"Serial TV Story"
Takeshi!
Hey, Takeshi!
Get up already! Geez!
Be quiet, you're too close to my ears.
Can't help it. Neither of them have come down yet.
Oh, really.
Ah, ala, Madoka. Please eat something. Hurry!
Don't want any.
"Don't want any." What is that? What do you think I...
Hey, if you weren't going to eat, you should have said so first.
Geez!
Takeshi! How many times do I have to tell you before you understand?
Ah!
You're so noisy!
Ah!
I can't take anymore!
"Right now in Azumino..."
"...the entire landscape is beautifully covered in a snow-while blanket of blooming flowers."
"It gives you that 'it's nice to be alive' feeling somehow."
"If you get the chance, please be sure and come."
"This was a fax from a listener with the radio name, 'A child of Azumino.'"
"Nice to be alive, huh...
Okay!
"Nagano-ken, Azumino"
Ah...
What's this? A soba field.
Whaa...! So pretty!
Ahhh!
Eh?!
Ehh!?
"We have soba."
"Closed for today"
Eh?!
They're closed?!
Heiwa Fansubs Presents: "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 1 "Mother's Tears" (Episode 1)
With the cooperation of: Nagano-ken, City of Azumino City of Omachi
Period Research: Amano Takako Asa Mina Sakai Shitsu Gymnastics Guidance: Miyake Yoshitomo
Sudo Yoko: Inoue Mao
Yoko (as a child): Yagi Yuki
Sudo Hiroko: Harada Tomoyo
- Nakagawa Ooshi - Watanabe Jinbei - Tsuyoshi Takakazu
- Tsunokae Kazue - Muramatsu Toshihito
- Tsunokai Kazue - Muramatsu Toshihito
Yamatani Kazumi
Sudo Ryoichi: Terawaki Yasufumi
Haraguchi Fusako: Saito Yuki
Sudo Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Producer: Komatsu Masayo
Director: Kasaura Tomoyoshi
Ah... Excuse me. And on your day off.
Not at all.
Now, please help yourself.
Ahh... Itadakimasu!
Um... This place is...?
This place?
A jack-of-all-trades shop really.
Originally we made soba...
...and then we made and sold vegetables from the surrounding area...
...and then we came to make bread and okashi. (sweets, candy)
Then we were a nice coffee shop.
Ah, or rather, we are a nice place you'd want to stay at.
Hmm...
Then, itadakimasu.
Please do.
Mmm, this is delicious!
Really? Thank you.
Um, this may sound rude...
...but how old are you?
Eh, how old?
Ala, I've forgotten.
Well, um, from your looks...
I thought you had become a very lovely lady.
Well, thank you.
Somehow, when a woman praises me, it makes me very happy.
But I've just lived an ordinary life.
An ordinary life?
Yeah.
You're lovely, also.
There.
Eh?
You're cute.
Um... Were you born in Azumino?
No, I was born in Tokyo.
When I was a child, I moved here with my family.
Ehh...
Would you like to hear my story?
I would!
Really?
However, it is a long one.
"Showa 7, September (1932)"
"In 1932, I came to Azumino with my family."
"Sudo Ryoichi" "My father, mother, two older brothers..."
"Sudo Hiroko"
"...and I made up our family of five."
"Sudo Yoko"
Whaa! Incredible!
"Sudo Haruki - Sudo Shigeki"
You okay, Shige?
- I'm fine. - I see.
"Mother was someone with a weak heart and,"
"when we were in Tokyo, she mostly spent it in hospitals."
"That's why I couldn't help being..."
"...so, so very happy that my mother and I were together."
Hang in there. Just a little longer.
- Yes. - Yes.
"Mother knew that her life wouldn't last much longer."
"And so she had chosen Azumino as the place where..."
"...she wanted spend the last of her days alongside her children and family."
"My father, who had been an airplane engineer in Tokyo,"
"left his job for my mother's sake."
"But, at the time, I knew nothing at all about this."
Good afternoon!
Good afternoon.
- Hello there. - Hello there.
Hello there!
Ah...
It's deliciously cold.
Is it?
You're very pretty, Yoko.
- Really? - Yeah.
But Shige-niichan said I was an Okachimenko. (Ugly/an old hag)
Ala.
I'm sure it probably annoys Shige-san that Yoko is so cute.
That's why he said such a thing.
Eh?!
In the future, you will definitely be a beauty.
After all, you are my daughter.
That's right!
Whaa! How pretty!
It's so vast, isn't it?
Yoko, these are soba flowers.
Ehh...
Soba blooms with flowers, too.
Ah... I'm glad we came.
It feels so close to Ohisama here. (The Sun)
From now on, you can become any sort of woman you want to be, Yoko.
What will it be?
But to do so, it's no good unless you are strong.
If someone tells you, "You're just a woman," you may fight them.
I will forgive you.
That's why it's no good to think to yourself,
"I'm a woman, so there's nothing I can do."
Doing so won't allow you to shine.
Understand?
Shine?
Look at Ohisama.
Ohisama, without borrowing strength from anyone,
uses its own power alone to shine, doesn't it?
Yeah.
And doing so, it shines brightly on everyone in the world.
That's why, Yoko...
Whatever painful things may happen, you must smile.
Never forget to smile.
Yes!
A girl is the sun.
The "Yo" in "Yoko" is from the "Yo" in "Taiyo." (Sun)
Yeah!
There!
This was where the principle of the elementary school once lived,
but now he commutes back and forth from Matsumoto.
We'll be counting on you.
And us as well.
Ask us for anything.
"Takeo, Haru, Minamoto Jiro"
We've put the larger luggage inside.
- Thank you very much! - Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
Takeo!
Don't just stare at her; greet her! For pete's sake.
You're tired, aren't you? Go to bed already.
Yes...
But, just a little longer.
You promised you wouldn't overexert yourself, didn't you?
Yes.
Live even one day longer.
One day, one hour...
...even one minute longer.
Ryo-san.
I am truly happy.
Go to bed.
Yes.
"Thinking back on it now, my older brothers knew everything, didn't they?"
"But I didn't know anything."
"I remembered my mother's words."
"'Smile during the painful times.'"
"If I was the sun, then I could shine brightly on everyone."
Ala?
Good morning!
- Good morning! - Good morning!
Look everyone.
Since I'm here, it'll be okay!
Because anyhow, I'm Yoko of the Sun!
If you're the sun, then get up earlier.
Breakfast is already ready!
Beh. More like 'Lowest of the Lowest Yoko.'
"I wondered: what sorts of things were waiting for Yoko of the Sun?"
"Somehow I got excited just imagining it."
"To be continued"
"Ohisama" "City of Azumino's Sakura Trees"