"Serial TV Story"
"In Showa 7 (1932), I came with my family to Azumino."
Good afternoon!
Hello there!
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!
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 1 "Mother's Tears" (Episode 2)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Sudo Yoko (as a child): Yagi Yuki
- Nakagawa Ooshi - Watanabe Jinbei
- Tsunokae Kazue - Muramatsu Toshihito
Takahashi Natsuko: Ito Ayumi
Sudo Ryoichi: Terawaki Yasufumi
Sudo Hiroko: Harada Tomoyo
Come to the Dosojin Festival! (God of Guarding Travelers)
"Showa 7, October (1932)"
Come to the Dosojin Festival!
Takeo! Takeo! Takeo!
Takeo!
You can do it, Takeo! Takeo, you can do it!
Ahh...
This festival was originally for boys,
but now they let girls do things here, too...
Well, it's their time, too, isn't it?
Yoko-chan.
Let's go paint together.
"Sudo Yoko"
You can go.
Yeah.
"It had been a month since we had come to Azumino."
"I was already fully a child of the village."
Here.
"But, I guess you could say my mother and father were city types."
"Sudo Hiroko, Sudo Ryoichi"
"My father was a manager at the silk factory and was quite handsome."
"My mother looked like an actress, she was so pretty."
"My older brother Haruki-niisan's dream was to become a doctor."
"Sudo Haruki"
"Top in his grades and good all-around in sports, he was my pride."
Ah! Ahh...
"Sudo Shigeki"
(These stone statues are the Dosojin, or God of Guarding Travelers)
"All through this time, my mother had been fine."
Tsuki no sabaku wo harubaru to To the Desert Moon, far away
"That was my mother's favorite song."
"She was often humming it."
Tabi no rakuda ga yukimashita We journeyed by camels
"During walks, I was able to monopolize my mother"
"because my second older brother wouldn't come, even if invited."
Shige-san? Won't you come on a walk with us?
I'm not coming.
I see. Well then...
We're going.
"But I knew."
"Truth was, Shige-niichan did want to go with us."
Yes, yes.
This is it, Mom.
Are you okay?
Yes, I'm fine.
This is Suijin-sama. (water god)
Put your ear here. You can hear the sound.
Eh?
Right?
It's true...
It's incredible.
Isn't it?
Look, it's water melted from the snow of the Alps that's gurgling under here.
Yuki-chan told me about it.
People can't live without water, can they?
That's why...
Life began here...
...and is connected to its flow.
I see...
Amazing.
Life is amazing, isn't it...
I'm home.
Welcome back.
Shige. Where's Mom?
She and Yoko went for a walk.
Why didn't you go with them?
Because...
Here!
Whaa!
Let me teach you baseball.
Yeah!
Here goes.
Good one!
Shigeki! Yoko!
No frivolous laughing during meals.
- Yes. - Yes.
"Arakeyama Common Elementary School"
"From out of nowhere, a suspicious ship appeared"
"and approached Mochimitsu's ship."
"There was the sound of footsteps as many dreadful pirates"
"Takahashi Natsuko"
"transferred over and surrounded Mochimitsu."
"Mochimitsu wanted to run away,"
"but there was nowhere to run, so he did battle..."
Ow!
Takeo, how shameful!
I didn't do anything!
Well then, Tanaka Yuki-san, please continue reading from this point.
Yes.
"Tanaka Yuki"
"It is quite impossible for me to escape from you guys, he said."
"I have resolved myself, as well."
"Since I am to lose my life here now,"
"let blow me a tune of farewell to this world."
"He blew and blew a tune from his flute with abandon."
"Death was not before him anymore."
"His life was spared."
Yes.
(From "Flute Master, Mochimitsu," a story from the standard textbooks of this era)
Thank you.
Reading and writing are very important.
But, the most important thing is what you yourself think about it.
Yuki-san, what do you think about the main character?
Yes...
Well...
Ah, I think he mastered his courage by blowing the flute.
But...
But?
But, I'm not strong enough to master my courage...
...just by playing a flute.
But, I think I'd like to be able to.
Even when the time comes when I might die,
I really wouldn't want to give up the things I loved,
right up until the very end.
That's what I think.
Thank you.
I think the same way as well.
Incredible!
Shall we all go out to the cosmos field together and have our lunch?
Kono michi ha itsuka kita michi This path is the path we will take someday
"Takahashi Natsuko-sensei was a wonderful teacher."
"All of us loved Natsuko-sensei."
Okashi yano... And the proof is...
Hana ga saiteru The blooming flowers
Caught you!
"I liked Yuki-chan very much."
"I admired and respected her."
Come, let's have our lunch.
Yes!
"I thought it would be very good to be with Yuki-chan always."
"But, I was a child who knew nothing about society."
Yuki-chan, have half of mine.
But...
I want to eat with Yuki-chan.
If we eat together, it'll be doubly delicious.
Right?
Please. Okay?
Yeah.
Ah, that's great.
It's delicious.
Really?
Yeah! Did your mother make it?
No. My mother hasn't been feeling well recently.
So I made it.
Ehh...
Is it really delicious?
It's delicious.
Ah, thank goodness.
Here's some tea.
Ah, thank you very much.
Itadakimasu.
Oh, Haruki, that looks good.
Oh, it does.
Yeah, it is good!
You okay?
I'm fine.
Yoko-chan, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Hmm... I don't know. How about you?
I'd like to become a teacher.
I'd like to be a teacher just like Natsuko-sensei.
Whaa! Yuki-chan, you can become one!
Thank you.
"Yuki-sensei," huh...
Yeah, you'll definitely become one!
I can't.
Why?
Yoko-chan, when you finish grade school,
you'll go on to a girl's school, won't you?
Yeah... Probably.
I might not be able to go.
My Pa says, "It ain't necessary for a girl to study."
"You don't need to go to school, but be an apprentice."
So I won't be able to become a teacher.
"That time was the moment when I first realized what was called society was about."
"That there were people like myself who could go to a girl's school"
"and people like Yuki-chan who, even if they loved studying,"
"couldn't go to a girl's school..."
"I thought such a thing was strange."
I'm sorry...
I'm sorry.
What are you apologizing for, Yoko-chan?
I'm so sorry.
You mustn't cry!
Yoko-chan, you're Yoko of the Sun, aren't you?
If you cry, that's strange.
Yeah...
You'll do your best at the athletic meet that's coming soon, won't you?
Do your best, Yoko-chan.
Here, don't cry.
Smile. Okay?
"Yuki-chan didn't become a teacher."
"To be continued"
"Ohisama" "Murakami Otani's Rice Paddy"