Everyone makes mistakes, but admitting them and correcting them isn't easy.
It's always a matter of pride.
When my daughter grows up and watches this movie with me, I have one more story to tell her.
I also planned a line to show off like a cool adult.
“Dad, you don’t have any pride in your reflection.”
---From "You shouldn't write 'Deaf'"

Even for freelancers who have to bear all the consequences on their own, efforts that lead to failure are bound to accumulate as wealth.
Even if you lose the opportunity right away, the traces of effort that are ingrained in your body like muscles do not easily disappear, so the next time you have the chance, you can add the tips you learned from failure to your efforts and make more efficient efforts.
The sincerity that builds up through repeated failure and learning.
This kind of foolish sincerity may seem simple, but it is a talent that not everyone can easily possess.

---From "It's not about working hard, it's about doing well"

Just looking at the back of my mother sitting in the auditorium chair where the entrance ceremony is held or in the small classroom chair, I can feel the excitement.
It really feels like my mother went back to being an elementary school student back then.
It's a strange feeling to just watch that back.
It's such a nice day, but strangely enough, a corner of my heart feels cold.
Let's be good parents.

---From "I Only Knew That's How It Was"

You can do and maintain that job even without having great values ​​or genius talents like special people.
There are also cases like mine where people start work without much thought and end up drifting further than they expected.
Instead of feeling envious or inferior about the special stories of special people exposed to the media (I don't know if they are truly special), I should find my own meaning in my own place.
The words, “I ended up doing this by chance,” are in some ways more fateful than any other story.
---From "How Did It Happen"

Subtitles are the home of film translators.
If you kick the translator out of that small house, all that's left is an empty, cold house.

---From "Transparent Translation"

It doesn't matter if you don't know that I translated it.
The gratitude and pride I feel for being able to translate someone's life story, a precious film to someone, is enough.
If I can see you enjoying a bowl of movie, that's enough for me.
I chose a really good job.
---From "The Most Exciting Moment as a Film Translator"

Whenever I meet that friend, I often jokingly say, “That’s why you’re blessed.”
I say it as a joke, but I wish it were true.
Even when times were tough, I treated people fairly and according to the principles, and that's how I got lucky and received blessings.
I want to believe it so naively, like the ending of a typical fairy tale about good triumphing over evil.
---From "That's why you are blessed"

In a movie, dialogue is ultimately a conversation between people.
So, just as each person interprets the words of others differently in a real conversation, each translator produces a variety of translations that capture different nuances.
Perhaps a film translator is not someone who conveys lines, but someone who discerns and conveys the nuances of the lines.
---From "The Man Who Smells Nuance"

One of the few things I can say without a shadow of a doubt is that I grew up with the best in my mother.
I grew up receiving the best you could give, even if it wasn't the best in the eyes of the world.
The best is as valuable as the best, and in some ways even surpasses the best.
…what you gave me was definitely the best, but it always looked so shabby and on the other hand, it was old and worn.
If it was like that in the eyes of the child, how would it be in the eyes of others?
But that memory is not shabby and always remains as a symbol of gratitude.
You definitely gave your best.
---From "Was I a person who should not have been born?"

And living like this isn't so bad.
I wonder if it's really necessary to speak as quickly as before.
There's virtually no harm in speaking a little slower.
I used to think this was a trick to solve the bottleneck, but now I think it's more like advice given by getting older.
As if to say, 'Your speed is just right now.'

---From "The Speed ​​of Thought"