"Serial TV Story"
I'm happy.
Geez! Geez! Is this repenting?!
Geez Kazu-san, you can't explain things away that easily. Geez. Do you understand that?!
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 25: "Mother's Smile" (Episode 147)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Maruyama Yoko: Inoue Mao
Tsutsui Ikuko: Mitsushima Hikari
Hatano Machiko: Maiko
Sudo Shigeki: Nagayama Kento
Kurata Kyoko: Kanazawa Miho Hinako (3 yrs old): Inoue Rinsui
(Flashback): Tanaka Kei Yamada Kinuo
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
And, that's how it is.
Ehh...
I see... That was difficult, wasn't it?
Yes.
Still, you did go to Tajimi. That was great of you.
Really? Do you really think so, Machiko?
Yeah! I think that as well.
Thank you.
And so when will Kazunari-san return?
It seems it will be about a month.
Ehh...
But, there's that, isn't there? In the end, nothing had happened with Kazunari-san, right?
Yes, that's right.
What's this!
Like the guy said, "When a married couple fights, the dog doesn't get fed."
Ikuko-san.
Yes?
I think that's not good.
Huh? What is?
It's not good to be so brutally honest like that.
Yoko-san's feelings during that time and Yoko-san's feelings when she went...
...I think those were very, very serious things.
I think Yoko-san had prepared herself to believe the worst.
That's right. It was very important to me, Ikuko.
I see.
That's right, isn't it?
I got scolded by two wives.
Huh? What's that?
Say, by the way...
...this is the first time the three of us have stayed overnight together, isn't it?
Ah, yes, that's right.
I see.
It feels like so much has happened between us, but that's right.
Yes. I'm looking forward to it.
I...
I somehow have the feeling I'll be here a looong time.
A looong time.
Ehh...
That's why, since I'll always be here...
We'll be able to get together anytime! Right!
Yes, even when we become old ladies.
That's right.
We promised to have long lives, right?
- Yeah! - Yeah!
For always!
We'll live until we die, right?
- Yes! - Of course!
Huh?
Isn't it just normal to live until you die?
That's right.
I see! That's right!
Ah, say Ikuko, what have you been up to?
Ah, yes, yes! I thought I should come and properly report on that to Yoko.
But then Yoko had to go and say what she said.
Ah, I see...
First off...
I got fired from the publishing company I was working at.
Ehh... You did?
Yeah.
Well, couldn't be helped. I did cause a lot of trouble, didn't I?
I see...
And then?
Yeah. And it was that incident that started me of on... the radio!
At the time, someone from that radio broadcast...
...became very interested in me...
...and made an offer of, "Would you like to work at our broadcast station?"!
And, so I went to work!
Eh... At a broadcast station?
Ehh... That's great, Ikuko!
Thank you.
You have the devil's own luck, Ikuko-san!
That's true.
Yeah. I think that's true myself.
Machiko, how about you?
- Me? - Yeah.
Hmm...
Somehow I've gotten a little more prominent at my company.
Huh? Prominent?
That's right.
Somehow, it seems I can work now.
Geez!
That's all.
Hmm...
Still, I'm totally fine.
I'm definitely feel I'm going to have a happy life.
Huh? Why?
That's...
What is it?
It's due to the letter Haruki-san wrote to me.
Eh?
"He said, 'If I don't return from the front..."
"...I want you to give this to Machiko-san.'"
"'I want to tell her of my feelings,' he said."
"Machiko-sama"
This is what he wrote.
"If you are reading this letter..."
"...that means I won't be returning from the front."
"I will be in Heaven."
"From there in the skies..."
"...I will go on loving you for always."
"And, I will certainly be watching over you."
"Machiko-san..."
"...you are a person for whom happiness looks best."
"So please live with the confidence to say..."
"...'I will be happy, no matter what,' at any time."
"Because from here up in the skies..."
"...I will take away any unhappiness you may have."
That's what he wrote.
Haru-niisan...
How wonderful.
Yes.
That's why I will be fine.
Yeah.
He had other, even more wonderful words as well.
Eh?!
Those are a secret.
I'll tell you them someday.
Someday.
Hmm...
What's that? I want to know.
No way.
Say, have you told your husband about this?
I have told him that Yoko-san's older brother was my First Love, but...
I haven't told him about the letter.
That's a secret among the three of us.
Is that...
...being unfaithful?
Eh?
Well...
I'm a sinful woman, aren't I?
Geez!
"It was a fun night."
"Ah, I wondered if we would be able to go on like this together forever."
My...
Ikuko-san...
'Morning.
Good morning.
Eating meals together like this makes them delicious, doesn't it?
Yes.
Delicious!
It's really delicious, isn't it?
- That's true. - Yes, truly.
Ah...
What's the matter?
Well, I was thinking it's only us women.
Ah... That's true!
It's fun this way.
Say. Hinako, too, right!
Eh, the radio, huh?
Yeah.
That's great for you.
Yeah, it's great.
How are you doing?
Oh!
How do I put it...
I've got a good feeling about it.
"A good feeling"?
Yeah.
Studying's gotten more interesting...
...and I can see my goal getting a little more closer all the time.
Ehh...
Still a long ways off though.
But that's better than not seeing it at all, right?
Oh!
I'll certainly become a doctor.
Someday...
You wrote this in that letter...
During the huge air raid on Tokyo, the person who helped you...
Uehara-san, right?
For that person's part...
...I'll become a good doctor.
Oh!
I'll be waiting.
Oh!
Eh?
Huh?
Eh?
"Everyone was trying to forget the sad things they had, to try and become happy."
"It was such a time."
"It was very slow in coming, though..."
Still have some learning to do, right?
That's right.
I'll do my best!
Yeah.
Go on, here!
Yes!
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "Iijima-machi's Yotakiri River"