Shige Kaneko: Why, you're back so soon. You should have stayed longer!Tomi Hirayama: We're home.Hair salon customer: Who are they?Shige Kaneko: Oh, just friends from the country.
Shige Kaneko: Mama, you've grown taller.Tomi Hirayama: Don't be silly. How could I have grown?Shige Kaneko: But you have, and you're even fatter.Shige Kaneko: She was so big when I was little that I used to feel ashamed in front of my friends. Once in school, a chair broke under her.Tomi Hirayama: Oh, that chair was already broken.Shige Kaneko: She still thinks that.
It was such a beautiful dawn.
Kyoko: I think they should have stayed a bit longer.Noriko: But they're busy.Kyoko: They're selfish. Demanding things and leaving like this.Noriko: They have their own affairs.Kyoko: But you have yours too. They're selfish.Noriko: But Kyoko...Kyoko: Wanting her clothes right after her death. I felt so sorry for poor mother. Even strangers would have been more considerate!Noriko: But look Kyoko. At your age I thought so too. But children do drift away from their parents. A woman has her own life, apart from her parents, when she becomes Shige's age. She meant no harm I'm sure. They have to look after their own lives.Kyoko: I wonder: I won't ever be like that. Then what's the point of family?Noriko: But children become like that, gradually.Kyoko: Then... you, too?Noriko: I may become like that in spite of myself.Kyoko: Isn't life disappointing?Noriko: Yes, it is.