The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (II) (1959)
Michiyo Aratama: Michiko
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Kaji : Michiko, will you grant me one last favor?
Michiko : Anything. Just ask. I came here for your sake.
Kaji : I realize it's cold; but, I'ld like you to undress - and stand over by that window. I must see you - all of you. I want to burn that image into my mind.
Michiko : [approaches the window, disrobes, starts to cry, Kaji approaches] I have nothing to offer you! Nothing. Please take me me!
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Michiko : Even after you left, that Sergeant Watai kept coming by. Wanted me to let him read your letters. Nasty man! Maybe he thinks you're planning to desert.
Kaji : What would you do if I did?
Michiko : Where would you go?
Kaji : Across the border. There's a man in my squad named Shinjo. After three years, he's still a private. His brother was arrested for communist leanings. Even his girlfriend sold him out. He claims there's a better world beyond that border.
Michiko : A better world?
Kaji : Where they treat people like human beings.
Michiko : And you intend to escape there all by yourself? You can't run away! Not while you still have me! The warrant officer said you were a top soldier, but you're still under suspicion, aren't you?
Kaji : I won't go. I won't run away. I'll carry on here.
Michiko : Please don't run away. Come back to me.
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Michiko : As long as we're alive, we'll be able to meet again.