Ohisama (4/4)
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I'm not sure if I'm actually going to follow this one in detail, but I might. They've just started a new morning drama (asadora) called Ohisama. It's about a young woman (Sudo Yoko) growing up in Japan starting in about 1932. From the website (http://www9.nhk.or.jp/ohisama/cast/) the family is:
Father: Sudo Ryoichi
Mother: Sudo Hiroko
Older Brother: Sudo Haroki
Second Brother: Sudo Shigeki
Heroine: Sudo Yoko
Anyway, the opening 15 minute segment ran something like this.
A modern day Japanese mother (Haraguchi Fusako) is trying to get her household going in the morning. Her teenage daughter puts on earphones and ignores her, her son and husband dash through, and she's upset about her life. So she gets in her car and goes for a drive in the country.
Looking at a large field of flowers -- buckwheat, I think -- she almost crashes her car into a small group of ojizosan (stone Buddha carvings) at an intersection. She brakes and swerves and misses the ojizosan, but hangs her car up, one wheel in a ditch, and a back wheel hanging in the air. She gets out of her car, sighs, and looks around.
She finds a small ryokan (country inn) nearby. Looking at the sign, she realizes she is hungry, and goes around to the restaurant. But there's a sign saying that today they are closed. She ventures in anyway, and finds a woman watering her garden. When she explains, the woman invites her in. The woman serves her delicious soba (buckwheat noodles). As she is enjoying the soba, she looks at the hotel owner/cook and compliments her on being so beautiful. The hotel owner laughs, tucks a flower into her hair, and tells her that she's actually pretty cute, herself.
The woman shakes her head and asks how this hotel owner/cook can be so happy. The hotel owner sits down and says, "Do you really want to hear my story? It's very long..."
The camera cuts to a small cart in the Japanese rural countryside. The voice, which is that of the hotel owner/cook, tells us that it is Showa 7 (1932). Her father is moving the family to the countryside, because her mother has a weak heart and the doctors have recommended fresh air and living in the country. So her father, a man in a suit, is pulling the cart, with two boys pushing the sides. A young woman, her mother, is in a kimono sitting in the back. Her mother has wavy hair, clearly from a curling iron. The young girl -- who is going to be the hotel owner/cook -- rides beside her, doing yarn cats cradles.
They're walking through rural Japan, with rice being hung in sheaves, the farmers and children dressed in old style country clothing looking in surprise at this cavalcade, and so forth.
They move into a house. I think it was the principal's house before.
The mother tells the young daughter that there's one thing she really has to remember. "No matter what hard times come, always smile." The mother tells her that if she does that, she will be like the sun, making everyone happy.
That night, the young daughter rolls over in the futon and looks at her older brother. He is crying in bed.
Downstairs, father urges mother to stop unpacking and go to bed. She says just a little bit more. He reminds her that she promised to take it easy. He says that if she lives one extra day, even one extra minute, it will be worth it.
The next morning, the young girl wakes up late. She goes downstairs and says good morning to everyone. She smiles at them and says the sun is up. Her father laughs and says maybe tomorrow, the sun should get up earlier.
The young girl goes out and looks at the large field of buckwheat flowers, then up at the sun. The voiceover says, "I couldn't imagine then all the things that were coming." They flashed through a number of short images, of a young girl in school, a parade of young girls in uniforms waving Japanese flags, a young girl crying...
To be continued
That was the end of it. Keep smiling!
I'm not sure if I'm actually going to follow this one in detail, but I might. They've just started a new morning drama (asadora) called Ohisama. It's about a young woman (Sudo Yoko) growing up in Japan starting in about 1932. From the website (http://www9.nhk.or.jp/ohisama/cast/) the family is:
Father: Sudo Ryoichi
Mother: Sudo Hiroko
Older Brother: Sudo Haroki
Second Brother: Sudo Shigeki
Heroine: Sudo Yoko
Anyway, the opening 15 minute segment ran something like this.
A modern day Japanese mother (Haraguchi Fusako) is trying to get her household going in the morning. Her teenage daughter puts on earphones and ignores her, her son and husband dash through, and she's upset about her life. So she gets in her car and goes for a drive in the country.
Looking at a large field of flowers -- buckwheat, I think -- she almost crashes her car into a small group of ojizosan (stone Buddha carvings) at an intersection. She brakes and swerves and misses the ojizosan, but hangs her car up, one wheel in a ditch, and a back wheel hanging in the air. She gets out of her car, sighs, and looks around.
She finds a small ryokan (country inn) nearby. Looking at the sign, she realizes she is hungry, and goes around to the restaurant. But there's a sign saying that today they are closed. She ventures in anyway, and finds a woman watering her garden. When she explains, the woman invites her in. The woman serves her delicious soba (buckwheat noodles). As she is enjoying the soba, she looks at the hotel owner/cook and compliments her on being so beautiful. The hotel owner laughs, tucks a flower into her hair, and tells her that she's actually pretty cute, herself.
The woman shakes her head and asks how this hotel owner/cook can be so happy. The hotel owner sits down and says, "Do you really want to hear my story? It's very long..."
The camera cuts to a small cart in the Japanese rural countryside. The voice, which is that of the hotel owner/cook, tells us that it is Showa 7 (1932). Her father is moving the family to the countryside, because her mother has a weak heart and the doctors have recommended fresh air and living in the country. So her father, a man in a suit, is pulling the cart, with two boys pushing the sides. A young woman, her mother, is in a kimono sitting in the back. Her mother has wavy hair, clearly from a curling iron. The young girl -- who is going to be the hotel owner/cook -- rides beside her, doing yarn cats cradles.
They're walking through rural Japan, with rice being hung in sheaves, the farmers and children dressed in old style country clothing looking in surprise at this cavalcade, and so forth.
They move into a house. I think it was the principal's house before.
The mother tells the young daughter that there's one thing she really has to remember. "No matter what hard times come, always smile." The mother tells her that if she does that, she will be like the sun, making everyone happy.
That night, the young daughter rolls over in the futon and looks at her older brother. He is crying in bed.
Downstairs, father urges mother to stop unpacking and go to bed. She says just a little bit more. He reminds her that she promised to take it easy. He says that if she lives one extra day, even one extra minute, it will be worth it.
The next morning, the young girl wakes up late. She goes downstairs and says good morning to everyone. She smiles at them and says the sun is up. Her father laughs and says maybe tomorrow, the sun should get up earlier.
The young girl goes out and looks at the large field of buckwheat flowers, then up at the sun. The voiceover says, "I couldn't imagine then all the things that were coming." They flashed through a number of short images, of a young girl in school, a parade of young girls in uniforms waving Japanese flags, a young girl crying...
To be continued
That was the end of it. Keep smiling!
