Original subtitles

Even if I should die, the Osaka that Godai built will still be here.

Asa felt an uneasiness stirring inside her.

Meanwhile, at Kano-ya...

Gansuke... Tell me honestly how you feel.

Do you still think that we shouldn't turn our store into a bank?

Asa ga Kita

Week 16 "Someone to Show You the Way" Episode 92

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

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Gehkichi Miyabe: Zen KAJIHARA

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Shokichi Shirooka: Masaomi KONDO

It was about two years ago that Mr. Godai said...

The money changers who don't change info banks

will eventually all disappear.

You're right about that, Asa...

Banking is still a dangerous risk.

But just as Mr. Godai said right now, there aren't

any money changers left.

Shouldn't Kano-ya start setting up a bank?

I want you all to work together to protect the Kano-ya name.

It's high time for me, isn't it, Master?

No... I...

I think you're right.

Kano-ya is an old established business with 250 years

behind us in the Osaka world of finance...

So even if the era for money changers has

ended, we mustn't quit handling money...

Then...

In order to protect our business...

Let's turn to banking.

All right. I'll tell Asa.

Did he just say we should be a bank?

I'll have the tell all the maidservants.

What's all the fuss about?

I wonder... It probably means that a new

morning will come to Kano-ya.

You say that as if it doesn't apply to you.

You mean this store is going to turn into a bank?

If we become a bank, what's going to happen to us?

Is it true that they'll let the maidservants go?

And the men will become "ginkoin" (bank clerks)...

"Ginkoin"? That sounds like some official seal...

With the rumors that Kano-ya would be

turned into a bank, in no time at all, the

workers were in an uproar.

Stop wasting time and go back to work.

Head Clerk...

Mother... I'm sorry about all the commotion.

So is it true that Kano-ya will turn into what's called a bank?

Yes... We talked it over with the head clerk and

everyone and we're going to start setting up our store as a bank.

Is that right?

Gansuke's agreed to it?

Yes of course.

All right then... Go, and tell Dad about it.

While he was alive, he was often concerned about

talks of becoming a bank.

All right. I understand.

Asa...

I don't really understand, but when Kano-ya changes from

a money-changer to a bank what's going to change?

That's right... That's what everyone is worried about.

The biggest difference between a money

changer and a bank is.

That a bank is a company.

Kappa-ni?

Yes... Just like Father used say, "we're going to become a 'kappa' (water sprite)."

We're going to become a "kappa-ni"?

Instead of having all of our workers living here with

us, and taking care of them, we'll pay each of our workers

a salary and they'll use that salary to live on.

You mean we won't be living together anymore?

That's right... Everyone except our live-in help

will live in separate homes, and come here to work

in the morning, and go home in the evening.

I'll be so lonely.

You're right.

What about everyone's meals?

We'll have breakfast and dinner separately, and

they'll each have to prepare their own meals from now.

Will our men be able to do something like that?

That's so true.

That's true... I guess for a while, we'll have them

choose whether they want to live on their own or live-in...

That's true...

Thank you for your concern about such important details.

And one more thing...

The coal mining business has grown bigger than

I expected, so in the near future, I'm thinking of

turning it into a "kappa," I mean a company.

What does that mean?

Kano-ya won't only be a bank, but we'll set

up a new company...

In other words...

Something like this...

...will turn into something like this.

Like this?

That's impressive.

I'll ask Eizaburo to take care of the main part,

and the president of this new company...

President?

If possible, for the president of the coal mining company...

Is that right? So the president of the

coal mining company will be as you said...

Both the head of the family and Mother

have agreed to it, so all that's left is...

You're leaving today, aren't you?

Yes.

I'm glad you're here...

I have something important to talk to you about...

You did mention that, didn't you?

Rather than talk to you about it, since then

some time as passed, and I've made up my mind...

You made up your mind...?

What did you make up your mind about?

Dad! Ume wants to talk to you.

Chiyo... I didn't...

What's wrong?

If the store is going to turn into a bank,

what's going to happen to the head clerk and the other workers?

We plan to have Gansuke become the manager.

He'll have to work harder to take charge of all the other workers.

Manager? Then what about setting him up with his own store?

I'm sorry... It's not my place...

No... We talked about setting Gansuke up

with his own store from my father's time, but

we've never done anything about it.

If we're a bank, we can't set him up with his own

store, but a bank can have branches...

Branch?

To make fit easier to do business, I'm thinking

we'll branches in Dotonbori and Umeda, and eventually,

branches in Tokyo and Kobe.

I've talked to Eizaburo about making Gansuke the manager

of the biggest branch.

A branch manager?

But that's a little bit different from setting him up with

his own store like we did in the past, isn't it?

That's true.

I'm sorry... I know it's not my place to be saying

things like this, but like me, I'm sure the head clerk

has always cared about the family and the workers.

Please... Please don't make it hard on him.

This is the first time Ume has ever said anything like that to me.

As tactful veteran servants, I guess they can relate to each other.

Could it be that if we tell Gansuke we can't

set him up with his own store, he'll leave?

When we become a bank, I thought I could rely

on Gansuke even more.

But if that happens, and that's the path Gansuke

chooses, we mustn't stop him.

It's his life. Up until now, he's sacrificed a lot.

That's true... The business keeps changing, so it's

selfish of me to ask Gansuke not to change.

That's what it is.

I'll try and talk to Gansuke.

Are you talking about the bank again?

I even got you to learn the word "ginko" (bank).

But it's difficult, isn't it?

That means you wouldn't be my mom...

I guess so.

Growing bigger really is difficult, isn't it?

Meanwhile, Godai was working relentlessly for the sake of Osaka's prosperity.

Head Clerk...

I guess it means it's no longer my era.

While I was concentrating on working the abacus,

the times have changed completely.

The idea of the everyone working as a family to

protect the business is no longer true.

They call it a company.

It sounds cold to me.

I guess I'm just getting old.

You're someone that Kano-ya can't do without.

It's not just the head of the family, but

the grand mistress, Shinjiro, Oasa and everyone else

all want you to stay.

Of course... Me, too.

Ume...

Yes?

Will you...

...leave this house with me?