Hope and Pain( ダウンタウンヒーローズ / Dauntaun hirozu / Downtown Heroes )

Shochiku Films Ltd.

She felt as if she was being bounded by chains and rope.

He...

That's wrong.

You don't seem to understand this ballad at all.

- Do you have a liebe *? - It would've been nice if I had one.

*lover in German

Listen here.

The assault of the pure maiden by the devil disguised as a young man

is a sad and yet alluring depiction, you see.

It's not "he stole her lips with his".

You should translate it as "he stole a kiss from her".

While covered in tears...

... the maiden thought: "Ah, I can't let this happen"

but she couldn't fight back.

Seeing her like that, the devil got even more aroused.

He then forcibly pushed her onto the bed and teared off her blouse.

Poor her, she didn't even try to hide her beautiful pure white breasts.

I was in love.

I was thinking of her, the girl who's name I didn't even know,

just as if I was admiring a beautiful flower from afar.

Shima-kun.

Shima-kun.

Yes.

Are you hungry or something?

Fight on!

1948 (23rd Year of Showa) Shikoku Island - Matsuyama City

Downtown Heroes

Translation by bLoodZ

Hiroko Yakushimaru

Hashinosuke Nakamura Toshiro Yanagiba

Toshinori Omi, Tetta Sugimoto, Hikaru Kurosaki, Isao Takano, Shinobu Sakagami

Chieko Baisho Eri Ishida Shikan Nakamura

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Hey, Onkel*!

*onkel means uncle in German

Let's go eat!

Production: Shizuo Yamauchi, Kogi Tanaka, Shigehiro Nakagawa

Message from the Cooking Committee.

Original Work: Akira Hayasaka Screenplay: Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama

Since the situation of the staple food rations is getting worse

Shooting: Tetsuo Takaha Art: Mitsuo Degawa, Kyohei Morita Music: Teizo Matsumura

dinner on Saturday and all meals on Sunday will be suspended.

Quiet!

Directed by Yoji Yamada

Those who remain in the dorm over the weekend must secure their own meals. That's all.

- Thanks for the meal. - Sure.

That's how you end up with only 3 potatoes.

- He's become so thin. - Poor thing.

If you could at least lay an egg.

Amen.

Thanks for the food.

Sheesh... What's there to be grateful about this meal?

On the contrary, you should be angry.

The question is whether the food is tastier when you're angry or when you're grateful.

Hey guys, if I make it big, I'll feed you all the potatoes you want.

Danke *.

*thanks in German

Goethe said: "Hope is the bread of the hungry."

Well said.

Cupcake fart.

Message from the Health Committee.

According to information from the Municipal Hospital about the ringworm infection,

there's a contagion risk if you put your buttocks onto the bath's edges, so be careful.

When the morning mist filled daybreak...

That day, I met her again.

Uh? A freshman?

Damn it.

I'll tie it for you.

Give it here.

Thank you very much.

You have 10 minutes.

Because the denominator is common, it's 3 multiplied with 2, right Teacher?

Yeah, that's right.

That's 6. The numerator is 2 multiplied with 2... 4.

"Only one familiar with yearning knows what I suffer." - W. Goethe

This is so good.

Hey, doesn't it sort of feels like you're turning into

a caterpillar when you're filling your stomach with cabbage?

There was something like that in one of Kafka's novels.

One morning when he woke up, he found himself turned into a disgusting bug.

Ah, I know that one.

- Or was it a scorpion? - Wasn't it a centipede?

That's a scary story.

Hey Kosuke, are you going to eat?

Yeah.

Hey Onkel, we'll eat it all up if you don't hurry.

Okay.

Oh, there they go again.

Ah, they're heading this way.

I can't take another storm in.

Pipe down!

Oh?

It's the guys from the West Dorm.

Fight on!

Yo-oi, yo-oi, dekansho!

It hurts, stop it!

Yoi, yoi!

I'm going to sleep for the rest of the semester.

Yo-oi, yo-oi, dekansho!

Dekansho, dekansho, I'm going to dance until I die.

Yoi, yoi!

And if I die, the children are going to dance.

Yo-oi, yo-oi, dekansho!

When the morning mist filled daybreak

I want to take your picture.

Opens its golden door

- I'm scared! - Come on, smile.

- Hurry up and take it. - Smile, say "cheese". Smile.

Scott, are they beggars?

The old castle glows with morning sunlight...

No, high school boys.

Hey! Cut your hair!

No! This hairstyle is our tradition!

- Yes! - Yes!

What a dirty tradition!

That year, there was a terrible inflation.

Prices for daily necessities increased by 2-3 times in a single year.

The food situation was worsening.

Both pupils and teachers, they were all starving.

The people's lives are being driven to the verge of ruin!

- That's right! - Yeah!

Do you think our lives, the students' lives will be an exception?

- I agree! - I agree!

These lives of ours are furthermore being shaken from their roots.

For the rise of the tuition fee by 3 times,

with the rage from within our hearts...

Fight on!

... and our burning pathos, ...

Fight on!

... we must stand up and fight!

Seneca said: "The good of the people is the greatest law."

Well said!

Sa-chan was a prostitute in the red light district of the ancient Dogo Hot Spring.

She fell in love with a patron who named himself as a Matsuyama High School student.

They even made a promise to elope together.

But on the promised day, he didn't show up.

Shall we go?

Young man, are you a Matsuyama HS student?

Yeah.

Please, help me.

[Movie advertisement for Here's to the Young Lady (1949)]

Noboru, the film's ending.

Noboru, check inside.

Stop right there!

What do you want?

Hey!

And thus, we ended up taking Sa-chan into our room.

That looks delicious.

A runaway prostitute is a serious matter.

What does the East Dorm intend to do with that mädchen *?

*girl in German

Let me see...

We'll have to shelter her until we find that fake student called Omure.

But sheltering a mädchen is a problem. That's against the rules.

If respecting the rules is everything, what's the use of having liberal autonomy?

You just don't get it.

To protect our liberal autonomy heritage

we can't just break the rules without an explanation for the school.

But last year, a nurse stayed here when Ken Yama committed suicide.

What was that?

That was an emergency.

If Ken Yama's suicide was an emergency, then this is an extreme emergency.

Running from the red light district means her life's at risk.

Do you know what will happen to that mädchen if we chase her out now?

I'm beaten.

The Dorm Council is too conservative.

What happened?

"I can't study here, so I'm going to stay at a friend's." he says.

But doing that might hurt her feelings.

You're saying that because you're good at studying, but I'm not like you guys.

What a dull guy he is.

Why did he even bother coming here?

- Is she sleeping? - Yes.

[Written on the wall: "Many are impotent in time of need!!"]

Yeah, she's sleeping well.

She must be exhausted.

She was walking all day long without eating, after all.

Yeah.

She's not wearing anything under.

Shall we run up to the castle?

- Yes. - Yes.

Aah, On a dreamy spring somewhere in the Southern Sea

Gathered for a joyful banquet...

Psychology is basically

the study of the unknown.

And that's why you gentlemen study the unknown, in order to understand it.

You should memorize that.

So, the mind, you see...

... can't be measured in either volume or weight.

The mind... instead...

When you're depressed...

When you're happy...

Oh my! What's this?

Was there such a student in this class?

You better pay your tuition fee.

As long as you pay, there's a free desk for you right there...

Those who listen for the monkeys:

What of this child in the autumn wind?

Why did this happen? Were you hated by your father?