I want you to be my wife.
Naoko is pregnant.
She should go to one of our trusted doctors for the medical examination.
There's also a risk of miscarriage during the pre-natal exam...
Your family has run into some trouble, right...?
Please forgive me.
It hurts...
The baby...?
They were unable to save it.
You know it, don't you?
No matter how abhorrent and unsavory this marriage is,
Takashi and Naoko are brother and sister!
Is it true?
That Takashi is really Shirai's...
How...?
Why didn't you tell the truth to Takashi earlier?
It's really hard on the two of them!
Toru! Get the car keys from my study.
I'll bring your Mother to see Takashi.
Got it.
Okay?
Dear...
It's about time you went home.
I'll stay here by her side.
Naoko... will she be all right?
Yes, she will.
As long as she recovers, she can have another baby.
Takashi! Takashi, hold on. Listen to me.
Do you know why your mother didn't tell you?
It's because if she told you the truth,
she would've refuted your belief that you were an Arikawa.
I know you must be shocked and terrified by the news.
Takashi!
Even though your mother couldn't bear to lose her pride;
this is also a mother's love!
Why...
Why...did Mr. Shirai...
of all things...Naoko's...
Are you happy now that the baby's dead?
Please leave...
Give him some time... time...
I am just like this lonely horse...
I finally understand...
why I like this painting.
Me too...I'm alone too...
Destiny 1969-2010 Once upon a time in Tokyo
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Do you need help?
Ah, hot, hot!
You cooked too much stew.
Oh come on we can finish it since it's udon...
Lets start.
So, has Yousuke met the victim's mother?
Ah, at first she said she didn't want to meet him
Yousuke also didn't know what to do and started crying.
Slowly she began to open her heart to him.
That's good. That's really good to hear.
It's all thanks to your help. Thanks.
You don't have to keep thanking me...
But, is it true you quit working at the bank?
Was it because of Yousuke's accident?
You asked me many times already...
But, in this bad economic climate...
That's why I said I'm searching for a better job.
I've already registered with the job searching agencies.
You don't have to worry about it.
Is that so?
Let's eat. Be careful, it's hot.
It's good.
Daddy...
I asked you before, but...
In the past, when I said I really wanted to go to Tokyo,
why did you say that to me?
Don't hook up with some lame guy.
Find a doctor or a lawyer,
or a talented elite public official.
Why did you say that?
Did I say something like that?
Yes, you did!
"At least, become a woman like that" you said.
You know...
Daddy has no regrets in life being a local district public official.
It's best when people live within their own means.
But sometimes I feel like surprizing those elite guys who sit up there.
You did good, Nobuko.
Through you, I've realized that dream of mine as well.
I'm Shirai Naoko.
I love you. I want you to be my wife.
I may be pregnant.
With this, my mother will recognize our marriage.
Really?
Takashi and Naoko are brother and sister!
The baby...?
They were unable to save it.
Are you happy now that the baby's dead?
A few days later.
Is Mr. Arikawa alright?
I wonder if his cold was worse than expected.
I thought he would be back on Monday.
But anyway, the budget deliberations are over.
By the way, it seems Arikawa's marriage will take place in June.
Really?
Because the mother's body is very unstable during this period,
it happens to many other expecting women as well. For various reasons,
incidents like this occur from time to time.
Um...
Could the prenatal exam have caused...
Just by itself, the possibility of that being the cause is about 10%.
But although the possibility is low, in addition to that there are many other factors
that may cause a miscarriage at this stage of pregnancy.
Yes, indeed.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused by the sudden change of plans.
The preparations? No, they're going fine.
Nothing can trouble the powerful Shinichi Ichirou.
Well, I'm much obliged. Goodbye.
Sir, that was Mr. Tsukamoto from the election committee.
I was letting him know about the wedding date change.
Even so, it was surprising that the Prime Minister and the Secretary-General agreed so quickly.
Naturally. There will be at least 300 guests from the Arikawa Corp.
They might as well get their support for the upcoming elections.
That was what he said.
I heard that you rode horses from Naoko a while back.
I thought that if you weren’t at home, you would be here.
Have you been riding since you were a child?
Naoko said she was really interested in trying it out herself.
I wonder if she’ll be OK with horses…
If it’s Naoko, she’ll have no problems.
Finally you’re willing to speak about her again.
Naoko will be discharged tomorrow. The hospital called and said that.
There’s no longer any need to worry.
But aside from that -
It seems that you’re not answering your parents’ calls.
I understand how you’re feeling, but
I’m concerned about your absence from the Ministry.
Look, Takashi,
many unexpected things could happen in life.
In fact, they happen one after another.
If you’re so easily flustered by them, you can’t work in politics.
If you're serious about going into politics, then become a resilient man.
You must be able to handle minor problems in order to achieve greater things.
If you can't do that... Don't marry my daughter.
Well, anyway, you should go home at once.
It seems your parents have something important to tell you.
See you.
Ah, then I'll leave the arrangements on your side to you.
I'l settle things on my side.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience we have caused.
Not at all, please forgive us too.
Well it seems that your wife has really raised a false alarm, eh?
DNA Paternity test (Arikawa Takashi / Shirai Shinichirou) Result: Negative match
Nakamura?
Yes sir?
Would you stop at Tokyo University?
Tokyo University?
Yes...I want to see the Akamon.
Ah, because it's your alma mater, isn't it?
Yeah...
It seems Mr. Shirai took a hair from your head,
and used it for a DNA paternity test.
Ah, you had some lint on you.
This are the results.
According to the test...
there's no chance at all that you and Mr. Shirai are related.
You understand the implications, right?
There are no obstacles to you marrying Naoko.
Is there no mistake?
Mina!?
Takashi...
Takashi...I'm sorry.
I didn't know either.
When I married your father,
I was already pregnant with you.
What are you saying now?
Sorry...
I'm sorry that things became like this.
Takashi, would you listen to me?
Toru, come listen too.
To Mina, she believed that you were Shirai's son.
And, you are not the son of your late father.
That's the truth too.
Then, whose son am I?
You were born in 1969.
Do you know what that period was?
The year the dispute with the university ended.
To outsiders, it was a "dispute", huh.
But to those who were fighting inside,
it wasn't just a dispute. It was an all-out struggle.
I and Mina were caught up in it.
The students who rebelled did it for various reasons.
For me, I originally joined the Tokyo Uni. struggle because of the abolition of the internship system.
That was where the problems with the medical faculty first started.
But the one goal all the rebels had in common was
to remove the class distinction between those who had power and status and those who did not.
It was really ironic...
At that time, the students of Tokyo Uni. and the other prestigious universities
were undoubtedly belonging to the elite circles.
But those students hated power and prestige.
It was like they were denying their own identity.
On 15 January 1969, in a Tokyo Uni. mass assembly,
the students took over the Yasuda Auditorium.
That day,
I talked to Mina for the first time.
Ah, I'll be relying on you.
Good morning.
Here, breakfast.
Good morning.
Thanks, Arisa.
How is it going outside?
It's quiet out. For the time being.
Are they really coming? The riot police.
Yeah.
If you want to leave now's the time to do it.
They said they would give us 10 days,
but they won't.
They'll suddenly attack, and it can only lead to us being arrested.
In that case, why are you still here?
I'm just paying the debt to my feelings.
Debt?
People who oppose their professors have no future.
The only thing I can do right now is to maintain my beliefs.
The only way to symbolize that is by staying here.
You're Washizu from the Tokyo Uni. medical faculty, aren't you?
You know my name?
There aren't many people from Tokyo University who're still here.
Well, even in Tokyo University there are idiots like me.
Attention to all students! The resistance movement...
It's about to begin!
The fighting went on for four days.
But, as the days went by, we were cornered.
The riot police did not show any mercy.
It felt like our very lives were in danger.
"We have a message for our last fight..."
Calm down!
Hold me...
That was the last day of the fighting.
In order to forget the fear of the impending fall, I and Mina
sought each other out.
It wasn't love, or anything like that...
It was only under the bizarre stimulation of the circumstances that Mina sought me out.
Even I understood that.
But after we got arrested
we lost contact with each other.
We didn't know who we'd eventually end up with.
It was 16 years later when we've met each other again.
Takashi,
I wonder if you might be my son.
Takashi...
I just realized,
that the past 40 years of my life
I've spent trying to forget the events of 1969.
I completely killed off the old me.
That's why,
I couldn't remember what happened with you that day.
What I realized after our defeat was,
the only thing that can oppose power, is none other than power itself.
And...
And then, you were born.
I placed my dreams on you.
Since you were young, I'd always hoped
that you'd become an upstanding man.
But that was the wrong thing to do.
I'm sorry, Takashi.
I never wanted to make you suffer.
Sorry...
The only mother I have
is you.
I've always wanted your praise.
Can I just ask you one thing?
Why did you get together with Mom?
I'd been thinking of her since I first met her.
I don't think she knows, but the first time I saw her
wasn't in the Yasuda auditorium, but even before that.
It was at a student café. She was reading a book.
It was actually love at first sight.
After the revolution, I made my decision
to provide medical aid in depopulated areas.
But when I met her again, and she wanted my help in the hospital,
I thought I would support her.
When a woman you'd been thinking of for a long time asks you to come with her...
I just couldn't turn her down.
I'll leave Mother in your hands.
Have you translated President Kennedy's inaugural speech?
Let's see...from here, today.
Ah, the part I like best.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Try translating it.
It's easy isn't it? Do it.
And so, my fellow Americans,
Please don't ask:
what your country can do for you,
Please ask:
what you can do for your country?
Have you not thought about what can we do together to achieve freedom for mankind?
That was great.
I wish that Japanese politicians would at least be able to say something like that.
To have the words of a Japanese Prime Minister move the entire world,
and change the consciousness of mankind.
It'd be nice if that happened one day.
Be the one, Takashi.
If it's you, you'll be able to do it.
Go for it.
Well, let's fix the date in June.
Yes sir, much obliged.
You should meet Naoko soon. She'd be concerned.
Coming.
Secretary-General, do you need something from us?
Hasebe, Democratic Party Secretary-General
Don't mind me. Mr. Shirai!
Ah, what's up?
Something unusual has cropped up...
Ah, Arikawa.
I'm looking forward to your political debut. And, when are you resigning from the Ministry?
Before the ceremony.
For the time being you will be understudying Mr. Shirai.
Yes sir. I intend to put in my best efforts.
You have made the right choice.
Mr. Shirai is the one who is shaping the future of the Democratic Party.
What are you talking about, there's you too isn't there, Secretary-General?
I still have a long way to go.
More importantly, sir...
It's about the Prime Minister...
Ah, Takashi, I'll contact you again.
Yes sir. I'll take my leave.
It's not certain who leaked this information but it will be sure to provoke an investigation.
Sir, do you have any experience with this kind of thing?
Indeed...
At this point, if something like that is made public...
the consequences would be terrible.
It would be a complete disaster.
Are you OK?
Yes...I am.
I've been wanting to see this for 10 years.
I desperately worked my ass off for 10 years to become a politician.
I may have subjected myself to some painful memories.
I thought I'd do anything to win at all costs...
No...
Rather, I had no choice in the matter.
No matter what happens I'll be at your side.
Ah...sorry to have kept you waiting.
What's happened all of a sudden?
I thought I'd give you an inside scoop as a reward.
Huh?
But don't publish it now,
because it could affect the investigations.
What exactly is going on?
A scandal about the Prime Minister.
And it's not just your normal scandal.
The other party is a former Chinese spy.
When I was the Minister of Home Affairs and Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission,
I had already heard some rumors of this scandal...
Hey, don't write this down.
Keep it in your head.
I apologize for the worry I have caused you.
Indeed. Please don't do something like that again.
Is Father back?
Yes, he's in the parlor.
Ah, don't go in!
He's discussing something important with Mr. Tokitou from Tokyo Weekly right now.
He said they were not to be disturbed.
Is that so?
Please drink this.
Good night.
At the time the PM was only 20...
It seems the Chinese girl was quite lovely...