"Serial TV Story"
"Showa 20, December (1945)"
"A month had passed since Kazunari-san's demobilization..."
"...and he had begun going to work at an appliance factory."
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 14: "Preparations For Happiness" (Episode 81)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Takahashi Natsuko: Itou Ayumi
Tsutsui Ikuko: Mitsushima Hikari
Principal Umeda: Ayada Toshiki
Miyashita Keiko: Hatsune Eriko
- Oide Nanako - Konishi Mayu - Yoshikawa Humiki
- Takasawa Fubomichi - Chihama Taichi
Miyazawa Setsuko: Shirakawa Yumi
Iwamoto Yasuko: Mushimura Jitsuko
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Itadakimasu.
- Itadakimasu. - Itadakimasu.
Sorry about this.
You have to put up with an unnecessary person.
You mean me?
Kazu-chan, are you an idiot?!
What are you saying, huh?
You'll just get depressed if you're always eating alone.
That's right.
And there's that already.
Since the leaders of our country don't consider us anymore...
...we have no choice but to do our best for ourselves.
That's right.
We can't trust the great people of our country.
Thank you...
Truly, thank you.
What is this?!
I wasn't pretending to cry.
It was Yoko, Yoko.
What are you saying? It was Mom, wasn't it?
I saw you just now. I saw you.
Kazu-chan, do something with these two!
I'm sorry. I don't have enough confidence for that.
Eh?!
Oi, Kazunari. Somehow you're just like me.
Eh?
What are you so surprised at?!
They are the same, the same.
Eh?
Ah, say, look... It's time for you to go to work.
Hey, everyone hurry up and eat your breakfast.
Oi, Kazunari.
How's it going at the factory? You getting tired?
I'm getting used to it.
I see.
Somehow our family, right...
...we've always been a family of office workers.
Ah, that's been the case.
Say...
Since we can't open the store, it can't be helped.
Ah but, even after working and making money...
...there's nothing around that sells anything.
That's true.
Hey! Go cheerfully, go cheerfully.
Right!
Things'll get better eventually, right Yoko?
Yes. It will.
Yeah!
Listen up.
Well then, please discard all of your teaching materials you've had so far...
...and proceed with your lessons using this.
I'll be counting on you.
Somehow, it's not about what we should be teaching...
...but only about what we shouldn't be teaching, isn't it...
Yeah, that's true...
The children don't believe adults anymore.
That's right.
We have to do our best.
Yes.
Then, did everyone get one?
Yes!
Ehh...
This will be our textbook for the time being.
Eh? What is this?!
Is this a textbook?
What sort of textbook is this?
It's weird!
I don't feel like using it.
I can't study with this.
Just what is this?
It could at least look like a book...
"I see."
"It's tough being a teacher, too."
"Yeah."
"Okay. Ichiro, your duty is to protect Yoko-sensei."
"Got that?"
"Yes!"
"After the war ended, all the bad adults ran away."
"They had their 'I have to watch out for myself' expressions on."
"Understand?"
"Did Yoko-sensei run away?"
"Yoko-sensei apologized."
"She said, 'I made a mistake. I'm sorry.'"
"I see..."
"Okay!"
"You protect Yoko-sensei, Ichiro."
"Yes!"
Ready?
I know very well that all of you must be confused.
But now that a new Japan has been reborn as a country, things have to change.
For that sake...
...each of the Senseis, too, has to think really hard about what all of you should study.
My Mom told me.
"Don't believe what that Sensei says anymore."
My Dad said that, too.
Everyone!
Listen to what Sensei has to say!
What is this, Ichiro!?
Hey! Hey, wait!
Hey, let go! Hey, stop it!
Ouch! Ouch...
Please, don't fight. Okay?
Please, please.
There.
Are you okay?
Yes, I'm okay.
Thank you very much.
What happened?
No, it was nothing big.
Really?
Then why the tears?
I'm... I'm not crying.
Not you.
Ah...
Hey, come in.
I'm sorry.
Was Sensei hurt?
I'm fine, I'm fine.
Don't cry; it's okay.
I'm sorry...
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
"Children will be children."
"That will never change."
"They were all good children."
"The core of that pencil?"
"Even now a little piece of it remains in my hand."
"Even now, I can see it in the light."
"When I see it sometimes..."
"...I can't forget the feelings I had from that time."
Yoko-sensei?
Ah... Kyoko-chan. What is it?
Are you okay, Yoko-sensei?
Ah, yeah, I'm fine. Thank you.
Um...
Huh?
I and Chizuko...
...are going back to Tokyo.
Eh?
I got a letter from our Uncle in Tokyo.
He said to come to his home...
It seems he'll come and get us next week.
I see...
I only met him when I was a baby, so I don't know him...
...but when he says to come to Tokyo...
I see...
Tokyo, huh...
Yes.
I... want to stay at Yoko-sensei's side.
But...
...it can't be helped.
Sensei.
Huh?
Could you do me a final favor?
"Maruyama"
Hello there.
This is my husband.
Nice to meet you.
Eh?
Eh? What is it?
He's the same!
As what?
It's a secret, right?
Eh?
Eh... What is it?
It's not good to keep secrets, right?
That's right.
Mmm... What could it be. Ah, is he like a weasel?
HUH?!
You're wrong. Right?
- Right! - Right!
Then, and owl?
- Wrong, wrong. - I'm wrong!
Ah, enough already. Enough.
No, no, what is it?
He's just like that!
Eh?
Ah, no, no, no!
The same! Just the spitting image.
(This is Fukuwarai, a game similar to 'Pin the tail on the donkey')
Higher! Higher!
Much higher! Much, much higher! Much higher!
Onee-chan, which way is best?
Just a little higher, huh?
Just a little higher. Ah... A little more to the right.
Ahh...
Ah... There, there, there!
Ah!
Ala? Ah! Too bad!
"That was a fun night."
"Everyone laughed."
All done.
Whaa!
Ah, that's incredible.
Isn't it? I love Kyoko-chan's drawings.
I'll give this drawing to you both.
- Eh?! - Eh?!
Whaa, thank you very much.
Thank you, Kyoko-chan.
Yeah, done.
This is the poem I love the best.
I want to give this poem to Kyoko-chan.
Thank you very much.
May I read it?
Yeah.
"Hold the Sun in your heart."
"Even if storms blow, snowstorms come, the skies fill with dark clouds..."
"...and even if the land is impatient with strife!"
"Always hold the Sun in your heart."
"Don't lose courage."
"Keep a song on your lips."
"Hold the Sun in your heart."
Yes, you read that very well.
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Kurobe-ko Lake and the North Alps"