"The Cherry Orchard" is a play by Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
It was written in 1903,
and premiered in Moscow in 1904.
It is one of Chekhov's four greatest plays.
Characters: Ranevskaya, the orchard's owner
Anya, her daughter Varya, her adopted daughter
Gaev, her brother Lopakhin, a merchant
Petya, a student
Dunyasha, a maidservant Fiers, an old footman
Next, Momo Yuki.
Momo Yuki, hurry.
Don't you want to compete in the contest?
I've told you many times.
With this kind of performance you can't win.
Even advancing your grade is under question.
You look unhappy.
To continue the violin, you must get rid of vain pride.
Vain pride?
I've seen many students like you.
Kids who practice alone and reckon they're so good.
Who think they can do anything alone.
Alright. I'll give up the violin.
ls that it?
You'll throw away your life till now.
The life before me is much longer.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD - BLOSSOMING
Hey, Momo.
Wake up.
Wake me after we arrive.
We're almost there.
You can see it.
It's as if you are getting transferred.
So dressed up. And the makeup.
You won't make friends.
It's OK, I'm there just for a year.
lt wasn't easy to arrange it.
Dad had to ask them personally.
We have two top grads in the family.
That doesn't matter.
Do call them in London.
Why?
Mom and Dad worry about you.
Then you call them.
They worry more about the bride-to-be.
Which do you like more?
Anzu Yuki or Anzu Takeuchi?
The name. Which is better?
Whichever's fine.
You're right.
Good morning.
Kayo.
Yuki-san?
Yes.
It's been a long time. How are you?
I never imagined I'd teach Yuki-san's sister.
So my sister...
was a grade below me. She told me about you.
About her little sister.
The violinist.
So busy that she didn't have time to play with friends.
You won contests.
Your parents had great hopes for you.
Stand up.
Bow.
Good morning.
Sit.
Welcome a new member to our class.
I This is Momo Yuki from Tokyo.
Momo Yuki.
ls that all?
Well... Akaboshi-san, Iet her sit in front of you.
Yes.
The chemistry lab.
The biology lab.
The calligraphy room, and the tea room.
The AV room.
Akaboshi-san.
What's that?
The old school. It'll be destroyed soon.
What a waste.
Want to go?
It's off-limits for students.
Why?
It's a rule.
Did you see?
Yeah, our eyes met.
Such long legs.
And cool sportswear.
Don't you think she's gotten even cooler?
Weird.
What?
Those girls.
May I ask you something?
What?
Our school rarely takes transferees.
Why did they take you?
Well...
We all studied hard to get in.
It's unfair to just accept people like you.
Well, I've shown you everything.
Good-bye.
You, wait.
Yes?
Why didn't you greet the school?
You must be the new student.
I'm Takayama, the vice-principle.
I'm Momo Yuki.
It is a tradition to greet the school when you leave.
We've maintained it since our establishment.
Please respect it.
Farewell.
Not me, the school.
The school?
Momo Yuki.
Why do you think you were admitted here?
Because of your musical achievements,
and the fact that your mother and sister are outstanding graduates.
However,
if you don't like this school, please feel free
to take off our uniform and leave.
I can't believe you went against "O-Taka".
I didn't. I just thought it was weird.
Is it? I thought it was normal.
Normal?
We used to do it in junior high too.
Yeah, we're so antique,
we even have a school ghost.
A ghost?
In a room in the old school.
If you trespass, You'll be cursed.
That's silly.
But it's true.
Your hand starts shaking during a test,
or you hurt your leg...
...as you're just walking.
A student died there.
Her ghost haunts the school.
That's why...
Is it true that you are a musician?
The piano?
You have absolute pitch?
So you can name the tones of the chime?
The chime?
I used to played the piano, but I sucked,
so gave up.
Kotori Violin School...
Here.
Thanks.
How come you remember me?
You haven't changed at all.
You neither.
I'm really shocked.
You in Ohka High?
I really dig their uniform.
It sucks there.
It's a famous school for "ladies," not your type.
And the violin?
I heard you went to Tokyo.
I gave up.
You gave up? Why?
The truth is I gave up the violin
cause I thought I'd never beat you.
I'm glad I moved ahead.
Why?
Next month my band will debut in Tokyo.
So far just an indie one...
No way.
It's true.
I'm playing on the street to keep the spirit alive.
I see.
Come to our last show.
My songs are pretty cool.
Next, the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
It was named after the sites of two castles.
Nobunaga's Azuchi Castle,
and Hideyoshi's Fushimi Castle.
Yuki-san.
The class started.
Come back now.
You're ruining the discipline. I'll be held responsible.
Alright. I'll go back.
That's why you were expelled from your previous school.
No one transfers in the third year.
You had nowhere else to go.
Ohka High took you out of mercy.
So stop acting up.
What's wrong with that?
What's going on? The class has started.
"THE CHERRY ORCHARD" BY ANTON CHEKHOV
"The Cherry Orchard"...
SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTION KAYO SAKANO
Today's homework.
I told you were absent with cramps.
You have two messages. Message one.
Anzu, Momo, it's Dad. How are you?
How's Momo's school? I'll call again.
April 14, 5:25 p.m.
Message two.
It's Takeuchi. Sorry for the other day...
April 14, 7:30 p.m.
I'm home.
Hi.
Did you have a fight with Mr. Takeuchi?
We fight all the time.
He left a message. And Dad too.
Really? How was school?
I found this.
That's...
In the forbidden room.
The forbidden room?
Adapted and directed by Ms. Sakano.
She was the head of the drama club.
To be staged in 1 QQ7.
Did you see it?
No.
It didn't happen.
We rehearsed so hard...
"We"?
I was in the drama club.
Really?
You don't remember?
Of course, you were busy practicing the violin.
Never remember
I'm so tired.
I bought food. Help yourself.
What are you reading?
This.
"The Cherry Orchard"?
Like our school.
Ohka's nickname used to be "The Cherry Orchard."
"The Cherry Orchard"?
There were many cherry trees in the yard.
Every year in spring, from a distance
the school seemed crowned with pink.
Can I take you to the cherry orchard?
Nanami we started with!out you.
Sorry.
Hello.
I'm Aoi Ogasawara.
It's an old Russian play.
It's the story of Ranevskaya.
She's the owner of a beautiful cherry orchard.
Her husband dies, and she goes to Paris to live with her lover.
Brought up like a princess,
she wastes all her money
and goes back to Russia.
A widow, who follows her lover to Paris?
It's shocking...
Got it, a mystery. Who's the killer?
No way. It's a gorgeous love tragedy.
No.
Ranevskaya comes back from Paris
to find the orchard mortgaged.
been working in the cherry field
Lopakhin, a rich merchant
who used to work on the estate, advises her
to make it a resort property to pay the debts.
Ranevskaya refuses because...
...it's a symbol of her childhood.
Eventually Lopakhin buys the orchard.
The play ends with Ranevskaya leaving the estate.
That's too tragic.
Don't they fall in love? No love scenes?
Give it to me.
"My dear nursery, oh, you beautiful room.
I used to sleep here as a baby.
Here I am like a little girl again."
Kisses her brother and then her daughter Varya.
"Varya is still like a nun.
Dunyasha hasn't changed, too."
one more kiss, what?
It's full of kisses.
But it's not a love story.
Aoi, read this.
Here?
"The whole garden's white.
Do you remember, sister?
The long straight alley stretching out...
...like a sash.
lt shines on moonlight nights.
You haven't forgotten?"
Aoi, you're good.
Very good.
Why didn't they do it?
Yeah, why?
Let's do it. Let's form a drama club.
A drama club?
Good idea. I'll do the love scenes,
with Aoi.
I want to put on a dress, and do this.
Like this.
Have you ever acted in a play?
Just wear fancy clothes and say lines, right?
it is easy
Come on, Aoi.
OK.
Yes.
We'll need an adviser.
You're right.
To help us rehearse and all. But who?
Ms. Sakano. She adapted this.
OK.
She said "OK."
Right.
You found the script, and you're in her class.
Good luck.
So we'd like you to be our adviser... Sort of.
Is that your opinion? Or are you just a messenger?
Well...
Our students are always passive.
Unfortunately you can't stage it.
Not here.
Why is that?
The school won't allow it.
The reason? Tell me the reason.
lt just won't allow it.
But...
Give it up. Alright?
What did she mean?
Why wouldn't the school allow it?
Maybe because of something that happened before.
What?
Because it stirs bad memories.
They just want to forget.
Let's ask Zucchini.
Who's Zucchini?
He knows everything.
The caretaker, Mr. Suzuki.
We call him Zucchini.
Thank you.
Help yourself.
Thanks.
Every year,
"The Cherry Orchard" was staged on June 7,
the anniversary of the school's establishment.
But 11 years ago, 10 days before the event,
a scandal occurred in the drama club.
A scandal?
One of the members got pregnant.
What happened?
The girl got expelled, and the play was canceled.
Why?
The school accused the club for hiding the pregnancy.
The member protested by
barricading the hall.
A strike? Wow...
That was a mistake.
The club was dissolved.
The play was never staged again.
Apparently, the scandal tarnished the school tradition.
Every year,
we looked forward to the performance.
Wish I could read the script.
I have it. Do you want it?
Here.
I didn't know it.
It's pretty heavy stuff.
Yeah, full of secrets. No wonder Ms. Sakano said no.
So we can't do it.
They told us to give up.
Yeah, let's give up.
That's nonsense.
What's nonsense?
You're giving it up already?
The school says so. What can we do?
Do it somewhere else, not in the school.
Yeah,
but the school doesn't approve such...
I finished it.
Did you like it?
Yeah, but it'd be even more fun to stage it.
I know.
Let's do it. Get people, rehearse.
It will be fun.
Yeah.
It's exciting to be on stage.
I want to play Ranevskaya.
Unlike me?
I thought you'd play a man...
I know...
I tend to shock people...
...if I do something girlish.
You're popular with the girls.
After all, it is a girls school.
But if we could stage this play...
I think I understand.
Alright, Ranevskaya.
Really?
Yeah, give it a try.
Should I move this?
Yeah, to the back.
Alright. Let's go.
You OK?
It's dusty.
Oh no... Look at the dust.
Thanks.
Well?
lnteresting.
Which part?
The script.
Don't show it around.
OK.
Kumi Tachibana. I want to help.
Thanks.
Nao Kurihara. I'm so happy...
Thanks.
I... I'm Maki Mi... Mizuta.
What?
Aoi is the school's superstar.
no one think she can act Ranevskaya
She'll look good in a dress.
Men will die for her.
I'll be Anya then. In a pretty dress.
I'll be Varya then.
We look alike, two pretty sisters.
We'll become famous as the Drama Club of Beauties.
Scouts will come from Tokyo...
Maybe co-star with cute guys...
Great...
Right... Who'll play the male parts?
That girl...
Murakami-san?
We need tall girls...
Look here.
We found interesting stuff.
What's that?
Lots of stuff.
huh? Have a look...
What a pitty...
Wow, great... That's cool.
Everyone, gather.
We have to decide the schedule and the venue.
A theater? A real one.
No. A small hall. We have no money.
No problem. We'll sell advance tickets, right?
Advance tickets?
But the casting is most important, right?
I guess so.
Who'll you play? Lopakhin? Petya?
Aoi will play Ranevskaya, right?
And the main male part?
Sorry to be late.
Freshmen, what are you doing?
Sorry.
Get chairs.
Yes.
In the script, Varya calls Anya
"my dear," and "my pretty."
She must really love her.
I know. It's weird, cause they're sisters.
But Varya is adopted.
Really?
Did you read the script?
Did it say so?
It did. They have a kiss scene.
Iier
About that, we don't really have to do it, right?
It's OK with me.
So we'll do it?
What are you doing?
Akaboshi-san?
So you'll join us?
We'll stage a play.
"The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov.
Can you help us?
Please?
"Cut it down?
You don't understand anything at all.
If there's anything remarkable in the whole province,
it's this cherry orchard of ours."
"The only remarkable thing about it is its size.
lt bears fruit every other year..."
Akaboshi-san sucks.
She mutters.
"... Nobody buys it."
"This orchard is even mentioned in the Encyclopaedia."
if things go on this way
"On August 22, both the orchard and the whole estate
will be up for auction.
Make up your mind.
l swear there's no other way out."
"ln the old days, 40-50 years back,
they dried the cherries, soaked them
and pickled them, and made jam of them..."
"Be quiet, Fiers."
Enough...
Aoi, let's do Act 1 again.
It's my favorite.
Yeah, let's do that.
I like it too. Come on, Aoi...
Katayama-san, you're Dunyasha. Come.
And Fiers and Leonid.
Lopakhin has no lines there.
Right.
Akaboshi-san, practice on your own.
OK
Momo... Come on.
Confirm the moves.
"The only remarkable thing..."
the field is famous for...
Who's that?
Shu?
Momo's boyfriend?
She has a boyfriend?
Came to hit on girls?
Your cell is off
so I had to come to tell you.
Hello.
This is what clubs look like.
lt must be cool to sing here.
A microphone...
The acoustics are good.
It'll get crowded,
but you can fit 1 50 people here.
Good job, Shu...
Hey...
You asked me to find you a hall.
Right, sorry.
Having fun? Yeah...
Your school's name is really something.
I thought the owner would say no,
but it turned out his wife was an alumna of Ohka High.
So he agreed immediately.
It's not just your play anymore.
I know.
"I wish that your wonderful eyes would look at me
as they did before.
Please...
I plead you...
My father was the serf of your grandfather and father.
Nevertheless, you have done so much for me.
I rest everything and love you from my heart."
Is this the original?
I read it, just in case.
Is it interesting?
It's difficult.
Give it a try.
How's Lopakhin?
I'm playing a man, and he has many lines...
It's not what I expected.
Who did you want to play?
Varya.
She's simple and fussy... Like me.
Maybe.
She's very responsible.
Good morning.
"Father died 6 years ago, and a month later, my brother...
... my brother..."
"Grisha."
"Grisha was drowned in the river.
Such a dear little boy of 7.
lf only Mother knew... Petya..."
You skipped "Mother couldn't bear it..."
should be this comes first
"Mother couldn't bear it and left without looking back.
How I understand her.
If only mother knew... Petya...
Petya was..."
"Grisha's..."
"Grisha's tutor, he might tell her."
I can't do it.
Nanami, you had to memorize...
... that part yesterday.
I was busy yesterday.
I had TV to watch, e-mails to write,
a blog to update.
Look.
How's this? I designed my dress.
With frills, and lace. It's cute, isn't it?
It's so cute.
But it's not like Varya.
Really?
I designed one for Anya too.
I ordered my dress online Iast night.
Fast...
How many should we make?
Keep your voice down. Make a lot.
We should cut them into triangles, right?
Yup.
What're they?
Flower petals.
My idea.
Petals for the finale.
We don't have a single scene ready.
Momo, all you do is sulk.
Right.
Don't spoil the fun.
Let's do it together. Right, Aoi?
Yeah... Right.
The freshmen have no parts.
how poor
You're in charge,
but you've decided nothing. This is your job...
...as director.
How do you direct a play?
You don't know?
How did Ms. Sakano do it?
I don't remember.
Who did you play?
Who did I?
You forgot?
Yeah.
So you forgot...
Your fiancee called.
Check the internet...
What?
For things you don't know.
How many did we make?
what did you say
remember this room?
kids' room
hey
where are the others?
Nao has tutoring, and Kumi has sports practice.
Their competition is coming up.
Katayama-san?
She's...
Oh, she's on a date.
You weren't supposed to tell.
Don't tell her that I told you.
"Has he proposed to you?
But he loves you.
Why don't you talk?
Why do you keep on waiting?"
"I know that it will never work.
He's a busy man. I'm not of his interest.
I wish he would disappear.
Seeing him is so painful.
But everybody
talks about our marriage,
and there's nothing in it at all,
it's all like a dream."
Midori?
Midori, what's wrong?
Let's take a break.
A break.
You OK?
Aoi...
I know... It's her boyfriend.
They're having problems.
No.
Midori, concentrate.
She's right.
He's not the only boy in the world.
For me, he is.
Maybe, but if you're miserable,
you'd better dump him and move on.
I think I'm pregnant.
Really? Are you sure?
No...
But I'm late, and been sleepy recently...
Mom says when she was pregnant, she was sleepy.
But you're always sleepy.
But now even more so.
And your boyfriend?
I told him yesterday.
He was shocked, and said he needed to think...
You must take a test. Let's go to the drugstore.
What will you do?
I don't know...
I don't know what to do.
it will be fine
So stupid. They weren't serious about the play.
It's tough to be girls...
I'm fed up with this play and everything...
Can you cancel the reservation?
Don't rush.
Stay for the performance. It'll cheer you up.
Shu, come for a sec.
OK.
Who's that?
Rimi, the singer.
Your song is a bit hard to sing.
Play it.
"I want to make this dream
come true. I won't give up.
These words..."
Can you make it more lively?
OK...
Think about it.
OK
Thanks.
How about this?
That's it... I like it...
by looking to the far bright light
people search in the dark
remember our tears
our friends
make dreams come true
time never go backward
never give up
changing lifes
Yuki-san, come with me.
Akaboshi-san, you're in charge.
Yes.
Prepare for the first class.
She must have done something.
I knew she'd cause problems.
Last night, she was...
Shut up...
I received bad news from a student's parents.
A student has tricked her friends
into staging "The Cherry Orchard"
outside this school.
After school, students must go straight home.
Where were you last night?
That play is not to be staged anywhere.
Our students are forbidden from acting in it.
You have to give up.
Because of the incident
with the pregnant girl?
Yuki-san... How did you know?
lt has nothing to do with the play.
Enough...
You guard only traditions, not the students?
How dare you...
I'm sorry.
You forget something.
The traditions of our school aren't created by the students.
Only by following the traditions, they become our students.
lf you want to stage the play, do so.
As a result, the rest won't be admitted to our junior college.
You'll ruin their chance of a higher education.
After you finish there, you can go.
I'll call your sister about the punishment.
Do you remember the lines?
"Russia is full with people who live for nothing at all."
People like you.
Why are you letting them cancel the play again?
It's better this way.
For who?
For everyone.
It's a lie...
I know how you felt 11 years ago.
So I thought you'd understand us.
You're being unfair. Letting the same thing happen again.
Don't you understand?
You'll destroy their future.
I never meant to.
You think only about yourself.
I just want to stage the play.
Even if someone dies?
She killed herself... The pregnant girl.
"Sorry that I ruined the play."
Left us a note.
Don't get them in trouble.
Forget about the play.
MOMO YUKI
SUSPENDED FOR 3 DAYS
What will happen with Momo?
This is weird.
They just saw her at the club.
How did they find out about the play?
Maybe O-Taka forced her to reveal.
Then we'd have been called too. She's not so weak.
Do you still feel sick?
Haven't done the test yet, huh?
Face the facts...
I'm not...
I'm not pregnant.
You aren't?
No.
Why didn't you tell us?
Is that true?
Looks like maternity blues.
Do you know something about what happened to Yuki-san?
It's my fault.
It's my fault that the school found out.
What do you mean?
We went to the hospital yesterday.
Lost track of time,
and was late for the curfew.
My Dad scolded me,
so I told him we were
rehearsing the play.
You told him?
I didn't think he'd call the school.
I put the blame on Momo.
Midori...
AN APOLOGY ESSAY
"The disaster seems to me so improbable.
I'm all at sea...
I may scream... Or do something silly.
Save me, Petya...
Save me..."
What's up?
I want to do it... "The Cherry Orchard."
Rehearse it, and do it right.
No way.
Do you really like it?
It's a 100-year-old story. Russian.
I bet we're the only girls in Japan who want to do it.
Yet, we just rushed into it.
I was even a bit annoyed.
Plus, I'm on probation.
If I get expelled, I'll have nowhere else to go.
So You'll give up?
Let's say, I just lost interest.
Really?
Until now, nothing really interested me.
Ordinary student's life, then graduation.
But recently going to school became fun.
I was looking forward to the end of classes.
The water after rehearsal tasted really delicious.
This is our last year here.
Next year, We'll go our separate ways.
It's our last chance.
I don't want to regret it.
That's why I want us to do "The Cherry Orchard."
Why do you tell me?
Only you can play Petya.
I'll do my best to be a good Lopakhin.
Please.
Please...
Who are you doing it for?
I'm done.
Anzu?
It was a windy day, like today.
The day we were supposed to do the play.
We had promised Kayo.
That we'd do a good play.
That all the hard practice wouldn't go to waste.
Every time I see the cherries,
I remember that spring,
and the sting of regret.
I was ready to Ieave the school for her.
Anzu...
She was sweet and smart,
with beautiful hair.
I wanted to be like her. She was my only idol.
We can't...
... bring back...
... that time.
Hey there...
What are you doing?
I'll go there.
here you are
lt was delicious. Thanks.
Listen, Momo...
Come with me to Tokyo.
what?
Everyone liked that song.
The guys say you're great.
Rimi too.
Will you join the band?
I'm sure We'll become big.
Quickly.
Let's make good songs that lots of people will hear.
Shu, thank you.
Your words made me happy.
But I can't go. I'm sorry.
I've decided that I'll do my best.
This time I won't give up.
I see.
Akaboshi-san...
You too?
Akaboshi-san.
And Murakami-san too?
Did Momo call you?
Yesterday, I got her mail.
hey...
What's wrong?
Did anything happen?
What is Momo up to?
Take a seat.
"The world is grand and beautiful.
There are many marvelous places in it.
Doesn't every of drop of cherry,
every leaf and every stalk,
Look at you with their eyes?
Don't you hear their voices?
It is clear, that in order to live the present,
we must first redeem the past, and deal with it.
This will require hard work.
Understand that, Anya."
It's Petya in Act 2.
"Don't be afraid.
Break the chains and go away.
Be as free as the wind.
Please believe me.
I'm young, I'm still a student.
But I have undergone a great deal.
I'm as hungry as the winter,
Illness and fear shook me.
Fate has tossed me everywhere.
But every minute of day and night,
my soul is filled with hope.
I know that happiness is coming.
I see it already...
Look.
The happiness comes.
It comes nearer and nearer.
I hear its steps already.
And if we don't see it what does this matter?
There will be others who will."
Let's do "The Cherry Orchard."
Once again, together.
Please.
"The cherry orchard is mine now, mine...
My God, my God, the cherry orchard's mine...
Tell me I'm drunk, or mad,
or dreaming."
"Oh, my days of innocence...
In this nursery I used to sleep.
Happiness woke me every morning.
The orchard hasn't changed.
It's all, all white...
After the dark falls and the cold winters,
it's young again.
The angels haven't left it."
"Come with me, dear, away from here.
We'll plant a new garden, finer than this."
"So life is finished here.
You can't turn back time."
Momo...
I'll do it.
Let's do it.
Iets play
keep up
"Eh, musicians, play...
l want to hear you...
Everyone, come and look
at Lopakhin laying his axe to the cherry orchard,
Look at the trees falling..."
Ms. Sakano...
I was Lopakhin.
What? She was Lopakhin?
Intense rehearsals start tomorrow.
They used to call me "the devil Sakano."
Devil...
Keep up...
There's no need to shout.
Slowly, drop your voice to a lower scale.
one, two, three...
Be serious.
Tachibana, more...
Don't laugh.
Yuki-san, get in shape.
one two, wrong
one two, three...
She sells sea shells.
She sells sea shells by the seashore.
The shells she sells
are surely sea shells.
So if she sells...
"Anya and I are above love."
"Then I must be beneath love.
Why isn't Leonid here?
If I only knew whether the estate is sold or not...
The disaster seems to me improbable.
I'm all at sea...
I may scream, or do something silly.
Save me, Petya.
Say something, say something."
"Isn't it all the same?
It's been all up with it for a long time.
There's no turning back."
Alright.
What are you doing?
Here, Ranevskaya is not asking for help.
Be more amorous.
Amorous...
She's a woman. Got it?
Yes.
Amorous... A woman...
Once more.
"Then I must be beneath love.
Where..." No, wrong.
"Why isn't Leonid here?"
"She...
She loves you, she's your type.
Why are you avoiding each other?
I don't understand..."
"I don't understand."
Amorous...
Like a woman.
Forgot something?
Here.
Thanks.
Why did I want
to play Ranevskaya?
l should've played a man.
You didn't want to?
Yeah, it would've been too much.
I've always been called boyish.
lt escalated when I entered this all-girls school.
I couldn't stand it.
What?
I never thought that worried you.
But it did.
I got so upset with Ms. Sakano's comments.
I envy you. You're so feminine.
No one ever told me that.
Really?
I've been called serious, hardworking...
So I thought if I ever get reborn,
I want to be like you, Aoi.
When I watch you act,
time seems to stop.
Let's go home.
Let's go.
Momo...
Good morning.
What happened?
The school found out we're doing the play again.
Why?
A girl from my class heard
the teachers talking about it.
That can't be good.
Did they blame Ms. Sakano?
I don't know.
I sent a spy to find out.
Well?
They're discussing the play.
Ms. Takayama is questioning Ms. Sakano.
She is fighting back, but...
And Maki?
Still there.
Attention please.
The first period has changed to self-studies
because of a special meeting.
Repeat.
The first period has changed to self-studies...
What if they force
her to quit?
lt can't go that far.
But you can't go against O-Taka.
She was Ms. Sakano's teacher.
I feel sorry for Ms. Sakano.
You shouldn't.
Why not?
Maybe she was ready to quit.
To help us stage the play,
and take full responsibility.
11 years ago, she fought
to the end to stage the play.
Should we go on strike?
We mustn't.
Better storm into the staff room.
If you go, We'll go with you.
The sophomores are ready.
I'll tell Ms. Takayama to leave Ms. Sakano alone.
Freshmen, what about you?
We'll go...
Take us with you.
Let's go then.
Let's do it.
Come...
Wait.
Ms. Sakano is doing her best.
Let's wait.
What if she quits?
It will be our fault.
Even then,
We'll stage the play together.
We won't betray her.
The meeting's over.
Ms. Sakano...
Girls...
What was decided about the play?
Is it canceled?
Did they make you quit?
A school order was issued.
"The Cherry Orchard"
must be staged here, at school.
I thought you'd be happier.
We can do the play here. On the school anniversary.
Great
Is that true?
Yes.
I reported that we intend
to stage the play off-campus.
Ms. Takayama was against it.
She said we must do it here.
An "Orchard" outside Ohka Academy
isn't a real "Orchard."
So O-Taka isn't that bad.
Call her "Ms. Takayama."
So we have no time.
From today, We'll rehearse even harder.
We can't do a mediocre play in school.
Yes.
one two three...
The same smell.
We barricaded here for a night.
It's been 1 1 years.
Time flies.
Your sister told me that
you're practicing with her.
I wanted to do it.
You were Anya. Remember the lines?
Not a word.
Kayo...
I'm getting married the week after next.
Congratulations.
Will you come?
I'd be happy to.
What are you doing?
We have a guest. Yuki-san's sister.
Good afternoon.
Hello.
I brought cream puffs.
Thank you...
I love cream puffs.
May we?
Go ahead.
Thank you.
Momo's sister brought cream puffs.
Have some.
just try
83rd OHKA ACADEMY ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY
Ms. O-Taka.
It looks like We'll see a good play.
I have faith in the girls.
You let them stage the play.
What made you change your mind?
A student of mine who realized her dream
of becoming a teacher,
was ready to quit for the play.
I had to give them my permission.
I think that wasn't the only reason,
was it?
Time does go.
Looking at the girls grown up so strong,
I realized I have come a long, long way.
"Time does go."
This is a line from "The Cherry Orchard."
I can't remember.
You can't have forgotten.
You were the drama club adviser for so many years.
A new
"Cherry Orchard" will come to life.
"Get into the carriage.
The train will be here soon."
"Good-bye, home... Good-bye, old life..."
"Welcome, new life."
"My sister, my sister..."
"My dear, my gentle,
beautiful orchard...
My life, my youth,
my happiness."
Aoi, you take our breath away.
You're so beautiful.
Anya, Varya, Let's do it.
Yes, Mother.
great
What's wrong?
I can't find the petals.
I'm sorry.
What are they doing?
Let me.
Come closer.
Ready.
One more.
OK
Thanks.
Are you nervous?
A charm to stay calm.
I can't find Aoi and Akaboshi-san.
OK. Get everyone here.
Ranevskaya, Lopakhin,
Let's go.
I'll go ahead.
Is everyone here?
Let's go.
Yes.
Are you OK?
I'm sorry.
Be more careful.
Welcome guests.
The Ohka Academy Drama Club will perform for you
"The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov.
Saki Fukuda
Saki Terashima
Anne
Yuko Oshima
Haneyuri
Emi Takei
Ryoko Yonekura
Rei Kikukawa
Aya Ueto
Original Story: Akimi Yoshida
Screenplay: Erika Seki
Director: Shun Nakahara
(c)2008 "The Cherry Orchard - Blossoming" Film Partners