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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 21 "A Miniskirt Breeze Is Blowing" (Episode 125)
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
Yatabe Minoru (flashback): Sawamura Ikki
Sumitani Mitsuo: Izumisawa Yuuki
Abe Saori: Ito Sairi
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
Maeda Hidetoshi: Isomura Hayato
Asakura Takako (flashback): Sato Hitomi
Sukegawa Tokiko (flashback): Sakuma Yui
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
Igawa Genji (flashback): Yatsui Ichiro
Akiba Sachiko (flashback): Kojima Fujiko
Kanehira Toyoko (flashback): Fujino Ryoko
Nabatame Sumiko (flashback): Matsumoto Honoka
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
Kawamoto Setsuko: Kanno Miho
Nagai Aiko: Wakui Emi
Makino Suzuko (flashback): Miyamoto Nobuko
Um, Mineko.
Wouldn't it be weighing on her mind?
Ah, well, but...
Mineko, I think it's fine you're not thinking about...
...just your own feelings in this...
...but that you're also wondering about her feelings...
...in whether she would hate being told about your Father or be delighted by it.
But you mustn't only just think about what "might" happen all the time.
I do think that's a nice part of you though.
Isn't that true this time, too?
I don't know what sorts of feelings she's been going through...
...but wouldn't that be weighing on her?
Mineko, you feel no reason to hate her.
Yet because you think it might be wrong towards your Mom and Dad...
...you won't call out to her.
Isn't it about time to put a stop to that?
How about valuing your own feelings a bit more?
If after looking her in the face you can see it isn't weighing on her, then leave.
Then, won't you... go back to her?
Eh?
Ah... well... um...
Thank you very much.
I'll go to her.
I see.
Yes!
Then... I'll head off first.
I'll tell them Mineko is goofing off playing some pachinko.
Eh? Eh?! Hey, don't!
Then I'll be waiting at the restaurant.
Yes.
Dad...
Something about Hide-san has changed a bit, hasn't it?
I need to be resolute, too.
A new breeze is blowing in all sorts of places somehow, isn't it?
My knees... Above my knees...
It seems to be blowing here, as well.
5 centimeters?
5 centimeters? 10 centimeters? Hmm...
I wonder about this...
Good afternoon.
Ah...
Here for another commercial?
Ah... no, I'm not.
I'm making a delivery. A delivery...
Ah, I see...
Um... may I sit down?
Eh?
Ah... well... please do.
Excuse me.
Yes.
Um... about my Dad.
Eh?
Ah, would you like to hear about him? Or would you rather not?
I don't think we will ever meet one another again...
...Yatabe-san.
Ah... let's see...
That's... a difficult question for me.
Then I will tell you.
He has gone back to Ookuibaraki and is doing well.
He hasn't gotten his memories back...
...but he's working at getting them back and is doing fine.
I see...
Sorry for saying it on my own.
When you said, "That's a difficult question for me"...
...I thought it was because you did want to hear it. I'm sorry.
Ah, well... thanks...
Yes.
Huh?
Were you always a girl who speaks so to-the-point?
Eh?
That's right. I am.
Ah, really... Yeah.
Anyhow, Dad is doing okay.
Yeah...
Thank you.
Setsuko-san... are you okay?
Eh?
Well, I don't think I should be one to go being worried over a big star like you...
...but I guess I do, a little bit.
Thank you.
Not at all.
I'm fine.
I have no choice but to be fine.
You have no choice but to be fine...
I understand.
Really?
Well, I don't know what you're feeling, Setsuko-san...
...but I can understand it when you say, "I have no choice but to be fine."
Ehh...
Eh?
Ah...
Since I just barely even got through grade school, I'm still not all that good with kanji characters.
That reminds me. In Setsuko-san's letter to me...
...I remember it was mostly filled with hiragana characters.
It's embarrassing.
No.
Setsuko-san, do you like Twiggy?
Eh?
Ah, she's cute, isn't she?
Isn't she?
Well, I couldn't do the same as she's doing here though.
Twiggy Is Coming To Japan!
She's much younger than I am and besides, our styles are different, too.
Really?
I guess. Mineko-chan, have you tried it?
I have bought just one...
...but I haven't gone outside in it yet. But it does make me happy wearing it somehow.
Ehh...
Yeah, I can understand that somehow.
You can?
Yeah. I tried one on once, as well.
Really?
Yeah, I tried it on...
...and then when I looked at myself in the fitting-room mirror I thought, "OHH!"
But I didn't buy it.
Still... I did go and shorten the length of my own skirts, though.
Eh... You did that?
But...
Hmm... It's not quite the same.
Something's off about them.
Shortening a design that was originally meant to be long...
...left it not feeling quite like a miniskirt, somehow.
Yeah. Okay, then let's try this one!
You could say each skirt is like a human being, with their own, different personality from miniskirts.
Wow!
Can you understand?
I feel I can understand somehow.
Really?
Somehow it's like those skirts turn into spies from the miniskirt industry.
"Stop chopping me up and just buy one instead," they say.
Still...
...I do feel happy about the miniskirt boom for Tokiko's sake.
Tokiko-chan... Ah!
The slender girl, right?
Yes.
Excuse me!
Yes?
My name is Sukegawa Tokiko!
She's tall, isn't she?
She's a wonderful person, but she does stick out...
...and there have been many times when she's been anxious about being a tall girl.
Back in high school, the other high school boys...
...would tease her by saying, "So tall!" to her.
At those times, Mitsuo, ah, he's a childhood friend of ours...
Even though Mitsuo isn't all that strong...
...even so, he'd head straight over to those boys, however many there were, and fight them.
And then Mitsuo would say this.
"Tokiko, don't look down! Be confident!"
"Ya want ta be an actress, right? In dat case, be confident about yerself."
"Dere are no down-looking actresses."
"If all ya do is look down, yer back droops and dat ain't beautiful!"
Eh... That was nice of him.
Really?
Yeah...
Classmates... Having something like that is nice.
Um...
I'd be happy to help you with the script, if you'd like.
Eh?
Ah... Eh?
Would you be okay for time?
Yes, I'll be fine.
I'll just tell them I was off playing pachinko.
Eh? Were you that kind of girl?
Ah, really?
Then I wonder if I could ask you for that.
Yes.
Let's the two of us sing a bright rhythm of love Go! Go!
Futari de utaou akarui koi no rizumu
That huge sun is the Goddess of Love Go! Go!
Dekkai taiyo ga koi no megami nanosa
Seaside bound, go bound
Whaa! You surprised me!
Welcome back!
Ah, really? "You look great in that"? Thanks!
Ah, well, I didn't say ya looked great in it.
That gives me lots of courage!
Ah, where's yer Father?
He's gone out.
Ah... is dat right.
He said he won't be back tonight.
Ah.
Eh?!
Mitsuo-kun.
Yes?
I have something to apologize to you about.
To Be Continued
Showa Era Trip
Hiyokko
End
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