I Live in Fear (1955)

Eiko Miyoshi: Toyo Nakajima

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• Kiichi Nakajima : Please, I beg of you. Go to Brazil, I beg of you. All of you, as one family. You say I'm deluded. Maybe I am. But H-bombs really exist. War can break out any time. If it does, it will be too late; you can go nowhere then. We can still make it, let's flee why we can.

  [He points to the baby] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : I must spare him. I can't let an H-bomb get him.

  [He starts sniffling] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : I gave up hope once. I thought I wouldn't care about you. If I could save this baby at least, that's what I thought. But all of you are my flesh and blood. I can't leave you here! Please come with me!

  [He gets out a letter] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : Look, he's written from Brazil. He kindly writes to me, "Come at once. I'll arrange your citizenship. Come to me, and leave this hell. Everything will be fine." Even a stranger is kind to us. I beseech you, come with me to Brazil. Please, I beg of you, on my hands and knees!

  Toyo Nakajima : Please go with him. Father is begging you.

  [She starts crying] 

  Toyo Nakajima : I'm begging you, too. Please go with him. You know, he's always been right. Father's always been a good planner, planning for all of you. Let's go, Ichiro. Jiro, let's go. Let's go, Yoshiko. Say something! Why are you so silent?

  [Kiichi starts to get up. Sue stands up suddenly and clings to her father] 

  Sue Nakajima : I'll go with you, Father!

  [She sobs into Kiichi's clothes. Kiichi collapses. Sue kneels down and shakes him] 

  Sue Nakajima : Father! Father! Father! Father! Father!

• Jiro Nakajima : [to Kiichi]  You see, I obtained a Court Order forbidding disposal of our assets. Until the case is decided, we can't spend a yen. Yet you did this. And what you did was illegal. Your objection will be overruled.

  Toyo Nakajima : But Father brought back the money.

  Jiro Nakajima : Don't accept it.

  [Sue throws a paper at Jiro. Jiro throws the paper back. Kiichi gets up and beats Jiro] 

  Jiro Nakajima : Wait! Wait, Father!

• Toyo Nakajima : We had such a lovely time that day. It was really wonderful. But you know, it was so much fun that I knew some misfortune would come along. I was so afraid, and I was right.