I'm home.
What's wrong?
Oh . . .
um . . .
my legs . . .
Sunshine Chapter 14 "PREPARING FOR HAPPINESS" Episode 79
Written by: OKADA Yoshikazu
Music by: WATANABE Toshiyuki
Narrator: WAKAO Ayako
Maruyama Yoko: INOUE Mao
Maruyama Kazunari: KORA Kengo
Miyazawa Setsuko: SHIRAKAWA Yumi
Maruyama Michio: KUSHIDA Kazuyoshi
Maruyama Tokuko: HIGUCHI Kanako
Oh . . .
My legs . . .
What?
Are you okay?
Yes.
Get on.
But . . . I couldn't . . .
Hurry up.
Okay.
Ready? I'm going to stand up.
Okay.
Yoko . . .
Yes?
I'm home.
Welcome home.
Thank you for serving our country.
Thank you . . .
for coming home.
I thank you . . .
for waiting for me.
Yoko . . .
Yes?
You're pretty heavy, aren't you?
Oh . . . um, put me down.
No, I don't want to.
Silly!
I'm home.
Welcome home.
Kazunari?
I came home.
What?
I'm going to put you down.
Okay.
Sorry . . .
What's wrong?
Kazunari?
Did you . ..
come home?
Yes . . . I'm home.
You are .
I'm glad.
I'm glad!
Welcome home!
I'm home!
Welcome home.
Oh! What? Kazunari!
Kazunari! Oh!
This is great!
Okay . . .
Thank you for serving our country!
I'm so glad.
Are you injured?
Sick? Didn't you get sick?
No. I'm grateful that I was born and raised strong and healthy.
What are you saying?
I'm so glad! So glad!
Welcome home! Welcome home!
Welcome home!
I'm glad.
Yoko! You . . . what are you doing over there?
I'm sorry.
Oh . . .
you . . .
why were you carrying Yoko on your back?
Well . . . um . . . uh . . .
I . . .
What is it?
What are you doing?
Is that right? Your legs gave out, Yoko?
You sound like you're having lots of fun. Did something good happen?
What?
I'm home!
Kazu?
Yes.
It's true . . .
I'm so glad. Congratulations! I'm so glad!
Thank you.
What are you doing just sitting there?
Well . . . the thing is . . .
Give me a break!
That's right, Yoko. Did you do it the way you practiced?
Practiced?
Practiced what?
You were doing it every so often in front of the shop, weren't you?
Practicing for when Kazunari came home.
You were practicing what you'd say to him first when he came home, weren't you?
I wasn't . . .
I saw her . . . I did see her.
It wasn't . . .
So, did you do it the way you practiced?
Like I told you . . .
Kazunari, what was the first thing she said to you?
The first thing?
Let's see . . .
"Oh, my legs."
Is that it? She said that?
Her legs . . . the first thing . . . her legs . . .
Don't look like that! When you're being teased are the best times.
That's true. I envy you.
I don't have anyone to tease me.
And you'll never have anyone, Sis.
Wait a minute! That's not nice.
All right! I'll stop!
What's with you, anyway?
It really feels like I came home.
Does it?
It does? Good!
Do you want to take a bath? You must be tired.
I'll do it!
I stood up!
I'll heat the bath for you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Here you are.
Thank you.
What is it?
It's over, isn't it? The war . . .
It really is.
I'm so glad.
Really glad.
We're really blessed.
We should be grateful.
That's so, isn't it?
What?
Yoko . . .
was adorable, wasn't she?
She sure was.
I'm so glad.
I'm really glad.
So you waited for me here?
Yes.
We'll finally live here together, won't we?
Yes.
Please be good to me.
Let's . . .
let's be happy.
That's why I came home.
So you and I can be happy together.
That's why I came home.
Thank you.
Thank you!
That makes me happy.
I'm happy!
It's nice to be home, after all.
I'm here.
I'll always be by your side, Kazu.
Our life after the war had finally begun.
I wanted to find happiness together with Kazunari.
That's what I felt.
Sunshine
I really felt like we were family.
I'm here.
Sunshine Chapter 14 "PREPARING FOR HAPPINESS" Episode 80
Such a good-looking man.
- Well, let's eat. - Let's eat!
It's so good.
We don't have much . . . I really don't like that.
This is a feast.
Huh?
Mom . . . you made this with sweet potatoes.
That's right. How is it?
It's delicious.
I'm glad.
And what about this?
Interesting . . .
Did Yoko make . . . ?
Yes, she did.
What? What is it?
Nothing . . . I just felt like
I just saw a battle between a son's wife and her mother-in-law.
What?
Heaven forbid!
What are you saying?
She's right.
It's a hundred years too early to compete with the taste of my cooking.
What?
It's only natural, but this guy's been eating my cooking since the day he was born.
Right.
But there's that, Yoko . . .
What is it?
- You won't have to talk to Kazunari's picture anymore, will you? - Huh?
Right? I'm so glad.
"I'm leaving now, Kazu." "I'm home, Kazu."
You won't have to say that anymore, right?
Why are you teasing me like that?
Because it's fun to do it.
What's so funny about it?
That perturbed look on your face.
You're mean.
That's exactly right. They used to call me "Tokuko, the Bully!"
Say something, Dad!
It's impossible. She won't listen.
That's true.
What are you finding so funny?
It just seemed . . . like you're used to doing this like mother and daughter.
That's natural, since we've been living together all the time you were gone.
Is that right?
That's right.
Your life with Yoko as a husband and wife
is just beginning, but after all this time, she's become our daughter.
I see . . .
Take this, for example . . .
if you have an affair with another woman,
I'll kick you out of this house, not Yoko.
What? You'd do that?
That's right, I would!
Right?
- What can we do? - Excuse me!
Yes?
Keiko!
Good morning. I heard that Kazu came home.
Yes . . . Kazu!
Yes?
- Come in. - Excuse us for coming so early.
Here you go, Shoichi. Pardon our intrusion.
Keiko!
Thank you for serving our country.
Thank you.
Yoko . . . congratulations. Aren't you glad?
Thank you, Keiko.
You sure have grown, Shoichi.
You're as heavy as a grown-up now.
Of course! I'm in the first grade now.
Oh, is that right? Pardon me.
Keiko . . .
There are still a lot of people returning from the war.
I'm sure that Kenzo will come home too. I believe that.
Yes.
Kenzo's like a big brother to me.
He taught me a lot . . . good things and bad.
What bad things did he teach you?
Huh? Oh . . .
I wonder what . . .
Welcome home, Kazunari.
Thank you for serving our country.
I'm glad you're home.
Thank you.
- My older brother... - I'm Shigeki, Yoko's older brother.
Pleased to meet you. I'm Maruyama Kazunari.
I'm so glad to see you.
I'm sorry for asking you to do this.
Not at all.
Yoko's room is over there.
Is that right?
So this is where she lived . . .
We came back, didn't we?
Yes.
Somehow, I feel like Urashima Taro.
Coming home to a world that's completely changed.
I arrived at Uraga harbor by ship coming back from the war.
But the townspeople there
seemed to be trying to avoid looking at us.
I felt as though they didn't want to see us.
I understand it's all they can do to stay alive, but
after the way they all waved the Japanese flag, and sent us off to war,
honestly, I wondered how they could be that way.
Thank you!
I wonder what they're talking about.
I don't know, but they've both been through a lot of pain and suffering.
That's true.
Because we were risking our lives on the battlefield,
I was able to befriend someone I could trust from the bottom of my heart.
When I was wounded in the leg, and couldn't walk,
he didn't even think about the danger to himself,
and carried me.
And then . . .
I saw him die right before my eyes.
Like me,
he had just gotten married.
He had a wife and child back home.
So we talked a lot about what kind of life
we wanted to have
if we made it back home.
And so I made up my mind to
stake my life on
living life to the fullest to make up for his lost life.
That's what I decided.
But it sounds strange to stake your life
on living, doesn't it?
It's not strange.
Thank you.
Staking your life . . . ?
I . . .
to be honest . . .
I feel as if I've used up
all the strength that I have in my life.
I hate to say it,
but I feel empty.
I'm . . . just living.
I lived with death at my door until now.
Every day I was prepared to die.
I wonder if I still have what it takes
to treasure each day . . . no, each minute,
and risk my life
for something like that . . .
again in my life.
I wonder about that.
You do.
I'm sure you do.
You do . . . I'm positive you do.
Absolutely!
Otherwise, nothing makes sense.
Thank you.
Excuse me . . .
Thanks . . . I'll take it here.
Please . . .
Yoko . . .
What?
Congratulations.
You married a good man, didn't you?
Shige!
Thank you.
One month passed since Kazunari returned from the war.
Kazunari started working at an electrical factory.
Sunshine Chapter 14 "PREPARING FOR HAPPINESS" Episode 81
Let's eat.
Let's eat!
I'm sorry you had to include an extra person at the table.
Are you talking about me?
Don't be ridiculous, Kazu!
What are you saying?
If you ate this all by yourself, it'd make you sad.
That's right. Because
the country and government aren't thinking about us anymore,
the only way to survive is for all of us to work hard together.
That's right.
We can't believe in the country or the people
at the top anymore.
Thank you. Thank you!
What is it?
I'm not pretending!
It's you, Yoko!
- What are you saying? Isn't it you, Mom? - You were just looking!
Kazu! Do something about these two.
Sorry. I don't have much confidence with that . . .
Hey, Kazunari! You're getting to be more like me now.
Why do you look so surprised?
Yes, you two are alike.
Look at the time! It's time to go to work. Hurry and eat, everyone.
- Hey, Kazunari . . . - What?
How's work at the factory? Is it hard?
It's nothing.
Is that so?
This family has turned into a family
of employed workers now, hasn't it?
Well . . . that's true.
If I can't open the soba shop, there's no other choice.
But even though I'm getting paid for working,
there's nothing out there to buy.
That's true.
Hey!
Let's all cheer up! Let's go! It's going to steadily get better.
Right, Yoko?
Yes, it will!
Right!
Okay?
So replace all the materials we had up until now
with this for your classes from now on.
Please do as I ask.
Instead of what we should be teaching,
it's always what we shouldn't be teaching, isn't it?
That's right.
The children will stop believing in adults anymore, won't they?
That's true.
Really.
Let's do our best.
Okay.
So, did you all get a copy?
Yes!
This will be your textbook for the time being.
What?
- What is this? - Is this our textbook?
You call this a textbook?
It's strange!
I see . . . it's tough for your teacher, too.
Yes.
Okay Ichiro . . .
your duty is to protect Yoko Sensei. Understand?
Yes.
Good.
When the war ended, all the bad people ran away
like it wasn't their responsibility. Do you understand?
Did Yoko Sensei run away?
Yoko Sensei apologized.
She said, "I was wrong. I'm sorry."
She did?
Okay! Protect Yoko Sensei, Ichiro.
I will.
Listen, everyone!
I can understand why you're all confused,
but right now, Japan is trying to be reborn as a new country.
So the teachers are working hard to figure out what
we should be teaching you in order to do that.
My mom told me
not to believe what the teacher says anymore.
My dad said the same thing.
Everyone!
Listen to what the teacher is saying.
What's with you, Ichiro?
Listen! Just a minute . . .
Stop it . . .
Ow . . . it hurts!
Please don't fight. Please!
Please . . . please don't fight.
Okay . . .
Are you all right?
Yes, I'm fine. Thank you.
What happened?
Nothing.
Nothing important.
Is that right?
Then what's with the tears?
I'm not crying.
Not you . . .
Come on over here.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Does it hurt, Sensei?
I'm okay. Okay.
You don't have to cry.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
The children were still children.
They hadn't changed at all.
They were all good kids.
There's still a bit of
that pencil remaining in my hand.
If I hold it up to the light, I can still see it.
In order not to forget how I felt at that time,
I'll look at it sometimes.
Yoko Sensei?
Kyoko . . . what's wrong?
Are you okay, Yoko Sensei?
Yes, I'm fine. Thanks.
Well . . .
What?
Chizuko and I
are going back to Tokyo.
What?
We got a letter from an uncle in Tokyo.
He said to come to his house,
and he's coming to get us next week.
I see.
I was only a baby the last time we met,
so I don't really know him,
but he said to come to Tokyo.
He did?
Tokyo . . . ?
Yes.
I . . .
want to stay here with you.
But . . .
there's nothing I can do.
Sensei . . .
What?
May I ask
you one last favor?
Maru-An
Hello . . .
This is my husband.
Nice to meet you.
I'm pleased to meet you.
What is it?
He looks like that.
What?
It's a secret, right?
What could it be?
Secrets aren't very nice.
That's right. I wonder what it is. Like a weasel?
That's not it, right?
Well, then . . . an owl?
Wrong! Wrong!
- Nope! - Never mind! That's enough!
No, it's not enough. What is it?
Oh . . . . !
What are you saying?
- Over here. - Higher, higher!
Lower . . . lower!
- More! - Higher!
Which way should I go, Sis?
Just a little higher. Just a little more ...
A little to the left . . . to the left . . .
There! Right there!
Next is the mouth . . .
Not there!
It was such an enjoyable evening. Everyone was laughing.
I finished.
That's awesome.
Isn't it? I love Kyoko's drawings.
I'll give this one to both of you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Kyoko.
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I'm done.
This is my favorite poem.
I'll give this to you, Kyoko.
Thank you.
May I read it?
Sure.
"Always hold the sun in your heart.
Whether there's a rainstorm or a snowstorm . . .
Whether the heavens turn black
or there's turmoil on the ground,
always hold the sun in your heart.
Don't lose your courage.
Hold a song on your lips.
Always hold
the sun in your heart."
Nice. That was well done.
Sunshine To be continued . . .