Almost time to say goodbye to the students.
Such a painful job, being a Japanese teacher.
So then why do you do it?
Why?
To help my students do their best in this world.
I think being a Japanese teacher is worth doing.
What's that? From a graduate?
Yeah. He's working as a tour guide for Japanese people in New Zealand.
- Asking me to come visit someday. - Hmm...
How about we go together?
Uh, I don't mean anything by that.
Ah well, if it wouldn't be trouble...
Oh nicely done!
Maybe next you'll kiss in New Zealand?
Or maybe a honeymoon?
Don't make fun of us!
Yeah! I haven't asked her grandma for permission yet.
Huh?
You all seem to having a good time with the graduation exam coming right up.
- Shibuya-kun! - Yes?
You've got three people in your class who might fail!
- Huh? 3? - Yeah.
What about my class?
- If things keep up like they have, they'll all graduate. - Oh, good.
Me me me me?
You've only got one.
- Wow, only one person who won't graduate? - Idiot!
Jack is the only one who would graduate.
Huh, what?
If you can't get everyone in your class to graduate
then you'll give up on your high school teacher dream, right?
What, so they can't pass with grades like this?
Get serious!
Our diploma is famous with employers and other schools,
it has real value!
We don't just hand them out like coupons.
Is this what teaching is about?
Give this to me!
Please write the correct Japanese in the blank.
- Yesterday's dinner was "awesomely" (yabai gurai) tasty. - Haha...
Not "very" (totemo), but "awesomely" (yabai gurai)?
The emergency drill made me all "panicked" (pani kuru).
June's weather is "annoying" (uzai).
Is this what you have them write?
- What kind of teacher are you? - It's Japanese!
You idiot! All this slang
is not correct Japanese! Fix it!
Hey hey cutie.
Come on this way. You're so cold!
You're so annoying (uzai)!
Okay, I get it. How about 20000? A small allowance.
Didn't you come to Japan to get money?
Don't make fun of me!
Annoying (uzai), seriously (maji)... young people talk huh?
Hello, Koubun Academy.
Huh?
What's your status of residence? Your visa status?
Answer me!
Kinrei!
Oh, come on.
I'm the Japanese teacher who picked up the phone.
One of my students hit a person?
He was a perverted old man! I'm the victim here.
- Then why were you at that place alone? - Ah well...
We found her in an area with a lot of illegal nightlife and sex service
shops that use foreigners. Including ones here illegally.
I'm a celebrity! My father's company has over 3000 employees!
That's right. She's all right.
Do you really think a girl always on her high horse could work in the service industry?
On a high horse?
Kinrei!
Are you okay? You're not hurt? I was surprised to read your message.
- Kinrei? - I was on my way to a date.
- Someone you know? - Just some Japanese teacher.
What, just a...
- Are we done? - Ah...
- Shibata-san, let's go. - Sure.
- Hey Kinrei! - Hey, wait.
I need someone to sign for her.
What the heck!? Calling me all the way out here.
♪♪～
And then she was on her way to some date with a guy!
Well, good that nothing happened, right?
Yeah, I guess so but...
There's just one week left till the graduation exam.
I get it!
Kinrei. Mary. Luke!
Okay! We're going to have extra classes after school starting today.
- I have a part time job at night! - Yeah!
A part time job or graduation, which is more important?
Huh?
"Panicked" (pani kuru) is wrong?
"Annoying" (uzai) is wrong too. Isn't that right?
That's...
I have a date with my boyfriend today! These extra lessons are annoying (uzai)!
Not "uzai", but "uttoushii" (troublesome).
But isn't "uzai" used a lot?
Sure but, "yabai", "pani kuru", "uzai",
they're all young people language. So they're colloquialisms.
Basically since they're slang,
you can't use them as answers.
So new words invented by young people?
Right. But even though they're new words, they have a basis (yurai).
Ghost (yuurei)? (Yurai - basis, yuurei - ghost)
Yurai. Indicates origin. (Yurai - basis, yuurei - ghost)
So Ou's "pani kuru",
actually came from the English word, "panic".
And "uzai" came from "uzattai", a regional dialect word.
Dialect?
- Regional words, right? - Yep.
There were a swarm of insects in
Hachiko, Tokyo, so they used "uzattai" to describe it.
So it spread all over the country and then got
shortened to "uzai".
Huh...
Then, what about "yabai"?
There are a lot of theories about yabai, but
they had archery ranges in Edo Japan,
which were called "yaba".
But behind the scenes, they actually operated as sex shops.
Hey guy! Why don't you drop in?
How cute! I'd like a taste! Let's go!
Hey hey hey, come on!
What if someone catches you here?
So, if they find you at an archery range (yaba)...
Dangerous! (yabai)
So then, dangerous places started to
be called "yabai".
A dangerous place?
Kinrei. Dates are fine, but don't do any dangerous (yabai) jobs.
Haruko. Is 'honorably family' (o-kazoku) wrong?
Well, to put it simply,
use "o" with the Japanese readings, "go" with the Chinese ones.
For example, these both mean child, but you say "go-shisoku" and "okosan", right?
"Okosan" sounds nicer, so I like it better.
That's because the words using "o" actually were made by women.
They're known as courtesan words.
Courtesan words?
Words used by women who served in the court during the Muromachi period.
For example, you know "onara" (fart) can be said in one word as "he"?
- "He!" - Haha.
But that sounded crude so,
they took "to make a sound" (narasu) and added "o" to the front.
So it became "onara".
I'm sorry.
And also, the inside (naka) of the body, becomes stomach (onaka).
Rice ball (nigirimeshi) plus "o" becomes
"onigiri".
Does anyone else know words that are prefixed with "o"?
Water is "o-hiya". "O-hiya"...
And then, "o-shibori" (hand towel) and "o-biru" (beer).
Where did you learn words like that?
Huh?
Are you really not working in the nightlife business?
Haruko, you don't trust me? That's really annoying (uzai)!
You'd like to see more people get the diploma, huh?
Everyone came to Japan to fulfill their dreams.
- Fulfill their dreams... - Haruko!
It's about tonight...
Oh, it's okay. You don't have to go to the extra lessons Jack.
It's not that. Actually, on the way back from home a few days ago
- I saw Kinrei. - Kinrei? Where?
- Uh, what about the extra lessons? - Hmm?
If Jack's story is true then it's really bad.
But Shibuya-sensei asked me out to dinner...
- There she is! - Welcome!
Sir, we'll let you in for free.
- It's okay. Let's go. - See you.
Kinrei!
You're skipping class for this?
- I'm helping my boyfriend. - You're not supposed to work a nightlife job!
It's okay to just shout.
Let her have it!
Even so, any kind of job involved with nightlife
is banned. If you get arrested you'll be deported.
But my boyfriend said it was okay.
Your boyfriend is?
You're a foreign student too. You should quit!
Jenny isn't good with Japanese.
Kinrei, hurry up and change.
But, I'm saving money to open a restaurant with my boyfriend!
A restaurant? Aren't you a celebrity?
You don't have to do part-time work.
But...
- Huh? - Oh...
We're getting married.
- Married? - Well, yeah...
What is it?
They said I can't do this job either.
You should let her quit this job.
Foreign students can't do this kind of work.
Is that so? Sorry, I didn't know.
Kinrei, hurry up and change.
Okay.
Do you have any hopes of moving on!?
I've never heard of a teacher to miss her own extra lessons!
But, it was to make sure
Kinrei doesn't get arrested and deported!
A teacher isn't just worried about classes.
Oh, look who's mature all of a sudden.
Do you really think you can trust that guy who gave her that job in the first place?
He looks like a nice guy.
He didn't know that it was illegal to be a barker.
- You think that's true? - Huh?
Shibata-san said he didn't know but,
he did tell Kinrei that it was a safe job.
Hmm, well then.
You think he knew it was an illegal job?
Ah well, that's...
Congrats on your marriage!
Thank you!
Hey Haruko! You skipped your extra lessons yesterday!
Ah, sorry sorry.
I'll be here after school today, you all come too.
I'm going to help Shibata-san, I'm not coming today.
What are you saying?
I'll be honest with you. You don't get any better, you won't get a diploma.
It's fine! I'm getting married anyway.
That's not good. Everyone should graduate together.
That's right. We just have a week until graduation.
But he said he had a job for me.
Another job?
Can't you just wait until we graduate?
- Yeah! - Let's all graduate together!
But...
Hey Kinrei. Can you really trust him?
He's not asking you to do more nightlife work?
Shibata-san isn't like that!
I'm worried about you Kinrei!
You lie! You're just worried I won't graduate
so you wouldn't become a high school teacher.
Aren't you doing this for yourself? Japanese are so cold to foreigners.
All this talk about having everyone graduate,
it's just a big trick you're playing on us.
Kinrei! Get serious! Who has been cold?
That's how it is! Why do police not trust me when I just walk around?
Why do they think I've done something wrong?
Don't you all think the same since you got here?
Don't act like you're so worried about me!
Yeah. I'm doing this to fulfill my dreams.
- Haruko. - So that's your real motive.
Aren't you all the same?
Didn't you come to Japan to fulfill your dream?
That's why you're at this school.
You want to be a udon shop owner.
Or be a fisherman.
Maybe an enka singer.
And, sure, Japan has some worries
and complaints about other countries.
But aren't you studying so you can overcome those opinions?
Kinrei, you had a dream you came to Japan to fulfill.
My dream is to marry Shibata-san and run a restaurant.
Then don't you need Japanese?
Get your diploma and you can be proud about working in Japan.
I want everyone to graduate. For their own dreams.
Hey hey!
- What? - Is Kinrei getting married to run a restaurant?
She gave up on her dream of being a star?
- A star? - Yep, her dream was to
be a star to support her parents.
What, support her parents? Her family's
- company has 3000 employees. - What are you saying!?
It's a cotton mill with 30 employees.
- 30? - Yeah. She's going to graduate
for her parents too. Make sure to look after her.
Haha, a teacher just isn't focused on lessons, right?
Her name is Kinrei. 22 year old Chinese girl. No, I haven't said anything about
sex industry. It's okay, she's in love with me.
I'll bring her by later. "Usagi" in Kinshi, right?
Jenny!
- Hey Jenny, what's up? - Kinrei!
Kinrei! I found a new part time job for you.
But I have extra lessons tonight...
You won't need that when we're together, right?
It's a massage part time job.
- I've never done that. - The pay is good though.
Okay, time to start the extra lessons.
Huh? Oh, you were with Kinrei before.
Hmm? Where is she?
Huh? What did she say?
Kinrei-san is being tricked by Shibata.
She's going to work a sex industry job.
A sex industry job? Did you call the police?
If we do that, they'll suspect Kinrei!
Do you know where the night club is?
Massage... Kinshi?
Let's go!
Wait a second! If you all get in trouble,
you won't graduate!
I'll go ahead for now. You wait here.
What's the name of the night club?
- U...usami? Unagi? - Unagi (eel)?
It might be too hard to find her by yourself Haruko.
Kinrei is our classmate.
- Yeah! - Let's go!
We'll help her together!
- Find them? - Nope, they aren't here.
No good here. There's no Unagi or Usami here.
It's probably a place with 3 syllables that starts with 'u'.
You find her, call my cell phone right away.
- Okay? Don't get into any trouble. - Yes.
I want to graduate from school...
But your Japanese is fine enough.
There's a lot I still don't know.
Oh hey, did you know "uzai" (annoying) actually came from a regional dialect?
There?
Not here. Let's go!
"Maji" (really) originally
- came from "majime" (serious). - I see.
Japanese is tough but it is interesting. I want to study more.
- There? - No!
Okay, keep going!
Kinrei!
Usagi (rabbit)...
Is this a normal massage?
Yep. Just wait a second.
Hey Kinrei. Can you really trust him?
I'm worried about you Kinrei!
Kinrei. Here.
This way.
It's your first time, but you'll be okay.
What's wrong? You don't have to be afraid.
Do you know where "yabai" (dangerous) came from?
More Japanese?
They used to call archery ranges "yaba" in Edo Japan.
But it was an illegal sex shop...
So they started to describe dangerous places as "yabai".
You want to marry me, right?
So cooperate! We need money!
I'm going home!
You liar! Let go!
Kinrei!
- Haruko! - You!
What are you doing!?
Kinrei is my student!
And it's guys like you that give
Japanese a bad name!
What's going on here!?
- What? Look over here! - What is this?
What's going on? Look at me.
- You should work here! - Hmm?
Kinrei!
Kinrei, here!
Look for them!
Where did they go?
Haruko...
That's why you should've just gone to my extra lessons.
No...
I wanted to tell you that I wanted to go to your class.
Huh?
I want to graduate with everyone too.
Kinrei.
- But... - It's fine.
Your dream isn't a restaurant, right?
Wasn't your dream to become a star?
What's with this whole act you put on?
What kind of celebrity are you?
Cause I'm cute, I figured I would come to Japan
and get found by a scout.
There were girls even cuter than me.
No matter how many auditions I went to, I failed.
When I thought about going back to China,
he came to the cafe I was working at.
That's where you met him?
He would listen to my problems. He was really nice.
I met him and I figured I could find a new dream...
What!? Why didn't you talk to me earlier?
Don't cry.
I thought you didn't like me at all.
You wouldn't teach me anymore.
Thanks, teacher.
Hello Jack? I found Kinrei.
Things are a bit crazy right now. I'm going to hang up for now.
Just make sure everyone else is okay.
Okay. See you.
See, everyone came out here
to look for you cause they were worried.
Pinky swear.
You'll graduate with everyone else.
Pinky swear?
You'll promise with me.
You thought you could run away?
Kinrei! Hurry, run away!
Hurry up and escape!
What kind of Japanese teacher are you?
I'm going to kill you!
I'm not giving up my dream for you!
Hurry up!
Get moving!
- Police. Take her in. - Okay.
Me? No!
Wait a second! She doesn't have anything to do with this!
I didn't do anything wrong!
- Calm down! - You were working here!
Why don't you believe me? Because I'm foreign?
Be quiet!
Japanese are so cold to foreigners.
Why do police not trust me when I walk around?
Why do they think I've done something wrong?
Quiet down! Come on!
Get moving! Go!
Let go of my student!
Stop it!
- Let go! - Interfere with us and we'll arrest you!
- Get out of the way! - Hey!