"Serial TV Story"
Yoko, when do you return to school?
10 days from now.
Ah... It'll be tough from here on.
So cute, so cute!
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 17: "Becoming a Married Couple" (Episode 99)
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
Yoshikawa Fumiki
Miyazawa Setsuko: Shirakawa Yumi
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Haraguchi Fusako: Saito Yuki
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Sudo Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Hmm...
Hinako-chan.
A baby, huh...
That brings back memories...
You have two of them, don't you Fusako-chan?
A boy and a girl, right?
Yes, that's right.
Were they a lot of trouble?
Ah... yeah, well...
I was mostly by myself.
It was back during the time when my husband was busy at work.
My parent's home was far away and I didn't have many friends in the neighborhood either.
That must have been difficult.
Yeah, well, I was lonely.
In the end I had to go and give birth at the hospital all by myself...
Ah, well, once they started going to kindergarten, I made friends with the other mothers...
...but I guess until then I was alone.
Ala, I see.
You're great.
Eh? Is that right?
You're great.
I was someone who wouldn't have had the confidence if I was on my own.
You really are great, Fusako-chan.
Ah... thank you very much.
Hinako...
She had many mothers, and many grandmothers around.
If they hadn't been there to help out, I couldn't have managed at all.
I see...
But, well, Yoko-san, look, you were working, weren't you?
"Once the winter holiday was over, I returned to work."
Hinako.
Are you okay for time?
Yes, I'm sorry.
- Oh, get going. - Yes.
There, there. There, there.
What's the matter, Yoko?
Eh? Nothing...
Are you lonely for her?
Well... that's right.
Hinako will be with her grandmother.
You'll be fine even without your mother, right?
Ah... You're really mean, aren't you?
Yes. I'm mean.
Ah, a fight between daughter and mother-in-law, huh?
That's right.
Because she scared her mother-in-law when my granddaughter was being born.
Geez, what's that about?
Yoko-chan. You'll be late.
Ah, I'm sorry. So long, Hinako, I'll be going.
- Get going... - Thank you. Then, I'm off.
Take care. Do your best!
Principal.
Thank you for allowing me to take such a long time off.
Please watch over me again as of today.
Yes. First off, congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Ah, Principal.
Um... It's okay about Noon today, right?
Ah, I've been told.
I don't think you have to feel pressured until then.
Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you very much.
Ouch! Natsuko-sensei!
It's because I held myself back a little during your pregnancy.
Geez...
What'll you do? You must feel some anxiety about this.
It'll be a battle from here on, won't it?
Yes.
It's been awhile now. I'm tense somehow.
They've all forgotten about Yoko-sensei.
You're mean, geez.
"6th Year, Class White"
Stand.
Bow.
Good morning!
Good morning.
Sit.
And, three!
Yoko-sensei, welcome back!
I'm back.
Yoko-sensei, congratulations!
- Congratulations! - Yoko-sensei, congratulations!
Thank you.
I'm back.
"Ah, it was good to be back."
"I guess school was best."
"I thought how much I loved that classroom."
Hinako, huh?
"Hinako" is a nice name, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, it's a great name!
Well, your name "Teruko" doesn't fit you. (Teruko = "Shining Child")
What's wrong with "Teruko"?
After all, there are tons who are called "Ichiro."
That's right, that's right!
I'm the eldest son, so it's natural I'd be called that! (Ichiro = "First Son")
That's right! That's right! That's right!
Ah, ah... Kazu-san!
- Sorry for running late. - No. Thank you for your hard work.
Here.
Ah... Hinako.
- In here? - Yes, hurry.
Hinako, you must be cold.
I'm sorry.
You're hungry, aren't you?
Sorry.
Ah...
Hello, I'm Maruyama.
Um... My wife has always been under your care.
I'm Takahashi. Thank you for your hard work in the war.
Ah, no...
Ah, Principal.
Sorry for disturbing you.
This is Maruyama-sensei's husband.
I'm Maruyama. Thank you for...
Thanks for your hard work.
There, all done.
- Yoko-chan. - Yes?
Is it okay for us to look?
Yes.
Ah...
This is Hinako.
So cute!
Is she ready?
Ah, please wait a moment. You can't take her until she's been burped.
I see. That's right.
What a good girl you are Hinako-chan, right?
Then, if you would please.
Yeah.
I see.
Kazu-chan takes her to the school during the lunch break.
Yeah. In exchange for taking a long lunch break...
...he has to work an hour earlier instead and work some overtime.
He got the plant manager's approval for it.
- That's great of him. - It is.
It was Kazunari who suggested it, though.
It'll be tough on him going every day, won't it?
Can't be helped. This is the only way.
Look, it'd be great if I could get my breasts to work, though.
Eh?
- Eh? What is it? - No, no, no.
Maybe mine'll do it since they're larger.
We're home.
- Welcome home. - Oh, they're back.
Thanks for your hard work. You're great, aren't you?
- Oh, oh, here, here. - Ah, thanks.
Take care of Hinako.
Gotta go already?
- Yeah. - I see.
- Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm fine.
- Here. - Yes.
Then, I'll take her.
What a good girl. Then, get going.
Hinako...
You're a good girl.
- Sorry for running late. - No, not at all.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
Here, Hinako. Come to me.
Ah, inside.
You were really hungry, weren't you?
"Under ice, 5 measures thick."
"Ice stretching across riverbanks far apart..."
"...that was where Heilongjiang was sleeping under..."
"You could say I felt somewhat sorry for Kazunari-san..."
"...for having imposed such an impossible burden on him."
"But, there was nothing else I could do."
Ah, thank you.
Who shall I have read next?
"And so the days went on."
Is she asleep?
She's sleeping.
- Thank you for your hard work. - No.
Um, Kazu-san.
Huh?
Like I thought, I feel this was asking too much.
Making such a request of Kazu-san.
Why?
Because...
I'm fine with it.
What is it?
There's no other way, is there?
There's another matter.
What do you mean?
I don't like it.
Those feelings you must be having.
"Those feelings"?
After all...
When riding the train day after day to bring me Hinako...
I...
When I think how you must feel doing that, I feel bad.
Making my husband do the things a wife should be doing.
Kazun-san, I don't want you to have such feelings.
Therefore...
Don't joke around.
Eh?
I said don't joke around like that!
"That was the first time I had seen Kazunari-san get angry."
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Nakagawa-mura's Gingko Trees"