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"Oi! In the Edo era, they didn't have such tall town girls like this!"
"You idiot," he said.
I was the only one sent away!
That's why at the "Moondial" meeting...
...Tokiko's height problem...
1. Tokiko's height problem
2. Mineko's Shimatani problem
3. Yuka's way-of-life problem
...Mineko's Shimatani problem...
...as well as Yuka's way-of-life problem proceeded...
...with the first problem now out of the way.
1. Tokiko's height problem
On the other hand, this was happening at Akane Villa.
It's me.
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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 20 "Well Then, a Problem" (Episode 119)
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 miteta 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
Takeuchi Kuniko: Shiraishi Miho
Sukegawa Tokiko: Sakuma Yui
Makino Yuka: Shimazaki Haruka
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
Kusaka Sanae: Shishido Kafka
Kashiwagi Yasuharu: Furutachi Yutaro
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
Shimatani Jun'ichiro (flashback): Takeuchi Ryoma
肩寄せ合い声合わせて Kata yose ai koe awasete Arms around one another, their voices unite
Nagai Aiko: Wakui Emi
Makino Shogo: Sasaki Kuranosuke
希望に燃える 恋の歌 Kiboueru ni moeru koi no uta In a burning with hope, song of love
Tachibana Tomi: Shiraishi Kayoko
Makino Suzuko: Miyamoto Nobuko
2. Mineko's Shimatani problem
I think it is!
In other words, it's something like this?
Yuka doesn't want to rehash what's already done and over with.
But she feels Mineko tends to endure things a little too much.
She doesn't want this to be an era where women are bound to a way of life.
It should be one where they pursue their own happiness more freely.
Yes.
Hmm... I see.
May I ask something?
Go ahead.
Why are you so concerned about Mineko, Yuka-san?
Eh?
After all, she has no connection to you and doesn't need your unnecessary concern.
If you say it's just so you can pick fights with her, I won't let you get away with it.
I'll fight for her. I'll protect this girl.
I see. How about it, Yuka?
It's not that I want to pick a fight particularly...
...and you're right; I have no connection to her, but...
But?
Whenever I see her... I get this pain in my heart somehow.
What do you mean?
She has all these painful things happen, yet she endures them and is patient about them...
She works with all her might without saying selfish things.
She just stores up all those painful things inside her...
...and acts all brave and with a big smile on her face.
You could say she doesn't assert herself...
I hate that sort of thing.
The more she puts up with things the more I hate it...
...and all the more that I want her to just throw them all away!
Why?
Because my Mom... was someone just like her.
Because she died putting up with things just like she does.
Someone like her would die of it...
All I do is think, "Wouldn't it be better to live your life as you please?"
That's not all of it, is it? Spit it out.
You could say whenever I see that "good girl," it just irritates me so.
I really don't understand that.
I don't understand things like... "such an era," or "be free."
Just what is "being free"?
That everyone should just do as they please?
Are you saying they can even do bad things?
No! I'm saying you don't have to just put up with things!
I'm not particularly living a life where all I do is put up with things.
"Being free," means "choosing for yourself," doesn't it?
When looking at people I might think...
..."It'd be fun to be them, wouldn't it?"
...but as long as a person chooses their way of life themselves, that's being free isn't it? Am I wrong?
That's true, isn't it?
And besides, while you call me a "good girl"...
...I'm not particularly anything like that.
I will say this though...
When Shimatani-san told me that he loved me...
...there were parts of my heart that were ugly and dirty.
I had these sorts of feelings.
That if I married Shimatani-san...
That if I got married to him, then... then...
"Things would get easier for me since he's rich"...
...is what I thought, somewhere in my heart.
Mineko...
But I hated the part of me that thought that way...
It made me sick to my stomach; I hated it so much...
That's why when Shimatani-san told me...
...he wanted to cut ties with his family and to be together with me...
"Ah, if that happens..."
"...I wouldn't have those ugly feelings anymore..."
"I won't have to feel them and they'll be done with..."
"Just him telling me that he loves me... will make me happy."
Even so, I made the choice to break up with him...
It was the choice I made myself.
It wasn't a case of "bravely enduring it" particularly.
I decided it on my own.
Is that different from "being free"?
Ah...
I'm sorry...
Sorry for saying unpleasant things...
Eh?
I'm sorry...
No... you don't particularly have to...
That's not...
What is this? Why do you look at me with such surprise in your eyes?
No, I wasn't...
What do you think of me?
Could it be you think of me as some sort of unfeeling devil or something?
No, not that particularly...
Well, maybe a little...
Huh?!
At your meeting she ate-and-ran, right?
That again?
There is that, isn't there Yuka-san?
What?
You have a face every bit like a child's when you cry, don't you?
Huh?! I don't want to be told I'm like a child from some brat!
What is that about!? I feel I'm an adult!
I think you're the child, Yuka-san!
What's that?! Where am I like a child?!
I think rebelling against your parents at your age is being childish!
Hold on there!
Well then, let's move on to the "who's the child?" problem.
4. Who's the child problem
What's that about?
Here, on the house!
Eh?!
Just like you...
Thank you very much!
Guess I'll shut down for today!
Eh?
Are you sure?
I'm sure. I'm free to do so.
Hello there!
Well then, we'll discuss Yuka.
3. Yuka's way-of-life problem
Yes!
What's with the happy look on your face?
For starters, what do you do now?
Huh?
That's true, huh? I don't really know, either.
You're married, right?
No.
Eh?! You're not?
I'm not.
Really?
But the Chef told me you had gone off to be married...
No doubt when he said, "went to be married" what he meant was, "she left the house."
Really?!
Eh?!
Well, it is true I left the house with the man that I loved...
...but we didn't get married.
He didn't want to be tied down by something like marriage... yes.
And? And? How about now?
We're living together.
He's a painter, but mostly he's not in our house.
As I recall, he's a painter who couldn't sell any of his works.
He sells them. He's reasonably popular.
Really? That's great, isn't it?
Thanks to that... we're happy.
Ah... I see...
Eh? What is it?
Well...
And? You stay at home?
No. I have a part-time job at a flower shop.
Eh?!
You're doing things properly.
Right?
I always do things properly.
Is that right...?
What?
Um...
Yes?
I heard this from the Chef...
When Yuka was 10, Setsuko suddenly collapsed...
...and then died quickly afterwards.
Yuka just couldn't forgive either me or Suzuko-san for that.
From that point on, she hated the restaurant and started behaving selfishly.
I guess somewhere inside her...
...she feels we were the ones... who had robbed her of her mother.
Ehh... He said it like that, huh?
Yes.
I just didn't understand somehow.
What I should do once Mom had died...
Suzuko-san apologized to me.
She apologized again and again, "It was my fault."
And Dad, too...
Since I was a child I thought, "They're like that."
I thought they were terrible...
But they had to do what they had to at the restaurant, didn't they?
Doing so might seem obvious...
...but they would do their work at the restaurant all bright and cheerful...
And there were times when I felt I couldn't forgive them for that.
That's why I purposefully put on an attitude that would make them feel awful.
I thought what I was doing was wrong...
...but I couldn't stop myself.
Seeing them looking at me with their sad faces...
Seeing them while I said whatever I wanted...
...would just piss me off somehow.
Slowly but surely I became a hateful daughter and a hateful granddaughter.
And then... I had this thought.
I'm truly very sorry.
The conclusion of the "Moondial" meeting will be held tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in the plaza behind Suzufuritei...
From this vast field of flowers in bloom
Kono hiroi nohara ippai saku hana o
I will give
Hitotsu nokorazu
Sho-chan, come here.
Each and every one of them to you
Anata ni ageru
I'll make you a red-ribboned bouquet
Akai ribon no hanataba ni shite
Yasuharu. Your singing's gotten better.
Say, let us listen to you.
No, no, no...
It's okay, let us listen to you.
It's okay.
Go on, go on.
From this vast field of flowers in bloom
Kono hiroi nohara ippai saku hana o
To Be Continued
I will give
Hitotsu nokorazu
Showa Era Trip
Hiyokko
End
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