"Serial TV Story"
"What do you want to do, Yoko? I'll give you my support."
It's those times when it's really worrisome, that he's useless.
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 18: "The Sun's Resolution" (Episode 107)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Principal Hagihara: Yajima Ken'ichi
Takahashi Natsuko: Itou Ayumi
Yoko...
Yes?
What do you want to do?
I'll give you my support.
I don't know.
Eh?
It's because I don't know that I'm troubled.
I don't know.
The one thing after another I don't know what to do about has left me confused.
I see.
You don't know, huh?
What do you think I should do, Kazu-san?
Me?
Ah, umm...
I don't know either.
Eh?
Let's think of something together.
Thank you very much.
When it comes to what the Principal has said...
...I think resigning is something you have to do for yourself, Yoko.
I don't think it'd be possible for you to take the teaching profession away from Takahashi-sensei.
That's true, isn't it?
Yes.
But...
I also think it would be rude to Takahashi-sensei to think that way.
Yes.
In the first place...
...I think Takahashi-sensei is more talented at it than you are.
Am I wrong?
Of course, that's not a reason to quit teaching.
This has been your dream since childhood...
...and you went to a lot of hard work to get here.
I think it's your point of pride.
Has that make sense up til here?
If something's wrong, then tell me.
No, that's all correct.
All right.
Yes.
Well then, let's go on to the next part.
Yes!
Please stop considering Takahashi-sensei.
Eh?
This is a good opportunity, isn't it Yoko?
We met and got married after you had become a teacher.
That's why I felt I shouldn't be disagreeable about it...
...thinking it might cause too many problems.
But...
...there was something we didn't discuss as we were trying to live our lives to the fullest.
About...
...our future lives...
Our future lives...
Yes.
Not about how we could live until we died...
...but rather about what sort of lives we wanted to live.
What sort of lives to live...
That's right.
Yes.
So I think we should consider that here.
Yoko, do you...
...do you intend to go on with the teaching profession for always?
If so...
...then go to the Principal and tell him that you refuse.
Declare to him, "I will not quit."
What happens then will have different results.
But...
I wonder if it wouldn't be fine to quit...
...because you've considered what you're going to do with your life.
That's different from losing to something.
I also get the feeling you don't see yourself as a teacher.
Eh?
Would it be wrong if the two of us see our lives as being set to zero?
We still have plenty of time left.
How about that?
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Um, I...
Huh?
There was a little something I thought of...
Could you hear me out?
Of course.
I...
Ah... I...
I feel I am truly blessed.
I am always surrounded by wonderful people...
...and I think that thanks to those people, I'm able to live.
My...
...dead mother told me, "Please be like the sun."
"With your own radiant power..."
"...shine a bright light on the people of this world."
But I haven't been Yoko of the Sun at all...
Really?
Yes.
Ah... My mother said to "shine on the world..."
...but I don't think I'm that grand a person.
I'd like to bring happiness to those people...
...who are close to me.
I think it's to those people I should be like the Sun to.
That's what I feel.
To just my own...
...tiny world.
That's my family and those people around me who are friends.
It may be a small world just suitable for my height.
And my students, too...
I received a letter the other day from a student I had been in charge of and thought this.
"Ah, even after they graduate..."
"...I'll still always be their teacher."
That's right, isn't it?
But, I'm in charge of a second set of children now.
That's a total of 48 people.
If I continued on as a teacher forever, it could reach into the thousands, couldn't it?
That's true, isn't it.
I thought that was a little too much for me.
Because you want a tiny world, right?
Yes.
Besides...
I have a feeling I didn't teach those students in the National School as well as I should have.
The class I first took charge of...
...and my current class...
Those children that call me "Sensei."
Eh?
Ala? Did I say something weird?
No, no, it's not that.
Eh?
What is this?
You've already made your decision...
...and given a proper answer.
Eh? Ah, well...
And you made me talk so much.
Well, I guess somehow I was thinking it dimly...
...but then when I heard Kazu-san talk, it somehow came together just now...
I know.
I'm sorry.
I wonder if this isn't okay?
Eh?
I think it's fine.
Yoko of the Sun's world that's just her size.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Ah, I'm so happy.
Like this I got to hear what you had to say and I got to tell you, too.
I'm so happy.
So happy.
I'd like to tell the whole world.
"I'm so happy!"
Should I tell them?
Eh?
Did you really think I was going to yell out just now?
Eh? Well...
I did.
I'm sorry.
Are you sure about this, Maruyama-sensei?
Yes.
We discussed it as a couple and this is what we've decided.
Thank you very much.
No...
It's rather complicated if you thank me for quitting.
Ah, well...
Excuse me for that.
No...
What about telling Takahashi-sensei?
Please don't tell her until the Graduation Ceremony.
Very well.
Thank you very... ah...
Principal.
Yes?
This school...
...and the children of Azumino...
Please...
...take good care of them.
I understand.
I will endeavor to do that with all my heart and soul.
Okay!
What's up?
You seem rather brisk somehow.
Eh?
No, I'm always brisk.
Eh?
Hmm...
That's true.
Ah, you're terrible, Natsuko-sensei!
Ah!
Ah, it's useless getting revenge.
Please get back to work quickly, Natsuko-sensei.
Yes!
Caught you off guard!
Ow, that hurt!
Geez, what is this, hey!
Here!
Yes.
- Here. - Yes.
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Alpenglow in Kashima-yarigadake"