| Onna Sakasemasu (1987) |
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| Yakusho's role is that of a poor cellist |
| Toyoyo (Keiko Matsuzaka) confesses Takashi (Koji Yakusho) her poor childhood days at the coal mine, before she is arrested at Tokyo Station. |
| Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka: Toyoyo Ishiyama Koji Yakusho: Takashi Saegusa Kunie Tanaka: Katsuji Watanabe Takuzo Kawatani:Seijuro Omimi Ginzo Tomita: Akira Nagoya Nijiko Kiyokawa: Kin Kumai |
| onna: woman sakasemasu: I will let it bloom. |
| Directed by Azuma Morisaki Based an a novel, "Hakuchu Do Do" by Masaharu Yuhki Released date: December, 1987. Running time: 94 min. |
| Toyoyo Ishiyama's job is shoplifting in Tokyo. Her father, who was once a coal miner at a coal mine in Nagasaki, became an expert at shoplifting after his coal mine was closed. He did not want his daughter to succeed him in his business, but actually she did. Three years after the father's death, Toyoyo determines to stop shoplifting after carrying out the last big project: that is, to steal the whole sum of the money a big department store in Tokyo will annually gain just after the Christmas Day. Her intention is to give the money to her father's thieving group members who are getting older, as their retirement money. Toyoyo has got another good reason to complete this project, that is, to buy a best quality cello for a poor cellist, called Takashi Saegusa (Koji Yakusho), with whom she has secretly fallen in love. She knows that Takashi wants to win a first prize at a cello contest and wants to buy a better cello to impress the contest judges. Toyoyo returns to her old coal mine home town in Nagasaki to ask her father's old thieving group members living there to cooperate with her plan. After a lot of hustle and bustle,Toyoyo and her group members succeed in stealing the money. On her way to Tokyo Station to go to Nagasaki by train, she drops in at a musical instrument shop to order a most expensive cello to be delivered to Takashi, using the money she has just gained, without them revealing her name to him. On the platform at Tokyo Station, however, Toyoyo is approached by Takashi's sister, who is about to go home on the same bullet train to Fukui with her mother. The sister, believing that Toyoyo has come to see off her and her mother, calls Takashi in a loud voice. Takashi has recognized her but another man, a police detective called Omimi, has also recognized Toyoyo. Omimi has been following Toyoyo, having noticed that she and her group members were planning to steal something big. Toyoyo instantly realizes that she should be arrested by him so that the other members could be safe from arrest. After a brief talk with Takashi over lunch at the bench on the platform, Toyoyo tells Takashi a lie that she will get married Omimi early next year: she knows that Omimi is in love with her. She climbs the staircase to the near-by police station, tugging the reluctant Omimi's hand. Takashi visits the prison where Toyoyo is, telling her that he wants to get married with the lady who has presented him with a super-quality cello, after her coming back from a long journey overseas. Three years later, Toyoyo rejoins her old group members at the deserted coal mine in Nagasaki to dig out the money cases, when she hears a familiar cello tune in the distance. She finds Takashi playing the very cello she bought three years ago on top of the slag of coals. Looking up at Takashi proudly and happily, she climbs up the hillside: Takashi-looking happy, too- continues playing his cello. |
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