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"Showa 21, April (1946)."
"The Maruyama store was opened."
Here you are. Thank you for waiting.
Ah, please come in!
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Week 14: "Preparations For Happiness" (Episode 84)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Sudo Shigeki: Nagayama Kento
Takahashi Natsuko: Itou Ayumi
Principal Hagihara: Yajima Ken'ichi
- Sato Hitomi - Nakamura Aoi
- Otsuka Hiroshi - Yoshikawa Fumiki
Sudo Ryoichi: Terawaki Yasufumi
Miyazawa Setsuko: Shirakawa Yumi
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Haraguchi Fusako: Saito Yuki
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Maruyama Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Even though I say we had opened for business..."
"...of course since we weren't able to get any soba..."
"...we could only serve cooked or broiled vegetables."
"Even so, Dad and Mom seemed happy."
- Just a little more, right? - Just a little more.
"The trigger for our reopening the store was this."
"It was about one month before, I guess."
"One Month Earlier"
Ehh!
Mmm! Delicious!
- This has a great flavor to it. - Right?
It's terrific!
Right? Right?
Okay!
When praised for something you made yourself, you get a happy expression, don't you?
Well of course he would.
'Course I would.
After all, he has no other redeeming features.
That's right. I have no other...
Oi, oi, oi!
What are you saying! Eh!?
You should say, "he's a natural craftsman."
Ah, that is another way of putting it, isn't it?
Still, Dad's happy expression is just like a child's.
A child's?
The children at school get the same expression when I complement them with a, "well done."
Michio-kun, well done!
Enough already!
Excuse me!
Ah... Your store isn't open, is it?
Ah... I'm very sorry.
No... I was just walking along outside when I felt this warm, delicious smell.
And then I also heard some cheerful voices coming from inside.
Sorry 'bout this.
My, my, that looks delicious.
Um...
If you'd like, would you eat with us?
- Right! - Oh, that's right. How 'bout it?
- Are you sure? - Yeah!
Yoko, a chair, a chair.
Come, have a seat.
- Please! - Thank you!
Here, let me take that.
Excuse me. Thank you.
Well... I have onigiri.
Just onigiri though.
But, along with these cooked vegetables, this should be great!
I understand. Right!
When you have a warm dish like this, it's wonderful, isn't it?
That's right.
Particularly for those people like me who have to be out walking each day.
Ah... I see.
- Please, help yourself. - Thank you.
Please, go ahead.
Yeah, delicious!
That's great!
"At that time, it was just talk."
"But, some days after that..."
Ala, what's going on?
We had a request come in.
- A request? - Yes.
Some VIPs from the Occupation Forces are coming to Matsumoto and they want to entertain them...
...by having soba struck for them.
- Struck for them? - Yes, struck for them.
Ehh...
This is good soba.
Yeah! Great soba.
Yeah.
Okay!
Just as expected from you, Dad.
Yeah!
- Here you are. - Yeah. Thanks.
Still, there's that, isn't there?
It's a waste letting the Occupation Forces eat that.
Those guys just couldn't appreciate the taste of a Shinshu soba.
- That's true. - Yeah.
Say, let's open the store.
Eh?
Open the store?
Look, there's people like that one from the other day.
Let's make whatever we can from cooked vegetables and open the store.
Whatever Dad makes is great.
It's fine. We may not be profitable...
...but since both I and Yoko are earning money outside...
...you two should open it.
Right, Yoko?
You're right.
I guess would be best if Maruyama's opened again.
Geez!
You were the one sobbing the whole time we were striking that soba.
Be quiet.
That's true, isn't it?
Your only other redeeming feature...
...is that you can sob so much.
Right, Yoko?
Eh?
That's true.
He's quite good when it comes to sobbing, isn't he?
What is this? Yoko-chan, too?
Honestly!
You don't want to be told that by Yoko, do you?
"Such was the trigger that led to the postwar reopening of Maruyama's."
"Still, the point where we could serve soba again..."
"...was still quite far off."
"With the new year..."
"Showa 21, April (1946)" "..big changes came with the start of school."
Well everyone, please take your seats.
"A new principal had come."
"I disliked this person."
Ready?
From here on, we should esteem individuality.
"Principal Hagihara" Individuality.
Place your highest importantce during class to each student's own way of thinking.
Our previous education methods where we drummed one type of answer out of them...
...was stupid and our way of education from here on must be different.
I already really didn't like him.
This is rare.
For Yoko-san to say "I don't like," anything twice like that.
But, there were lots of people like that after the war.
People who said, "Truth is, we lost this war ourselves."
Then there were various people who said they had known the truth.
But, it's as was if a devil had grabbed them by the neck and had made them say those words...
...and it was really disagreeable.
Ah... I see.
Still, there are such people even now.
Um... like at companies.
When something went wrong or failed, they'll say things like...
"I told you so, didn't I? I thought this would happen."
Or like, "I told you it would fail," right?
Yes, yes, yes. Like that.
- Yes. Just like that. - Yeah.
Moreover, the new Principal was eager for Natsuko-sensei and I to quit.
Eh?
Many men had just been demobilized, right?
Such people had to have work.
That's why all the women of that era were losing their jobs.
I see...
See, just like that.
Um, Yoko-san...
I think the way you used "just like that" then was a little off here.
- Ala? Really? - Yeah.
Ah, that's rather complicated, isn't it?
Still, the lessons we taught postwar were interesting, weren't they?
Both I and the children felt we were both being newly educated together.
Ehh...
Right, just like that.
Well...
Ala, was that wrong, too?
"Yoko Maruyama"
"Maruyama Yoko"
Yes. Starting today, we'll be writing from left to right.
Eh? Why?
Well, we may makes some mistakes at the start, but let's practice it together.
Yes!
Then, please write your names in your notebooks.
Yes!
Sensei! I can't write well this way.
- Don't panic and take it slowly. - Yes.
Do your best!
Ah, left to right, left to right.
Mochizuki Tetsuji-kun.
Oshima Akira-kun.
"This was the first time a President and Class Representative..."
"...had been chosen by election."
Tsutsui Ichiro-kun.
That's all of them.
Yes. Then, Ichiro-kun, please stand up.
Yes.
Tsutsui Ichiro-kun will be the first President of this class.
Counting on you.
Ah...
Ichiro, do your best!
Ah, slipped a little, huh?
This is harsh.
Ah, Yoko.
I'm back.
What's up? Did you have a fight with Kazunari-kun?
Ehh?! That wouldn't happen, now would it?
Since I have a half-day holiday on Saturdays, I wanted to see how things were going.
Is that all.
What've you been up to, Shige-niichan?
Oh, I've been helping Takeo and his family out in the fields recently.
Ehh!
It's my plan for getting provisions for our family.
Yeah.
Yes. I see.
Um, excuse me.
Can I ask you?
Yes. What is it?
Is the hospital called 'Sudo Clinic' of Azumino around here?
Sudo Clinic?
Ah...
From that time...
Yes...
"To Be Continued"
Week 15 "The Day I Became a Mother"
"Ohisama" "Chikuhoku Village Sashikiri Gorge"