YAMADA: If [we] had lived under normal circumstances, we all would have returned.

OKUZAKI: So … tell the truth for the sake of the dead.

YAMADA: I have my own way. You have yours to console their souls. I went to the Yasukuni Shrine and prayed for them.

OKUZAKI: Praying at the Yasukuni Shrine doesn’t help!

FEMALE: Stop it! Mr. Okuzaki! He’s sick! No violence!

OKUZAKI: Tell us now!

YAMADA: No! You wouldn’t understand if I did!

OKUZAKI: Say you killed him!

FEMALE: Stop it! Please stop! He’s ill!

OKUZAKI: Call the police! I’ll call them myself. Where’s the phone?

YAMADA: He attacked me.

FEMALE: He’s sick.

OKUZAKI: He doesn’t look like it.

YAMADA: We’re the victims.

FEMALE: My son will get mad at you.

YAMADA: Did you forget that I helped you? Don’t blame them.

FEMALE: Go to bed, father.

OKUZAKI: Yamada! Do you want the police or not?

YAMADA: Not if you’re quiet. Not if you promise to be quiet.

OKUZAKI: Honestly.

YAMADA: You have been hurt. I have been hurt.

OKUZAKI: Tell us! Why not?

YAMADA: I had operations. Otherwise I’d beat you.

FEMALE: Don’t do it. My son’s out.

YAMADA: I’ll sue you.

OKUZAKI: Do you want the police? Speak up! Hey, Yamada! You want the police?

YAMADA: Calm down.

OKUZAKI: Tell us, tell us the truth.

YAMADA: I can’t.

OKUZAKI: Do it now, Yamada!

YAMADA: It was too horrible.

OKUZAKI: Yamada!

YAMADA: It’s sad.

OTHER MAN: Why don’t you tell?

YAMADA: It’s the war.

OTHER MAN: It’s sad and cruel.

YAMADA: It must never happen again. I always hope so.

OTHER MAN: But young people don’t. Through movies they thing that war is heroic.

OKUZAKI: You’re still strong like a young man.

YAMADA: I’m sick, but …

OKUZAKI: You could fight all right. At the hospital I was afraid you might die.

YAMADA: I will live.

OTHER MAN: If you tell the truth, the world will realize the misery of war. It can prevent war.

YAMADA: I know.

OKUZAKI: Then, why don’t you talk? I’m reasonable now.

YAMADA: You’re violent.

OKUZAKI: Because you refuse to tell the truth. So I had to …

YAMADA: So why do force me to talk?

OKUZAKI: Because it can make all the sacrifices meaningful. Your story can change the world … Really. You experienced hell. It’s convincing. The 2^nd and 3^rd companies of the 36^th Regiment were annihilated except for you and Hachimoto. From the 1^st company only six men survived. You saw the agony of hell more than anybody else. I didn’t cannibalize. But the Wewak Garrison had to. They couldn’t survive otherwise. I don’t blame them. I blame those, who made them cannibalize. But the ones to blame aren’t being blamed. The worst of them being the Emperor. But he has never apologized.

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