Listen, missy!
I'm saying I can't trust your definition of "eating well!"
All that junk food you're eating
will come back to bite you when you're older.
Tell me again that you're eating well!
MOM
I'm eating well enough.
Now, hold on!
I can hear crunching!
Is that your idea of dinner?
I'm counting my calories.
That's not the problem!
For Pete's sake! Do you even cook?
Are you cleaning? Doing your laundry?
Shut up!
Did you call just to bother me?
If that's all, I'm hanging up. Is that all?
Ah, yes...
I found a cute dress online that's perfect for you.
No, thanks.
Hmm?
No, thank you! I'd never wear it!
It's perfect for you.
I say this as your mother and I'm never wrong.
Wait, stop.
Do not have that sent to me!
I've already sent it.
Package for you.
Who the hell will wear this?
RAGE
That's awful.
Nobody would want this.
It's not something you'd give your 25-year-old daughter.
It's practically cosplay.
My parents once sent me a weird suit with big shoulder pads.
-Shoulder pads? -They're relics!
I sold it immediately.
-That's mean. -That's mean.
It's better than tossing it out, right?
My mom asked me to try it on and send her a picture.
-Why? -So she can show it to my grandparents.
What are you, a first-grader?
It's good to be loved.
It's a nuisance!
Well, mothers are troublesome creatures.
No joke.
Retsuko!
Are you eating well?
I'm eating right now...
You can hardly call that eating well!
That junk food will come back to bite you when you're older!
...to bite you when you're older!
MOM
Oh, well...
I'm on a diet right now.
Have some fried veggies!
Think nothing of it.
I fried a whole wok of veggies this morning!
Oh dear. I'll gain weight again!
Please, help yourself!
Doesn't Kabae have, like, three kids?
She's a mother, too.
ACCOUNTING
Hey!
Short-timer!
Yes!
Haida! Fenneko!
-Yes? -Yes?
Come here.
Next month, Accounting will be getting a new employee.
A new graduate?
Yes.
Gomakawa's on her way out. She's getting married.
I'll need someone to take her place.
Listen up!
Graduates are just freeloaders with a bloated sense of pride.
Shove him off his pedestal and show him the truth about company life!
-As you wish, sir! -As you wish, sir!
As you wish, sir!
As for you, short-timer...
a company is not a clubhouse.
Be prepared to be hated by your subordinate.
OK.
So Gomakawa's marrying her way out...
She does have an aura of happiness around her.
Isn't she two years younger than us?
I see.
An early bloomer, huh?
Marriage...
I can't begin to imagine it.
It's nothing to aspire to. It's just an outdated system.
Cynical as always!
Your fantasies are showing again, Haida.
Huh? What do you mean? I'm as rational as you are!
Yeah?
Retsuko? Are you eating well?
I'm sleeping.
Hey! Why did you hang up?
Ugh, shut up!
Do you cook? Clean? Do laundry?
I'm going out today.
Got your hankie? Your purse?
I'm gonna hang up if you have nothing else to say!
Ah, yes...
I heard there was a robbery near your house.
A burglar forced his way into a girl's home. How terrible!
So you got worried and called?
Just tell me that you're locking up carefully!
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Hang some men's clothes to dry on your balcony, too.
It will help keep you safe.
I say this as your mother and I'm never wrong...
She's been getting worse.
The best bus tours have good food!
All-you-can-eat sushi. That's decided, then!
I want to relax in a hot spring.
How about a cherry-picking trip?
Oh, this is happening in July.
Miura seafood gourmet tour!
Kusatsu hot spring.
Grape-picking!
Oh, this is in September.
Our opinions aren't at all similar.
It's pretty hard to decide.
One bus tour cannot fulfill all of our preferences.
You seem at ease.
Hmm?
When did you last sing karaoke?
You're able to work without building up stress now.
Well, that's kind of boring!
Retsuko's all grown up now.
Oh, please!
Yes, it was already unlocked.
Yes, I think he's still inside.
Understood. An officer will be there soon.
Yes, thank you very much.
I'm so scared.
This is hopeless.
It's heavy.
This could work.
Who's there?
What are you doing in my house?
Oh.
Welcome home, Retsuko.
Well, thank goodness it was nothing.
I'm so sorry!
My daughter has always been jittery.
Shut up!
How did you get in, anyway?
The door was locked!
I duplicated the key without telling you.
Arrest her!
I thought I raised you better than to make such a mess!
Now it's nice and clean, right?
I never asked you to clean up.
Are you satisfied? I've had enough of this.
Go ahead.
What a cutie.
Isn't there anyone you like?
Why do you ask?
Again, isn't there a man you like?
There was, but we broke up.
Oh, I see.
Well, here you go.
Isn't he handsome?
Well, yes.
Wonderful! That's settled, then.
Now, hold on!
What is this?
A matchmaking photo!
Civil servant, 34 years old, upper middle-class, never been married...
He's free on weekends, so make sure you're available.
I... have to go meet him?
Of course.
All I'm asking is that you go on a date with him if he seems nice.
He's the son of one of Aunt Yoshie's acquaintances.
Wait!
I don't care!
I'm not interested right now.
"I'm not interested right now!"
Do you know where that will lead?
Time will slip through your fingers!
The spring of youth will give way to a parched summer of dry skin
and the struggle to find the right moisturizer!
It's time to listen to me!
I say this as your mother!
I don't care!
I already told you that!
Who are you to decide this?
You're the one deciding. That said, when will you get married?
I don't know.
Do you think Prince Charming will just show up one day?
It's not like that.
Then what's the big deal? Just try it out.
This is reality.
Arranged marriages were already old news when I was young, so I know.
But you millennials need to remember that real contact gets you results!
You put up a good "honest and diligent" front,
but the truth is you're really good at running away from reality.
You know this about yourself, don't you?
Be prepared and plan for your life.
You'll have to grow up one of these days.
RAGE
Twenty-five years of the same old strife!
A thief named Mom trying to steal my life!
Breaks into my place with that look on her face!
Tramples my plans, it's a damn disgrace!
I hate that freaking dress!
Can't wait to burn that mess!
KARAOKE
What?
An arranged meeting?
I don't need Director Ton badmouthing me even more!
You're going through... with it?
I said no to her, of course.
I won't play into her hands.
It's all so stupid.
But when I said it's old-fashioned,
she said it's just a practical version of matchmaking apps.
No catfishing, just logic, and on and on...
She sure likes to argue.
It really ticks me off.
I stormed out of my place and left her behind.
Oh dear. And then what?
After a while,
I went back and found she'd already left.
I'M GOING HOME. MOM.
That's awkward.
It's not my fault.
I'll call her and apologize.
Welcome home.
So... you're here.
I accepted the invitation to meet on your behalf.
After all, I'm your mother and I'm never wrong.
She looks a bit tense.
Maybe she was nervous when it was taken.
So?
Will you meet her?
Yeah.
I'll meet her.