:08:05
I never thought
I'd hold it in my hand again.
:08:23
Well, I guess the earth
is telling us to get started.
:08:28
Uh, certainly.
:08:32
My fate seems to be
tied to earthquakes.
:08:35
I was born during one,
in 1923.
:08:43
The Great Kanto Earthquake...
:08:45
My father had so wanted a child!
He was killed, and it was if...
:08:52
...his life had been traded for mine.
:08:56
But the shop he left behind...
:09:00
...allowed my mother and I
to live well.
:09:09
I grew up in a dangerous world
of one gamble after another...
:09:15
...everything always
veering to the right.
:09:28
But girls' magazines were
more important to me, I guess.
:09:34
I'd gaze at the pictures and dream
of the day I'd meet my prince.
:09:39
Was that when...
:09:42
...the studio discovered you?
:09:44
I'll never know...
:09:46
...what the managing director
of Ginei Studios...
:09:49
...saw in a snub-nosed little girl
on her way to school.