"Serial TV Story"
I don't think it will be as sad as last year anyway.
That's true.
Yes.
I wouldn't like that.
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 14: "Preparations For Happiness" (Episode 83)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Tsutsui Ikuko: Mitsushima Hikari
Soma Machiko: Maiko
Miyashita Keiko: Hatsune Eriko
Takasawa Fubomichi
Miyazawa Setsuko: Shirakawa Yumi
Soma Gouzou (flashback): Hiraizumi Sei
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Have the two of you been well?
Yes.
Yep, I'm well.
I see. That's great. Here you go.
Thank you.
Still, the world's been a bewildering place recently, hasn't it?
Quite true.
It has. It's hard to keep up anymore.
Ah, I lost my job with the post office.
It was taken by a demobilized man.
- Ah... I see. - Yeah.
And so, I've gotten a new job.
I call it a job, but it's more like an executive's assistant.
I see... Where will you be working?
At a spinning mill.
Ehh...
Ah, the one your father runs?
No. Thing is...
Surprisingly, it's with one of the Emperor's competitors.
Eh?!
Somehow my father's been gleefully saying, "The war's over, war's over..."
...with his eye towards how much profit he can make.
When I said I wanted to work he told me simply...
"Ah, you can work at my place."
Then I got really mad and told him, "No thanks. I'll look for one on my own."
How did the Emperor take that?
Let's see...
Somehow I feel a little sorry for him.
That's right.
Right?
Still, this is best.
Ikuko, what are you doing?
Right now, could you call it studying or making preparations?
I guess the time before when I went to Tokyo...
...I thought it would be fulfilling a dream, but the reality was quite harsh.
I think this time around I'll study hard and go back to Tokyo properly.
I want to be much better educated.
Ehh...
Seems my Dad wanted me to return to the bookstore again anyway.
So now I read while putting the books away.
We weren't able to sell foreign books during the war.
- Ah, sound's nice. - Yeah.
Come next time.
Whatever books you want to read now, they're all fascinating.
That's true.
It's best to try and read everything.
That's right.
However, these days I've been thinking...
...it might possibly be I won't be able to settle just for Japan.
We have fine weather today, don't we?
You're right. It feels very nice, doesn't it?
What is this?
- After all... - That's right...
What? You have some doubts about me?
That's not true. Right, Yoko-san?
Yeah.
"Both of them had had a rough time during the war."
"So I was really happy to be able to get them to laugh like this."
Ah, that's right, have you heard?
It's said that women will be given the right to vote soon.
I heard. That's incredible, isn't it?
I'll definitely go to vote!
Yes. Rather exciting, isn't it?
Yeah!
From here on, it'll be the age of women!
I wonder about that.
It will be. We'll now be able to do all sorts of things.
I see.
I heard a rumor Machiko's father will be running for office.
Eh?
Ah... Somehow he would run.
I absolutely won't vote for him!
Hey! Maybe I'll run myself someday.
- Eh?! - Eh?!
"But, it wasn't only happy things that were occurring."
Who is it?
Hmm, Yoko-sensei.
Ah, you found me out.
You're great. Need some help?
No, I can do it.
Welcome back!
I'm back!
Miyashita-san!
Miyashita-san, are you away from home?
Miyashita-san!
Miyashita-san?
I'm sorry. Do either of you know how I can reach Miyashita-san?
That's... me.
You're Miyashita Kenzou-san's...
Yes... I'm his wife.
"Miyashita Kenzou-sama"
"Killed in Action"
No!
The war is over.
It's over...
So why?
Why!?
"No words would come out from anyone."
"None of us knew what to say."
Ah... Good night.
Good night!
Good night.
Kazu-chan... good night.
Good night.
Sorry for earlier.
Hitting the desk like that.
No.
Kenzou-san was 3 years older than I.
I liked him very much.
He was like an older brother to me.
I learned everything from him.
When he married Keiko-san, he brought her here...
They seemed so happy.
He was already proud of her.
"So you won't regret it..."
"...hurry and get a wife of your own," he said.
Since I didn't want to lose to Keiko-san...
I told him I'd show off my beautiful bride to him.
That's what I told him.
That's why... That's why.
I wanted to brag to him about Yoko.
It's so frustrating.
Why did he have to go and die?
There was no reason to.
Please... tell me a story.
Please tell me a story about Keiko's husband...
...and your friend.
I wasn't able to meet him, but...
You can introduce me to him through your story.
Please.
Kenzou-san was...
Anyhow, he was a genius at playing around.
He could really find things to play at.
Whenever Kenzou-san and I would play, we would have such fun.
We had this one awful encounter though.
What sort?
Well, there was this freight train that had stopped due to some damage.
Early one morning he told me, "let's go take a look at it."
Eh...
Then, since a freight door was open...
...Kenzou-san said, "Oi, let's hop inside!"
Yeah.
So we got on and since there were these piles of grapes lying around...
...we helped ourselves.
Eh?! You stole them?
Then, while we were eating...
...the train suddenly started to move, so we rushed and jumped off.
Ah...
But we were still holding on tightly to those grapes.
But then, Mom caught us.
Mom was really scary that time.
She would be.
She had Kenzou-san and I line up...
...and then she spanked us as hard as she could!
Eh! Whaa!
Afterwards, the two of us were crying like dogs.
She wouldn't forgive us just because we were children, she said.
That was a painful time.
"After a while, Keiko-san and Shoichi-kun..."
"...returned to her parent's home in Shiojiri."
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Kiriwayama and Renge" (lotus flowers)