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Asa ga Kita

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Final week
"A Soft Heart"
Final Episode

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Original Story:
Chieko FURUKAWA

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Screenwriter:
Mika OMORI

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Music by:
Yuuki HAYASHI

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Theme Song: "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki"
Sung by: AKB48

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Narrator:
Keiko SUGIURA

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Asa Shirooka:
HARU

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Shinjiro Shirooka:
Hiroshi TAMAKI

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Kisuke:
Hiroki MIYAKE

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Chiyo Shirooka:
Fuuka KOSHIBA

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Natsu:
Kaya KIYOHARA

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Izumi Narusawa:
Koji SETO

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Hatsu Mayuyama:
Aoi MIYAZAKI

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The next month, Hatsu came
to see Asa for Shinjiro's

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49th-day memorial service.

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Sis... Thank you for
coming so often.

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We're both alone now...

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What are you going
to do from now?

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Set-chan's younger brother
came home, so we have

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him taking care of half
of our mountain.

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Is that right?

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Tatsuo runs around a lot,
so he's a handful.

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So there's a lot to
keep me busy.

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That's nice... I...

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I'm thinking I'll at least
stay involved with the

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movement to advance
women's education.

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That might be a good idea.

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Just as my husband said,
if I don't keep moving,

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I'll fall over.

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That's true.

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Sis...?

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Were we able to protect
our families like Dad and

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Mom told us to that day?

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Yes, I think we did.

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We might have just...

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...walked down the path that
was right in front of us,

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but we were able to protect
what was dear to us.

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You're right.

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You're really something
else, after all, Sis...

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Your path was so rocky...

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That's true...

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But it was the
same for you.

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You did well.

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You did your best.

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So did you.

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We'll have to go on living for
a long time, won't we?

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That's right... We still
have a long way to go.

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Welcome home!

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Welcome home, Mom!

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I'm home!

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Tatsuo. Come back here.

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It'll be a little while longer
before the orange

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blossoms bloom, won't it?

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And it'll get busy
again, won't it?

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And during the busiest
harvesting time and

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such a cold time
of the year...

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It looks like our second
child will be born.

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Really?

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My husband... Did
you hear that?

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This Sanouji-ya family is just
getting started, isn't it?

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6 YEARS LATER

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Let's go.

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Nobu?

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Chiyo!

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So you finally came home
from your studies abroad!

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That's right.

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Tatsuko, Etsuko and Satsuko...

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You've all grown so much.

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Is that your fourth?

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That's right.

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I just came for a visit.

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Really?

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I'm living in Ashiya now.

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You're as passionate
as ever, aren't you?

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Oh, my! If it
isn't Nobu.

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A seminar?

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That's right.

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From now on, we're having
it at the villa every spring.

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We'll gather ambitious
women from the

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university and from
all over Japan...

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And have a seminar where
they can learn a lot of

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different things.

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Without worrying about
any formal structure,

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they can freely express
their opinions and

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devote themselves
to their studies.

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That's a good idea.

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If you don't mind, please
talk to them, too.

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About things that you
learned in America...

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I'd love to.

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You sure have a lot
of energy...

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Dad is saying, "Are you still
doing all those things?"

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I'm sure he is.

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There are still things
I need to do in

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this world, so he's
letting me live on.

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And in the spring...

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Asa held her seminar.

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{\an8}ASA'S BROTHER TADATSUGU'S
WIFE TOWA

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I thought I'd teach them
western cooking today.

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I'm going to talk to them about
women from other countries.

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Hello!

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That voice...

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Kisuke! And Natsu...

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It's been a long
time, Ume.

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She's going to
school in Tokyo.

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Thanks to my dad...

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{\an8}KISUKE'S DAUGHTER NATSU

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I'm going to study hard.

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Is that right? Isn't that nice?

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As you all know, I'm an
old lady born in the

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Kaei era in the Edo period.

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When I was young, we didn't
have telephones or mail...

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{\an8}EIZABURO'S ELDEST AND SECOND DAUGHTERS
SAE AND MASA

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We didn't even have horse-
drawn carriages or trains.

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If we wanted to communicate
with anyone, we had to put

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on leggings, and travel on foot
over several mountains...

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Lately, I'm sure they can't
imagine something like that, can they?

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And everything's become
so convenient now...

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So I don't think that
the past was better.

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But...

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I wonder why...

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I thought if our country
grew, that we'd all he

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so much happier...

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It's become a world where
it's so hard to live now.

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I wonder why...

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People are hurt in the war
with guns and cannons.

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The newspapers and public
opinion are always saying

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bad things about people.

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They only hurt people with
their selfish criticisms.

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The weapon we need to
make people happy isn't

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guns, cannons or criticisms.

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It's right here and here...

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Here? And here?

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That's right. You need an
excellent brain that can

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consider people's feelings,
and a soft heart.

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As long as we have that,
that's all we need.

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In that sense, women aren't
outdone by men...

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No... in fact, we can use
that power better than

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any man around.

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But my husband was a much
softer person than I am...

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So all of you young people....

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No matter what kind of
occupation you choose,

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or if you choose to get
married, as long as you

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have those two weapons, you
can be of use to others.

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You can be of use not only
to Japan but to the world

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in a lot of ways
in the future.

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So please don't be
disheartened,

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study hard and
do your best.

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Thank you, Ms. Shirooka.

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Let's take a short break,
and we'll listen to what

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Tamura has to say next.

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Okay.

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Mom?

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Asa!

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Thank you for
your hard work.

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You're working hard again
today, aren't you?

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I am... My dear husband.