Fukuoka (후쿠오카)

Jae-moon. Do you want to travel with me?

I know you're not sleeping.

Get lost.

You know Fukuoka in Japan? How about that?

Such a nutjob.

I'm not a nutjob.

Speak to my face.

Are you jailbaiting me? You friggin' little brat.

I'm 21.

Then why are you wearing a school uniform?

It's pretty.

Why are you doing this to me?

I don't have money, I don't have anything.

Go home.

Nevermind, then.

But you'll regret.

Of course you can't fall asleep at night when you hit the sack in broad daylight.

Did you hear something?

What is this?

Jin Ping Mei?

This is why you're so messed up, you little brat.

Well, you watch porn all the time.

This is much better. I can even study Chinese characters.

Do you still watch porn? Way to go for your age.

Did you do that?

Did you see a ghost?

Gosh..

Bro, do you know how Hae-hyo is doing?

We haven't been in touch for more than 20 years.

Okay.

Really?

Okay.

Okay. Got it.

What did you say a little while ago? Fukuoka?

You like this kind of stuff?

Jeong-eun Bookstore

Why did you want to come to Japan with me?

Let's see.

Do you know how to speak Japanese?

Nope.

You don't?

I don't either.

Don't worry. I'll understand everything.

Such a nutjob, this one.

FUKUOKA

Excuse me, how do I get here?

Go straight, pass the crosswalk and walk a little to your left.

Thank you.

You said you didn't know Japanese.

I said I would understand everything.

Are you a ghost?

We'll all become ghosts anyways.

What took you so long? You made me wait for hours.

Come on. It wasn't that long.

I was going to go back to Seoul.

The weather is so nice, isn't it?

You're laughing?

I paid for the flight, the taxi, the lodging, the udon...

You're driving me nuts.

Where did you get the key?

There's no counter, nobody.

It's convenient.

It's so nice not having to meet face to face.

This is called Airbnb. You don't know it, do you?

I know what Airbnb is.

But it feels nice to come out from the basement, doesn't it?

Yeah, nice.

Business isn't great anyways. You have no customers. I'm the only one.

Who says business isn't great? Everything's done online.

No way.

How many people actually come into a secondhand bookstore these days?

Me. Just me.

I need to go to the bathroom.

- We're here. - What's the apartment number?

We're here.

Here we go.

Here?

Where's the bathroom?

I don't know.

So refreshing.

Almost pissed myself.

We'll be spending some time together so let's mind our language.

Jeez.

Yeah, yeah, sumimasen.

Oh, nice.

Oh, tatami room.

Oh, nice.

Don't come in.

I don't know.

I know you can't come in.

How do you know?

People who look like you just can't.

What do I look like?

Handsome.

Gee, thanks.

You're pretty too.

Don't come in.

Don't come out.

Where are we going later anyways?

I don't know.

Don't snore.

We're almost there.

This way?

Where are we going anyways?

Is it here?

It should be.

I think it's this place.

It's this one?

It is.

Is it?

Hello.

What's your name?

So-dam.

Wow, I didn't know you had such a big kid.

What grade?

I think you've mistaken something. He's just my neighbor.

Really, the things that you do.

You should age well, you bastard.

I brought him here.

That's enough.

Why? I'm taking your side.

You've gotten really old.

Your hair greyed a lot.

So this is how you live.

You have a problem with the way I live?

How do you live?

I've come a long way. Give me a drink.

What do you want? Milk? Milk, it is.

Round the mountainside,

I approach a deserted well by a paddy-field and stare into its depths.

In the well,

The moon is bright

Clouds saunter

The sky is spread out

The azure wind blows

And there dwells autumn.

Japan's nice.

You can smoke.

Want me to tell you a love story?

You don't go well with love. Porn suit's you better.

There were two really close college mates in a drama club 28 years ago.

But these two guys liked the same girl in the drama club.

Love triangles are such a cliche.

No, I mean the two guys were going out with the same girl.

So a threesome?

Watch your mouth, you little brat.

No, I mean the girl liked both guys.

It's about to become a cliche again.

It is a cliche. Let me tell it again.

That's not it. The younger guy just butted in between the two.

Go on.

The older guy?

The younger guy who butted in?

What do you mean I butted in? We even had a three-party encounter.

The girl really liked both guys.

So what happened?

She was told to choose one.

And?

She quit school

and disappeared completely.

Because of you two?

Just because of that?

That's why you haven't seen each other for twenty-something years?

You guys are so...

What's that?

So small-minded.

I wonder who the girl is.

What was her name?

Soon-yi.

Soon-yi.

Hello.

Why isn't he responding?

Hae-hyo, aren't Japanese people polite? What's up with him?

He's a deaf-mute. He can't speak.

I think he can speak.

What?

He can speak, I think.

He's been a regular customer for. years, I should know.

I think he can speak Korean.

What?

She's a nutjob. Don't mind her.

Nutjob.

This is nice.

Didn't know there was a space like this.

Get lost.

The nutjob's gone somewhere and that man won't say anything.

Let's drink.

Just get lost, would you?

Yes sir, I'll get lost.

Thank you for all these years.

I have been a mute till this day.

Thank you for understanding.

I apologize.

This is the first time he's spoken. For real.

This is really the first time he's spoken.

He spoke in Korean. Wow, you're good.

You, for ten'years...

How did you put up with the body language and stuff all these years?

I promised myself

not to speak for a decade.