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Re: J-drama: 電池が切れるまで (Till the Battery Runs Out)


I expected Yuka to last longer. They got rid of her quick, how are they gonna fill the next episodes.
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  We don't often comment, but have been impressed with many of the observations in this dorama group; such as last week's comment by minority report about the use of a simple digital camera to such stunning impact. Very well said! We were steeled against the expected "gambatte pilgrimage" but those camera shots -so touchingly sweet and achingly sad broke down all defenses. How could they let such a wonderful character leave so soon? Perhaps she'll continue to appear to Satori?
  
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Well, I certainly didn't expect Yuka's battery to run out so quickly. emoticon

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Also, note that Yuka's poem is at the show's web site (in Sandy's post at the beginning of this topic). The text of the poem as seen in the pictures above seems to match that given at the web site. However, the web site poem has an illustration and says Yuka's in 4th grade, whereas the captured poem above has her in 5th grade.

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I also expected Yuka to live longer. I wonder what they are having in plan for the other episodes. I guess Yuka's death was a cliff hanger for the viewers.

All the characters relate to the message (until the batteries run out) in some way. The male teacher smokes because he feels that life is not worth living and he wants to waste his life away. Maybe that's why he rejected the boy's parents to teach the boy because he doesn't care nor want to be involved with the boy (I don't know, I'm just making this up). Yuka represents hope and that someday our wishes will come true even though we may die in the end. OH!! And also to live our best because we don't know what our life has in store for us. Kaoru [Yuka's roommate] represents how we take our life for granted so we just sulk our life away. Miss Maishi [I think that's her name, but she's the volunteer] represents what we can do to change the path of our life and others' lives. Tsubasa [the brain dead boy], well..., his parents represent how we cling onto the past and how we [most people] don't like to move forward. There's more character analysis, but I don't want to do anymore right now. [I use "we" in a broad sense. I guess I'm using it as "human beings" in this case.]

This drama made me cry a lot. And, may I add, I RARELY ever cry. But it's a first time for everything. This was the first drama that made me cry.
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    Again this series just tore me up last night. First we lose little Yuka, and then to see the effect on the rest of the cast with her letters of praise, was too much. You see in the last 5 years I've had to sit at the bed-side of 4 close relations including my mother. I remember the logical side of me telling me that they couldn't hear what I was saying to them, but my better side alway's told me they heard me.
    But the bravest moment of the show was when Ms. Kawada visted Tsubasa to give him his first home-school lesson as his parents looked on. And all this taking place just as Dr. Suenaga and Nurse Wakaba had been prepareing to remove his breathing tubes. Man this show has guts.
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Five years is a long time to be a cancer patient. It's long enough to get better, then worse, then a little better, then a lot worse. It's enough time to hate the medicine which is slowly poisoning you. It's time enough to make friends before losing them. It's enough to make Yuki wonder if her prayers would be answered. And it's barely enough for her to grow from a kindergartener into a girl, just enough.

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1. Kaoru visited the guardian spirts when she was out. Are pessimists disappointed optimists?

2. Pilgramages for the sick are in literature as far back as The Canterbury Tales. How has our response to dying changed since medieval times?


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Missed the first two episodes. Anyone mind giving a quick summary? Had so much work. emoticon

Satomi is a school principal? Wow. emoticon

By the way, is there a way to stop the screen from scrolling? Its kinda hard to read or reply.
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'Till the Battery runs Out

Episode 3
October 17, 2004

This is the first drama besides Trick that I have gotten hooked on after watching the first episode and also the first drama that I have cried openly almost every ten minutes. Koibumi was sad at the very end, as was Younger Man, and to a lesser extent Stairway to Heaven and parts of Trick - but this one really made me sad.

The poem by the little girl who died should be a reminder to all suicide patients or people being counseled - or even normal people who are stressed or don't want to go to school - that if there people that are happier than you, then there are people who are sadder than you too.

That friend of Kaoru's is very sweet.. looks like she won't be seeing him for a while now that she is in isolation. And I guess the field trip by Mrs. Satoru did good for the kids who respect the hospital now - and looks like she got a lump sum of new students?

The nurse has quite a contrasting role than the role she plays of a mute, conservative fiancee over on Shiaswase no Shippo. But I like her role!

Wow! Satomi's gotten sexy for someone her age! I guess they meant for her to look younger, she looks 20 years younger than she did on the last episode of Trick.

I am eagerly awaiting next week's episode, and if anyone saw the first few episodes of this, please post it in the Request Topic per my request. Thanks! emoticon
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Positive Thinking

Why are you in such a rush?
Why are you panicking?
If there are people happier than you, then there are also people more miserable than you.
If you can live and laugh now…
Then you should be happy.
Don't feel like the victim.
Let's take life as it comes.
With positive thinking.

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See a detailed but only partially comprehensible Babelfish-translated episode summary from the series' main site.

class float-left Image Anyways, teacher xml:lang ja-JP 川田さとり (Kawada, Satori) has been transferred by principal xml:lang ja-JP 日向昌子 (Hyuuga, Masako) to a new school in Shinshu Children's Hospital (with lots of gravely ill kids), run by doctor xml:lang ja-JP 末永誠一 (Suenaga, Seiichi). Teacher xml:lang ja-JP さとり has been selected for this task because of her bright, sunny disposition.

class float-right Image As she arrives, she runs into the young boy pictured and xml:lang ja-JP 橘結花 (Yuka) [pictured to the right], the focus of the first two episodes.

Teacher xml:lang ja-JP さとり is introduced to the other teacher, who is male and dour, to the nurses, and to doctor xml:lang ja-JP 末永. xml:lang ja-JP 末永 is revealed to be dour, as well, but very hard-working. But he cares a litle more for the kids' physical well-being than their quality of life.

xml:lang ja-JP 結花 is the bulb that lights up the ward. She's usually upbeat and looks after the other kids at the hospital. There's a scene where she comforts a crying, younger kid with a motorized rabbit of hers, only the battery runs out. xml:lang ja-JP 結花 is also something of a poet and has written a very compelling piece comparing xml:lang ja-JP (mortal life) and batteries. When she sees the batteries powering the toy run out, she thinks of her poem. Teacher xml:lang ja-JP さとり , unaware of the reason for xml:lang ja-JP 結花's sudden somberness, rushes off to find a fresh battery.

That night, xml:lang ja-JP 結花's mother visits and tells her she gets to leave the hospital for a week. xml:lang ja-JP 結花 is happy, but her mother is sad because this will be xml:lang ja-JP 結花's last trip out of the hospital. Mom asks xml:lang ja-JP 結花 if she would like to go to Disneyland, but xml:lang ja-JP 結花 says she just wants to spend some time enjoying a normal home life.

The little boy who teacher xml:lang ja-JP さとり ran into earlier is visited by his parents. They are very proud because the boy has been accepted into school. They dress him up in a suit. However, suddenly, the boy begins bleeding from his nose and is rushed to intensive care. They boy does not recover and his parents ask the doctor to stage a little matriculation ceremony. The doctor, some nurses, and the principal attend the unconscious boy's bedside. His parents present him with a bundle of schoolbooks, with wrapping that says お xml:lang ja-JP めでとう(omedetou). See discussion above on the use of that term. Teacher xml:lang ja-JP 川田さとり thinks the whole thing rather macabre and, unable to take it any more, runs off.

class float-left ImageThe town they are in is known for its many, many statues of guardian deities. Teacher xml:lang ja-JP 川田さとり has told the kids a local myth that if one visits and prays to each one, then a wish will be granted. xml:lang ja-JP 結花 disappears from the hospital. The teacher remembers the myth she told the children, and the hospital staff go looking for xml:lang ja-JP 結花. Finally, they find her after she has completed her pilgrimage. xml:lang ja-JP 結花 says she wished that everyone in the hospital will get well and asks the teacher if her wish will come true.

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