Even if I say so myself, this is an astonishing story.
3 times divorced, single, 55 years old.
And yet here I am still waiting for this one
fated encounter at a Tokyo street corner.
How many times have I fallen in love?
Tokyo Sentimental
Japanese confectionery shop owner Kururi Takuzo
Good morning.
Sudo Akane, part-timer at Kururiya
The new products look good.
This will be the new item for our sign board, right?
What's the matter?
Akane-chan,
Are you currently in love?
What's this all of a sudden? Disgusting.
Huh?
What are you saying at your age?
Hey there,
Love doesn't know age.
Since a certain someone neglects this shop
and does nothing but chase after skirts,
I don't have time for such things.
Oh come on.
Don't blame it on other people.
But isn't that exactly how it is?
It's amazing, that you have so much energy at your age.
- I'm amazed. - What?
Although it's to no avail whatsoever.
What?!
Don't tell me you've fallen for somebody again?
No way...
- Here. - What?
Anyway, you got that sort of text, right?
No, no... I didn't get anything.
Here! Show me please.
Well then, would you please grace me with your opinion?
Should we go for lunch tomorrow? So we'll have enough time to talk. Satomi
So you were only invited for lunch?
Well yeah...
Wait, wait!
Who is this?
Satomi.
So even if you tell me the name . . .
Ah, right. Yeah. Well, Masatoshi's wife.
- Masatoshi? - He passed away . . .
-What? - What?
Masatoshi-san was your best friend, right?
Yeah.
So you're saying you've fallen in love with your best friend's widow?
No, wait, who said I've fallen in love. . .
You can't do that!
What?
That's a forbidden love.
Forbidden love?
I would never lay hands on the boyfriend of my best friend.
I don't want to be rude, but
this time you better behave like an adult.
It's been 4 years since my best friend, Masatoshi, left this world.
Say, Taku-chan,
It's fine if I fall in love with somebody again, right?
- Is Taku-san here? - Oh, hello.
He's in the back.
Well then, Akane-san, I'll leave the shop to you.
- Are you really going? - Where are you going today?
- Katsushika, Shibamata. - Oh, Tora-san's city.
TN: Filming location for 'Otoko wa Tsurai yo', Japan's longest running movie series about a vagabond searching for love
Shibata Koukichi neighborhood barbershop owner
Obstinate as ever...
Seems this time he was invited out though.
That's why he's striding out like that.
Irritating, right?
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Shibamata Romance
Shibamata used to be known for its temple, Taishakuten.
But since being used as setting for the movie "Otoko wa Tsurai yo"
it became famous nationwide.
The road leading to the Taishakuten temple has kept the atmosphere of the old commercial centre.
Taking a stroll while enjoying some snacks and the view of the old town
is the true charme of this alley. typo "charm"
Founded at the beginning of the Edo period, Taishakuten is a temple of the Nichiren school.
Thinking about it, didn't the hostess in Nippori, Akemi-chan,
say that she liked Tora-san?!
Always about 5 minutes late,
Satomi has been like this since we were in school.
Beautiful.
Today especially so...
Sorry.
I'm late.
Yamamura Satomi Best friend's wife
What's going on? You're even wearing a skirt.
Suits me, doesn't it?
Of course.
I didn't know Taishakuten had a place like this.
This place is called Suikeien, built in 1969
after a design by Mukoushima's gardener, Nagai Rakuzan.
It's the style with a path around the pond.
This is so like you, Taku-chan.
- It's beautiful. - Yeah.
It was the spring of our 3rd university year when Masatoshi and I had started a band,
when Satomi entered our school.
At 18, both of us were captivated by her, of course.
Her beauty didn't fade with age.
She's just as pretty . . .
No, I musn't! What am I thinking?!
Satomi is my best friend's wife.
What?
Huh?
You were staring at me, right?
No, I wasn't.
You're lying...Your eyebrow was moving.
No way, what are you saying?
Yes. In our student days I was head over heels for Satomi.
- Here. - Looks good!
- Please. - Thank you.
Toraya's famous kusa-dango are usually for take out,
Kusa-dango: rice cake dumplings with mugwort
but eating them in the store is the same as in the movies.
A nostalgic taste?
Welcome.
This is the first time I've seen it.
- Yeah. - After watching it, I've fallen for it now.
- Tora-san? - Yeah.
- Ah, that's why in Shibamata?! - Yes, right.
I wanted to come and see it.
That movie is really entertaining.
And you realized that only now? Geez!
- You know what... - Yeah?
You resemble Tora-san a lot.
Oh, you mean that I'm forever aimlessly wandering around?
that you easily fall in love.
But at some point they all fall for Tora-san, right?
Aren't you similar in that respect, too?
What?
You're cool.
You see . . .
Women tend . . .
to get charmed by free-spirited men.
Is she talking about me?
Or about Tora-san?!
He is more the Hiroshi type, right?
TN: Character in the movie series, earnest doctor type.
What?
Masatoshi?
Yeah.
He was honest and reliable.
- Listen . . . - Yeah?
I want to ask you something.
Why did you fall in love with him?
What?
No way, what's with this suddenly?
Why not? Why are you suddenly acting embarrassed?
- But I am . . . - What?
It's nice to relax like this.
Right!?
This boat is Yagiri no Watashi.
The only 400 year old ferry service across the Edo.
He was always working.
We never just idly spent time like this.
'Cause working in sales is tough.
Say, didn't he...
also just quit the band in an instant?
Yeah.
I wonder whether he ever regretted it?
Regret?
Yeah, well you know he wasn't the type to talk about things like this.
He always worked hard for your sake.
Guess that's why I fell in love with him.
Huh?
You asked before . . .
Oh, sorry.
Looks so good.
This shop has been run by the Ebisu family since the Edo period.
But why does it have to be eel in Shibamata?
Because river fish is the specialty of this area.
Huh!
The origins are that the farmers of Shibamata started catering river fish as a side business in the Edo times.
- Oh, another sake right? - Thank you.
Here you are.
Hey, look.
Aren't those two cute?
Yeah, they are.
We were about their age,
when I started going out with him.
Yeah. Right after we graduated from university.
If I had gone out with you at that time,
how would things be now?
Huh? At that time?
Yes, when you confessed to me.
You don't remember?
No, well . . . another drink?
Yes.
As if I could forget!
Satomi rejected me and chose Masatoshi.
I never got over it.
Somewhere deep down in my heart I've never managed to give up on her.
But why is she suddenly talking about this?
Does she regret that she rejected me?!
You remember me well, right?
Right.
Last time I asked you whether you think it's okay if I start loving somebody else . . .
Yes.
Lately when I meet with my friends, all they talk about is their husbands.
But that makes me so envious.
What?
I also want to talk about the one I love.
I thought I want somebody like that again soon.
Can't I?
No, I don't think you can't.
If I find somebody new,
what would my husband think?
What?
Would he forgive me?
Asking me these things, does this mean?
Is she thinking about me when she says somebody new?
Is that why she invited me to meet in Shibamata?!
Impossible, impossible! She's the wife of my best friend, Masatoshi.
Isn't this a forbidden love?
You got something stuck there.
See.
I can't hold back anymore.
There's more.
Satomi . . .
I . . .
Masatoshi, I am sorry!
To me you are---
- Oh no! - I am so sorry.
I am sorry.
Excuse me, I knocked it over.
- I am sorry. - I'll go fetch a towel.
I'm sorry.
Satomi, I...I...I . . .
Good grief, you still can't sit still.
Oh, be quiet!
- W...well... - Huh?
Can I say something?
What is it?
The answer to your question before.
What?
Whether he would forgive you if you found somebody new.
He would . . .
Masatoshi would . . .
definitely be happy for you.
If you found somebody new to keep you company.
That would be nice.
Yes, because you see,
your life is still going on.
You should enjoy it more from now on.
Thank you.
- Hey . . . - Yeah?
Can we meet again?
Of course.
I'm back!
Welcome back! Did something good happen today?
Can we meet again?
She said!
In other words, the feelings I've groomed for all those decades are finally bearing fruit.
Well something along those lines.
She's your best friend's wife, are you sure this is okay?
Love will overcome, you know.
Araki-san called. He's waiting for you at his place.
Here. Good night.
Feelings for your best friend's wife . . .
- So, a forbidden love after all. - Not really.
Araki, owner of a soba noddle shop
Her late husband would wish for her to find happiness with somebody else again, wouldn't he?
Right?!
Rather a certified love.
A certified love? What's that? It's like the Onin War.
TN: Civil war from 1467 to 1477, no idea what he's referring to. But it rhymes. (QC: a random non sequitur, wordplay inspired by similar sounds? What kind of SICKO would do that?!)
It has a nice sound to it.
Well if you say so then that's how it is. Come on, have a little drink with me.
You reassured her that it's fine to find someone new, right?
I did, it was the right thing to say.
And then what?
She said thank you.
I see...
She's ready to start a new love.
You think?!
Akane-san, I'm going out for a while.
Wait, it's Sunday, we'll get busy.
Satomi suddenly said she wants to meet me.
- Oh, and you'll raise my hourly wages, right? - Right, if I'm late, just close up tonight.
What should I do?
It's the second date, how far should I go?
A kiss? Ah, no that's too fast.
Let's save the kiss for the 3rd date, today let's just try to hold hands.
Taku-chan.
- Sorry. - Not at all, I'm totally used to it.
Hey, I want to talk about something. Can I?
Sure.
Over there.
D...don't tell me, she's going to confess already?!
You know, this place was used as the setting
for the baseball scenes of president Tako's Asahi printing factory team.
I know.
- You know . . .
- What?
I've been thinking . . .
whether he would forgive me, whether he'd be happy for me,
nobody can actually tell now.
I mean when I start something new.
Right.
But the other day,
when you said you're sure he would have been happy for me,
that was still a relief for me.
If his closest friend says that,
it should be fine.
It's coming. There it is. She'll confess to me here . . .
Taku-chan.
Yes.
I got it.
It can only be somebody you can approve of.
What?
The new one.
The new one?!
Strike 3.
Wait a minute.
Huh!
He came with me.
"She's ready to start a new love" . . . huh!?
- Hello. - Yes?
- A package for you. -Yes.
Please wait a moment.
How about you start getting a grip? Isn't this embarrassing for someone your age?
Express delivery for you.
From Satomi-san.
Wow, so pretty.
Thank you for giving up your time for me the other day,
as a token of my gratitude
I'm sending you this Kiriko glass that he made, please use it well.
P.S. thank you for giving me courage for the future, Satomi.
Courage for the future, huh?
- What's the matter? - Because Taku-san seems heartbroken . . .
There you are, Taku-san.
Isn't it time you get over that forbidden love now?
Let's go to the hostess bar in Nippori together next time, okay?
Shut up, bastard.
- Get out...get out! - What's your problem? I'm only worried---
Who asked you? Get out, bastard.
- Had zero customers again today, huh? - You got dumped again---
- Look at your hair, that's why you don't have any customers. - That got nothing to do with this.
Just quit!
- No wonder they always dump you. - I'm never gonna take you with me again.
- As if I'd go to such a place--- - Taku-chan.
Why??
- What do you mean, why? - If this isn't Reiko-san...
Reiko-san?
Been a while.
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