1 00:01:59,940 --> 00:02:04,880 Nineteen days out of Yokohama, we were practically drifting toward Saipan at 2 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:05,880 knots an hour. 3 00:02:05,940 --> 00:02:08,900 The convoy consisted of five old Bonita vessels. 4 00:02:09,139 --> 00:02:14,100 Our engines were in poor shape. We carried badly needed supplies toward 5 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:19,480 outposts. We were fishermen, proud to be drafted into service, and had two 6 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,240 soldiers posted on each boat. No need for more, we thought. 7 00:02:23,460 --> 00:02:25,320 We were not prepared for defeat. 8 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:26,600 Who is? 9 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,240 The lead boat, the Heskimeru, was captained by an old salt who knew 10 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,620 about this watery arena. 11 00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:39,480 His maps showed some 2 ,000 islands, like sprinkled crumbs on a vast surface. 12 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,440 We were now passing the Mariana Archipelago. 13 00:02:42,780 --> 00:02:48,400 Once it had belonged to Spain, then to Germany, and finally to Japan, and we 14 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,480 intended to keep it. 15 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:54,480 This tropical world was a geological joke of coral and volcano. 16 00:02:54,860 --> 00:02:56,340 Some islands lasted. 17 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,040 Some disappeared. 18 00:02:58,340 --> 00:02:59,460 Some were inhabited. 19 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,720 Others were not. 20 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,600 Who'd want to live there anyway? 21 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:08,200 This giant body of water and all that was in it was ours. Our belief in 22 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,440 was unshakable. 23 00:03:09,740 --> 00:03:12,980 We had stopped looking at the stepping stones that paraded by. 24 00:03:13,380 --> 00:03:16,440 They were of no interest. We wanted to return home. 25 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:30,880 We now sighted Anatahan, a jungle rock that stood high out of the sleeping 26 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:36,340 waters. So it was duly recorded in the log, six in the morning, June the 12th, 27 00:03:36,340 --> 00:03:41,480 1944, the fourth year of a war to which we had dedicated our lives like 28 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,500 children, playing a game without vision or foresight. 29 00:03:55,660 --> 00:03:59,980 Four bells and our chief cook and bottle washer appeared promptly with Asameshi, 30 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,460 breakfast for the skipper. 31 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,400 His American sailor's hat was a reminder of a defeated enemy ship. 32 00:04:12,340 --> 00:04:19,260 At first, we thought it was one of our own 33 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:20,260 planes. 34 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,140 The barren map of the world makes no note of where misfortune strikes. 35 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:53,800 We went down fast. 36 00:04:54,060 --> 00:04:55,060 Few survived. 37 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,780 The Mariana Trench, over which we swam ashore, was over 35 ,000 feet deep. 38 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:05,440 The fiery center of the earth had blown this rock of Anotahan a long way from 39 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:06,440 the ocean floor. 40 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:11,380 How we got ashore, no one remembered. We were dumped like garbage on a hot 41 00:05:11,380 --> 00:05:13,000 coast, left to rot. 42 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:17,320 The change from a human being with dignity to a helpless worm. 43 00:05:17,790 --> 00:05:18,790 takes but a second. 44 00:05:19,070 --> 00:05:23,510 A merciful narcosis kept us from suffering too much. 45 00:05:25,850 --> 00:05:30,890 One of the men had not only saved his hide, but accomplished the heroic feat 46 00:05:30,890 --> 00:05:32,350 bringing a machine gun ashore. 47 00:05:32,670 --> 00:05:37,370 A warrant officer with a long service record, he was the only one who knew 48 00:05:37,370 --> 00:05:41,910 to do. To defend this island for a couple of months was not a difficult 49 00:05:41,910 --> 00:05:43,670 thought. He knew the enemy. 50 00:05:44,350 --> 00:05:48,930 and he knew the Imperial Navy would not permit us to stay abandoned very long. 51 00:05:53,190 --> 00:05:59,790 Yes, we had picked the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, deep and solemn. 52 00:06:01,430 --> 00:06:05,390 And we were to be here for seven long years, and little did we know that the 53 00:06:05,390 --> 00:06:11,270 enemy was not in planes overhead, nor was it the lack of food, the lack of 54 00:06:11,270 --> 00:06:12,270 and medicine. 55 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,660 nor the venomous plants that hemmed us in. 56 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:19,160 How could we know that we had brought the enemy with us? 57 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:23,520 In our own bodies, an enemy that would attack without notice. 58 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:37,280 One of our men had spotted a deserted village. 59 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,660 This was good news after many weeks of hardship. 60 00:06:53,710 --> 00:07:00,310 And so we entered the twisting, haunted labyrinth of an unfamiliar jungle, a 61 00:07:00,310 --> 00:07:04,510 beautiful but vicious world from which many of us never returned. 62 00:08:05,390 --> 00:08:06,390 FIGHT! 63 00:08:45,130 --> 00:08:48,130 What sort of a Japanese was this? 64 00:08:51,710 --> 00:08:54,170 His name was Kusakabe. 65 00:08:55,610 --> 00:08:58,850 Said he lived alone on the island. 66 00:08:59,150 --> 00:09:02,550 The others had left when the war started. 67 00:09:03,330 --> 00:09:07,050 He'd been plantation foreman, exported copra. 68 00:09:07,950 --> 00:09:09,590 But the jungle had taken over. 69 00:09:10,990 --> 00:09:12,630 An unfriendly man. 70 00:09:14,550 --> 00:09:17,930 Unfriendly to us and unfriendly to himself. 71 00:09:20,050 --> 00:09:24,750 Imagine living on an island like this by choice, thousands of miles from 72 00:09:24,750 --> 00:09:25,750 nowhere. 73 00:09:41,070 --> 00:09:42,830 how we met Keiko. 74 00:09:44,030 --> 00:09:50,690 At first, she was only another fellow human being stranded on this 75 00:09:50,690 --> 00:09:52,450 pinpoint on the map. 76 00:09:54,570 --> 00:09:57,290 Then she was to become a female to us. 77 00:09:59,470 --> 00:10:02,310 And finally, a woman. 78 00:10:02,770 --> 00:10:05,250 The only woman on Earth. 79 00:10:49,130 --> 00:10:50,430 stayed empty and remote. 80 00:10:50,710 --> 00:10:53,370 We lost track of time. The rains had started. 81 00:10:53,570 --> 00:10:54,770 They seemed never to end. 82 00:10:55,190 --> 00:10:59,590 We built boats, toy boats to carry us home on the wings of our longing. 83 00:10:59,950 --> 00:11:04,670 This lonely island was our whole world. We went to sleep at night and dreamt of 84 00:11:04,670 --> 00:11:08,430 home. Each morning, we were back on Anatahan. 85 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:31,880 Like a rare bird of the wet jungle, we caught an occasional glimpse of Keiko. 86 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,940 Some of us, sooner than the others, longed for something more than bread 87 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:42,200 And we watched her. 88 00:11:43,260 --> 00:11:44,700 And we watched each other. 89 00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:26,439 The rain stopped. 90 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,120 Nothing lasts forever, though the waves of the ocean lasted long. 91 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,200 First thing we did, when the hot rays of the sun came again, was to build a 92 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,060 Shinto shrine to speed our prayers. 93 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:46,240 Most of us believed in Shintoism. There were two Christians, four Buddhists, 94 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:48,840 others believed only in Japan. 95 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:54,580 We extracted salt from the sea, hunted lizard and bat, found wild potatoes, 96 00:12:55,150 --> 00:12:57,130 lived on food that pigs would have rejected. 97 00:12:57,370 --> 00:13:00,270 But best of all, we found a way of making fire. 98 00:13:00,530 --> 00:13:05,650 We had sunk to the level of prehistoric man, but our progress was not slow. 99 00:13:05,890 --> 00:13:09,970 We achieved in weeks what the caveman had taken centuries to accomplish. 100 00:13:10,670 --> 00:13:15,410 And so we faced our new life, halfway between Japan and New Guinea on a 101 00:13:15,410 --> 00:13:21,230 sea lane, 1 ,500 miles from the Philippines, some 16 degrees above the 102 00:13:21,630 --> 00:13:22,870 resigned to wait. 103 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,440 The first typhoon struck us with an unjust fury. 104 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:40,060 What had we done to reap all this? Why did man and nature conspire to make us 105 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:45,320 helpless? The rocks that were so formidable when we crawled ashore were 106 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,280 now in a giant sea. 107 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,500 It raged for three days. 108 00:13:49,820 --> 00:13:51,300 The elements are cruel. 109 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:57,820 To the winds and to the sea, man and his problems is as nothing. 110 00:13:58,140 --> 00:14:00,240 The typhoon pounded at us. 111 00:14:00,510 --> 00:14:02,150 The ocean wanted to wipe us out. 112 00:14:02,470 --> 00:14:06,930 This island rock that was anchored firmly to the bottom of the deep sea 113 00:14:06,930 --> 00:14:08,890 to tear loose and join the storm. 114 00:14:13,590 --> 00:14:19,150 One year on Anatahan, this was our home now. Three miles long, one mile wide, 115 00:14:19,330 --> 00:14:23,430 most of it impenetrable. We stood guard in turns to wait for our navy to come. 116 00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:24,530 It never came. 117 00:14:24,710 --> 00:14:27,310 For the enemy to come. He never came. 118 00:14:27,970 --> 00:14:29,470 Nothing came but the waves. 119 00:14:30,060 --> 00:14:32,560 The tides lifted and the tides fell. 120 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,280 We now took another step away from prehistoric man. 121 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:42,420 We had found empty beer bottles, and now we found a way of filling them with 122 00:14:42,420 --> 00:14:43,420 coconut wine. 123 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:48,840 If we drank quickly before it turned to vinegar, it made us forget where we were 124 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:49,960 and who we were. 125 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,980 We were scolded, of course, but since when has alcoholism been cured by 126 00:15:14,980 --> 00:15:15,980 scolding? 127 00:15:27,180 --> 00:15:29,160 Who are you combing your hair for? 128 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,160 For you, naturally. 129 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,340 Was she combing it for him? 130 00:15:45,850 --> 00:15:48,610 Takahashi was the first one to break the social ice. 131 00:15:49,190 --> 00:15:50,890 He brought a peace offering. 132 00:15:51,830 --> 00:15:55,010 More shells for the wife, as if she needed them. 133 00:16:00,810 --> 00:16:07,390 At that time, we still thought of a man and wife, and... 134 00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:10,120 We had not yet become savages. 135 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:30,960 The difference between a child and a grown -up is in the way the brain is in 136 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:31,960 control of the emotions. 137 00:16:32,699 --> 00:16:36,780 Kusakabe objected to anyone paying attention to Keiko. That was easy to 138 00:16:36,780 --> 00:16:42,640 diagnose. More difficult to understand was why he was so antagonistic to us and 139 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:43,640 to himself. 140 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:56,520 Our leader, the boss of the island, that is, 141 00:16:56,540 --> 00:17:00,700 boss for a while, was not opposed to a display of his authority. 142 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,220 Some men are drunk on wine, some are drunk on power. 143 00:17:49,830 --> 00:17:54,950 So far, all these things that happened to us on Anatahan were very small. 144 00:17:55,310 --> 00:18:01,090 Our life now consisted of nothing but trifles. How were we to know what was 145 00:18:01,090 --> 00:18:04,370 important and what trifle was not? 146 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:39,020 She was a pretty woman. 147 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,820 She was a Japanese woman, trained to obedience. 148 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:47,260 When she was young, she followed her father, never dreamt of walking at his 149 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:51,020 side. When she married, she walked behind her husband. 150 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,820 Obedience to a husband is considered to be the prime virtue of Japanese 151 00:18:55,820 --> 00:18:56,820 womanhood. 152 00:19:25,260 --> 00:19:30,880 Of the autumn equinox is the time for the Ohigan Festival, when we pay respect 153 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,300 to our ancestors. 154 00:19:32,820 --> 00:19:36,680 Our thoughts then go from them to our family. 155 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,360 The word Higan means the other shore. 156 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,440 It is taken from the Buddhist legend that there is a river marking the 157 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,360 of this earthly world to a future one. 158 00:19:54,020 --> 00:20:00,660 This river is full of illusion, passion, pain, and sorrow. 159 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:07,320 Only when you cross the river, having fought the currents of temptation to 160 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,000 the far shore, can you reach enlightenment. 161 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,520 This was the time when we thought of our families far away. 162 00:20:30,410 --> 00:20:34,710 This was the time when we thought of our families, all of us. 163 00:20:35,390 --> 00:20:37,150 And so did Kusakabe. 164 00:20:37,690 --> 00:20:41,010 He had brought with him, when he came, wife and child. 165 00:20:41,570 --> 00:20:46,730 At the outbreak of the war, four years now, they had left him to go to Saipan 166 00:20:46,730 --> 00:20:47,730 for safety. 167 00:20:48,470 --> 00:20:51,990 Keiko, too, had had a husband who'd left on the same boat. 168 00:20:52,350 --> 00:20:54,550 She, too, had not heard from him again. 169 00:20:54,970 --> 00:20:57,050 All this we found out later. 170 00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:05,600 Careless. as we might wish to be in our relations to other human beings, there 171 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,600 is a time of accounting. 172 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:23,440 Left alone in an empty world, it was natural for these two to have formed a 173 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:24,399 of sorts. 174 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,180 For a time, they had forgotten everything but each other. 175 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:25,560 Q5 Q5 176 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:33,140 Q5 177 00:22:33,140 --> 00:22:41,120 Q5 178 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:16,940 Are you thinking of your home? 179 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,680 Yes but not when I see you. 180 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,580 She was prepared to hear just that. 181 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,460 A long journey begins with one step. 182 00:23:39,950 --> 00:23:42,090 Hers was to be quite a long journey. 183 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:12,680 This was Anatahan. 184 00:25:13,740 --> 00:25:20,120 We still kept track of the month, though we had forgotten the day of the week. 185 00:25:20,780 --> 00:25:25,260 A little while later, no one would care what year it was. 186 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,640 Japan had forgotten us. 187 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,260 The horizon remained empty and remote. 188 00:25:42,090 --> 00:25:46,410 But the circle around Keiko enlarged. She was young. 189 00:25:46,890 --> 00:25:49,930 Her body failed to remember the blows it had received. 190 00:25:50,450 --> 00:25:52,210 It also slipped her mind. 191 00:25:54,810 --> 00:26:00,610 She became better looking day by day. She became Queen Bee, and we, the 192 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:02,130 began to swarm. 193 00:26:04,590 --> 00:26:05,910 What's your husband doing? 194 00:26:06,250 --> 00:26:09,370 All I know, he's not out looking for another woman. 195 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,840 How would you like to be my bride tonight? I don't need two husbands. 196 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:24,120 Coconut wine had 197 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:25,820 become our steady diet. 198 00:26:26,340 --> 00:26:29,760 With the coming of wine, discipline vanished. 199 00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:36,480 Some of us began to feel strongly about being told to stand guard day and night 200 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,640 against an enemy that never came. 201 00:26:46,670 --> 00:26:51,730 Who was this man, anyway, who never allowed us to forget what it meant to be 202 00:26:51,730 --> 00:26:52,730 Japanese soldier? 203 00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:58,590 All this talk of stand up and salute became more and more pointless. 204 00:27:01,070 --> 00:27:06,530 It took him years to achieve his position. 205 00:27:07,270 --> 00:27:08,790 It took seconds to lose it. 206 00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:31,480 Typhoons and human beings strike without much warning. 207 00:27:32,380 --> 00:27:38,980 There are few signals, and only the skilled, the very skilled, can read 208 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:43,040 The loss of face to a soldier in command is not a pleasant experience. 209 00:28:43,580 --> 00:28:48,540 To lose the respect of our fellow men is not pleasant to anyone, anywhere. 210 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,040 A good part of our life is spent in trying to gain the esteem of others. 211 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:02,980 To gain self -esteem, however, we usually waste little time. 212 00:29:32,170 --> 00:29:36,450 We had thrown off the yoke of discipline. We were free, free of all 213 00:29:36,790 --> 00:29:39,450 which only meant that we were slaves to our bodies. 214 00:29:41,330 --> 00:29:46,050 A folk song from Okinawa that Sundara Bushi had spread like a weed among the 215 00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:47,190 soldiers during the war. 216 00:29:47,610 --> 00:29:49,890 You and me, like an egg. 217 00:29:50,190 --> 00:29:53,930 I'm egg white, you're egg yellow. I embrace you. 218 00:30:37,030 --> 00:30:40,430 The day started with a dispute over the words of a song. 219 00:30:41,690 --> 00:30:45,830 How the day would end, no one knew at the time. 220 00:30:47,670 --> 00:30:53,130 We were looking for trouble, and we found it. 221 00:30:55,910 --> 00:30:59,770 Keiko, keiko, come out, come out. Those were the right words. 222 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:10,500 What are you doing? 223 00:31:55,420 --> 00:31:58,120 He was next in line for Keiko's favors. 224 00:32:07,660 --> 00:32:09,740 He gave little thought to our actions. 225 00:32:09,980 --> 00:32:12,020 There is no medicine against stupidity. 226 00:32:12,380 --> 00:32:14,360 And it was epidemic among us. 227 00:34:17,370 --> 00:34:20,170 . . 228 00:34:20,170 --> 00:34:29,469 . 229 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,420 Then came the unexpected. 230 00:34:53,060 --> 00:34:59,680 To all Japanese forces, three months ago, the 231 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:04,360 15th day of August, Japan accepted unconditional surrender. 232 00:35:05,060 --> 00:35:09,640 The Japanese emperor himself was asking you to lay down your arms. 233 00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:11,980 The war is over. 234 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,660 An American ship will take you home. 235 00:35:15,340 --> 00:35:16,880 Hostilities have ceased. 236 00:35:17,380 --> 00:35:20,200 All Japanese men and officers surrender. 237 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,380 Surrender at once. 238 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,360 The unbelievable had happened. 239 00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:55,960 This could not be true. 240 00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,300 We had just begun the war. 241 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,360 We were prepared to fight for a thousand years. 242 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:04,680 We'd overrun Asia, almost the entire Pacific. 243 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,040 How could we have lost so suddenly? 244 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:09,420 This was an enemy trick. 245 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:12,120 It could fool no one. 246 00:36:13,610 --> 00:36:15,530 We came to ask him to lead us again. 247 00:36:20,050 --> 00:36:22,550 There are those who lead and those who wish to be led. 248 00:36:23,790 --> 00:36:26,910 There is not necessarily any other bond between them. 249 00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:00,680 The sacred 250 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:10,240 soil 251 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:11,780 of Japan cannot be conquered. 252 00:37:12,170 --> 00:37:15,070 So long as we have one drop of blood in our veins, we will not give up. 253 00:37:16,070 --> 00:37:18,630 Rather die than surrender. 254 00:37:23,570 --> 00:37:30,330 But far 255 00:37:30,330 --> 00:37:34,330 away in Japan, our country had faced the reality of defeat. 256 00:37:34,990 --> 00:37:37,030 The emperor had called the troops home. 257 00:37:37,770 --> 00:37:39,910 And millions streamed back. 258 00:37:40,510 --> 00:37:43,330 Away from the nightmare of trying to conquer a world. 259 00:38:05,510 --> 00:38:06,730 Father and son. 260 00:38:08,090 --> 00:38:09,290 Wife and husband. 261 00:38:12,350 --> 00:38:17,310 Mothers, daughters, friends, all those who had feared they might never meet 262 00:38:17,310 --> 00:38:18,310 again. 263 00:38:29,870 --> 00:38:33,070 The men who had fought in vain came back home. 264 00:38:37,570 --> 00:38:40,230 Though there were many that did not come back. 265 00:39:20,910 --> 00:39:23,150 nothing about what took place in a new Japan. 266 00:39:23,610 --> 00:39:28,990 We were still on Anatahan, deserted by the world, defending this volcanic rock. 267 00:39:29,570 --> 00:39:31,310 Defending it against what enemy? 268 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,220 real enemy most of us ever have is lonesomeness. 269 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:26,360 The jungle 270 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,640 had disgorged a rare prize. 271 00:40:31,390 --> 00:40:34,530 An enemy plane had been found wrecked. The bodies vanished. 272 00:40:42,470 --> 00:40:44,850 This was a doubtful reminder of civilization. 273 00:40:45,550 --> 00:40:48,790 We fluttered around this sudden gift from the skies like vultures. 274 00:40:49,130 --> 00:40:51,310 What could we find to make our life better? 275 00:40:54,930 --> 00:40:57,230 Some of the things were to make our life worse. 276 00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:00,980 Nishio found a .45 caliber weapon and a few bullets. 277 00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:10,120 Yananuma II hit the jackpot. 278 00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:27,220 Keiko found a parachute. 279 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,780 Which meant elegance for us instead of clothes made of tree bark. 280 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:32,840 Or no clothes at all. 281 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,180 Simba, our friend the lady killer, found a ring. 282 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:48,600 The easy way to a woman's heart. 283 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:24,900 This lifeless mass of iron was the only sign of life from the outside world so 284 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:25,900 far. 285 00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:39,700 Maruyama was seen in first class. Before joining the Navy, he had been a first 286 00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:40,700 -class musician. 287 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,040 He had an idea how to make use of rusty wire. 288 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:48,120 He was to convert a world machine into a musical instrument. 289 00:43:05,230 --> 00:43:09,510 This was the first shot heard on the island. It was not to be the last one. 290 00:43:10,310 --> 00:43:13,850 Two old pistols, two new masters. 291 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,240 She had been absent all night. This was a serious defection. 292 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:16,560 Keiko missing? 293 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,520 Kusakabe was more out of his mind than usual. 294 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,200 Keiko! 295 00:44:22,740 --> 00:44:23,740 Keiko! 296 00:44:24,820 --> 00:44:29,480 Keiko! Away from all our troubles are now useless leader kept a machine gun 297 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:30,359 ready to shoot. 298 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,040 This gun was never to shoot. 299 00:44:50,779 --> 00:44:56,000 Our search party went into action Something must have happened to Keiko 300 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,180 dead? We were too stunned to count the men that were missing 301 00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:47,740 Keiko was not dead. Far from it. She was very much alive. 302 00:45:51,460 --> 00:45:54,300 This was the beginning of a new pattern on Anatahan. 303 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,580 Keiko had gone into circulation. 304 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,980 To spy on the humiliating details of another human being's life would be 305 00:46:01,980 --> 00:46:06,400 unforgivable were we not concerned in finding a clue to our own behavior. 306 00:46:07,660 --> 00:46:10,580 Nothing that happens to a human being is alien to us. 307 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,860 There but for the grace of God go I. 308 00:46:26,510 --> 00:46:27,448 What's wrong with your husband? 309 00:46:27,450 --> 00:46:28,450 I don't know. 310 00:46:28,650 --> 00:46:29,650 You don't? 311 00:46:30,390 --> 00:46:32,790 He's been living with you for three years. He doesn't like you. 312 00:46:33,270 --> 00:46:34,270 I see. 313 00:46:34,790 --> 00:46:35,950 He's got a good hiding place. 314 00:46:38,830 --> 00:46:39,830 Kyuko! 315 00:46:45,010 --> 00:46:46,010 What are you doing? 316 00:46:46,310 --> 00:46:47,310 You can't do that. 317 00:46:59,310 --> 00:47:01,290 friend are not uncommon among those we know. 318 00:47:01,610 --> 00:47:04,350 They had guns now to take the place of thinking. 319 00:47:18,210 --> 00:47:24,890 Of course they had seen no one. Why should they 320 00:47:24,890 --> 00:47:26,050 reveal her whereabouts? 321 00:47:26,750 --> 00:47:28,350 They had plans of their own. 322 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,460 We had now been on this island for a long time, for all we knew we would be 323 00:47:36,460 --> 00:47:37,460 there forever. 324 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,560 It is easy to look back and label all this commotion about Keiko ridiculous. 325 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,540 What we did there, we might not have done somewhere else. 326 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:47,980 Opinions differ on that point. 327 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:53,260 It is said that human beings react according to a set pattern, whether they 328 00:47:53,260 --> 00:47:55,320 in a primitive or a civilized society. 329 00:47:55,940 --> 00:47:56,940 Maybe so. 330 00:47:57,860 --> 00:48:03,160 To look back, And something is not the same as living with it. 331 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,920 The relationship between a man and a woman is based on emotions which often 332 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:55,180 not be understood by others, who in one way or another fumble just as much. 333 00:48:59,380 --> 00:49:01,980 It is easy to see what wrong others do. 334 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,580 We carry no mirror to reflect our own actions. 335 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,040 the winner this time. A bargain had been made. 336 00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:27,840 When a woman threatens to leave, this has considerable influence on the 337 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,200 of a man, even when she's not the only woman on earth. 338 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:38,180 Our leader took the occasion to lecture on our behavior. 339 00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,500 Our mission was to defend an Ahtohan, not to drink and chase after females. 340 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,920 Someday the enemy would appear. 341 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:54,960 But the enemy was on Amatahan. Man's genius to destroy himself was in clear 342 00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:55,960 evidence. 343 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:05,640 The day began with a harmless little ditty, a prelude to violence. 344 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:46,480 play the shamisen. 345 00:50:49,860 --> 00:50:53,980 What about your husband? 346 00:50:54,700 --> 00:50:56,460 But she knew how to handle him now. 347 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,500 One more blow out of him and she would leave him again. 348 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,800 bondage to Keiko, some more and some less. 349 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,440 She was the center of our universe. 350 00:51:40,220 --> 00:51:43,000 We had no one to call our own, no one to care for us. 351 00:51:43,500 --> 00:51:45,440 It is not good for man to be alone. 352 00:52:15,950 --> 00:52:20,050 I know there was the oldest sailor among us, and he confirmed our suspicions 353 00:52:20,050 --> 00:52:26,490 about the marital status of Keiko and Kusakabe, as if legalistic 354 00:52:26,490 --> 00:52:28,990 made any difference anymore in Anakahan society. 355 00:52:30,710 --> 00:52:34,910 It was he who noticed the photograph and told us about it later. 356 00:52:38,670 --> 00:52:42,950 There was no law on our island, no police. 357 00:52:43,790 --> 00:52:45,470 There were only two pistols. 358 00:52:55,390 --> 00:52:55,990 Not 359 00:52:55,990 --> 00:53:09,790 so 360 00:53:09,790 --> 00:53:10,790 long ago, 361 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,880 These two had been members of the Imperial Navy, disciplined and polite. 362 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,940 But the Navy was all but forgotten. 363 00:53:18,620 --> 00:53:21,080 And forgotten was what they had once been. 364 00:53:24,620 --> 00:53:29,640 But they were still human beings. And that classification is sufficient to 365 00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,220 quite a variety of behavior. 366 00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:19,180 Certainly, Kusakabe had promised not to beat Keiko. But in turn, he reminded her 367 00:54:19,180 --> 00:54:21,660 that she had promised not to fool around with others. 368 00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:33,700 The two gunmen suggested that they settle their differences, where they 369 00:54:33,700 --> 00:54:34,900 under scientific observation. 370 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,020 They had an idea. 371 00:54:45,980 --> 00:54:49,220 Keiko was able enough to cook for four as easily as for two. 372 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,040 Sakabe could provide food if he wanted to be friendly. 373 00:55:00,830 --> 00:55:03,250 She did not object too much. 374 00:55:03,470 --> 00:55:05,250 It would have done a little good if she had. 375 00:55:08,830 --> 00:55:10,790 Now these were no longer trifles. 376 00:55:11,330 --> 00:55:13,530 The knife and the bullet had become law. 377 00:55:28,430 --> 00:55:30,930 So the queen bee kept house for three drones. 378 00:55:38,310 --> 00:55:42,890 At all these events that began now, we were not present. We were not inside 379 00:55:42,890 --> 00:55:47,330 hut. There is no way to check the story of violence that now unfolded swiftly. 380 00:55:48,590 --> 00:55:51,710 Even had we been there, all our versions would differ. 381 00:56:15,819 --> 00:56:20,720 One man who did try to check what occurred on the hill of fools, as we 382 00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:25,340 subsequently called this corner of the jungle, was our old friend, Senba. 383 00:56:47,049 --> 00:56:49,850 A little 384 00:56:49,850 --> 00:56:56,690 while 385 00:56:56,690 --> 00:57:01,340 later His body was found in the swing where only a week before he had enjoyed 386 00:57:01,340 --> 00:57:02,460 the company of Keiko. 387 00:57:03,580 --> 00:57:06,580 We can only guess how he got into that hammock. 388 00:57:52,330 --> 00:57:56,130 We can only surmise how a second body came to be found on that hill. 389 00:58:04,750 --> 00:58:11,550 Two bullets, 390 00:58:11,830 --> 00:58:15,610 very deep initials back, helped us to guess correctly. 391 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:33,260 In some parts of Asia, there is a god of immediate retribution whose function it 392 00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:36,980 is to spare us long delays in deserved punishment. 393 00:58:37,220 --> 00:58:40,860 Had he decided to become the deity of Anatahan? 394 00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,760 Anyway, death was fishing in this jungle. 395 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:51,400 And on his hook, as bait, he dangled Keiko. 396 00:59:15,340 --> 00:59:21,760 So we buried our two victims of our ill -fated mission with due Shinto 397 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:22,760 ceremony. 398 00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:27,300 A little part of us went down with them into the moist ground. 399 00:59:28,380 --> 00:59:30,240 We felt sorry for the dead. 400 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,540 Even an insect an inch long has half an inch of soul. 401 00:59:35,540 --> 00:59:42,300 Time had stopped for these two, but our miserable existence continued. 402 01:00:00,970 --> 01:00:03,570 We had now been on Anatahan for five years. 403 01:00:04,010 --> 01:00:05,730 Five years can be short. 404 01:00:06,030 --> 01:00:07,450 For us, they were endless. 405 01:00:07,970 --> 01:00:09,990 Days can be as fatal as bullets. 406 01:00:10,490 --> 01:00:15,570 All that kept us alive was the thought of our country, our fatherland. 407 01:00:16,170 --> 01:00:21,490 Somewhere to the north was another island, an island that we loved and 408 01:00:21,490 --> 01:00:25,970 for and could never forget so long as we had breath in our bodies. 409 01:00:34,450 --> 01:00:39,650 We celebrated the new year like good Japanese soldiers. We paid our respect 410 01:00:39,650 --> 01:00:44,250 the direction of the Imperial Palace and sang our national anthem. 411 01:02:01,740 --> 01:02:05,280 and as if nothing had happened, thanked each other for the friendship of the 412 01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:11,440 past year and hoped courteously that this year would be as pleasant as the 413 01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:07,260 struck the events from which we were barred. 414 01:06:07,900 --> 01:06:12,100 The Tyrian queen had left our festival. 415 01:06:12,340 --> 01:06:13,720 That we knew. 416 01:06:17,340 --> 01:06:23,240 But we never saw the king again. 417 01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:30,520 He had been marked for death indelibly long ago. 418 01:06:38,730 --> 01:06:43,070 The only thing we did not know was who would be the executioner. 419 01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,540 Now Kusakabe was royalty. 420 01:08:14,820 --> 01:08:16,840 Anatahan had a new overlord. 421 01:08:17,140 --> 01:08:21,500 A new king for a short time. For a short time only. 422 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,779 She followed him obediently. 423 01:08:45,819 --> 01:08:47,920 But this was a travesty of obedience. 424 01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:53,960 Obedience at the point of a gun is no obedience at all. 425 01:09:01,340 --> 01:09:04,240 We put Yananuma to rest with the others. 426 01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:05,819 He died young. 427 01:09:07,260 --> 01:09:09,939 He had no chance to learn how to live. 428 01:09:10,359 --> 01:09:11,359 properly. 429 01:09:11,660 --> 01:09:17,460 Someday he would bring his ashes back home and lie to his people that he had 430 01:09:17,460 --> 01:09:19,819 died like a good soldier, honorably. 431 01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:54,520 The Queen had returned to the Beehive, but there was little rejoicing. 432 01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,800 They should have attended the funeral. 433 01:10:18,890 --> 01:10:24,670 When human beings wish to quarrel, they soon find a cause. The litany is of no 434 01:10:24,670 --> 01:10:30,970 consequence. This time, it was no food in the hut. Why doesn't he go out and 435 01:10:30,970 --> 01:10:31,970 some? 436 01:10:32,030 --> 01:10:35,090 There was no love in the hut also. 437 01:11:02,060 --> 01:11:07,780 Fixed in line was the ex -cook of the Heskimeru, Yoshiri. 438 01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,420 He aspired to Keiko. 439 01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:14,540 The goal of his ambitions was not very lofty. 440 01:11:14,860 --> 01:11:18,680 We are driven by forces about which we know nothing. 441 01:12:03,340 --> 01:12:04,340 Thank you. 442 01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:49,200 The king is dead. What price the new king? 443 01:13:57,620 --> 01:13:58,380 How 444 01:13:58,380 --> 01:14:04,660 long 445 01:14:04,660 --> 01:14:11,080 will the tyrannical house of Yoshiri last? 446 01:14:25,150 --> 01:14:30,590 He was to wield his power over Nakahan for less than 24 hours. 447 01:14:40,530 --> 01:14:46,070 Keiko was his, and all the coconut wine he could guzzle. 448 01:14:47,010 --> 01:14:48,010 Untold riches. 449 01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:13,340 But the queen was not to be his. 450 01:15:14,620 --> 01:15:18,080 She had not been partial to the murder of a previous consort. 451 01:15:19,260 --> 01:15:21,420 The bond between them had been strong. 452 01:15:22,180 --> 01:15:26,440 Whatever the nature of the elastic might have been that binds together male and 453 01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:27,440 female. 454 01:15:34,300 --> 01:15:38,080 He wanted her as queen and handmaiden. No insolence. 455 01:15:39,500 --> 01:15:42,760 He was not going to have a cup thrown at his feet. 456 01:16:22,730 --> 01:16:26,150 He had laughed quite so much that he known that he would not see the light of 457 01:16:26,150 --> 01:16:27,150 another day. 458 01:16:31,970 --> 01:16:37,190 All of us remember that night. 459 01:16:42,970 --> 01:16:44,150 The moon was low. 460 01:16:45,630 --> 01:16:48,330 The trees silent. The air was full of mist. 461 01:16:49,210 --> 01:16:50,510 The sea was deep. 462 01:16:50,770 --> 01:16:51,770 The rocks black. 463 01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:55,700 Nature was indifferent to the cruel destiny of man. 464 01:17:17,900 --> 01:17:21,540 The history of this unfortunate is the history of an American sailor's hat. 465 01:17:26,500 --> 01:17:29,700 The two pistols were thrown into the ocean. They were gone. 466 01:17:30,140 --> 01:17:34,040 There was to be no more bloodshed. We chose Keiko peacefully. 467 01:17:34,300 --> 01:17:37,200 That is, peacefully for us. 468 01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,960 But Keiko was not going to be chosen, peacefully or otherwise. 469 01:17:54,180 --> 01:17:55,180 She was through. 470 01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:06,380 We started a hunt for the prize that this time had been won in fair 471 01:18:14,780 --> 01:18:16,580 The foe had found us. 472 01:18:17,470 --> 01:18:19,250 The long -looked -for enemy. 473 01:18:20,090 --> 01:18:22,690 We were to be bombed, we thought. 474 01:18:23,550 --> 01:18:25,310 For this we had been trained. 475 01:18:25,850 --> 01:18:27,670 This was a simple matter. 476 01:19:29,450 --> 01:19:31,850 to the Japanese army on Anatahan. 477 01:19:33,090 --> 01:19:37,470 The bombs that had dropped told us that war had been over for five years. 478 01:19:37,690 --> 01:19:40,010 A vessel would call and take us home. 479 01:19:40,430 --> 01:19:43,050 This was, of course, another crude enemy trick. 480 01:19:43,270 --> 01:19:44,670 What did they think we were? 481 01:19:45,010 --> 01:19:46,010 Children? 482 01:19:56,230 --> 01:19:59,030 This was hardly the time for love letters from the enemy. 483 01:19:59,970 --> 01:20:01,270 Let's find our Keiko. 484 01:22:46,940 --> 01:22:50,576 Hey, let go of me! 485 01:23:15,219 --> 01:23:22,060 This method of persuasion had worked exceedingly well in old Baghdad and 486 01:23:22,060 --> 01:23:26,960 in ancient Rome, and it could not fail to work in our culture. 487 01:23:30,940 --> 01:23:32,880 We did not see this. 488 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:34,580 We never saw her again. 489 01:23:34,820 --> 01:23:37,340 She disappeared as if she had never existed. 490 01:23:38,220 --> 01:23:43,100 Long ago, I heard her say that if she had wings, she would fly home. 491 01:23:44,620 --> 01:23:46,940 Keiko had gone. There was no more trouble. 492 01:23:47,180 --> 01:23:50,040 There was also no more life. 493 01:23:52,480 --> 01:23:55,260 Then, a year later, a ship came. 494 01:23:55,760 --> 01:24:00,760 And a white flag was found in our jungle burial ground. 495 01:24:24,130 --> 01:24:27,350 Letters from Japan. 496 01:25:01,060 --> 01:25:04,540 This one was from Keiko. 497 01:25:18,700 --> 01:25:22,520 She had notified our families, told them that we were alive. 498 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:31,000 Kuroda had no family, so she thoughtfully thanked him and said she 499 01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:34,620 departure had brought no trouble to him. 500 01:25:38,300 --> 01:25:44,540 This was embarrassing, but definitely not an enemy trick. 501 01:26:00,290 --> 01:26:05,730 There was another letter from the governor of a prefecture. 502 01:26:08,850 --> 01:26:11,750 The war had ended six years ago. 503 01:26:13,190 --> 01:26:14,910 Your families are waiting. 504 01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:20,540 This flag we send surrendered a Japanese regiment. 505 01:26:22,060 --> 01:26:23,100 Use it. 506 01:26:23,980 --> 01:26:25,320 We want you home. 507 01:26:34,060 --> 01:26:36,940 You can return if you wish. 508 01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,380 I will never go back to a defeated Japan. 509 01:26:51,530 --> 01:26:55,950 The rest of us surrendered gladly. 510 01:26:57,270 --> 01:27:00,850 We had lost the Battle of Anatahan. 511 01:27:01,130 --> 01:27:03,870 Our days of hardship had ended. 512 01:27:06,410 --> 01:27:10,230 We soared like eagles over our sacred mountain. 513 01:27:10,750 --> 01:27:17,010 It took ten hours to retrace the journey of nineteen days and seven long 514 01:27:17,010 --> 01:27:18,010 years. 515 01:27:42,890 --> 01:27:47,410 Back in Japan, heroes to all but to ourselves. 516 01:27:50,090 --> 01:27:51,890 Brother and sister were there. 517 01:27:56,570 --> 01:27:58,350 Our friends were waiting. 518 01:28:19,269 --> 01:28:22,270 We saw our wives. 519 01:28:24,590 --> 01:28:31,190 Our children, now seven years older, who would have to earn that affection all 520 01:28:31,190 --> 01:28:32,190 over again. 521 01:28:33,210 --> 01:28:36,530 We were home at last. 522 01:28:42,190 --> 01:28:49,030 And if I know anything, at all about Keiko, she too must have 523 01:28:49,030 --> 01:28:50,030 been there. 524 01:29:52,340 --> 01:29:55,600 I don't know what you're talking about!