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Hiyokko
愛の言葉をリルシャイなハートがドキドキ Ai no kotoba o riru shai na haato ga dokidoki A shy heart saying sweet nothings beats so fast
Week 3 "Run Towards Tomorrow!" (Episode 016)
Screenplay: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Miyagawa Akira
あの日観てたサウンドオプミュージック Ano hi mite ta saund oopu myuujikku That day when we saw "The Sound of Music"
Theme Song: Kuwata Keisuke "Wakai Hiroba" (Plaza of Youths)
瞼閉じれば蘇る Mabuta tojireba yomigaeru I can relive that day just by closing my eyes
Narrator: Masuda Akemi
幼い頃の大事な 宝物だけは Osanai koro no daijina takaramono dake wa It's the only precious treasure of my youth
Cast:
Yatabe Mineko: Arimura Kasumi
ずっと この胸に抱きしめて来たのさ Zutto kono mune ni dakishimete kita no sa One I've held in my heart all this time
Yatabe Miyoko: Kimura Yoshino
Koiwai Muneo: Mineta Kazunobu
Sukegawa Kimiko: Wada Michiko
夜の酒場でロンリーあの子今頃どうしてる Yoru no sakaba de Ronrii ano ko imagoro doushiteru The girl that night at the bar "Lonely," I wonder what's become of her
Sumitani Kiyo: Shibata Rie
Sukegawa Tokiko: Sakuma Yui
Sumitani Mitsuo: Izumisawa Yuuki
さなぎは今 蝶になってきっと誰がの腕の中 Sanagi wa ima chou ni natte kitto dare ga no ude no naka That pupa is now a butterfly and is surely in someone's arms
Sukegawa Shoji: Tooyama Toshiya
Sumitani Masao: Asakura Shinji
Sukegawa Toyosaku: Shibuya Kento
Sumitani Taro: Onoue Hiroyuki
Yatabe Chiyoko: Miyahara Kanau
Yatabe Susumu: Takahashi Rei
肩寄せ合い声合わせて Kata yose ai koe awasete Arms around one another, their voices unite
希望に燃える 恋の歌 Kiboueru ni moeru koi no uta In a burning with hope, song of love
Yatabe Shigeru: Furuya Ikko
And start!
I won't forget you! Ookuibaraki village!
I love you, Ookuibaraki village!
The torch relay that Mineko and Tokiko and Mitsuo and the Youth Organization of Ookuibaraki village...
...as well as the rest of the village had worked so hard on...
...only went on for a short time, but it was to be broadcast on TV.
It was to air in Tokyo and, of course, Ibaraki Prefecture as well.
This is that program. Well then, please watch it.
It's starting! It's starting! Mom, hurry!
Ookuibaraki will appear!
"Even in a tiny village like this, they are holding a torch relay."
Why did they have to say, "a tiny village like this" for?
We're not that small.
Right?
With the coming of the Olympic Games...
...with its goal of reaching Tokyo's National Stadium in Sendagaya...
...the Olympic torch relay, which is running throughout Japan...
...is causing a terrific turnout wherever it shows up.
In an effort to piggyback off its popularity...
...here at Ookuibaraki village, which as its name implies, is deep in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Fukushima...
Connected to the Olympic Flame
...a torch relay, sponsored by the village, was held.
"Piggyback" or whatever it was...
...it was a biting word dat came from dat man, right?
That's true!
Now, it is about to start.
It's Mitsuo!
Dat's embarrassing!
Huh?
It's Taro!
Here is the Chief of the Youth Association's Executive Committee for the torch relay, Sumitani Taro-san.
We planned dis just ta tell our fellow villagers who've left us...
...dat Ookuibaraki is doing just fine!
Why does brother get all dis glory?
Moreover, he's only sayin' what I said ta him!
Dat's politics fer ya.
Politics again!
Ah!
Ah, he's running!
Dis is so embarrassing.
Lookin' cool there, Mitsuo!
Aren't I? Right, Tokiko?
I suppose.
The first runner is Sumitani Mitsuo-kun.
It's been decided he'll head to Tokyo next spring as part of a group employment...
He's the third son of farmers.
He does indeed have the face of a farmer's third son.
What kind of face is dat?
Dat is, a sorry lookin' face like yers!
Ah, it's Mom!
Mitsuo! Mitsuo, ya can do it!
Mitsuo!
A granny cheering for her grandson.
A granny who, seeing her grandson like that, can't bring her tears to stop.
Did he just call me a "granny"?
He did.
Least I wasn't called a grandpa.
No matter how you look at it, I'm a Mom!
I don't look like no granny. Right? Huh?
Why aren't any of ya sayin' somethin'?
Is dere something funny?
Now, now, now...
What is this, for pete's sake...
Ah, it's Grandpa!
The village's leader also watches over them.
Village leader?
That man could just tell somehow, right?
Just where?
The village children run along with them as well.
Oh my, pretty, isn't she?
See, you are pretty, Chiyoko!
I've known that since forever.
You have, Chiyoko.
Even when a village boy falls down...
...he'll get up right away without crying.
That's unlike boys from the cities.
As you'd expect, living with the earth has made him a strong boy.
He's exaggeratin' things.
Ah! Ah, it's Tokiko! Tokiko!
Just you wait!
What's with that disgusting laugh?
Well, because...
This slim young lady is Sukegawa Tokiko-san.
Recognized as the beauty of Ookuibaraki in both Ookuibaraki and Muranaka...
...she is the village's most beautiful young woman.
She's a Beppin-san.
(beauty; pretty girl)
Her dream is to go to Tokyo and become an actress...
...so she's decided to take the journey to Tokyo this spring in order to make her dream come true.
Let us pray that those village beauties who come to Tokyo...
...from all across the nation carrying that same dream...
...won't get their wings clipped.
Huh? That had a bad feeling to it somehow.
Right?
Even so...
...there's a style about those women born after the war that just makes you stare wide-eyed at them.
Oh!
I only pray that her wings won't get clipped.
That annoying thing again and again!
Ah, Mineko shows up!
It's Onee-chan!
At last, here is the final runner, Yatabe Mineko-san.
It could be said that the anchor runner being a woman...
...would seem to symbolize the new women of this age.
No, no, that's not true.
You can do it!
Here with the previous runner Tokiko-san's mother...
...is the current runner Mineko-san's mother.
According to these two, a long, long time ago...
...these two would battle over first and second place as the local beauties.
What was with that "long, long ago"?
Ookuibaraki village has many beauties. Can't despise them for that.
Don't despise us!
Mineko-san's face shimmers with her tears.
Mineko-san runs with these thoughts of her father, Minoru-san...
...who has gone to Tokyo as a migrant worker.
"Will my father in Tokyo see this?"
"I'm doing fine. Please do your best at your work."
"Please come home for New Year's. I'll be waiting for you."
Wanting her father to see her looking so cheerful...
...she runs with all her might.
The one receiving the largest cheers of support from the villagers, the runner Mineko-san.
All she does is pray that her feelings will reach her father.
And, at last, the torch arrives and she ignites the flame.
It's arrived!
Banzai!
And so, totally as though they had won a gold medal themselves...
...this has been one Fall day in Ookuibaraki village.
Continuing with the news.
It was like that somehow, wasn't it?
There was nothing wrong with it, but it left a bit of a bad taste behind, didn't it?
Like we're fool yokels or something.
And dat got seen in Tokyo.
Right.
Well, but, everyone... We had fun, right?
Right?
That's true.
That's right.
Dat's true.
I suppose... right?
We did. We did, huh.
Yeah!
Still, der's just one thing I can't accept.
Eh? What's that?
Why didn't dey make any mention of me?
Even though I showed up in it, why not a few words 'bout me?
I can't accept dat.
What is that about?
It's okay, isn't it? After all, ya ain't an Ookuibaraki man anyhow, right?
Kimiko-san... isn't there dat?
Ya haveta question dat even now?
I grew up in dis village since ferever.
Ain't dat good enough?
Huh?
At least you showed up in it, so ain't dat good enough?
Eh?
Dear, you didn't even show up in it?
Just a bit of my face did, right next to yers...
You can do it! You can do it!
Oh my!
Shoji-san has been very thin ever since long ago.
Be quiet, you!
Dat's true, he is thin!
At least I weren't called a granny!
Who's da granny!?
Da guy on the TV said dat, right?
And ya were just a background shadow!
Say!
Huh?
Did Dad in Tokyo see it?
Did Dad see it?
Yeah, I'm sure he saw it.
I see!
Yeah.
Right! He saw it!
Yeah.
He saw it!
Now everyone, how about some snacks?
1964/Showa 39, October 10th
One week after the Ookubaraki village torch relay.
Today is 1964, Showa 39, October 10th.
This is the day for the Opening Ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.
Great weather, isn't it?
Ah... it really is.
Perfect Japan weather.
Isn't it? It is...
Onee-chan! It's starting! Hurry!
It's starting? Mom, Grandpa, let's go!
Grandpa, you hurry, too!
Hurry! Hurry!
We're coming right now!
The athletes from Japan have appeared!
Do your best!
Japan, you can do it!
Japan, do your best!
Japan, you can do it!
So cool, aren't they?
Aren't they?
Ah, it's the Olympic torch!
It's the Olympic torch!
You can do it!
The Olympic flame... the flame...
He did it!
It's just like the one Onee-chan did!
Right?
That's what Dad helped build, isn't it?
He did?
That's right.
Dad is something else!
He's something else!
Dad...
Of all the people across Japan watching TV right now...
...Dad, how are you spending this time and where?
Are you watching the Olympics?
Dad...
...I've made up my mind.
To Be Continued
Showa Era Trip
Hiyokko
End
At a kindergarten's sports festival.