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Hiyokko
愛の言葉をリルシャイなハートがドキドキ Ai no kotoba o riru shai na haato ga dokidoki A shy heart saying sweet nothings beats so fast
Week 8 "Summer Memories Are Melon Colored" (Episode 045)
Screenplay: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Miyagawa Akira
あの日観てたサウンドオプミュージック Ano hi mite ta saund oopu myuujikku That day when we saw "The Sound of Music"
Theme Song: Kuwata Keisuke "Wakai Hiroba" (Plaza of Youths)
瞼閉じれば蘇る Mabuta tojireba yomigaeru I can relive that day just by closing my eyes
Narrator: Masuda Akemi
幼い頃の大事な 宝物だけは Osanai koro no daijina takaramono dake wa It's the only precious treasure of my youth
Cast:
Yatabe Mineko: Arimura Kasumi
ずっと この胸に抱きしめて来たのさ Zutto kono mune ni dakishimete kita no sa One I've held in my heart all this time
Sukegawa Tokiko: Sakuma Yui
Watahiki Masayoshi: Ryusei Ryo
Akiba Sachiko: Kojima Fujiko
夜の酒場でロンリーあの子今頃どうしてる Yoru no sakaba de Ronrii ano ko imagoro doushiteru The girl that night at the bar "Lonely," I wonder what's become of her
Kanehira Toyoko: Fujino Ryoko
Nabatame Sumiko: Matsumoto Honoka
さなぎは今 蝶になってきっと誰がの腕の中 Sanagi wa ima chou ni natte kitto dare ga no ude no naka That pupa is now a butterfly and is surely in someone's arms
Natsui Yuko: Yagi Yuki
Takashima Yudai: Inowaki Kai
肩寄せ合い声合わせて Kata yose ai koe awasete Arms around one another, their voices unite
希望に燃える 恋の歌 Kiboueru ni moeru koi no uta In a burning with hope, song of love
Nagai Aiko: Wakui Emi
Please be sunny tomorrow!
God, please make it so!
Since we spent a lot of money buying swimsuits.
That's true, huh? We want to wear them, right?
Yeah.
Then, let's go to bed.
Since we'll be borrowing the cafeteria tomorrow to make our bentos.
So we have to get up early.
Yes!
I'm looking forward to it...
To which? The bentos or to swimming?
To both, of course.
It'll be fun, it'll be fun, right Toyoko?
Ah... Well, I'm looking forward to it.
Let your face look more like it then!
Like this, like this.
Ger outta ma face!
I don't understand that.
You don't understand it?
Quarreling again?
If you fight, we'll leave you behind.
Eh?!
No!
Dad. At last, I'll be going swimming tomorrow.
Tokyo will have southwestern winds bringing clouds and rain with them.
Other areas are expected to have cloudy conditions followed by rain as well.
Tokyo
Cloudy then rain
Rain is predicted to fall in the afternoon...
...so I'm sorry, but it will be raining till mid-afternoon.
Ehh...
Rain, huh...
Whaa!
Dad... it's raining.
What's more, it's a downpour...
There's a downpour in my heart, too...
I'm sounding like the lyrics to a popular song now...
I'm so disconsolate.
Okay! Now, get up!
For now we'll have a delicious breakfast and then make those bentos.
It may not be sunny, but we can still have fun, even if it rains! Right?
Here.
Thank you.
Which would you prefer, okaka or a plum?
(finely chopped bonito tuna flakes)
A plum.
A plum for me.
Then a plum it is.
Hey, Sumiko!
You just had a snack a little while ago!
But...
My! You're having fun, aren't you?
Good morning.
It's too bad about the weather, isn't it?
Since it may turn sunny after this rain, we can do this in the meantime.
Ah, the weather forecast says it will rain all day.
Eh?
Ah, sorry... That's only what the forecast says, right?
Good morning!
He's here!
Hurry and come in.
Ah...
Eh?
Watahiki-san!
'Morning.
I invited him along.
Is that okay?
Of course! Right? Right?
Yeah.
Of course. The more the merrier.
Ah, thank goodness.
But... how do you two...
He's my close friend and comrade. Right?
I don't like how you call me a "comrade"...
But, well, we're like friends.
Friends who eat ramen together... right?
I'm the one who treats though.
Ehh...
So what'll we do about today?
Right? What with this rain...
How about a movie or something?
Ah!
Huh?
Look, they're having a revival screening of "West Side Story."
Since it's a musical, the people in my theatrical troupe said I should see it.
Oh, sounds good! I wanted to see it, too.
Composer Bernstein does the music.
Ehh...
Sounds good.
It's a good movie. It's wonderful!
Aiko-san, you've seen it?
Yeah!
Whenever I see it, I start doing this.
What was that?
You'll understand once you've seen it! Have a nice time!
Yes!
"West Side Story" was released in 1961...
"West Side Story" Released: 1961
...and was a major hit musical.
The stage is New York.
It is a love story about a man and woman from rival groups who fall in love.
The way the young people in it dance so energetically...
...fascinated not only Aiko-san, but many of the Japanese in the audience.
Maria was wonderful, wasn't she?
Yeah.
I'd love playing a role like that.
Quiet! You'll wake everyone!
That was wonderful, Tokiko.
Thank you.
How about the music? It was great, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was splendid, wasn't it?
Originally it wasn't a movie, but a stage musical...
...where they gave live performances.
Ehh...
That's incredible.
Yudai-sensei, do you want to do something like that?
I do.
And then won't you become rich?
That might be so!
You will do it.
Even if you say, "You will do it"...
I'm a woman, but it was the men's dancing that got me.
I can understand what Aiko-san was saying.
Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!
That's wrong somehow...
That's a Bon Festival dance routine.
Snap! Snap!
Let's show her how to do it, Tokiko.
One, two! Snap, snap, snap...
That was awesome!
Here.
Thank you.
I was in a baseball club.
Ehh!
How was the movie, comrade?
Stop it with the "comrade" stuff.
There was that for me somehow.
The police weren't depicted in a good light.
Ah, sorry about that.
Why did you want to become a policeman?
Eh?
You want to talk about that right now?
It's okay, isn't it?
But...
I'd like to hear about that, too.
Ah... well...
I could say it was because my Father is a policeman, too...
...but I hated the idea of it when I was a kid.
Why's that?
When I was in grade school...
...they'd say, "If Watahiki sees you, you'll get arrested."
That's how it was for me.
It would be, huh.
Well, such things didn't bother me much...
...and my Dad had told me, "You don't have to be a cop."
During the war, for the residents of the village...
...well, I don't know much about it...
...but from their viewpoint, he may have been overly harsh on them...
...and it might be they felt he behaved too self-importantly.
I'm not sure though.
Then, when the war ended...
...it seems all the villagers suddenly became cold with him.
Even now he gets the feeling they think of him as a joke...
And that seems to be hard on him.
I see.
Still, what year was it back in grade school?
Seems the town thought of giving us social studies classes...
...so they divided us up into groups and told us to try making a model town.
Something like an ideal town? With schools and government offices...
...and movie theaters and such. That sort of model town.
And when my group was working on that...
It was the girl who had been my first love.
That girl...
...she said, "If our town doesn't have a police box, it won't work."
I had been thinking we didn't need a police box.
But I didn't say that.
And then that girl said...
..."If we don't, it won't work. Everyone would be troubled. It's important to have one."
It was then I thought, "I should be a policeman working at a police box."
That was embarrassing!
That's nothing to be embarrassed about.
That was a nice story.
Right?
It was.
It was! Feels that way, doesn't it?
It was embarrassing. I'm going to the restroom for a bit.
It's inside over there.
Maria...
Maria, I love you...
Me, too!
You were careless, Toyoko-chan.
That was wonderful, Toyoko.
Maria, I love you.
Don't imitate me! Geez, what is this, geez!
Ah!
What time is it right now?
3:40 pm.
Could we make it in time?
Eh?
Let's go to the beach!
Everyone, go in!
Kyaa!
Sing to that sunset!
Eh? No way!
Ohh!
Mineko-chan...
Okay, everyone listen!
I love you, yes I do...
Can't hear you!
I love you, yes I do!
I want to tell you how much I love you
Ai shite iruyo to kimi ni iitakute
I love you, Yes I do
夜空に歌えば 僕の心に Yozora ni utaeba boku no kokoro ni If you sing to the night sky, inside my heart
Dad...
Showa 40, 1965, Summer at the beach...
恋の炎は燃える Koi no honou wa moeru The flames of love will blaze
...is one I will never forget for my entire life.
To Be Continued
Showa Era Trip
Hiyokko
End
At the beach at Kanazawabunko