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Miss Asakuma...
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- Jingo.
- Jingo.
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How do you feel about working with us?
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I mean the police.
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- Especially since you're...
- You mean... because I'm Japanese.
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Yeah.
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Here I'm Japanese.
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But in Japan, I was ainoku.
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My father was a kokujin.
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You know that word, kokujin?
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- Negro?
- Negro.
:14:33
Oh, yes. I know that word.
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Yes, a Black man.
:14:40
He was with the American Air Force.
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My mother worked in a noodle shop.
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Do you know the term...
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"he's a bit burakumin?"
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It's like...
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Untouchable.
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I was even lower than burakumin...
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because I was deformed.
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To the Japanese, deformity is shameful.
:15:05
It means you've done something wrong.
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And then on top of all that
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I really did something wrong.
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And what was that?
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I fell in love with a gaijin.
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A Caucasian who was living there.
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We were both ostracized.
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Made his work over there difficult
and my life impossible.
:15:30
He had to leave Japan.
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He left you?
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- Maybe we left each other.
- No.
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He ran out.
:15:38
He couldn't take it.
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Him?
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No, he could take anything.
:15:45
My friend is a very strange man.
:15:49
You know what he says?
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Always leave the cage door open...
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so the bird can return.
:15:58
Your friend sounds like an idiot.