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Iwate Prefecture, Kitakami River.
It doesn't seem like there are many people fishing in this river.
The best spot for fishing is in a hole.
Even now, I don't see anyone else fishing here.
However, I've never been away from this fishing ground,
so it's not clear how many fishermen there are in the entire Kitakami River.
I saw it with my own eyes, but if you ask me if I was really frustrated to let go of love, it doesn't matter in reality.
If you catch it, you catch it and let it go. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and when my sister's dinner is ready, I just go home.
Just like my father always did.
Yes.
You can't go home yet, raccoon?
Just a little more.
Fishing is fine, but it seems like it will be cold tonight, so go home early. I'll make you curry.
Onee-chan.
What?
Don't call me raccoon.
Sorry.
I'll go home by seven o'clock.
Okay, be careful.
That's right. I hated the nickname "raccoon".
It's not like I look like a raccoon.
It's just that my last name is "Watanuki".
"Tanuki".
Even though I'm a "Watanuki" myself, even my sister calls me "Tanuki" when she's confused.
My sister's name is "Namiko".
My father called my sister "Namiko".
For some reason, he called me "Tanuki".
See you later, Onee-chan.
Shut up!
I became a raccoon because my father was a raccoon.
When I was little, I complained to my father with a slightly elongated tone of voice.
However, my father patted my head, which made my mouth sharp, and said, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
While saying that, I pat my head again and again.
But I love my father's boyish smile, which doesn't look bad at all.
After my father went fishing on his day off, I always followed him.
Dad?
Hey, are you coming with me?
It's raining.
Is it open next door?
It's not open. I'm going home.
Oh, I see.
Well, take it easy.
I'll see you at school tomorrow, raccoon.
Don't call me a raccoon!
Oh, I'm sorry.
Don't apologize so easily.
I'm sorry.
Forget it.
I'm sorry.
Forget it.
Oh, Eri! Oh, no, raccoon! Oh, no, Eri...
What?
Can I call you that?
Whatever.
See you.
Recently, my classmate Kame, Kameyama Kensuke, has started fishing on this river.
Kame has transferred from Tokyo and is a kind- hearted boy,
but I wasn't used to fishing alongside someone other than my father.
Of course, I'm not stupid either, so I was aware of his feelings for me, but...
7th station, huh?
At that time, my father jumped into the river to save me from drowning.
He raised me up to the shore and I was swallowed up by the current.
My father looked up desperately from the water and said to me like this...
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Easy. Don't apologize.
The smile of my beloved father disappeared under water and now my father is sleeping somewhere on this Kitakami River.
Wake up, Eri! Wake up, will you? It's your day off, but you're not sleeping!
Come on, wake up, raccoon!
I'm awake, I'm awake!
I'll prepare breakfast for you, so make sure you eat it!
I know!
You're going fishing again today, right? Oh, and if you're going to do an asashan, make sure you close the faucet properly!
You're not coming, are you?!
I know already!
Onee-chan, you have to go to Tokyo for a bit today, so you'll be home late, but make sure you close the door properly!
Boyfriend?
Huh?
Tokyo... boyfriend, right?
Oh, sorry.
Why are you apologizing?
No...
What do you mean "what"! Anyway, Onee-chan, I'm leaving now!
Make sure you close the faucet properly...
Onee-chan, you have a boyfriend in Tokyo.
Last winter, I met my boyfriend at a ski resort.
He works for a company in Tokyo.
Onee-chan goes to Tokyo on her days off.
Onee-chan puts on makeup for him.
Onee-chan is becoming more and more like my mother in my memories.
Whenever I see my sister like that, for some reason, I feel uneasy in my heart.
My mother is marrying another man in Tokyo.
And...
Today, like always...
I came to the Kitakami River to fish for ayu.
When I'm fishing alone for hours, sometimes I don't know if I'm fishing for ayu or if I'm being fished for ayu.
That's the only time I can be indifferent.
Today, I'm fishing alone quietly again.
I swallowed my beloved father in this Kitakami River riverbank.
But I'm sure my father...
Oh, it's coming!
What?
It's coming! It's coming!
Come on!
Oh, yeah!
I let it go.
It doesn't matter.
You're not good at fishing, aren't you, raccoon?
Leave me alone! And don't call me raccoon!
Oh, sorry.
Even though you're a turtle.
Don't call me a turtle!
What's next?
It's not open.
I knew it!
Then I'll stay here.
That said, the turtle crouched right behind me.
It was so close that if I turned around, my nose would touch it.
I...
It's coming!
What? Is it coming?
No.
The smell of raccoon shampoo.
I didn't turn around.
It's coming! Ayu!
I let it go again.
Hey, what do you want?
Oh, next Sunday, let's go to a swimming competition.
Swimming competition?
Yes, let's go together. You can get a bicycle for first place.
I'm not interested.
Oh, are you afraid of losing to me?
Fishing is not for competing with someone.
But you like fishing, don't you? Why do you fish?
That is...
Raccoon?
I don't know. I like fishing and I hate it.
I stared at the tip of the raccoon so that tears wouldn't fall.
The northern river shone brightly in the spring light.
My father was sleeping under it.
As if it were a lie, it flowed calmly.
Hey, raccoon dog!
You're annoying!
Let's go to the competition tomorrow!
I'm not going.
Don't you want a first class bicycle?
Not really.
I'll take it.
Go ahead.
Raccoon dog!
Hey, stop it!
I like it!
Huh?
No...
I...
I like...
Fishing!
It's none of my business.
Tomorrow...
I'll win.
There's something I want to say after winning.
Something you want to say?
See you!
I'll do my best!
I...
When I looked at the running turtle's back...
I realized...
I was really hungry.
When I was talking with the turtle...
I'm glad my stomach didn't growl.
Because...
I like you!
When I realized that...
I should not have said that...
When I realized that I was thinking like that...
For some reason...
When I realized...
That my face was a little red...
I hurriedly opened the raccoon dog box...
And I left...
The company...
And that place.
Ellie!?
I'm home!
Dinner's ready!
Curry?
Typhoon shrimp curry.
It's cold, so I'll heat it up.
It's kind of stylish, isn't it?
Well, I learned it.
A taste you learned in Tokyo...
That's kind of a nasty way of saying it!
If you lived in this city, you wouldn't know about typhoon curry.
It's nice, isn't it? Having a boyfriend in Tokyo.
Hey...
Ellie...
Can you sit here?
What?
Just sit.
What is it with you?
Sis...
Next spring...
When you graduate high school...
I'm thinking of leaving for Tokyo.
When I... graduate?
Yeah.
Actually...
I was going to leave when I graduated high school.
But...
At least...
Until you graduate high school...
And become an adult...
I'll think of you as my mother...
So I decided to stay here.
In...
Your father's house.
But this house is...
I...
I'm tired.
What?
I...
I can be Ellie's mother...
But I can't be your father.
You know...
Just like Ellie losing her father and being sad...
I was sad too.
But...
I lost my father right in front of me.
My sister was always at home.
My father...
Always went fishing with a raccoon, didn't he?
I was afraid of rivers...
And couldn't follow my father...
But I was jealous.
I was jealous of Ellie...
Going fishing with my father.
Ellie...
That day, my father, who went fishing with Ellie, didn't come back, and only Ellie came back.
I... I was so sad that I resented Ellie.
I resented her and resented her and wanted to cry and get angry!
But I chose...
You chose?
Forgive you.
Forgive me?
That's right.
Just like my father always returned the fish he caught to the river,
I will also forgive you.
Even if I make a mistake, I can definitely do it again.
Isn't that right?
Just like my father always returned the fish he caught to the river...
Instead of that, I want you to forgive me for going to Tokyo.
Sister...
I'm sorry for being a weak sister.
Don't apologize.
Ah...
I won't forgive you.
What?
I won't forgive you if my shrimp curry is bad.
It's okay.
I think this will work.
Hot!
Let's eat!
That night, I had a dream.
In the dream, my sister and I both became swans and swam towards a stream in the river.
One day, the river split in two and my sister and I got separated.
But for some reason, I didn't feel lonely.
Everyone lives in the same river and water.
That's what I was able to confirm.
Oh no...
Tanuki!?
Ah, yeah, it's nothing! Sorry for waking you up!
No, it's fine, but...
It's early today, isn't it?
Ah, that's right, there's an ayuzuri tournament today!
There's... no tournament, but...
Eh, how do you know?
I heard it on the phone from Kameyama-kun.
You talked with Kame?
Yeah. The other day, when Tanuki was out, he called me and said...
Kame... did you say something about me?
No, nothing.
No, then it's fine, but...
Well, have a good day!
Yeah!
Ah, Tanuki, wait!
What!?
Should I prepare some of Kameyama-kun's dinner for tonight?
No, it's fine!
And, as usual, I was fishing alone on this North Kamigawa river with no one else.
Thinking vaguely about the turtle, my classmate who is going to participate in the fishing competition,
I just stared at the tip of the rod and waited for the fish that I don't know when I will catch.
It's coming! It's coming!
Oh, what? Turtle?
The voice of the turtle that I heard was, of course, an illusion.
There is no way that there is a turtle next to me.
I, alone, desperately lifted up the reel.
Come on! Do your best!
Ah! Ah! Just a little more!
Do your best, raccoon!
Don't call me a raccoon!
I did it!
While shining brightly under my feet, I knelt down and looked at the turtle's beautiful shape that bounced around.
When I gently took it in my hands, I told the river, "I'm sorry."
The turtle that I caught swam in the water in no time, and before I knew it, it became part of the quiet stream of the Kitakami River.
After a few hours, I kept waiting for a turtle that I didn't know I would catch, and stared vaguely at the tip of the rod.
Even if I caught it, I would let it escape, but for some reason I kept waiting again and again.
I just became part of my father's sleeping Kitakami River,
Turtle?
Yo!
You got it?
You too.
How was the tournament?
Yeah,
so-so.
So-so? I don't know.
You don't know?
Look,
this!
Huh?
Could this be...
a bicycle?
You can tell by looking at it, right?
Bicycle.
Winner?
Of course!
Hmm...
Huh?
What?
Something like...
you know...
"See you again, turtle!" or something like that.
No, nothing like that.
Nothing like that...
I told you!
I don't think fishing is something you do to compete with others.
Then I'll ask you one more time.
Why do you fish?
Probably...
because I like waiting.
Waiting?
Yes.
Before you get something,
that moment...
Before you achieve something,
that moment...
When you're fishing,
you can feel it forever.
That's how I feel.
Hmm...
I know, but I don't know.
Hmph!
It's fine!
Even if you don't know.
Ah...
More importantly...
If you win, I want to say...
It's fine.
It's fine?
It's open.
Huh?
It's open next door.
Ah...
Yeah...
Thanks.
I'll leave the back door open, too.
The back door?
The back of my bike.
I'll leave it open.
Let's come here together on our days off.
Okay!
Iwate Prefecture, Kitakami River.
It seems that there aren't many people fishing on this river.
Until next spring, there are many things that I have to think about, but for now, it seems that I can only wait.
But rather than waiting alone, it may be a little more fun to wait together.
Thank you for watching.