Serial TV Story
Mom.
Huh?
Please let me take the challenge of the next Product Council.
Really?
I'll be looking forward to that.
Thank you.
Finding something worthwhile to do in your life...
...will lead to days of happiness.
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Beppin-san
Serial TV Story
『雨上がりの空に七色の虹が架かる』 "Ameagari no sora ni nanairo no niji ga kakaru" "A seven colored rainbow appears in the sky after a rain"
Week 22 "Mother's Back" (Episode 126)
Screenplay: Watanabe Chiho
Music: Semu Yuko
って そんなに単純じゃない Tte son'nani tanjun janai It's not as simple as a saying like that suggests
Theme Song: "Atelier of Light"
この夢想家でもそれくらい理解ってる Kono muso-ka demo sore kurai wakatteru Even wistful dreamers know that much
Narrator (Bando Hana): Kanno Miho
Cast:
たとえば 100万回のうちたった一度ある奇跡 Tatoeba 100 man-kai no uchi tatta ichido aru kiseki Let's say a once-in-a-million miracle were to come along
Bando Sumire: Yoshine Kyoko
Bando Norio: Nagayama Kento
Nogami Yuri: Renbutsu Misako
下を向いてばかりいたら見逃してしまうだろう Shita o muite bakari itara minogashite shimaudarou You could miss it if all you're doing is just looking down
Ono Akemi: Tanimura Mitsuki
Ozawa Ryoko: Momota Kanako
Murata Kimie: Tsuchimura Kaho
さぁ空に架かる虹を今日も信じ Saa, sora ni kakaru niji o kyou mo shinji Now, believe a rainbow will appear in the sky again today
Ozawa Katsuji: Tanaka Yoji
Murata Shoichi: Hiraoka Yuta
Bando Sakura: Igashira Narumi
Murata Kentaro: Furukawa Yuuki
歩き続けよう Aruki tsudzukeyou And keep on walking
Ozawa Ryuichi: Morinaga Yuki
Adachi Takeshi: Nakajima Hiroki
Nakanishi Naomasa: Mori Yusaku
優しすぎる嘘で涙を拭いたら Yasashi sugiru uso de namida o fuitara After wiping away your tears from a too gentle lie
虹は もうそこにある Niji wa mou soko ni aru That rainbow will already be there
Nogami Kiyoshi: Kora Kengo
きっと 虹は もうここにある Kitto niji wa mou koko ni aru A rainbow will surely already be there
Bando Isoya (flashback): Namase Katsuhisa
What is Sumire-san doing?
She said she wanted to look for the color that would be the basis of her next design.
Come.
Excuse me.
Ah, what's up?
Could I have just one minute?
Ah... sure.
Um... which of these is closest to being a teardrop color?
Ah... Hmm...
Let's see...
At that time I told you "a teardrop color"...
...but I think that as a design changes, the perfect color for it changes as well.
Somehow... Somehow or other...
Thank you.
Oh... Sakura-chan. What's up?
Good afternoon.
She said since it's been so long...
...she wanted to come see us!
That's great, isn't it?
Sakura, have a seat.
Thank you.
You're just in time since we were about to start the party to celebrate Hasegawa-san's retirement.
You've reached retirement?
He's served for 40 years.
40 years...
I didn't know my left from my right...
...but I was able to take my first steps as a professional with the Bando Sales Division.
Oh!
Kiyoshi-san!
You guys were demobilized?
Yes!
Bando Sales Division
Lots of things happened...
Starting today... I will take over the Bando Sales Division!
How we work and how we live are interconnected.
I send you off asking that all of you please lead fulfilling lives.
I've come today to enjoy your delicious liquor.
Hasegawa-san.
Thank you very much... for your long years of service with us.
Thanks for your hard work.
Yuri-san.
Huh?
Shota-san is now out of your hands...
...so your job of raising him has finished as well.
Why don't you start a second life?
A second life?
Why don't you go back to Orion again?
Ah... But it's been 20 years since then...
No, no, no.
It'd be a real shame to let someone like you go to waste, Yuri-san.
That's for sure!
How we work and how we live are interconnected.
These are the designs I've drawn for the World Expo show.
Whaa! It's exciting, isn't it?
I want the children of the 21st Century to have smiles like those.
Exciting...
What I do know is that... this just won't get that across...
Be careful, Dad.
Welcome.
Hello.
Say, say, say...
What I ate here before... it was, um... Russian...
Soviet.
Eh?
It was Soviet.
Soviet?
That Soviet... um... stew thing...
That's not on our menu...
It is.
Oi!
Borscht, right?
Here ya go...
Well then, itadakimasu.
Itadakimasu.
This flavor! It's just like what we ate at the pavilion!
Somehow...
This feeling of eating something from a faraway country... Somehow... it's exciting!
That's a good way of putting it...
Right?
Sakura.
Yes?
Your father bought some persimmons.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I'll put them here, okay?
Yeah.
Say Sakura, do you remember?
Huh?
When you were little, you would play with beanbags and with persimmons...
...and with apples and with rice balls.
Whenever I'd hand you a rice ball, you'd grin from ear to ear.
When I'd watch you playing I'd think, "What an incredible imagination children have."
Hey Mom, get out.
Eh?
I just came up with an idea for something.
Eh?
Ah... sure.
Thanks.
You look happy about something.
Do I?
What's up?
Are they good?
Yeah.
The day for the Product Council had come at last.
Thank you very much.
Well then, next up is Bando Sakura-san.
Yes.
Please explain your intentions behind this work.
Yes.
When I was a child, I would play with beanbags a lot.
It seems I would choose beanbags or persimmons or apples or rice balls to play with.
When I considered childhood...
...what I thought was important was how children need room...
...to be imaginative and to get excited.
I wondered if that might be the foundation for Kiaris.
A squirrel and fruit. The squirrel's favorite foods...
...all lined up in order by their favorites...
...but which one will the squirrel give to the child that is looking at him.
I thought it would be nice to make a dress...
...that children would look forward to and want to wear...
...just because it would allow them to use their imaginations.
Let me see it.
Yes.
Norio-san, what do you think?
Yes. I'll leave commercializing it up to you.
I think it's good. Let's consider it for commercialization.
Thank you very much!
Sakura-chan... That's great, isn't it?
Yes. Thank you very much!
Well then, work hard on it.
I will!
While you were telling them about your product, I was imagining something, too.
Eh?
About how exciting... the two of us together would be.
Ken-chan...
Here, thanks fer waiting.
Eat it while it's hot.
Somehow...
Today was a happy one, wasn't it?
You're right.
Well then, shall we have a toast to that?
Then... Kanpai!
Kanpai!
Oh.
Kentaro.
Are you hungry?
Um...
Please allow... Sakura-san and I to get married.
Eh? Kentaro...?
Please allow me and Sakura-san to get married!
To Be Continued
Our four-leaf clover of happiness
Beppin-san
End
Happy times as friends for some 50 years!!