A Farewell to Jinu (ジヌよさらば ～かむろば村へ～)

to Kamurobamura - Bus stop.

Ah... I wish I was a cat.

When I was a kid I loved race cars.

I wanted to become a cheetah, a juicer-mixer.

Considering various objects around...

the cat was my favorite.

Call Amano Supermarket for bus schedule updates.

When will you turn 18?

In 4 months.

Being 18, that's the real life.

Isn't it great to be 18?

Why?

The legal age for entertainment and prostitution.

Feels great to be freed from the law.

Even at 18, I won't do these.

Either has no appeal to me, that's not freedom.

Is that a joke?

Don't touch my sense of freedom.

It's my...

don't undermine my sense of guilt.

Ah, I want to be a cat.

Sorry.

What are you looking at?

Uh?

I wasn't looking.

You were looking with your mind.

I wasn't looking.

I don't have that ability.

You think I'm stupid?

Are you doubting my ability to read your mind?

With your ridiculously impractical luggage.

You think you're smart?

You think you're superior.

City folks with their flashy luggage.

Get lost.

Hello.

Hey, Aoba-chan, it's him, right?

Right, you can't hear.

To Kamurobamura? -Yes.

So you're Takami Takeharu?

I am.

So you bought the shack next to Saito's.

The shack?

Yes.

That's why I came to fetch you.

Right, I am...

the mayor of Kamurobamura.

Sorry, I didn't think it was a shack.

Surely, it requires renovation.

It won't take much to look good.

Mr. Takami, I'm in the process of introducing myself.

I'm waving my card at you.

Sorry.

Amano Yosaburo, Mayor of Kamurobamura.

You sir, are the mayor?

And a bus driver?

That's it.

Ask any questions, I'm the mayor.

You came that far north from Tokyo...

why do you want to be a farmer?

So you got burned out in Tokyo and you came here?

It's not like that.

Someone just took a picture of me.

It's Mr. Nakanu.

Mr. Nakanu?

He's a god of this village.

Is that so?

Another one has come.

I have to do something about it.

Now come the aggravations.

Matsuda Ryuhei is Takami.

Farewell to Jinu

Amano Supermarket

Thank yeeh.

Welcome Aoba-chan.

It's my place.

Really?

Akiko.

She's my wife.

Eh?

Uh?

Uh? Eh?

He's moving into the shack? He's young.

The shack.

I'm 27.

There.

Eh?

Ah.

Ah.

But... the money.

It's OK.

It's Také, we'll call you Také.

Yes.

Akiko, tell him what we lack in this village.

No hospital, no school, no police...

we even lost the post office this year.

Whenever you need these...

this man takes you to the city.

And young people are lacking too.

Kamurobamura

Elderly ratio 40%, population 494.

Of which 198 are above 65.

About to become a marginal settlement.

You bought this for $10,000?

Yes.

They're lending me the field, though.

Ah, it's Miyon's land.

What?

Hayasaga Miyoshi.

We call him Miyon.

Ah, I see.

Meself'n got to speak y'all northern parlance.

I really hate when people try to mimic us.

Promise to never do that again.

I promise.

They're here already.

There's an altar.

It's big.

It's my home now.

Can you give me your number?

Got rid of the phone.

I don't need it here.

Are you simple?

Eh?

In this place you can't survive without it.

And how do you call the power company?

I don't need electricity.

At all.

What? you can't.

I don't use pipe water either.

I'll dig a well.

And the gas?

There's gas too?

I won't need it.

You gonna die.

You're a doowit.

Uh?

Hey.

Hey? What? What is it?

I can't...

I won't use money.

That's...

the reason why...

I came here so that I wouldn't have to...

use even a cent.

No way, it's not possible.

Even with a fireplace you need firewood.

To buy it you need the 'jinu'.

'jinu'? -Money.

Listen.

In this area it's cold at night, doowit.

I'm prepared for that.

I brought hitech north-pole equipment.

I have a warm pajama.

Can I see your hitech gear, then?

That Tohoku region is a freezer.

Crap, it's too cold.

It's too cold, I can't.

I'm gonna freeze to death.

For real... I'm gonna die.

Freeze to death.

I'll have to gather his trashed boxes tomorrow.

His trash?

Mr. Ikitsu asked me.

Since he's not registered, his garbage is illegal.

Is the new guy stingy?

Uh?

When he had to pay for the groceries.

He was like, "Uh? "

maybe, he is stingy.

This guy, in Tokyo...

ran out of money, and he came here.

Right.

Akiko, indeed he isn't at his place.

Did he... did he...?

Hello.

That guy lives in his own world.

Maybe he came after a broken heart.

What? The antique appraisal show?

Yes, please record it for me.

Yes, this is Isa Inn.

It's you, Yosaburo?

Is he a young man?

Katsuo.

Have you met someone who came from Tokyo today?

No.

No, we didn't see him.

Mom, I caught a crayfish.

Wow.

Mr. Nakanu.

What? My dad is there?

That is...

What?

I'm telling you to come.

You want me to come.

It stopped.

Thank god.

The rain has stopped.

That idiot.

He's cutting a tree with his knife.