"Serial TV Story"
Ohisama (the Sun) shines brightly on everyone in the world.
Since I'm here, it'll be okay!
Because anyhow, I'm Yoko of the Sun!
Sensei! Sensei!
Mom... I wonder if Mom'll die?
Mom!!
"Sudo Yoko (16)"
Good morning, Mom!
'Morning, Dad!
'Morning. Smells great, doesn't it!
Shige-niichaan!
Ow!
Good morning.
"Showa 13, Autumn (1938)"
Good morning!
Ah. Say...
Huh?
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 2 "The Maiden's Prayer" (Episode 7)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Sudo Yoko: Inoue Mao
Tsutsui Ikuko: Mitsushima Hikari
Soma Machiko: Maiko
Sudo Shigeki: Nagayama Kento
Sudo Haruki: Tanaka Kei
Iida Kotaro: Kondo Yoshimasa
- Takeguchi Akiko - Momose Misaki - Risato Azumi
Sudo Ryoichi: Terawaki Yasufumi
Haraguchi Fusako: Saito Yuki
Maruyama Tokuko: Higuchi Kanako
Sudo Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Producer: Komatsu Masayo
Director: Kasaura Tomoyoshi
Such a cute young woman, aren't you?
That uniform is from the girl's high school in Azumino, isn't it?
Yes. I'm in my 4th year.
Well then...
You would have been born in the Year of the Dog (1922), so you're 16.
Ah... yes.
I see.
Well then, your mother was of the Meiji era. (1868-1912)
What year was your mother born?
My mother passed away. Back when I was 10.
Is that right...
I'm very sorry.
Ah, no.
What is your name?
I'm Sudo Yoko.
The "yo" in Yoko is from the "yo" in "Taiyo." (the sun)
Such a nice name.
Thank you very much. My mother gave it to me.
Really?
This place has memories of my mother for me.
The two of us would come here.
I see.
The soba flowers are beautiful, aren't they?
Yes, very much so.
I have a soba shop in Masamoto called "Maruiori."
Ah, so that's why you're here?
Come by and eat there some time. My treat.
The soba from this field will be delicious!
Really? I'll seriously take you up on that.
Ah, would it be okay if I brought my friends?
Sure. I'll be waiting.
But my friends and I can eat lots.
That's okay. There's plenty.
All right!
Say, are you okay about the time?
Ah, oh no!
They get incredibly angry if you're late. I hate how they're so strict.
I see...
Oh no, I shouldn't have called out to stop you.
I'm really very sorry.
No. So long, I'm off.
Get going!
And? Who was that person?
Well, there's no need to be so hasty.
"Sudo Yoko" Setting that aside...
Eh? You want to set her aside?
Yes. We'll set her aside, but we won't forget her.
Ah...
Well then!
Mmm! This is delicious, too!
Really? Thank you.
Still... When you say "girl's school," that resonates with me.
It has a different meaning somehow when you call it, "girl's school."
I may not look it, but I once went to a girl's school, too.
Long ago, I even got a love letter from a junior of mine.
At the time, I was much thinner and cuter then, though.
Well, why were you so thin and cute?
Were you asking, "So why do you look like this" just now?
Eh...?
Ala, I'm sorry.
It's really all right.
What can I say... I got married and had children.
Then, somehow, hmm...
You could say things just got this way.
Really? That's desolate, isn't it?
Desolate?
After all, a woman has to cherish herself.
You're the only one who can cherish themselves.
Ah... Well...
Above all else, to be pretty, you have to enjoy yourself.
I see...
Huh?
Could it be that just now...
You admitted that you thought I'm pretty, Yoko-san?
Eh?
Right?
Ah... Um...
Back about the girl's school.
"The war with China had begun the year before,"
"but it actually didn't feel as if it had,"
"and our lives didn't change all that much."
"For the sake of the students themselves, knowledge of life is required."
Mask! Mask!
"Still, let's see, I can't put it very well,"
"but the mood of the world then was still lovely."
"Because we were a people who had gone to war,"
"we had to find a way to live on our own somehow"
"and everyone felt they had to stiffen their spines."
"Taking my mother's place kept me busy,"
"but I had no choice but to look forward to each day"
"and to look forward to going to school."
Good morning!
- 'Morning! - 'Morning!
"Sudo Shigeki"
"Moreover, Shigeki-niisan was doing well."
"Haruki-niisan, living at the dorm in Matsumoto,"
"was, as expected, at the top of his school."
"Sudo Haruki"
"I felt I couldn't lose to them and had to do my best as well."
Ah, ow!
There.
See! You need to move the needle, not the cloth.
Yes.
There, try it.
'Morning!
- 'Morning! - 'Morning!
- Late, aren't you? - I'm sorry.
Were you worrying over your hairstyle again?
"But whatever I say, the biggest thing to me..."
"...were my two wonderful best friends."
"Soma Machiko"
"Azumino's richest and largest landowner's daughter Machiko..."
"...was the school's greatest beauty and the one everyone most admired."
You're as popular as ever, Machiko-oneesama.
Thank you.
Best be careful; in spite of appearances, she's a devil woman.
"Devil woman"? What's that?
Um, Onee-sama, please read this.
Thank you.
Cute, aren't you?
See! That's a devil woman.
Ahh...
Ah, are you okay?
"Tsutsui Ikuko" Excuse me, Onee-sama.
Don't want it.
I'm not your "Onee-sama" and I'm not interested in women.
"Ikuko was the daughter of the town's bookseller."
"In retrospect, she may have been cute,"
"but in those days she was a prominent delinquent."
So long!
"These two stood out the most at school."
"I was just a nondescript, ordinary girl."
"How did I became such good friends with those two..."
"1 Year Earlier"
"There was an incident that triggered that."
Someone who understands this English.
Isn't there anyone?!
I really haven't the faintest idea why...
...you cannot answer this question.
Listen up.
"Classes at the girl's school were strict."
"Among those, Iida Koutaro-sensei was the strictest of all."
"Iida Koutaro"
Well, I think doing this will be a waste...
...but we'll have a test on it tomorrow.
Eh?!
"I didn't mind strictness."
"But what I really couldn't forgive was..."
Why am I doing this for just women!
Good grief, just women!
You're just women, after all!
Just women.
"If someone tells you, 'You're just a woman,' you may fight them."
"I will forgive you."
Just women, right...
In any event, I can't forgive him. He's nothing but an octopus!
"Octopus..."
Tako? (octopus)
What I can't forgive most is when he says, "You're just a woman," right off.
That's right. I hate that.
How about if everyone protests by handing in their test sheets all blank tomorrow?
That's good.
Octopus'll be so surprised and angry he'll become a boiled octopus.
"Boiled octopus..."?
Yudedako? (boiled octopus)
Let's do it!
Let's.
- We should do it. - We should.
It's decided then. No betrayals.
Whaa! Ah!
Shingun RAPPO kiku tabini Every time I hear the trumpet to advance
Mafuta ni ugabu It brings back memories
More.
"You could call that my first rebellion."
"That day, though it was with pathetic resolve, I participated in a rebellion."
Oi!
Here!
Thanks.
Oi... Yoko.
Yes?
What's the matter? Has something happened?
Nothing yet.
Yet?
By "yet" are you saying something is going to happen?
Eh?
Huh?
I...
I'm going!
Eh?
- Dad. - What is it?
I'm sorry!
Huh?
I'm off!
"And..."
"...just what development could be waiting for me?"
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "City of Azumino's Goosefoot Flowers"