Beautiful Quotes from "Beautiful Life" (2000) 

Beautiful Quotes from Beautiful Life (J-Dorama, 2000)

One of my all time favorite dramas. Like the first love that’s very difficult to forgotten, this drama is also my first melodrama that always has special place in my treasure of memory. I watched it first when I was in high school, when I was just a little teenager who didn’t know too much about love and life

(well, until know I still don’t know too much).

I still remembered I cried like a baby watching the last episode, and a little felt betrayed because I thought it will have a happy ending. But even now, when I have watched this series in countless times, I never felt bored and still shed my tears in last episode. That scene always throbbed my heart. From this drama, I learned what the struggle things that handicapped people faced in living their life. Maybe for a normal person, those things seem not a big deal, but we never think what if we are in their shoes. Those little things can be a big issue.

Like a common Japan dorama, this series also presents the real conflicts which are so close in real life. The amazing and pureness of true love Shuji and Kyoko have, the main characters, portrayed in beautiful narration and dialogs of both characters, make me smiling and crying in the same time. So now, with my pleasant, those beautiful quotes are greeting my tumblr.

Just wondering how you see it. I’s different huh? From a wheelchair, the height is always about 100 cm, isn’t it? The world one sees is different. – Shuji

Hey Shuji, this world was beautiful. Looking from the height of 100 cm, the world was beautiful. Meeting you, these last few months, my life glittered as if sprinkled with stardust. – Kyoko

Episode 2I understand what Sachi said. But in the end, after my two legs weren’t able to move anymore, perhaps I’m like a bird whose whings are broken. Having lost the confidence…. to take flight. Becoming small, quivering and afraid. – Kyoko

The night scenery flowed by like being on a jet coaster.  I was thrilled. She came into the deepest, invisible place in my heart. But when she disappears, together with her, I lose that place in my heart. – Shuji

Episode 3We kissed each other in front of the washroom. Our first kiss. As I held on to you, you were so fragile. I quietly tried to think about our future. But that didn’t go smoothly. Like a soap bubble, it disappeared in an instant.  Where do I go from here? – Shuji

Episode 4At that moment, in the middle of the night having been so happy, I was left all alone. And I thought “She’s going to disappear.” All of a sudden, I got that feeling. – Shuji

Sometimes, I think a remembered phone number is so sad. The telephone number you told me at that moment, I still haven’t been able to forget it. Even when you are no longer around. – Shuji

Episode 5If I were normal… If I were a normal woman… We would be under the umbrella and running to the car together. And if we could be together arm in arm, just fooling around then even falling asleep halfway during the movie, even having to go to a family restaurant instead of Italian. That would’ve at least made up for this disaster of a date. Even the rain that’s become a beautiful stage prop for lovers, to me, it’s become a fatal wound. – Kyoko

Episode 6I could only look on. Unable to do anything. It was my fault that he fell and got hurt, and I could only watch others help him. – Kyoko

When Shuji cheered up, he said to me if you want to ride the jet coaster so much, let’s both think of a way to ride it. There must be a way. He didn’t say anything cool like “I’ll protect you”. Instead, from now on, the both of us would manage somehow. I was really happy. Hey Shuji. It’s after I met you that I wanted to run and walk. I had forgotten about that. Seeing the figure of you in the distance, I wanted to run to you. I wanted to walk together arm in arm with you. But, I kept all that from you. I didn’t want to make you worry. Those feelings I kept inside me. I placed them in my heart and cherished them. Although I can’t walk or run anymore, thinking about it that way, it’s as if those feelings were a treasure. – Kyoko

It was a little lie. Satsuki was… She was someone that I loved passionately. When my youth ended, that existence disappeared from my sight. Whenever I think of that time, it’s like a dream of beautiful scenes that I shouldn’t remember. I never called her. Maybe I was afraid or something. Afraid that I’d see those scenes again. They’re all far away in a place inside me. Deep inside my heart. Locked away with a key. – Shuji

Episode 7Hey… What sort of looks have we got on our faces? It’s like I’m looking on from a distance. Even being this clost together, holding each other like this, I don’t know where we’re looking or with what kind of expressions. – Kyoko

Accepting the future, means you have to accept her illness and the barriers. – Masao

Episode 8When people become handicapped, they bear a deep scar in their hearts. Overcoming that is like crawling up from a deep deep hole. One will slip and fall back in again.  – Miyama

Whenever I think of you not being around, it hurts like something’s grabbing a hold of my heart. Even now like this, when we’re together, it’s unbearable. I’m sorry but I love you. No matter what anyone says, if it’s not you it won’t do. – Shuji

I’ve been thinking about a lot of things too. If we, get married… If your condition got worse, you’d have to be my priority. My work on the career front would not go according to the pace I’d like. Maybe we can’t have children. Then traveling on planes, your wheelchair will be placed with the luggage. Then on the plane, when you have to go to the toilet, I’ll have to carry you there. Even if I’m sleeping, I’ll be woken up too. From the details to the big things, I’ve thought about everything. I came to a conclusion. Maybe I came to a conclusion right from the start. I won’t give you up. I can’t give you up. More than anything else, you’re the most important. – Shuji

I can see Mt Fuji. I can see the blue sky. I can see the gentle greenery. I can see Shuji’s beautiful eyes. A beautiful place like this, it’s like my heart’s transparent. It feels like I can say anything. – Kyoko

Although my body was freezing and I didn’t feel anything, the tears that rolled down my cheeks, were warm. Warm, warm. Ah, I’m alive, I thought. And then, rather than sighing over dying soon, I was grateful to God for being born into this world. To be able to meet you like this. To be loved by you like this. Shuji… However, can I really love you like you deserve? – Kyoko

Episode 10I think you’ve given me the key to your heart. And told me I can come anytime. – Kyoko

The both of us were afraid of the passing time. We didn’t care what it was, just talked and talked for a long time. It didn’t matter what we talked about. I just wanted to listen to your voice. Forever. Forever and ever. – Shuji

I didn’t cry. Just thinking that she could run about fine, thinking about little Kyoko, it was almost unbearable. But I didn’t cry. I wanted to be… strong. – Shuji

I’m glad we met. I’m glad I met you, Kyoko. From now on, let’s hang in there together. Let’s find a way to be happy together. I think no matter what kind of life, no matter what life one has, one has the strength to be happy. – Shuji

Unable to sleep tonight in the hospital, I write this. How great this happiness is with you. As if I’m not losing to this suffering now, I write this. You saved this tiny life of mine. I’m holding it in my hand, as if not letting it disappear and thinking about you. I want to see more of you. I want to hear your voice. I want to be held by you. I want to be loved by you. I want to love you. My life is my own. The one told me that is you. This… beautiful life. – Kyoko

Episode 11I want you to go on living. I want you to go on living my part for me too. Okay? – Kyoko

Her tears were warm. And that was her last smile. So that I would never forget, with all my might, I clicked the shutter in my heart. As if burning it into my eyes. As if burning it into my mind. As if buring it into my heart. As if burning it into the rest of my life. – Shuji

If there’s a world after death, it could be in someone’s heart. You… are in my heart. Living in there forever. Kyoko. Did I, love you like I should have? – Shuji

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