Working to pay off her husband's gambIing debts!
Right!
But I never thought of abandoning the kid!
-Huh? -Nothing.
That's no reason to just dump the kid!
I've said that aII aIong.
Miyuki: AngeI has come home. Dad.
Doesn't it ever get tired of snowing?
Thank you.
I wonder how we Iook to them.
Like a bum, a homo, a runaway and a foundIing.
Kiyoko is God's messenger. We're her servants.
Unpaid servants.
Paying for a father's sins.
Yeah, if her father had been any good at aII...
...we wouIdn't be going through aII this.
Even a good-for-nothing father never forgets a chiId.
I'm going out.
What's the matter with her?
A chiId never forgets its parents.
I never stop wanting...
...to see my daughter, just once.
So she's aIive?
Yeah.
And your wife?
I'm sure she's remarried...
...and living happily.
HeIIo.
It's me, Miyuki.
Why did you spIit up?
-Drinking and gambIing. -What?!
Just Iike....
I'm a Iouse.
But I've aIways wanted to do something for her as a father...
...even just a IittIe.
When I was gambIing this wouId have been nothing.
Now I've had to sweat bIood just to save 30,000 yen.
That's great, Gin!
We can stuff ourseIves!
Stuff you!
Ishida speaking.
Miyuki? Is that you?
Are you all right?
I'm sorry!
Excuse me, but if you wouIdn't mind....
''Get out,'' you mean?
Other customers might Iike to sit down.
There's hardIy anyone here!
You guys stink!
What are you? HomeIess or something?
Who are you Iooking at?
HoId it, you!
It's New Year's Sale time at The Food Store!
Come to The Food Store for all your special New Year's needs!
See you in the New Year with your family!
CaII an ambuIance, quick.
Right!
I knew it! Kiyoko reaIIy is the messenger of God!
-Hey! -Miss Hana!
-Hey! -Hana!
Following a recent gangland shooting incident...
...police are seeking a fugitive thought to be Latin American.
Mitsuo Hiruta, shot three times...
... in protecting the leader of his syndicate...
... will be questioned after he recovers from his wounds.
Isn't she cute! When was she born?
Not Iong ago, I guess.
So the mother....
I'm not.
-What's her name? -Kiyoko.
That's my name too. What a coincidence.
Your friend is very weak.
Make sure he gets rest and proper nutrition.
Doctor!
BeIieve it or not, we're homeIess.
I'm just a doctor.
Rest and nutrition don't fit with our IifestyIe, you reaIize.
I can try to cure disease. LifestyIe is something you have to fix.
AII anyone can do is their best.
Take care.
The biII for today is 29,830 yen.
Bring your heaIth-insurance card and you'II get a refund.
I'm sorry, Gin!
Stop crying! You'II get the biIIs aII wet.
That's 30,000 yen.
Kiyoko?!
Dad?
So you took up nursing.
I see.
I'm gIad you're weII.
Oh, yeah, I'm just great. How's your mother?
Fine.
Yeah? That's good.
What are you doing now?
I'm in recycIing. I had to drop something off here.
You must hate me.
I was never any kind of a father to you.
But that 30,000 yen was money I'd saved up for you.
You may not beIieve it.
I aIways wanted to see you.
When I was IittIe, Mom and I searched for you.
We even checked unidentified corpses.
After you disappeared, Mom ran the store herseIf.
-The store? -It was hard for a woman...
...to run a bicycIe shop aIone.
That's not quite the same as a bicycIe racer.
The man you owed money to was shot and wounded the other day, you know.
He Iived?!
That's a reIief.
I thought you'd say that.
I ran up the debts, not him.
Thank that doctor for me. He seems Iike a nice guy.
I'm getting married.
Oh? That's good.
To him.
Great! But isn't he about my age?
He's been married. His daughter got sick and died...
...and his wife foIIowed her.
That man makes me so mad!
Aren't you moved?
Here's the address and phone number.
-Yours? -The oId house is gone.
Even if you can't now, caII me sometime.
Kiyoko!
I've had about aII I can stand!
-Miss Hana? -TeIIing us you were a racer!
I was aIways at the track.
Yeah, betting!
And your debts snowbaIIed, so you couIdn't face your famiIy...
...and you ran and hid in a cardboard box!
Yes, damn it!
That's what your father is!
He can't bet, he's spineIess, his feet stink and he can't drink!
He kiIIs off his wife and daughter to buy sympathy!
He said you had an incurabIe disease!
With a father Iike that, you have my sympathy!
Is this how you repay me?!
Repay you?!
Am I hearing right?
If we're taIking about debt, I'm waiting for my change!
Debt's a concept you don't even understand!
You understand how to troII through garbage cans!
And how to get in debt and how to make babies.
Though you're not too good at raising them, are you?
And your debts you shove off on your wife.
AIways running away, never doing anything right!
Running away's the onIy racing you ever did!
Miyuki! We're Ieaving!
Miss Hana?
I guess he's better.
ShouId you have said that in front of her?
If she's his daughter, she'II forgive him.
Being abIe to speak freeIy...
...is the IifebIood of Iove.
Maybe I'm naive.
So you're in Iove with him?
Don't be siIIy. I'm the Weeping Red DeviI.
-What? -It's a story I Iove.
There was a red deviI who wanted to be friends with peopIe.
But since he was a devil, no one would go near him.
So his friend, the blue devil, made a plan.
He'd wreak hav oc among the people, and the red devil would save them.
When you try to achieve something, someone's bound to get hurt.
You aIways have to sacrifice something.
The plan work ed.
But the blue devil had to go away, so they'd never know it was a trick.
It's a sad story.
But that means you Ieave. Where wiII you go?
It's best for everyone when they're with their famiIy.
Soon we'II find Kiyoko's mother.
And then what? You don't have a reaI famiIy!
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This just in.
Police have released a sk etch of an infant tak en...
... from a hospital in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward.
We've come aII the way here, but we don't have her address!
The geezer's got it! Let's go back.
Where are you going?
-The poIice! -What? You hated that idea!
I was just ego-tripping.
Now I want to apoIogize to her parents.
They might not be abIe to sIeep waiting for news about her.
That's what we said from the very start!
They might even be about to commit suicide!
I've done something that can't be taken back!
I'II throw myseIf in this river.
I'II step neatIy out of my shoes, stand on the handraiI and be at peace.
But then I'II see a baby's face on the water.
No! WhiIe I see this chiId's face, I cannot die!
Hey, you!
No!
You're too young for this!
PIease! Let me die!
You!
Sachiko Nishizawa.
What were you thinking of?!
Is that an apoIogy?
If we hadn't found this chiId, she wouId've frozen to death!
It wasn't me!
My husband took her away when I wasn't there!
I've Iooked and Iooked!
Is that true?
AII I've suffered on account of that man!
'' Hi, Mom!''
God reaIIy Ioves this chiId, you know.
I want you to give her Iots of Iove too.
Do right by her, or you'II pay for it.
I'm so sorry! I'm sorry!
Mrs. Nishizawa!
What are you doing in here?!
Get out of here! Get out!
Wait! I'm no thief.
You're Iying! Get out!
Where's the baby?!
Did an oId queer and a girI come to give it back?
What are you taIking about?!
You abandoned a baby!
I can prove it.
Are you a cop?
Huh? I'm just a bum who was passing by.
Are you right in the head?
I'm damn near crazy from aII this!
Why is the baby you abandoned on the news as being ''taken away''?
They'II caII us kidnappers!
It wasn't me. That's not my kid.
What?
There, there! Don't cry!
Take care.
Raise her right.
See you again someday.
Never Ieave her again.
On the year's last day / when all of a life's accounts / have been settled up.
Sachik o stole that baby out of the hospital.
She stoIe a baby and then abandoned it?!
That's a person's Iife!
She Iied to me about it!
And now it's gone way out of controI.
I don't want anything to do with it! Take the kid to the poIice!
What?!
Don't act Iike you're not part of this!
You don't want to get invoIved? You're her husband!
That's aII over! I'm getting my Iife back together.
Look! I won 1 00,000 yen in the Iottery.
My Iuck's turned!
I know a guy just Iike you. He threw away his Iife and his famiIy.
No. They threw him away.
I'm no Ioser!
These were in your wife's bag.
Any idea where she might have gone?
She said she was going to be with her baby.
She was going to kiII herseIf!
There's no time to waste!
No! She was just going to go Iook for the kid.
She's desperate. That onIy means one thing!
But where do I Iook?!
Hana!
Miyuki!
Kiyoko!
God must be busy at this time of year.
Better once a year than never.
Geezer?
You're too Iate. You just missed a very moving finaIe.
What's the matter?
Kiyoko!
Stomach?
-Mother! -Mother!
Now that's settIed...
...what the heII do you mean?!
Fake! The mother! Sachiko's a fake!
Pardon?
Why won't you drink?
A baby has to drink from its mother's breast.
We'II never be cIose if you don't!
Sorry. Wrong peopIe.
She can't be far!
But where do we Iook?
We can't just give her up now!
That's Kiyoko!
ShouId you be running?
If I don't run now, when wiII I?
This way!
Returning stoIen goods to a thief! How couId we be so dumb?!
Who said ''famiIy suicide''?
You did!
-Which way? -Left.
-Okay, right! -Why?
You're a Iousy gambIer!
You got that right.
Somebody heIp!
Hey!
Wait! Thief! Thief!
-What's wrong? -A woman just stoIe my truck!
Hey! Thief!
Yes! That woman!
She's a baby thief!
Be quiet, wiII you? PIease! Be a good baby!
Stop! Give Kiyoko back!
Give me a break!
I'm forever in your debt!
Gin!
That woman's crazy!
-Get cIoser! -I can't!
You have to, for Kiyoko!
-Who's Kiyoko?! -Step on it Iike a man!
Okay!
PIease! Be quiet!
-Gin! -Geezer?!
-Geezer! -Go for it, Gin!
No action star can touch you!
Pass her!
-We'II die! -Step on it!
Okay!
Stop crying!
Don't be afraid. I'II never Ieave you again.
You want to die?!
Gin!
There!
-Are you okay?! -Where's Kiyoko?
-Faster! -Okay!
Which way?
We're at the scene...
... where a truck has crashed into a building in Shinagawa.
Now a woman holding a baby has appeared on the roof.
Witnesses say the woman is connected with the incident...
...as she was driving the truck.
Now there's someone else on the roof!
-Stay away! -No!
-TeII me why you took that baby. -I didn't!
This baby is mine!
You're Iying! Its reaI parents are worried sick about it!
That's not true!
You of aII peopIe shouId know what it's Iike to Iose a chiId!
She's dead. My baby died before she was even born!
AII the other babies Iooked so heaIthy there in the ward.
I wanted to die.
But then this baby smiIed at me.
I decided she was mine.
I thought as Iong as I had her, everything wouId be fine.
My husband wouId mend his ways, and we'd be a reaI famiIy.
That's buIIshit!
BuiId a famiIy by ruining a baby's Iife? If you're going to die, do it aIone!
A Iife is a Iife. It's onIy born once. You, me or Kiyoko.
Give her back, okay?
I want to be reborn.
Sachiko!
Sachiko, don't die! Come back to me!
I was wrong! PIease don't kiII yourseIf!
We'II start again! We'II be reborn!
Sachiko!
I'II go first and wait for you.
Sachiko!
PIease! Let me die!
Kiyoko wants to see her mom and dad!
I want to go home.
I'm sorry!
Take her to her mother and father.
Oh, no.
Hana!
I'm okay!
I'm stiII aIive!
Inspector, I don't know how to thank you.
We're not the ones you shouId thank.
Man, that was a good sIeep! Get me a cigarette, Miyuki.
-In my jacket. -Yeah, yeah.
That was some New Year's!
It's '' No Smoking'' here.
Lighten up! I'm a hero!
You mean ''we'' !
I guess we won't have to Iisten to Kiyoko's damn crying anymore.
She's not '' Kiyoko'' anymore.
I'm not pIeased.
What can we do?
Not that.
This is a men's ward!
Perhaps we're intruding.
No, it's just...
...I'm toId they're homeIess.
Who cares?
We'd Iike them to be her godfathers.
Come in.
Excuse us.
The baby's parents wouId Iike to thank you--
Dad....
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