Hello? This is the general affairs department. Yes...
Scriptwriter: Hashibe Atsuko
Check this.
- Takayama-san. - Yes? - What about that stationery replenishment?
Ono Machiko
I ordered it from Keibundo yesterday. I emailed you before noon.
Oh, really...
Kiritani Kenta
Honda Hirotaro
The password you entered is incorrect
- Excuse me. - Hey, could you check my e-mails?
Nakada Yoshiko
Ah, sure.
Kunimura Jun
When you're remarried,
and both your ex-wife and current wife have children,
the inheritance relationships can be complicated.
In order to abate those problems,
we can use a special testament.
- Chief Yoshizaki. - Can we talk?
What is the matter?
I think there are many other things I can do in this company.
Capitalizing on the skills I cultivated at Nichido Bussan.
For instance, business development in the Planning Department, or...
Are you used to computers now?
Doing something I'm unused to will just make me become inefficient.
Allow me to be frank.
Somebody complained that you force them to undertake odd jobs.
Odd jobs?
Let me take this opportunity to be honest.
I'm the one who has to undertake odd jobs.
- I'm just a nominal chief, aren't I? - I think it's that way everywhere.
For the re-employed retirees like you.
Anyway, you should get used to computers.
Talking to you was just useless.
Fine. I will quit.
I'm home.
Going to work?
Turn off the TV.
Right, you're the one paying the electric bills.
You were so kind as to introduce me to that good company when I retired.
- I am sorry. - Oh, no. No need to worry about that.
I am truly sorry for quitting.
How do you spend your days?
Well...
I guess you've been thinking "If only my wife was alive".
Let's be happy!
You look pretty cheerful.
Really?
You look different.
You look sort of youthful.
Actually, I'm going to remarry next month.
You'll remarry?
She's 10 years younger.
I've dedicated myself to marriage hunting for the last year.
I see... congratulations.
And you? You won't remarry?
Ah... I've never even thought about it.
- Your wife passed away... - Four years ago.
Your daughter got married and became independent.
Are you going to live alone for the next 10, 20 years?
From here on, the scariest thing
will be loneliness.
Oyaji no Senaka
Father's Back
subs: maboroshinohikari
Father's remarriage, daughter's divorce
Yoshizaki
- How's Daigo-kun doing? - Mm? Same as usual.
It must be hard for him to come here, as he's still an unknown actor.
He didn't make it only because he worked until morning.
So he works at night now? What kind of job?
Deliveries.
- Do you think you can go on this way? - Huh? Is something wrong with that?
How long is he going to live on your earnings, Nanami?
Daigo's working part-time, too.
A part-time job's just a part-time job.
How can your husband be so nonchalant?
He's not like you, Dad!
Some people live doing what they like.
It may be okay now, but one day you might get irritated with him,
and he might become spiritless.
Daigo and I are doing fine. We have no problem whatsoever.
So... how about you, Dad?
How about what?
I hear you've always been home lately.
Who told you that? My neighbor, huh?
What's going on?
- I resigned from my job. - Huh?! Why?
It didn't suit me.
That was the reason?!
And you were so lucky as to find a job...
Finding a job after retirement is not that easy, is it?
I don't have to force myself to work.
So, what have you been doing?
- This and that. - Like what?
Just various things.
I don't want you to age all at once.
If only you had a hobby at least...
Ah! Why don't you go for a walk every morning?
I think it would make a huge difference.
- Marriage hunting. - Huh?
I'll search for a marriage partner.
Marriage partner?
You mean you want to remarry?
If you say you don't want me to, I can reconsider.
- Do you already have a partner? - No, I'm going to search for one.
Then, there's nothing I can object to!
You can't get remarried if you don't have a partner.
Take this and enjoy yourself. Thank you for coming.
My hobbies...? Well...
Mm?
My daughter got married and I want to live on my own.
And if I were to need someone to look after me,
I don't mean to depend on my daughter.
Ah, don't misunderstand me. I'm not thinking about remarrying because of that...
We hope you will enjoy this matchmaking party.
Ah!
- Are you okay? - Yes.
What is the matter?
You're going somewhere?
To the convenience store? Ah, come in.
We haven't met in a while. Since New Year's?
I'm sorry.
How's it going?
Trying to become an actor while doing part-time jobs must be tough.
What is it like?
Well, I thought we could have dinner together for a change.
When will Nanami be back?
Isn't she staying at your place?
Huh?
What're you doing here?
- And you? Where have you been? - Huh?
I heard you haven't been home.
It was Daigo-kun who told me.
- Wait, you went to our place? - Yeah.
- Why? - Oh, well...
Why that suit? Didn't you quit your job?
- A matchmaking party. - Huh?
- I attended one. - You really did?!
- Yeah. - No way! How did it go?
- What d'you mean "No way"? - How did it go?
I did quite well.
Mm?
- No need to talk about me. - No need to talk about me, either.
- You left home, that astounded me. - I'm not a kid, so leave me alone.
Hey, wait a sec. Nanami! Hey!
- Why did you stay at a capsule hotel? - 'Cause it was cheap.
(A type of hotel that features a large number of extremely small "rooms", intended to provide cheap, basic overnight accommodation)
- I want to know what happened with your husband. - I said it's no big deal.
Of course it is! For a thirty-something married woman to stay at a capsule hotel...
What father would meddle in his thirty-something married daughter's affairs!
I just went to see how you two were doing, and here's what I get...
I was just about to go back home.
You're making much ado about nothing, Dad.
Ah, jeez!
And anyway, why did you have to leave, Nanami?
When he's living off you.
As I thought, yakisoba's not enough, I'm going to the supermarket.
We're not done yet. Hey, hey! Hold it.
Jeez? What is it?!
- You really should think about your marriage. - I already am!
- How about children, then? - Well, eventually...
If you don't have enough money, having children's going to be hard.
- You said "eventually", but you'll be 40 just like that! - Enough with this talk already!
- Will anything good happen? - Shut up!
- I wish you didn't quit, after all! - Huh? What's that got to do with anything?
You're over-concerned about us 'cause you have nothing to do!
- That has nothing to do with this! - Anyhow!
Stop meddling in our affairs.
- We're not done talking yet! - Your yakisoba's ready!
Morning.
- Want me to do that? - I always do it in the morning.
What're you going to do?
I'm going back home.
- So everything is okay, right? - Yeah.
Still, you should seriously think about your life.
Wouldn't it make a huge difference if you didn't have to pay the rent and utilities?
This house is too big for me alone.
Huh?
I mean you could live here.
Huh? You told me, didn't you?
"Even if you beg me in tears for financial aid, I'm not going to help you."
That was...
because I didn't want you to marry a jobless man.
I'm not going to talk that way anymore. So live here.
- No, thanks. - Why?
- Do you think it'd go well? - Well, we would've to make some efforts.
However you look at it, we would all get stressed.
Just looking at Daigo, you'd feel like saying this and that.
- I wouldn't say anything. - You would.
- I said I wouldn't. - There's no way you wouldn't!
I asked you only because I'm worried about you two.
No. You just want me to do your bidding, Dad.
- Huh? - Anyway, I have no intention to live here.
Hey, what was that? When you said I just want you to do my bidding.
- It's always been that way. - Always?
My college, my job, everything.
I did it all as you wanted me to.
You even decided what I should learn, and which part-time jobs I should do.
I only gave you my opinions.
Mom told me I should do as I liked,
but, in the end, I always did as you said.
I hated myself,
so, on the day I received a job offer from the credit union, I vowed.
"I'll decide for myself who I'll marry."
Then I got married and was finally able to leave this house.
There's no way I'd live here.
- So what's the outcome of your own decision? - Huh?
Are you really glad you married him?
Would you be content if I said I regret it?
- Is that what you think? - Why would I ever do that?!
- And even if I did, it'd be your fault. - Why would it be my fault!
I always did your bidding,
and everything went well in its own way. But I always denied myself.
So, although he was jobless, I married Daigo because he did what he loved,
and that made me feel like I was finally free too.
- See, it was your fault, Dad! - You're talking nonsense!
- You're over 30, don't blame me for your failures! - So, how about you, Dad?!
What?
Don't you actually regret resigning from your job?
I bet you're just killing time every day!
I've never ever regretted quitting. And I'm busy with marriage hunting.
In that case, leave us alone.
I don't want you to meddle in my life any further.
- I'm going home. - Do as you please.
Of course I will!
Thank you, Dad. Do your best at work. Nanami
Morning.
I'm going to make ginger pork for lunch. What do you think?
If there's something else you'd like, tell me...
Wait a second!
I'm talking to you!
- Oh, you were talking to me? - What?!
You think I was speaking to myself?!
Then, why the heck are we living together!
Look.
I know you think I won't make it.
- That's not what I think. - I can tell 'cause we live together!
Yoshizaki-san.
- Did you wait long? - No, I've just arrived.
Did you fill in the form? It's my turn, then.
Nanami...
What's wrong?
I'm here for a general health check.
Um? this is my daughter.
This is Okamiya-san.
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
- How about you? - A gastroscopy.
Are you unwell?
It's nothing serious.
Since Mom had that problem, just in case...
Yeah.
Well, see you.
See you.
- What? You came? - Yeah.
- How did your gastroscopy go? - It was all right.
Are you stressed out?
Well, there's always a lot going on at work.
- How's it going with Daigo-kun? - I said everything is okay, didn't I?
- We're doing fine. - I see.
Well, then...
I think I'll take a bath.
And that woman?
Mm?
What is she like?
I've never heard of a couple going for a checkup together.
Ah...
If we make sure we're both healthy, we'll be able to go out without any worries.
What?
She, too, lost her husband because of a disease.
Say... What sort of relationship is it?
What sort of? going for a walk, dining outside.
She's a very nice person to talk with.
Someday, we would like to go to an onsen.
- Really... - We met at a party.
You'll get remarried?
Well, it's too early to say that now.
Jeez! You astounded me!
I'm astounded too. I never thought it'd turn out this way.
It's great, though. Now you're careful about your appearance and enthusiastic about life.
Well, I don't want to be treated like an old man yet.
Ah? you really astounded me.
Two Weeks Later
As I said, I'm perfectly healthy.
I have to check, just in case. It'd be no joke if they missed something.
Mm...
Ah! Your cholesterol is high.
They wrote I should change my diet for 3 months and go for another checkup,
but it's nothing serious.
Isn't there something wrong with your gallbladder?
There's nothing wrong with that, either.
I'll just have to get a follow-up examination.
- Good for you. - Yeah.
Okamiya-san said she's okay too.
Mm, I see.
- Ah, what about the onsen? - We're going.
Did you choose the place?
We'll stay at Ochiai-ro in Yugashima, Izu.
It'll be my first trip in a while.
Ah... will my snoring bother her?
These days my snoring's been so loud that I wake up...
What's wrong?
- What the heck are you thinking? - Huh?
Why Ochiai-ro?
You know which ryokan it is, don't you?
(Traditional Japanese inn)
- Yes. - So, why?
- Is it wrong? - This is not about right or wrong.
It's just absurd!
It's the place where Mom wanted to go with you!
To go with you when you'd retire.
Do you know how much she was looking forward to that?
Some friends had invited her to stay at that ryokan,
but she declined because she wanted to go with you, Dad.
In my opinion, she would've have had much more fun going with her friends.
But for her, it had to be with you!
Having trouble deciding which ekiben she should buy, while you'd tell her to hurry up.
(Lunch boxes sold on trains or at stations. They often contain local specialties)
Taking at least a picure with you in front of the ryokan, although you hate pictures.
She wanted to do that sort of things!
Why can't you even get that?! She was your wife!
Anyway, why?!
I'm scared of getting the same disease as Mom,
so I went for a gastroscopy.
Yet you went for a checkup for a whole different purpose,
and you're perfectly healthy!
You're awful.
You're awful, Dad!
- Excuse me! - Yes?
Your guest has just arrived.
Okay!
Oh! You were pretty fast.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you came.
After all this is not a ryokan where one can stay alone.
- Want some tea? - I'll get it myself.
Well, now...
I'll go and take a bath.
Mm?delicious.
- Want some? - No, thanks.
I fell asleep?
- Go to bed. - Yeah.
Turning off the lights.
- Good night. - Good night.
- What's wrong? - A cramp!
Huh?
Your leg?!
- Which one? This one? - Right! Ah, don't touch it!
- W-What should I do? - Ah! - Huh?
Are you really okay?
It was just a cramp.
Still, a disease might be hiding in some unexpected place.
The results of my checkup were all right.
There are many diseases a checkup cannot detect.
Stop scaring me.
You should see a doctor if it keeps happening.
Okay?
Yes.
Ah? I had just fallen asleep...
You woke me up.
Want a massage?
You'd always go to the restroom carrying a newspaper.
When Mom would ask what you wanted to eat, you'd answer "Anything is fine",
but you'd always complain afterwards.
On your days off, you'd wear that sort of pajama
and go to the convenience store to buy sports newspapers.
You'd offer to go shopping with her,
but then you'd rush her saying "Are you done yet?".
There were so many sides of your character Mom didn't like.
I don't really get it.
Why it had to be you, Dad.
- Ouch, that hurts! - Sorry.
I wonder what a married couple is...
- Nanami. - Mm?
I'm sorry.
For thinking of coming here with another woman.
Also...
I'm not going to remarry.
- Also... - Not done yet?
Yeah.
It's just as you said.
I always tried to make you do my bidding.
When you were a middle schooler,
you said you wanted to play volleyball,
but I made you learn English, saying it was for your future's sake.
You wanted to go to a college of arts,
but I objected that you wouldn't find a job after graduation.
As for your job...
You said you wanted to work for a design firm.
Yet I opposed that it was an unknown firm
and told you to find a place that would pay you better.
I always said it was for your sake, but in the end
I only wanted to feel relieved.
I'm truly sorry.
But I'm the one who gave up just because you objected.
Doing things as you told me to
was easy, in a sense.
Because, if something went wrong, I could just blame it on you.
You can't do that when you make your own decisions.
Anyway, had I truly wanted to do those things
I would've done them, even if I had to leave home and get disowned.
Your massage felt great.
Thanks.
Our last trip together was on
the summer break of your 2nd year in high school.
Huh? Really?
Yeah.
Upon entering college, you said "I'm done with family trips".
All kids do that.
Yeah.
Actually,
I should be the one taking you on a trip now.
With my children...
I'm sorry I couldn't give you grandchildren.
That means it's still too early for me to be called "Grandpa".
Although we live nearby,
I only visited you on New Year's and on Mom's death anniversary.
I'll visit you as much as possible from now on.
Good night.
I'm lonely?
Well, I'm happy you'll be coming to see me.
Even so, I feel lonely.
There's a loneliness even a daughter and grandchildren can do nothing about.
Are you okay, Nanami?
I feel lonely.
I feel lonely too.
Actually,
it's not going well with Daigo.
Although I live with him,
I've always felt lonely.
Dad, you opposed our marriage so much,
yet I married him.
I was obstinate.
I wanted to do my best with him,
so that you'd approve of us.
To be happy with him,
so that you'd feel relieved.
It must've been hard.
Sorry.
I'm sorry for making you worry.
- Thank you for everything. - Thank you for coming.
Thank you very much.
- Ah! Let's take a picture. - Huh?
- A picture. - We're taking one? - Yup.
- If you would please... - Certainly.
Here, here.
Hey, are my eyes swollen?
Not at all.
I'm taking it! Cheese!
How pretty!
I feel refreshed after crying.
Crying at your age...
I did it precisely because I'm old.
It was thanks to your mother that we came here.
Yeah.
- Dad. - Mm?
Why don't you reconsider getting remarried?
She looks like a nice person.
Think about your own problems, first.
I will.
I'll divorce.
That sounds good.
Thanks.
- Want to walk a little bit longer? - Yup.
Ah! Is your leg okay?
I think I'll get another massage if I get tired.
From who?
I want a stronger one, next.
Will you stop complaining about everything?
I'm not complaining, just expressing a wish.
Sure, sure, got it.