Chieko Higashiyama credited as playing...
Tomi Hirayama
- Tomi Hirayama: [speaking to her little grandson Isamu] - What are you going to be when you grow up? A doctor like your father?
- [Isamu doesn't answer and continues to pick grass]
- Tomi Hirayama: By the time you become a doctor, I wonder if I'll still be here.
- Tomi Hirayama: You may be happy while you're still young. But as you become older, you'll find it lonely.
- Noriko: I won't get that old, so don't worry.
- Shukichi Hirayama: I'm surprised how children change. Shige used to be much nicer before. A married daughter is like a stranger.
- Tomi Hirayama: Koichi has changed too. He used to be such a nice boy.
- Shukichi Hirayama: Children don't live up to their parents' expectations. Let's just be happy that they're better than most.
- Tomi Hirayama: They're certainly better than average. We're fortunate.
- Shukichi Hirayama: I think so. We should consider ourselves lucky.
- Tomi Hirayama: Yes, we are very lucky.
- Shige Kaneko: [Tomi and Shukichi enter the hair salon] Why, you're back so soon. You should have stayed longer!
- Tomi Hirayama: [as she passes Shige teasing a customer's hair] We're home.
- Biyouin no kyaku: Who are they?
- Shige Kaneko: Oh, just friends from the country.
- [looks after Tomi and Shukichi with disdain]
- Tomi Hirayama: [saying good-bye at the train station] You were so nice to us, children. Now that we've seen you all, you need not come down, even if anything should happen to either one of us.
- Shige Kaneko: Don't talk like that. This isn't a farewell.
- Tomi Hirayama: I mean it. We live too far away.
- Shige Kaneko: Mama, you've grown taller.
- Tomi Hirayama: Don't be silly. How could I have grown?
- Shige Kaneko: But you have, and you're even fatter.
- [turns to Noriko]
- Shige Kaneko: She was so big when I was little that I used to feel ashamed in front of my friends. Once in school, a chair broke under her.
- Tomi Hirayama: Oh, that chair was already broken.
- Shige Kaneko: She still thinks that.