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!

• Michiko : Time to part once again.

  Kaji : Thank you for coming.

  Michiko : Hurry and go. I can't bear it.

  Kaji : Let's not say "good-bye", all right?

• 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.

• Michiko : As long as we're alive, we'll be able to meet again.