Original subtitles

What are you trying to do?

I was just going inside the mine.

I'm the owner of this mountain.

I can't let you all go on thinking that

I'm a fool just because I'm a woman!

I want to learn more about the mountain

so I'll be able to talk to all of you.

You idiot!

Do you know what the coal we're digging is?

It's rock that burns.

If you go in the hole surrounded by

those kinds of rocks you never know

when it'll turn into a ball of fire.

That's not all.

If you make just one wrong move in the

mine, the dirt will come crumbling down and

bury a person in the blink of an eye!

If there's an explosion, there could be a flash

flood that could wash you away.

A coal mine is a place where you're always

one step away from death.

You're an stupid woman who doesnt even know that

I'm sorry!

Don't apologize to me.

Apologize to the god of the mountain.

God of the mountain, I'm sorry!

Asa ga Kita

Week 7 "My Husband's Secret" Episode 39

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

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Kazu: Yasuko TOMITA

Jirosaku: Ginnojo YAMAZAKI

Gerikichi Miyabe: Zen KAJIHARA

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

OSAKA

It's only been a little while since I arrived here, but

this place is full of surprises.

The coal miners won't listen to me because I'm a woman.

And they refuse to work at all.

I thought it couldn't go on like this, so I thought

I'd try digging myself, but...

Don't do that!

But it turns out that it's something that I could never do anyway.

Of course it is! What do you think you're doing?

Right now, I deeply regret my ignorance of what

goes on in the world.

And there aren't only men at the coal mine, but

there are a lot of women who are spirited and

strong that I could never compete with.

KYUSHU

Most of the people who are here are mamed couples,

parents and children, or siblings who all work in pairs.

And what surpnsed me is the women who are

called "okadashi" who work in the mine carrying the

coal that the men dig up out from the mine.

So the women just wear a single thin layer kimono,

going down the narrow tunnels of the mine,

their faces and bodies covered in black...

They risk their lives from moming until night,

working in the mine.

When they're done working, they take care of their

household duties, care for the children and do the mountain

of things required of a woman.

I wonder how they can handle all of that hardship, but the

women don't seem to think of it as hardship, and they're always smiling.

Compared to them, I wonder what a narrow-minded,

naive child I am... But as the person who's been

put in charge of the mine by Kano-ya, I can't give up now.

OSAKA

Doesn't she even think of giving up and coming back home?

It must be a harsher place than I thought to get

Asa to be reflect upon herself like that.

I'm sorry to come by all of a sudden.

You're Sanouji-ya's Hatsu, aren't you?

Yes.

I'm Tomoatsu Godai.

TOMOATSU GODAI

I came here about Sanouji-ya's Sobei.

About my husband...?

Yes.

After checking into it, it seems that Sobei

has been seen often around Teramachi's gambling den.

A gambling den?

Is that right?

That area isn't a place for a woman to go, so if

you'll allow me, I'd like to check into it a little bit more...

No... I appreciate it, but this is a family problem.

Will you let us handle this by ourselves?

Arid besides, I can't have someone of your status

whom I've never met before, do something like this for me.

If you want to know the reason, then ask Asa about it.

Asa?

Yes.

Still, you don't seem alike, but you two sisters

are very much alike, aren't you?

{a\n8}KYUSHU

Meanwhile, back at the coal mine.

Is that woman still here?

Boss... it's been 10 days since I came here...

I can't have the coalmine sit idle any longer...

What is it, Young Mistress?

I told you to go through me, the manager, before you

talk to the boss, didn't I?

It's meaningless to talk to you.

What's most important to you is your own welfare, isn't it?

What I hate most are people like you who can't even think

for themselves and who just sit on the fence.

Sit on the fence?

Boss... I didn't come here to argue with all of you.

Letting the mine sit idle puts not only me but

all of you in a bind, doesn't it?

Please... Let me talk to everyone once more.

Do you really intend to talk to them again?

If they try to start a fight with you again...

Kisuke...?

I wonder what my husband is doing right now.

My husband doesn't work and he doesn't want to

do any kind of hard labor...

He's always playing around.

So when the coal miners ask if he's a coward, I'd

have to say that he might be a little bit cowardly...

That's true... If I had to say, maybe he's a little bit cowar...

What are you saying?

But he's not a fool.

And besides, if you ask me which is more masculine,

the coal miners who always fall back on the fact that

I'm a woman or my husband who leaves things to me...

I don't know which is more like a man.

That's true. What is it to be like a man?

Ouch!

Are you okay?

I miss my husband.

She realized just how lonely she was without Shinjiro by her side.

OSAKA

Meanwhile Hatsu had left her son with Eitatsu, and

was headed all alone to the gambling den that

Mr. Godai had told her about.

Hey!

You cheated!

Shut up!

You have no money and you're a lousy gambler.

Just go on home!

My husband...

My husband!

I'm sorry!

Watch where you're going!

I'm sorry! I'm sorry...

Sobei had disappeared.

My husband

KYUSHU

KANO-YA

Like I keep telling you, Kano-ya will take

responsibility for all of you coal miners...

You're as precious to us as our own family.

So please...

Go back to digging for coal from tomorrow.

Bring your husnband here.

I'm representing Kano-ya...

There are rumors that Kano-ya in Osaka is

on the verge of bankruptcy.

What did you expect? They have a woman leading them.

The coal mine won't survive either.

That's not true. If you mine the coal, I promise

that we'll sell them.

We won't reduce your salary from what it was.

In that case... We'll work if you'll double our salary.

Double...? There's no way that we can pay that.

Why? Why is it that you can only continue this senseless arguments?

If we're not going to move in the right

direction, there's no use talking to you.

Who do you think you are?

The men in Kyushu have kept their work separate

from women's work since the time we were born!

Nothing is more ridiculous to us than talking to a woman!

That's right.

Just go back to Osaka!

Go home!

You cowards!

You've looked down on me from the beginning because I'm a woman.

Who do you think gave birth to all of you anyway?

Don't take me lightly just because I'm a woman!

As long as I can't have a decent talk with

all of you, I'm not going back to Osaka!

If men and women won't help each other out,

and make this into a better world,

what's going to happen? You pigheaded men!

What's that?

Are you looking tor a fight?

Stop it!

She has a pistol!