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Meet Yourself Episode 7
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I miss my grandma 🥹Like Hong Dou, I also love Zhi Yao’s grandma so much. She’s such a sweetheart. ❤️
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I totally didn't expect this was what happened at all when they mentioned a calamity at the end of episode 113. Oh my God, the screenwriter is a genius. I know what they are trying to do. So far they have added several important historical events in Japan from the beginning of the series. Oshin's life was involved in all of those events. But this is so heartbreaking. I think this was the most heartbreaking episode so far to me. Even though I already sensed that Genji would die when the earthquake happened, the moment I saw Genji's body holding Yu to protect him, I cried. I didn't expect he would die like that. Although I didn't like Genji at first, I feel that he was like a protective and loving father to Ryuzo and to Oshin as well. I'm literally not okay now. I think I will not watch any more episodes today.Ep 114
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They confessed to each other but all I noticed is that the woman said she’s never been lucky ever since she was born and this made me so mad. Girl! How do you define luck? You’re pretty, healthy, smart, has a good job as a doctor, has the most supportive best friend ever and lives in a beautiful place, which is even bigger than my place and I don’t call myself poor. Obviously the rent for that place is not cheap and definitely not a price that a normal ‘poor’ salary person can afford. You’re definitely not as poor as you think. I don’t get why she’s always calling herself poor and miserable. She’s not poor! I’m so done with the screenwriter. If you want to make her a poor and miserable woman, at least make her look and live like one. Do you know how a rented house for poor people look like? Even though I don’t live in China, I’m pretty sure the female lead’s house is not for the poor there. 😩😒🤦♀️
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I didn’t expect to see Oshin’s mother again and it made me feel both happy and sad. Hope she will stay with her daughter for a long time and those two will have the best time together.“You’re the luckiest woman in all Japan!”. I feel that every Asian mother would often treat her daughter’s husband like a prince, even though the guy doesn’t really do much for his wife. I’m not sure. I think my late grandma used to say the same to my father in front of both of them. A lot of people said that it’s because the mother wants her daughter to be treated well in her husband’s family. In this case, Oshin’s husband just said he had everything he had now thanks to Oshin, which is an obvious fact. And that’s already makes Oshin the luckiest woman? It should be opposite.
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Kitchen for Singles Episode 8
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“Things I've eaten. Things I've seen.People I've met. Places I've been.Everything I've encountered makes me who I am today.That goes for this room, too.It may be just another night, but it's been a spectacular one.”Ep 4 of season 2 (Ep 8 of this short series)
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“People can do everything if they put their minds to it.”“It's nice to have a steady income...But it's more exciting to be on your own...Maybe we'll fall and be poor again...But we can always crawl back up!”“Having money gave Oshin great confidence...And the confidence allowed Oshin to dream again...”Let’s see how it goes. I want to step out of my comfort zone too.
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Midnight Diner Episode 10
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“We can't undo the mistakes we've made. But we can decide what we want to do about it.”“Life is... like the Modori River.You wander, lose your way, and come back.Don't underestimate life.”“Welcome. I'll make anything you want, as long as I have the ingredients.”I cried again. It’s a heart warming drama.
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Midnight Diner Episode 9
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“Many people have seen my naked body. But I raised my son with the money I earned. There's nothing shameful about it.”“Life is like the Nagara River, full of ups and downs. I take my hat off to you.”“If you want to come into my diner, leave your pride at the door.”“Take care of yourself. Be proud of who you are.”I cried at the end of this episode. I totally didn’t expect that to happen. It’s probably because that Marilyn has been my favorite female character since the first episode, and that l always love a story where a woman supports another woman and boosts each other’s confidence.
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Midnight Diner Episode 5
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This episode really touched me. I’m watching it at the right moment. If I’d watched this drama a few years earlier, it would not have touched me this much, as I’ve witnessed a similar situation lately.My mom’s best friend recently got back together with her high school sweetheart in her late 60s after splitting up due to a misunderstanding in their late teens. They were married though, but they had been single for years before they met again. Now they are living together, and holding hands and going everywhere together. I bet this must be a great news for everyone who knows both of them. I heard it was greatly celebrated during a class reunion lately. 🥹
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This episode was so hard to watch. Somehow it felt like you were witnessing a part of your mother’s or grandmother’s life. It’s painful as I know that during that era, women would never dare to divorce their husbands once she had a child, even if the husband was totally a jerk and beat his wife on a daily basis. Even nowadays, I’ve still met a few women in my society with the same mindset. That’s why, even though I wish Oshin would leave her loser husband so bad, I know she would never do that. And it’s so painful to watch. 😔I also wish the best for all the great women who have been helping Oshin. I’ve always loved Taka and Someko, and I really appreciate what they’ve said to Oshin in this episode. And a big bravo to Someko for standing up against Ryuzo for Oshin’s sake. I love these women so much! Meanwhile, Oshin still thinks it’s her fault for hurting her husband’s pride. 🤦♀️ It’s understandable for women at that time to think that way, so it’s even more painful.
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In this episode, her grandson told Oshin he wished to marry someone like his grandmother. I think the screenwriter meant to praise her as a wife material, because Oshin was kind of a perfect woman who was both perfect at cooking, doing chores and working to support her husband while never complaining about her husband, but always being understanding and soft towards him instead. If they wanted to encourage women to be more like Oshin, I would never accept that encouragement. I’d rather be not good at anything and watching my dramas forever instead of getting married. My mother is kind of like Oshin, except for the understanding and encouraging attitude towards her husband. She is hot-tempered and considered ‘not feminine enough’. My father always takes her for granted and disrespects her, like Oshin’s husband. I don’t want to be like Oshin in this situation. Also, the grandson mentioned that nowadays women would divorce her husband if they were in Oshin’s situation, and he said the reason was about money. Well, I would divorce the guy at the moment I met his father and heard what he talked bad about his son’s mother behind her back in front of his daughter-in-law, or never got married in the first place.In the previous episode (episode 92), the cafe girls also discussed how Oshin’s life was hard after her marriage and all of them said that she should’ve stayed single and lived on her own instead. From what I saw, she totally had all the skills she needed to support herself, instead of having to take care of a male adult kid who was a controlling hypocritical loser.Anyway, that’s not the main point of what I was about to say. I mean, Oshin told her grandson that she was mistaken about what love was and didn’t know how a man felt. If this was really a message the screenwriter wanted to give their viewers, I would refuse to learn that lesson. Oshin did nothing wrong. She had done everything for the man she loved. What’s wrong is that she met the wrong man, who was an insecure patriarchal narcissist. I will leave some words here to strongly remind myself to never be like Oshin in this case, if later on this turned out to be the message the screenwriters wanted to tell us women.
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I knew it. My intuition was right. That Ryuzo is no good as a man. He’s such a hypocritical and insecure pathetic loser disguised as a ‘gentleman’. Ugh. 😑 I hate him so much. He even beat his wife while knowing she was doing the right thing for his own business that he was struggling to manage on his own. Then she had to apologize for humiliating him, because “he’s a proud man…” and his wife should be sorry for hurting his pride. This mindset was normalized in the old days and sadly, somehow I still see it in my society now. The elderly always say that if a wife is better than her husband, that family is ruined, as no ‘masculine’ man would want his woman to take control of the family and humiliate him in front of others. Another sad thing is that Oshin let her husband beat her. It’s actually understandable, when she grew up in an abusive family, when her father beat her and her mother, and then her father and older brother was using her for money. I think she’s used to it and doesn’t consider it as a big deal. She’s thinking that she deserves to be hit, because ‘she has hurt her husband’s feelings’. I’ve met some women like this in real life. They always make some excuses for why their husbands treat them badly. I actually just argued with my mom about this recently. The elderly still believe that a wife should be taught and disciplined well, so a husband has the right to ‘discipline’ his wife. I personally think there’s absolutely no excuse for a man to beat his wife. I’m so sick of it! Things are getting better and I hope we can get rid of this mindset forever soon.If this were a modern drama with modern values, I would sue the screenwriters for letting Oshin endure this man. In my opinion, Oshin should better off unmarried and run her own business. This jerk has come into her life and I’m sure he will ruin it. It’s so sad for me to see how Oshin always wanted to make it on her own and not suffer in marriage like her mother did, but now might end up following the exact same track. Anyway, I always feel that Oshin looks happiest when she’s around her supportive women. So far she had been protected, and helped a lot by wonderful women. She’s also learnt a lot of things from the women in her life. I love and respect most of the female characters so far. For now, I wish the best for the cafe girls and the hairdressing shop owner lady, and the young maid at the hairdressing shop.
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I said what I said. Oshin’s true love is always Kayo. She even said she would do everything for Kayo when they were 8. True love doesn’t have to be about romance, does it? Anyway, sadly, I think that mindset of serving husbands in Asian women still exists today. A ‘good woman’ is taught since childhood that she should obey and follow her father until she gets married, then after marriage, she should obey and follow her husband until he dies, and when one’s husband dies, one must continue to follow and obey her own son. That’s what I grew up hearing a lot from the elderly and even from school.
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Oh no… I don’t feel good about this. I feel that her life will start getting miserable from now on with that mindset, that her life will be devoted to her husband now… I also have a strong gut feeling that Ryuzo is no good. I didn’t like him from the first moment I saw him. Now he didn’t even come visiting his newly wedded wife’s home with her for being ‘busy with his business’. Her father was dying…I’m scared that he will make Oshin suffer a lot.
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“- A wife needs to know how to cook..”- I feel so sorry for our master… His wife is good at running this business, but she can’t cook very well…- I get fed the same foods everyday. She’s terrible!”It’s an old drama set in the old days so this can’t be helped. This is how a father talked about his wife disrespectfully in front of his son and wife and another man, and they all laughed it off together. No wonder a lot of Asian men are patriarchal. They must have inherited it from their fathers. My father used to do the same thing with my mom in front of me and my brother.
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