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Asa ga Kita

Week 21 "People Who Dream" Episode 125

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

Sobei Mayuyama: Tasuku EMOTO

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Izumi Narusawa: Koji SETO

Ayaka Okuma: Keiko MATSUZAKA

Kiku Mayuyama: Hisako MANDA

Eitatsu Mayuyama: Takuro TATSUMI

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

Asa... Sobei and Hatsu have to be going.

Are you going home already?

That's right.

I'm so glad to see you alive.

I'm so sorry.

Remember the orange trees on the mountain?

Among them, there are nice, strong ones and some

that are thin... The strong ones can grow good

oranges, but if there's bad weather, and strong winds

blow in from the sea, the first to break are the strong ones.

While the thin trees just wave back and forth in the winds,

and will bear fruit after the storm.

That's why I worry about you growing too big and strong.

It's okay to work hard, but for the sake of those you

care about and all the people who worry about you, don't

do anything reckless again.

All right. I understand.

I have to hand it to her...

No matter how many tames I told her the same thing,

I couldn't stop her.

Hatsu has me and the whole family doing whatever

she tells us to now.

Hatsu and Sobei headed back to Wakayama that day.

What are you planning to do from now?

It'll soon be the three years that you promised Mom...

I... want to stay here at Kano Bank, and work.

I suppose you would. I had a feeling you'd say that.

Fortunately, Yonosuke has really started working hard for us now...

Yonosuke? Is that tight?

Ainosuke... Thank you for the ointment.

I was so happy to see that you were working so hard.

Dad...

There's something I want you to tell Grandma...

Chiyo was going back to school in Kyoto, too.

When you graduate, it'll be time for you to get married.

Married?

That's right.

You said you wanted to hurry, and get married, didn't you?

So I'll have to get serious and find you someone.

So I'm going to be a bride?

We'll be able to find lots of prospects for such a

refined and kind girl like Chiyo, won't we?

We certainty will.

Are you okay? Is something wrong?

Hello, Apple Girl.

Are you going to a girls' school?

Hello... My mother's much better now, so I'm going

back to Kyoto tomorrow.

So it was your mother in the hospital...?

What a surprise! I thought it was your father.

What school in Kyoto?

I live in the dormitory at Shirakawa Girls' School.

I'll be back here again during the weekend.

I see... I'll be here until the weekend, then

I'm going back to Tokyo.

If the fate's allow, we may be able to see each other again.

Yes.

Meanwhile at Kano Bank...

What did you want to talk to me about?

Kisuke...

Will you come back to Osaka?

Shinjiro and I talked it over, and we're thinking of

sending Shibata over as the manager for our northern Kyushu headquarters.

I'm sure Shibata will do a good job there.

I couldn't hope for anything better.

My wife and daughter will be so happy.

About your position...

By any chance, will I be the branch manager for our

Tenjin-bashi branch...?

No, there were rumors about Gansuke being the...

No...

I want you to be our executive secretary.

What's a "executive secretary"?

The ones who are considered executives at Kano-ya are

Eizaburo, Shinjiro and Oasa.

So I guess it means you'll be assisting those three.

But that Hei-san is a manager, so why am I just an assistant?

Idiot! An executive secretary is much more powerful than

any branch manager or manager.

Really?

That's right. Even if I don't, Eizaburo and Asa have too much work to do.

If there isn't anyone around who knows both of their

business to manage it all efficiently, the business won't run smoothly.

To tell the truth... I told him that I wanted you here.

What happened this time really touched me to the core.

Won't you please stay by Asa's side and protect her?

I'm asking you to please do that, too.

I guess it can't be helped.

Kisuke started working as an executive secretary,

and every day people were coming to the hospital to see

how Asa was doing.

You think Kano-ya should handle life insurance now?

After so many banks opened, there's this thing called life

insurance that will guarantee the livelihood of those left

behind after a person dies and also serves as a savings...

You've heard of it, haven't you?

Yes, I have. It's like bamboo shoots that grow after

the rains, there sure has been a lot of them...

Half of those have already gone out of business.

One of those about to go out of business came

to your bank president, and asked for his help.

If you can get money after you die, it's something

very tempting for people my age.

Getting money after you die?

Don't talk about such ominous things in front of my wife who almost died.

That's right.

Excuse me.

I'm terribly sorry, but it's about time for the next visitors to come in.

I'm sorry. I'll see all of you out.

Thank you for coming. Take care all of you

You, too, Mistress.

Mrs. Okuma!

SHIGENOBU OKUMA'S WIFE AYAKO

I went to see Mr. Narusawa before I came here.

He seemed really depressed saying he couldn't face you.

He was?

He shouldn't say things like that, and come to see me.

We have to start getting ready to establish the women's university...

It seems like a waste to just be lying here.

Take it easy.

But I'm glad to see that no matter how they try to

hamper you, you haven't forgotten the goal you

made up your mind to achieve.

Of course I haven't.

It's the same as you.

Is that right?

In that case, you don't have to get impatient and worry.

Will you look at this?

This is...?

Those are signatures of the people who have given

their support to your venture.

Look at it closely...

Are those the names of their wives?

That's right.

Seeing how much effort you've put into this, has moved

all of these people.

I'm one of them, too.

Mrs. Okuma...

No matter how much authority men may have, if their

positions change, their attitude might change, too...

It's the same with my husband.

But... We're different.

We'll support you to the end.

So don't be impatient.

Take good care of yourself and be

sure you recover completely.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

And...

Are you going to Tokyo, Mom?

When Kyutaro... I mean my little brother who's now the head

of the Imai family, went to visit Asa at the hospital,

he said your grandpa's not doing too well.

Tadaoki...?

So while things are a little slow here, I was hoping

you'd let me go to see how he's doing.

That's a good idea. You go with her, Yonosuke.

You can visit your grandpa, and see how things are

at the Tokyo market while you're there... It'll come

in handy later, won't it?

Okay Leave it to me.

Also...

Mom...

Why are you so serious all of a sudden?

Will you give up on the idea of restoring the

Sanouji-ya name in Osaka...?

I heard about it from Ainosuke.

He told me that you wanted him to work hard at Kano Bank

and have them set him up with a business of his

own someday, so he can restore Sanouji-ya in Osaka.

But, Mom... It's impossible.

Why is it impossible?

Because banks don't have a custom of setting up

their workers with their own business.

Banks are totally different from money changers.

It's just impossible for Ainosuke to restore

the Sanouji-ya name in Osaka the way things are now.

That Ainosuke... How could he be so pathetic!

Why did he go to Osaka to begin with?

Why do you think I suffered all this time to send him to school?

Mother... Going to school wasn't for Sanouji-ya's sake,

but for Ainosuke's sake.

Ainosuke said he felt really bad for you.

But he's grateful to you.

So, Mother...