No matter what people think about it, no matter what happens because of it, my feelings of love for her will never change.
I loved her…
A truly shocking night in episode 5
This is a monologue by Takao Hamura.
Haa… (enchanted)
When I talk to friends about “High School Teacher”, many of them eagerly imitate Mayu’s famous lines.
The line that made me happiest out of all of them.
Because you’re always looking at the clock!
What’s more, when they imitate her slightly nasal voice, it’s almost admirable.
Speaking of Maki Mochida’s memorable lines,
“Girls are always serious!”
This is it!
When I watch dramas closely, I find that there are many hints, subtle expressions, and little gestures, and I just enjoy them.
I enjoy them to the fullest.
There’s a scene in episode 1 or 2 where teacher Hamura, aka Sanada Hiroyuki, is talking to Akai Hidekazu in the staff room.
Mr.Sanada casually puts on his cardigan and buttons it up, but it’s one step off!
There’s no particular tsukkomi or boke.
Sure, the bell rings to let class start and there’s a bit of a rush, but you can’t help but imagine the teacher going off to class and the aftermath, with the female students giggling!
I wonder if that was an ad-lib from Mr. Sanada?
Donkusa… (cute…)
And then there’s episode 5.
Last time, Teacher Hamura shed tears in front of Mayu at the end of their zoo date, but by the next morning the two had completely closed the gap, and in this episode it just keeps accelerating.
Even so, this drama takes an incredibly messy turn at night, and feelings between the two grow stronger.
Their feelings grow and grow, and by morning they’ve refreshingly closed the gap.
When people fall in love, they feel so good in the sunny morning.
Maki Mochida is once again in a situation where she has no choice but to respond to a call from Teacher Fujimura, but this time she is dressed in an adult outfit like never before.
Was it because the store had an adult atmosphere that I was ordered to wear nice clothes?
Wine has spilled onto the tablecloth, staining it red.
Mochida Maki stares at it intently.
“I had no choice but to do this…”
Teacher Fujimura also stares at the red stain.
This is the first time I’ve noticed a depiction like this.
Teacher Hamura’s older brother also appears in episode 5.
He’s the eldest son and has taken over the family farm in Niigata.
Actually, I don’t really understand what the intention is in that scene where the younger brother blames him for not getting married or not returning to the lab, and then a sibling fight develops.
The big men get pretty violent, but in the end the fight ends with the younger brother, Hamura, losing his temper and his older brother being sent flying and hitting his head.
The way Hamura the teacher loses his temper is exactly the same as when he went on a rampage in the lab.
I was terrified by this.
Is it a foreshadowing that teacher Hamura is someone you never know what he’ll do when he gets angry?
Or maybe it’s because of their blood ties that even if they have such a violent fight, they can quickly reconcile and be calm and considerate towards each other…? ?
The eldest son of a farmer who can’t live freely vs. the second son who has the freedom to go to the city and make his dreams come true. Do they each have their own struggles?
Well, I suppose there is no right answer, but to me, a fight scene in which food and coffee on the table are sent flying is terrifying.
I think I’ll take it as a foreshadowing of Teacher Hamura’s character.
Even so, Teacher Hamura is really easy to understand.
After he shed tears for Mayu, the distance between them grew much closer, and now he wants to keep her in his sight as much as possible.
Mayu already knows that.
After learning that Teacher Hamura’s feelings were starting to lean towards her, Mayu has become more assertive and bold.
I think she’s surpassed Akana Rika.
After watching a movie together in Kichijoji, suddenly…
“I want to see the sea.”
she suggested strongly,
Then suddenly Kita-Kamakura Station. Yuigahama Beach.
“Is there a sea in your hometown, teacher?”
Then (Yes, there is a sea, the Sea of Japan)
“Which sea do you like better, that one or this one?”
Then he replied nonchalantly (It’s Niigata, of course)
“Take me to see it too!”
Then (…Huh?)
“Take me!”
Mayu pushed the teacher into the sea.
(I get it, I get it)
…When it comes down to it, I can’t help but think how clumsy teacher Hamura is, and how easily he falls for Mayu’s love strategies.
Teacher Hamura gazes at Mayu as she draws a picture of a cat in the sand.
Then he himself gets barefoot and tries his best to draw a clumsy cat.
He goes home while it’s still light and goes to school peacefully the next morning, and then they discuss what movie they should see, and little by little the distance between them closes again…
I felt a mean feeling, like I wanted to black out the faint speech bubbles with Mayu that must have flashed through teacher Hamura’s mind with a marker.
It doesn’t work that way, you know.
And Mayu unleashes her love strategy again.
She cleverly makes teacher Hamura take off his watch, which he’s always been concerned about, and throws it onto the rocks, out into the pouring rain.
“I don’t want to go home! I want to be with you forever!” she shouts.
“Do as you please,” says teacher Hamura as he heads to the station, but once the last train has left, he finds Mayu crouching there again, soaked to the skin!
If you look at it from another perspective, it’s a horror scene, but I had tears in my eyes from the pouring rain scene onwards.
“It looks like (your watch) is broken…”
When teacher Hamura instinctively puts his duffle coat on Mayu, it’s the limit of what a “man” a teacher can be, and watching it makes your heart churn.
Once they’ve all gotten into bed at the inn, teacher Hamura is already a “man,” and there’s a constant sense of desperation to not let that show.
Mayu’s love strategy is boldly deployed even in bed.
“You promise,”
She says, mentioning that the two of them will go to the beach and his family home in his hometown,
“Okay, I get it.”
Just this alone makes you admire how sincere teacher Hamura is, but Mayu deploys another strategy.
“You promise,” she says, holding out her pinky finger.
You can tell that teacher Hamura, with his little fingers interlocked, is not lying.
I can’t help but think about the way he tries so hard to sleep and pretend to be calm so as not to excite the “man.”
But Mr. Sanada is just too good!
I wonder when Mr. Sanada started acting so as not to let his “man” come out…
I think it might have been since they entered the inn, but I also think it might have been from the moment he immediately looked at his watch at Kita-Kamakura Station.
Mayu had been innocent up until this point, but then, as if she had made up her mind, she began to talk bit by bit about the situation she was in, her pain, and her father, incorporating it into “stories about dreams she often has.”
I’d like to think that Mayu at this time was no “love strategist.”
Because, when teacher Hamura looked at Mayu in shock, Mayu also came to her senses and turned her back on the teacher.
As Mayu tries to pull her hand away, teacher Hamura grabs her wrist!
Perhaps that scene from long ago when Takao pulled Chiaki’s wrist was also a signal, a foreshadowing, that his love was overflowing.
So erotic!
Even if you get to know the real me, please don’t hate me…
The scene that follows is heart-melting.
He kisses the burn scar.
Just the scene of their joined hands and that scene is enough to make you feel a deep, rich sweetness.
Then, something I noticed for the first time was the coat that fell to the ground the moment the two of them supposedly overlapped.
I thought this was simply a symbol of “falling in love,” but there’s more to it than that!
Teacher Hamura’s duffle coat, which was hanging on a hanger, had fallen with a thud “on top” of Mayu’s coat! Thud.
The fur on Mayu’s coat even looked like her own hair.
(Even though it was white fur.)
To think that an overlapping act could be expressed with a coat…
I would like to see a kissing scene between the two, but Mr. Sanada’s kissing scene looks quite intense.
So for me, a love scene between teacher and student that is depicted in a fairy tale-like manner is just right.
Also, no matter how shady her father is and how much she seems to be struggling with problems and anguish over “sex,” when played by Sakurai Sachiko, the scent of “sex” is softened by her purity, which is just right.
Ueto Aya also played the role later, but the sexual aspect wasn’t neutralized.
Some people may say that the risquéness is a good thing, but I was a little disappointed.
And the next morning, the two of them look refreshed as they wait for the train going up the line!
Teacher Hamura accidentally looks at his watch, but Mayu, whose wish to be with him forever has been fulfilled, doesn’t even bother to make such a gesture.
“Here, see as much as you want.”
As if to say that, she grabs her teacher Hamura’s arm and shoves her watch into her teacher’s face.
Then we both let out a big yawn!
Beta!
However, when I see something so stupid that I want to make fun of it, I want to completely surrender.
When I watched this drama back then, I felt it was one step behind the times in terms of the clothes and such.
Looking at it now, the only one who is fashionable is Minegishi Toru.
I wonder if the teacher Fujimura is also stylish.
It’s nice to use fashion to alleviate people with abnormalities.
Truly shining people shine through their smiles and expressions, and the main characters are also desperate to hone or find something more important than fashion.
Come to think of it, the main characters of my favorite dramas were all clumsy and didn’t care about their clothes.
(Just like Jun, Hotaru, Itsuka-chan and Yoko played by Mitsushima Hikari…)
（Article from November 24, 2013）