The clouds seem to form a horizon,
chiheisen wo nazoru you ni
地平線をなぞるように
linking the sky and earth,
sora to hoshi wo tsunaideiru kumoga
空と地球を繋いでる雲が
Still half asleep in the morning,
boku no sumu kono machi wo gururi to kakotta
僕の住むこの街をぐるりと囲った
I feel completely immersed in the town I live in.
yumeutsutsu no hirusagari ni
夢うつつの昼下がりに
The far off sky looks like cotton candy...
watagashi mitai na sore wo chigiri
綿菓子みたいなそれを千切り
...ripped into a thousand pieces.
kasuka ni aita ana no mukougawa
微かに空いた穴の向こう側
If you strain your eyes,
me wo koraseba
目を凝らせば
you can see a tiny door leading through to summer.
chiisana natsu no iriguchi ga hora
小さな夏の入り口がほら
The outbursts of crying cicadas,
sosogu semishigure
注ぐ蝉時雨
the beetles we chased,
oikaketeta kabutomushi
追いかけてたカブトムシ
and melted ice pops, bring our memories flooding back to us.
toketa aisu kyandi, maki modoru kioku
溶けたアイスキャンディ巻き戻る記憶
Those times may not come again,
nido to modoru koto ha nai
二度と戻ることはない
but they'll never fade away.
demo kienai moyou
でも消えない模様
Such an invigorating view!
Yunosagi is over there.
You could probably get some good shots here.
Excuse me.
Hello, it's Isami.
Ah, how's it going?
However, It's been a great success since its opening.
Episode 16
That Sky, This Sky
Fukuya
I've got everybody's suggestions.
Yunosagi Hot Springs Strategies
Clean the hot spring town
Yunosagi hot spri
Seasonal sightseeing
Any more?
Let's see what the young people have to suggest for the hot spring inns.
I was told it's fine to just sit at the back quietly.
Please be honest with your suggestion.
What is it?
Anyway, I like hot spring inns that are cheap and serve a lot of tasty food.
Can you be more specific?
Make it a cheap all-you-can-eat buffet.
You can have as much meat or cake as you want, from morning to evening!
The other thing is that you need to run a luxurious touring bus to Yunosagi.
One comfortable enough to sleep on.
Ah, it might be good to have an indoor pool which uses hot water from the spring.
Yeah!
You definitely need a pool like that!
There might be customers who want to swim the whole day.
Surely!
It'd be great if you could even have cake on the bus!
Preparation done.
Let's present it to the landlady, Young Master.
Young Master!
Ah, okay.
Young Master, how can you be so unconfident?
As the presenter, it's important for you to be motivated in order to convince people.
No need to worry.
Our plan and our respect for the Kissui Inn will be understood for sure.
Let's go!
Right.
Well, this inn really is awesome.
You think so?
Tomoe-san?
Kissui Inn's investment will only cover 10% of the total costs.
R-Right.
It'd be a miracl-
It would have a great advertising impact.
A lot of people will want to come to Yunosagi and stay at the Kissui Inn after watching the movie.
General Producer
Of course this is not guaranteed.
But my experience tells me-
Can I talk with the Young Master alone?
Excuse me, may I also stay?
Umm, right.
Takako-san should be here, too.
Okay?
Ah, I see.
We should allow the Young Master and the landlady their time to talk.
Nakochi, what will you do?
I'll be going to the beach with my brothers.
How about you, Ohana-chan?
I'll be working through the summer break.
Let's go to the beach together then.
The beach'll be great.
Right.
I should meet your brothers too.
Trouble!
We've got trouble!
Movie!
A movie!
You still don't seem to get it.
They're going to shoot a film at Kissui Inn!
No!
What should I do?
I need to go home as soon as possible and tell them.
What role will I play?
Movie?
Right.
At Kissui Inn.
Great!
You understand, don't you Mum?
We're not the only ones having problems.
If we don't take action, the whole hot spring town of Yunosagi will just gradually decline.
When Takako-san asked me if we'd like to invest in the movie,
I thought it was oka-
I don't mind.
You may do as you please, this time.
The director strongly believes that he needs to cast local people in the main roles.
When the director comes next time,
we want everyone to participate in a simple audition.
I'm getting excited!
This summer break will be great!
Yup!
I'll be an Olympic-diver-turned-cutie-spy!
Perhaps.
Hey Minchi, what role do you wanna play?
I-
A chef.
It's a movie, so you can become whatever you dream of becoming.
A police officer, a cabin attendant, a nurs-
So you'll act an old guy?
Just what you'd expect from the amazing Minchi.
Yeah...
You let the Young Master decide about investing in the film?
Right.
Films are great.
Kaga Mariko from Withered Flower was so cute.
Wow, Denroku, you're not "withered" yet?
I'm afraid not.
I'm asking you because you decided to move to the countryside to write.
Forty pages for ten minutes of the film?
Please write a scene that really portrays the hospitality of this place.
Wouldn't I need to discuss it with the director and the main writers?
Ah, sorry.
I'll give you an idea of the basic settings and the plot.
Can you just write a little bit so we can use it as our springboard?
I'll discuss what you write with the director.
But...
Ah, I heard there's a festival called "Bonbori Matsuri" around here.
Perhaps you could describe what happens during the festival?
Jiroumaru-san, in fact, the Young Master has requested that this be one of the conditions for him to invest.
R-Really?
Jiroumaru Tarou will try his best!
They'll allow technicians to come and check the operational parts of this accommodation.
I need you to "brush up" for me.
Is this where the pool is?
It's where the pool was, I think.
Yes!
You mean you want us to clean it up?
It's a must that we use this pool in the movie.
It's one of the conditions that the Young Master has requested in order to get him to invest.
Young Master, do you have anything to say?
This place will be an important stage in this movie.
I'm counting on you.
Why the pool?
What are you talking about, Ohana-chan?
The movie is about summer.
Summer means pool.
Pool means summer.
And...
...I'm not wrong.
Anyway, I'm counting on you to get the pool cleaned.
Party, party, party, kiss!
Young Master!
How should I thank you this time?
For such a chance-
Those who put forth great effort will certainly be given such a chance.
That's all there is to it.
Yeah.
We've all put in our efforts.
Those were hard times.
Even now, when I think back about it, it was a clumsy sort of struggle.
Yes...
But that's all over.
That small light, telling you what you've done up until now is not wrong, definitely exists.
Yeah.
I'm trusting you to stay firm.
Oh, royalties and half of the manuscript fees...
...will go towards paying off the accommodation fees you still owe us.
So that's that.
Okay...
So, I'll contact you again within this week, and be back with the director.
Director Matsumura will be here?
His first work, The Drenched Peony, was great.
His second one-
Ah, I'll be bringing the two main casts as well.
They want to scope out the inn they'll be filming at.
I see?
The real show will start then.
We'll be waiting.
We'll be waiting!
Our Landlady will arrive soon.
Please wait for-
I'll wait here.
Yes.
I'll listen to what you have to say.
If you would, please come this way.
We're all here because we want to support your amazing idea.
This movie would be better if it represented the whole of Yunosagi.
That's right.
In these times of recession, if all of us chip in on the investment,
it'll be a great help for Kissui Inn, right?
Yes.
We do not need your worries.
I'm very grateful for your kind thoughts,
but the movie will be filmed entirely at Kissui inn.
That is the one thing we do not want to change.
My, why is it that we're forking out money, but only Kissui Inn gets the publicity?
That's why you're not obliged to hand over any money.
Oh my!
Ohana-chan, focus more!
I wonder when it was that the Young Master became such a splendid young man.
It's wonderful that he's managed to handle everything on his own.
Well, it's clear that the responsibility will fall on Kissui Inn's shoulders, should anything happen. Right?
It seems he strongly rejected the other inns' proposals, doesn't it?
That's right!
The Young Master seems to have changed a lot recently, don't you think?
It's like he's become so much more confident.
I guess guys just change when they're given a huge responsibility to shoulder.
Movie, huh?
A risky move.
So, Ren-san, what role are you playing?
Ren-san, you're taking part in the movie too?
The director said he wanted someone from the kitchen to take part, too.
Amazing...
Then...
Just maybe, hmm?
Tohru, you've stopped working.
S-Sorry.
Now then, time to get back to work, I suppose.
I'll go peel a daikon.
Geez, it's all because Tomoe-san keeps saying things like that.
Even Tohru-san is distracted.
Movie this. Movie that...
What's a chef going to do in a movie?
But if it's Tohru-san, he might look quite good...
Crap.
All right!
Amazing!
It's a crane!
For a movie, of course there has to be a crane, right?
This is the protagonist, Suehiro-san.
Welcome to our inn.
The real deal feels so different, Nakochi.
Pleased to meet you.
Ahh...
From that day onwards, the test shots took place.
This makes my heart pound.
Keep calm, Ohana-chan.
I have brought iced tea.
Ah, please come in.
It tastes great.
Thank you very much.
It's so wonderful here.
I've taken quite a liking to it.
Really.
It'd be great to come back by ourselves, right?
Thank you very much.
Since this is such an old building, managing it must be hard, right?
Yes.
By the time we had taken this building into our care,
it had already been standing for sixty years.
Sixty years?
When it's such an old building,
seams in the woodwork start to appear in places we don't see.
Sorry to disturb you.
My, Landlady.
Suehiro-san, I would really like an autograph from you, to decorate our wall.
I understand.
I shall excuse myself.
I'm surprised that the Landlady agreed to co-operate with the filming.
It seems that she said "Yes" after only being asked twice.
Could our Landlady actually want to stand out?
I wonder.
I'm the stand-in for the lead actor?
It's just a camera test.
Well, even if you put it that way...
The lead actor is just a little late.
It's just being a back-up.
Hold hands with Suehiro-san, and act like a "Just Married!" couple.
That's wonderful!
Young Master, you should do it.
Right!
Takako-san, I'm all prepared.
Sorry.
The director insisted on having someone with a bigger build.
Ah, I see.
Geez, stop playing and be serious!
Minchi!
Quickly, quickly!
I can't go on!
Let's take a short break.
Yup!
Minchi, you too.
I'm worn out.
It was tiring, but at least the pool's clean.
Yup, it's very clean.
We're almost done, right?
Yup, it's just a little mo-
What's this?
Minchi!
I'm really thankful to you, Takako-san.
It is a movie after all.
I wouldn't have been able to do anything by myself.
Ah, Mum!
Mum?
Mum!
Mum!!
Do you remember when we attended a presentation by the film club for self-made movies together?
Hmm?
It was during our university years.
It was autumn, during your freshman year.
I don't seem to remember anything like that.
Sorry.
I see.
Ah.
Have you remembered something?
That dirty movie that only had shots of a middle school girl in a school swimsuit.
That director should be in a prison somewhere now.
That was my first work.
On that, one more thing.
I planned to make quite a long video for the film club but...
...the guy who was supposed to be the director suddenly decided to quit.
Somehow, all the members lost their motivation.
I see.
In the end, I had to film the whole movie myself.
How should I put it?
It somehow became an escape from reality...
...or my own identity.
Are those girls actually working?
No matter how hard I work at Kissui Inn,
I always feel this place is more suited to my sister.
Both the landlady and I thought so.
Shijima-kun...
You haven't called me that since our university days, have you?
My, is that so?
I'll get some tea for you.
If I remember rightly, your sister was Satsuki-san, right?
My sister was quick when it came to using her head,
and for as long as I can remember, she's been so good with words.
Maybe that's just her charisma.
She was popular in school, too.
My sister was dazzling.
She was beautiful, and commanded so much order.
It felt as though she was living in a world of her own.
As though she was a being totally unrelated to me.
Blue, yellow, purple, red;
buru- iero- pa-puru reddo
ブルー イエロー パープル レッド
the way the colours of our breaths appear.
tameiki no iro iroha
溜め息のいろいろは
And the many memories of things you taught me that I can't put into words.
anata ga oshietekureta kotoba ni naranai omoi
あなたが教えてくれた 言葉にならない想い
I can't help but recall them over and over.
nando mo nando mo omoidasu
何度も 何度も 思い出す
A prism shines suddenly, at the mercy of the wind.
kaze no manimani futto kagayaku purizumu
風のまにまにふっと 輝くプリズム
It shines softly and uncertainly.
tomadoi nagaramo sotto
とまどいながらもそっと
I try to stretch out my hand.
te wo nobashite miru
手をのばしてみる
To a sky I still cannot see...
mada minu sora
まだ見ぬ空
...and whatever lies beyond.
sono saki he to
その先へと
Waiting for the day when the flowers will bloom.
itsuka hana saku koro
いつか 花咲く頃
You didn't accept those terms, right?
It's better not to mention what has been buried in the past.
I did it!
The script is done!
I'm not letting it end like this, you hear me?
We shall return!
Episode 17
Pool on the Hill