Cuentos de Tokio

What a treat to sleep in my dead son's bed.

But if I had known things would come to this, I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive.

[to her 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] By the time you become a doctor, I wonder if I'll still be here.

As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

In the daily lives of ordinary people, a sense of deep affection wells up.

[to Tomi about leaving the hotel early] Anyway, this place is meant for the younger generation.