[ Suzuran Garden ]
[ Year 2002 ]
Hello? Where are you now?
Don't give me "What's up?". You should already know.
I told you to definitely come.
Stop joking around!
He always wanted to see you.
He's like a father to us,you know.
Hey.
Besides, many things has happened.
Hey, you listening?
Hey! Hey! Don't hung up! Hey, idiot!
Hey, don't hung up I said! Hey!
What "Last Chef"?
...the ball fumbles.
Morishima!
There he is! Goal!
Japan takes the first win!
The Shimazutei...
That restaurant should have been closed already.
Yes. Five years ago.
It is said that there's no successor.
If that's the case, how can it be reproduced?
Shimazutei's...
omelette rice...
Well you see,
it seems like that person can never forget something he tasted just once.
It is said that he was born with that kind of taste.
That's why he can reproduce memorable dishes.
Come in.
I'm Sasaki.
We'll be counting on you.
Miso...?
It's haccho miso.
What's that?
It's perilla.
This smell...
Yes...
It's this smell...
Yes...
It's this taste.
You should have a taste too.
Okay.
It was delicious.
But
your dishes would be for the last.
Excuse me.
The first time my husband tasted that omelette rice
was when he first met me.
I feel like we went back to that time that's why
I thank you greatly.
I make dishes upon request.
That's all I did.
What about the one you promised?
Ah...
I'm sorry.
One million?
With only just one dish?
Yeah.
That's what he receives when he reproduces a "memorable dish".
That's amazing.
There are such rich people in this world.
But most of the money will just disappear
to repay the debts.
What?
His restaurant went bankrupt.
Because Mitsuru continued to pursue making creative dishes,
customers were able to enjoy dishes around the world.
He also used the best ingredients.
Excuse me. Please check the taste.
Redo it.
Yes, Sir. I'm sorry.
Please check the grill.
Grill another again.
I'm sorry. I'm going to grill another again.
That is not something that can be served to customers.
Hey, what're you doing, Mitsuru.
I should be the one saying that. What the hell is this?
Huh?
I'll leave.
What're you saying? The customers are waiting!
You can at least do things here
if I leave, right?
Hey, Mitsuru!
We're really sorry.
We can no longer serve today's dishes.
Mitsuru's way of not allowing any compromise
made customers and employees disgust him.
I was the only one that was left.
The debt is probably around a hundred million.
It seems he intends to pay all of it by himself.
That's why he takes any request as long as gets money.
His life is actually in the brink.
To the extent to not able to show himself to his parent's funeral.
If things go on like this...
...he'll be done for.
Why a chef?
You won't be able to make a living like that!
Mitsuru!
If you leave,
you'll just be alone.
I was always alone.
Yes?
There's someone who wants you to make a last dish.
Um...
Who are you?
Please come here.
We'll arrange your ticket.
Ticket?
Are you available this Saturday?
Yes.
We'll be waiting in the Beijing airport.
Beijing?
We'll reward you with 3 million.
3 million...
[ Beijing, China ]
Can you trust him?
Who is he?
He's a chef from Japan.
So the rumors were true.
What?
As long as you'll be well paid, you'll go anywhere.
Oh well... I don't what Yoh is thinking.
Yoh?
Seimei Yoh. He's your client.
Yoh was a legendary chef in the Senkaku State Guesthouse.
There's no one in the Chinese style cooking industry who doesn't know Yoh.
Here is Mr Mitsuru Sasaki.
Got it.
I am Yoh Seimei.
Come in.
I actually know things about you.
Your dishes
have been admired by many customers.
Why did that restaurant get bankrupt?
Did you look into it?
Are you willing to try again?
No.
I'm already fed up.
Let's get down to business.
Mr Sasaki.
Do you know the "Manchu Han Imperial Feast"?
I've heard about it.
It's the largest scale
course dish in the world that the emperor of Qing dynasty made.
But there are recipes
that far surpassed the human treasure.
Treasure?
It was not accurate if they exist.
It was made under Japan Army's orders.
Its name is "Great Japan Imperial Feast".
I haven't heard about that.
True. It ended with a mystery.
They disappeared the same with Manchukuo in 13 years.
I will make that?
I am the one who made those recipes.
What?
Me and the Japanese chef, Naotaro Yamagata,
spent a long time in making them.
If I think of it now, it is the time of my life
where I enjoyed the most in the Manchurian era.
Then wouldn't it be better if you yourself would be the one who reproduce it?
Since they're recipes you made yourself. No...
Since you're that of a great chef.
Unfortunately, those recipes are not with me anymore.
Hm?
And furthermore, it seems that those recipes are being rewritten.
I also want to know what will be written there.
I think it would most likely be my last dishes.
That's why, find that recipes first,
and want you to reproduce them.
You can never forget what you've tasted once.
If it's music, it's absolute pitch that you possess.
This is down payment.
The contingency fee is 50 million.
First, please visit the Daizen division of the Imperial Household Agency.
It is the starting point of Naotaro Yamagata who was the chef for the emperor.
Follow his life.
You'll surely find the recipe if you do that.
This is fishy...
Well, this is really fishy.
I can only think that something is being arranged.
Aren't you the one who's fishy?
To even ask for money for people's last dishes.
Here...
Huh? What the hell?
Your unpaid salary.
Huh?
It's payment for the troubles I've caused.
What troubles?
I intended to work in that restaurant together with you.
Just receive it, you're in a bind, right?
I'm not. Stop joking. Come on, set it aside!
What's fun that you're both the worker and manager of this shop?
Don't say that.
You know, there's no customer for awhile now.
This place is a battle during late nights.
You're strir frying too much. You even put too much oil.
You know, there are lots of customers who would prefer it like that.
Besides, you don't have to worry about me.
There are more important things you have to do. Have you went to the Suzuran Garden?
Hey, I told you to at least go there.
You didn't even show yourself in the funeral.
So at least offer an incense.
I took a beer.
Geez.
He raised you after all.
We haven't seen him even once
since we both left him when we were 15 years old.
Who cares.
He's not my father anyway.
Well, even if he was strict with you,
- he still... - That's enough.
It's enough already.
I don't want to return there...
ever again...
We found it. Naotaro Yamagata.
Oh. So he's real.
But he retired in 1964.
Retired...
[ Naotaro Yamagata ]
Ah... [ Naotaro Yamagata ]
Do you know what happened to him after that?
Like he most likely went to Manchuria.
We don't know what happened to him after...
Of course.
Of course you won't know something that happened so long ago...
There is someone who joined on the same day as Mr Yamagata.
His name is Kintaro Tatsumi.
[ Kintaro Tatsumi Naotaro Yamagata ]
It's been 15 years since my husband passed away...
I see.
We recommend pork belly stew here.
What?
Ah, I didn't come here to eat actually.
Mr Naotaro Yamagata. That name brings me back.
Do you know him?
The deep fried mackerel is good, but we still recommend the pork belly stew.
Ah...
Then, one please.
One order of pork belly stew.
Got it.
You know, our pork belly stew...
Ah, well, regarding the pork belly stew...
...was Mr Yamagata's specialty dish.
What?
Even though my husband was not as good as Mr Yamagata,
but he still took over the taste.
He tried very hard...
The reason he stopped working in the Imperial Household is most likely...
an order of the army or something?
I guess so.
Ms Chizu was also a bit worried.
Chizu?
Thank you for waiting.
She's his wife.
Where is she now?
Both of them weren't able to come back.
The one who was able to return was that man.
That man?
Ah, welcome. Welcome!
Please go to the back seat.
- Pork belly stew please. - Okay.
Please eat it.
- Can we occupy for two? - Yes, it's okay. Please go on.
- Two pork belly stews please. - Pork belly stew, got it.
There is a man who works in the Daizen division in the Imperial Household
whose name is Shotaro Kamata.
When Mr Yamagata crossed Manchuria,
he went with him as a helper.
My husband went to ask countless times
what happened in Manchuria after the 2nd World War.
I tried hard not to talk about it.
You should try visiting him.
Excuse me.
You're Mr Shotaro Kamata, right?
I am searching for the recipes that Mr Naotaro Yamagata made...
I know. I've heard about you from Mrs Tatsumi.
The recipes
are not here.
What?
What I can only say
is how those recipes were made.
It's already 70 years ago.
Mr Yamagata and me who were employed in the Daizen division
were ordered one day by our superiors to go to Manchuria.
"It's for our country. Feel honored and go."
We had great hopes
to go to Manchuria which is a new country.
The first time I saw the huge sunset overlooking the horizon,
is something I still cannot forget this day...
Kamata.
Yes?
Ah, thank you very much.
Manchuria is a new country.
It's the country which this child will live...
[ Year 1933 - Manchuria ]
[ Harbin Kwantung Army Headquarters ]
Mr Yamagata, I have to confirm.
[ Kwantung Army Headquarters - Special Section Chief Taizo Miyake]
Regarding your mission this time within the borders, [ Kwantung Army Headquarters - Special Section Chief Taizo Miyake]
you came here [ Kwantung Army Headquarters - Special Section Chief Taizo Miyake]
without being told by others?
Of course.
Rather, it is true that I don't quite understand it myself.
You want to make dishes
that will surprise the world in this land.
Yes...
Even if there is the Manchu Han Imperial Feast in the Qing dynasty,
and Louis XIV of France's dishes are known worldwide,
we want us, the Japanese, to make dishes
that are far superior to them.
In order to do that, we need a particularly skillful chef.
I found that chef in the Daizen division of the Imperial Household Agency.
That is you.
You've trained in Paris since you were young.
That you comprehend both Japanese and Western dishes.
I thought immediately that you are like this:
You are a man who will make his name engraved in the menu of world history.
The name of that menu is...
"Great Japan Imperial Feast"...
And we are thinking that the day those dishes
will be presented is when our great Emperor would have an imperial visit here in Manchuria.
We do not mind how much it would cost.
The army will be responsible for everything.
Please think freely what would be the contents of the dishes.
You'll entrust that important mission to me?
Please officially entertain yourselves in this dining hall where the chefs are working.
But there is no need for you to make dishes for this dining hall.
Come in.
Even though everything here belongs to the army and their families,
the Great Japan Imperial Feast is in the end a top secret mission.
The ones who only know
are them.
Ah...
Attention!
Salute!
As you were!
Mr Yamagata, this kitchen in the back...
have been prepared with the best environment.
Please use it anytime as you wish.
Of course, on the day that it will be presented,
we will mostly call on the Daizen bureau to come and help.
What I want to make here is
in French, it's called "recette".
It's "recipe making" in English.
Even though the Manchu Han Imperial Feast had 108 dishes,
please make the number of dishes more than that.
108...
Yes.
Because it will be troublesome to gather ingredients in an unfamiliar land,
we've arranged chefs that would be able to help.
Even though he's young, he learned cooking
at a young age under his uncle who was
the head chef of the Manchukuo Emperor Puyi.
Since he's a Manchurian, use him as you please.
I am Naotaro Yamagata.
I am Seimei Yoh.
Yoh...
This has become a big deal, huh?
Yes.
Japanese can't make dishes that can exceed the Manchu Han Imperial Feast.
Can you say that again?
Ah, I am your assistant.
I will follow all your instructions.
I see...
Have you eaten lunch?
Ah, not yet.
I wonder if you can make something.
Okay.
What's that?
Ah, this is my treasure.
Here you go. Kingfisher Wintermelon boiled in rock crystal.
I'm digging in.
It's delicious. It's the first time I've eaten one.
It's delicious.
Thank you.
Ah...
Did I pass?
What?
Did I pass as your assistant?
Yeah.
You pass.
You may be dissatisfied with it, but let's make it together.
Dishes that will exceed the Manchu Han Imperial Feast.
You know Chinese?
It's done. Go ahead and eat it.
It's the same.
It's exactly the same taste.
How?
You see, I can absolutely never forget something I've tasted once.
Good morning.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Mr Yamagata, please try eating this.
Oh, spring rolls. Looks delicious.
This is my Chinese food specialty. I'm sure you can never imitate its taste.
Well, Yoh. It's not like that.
- Kamata. - Yes, Sir.
What is your specialty dish?
I am still in training. I can only with the two of you.
Then what's your favorite food?
It's grill salted sweetfish.
Grill salted sweetfish, huh?
Fillet the sweetfish thrice?
Will you roast them or boil them?
Do you eat watermelons?
Yes.
What will you do with the boiled watermelon?
It will be made into a sauce.
Even the sweetfish's innards?
Yes.
The Manchu Han Imperial Feast are dishes from the Qing dynasty.
What the Qing dynasty established was the Manchurian minority.
So that they get along with the overwhelming Chinese Han people,
the Manchurian people adopted many Chinese Han cuisines.
That's the Manchu Han Imperial Feast.
Isn't that so, Yoh?
Yes. Simply put, they are dishes fused by the people.
Yeah.
I want to make dishes that the people of the whole world would be pleased with.
Yoh.
Can you deep fry this?
This?
Will it go well with the spring roll wrapper?
This is the kind of dish we are going to make starting from now.
Okay.
This is the spring rolled sweetfish. Go ahead.
In memory, that's Mr Yamagata's first recipe.
That's why the sweetfish was filleted thrice.
If you do that,
you can taste the tender body and the fried bone simultaneously.
And it also goes well with the watermelon sauce.
But...
The salt gives too much effect.
Ah...
What are the other recipes?
Ah...
"Milky Way Caviar and White Noodles."
"Double Consomme of a Chinese Soft-Shell Turtle."
"Kaleidoscope of Mountains and Seas Delicacy."
"Countryside Tailoring of Dragon King's Palace."
"Koki's Drunken Dream Red Wine."
"Manchurian Pork's Three Musketeers at the Southern Country."
"Honeyed Harmony of Five Races Dumplings."
This is "Ghandara's Mango Tree".
Hmm...
Mr Yamagata.
These are great!
These are splendid!
Please steadily think and make these kind of dishes at this pace.
Yes, Sir.
I'm looking forward to them.
The direction we aimed for was not wrong.
Many ethnic groups coexist in this city.
It's like the ideal town we are doing.
I can make use of this.
This sauce uses smetana...
It's just that it's boiled too much a bit, huh?
Did you know?
It is said that the railroad track over there is connected as far as Paris.
So it's continental.
So it's connected worldwide.
I would want to go around and see the whole world someday.
I have a feeling that I would be able to do that when I'm with you.
We were able to come to this city after all...
This city was originally a tiny Manchurian fishing village.
Many Russians came and built a city.
Because of the Russian Revolution, there are white Russians who ran away and came here.
Now, it's a country where the Japanese just made.
Manchuria.
Yoh...
I understand what you're trying to say, Mr Yamagata.
But everything is just ideal. It's just too ideal.
Utopia. Harmony of Five Races.
That only means the Japanese are the top. It means the Japanese are the best.
Who owned this land originally? Who used to live here?
That's too ideal and a dream, Mr Yamagata.
That's when Mr Yamagata
stopped pursuing what's ideal.
Mr Yamagata, please check.
How many times do I have to tell you? There's too much salt.
I'm sorry. I'm going to do it again.
Ah, how about this, Sir?
Do it over.
Can it taste even better?!
Then, shall I do it?
I'm doing my very best.
Gentlemen,
let's aim higher!
Dishes can continue evolving.
Ms Chizu.
Here.
- Thank you. - Thank you very much.
I'm sorry about him.
He can only think about himself.
It's because I said things like that...
It's alright. You should say what should be said.
Ah, no...
What I really wanted to say that time
is about a man who possesses "Qilin's tongue".
- Qilin? - Yes.
It's a legendary spiritual beast in Chinese mythology.
That man who possesses that tongue can reproduce that taste once he tasted something once.
And he can make people smile with dishes beyond imagination.
He can make them happy.
Since I was a child,
my uncle said to me to aim to be a chef like that.
Even if the different races cannot unite, the dishes can.
Mr Yamagata can become a man who possesses Qilin's tongue.
He is someone who can.
That's what I wanted to say.
This recipe is difficult to understand.
You won't be able to understand that, right? You're not a chef after all.
Will Yoh and Kamata understand this?
Isn't it something only you can understand?
Don't say stuff about my work.
Hey, how about this.
Kamata, not there. Here.
The inner part of the bone. Here.
Look at the picture.
Okay.
Ah, that's it, yeah. Next...
There... That's right.
Okay. Next...
Tie it tightly.
It's done.
- We did it. - Yes.
Mr Yamagata, we did it.
This recipe is wonderful. We can make one anytime if we have this.
Ah, looks delicious.
Let's eat this one for today!
Yeah, let's eat it.
Hey, Taichi!
Yes, Sir.
I told you that room is prohibited.
Aren't you also going to make dishes over there?
I won't.
They are special.
Special?
[ Spring Rolled Sweetfish ]
I'm thinking the recipes would be adopted to the flow of the four seasons in Japan.
The entirety will be grouped in four parts in spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
We will prepare 112 dishes.
I covered dried mullet roe with the skin of the spiny lobster as dressing.
Please take a look.
It's interesting that you can eat the shell.
It has a nice color.
That's enough for you today. Sleep. It'll be bad for your body.
I also want this recipe to be complete.
Mr Yamagata, here.
Thank you.
Here's the powdered green tea rice. Please taste it.
Nice aroma.
It sure is.
The ears are delicious.
It's cheap.
Is it fresh?
It's delicious.
- There's a better place. - Oh, really?
Maybe next time.
It's cheap!
This meat is incredible.
Fats are already melting just by touching it.
It's the Matsusaka beef who took the first prize at the Japanese competitive show.
It smells like that of a peach.
There's sweetness in the fat.
Yoh?
If I eat raw meat, my stomach will get upset.
This is fine since it was just prepared awhile ago.
Eat it.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Yum! It's delicious!
The meat wrapped with fat would
carefully be roasted in low temperature to pull out its deliciousness.
The finishing touches would be peach sauce.
Looks delicious.
It's a dish combining sauteed foie gras of a goose
with the scent of grapefruits.
It has a nice smell.
Good! Good! Now that makes 112 dishes.
It's now complete!
Yeah, we did it!
It's tasty. Delicious.
Mr Yamagata?
For now, we only just wrote 112 dishes.
With this, we can reconsider from the start and cast aside
those that aren't good enough.
This is also not good enough.
Good morning.
Ah, good morning.
Let's do our best again today.
Mr Yamagata! I'll go with you.
There's no need. It's better if I'm alone.
I'll be back in two to three days.
- Take care. - I will.
Be careful.
It's cold, let's go.
Ah.
Are you alright?
I'm just a bit dizzy.
I think it's better if you go to the hospital.
It's alright. Thank you very much.
Where is Mr Yamagata?
He went to the New Capital to find ingredients.
Mr Yamagata's being unreasonable as of late.
In order to accomplish something,
something must be sacrificed.
That's what I think.
This dish is no good!
Something more wonderful.
Something no one has ever seen before.
A dish suitable to be decorated lastly...
Dear, you should sleep.
I'm alright. You should be the one who's sleeping, I should pass sleeping today.
You haven't slept much...
This is a job only I can do!
- Dear... - Enough already and sleep.
Even though you want to make dishes that are fused from different races,
you cannot even trust Yoh and Kamata who are right in front of you.
You can't trust anyone but yourself...
There's no way you would understand how I...
Do you think I don't?!
Don't treat me as a fool.
Those recipes has also become a part of me.
Do you think the dishes you made are delicious?
Someone like you who can only trust himself
wouldn't be able to make dishes that will please the people around the world.
Have faith with the people around you.
Make the people around the world smile.
Mr Yamagata!
It's Ms Chizu!
What's going on?
Chizu!
It's a girl. She had excessive bleeding during water break...
Mrs Yamagata, can you understand me? Mrs Yamagata?
Chizu!
Where is Mr Yamagata?
Where did Mr Yamagata go?
Mr Nao.
Even at a time like this?
You're working on the recipe even at a time like this?
Your daughter is in the room right now.
Your wife gave up her life to give birth to your daughter.
Isn't what you must do right now
is to be with your daughter?
If it's not going to bring happiness to the people around you,
just what is this "Recipes whose name would be engraved in the world"?
There's...
There's no merit in that at all!
You may have the talent as a chef,
but as a human, you're scum!
This is also my life.
This the dish I made to Chizu when I proposed to her for marriage.
Chizu was very happy with it.
It's delicious.
Even though I can reproduce it...
And can reproduce it any time...
I didn't ever make it again even once.
Even though I can't help but to put my personal feelings in the recipes...
Just this...
Just what do you think all of you are doing...
Those are recipes that would bring misfortune to people.
Those are cursed recipes!
It's tasty. Delicious...
It's delicious.
It's delicious...
Delicious...
Since then, Mr Yamagata
immersed himself in making recipes as if he's possessed with something.
As if everything was a lie...
Lie?
What do you mean by that?
What happened to the recipes after that?
Is Mr Naotaro Yamagata still alive today?
Hear the rest from this man.
Hey, that chef is just like you.
I kind of understand the meaning of losing something
in order to gain something.
That's where you sympathize?
That's not it, right?
What else is there to it?
There is, right? Like what the wife said to trust the people around you.
Who cares about that.
That's not it, right?
He even went that far. In the end, those recipes
wasn't able to be engraved in the world.
Don't you wonder why?
He's already dead.
Huh?
I have no business with people who are dead.
I'm going to quit this job.
It seems the request itself is too shady.
What'll you do with your debt, huh? What'll do with it?
Huh? I will return it like it is now.
- By yourself? - Yeah, by myself.
Ah... Did the taste of this change?
Did you go to the Suzuran Gardens?
We're talking about that again?
Huh?
Then have you met with Dad?
I'm the guy he casted away. Dad is only the head of the Suzuran Gardens.
Meet him while he's alive.
I don't want you to tell me that.
Right?
That goes with me too.
Hey, that chef is just like you.
You see, I can absolutely never forget something I've tasted once.
I want to make dishes that the people of the whole world would be pleased with.
Gentlemen, let's aim higher!
Dishes can continue evolving.
The recipe of the last dish where its name will be engraved in the world...
[ David Gutenberg Slava Hotel Harbin Knows Japanese ]
A dish suitable to be decorated lastly where no one has ever seen... [ David Gutenberg Slava Hotel Harbin Knows Japanese ]
This is a job only I can do!
[ Harbin, China ]
[ Slava Hotel ]
You're Mr Mitsuru Sasaki, I presume.
Nice to meet you. I'm David Gutenberg.
I'm Mitsuru Sasaki.
Have a seat.
The one who was close to Mr Yamagata
was not me but my father, Joseph.
What I remember well
was Mr Yamagata's daughter.
Daughter?
Yes.
She was a cute girl with a nice smile.
[ Year 1937 - Harbin ]
Welcome to Slava Hotel.
I've heard about you from Major General Miyake.
Nice cap.
How did you learn Russian?
Dad taught me.
The Kwantung Army had asked my father to let Mr Yamagata separate
the dinner party of the Nichiman Jewish exchange meeting. However...
It is an honor to present a part of the recipe to everyone.
Even though I hate the Nazis too,
I can't like the Japanese too.
I'm not interested in your recipes too.
Only we the Russian chefs would be fine in the dinner party.
We wish to take charge.
David!
So you came.
Hello.
Doing good?
Japanese soup stack?
That's right.
Its taste has deepness.
That's right.
What are you doing?
Please have a taste.
Cabbage roll is a Russian dish.
Please, have a taste.
I'm confident about it.
This is...
I mixed Japan's bonito stock with the cabbage roll.
I also want you to see the inside.
Is this rice cake?
It's good.
Just what is this dish?!
Our future is brilliant!
The Nichiman Jewish exchange party was a great success.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Please let me introduce you to the chef.
Naotaro Yamagata.
I can't believe it.
What's that?
Dad's treasure.
These are splendid.
This is most splendid!
It took us four years after all.
We've rewritten the recipes from the start.
Rewritten?
My former dishes were not delicious.
When my wife died four years ago...
I noticed when I was making dishes for my daughter.
How is it? Is it delicious?
Green soybeaned rice.
This is delicious!
Delicious!
I changed.
I trusted the people around me.
And make delicious dishes.
I put those feelings in the recipe.
In the end,
that's where he went to...
"Dishes is for affection"... isn't it?
If you believe in people and put your feelings to it,
you'll surely make great dishes.
No, you can't.
That is just an immediate excuse
for someone who has no talent and longs for the warmth of a family.
For him to sacrifice something and become alone...
It's something you can only start doing once you drove yourself into the corner.
That's what I think of those who are the real deal.
It's a struggle within oneself though.
In the end...
Naotaro Yamagata ran away.
He fell back into a normal human.
Well...
There's no way he would be able to make recipes whose names would be engraved to the world.
Is this...?
Cabbage roll cooked with rice cake and vegetables.
This is a dish that the hotel takes pride of.
Even though you mention that Mr Yamagata seems someone who has been defeated,
this menu, with his thoughts, are
continued to be loved even today.
Since then, Mr Yamagata and my father
has deepened their friendship.
- Cheers! - Cheers!
David!
One, two, three!
Sachi, is it delicious?
Yeah.
I see. I made that golden fried rice.
Mr Nao, what are you making with that?
Look forward to it.
This seems delicious.
Delicious.
Delicious, isn't it?
That's amazing!
They are perfect recipes.
The recipes are not perfect.
Dishes continue to evolve.
But Mr Yamagata
let go of those precious recipes.
I want you to take care of this.
You're the only one I can trust.
My father received the recipes here.
Why?
Why did you do that that time?
Everything was a lie.
Lie...
Manchuria that time...
...are overflowing with spies in the city.
Like a Chinese couple who are enthusiastic about business are actually communist spies.
The Russians who are close with the Japanese
naturally was a Soviet spy.
That was the actual condition of Manchukuo.
Of course, Mr Yamagata's surroundings are like that too.
I saw that.
Ah, welcome back.
Mr Nao?
I just heard from Major General Miyake.
That you are a spy from the Chinese Communist Party!
What do you mean?
You kept talking footmen of the Communist Party about the Great Japan Imperial Feast!
You even handed over the recipes. You were deceiving me since the beginning!
What're you talking about?
"Races cannot be fused.", "That is ideal."
It's just like you said!
You traitor!
Mr Nao, you've got it wrong...
You bastard! What were you thinking of my precious recipes?!
Get out!
It's not me! You've got it wrong!
Get out!
Never show yourself again! Get out!
Mr Nao...
Really?
Yoh is a spy?
But before my father died...
My father entrusted the recipes to me.
The precious recipes that was entrusted to him by Mr Yamagata.
To let them know that the whereabouts who I will entrust them are unknown
after the death of my father.
I finally found that person.
He has become...
the master chef of the state guest house in Beijing.
In order to get Mr Yamagata hand it to Mr Yoh,
he entrusted it to my father.
There was also a letter addressed to Mr Yoh along with the recipes.
Why did Mr Yamagata entrust the recipes to that man?
No...
Then does that mean Yoh has the recipes?
You should hear that from the person himself.
The reason why I told you these is
because Mr Yamagata's daughter was there.
Where is she now?
I thought you'll come soon enough.
I thought it was suspicious right from the beginning.
Just what are you planning?
How far have you known the story?
You are a Chinese Communist spy.
And you have the recipe with you.
Please tell me.
Just what are you thinking?
As I said from the beginning, the recipes are not here.
This is what I have left.
[ To Yoh Seimei ]
It's the letter from Mr Nao.
All the truth is written inside it.
The continuous battle of a legendary chef's way of life...
I want you to read it.
There's no time, that's why I write this while I think.
There's something I have to tell you no matter what.
I'm now only praying that this letter would reach you.
Never show yourself again! Get out!
Mr Nao...
A few hours before I kicked you out...
I was told a certain plot.
It's been 5 years
since the foundation of the Manchukuo.
I think the time has come
for his Majesty to come see Manchuria.
Then this means...
The time to show off our recipes has come.
Kamata!
On February next year,
The Great Japan Imperial Feast will be carved in Japan's history...
No, will be largely carved in world's history
with all its dishes for sure.
But there's one thing.
I have to tell you a very important mission, Mr Yamagata.
Mr Yamagata.
Do you always
want to help your country?
Of course.
Good.
If you have those feelings when serving dishes to his Majesty,
I want you...
...to put poison in those dishes.
Huh?
Of course, there would be someone who taste the dishes if there are poison,
there would be no danger to his Majesty.
It is highly unlikely that
you will assassinate his Majesty.
But the fact remains that we tried to assassinate him.
The name of the culprit was the man I prepared for this day.
Seimei Yoh.
It means the Manchukuo Emperor, Puyi,
used him to assassinate his Majesty.
This is a crime that the whole world must know.
They are the dishes especially made for that.
It's the first step for independence of Manchukuo.
You have no choice not to refuse.
Kamata is always watching you.
That was his mission.
I had no right to decline!
So they all knew...
The one who didn't know was only you and me.
Kamata was constantly watching us.
I couldn't think of other ways to save you but that.
Ah, welcome back.
I just heard from Major General Miyake.
That you are a spy from the Chinese Communist Party!
You bastard! What were you thinking of my precious recipes?!
Never show yourself again! Get out!
Mr Nao...
But the situation was not that simple.
Do you not see it would be the same even if you let him escape?
Even if he's not present, the culprit will still be that Chinese.
Wherever he escapes, his life is in our clutches.
The plot will still be effective as long as the recipes exist.
Your life will be at risk as long as the recipe exists.
I could not forgive myself for the recipe you poured
with your heart and blood would be contaminated for such a plot.
I cannot throw them away.
Even if you say if it's only a draft.
These are like the life of you and me.
Even if we are gone in this world,
the thoughts included in these recipes will certainly remain.
That's what I believe.
I also want to tell that to this child...
I decided to remake the recipes once again.
This time, it's not just for the Emperor,
but for the chefs I believe in - Yoh, Kamata, and also Sachi.
In order to convey these feelings to all of you...
- Thank you for the food. - Thank you for the food.
It's delicious! Please cook every day, Dad.
Be sure to eat a lot.
Okay.
I spent around half a month
when I completed it.
I don't know what will happen after this.
I really feel sorry to you for these things that happened.
When Chizu died,
the ones who saved me, who were always by my side
were you and Kamata.
That's why I entrust this recipe to you, Yoh.
I believe in you.
This recipes I made together with you for four years
without a doubt will be the best recipes in the world.
Dishes will make people happy and make them smile.
Like that man who possesses Qilin's tongue.
I want to be like that man.
I intend to fight until the end for that reason.
Your close friend, Naotaro Yamagata.
To Seimei Yoh.
Mr Nao...
...let me escape.
Someone like me who's Chinese...
In order to protect me...
After that...
I heard what happened from Kamata long after.
Kamata...
Dad, where should I put this?
Mr Suzuki...
I'll entrust my daughter to you.
Great Japan Imperial Feast.
I'm looking forward to it.
These are the dishes
that will be served to the Emperor which we made.
Oh, how unusual.
How splendid.
What're you doing?!
Major General Miyake.
I'm sorry to say that this recipes will be vanished forever.
I won't let you use
this recipe for murder. And also...
You bastard!
The recipes we've made
will not be served with poison!
What is he doing?!
What's going on?!
That's how Mr Nao fought.
Why...?
To think you only wanted to make dishes...
Why did this happen...?
Do you
still like dishes until now?
You still like them, isn't it?
Alone late at night at the kitchen...
I saw you practice filleting the fish countless times.
You didn't have to that far
if you're job was only to watch us.
I still think of you
as a chef until now.
Please run away.
What?
Please run until the Slava Hotel. There's extraterritoriality there.
Please ask Mr Gutenberg for help.
Please, go!
Kamata!
Hurry!
I also made dishes together with you for four years.
If I do that, your life would be in danger.
I don't want to bring
misfortune to anyone because of those recipes anymore...
You should continue making dishes.
Mr Yamagata...
Mr Yamagata!
I'm sorry!
After one month, because of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident,
the Sino-Japanese war started, and it became an era of chaos.
Kamata was sent to the front lines.
And I heard that Major General Miyake...
committed suicide after the end of the war.
After the war, I became the head chef in Senkaku,
made dishes for the Japanese prime minister, Kakuei Tanaka,
and made connections with important Japanese people.
And then...
[ Year 1972 ] And then...
[ Year 1972 ]
I looked up for Kamata's whereabouts. [ Year 1972 ]
Kamata runs a quiet restaurant
in a secluded place.
And now, the main issue starts here.
Looks like it.
After hearing
the truth about Mr Nao's death from Kamata...
You went to see Mr Naotaro Yamagata's daughter.
I saw Sachi who has grown up.
Sachi.
Long time no see.
I'm Seimei Yoh.
I'm Kamata...
Yoh... Kamata...?
Even though she has married a chef
- Manchuria? - his wife died with an illness.
She takes care
- of a three-year-old boy by herself. - Why are you two here?
I explained thoroughly the truth of Mr Nao's death
the feelings put in the recipes.
These recipes are everything of Mr Nao.
That's why you should have it.
It should not be me.
It should be you, Sachi.
I'm sorry!
Dad...
Come on, come in.
I also met someone whom I haven't met for a long time.
The head chef, Mr Suzuki.
Yoh!
Even you, Kamata!
After the war, Mr Suzuki, who was the head chef,
continued to protect Sachi from the Soviet army who invaded.
Even after withdrawing from Manchuria,
he looked after her like if she's his own daughter in Japan.
I wonder what we were doing...
In other people's country.
This takes me back...
I want to make these recipes.
Sachi started a shop based on the recipes.
Everyone cooperated with it.
The ideals that Mr Nao wasn't able to accomplish.
In order to connect those feelings who eagerly lived...
Thank you very much. Please come!
Eventually, the opening of Sachi's shop has come.
Kitchen Lila, please come.
Please come.
So it's your opening today.
Yes, please come. Thank you very much.
It's the opening today. Please come.
Please come.
Today's the opening. It's Kitchen Lila.
But during that time...
The neighboring shop caused a fire.
Even the store of Sachi was...
The recipes...
Dad's... Dad's recipes!
No! You shouldn't go, Sachi!
- It's dangerous... No! - Let go... Let go!
Sachi!
Sachi, it's dangerous! You shouldn't go!
Mommy!
The one who took care of Sachi's only son
was Taichi, whose the son of the head chef and lived like a brother.
Someday
give these recipes to this child...
Taichi operated a facility for
disadvantaged children.
Its name is...
Suzuran Garden.
Mitsuru, from now on this is your home.
Just as I thought...
...that's what happened.
This takes me back.
You have the face like that of Mr Nao.
You're Mr Nao's grandson, Mitsuru Sasaki.
But why now?
Why did you let me search for the recipes?
I was not the one who thought of that.
The one who will inherit the recipes
will be man who has Qilin's tongue.
Here's your golden fried rice. Thank you for waiting!
Can I talk to you now?
Let's talk later.
No, let me talk to you for just a moment.
I told you, this place is a battle during late nights.
Let's talk later.
It started with the death of the director.
Even though I contacted you when I read the letter from the director,
you didn't came.
What "Last Chef"?
If this goes on...
...he'll be done for.
Are you talking about Mitsuru Sasaki?
Yes.
They are all old friends of the director.
That's where I heard the story
of your grandfather and mother from Mr Yoh.
Mr Yoh and everyone who read the director's letter
knew that the recipes' feelings
have come to an end when the director died.
The director's feelings...
Mr Naotaro's way of life...
I want him to know all of them.
Because he has become alone when his mother died,
only making dishes is his way of living.
Even so, his restaurant collapsed...
And he's only left with debt...
Only money will make him move right now. He can't trust people.
He won't even come to the director's funeral. He's terrible!
Will the feelings
be handed to someone like Mitsuru once the recipes are given to him?
Then how about... Then how about this?
Let him find the recipes himself.
It's just that the feelings won't be conveyed just by showing the recipes.
You will surely accept it if it's a request for a last dish.
So all of you knew.
Yeah, everyone knew.
[ Suzuran Garden ]
It's been 20 years since you came here, huh?
Mitsuru.
Long time no see.
Kana?
Kana is now succeeding this place.
Yeah, let's go.
Here. The director wanted to give this to you.
[ To Mitsuru ]
Mitsuru.
I have to tell you something no matter what.
You closed your heart when you first came here.
It took years for you to talk to me.
Mitsuru.
Stop being alone and play with everyone.
You won't be able to live alone, you know.
Why a chef?
You won't be able to make a living like that!
I didn't want you to be a chef.
It's because I was thinking of protecting you
to a binding spell of some recipes.
It's because of those recipes that
Ms Chizu and Mr Naotaro died.
That Sachi became alone.
Those are recipes that would bring misfortune to people.
Those are cursed recipes!
I thought it's just like what my father said.
Furthermore, those recipes
took away the life of your mother, Sachi.
Mommy!
If only these recipes don't exist...
If only these recipes...
But in the end, you still chose to be a chef.
But you now need these recipes.
These recipes filled with Naotaro and everyone's feelings
will surely save you.
I won't live long.
I want to see you. I want to see you once more.
I have to give this to you no matter what.
This recipe.
So that I would be able to tell you that you are not alone.
Here, Director.
Such a nostalgic taste.
I also have a memorable dish.
Then why don't we ask Mitsuru to make it.
- Indeed. - Yes.
Take care of Mitsuru.
Yes. I understand.
Director, be careful!
Ah...
Director...
Director... Director!
You know,
I wasn't able to do anything...
Be sure to look at the last page.
The last page of the recipes made just to carve its name to the world.
You know, Mitsuru.
This is my memorable dish.
Hey, Mitsuru.
What's precious for us
was near us all along...
Okay guys, the fried rice is done.
Pass the plates.
Next would be fried chicken tenders.
Be sure to eat a lot.
It's delicious.
Delicious...
How is this?
Okay.
It's good. Okay.
- Mitsuru. - Okay.
- Got it.
[ The Last Recipe: Memory of Qilin's Tongue ]
[ Naotaro Yamagata's Pacific Bluefin Tuna Invitation of Qilin's Tongue ]
[ Mitsuru Sasaki's Matsusaka Beef Dashi Jelly Dragon Fire Pot - 2002 ]
[ Naotaro Yamagata's Spring Rolled Sweetfish ]
[ Mitsuru Sasaki's Sweetfish Crystal ]
[ Naotaro Yamagata's Black and White Labyrinth Peacock Meat Drama Dressing ]
[ Mitsuru Sasaki's White and Black Coconut Corn in Galaxy ]
[ Naotaro Yamagata's Double Consomme of a Chinese Soft-Shell Turtle ]
[ Mitsuru Sasaki's Miso soup Chinese Soft-Shell Turtle and Mint Magical Pot ]
[ Naotaro Yamagata's Honeyed Harmony of Five Races Dumplings ]
[ Mitsuru Sasaki's 5 Star Sweets from the Lab ]