Hiroki Fujisawa Quotes in Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004)

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] Living alone, the nights seemed to last forever. When I couldn't pass the time effectively, I went to a nearby train station and pretended to wait for someone.

Hiroki Fujisawa: [about Sayuri] She always said she felt like she was losing something. At the time... I was in middle school, and couldn't understand what she meant. But... those words had a strange effect on me.

Sayuri Sawatari: The sun... is taking its time setting...

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] That was a really special summer. But the world around me would betray me again and again after this. Since that day three years ago, I haven't seen Sawatari once.

Hiroki Fujisawa: It's as if I've spent my days holding my breath under cold water... It's as if... It's as if...

Sayuri Sawatari: It's as if... I'm the only one left in the world.

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] On those now distant days... we made a promise we couldn't keep.

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] Now, those days are long gone... Our promised place was beyond those clouds.

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] At the time, we were drawn by two things: One was our classmate, Sawatari Sayuri... The other was the giant tower across the Tsugaru Strait. I was always looking up at that tower, I felt that something very precious waited there, I yearned to go there... One day... One day... I will go there.

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] Back then, I felt that this place, this time would last forever. The tower I admired that lay beyond the clouds... became the place of a precious promise. At that moment we weren't afraid of anything. But in reality, the world and the flow of time kept on going all around me.

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] Once I got to my room and shut the door, it felt like the bones in my body were tearing through my skin... as I was overcome with an intense, heartfelt pain.