School Day of the Dead (死者の学園祭 / Shisha no gakuensai)

'Even the weight of my sin cannot overpower this joy.' Eugon Metcalfe

A School Day of the Dead

Put your heart at ease and speak your mind.

Your words will reach unto God.

Yes...

Sir...

Here I am called 'Father'.

Please, Father! Let the Drama Club perform 'The Blue-Eyed Angel'!

You're the club president, aren't you.

Yuko's suicide was an awful thing.

It was.

That's why we want to put it on!

For her, as the last thing she wrote...

and for us.

Excuse me.

Hello?

I can't talk now.

I'm with the Principal!

Really?

I'm sure God has heard your prayers.

Thank you very much, sir!

That's 'Father'.

Yuki...

Coming to see me?

Sir!

Thank you!

Tezuka Yuzuru, third principal...

Just date of birth.

March 18th, 1901.

'18'

Accessing

Password Error

They wouldn't use a birth date

for a password like this!

Try the next principal anyway.

Hello?

Hello, Haruko?

Where are you?

What do you mean, you're busy? The meeting's started!

Haruko!

Who was it?

Machiko.

No!

We're late!

This is more important!

Number four...

Born 1925...

'1925'

May 1st.

'05-01'

I see you!

Look who's here!

What are you doing?

Breaking into student records on the school database.

That's hacking! It's illegal!

My future depends on it.

Mr. Nishida caught Haruko coming out of a 'love hotel'.

Nishida? No!

He could put something in my file and stop me getting into a good university!

Your dad's on the Board of Directors. He might know the password!

He just runs the Art Gallery. He wouldn't know that!

Anyway...

ta-da! Permission to perform!

What?!

And we cast Metcalfe, the male lead.

One of the guys in the Club. So what?

Mr. Thornhill's going to play him.

You're kidding!

He asked if he could.

What!

Sumiko!

'Even the weight of my sin cannot overpower this joy!'

Accessing

Access Granted

What's that?

Not student files...

'Numbers 29'?

That's in the bible...

But what are those numbers?

'Sold out', it says...

I've seen this before... it was on Yuko's disk for 'The Blue-Eyed Angel'!

There was some stuff at the end, and 'Numbers' was there, too.

What's going on?

We're coming.

Everyone's waiting.

Hurry!

Why were you in there?

Thanks for being in our play, sir.

My pleasure. Are there always so many of you?

Yes... it makes us feel better about having to study.

It looks like fun.

OK, everyone, listen up!

I'm sure you've all heard by now.

We've finally been given permission to perform 'The Blue-Eyed Angel'...

the final work of Yamazaki Yuko.

Mr. Thornhill, if you would take the role of Metcalfe...

Of course.

We don't have much rehearsal time, but let's do this for Yuko.

Yuki...

'The Blue-Eyed Angel'...

This is a school legend, a tragedy that actually happened 80 years ago.

Sumiko, a music teacher and daughter of the man who founded the school...

fell in love with Eugon Metcalfe, an art teacher brought from Germany.

A tragedy?

I guess a frosh wouldn't have heard the story... it was adultery.

Metcalfe had a family in Germany.

People were scandalized, so they were forbidden to meet.

But the obstacles put in their way didn't stop Sumiko's love for him.

The more the barriers, the greater the love.

To show she still loved him she'd play his favorite music...

Debussy's Clair de Lune, everyday on the piano in the auditorium.

But one day the music stopped.

Why?

Her father, the first principal, had the piano moved to the chapel.

She still played, but he couldn't hear from over in the Arts building.

He thought she'd stopped loving him and vanished...

leaving a last picture for her:. 'The Blue-Eyed Angel'.

That picture in the Art Gallery?

Yes.

What happened to Sumiko?

When she found out he'd left, she threw herself off the roof.

Just like Yuko?

That's why they didn't want us performing it...

To atone to his daughter, the principal put the piano back in the auditorium...

and had its legs nailed to the floor so it couldn't be moved again.

That's the piano in the auditorium now?

Yes.

Mr. Thornhill?

What's with him?

I'll go see.

Look at Mayumi run!

Let's rehearse the scenes without Sumiko or Metcalfe.

You like that painting?

I do, too.

I should've asked before I came in...

That's all right.

I'm Yuki, the gallery director. Are you a student here?

I'm transferring in tomorrow.

Excuse me.

Hey...

Was that you playing Clair de Lune on the piano?

No.

Sir?

Mr. Thornhill?

'Debussy'...

From your 'Metcalfe'.

Dad! You don't go off and take a bath when company's here!

Ms Izumi's not 'company'

Still...

Thank you, Machiko.

I hear your school bought an early Boulanger in Paris.

I wouldn't know.

She knows nothing about art.

I asked them to do that.

We have an English art teacher. Sometimes he helps us out in Paris.

Mr. Thornhill?

Yeah.

That was Boulanger's best period. 'Bathers' and 'Moonlight Song'...

I've been waiting for a chance.

'Moonlight Song' made you want to be an artist.

I'm sorry.

We're probably boring you.

So you've seen Dad's paintings?

Sure.

I never have.

I got rid of them all. That was a long, long time ago.

By the way, last week I went to the restaurant you designed in Ginza.

That's a fine picture you put on the wall as you go in.

You've taught me well.

I'm humbled.

Excuse me.

Are you finished?

I'll leave you two young people alone.

Jerk!

'Morning!

Where did you get to yesterday?

I followed Mr. Thornhill to the auditorium, and Clair de Lune was on the piano...

with h 'from your "Metcalfe"' on it!

Guess what!

What?

Remember I told you about Yuko's disk?

I found it!

Numbers'?

Yeah, but something else, too!

I'll show you later.

Ms Ono...come with me.

Bag inspection.

We'll go on ahead.

This is the chapel.

Kouyama's a new student. Make room.

In our class?

Good morning, everyone.

We begin the mass.

We'll sing Hymn 312.

Shove down.

Did he take it?

Special days, special measures.

I was ready.

The novel Kokoro...

involves a woman and two men...