Yearning (乱れる)

YEARNING

Executive Producers SANEZUKI FUJIMOTO MIKIO NARUSE

Screenplay ZENZO MATSUYAMA

Photography JUN YUSUMOTO

Music ICHIJO SAITO

Starring

HIDEKO TAKAMINE

YUZO KAYAMA

MITSUKO KUSABUE YUMI SHIRAKAWA

AIKO MIMASU MIE HAMA

Directed by MIKIO NARUSE

News from the Shimizuya Supermarket!

In commemoration of the first anniversary of its opening

it will hold a special bargain sale

for three days starting 10th.

Everything from tooth brushes to farm appliances

to be sold at half price!

The greatest super bargain sale in history!

Good afternoon.

Dear...

They sell eggs at five yen!

Five?

11 yen apiece

The one who eats most in five minutes wins.

The winner gets two thousand yen!

Enough.

Say, why don't you try this?

I ate twelve last time and got horribly sick.

Acute supernutrition.

I belched for three days.

I'd better not.

Let's do it!

To save supper?

Let's go then.

Here we go. Hold your eggs!

Five minutes. OK?

Stand by!

Silly game!

What is this?

Who is he?

Morita's son.

Morita's?

Oh, the grocer.

Come on, let's go!

Don't kill yourself!

Cut it out!

Some people don't get enough to eat.

So what?

We shouldn't drink in bars.

It's a shame.

Mind your own business.

These eggs cost only five yen apiece at our market.

I bought a hundred with my own money.

I can feed them to pigs if I want.

To the pigs!

Wait!

This is Morita's.

Just a moment.

Madam!

Who's speaking?

The police.

Hello.

Yes, speaking.

Koji?

I'm very sorry.

Yes, I'll be right over. Thank you.

Who was it? Koji?

No, mother. It was Takenoya. They wanted us to collect.

Bill's long overdue.

Koji wasn't back last night. What a delinquent!

He attended a meeting last night.

Maybe mahjong afterwards.

Reiko!

I'm sorry.

Koji!

Morita, don't make your sister-in-law worry so much.

She guaranteed your good conduct, but remember

a private settlement doesn't absolve you.

Learned your lesson?

Sure. I'll be careful.

Then, take him.

Whatever the reason, you shouldn't have hurt them.

Violence is a vice.

I'm serious.

It's the second time, Koji.

No, the third.

Wait!

Where are you going?

I'm supposed to be collecting bills.

So we'd better go back home separately.

So Mother doesn't know I was picked up?

You're so nice!

Mother scares me.

She's worried about you quitting your job in half a year.

Every man has his own aptitude.

Aptitude?

Then what is yours?

Loafing.

Unfortunately, you can't make a living at it.

I can, now. So I'm happy.

I thank you for that.

Reiko, aren't you hungry?

No.

But it's noon.

A loafer doesn't deserve food.

Just like a saint.

So hard on my brother, too?

Of course not. He never got drunk.

Never broke windows.

Never bit someone's cheek.

Did I do that?

So I heard.

Was I that drunk?

Just one thing...

Don't worry your mother, please.

Nothing more to say. You're not a kid.

Mother thinks you attended a meeting last night

and played mahjong.

Don't tell her otherwise.

Much obliged.

Hello!

I'll quit the shop.

Why?

I'm so busy and the madam's so stingy.

The master keeps ogling me, too.

What will you do?

Welcome home.

Any orders?

Yes. Bean paste and cider for Aoki.

Vinegar and beer for Sasaki.

I see. Thank you.

Hello, Reiko.

Good afternoon, Hisako.

Collecting?

You're always busy and never free.

If only Koji would work a little for us.

He's making it up to her because she works so hard.

He doesn't look so to me.

I wonder if he likes our shop.

He hates an office job.

He's just lazy.

A college graduate shouldn't be like that.

He hates the shop?

I think he likes the shop all right...

Then why not have him work here as her partner?

It'd be a great help to me if he did.

He's taking advantage of her earnestness.

Or, he thinks he has little chance.

I've also left everything up to her.

I've done nothing.

But your hands were full nursing my sick father.

He had been very grateful to you, Reiko, till he died.

He used to say, "Thanks to Reiko

we've a better shop than before".

Thank you.

But I did just as he told me. Nothing else.

I'm sorry we've let you work for us

only because you were my son's wife.

Don't be. I ought to.

Reiko...

Please don't take this wrong.

I talked about it with Hisako.

She says

it's not fair of me to keep you here for so long.

You're still young.

I had my daughter, Takako, remarry.

Yet I've kept you widowed.

Look at this photograph.

Her husband's friend is a department head of a firm.

He gets 70,000 yen a month. His wife died 2 years ago.

Has a daughter going to school.

No, thank you!

I've never thought of my remarriage.

Well, it's all up to you.

It's just talk. Hisako insisted on telling you.

She feels she owes you very much.

She wants to repay you.

I do appreciate her kindness.

It'd be a good match.

Don't you really want it?

I feel very sorry for letting you toil for this house.

Why should you? This is my house.

Suppose Koji gets married...

He lives here with his wife.

Not embarrassed?

If Mother died soon, say tomorrow...

Why so soon?

I said if.

Don't tempt Fate.

Should it happen, they'd consider you a nuisance.

You don't have to decide now. Think it over, will you?

Yes.

How much?

120 yen. Thank you.

You won this time.

I've lost 14,000.

Gained 6, 500.

Gained 9,000.

Bad luck.

How much do I owe?