Did you ever think it would have been better if we had had a mother?
Well I've
never once thought that I was deprived because we didn't have a mother.
So you can be proud, Yoko.
Wait for me!
I'm home.
She's your grandmother.
And this is how I learned about a part of my mother that I never knew before.
Sunshine Chapter 4 "MOTHER'S SECRET" Episode 19
Written by: OKADA Yoshikazu
Music by: WATANABE Toshiyuki
Sudo Yoko: INOUE Mao
Sudo Shigeki: NAGAYAMA Kento
Tsutsui Ikuko: MITSUSHIMA Hikari
Soma Machiko: MAIKO
Subtitles adapted from original English subtitles created by Nippon Golden Network Timing brought to you by The Sunshine Lovers @ Viki
Haraguchi Fusako: SAITO Yuki
Kirino Fujiko: WATANABE Misako
Sudo Yoko (Narrator): WAKAO Ayako
Fusako?
Yes . . . what is it?
You're scaring me.
- What do you mean? - Your face . . .
Face? My face?
I'm sorry. Maybe it's just because I got so caught up in your story.
I want to know more!
About what happened after your grandmother came.
You do? Then . . .
No . . . wait a minute!
Let me guess.
This is fun. I'm having so much fun.
You're a funny person, aren't you?
Am I?
Yes, you are.
No one's ever told me that before.
All my husband says is that I'm a boring woman.
And all my children ever say to me is that I'm a pain in the neck, or to shut up, or to get out of their sight.
They're idiots, aren't they?
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to call your family idiots.
It's okay.
But I think they're idiots for not seeing
how funny and enjoyable you are.
Really?
Shall we get back to the story?
No, wait a minute. I'm going to predict what's going to happen from now.
Maybe you shouldn't.
After all, you'll never guess what happened.
That's true, isn't it?
What I remember the most about my grandmother
were her shoes.
This is my eldest daughter, Yoko.
I'm Yoko.
You don't look much like her, do you?
Yoko . . . serve her some tea.
Okay.
If you wonder why that was . . .
I don't know why, but I just had to take a good look at those shoes.
Maybe it was because they were the type of shoes that you saw in the movies.
For some reason, people always remember the trivial things clearly, don't they?
I suddenly hated myself for hiding our own shoes.
For some reason, it really irked me.
I'm home!
Hey, Yoko! There's an awesome car parked over there!
It's a Hudson custom-made car.
It's so awesome. I'd like to ride in it!
Did you see it, Yoko?
Is there a house around here that a car like that would come to visit?
- It's our house. - What?
We have a visitor.
It's Mom's . . .
mother.
What?
She's here?
So that car . . . ?
Be sure you wipe the dirt from your shoes, and place them properly.
Huh?
This is Shigeki, my younger son.
I'm Shigeki.
This one doesn't look like her either, does he?
I hate to think that
Hiroko's children seem like
country-bred children.
I'm very sorry.
My eldest son, Haruki, is living in the dormitory at a high school in Matsumoto.
Is that right? That child . . .
Why are you here?
My husband is on a trip abroad. That's why I'm here.
Is that right?
He wouldn't allow me to come here.
I see.
He wouldn't let me come to the funeral either.
Right.
How is Father?
He's grown old.
A parent whose only daughter runs away
is to be pitied.
Maybe I shouldn't have come.
Are you in a girls' high school?
Yes.
I'm leaving.
I'll take you to her grave. It's not very far from here.
The Kirino family grave is in Ikegami.
I don't want to go to a grave up in the mountain.
Are you going back to Tokyo already?
No. I'm staying at an inn called Hoshoden in Hotaka.
I'm going back home tomorrow.
I see. Please have a safe trip home.
Would you like to ride in the car?
No thank you.
When I thought about it later, my grandmother
couldn't be open with us.
But at the time, I thought that someone who would talk
to my father like that was pretty awful.
If you want to ask about anything, you can ask.
Mom was . . .
. . . happy, wasn't she?
"I'm glad we came to Azumino."
That's what your mom said at the end.
That's what I'm proud of. That's all I need.
But if either of you want to know about
your mom when she was young,
go see your grandmother. She'll be here until tomorrow.
I don't want to .
Me either.
You don't have to hold back because of me.
I don't need to know anything more about Mom than I already know.
Me too.
That might have been a lie.
I was actually filled with curiosity.
What was my mom like when she was my age?
I wanted to know, but I couldn't say so.
Were her shoes that magnificent?
Yes.
Don't you want to go see your grandmother?
It's okay.
Really? But you may never get to see her again.
It's okay.
What a waste! If it were me, I'd go off to Tokyo with her.
Huh?
Why didn't you come to see me?
Eh?
I hate to think that . . .
HIroko's children seem like country-bred children.
If either of you want to know more about your mom when she was young,
go see your grandmother.
I don't need to know anything more than I already know about Mom.
Me too.
Why didn't you come to see me?
Eh?
Sunshine Chapter 4 "MOTHER'S SECRET" Episode 20
Why didn't you come to see me?
Huh?
Or did your father tell you not to?
Of course not.
In fact, he told us to go.
He hasn't changed, has he?
What?
Isn't there any place?
Any place?
I don't know if you'll like this or not . . .
Oh . . .
If I
put something like this in my mouth,
I won't be able to talk, will I?
Murakami Sweet Shop
I'm sorry.
Shouldn't it be you?
Because
wouldn't it be proper for you to ask me first?
Why is that?
I came all the way over here from Tokyo.
On top of that, I have to go home soon, and I'm
sitting here in the back of a sweet shop in the countryside.
That may be true, but . . .
But what?
I didn't come to see you.
Don't you want to know about your mother?
You want to, don't you?
Don't you?
Then just tell me that you want to know.
I don't want to. You don't have to tell me.
You're not very likeable, are you?
So what if I'm not likeable? I don't take after Mom.
No . . . you're just like her.
- But... - You have the same stubborn streak.
You're just like Hiroko.
And if you want to know who Hiroko takes after,
it's me.
I see.
Are these your friends?
Yes. They're my best friends.
I see.
You're in girls' high school, aren't you?
She was adorable, too, when Hiroko was in high school.
I can still remember
how she looked happy and shy wearing her school uniform.
But yet she looked proud.
She was always sickly from the time she was little.
When she was born, the doctor told me that
she may not make it.
That's why I was so happy.
I'm sure my husband felt the same way.
When Hiroko started school,
we had a big party at the Teikoku Hotel to celebrate.
Teikoku Hotel?
Pardon me for asking, but
are you . . . I mean, what does your husband do?
My husband?
He's been conferred the title of Viscount.
A viscount?!
You mean the viscount whose family members are barons and counts? That kind of viscount?
Yes, that kind of viscount.
What a surprise!
So they really exist.
They do.
She loved
music and reading books.
Her dream was to become a school teacher.
But my husband wouldn't allow it.
He said that women didn't need to work.
Would you like to see the inside?
Huh?
No . . .
Um, where is she?
Inside here.
She's with Miss Yoko and her friends.
Huh?
Murakami Sweet Shop
That's when she met your father.
Your father was a technician
at a company that developed airplanes.
I don't know how they met,
or how they fell in love, but . . .
your grandfather wouldn't allow it.
He absolutely refused to allow it.
So she left home
without a second thought.
I still remember the day she left home
as if it were just yesterday.
But I knew
that she would leave home.
But I didn't say anything.
I loved her for being that way.
I think she knew that I knew
she would be leaving.
But neither of us said anything, and had our dinner.
It was her favorite . . . curry rice.
Then she gave birth to all of you.
I thought she couldn't have children.
And yet, she gave birth to three healthy babies.
I don't know anything more than that.
Because we cut our ties with her.
I'm not sure
how many years ago that was,
but you were only about this high.
We only had one daughter, so we
needed a boy to carry on the family name.
Otherwise, it would mean the end of the family.
So, we tried to
adopt Shigeki.
Huh?
Of course, Hiroko and your father both refused.
But I think that
with your grandfather's influence, we could have
forced them into letting us adopt Shigeki.
It was the first time
I ever stood up to my husband.
The reason was Haruki.
Haruki?
Yes.
We refuse to let you take Shigeki from us.
You absolutely can't have him.
But . . . he might be happier if he came to live with us.
If you think of his future . . .
No . . .
you'll never separate us.
Shigeki is
my precious little brother.
He would be happier if we're all together.
As the eldest son, I'm going to protect our family.
I'll do anything to protect them. I won't let him go.
What if we insist on taking him?
I'll kill Grandfather,
and then I'll kill myself.
Is that what you'll do?
I wouldn't want you to kill him.
It's delicious. Try it.
It's our secret. Don't tell your father or your mother,
or your younger brother and sister.
Don't tell them about what happened today either.
Haruki!
That idiot! Sudo Haruki's such an idiot!
I still remember the day she left home.
as if it were just yesterday.
Then she gave birth to all of you.
I thought she couldn't have children.
And yet, she gave birth to three healthy babies.
Sunshine Chapter 4 "MOTHER'S SECRET" Episode 21
Subtiles adapted from original English subtitles created by Nippon Golden Network Timing brought to you by The Sunshine Lovers@Viki
Yoko . . .
Yes?
Hiroko wrote me a letter when you were born.
She wrote, "I'm thinking of naming her 'Yoko,'
as in 'Yoko," the sun."
I thought it was so like her. It was a good name.
Why . . .
Why is my name so like my mother?
Oh, that? I used to tell her often . . .
that she should be like the sun.
Without borrowing any strength from others, she should use her own power to shine
brightly over everyone.
I told her to become a woman like the sun.
Women from now on will be able to do anything.
Right?
That's . . .
That's what . . .
That's . . .
That's what . . .
what Mom . . .
The sun doesn't borrow any strength from anyone,
and shines using only its own power, doesn't it?
Girls are the sun.
The "yo" in your name is the "yo" for sun (taiyo).
Is that right? Is that what she told you?
I must have been a pretty good mother, after all.
Yes.
My name, "Kayo," is written without Chinese characters (kanji),
so I wonder what my name means.
Isn't it the "kayo" in "are you still going to eat (mada kuu no KAYO)?
Is that it?
Huh? Wait a minute!
It was such a nice story, and you just ruined it.
Come back!
That's a tool for our business! Don't use that!
Hey you!
Well, I'd better be getting home.
I have to get home before your grandfather gets home.
You do?
Yoko . . .
You understand why
you and I can't live our lives together, don't you?
Yes.
But I still consider myself your grandmother.
Always.
If sometime in your life, you really don't have anyone to turn to,
and you're hopelessly in trouble,
remember me at that time.
I'll help you.
Having someone like that will give you strength.
Okay.
But it's just one time.
Okay.
She's stingy, isn't she?
You're right.
If you think I'll always help you, you'll become someone who always leans on others.
That's why one time is enough.
I'm sorry.
As long as you understand.
Thank you.
Come on in.
Oh my!
Is anything wrong?
No . . .
Mochizuki Sensei from Azumino Girls' High School . . . what can I do for you today?
I'll take a box of assorted sweets.
Mochizuki Sensei will take a box of assorted sweets!
Coming right up, Mochizuki Sensei!
Thank you for waiting. That'll be 25 sen.
25 sen?
You three! What are you doing here? Hurry, and get out of here.
- I'm sorry! - I'm sorry!
Stopping here on the way home from school. You're such delinquents . . . what are thinking?
You won't get away with this.
I'm sorry.
We're going straight to the principal's office.
I asked them to bring me here.
Who are you?
Let me introduce myself. I'm Sudo Yoko's grandmother.
What?
I'm Mochizuki. I teach sewing at Azumino Girls' High School.
So you're Mochizuki Sensei?
Yoko's written to me all about you.
Yoko isn't very good
at sewing, so she must be causing you a lot of grief.
I suppose . . .
Even though she's not very good, she seems to love your classes.
She wrote how much she respects you.
When she grows up, she wants to be a woman just like you.
My goodness . . . is that right?
Since I live in Tokyo, I don't often get a chance to meet my granddaughter's friends,
so I asked her to bring them along on her way home from school.
I'm terribly sorry. Please forgive me.
If that's the case, then there's no problem.
If you'll excuse me . . .
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Thank goodness!
You!
Aren't you very good at sewing?
No . . . not really.
She's not very good.
- She's really bad. - How could you!
How terrible . ..
This really terrible!
I'm sorry.
You didn't have to be that much like me.
Huh?
Have a safe trip home.
Take care . . . Yoko.
I will.
You, too.
- We will. - Thank you.
Let's go.
Goodbye, Grandmother!
- Your grandmother's a wonderful lady, isn't she? - Yes.
But, Yoko . . .
What?
She said she'd only help you one time. And one time only.
Right.
Well . . . didn't you just use it up?
Huh? What?!
That's true. What a waste!
Huh? No way!
So you're back to square one now.
Wasn't that a freebie?
That's right. It was a freebie.
My grandmother would help me out again in the future.
But that's still a long way in the future.
It's a nice place, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Subtiles adapted from original English subtitles created by Nippon Golden Network Timing brought to you by The Sunshine Lovers@Viki
Don't just open the door all of a sudden.
This uniform that you fixed for me the other day . . . it ripped again.
Yoko . . . you're really no good at sewing, are you?
- I don't care. - Huh?
I don't care. It can't be helped that I'm no good at sewing.
Huh?!
I'll fix it.
Never mind that, Yoko.
What is it?
You promised me, didn't you?
What?
That you'll side with me.
Right?
I did.
Then . . . I'm asking now.
Now?
Hurry!
What?
To be continued . . .