Original subtitles

Thank you.

Are you okay?

Shin-chan?

So I finally got to see you.

Asa ga Kita

Week 16 "Someone to Show You the Way" Episode 94

Original Story: Chieko FURUKAWA

Screenwriter: Mika OMORI

Music by: Yuuki HAYASHI

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

Narrator: Keiko SUGIURA

Asa Shirooka: HARU

Shinjiro Shirooka: Hiroshi TAMAKI

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Miwa: Sumika NONO

Heijiro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Thank you.

When I saw you, I wanted to thank you.

In April, I went to see the cherry blossoms at the

Mint Bureau with Asa and Chiyo.

The cherry blossoms were really beautiful there.

You were the one who made it possible for anyone to

walk through there, weren't you?

No... It was the Mint Bureau Chief's idea...

All I did was grumbled that it was such a waste that

only the bureau's employees could enjoy the cherry blossoms there.

Is that right?

You sometimes hide your achievements to make

yourself look good, Tomo-chan.

I'm offended...

You call this looking good?

Aren't you the one always trying to make yourself look good?

Me?

That's right... You act like you're irresponsible while

you end up making yourself look good.

Do I?

Is that why you decided to be mean, and put

that idea in Asa's head?

No... That was Asa's idea because she

wanted Eizaburo to just concentrate on the

bank business. I just made a suggestion.

A suggestion?

In an era when there's war, a person who's

in a position of command needs the ability to give orders to others.

But in the era we're in now, that's not the

kind of ability we need.

In fact, we need the ability to listen to what people have to say.

Ability to listen?

That just means you have the ability to

say, "un or sun or fu" and nod in agreement.

There aren't that many people who are good at doing that.

But you're just naturally able to do that.

What about you? Why didn't you open up your own bank?

You're from the Satsuma Clan and even became

a politician who could have gotten things done.

All you did was help others and always wearing a stigma...

But you don't open your own bank or build your own conglomerate.

Even if I die without being acknowledged, I won't have any regrets.

I don't have any desire to earn a place in history.

As long as the Osaka I built with everyone is left,

that's all I want.

You're trying to make yourself took good, after all.

I guess I am.

Will you let me make myself look good just one last time?

I don't want to see Asa anymore.

I don't want her to see me like this.

Will you tell her that I'm too busy to see her for a while?

No...

Don't tell me you plan to just disappear like this?

You can't do that.

Asa still needs you.

No! She needs you.

It's as if you both are...

I can't find the right words...

LOVE EACH OTHER

That's it...! "Hiyoku no tori" (imaginary male and female birds each with one

eye and one wing always flying together).

Please promise me.

That's you'll always be there to support Asa not only at

home but also outside.

Please... Do that for me.

I'm home.

Welcome home.

How did it go?

How did what go?

He told you that you'd make a good president, didn't he?

I wonder...

The first time I thought of making you the president

was at the Osaka Chamber of Commerce when Mr. Godai

was about to resign as the president.

I don't really understand it, but all of you excellent

merchants here should be able to understand just by looking at it.

Mr. Godai said the same thing.

He said in order for Kano-ya to grow even bigger,

we need your abilities.

That's why there's nothing to worry about... I'll be

there behind you or by your side, or under you or even

standing in front of you, doing whatever I can to help you.

So please...

Please be the president of Kano-ya's new company.

Shinjiro... I'm asking you, too.

Not you, too! Stop that.

Raise your head.

Shinjiro...

I still don't know a thing about business.

But it was your dad's most fervent wish that you,

Eizaburo and Asa all work together to support Kano-ya.

Then shall I ask you, too?

Shinjiro! Please do it.

Stop it already.

Even if you all pray to me like that, I'm not an

object of worship at the Goryo Shrine.

Object of worship?

All right.

I don't know what I can do, but

in order for all of you to move ahead in this

Meiji society, if you say you need a weak shield like me,

then it can't be helped. I guess I'll do it.

My husband!

Shinjiro!

This is unbelievable, everyone...

Shinjiro says he's going to work!

What a surprise!

Why are you making such a big fuss?

I'm not going to work.

I'm just to just sit there like I have been up until now.

I know! Thank you!

Shall we all go to the Goryo Shrine to pray?

This is how another new wind blew into Kano-ya...

How was Mr. Godai?

I'm so glad.

When I went to see him the last time, he said

something about if he died, the Osaka he built would

still be here, so I was worried.

Besides there was something I didn't get to tell him the

last time, and I want to ask him more questions.

I'll go to see him soon.

You two really have a strange bond, don't you?

What's that?

Godai said he wanted to nurture you more.

And you keep saying you have to repay your obligations to him...

The two of you are like the "hiyoku no tori."

No... No matter how hard I try, Mr. Godai is always

seeing things so far ahead that I can't even see it.

Just when I think I've finally caught up, he's already walking way ahead.

All I'm doing is walking behind him on that path.

I'll never catch up to him.

I see...

Mr. Godai said he's going to be busy working, so

he won't be in Osaka.

He told me to tell you to do your best.

He did?

It's okay. You don't have to do this every day.

No... I'll take care of you until you leave here someday.

Time passed...

We're almost there.

Godai was working tirelessly as if he knew death was near.

I'll leave you to do what I asked, and I'll go to the ward office.

All right.

Thank you for your hard work.

My shoulders are going to be stiff... If I keep

doing things like this, before the new company is set up,

I'll end up flat on my back.

No one's ever been bedridden just from stiff shoulders,

I guess you're right.

Just look these over.

I can't do this.

Let's do this together.

It can't be helped.

My husband...

I really haven't seen Mr. Godai around.

Could it be that he's sick?

There are rumors like that going around the meeting room.

Even if he is a little sick, there are a lot of people to look after him.

It's not for you to worry about.

You're right.

It was the beginning of a new year...

Here you go.

Head Clerk... He's here again.

You're right.

Is that right? Shinjiro's working hard.

I have to go to the meeting room.

I'll see you again.

Excuse me.

Mr. Misaka...?

Mr. Godai's going to Tokyo tomorrow.

It's possible that he may never be able to come

back to Osaka again.

What do you mean...?