This is terrible.
It's a usual thing.
Did you call 911?
You should know by now that nothing good will come when we involved with that policeman.
This is impossible to take off.
It's good enough for now.
We'll continue when we come back from the ploughing.
All right.
Hey, stop it!
Don't look at me.
Turn off the engine!
Don't look at me.
I'm doing my job.
How many times do I have to tell you?!
Batsu, why are you running away?
How many times...
Leave me alone.
It's the story about a young screenwriter who is the sport of irresponsible people nowhere in Hokkaido.
It's fiction
I told you to leave me alone...
Where's a traffic control man?
Inconvenient handymen
Episode 7
Let's have a lunch!
How about Tsubakihara-san's ramen shop?
Oh, Fire Ramen? Sounds good.
I have something to do. See you later.
Where is he going?
If you decide to live here...
It's impossible.
Such a rural town...
Ah, I'm sorry.
As you say, it's a very rural town.
I have no confidence to live such a rural town.
Once you give a try to live here, this is a very nice town.
In the first place, this rural town is...
Ah, sorry.
That's all right. It's a rural town.
Since this is your hometown, you should be used to living here.
But it's impossible for me to live here.
I can't live without movie theaters, restaurants, Costco or Ikea.
Don't worry since you can order anything on Amazon.
This rural town...
Ah, sorry.
I'm somehow getting upset.
You're not the man who wastes time in such a rural town.
You used to strive to reach your goal.
Don't mention that anymore.
It's a very old story.
I fell in love with your talent.
Just leave me alone.
Have some hot coffee.
What? Thank you.
Well, can you come back to Tokyo one more time?
I don't think so. No thank you.
I know that you have a talent.
As I said, leave me alone.
Yes. Sir.
You didn't drink yet.
What's wrong?
You asked me to bring hot coffee. But it's still full of coffee.
Bring hot coffee?
Ah, you must have misunderstood.
I said, "Leave me alone"(sounds like "Give me hot coffee in Japanese")
I can't pour until you drink it.
I can't leave you alone.
Yes, Mam. We have it.
What?
I can't leave you alone.
I can serve you "Hotcake (pancake)".
I can't leave you alone.
We have "Hotcake".
Do you want Hotcake?
Please leave us alone.
I can't pour until you drink it.
We have to continue cleaning walls when we go back.
Who did that?
It's terrible.
I'm not sure who did that,
But it may have something to do with eviction.
Eviction?
Yes. There have been a few incidents.
Ma-chan has some issues too.
What's about eviction?
That land is owned by Matsui-san, right?
They're planning to build the resort facility here.
The resort facility?
Are you talking about eviction?
What about eviction?
They asked us too even though we just opened this shop.
I refused to see them anyway.
But if they build the resort facility here, a lot of people come here,
and drop a lot of money, don't they?
You're very optimistic.
Thank you.
Temporarily, maybe.
More they kill trees, more environmental destruction occurs.
When it rains heavily, there may be a risk of the landslide.
And what do you call...living creature is destroyed...
Ecosystem Collapse?
That may happen too.
And Ma-chan has a reason to protect that land.
How much?
Yes, 4 bowl of ramen, 3,850 yen.
Batsu-san, thank you.
You?re welcome.
Did you forget your wallet?
Batsu-san!
What?
Hey, I was looking for you.
Let's have a coffee!
No thank you.
I was here earlier.
That's no problem.
I've heard that you've been harassed.
What?
About eviction.
Ah, it's not too bad.
It may be all right now,
but what would you do if they escalate harassment?
I'll think then.
Well, if you don't mind, why don't you sell that land?
If you want to keep your handyman business, you can have the office in the center of the town.
We'll prepare a space for you.
The resort development becomes the big financial support for the small town,
where they have the financial difficulty like here.
But we also knew that a lot of rural towns failed in an attempt to do that.
We'll do well.
I don't care the resort development.
I can't give up that land.
You're stubborn, aren't you?
Just leave me alone.
We don't need coffee.
You must love coffee.
I haven't sipped my coffee yet.
Can I make this clear?
Can you leave us alone?
Yeah.
No...Ah...
You must love coffee.
Who is a lady with Sakurada-san?
I've never seen her before.
Ma-chan, have you done your business?
Batsu-san, yes, I have.
Let's have a coffee!
What?
Let's go!
All right.
This is the spot.
I feel bad.
I understood but this is for the resort development.
Once the resort facility is built, this town will be vibrant with life.
What's this?
It's a pitfall.
This is totally harassment.
For eviction?
What else?
This is very childish.
You're heavy.
Please get out.
Sorry.
Ouch!
Please get out.
Ouch.
How can we get out of here?
I can't climb it.
Ouch.
Hey, ride on shoulders.
All right.
Why the hell are you on top of me?
What?
You have to hold me on your shoulders since you're the youngest!
The youngest?...
That's bullshit.
Hurry up!
All right.
I'm ready.
Ready?
Are you all right?
Are you ready? Go!
This is more like a prank than harassment.
It's a very low-level prank.
If there was only one, it'd be a prank.
But if there're a lot, it becomes harassment.
Please help me.
He can't ride on anybody's shoulders if he is alone.
Matsui-san is taking a dog for a walk.
Taking a dog?
It's a part of our job.
Since Matsui isn't here right now, I'll help you.
Do you?
May I help you? I'll help you anything.
For example the ploughing, or solving a mysterious incident...
I'll do anything for you.
I'll be with you whenever you need help.
I'm a man like that.
Have some.
Thank you.
It's not about me.
I worry about Matsui-san.
What do you mean?
Can you be quiet?
Have you noticed pitfalls in front of this house?
How do you know that?
I said shut up.
Do you know who did that?
We thought that it was harassment for eviction.
So, it must have been done by related parties.
Shut up.
By any chance, do you know who did that?
Don't make a false charge.
Why do we have to do such a thing?
We have a witness.
I saw everything. You dug pitfalls and ran away.
And I saw a same car in the parking of this building.
I don't know who you are, but I'm a best friend of Matsui.
Why do I want to harass my best friend?
You're right.
You're his best friend after all, right?
Well, if you don't know about me...What should I say...
The best word is fiancée.
I'm his fiancée.
Are you Matsui's fiancée?
Compare a best friend to fiancée, which one holds the higher ground?
Fiancée, right?
Why did you do that?
Wait a second.
You two know each other, don't you?
What are you talking about?
I saw you two walking together.
I didn't.
I see.
I knew it.
What? What do you mean?
When we were kids, he'd never beaten me.
So whenever he was beaten by me, he left his poo in front of my house.
He has such a childish side.
Trash, egg and pitfalls...It's very childish, right?
So, you knew it.
I'm sorry.
It's all right. Please raise your head.
I don't forgive you yet.
Why not?
I'm all right. Please raise your head.
I don't forgive you yet.
Why not?
They did that because they worried about the future of this town, right?
Ma-chan, you're a man of character.
Please raise your head!
Anyway, how did you know that they did that?
Matsui-san's fiancée saw them.
Kaede? Did you see Kaede?
Is her name Kaede-san?
You've never told me that you had such a beautiful fiancée.
Well...Anyway I have something to tell you.
I'm thinking of selling that land.
I'm serious.
That night was different from usual nights.
Everybody drank very quietly and nobody went on the loose.
When I asked Matsui-san why he wanted to sell the land,
all he said was that there were a various reasons.
What does she do?
She is a film producer.
A film producer?!
What's wrong?
Ah, Jun-kun is a screen writer.
As I thought that you're cheated, Matsui-san.
What?
I'm out.
This isn't my story!
Hey!
Producer, what's going on?
They mess up my work.
My work?
How we make a movie depends on me.
Mind your own business.
Anybody can take the place of you.
You're just my piece.
As long as you listen to me, you'll be all right.
If not, you'll be a sacrificed piece.
It's too good timing for that woman to come here.
That woman?
Timing?
Right now, this town is faltering about the resort development.
Actually, Sakurada-san is getting excited.
But Matsui-san didn't think to sell that land.
They didn't want to deal with land sharks.
So?
So, they sent that woman here.
I think that she asked Matsui-san to go back to Tokyo with her.
That woman?
Really?
He's kept her waiting for a long time.
If she asked him so, how could he deny it, right?
But that was that woman's strategy.
That woman?
Strategy?
I saw that Sakurada-san and that woman walked together.
That woman?
So, is she their accomplice?
Sakurada-san, can you tell us the truth?
What are you talking about?
You work hand in glove with everybody and try to evict us, right? You're evil.
Bullshit a best friend, bullshit a fiancée! Who can we trust?
That woman isn't such an evil lady!
That woman?
Good morning.
Ah, morning.
I'm sorry for last night. I was too excited.
That's all right.
It's very quiet, isn't it?
Yeah, it's very quiet.
But I guess that it'll be a busy town several years later.
A big hotel is built,
and a huge deck is attached around here.
A lot of couples come here from Sapporo or Tokyo and have fun in summer time.
They'll be so sweet that I want to kick at them.
It's creepy!
Ah, there?s no problem for you even though they build a hotel here, right?
Is that what you want?
If I didn't live here, you didn't have to be involved in a handyman business.
Do you really sell the land?
They'll destroy these trees with heavy machines and pour cement.
You can't relish this peace anymore.
If people want the resort facility, we sometimes have no choice.
Is that so?
Matsui-san, you wanted to be a movie director, right?
Who told you?
Everybody.
Momono-san, Sakurada-san, and other people told me so.
I write scripts and you make a movie based on that.
It'll be awesome. What?
It's impossible.
I gave that up long time ago.
Why didn't you tell me that directly?
Why do I have to? It's a past story.
Is it really?
You make an excuse to protect this forest and escape from reality, don't you?
You turn your eyes away from reality!
You too, right?
What?
You also ran away from reality and came here, right?
Gah!
Gah! Gah!
Don't move at the same time!
Hey! Hey!
Don't move at the same time!
I said, don't move at the same time!
What?
Don't move at the same time!
Let's have coffee.
Sounds good.
You don't have to come with us.
What?
Why not?
Matsui-san!
My ear hurts.
Matsui-san, you forgot your cellphone!
As Jun said, did you decide to sell the land for your fiancée?
As a result of a combination of things...
What are things?
I always care only about myself.
Sakurada and Katsurazawa-san become desperate for the resort development.
Momo-chan tries to entertain everybody every night.
Batsu-san takes care of Jun-kun well.
And Jun-kun became a resident of this town without knowing.
And Kaede...
I left her in Tokyo.
I'm very selfish.
I say that I don't sell that land because I inherited it from my ancestors.
But actually, it's my escaping place.
Even though I own a handyman business that helps other people,
I care only about myself.
That's not true.
Hey!
Thank you but please leave me alone.
Hello.
Wow, here she is!
I called him so many times. But he didn't pick up a phone.
We were ploughing and he forgot his cellphone in a car.
I see.
I called him because I have to go back to Tokyo immediately.
He may be in a cafe right now.
Matsui-kun and I went the same university.
Even though I'm much younger than him, I call him Matsui-kun.
We were both members of movie club.
Movie club?
Yes.
He just left.
Welcome.
It's another cold day, isn't it?
Yes.
We're fine.
What's fine?
May I have just water?
Go ahead.
Thank you.
1,500 yen in total. What?
Thank you.
Hey, I'm preparing "Gan-gan Nabe"(some kind of hot pot) right now.
Thank you but no thank you.
He had a high degree of expectation.
But he had no luck.
I got a job with the film company.
And the film that I produced was a big success by chance.
Which movie?
"A chef from a space"
Really? I watched that movie!
The story of a chef who make the best dinner from meteoric stone and unknown creature, right?
That's right.
Didn't you work on a sequel?
"Bistro in outer space" or "Donut on Saturn"
Did you produce them?
You're a real hustler.
Even though very young.
Well, I was just lucky.
He suddenly told me that he'd go back to his hometown 2 years ago.
He asked me to go with him.
But at that time...
A film 2 years ago?
Ah, was that "Fragrant olive isn't a star"?
Yes, since I was producing that film, I told him that I couldn't go with him.
Since then, we've been separated.
We talked on the phone many times.
But it ended up without any progress.
But why did you visit him after 2-year separation?
If you wanted to see him that much, you should have come here even though you'd lose your career.
I kept in touch with him.
That's just your excuse.
Love is to care for others? It's bullshit!
Love is to reveal emotions!
You may be right.
Matsui-san tried to protect that land.
But when you visited him, he changed his mind.
What do you mean?
He told us that he'd sell that land.
That's exactly what you planned.
That's not good.
Matsui-kun always told me...
He had an important place in his hometown.
Originally, his grandpa built a house in that area.
He kept saying that he'd want to film a movie there.
Considering that you just made a story, the family relation is built very well.
That's a film producer!
Even though you can deceive the amateur, you can't do to me.
He kept saying that as Claude Monet made a garden for his painting,
he wanted to film a movie in that forest someday.
He can't give up that forest.
Do you want to carry on?
Hey, Jun,
I think that you jump to hasty conclusions as usual.
And you're getting worse.
You're hopeless.
What? Are you serious?
Please protect that forest for him!
That forest is a very important place for him.
Leave that to me.
I'll persuade Matsui-san not to sell that land.
You're very quick on your feet...
I'll leave that to you.
Ma-chan blamed himself that he was very selfish.
He was sorry for you too.
Thank you.
I'm glad to come here.
I thought that I'd never come here again after this.
But now I have a reason to come back.
What do you mean?
Love is to care for others? It's bullshit!
Love is to reveal emotions!
What?
I was impressed.
Did I say that?
Didn't you remember?
That's you.
Thank you very much.
See you again.
Don't worry about your credit.
By the way, do you really sell that land?
This is the time to make up my mind.
Emergency! Come with us!
What's wrong?
Hurry up!
What's going on?
It's about eviction!
They set a fire!
You didn't do this, did you?
No! We didn't do this!
How can we do such a terrible thing?!
Mother, a terrible thing happened.
This town used to be the place where nobody cared and was very peaceful.
But tonight, a very sad incident happened.
Oh my god! We found a skeleton!
It has a tale.
It may be Human-Monkey.
Missing-link.
People come to this town from various parts of the world.
This is one of the biggest discoveries in human history.
This seems to be amazing.