"Serial TV Story"
"Tsuki no sabaku wo harubaru to To the Desert Moon, faraway"
"Tabi no rakuda ga yukimashita We journeyed by camels"
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 21: "Dreaming of a Sunny Place" (Episode 125)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Kawahara Koichi: Kaneko Nobuaki
Hinako (3 yrs old): Inoue Rinsui
Miyazawa Setsuko: Shirakawa Yumi
Iwamoto Yasuko: Mushimura Jitsuko
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Sake!
Are you okay? You're drinking so much.
If all you do is drink without eating anything...
I'm asking you.
Yes.
"Saki no kura ni ha Ouji-sama Out in front, the Prince in his saddle"
Are you okay, Mom?
Huh?
I'm fine, I'm fine.
"Wakaku akarui utagoe ni With their young and cheerful singing voices"
"Nadare ha kieru hana mo saku The avalanches disappear and the flowers bloom, too"
"Aoi yamanami yukiwa sakura In Liverwort and Sakura along the Blue Mountains"
Yes! Here you are.
The sake is good, but please have this, too.
Thank you very much.
Ah...
I've brought them.
Ala...
We got one for each of us.
- You bought them? - We bought them, we bought them.
You really did.
Here, take a look.
Incredible! These are lottery tickets, huh?
We bought them, we bought them.
They're tiny, aren't they?
So they're like this, huh?
- What's the difference between them? - The numbers are different.
Yoko.
Ah... Yes?
Yoko!
Ah...
Lottery tickets have come.
Eh? Yes.
Hmm... The one that'll win is..
...this! This one!
This one? Really?
Then I'll take it.
Good for you.
Eh? Really? I guess I'll take this one, instead.
Why, geez...
It'd impossible to know which one'll win, wouldn't it?
That's right. Well then, I'll take this one.
And I'll take this.
How much is first prize?
Eh? Let's see... 1 million yen!
Incredible, isn't it?
That's enough bills to fill a backpack.
Think of all the things we could buy for the family with that.
Let's see...
An electric refrigerator, a record player, clothes...
What could I buy?
I would get the most expensive bonsai out there.
- Eh?! - Eh?!
Whaa! So simple!
What's that? That's fine, isn't it?
It's fine, but it's ordinary, just like you Dear.
What!? What was that?!
Somehow or other, you don't have a lucky face!
What's that?
Enough fighting.
I'd get a motorcycle. One built in America.
Ah, that! That would be nice!
That'd be cool, wouldn't it?
Our world has finally gotten better, hasn't it?
It has.
The town's gotten brighter, too.
That's right.
It's already been 5 years now since the end of the war. Right!
It was a short time, but a long one, too. Right?
Hello.
Hurry, hurry, hurry.
Here, here, here.
Ah... Thank you very much. This is mine?
Yes.
"Saving the best for last," as they say.
That's right...
I think I might be lucky.
- Yoko, too, huh? - Eh?
We'll be the lucky ones!
Eh?
Yoko-chan, what'll you do if you win? What is it you want?
Eh?
First a sewing machine maybe?
Ah, that's good. I'd want that.
- Yes! - I see.
How about you, Kazu-san?
I...
He wants a motorcycle.
Ah... That's wonderful.
It'd be nice if we won.
This is fun.
That this is a time where we can dream of such things.
That's true!
I intend to win, myself.
What's that? You think your stingy-face has the look of a winner?
You want the look of a winner? It's right here! Geez!
It's good dreaming like this, isn't it?
It gives you a feeling of happiness.
- That's true. - You're right.
Enough is enough, you there!
What dream...
What happiness...
Cackling and laughing like that...
You're the worst!
What is this country coming to?!
This isn't how the war was supposed to turn out!
Ready?
This is no joke!
You can't just laugh and live carelessly like this!
Stop messing around!
Please calm down.
Shut up!
Messing around...
Messing around like this...
Kawahara-san...
Do you know this person?
Yes.
Kawahara-san.
Are you okay? Oi!
Dear! Come here!
- Are you okay? - Are you okay?
Hang in there! How are you doing? Are you okay?
Oi!
"That was 10 years after we had last met."
Oi!
Are you okay?
Kawahara-san was Haruki-niisan's best friend.
I see...
He came over to our house several times.
Without waiting to graduate from Matsumoto High School...
...he went over to Manchuria.
He and a woman named Tae-san went.
Manchuria, huh...
Yes.
His uncle was working at a newspaper there.
He told us that his uncle would help him find work.
He also said...
"Manchuria will be an ideal country."
"I'm going to judge that for myself."
"Even though this guy's the son of a doctor in Kofu, he won't become a doctor."
"I think that Manchuria, like the states in America..."
"...will become an ideal state for ethnic groups living together in East Asia."
"I want to go there and see that with my own eyes."
Hmm...
Manchuria, huh...
Well... I think that must have been great though.
That's right.
There were many from around here who went as well.
Well...
The largest number of people who emigrated from Japan to there came from Nagano.
"That's the Ideal Land."
We would hear that all the time.
Seems it was entirely different for those who went.
Where is this Tae-san?
I don't know.
But, the two of them met here in Matsumoto.
I see...
It's a mysterious coincidence...
...him coming to our place like this.
It is.
Yes.
Manchuria, huh...
He would take offense with us being so merry like that, wouldn't he?
That couldn't be helped.
I don't think we were particularly mistaken in what we did.
We...
We went through some tough times...
...and gotten to where we are at last.
It's not necessary to hold your head down like that, Mom.
Ah!
Thank you for earlier.
No.
Kawahara-san...
He doesn't know about...
...Haruki-san's death, does he?
Probably not.
I see.
Kazu-san.
Huh?
Um...
It was too difficult and I felt embarrassed to say this...
...in front of Dad and Mom...
What is it?
I want to tell you this clearly...
Yeah.
Um...
Kawahara-san was...
...my...
...First Love.
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Utsukushigahara High Plains"