Original subtitles

Thanks to your hard work, in the first half of the year,

we achieved our goal.

However, since the beginning of July, the economy is gradually getting worse.

Please do not let your guard down.

We understand.

I'd Manpei-san to help my acquaintance's workshop.

- Workshop? - They're trying to make an apparatus

- that hasn't existed in this world. - An apparatus that doesn't exist in this world?

- It's like how you were years ago. - Where's this company at?

- That was hot! - Manpei-san!

Manpuku

♫Marumatteru senakani ni morai naki ♫I get infectious weeping looking at your stooped shoulders

♫Haji datte issho ni ♫We'll share the humiliation too

Week 15

Are You Regretting It?

♫Hikoukigumo bonyari nagamu ♫Gazing absentmindedly at contrails

♫Kokoro kokoni arazu ♫Here in body, but not in spirit

♫Nenkan totaru moshi shitara ♫If I was to calculate an annual total

♫Tsukiau watashi sugoi? ♫Aren't I amazing for keeping you company?

♫Toboketeru mayuge ni morai warai ♫ I get infectious laughter looking at your comical eyebrows

♫Tere datta nandatte ♫Be it embarrassment or whatever

♫Morai naki morai warai morai ikari ♫Infectious weeping, infectious laughter, infectious anger

♫Moraippaji don to koi! ♫Infectious embarrassment. Bring them on!

♫Seiten mo donten mo hekireki mo ♫Sunny days, cloudy days, thunderous days too

This must be it.

Yes.

Can I help you?

- I'm Tachibana with Ikeda Credit Union. - I'm Onozuka.

We've been making cutlery for years.

But my son who was working for a household appliance manufacturer came home.

ODAJIMA KENZO

ODAJIMA TADASHI

He suggested using our technology to make something new.

What we came up with was the multipurpose food processor.

Multipurpose food processor?

Although it's still in the design phase.

By switching this container on the top,

it can turn into a juicer or a mixer

or it can even chop vegetables.

- Chopper? - And can be a juicer and mixer as well?

But we can't get it to chop finely yet.

Plus, we've got to make it smaller to keep it in the kitchen.

Multipurpose food processor.

Two coffees for you.

Can I get you anything else?

- We're fine. - Enjoy.

- Fuku-chan, it's time for you to go. - Oh, yeah. It's time.

- You can go now. - But it's busy today.

- I'll stay a little longer. - Really? We'd appreciate that.

- 1 million yen?! - Ikeda Credit Union will finance you.

- Are you serious? - You will need capital to develop that

ODAJIMA KUMIKO

multipurpose food processor. Please work hard to commercialize it.

- Thank you. - I'm so happy for you, Dear.

- I'm gonna do it for sure. - Yeah, good luck.

- Isn't 1 million yen a bit too much? - It's fine.

Umeda Bank's telling us to tighten our purse strings because the economy is worsening.

But don't you think

these are precisely the kind of companies we should be helping?

This company is sure to grow. Without fail.

I'm home.

Sorry. I'll get started on dinner right away.

Weren't you supposed to be done before the children came home from school?

It got busy today.

Why is the executive director's wife working at a place like that?

I told you we're done talking about that.

I don't remember raising you to have a poor person's mentality...

Grandma, it looks like it's going to rain.

- Clouds are coming in. - What...

- You'd better bring in the laundry. - Hurry, hurry.

It doesn't look like rain to me.

Grandma. By your foot.

- Hm? - Look.

Hm?

What?! What, what, what?!

- What happened! - There's a centipede!

Centipede?!

What's so funny!

Wait a minute.

Mom, this isn't a centipede!

Gen!

I made it by connecting black beans with a thread and sticking toothpicks in them.

You played a prank knowing that Grandma hates centipedes.

- That was funny, huh? Sachi. - Yeah.

Don't play with food!

But still, with black beans...

That was good thinking.

You want me to make it for you again?

Woah~.

This is quite well done.

Isn't it? I'm going to serve it at dinner later on.

Did Gen really think of this?

Yes. He's definitely your son. He likes to think of ways to make things.

- How's Mother doing? - She was in bed until a little while ago, but...

she seems to be in a much better mood now.

This is heavenly.

- By the way, Fukuko. - Yes?

We decided to lend money to Odajima Manufacturing.

Oh, the workshop Toshi-chan referred you to?

Yes. That multipurpose food processor is a breakthrough invention.

- Multipurpose food processor? - It's the product they're developing.

Here, let me explain.

First, there's this base that houses the motor.

There's a rotating

blade attached here.

And if you switch this container here,

it can turn into a juicer or a mixer.

- With one machine? - Yeah. And one more.

It can also chop vegetables into fine pieces.

That's like that you know...

The root crop cutting machine you made a long time ago.

I know.

Back then, simply chopping the vegetables was innovative enough, but

this has a juicer and mixer on top of that, so it requires considerable technical capability.

When it's completed, it will sell for sure. It will make people happy.

- And so you immediately decided on the loan? - Yes.

- Tell Toshi-chan I said thanks. - Okay.

- Congratulations on your completion. - Thanks.

Then shall I heat another one to celebrate?

- Okay. - You don't have to do that

- just because I finished a painting. - Aren't you happy, Dad?

Happy? I don't feel that kind of emotion anymore.

How come? Your paintings are all sure sellers.

He's never cared whether his paintings sold or not.

He just paints what he wants.

That's why he'd refuse art dealers' requests for certain kinds of painting.

Right, Dear?

But you're painting what you want to now, aren't you?

- And that's selling, so what's the problem? -You should thank your lucky stars.

But I also have this feeling of wanting to paint something different.

- You should paint that then. - That's right, Father.

- Do it, do it. - I want to see it too.

Thanks to you, we're living more comfortably now, so

please go ahead and paint what you want.

Thanks, everyone. But there's a problem.

Problem?

I don't know what I want to paint.

Huh?

I want to paint a different kind of painting, but I don't know what that is.

- More rice, Shigeru-san? - Please.

- This eggplant is delicious. - Eat the kashiwa too, Shigeru-san.

- Thanks, Taka. - You guys think about it too.

It's been 8 years already, huh?

Huh?

I didn't think I'd last this long.

Oh, you mean the credit union?

At first, it was hard to think of myself as the executive director.

You're performing your job admirably, Manpei-san.

What's the matter?

Odajima Manufacturing is being run by three members of the family.

Kenzo-san, the CEO, Tadashi-san, his son,

and his wife carrying the baby on her back...

It made me nostalgic.

Nostalgic?

That way back when, I used to make things like them too.

Sometimes I suddenly wonder.

Is this what I should be doing?

You're doing things that benefit people.

I'm sure Odajima Manufacturing is grateful to you too.

But the kids just think of me as an important person at the credit union.

They don't know the guy who was making salt and Daneihon in Izumiotsu.

It was hard, but it sure was fun.

Yes.

I would've liked to have shown that to the kids.

Yes. He's definitely your son. He likes to think of ways to make things.

Manpei-san...

Are you regretting it?

Manpei-san, you're doing work that's useful to people.

You're making people happy.

Let's go to sleep.

Good night.

Good night.