Mimi: Hiroshi, he’s here. He’s come. Hiroshi, bring the hat.
(Hiroshi carries over a dilapidated Panama hat)
Carl: Yes, it’s my hat all right.
Mimi: You left it here in the summer.
Carl: It’s certainly my old summer hat. Merci, merci beaucoup.
Hiroshi: We found it on your chair. We kept it.
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Voice-over
What café would keep a hat, a very decrepit hat, for 5 months, from mid-summer to mid-winter? Mimi’s, a French café run by a French woman and her husband. It says something about them, about the effect of Japanese culture on even many immigrants, in their effort to return a forgotten item to its owner.
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