"Serial TV Story"
I'm disappointed in you.
Don't go home until you've fixed it yourself.
Yes.
Ah...
Are you okay, Yoko?
The bucket.
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 7: "The Sun's Classroom" (Episode 42)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Sudo Yoko: Inoue Mao
Takahashi Natsuko: Itou Ayumi
Nakamura-sensei: Pierre Taki
Fukuda-sensei: Dankan
Principal Umeda: Ayada Toshiki
Tsutsui Ikuko (Flashback): Mitsushima Hikari Soma Machiko (Flashback): Maiko
Sudo Haruki (Flashback): Tanaka Kei Sudo Shigeki (Flashback): Nagayama Kento
Haraguchi Fusako: Saito Yuki
Murayama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Sudo Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Kanta-kun!
Kanta-kun...
Yoko-sensei, I'm sorry.
I can't fix it. I'm sorry.
Kanta-kun, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, it's my fault.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry. You're hungry, aren't you?
That's right, I brought my bento. Let's eat it together.
Yeah.
But I want to fix this first.
Ouch!
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
Chichin-pui-pui! All fixed!
There!
Pull it more!
Ah... All done!
It's fixed!
Thank goodness!
Tabi no rakuda ga yukimashita... We journeyed by camel...
- Is it good? - It's great!
Kanta-kun, I'm really sorry about today.
Being with Sensei is to my benefit!
Thank you.
Kin to gin to no... With gold and silver saddles...
Kura oite... Between the two of us...
"I was a failure being rescued by a child."
"I was a hopeless Sensei, wasn't I?"
Ah...
They were very adorable children, weren't they?
That's right. They were truly good kids.
They loved you, too, didn't they?
To the children, I was more like a substitute for their mothers.
Because their farmer mothers were busy throughout the day...
...I was the kind mother whom they could play with.
Ehh...
Um, Yoko-sensei.
Yes?
Truth is, I once thought of becoming a teacher.
I took practice in teaching while in middle school.
At that time, um...
What I want to say is that it was the stormiest time to be in school...
The moment I stood up on the platform...
...a chair flew right at me.
It was a chair. A chair!
This chair came zipping right at me!
I was so... so, so scared...
And then, I'm sorry, but I gave up becoming a teacher.
I was a useless teacher.
Why was that?
Because I didn't understand anything.
Without knowing anything about society or the world around me...
...I just saw what was right in front of me.
I was such an incompetent teacher.
Yoko-san...
I wanted those students with their glittering eyes to live...
...and didn't want to train them to die for the sake of their country.
"Showa 16, November (1941)"
"Dear Soldier at the Front"
"That seat was..."
"...was the seat where Keisuke-kun and his strong sense of justice had sat."
"His father had been killed while at the front in China."
"Whenever Keisuke-kun had spoken of his father..."
"...it was with the greatest of pride."
Good morning!
Keisuke-kun...
Is your home okay with you being here?
Yes.
"As the Rising Generation, it's your duty not to take a break from school"...
...is what my older brother said.
I see.
Yes.
You've worked very hard.
Thank you very much.
Keisuke-kun...
I...
I'm not qualified to be a Rising Generation.
I'm sorry...
My hand...
My hand doesn't have the strength...
I'm sorry...
I'm sorry.
You don't have to apologize.
I'm sorry...
There's nothing I can do for you...
I'm sorry.
"It was then I first sensed..."
"...that being a teacher in that era was a dreadful thing."
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
"One more of the male teachers from our school..."
"...was again being sent to the front."
Chikatte kokyou wo de takara ha Surely as they leave their hometowns
Tegarata desuni shin naryou ka Without great deeds, what is death
"It seemed the cloudy weather enveloping the entire world would go on for quite a while."
Mafuta ni ukabu hata no nami Wave the dazzling flag
"Murakami Sweets"
"We'll be closed for the time being"
Kayo-saaan!
Kayo-san?
Ala...
Ah.
It is you!
Hello. I haven't spoken to you in a long time.
Me as well.
My, you've turned out to be a very beautiful young lady.
Eh?
Have you gotten married to someone?
No.
Right now I'm a teacher at Arakeyama Elementary School.
I see.
You became a teacher?
Yes.
Hmm... You've worked hard.
- Yes, I did my best. - Yeah!
Let's see... Yoko-san, wasn't it? The "Yo" is from "taiyo." (the sun)
Yes.
Hmm... Yoko-sensei, huh...
Yeah, that's nice!
Thank you very much.
Why are you in Azumino? Ah, have you come to see the soba fields?
No.
I came to buy some starch syrup here...
But I guess it's impossible to get sweets now.
Seems so.
Many of the people who worked the soba fields...
...have been sent to the front, as well.
Is that right...
You needn't have such an expression.
Soba will be planted again.
Soba is strong.
It can be raised even in the poorest soils.
As long as Ohisama shines, it will surely grow.
Ehh...
That's right, isn't it, Yoko-san of the Sun?
Yes.
Still, the world is in a lot of trouble right now...
I have one son.
He's our precious son, you see.
Yes.
He'll be sent to the front this April.
I see.
Thank you for your efforts.
It'll be like this from now on, won't it?
Men disappearing one after the other while the women have to reliable.
That's true.
Yeah!
Please take care of the children, Yoko-sensei!
- I will! - Yeah!
I see... You became a teacher and not a bride.
Yes.
That's right...
Say, do you have anyone nice?
No, no.
Really!
- Yes. - Yeah!
Really?
It's true.
"And then it was Showa 16 (1941), December 8th."
Attention!
As you all know...
...early today on the 8th...
...our Imperial Army and Navy went to battle against American-British forces in the Western Pacific!
And, according to the Imperial Headquarters announcement...
...our troops have delivered a devastating blow to America's Pacific Fleet in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor!
"It felt as if a bright flash of light had suddenly shown down upon the world."
"It was good we had been patient."
"Japan, the Country of God, was indeed strong."
"We thought we would win against America just like that..."
"...and then war would be over."
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
"'How were all of them doing right now,' I thought."
"Machiko and Ikuko..."
"Haruki-niisan and Shigeki-niisan..."
"I thought how much I wanted to see all of them."
"To Be Continued"
Week 8: "Each Morning"
"Ohisama" "Komoro-shi's Snowfield"