1 00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:04,904 Co-produced by TOHO AND SHI NSEI EIGASHA 2 00:00:07,207 --> 00:00:13,146 TOHO CO., LTD. 3 00:00:19,586 --> 00:00:25,423 OUR NATION'S MILITARY HAS ALWAYS SERVED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE EMPEROR 4 00:00:25,526 --> 00:00:27,494 - IMPERIAL EDICT TO OUR SOLDIERS 5 00:00:27,928 --> 00:00:33,867 UNDERTHE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN 6 00:00:39,773 --> 00:00:43,710 Produced by SEISHI MATSUMARU SHOHEI TOKIZANE 7 00:00:43,944 --> 00:00:47,881 Based on the book by SHOJI YU Kl 8 00:00:48,181 --> 00:00:52,778 Screenplay by KAN ETO SHI NDO, NORIO OSADA and Kl Njl FUKASAKU 9 00:00:53,020 --> 00:00:55,250 Cinematography by HI ROSHI SEGAWA 10 00:00:55,389 --> 00:00:57,619 Production design by TATSUYA IRI NO 11 00:00:57,958 --> 00:01:00,427 Music by HIKARU HAYASHI 12 00:01:30,057 --> 00:01:31,991 CAST 13 00:01:32,326 --> 00:01:35,921 TETSURO TAMBA 14 00:01:36,229 --> 00:01:39,824 SACHI KO HI DARI 15 00:01:40,067 --> 00:01:44,436 SHINJIRO EBARA ISAO NATSUYAGI 16 00:01:44,671 --> 00:01:47,072 SANAE NAKAHARA YUMIKO FUJITA 17 00:01:47,207 --> 00:01:49,608 NOBORU MITANI TAKETOSHI NAITO 18 00:02:12,032 --> 00:02:15,627 KAN EMON NAKAMURA 19 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:21,639 Directed by KINJI FUKASAKU 20 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:27,547 NATIONAL MONUMENT TO FALLEN SOLDIERS Twenty-six years after the war, 21 00:02:27,648 --> 00:02:31,551 it still pains our hearts 22 00:02:31,652 --> 00:02:37,421 to recall the many who fell in battle, those who lost their lives 23 00:02:37,524 --> 00:02:40,983 to the ravages of war, 24 00:02:41,094 --> 00:02:44,428 and the families they left behind. 25 00:02:44,531 --> 00:02:45,828 EMPEROR AND CONSORT 26 00:02:45,932 --> 00:02:49,630 I stand here before the citizens of our nation, 27 00:02:49,736 --> 00:02:55,505 praying for world peace and our national progress, 28 00:02:55,609 --> 00:03:00,547 in solemn tribute to those who perished. 29 00:03:02,849 --> 00:03:07,343 AND YET, AMONG THE THREE MILLION JapanESE MILITARY CASUALTI ES 30 00:03:07,454 --> 00:03:12,722 SOME ARE DENIEDA PLACE AMONG OUR HONORED HEROES 31 00:03:12,826 --> 00:03:15,124 SERGEANT KATSUO TOGASHI JapanESE ARMY 32 00:03:15,228 --> 00:03:18,994 DESERTED IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY IN AUGUST, 1945, ON NEW GUINEA 33 00:03:19,099 --> 00:03:20,726 EXECUTED 34 00:03:21,802 --> 00:03:25,067 1971 35 00:03:26,473 --> 00:03:29,067 MINISTRY OF WELFARE 36 00:03:30,777 --> 00:03:35,078 REJECTED CLAIM OF SAKI E TOGASHI 37 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:43,386 RESEARCH SECTION CHIEF 38 00:03:57,971 --> 00:04:00,668 I've kept you waiting. 39 00:04:04,444 --> 00:04:09,075 You've been filing claims since 1952, 40 00:04:09,182 --> 00:04:12,447 when the Survivor Benefits law first passed. 41 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:18,820 I was transferred here in April, so your case is new to me. 42 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:22,830 You file your claims on the anniversary of defeat. 43 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:24,920 That's right. 44 00:04:25,031 --> 00:04:26,556 Is there a reason? 45 00:04:27,667 --> 00:04:32,400 It's unclear exactly when my husband died... 46 00:04:33,673 --> 00:04:38,907 Sol chose August 15th for the anniversary of his death. 47 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:41,581 Please look at this. 48 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:48,650 DEATH NOTIFICATION NEXT OF KIN: SAKIE TOGASHI 49 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:50,655 ...DATE OF ,AUGUST 50 00:04:50,757 --> 00:04:53,988 DIED IN COMBAT (TEXT REVISED) DECEASED... 51 00:04:59,833 --> 00:05:04,896 Honey, there's another new Section Chief. 52 00:05:06,706 --> 00:05:12,304 How many times do I have to tell this same story over and over again? 53 00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:23,715 How can I forget the moment 54 00:05:24,024 --> 00:05:26,721 when I first got that notice... 55 00:05:28,128 --> 00:05:30,654 1946 56 00:05:32,065 --> 00:05:34,090 Didn't my husband die in combat? 57 00:05:34,201 --> 00:05:36,533 Well, it's just... 58 00:05:36,636 --> 00:05:40,004 Why was it changed from �died in com bat� to plain �deceased�? 59 00:05:40,106 --> 00:05:43,872 Well, for instance, if he died of illness... 60 00:05:44,411 --> 00:05:47,642 If he'd been ill, they'd write something like �Combat-related...� 61 00:05:47,747 --> 00:05:50,216 Besides, this notice isn't dated. 62 00:05:50,817 --> 00:05:53,047 I won't accept this crazy postcard. 63 00:05:54,688 --> 00:05:56,816 The truth is... 64 00:05:58,625 --> 00:06:01,185 Togashi san was executed. 65 00:06:01,761 --> 00:06:03,286 Executed? 66 00:06:06,333 --> 00:06:09,860 We'd only been married for 6 months. 67 00:06:10,604 --> 00:06:11,833 TEMPORARY DRAFT NOTICE 68 00:06:11,938 --> 00:06:14,498 1942 69 00:06:15,242 --> 00:06:16,710 Don't you worry. 70 00:06:17,711 --> 00:06:20,408 I'll be fine. 71 00:06:20,947 --> 00:06:23,279 Look after yourself. 72 00:06:24,551 --> 00:06:28,613 Here I'm leaving you to fend for yourself when you're pregnant... 73 00:06:28,722 --> 00:06:30,190 Honey. 74 00:06:46,973 --> 00:06:49,704 I wept in the toilet. 75 00:06:50,911 --> 00:06:55,542 I couldn't bear to let you see me cry. 76 00:07:02,122 --> 00:07:05,786 Five months later, Tomoko was born. 77 00:07:06,459 --> 00:07:09,224 Did you ever get the picture I sent? 78 00:07:09,329 --> 00:07:11,229 WAR ENDS 79 00:07:12,365 --> 00:07:15,858 AUGUST 15, 1945 80 00:07:16,870 --> 00:07:19,840 Finally, the war had ended 81 00:07:20,473 --> 00:07:23,306 and I was sure you'd come home... 82 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:29,973 I couldn't even die, 83 00:07:31,518 --> 00:07:34,010 because of Tomoko. 84 00:07:43,196 --> 00:07:46,427 Why's she workin' her ass off like that? 85 00:07:46,533 --> 00:07:48,661 She has to wear herself out to get any sleep. 86 00:07:48,768 --> 00:07:51,465 A widow with youthful passion. 87 00:07:55,608 --> 00:07:58,009 APRIL, 1952 88 00:08:00,447 --> 00:08:04,509 MILITARY FAMILY SURVIVOR BENEFITS LAW ENACTED 89 00:08:05,919 --> 00:08:09,219 My husband died in the war, too. 90 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:12,049 How come I don't deserve what the others get? 91 00:08:12,158 --> 00:08:14,718 Well, that's because in your case, 92 00:08:14,828 --> 00:08:18,162 Togashi san died following a court-martial. 93 00:08:18,264 --> 00:08:21,894 And just who saw my husband's court-martial.7 94 00:08:22,002 --> 00:08:26,838 Nobody saw it, but the government, the Welfare Ministry, sent a notice. 95 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:29,271 Please don't say that. 96 00:08:29,376 --> 00:08:32,505 Please let me see the Village Chief! Please! 97 00:08:35,548 --> 00:08:37,107 Thank you. 98 00:08:37,851 --> 00:08:41,515 And your family now? 99 00:08:42,555 --> 00:08:45,388 My daughter has married. 100 00:08:47,093 --> 00:08:49,926 -And grandchildren? -Yes. 101 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:52,431 That must be a comfort. 102 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:58,737 Until my husband can rest in peace, I'll have no comfort. 103 00:08:58,838 --> 00:09:01,273 I can understand your feelings. 104 00:09:01,841 --> 00:09:06,244 However, under current law, 105 00:09:06,613 --> 00:09:11,710 survivors of court-martialed soldiers receive no benefits at all. 106 00:09:12,852 --> 00:09:16,117 And your particular case falls into that category... 107 00:09:16,222 --> 00:09:21,888 I don't come back year after year because I want military benefits. 108 00:09:22,529 --> 00:09:27,524 I'm here because I want to know the truth - was he really executed for desertion? 109 00:09:28,068 --> 00:09:30,594 That's why I come. 110 00:09:30,703 --> 00:09:36,403 But it's all here in the military records of war casualties... You saw it. 111 00:09:36,509 --> 00:09:41,606 But I hear that the military patched together those records of the dead 112 00:09:41,714 --> 00:09:44,012 in the confusion, right after the war. 113 00:09:44,117 --> 00:09:46,085 I've heard they're unreliable. 114 00:09:46,186 --> 00:09:48,177 Who says so? 115 00:09:48,721 --> 00:09:53,955 The captain said so in the letter he wrote me. 116 00:09:55,061 --> 00:09:59,089 Oh, this man. I've received a petition from him, too... 117 00:09:59,199 --> 00:10:03,193 This petition is based on pure speculation... 118 00:10:03,303 --> 00:10:05,965 Also, according to the colonel, 119 00:10:06,072 --> 00:10:09,303 there's no record of the court-martial's verdict. 120 00:10:09,576 --> 00:10:11,066 See? 121 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:14,909 Apparently, all classified documents were burned at the end of the war. 122 00:10:15,014 --> 00:10:18,609 If that's true, there's no proof that he was sentenced to death. 123 00:10:20,086 --> 00:10:24,990 Which is why we have to trust this military record of casualties. 124 00:10:25,091 --> 00:10:28,721 Unless you've got some other persuasive evidence. 125 00:10:28,828 --> 00:10:30,694 That's exactly right. 126 00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:35,792 I really understand how you feel, but until you prove your husband's innocence, 127 00:10:36,236 --> 00:10:40,798 I'm in no place to overturn my predecessor's decision. 128 00:10:49,415 --> 00:10:51,679 As I left the house this morning, 129 00:10:52,385 --> 00:10:55,150 this is what my daughter said. 130 00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:58,657 Mom, why don't you give it a rest? 131 00:10:58,758 --> 00:11:00,886 They'll never listen to you anyway. 132 00:11:00,994 --> 00:11:03,793 Besides, do you know what people say? 133 00:11:03,897 --> 00:11:07,299 She '5 got some nerve begging for her husband '5 pension 134 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,799 In the old days, 135 00:11:08,902 --> 00:11:14,807 the whole village would have shunned a deserter's family forever. 136 00:11:15,575 --> 00:11:18,510 But this is what I said to her. 137 00:11:18,845 --> 00:11:21,871 �You can't stop other people from talking�. 138 00:11:23,316 --> 00:11:26,377 It's not like it's anything new. 139 00:11:26,953 --> 00:11:28,921 Back when my daughter married... 140 00:11:35,361 --> 00:11:37,420 Watch your step. 141 00:11:37,830 --> 00:11:40,765 Don't go peeping at those newlyweds. 142 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:43,666 If it's too much for you, come to me. 143 00:11:43,770 --> 00:11:46,330 I'll be happy to give you some advice! 144 00:11:51,110 --> 00:11:53,943 They may just have been joking, 145 00:11:54,647 --> 00:11:57,912 but it hit me hard. 146 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:19,027 People congratulated me over my son-in-law, 147 00:12:21,074 --> 00:12:25,136 but it all only made me realize how horribly I miss him. 148 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:45,223 My love... 149 00:12:53,873 --> 00:12:56,001 My love! 150 00:13:15,928 --> 00:13:18,454 I'll never give up. 151 00:13:19,899 --> 00:13:25,429 Because if I give up, my husband will never rest in peace. 152 00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:33,177 It's been 26 years since he died. 153 00:13:35,982 --> 00:13:38,713 All the other survivors, 154 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:44,513 attend the War Memorial Service with the Emperor 155 00:13:44,924 --> 00:13:47,859 and offer Chrysanthemums... 156 00:13:51,531 --> 00:13:53,966 Why is it only my husband, 157 00:13:56,235 --> 00:13:58,704 without a shred of evidence... 158 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:04,734 I, too... 159 00:14:06,979 --> 00:14:09,949 would like to join the Emperor 160 00:14:12,285 --> 00:14:15,744 and offer a Chrysanthemum for my husband. 161 00:14:53,092 --> 00:14:55,584 I was remiss.. 162 00:14:56,095 --> 00:14:57,824 The truth is, 163 00:14:58,331 --> 00:15:01,733 we also take this matter very seriously 164 00:15:01,934 --> 00:15:05,871 and sent inquiries to everyone from your husband's unit. 165 00:15:06,839 --> 00:15:11,436 But unfortunately, we haven't received any meaningful responses. 166 00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:18,048 However, there are 4 men here, who never answered our inquiries. 167 00:15:19,018 --> 00:15:21,646 I'm sure each has his own reasons, 168 00:15:22,321 --> 00:15:25,518 but if you contact them directly, as his widow, 169 00:15:25,625 --> 00:15:28,788 perhaps they'd be willing to share new information with you. 170 00:15:30,196 --> 00:15:32,255 Why don't you try to meet them? 171 00:15:49,048 --> 00:15:52,313 TSUGUOTERAJIMA FORMER PRIVATE FIRST CLASS, ARMY 172 00:16:15,541 --> 00:16:17,339 Excuse me. 173 00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:20,979 Excuse me. 174 00:16:36,429 --> 00:16:40,388 I never got any letter from the Ministry of welfare. 175 00:16:41,801 --> 00:16:46,568 What are those bureaucrats thinking when they say that? 176 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:50,168 If I had gotten anything, I would've written right back. 177 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:56,513 Because I owe my very life to Togashi san. 178 00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:58,651 To my husband? 179 00:17:00,620 --> 00:17:04,352 Yes, that's right. 180 00:17:05,558 --> 00:17:08,584 What an awful front that was. 181 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:11,755 1943 182 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:13,532 On New Guinea, then, 183 00:17:13,633 --> 00:17:18,400 the Americans and Australians had begun fighting back. 184 00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:25,303 Our unit shipped out from La Paul as reinforcements... 185 00:17:25,545 --> 00:17:29,448 But as we were crossing the Dampier Straits... 186 00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:45,964 DESTROYERS - 3 SUNK 187 00:17:47,033 --> 00:17:48,967 TRANSPORT SHIPS - 7 SUNK 188 00:17:50,036 --> 00:17:51,970 WEAPONS AND ORDNANCE-2,500 TONS SUNK 189 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:55,633 PERSONNEL - 3,600 DROWN ED 190 00:17:58,678 --> 00:18:02,945 Our strategy was impossible from the start. 191 00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:09,080 Less than 800 of our men made it ashore. 192 00:18:09,622 --> 00:18:12,148 We attempted to locate 193 00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:15,922 the established defensive units 194 00:18:38,184 --> 00:18:42,815 In this situation, we could all depend on Sgt. Togashi. 195 00:18:43,356 --> 00:18:45,791 Don't shoot. 196 00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:47,551 Don't shoot. 197 00:18:48,327 --> 00:18:49,453 Don't move. 198 00:18:49,562 --> 00:18:51,394 Sgt. Togashi! 199 00:18:51,597 --> 00:18:53,622 Our scouts are in danger, rescue them. 200 00:18:53,733 --> 00:18:55,462 - No point. - What? 201 00:18:56,535 --> 00:18:58,970 Yank's surrounded us, wants to flush us out. 202 00:18:59,071 --> 00:19:01,870 - Move now, we're in their hands. - How do you know? 203 00:19:02,074 --> 00:19:03,041 Experience. 204 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:05,440 You mean to abandon our troops! 205 00:19:05,544 --> 00:19:08,013 Your carelessness made us easy targets. 206 00:19:10,783 --> 00:19:12,342 Listen up! 207 00:19:12,451 --> 00:19:15,853 Our platoon will attack the enemy on their flank, attacking at... 208 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:18,219 The River Styx Stay put or you're dead. 209 00:19:18,324 --> 00:19:19,883 Damn you! 210 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:26,462 Insubordination I'll have you court-martialed. 211 00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:29,331 The rest of you, follow me. 212 00:19:30,936 --> 00:19:35,134 The plateau ahead is your objective Attack! 213 00:19:48,554 --> 00:19:50,488 There's no winning in dying. 214 00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:58,992 Thanks to him, not a single man in our unit died. 215 00:19:59,265 --> 00:20:03,896 But it was the beginning of hell on earth... 216 00:20:13,112 --> 00:20:17,015 SEPTEMBER, 1943 U.S. ARMY LANDS ON EASTERN LAE 217 00:20:19,618 --> 00:20:22,212 AUSTRALIAN AIR UNITS ATTACK WESTERN LAE 218 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:26,557 JapanESE ARMY ABAN DONS LAE 219 00:20:29,128 --> 00:20:31,722 2,200 DIE OF STARVATION IN MOUNTAINS 220 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:36,393 OCTOBER, 1943 U.S. ARMY ATTACKS Fl NSCHHAFEN 221 00:20:39,004 --> 00:20:40,938 AUSTRALIANS LAND ON CAPE ANT 222 00:20:42,675 --> 00:20:45,269 JANUARY, 1944 US. ARMY LANDS ON CAPE GUNBI 223 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,614 JapanESE ARMY RETREATS TO MADANG 224 00:20:51,684 --> 00:20:54,949 3,500 STARVE IN MOUNTAINS 225 00:21:01,694 --> 00:21:05,631 APRIL, 1944 -Japan ESE DEFEATED AT HANSA, WEWAK, AITAPE 226 00:21:08,734 --> 00:21:10,099 At that time, 227 00:21:10,202 --> 00:21:15,504 our unit was stranded in the jungle. 228 00:21:16,008 --> 00:21:21,003 The minute we walked out of there, the enemy would've picked us off. 229 00:21:21,113 --> 00:21:24,105 We were out of ammunition and food, 230 00:21:24,483 --> 00:21:29,387 and a third of our men, suffering from malnutrition or malaria, 231 00:21:29,488 --> 00:21:33,618 could neither move forward nor retreat. 232 00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:39,497 Those of us who were sick, whispered among ourselves... 233 00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:43,992 Piss your pants, you've only got 3 days left. 234 00:21:44,103 --> 00:21:47,437 Can't speak, it's 2 days. 235 00:21:48,207 --> 00:21:50,938 Can't blink means you're dead, 236 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:53,441 TOFHOITOW 237 00:21:58,717 --> 00:21:59,843 How's it going? 238 00:22:01,387 --> 00:22:03,116 Don't you need to piss? 239 00:22:04,557 --> 00:22:07,720 Up we go, here we go. 240 00:22:13,933 --> 00:22:15,560 You OK? 241 00:22:20,406 --> 00:22:22,807 We finally got orders for an offensive. 242 00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:25,336 Tonight. 243 00:22:26,045 --> 00:22:30,004 Any man who can't walk... You understand. 244 00:22:30,282 --> 00:22:32,842 Suicide, isn't it? 245 00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:35,854 Yeah, right. 246 00:22:37,423 --> 00:22:40,882 Will it be grenades or cyanide? 247 00:22:40,993 --> 00:22:43,360 -Air. -Air? 248 00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:47,291 They take an empty syringe 249 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:50,161 and force air into your heart 250 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:57,502 Is that how you want to die? 251 00:22:59,612 --> 00:23:01,637 If not, just beat it. 252 00:23:02,748 --> 00:23:06,082 I hear there are still Japanese troops 30 kilos west of us. 253 00:23:06,285 --> 00:23:08,617 -You'll manage. - But... 254 00:23:08,721 --> 00:23:11,281 Just listen to me. You've got a chance, take it. 255 00:23:17,096 --> 00:23:20,088 If you decide you're better off dead, use this. 256 00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:23,464 It sure beats an empty syringe. 257 00:23:24,803 --> 00:23:26,362 See you. 258 00:23:29,174 --> 00:23:30,699 Sergeant. 259 00:23:31,310 --> 00:23:36,305 That was the last I ever saw of Sgt. Togashi. 260 00:23:37,283 --> 00:23:38,910 Which means, 261 00:23:39,184 --> 00:23:43,314 my husband didn't desert, did he? 262 00:23:44,056 --> 00:23:45,546 Right. 263 00:23:46,392 --> 00:23:50,590 I'm the one who deserted. 264 00:23:52,364 --> 00:23:55,334 Togashi san died nobly in battle. 265 00:23:56,435 --> 00:24:02,067 I'm sure with his instincts, he charged the enemy brilliantly. 266 00:24:08,414 --> 00:24:10,940 Charge! 267 00:24:12,051 --> 00:24:17,751 Would you mind telling the Ministry of welfare the story you just told me? 268 00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:20,288 You mean, me? 269 00:24:20,392 --> 00:24:23,828 Yes, I'd be grateful. 270 00:24:24,263 --> 00:24:26,027 But... 271 00:24:26,332 --> 00:24:30,235 it's not like I saw him die in combat. 272 00:24:30,336 --> 00:24:33,033 I doubt they'd take it as proof. 273 00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:36,005 But you're a living witness. 274 00:24:36,108 --> 00:24:39,237 Nobody's going to accuse you of lying. 275 00:24:39,345 --> 00:24:42,280 Please, Terajima san. 276 00:24:48,253 --> 00:24:50,119 It's been 10 years. 277 00:24:50,456 --> 00:24:54,654 since I moved to this place, 278 00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:57,057 a virtual garbage heap. 279 00:24:58,397 --> 00:25:02,459 On the map, it's part of Tokyo, 280 00:25:02,901 --> 00:25:07,668 but I have no citizen's rights Legally, I don't exist. 281 00:25:10,109 --> 00:25:15,548 I've never been to town, not once since I came here. 282 00:25:16,448 --> 00:25:19,076 I have no need to go. 283 00:25:19,651 --> 00:25:25,112 I hate seeing people, talking to them, in the city that's so cleaned up. 284 00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:28,383 No, I don't have the confidence. 285 00:25:29,495 --> 00:25:31,156 But... 286 00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:33,995 But Terajima san, you can't... 287 00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:40,666 I would like to help you and repay the debt I owe Togashi san, 288 00:25:41,306 --> 00:25:44,037 but I must ask you to spare me this. 289 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:55,343 I'm sure you'|| meet with the other men. 290 00:25:56,922 --> 00:26:01,519 But no matter what anyone says, Togashi san died nobly in combat. 291 00:26:03,362 --> 00:26:06,696 That's what I believe. 292 00:26:10,302 --> 00:26:13,465 TOIVIOTAKA AKI BA FORMER CORPORAL, ARMY 293 00:26:15,007 --> 00:26:16,634 Wanna fight! 294 00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:20,376 You really shouldn't. 295 00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:24,547 Say there. 296 00:26:24,650 --> 00:26:26,641 Say there. I know how you feel. 297 00:26:26,752 --> 00:26:29,346 - Bully. - I'm not a bully. 298 00:26:29,455 --> 00:26:31,480 I really do know how you feel. 299 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:35,288 But you see, Japan lost the war, 26 years ago. 300 00:26:35,961 --> 00:26:37,986 What? What'd you say! 301 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:40,395 I said, Japan lost, 26 years ago. 302 00:26:40,499 --> 00:26:43,025 Lost? You idiot! 303 00:26:43,135 --> 00:26:45,502 When did Japan ever lose a war? 304 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:48,574 The Sino and Russian wars, Manchurian Incident, all victories. 305 00:26:48,674 --> 00:26:51,234 After that, we got creamed. 306 00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:54,480 - Creamed? - It's true. Ask anyone here. 307 00:26:56,348 --> 00:26:59,283 - Did we really lose? - No, we didn't! 308 00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:00,852 Listen to what he says. 309 00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:03,547 - What country are you from? - He says we didn't lose. 310 00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:07,285 He's just lying, go ask the guy behind him. 311 00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:09,588 - Did we really lose? - We sure did. 312 00:27:10,929 --> 00:27:13,296 - He must be an enemy man. -Are you nuts! 313 00:27:13,398 --> 00:27:15,765 How dare you insult our paying customers! 314 00:27:15,868 --> 00:27:17,495 Then, what have I been doing all this time? 315 00:27:18,137 --> 00:27:21,402 You've been pointing the tip of your rifle, 316 00:27:21,507 --> 00:27:25,000 charging at airplanes on South Pacific Islands. 317 00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:26,874 What an idiot. 318 00:27:28,614 --> 00:27:30,605 I said, I understand. 319 00:27:30,716 --> 00:27:32,878 What's this draft notice, then? 320 00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:48,361 I definitely remember the name, Togashi. 321 00:27:48,467 --> 00:27:50,868 Can't place the face... 322 00:27:52,104 --> 00:27:55,096 Don't you think you met him? 323 00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:59,201 We were in the same unit, so no doubt I did meet him. 324 00:27:59,778 --> 00:28:02,907 Back in those days, everybody looked alike. 325 00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:06,943 Skinny necks, bulging eyes. 326 00:28:07,386 --> 00:28:09,718 Hollowed out cheeks. 327 00:28:10,222 --> 00:28:11,690 Besides, 328 00:28:11,790 --> 00:28:16,318 no one had enough humanity left to recognize anyone's face. 329 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:19,887 But Terajima san told me, 330 00:28:20,332 --> 00:28:23,734 he charged nobly and died in combat. 331 00:28:23,869 --> 00:28:26,236 Well, that's fine, then. 332 00:28:26,572 --> 00:28:31,032 But he didn't actually see him die... 333 00:28:32,244 --> 00:28:34,906 I want to know the truth. 334 00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:39,348 Well, he's not going to badmouth his Sergeant. 335 00:28:39,685 --> 00:28:41,744 But that doesn't help you much, right? 336 00:28:42,321 --> 00:28:44,449 Does that mean you know the truth? 337 00:28:45,324 --> 00:28:48,259 No, not necessarily. 338 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:50,921 But from what I remember, 339 00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:54,931 back then, nobody was nobly charging anything, even when they wanted to. 340 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,266 So there was no offensive, no charging the enemy? 341 00:28:59,371 --> 00:29:01,806 Not even close. 342 00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:04,069 We were in no condition. 343 00:29:07,312 --> 00:29:11,909 In our unit, there were 12 cannons 344 00:29:12,017 --> 00:29:14,577 worthless, every last one of them, 345 00:29:14,686 --> 00:29:19,055 1 working machine gun out of 48. 346 00:29:19,157 --> 00:29:24,391 Only two thirds of us even had standard-issue rifles. 347 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:29,600 The rest had bamboo spears They ordered us to fight with spears. 348 00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:37,138 So back then, you did exactly what you do on the stage now. 349 00:29:37,242 --> 00:29:39,142 Weapons and ammo weren't the worst, 350 00:29:39,244 --> 00:29:40,973 we didn't even have any chow. 351 00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:45,209 They say tea will stave off hunger, but there was no water in the jungle. 352 00:29:45,317 --> 00:29:47,718 What a ridiculous war. 353 00:29:47,819 --> 00:29:50,880 The big shots in charge of tactics didn't have a clue. 354 00:29:50,989 --> 00:29:52,650 There was no way we could win. 355 00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:09,973 As defeats mounted, some were captured, 356 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:12,544 others abandoned the front lines. 357 00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:15,280 But the division big-shots... 358 00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:18,839 No matter! Kill any man who tries to escape. 359 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:20,509 Who needs a court-martial! 360 00:30:22,788 --> 00:30:24,449 But the thing is... 361 00:30:25,023 --> 00:30:28,152 it wasn't just the enlisted men that ran. 362 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:30,693 Officers were right there with 'em. 363 00:30:30,796 --> 00:30:32,560 Scum! 364 00:30:32,798 --> 00:30:35,631 You scum! You're an officer! Have you no shame! 365 00:30:36,468 --> 00:30:38,937 Deserters get the firing squad! 366 00:30:42,607 --> 00:30:45,542 Butterflies! Butterflies! 367 00:30:46,111 --> 00:30:48,079 Mommy! 368 00:30:48,914 --> 00:30:51,713 Acting like you've lost your mind. 369 00:30:54,019 --> 00:30:55,714 Asshole! 370 00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:58,250 Fool! 371 00:30:58,724 --> 00:31:01,386 Get back to the front! 372 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:06,128 The soldiers who couldn't fight or run away, 373 00:31:06,798 --> 00:31:10,098 had no choice but to wander into the jungle. 374 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:14,333 And that's where we caught and ate them... 375 00:31:15,273 --> 00:31:18,709 Snakes and lizards, go without saying. 376 00:31:18,977 --> 00:31:22,743 Worms, spiders, every last insect. 377 00:31:23,148 --> 00:31:25,913 As long as it was alive, it was OK. 378 00:31:26,952 --> 00:31:31,617 When it came to food, it was every man for himself. 379 00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:33,623 A mouse! 380 00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:53,871 The strong ones 381 00:31:53,979 --> 00:31:58,541 went high into the mountains to raid local farmers. 382 00:32:09,261 --> 00:32:11,127 Impossible! 383 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,970 It's impossible my husband could have... 384 00:32:18,069 --> 00:32:23,132 I'm not saying everyone did that stuff. 385 00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:28,044 I know, I remember 386 00:32:28,246 --> 00:32:32,649 It was... a little before the end of the war . 387 00:32:34,019 --> 00:32:38,286 I was on my way to. Regimental HQ to collect orders 388 00:32:44,763 --> 00:32:46,322 - What! - Potato thieves! 389 00:33:16,928 --> 00:33:18,555 How dare you! 390 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:21,728 You accuse my husband of stealing potatoes! 391 00:33:22,234 --> 00:33:24,726 Where's your proof! Proof! 392 00:33:26,371 --> 00:33:28,863 I have no proof. 393 00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:32,599 But I'm positive it was a Sergeant. 394 00:33:32,777 --> 00:33:36,907 That's the only case I can remember 395 00:33:37,716 --> 00:33:40,185 of anyone being executed, 396 00:33:40,919 --> 00:33:43,650 right before the end of the war. 397 00:33:45,924 --> 00:33:47,619 Awful... 398 00:33:49,694 --> 00:33:50,820 Awful... 399 00:33:58,270 --> 00:34:01,604 Sir, it's about time. 400 00:34:07,479 --> 00:34:11,939 Ma'am, please don't hold it against me. 401 00:34:13,018 --> 00:34:16,181 There's no definite proof. 402 00:34:17,522 --> 00:34:20,082 That's a nightmare I reeled in, 403 00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:25,387 by forcing myself to relive those memories. 404 00:34:26,364 --> 00:34:30,858 It's just possible that everything I've said, 405 00:34:32,437 --> 00:34:34,997 is just bits of my comedy routine. 406 00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:51,151 Here I am alive and well. 407 00:34:51,690 --> 00:34:54,716 But this is just the dregs of my life. 408 00:34:55,327 --> 00:35:00,731 My real life... ended over there... 409 00:35:17,449 --> 00:35:21,044 Mom, why won't you give it a rest? 410 00:35:22,087 --> 00:35:26,149 You may have your heart set on this, but what's the point? 411 00:35:32,163 --> 00:35:33,824 Honey. 412 00:35:34,933 --> 00:35:38,233 Which of them is telling the truth? 413 00:35:40,271 --> 00:35:43,434 One says you charged nobly, 414 00:35:44,943 --> 00:35:47,503 the other called you a potato thief. 415 00:35:47,612 --> 00:35:51,105 You should've called it quits after you got the noble story. 416 00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:53,781 But you had to wander allover. 417 00:35:54,786 --> 00:35:57,847 What if you get sick? Dad'|| never rest in peace. 418 00:36:11,236 --> 00:36:12,670 What are you doing? 419 00:36:14,706 --> 00:36:18,074 I'm going back to Tokyo first thing in the morning. 420 00:36:19,144 --> 00:36:21,545 - I may have to stay the night. - Mom! 421 00:36:22,547 --> 00:36:24,777 Let her do what she likes. 422 00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:32,187 I know best how to give Dad his peace. 423 00:36:33,491 --> 00:36:37,519 He won't rest in peace until the truth is told. 424 00:36:39,764 --> 00:36:43,029 NOBUYUKI OCHI FORMER MILITARY POLICE SERGEANT 425 00:37:05,890 --> 00:37:08,916 Excuse me, are you Ochi san? 426 00:37:09,527 --> 00:37:10,585 Yes. 427 00:37:14,699 --> 00:37:17,191 I'm... 428 00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:19,931 Is that so? 429 00:37:21,506 --> 00:37:26,307 But I can hardly tell you, 430 00:37:26,411 --> 00:37:28,505 which story is true. 431 00:37:31,883 --> 00:37:35,183 At least I want to know, 432 00:37:35,887 --> 00:37:38,413 whether he was executed. 433 00:37:38,523 --> 00:37:43,222 - You said he was Togashi san? - Yes, Sgt. Togashi. 434 00:37:44,062 --> 00:37:47,464 I don't remember any Sgt. Togashi. 435 00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:51,700 As far as Sergeants go... 436 00:37:55,106 --> 00:37:58,098 Oh, my, a guest. 437 00:37:58,209 --> 00:38:01,406 - My wife. -|'m imposing. 438 00:38:01,513 --> 00:38:04,312 Oh, please, don't get up. 439 00:38:04,983 --> 00:38:06,644 Oh, I'm worn out. 440 00:38:06,751 --> 00:38:09,846 I was up all last night working a party. 441 00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:14,448 Waitressing this way is hard labor. 442 00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,927 I snuck in a nap at the restaurant. 443 00:38:18,763 --> 00:38:23,030 Excuse me, but I have to lie down. Enjoy your visit. 444 00:38:30,909 --> 00:38:32,377 She's lying. 445 00:38:35,613 --> 00:38:39,982 My wife is seeing the chef at a fancy restaurant. 446 00:38:40,785 --> 00:38:43,755 I'm sure she was with him again last night. 447 00:38:44,522 --> 00:38:47,617 Hey! How dare you, in front of a guest! 448 00:38:47,725 --> 00:38:51,389 Tell me, isn't it written all over her face? 449 00:38:51,629 --> 00:38:54,621 How can you joke about it? Last night, I... 450 00:39:01,706 --> 00:39:06,735 I'm starting to wonder if there's any point in living... 451 00:39:07,579 --> 00:39:11,607 Maybe I would've been better off if I'd faced a firing squad back then. 452 00:39:11,716 --> 00:39:12,740 Firing squad? 453 00:39:13,785 --> 00:39:17,221 The Australians captured me, charged me as a war criminal. 454 00:39:17,755 --> 00:39:20,554 I talked my way out of it and made it home... 455 00:39:20,892 --> 00:39:25,193 Back here, the Americans harassed me for being ex-military police. 456 00:39:25,830 --> 00:39:29,391 Got sol couldn't get to sleep without a drink. 457 00:39:30,134 --> 00:39:32,125 Remember �bomb�.7 458 00:39:33,004 --> 00:39:35,268 That postwar black market booze. 459 00:39:36,207 --> 00:39:39,438 The stuff finally got to my eyes. 460 00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:48,520 But getting back to our conversation. 461 00:39:49,654 --> 00:39:53,682 The truth is, when I got that letter from the Ministry, 462 00:39:54,292 --> 00:39:56,556 I hesitated whether or not to tell them... 463 00:39:56,661 --> 00:39:59,631 Do you know something? 464 00:40:00,565 --> 00:40:02,727 Towards the end of the war, 465 00:40:02,834 --> 00:40:06,134 there was one incident I've never been able to forget. 466 00:40:06,704 --> 00:40:08,263 But... 467 00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:22,584 I'm sorry, this is all I have. 468 00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:25,416 So... 469 00:40:26,591 --> 00:40:28,923 what kind of incident was it? 470 00:40:29,027 --> 00:40:31,621 I must warn you. 471 00:40:32,463 --> 00:40:35,433 It's not a very pleasant tale. 472 00:40:40,071 --> 00:40:45,100 And there's no certainty that your husband was involved. 473 00:40:45,677 --> 00:40:50,638 All I'm sure of is that the man was definitely a Sergeant. 474 00:40:54,552 --> 00:40:56,611 Won't you have one? 475 00:40:58,823 --> 00:41:02,589 Please, please tell me. 476 00:41:04,562 --> 00:41:07,532 He killed his buddy and ate him. 477 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:15,701 AUGUST, 1945 478 00:41:15,807 --> 00:41:19,004 I don't remember the name of the place or the unit, 479 00:41:19,110 --> 00:41:21,807 but about 10 starving soldiers 480 00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:26,379 were stationed at a look-out on the beach. 481 00:41:28,286 --> 00:41:30,380 And one day... 482 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:43,930 You say it's meat? What meat? 483 00:41:44,202 --> 00:41:46,136 Wild boar. 484 00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:01,651 Where'd you catch it? Around here? 485 00:42:03,788 --> 00:42:06,257 In this heat, it'll rot in no time. 486 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,921 If you've got any salt, I'll trade this for it. 487 00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:16,761 The trade took no time at all 488 00:42:17,602 --> 00:42:21,004 and they stewed it with rice and ate it. 489 00:42:32,884 --> 00:42:35,285 But this Sergeant 490 00:42:35,386 --> 00:42:37,787 refused to tell 491 00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:41,848 where he'd caught the wild boar, or where his unit was stationed. 492 00:42:41,959 --> 00:42:44,860 One private got suspicious and followed him. 493 00:42:45,530 --> 00:42:51,435 He probably figured on stumbling on a good catch. 494 00:43:01,512 --> 00:43:07,281 But that private was never seen again. 495 00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:15,116 Then, 3 or 4 days later, 496 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:20,057 the same Sergeant came back to trade meat for salt. 497 00:43:24,068 --> 00:43:25,627 Hey, it's rotten. 498 00:43:26,471 --> 00:43:28,667 Cook it up and it'll be fine. 499 00:43:29,774 --> 00:43:33,108 Trade it for some salt and next time I'll pickle it for you. 500 00:43:33,211 --> 00:43:35,270 Where are all these wild boars? 501 00:43:49,127 --> 00:43:52,859 The Sergeant confessed relatively quickly. 502 00:43:54,265 --> 00:43:57,360 He had deserted with a buddy, 503 00:43:57,702 --> 00:44:01,639 but he-'d killed him in a rage over a stolen potato. 504 00:44:02,907 --> 00:44:06,002 He got so hungry, 505 00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:09,341 he ate his friend's buttocks... 506 00:44:11,582 --> 00:44:13,676 Stop it! 507 00:44:19,824 --> 00:44:21,292 So... 508 00:44:22,226 --> 00:44:24,888 that private that never returned... 509 00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:27,727 Turned him into the second tin of meat. 510 00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:35,405 Was that Sergeant executed? 511 00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:37,475 Yes. 512 00:44:38,876 --> 00:44:41,538 - Did you kill him? -No, 513 00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,645 I just attended. 514 00:44:47,818 --> 00:44:49,547 Did he... 515 00:44:50,221 --> 00:44:53,054 mention his family before he died? 516 00:44:53,157 --> 00:44:54,886 Nothing. 517 00:44:55,459 --> 00:44:58,827 But he did have one photograph. 518 00:44:59,230 --> 00:45:01,824 A photograph of what? 519 00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:07,232 I think it was a young woman holding a baby. 520 00:45:13,911 --> 00:45:17,870 Did that Sergeant look like him? 521 00:45:19,483 --> 00:45:20,951 I'm... 522 00:45:23,988 --> 00:45:27,083 I'm sorry, how thoughtless of me. 523 00:45:28,025 --> 00:45:29,857 That's all right. 524 00:45:31,896 --> 00:45:34,763 Every soldier who fought on that front, 525 00:45:35,933 --> 00:45:39,767 learned just how terrible human beings can be. 526 00:45:41,272 --> 00:45:43,604 In those days, when a soldier died, 527 00:45:43,708 --> 00:45:48,305 his buddies would burn his little finger, for ashes to bring home. 528 00:45:48,679 --> 00:45:51,205 Whenever l smelled burning flesh, 529 00:45:52,316 --> 00:45:55,308 before I'd had a chance to cover my nose, 530 00:45:56,187 --> 00:45:59,782 I couldn't stop my own hunger pangs. 531 00:46:01,292 --> 00:46:06,253 I was hardly any different from that Sergeant. 532 00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:38,353 My husband, eating a man. 533 00:46:38,996 --> 00:46:40,828 Just stupid. 534 00:46:41,832 --> 00:46:43,561 Just stupid. 535 00:46:50,975 --> 00:46:53,171 It can't be true, my love 536 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,349 everybody's Wing 537 00:47:08,492 --> 00:47:12,622 Nobody knows... the real truth. 538 00:47:13,564 --> 00:47:15,430 Say something? 539 00:47:21,472 --> 00:47:25,272 How dare you! Cut it out! 540 00:47:25,676 --> 00:47:27,667 That hurts. 541 00:47:28,145 --> 00:47:29,977 Stop it. 542 00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:34,344 You disgust me. 543 00:47:34,885 --> 00:47:37,217 I said, no! No! 544 00:47:37,321 --> 00:47:40,552 Nobody knows what happened, shit! Nobody! 545 00:47:40,658 --> 00:47:42,285 Stop! 546 00:47:45,363 --> 00:47:48,594 TADAHIKO OHASHI FORMER 2ND LIEUTENANT, ARMY 547 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,036 �On a journey, with grass for my pillow, 548 00:47:53,137 --> 00:47:56,664 for my beloved I yearn, disturbed as scythed rushes.� 549 00:47:59,777 --> 00:48:01,575 This poem. 550 00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:06,516 Describes the turbulent emotions of a traveler, 551 00:48:06,751 --> 00:48:08,549 remembering his wife at home, 552 00:48:09,153 --> 00:48:12,487 pining for her everyday. 553 00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:14,217 That's the subject of this poem. 554 00:48:53,030 --> 00:48:54,759 I had... 555 00:48:55,599 --> 00:48:58,125 completely forgotten about it. 556 00:48:59,103 --> 00:49:04,269 In my exhaustion, I suppose I lost the will to recall it. 557 00:49:05,009 --> 00:49:09,606 I stand in awe of your persistent obsession. 558 00:49:16,887 --> 00:49:19,948 What was the meaning of our youth? 559 00:49:21,792 --> 00:49:24,454 When I began teaching, after my repatriation, 560 00:49:24,762 --> 00:49:26,890 it was all I could think about. 561 00:49:28,232 --> 00:49:33,693 The meaning of my life and my friends' lives, lost to the war. 562 00:49:35,539 --> 00:49:38,975 A precious sacrifice, that was essential, 563 00:49:39,076 --> 00:49:40,840 for a new and peaceful Japan. 564 00:49:41,412 --> 00:49:44,313 That was the only answer I could find. 565 00:49:45,182 --> 00:49:48,152 Young people know nothing of war. 566 00:49:48,252 --> 00:49:50,812 Nothing of its horrors. 567 00:49:51,388 --> 00:49:54,050 If I have a right to teach anyone anything, 568 00:49:54,992 --> 00:50:00,192 it is only to convey the misery of war to new generations... 569 00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:11,903 BLOODY MAY DAY 570 00:50:12,510 --> 00:50:12,738 BLOODY MAY DAY 571 00:50:17,181 --> 00:50:17,739 REARMAMENT 572 00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,756 MASSACRE 573 00:50:34,198 --> 00:50:34,926 PATRIOTISM 574 00:50:58,822 --> 00:51:00,654 Is this what we fought for? 575 00:51:01,458 --> 00:51:03,324 Is this what we fought for? 576 00:51:04,228 --> 00:51:06,856 I kept asking myself. 577 00:51:08,365 --> 00:51:09,890 However, 578 00:51:10,935 --> 00:51:13,233 ultimately, I could do nothing. 579 00:51:18,042 --> 00:51:20,773 U.S. BASES OUT OFJapan 580 00:51:20,878 --> 00:51:25,748 SUPPORT THE FIGHT AGAINST NARITA AIRPORT 581 00:51:25,849 --> 00:51:27,339 ANTI-WAR 582 00:51:27,451 --> 00:51:30,079 Comrades, the actions we are about to take, 583 00:51:30,187 --> 00:51:32,417 in the face off.. 584 00:51:32,523 --> 00:51:35,493 Everything overwhelms me. 585 00:51:36,493 --> 00:51:38,427 I can't keep up. 586 00:51:39,129 --> 00:51:43,259 In my exhaustion, I was only falling behind. 587 00:51:48,639 --> 00:51:52,439 I did answer the Ministry's letter of inquiry. 588 00:51:53,344 --> 00:51:59,249 But I doubt anyone actually paid any attention to my response. 589 00:51:59,817 --> 00:52:03,412 When it's time to take responsibility, they have no integrity 590 00:52:04,755 --> 00:52:06,746 if the truth is not clear, 591 00:52:06,857 --> 00:52:10,157 they should interpret in favor of the deceased. 592 00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:15,891 26 years later, they're still wondering whether someone deserted or not. 593 00:52:16,834 --> 00:52:20,862 In the meantime, a Class-A war criminal has become Prime Minister... 594 00:52:22,573 --> 00:52:25,201 During the war or today, 595 00:52:25,476 --> 00:52:28,571 people from the bottom of the heap, never rest in peace. 596 00:52:47,164 --> 00:52:49,963 The people who died on that island, 597 00:52:50,067 --> 00:52:52,092 were all the same. 598 00:52:52,970 --> 00:52:56,531 No one can discriminate against them or judge them. 599 00:52:57,675 --> 00:53:01,873 Those who fell under enemy fire, those who took their own lives, 600 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,139 those who were executed, those who starved to death, 601 00:53:07,217 --> 00:53:09,709 they all died in combat. 602 00:53:11,889 --> 00:53:14,688 My husband wasn't like everyone else. 603 00:53:20,164 --> 00:53:24,624 Why was he executed? That's what I want to know. 604 00:53:24,735 --> 00:53:26,703 I want to know the truth. 605 00:53:31,775 --> 00:53:35,268 After the war, a certain incident came to light. 606 00:53:36,914 --> 00:53:39,849 It wasn't desertion in the face of enemy fire. 607 00:53:42,186 --> 00:53:44,382 Some soldiers conspired 608 00:53:44,822 --> 00:53:46,916 to murder their superior officer 609 00:53:49,460 --> 00:53:51,554 In my unit. 610 00:53:52,529 --> 00:53:54,793 There was a 2nd Lieutenant, Goto. 611 00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:01,463 2nd It. Goto had graduated from the same Home Guard training unit as. I 612 00:54:01,572 --> 00:54:05,941 He always swaggered around, Eager to be taken seriously 613 00:54:06,043 --> 00:54:09,570 by non-commissioned officers and military academy graduates. 614 00:54:11,415 --> 00:54:12,883 One day, 615 00:54:13,417 --> 00:54:17,877 an American pilot crash landed near Goto's command post. 616 00:54:23,327 --> 00:54:25,728 Go ahead! Kill him! 617 00:54:25,963 --> 00:54:29,991 Major Senda, the Division Staff Officer gave the order. 618 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:48,080 He should have known better, but Goto volunteered to decapitate him. 619 00:54:48,318 --> 00:54:49,786 No, perhaps, 620 00:54:49,887 --> 00:54:53,414 Senda singled Goto out, 621 00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:56,852 as a way of toughening up someone from the Home Guard. 622 00:56:10,767 --> 00:56:12,758 You! M.P. 623 00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:14,565 Finish it! 624 00:56:14,671 --> 00:56:17,265 Move! 625 00:56:57,247 --> 00:57:02,378 After that, Goto seemed to become increasingly hysterical. 626 00:57:02,486 --> 00:57:04,352 Scum! 627 00:57:09,326 --> 00:57:10,885 Get up! 628 00:57:10,994 --> 00:57:15,090 Forcing his men to unnecessary hard labor, 629 00:57:15,365 --> 00:57:18,164 striking and kicking them for no reason. 630 00:57:30,314 --> 00:57:34,512 He took personal control of the food supply, hoarding it for himself. 631 00:57:41,191 --> 00:57:43,819 He dragged a terminal malarial patient out to work, 632 00:57:44,795 --> 00:57:47,355 killing him. 633 00:57:48,332 --> 00:57:51,597 When the Sergeant protested, unable to tolerate it, 634 00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:56,038 You dare to oppose your superior officer! 635 00:58:29,406 --> 00:58:31,397 The way it's going. 636 00:58:32,676 --> 00:58:35,270 That 2nd Lieutenant's going to kill us. 637 00:59:27,364 --> 00:59:29,264 That Sergeant... 638 00:59:30,267 --> 00:59:32,827 Are you saying he was my husband? 639 00:59:34,704 --> 00:59:37,765 Why? You weren't there when it happened! 640 00:59:40,010 --> 00:59:42,069 But the details of this incident 641 00:59:42,879 --> 00:59:45,541 were disclosed after the war. 642 00:59:45,649 --> 00:59:48,277 AUGUST 15, 1945 643 00:59:48,385 --> 00:59:50,854 When word of the war's end spread, 644 00:59:51,088 --> 00:59:55,047 men who'd abandoned the front, began to creep out of the jungle. 645 00:59:55,759 --> 00:59:57,591 �It's finally over� 646 00:59:58,228 --> 01:00:00,128 We were all so relieved, 647 01:00:00,230 --> 01:00:04,292 as we gathered at the former Division HQ. 648 01:00:05,402 --> 01:00:07,097 Among the men, 649 01:00:07,204 --> 01:00:11,698 there were 5 who had survived 2nd Lieutenant Goto's command. 650 01:00:19,616 --> 01:00:21,641 Where's 2nd Lieutenant Goto? 651 01:00:22,486 --> 01:00:24,921 What happened to your 2nd It.! 652 01:00:26,223 --> 01:00:29,056 - He took his own life. -Crap! 653 01:00:29,426 --> 01:00:32,225 You think you can fool me with that crap! 654 01:00:33,163 --> 01:00:35,063 Major Senda was terrified 655 01:00:35,165 --> 01:00:39,261 that his botched execution of the prisoner would come to light. 656 01:00:39,736 --> 01:00:44,264 When one of the men confessed to 2nd 12'. Gem'; murder... 657 01:01:00,924 --> 01:01:03,621 Executed for murdering a superior officer. 658 01:01:04,561 --> 01:01:07,496 There was no court-martial. 659 01:01:08,165 --> 01:01:10,497 Without even a trial... 660 01:01:12,302 --> 01:01:14,828 The war was already over.. 661 01:01:16,273 --> 01:01:17,900 Unbelievable. 662 01:01:19,843 --> 01:01:21,311 I can't believe it. 663 01:01:22,512 --> 01:01:24,640 Before he executed the 5 men, 664 01:01:25,482 --> 01:01:27,883 Senda apparently told them, 665 01:01:27,984 --> 01:01:30,510 �I swear, 30 years from now 666 01:01:30,620 --> 01:01:34,147 /a pan will rise from her ashes, to take revenge, 667 01:01:34,257 --> 01:01:37,192 against the bestial Americans and English. 668 01:01:37,761 --> 01:01:41,629 But our motherland has no need of traitors like you, 669 01:01:41,731 --> 01:01:47,261 who murdered their own superior officer!" 670 01:02:23,340 --> 01:02:25,104 My love 671 01:02:25,575 --> 01:02:28,408 How furious you must have been. 672 01:02:30,513 --> 01:02:34,040 We needed you, my love. 673 01:02:34,851 --> 01:02:37,252 For 26 years, 674 01:02:37,687 --> 01:02:41,521 We needed you each and every day. 675 01:02:46,963 --> 01:02:49,898 Hurry, Grandpa. 676 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,196 Coming, coming. 677 01:02:52,936 --> 01:02:57,134 TAKEO SEN DA FORMER MAJOR, ARMY Sena/a evaded prosecution as a war crr'rn;'na[.. 678 01:02:58,608 --> 01:03:01,339 And returned home safely. 679 01:03:02,312 --> 01:03:03,973 Until recently, 680 01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,345 he was a Board member of the Southeast Asian Development Corp. 681 01:03:07,751 --> 01:03:11,085 Now, he's retired to a life of leisure. 682 01:03:11,788 --> 01:03:17,158 I've heard that he's even writing a memoir about the New Guinea. front 683 01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:26,793 I met him once by accident. 684 01:03:29,172 --> 01:03:31,664 My stomach churned with rage. 685 01:03:32,309 --> 01:03:34,209 I wanted to kill him, 686 01:03:34,311 --> 01:03:35,779 with all my heart. 687 01:03:36,313 --> 01:03:38,042 I got close enough to look at him. 688 01:03:39,949 --> 01:03:42,111 He barely even noticed me. 689 01:03:42,218 --> 01:03:44,653 He had no recollection. 690 01:03:45,722 --> 01:03:48,453 I could do nothing. 691 01:03:49,025 --> 01:03:50,857 That's right. 692 01:03:51,928 --> 01:03:54,488 I was powerless. 693 01:03:54,597 --> 01:03:56,395 Let's go. 694 01:04:06,576 --> 01:04:08,943 That's a misunderstanding. 695 01:04:09,045 --> 01:04:13,346 Either that, or malicious slander against my record. 696 01:04:13,483 --> 01:04:16,646 It's true, the men were executed. 697 01:04:16,753 --> 01:04:22,351 But they were sentenced to death by court-martial under military law. 698 01:04:22,492 --> 01:04:25,826 Then, where's the court-martial verdict? 699 01:04:25,929 --> 01:04:30,059 I have no idea where it would be after all these years. 700 01:04:30,166 --> 01:04:34,763 Either it was lost in the chaos at the end of the war, or... 701 01:04:34,871 --> 01:04:38,000 it was destroyed with other classified military documents 702 01:04:38,108 --> 01:04:42,204 In any event, it's noted in the military records of war deaths. 703 01:04:42,312 --> 01:04:44,713 You know that record's useless 704 01:04:44,814 --> 01:04:48,512 If that's the way you think, we have nothing to discuss. 705 01:04:48,618 --> 01:04:50,450 For what crime was he executed? 706 01:04:50,553 --> 01:04:54,581 Murder of a superior officer, of course, as well as collective desertion. 707 01:04:54,691 --> 01:04:57,023 �Collective� implies a group. 708 01:04:57,127 --> 01:05:01,257 But all it says in the military records is �desertion�. 709 01:05:01,364 --> 01:05:05,631 Some kind of error, perhaps a clerical error or some such. 710 01:05:06,669 --> 01:05:10,299 Were the operations of the former Imperial Army really that sloppy! 711 01:05:12,709 --> 01:05:17,112 I understand how you must feel and I do feel sorry for you. 712 01:05:17,213 --> 01:05:21,775 But there's nothing to be done He violated the law. 713 01:05:22,018 --> 01:05:26,046 I had no direct role in that court-martial. 714 01:05:26,289 --> 01:05:31,056 However, I believe that the sentence of execution was merited. 715 01:05:31,161 --> 01:05:33,425 I still believe that, today. 716 01:05:33,797 --> 01:05:37,700 At the time, our soldiers were in a state of shock. 717 01:05:37,801 --> 01:05:42,238 Understandable, given their faith in the Imperial Army's invincibility. 718 01:05:42,338 --> 01:05:44,966 But we officers 719 01:05:45,074 --> 01:05:49,477 could not afford to abandon ourselves to grief over our defeat. 720 01:05:49,612 --> 01:05:53,173 We had lost, but we had to uphold order 721 01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:55,411 for the sake of patriotism and honor. 722 01:05:55,518 --> 01:06:01,013 For those reasons, the trial and executions were inevitable. 723 01:06:01,124 --> 01:06:04,150 We swallowed our tears and carried them out 724 01:06:04,260 --> 01:06:07,890 In fact, after that, discipline was restored 725 01:06:07,997 --> 01:06:13,834 and Japanese soldiers were able to return home with honor. 726 01:06:17,407 --> 01:06:22,709 You're saying you made my husband an example to others, a sacrifice... 727 01:06:23,313 --> 01:06:24,940 Not at all. 728 01:06:25,415 --> 01:06:29,045 We have to maintain order under any circumstances. 729 01:06:29,385 --> 01:06:34,152 Don't we owe the postwar recovery and prosperity, 730 01:06:34,257 --> 01:06:38,251 our newfound stature among the world powers in the line of battle, 731 01:06:38,361 --> 01:06:43,299 entirely to the firm imposition of national order? 732 01:06:43,399 --> 01:06:46,699 Unfortunately, your husband 733 01:06:46,803 --> 01:06:50,296 murdered his superior officer. 734 01:06:51,174 --> 01:06:54,940 He may have had good reason, but when you kill, you are judged. 735 01:06:55,044 --> 01:06:58,639 This is true even in our present democracy. 736 01:06:59,215 --> 01:07:00,910 You... 737 01:07:01,618 --> 01:07:04,485 You're telling me you didn't kill anyone! 738 01:07:05,021 --> 01:07:09,549 Not with your own hands, but you ordered others to, in the Emperor's name! 739 01:07:09,659 --> 01:07:13,926 Japan fought the war as an entire nation. 740 01:07:14,030 --> 01:07:16,761 Don't confuse the two. 741 01:07:18,635 --> 01:07:22,538 - Grandpa, what's wrong? - Nothing at all. 742 01:07:22,639 --> 01:07:23,606 Here. 743 01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:34,241 It may be impossible to ask that you forget. 744 01:07:34,617 --> 01:07:40,056 However, if we are to move on, we must also learn to forget. 745 01:07:40,156 --> 01:07:43,558 If we're obsessed with the past, we are powerless. 746 01:07:43,993 --> 01:07:45,119 Not for me... 747 01:07:45,228 --> 01:07:49,165 For the record and my own honor, let me add the following: 748 01:07:49,499 --> 01:07:52,935 2nd It. Goto murdered that American prisoner himself. 749 01:07:53,036 --> 01:07:54,595 I had nothing to do with it. 750 01:07:54,704 --> 01:07:58,368 To claim I executed witnesses to cover it up 751 01:07:58,474 --> 01:08:00,272 is outrageous slander. 752 01:08:00,376 --> 01:08:03,107 Also, we did not execute all 5. 753 01:08:05,582 --> 01:08:09,485 Only the 3 actively involved in the murder. 754 01:08:09,586 --> 01:08:12,317 The other 2 went to prison 755 01:08:12,422 --> 01:08:14,914 One of them died of an illness there. 756 01:08:15,024 --> 01:08:18,483 I hear the other made it home safely. 757 01:08:18,595 --> 01:08:21,963 I believe his name was Private First Class Terajima. 758 01:08:23,266 --> 01:08:25,234 Private First Class Terajima? 759 01:08:30,106 --> 01:08:35,408 But no matter what anyone says, Togashi san died nobly in combat. 760 01:08:35,511 --> 01:08:39,345 That's right... It's coming back now. 761 01:08:39,449 --> 01:08:44,683 It was Terajima who confessed that Togashi and others were murderers. 762 01:08:52,996 --> 01:08:54,930 That's right. 763 01:08:55,832 --> 01:08:59,427 I'm the one who revealed the crime. 764 01:09:00,837 --> 01:09:05,331 All I cared about was getting out alive sol betrayed my buddies. 765 01:09:05,908 --> 01:09:09,037 So you made up that whole story? 766 01:09:11,514 --> 01:09:14,449 To escape responsibility for what you did, 767 01:09:15,151 --> 01:09:17,552 you lied to me? 768 01:09:18,421 --> 01:09:21,516 You have every right to accuse me. 769 01:09:21,691 --> 01:09:23,455 But... 770 01:09:24,293 --> 01:09:27,627 there's more to the story than that. 771 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:32,726 Will you hear me out? 772 01:09:37,273 --> 01:09:40,971 When we heard that the war was over, 773 01:09:41,077 --> 01:09:46,982 Togashi's squad was posted at a look-out 10 kms from HQ. 774 01:09:47,884 --> 01:09:50,376 We had eaten everything we possibly could, 775 01:09:50,486 --> 01:09:54,116 and were one step away from starvation. 776 01:09:55,224 --> 01:10:00,685 So, when we got the order to assemble at Division HQ 777 01:10:01,330 --> 01:10:05,358 no one had the will to get up and start 778 01:10:06,002 --> 01:10:10,405 For a while, we just lay around blankly. 779 01:10:12,141 --> 01:10:16,635 in my case, particularly, malaria and malnutrition 780 01:10:16,846 --> 01:10:20,282 had reduced me to such a state, I couldn�t even walk. 781 01:10:22,218 --> 01:10:27,247 Then, suddenly, 2nd Lieutenant Goto turned up. 782 01:10:34,497 --> 01:10:35,965 Salute. 783 01:10:37,433 --> 01:10:41,165 Listen up, our platoon is launching an offensive. 784 01:10:41,270 --> 01:10:43,295 Take up your weapons. 785 01:10:45,408 --> 01:10:48,400 We've been ordered to assemble at Division HQ. 786 01:10:48,945 --> 01:10:51,642 No need for that! Defeat is just a rumor! 787 01:10:53,549 --> 01:10:56,314 �God's land is immortal, the Imperial Army invincible!� 788 01:10:56,419 --> 01:10:58,979 We will fight to the bitter end! 789 01:10:59,088 --> 01:11:02,114 We'll cut off every last enemy head! 790 01:11:03,559 --> 01:11:05,618 Why are you looking at me like that! 791 01:11:06,329 --> 01:11:08,297 Why don't you pick up your guns? 792 01:11:08,397 --> 01:11:11,833 You bastards would rather lose the war? 793 01:11:12,001 --> 01:11:14,561 Don't you care what happens to Japan? 794 01:11:15,004 --> 01:11:17,132 How about it, Sgt. Togashi! 795 01:11:17,974 --> 01:11:19,066 Say something! 796 01:11:20,042 --> 01:11:24,138 You scum! Challenging my authority because I'm from the Home Guard! 797 01:11:26,048 --> 01:11:28,278 I love my country! 798 01:11:29,018 --> 01:11:31,453 I love it more than any of you scum! 799 01:11:33,523 --> 01:11:35,548 Why are you lying around! 800 01:11:36,259 --> 01:11:37,818 Get up! 801 01:11:38,427 --> 01:11:40,225 I said, get up! 802 01:11:40,696 --> 01:11:42,221 Get up! 803 01:11:43,599 --> 01:11:47,467 You bastard! A soldier like you... 804 01:11:57,446 --> 01:11:59,540 Scum! 805 01:12:01,517 --> 01:12:03,679 I'm your superior officer! 806 01:12:03,786 --> 01:12:05,652 Cut it out. 807 01:13:02,245 --> 01:13:04,009 Then, what happened? 808 01:13:16,993 --> 01:13:20,156 Sergeant, sir, you've... The 2nd Lieutenant... 809 01:13:30,740 --> 01:13:34,768 The 2nd It. killed himself Went mad when he heard of our defeat. 810 01:13:35,778 --> 01:13:39,146 Got that? The 2nd It. killed himself. 811 01:14:17,954 --> 01:14:19,718 And then, 812 01:14:20,323 --> 01:14:25,591 Togashi san and the other 3 left for Division Headquarters. 813 01:14:28,497 --> 01:14:30,989 They left you to die. 814 01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:35,298 Each of them could barely walk. 815 01:14:38,374 --> 01:14:43,141 Of course they left me behind, I couldn't take a step on my own. 816 01:14:47,883 --> 01:14:51,717 They said they'd send someone to get me when they got to HQ. 817 01:14:54,090 --> 01:15:00,029 I had no choice but to trust them, and wait... 818 01:15:31,660 --> 01:15:34,129 It's salty. 819 01:15:35,398 --> 01:15:40,359 There was something so delicious left in my own body. 820 01:15:41,704 --> 01:15:44,833 This was a new discovery. 821 01:15:46,275 --> 01:15:50,576 And with that, I felt such hunger. 822 01:15:57,019 --> 01:15:59,010 I wonder. 823 01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:03,783 If I can eat this... 824 01:17:24,073 --> 01:17:27,373 I ate a man... 825 01:17:28,544 --> 01:17:32,981 A man... 826 01:17:35,484 --> 01:17:39,114 But the world didn't change. 827 01:17:50,833 --> 01:17:55,066 So you ate a man, so what? 828 01:17:57,773 --> 01:18:02,335 I'm going to live. I'm going to get out of here. 829 01:18:22,998 --> 01:18:25,968 I'd gone and eaten it. 830 01:18:28,070 --> 01:18:33,600 The meat of the man your husband had killed. 831 01:18:41,483 --> 01:18:46,444 Thanks to that, I found the strength to get up and walk. 832 01:18:48,524 --> 01:18:54,429 By the time I straggled into Division Headquarters the next day, 833 01:18:55,164 --> 01:19:01,103 Senda was already interrogating Togashi and the others. 834 01:19:03,005 --> 01:19:06,305 Of course they accused me, too. 835 01:19:06,942 --> 01:19:11,402 They threatened me with a firing squad unless I told the truth. 836 01:19:13,849 --> 01:19:17,615 I was desperate to live. 837 01:19:18,487 --> 01:19:24,290 Besides, if I told them that the 2nd It. had gone mad, 838 01:19:24,593 --> 01:19:28,496 Togashi and the others sentences would be lighter. 839 01:19:29,365 --> 01:19:33,700 That's what I told myself as I confessed everything. 840 01:19:34,570 --> 01:19:38,006 Leaving out, of course that I'd eaten human flesh. 841 01:19:40,509 --> 01:19:44,946 But, Togashi and the others were executed. 842 01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:52,054 Corporal Nakamura, who wasn't involved directly, 843 01:19:52,621 --> 01:19:55,113 died of disease before he got home. 844 01:19:57,092 --> 01:20:02,155 I'm the only one who made it back to Japan. 845 01:20:06,669 --> 01:20:10,435 Tokyo was a vast, burned out wasteland. 846 01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:15,838 People were living among the ruins without shame or inhibition, 847 01:20:16,211 --> 01:20:19,545 their naked and raw humanity exposed. 848 01:20:20,683 --> 01:20:26,122 I found that so comforting. 849 01:20:27,289 --> 01:20:30,452 �Everyone's just like me� 850 01:20:31,060 --> 01:20:35,122 I forgot all about eating human flesh, and betraying my comrades, 851 01:20:36,065 --> 01:20:40,127 and I felt utterly at peace. 852 01:20:41,203 --> 01:20:44,298 But that didn't last for long. 853 01:20:45,641 --> 01:20:48,167 Order was soon restored. 854 01:20:48,277 --> 01:20:49,642 MILITARY PROCUREMENT BOOM 855 01:20:53,182 --> 01:20:57,141 As the streets, the houses and how people dressed, 856 01:20:57,853 --> 01:21:00,049 rapidly improved, 857 01:21:02,291 --> 01:21:04,760 I found myself.. 858 01:21:04,860 --> 01:21:09,024 All alone, left behind like an idiot. 859 01:21:11,033 --> 01:21:15,231 And the terrible memories of eating flesh 860 01:21:15,337 --> 01:21:18,898 and betraying my comrades, 861 01:21:19,742 --> 01:21:24,373 began to weigh on my heart, day and night. 862 01:21:26,849 --> 01:21:29,341 I ran away. 863 01:21:31,253 --> 01:21:34,416 The world was after me and I ran away. 864 01:21:39,628 --> 01:21:44,794 And I settled into this Korean shanty-town. 865 01:21:46,268 --> 01:21:49,203 But this place, too, 866 01:21:49,405 --> 01:21:52,670 won't last another month. 867 01:22:15,798 --> 01:22:19,325 The kind of place where I feel at home, 868 01:22:19,935 --> 01:22:24,566 the carefree world of burned out ruins 869 01:22:25,441 --> 01:22:30,902 no longer even exists in Japan. 870 01:22:38,587 --> 01:22:40,351 Terajima san. 871 01:22:43,225 --> 01:22:47,958 Please tell me how my husband spent his final hours. 872 01:22:49,531 --> 01:22:52,865 Didn't Ochi san tell you? 873 01:22:54,703 --> 01:22:56,171 Ochi san? 874 01:22:57,406 --> 01:23:02,105 Ochi san was the military policeman who executed him. 875 01:23:31,773 --> 01:23:33,241 My... 876 01:23:34,343 --> 01:23:35,868 You... 877 01:23:36,678 --> 01:23:39,045 I remember. 878 01:23:40,949 --> 01:23:44,408 Your husband... 879 01:23:45,888 --> 01:23:49,324 That night, after you came, he was run over by a truck. 880 01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:02,264 That night, oddly, he got drunk before going to work. 881 01:24:04,106 --> 01:24:07,167 They say he crossed on a red light. 882 01:24:08,410 --> 01:24:12,779 He was such a cautious man I wonder what happened... 883 01:24:14,683 --> 01:24:19,280 Of course he was blind, so he couldn't see the light... 884 01:24:21,757 --> 01:24:23,225 Madam, the photograph. 885 01:24:23,325 --> 01:24:26,420 Oh, dear, I forgot. 886 01:24:27,362 --> 01:24:31,196 It happened so quickly, this was the only photo. 887 01:25:06,768 --> 01:25:08,759 Togashi san. 888 01:25:09,972 --> 01:25:14,239 Before he died, apparently he told Ochi, 889 01:25:15,577 --> 01:25:17,238 he wanted some rice. 890 01:25:21,883 --> 01:25:23,351 Rice? 891 01:25:23,452 --> 01:25:27,980 That's right, I'm Japanese I want to eat white rice. 892 01:25:28,590 --> 01:25:30,490 I can't rest in peace on this! 893 01:25:33,428 --> 01:25:36,693 - Any rice left? - Not sure... 894 01:25:46,108 --> 01:25:48,873 You can't execute me until I've had rice! 895 01:26:47,569 --> 01:26:49,697 This is all we've got. 896 01:26:50,806 --> 01:26:52,797 You'll have to make do with it. 897 01:30:32,827 --> 01:30:34,556 Which way is Japan? 898 01:31:43,798 --> 01:31:46,597 Sakai, Kobari, hold out your hands! 899 01:31:46,701 --> 01:31:49,796 Your hands! Listen! 900 01:31:50,672 --> 01:31:55,337 They drafted us together and we'll stick together in death. 901 01:31:55,443 --> 01:31:57,070 Emperor! 902 01:32:25,807 --> 01:32:28,868 He called out to the Emperor? 903 01:32:31,713 --> 01:32:34,774 You think he meant to say �Banzai,� to honor him? 904 01:32:34,949 --> 01:32:38,749 No, it didn't sound that way to me. 905 01:32:40,121 --> 01:32:43,091 It was almost an accusation... 906 01:32:43,992 --> 01:32:47,724 Like a protest. 907 01:32:47,829 --> 01:32:50,355 That's how he cried out... 908 01:33:01,276 --> 01:33:05,736 What happened to the families of the men who died with my husband? 909 01:33:07,549 --> 01:33:10,814 Private First Class Sakai's widow... 910 01:33:12,287 --> 01:33:16,019 married Sakai's younger brother. 911 01:33:20,995 --> 01:33:26,593 They're farmers, deep in the mountains up north. 912 01:33:27,535 --> 01:33:33,474 They don't want to remember anything about the past, at all. 913 01:33:58,433 --> 01:34:02,893 Private Kobari came from Hiroshima. 914 01:34:06,341 --> 01:34:09,311 They say he lost his parents, his whole family, 915 01:34:09,577 --> 01:34:12,979 to the atomic bomb 916 01:35:04,032 --> 01:35:07,400 The government didn't ask anybody's permission to start the war, 917 01:35:08,803 --> 01:35:14,435 but we're the ones stuck paying for all of it. 918 01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:34,460 REJECTED CLAIM OF SAKIETOGASHI 919 01:35:40,969 --> 01:35:44,735 My love, it turns out, 920 01:35:46,140 --> 01:35:50,407 we can't have the Emperor dedicating any flowers to you. 921 01:35:52,146 --> 01:35:57,107 Besides, no matter what anyone does, 922 01:35:58,353 --> 01:36:01,482 your spirit will never rest in peace. 923 01:36:04,092 --> 01:36:06,288 JapanESE SOLDIERS DEATHS IN THE PACIFIC WAR 924 01:36:06,394 --> 01:36:09,955 COMBAT-2.2 MILLION NON COMBAT-.9 MILLION 925 01:36:10,064 --> 01:36:15,059 TOTAL 3.1 MILLION 926 01:36:20,775 --> 01:36:24,473 THE END