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You'll have an omiai, won't you?
One!
- Two! - Three!
I am Sudo Yoko. Nice to meet you.
I am Maruyama Kazunari. Very nice to meet you.
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Week 9: "The Omiai And The Crying Drunk" (Episode 51)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Sudo Yoko: Inoue Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: Koura Kendo
Iida Kotaro: Kondo Yoshimasa
Sudo Ryoichi: Terawaki Yasufumi
Maruyama Michio: Kushida Kazuyoshi
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Yoko has two older brothers.
My oldest son Haruki is going to medical school at Nagoya Imperial University.
My second son Shigeki is a noncommissioned officer with the Naval Flying Corps...
...and is presently at the front.
Ah, you've been working hard.
That above is the Sudo family.
All of you are quite wonderful, aren't you?
I don't know if we will be able to balance out with you..
...given that our social standings are different.
What are you talking about, Maruyama-san?
During times like these...
...a family's social standing has nothing to do with it, does it?
All the citizens are working hard in the same way, after all.
Thank you very much.
This child, from an early age as our only son...
...has been raised as the natural successor to our soba shop.
He himself enjoys the work as well.
Ah, is that right?
Yes.
However, I do think I will be called up.
Excuse me...
Do you like soba?
Eh?
Yes, I love it.
Ah, that's good.
You'd be a bad person not to love soba.
Ah... yes.
Ah, then you could say there are no bad people at all in Shinshu, couldn't you? (Shinshu = Nagano Prefecture)
Something like that.
Ah... The soba I had there the once was quite good.
Oh, it was?
It was called "Pheasant Soba;" it had pheasant meat in it.
You ate that?!
Oh... About that pheasant soba, the thing is...
Once started, he'll talk about soba until the dawn breaks.
I'm sorry.
Um...
Yes?
You went to Azumino's Girl's School, didn't you?
Yes.
Did you enjoy it?
Yes.
Every day there was so fun it was like a dream.
Is that right?
Um, wasn't Iida-sensei there?
Iida-sensei... Iida...
Someone you know?
- You know, Goutei-san. - Eh?
Ah! That's right!
Eh? Goutei-san?
Yes.
A customer of ours.
After eating he would say...
Ah, excuse my use of a hostile nation's language...
"Good taste."
"It's delicious!"
Ah! Octopus!
Eh?
Ah... nothing, I'm sorry.
What was that?
"Octopus..."
Octopus.
Was that your nickname for him?
Yes.
Octopus, huh? Quite true!
An octopus, huh? Yeah, yeah!
Was he that much like an octopus?
Yes.
We called him "Iida Kotaro"-sensei. (sounds like "enough octopus," a play on his name, Iida Kotaro)
"Ii tako, daro?" (She pronounces it: "Good octopus, right"?)
Ah, no. "Iida Kotaro" ("enough octopus")
Ah, what is that!
He's completely the "octopus," isn't he?
Truly.
Was he always saying things in English then following it in Japanese?
Yes, always.
"Stand up! Tachinasai!"
I see.
Yes.
Still, what a curious coincidence, huh?
To have been taught by Goutei-san of all people.
How true.
How is your job at the National School?
Ah, yes.
Ah...
I became a teacher there the year it switched over to being a National School.
To be honest, I was confused at first.
It was totally different from what I had been taught in Teacher's School.
Ehh...
Now, though, what used to be called studying time keeps decreasing.
It's all only military drills and Labor Service...
Ah, but I think that's a helpful thing. It is an emergency, after all.
The children are doing their best, too.
There's nothing for me to do for them; there's nothing I can do for them...
All I can do is be there with them.
When painful things come, I can cry with them...
They're lucky, aren't they? Yoko-san's students.
No.
Because there's really nothing I can do.
Recently the food situation has been getting worse...
...and it's painful seeing the children when they're always hungry.
Though they're growing children with hearty appetites...
...they only have their bodies worked at exercises and Labor Service...
...so they're always hungry.
I'd love to be able to fill their stomachs.
But I can't...
So it's already...
...already so painful to see them.
Ah, I'm sorry.
It's indiscrete of me to say "painful," isn't it?
Moreover at an occasion like this.
I'm truly sorry.
No...
- Dear. - Eh?
Look. What were you doing, talking about soba at a time like this?
Ah. Eh?
No, no, it just came out that way!
- So useless at critical moments. - I'm sorry.
It'd be impossible for him not to, wouldn't it?
That's right!
Ala, ala, to get along on such a thing!
We've bothered you today.
Ah, no, thank you very much for going out of your way to come.
I don't think we can expect an answer at this time.
We will await your good answer.
Very well. We'll contact you.
Yes. So long then.
So long, excuse us.
Oi, Kazunari.
What's the matter, Kazunari?
Eh? Huh?
I am very sorry.
Kazunari!
Eh... What for?
We... shouldn't be having this talk.
Wait, wait, what are you saying?
What on earth is it with you?! You...
Let him talk.
Yoko-san is...
...a wonderful person.
I think she's so nice for wasting her time on someone like me.
As she spoke, I thought that even more.
I'll say it honestly.
I...
Somehow I was treating this too lightly...
...and far too easily.
"I'm at that age and I am the eldest son."
"Therefore..."
"...it's essential I have a wife and that I should be married."
That was all I was thinking.
I will surely...
I think I'm bound...
...to be called up once more...
...and be sent to the front.
I...
For someone nice like Yoko-san...
A wonderful person like her...
I wouldn't want to make her a widow.
No...
I just couldn't.
Therefore...
I don't think I can accept this.
I am truly very sorry!
Yoko, are you okay?
Yes.
I'm sorry.
Huh?
What for?
I was, too.
I was taking this far too lightly, as well.
I'm so embarrassed.
I let myself get carried away.
And when Shigeki-niisan is off at the front, risking his life in battles.
That's a separate problem.
I'm certain Shigeki would wish for your happiness.
Yes.
I understand that.
But, that person...
I think Maruyama-san...
...is confronting his life far more seriously.
Compared to him, I'm just a child.
I see...
He's a nice guy, isn't he?
Yes.
He's a wonderful person.
"That was a detailed account of the omiai."
"But..."
"To Be Continued"
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