Where Spring Comes Late (家族)

Participant of the Art Festival 1970

We thank all the people around Japan who supported the making of this film.

Without them this film would not have been possible.

A Shochiku Film

THE ISLAND OF IOJIMA NAGASAKI PREFECTURE, SONOGI

Mrs. Kazami! Hurry up or you'll miss the boat!

Mrs. Utsumi insisted on having tea with me when I brought back the rice.

Look, Tsuyoshi! She gave me all these sweets for you.

- Hurry up! - Sorry to make you wait!

Oh, this bucket belongs to the Hara's...

I'll take care of that. - Thanks.

Oh, I almost forgot...

If you forget anything we'll just send it to you.

Seiichi! Did you take it off?

- What? - Our name plate.

- Something else you forgot? - Sorry about that.

"Seiichi Kazami"

Granny Make!

Thank you for everything! Goodbye!

Gramps!

We're off!

Not much time left.

Gramps, hurry up!

Mrs. Meada! Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Please send my regards to the chief and Mrs. Murai!

I will! Take good care!

Goodbye!

Come on! Hurry up!

Thank you for everything. Send my regards to everybody

Take good care. Goodbye!

Hurry up! The boat is going to leave!

Your speech, quick!

Listen!

Thank you, everybody!

Thank you for your help. We'll give our best in our new home!

Everyone, please take good care!

Three cheers for the Kazami family!

Hooraaaay!

WHERE SPRING COMES LATE

Tamiko Kazami CHIEKO BAISHO Her husband Seiichi HISASHI IGAWA

The Grandfather CHISHU RYU

Tsuyoshi (son) TSUYOSHI KINOSHITA Sanae (daughter) CHIAKO SEO

Also Starring: GIN MAEDA MASAKO TOYAMA

HISAO DAZAI TOKUE HANASAWA

HAJIME HANA HIROSHI INUZUKA SERIN SAKURAI

ETARO ISHIBASHI SHIN YASUDA SHIN MORIKAWA

Produced by YOSHIHARU MISHIMA and TSUNEO OZUNO

Script YOJI YAMADA and AKIRA MIYAZAKI

Camera TETSUO TAKAHA

Music MASARU SATO Art Director KIMINOBU SATO

Directed by YOJI YAMADA

Well then...

Thanks.

Gramps, time to say goodbye to Mr. Tanno.

I should bring you to the station.

But I have to be back at the city hall by 10.

Thank you for all your help. - Don't mention it.

If you need help, please write to me.

Take good care of your health.

Thanks.

Tsuyoshi!

Show all the kids over there how tough Nagasaki boys are.

Say goodbye...

Bye bye!

And all the best to you.

Say hello to Ryota when you see him.

Tell him lam still working in the island's public office.

I am sure we'll meet again.

I'll save money and take a jet to visit you then.

Bye.

This way

Thank you so much. - Take care.

All right. - Bye.

Hey!

Good luck!

Give all you have!

He's such a nice man.

He really is.

6 APRIL 1970 THE FAMILY LEAVES NAGASAKI

Tickets, please.

Thank you. To Hakata?

Arriving at 13:22.

Tickets, please.

Thank you.

To Nakashibetsu?

Going to Nakashibetsu in Hokkaido?

Yes.

That's a huge journey

And... one of you is going to Fukuyama?

It's him.

And everyone else to Hokkaido?

We'll all take a break in Fukuyama.

I see. You have to change trains in Kokura at 14:26.

Thank you.

Tickets please.

Going to Hokkaido?

Going to Hokkaido? - Yes.

That's a hard journey

How long does it take?

They said going directly we'd arrive in the evening of the third day

But you are getting off at Fukuyama?

Yes.

My second son lives in Fukuyama. That's why

And is it for a new job or for a business trip?

No, we are going to cultivate new land.

New land? - Yes.

That's a big task.

It's new land, but it won't be as great as you think.

Work will be much harder than now.

I heard some people gave up because it was too hard.

Maybe, but there are also those like Ryota who are giving their best.

Don't be so pessimistic.

Ryota's family has always been farmers.

Their bodies are used to that kind of work.

It's just a dairy farm.

We'll have our own land and can work without anyone bossing us around.

It's different from the kind of job here working under subcontract.

Depending on the mood of the chief, without any chance to develop.

It's not the right kind of work for me.

If you don't like it, why don't you go to find something in Nagasaki?

Why do we have to go all the way up to Hokkaido?

I am from a farmer's family It's not an easy life, you know?

Don't you get it? We won't be farmers there!

No big difference between fields and cattle.

Shut up already!

A woman shouldn't tell a man how to work! Go and sleep!

I had enough!

I'll go on my own!

1,000 Yen from Shinya's Shokichi. -1,000 Yen...

- 500 Yen from their grandma. - 500 from the grandma...

Mr. Hashimoto from the town hall gave us 2,000!

Oh, 2,000?

I didn't even go and pay our water bill...

It wouldn't be a big sum anyway

3,000 Yen from the priest!

3,000 Yen...

Giving us so much without even having a collection.

Who's next?

Tamiko!

Ryota says I can come whenever I want, even if I come on my own.

So no matter how hard it is...

Even if you get lonely or have to wear rags...

Even if you freeze to death in the cold winter...

You really want to go? - I told you hundred of times.

A man stands by his decisions! - Be sure you have nothing to regret!

You are getting on my nerves. Even if I fail, I have nothing to regret.

Seiichi... - What?

Then...

I will go with you.

We go as a family

It can only be a success if we give all we can give.

If you are serious, we will come with you.

But in that case... What about Ryota...

Ryota always told us...

That cultivating land cannot be done alone. That you need a whole family

All right. Let's do it.

It's decided. - And how about the money?

Train tickets alone will be over 10,000 Yen!

We'll get it somehow.

From your severance payment. Or my job at the coal pit.

And we get 20 or 30,000 in farewell gifts.

What are you thinking, dad?

Don't act as if it wouldn't matter to you!

I think it's very simple.

You should do as Tamiko tells you.

She thought more about it than you.

And what are you going to do then, dad?

Gramps will go to Fukyama and live with Tsutomu.

Tsuyoshi! Dinner!

What's that? - The 30,000 I borrowed from Chinken.

Just keep it. It makes me moody just looking at it.

- Why? - You know why

No, I don't.

Your husband is out today?

He's at work.

It must be hard for you too.

With your husband's company going bankrupt.

And your father in law being difficult.

And having two children with your young body

Why even have so many children?

We are Catholic, you know.

So when you are Catholic you cannot do... anything?

Listen, Mr. Chinken...

The thing I am asking about...

You can ask me for anything, you know.

How much money do you need?

You just pay me back whenever you are ready

- You aren't fooling around, are you? - Of course not!

How much do you need?

This much...

That's a big sum.

Why do you need 30,000?

Well...

But don't tell anyone...

My husband will go up to Hokkaido.

We don't have enough for the trip.

30,000 really is a lot.

It really depends...

How do you feel about this?