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I was just thinking about our family.
Yoko is here.
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 14: "Preparations For Happiness" (Episode 80)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Sudo Shigeki: Nagayama Kento
Miyashita Keiko: Hatsune Eriko - Takasawa Fubomichi
Sudo Ryoichi: Terawaki Yasufumi
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
What a handsome man.
Well, itadakimasu!
- Itadakimasu! - Itadakimasu!
Delicious.
It's nothing, though. Truth is, it's pretty bad.
It's a feast.
Eh?
Huh? Mom, did you make these satsumaimo? (sweet potatoes)
Yes. How is it?
Delicious.
Yeah, thank goodness!
Say, how about this?
I see...
Ah... Eh?
Ah, this is Yoko's?
Yeah, it's Yoko's.
Ah.
What is it, what is it? Eh? What is it?
No, no, no, no.
It just feels like a duel between a daughter and her mother-in-law.
- Eh? - Eh?
My God!
What are you saying?
That's right.
It's 100 years too early for us to be fighting over taste.
Eh?
It's obvious, but he's been eating my cooking ever since he was born.
Yes...
Still, there is that, Yoko.
What is it?
You won't need to talk to Kazunari's photo any longer.
Eh?
Thank goodness, thank goodness!
"Kazu-san, I'm leaving." "Kazu-san, I'm home!"
You won't need to say that anymore.
Why do you make fun of me so much?
That's because it's always amusing to do so.
What's so amusing about it?
It's that upset expression you get.
You're mean.
That's right, I'm what you could call a mean person, after all.
Dad, please say something to her.
Impossible, impossible.
That's true, isn't it?
Oi, oi, oi.
What's so funny?
Well...
Somehow I guess you'd say that you two are like parent and child.
What are you saying? That's obvious, isn't it?
All the time you weren't here, we were living together, right?
Ah... That's right.
That's right.
You may think you and Yoko are a married couple...
...but well before she was your wife, she was our daughter.
Ah... I see.
For example, there's that.
If you took up with some woman over there...
Eh?
If that happened, I'd drive YOU out.
Right out of our house!
Eh... Ah, eh?
I see.
That's right, you!
Right!?
We won't part from Yoko.
What'll you do?
Excuse me!
Ah, yes!
Ah! Keiko-san.
Good morning.
I heard Kazunari-san had come back...
Yes.
- Kazu-san! - Yes?
Now, come in.
Sorry for coming so early. Come, Shoichi. Excuse our disturbance.
Keiko-san...
Thank you for all your hard work.
Thank you very much.
Yoko-san, congratulations.
This is great, isn't it?
Thank you, Keiko-san.
Oh, Shoichi, you've gotten bigger.
Ah! And quite a bit heavier, too, huh?
Of course! I'm already in 1st grade!
Ah, I see. Excuse me.
Keiko-san.
There are many men who will be demobilized from here on.
Kenzou-san will surely come back, too.
Believe that.
Yes.
Kenzou-san looked after me like an older brother.
I learned a lot from him.
Good things and bad things both.
"Bad things"? Like what?
Eh... well...
Now, what was it?
Huh? Huh?!
Welcome back, Kazunari-kun.
Thanks for your hard work.
You did well in coming back!
Thank you very much.
Ah, my brother...
I'm Yoko's older brother, Shigeki.
How do you do. I'm Maruyama Kazunari.
It's nice to meet you.
I'm sorry for this selfish request.
No.
Ah... Over there was Yoko's room.
I see...
She was here, huh?
You returned here, too, huh?
Yes...
Somehow I feel like Urashima Taro. (similar to the Rip Van Winkle story)
It's like I've woken up in a different world...
I arrived by the demobilization ship in Uraga harbor.
But the city's people were...
You could say that somehow they didn't look like themselves.
You could feel their eyes were looking for something they didn't want to see.
I could tell all of them were doing their best looking out for their own living.
But all the waving Japanese flags had been pushed aside...
"What was it all for?" I honestly thought.
Here.
Thank you.
I wonder what they're talking about?
Yeah.
Dunno.
But, they're both fellows who've been through some tough times.
That's true.
Because we were staking our lives on the battlefield...
I had a fellow comrade whom I could trust from the bottom of my heart.
When I was injured and couldn't walk...
...that guy turned around and put themselves in danger to carry me off.
That comrade...
I watched him die right in front of my eyes.
He was one who had just gotten married himself, like I had...
He had a wife and child out in the country.
So if he could just live...
He talked over and over again about wanting to live.
That's what he had decided.
Then I was desperate to live for his part, too.
That's what I had decided.
Desperately trying to live...
Rather strange, isn't it?
Not strange at all.
Thank you very much.
Desperately trying to live, huh...
I...
To be honest...
I feel...
...I've used up all the power I have for life.
It's regrettable, but...
I feel empty.
I'm only just alive.
That entire time... I was right next to death.
Every day I would resolved myself to dying.
That it would come one day...
Well, one part of me...
...an important part...
After living on the edge of life like that...
Is there any point in going on...
That's what I'm thinking.
There is.
There definitely is!
There is.
There definitely is.
You certainly have one.
It exists.
Thank you.
No...
Excuse me.
Ah...
Thank you.
I'll take it from here.
Ah... If you would please.
Yoko.
What is it?
Congratulations.
You married a good guy.
Shige-niichan...
Thank you very much.
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Takamori-machi, Fudou Waterfall"