My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)

Kosanji Yanagiya: Haiku Poem Reader

Quotes 

• [Takashi takes a picture of his family without them noticing] 

  Haiku reader : A lone figure / back turned / receding into the mist.

• [Takashi imagines that he is a hero] 

  Haiku reader : How cruel, / a grasshopper trapped / under a warrior's helmet.

• [Grandma goes to see a dying friend at the hospital] 

  Haiku reader : No sign of Death's approach in the cicadas' voices.

• [Noboru receives a call from a girlfriend] 

  Haiku reader : The scent of plums / on a mountain path / suddenly dawn.

• [Nonoko went missing and has been found] 

  Haiku reader : Joyful laughter breaks the silence of an autumn eve.

• [Mr Yamada eats dinner while his wife watches TV] 

  Haiku reader : Turn towards me / I'm lonely too / the Autumn dusk.

• [the Yamadas walk off into the sunset] 

  Haiku reader : The ocean in spring / the gentle rolling of the waves / all day long.

• [the Yamada family meets Takashi on his way home and they return together] 

  Haiku reader : A spring shower / dressed for rain / talking as they go.

• Haiku reader : Fleeting dreams / an octopus making its home in a trap / a summer moon.