Woman
Episode 8: "Should I Kill that Child and Die, too?"
Sacchan?
Sacchan!
Sacchan, welcome back.
I couldn't get enough to drink at Abiko-san's home, so I was going somewhere else to drink.
Geez. Please don't shout "Sacchan" out in public like that anymore.
It's not just us who've gotten old.
You're like a shy young girl.
You have fun wherever you go, don't you?
I'm not being shy.
This is fun.
Being able to touch Nozomi-chan and Riku-kun.
It was making me think there was something in this world like a PuniPuni.
I'm not interested.
They'll heal you.
Earlier...
I remembered when Shi-chan was born.
You were in the Waiting Room watching baseball the entire time, weren't you?
Yamamoto Koji was in command...
...and had just switched with Kitabeppu...
Well, that doesn't matter.
Sacchan.
When Shi-chan was just a newborn and you were holding her...
...you had this nostalgic look on your face.
Huh?
It was because...
...you were remembering Koharu-chan, wasn't it?
You were remembering the first time...
...you held Koharu-chan, weren't you?
Sacchan.
Both of you have said things you shouldn't, but...
Both of them are my daughters.
You've approved of her. You've approved of her, haven't you?
Yeah.
In that case, it's not like you have to pick one...
Hmm... I don't have to, but...
Huh?
Nothing...
Don't worry. It'll work out fine.
Shi-chan might be uneasy right now...
- ...but once she becomes an adult... - Dear.
You don't understand anything about Shiori.
I wonder.
It's not about what happens in the future.
It's about what's happened in the past...
Mom?
What's the matter?
It's okay.
Have you dug out your yukata for the festival?
I'm not wearing one.
I'll be wearing one.
Suit yourself.
I wanted to walk alongside you wearing yukatas, though.
Ala? Shi-chan?
You came to meet us?
I bought some cakes. Want some?
Where were you going, Shi-chan?
I made Onee-chan angry.
Why?
I told her about her husband...
What? That story, huh?
If you said something bad, you should make sure and apologize to her later, Shi-chan.
I did apologize.
Tsuki no Sumida no The moon over Sumida
Tsuki wa Sumida no yakatabune The moon over Sumida with its pleasure boats
Ah, Koharu-chan, we're running late.
I heard from Shi-chan, but did something happen?
- Eh? - Please go take your bath.
Eh? Ah, yeah, ah...
Yes, yes. Then, I'll get in first.
How was dinner? It was a little chewy for the children, wasn't it?
What do you normally do? Should it be softer?
Say, want some? They're sweets though.
These things were so amusing.
I just had to buy two of them.
Here.
We need forks, right?
Here.
Ah... Well, whatever.
Uesugi-san.
Yes?
Uesugi-san, did you know?
The reason for my husband's accident.
How do I put it...
I wonder if my explanation was lacking.
That train he was riding... Seems she was a fellow passenger with him...
...but I don't think it was like that.
She was at that age you know; could you say it was puberty?
- Well... - She was just confused...
No, I'm the confused one.
I heard her clearly. "I was the one," she said.
"It was because of my lie that it turned out like that," she told me.
I told you before, didn't I?
It happened because I gave him those pears, so it's my responsibility...
No...
She told me, "I was the one," earlier.
It had nothing to do with that child.
Just a moment, please. Wait.
Ah... yes.
Um...
I...
It was because I thought it was an accident...
I didn't think...
Because I didn't think it was something she had done...
...that my... my family and my husband...
Right? She's...
Yeah, um... You two are sisters, you know.
Yes.
And at last you're living together for the first time as family.
You'll be together from here on... You will, right?
Let's see...
Truth is, I'm grateful.
That you came and relied on me...
...has made me happy.
This isn't about that...
Um, I think it's best you were here. At this rate we can...
This isn't about that!
Right? It's not, now is it?
"It's not"?
That's true...
That's right, it's hopeless.
Just endure it...
I want you to just endure it.
Say... Shiori was standing at a railroad crossing earlier.
She's that kind of child.
Well, she feels...
...the responsibility for it.
She was standing at a railroad crossing.
If you must hold a grudge, please hold it against me.
The cake...
- Eat some cake... - Hey!
Um, I...
I don't understand what you're saying.
I don't understand it at all.
I don't understand what you're saying at all!
Please hold your grudge against me!
Ah, don't!
I can't talk to this person.
Hey...
What is this "hold a grudge"?
What is it I'm supposed "to endure"?
Say, I don't understand what it is you're talking about.
I just don't get what it is you're talking about.
Shin-san is dead.
He came here to act as a go-between...
...for a relationship between you and me...
And on his way home, he died.
He's not coming back ever again.
I can't deal with this...
I'm sorry.
Shunsuke, it's morning.
Okay, c'mon, get up.
There.
Your teacher said...
"Recently Shunsuke's been able to change his clothes by himself, so isn't he great."
It's because I've been making an effort.
I see.
After you've changed, we'll have breakfast.
Since I'll be coming home early today, how about we go out to play together when I get back?
Yeah!
Really? You're coming to Tokyo?
That would be a major help.
Yeah... Yes, thank you.
Can you two carry this together? Here, hold this... yes.
This end goes here.
- This end goes here? - Yes, yes, that end there...
Yes, this one, too... I'll take this one from here.
Ah, welcome.
I'm sorry but I'd better put them in the nursery for today.
Say, Mom, come!
It's a shrine meant for children.
Ah...
Look, even I and Riku can pull an Omikoshi. (Omikoshi - a portable shrine)
I want to pull it.
We can't?
If we can't, that's fine. Right?
If we can't, that's fine.
Can you hold such a big thing?
We can hold it, right?
Hmm...
Okay! Then along with Sloth-san, let's forge ourselves.
Yes!
I'm going to leave a little early today.
Ala? You have some sort of event?
Whaa!
I'm sorry...
- Are you okay? - I'm fine.
Ah... are you okay?
I'm sorry.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Have a nice day.
This is a secret.
I'm sorry for not noticing it.
Don't worry about it.
Because I will definitely be cured.
Yeah. You'll be cured. I feel the same.
Thank you.
Yuki-chan, I have a favor to ask.
I understand.
From here on I'll be hospitalized for the treatments...
...and I think I'll be having surgeries and various other things.
I'll take charge of the children.
Thank you.
Ah but, since you've returned to your parent's home...
Please leave them up to me. I'll take charge of them for one month or even two.
Excuse me.
Um, could you tell us which is the best way to get to the "Grand Hotel"?
Ah, if you go straight down there, it'll be on your right.
Ah, thank you very much.
Oba-san!
Ah, I'm Yoshikawa.
- Ah, Harumi-chan? - It's Haruna.
Ah, I'm sorry.
I wasn't one of those bullying Shiori...
...but I didn't help her, either.
I'm sorry.
Say, how did such a thing happen?
She told me...
..."I'm bad at drawing and I'm self-conscious about not being able to do anything..."
That's wrong; it was something different.
Because Shiori was the number one girl in class.
Eh?
She was the class's most gentle one.
The class's most delicate one and the most serious.
Because she was the one who understood people's feelings the best.
If she had been just a little more normal... Then like me...
I think things such as that wouldn't have happened.
The IV will take 30 minutes.
Did you come here from work?
Yes.
It's not easy for me to just say, "please quit" but...
The most important thing of all about this disease is that you need rest.
"If your life is important to you..."
"...it'd be best if you first asked your blood relatives if they would take a compatibility exam."
"If it's too difficult for you to talk to them about it..."
"...I will explain it to your family."
- "Thank you very much." - "Not at all."
"Shibuya Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital Sawamura Yugo"
"Patient Bone Marrow Bank Consent Form"
Sattona sore Yoi Yoi Yoi!
Yattona sore Yoi Yoi Yoi
Ah, you're up?
Are you hungry? You'll want something to eat.
- Dad. - Huh?
Then Sloth-san is going to take a little break.
Huh?
I want to leave home.
Eh? "Home"? Here?
Yeah.
What's this out of the blue about?
Have you talked to your mother?
I haven't. I haven't talked to her.
Want something to eat?
I'll be going to Maki-chan's home.
Huh? "Maki-chan"? You mean Take's daughter?
That girl went off to Tokyo.
Eh? Why do you want to leave home?
Um...
For people... For people to make connections...
...that takes plenty of time.
It's about something already in the past.
Your mother said the same thing. What is it?
- I can't tell you, Dad. - Why?
I think the only one who thinks of me as being a good girl is you, Dad.
Shi-chan.
Tomorrow's the festival.
- Welcome back. - Welcome back.
I'm home.
Yoi, Yoi, Yoi!
- Ah, good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.
Ala? Shun-kun's mother already picked him up to go home.
Eh?
- Let's have rice curry tonight. - All right! From "Origin"?
Too bad. I'm making it.
All right!
- Welcome back! - Welcome back!
I'm back.
- Mom, look! - Huh?
Sloth-san bought these for us.
Did you tell him, "thank you"?
Yeah. C'mon, hurry up, hurry up... Hurry! Hurry...
Hurry!
Ah, welcome home.
Please sit down. I'll bring in your dinner.
Sit down, sit down. Eat up, eat up.
Ah... But thank you very much.
Hmm! Because they looked really good in them.
Mom, do you know "Yattona"?
"Yattona"?
- Yattona sore Yoi Yoi Yoi - Yattona sore Yoi Yoi Yoi
- Dad loved "Tokyo Work Song," didn't he? - Huh?
Mom, what were Dad's favorite songs?
He had so many of them...
He talked about that, didn't he? Look, that time when he came here.
Ah, I wonder if that wasn't about some children's song?
What was it?
"Believe," wasn't it?
Mom, watch us.
Yattona sore Yoi Yoi Yoi
They've already gotten in the bath.
Yeah.
You creaked.
Tomorrow you and I will wear yukatas.
I...
Huh?
Will I wear one?
- Are you okay about going to the restroom? - I'm fine.
What'll I do? I'm so nervous.
I'm nervous, too!
- It'll be okay! - You'll be okay!
Yes! All of you gather around!
- Yes! - Yes!
Yes, gather 'round!
Okay, ready? Put this on your shoulder here and lift it.
- Yes! - Yes!
Now all of you, lift it on one, two, three!
- Yes! - Yes!
One, two...
Wasshoi!
Wasshoi! Wasshoi! Wasshoi!
Whaa!
- Oh! - It's huge! Look.
- Here you go. - Whaa!
Thank you!
There's lots of shops, aren't there?
There are lots, aren't there? We wish they were here every day, right?
Say, say. Um, that mask looks like Mom when she's angry.
Eh!
No way! I don't look like that when I'm angry.
Come, come, come.
Oh?
- Here. - Thank you.
- Riku-kun. - What is it?
Look...
Well? Buy a delicious candy apple from a man of few words.
I'm "Tailor Uesugi."
Hey. Aren't you being a bit pushy?
I wonder?
Say, he hasn't gotten any customers at all.
- Uesugi-san! - Ah... Hello, good evening.
Ala, how's your husband?
Because he stepped out just before me and my daughter...
...I thought it would be...
- Dad. - Huh?
Yeah.
Ala? Where's Sloth-san?
Ah. Because he wasn't selling anything, he's been neglecting it.
A candy apple, please.
Sure.
Do you want to make it yourself?
Can we?!
Come around there.
- Here. - Thank you.
It was scary but fun.
I wonder when I came to think it was fun?
It was the most fun thing in my whole life.
Can we do it again next year?
Riku, will you be able to shoulder the Omikoshi next year?
I'll shoulder it!
Mom, you should carry the adult's Omikoshi, too!
Huh?
It's not scary at all.
Hmm...
Mom, you should try it, too!
Eh?
Hmm...
Ah...
Dear?
Dear, are you here?
Geez, where did you think you were going? Everyone had to help put things away.
Geez...
Shiori. Where's Shiori?
Upstairs?
Shi-chan isn't in the house any longer.
Eh?
I saw her off just a little while ago.
What do you mean, "saw her off"?
Sacchan...
Yeah.
Shi-chan is already over 20 years old.
So she's 20. What about it?
She wants to become independent.
Sacchan, you've raised that girl more than enough.
I think the best way to raise a child...
...is when you can tell them, "you don't need parents any longer."
Shi-chan...
"The rest is garbage. Please throw it away"
Thank you very much for today.
Both Nozomi and Riku were very delighted.
And not just about the Omikoshi, but the yukatas, too.
I think being able to go to the festival wearing yukatas...
...was awesome for them, too.
Truly, thank you very much.
I was happy.
Do you have a moment right now?
I intend to take a little time off from the factory where I'm working.
Possibly for half a year...
I'm sorry. Is it okay to talk about this?
I'll be coming and going to the hospital that entire time.
Could you meet with the doctor who's in charge of me at the hospital?
I've gotten a little ill...
Uesugi-san, it's...
It's a disease called Aplastic anemia.
Will you go with me and listen to what he has to say?
Why are you telling me about this right now?
Uesugi-san?
Shiori has left the house.
She left without saying anything to me.
She didn't leave out of a sense of guilt.
Even though it wasn't her fault, she left.
The person who pushed him from behind...
I'm the bad one for giving him those pears...
That's true, isn't it?
Why do you speak ill of Shiori?
She's a good girl; everyone says so.
I'm the bad one.
That's true, isn't it?
Shiori is...
Why are you here?
What are you doing here?
Shiori's not here.
I asked you, what are you doing here?!
Go anywhere; even to the police.
Go! Go!
That child didn't do anything.
What am I supposed to do?
Should I kill her... Is it best to kill her?
And then die myself?!
Will you forgive me?
Forgive me?
I can't do that.
That's not something I can do.
No one can do that.
I am Nozomi and Riku's mother.
I am a mother who only wants to live together with them...
...until they've become adults.
We can't do that anywhere but here.
Please.
I've been abandoned by my daughter again.
Okay. Here, you take care of it.
- Good morning! - Good morning!
Good morning!
- Now, now, now, it's breakfast. - Itadakimasu.
Please take care of these children again today.
- Koharu-chan, are you okay about breakfast? - Yes.
- I'm off! - Have a nice day!
Have a nice day.
I'm going.
Your Mom is great for going to work every day, isn't she?
Yes, this is the Uesugi residence.
Ah, hello, good afternoon.
Yes, yes... Yes, please wait just a moment.
Dear, Abiko-san is on the phone.
Yeah. I'll be right out.
Yes?
"Shibuya Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital Sawamura Yugo"
"Aplastic Anemia"
"The Cure is a Bone Marrow Transplant"
Ah, a Cosmos.
Hey, hey, it's the Cosmos! It's grown so much.
- You've only noticed that now? - Huh?
Riku?
You can't come in here without permission.
Shi-chan said it was okay.
You mustn't.
Ah, um, excuse me.
When you haven't made a reservation for a meeting beforehand...
What's going on?
Ah, Sawamura-sensei.
Ah...
(This is the song "Believe")
Tatoeba kimi ga kizutsui te If, for example, you were hurt
Kujike-so ni natta toki wa Or when you're discouraged the most
Kanarazu boku ga soba ni ite I will definitely be there beside you
Sasaete ageru yo sono kata o To offer you a shoulder in support
Sekaijuu no kibou nosete Putting hope into the world
Kono chikyuu wa mawattsu teru Is what spins this Earth
Ima mirai no tobira o akeru toki Now when you open the door to the future
Kanashimi ya kurushimi ga Suffering and sorrow
Itsu no hi ka Will, someday
Yorokobi ni kawarudarou Turn into joy
I Believe in the Future
Shinijiteru I believe
Moshimo dareka ga kimi no soba de If you need someone at your side
Naki dashi sou ni natta ta toki wa At those times when you nearly burst into tears
Damatte ude o torinagara I will take you silently into my arms
Issho ni arui te kureru yone And we'll walk together
Sekaijuu no Around the world
- Thanks for the food. - Thank you very much.
This is the first time I've had this.
You seem cheerful.
Because I was able to run away at last.
Did something happen?
I've forgotten.