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I hate this!
I hate it! I absolutely hate it!
I hate it...
I hate it!
I hate it...
I hate it!
I absolutely hate this!
Dad...
...Toyoko has... Toyoko has...
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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 9 "A Tiny Star's Tiny Light" (Episode 053)
Screenplay: Okada Yoshikazu
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"
Music: Miyagawa Akira
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
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
Akiba Sachiko: Kojima Fujiko
Kanehira Toyoko: Fujino Ryoko
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
Nabatame Sumiko: Matsumoto Honoka
Mori Kazuo: Kageyama Hiroshi
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
Matsushita Akira: Okuda Yohei
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
What's going on?
Toyoko's inside.
Oi, what's going on here?!
Hold on just a minute. Please.
We've got our jobs to do, too.
You told us the time to pick it up.
I know.
Please just wait a little while.
Toyoko, what's the matter? Open up.
Toyoko-chan, what happened all of a sudden?
Talk to me about it, okay?
Open the door and come out.
Toyoko... what's the matter with you?
Toyoko, please open the door.
Toyoko, open it.
Doing a thing like this is...
I know.
I understand that, Sachiko-san.
I know that doing something like this won't change anything.
I understand that!
Why then?
I want to talk to you.
I'd hate not being able to talk to you anymore!
No one else understands it... but I'd hate that.
I want to work with all of you.
And go on talking like we have.
I've never once said I hated something up till now.
Even when my parents told me not to go to high school...
...I was frustrated...
...and sad...
"Why... Why only me," I thought.
But I didn't tell them that I hated it.
I said, "very well."
But I hated it.
And I hate this, too!
Doing this might be meaningless...
You might think me a fool...
You might think it's just a waste of time.
But...
...I want to say, "I hate this."
I don't want this!
I couldn't open my heart at first...
...but then Tokiko-san said...
..."It's okay already, isn't it?"
"It's okay not to be so stubborn anymore."
I was so happy at that.
So happy.
Toyoko...
This...
...is the place where I can be the real me.
I've never had a place like that before now.
That's why this factory and the Girl's Dormitory...
...where I could laugh...
...and where I could cry...
...and where I could worry together...
...with all my friends...
This was my first time for that.
Even though this was the first time for me...
Why?
Why can't I be together with all of you?
Why can't we work here?
Why?
Even I don't know... what it is I'm saying.
You think I'm a fool, don't you?
I'm fine being a fool...
Toyoko...
I understand.
I understand... Toyoko.
Sorry about this... but we're out of time.
If she won't open the door, then we'll break it open and haul out the equipment.
I told you to hold on a minute!
You guys are workers the same as that girl, aren't you?
Can't you understand her feelings?!
All these girls are fresh out of middle school.
They're at a workplace, separated from their parents, for the first time.
You can understand their feelings of hating something that's going away, can't you?
Saying such things causes us trouble.
Even we have such things happen to us.
But this is our job!
It's okay.
Toyoko-chan will come out by herself.
Don't worry.
Toyoko-chan.
Don't let it get broken down.
This entranceway that all of us went through every day.
You wouldn't want that, would you?
Toyoko.
I do hate it.
Because I love this place.
I loved sitting at my seat...
...and doing my work.
At first I wasn't any good at it at all...
But I worked hard at it...
...and it was a place I wouldn't lose to.
But, Toyoko.
It's sad...
...but it won't go away.
It won't go away.
Even when the factory is gone... we will never forget it.
Never.
And so it will never be gone.
That's true, isn't it... Toyoko?
And besides...
We had decided, hadn't we?
That we would smile right to the end.
"That's just how we are," we said.
We promised that, didn't we? Am I wrong, Toyoko?
Sorry, but we can't wait any longer.
Oi!
We're out of time already.
I understand, but...!
You fool!
You're such an idiot!
I don't want to be called an idiot, you fool!
If I'm a fool, then you're a big idiot!
I am, aren't I?
You fool!
Toyoko...
For pete's sake, geez...
My, my! Toyoko-chan is quite the troublesome child too, isn't she?
I'm sorry.
Hey!
Ow!
That sounded good, didn't it?
Hey!
What are you doing?!
Dad...
Toyoko's tiny rebellion...
...may not go down through history since it only lasted a few minutes...
...but it was certainly an incident that occurred here and now.
I think it will be a huge event...
...in the chronology of my own history.
Someday we'll all laugh when we talk about it.
I think we'll laugh about it no matter how many times we tell it.
Ah... well then...
Thank you for your hard work.
Best regards!
Thank you very much!
Sorry about that.
Now, let's go!
Yes!
Well... you must be starving, right?
Let's head back for Kazuo-san's dinner.
Since today's your last day, we're having curry rice!
He said he made it especially for those girls who joined here.
Now, let's go!
Yes!
Dad...
In my letters to you...
...I mostly talk about those who are closest to me...
...but there are a great many young girls here.
Each and every one of them have stories similar to mine.
I think that's wonderful somehow.
I thought there must be an incredibly huge number...
...of such stories here in Tokyo.
To Be Continued
Showa Era Trip
Hiyokko
End
Parents and child drying beans