All language subtitles for Asa Ga Kita Week 18 Ep103 (848x480 x264)

You sure have become a
fine mom, haven't you?

What about you? You're a
respectable merchant's wife.

Mom likes the bank
more than me.

I envy you.

Being born into such a
wealthy merchant family.

What do you think someone
who runs a bank wants the

most and is the most
important thing?

It's trust, isn't it?

That's correct.

It's been 10 years since
Asa's dream...

And Kano-ya has finally
become Kano Bank.

Asa ga Kita

Week 18
"Welcome to Our Bank"
Episode 103

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

Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka:
Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka:
Fuuka KOSHIBA

Heijuro Yamazaki:
Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Yono Shirooka:
Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama:
Aoi MIYAZAKI

Kano Bank had added branches in
Sakai and Kobe, and was growing steadily.

1891 (MEIJI 24)

Thank you.

Welcome home. The reporter
is inside waiting for you.

I'm back!

It really was difficult.

Japan never had the custom
of leaving their money

with someone else.

It's hard to get people to
open savings accounts.

Although it looked as if things
were going smoothly for Asa,

the source of her
problem was...

CHIYO SHIROOKA

This one is nice.
It's so elegant.

Is it? In the past, this type
of design was popular.

I'm home!

Dad! Welcome home.

Welcome home.

What's that?

Today they want to do a
story about Asa in the

newspaper, so they're
here to talk to her.

They said that she's a great
business woman who

rebuilt this business that
was on the verge of

collapse during the Restoration,
and made our bank successful.

A business woman?

It's unusual for a woman.

I don't see why... It was Asa
who worked so hard for the

sake of the business.

That's right.

She was always out front
in the store while she

left the household to Grandma,
Ume and the others...

And to you, too... She left my
care to others, not giving a

single thought of me, and now she's
acting like a business woman.

Chiyo! You mustn't say
mean things like that.

Your mother spent years
working hard to rebuild

our store into a big store like
it was in the Tokugawa era.

You should be grateful to her,
so you mustn't say such

hateful things about her.

That's right. I've told you
many times, haven't I?

The reason you're able to
wear beautiful kimono

like you're wearing now is
because your mother

got us through the period
after the Restoration.

Even if you say things like
that, I don't know what

the Restoration is about.

You don't know what the
Restoration is about?

That's true. Chiyo was born
after the era changed.

That's right. For someone
born in the Meiji era

like me, when people talk
about the Restoration

and I learn about it in school,
it doesn't mean anything.

That's true, but the
Tokugawa family

that was in power
for 250 years...

Listen to me, Dad.

When you mention the
Tokugawa family to me,

all I can say is "Who is this
Tokugawa anyway?"

My goodness! It was such
a big thing for us...

That's so true.

This is a surprise. I guess
this is the difference in

generation, isn't it?

That's right. That's what it is.

It's nothing to be
surprised about.

How could you be so carefree
and laugh about it?

Are you finished talking
to the reporter?

I did.

Chiyo! What do you mean
by "Who is this Tokugawa?"

The Nara Capital, the Heian era, and
the Edo era are also contiguous

to the Meiji era... That's why the
study of history is important.

You need to know how the
country of Japan came about.

You can't go on with this
miserable attitude...

It's no fun at all
listening to you.

I can't believe she said
you're no fun when

people always talked about what
a strange child you were.

That's so true...

I brought you gifts.

This is for you.

Thank you.

This is for you, Asa.

Why?

Why do you always
talk to me like that?

I'm saying you're no fun
because you're no fun.

I enjoy listening to Dad and
Grandma, but listening to

you is like listening to the
principal with his thin

drooping moustache lecture
us during morning assembly.

Thin drooping moustache?

See? Like this

Stop it! Stop this already.

Whenever Asa and Chiyo
see each other, they

always end up fighting.

That's the kind of mother
and daughter they were.

I'm sorry.

That's right... What good
is it if you stand in the

same ring as your daughter
when you're her mother?

You're right.

If we're going to be in the
same ring, I'd rather

sumo wrestle with her.

Don't be ridiculous!

Don't even think about
sumo wrestling your own daughter.

I'm sorry. But Chiyo
really does hate me.

Where did I go wrong
in raising her?

I don't think you can say
you went wrong...

What?

Nothing.

Your gift. Don't toss
it aside again.

That's right. Thank you
for your hard work.

How was Amagasaki?

We were discussing how to
get through this terribly

bad economy, but...

As usual, while I was saying,
"ur" and "sun," we were

able to get things
straightened out.

Saying "un" and "sun" as usual...?

That's right. Lately, I not only
say "un, sun" but I imitate

Hei-san and tried
saying "hei."

This turned out to be a
really convenient word...

If I say, "hei" in this tone...
It sounds dignified...

If I say, "hei" like this...
It sounds friendly...

If I say "hei hei" I can skillfully
handle whatever comes up.

No matter how I use it,
it sounds good.

So you just say "un,"
sun" and "hei"?

That's right.

If I have these three, then
even having me as the

president, we can manage.

I have to thank Hei-san.

Saying something so
ridiculous again.

But if you managed to
straighten things out

like that, then I thank you
for your hard work.

Thank you for your hard work.

It's a ticket!

What a strange hobby.

During this time in Osaka,
besides the spinning mill

that Shinjiro undertook, various
industries grew rapidly...

It developed at such a
rate that it would later

be called the Manchester
of the Orient.

And Asa in her western dress
and Shinjiro in his kimono,

walking around town like
a happy couple became

well-known throughout Osaka,
the growing center of business.

Besides running the bank, Asa
started a new business selling

raw cotton wholesale to
spinning mills in place

of Shinjiro who was busy
working in Amagasaki.

The raw cotton business
volume has gone up

quite a bit, hasn't it?

But the raw cotton these
days are so expensive.

I want to start expanding,
and import raw cotton

from America and India, but
we'll have to pay a high tax.

And at Kano Bank...

Asa was able to build the
classroom she always

wanted to where the
employees could learn

the knowledge and
morals of business.

She had the clerks and
apprentice learn about

business from Heijuro who
had become the manager of Kano Bank.

We can't say that we've
totally recovered from

the previous year's
poor economy.

At regular banks, when that
commotion occurred, they

were able to scrape together
cash right away from the

head office and branches.

This when all of you
have to rise up quickly...

This is important.

You were sleeping,
weren't you?

Shouldn't you have
gone today?

Asa said she wants you to
come with her to the

classroom and learn,
didn't she?

I won't go. Why do I have
to go to school during the

day, and go to learn
at night, too?

Who wants to learn about
business anyway?

That's because after Oasa
came to Kano-ya and

was able to learn about
business when she was

young, she really
enjoyed it.

So she wants the same
thing for you.

That's true...

Asa is probably thinking
of letting you work

in the family business like
her after you get out

of higher elementary school.

Chiyo working in
the business?

I don't want to. You
must be kidding.

That's no way to talk.

Thank you.

In Osaka, there are a lot of
business people who want

to succeed like your mother.

Come to think of it, she
was telling Sachi to

come and learn with her
when she can find time

from child raising.

No! Not my wife. Ume!

You're contradicting
yourself, Eizaburo.

No... But each person has
certain things they're

good at and things they're
not too good at.

Thank you. I'll take
this, and go home.

Be careful on your
way home.

Say "hello," to Sachi.

I have no intention of
working in the family business.

You don't? Then what
kind of woman do you

want to be, Chiyo?

I want to be a good wife
like Grandma and Sachi.

I'm so happy to hear
you say that.

And I want to be
like Aunt Hatsu...

I wanted to meet you.

And become a kind
mother like she is.

I see...

That sounds like
a good thing.

Just as you wanted to
you've become a

great business woman.

Business woman?

No... It's been three years
since we opened the bank

I've always wanted...

I have to make it
even bigger.

I see...

I don't really understand it,
but do you always have

to continue making
it bigger like that?

Even if it's going well now,
if let my guard down, and

a bank comes out with something
new, it'll be disheartening.

As it is, I don't really know what
I should be aiming for now...

I'm home!

Shinjiro! Welcome home.

Where did you go?

You were so late coming
home from work that

I thought I'd go out,
and have a drink...

When I ran into an adorable
friend right outside...

Adorable friend?

Come on in...

This person is...

Oh, my!