-♪ Hu ♪ ♪ Hu ♪ ♪ Hu ♪ ♪ Hu ♪ -I came back to look after dad.

Stayed on to look after Mum.

It's a 50/50 relationship.

-I come from the most brave and strong fighting tribe.

I'm my own boss.

-So if you could take one thing from this life to the next?

-It'll be my mum.

♪ [ Howard Morrison Quartet's "He Kainga Tupu" plays ] -[ Singing in Maori ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Home ♪ ♪ Home ♪ ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Sweet home ♪ -Right.

-♪ There's no place ♪ ♪ Like home ♪ ♪ There's no ♪ ♪ Place ♪ ♪ Like home ♪ -Must be a present, Mum.

-Ooh.

[ Car starts ] -I wonder what it is?

-It's passed inspection.

-Passed inspection, did it?

-There's something there, look.

-Oh, yes.

Passed inspection 'cause it came all the way from America.

-Yeah.

-Mm.

It's a big box.

Bottle of Jim Beam?

-No.

-No?

-Too light for Jim Beam.

-A mink coat?

-No.

-Cheers, Florian!

-Cheers, Isey.

-I'll have a sip.

-Mm.

-Oh!

I won't have too many of that because I'll be getting up and dancing on the tables.

Good whiskey.

I love fishing.

To get out on the water and catch -- especially the marlin.

And you only bring that marlin in when it's not fighting.

If it fights, you just let your line go out, and once it stops fighting, and you reel it back in, might be three, might be four times.

Oh.

Just...

It just hits you and that's it.

Yeah.

[ Laughs ] -And how many marlin have you caught before?

-Oh, total?

I think about 10.

-Wow.

-Yeah, 10.

Might be 11.

But I'd say 10.

-[ Singing in Maori ] [ Clicking tongue ] [ Gunshot ] [ Dogs bark in distance ] [ Speaking Maori ] [ Singing in Maori ] [ Speaking Maori ] [ Insects buzzing ] Amen.

Yeah.

I know it's life, but it's...

I guess it's one of the most unpleasant parts of life.

You know, here.

Death.

Whether it's -- Whether it's a -- an animal from the animal kingdom or from the human kingdom.

From the -- You know, whether it's a whale that beaches itself or dolphins.

When you're there, in person, witnessing it, it's... Um...

It's -- Yeah.

It's something that you really don't want to experience that often in life.

Yeah.

[ Music plays on radio ] ♪ [ Kettle whistling ] -[ Whistling ] ♪ ♪ [ Indistinct conversation ] ♪ ♪ ♪ -Oh!

-Yay!

-Oh!

-Whoa!

-You got him, Mum.

Lift it up.

-Yeah.

[ Laughter ] -[ Singing in Maori ] [ Chanting in Maori ] -There he is.

-[ Continues chanting ] Amen.

Someone said to me at the marae, "Oh, your mum's not going to get to 100."

One of Gavin's mates said that.

"Your mum's not going to live" -- So I told them to...off.

You know?

No one's going to say that.

Or put that energy out there.

And that's what it's about.

Energy.

And I told the other -- my other cousin at the marae the same thing.

You know?

Don't put that out there.

Because when you put something out there, it's an energy that lives there.

When I get to the top, I'll take it off when she sits down on it.

[ Speaking Maori ] [ Singing in Maori ] -Shall I say I come from Karetu, Ngati Manu.

Sub-tribe, Ngati Manu.

Ngati Manu is a sub-tribe from Ngapuhi, which covers -- So from...

I think it's from Henderson -- or no, Bombay, eh, Jamie?

-The Waikato River, yeah.

-Right up to Spirits Bay.

-Spirits Bay, uh-huh.

-And it is -- They -- They were known as the most brave and strongest fighting tribe, you might as well say, in all that -- in the whole area.

Right since I was small, we were taught the Lord's Prayer.

I was taught more Christianity than where I was in Maori because my peers -- my father and even mother never spoke Maori at all, never.

All spoke to us in English.

Right through.

-Yeah.

-So you don't speak Maori?

-Not -- I'm not fluent.

-Mm-hmm.

-I can understand and say a few words.

And say kiaora.

[ Laughs ] But not fluent in speaking Maori.

-Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

-More so just English.

-Yeah.

-Or when you say Christianity.

-Yeah.

-So you believe in Heaven?

-We'll all go there one day.

-Yeah.

Yeah.

And what about James?

-Oh, he -- -What is he -- is he like?

-It's his own beliefs, he'll tell you.

I won't speak for him.

I'll speak for myself.

-Mm-hmm.

And one of the reasons why they never -- they brought their children up in the -- with the English language is so they could get ahead.

Because they saw that, by learning English in the English way, then their children had a better shot at life.

They made sure their children spoke, way back then in that time, you know, when Mum was born in 1919, that they were brought up the Pakeha way so they have an advantage in life.

They foresaw that, yeah.

But they spoke fluent Maori.

-Oh, yes.

He could speak very, but he -- -But he chose to speak English to you and to Mum so you have a better life.

Because they could see colonization was -- was the way to go for their kids to -- you know, to stay in that -- -Don't say kids, you say children.

-Children, to stay in that -- in that -- to stay -- -In that environment.

-In that environment and to be successful.

-Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

-Yeah.

-And back then, you weren't allowed to speak Maori at school.

You know?

Because it was becoming the Pakeha way, the system.

Maori wasn't allowed to be taught.

As for me and my spiritual side, I've always believed in God the creator.

And always believed in treating your fellow man the way you want to be treated.

And on my Maori side, I've always had the gift as a tohunga from ever since I think I was five years old, I realized that, and my parents realized that.

And -- But the gift, I was told, normally doesn't really kick in until you're in your 40s.

And then, it sure did kick in.

And -- But I'm actually a tohunga ahurewa, which is a high priest.

-Shaman.

-And a shaman on my white bloodlines, which is the more gentle guy.

More gentle person within me.

But the tohunga ahurewa, why I hold that title, is because I don't just carry one gift of a tohunga that's passed on.

Which was [speaks Maori].

Which was most powerful tohunga [speaking Maori].

And that was told to me by another tohunga, [speaks Maori].

But I will say I carry another gift from another tohunga from the Hokonui area, which I'll not mention because that's the way it has to be.

And the other tohunga that passed me his gift is one from down the line, from another tribe.

So that's why I'm ahurewa, a high priest.

-And did you learn -- Because of that, did you actually make an effort to learn more Maori?

-No.

Everything just comes to me naturally.

And the language I speak is the ancient Sanskrit before there were words, before -- There was sound right up to getting like the caveman days.

So when I speak my language, it's a mixture of -- people think it's American Indian or Maori or Hawaiian.

But it's actually -- I'm communicating directly to our higher realms.

Not our tupuna.

The tupuna can understand what I'm saying, but I'm -- I'm connecting -- I'm talking with the ancient ones.

You know?

Or the ones that are just under the creator of Almighty God, I mean, the real Creator.

Not the God that the Pakeha will pray to in the Bible.

There's God, and then there's God.

Yeah.

-But is it a made-up language, or is it -- -No.

Nothing's made up.

It was the purest form of communication between the -- between the gods -- the God and the gods and the demigods and the ones on Earth that were allowed to communicate to the gods.

-Yeah.

-And that's the language I speak.

And when I walk in and I speak it, people feel it, you know?

That's pure connection to the spiritual realms.

-Are you guys comfortable or uncomfortable?

-Nah, I'm comfortable.

-You guys warm enough?

-Yep.

Just got to keep -- you know, watch Mum's energy levels.

-Yeah.

-She can't sit for too long.

-Otherwise I'll shift from side to side.

-I saw you shifting from side to side.

-[ Laughs ] -Yeah.

But I'm hoping to go to McDonald's today.

If we fit it in.

[ Bell rings ] I wanted to ring it.

[ Indistinct conversation ] Yeah, I'll just do my blessing, then I'll take it off.

-And you'll wash it?

-Go and stand by the pole there, Mum.

Hang on to that.

I'll go wash it.

-I'll have a... Mac Attack is the one where you get two Big Macs, eh?

-Yeah.

-I'll have a Mac Attack, but make it large.

You know, the large one.

And with the chips and Fanta for a drink.

And can we have an extra empty cup so I can pour some of that Fanta from my big cup for my mum because she's 100 years old.

-I'll just see about that.

Anything else?

[ Squawking ] ♪ ♪ Where's my shoes?

-You're so beautiful, he can't stop filming you, Mum.

-Is that right?

-Yeah.

-I'm just a prop.

-[ Laughs ] -[ Chuckling ] ♪ -So you created James, eh, Isey?

-I don't know about created him.

He -- He is today as he is.

-Or did the stork just drop me off?

[ Laughter ] -The stork was a real big stork.

-And was it a long birth with James?

-No.

Just -- Not that long.

All my children weren't long births.

-Wow.

-You know.

-Yeah, wow.

-Popped them out and that's it.

[ Laughs ] Like a minute.

I need a whiskey.

[ Laughs ] -You want me to make you one?

-No.

-And, Isey, do you ever sometimes think about falling in love?

Like, meeting someone new in the future?

-No.

I don't want no man.

If he turn round and tell me what to do, I'll tell him to go eff off.

I won't use that word, mind you.

No...off.

-[ Chuckles ] -I'm my own boss.

-[ Groans ] Anyway.

That's better.

-Take your arm away.

-I'll put my arm down there.

-No.

-It's more comfortable.

Here, I'll take it away.

-Put it in front of you.

-There you go.

That better?

Nah?

-No.

-That better?

-That's better.

-All right.

-Yeah, sit back, James, it's good.

Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah.

-I love your guys' outfits.

-So tight.

-Your night gear.

-Huh.

[ Chuckles ] So tight.

-My night gear?

-Yeah, what you sleep in is amazing.

[ Laughter ] -And, Isey, could you tell me about some stories from your childhood?

Your past?

-What's gone's gone.

We're just going to look to the future.

-Aye.

And that's why we're planning -- -That's why I say don't worry, be happy.

-Yeah.

♪ ♪ ♪ [ "Diana" playing on cell phone ] ♪ I'm so young and you're so old ♪ This, my darling, I've been told ♪ I don't care just what they say ♪ ♪ 'Cause forever I will pray ♪ ♪ You and I will be as free ♪ ♪ As the birds up in the trees ♪ ♪ Oh, please ♪ ♪ Stay by me, Diana ♪ -And why did you give up singing?

-To come back and look after dad.

Because he was dying of cancer.

And I came back to assist the situation and I had to stay.

And then I ended up -- stayed on to look after Mum.

I started singing first.

Then when I got my stripe, I turned towards acting.

Yeah.

-And you had a stroke, James?

-Yeah.

Yeah, I had a stroke.

I just finished filming a video clip for my single "All Quiet on the Western Front."

And, um, came home Christmas day, and then -- and it just hit me after that, the day after Christmas day.

Boxing Day, yeah.

♪ In touch with the ground, I'm on the hunt I'm after you ♪ ♪ Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd ♪ ♪ And I'm hungry like the wolf ♪ -That bottom lot's really hard.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, so I think we've got the catering all set to a T, haven't we, Mum?

-Yes, we have.

-Yeah.

-So, lots of seafood for a start off.

-That's -- yep.

-You've been really blessed.

-Glass of bourbon?

-Is that it?

-That's it.

-A day?

-Well, not -- not everyday.

When I get visitors.

♪ -And James, if you could take one memory from this life to the next, what would you take from this life to the next life, if you could take one thing from this life?

-It'll be my mum.

Mm.

And probably in the years that are now more so than younger, because when you're younger, you're doing your own thing.

You don't really appreciate your parents to the degree that you... you ought to.

Because you're a teenager growing up and doing your own thing.

Or like I went to America.

And, you know, you're working or -- I'm driving around in my Mustang I used to have; your mates -- But this time with my mum, being a care giver, has made me appreciate what mothers are all about.

So the roles are kind of reversed, where -- well, I'm meant to be looking after her, which I do, but she actually looks after me.

You know?

Like a lot of things -- "How do you spell that word again?"

"I've already told you 20 times," I say, "I know, but tell me again," you know, and she'll tell me.

But then I'll ask her something and then she'll say, "Oh, that's such and such" -- she's got such a sharp mind, she remembers people's names, or she'll remember an incident or something that happened.

And I'll say, "Oh, far out!

Gee you're on to it," you know?

And she is.

'Cause, yeah, so it's like...

It's a 50/50 relationship to me.

I'm not really caring for her.

We're just living our lives together, you know, in harmony.

-In harmony.

-Yeah.

And -- and that's what it is here.

-I've got a very sharp mind.

-Yeah.

-Bang on!

-She tells me off.

She whips the whip, yeah, but I think that's -- we just -- we just -- we just live and work in harmony.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

There's no carer, got to get rid of that world.

-Peace and love.

-People call me full of -- People call me that -- what's another thing?

I'm bipolar.

[ Snickers ] You know?

My brother's mates put a label on me because their daughter's got that.

So you have to go and tell them what you think of them, and don't put that label on me 'cause that's not who I am.

It's like, you know, people are always quick to pigeonhole you and categorize you because it makes them feel -- I don't know, safe or normal, or... Yeah, it's getting you -- it's getting you out of their, I don't know, out of... Out of the way.

[ Animals calling ] [ Chanting in Maori ] [ Drumming ] ♪ ♪ -Mmm.

-Get on your horse, Ise.

[ Drumming continues ] [ Engine rumbling ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ Indistinct chatter ] [ Cutlery rattling ] [ Birds calling ] -To have a balanced, healthy life, you've got to have a spiritual connection.

American Indians have it, the Aboriginal people had it -- before the white men came in and disconnected them from it.

You know, they tried to do that with the Maori race, disconnect us spiritually.

You've got to have a spiritual connection.

When the doctor said, "Oh, your dad's only got a few months to live, if that," and my aim was to get him to the new millennium, and he was still eight years away.

So my mind again, and with my care, and with my gift, I got him to the year 2001, past the millennium, and proved those doctors wrong, you know?

I got him off all the high stuff that he should have been on -- morphine -- took all that away and did my intuitive medicines, you know?

So I proved the system wrong.

And -- and the reason dad lived, like, eight and a half years longer than he should only -- a few months -- was -- was simply love, unconditional love that I gave to my dad.

And that's the secret of -- of happiness, is, you know, you do things because it's the love that you feel.

You know?

Yeah.

And I'm doing this movie 'cause it's about, you know, I want to make a movie with my mum.

How many people out there have said, "I'm going to make a movie with my mum," you know?

I'm probably the first one.

You know?

I'm making a movie with my mum in her hundredth year.

[ Low howl of wind ] [ Solo guitar playing ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ Grass rustling in wind, waves crashing ] [ Insects chirping ] So, Mum, it's the 3rd of April, 2019.

And 100 years ago, you were born on the 3rd of April, 1919.

Wow.

-3-4-19.

-100 years on Earth, Mum.

-And they've been happy, happy, happy years.

And many more.

-Right, yeah.

What a beautiful achievement.

-You remember your birth, Isey?

-Nope.

-[ Laughs ] I need another drink.

-Oh!

-And here's to Florian for being here tonight.

-Such an honor.

Happy birthday, Isey!

-Thank you, Florian.

-I'm sending you love through the air.

-Through the air.

-Yeah!

[ Both laughing ] I'll hug you in a second.

-Open up your first present.

Came all the way from America.

From Mark [inaudible].

-He's the one from San Diego?

No, that's-- -No, that's Chris.

Chris is coming, but -- -Chris [indistinct].

-But he's from... Centennial Co., East Ontario.

I don't know.

Somewhere.

[ Laughs ] I can't read it.

-Well, open it up.

-Alright.

I can feel it then.

Yes.

It came all the way from America.

USA.

Bottom.

Yeah.

I hope it's not breakable.

-Sellotape right around the whole box.

-Yeah.

[ Laughs, mutters ] I supposed I should get a knife.

Let's -- let's see here.

Upside down.

There you go.

Oh, there's a letter here.

-Eh?

-I'll read it for you.

A mail item.

"Mail has been sent to you from USA.

The following items do not meet the requirements of a vice security, ministry of" blah, blah, blah, "return to se--" oh, I don't know what that one -- -That's it.

-Nothing here, Mum!

-Nothing at all!

-Far out!

Must have got lost between America and here, eh?

Anyway, that was fun opening it up, eh?

We'll shove everything back in.

Just -- I just got a bead.

No, that's okay.

We -- I said to Mum, "Mum, and now together you'll be 100," so she -- "Oh, I'm going to start, we're gonna have a whiskey," so that's exactly what we did.

So we -- we went to bed at about 1:00-ish.

I got to bed at about 3:00.

I've got my mate up here who's, um, who's a filmmaker.

And, um, he's filming the whole thing.

So we're about to go up in the bedroom now and film me waking her up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I'm going to sing "Happy Birthday" to her.

Still there?

Cool, cool.

Oh, dear, she beat us up!

You're meant to be fast asleep!

-Happy birthday, Mum!

-Hello, William!

-How are you, Mum?

-I'm really good.

-Heard you've been up partying all night.

-Oh.

Went to bed at 1:00 in the morning.

-Oh.

Eh, you're better than me.

I go -- I go to bed at half past 7:00 and I don't get up till 8:00.

[ Both laugh ] [ Car honks ] ♪ -Just a little... ♪ -Whoa, whoa, whoa!

-[Indistinct] -That's not a little!

-It's Aunty's.

Is that too -- that's -- it's, uh, several "littles."

[ Laughs ] -No.

-[ Exhales ] Eh?

Here, Mum.

-Give that -- Yeah.

♪ Is that too much?

♪ [ Indistinct cross-talk ] -Aww.

Cheers, Aunty!

-Oh, did you get that?

Hey, if you didn't get that, we'll have to do it again.

[ Laughter ] -Ready?!

Ready?!

Are we ready?!

[ All ] Cheers!

-Here's to your 100th year, Mum.

-Yes, happy birthday, Aunty.

Let's have another -- a few more.

-And a few more.

-Let's go.

Down the hatch, guys.

♪ -Ooh, [no audio] that's hot!

[ Laughter ] [ Exclaims, laughter ] -Hoo!

Shiver me timbers.

-No.

♪ [ Laughter ] ♪ -What do you reckon Flo-- -Wonderful!

-Florian?

-It's like medicine, isn't it?

-Oh, that is straight, Mum!

-So I'll have to sip on it.

♪ ♪ -"Straw"... [ All laughing ] -We'll find different chocolate, Aunty.

-Collin, you've got to toughen up!

-I do!

-Okay.

I'll get -- [ Laughter ] ♪ -And no more chocolates after that?

-No.

-Down the hatch?

-Where's your drink?

-It's gone, Aunty!

Yeah, catch up, you!

[ Laughter ] -Aah!

[ Laughter ] -It's alright.

-[Indistinct] -Yes, she can.

It should be dry.

-You can close your mouth.

[ Laughter ] [ Playing "Happy Birthday To You" ] [ Muttering indistinctly ] -...amen.

-Amen.

-Blow it out?

-Yes.

[ Rain pattering ] [ Grunting ] [ Screams ] [ Chanting in Maori ] [ Cheering and applause ] -Be good, Nana!

[ Singing "Happy Birthday To You" in Maori ] -Blow it out, Mum.

[ Singing continues ] You lost all your wind.

-Come on, Nana -- -Bloody hell icing, blow it!

-Blow it!

-Just blow it.

-Getting too high.

-Blow, Nana, blow!

[ Indistinct chatter ] [ Cheering and applause ] [ Shouting in Maori ] [ Cheering and applause ] -How do you feel?

-[No audio] good.

[ Laughter, cheering and applause ] And that's pretty good [indistinct].

[ Laughter ] Anyway, I'd like to thank everybody that's here today.

And there'll be many more to come, too.

[ Cheering ] -Wanna sing a song?

Mum's going to sing a song.

[ Indistinct chatter ] -It's no use saying that you are my sunshine, 'cause I'm the sunshine.

[ Laughter ] -Uh, hey, hey, Mum's going to sing a song.

-Now... -Seeing that you're 100, I'll give you 100 dollars, right in front -- [ Applause ] -Thank you, thank you.

-'Cause you're 100.

My mate -- her and I used to go to school together, up there, way back in time.

And I'm only 92, I'm only a young fellow!

[ Laughter ] But there it is.

That's for you, my mate.

-Oh, thank you, my love, thank you.

-Love you and I'll always be there for you.

Praise the lord.

[ Cheering and applause ] ♪ Oh, I'm walking and leaping and praising God ♪ ♪ Walking and leaping and praising God ♪ ♪ In the name of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ Of Nazareth, rise up and walk ♪ [ Laughter, cheering and applause ] ♪ -♪ Haere Mai ♪ ♪ Everything is kapai ♪ ♪ You're here at last ♪ ♪ You're really here at last ♪ ♪ Haere Mai ♪ ♪ Not a cloud in the sky ♪ ♪ To coin a phrase ♪ ♪ This is the day of days ♪ -♪ And that is why ♪ ♪ All the boys in town ♪ ♪ Follow you ♪ ♪ All around, yeah ♪ ♪ Just like me ♪ ♪ They long to be ♪ ♪ Close to you ♪ Love you, Nana!

[ Cheering and applause ] -We'll be back here same time next year for 101, for 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, and so on until she decides.

[ Cheering and applause ] -♪ Que sera, sera ♪ ♪ Whatever will be, will be ♪ ♪ The future's not ours to see ♪ ♪ Que sera, sera ♪ ♪ What will be, will be ♪ ♪ When I was just a little girl ♪ ♪ I asked my mother, what will I be ♪ ♪ Will I be pretty, will I be rich ♪ ♪ Here's what she said to me ♪ ♪ Que sera, sera ♪ ♪ Whatever will be, will be ♪ ♪ The future's not ours to see ♪ ♪ Que sera, sera ♪ [ Cheering and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ Wind howling low ] [ Waves crashing ] ♪ Que sera, sera ♪ ♪ Whatever will be, will be ♪ ♪ The future's not ours to see ♪ ♪ Que sera, sera ♪ ♪ What will be, will be ♪ -♪ When she was -- ♪ -Que sera.

-♪ ...just a little girl ♪ -You carrying on?

-♪ She asked her mother ♪ -♪ When I was just a little girl ♪ ♪ I asked my mother, what will I be?

♪ I'm singing it!

♪ Will I be pretty?

♪ -Mm!

-♪ And will I be rich... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪