Quotes
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Kouichi Sakakibara : [Reading the 1972 Yomiyama North Middle School Yearbook] Who am I fooling? I'm not gonna find to Misaki here.
[Sees the photograph of the year three, third class, he finds a girl]
Kouichi Sakakibara : Mom...
Chibiki Tatsuji : Did you find your mother?
Kouichi Sakakibara : Yes.
Chibiki Tatsuji : Interesting... then she graduated in 72, At what class was she?
Kouichi Sakakibara : At third class, Like me.
Chibiki Tatsuji : Oh? Who was she?.
Kouichi Sakakibara : [Pointing to one of the girls] Was her.
Chibiki Tatsuji : Ritsuko?
Kouichi Sakakibara : [Startled] Did you know her?
Chibiki Tatsuji : [Elusive] Yes... Ritsuko was... but...
[to Kouichi]
Chibiki Tatsuji : I heard she died. When was that?
Kouichi Sakakibara : Fifteen years ago, right after she gave me birth.
Chibiki Tatsuji : [Surprised] Fifteen years ago? I see... then that's what happened.