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class blockquote Hiroshi66 wrote:

Right. As of yet we still haven't found out what that was. It turns out the mastermind Fumino hid the legitimatization documents behind Yoshizo's picture frame. (So that's why she couldn't stand for Fujiyo to take it away in that episode!)
Yes, it's delicious to think that Fumino's feelings for her dearly depated's picture might not be so pure after all but could have had this ulterior undercurrent. class blockquote nchristi wrote:

Oh, by the way, what if Yoshizo secretly married Fumino before his death?
Very intriguing thought!

Neither of the above had occurred to me. emoticon

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Yes. It makes things look very different when you rewatch scenes.
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I'm not so sure the documents were behind the photo when Fujiyo ripped out her father's photo. I think she placed them there only when Dance Man gave her a new, replacement picture of Yoshizo.

If you watch the original photo snatching scene, Fujiyo succeeded in tearing out the photo all by herself (after wresting the frame/photo from Fumino), and when she finished there was daylight coming through the frame. It seems to me that any documents would have fallen out and been highly visible to Fujiyo or the other observers. No?

I think Fumino had the documents hid in the drawer (or elsewhere) until she framed the new photo from Dance Man. I'm feeling her reaction about Fujiyo taking Yoshizo's photo was genuine. It was the only photo she had of him, wasn't it? Thus, Dance Man scored a bullseye by bringing her his personal photo of Yoshizo, the picture we now see framed and standing in her apartment.
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I rewatched that scene and you're right. That must also be a reason why a couple of episodes later Fumino made sure she put that picture frame away before Fujiyo walked in.
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I enjoyed the last episode BUT Fumino looked evil in the last shot with the baby. She looked scary. LOL.
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Well, that was really good. Had me guessing the whole way. But it sure was dark--what a look on Fumino's face there at the end. Who took who? And Dance Man already had another fish on the line!!! Wow.
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Excellent, excellent last episode. Really complemented and tied up loose ends really well (except for one thing - which I'll get to later below about Hinako.)

Fumino indeed changed. Instead of the quiet soul we've seen her as, she became loud, demanding, and protective. That last scene with her walking off with the baby made me thing - is she really happy? Is this what she wanted? It was a contrast to when Fujiyo walked off from the restaurant, with a confident, free smile on her face, as if she was finally free. It seemed the opposite for Fumino.

Good that Fujiyo stood up to Dance Man. She really told him a thing or two, it seems, after withdrawing from Umemura school. I think she finally understood. Chizu and Ryokichi also seem to have coped with the fact that in 20 years Yoshio will recieve 50% of their stocks. And I think they will cope with it. I never had a problem with Ryokichi. He did sleep with Kimura and mistreat her but he never really was too bad to Fumino. And is Chizu pregnant? That last scene made me speculate.

I think the storyline which was left unfinished was Hinako's. I can't believe Rokuro wasn't even mentioned. I don't know if they got married or not, but the last scene with Hinako doesn't really prove anything. And isn't Aunt Yoshiko hilarious? The way she just leaves and just mumbles a "Jaa, Hina-chan". The true meaning? "Well, so much for you."

Uichi is a rather hilarious fellow. Trying to rip up the will like that. Well, the man needs to retire, and this was a perfect time for him to do so. And Dance Man too! Wow, somebody better warn Momoko.

Overall, a wonderful series. Animal Doctor starts April 2, a front page will be up soon.
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Somebody please refresh my memory.... What was going on with the painting of the four roses (?) in the museum? Did we see that painting before? If so, in what context? What's the drift on that?

The opening credits had four roses, as well, sort of horizontally staggered, with the pedals dropping eventually. The painting in the museum had three diagonally placed flowers, with one opposing. Is that the male heir set apart to face and bowl over the three staunch matrilineal preservers?

I was grateful that the drama gave us something positive and happy. Dad's radical "tough love" measures were psychologically shipwrecking to the womens' psyches for a while, but in the end he gave them the best gift possible—freedom from that terrible matrilineal family prison, the walls of which they couldn't comprehend.

I don't know why, exactly, but I particularly liked the parting scene between Fujiyo and Dance Man. I liked that she gathered herself up into a positive state of mind, cut her losses, and moved on in dignity. "Dance Man" played that scene perfectly, too. The handsome player, always able to keep himself together, ready for whatever is hit into his court. Comfortable with his corruption.

I can't forget the scene where the small, remaining breath of conscience brought Dance Man back to look for the pregnant Fumino. How revealing when he suddenly "got hold" of himself with What is wrong with me?!, choosing to snuff out that last bit of light within himself, returning to his chosen life of cruelly using naive and trusting women.

And there he was, with Fujiyo. Cool, calm and collected. If the truth of her words penetrated his heart, it was only for a fleeting moment. No use for her to seek revenge upon him. Guys like him can't be touched. Their recompense comes at unseen times in the outworkings of their lives, and not infrequently in the extreme aloneness they experience as old, dying people.

Maybe I liked that scene because it didn't follow the trite way we usually see of revenge and payback and redemption. It was very real to me. Executed perfectly by two great actors.

Well, ccwf, looks like you were the closest to reading Fumino! I don't think there's any question that everybody was "played" in this drama. It wasn't just all the characters who were played by one another. We—the viewers—were equally played by the writer. Very good construction. Though I did find it rather unnerving to see in the end the Devil (so to speak) tip her hand.
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class blockquote ClockworkHorrorshow wrote:

I enjoyed the last episode BUT Fumino looked evil in the last shot with the baby. She looked scary. LOL.
If she wasn't evil, she wouldn't have done what she did in the last two episodes - formalize the paper and tell the truth about everyone to everyone.

But I did like the ending. Of course, the family could have hire a hitman to get rid of them, but that sound more like a mafia movie than a Japanese drama.
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Nchristi, a few episodes back, there was a scene about how Fumino had met Yoshizo. She used to pick those flowers back in her hometown (they weren't roses, it was some other flower) and that's how she met Yoshizo when he came to buy some or something. After he left, she met him a couple of months/years later at that same museum in front of that picture.

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