Early Summer (1951)

Chikage Awashima: Aya Tamura

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• Aya Tamura : Husbands are all like that. That's why we don't marry.

  Noriko Mamiya : That's right, isn't it?

  Takako : You don't know anything about married life.

  Aya Tamura : Married life?

  Takako : Only married people understand.

  Aya Tamura : Once you're married, it's too late to understand.

• Noriko Mamiya : Wouldn't your husband live here with you?

  Aya Tamura : Out of the question. No real man would live with his wife's family.

• Sotaro Satake : Is she interested in men?

  Aya Tamura : What do you think?

  Sotaro Satake : Sometimes she seems to be and sometimes she doesn't. Has she always been like that?

  Aya Tamura : Yes.

  Sotaro Satake : Has she ever been in love?

  Aya Tamura : I don't think so. But she has an album of Audrey Hepburn photos this thick.

  Sotaro Satake : Who's Audrey Hepburn?

  Aya Tamura : An American actress.

  Sotaro Satake : A woman? So she goes for women?

  Aya Tamura : No!

  Sotaro Satake : You can never know. She's very strange, In any case.

• Takako : Can you come too, Aya?

  Aya Tamura : I can - anytime - because I'm not married.

• Takako : Single people don't know what real happiness is. They have no right to talk.

  Aya Tamura : Shut up, Mrs. Carrot!

  Takako : Single people, have no say!

  Aya Tamura : You go on about happiness, but it's no more than the anticipation you feel before going to the races, planning what horse to bet on and how you'll spend your winnings.

• Aya Tamura : I thought you were the type who could never leave Tokyo.

  Noriko Mamiya : Why?

  Aya Tamura : I imagined you'd live Western-style, with a flower garden, listening to Chopin. In your tiled kitchen, you'd have a refrigerator filled with Coca-Cola. I thought you'd be a housewife in a house like that. When I'd visit, you'd meet me on a covered porch, wearing a white sweater, with a terrier in tow, and you'd greet me over a picket fence, "Hellow, how are you?"