Algernon Ni Hanataba Wo (Flowers for Algernon / アルジャーノンに花束を)

My dream is to become smart.

That's Sakuto. He’s been kinda slow since birth.

I want to become a good boy.

One more time.

Stupid is bad... - It’s okay. I absolutely won’t abandon you.

An extremely excellent rat that is being administered ALG.

We named him "Algernon."

Next will be clinical trials.

Algernon ran away?

What’s your name?

Algernon! He's a very important rat. So...

That's why I want you to return you. Please!

One more time.

Working adults need three things. The first:

Patience.

Good adults don’t break so easily.

The second is your mother.

It’s important to value your parents.

And the third...here.

Pay envelopes! - Ya~y!

I hope you’ll steadily save money for your futures and never waste it.

Yes, Sir. - Okay.

Now I’ll distribute this month’s salary.

Shikauchi-kun. - Yes, here.

Handa-kun. - Yes!

Yanagawa-kun. Good work. - Yes!

Namita Kousuke-kun. - Yes, thanks so much!

Cash? - He’s from the Showa period.

The manager understands value.

Shiratori Sakuto-kun. - Yes!

Here, good work. You worked hard this month.

Yeah, I worked hard. - Oshima-kun! Here, good job.

58.63 seconds. No error!

Yes! - This course…

...is more complicated than just figuring out signs.

However, Algernon didn’t lose his way, moreover, he improved his time.

Both his health and his progress are doing well.

How are the preparations for the clinical trials? - Well…

We don’t yet have a test subject. - Yet?

I’m sorry. We’ve thoroughly searched the supporting institution,

but we haven't found anyone.

But we'll get their approval today and get a recommendation from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.

Please hurry.

Yes, Sir.

Seven. Eight.

Nine.

9,5000 yen.

You going to buy something? You’re saving money. - Uh…

Oh, you froze. Hey...

I get it, it’s okay. Here.

Car. - You want to buy a car?

Uh...brrr...beep beep...brrr…

But you don’t have a license, do you.

He froze up again. Hey!

I get it, it’s fine. Here.

I’ll study...become smart…

…and get licen...a license.

Hey, today, can we change vehicles?

The GPS on my vehicle is broken. - But I need a GPS, too...

You’ve got Saku with you, right? So you don’t need a GPS.

Here. - Thank you very much.

Here you go. - Is something wrong?

No. I was just thinking everyone has nice smiles.

A treatment to improve intelligence? - Yes.

With a simple surgery and medication, our experiments to rapidly elevate intelligence have been successful.

In short, you’re saying you can improve the intelligence of those here

if this treatment is conducted? - That’s correct.

Is this true? - We can prove that

the risk is extremely small. May we have your cooperation for the clinical trials?

Even so, the risk isn’t zero, is it?

The ones that are interested told us they would have to think about it.

Well, “compliance, compliance” is an annoyance in this world.

Ah, how about this?

Collaborating with rehabilitation facilities for criminals, for example.

I see. The Ludovico Technique. - Exactly.

Like in “A Clockwork Orange.”

Showing brutal images while medicating them, reducing criminal anger impulses--

Please be quiet! Using criminals for the trials is out of the question!

The test subject will be the most important person.

So to speak, to me,

he will be like a son.

Blue billboard. Right.

Police officer. Left.

That’s awesome. You remember it like a picture?

Uh...eh? - I mean...

...like taking a picture with a camera.

Pachipachipachi...pachipachipachi...

*Sound of a camera shutter

“A son.” He’s very peculiar.

Stop it!

Hachisuka-sensei’s research is the only thing that’s important to him.

Yeah, yeah.

A son, huh… - Sugino-san, a moment…

Next! Tobacco store. Left.

Not here. Not here. Not here.

Where’s the tobacco store?

It went out of business and became a bakery, didn’t it?

Where’s...obaa-chan?

*Obaa-chan can mean "old lady"

I don’t know. - She died?

Ah...probably. - Uh...ah…

Ah… - Sorry, sorry, she’s alive.

She’s alive somewhere. She’s alive.

Sad...sad… - It can’t be helped.

Uh...I’m hungry. - Eh?

I’m hungry. - You’re complicated.

Uh…

Pachipachipachi…

Pachipachi… - I have to use a camera.

Pachipachipachi. So I don’t forget.

I have to properly remember everything.

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It’s just cheap tea. - Not at all.

I’m sorry, this place is quite dirty…

Hey, you guys…shoo, shoo!

Get away! - Such a nice woman.

I wonder how old she is. - She’s young, like twenty or something.

*Bimajo are older women that have work done to stay young-looking

You’re way off. Are your eyes open? - Nowadays, they’re “bimajo,” right?

They’re women that get work done to keep their good looks.

“Put in hands.” - No, “oteire” means

cosmetics, beauty treatments, and enzyme baths.

What’s “este”? - You’re annoying, man.

Just stay quiet. Here, next, next. - Is that manager’s woman?

Nah, at best she’s a nightlife woman somewhere.

He met her at a marriage hunting party? - That’s kinda sexy.

Please just this once! - Ah, so cute!

Ah...stop that!

What do you think, Yanagawa? - That’s my mother.

Eh?!

Of course, it’s bad that she’s my mom.

Right?

I told you not to come to here.

Why not? Shouldn’t I come to greet to your boss?

Besides...I wanted to thank you for always giving me so much of your salary.

So much…

Mom, even I, you know…

...I’m into different stocks, and increasing my money...

Hey, did your father contact you?

There’s no way he’d contact me.

Ah, surely he’s just really busy.

Soon, it’ll be our wedding anniversary. I wonder if he has a surprise.

He surprised me for my birthday last year.

He gave me this as a present.

I wonder what he’ll give me this year. - Hey, Mom...

Well, see you next month.

Hello~

You guys...were watching?

We’re just passing through…

Bimajo. Bimajo.

You know, the chief is so impatient.

He’s kind of obsessed.

I think we should be more careful about how we go forward from here.

The sponsors are pressuring him for a quick result.

He's under pressure, too. - Well, there is that, but…

...there are a lot of personal reasons, too.

You two know about the chief’s divorce the year before last, right?

Yeah, I knew.

The big cause of it...

...was that his son in college passed away from an accident.

Accident...a traffic accident?

No, not that…

From the train platform…

It seems that after losing their only son, the family fell apart.

I wonder if he's...

...immersing himself in his work to forget everything that happened.

College student...you mean,

he studied science, too? - No, he played music.

Excuse me.

What is it?

Um...this song…

Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.”

Is this a song that your son loved?

I’m sorry. I heard from Sugino-sensei.

That was unnecessary.

It was a shock to hear about the train accident.

It was somewhat different than an accident.

He often got into fights on the platform.

My son…

...was pushed off the platform.

I see.

Someone bumped his violin case.

He started a fight over such a trivial thing...

That...

That simple of a thing.

In these modern times, going off just like that...

Snapping...eyes meeting...beating…

To the degree that people die.

Hachisuka-sensei…

Humans ought to be more rational and intellectual.

I want to improve the intelligence of those savage humans...

...and build a calm and peaceful world.

That is my…

...and this research’s…

...end goal.

I want to more clearly explain my vision.

I wonder if I haven’t fully explained it to you.

Properly speaking, even though everyone sees and know that's wonderful research...

...why are we fighting for a trial subject to come forward?

Why?