Cuentos de Tokio

Kyoko: [after the rest of the family had left] I think they should have stayed a bit longer.

Noriko: But they're busy.

Kyoko: They're selfish. Demanding things and leaving like this.

Noriko: They have their own affairs.

Kyoko: But you have yours too. They're selfish.

Noriko: But Kyoko...

Kyoko: Wanting her clothes right after her death. I felt so sorry for poor mother. Even strangers would have been more considerate!

Noriko: But look Kyoko. At your age I thought so too. But children do drift away from their parents. A woman has her own life, apart from her parents, when she becomes Shige's age. She meant no harm I'm sure. They have to look after their own lives.

Kyoko: I wonder: I won't ever be like that. Then what's the point of family?

Noriko: But children become like that, gradually.

Kyoko: Then... you, too?

Noriko: I may become like that in spite of myself.

Kyoko: Isn't life disappointing?

Noriko: Yes, it is.