I fell in love with you.
But I have to stop this.
I feel miserable.
I'm sorry.
I loved you.
I'll make Ren yours.
Make a contract with me, okay?
Welcome home.
I'm back.
It's Ibuki.
Sorry for calling you suddenly.
I want to see you.
Do you want to have a look?
In Tokyo,
even during windy winter nights,
you can still see the stars.
The red blinking one is Orion Star A.
Its light need to travel around 640 years to reach the Earth.
640 years ago,
even before Ashikaga Yoshimitsu built the Kinkakuji Temple...
It's always been there for us to see.
Yes.
It's even more beautiful...
if you think about the person you like while looking at it.
That's right.
This is even more applicable for one-sided love.
Yes.
One-sided love is like the tonsil.
It's not really useful yet it even induces illnesses.
How about you like me instead?
I'll return your feelings.
I...
Once I like someone,
I have a hard time letting go.
When I like someone, I don't expect him to like me back.
Even if it's just one-sided,
it doesn't change the way I feel.
You're right.
I think so too.
Actually,
I have a little regret.
Have you ever been to Lake Inawashiro?
No.
That's where the person I like was born.
I really want to go with him even just once.
Can't you go with me instead?
Where were you born?
Togoshi Ginza.
I pass by there sometimes.
(Electric heater)
- You got it? - Yes.
- Here's some radish for you. - Okay. Thank you!
Hey, you!
You held up the elevator upstairs. I had to wait for so long.
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.
Is that how you should apologize?
Kneel down.
Hey!
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.
Sorry.
You don't have to take these things to heart.
They're jerks. Just kneel and it's done.
Okay.
Sorry.
One day, my dad stopped coming home.
My mom wouldn't tell me why.
Actually, my dad had an affair.
When I was at my loneliest,
Ren brought me to the festival.
He's always so innocent, serious...
and trustworthy ever since.
He's my first love.
Let me help you with your first love.
Why do you want to help me?
Because I like you.
How can you help me?
He doesn't like me that way.
Aren't you his closest friend from your hometown?
Like the Othello chess, you may only have a few discs,
but you've already conquered the two ends of his row.
I'll make Ren have the desire to go back home.
If that doesn't work,
maybe I'll push the person he likes down the stairs or something.
What?
Just kidding.
(Love That Makes You Cry: Episode 5)
Good evening.
Right.
Are you going home from work?
Yes.
You too?
Yes.
Keep up the good work.
Good night then.
Good night.
What is it?
Nothing.
Ren, you're home.
- You're here. - You know...
Good evening.
Come in.
Do you guys know Kiho?
No.
She's Konatsu. He's Haruta.
Good evening.
Nice to meet you.
Kiho.
- Do you eat udon? - Yes.
Let me help.
Thank you.
My mom called earlier.
She told me not to tell you.
It's about your grandpa.
Did something happen to him?
He fell.
He fell?
Is he hurt?
It doesn't seem serious.
He was quickly discharged from the hospital as well.
I think you should go home and check on him.
- It's useless for me to go back. - Grandpa will be very happy.
I can't take a leave from work.
Do you think you're the only one suffering here in Tokyo?
Do you know what became of our town after you left?
Do you know where we buy our vegetables?
At the shopping street.
That's been gone for a long time already.
Five years ago, people started buying...
from the supermarkets after it opened.
The whole shopping street closed down.
Afterwards, the supermarket also closed down after half a year.
People with cars...
buy from the national highway.
But Grandpa can't do that.
Now he has to walk an hour to go there.
(From Hinata Kihoko)
(Ren, I told you a lot of lies.)
Those two look good together.
Really?
There are two kinds of lovers.
One kind is being together because they like each other.
The other is being together because they don't know how to break up.
Let your grandpa come to Tokyo and live with you.
I see.
Hey.
You won't leave Tokyo, right?
No. Sorry.
No. Don't worry.
- I won't do that. - Okay.
No, it's okay...
No. I'm the one who should be sorry.
Is the udon good?
Only need one hundred for four of this.
The weather has been warmer lately.
Yes. The weather is nice.
That's great.
I'm taking you to the bed now.
I'm removing the blanket first.
Now let me put your feet down.
Thank you.
Please hold on to my shoulders.
Are you holding tight?
Yes. Thank you.
Qualification examï¼Ÿ
I would be able to do so much more after I get the certificate.
(Ms. Sugihara Oto.)
(Your employment contract with our company will expire on March 31.)
(We're very sorry.)
(Due to the human resources arrangements,)
(we cannot renew your contract anymore.)
(Thank you for your understanding.)
Did we do something wrong?
Since Nishikiori is here,
both of you don't need to continue working here anymore.
This came as a shock to us. It's unacceptable.
Well, it's a three-month contract from the very start.
But that would usually be renewed.
We won't renew it anymore.
But Kanbe...
Isn't that right, Nishikiori?
Sugihara.
It's fine.
It happens.
Right.
- Please keep up the good work. - Why should we?
Even if we continue to keep it up,
contract workers like us always get the losing end of the deal.
Okay.
What?
You want to take a leave?
You want to take a leave at a time like this?
No, it's not like that.
I asked, just in case.
Sorry.
- Are you running away? - No.
I just want to take a leave.
Everybody says that.
I'll just take a leave and go back to my hometown.
I'll be right back.
Then they never came back to Tokyo anymore.
They stayed at their hometown bars...
telling people about their time in Tokyo.
They keep talking until they reach their 30s or 40s,
saying how great they were when they were in Tokyo.
But they never made anything of themselves.
Thank you.
Oto's home.
I'm home.
We all carried on living like that. Meeting different people...
while thinking of the people we miss.
We all live in the present.
I never saw him again after that.
You should go back to check on him.
It's nothing serious.
What do you think?
Even if your knees just hurt a little bit,
you can't climb up a step this low.
The simpler the thing you're unable to do,
the sadder you'll feel.
Did you hear that?
Go back with Oto.
What are you talking about?
Don't say things like that.
I'm just talking to myself.
What's the matter?
Where are you going?
Good night.
- Wait. - Wait.
Well,
the rice is here.
Just go back if you're worried.
I'm just talking to myself.
Mind your own business.
What?
I'm just talking to myself.
Someone should be beside Grandpa.
I'm just talking to myself.
I can't get a leave at work.
I'm just talking to myself.
Just go and check on him a bit.
I'm just talking to myself.
I've already made up my mind.
I won't go back until I've accomplished something.
What have you not accomplished?
All kinds of things.
What kinds of things?
Hey.
Can we talk properly?
This is a bit strange.
Go ahead.
I think it's not that you haven't accomplished anything.
I haven't.
At least...
I was able to receive your help.
If not for you,
I would still be in Hokkaido,
devoid of any hope, living numbly.
So, I think what you said is not true.
This alone,
doesn't it count for something?
Well...
Okay.
Yes.
I don't want to talk about...
these things anymore.
I've carefully...
kept it...
at the corner,
at the far corner of the cabinet.
Then, me too.
I did the same.
I've kept it carefully in my heart.
Yes.
One for each of us.
We both keep it.
Yes.
One for each of us.
Yes.
So,
I think you have accomplished something.
Yes.
By the way,
you'll ruin the wool sweater by doing that.
Haruta, you're here.
Good evening.
Yes, I just arrived.
Have a seat.
Okay.
(Express bus, Tokyo to Aizu)
Hey.
What is it?
I want to change his mind.
What?
I want to tell him Grandpa is fine.
You have to take care of Kihoko.
I want to talk to him.
Sugihara!
- What? - We can stay!
The contract can be renewed!
- Both of us! - What?
I heard Ibuki negotiated with the main office.
- That's great! - Congratulations!
Please continue taking care of us.
- This is great! - Yes.
Ibuki was sent to training.
Training?
In exchange for you and Funakawa's contract's renewal,
his brother sent him for training at the main office.
Usually only employees who are about to be laid off are sent to training.
I'll do overtime work,
night shift...
and long distance work.
You don't have to pay me extra for those things.
I just need to take a day off.
With one person gone,
we can only do two houses instead of three.
I'll pay for the company's losses.
Please deduct it from my salary.
Come to think of it, we can only do just one.
Deduct whatever losses incurred from my salary.
Okay. If Sabiki agrees,
then you can take a leave.
Okay.
Kneel down and beg for me to agree.
If you kneel down,
then I'll let you take a leave.
I thought it's ham pie. It's onion pancake.
I want to eat fried pork cutlet rice,
the kind with shiny and appetizing scrambled egg.
You're so silly! Fried pork cutlet rice in soy sauce is better.
The egg would make the fried pork cutlet soft, not crispy.
What?
I haven't had fried pork cutlet rice in soy sauce.
It's fried pork cutlet rice in soy sauce, right?
Yes.
From Ito Restaurant. I like that.
Curry Fried Noodles, a specialty of Tomii.
Yes.
Do you know them?
Royal Plaza.
Yes, in front of Noguchi Hideyo Seishunkan.
The Nakai Aizu store is gone, right?
Shinmei Road, Iimori Yama Mountain.
Fugado Shirayama Mountain.
Rakuo cafÃ© au lait.
Milky butter bread.
Do you want to go home that bad?
Do you really want to go home?
You're so cunning!
Why should you be able to go home?
Whatever.
Go if you want to!
Excuse me.
Here is your tea.
Wait.
This is not why I asked you to come here.
Sorry.
I'm new here too. I have yet to learn a lot of things.
Were you the one who wrote this business plan?
Yes, but that was three years ago.
You didn't work on anything else after this?
Sorry.
(Parking area closed. Unauthorized personnel keeps out.)
Hey, Oto.
Why are you here?
I'm washing all the cars.
I'm almost done. You can just stay there.
Are you done for the day?
It's cold.
You can't get sick again. Go home!
You don't need to help me.
Ibuki.
I'm fine.
Honestly,
- I can still remember it. - What?
The first time I saw you.
Do you still remember?
At the gas station.
Yes.
I'm good at washing cars.
Here.
- Thank you. - Okay.
Let me do it.
Thank you.
All right.
- You still have some on your face. - Really?
Yes.
Thank you.
Are we here?
Yes, my dog's staying in that kennel over there.
- I see. - Yes.
Just go straight down that street.
Yes.
Sorry, I'm late.
Good boy.
This is great.
Are you hungry?
No.
I'm hungry.
Okay, please wait a moment.
Good boy.
He said he'd make us taro hotpot.
Because I told him I want to have that.
This recipe is from my Grandpa in Aizu.
Are these Aizu's taro?
No, it's from Saitama.
- Cut it a little. - Okay. How big?
Cut it into four equal parts.
Four equal parts. Okay.
Oto.
How do we cut this burdock?
- It has to be sliced thinly. - What?
Let me do it.
- You can cut the cabbage. - Okay.
- Let me ask you. - What?
Are you going back to Aizu on Thursday?
Yes.
I see.
You can go back with me.
The company might ask me to develop a business plan.
I see.
Sorry.
Don't worry about it.
Developing a business plan is great! That's incredible!
Yes.
- You'll be back soon, right? - Yes.
I'll just check on Grandpa and stay there overnight.
Okay.
Shall I put all this in?
Yes.
And carrots too.
Okay.
He's the one you like, right?
I bet you're feeling miserable right now.
What are you talking about?
Sorry. I shouldn't have said that I'm hungry.
It's fine. Don't worry.
But...
It's good to be friends like this.
Is it?
Yes.
- It looks good. - Yes.
I need your help to get the cushions from the cabinet, young men.
- Coming. - Coming.
Have you filed your income tax yet?
Sorry?
Not yet.
- The consumption tax... - Gosh.
I forgot to put some konjak in!
Where...
In the refrigerator.
Refrigerator, yes.
No need to cook this first, right?
Yes.
- Should we cut it? - Just break it into pieces.
Okay.
Sorry.
Have you always stayed in Tokyo?
I just came here a year ago.
Is that so?
I stayed in Kobe before.
Then I moved to Hokkaido.
I see.
I came from Fukuoka.
That's quite far.
Yes.
I've never been to Kyushu before.
I want to visit it.
Hokkaido.
I'm talking about Kyushu.
Yes, Hokkaido.
Ren went to Hokkaido about a year ago.
I see.
By the way...
Sorry.
It's nothing. Don't worry about it.
Sorry.
He went to Hokkaido...
because I lost the letter my mom wrote me.
He found it and gave it to me.
Then, he gave me a ride to Tokyo.
That's what happened.
- That's all. - Let me ask you.
Yes?
I heard that people from Hokkaido...
put sugar on hotdogs. Is that true?
Yes, same as Tokyo.
I know someone called Iwata who has five mobile phones in his pocket.
What?
Why does he do that?
I don't know.
Didn't you ask him?
What if it's because...
of a very shocking reason?
Like what?
I don't know.
There was someone called Kondo...
in my previous company.
Does he have six mobile phones in his pocket?
Nope.
He puts fried chicken pieces in his pocket.
He always gets a piece from his pocket and eat it.
Really?
Won't it get sticky?
You're right, they will.
Does he put them in his pocket directly?
Yes. I think maybe because he's gotten some oil in there.
So he just keeps putting fried chicken pieces in.
Cheers!
- Cheers! - Cheers!
Cheers!
Excuse me.
What is this?
We're having a taro hotpot party.
- Really? - Have a seat.
Let's eat together.
That's a lot of food!
- This is Haruta and Konatsu. - I'll get some plates.
Do you drink red wine?
Yes.
Thank you.
- There's so much food! - Yes. It's so good.
Sorry.
Thank you.
- Here. - I'm Ibuki. Nice meeting you.
I'm Haruta. Nice meeting you.
Haruta might also know people like that, right?
Yes.
- Haruta. - Yes?
We were talking about someone from Kiho's office.
Was it the one who had an extramarital affair with Kihoko?
You were together with him, right?
Did I say something wrong?
What are you talking about?
It's true, right?
Right, Kihoko?
Haruta.
Never mind.
Have some taro.
Here.
Here you go.
Thank you.
It's so good.
Let's get back to the one who had fried chicken pieces in his pocket.
And then...
I wanted to ask him...
if his pockets are sticky.
Why are you changing the topic?
Why is this person suddenly changing the topic?
- Let's just eat happily. - Happy?
Do you think they're happy?
Who's happy?
They're not happy!
What's the matter?
Look at you, all of you!
You're all lying!
Actually,
the person that Ren like...
is not Kihoko.
He likes this woman.
Do you feel happy about that?
That's sick.
You can even eat together like this...
Paired up, two by two.
And pretending to be happily in love.
That's not the truth at all.
Ren likes this woman.
She likes Ren too.
What's all this?
Everybody's pretending to be happy. Hypocrites!
Everybody's lying!
What you're doing is not enjoyable.
It's not pretty at all!
You're having an extramarital affair and two-timing them both.
You like someone else, but you're with Ren.
And you know Ren is with Kihoko,
but you're still seeing him secretly.
If you look at this situation carefully,
it's such a mess!
Just tell us the truth!
You like him, right?
He likes you too, right?
Do you want things to continue like this?
Are you fine with letting this woman be with Ren?
And Kihoko, you've already realized it, right?
Ren likes someone else.
You're just pretending not to know it.
This is too much!
How about you, Ren?
Don't you want to say anything?
The person you like...
is right in front of you.
Do you want to continue seeing the person you don't like?
I like Kihoko.
Is she the one you like the most?
She's not, right?
I've never seen Ren look this way.
I'm sure he's lying.
Say it!
If you like him, say it!
Say it!
Tell Ren,
"I like you."
"Ren,"
"I like you."
I like you.
I like you!
Konatsu, come with me.
Where do you think you're going?
Your call is being transferred to voice mail.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Hey, Kiho.
This is Ren.
I'm preparing to go back to Aizu.
How's your work?
I'm very worried because I couldn't reach you.
I'll wait for your call.
Bye.
(Get up.)
(Don't use too much force with your hands.)
(Thank you for everything. Take care. Sugihara Oto.)
(Inawashiro)
Have you heard?
Sakagami Jiro passed away.
What? Sakagami Jiro?
Yes.
(Keep out.)
(No entry.)
Why are you here?
I came back to change the light bulb.
Silly boy.
What are you looking at?
Am I that old?
You're tired, right?
No.
Use Yoshiki's bathroom in their house...
and take a shower.
No need.
Why?
I fixed it already.
Silly boy.
Are you really not going after him?
Yes.
You're just like Ren.
You're both stubborn and kind kids.
You're right.
It's okay to go after him.
If you really like him, it's fine to use some tricks.
Well,
I do...
really like him.
Even if it hasn't been that long,
but I really like him.
That's enough for me.
I'm happy...
to be able to like him.
Is that so?
Yes.
I've always thought...
that maybe,
in the future,
I'd surely cry if I remember him.
I mean,
right now,
we live our lives as it is.
We cannot go back in time. We only have the present.
This makes me feel happy...
because I won't have...
another love like this.
Maybe I'll cry because I'll remember how nice this time is.
Grandpa, the hot water is ready.
I'll finish this first before I take a bath.
The water will be cold later.
Isn't that better?
Fine.
This is our specialty.
I'll sell this for 500 yen.
Honjo's son...
is selling this for 3,000 yen at the store.
It's really an intricate work.
Grandpa, you're so good with your hands.
Everybody can do it.
Including me?
I hope I can do this.
Making lanterns like this...
with you here, Grandpa.
You've gotten thin.
Are you...
worried about me?
Don't you...
like Tokyo anymore?
I've met...
different kinds of people in Tokyo.
People that we don't meet...
here in Aizu.
Is that so?
Yes.
I have friends in Tokyo too.
When they hear...
people talk about Aizu,
they'd think of me.
"Aizu."
"Right, that's Ren's hometown."
They would remember me because of it.
Thinking about that makes me happy.
This person is from Tokyo.
That person is from Aizu.
Being able to know people from places you haven't been to,
being able to miss the people who live there is so nice.
If something happens in Tokyo right now,
I would be worried about my friends there.
Meeting people,
missing them,
that's how people live.
That makes me happy.
I see.
Yes.
I thought about it before. If I hate Tokyo already,
I can't come back to Aizu.
I still like Tokyo now,
so I can still come back here.
We only have a small field.
We have a limited way of making a living.
After a few years...
or even ten years,
I still want to work with you...
in the field, Grandpa.
Then,
you have to sleep early and wake up early.
If you want to survive here,
you have to work hard starting from planting the seeds.
I'll go take a bath now.
The water is too cold.
I've never seen him...
after that.
January 2016.
Right now, I'm still...
living in Tokyo.
Mr. Nishikori.
It's not Nishikori,
it's Nishikiori.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Good morning.
The weather is so nice today.
Does your knee still hurt?
Here you go.
Go to the toilet first.
I don't want to go right now.
It doesn't matter if you need to go or not.
You should go when you can.
Moving Guy.
Where are you now?
We can't take the subway right now. It's closed.
There is an accident.
- Let's take a cab then. - Okay.
I'm 27 years old.
- Do you have a boyfriend? - Yes.
- Let's get married. - Do you want to see Ren?
He's now in Tokyo.
He doesn't have a home and he doesn't have a job.
We look for losers who need money...
and help them find jobs.
That's extortion!
Work hard as my successor!
Are you planning to use your whole life to atone for your sins?
Why are you looking for him?
I didn't see him for five years.
I just want to hear your voice.
Why are you looking for me?
Moving Guy!