(in Japanese) Solomon, show Tetsuya.
Yeah, I'm watching.
Solomon, who's that?
Hana.
You should've told me you were coming.
I'm glad I came.
Now those bitches over there know who you belong to.
What's with her attitude?
Solomon, look.
I don't have any money today.
Look.
The rice is hard.
Don't touch if you're not buying it.
It's wrapped. It's meant to be touched.
Do you think this is what America's like?
Like a convenience store?
All prepackaged, ready to buy. With so many choices. I love it.
Hey.
We should run away to America together.
What are you talking about? We don't have that kind of money.
Money's easy, if you don't care where it comes from.
Of course it matters where it comes from.
Amen to Solomon.
Your family raised you too well. A boring life awaits you.
That's not for me.
I want to see it all.
Hawaii. Paris. The penguins.
But most of all, Hawaii.
Nagano-san,
my mama's always praising how smart you are.
But you're married, isn't that so? She missed her chance.
I've tasted your mother's fried chicken, Hana-chan.
Tell her I'm the one who's missing out.
Let's not.
Prove that I mean more than those bitches from school.
You already know how I feel.
Do it.
Wait, what's in your pocket?
Run!
Hana!
Nagano-san, it was me!
This is what you've come to!
- Aren't you ashamed? - I'm sorry. I'll pay for it.
Her life's hard enough with a divorced mother.
I promise, we'll never come back!
You're not getting off that easy!
I know how to deal with your kind.
You bastard!
Hello? I caught a shoplifter in my store. Come arrest him.
Please, my dad will kill me!
Another Korean, these troublemakers.
I want him taken in.
Right now.
But if I don't do something, this kid will never learn.
Come immediately.
Solomon, stop!
Don't do it! Solomon!
Are you hurt?
No, I'm okay.
You're his father?
He's never done anything like this before.
That's why we call it a first offense.
This is how it starts.
No, he'll never do it again.
I swear it.
The store owner asked us to inform his school...
But then he'd be suspended!
Even kicked out.
But he's committed a crime.
It was just some candy!
I know what he did was wrong,
and I will reprimand him severely for this.
I ask you to let him go, please.
Hello?
Yes, I am dealing with that situation right now.
Why is that?
But shoplifters should be...
I see.
Yes. I understand.
Look at me.
It looks like you have a powerful friend in this world.
You can leave now.
- That's it? - I've been ordered to release him.
Who made that call?
That doesn't matter now.
Explain yourself.
Why did you do something like that?
It was her fault, wasn't it?
- No! - Tell me the truth.
Hana had nothing to do with it.
Fine.
I believe you.
This can't happen ever again.
But you're not getting off that easy.
I'm sending you away to America.
- I've finally made up my mind. - I don't want to!
You know, your mother never wanted you to grow up here.
But I wanted to keep you with me. I was selfish.
I see now that I was wrong.
No, I can't leave Hana!
Do you know how much worse tonight could've gone?
I don't want to go. This is my home.
This is where you'll always have that mark. You're going.
Your grandmother will be sad,
but I'll convince her it's what's best for you.
Get in.
(in Korean) Have you lost your mind?
Do you know what kind of women go to those places?
Lower your voice.
The whole neighborhood already knows!
How do you think I found out?
We were just trying to help.
Am I no longer the head of this house?
Because that's what you just announced to the world!
It's not like that.
Of course you are.
And you. Have you no shame?
It's bad enough things are so hard for our people here…
Without the two of you acting with no shame.
No wonder they think the worst of us!
She had nothing to do with this.
The idea was mine alone.
We had none of these troubles until you entered this home.
What am I to do now?
How can I show my face again,
knowing that some silly women paid my debts?
My nuts, they're shriveling!
Why are you talking like this?
Where did you get the watch?
My mother gave it to me.
Your mother?
A widow who runs a boardinghouse has a watch like that?
I can't breathe here.
We know we did wrong. We're sorry for it.
Please, come back home.
- Sunja! - This can't be.
It's not time for the baby to come yet.
Unfortunately, there is very little we can do.
Your daughter has been ill for some time now.
At this moment, this is beyond help.
And if rumors were to spread that we have an AIDS patient here…
In other words, we aren't prepared to care for her.
Please don't say that.
I advise you to treat her at home.
A family doctor to protect her...
No. She deserves your care.
I understand how you feel.
But I cannot possibly ask my staff to care for your daughter...
I will do it.
Let's move the patient to a separate wing.
I think we can care for your daughter.
Thank you very much.
Very well.
Thank you for speaking up.
Speaking frankly, there is no cure.
We don't know how long she will hold out for.
It could be months.
It could be weeks or even days.
I'm sorry to come to you like this, but I am desperate.
I thought at first he was with those gang boys by the dock,
but I fear he's now involved with something more dangerous.
I'm worried sick. He's my eldest.
If anything were to happen to him…
I was hoping you could speak to him.
What makes you think I'll have any success?
Pastor Yoo would be better.
But you're younger, more vigorous.
You'll understand him better.
I'm just a novice. I can't...
He no longer answers my questions.
Tells me the less I know, the safer I am.
What could he mean by such a thing?
I've already lost my husband here.
If I lose my son as well…
Do not upset yourself.
I will go to him.
I know there are some who think you are too young,
too ignorant because of your privileged upbringing,
but I feel fortunate to have you with us.
Thank you, but I still need to prove myself.
I will do my best.
You will get through to him. I know you will.
Thank you.
Let's go.
So my mother thought she'd try with you as well.
A mother's love isn't felled so easily.
Be grateful for it.
I have somewhere to be.
I'll walk you then.
Fine.
Every day, I walk these streets,
and I'm reminded how much I've lived with my eyes closed.
I heard about your father.
How old were you when he died?
Fourteen.
It must have been a heavy burden,
to be so young and to feed your family.
Who doesn't have a story like that here?
Just ask anyone.
What would someone like you know?
Hana, you should go to America.
They know more about this over there.
I have a friend from college whose father's a famous surgeon.
I'll reach out to him.
Are you listening?
Hana, listen to me.
It is what it is.
What?
You were the only 14-year-old boy who talked like that, Solomon.
I'm not going to America.
Then what are you going to do?
Staying here won't change anything.
I'll just die.
Solomon, you still can't take a joke.
So adorable.
But you never could see things as they are, could you?
Never could.
Time to open your eyes, Pastor.
Those men and I,
we go into the ground…
For what?
So some subway can carry more workers further and faster away.
So they can break their backs like us.
But do you hear us asking for the spoils?
Just something, anything, to set us apart from animals who shit on the streets.
I feel what you are saying, truly.
But to speak so openly like this…
It's not just you and your family,
but we all will feel that hammer of theirs strike us down.
All these people!
You think I don't know?
You don't think my mother's face haunts my dreams,
shaking me awake with tears in my eyes?
I think of all of them. My brothers, my sisters,
even strangers I've yet to meet.
But if I allow my fears to shape me…
I would no longer recognize my own outlines.
Then how can I call that my body?
And without a body, can I call myself a man?
Solomon…
After you left for America…
I used to stare at all those fancy homes and imagine…
How great it would be to grow up in a family like that.
Surely, the children of those families
never got the empty feeling that nothing good would come of them.
I got this disease from a guy who came from one of those families.
You know,
one of those who loves to brag about their samurai ancestors and crap.
Why are you telling me this?
Because you need to know how I've lived my life.
And you need to see how I've ended up.
The Hana you knew is gone.
We are not men. Not to them.
And this humiliation, it drives us to drink,
and to fight,
and to return home to beat our wives.
There, at least we know we're not the lowest.
There's even someone lower.
We've been playing by their rules,
but are we not still cold, still hungry?
It's time we shatter those rules.
Be careful with your words.
Men have been arrested for saying far less.
You still don't see it, do you?
Maybe it's the suit.
Wait.
What do I tell your mother?
Tell her she has a son who is grateful for his mother's love.
Solomon, look at me.
You will never be one of them,
even with your nice clothes, your fancy degrees.
Sure, they'll leave the door open just wide enough
to make you think you have a chance,
but don't be fooled.
Looks like you're having a rough one.
I know you. You're Mamoru Yoshii.
I've heard of you too. The boy who crashed the deal.
Is that what they're saying?
I'm not a man with a good reputation either.
I think the two of us…
We have much in common.
Are you okay?
Don't worry about me.
Women have been giving birth forever, haven't they? Go on.
Go and find Yoseb, quickly.
Kyunghee is worried sick.
Yes, find him quickly.
He can be reckless when he gets like this.
Any idea where he would go?
He'll be at the bar below the streetcar stop.
But please don't judge him too harshly.
Don't worry. I'll make it right.
Do you know who I am?
I'm from the noble class!
My family is from one of the oldest houses in Pyongyang!
Wow, you're a noble? You don't say?
Me, I'm a noble too!
And so is this good gentleman here.
Me as well! Noble class!
Who are you to mock me?
My boss relies on me.
Can you say the same about your foul pigs?
More the other way around, as I see it.
I always wondered how you managed it,
how you kept your job for so long.
What are you? A spy for the Japanese?
Or a thief?
Yoseb!
What are you doing here?
Did she send you?
Sunja's in labor.
Go.
I want to finish my drink.
I'm of no use there.
You're feeling sorry for yourself now.
Hey! An extra cup here!
Why are you here? Go to your wife.
She's the one who told me to find you.
And what about you? Are you a noble as well?
Does that matter now?
Those things mean nothing here.
Bastard.
It's what they want,
for us to turn on one another.
Hey, do you really believe we're all the same now?
You, who had a servant to tend to all your needs?
And where is he now?
Our parents' hardships come no easier dwelling on what's been lost.
That's a fool's game, brother.
What's the point fighting amongst ourselves?
Your family certainly made you the investment.
Choate, Yale. Expensive résumé.
Could say the same thing about you.
UCLA, Stanford Law.
And now we're both back.
And I hear your father's pachinko parlor is doing well.
Why bring up pachinko all of a sudden?
Pachinko interests me.
Why? It's for people who have no other options.
Perhaps a long time ago.
I'm not following.
You want us to get into pachinko?
Not here.
The market's too crowded, thanks to people like your father.
But in Korea, Thailand, Macau.
Who knows? Vegas even.
And this big idea of yours,
is it legitimate?
You mean is it legal?
Yes.
I…
I loved my grandfather very much.
But it's not like I didn't know who he was,
or what he was doing.
I don't deny it.
The world may have seen him as a villain,
but to me,
he was the man who saved me
from my drug-addicted father,
his own son.
What I'm trying to say is…
I am not ashamed of my grandfather.
However…
I'm not him.
And people like us,
we don't need to walk in our family's shadows.
Not anymore.
Just think about it.
Where's your yakuza boyfriend?
Just because he owns a pachinko parlor doesn't mean he's a yakuza.
We came here in a hurry,
so he went back to get some things we'll need.
I always wondered.
I'm sure he had a lot of women to choose from,
despite being Korean.
But why did he choose you?
And he didn't leave you, even after he heard
how often you used to spread your legs for all those other men.
Save your breath.
You can't make me fight.
So you'll just bore me until I die?
In that case, bring me a knife and I'll just die right now!
Grandmother,
you're here too.
It's a damn family reunion.
Go buy me some coffee.
Etsuko-san spent a great deal of money looking for you.
You Koreans are so obsessed with money.
Everyone told her it was hopeless,
but she wouldn't give up.
No mother can ever give up on her child.
Why are you here?
Tell me the truth. You don't even like her.
Just like you hated me being with your darling grandson.
I know you knew about Solomon and me.
Grandmother,
everyone thinks you're such a saint.
But if Solomon ever finds out
you were the one who told me to run away,
what do you think he would say?
What the hell?
Don't you remember what you said after Solomon went to America?
You said it was good that he had gotten away from us.
Because if he stayed, we would only ruin him.
You meant me. I would ruin him.
And I have despised you ever since for saying that,
even if I knew you were right!
You thought I was talking about you?
I said those words… about me.
You?
Once, I had another son.
And he was good as well.
But because I ruined his life…
He is gone now.
Why won't the baby come?
I don't know.
Enough!
How is anyone to rest with all this noise?
You have no right to just barge in here!
Look at those hips!
What are you doing?
I've delivered enough pigs to know how this works.
Help me.
Come on now!
Listen! More clean linens. And water. Now!
Bear down on your feet!
I have no more energy.
Push!
Together!
Mother!
More! More! More!
In this world of troubles.
What is your hope?
Isn't it enough that you've enjoyed.
Wealth and prosperity?
Cheers!
Special Higher Police. Routine inspection.
I need to check your bag.
- Get up. - Is there a problem?
I've done nothing wrong.
Give me your bag. I need to check inside.
Just my work clothes.
Hand it over now.
Hey, what's inside your coat pockets?
Rise.
Hurry.
Please. They're for my pigs.
Stay still.
I need a bigger push! You're doing well.
You're doing great. Just a little more!
You need to push for the baby to come out.
- I can't do any more. - Come on, one more!
You can do this.
Sunja, you are strong.
Come on, one more! A little more.
Then the baby will come out.
It'll come. Keep pushing!
You're doing well.
How could we have just all sat there?
To think I did nothing...
Of course you did nothing!
That's called survival.
Why do you have to carry it all?
How much longer do you have to do this? Haven't you suffered enough?
And to take pity on a girl like her, to bring her into our home…
Just stop it!
You are not to talk about Sunja like that.
I won't allow it.
I'm sorry. I spoke badly.
It's not just your words,
but your thoughts as well.
Brother…
I should have died this year.
But instead, I stand before you.
And Sunja is to thank for that.
You don't know what she's done, or what she's capable of.
But I do.
It's coming!
Keep pushing!
One more time, push!
I see the head. The baby's coming!
With Sunja, I have this feeling…
That perhaps my life…
Can be significant somehow.
Not on a grand scale,
but I feel like I can do something.
I don't want my child to grow up in a world like this.
I want my child…
To recognize the outlines of his or her body,
and I want this child to thrive.
Brother, don't our children deserve at least that?
You do,
and I do as well.
Sunja, it's a boy.
I know this face.
My mother.
My father.
I know him.
Come, meet your son.
A son?
My son.
To think that they turn into us.
Brother-in-law…
Will you name the baby?
Me?
I don't deserve that honor.
You are the crown of this family.
It is not an honor, but a duty.
He who opened a new world…
Who believed…
When no one else did.
Let's call him Noa.
Do I
look hideous to you?
I only worry that you are in pain.
You are still my Hana.
Nothing will ever change that.
Is there more?
I didn't realize how hungry I was.
There's always more. Eat up.
Grandmother, where did you get all this?
The hotel had a portable gas stove.
I brought the side dishes from home.
You brought side dishes from home?
I didn't know how long we'd be here.
Look how much this bento box holds.
- Come eat. - I'm not hungry.
You need to keep your strength up now.
- Eat. - I told you I don't want to eat.
The bank fired me
because I told Mrs. Han not to sign.
It's your fault.
You made me pity her,
and you made me weak.
That's not weakness.
Whatever it was,
it's ruined me.
Everything I've worked so hard for.
Do you really think your life has been a hard one?
So now you too.
Do you resent me
for having what you didn't, or not suffering as you did?
Fine. You're right.
I'll never win that.
I had a choice too, you know.
A long time ago.
I could've had unspeakable riches, but I turned it down.
This was before the war.
Before I married your grandfather.
Why didn't you take it?
How could I live with a life split in half?
One life I could talk about, and the other half hidden away.
That means something.
More important than being successful
is how you came by your success.
I know, Grandmother.
I'm trying.
You'll be late.
Why don't you wear your suit anymore?
God doesn't need me in a suit.
This feels more comfortable.
What is it?
I have a son now.
Where you failed,
another woman has succeeded.
Are you listening?
Some women are more accommodating, aren't they?
I don't need to explain her to you.
But with this,
you are released from your conjugal duties.
You must be pleased.
I know this marriage has been a curse to you.
It's some solace, I suppose.
But it's too late.
My body,
you have sullied it.
But…
Your darling son,
I wonder what he will think of you.