Taro Seki:
But, Dad, can't you understand? Tama isn't just any girl. She's the girl I love.
Reo Seki:
Please, Taro, try to face the facts as they really are.
Taro Seki:
I am. This is the girl I love and this is the girl I'm going to marry.
Reo Seki:
I am sorry, Taro. Tama may be a good girl but she's not good enough for you.
Taro Seki:
Nonsense!
Reo Seki:
When you marry, you must marry well. And when your children marry, they must also marry well. Or better, if possible. For the family is everything and one must build it as one would build up any business.
Taro Seki:
But I don't want that kind of life.
Reo Seki:
It is either that or nothing.
Taro Seki:
Well, if it's just a matter of gang for gang and clan for clan, we're back in the Middle Ages. It's a catch as catch can between a few powerful families.
Reo Seki:
Well, my son, what else did you think Japan was today?
Taro Seki:
But Dad...
Reo Seki:
We are still a feudal society. So many robber barons if you will; we may use the tools of the twentieth century but believe me our minds are of another day.
Reo Seki:
On the bottom of the heap are the people. The patient millions who toil in the fields and the factories and are content to live on nothing. At the top of the heap are the great families who own the fields and the factories, the army and the navy, yes, who own even the Emperor himself. In between there is practically nothing. A few tradesmen, a few professional men. And, occasionally a puppet parliament which we always dissolve at the first sign of trouble.
Reo Seki:
There you are Taro. You can either live at the top or die at the bottom. Which will it be?

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