"Serial TV Story"
Is it true?
What'll I do?
I'm happy...
I'm so happy!
That teeny-tiny Yoko-chan, huh?
I'll be a grandpa, huh?
Congratulations!
Thank you very much. Oi!
"I thought that maybe..."
"...the child inside me and everyone else could feel it was a new age."
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 15 "The Day I Became a Mother" (Episode 89)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Takahashi Natsuko: Itou Ayumi
Principal Hagihara: Yajima Ken'ichi
- Anan Kenji - Matsukawa Naruki
- Yamaya Kasumi - Yoshikawa Fumiki
Miyazawa Setsuko: Shirakawa Yumi
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Haraguchi Fusako: Saitou Yuki
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Maruyama Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Here! Eat up.
Huh?
- Dear! - Eh?
Do your best at work today.
Um, it's okay, even if you don't get a raise..
Just as long as you have a place to work, you and I'll be happy.
Sorry about that.
No.
Being able to live together as a family like this...
...is more than enough. That's right, isn't it?
Yeah.
What's with you?
Takeshi.
It's okay, even if you can't study.
It's okay even if you are a fool!
Eh?
Just as long as you go to school, that's all we need for happiness.
Ah... yeah.
Right!
Hey you, what's going on?
Wish I knew.
Hey, what's up with her?
What is happening?
I have no idea.
I'm off!
- Ah, wait... I'm off! - I'm leaving!
Have a nice day!
It's been a long time... since they'd say they were leaving like that...
Yoko-san!
Ala, Fusako-chan!
Eh?
You're a little late, geez.
Ah...
Well, well, well, I'm sorry
I thought I'd take a bathroom break at the service area nearby.
They had some incredibly delicious things there...
...and I got lost looking at the lineup.
After all, everything they had looked really delicious.
By your face I can tell that if I don't stop soon, your story will go long, won't it?
I'm sorry. I'll stop.
Really, geez!
Well, never mind and have a seat.
Yes! Thank you very much.
Taking my seat!
Well now... Eh... Where was I?
Yes! From Yoko-san's pregnancy.
That's right, that's right.
But, there's that, isn't there?
It seems that was much more trying time for pregnant women than now, doesn't it?
Ala, really?
Yeah. Because, right?
Medicine has progressed so much farther since then.
Ala, but isn't it more trying now?
It is?
In our time, our mothers told us what was all correct.
That's why when we heard what our mothers told us, we felt okay.
Ah...
Ah, I see.
Now! I will begin.
Yes! Yoko-sensei.
Ah, yes.
"Give us rice"
"On the other hand, shortages of food and other things kept growing worse."
"Still, unlike during the war..."
"...it was our hope that better things would certainly come someday."
"Showa 21, Autumn (1946)"
"My Maruyama father was up early each morning..."
"...hunting for any Shinshu soba he could lay his hands on."
"But it wasn't easy to obtain."
"Because Kazunari-san was still working at the factory..."
"...at that time Mother was managing the store by herself."
"And then I was in the 8th month of my pregnancy.
'Morning.
- Ah, good morning. - 'Morning.
Has Dad gone already?
Yeah.
I see.
I hope he can find some somewhere.
Where's he going today?
Huh? To Togakushi.
Ah... that's far away, isn't it?
Yeah.
Still, as long as it has to do with soba...
...that guy's happy.
Nothing I can do with him.
That's true.
Mom, will you be okay with the store?
I'll be fine.
Your father, look, he made the cooked vegetables...
...and Onee-chan will come and help open the store.
Leave it to me!
The store is tough, but the hard-earned money is something.
So tough is okay!
I see.
Ala, eat up, eat up. Here.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Itadakimasu.
- Itadakimasu. - Itadakimasu.
What is it?
Well, somehow it's inexcusable that I'm the only one who...
That's not for you.
It's for the child inside you to eat.
Ah, yes.
Go on! Eat up, Yoko.
Yes!
It's essential you walk slowly, right?
So get up earlier to prepare and then leave earlier. Got that?
Yes. I understand.
Ah, but, you mustn't eat quickly.
Chew your food carefully when you eat.
Yes.
Kazunari. You shouldn't get so happy in the mornings, either.
Hurry and eat. Geez.
What's that for?
All right.
She got angry with Kazu-san, too, didn't she?
Hmm? What are you so happy about?
Eh? Because I'm always the only one she gets angry at, after all.
Hey! No flirting! Hey!
We're not, geez.
You were, you were!
See! You two were looking at each other again right away.
Geez, hot, hot, hot!
Now, eat with gusto and do your best today!
Hey, you too!
Eat up, eat up!
Thank you.
"Thanks to the child..."
"...somehow everyone seemed much brighter."
Ah, 'morning.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Feeling well?
Yes!
'Morning. Are you doing well?
I'm the barber shop's grannie...
What's that? Nothing for me?
Oh, I'm sorry.
- Then, I'm off. - I'll be going.
Yes. Get going.
Be careful.
Yes.
Are you okay?
Yes! I'm fine.
I think this is an auspicious event for you, Maruyama-sensei.
Yes.
This is an important time now in this new era of education reform.
Please, don't become a burden against that.
If you would please.
Ah... yes.
I'm sorry to have troubled you.
Ah, the Principal's an unpleasant guy.
He has no clue whatsoever whether something's a new idea or an old one.
He's all mouth when he talks about new education...
...and he makes women out as fools.
Ah, I'm so angry.
You mustn't let him worry you!
Yes. Thank you very much.
If something bothers you, you just tell it to me alone.
Yes.
I wonder which you'll be?
Who knows?
I think today's meeting should be...
...to pick the beautification official, hygiene official and rearing of pets official.
Is that okay?
Yes!
Well then first off, let's decide who'll be in charge of each job.
I'll hear all opinions.
Please raise your hands.
- Me! - Me!
Ota-san!
Yes. I want to nominate a keeper to be in charge of the rabbits.
Oshima-kun is always doing it, so I think Oshima-kun would be best.
Me?!
Agreed!
"The classroom had become a little brighter."
"There were hardly any teaching materials..."
"...but I felt something different and what you'd call fun had started."
"For both the students and for me."
And three!
Shinano no kuni ha jyushu ni The country of Shinano, in the 10 states
Sakainuru kuni nishite Please make me a country that borders it
Soyuru yama ha iya takaku With soaring, high mountains
Nagaruru kawa ha iya tooshi And crashing, long rivers
Masamoto, Ina, Sakayuu, Zenkouji
Yottsu no tai ha hiyoku no chi With flat, fertile earth like these four lands
"But, there was also a sad, sad event."
"The Farmland Release was held for the soba field of my memories..."
"The landlord of the soba field that until then we had made Maru-an soba from and boasted about..."
"...had turned it into tenant farming housing..."
"...and wouldn't be making soba anymore."
"Farmlands to be Released Immediately" "Land Compulsorily Taken for Sale to Buyers"
Well...
Nothing can be done.
That's true.
It's a way of recompensing the tenant farmers for their troubles up till now.
Right?
Yes.
I will keep my memories of it safely here in my heart.
Yeah.
Face forward.
Right, Dear!
Yeah!
Someday...
...this family...
We'll have a soba field of our own.
Our own.
That'd be nice, wouldn't it?
That'd be great, right, Dear?!
Yeah, good!
Yeah.
Right?
Yes.
'Morning.
- 'Morning. - Good morning!
Yoko-chan, here.
Weren't you just talking about your grandmother the other day?
Eh?!
Here, look.
"Kirino Fujiko-san"
"That newspaper..."
"...triggered something unexpected to happen."
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Nagano-shi Togakushi Shrine"