Chapter 115

## Mission 115: Yozakura Film Festival

**Mission 115: Yozakura Film Festival** (作戦 115. 夜桜映画祭, Yozakura Eiga Sai) is the one hundred and fifteenth chapter of Hitsuji Gondaira's Mission: Yozakura Family.

The Yozakura Family decide to have a film festival as they wait for the Old Man Hunter, but is enjoying themselves really the right thing to do?

## Summary

The Yozakura Family are all sitting down watching a horror movie together, Shion enjoys how the couple gets killed. They change movies since Futaba doesn't like horror. Shion mentions that they haven't had any progress with the Old Man Hunter since the incident with Itsuwa Yozakura. As a result of this, she decides to hold a Yozakura Film Festival to pass the time.

After watching more horror films, Futaba asks Shinzo to pick a cute new movie. Shinzo suggests "Meow Meow Story 3: The Great Paw War", Taiyo is surprised Shinzo didn't pick an action or war film but Shinzo explains that he gets annoyed at the fact that the fights and explosions are obviously fake.

Futaba suggests "Abashiri in the Blizzard", an old film about a man finishing his prison sentence and returning home to meet his lover. She says how she doesn't get modern celebrities from overseas, so she ends up watching classic Japanese movies, Kengo mentions how she's like an old lady and she hits him.

Kengo's choice for a movie is "Eronuelle", a tale about women's freedom and beauty, He mentions a particular love scene in the film, but the family turn it off and scold him for showing a film with indecent scenes.

Taiyo picks the movie "If the Wind Blows", which is about a married couple who are slowly dying due to toxic air. Mutsumi mentioned how when he watched it when he was 10, he was traumatised. Taiyo says that a family unaware of their situation and suddenly dying is oddly calming to him, this is because he can relate to the characters. Taiyo becomes very depressed as everyone tries to cheer him up.

Ai says to watch "A Wolf Tale", a movie about a family of wolves on an adventure. She also mentions that she can understand the wolves in the film that complain about the director. Nanao suggests "The White Tower", which is a medical drama that has super-realistic surgery scenes. Goliath also recommends a history documentary. Kyoichiro refuses to give any recommendations to Taiyo.

After a while, the whole family is asleep apart from Taiyo and Mutsumi. Taiyo asks if it's okay for them to be taking it easy like this, after the incident with Tsubomi. He thinks that he may end up letting his guard down, Mutsumi tells him to not overthink things and that they should enjoy this life that they work so hard to protect. She compares their life to the film "If the Wind Blows", she thinks that the couple did know that they were poisoned and instead decided to live their lives to the fullest. They accepted their fate and encouraged each other to live happily, being their way of fighting back. She says it's just like them, doing all they could to be happy due to the difficult times. The only difference is that they will have a happy ending. She says that once they put everything to rest then she and Taiyo will start their own story together, Taiyo plans to make that story a good one.

The rest of the family are actually all awake and pretend to be asleep after hearing Taiyo and Mutsumi. Kengo, Shinzo and Nanao find it sweet, Shion finds it sappy, Kyoichiro wants to hurt Taiyo and Futaba is holding him back. Mutsumi decides to play her favourite movie, the musical "The Song of Music" and decides to sing along. This leads to the whole family being scared and trying to stop her, but they all end up fainting due to her voice, except Kyoichiro.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Kyoichiro Yozakura
* Futaba Yozakura
* Shinzo Yozakura
* Shion Yozakura
* Kengo Yozakura
* Mutsumi Yozakura
* Nanao Yozakura
* Taiyo Asano
* Ai

## Events

* The Yozakura Family watch movies all night
* Taiyo and Mutsumi have an intimate moment discussing their future

## Trivia

* Many of the films shown in the chapter are based off real-life films:
	+ "Jozu" is named after Jaws
	+ "Live Hard" is named after Die Hard
	+ "Beauty and the Stud" is named after Beauty and the Beast
	+ "Silence of the Sheep" is named after The Silence of the Lambs
		- The cover of this film also features Hitsuji Gondaira's icon, being a sheep.
	+ "Drymon" is named after Doraemon
	+ "Paintanic" is named after Titanic
	+ "Monday the 13th" is named after Friday the 13th
		- The cover of this film also features Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street
	+ "Rin" is named after The Ring
	+ "Rinbo" is named after Rambo
	+ "Asashiri in the Blizzard" is named after Abashiri Prison: Escape in the Blizzard
	+ "Eronuelle" is named after Emmanuelle
	+ "If the Wind Blows" is named after When the Wind Blows
	+ "The White Tower" is named after Shiroi Kyoto
	+ "The Song of Music" is named after The Sound of Music