If one day, there is a continuous doorbell at the door
When you open the door, you see your daughter, whom you haven't seen for a long time, with a huge suitcase
What would you do?
The 2021 Japanese family love movie "The Best Gift of Life" tells such a story.
Lily is an ordinary housewife, her husband is a teacher at school, and the marriage of the two is sweet and warm, but she has not been pregnant with a child.
On this day, she suddenly asked her husband to return to her father's house for a while.
Yuriko Tabuchi (Satomi Ishihara)
The husband was silent for a long time, but finally agreed to Lily's request.
Yuri's father, who lives alone in Tokyo, was a former university lecturer and is now a translator, accompanied by editor Nomura, who often comes to press for manuscripts, and his nearby neighbor, Mitsuyo Haraguchi. This Tonomura said that Aunt Mitsuyo came to see the teacher every day, and whether she wanted to be the teacher's step-wife.
Aunt Mitsuyo denied it and had to say why, because she was entrusted by the teacher's deceased wife, who was old and lived alone, so she came to see him every day. Hearing this, Lily's father did not feel good in his heart, and could only angrily rebuke them for shutting their mouths.
Ryosuke Sasai (Yuri's father, Satoshi Terao)
After the two of them left, Lily's father was alone at home to catch the draft, and there was an unstoppable doorbell at the door, and Lily's father went downstairs over and over again to complain about why the person who helped open the door when he was concentrating on catching the draft was just absent.
When I opened the door with a complaining mentality, I saw my daughter who had not been seen for many years, and I was carrying a huge suitcase. Compared to her shocked father, Lily's attitude was much more ordinary, but with a hint of embarrassment.
Lily, who had entered the door, looked at her father's solitary house everywhere, but Lily's father asked Lily doubtfully, "What happened?" Son-in-law cheating? Or have you become an alcoholic or a gambler? ”
Lily wordlessly dismissed her father's idea. Considering his daughter's emotions, Lily's father closed his mouth.
Lily looked at the spotless home, shocked and asked her father if there was another woman living here, her father cried and laughed back to her: "These housework are all done by me", Lily laughed a lot after listening to it, which is completely different from the image of her father, who has always been stern and never asked about housework.
Lily took the opportunity to say: "I want to eat, you make it for me to eat", after several struggles, Lily's father could only helplessly bring an apron to cook for Lily.
In this way, Lily and her father began to live together.
Lily cooks breakfast, lunch, and dinner with her father at home.
Looking at Lily who had nothing to do, the suspicion in Lily's father's heart grew bigger and bigger. Talking to friends late at night didn't solve his problems, especially the next morning when he saw Lily crying in front of his wife's tombstone. Lily's father couldn't help but go to Lily's husband, his former student Tian Shufengxing.
The first time Fan Xing saw the old man, he did not call his father, but called the teacher. For the old man who usually did not come and went, Fan Xing did not feel too much shock, but had a premonition that he would come here.
He knew the purpose of the old man's visit. This father wants to know the reason for his daughter's abnormality.
Shigeyuki Tabuchi (Satonori Mukai)
At first, the old man's questioning and request did not let Fan Xing relax, until the old man said to him: "It seems that your husband and wife still have one heart, then I will be relieved." ”
At the moment when he was about to separate from the old man, Fan Xing called out to him and told him everything.
It turned out that the reason why her daughter Lily was so abnormal was cancer. Because she and her husband could not conceive children for a long time, they did a lot of examinations to find out, and there was not much time left.
Fan Xing said that Lily wanted to give half of the little time left to her father, Lily, who had never been with her father well, wanted to spend a good time with her father. And I want to make this memory the most beautiful gift to my father.
After the old man listened, he could not calm down for a long time. Packing up his mood, he pretended not to know anything and got along with his only daughter for the last few days.
On the day of their separation from their daughter, the father and daughter finally went to see Rakugo (similar to our stand-up comedy). This time, rakugo talks about the relationship between parents and their grown children.
This time Lily and her father both cried and listened.
At the moment of separation from Lily, her father said to her: "Don't worry, it's okay, you can definitely do it, come on", the father and daughter first brought this matter to the table to say, Lily was stunned for a moment and then immediately forced a smile to agree to her father.
For the rest of the day, Lily and her father spent well, allowing themselves to have no regrets.