Otto no Kanojyo (Otto no Kanojo / Husband’s Woman / 夫のカノジョ) (J-Drama)

Your children dislike my daughter and thus have

forced her to participate in some play.

Isn't this a kind of bullying?

Bullying?!

Beginning next month, you will start work as a full-time company employee.

Eh? In exchange,

I'll be cutting Komatsubara out.

Weren't you seen going into her apartment?

This is a misunderstanding. Ask Ishiguro, he'll tell you everything.

I don't know anything about that.

This will be reported to upper management.

Komatsubara!

You better prepare yourself for the consequences.

Please, tell the chief what really happened.

What's going on?

Section Chief may be transferred to another department.

What do you mean?!

Ishiguro-kun, what did you do?!

If you stay silent, we won't know what's going on.

You did something, didn't you? What'd you do?

Hurry! Say something!

Calm down. And quit standing so you're right in the corner of my field of vision.

But, Chief-- Kansai's a nice place!

There's a factory manager resigning from the Kansai branch next month.

So HR has decided on you to be the successor.

Please hold on a minute, Chief.

Kansai?! I wasn't told about that part.

Chief, there is really nothing between me and the section chief.

Yamagishi, what you say and what Komatsubara thinks are different things.

I don't know how many times I need to say this, but.

Yamagishi and I are a supervisor and subordinate. Nothing more than a supervisor and subordinate.

Um... Exactly.

Excuse me!

Sorry, Department Chief, the truth is that I was there with them.

I was there with Yamagishi and Section Chief at her apartment, helping her study.

If that's the case, why didn't you say this last night?

Right when I was saying that I had been tutoring Yamagishi at her apartment,

you became angry, and

and I thougt you were going to get angry with me.

Are you a child?

I'm truly sorry.

Fine. Enough.

Does this clarify things?

Even so, it changes nothing.

Eh?

The fact is that Komatsubara has left no real lasting results in his work.

But that isn't just the section chief's responsibility.

Lying to your subordinate, Yamagishi,

don't you think that's a little pathetic? That's just proof

that you're not worth much around here? You're wrong.

I'm giving you a chance here.

The chance to start over with

subordinates you don't know in a different place.

What are you all gaping at? Get back to work!

A transfer...

Mika has entrance exams soon.

I wonder if I should move alone? Or if the whole family should go?

There's also the mortgage to think about...

Chief! Hey.

Chief, I'm so very sorry.

This has turned into the worst mess.

Don't worry about it. Anyway, I understand your feelings.

Chief...

Besides, it's just as the department chief said.

It's a fact that I haven't been able to get results.

A personnel change is inevitable.

Ah, but I was able to achieve one desired result.

Eh?

Yamagishi becoming a full-time company employee.

Chief...

Ishiguro, you and I have supported Yamagishi together up to this point.

From here on out, I'll have to rely on you to watch over her by yourself.

Don't make that face.

See you. Thanks for your hard work.

A personnel change just from not achieving the results...

That department chief just wants to get rid of Papa, I'm sure of it.

If things stay as they are, Papa will have to go to Kansai.

Speaking of which, so will Masato and Mika, and

also Hoshimi-san?

What should I do?

I'm home. Ah, welcome back.

Hey, hey, Papa, listen.

The Christmas play has been cancelled.

And the reason is that Masato and Yuuki supposedly

bullied the new transfer student, Sakura.

Masato bullied someone? See, they were doing "Snow White" for the Christmas play.

Masato and Yuuki and everyone in the class wanted to make friends with Sakura quickly,

so they decided to cast her as Snow White.

And they're saying the kids forced Sakura into doing it.

Even though it was all a misunderstanding,

the school freaked out at the mention of the word "bullying." That's not a solution.

Not at all.

They're just trying to sweep the whole matter under the rug.

Hmm... how is Masato?

Masato, I'm coming in.

Hm?

Masato?

Will I never be able to come home to this house again?

When did you last see him? Eh--

Ah, Yamagishi! What's wrong?

Masato isn't here. Eh?!

Papa, you look over there. I'll look over here.

All right.

Ma'am, please help. Got it.

Masato! Masato.

Seriously, Masato, where did you go off to?

Yes?

Good evening. I'm Komatsubara Masato, from third grade class 1.

Masato-kun, coming at this hour

to someone else's house is a little strange.

I'm very sorry.

What do you want with Sakura?

I would like to apologize.

If that's what you want, you need to come with your parents so we can all talk together.

Bullying is a different matter from a regular fight, you see.

Go home, and be careful.

Can I see Sakura-chan just for a little bit?

Sakura doesn't even want to go to school anymore.

So she definitely won't want to see you.

Masato-kun. Ah, Hoshimi-san.

What are you doing? Out here at this hour.

I wanted to apologize to Sakura-chan.

Eh?

But I wasn't allowed to see her.

Did you fight with her?

What happened?

I see.

So you want to apologize to Sakura-chan.

I'm all right. You're not all right.

Even though it's really cold out here,

you've been standing here for a long time.

In order to apologize to Sakura-chan,

you've gotten really cold.

You're warm.

Next time, why don't you try going together with Dad to apologize?

Ok. All right then.

Count to five, then time to get out. Ok. One...

Trampling all over a kid's feelings like that...

I can't stay quiet about this. I'm going out.

Where are you going? Ain't it obvious?

That Board of Education big-shot doesn't even know that Masato

went to apologize to his kid out in this cold weather, so I'm gonna tell him as much.

The point is that Masato didn't bully anyone.

Please calm down. But it's hard to

hear a kid did something like bullying when they didn't do it at all.

Why are you so concerned with what your mom friends and the school think?

If you go over there while you're so worked up, you won't be able to get through to them.

That has more to do with the person I'll be talking to.

Isn't this something you should give up on doing?

Eh?

I don't think it's the parent's job to vent their anger.

What do you mean by that? If you are really thinking about it for Masato's sake,

the most important thing is to

understand that child's feelings. Well, that's true, but...

I'm angry too, you know. It's frustrating!

I would very much like to deck that bitch! You're against violence.

Ah... sorry.

But I have to put up with this feeling,

of trying to think about what to do for Masato's sake,

although I'm not his mother...

After you calm down and get yourself together, I think

it would be best to talk with that girl's parents and the school.

I understand.

Tomorrow is the third-grade PTA meeting.

I'm going to go there and tell them that Masato didn't bully anyone.

But please be careful about how you word it.

I will.

Try not to say "Don't give me that shit, you old hag. You wanna take this outside?"

I've never said "You wanna take this outside?"

You won't? I won't.

They called us here all of a sudden.

What happened, I wonder?

Let's go over there.

The PTA meeting starts soon. I wonder if it will really be all right.

Next is Maruzeki Supermarket, right?

Getting straight to business, let me explain how we came to the conclusion that

we needed to cancel the Christmas play.

The children from third grade class 1

were to put on a production,

and, well... how to put it...

Vice-principal.

Yes.

You can mince words as long as you want, but

the bullying isn't going to stop.

Bullying?!

I'll take it upon myself to explain this to the guardians present.

My apologies to be late in saying this,

but I'm the mother of Amiya Sakura, who transferred to this school the other day.

My daughter Sakura was pushed into

participating in the play even though she did not want to.

Wait a minute!

Komatsubara-san, hang on, I think you should rethink this--

It won't do any good, you should just give up!

I'm the mother of Komatsubara Masato, of third-grade class 1.

What is it? You know~

Yamagishi?! Oi, Yamagishi, snap out of it!

Komatsubara-san, are you ok?!

Komatsubara-san, snap out of it!

Oi, wake up! Yamagishi! Oi, Yamagishi.

Komatsubara-san!