朝ドラあんまり観てないくせに言いたくなります。今クールの「エール」は、朝ドラ史上最も面白い作品ではないでしょうか。
Even though I haven’t been watched the morning dramas so much, I want to say this. Yell, the current serial TV novel by NHK, might be the most amusing one in its history.
以下のあらすじは、Wikipediaからの引用です。
「1909年、福島県に代々呉服店を営む家族に、待望の男の子が誕生した。後に多くの名曲を書いた才能ある作曲家・古山裕一である。裕一は店の跡取りとして育つが、夢想的で周りの人から商売には不向きな子供だと思われる。しかし、音楽に出会った裕一は作曲に才能を発揮し、またそのことに喜びを覚える。
少年時代から独学で作曲を学んだ裕一は、密かに海外に作曲コンクールに応募し、入賞を果たす。その結果、歌手志望の女子学生と知り合いになる。福島と豊橋の長い距離と双方の家族の反対にも関わらず、2人は交際を続ける。
やがて東京に出た彼らは様々な種類の人々と出会い、暗い時代を乗り越えて数多くのヒット曲を生み出す。しかし、戦争が勃発したため、裕一は軍の要請で戦時歌謡を作曲しなければならなくなる。自分が書いた歌を歌った後、若者が戦死したことを知って裕一は苦しむ。
戦後、国は混乱の中から復興し始める。夫婦は音楽の力で傷ついた人を励ますため、音楽の新時代を作る。」
The following summary is a quote from Wikipedia.
‘In 1909, a long-awaited baby boy was born to a family which has run a dry goods store for generations in Fukushima Prefecture. He would later become the talented composer Yuichi Koyama who wrote many famous songs. Although Yuichi was brought up as the heir of the business, he was rather dreamy and considered a child with no redeeming traits by the people around him.
However, when he encountered music, it sparked joy and unleashed his gift in composing music through self-study. As a youth, Yuichi secretly put his name down for an overseas songwriting competition. This would change his destiny. He won runner-up for the song he entered for the competition. As a result, he got to know a female student who wanted to be a singer. Despite the long distance between them – Fukushima and Toyohashi – the two of them tied the knot. When they came to Tokyo, they met all sorts of people and weathered a dark period to produce a number of hit songs. However, war broke out and Yuichi had to compose wartime songs at the army’s request. It pained him that young men died in battle after singing the songs he had written. After the war, the country began to recover amid the chaos. The couple made a new era of music in an attempt to encourage the wounded through the power of music.’
主人公の少年時代を演じる石田星空さんの自然な演技に、まず惹き込まれました。吃音があり、いじめられがちな裕一が、音楽の才能に目覚めていく過程は、勝手に親目線になって応援してしまいました。その才能を引き出した小学校の教師、藤堂清治を演じるのは森山直太朗さんです。その藤堂が、裕一に言ったある言葉を聞いて、涙が溢れました。次の言葉です。
Above all, I was impressed by the unaffected performance by Ishida Hoshizora, who plays the protagonist’s boyhood. Yuichi, the main character, stammers and tends to be bullied, but he gradually develops his music talent. While watching it, I cheered him feeling as if I were his parent in spite of myself. It is Todo Seiji, Yuichi’s elementary school teacher, who draws out his talent, and the player is Moriyama Naotaro. I couldn’t help crying when I heard what Todo said to Yuichi and the words are as follows.
「人よりほんの少し努力するのがつらくなくて、ほんの少し簡単にできること、それが君の得意なことだ。それが見つかったら、それにしがみつけ」
“What you are good at is something that it is not so hard but rather easy to do for you even if it is very hard for other people. If you can find it, you must stick to it.”
人の人生を変える力をもった言葉です。いいドラマと言うものは、いい価値観にあふれています。その価値観が、登場人物のセリフに表れてくるのは当然のことです。
I have a feeling that this word is something that has a power to change someone’s life. A good drama is, in my opinion, full of good sense of values. It is quite natural that these sense of values reveals themselves in the characters’ lines.
再放送は始まったばかりです。まだ観ていない方には強くお勧めしたいドラマです。
The rerun has just begun. I can highly recommend this drama to people who haven’t watched it yet.
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