Original subtitles

Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture

Koriyama in the morning, Utsunomiya in the afternoon.

It's a double-header business trip today!

Are you Inogashira-san?

Yes.

Nice to meet you, I'm Kimura.

Hello.

Hello.

Thank you.

I'll take this.

Thank you for coming all the way here to Koriyama.

Don't mention it.

You know.

Yes?

Note: Fukuoka City Business Trip Summer SP 2014 We heard about the exchange event between Fukuoka City and Bordeaux City, which you planned and produced.

We're also looking forward to working with you here in Koriyama.

Oh, thank you.

In November, we're organizing an exhibition and sale of Dutch crafts and antiques...

...as part of our exchange with our sister city, Brummen (city in Netherlands).

Five years ago, I was in Amsterdam on business, and that Bru- Brummen City?

Yes.

Oh, I was there. It's a beautiful city, rich in nature.

That's right!

Now, let me show you where the exhibition and sale will be held.

Oh, okay.

This way please. Over here.

Yes.

Right this way.

Yes.

I don't think we should just give up and say we can't do anything in these times...

...but we should do what we can right now.

I couldn't agree more.

Kimura-kun... is fired up (passionate).

It's about 30 minutes by car.

Huh?

Why isn't it here...

Please wait for a while...

Are you okay?

It's hot, Kimura-kun.

MATSUSHIGE YUTAKA INOGASHIRA GORO

Regardless of time or society...

Let's see Over there?

Maybe this shop?

Wonder if this is a good one?

When someone indulges in satisfying his hunger...

Alright! Trying my luck with this!

Oh well, here goes nothing!

For someone who's "belly" hungry Huh? Unexpectedly just right...

for someone who's belly hungry

...he will become selfish and liberated for a moment.

Liquor? Nope, I don't "drink" so.

...28cm, right

Well, let's see Okay!

Without being disturbed by anyone...

It's good! Oh...

...to eat freely is an act of aloofness.

Now this is what I'm talking about, this one

Have no problem with this whatsoever Mm Mm Slurp Huff

This act is the best comfort given...

Excuse me? Can I order for take out? Su~re

Is there something here I could take home?

Fully Enjoying A Solo Meal

Ah, I'm enjoying this I'm really enjoying this shop!

...equally to every man.

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Ep. 9: "Drive-In Yakiniku Set Meal of Mogimachi, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture"

SUBTITLES BY WABI-SABI SUBS

Translation / Editing / Timing: EARTHCOLORS

Hello~.

Welcome.

Excuse me~.

Please come in.

This Takashiba Dekoyashika is the birthplace of our local toys, Miharu Koma and papier mache dolls....

Even now, it's still used by craftsmen as a workshop. It has also become a tourist attraction.

Such a nice atmosphere!

May I take some pictures?

Of course, of course.

It's okay, right?

Go ahead. Feel free.

Thank you. So if you'll excuse me.

Thank you for your time.

Okay, thanks.

Good day.

Thank you for accomodating us.

Thank you. I'll be back.

Here is a token from the craftsmen earlier.

Next year is the Year of the Tiger.

If you want, you can give it to someone you know.

We recommend that it be placed at the entrance of the house.

Thank you for these.

What did you think of it?

Brummen's specialty, craft boxes, has something in common with the papier-mache dolls.

Something like this will spread its image.

By all means, please spread the wings of the image as WIDE as you can!

And come up with excellent suggestions.

All the staff of Koriyama City are looking forward to it!

I'll do my best to meet your expectations.

We would greatly appreciate it.

We're he~re.

Um, where are we?

It's my parents' house.

What does he mean?

How about joining us for lunch? There isn't much but...

Oh, no... just...

If you like, you can use our bath...

Oh, there's a nice field of watermelons out back...

I appreciate the sentiment...

But I have to go to Utsunomiya now.

But you must be starving, right?

Oh, yes, I mean, no... I'm not hungry at all.

Is that so?

Then, I'll take you to Koriyama Station.

Wasn't there a station we passed by just now? I'm going by train...

But...

Please don't worry about me...

You go and have your lunch, Kimura-san.

Then, if you'll excuse me.

Looking forward to working with you!

Yes.

Let's keep in touch soon!

What a bummer...

The train's not coming at all...

Plus, I'm such a liar...

Actually... for a while now...

I'm feeling... hungry!

I can't wait. I have to find a shop.

Is there even a shop around here?

It's quite a rural area.

There's nothing here in front of the station.

I could lose my way around here.

"Live-in"...

"D-Drive-in"?

"Mogi... Drive-in..."

Mogi Drive-In

Very austere exterior.

Looks good! Okay, this is it.

Ah, welcome.

Will you be having the Soup?

Today I'll have the Liver Set.

Liver Set?

Yes.

So large serving, right?

No, regular serving.

Alright, got it.

Hi, you can have any of the empty seats.

1 Liver Set!

Yep!

Here you go.

I survived...

MENU Set Meals Rice Bowls Noodles and Others

"Menu"...

Katsu Curry at a drive-in.

Looks super addicting.

Would you like some more?

Thank you.

Sure is hot, isn't it? If you don't drink water, you'll collapse.

Oh, thank you so much. I felt like I was going to collapse.

Please let me know when you're ready to order.

Set Meals Rice Bowls

Japanese Oil Yakiniku Set Meal Liver Stir-Fry Set Meal Deep-Fried Tripe Set Meal

"Japanese style oil..."?

Special Yakiniku Set Meal Deep Fried Squid Set Meal

"Special Yakiniku"...

Yakiniku Set Meal

...and this one's just plain "Yakiniku".

Meat

"Meat... Bowl"!

Bowl

Two words... somehow, sounds formidable.

It's a lean, rock solid assortment.

How do we attack?

Here's Japanese Style Oil Yakiniku.

Please eat it with ponzu sauce.

It's like pork shabu...

And here are the Deep-Fried Squid.

Alright...

Excuse me.

Yes, would you like to order?

What's the difference between Yakiniku Set Meal and the Special Yakiniku Set Meal?

The meats are completely different.

The regular yakiniku set has pork belly. While the special has sauteed pork loin.

Then...

Uh, I guess, well...

I'll have the regular set please.

Alright, please wait for a while.

1 Yaki-Set!

Yep!

Liver-Set is coming!

Okay!

Okay. Thank you for waiting. Here's Liver-Set.

I haven't heard that word used much lately. The word "drive-in".

Thanks, I'm done!

Yes. Thank you very much.

I'm done, too.

Let's see... Katsu Curry and Tanmen. That'll be ¥1800.

Okay, for both please.

Here, Yakiniku Set Meal.

[Yakiniku Set Meal] Full of volume! Stomach will be full! Special sauce is addictive!

Looks great... I made the right choice!

The aluminum plate is moving me to tears.

I humbly receive.

It's good!

The thick sauce makes my tongue dance and the rice go and chase it.

This punching power.

My sweaty body is rejoicing.

[Miso Soup] Lots of love, lots of ingredients!

Miso soup with pork, pretending to be just plain miso soup.

This makes me happy.

Speaking of donburi-sized miso soup with a lot of ingredients...

Note: New Year SP Midwinter Hokkaido-Asahikawa Business Trip 2015 ...the miso soup at a shokudo in Asahikawa was like this.

I think the miso soup over there had chikuwa and egg in it.

We're done. It was delicious.

Thank you so much!

We ate a lot.

I'm so full.

We sure ate a lot, right?

After filling their stomachs, the men go to work again.

This is the scene of a proper lunch.

I guess... I'll go for it!

MENU Set Meals Rice Bowls Noodles and Others

Excuse me.

Yes?

Can I order the Japanese Oil Yakiniku only, and not as a set?

You sure like meat, don't you?

Can you make it a bit of a smaller serving?

Oh, sure.

But it's the same price though. Is that alright with you?

Yes please, it's okay.

Alright, then.

Potato salad... with macaroni.

An uncommon combination.

I'm wrapped in an unfathomable sense of nostalgia.

A memory of some drive-in...

A feeling of some... distant memory of me...

...eating a set meal like this in Koriyama.

Hello~.

[Japanese-Style Oil Yakiniku] The tanginess of ponzu sauce will make you eat and drink more! I have no doubt. I like pork.

This one's good too!

So yummy~.

This is the kind of thing you can eat as much as you like!

The refreshing taste of ponzu increases the appetite.

Good, good. Pork with sprouts, nice.

Can I order?

Sure, go ahead.

Special Yakiniku with a big bowl of rice.

And large servings for the sides as well.

Sure!

Double order of large.

Tonkatsu with half rice.

Half miso soup. Skip the pickles but add a raw egg.

Wah, I didn't know there was such a thing.

Special, both large and Tonkatsu with half rice and half miso soup plea~se!

Got it. I'll start first with Tonkatsu.

Okay!

I've been eating a lot of eggplants this summer~.

Shabu-Shabu...

From the sauce's hard straight, to the pork shabu's jab.

This nice combination punch, has me on the verge of getting KO'd.

It was a good decision to get a double pork order.

Got hit hard by the thick sauce flavor...

...and then get soothed by the Japanese flavor.

*Character trait that switches from being tough and cold to soft and gentle It's a tsundere* pork meal.

Sauce-Cabba(ge), yum!

This one...

Like this?

It's a bit better. The sauce has changed.

Lemon on pork. This might be a new idea.

Here's Tonkatsu. Enjoy.

And here's the Special Set with large servings!

Here you go.

Large serving... Wow...

Isn't one bowl of this enough to get your daily requirement of vegetables?

The amount of vegetables in this would surprise even a vegetarian!

Even though it has a strong taste, I never get tired of it.

My body, not my head, is craving this.

Yakiniku Set Meal at a Drive-In.

For a moment I was overcome by a sense of nostalgia, but somehow...

This place is making me feel alive and strong!

Eat and work.

That's the basis of humanity.

Thanks for this meal.

I'm done. How much is the bill?

Thank you.

It'll be ¥1850.

Then do you have change for ¥2000?

Yes. Change for ¥2000.

Zouri Pan (Tax Included) 5 pcs ¥650 10 pcs ¥1300 20 pcs ¥2600

"Zouri Pan"...?

Here's your change of ¥150.

Your change.

How much is this?

Zori pan for ¥130.

Then I'll (pay with) this.

Than- Thank you.

So one?

Yes, yes. One.

Then ¥130.

Yes.

Thank you for the business!

I've gotten lots of energy.

Thanks, Drive-In.

I'm sure I'll be back here again.

Shall I eat it here?

[Zori Pan] Modest sweetness, Showa flavor

It's delicious.

There's anko inside.

It's a bit like a crushed An-Doughnut.

Nah...

This is more like that thing...

Zori Macaron.

Based on the manga "Kodoku no Gurume" Story: QUSUMI MASAYUKI Art: TANIGUCHI JIRO (Published by Shukan SPA!)

Screenplay: TAGUCHI YOSHIHIRO

'Inogashira Goro' MATSUSHIGE YUTAKA

'Kimura Seiji' WATANABE DAICHI

Next is Utsunomiya...

Opening Narration: NODA KEIICHI

Music: "THE SCREEN TONES" QUSUMI MASAYUKI FUKUMURA SATOSHI KONO FUMIHIKO SHAKE KURIKI KEN

Oh, no!

I'll be in trouble if I miss the train!

Opening Title CG: GASP

Subtitles by WABI-SABI SUBS

Translation / Editing / Timing: EARTHCOLORS

Opening Narration Translation: DANBURI

Producers: KOMATSU YUKITOSHI KIKUCHI TAKEHIRO YOSHIMI KENSHI

Chief Producer: ABE SHINJI

Director: KITABATA RYUICHI

In cooperation with: KYODO TV

A 2021 Production of: TV TOKYO

This drama is fiction

Author Qusumi Masayuki will visit the shop where the show was filmed...

FURATTO

Koriyama Volume Narrator: UEKUSA TOMOKI (TV Tokyo Announcer)

The exterior is austere, isn't it?

"Kodoku no Gurume" Original Writer QUSUMI MASAYUKI

Goro-san seems to have come here in the daytime...

But the exterior looks great (at night).

I guess you seldom see a neon sign these days.

So with that, we're going to go to the shop this time, with a nice neon sign...

MOGI DRIVE-IN

...Mogi Drive-In.

Your servings are quite large, all of them, right?

Staff TAKAHASHI KINUKO-san

Yes but as long as you don't order a large portion, it's normal size, but for this place, large IS large.

Ah~ I see.

That's true for this shop, but everyone says our large servings are too much.

Too much?

Then what should I do? Right now, I'm having a hard time deciding whether to have ramen...

Or maybe Tonjiru Set Meal with small rice.

Oh, don't worry, we can do that. We have Tonjiru Set Meal too.

Then, small rice for the Tonjiru Set Meal.

Okay.

And at once...

Taisho HASHIMOTO KOECHI-san

Ni~ce-- Oh! how nice it is...

Tonjiru Set Meal (Half)

This is what he ordered. Tonjiru Set Meal (half).

Isn't this wonderful?

He'll start with Chilled Tofu.

This tofu is truly delicious.

This alone is already enough for tonight.

Ah~ looks wonderful, Tonjiru.

The fried tofu here is the best.

Well, how do you find it?

Ah~ it's good. I can eat this.

Ah~ it hits the spot.

It has lots of pork. And full of vegetables.

Isn't this the best kind of food?

It's nice to be in a place like this...

This summer is good.

So good.

Qusumi-san enjoyed the Tonjiru Set Meal.

And then there was...

Hello, sir. Please eat, if you want.

Oh dear...

This is...! Gyoza has co~me...

It's gyoza.

Oh my goodne~ss...

Gyoza

The one that appeared was this Gyoza.

Hot. Yum.

Oh, it's good.

This is good gyoza.

The Gyoza rice here is absolutely delicious too.

It's just ordinary gyoza.

But it's delicious.

Featured Eatery: MOGI DRIVE IN Fukushima-ken, Koriyama-shi, Mogimachi, Miyanomae 42-1

A shop with an austere appearance, Mogi Drive In.

If you're visiting, check out the program's website.

Next on "Kodoku no Gurume"...

Ep. 10 "Tripe Stew and Ham-Katsu of Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture"

Tune in next time.