Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

It's a particularly rare insect that is monogamous.

Just like a human marriage.

Thinking about divorce?

Divorce?

Lately, they don't even look at each other.

Oh, you were just talking about the hamsters.

Don't say just the hamsters. Don't be so cold, Mama.

Hey, who do you think started the fire?

That fire from the other night?

Apparently, the arsonist was a family member.

All the doors were locked from the inside.

Why would anyone burn their own home?

Who knows?

They probably had secrets that they didn't want to get out.

What?

Nothing. Just wondered if you have secrets.

- Of course not. - I'm just teasing.

Hamusuke and Hamumi, Papa's going to work now.

Oh, the sun is intense. Mama, could you get me my sunscreen?

Okay.

No, not this one. I need at least SPF50.

Oh whatever it's fine.

- Have a good day. - Thanks, see you later.

Good morning, Sawa-san.

Mother, what happened? It's still so early. Shunsuke-san just left...

I have to talk to you.

This picture is supposed to be of Mom.

It doesn't look anything like her!

Mom, weren't you upset?

Not now please, hurry, Mana, do you have your homework?

Is he really a talented artist?

Of course, he's talented. That's why he illustrates for our magazine.

Girls, mind your own business. You're going to be late. Hurry up.

I don't think you should give that man any more work.

Yeah, he's way too scary.

Please, couldn't you ask him again?

It doesn't sit well with me to just let him get away with that picture.

Oh please, just leave it.

He just had a bone to pick with me.

What about?

Have a good day.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Hey, Rikako! Rikako!

Rikako! Please! Rikako!

Didn't you say you were a professional soccer player?

Oh that's right, you never made the first team and just quit.

I'm not... going to give you up, Rikako.

I told you. We're over.

Rikako, please don't be so cruel!

If we continue seeing each other, I won't be able to go back to my husband.

That's fine! Leave him! Live with me!

- Do you mean that? - Of course!

I want custody of my daughters.

Will you raise them with me?

What? Uhm... yes, yes.

I'm the one who cheated, so don't count on a settlement from my husband.

We'll have to look for a place to live.

I need at least two bedrooms, so you're going to have to find a steady job.

My parents are getting older, so you'll need to help me take care of them, too.

Do you get it now? Being with me isn't going to be easy.

- You just tested me. - I'm sorry to be such a tease.

Goodbye.

- So, this was just a game? - Of course.

Just a game of a sexually frustrated housewife.

All I wanted was your younger body.

I'm bored now.

He's so in to these things, why such simple names...

What is it you wanted to talk about?

- Shunsuke's name comes from... - I'm so sorry, I need to leave for work.

Oh, it's not a big deal.

I just wondered who he was.

- Who? - You were speaking with a man, alone.

You know how they say there's so many housewives that cheat nowadays?

I don't want to accuse you, but I did want to hear your side of the story.

Wouldn't it be more sneaky of me to go about everyday...

while thinking you were cheating?

Oh, I just threw that word, cheating, out...

I felt my heart beating in my chest.

I felt a cold sweat.

This sneaky mother-in-law would surely curse me if she found out I had an affair.

My feminine husband might even hit me, like a man.

I'm acting like a teenager.

All we did, was just talk a little.

I shouldn't feel so guilty.

Besides, I don't have the confidence or the courage to act on anything.

What are you doing!

Get off of each other! Go back to your classrooms!

But from that day on, I couldn't forget about him.

In my mind, we held each other, kissed...

teased, joked, and played...

and I felt unbelievably free.

'Love Affairs in the Afternoon'

Episode 2

So, your mother in-law jumped to conclusions?

She just happened to see me talking with an acquaintance.

She thought you were having an affair with him?

She needs to come to her senses. No way I would cheat.

- Hello, welcome! - Hello!

Good afternoon.

- Please don't look give me that look. - You've caused a lot of trouble.

- That's how you look at a friend? - Your total is 320 thousand yen.

I'll wait until you finish at three.

I don't have anything to talk about.

Three o'clock, it's such a special time.

It's not mid-day, night, or dusk yet.

It doesn't belong anywhere.

It's my favorite time of day.

To me, it's just the annoying time for laundry and cooking dinner.

I just start cooking dinner at five.

You have to be more practical.

Thank you for your purchase.

I'll be waiting, Sawa-chan.

- Goodbye. - Bye, thank you.

Where is she...

Hello, may I take your order?

Oh, no, I'm just...

I'm sorry, I'm so late.

- Why are you here? - What?

Takigawa-san gave me a call. To talk about the settlement.

Oh...

I see you do beautiful work as well.

Not that it interests me much.

I'd much rather see darker work.

That portrait of me, excited me.

It was like you saw right through me.

- I just draw what I observe. - Hah. What a compliment.

Did you come here to complain?

No, I need to ask you.

Won't you draw me again?

I will pay you, of course. You're a professional.

I didn't tell my husband I was coming here.

I'm almost forty years old.

I've always been told I was beautiful.

I was treated well for my good looks.

My husband always says I'm just a pretty face.

But, I think life is harder when a woman isn't too fortunate looking.

But beauty doesn't last forever.

I want to remember myself as I am.

I want you to draw me, exactly as how you see me.

I reject your offer. I see no beauty in you.

A professional needs to love his work.

Give up playing hard to get.

I think Takigawa-san thought she was doing us a favor.

Huh?

She's too infatuated with physical relationships.

That's true. I mean, we would never do that.

No, I don't mean to say you're not attractive.

Have you not notice? I'm married.

Thirty one years old. Married five years.

No kids. Rent. Work part-time.

I'm surprised. I thought you were single.

Are you trying to make me feel better?

I'm not being sarcastic. You just don't look very...

You don't look like you can cook or do housework.

- Can I ask you something? - Yes?

You really do stick your foot in your mouth sometimes.

Don't people get annoyed with you?

- Yes, they do. - So, you admit it.

My co-workers keep to themselves, and my students don't like me either.

Not that it bother me.

Well, that's exactly it.

People would like you a lot better if you said, 'I'm worried that my students don't like me.'

I bet you don't do very well with girls.

Yes, I'm surprised even I managed to get married.

What? You're married, too?

Why, is that funny?

No, you just don't look like you can support a wife.

Thirty three years old. Married two years.

A wife whose one year older.

- Kids? - None.

- Home? - Paying off my loan.

Oh, listen. This morning a cicada came to my balcony.

- Wow, that's early. - Biology's really interesting.

I couldn't shoo it off because I remembered you said that insects have families, too.

So, you can be unexpectedly considerate.

- That. You don't need to say unexpectedly. - Oh. Right, I'm sorry.

- Oh look it's five o'clock already. - Huh?

I need to have dinner ready before my husband gets home.

I need to finish ironing, too. Because I am a housewife.

- Goodbye. - Uhm, uh, can we exchange contacts?

- Sure. - So, it's...

- What is that? - Thank you for waiting.

Now she's with another man. Ow, that's hot! I ordered iced!

Oh, excuse me. Hello?

Yuichiro? Are you still at school?

No, I had an errand.

Hey, do you want to eat out tonight? I have something I want to tell you.

It's official. I'm associate professor.

The promotion! Congratulations!

Thanks. I didn't want to end my career just teaching.

Does it bug you? Your wife being an associate professor?

Don't be ridiculous. I left research on my own accord.

But... I'm impressed you got the promotion. After all that went down.

Do you think it's because a I'm female?

No.

- Who is he? - Just an acquaintance.

How exactly did you get acquainted?

We did not do anything. Really, it's nothing.

- Hmm. - Just an acquaintance of the neighbor's.

Why would you go meet a neighbor's male acquaintance alone?