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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,635 --> 00:00:05,664 Produced by Society For The Promotion of Original Japanese Landscape Imagery 2 00:00:12,412 --> 00:00:20,412 WARABI NO KOU ( TO THE BRACKEN FIELDS ) 3 00:00:26,526 --> 00:00:31,555 Based on the story by Kiyoko MURATA 4 00:00:34,567 --> 00:00:40,858 Screenplay Hisashi WATANABE Photography Shoji UEDA Music Toshiro SARUYA 5 00:00:41,908 --> 00:00:45,367 Production Design Iwao SAITO Lighting Hideaki YAMAKAWA 6 00:00:45,478 --> 00:00:48,971 Sound Masato YANO Flm Editor Nobuo OGAWA 7 00:00:58,658 --> 00:01:02,822 Etsuko ICHIHARA 8 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:05,921 Hitomi NAKAHARA 9 00:01:06,032 --> 00:01:08,057 Reisen RI 10 00:01:08,168 --> 00:01:10,262 Mina SHIMIZU 11 00:01:12,639 --> 00:01:14,801 Ippei SOUDA Tetsuya SEGAWA 12 00:01:14,908 --> 00:01:17,070 Chisako HARA Keiko HIDA 13 00:01:17,177 --> 00:01:19,578 Tokie HIDARI Renji ISHIBASHI 14 00:01:21,214 --> 00:01:28,678 Director Hideo ONCHI 15 00:01:56,174 --> 00:01:58,283 Dear Granny... 16 00:01:58,985 --> 00:02:03,376 A long frozen sky has finally started to thaw out... 17 00:02:03,477 --> 00:02:06,961 and once again the sun is beginning to shine. 18 00:02:08,094 --> 00:02:11,859 The snow that covered Mt. Nokobuse has begun to thaw, 19 00:02:11,998 --> 00:02:18,421 and the snow left on the slopes... now looks exactly like a horse. 20 00:02:19,323 --> 00:02:21,549 Spring is coming. 21 00:02:24,043 --> 00:02:26,032 Dear Nui... 22 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,838 when the remaining snow shapes a horse... 23 00:02:31,275 --> 00:02:35,745 the men can no longer delay going to the fields. 24 00:02:36,589 --> 00:02:40,464 They'll begin to turn the fields. 25 00:02:41,361 --> 00:02:44,946 While men work in the fields... 26 00:02:45,509 --> 00:02:49,111 We women, have to sort the soy beans... 27 00:02:49,259 --> 00:02:52,616 and separate the better ones. 28 00:02:55,241 --> 00:02:58,221 We prepare them to make miso... 29 00:02:58,362 --> 00:03:02,291 for miso is indispensable and must last the whole year. 30 00:03:02,949 --> 00:03:06,898 This must be done before the sowing can begin. 31 00:03:08,788 --> 00:03:12,788 Daemon is in charge of the men's labour... 32 00:03:13,061 --> 00:03:15,639 since he is the village headman. 33 00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:18,423 Since you are his wife... 34 00:03:18,517 --> 00:03:22,243 you are in charge of the women's labour. 35 00:03:23,269 --> 00:03:27,097 Ask Tera if you have any questions. 36 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,694 Using the tenant farmers' wives, 37 00:03:31,882 --> 00:03:36,913 do just as I have shown you. 38 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,077 Dear Nui... 39 00:03:44,749 --> 00:03:47,702 as I always say... 40 00:03:48,861 --> 00:03:54,345 keep an eye on the shape of the clouds over Mt. Nokobuse... take note. 41 00:03:56,236 --> 00:04:02,403 If a big cloud hangs over its top... for several days in early spring... 42 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:08,717 and then starts to break up from the direction of Mt. Kiritachi... 43 00:04:09,811 --> 00:04:12,733 From this you can be sure... 44 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:16,909 the coming summer will be cold... 45 00:04:18,381 --> 00:04:21,409 and the weather miserable. 46 00:04:22,338 --> 00:04:26,229 These Oshibuse mountains give us a hard life. 47 00:04:26,557 --> 00:04:29,430 Protect our crops as this old woman did. 48 00:04:29,636 --> 00:04:34,620 Carefully watch the mountains... and the umberella clouds. 49 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:39,108 Dear Granny... 50 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:46,323 I, too, look up to the sky everyday but still see no such clouds. 51 00:04:47,053 --> 00:04:50,837 Will summer be hot as usual then? 52 00:04:52,447 --> 00:04:54,892 You know, Dear Granny... 53 00:04:55,306 --> 00:05:00,969 what worries me most... isn't how to watch the mountains. 54 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:03,490 Last night at dinner... 55 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,318 you told Daemon to increase the number of horses. 56 00:05:08,443 --> 00:05:13,525 You said one horse... with two strong men... 57 00:05:13,743 --> 00:05:18,394 could easily cultivate 2000 sq. meters of land. 58 00:05:18,912 --> 00:05:21,086 You also said it was possible... 59 00:05:21,216 --> 00:05:25,795 for only one man... with a well trained horse... 60 00:05:25,913 --> 00:05:28,984 to do more than 1,500 sq. meters. 61 00:05:29,595 --> 00:05:33,189 When they're turning the fields they need 5 meals a day... 62 00:05:33,267 --> 00:05:36,977 One woman cannot cook so much alone. 63 00:05:37,203 --> 00:05:43,819 But if they work with horses, the usual 3 meals is enough. 64 00:05:43,988 --> 00:05:49,028 Less time labouring... and fewer meals... 65 00:05:49,138 --> 00:05:52,372 were better you told them. 66 00:05:53,920 --> 00:06:00,433 You usually say nothing... about things like field work. 67 00:06:00,799 --> 00:06:05,710 You leave such things to Daemon and your two sons. 68 00:06:05,909 --> 00:06:07,431 But then... 69 00:06:07,627 --> 00:06:11,091 last night Daemon and your sons, when you spoke, 70 00:06:11,217 --> 00:06:13,685 were listening carefully. 71 00:06:13,786 --> 00:06:16,746 A bird! A white bird! - A white bird! 72 00:06:16,943 --> 00:06:21,904 You're right. Magnolia flowers fly just like birds. 73 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:25,012 They spread their wings and fly away. 74 00:06:25,087 --> 00:06:27,377 Dear Granny... 75 00:06:27,770 --> 00:06:34,075 Just like the birds... are you planning to fly away? 76 00:06:34,527 --> 00:06:39,449 From time to time, Daemon, Isaku and even Tera... 77 00:06:39,543 --> 00:06:44,423 hesitate to answer my questions. What is it they don't want to say? 78 00:06:44,937 --> 00:06:50,830 Your two sons and other daughter-in-law... all seem to know. 79 00:06:51,062 --> 00:06:55,142 Why do I, your son's other wife, not know? 80 00:06:55,348 --> 00:06:58,753 We've been married half a year now. 81 00:06:58,908 --> 00:07:02,408 People laugh that Daemon second wife... is just a girl. 82 00:07:02,486 --> 00:07:03,868 All the while I've tried... 83 00:07:04,017 --> 00:07:08,499 to learn all there is to know about the house. 84 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:13,458 Men don't say much keeping their thoughts to themselves. 85 00:07:13,708 --> 00:07:16,713 Nor do they show their feelings. 86 00:07:16,885 --> 00:07:21,297 When I'm around them they still make me nervous. 87 00:07:21,841 --> 00:07:26,880 I feel more at ease with you, my mother-in-law... 88 00:07:27,029 --> 00:07:29,567 than with my husband. 89 00:07:29,849 --> 00:07:36,278 Nui dear... you have to be patient. 90 00:07:38,257 --> 00:07:42,360 I'll be watching you how you do. 91 00:07:46,216 --> 00:07:48,520 Dear Granny... 92 00:07:48,955 --> 00:07:55,639 When someone faces a big change, their spirit begins to quiver. 93 00:07:55,852 --> 00:08:00,469 Even the air around that person changes in response. 94 00:08:01,180 --> 00:08:04,790 I sense that change in the air around you. 95 00:08:04,923 --> 00:08:07,741 The vibration around you is very strong. 96 00:08:07,908 --> 00:08:09,945 Dear Nui... 97 00:08:15,561 --> 00:08:17,646 in our village, the rules... 98 00:08:17,717 --> 00:08:21,663 handed down from the old days must be followed. 99 00:08:21,866 --> 00:08:25,373 These rules are of two kinds. 100 00:08:25,972 --> 00:08:29,893 One type is public and widely announced. 101 00:08:30,584 --> 00:08:36,076 The other is hidden, and followed in the utmost secrecy. 102 00:08:36,716 --> 00:08:41,035 No one could answer your so frequent questions. 103 00:08:41,215 --> 00:08:45,549 They couldn't say because of this rule of secrecy. 104 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:52,931 But I think its time to tell you. 105 00:08:54,066 --> 00:09:00,753 What I am going to tell you... when you go back to Tamijo village... 106 00:09:00,985 --> 00:09:03,843 don't tell anyone. 107 00:09:07,878 --> 00:09:15,479 Oshibuse is... divided into an upper, middle and lower village. 108 00:09:16,055 --> 00:09:19,226 The elderly in all three are bound by... 109 00:09:19,328 --> 00:09:21,750 a secret agreement. 110 00:09:22,528 --> 00:09:27,388 After having worked for years and years in the fields... 111 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:33,270 the day after their 60th birthday... a dividing gate awaits them. 112 00:09:33,539 --> 00:09:37,695 Since I reached that age this year... 113 00:09:37,891 --> 00:09:41,516 that gate now looms just ahead of me. 114 00:09:41,881 --> 00:09:44,539 So you have to pass through this gate. 115 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:47,086 What will you do then? 116 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,895 When the day arrives this spring... 117 00:09:49,990 --> 00:09:53,443 I will have to leave with the others. 118 00:09:54,126 --> 00:09:57,141 We will climb to where the Jindai river arises... 119 00:09:57,204 --> 00:09:59,438 in the Warabino valley. 120 00:09:59,579 --> 00:10:02,351 We will stay there. 121 00:10:17,249 --> 00:10:21,156 In Warabino... a village headman's wife... 122 00:10:21,288 --> 00:10:22,945 and an aged tenant farmer... 123 00:10:23,102 --> 00:10:27,203 all become Warabi... equals without difference. 124 00:10:27,326 --> 00:10:30,881 We all must follow the Warabi rules, 125 00:10:31,061 --> 00:10:34,123 and live together as equals. 126 00:10:36,836 --> 00:10:41,327 Still... I'll come visit you once or twice a day... 127 00:10:41,453 --> 00:10:45,030 so that you won't be lonely. 128 00:10:45,711 --> 00:10:47,449 Dear Nui... 129 00:10:47,848 --> 00:10:51,707 no one from the village can come to Warabino. 130 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,425 No one is allowed. 131 00:10:55,121 --> 00:10:57,550 Instead of you coming up... 132 00:10:57,660 --> 00:11:01,043 we'll come down to the village. 133 00:11:02,982 --> 00:11:07,091 That's because... in Warabino there's no food. 134 00:11:07,427 --> 00:11:12,311 We'll come down... and help with the work... 135 00:11:12,397 --> 00:11:15,936 and receive a blessing of food. 136 00:11:16,308 --> 00:11:20,817 Doesn't that mean... warabis become beggars? 137 00:11:21,147 --> 00:11:26,344 Why continue to hand down... such an inhuman rule? 138 00:11:26,660 --> 00:11:28,654 Dear Nui... 139 00:11:29,152 --> 00:11:34,232 if an elder weakens in Warabino, they can't survive. 140 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:38,390 Those who are strong and tough live on... 141 00:11:38,711 --> 00:11:43,140 while those who are weak are soon swept away. 142 00:11:43,436 --> 00:11:48,264 At 60 they are filtered as though through a sieve. 143 00:11:48,538 --> 00:11:51,578 That's why there's a barrier gate. 144 00:11:52,111 --> 00:11:56,056 In Oshibuse every several years... 145 00:11:56,236 --> 00:12:01,987 we are faced with poor crops due to bad weather. 146 00:12:02,888 --> 00:12:05,765 The youth and children must be fed... 147 00:12:05,851 --> 00:12:08,672 even if the crops fail. 148 00:12:08,928 --> 00:12:12,748 That's why the rule was made. 149 00:12:13,506 --> 00:12:15,388 But Dear Nui... 150 00:12:15,474 --> 00:12:19,583 what worries me most about Warabino is not myself. 151 00:12:20,606 --> 00:12:24,863 To have lived a good life to the ripe old age of 60... 152 00:12:24,950 --> 00:12:27,184 makes me thankful. 153 00:12:27,913 --> 00:12:35,002 My only worry is you, my young daughter-in-law. 154 00:12:35,721 --> 00:12:40,433 Daemon... is 20 years older than you. 155 00:12:40,652 --> 00:12:43,800 A lot is required of a headman's wife. 156 00:12:43,933 --> 00:12:49,270 You have to get along with your brother-in-law Isaku and his wife Tera. 157 00:12:49,368 --> 00:12:55,859 You have to bear a son and heir... and there's still more. 158 00:12:56,842 --> 00:13:00,985 Your role in Maniwa has great importance. 159 00:13:24,436 --> 00:13:29,060 I'm going to the mountains with the hope to survive. 160 00:13:29,459 --> 00:13:35,730 I feel overwhelmed by the distress... of leaving you behind. 161 00:13:36,678 --> 00:13:38,685 Dear Nui... 162 00:13:39,435 --> 00:13:41,686 I'm worried about you. 163 00:13:41,764 --> 00:13:43,322 Myself... 164 00:13:44,283 --> 00:13:47,479 I feel like it's holding me back. 165 00:13:48,294 --> 00:13:52,439 Dear Granny... you don't have to worry about me. 166 00:13:52,548 --> 00:13:54,923 Tera knows everything about the house. 167 00:13:55,009 --> 00:13:58,236 She's kind and I can depend on her. 168 00:13:58,586 --> 00:14:02,508 Besides... you'll come to the village everyday. 169 00:14:02,579 --> 00:14:06,964 So sometimes... I'll be able to ask you. 170 00:14:24,024 --> 00:14:27,781 Your duties in Warabino... when will they end? 171 00:14:28,531 --> 00:14:30,710 When will you come back? 172 00:14:30,803 --> 00:14:33,799 At the end of autumn. 173 00:14:34,168 --> 00:14:38,019 Before winter... hopefully, I'll come back. 174 00:14:38,144 --> 00:14:43,764 I pray sincerely... for your good health, and safe return. 175 00:15:57,323 --> 00:16:00,845 Don't you ever feel hungry? 176 00:16:03,195 --> 00:16:08,565 Eat nothing and die soon... is that what you're thinking? 177 00:16:11,487 --> 00:16:17,130 Start a fire and boil some water! We need some lunch. 178 00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:22,082 Get to it! 179 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:28,150 If you want lunch... you start a fire and draw water. 180 00:16:29,054 --> 00:16:31,600 This isn't the village... 181 00:16:32,327 --> 00:16:35,522 it's far from human society. 182 00:16:35,906 --> 00:16:37,828 Don't order us grannies around! 183 00:16:37,912 --> 00:16:39,787 Umakichi... 184 00:16:40,666 --> 00:16:43,123 We'll prepare lunch. 185 00:16:43,225 --> 00:16:46,763 Go and bring wood for the fire. 186 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,195 Right. 187 00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:36,558 Dear Nui 188 00:17:37,756 --> 00:17:42,253 There was a little water left in the buckets. 189 00:17:42,529 --> 00:17:47,132 The Warabi from last year had left water in them. 190 00:17:47,833 --> 00:17:53,463 If a bucket drys out the wood shrinks and it will leak. 191 00:17:53,872 --> 00:17:57,254 Last year's Warabi had left them wet... 192 00:17:57,536 --> 00:18:01,262 as a last act of kindness. 193 00:18:38,179 --> 00:18:42,515 If only we had sake... we'd have all we need. 194 00:18:47,243 --> 00:18:53,342 The scenery here is beautiful. It isn't as bad here as I expected. 195 00:18:53,735 --> 00:18:56,039 Umakichi... 196 00:18:56,422 --> 00:19:01,864 the scenery is beautiful... but our houses are falling to pieces. 197 00:19:02,484 --> 00:19:04,876 Tomorrow I'll start repairing them. 198 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:08,110 Better start tomorrow for sure. 199 00:19:23,362 --> 00:19:28,797 In this ground we can grow potatoes... and Japanese radish. 200 00:19:28,924 --> 00:19:31,408 We'll soon be filling our bellies. 201 00:19:31,487 --> 00:19:37,715 Matsuya... for Warabi to grow vegetables is against the rules. 202 00:19:37,864 --> 00:19:44,645 We're only allowed to eat... what they give us down in the village. 203 00:19:45,482 --> 00:19:47,638 Today we are abandoned here... 204 00:19:47,724 --> 00:19:51,442 tomorrow we have to beg our children for food. 205 00:19:52,535 --> 00:19:57,060 My daughter-in-law will love it... seeing me have to beg. 206 00:19:57,164 --> 00:20:01,578 Look whose coming here now, the granny who was unkind. 207 00:20:01,789 --> 00:20:04,930 Warabis are no beggars. 208 00:20:05,055 --> 00:20:10,931 We do a day's work for them... we earn a day's food for us. 209 00:20:11,109 --> 00:20:14,543 Even we old folks don't take free meals. 210 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:19,038 We feed our mouths with our hands and our feet. 211 00:20:19,155 --> 00:20:24,787 My goodness... you wives of lower and middle village headmen... 212 00:20:24,990 --> 00:20:29,042 are both of you foolish and naive? 213 00:20:29,865 --> 00:20:35,531 When food gets scarce... we won't be able to reach the village. 214 00:20:36,964 --> 00:20:39,979 We won't even survive this summer! 215 00:20:43,409 --> 00:20:45,518 Dear Nui... 216 00:20:45,861 --> 00:20:51,813 I told only the men about the bones I saw by the mountain trail. 217 00:20:52,174 --> 00:20:57,668 I couldn't tell the old women... That... would've scared them. 218 00:20:59,114 --> 00:21:03,132 The men were shocked at first... 219 00:21:03,706 --> 00:21:08,495 but then said they'd bury them in the morning. 220 00:21:10,199 --> 00:21:14,204 They cannot gather the bones in the dark... 221 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:19,387 so they decided to wait until morning. 222 00:21:20,141 --> 00:21:26,384 Our life working in the fields... would now begin. 223 00:21:36,208 --> 00:21:37,638 Dear Granny... 224 00:21:38,308 --> 00:21:42,464 Yajyuro Moriya's son... whom you delivered? 225 00:21:42,503 --> 00:21:44,933 do you remember him? 226 00:21:45,268 --> 00:21:51,155 Though named Kumakichi... a manly name, he caught a cold... 227 00:21:51,273 --> 00:21:55,257 he wouldn't suckle... and began to wither. 228 00:21:55,543 --> 00:22:00,097 He became so weak that he stopped crying. 229 00:22:01,023 --> 00:22:05,804 Everyone thought... he would prefer death to his pain... 230 00:22:05,924 --> 00:22:09,869 but he kept coming back to life. 231 00:22:09,987 --> 00:22:15,358 He's dying now we'd think... only to open his eyes again. 232 00:22:15,938 --> 00:22:17,211 Yajyuro... 233 00:22:17,305 --> 00:22:23,133 asked Yamane's grandmother, a faith healer, to let him die in peace. 234 00:22:24,205 --> 00:22:26,798 While she was praying that night... 235 00:22:26,932 --> 00:22:32,806 Kumakichi... sighed and breathed out comfortably. 236 00:22:33,251 --> 00:22:36,151 Then he passed away. 237 00:22:37,567 --> 00:22:44,484 At the prayers... Daemon offered 3 cups of rice on Kumakichi's altar. 238 00:22:45,081 --> 00:22:47,630 On the day of the funeral... 239 00:22:47,731 --> 00:22:51,137 we brought food and sake with us... 240 00:22:51,271 --> 00:22:54,083 to the Jouzai Temple. 241 00:22:55,263 --> 00:22:58,294 Since parents who lose a child hold bad fortune... 242 00:22:58,372 --> 00:23:01,669 they aren't supposed to come to the burial. 243 00:23:01,817 --> 00:23:04,012 So Daemon and I... 244 00:23:04,137 --> 00:23:08,110 brought people from the village to the cemetery. 245 00:23:10,369 --> 00:23:12,554 Is that Warabino? 246 00:23:12,830 --> 00:23:14,054 Yeah. 247 00:23:14,219 --> 00:23:17,491 Is your mother awake? 248 00:23:18,318 --> 00:23:22,619 Maybe she's standing on the hill side looking this way. 249 00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:28,683 Then... as we stand here... do you think she can see us? 250 00:23:28,842 --> 00:23:32,050 Likely just a line of people. 251 00:23:32,301 --> 00:23:36,144 Can't she... make out our faces? 252 00:23:36,283 --> 00:23:39,061 I don't think so. 253 00:23:39,834 --> 00:23:43,380 Sometimes you sound like a child. 254 00:23:44,751 --> 00:23:46,813 Dear Granny... 255 00:23:47,196 --> 00:23:50,804 are you looking this way? 256 00:23:51,208 --> 00:23:55,284 In the distance... can you recognize us? 257 00:23:56,013 --> 00:23:57,692 Dear Granny... 258 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:03,352 as I see it... the cemetery is the edge of death... 259 00:24:03,487 --> 00:24:08,416 while Warabino... is the edge of life. 260 00:24:09,092 --> 00:24:14,334 It's too late for Kamakichi, but remember this, dear Nui... 261 00:24:14,841 --> 00:24:18,325 if a baby falls ill... 262 00:24:18,614 --> 00:24:22,254 on the grave stone of a recently deceased baby... 263 00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:25,130 place a little milk. 264 00:24:26,064 --> 00:24:31,546 I've seen some children get better... after doing that for them. 265 00:24:36,461 --> 00:24:38,017 Dear Granny... 266 00:24:38,978 --> 00:24:42,822 since Warabino is only 2 km. away... 267 00:24:42,970 --> 00:24:45,892 I can't sleep knowing you're so near. 268 00:24:51,957 --> 00:24:55,700 In this rain... they won't be able to come down. 269 00:24:56,448 --> 00:25:00,580 But if they can't come down... what'll they eat? 270 00:25:31,110 --> 00:25:32,600 Granny Ren? 271 00:25:36,703 --> 00:25:38,797 Granny Ren? 272 00:25:42,532 --> 00:25:45,050 Granny dear... 273 00:25:45,740 --> 00:25:47,685 Dear Nui... 274 00:25:48,528 --> 00:25:52,458 the Warabi must follow two rules. 275 00:25:53,103 --> 00:25:56,320 The first is to give up our names... 276 00:25:56,736 --> 00:26:00,064 the second is to keep silent. 277 00:26:00,562 --> 00:26:04,893 These are to be obeyed when we are in the village. 278 00:26:05,289 --> 00:26:08,331 Granny dear...? 279 00:26:44,299 --> 00:26:49,343 'Til last year... Granny looked after my children... 280 00:26:49,535 --> 00:26:54,364 so I was free and my work was easy. 281 00:26:56,034 --> 00:27:01,398 I know... you think of granny as your real mother. 282 00:27:02,387 --> 00:27:04,162 But I couldn't. 283 00:27:04,272 --> 00:27:07,749 I felt a wall between me and mother-in-law and sister-in-law. 284 00:27:09,789 --> 00:27:15,498 Now that wall is gone... I find I'm concerned about her. 285 00:27:16,348 --> 00:27:21,322 It seems to me... we're finally beginning to understand each other. 286 00:27:28,924 --> 00:27:30,916 Dear Nui... 287 00:27:31,924 --> 00:27:37,213 this bridge seems to be the bridge between life and death. 288 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,820 In the morning, we head to the village as if reborn. 289 00:27:44,350 --> 00:27:48,164 In the evening, we return to Warabino... 290 00:27:48,717 --> 00:27:52,006 as if going to another world. 291 00:28:00,933 --> 00:28:04,637 Grandma still has her hands and her feet. 292 00:28:04,753 --> 00:28:06,918 She doesn't look like a Warabi. 293 00:28:07,022 --> 00:28:11,186 She hasn't been staying in Warabino... long enough for that yet. 294 00:28:11,342 --> 00:28:13,763 Will you become a Warabi? 295 00:28:13,810 --> 00:28:15,887 When will you? 296 00:28:16,006 --> 00:28:20,403 I think she'll become a Warabi next spring 297 00:28:20,535 --> 00:28:23,667 If you become Warabi... will your feet disappear? 298 00:28:23,762 --> 00:28:26,644 Oh... sure they will. 299 00:28:26,767 --> 00:28:29,065 Won't you be able to come to the village? 300 00:28:29,217 --> 00:28:30,309 She won't. 301 00:28:30,442 --> 00:28:33,128 Then we cannot meet. 302 00:28:33,274 --> 00:28:36,896 Come to the fields and pick her warabi. 303 00:28:36,981 --> 00:28:38,312 Pick and then what? 304 00:28:38,416 --> 00:28:41,157 Just eat it. 305 00:28:46,424 --> 00:28:48,643 Dear Nui... 306 00:28:49,461 --> 00:28:54,853 working with the village women... I try to work by myself. 307 00:28:55,561 --> 00:28:58,756 To have to work with an old Warabi... 308 00:28:58,943 --> 00:29:04,414 such young women... must find it depressing. 309 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:09,718 Tose seems to be so happy today. 310 00:29:11,276 --> 00:29:15,425 Those with children... they are the lucky ones. 311 00:29:15,526 --> 00:29:19,720 As I have no children, no one... ever waits for me. 312 00:29:19,824 --> 00:29:23,214 What? If you have children and grandchildren... 313 00:29:23,308 --> 00:29:26,034 you will cry more thinking of them. 314 00:29:26,148 --> 00:29:30,265 The more loved-ones you have, the deeper your sorrow. 315 00:29:30,461 --> 00:29:33,758 To be all on your own, is much easier. 316 00:29:33,875 --> 00:29:37,031 That could be true. Maybe I am lucky. 317 00:29:37,117 --> 00:29:40,250 Among the Warabi, you're the best suited. 318 00:29:40,990 --> 00:29:44,068 One, two, three, four... 319 00:29:44,396 --> 00:29:49,021 and we all let our hands go! 320 00:30:01,566 --> 00:30:03,620 Dear Granny... 321 00:30:04,032 --> 00:30:06,024 I'm taking your place... 322 00:30:06,094 --> 00:30:10,734 and now watch the clouds forming over Mt. Nokobuse every morning. 323 00:30:11,442 --> 00:30:15,894 It would appear this summer will be mild. 324 00:30:34,614 --> 00:30:36,630 Dear Nui... 325 00:30:37,458 --> 00:30:42,823 Unexpectedly I had a strange... meeting. 326 00:30:57,322 --> 00:30:59,089 You... 327 00:31:01,618 --> 00:31:03,995 You're Ren of the Maniwas, aren't you? 328 00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:08,391 Indeed... I am Ren Maniwa. 329 00:31:09,265 --> 00:31:12,358 At first I wasn't sure. 330 00:31:12,514 --> 00:31:17,374 but your walk... the way you moved was so familiar. 331 00:31:17,522 --> 00:31:20,700 So I decided to follow you. 332 00:31:20,912 --> 00:31:23,340 And you are...? 333 00:31:24,449 --> 00:31:29,429 Living so long apart from the world, I even forgot my age. 334 00:31:29,687 --> 00:31:34,804 So how could I know you'd already turned 60? 335 00:31:35,459 --> 00:31:36,857 Several times... 336 00:31:36,982 --> 00:31:41,763 when I walked through the woods around Warabino I thought I saw you. 337 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,678 But I couldn't approach you... 338 00:31:45,124 --> 00:31:49,090 as there were always... other people around. 339 00:31:50,441 --> 00:31:52,826 Shika... 340 00:31:54,145 --> 00:31:56,715 Oh my soul! 341 00:31:57,637 --> 00:31:59,949 I am your Shika! 342 00:32:00,121 --> 00:32:04,098 The image of you looking back again and again when you left... 343 00:32:04,161 --> 00:32:08,223 is burnt into my memory. 344 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:13,942 They kicked me out of the house saying I was a lazy wife. 345 00:32:14,778 --> 00:32:18,697 But I hesitated to return to my parents. 346 00:32:19,630 --> 00:32:22,263 Instead I went to see you. 347 00:32:22,340 --> 00:32:26,754 But I ordered you to go back to our parents. 348 00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:33,954 No parents welcome a divorced daughter. 349 00:32:34,973 --> 00:32:37,426 And because the crops failed that year... 350 00:32:37,512 --> 00:32:42,544 it was absurd to hope... they'd accept me back home. 351 00:32:42,860 --> 00:32:47,025 I looked for you all over the place. 352 00:32:47,665 --> 00:32:50,814 I didn't think of dying. 353 00:32:51,229 --> 00:32:53,189 All the same... 354 00:32:53,986 --> 00:32:57,687 I didn't have much enthusiasm for life either. 355 00:32:59,026 --> 00:33:01,533 So I decided it was best... 356 00:33:01,892 --> 00:33:04,945 to live in the dense forest. 357 00:33:06,107 --> 00:33:08,243 What about your child? 358 00:33:09,915 --> 00:33:13,047 You were pregnant back then. 359 00:33:19,406 --> 00:33:23,272 Isn't night in the mountains frightening? 360 00:33:25,236 --> 00:33:28,035 For those who have nowhere to go... 361 00:33:29,486 --> 00:33:32,696 the night is a gentle shelter. 362 00:33:34,412 --> 00:33:37,599 I feel as if all around me... 363 00:33:38,803 --> 00:33:43,733 the shadows... protect me at night. 364 00:33:48,941 --> 00:33:51,215 Now my sister... 365 00:33:53,543 --> 00:33:57,937 Shika... Shika! 366 00:34:04,609 --> 00:34:06,694 Dear Nui... 367 00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:12,702 it was just an excuse that she was a lazy wife. 368 00:34:13,251 --> 00:34:17,965 She was kicked out in the last month of her pregnancy. 369 00:34:19,290 --> 00:34:23,040 The wife of a third son shouldn't give birth first... 370 00:34:23,298 --> 00:34:25,704 that's all, dear Nui. 371 00:34:26,606 --> 00:34:32,535 The mountains... the rivers... all nature's blessings... 372 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:37,154 support those of us abandoned by society. 373 00:34:37,808 --> 00:34:39,909 Whether you live... 374 00:34:40,277 --> 00:34:42,300 or you die... 375 00:34:42,878 --> 00:34:46,535 is all up to the individual in the end. 376 00:34:47,808 --> 00:34:51,003 We Warabis are no different... 377 00:34:51,216 --> 00:34:54,246 we must struggle to live. 378 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,056 Dear Nui... 379 00:35:10,870 --> 00:35:17,913 Tome leaves before the rest of us... going ahead slowly on her own. 380 00:35:19,078 --> 00:35:22,614 If we are to have anything to eat... 381 00:35:22,874 --> 00:35:25,766 each must make it down to the village. 382 00:35:27,492 --> 00:35:32,913 If your legs become too weak and weary, you'll starve on the way. 383 00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:52,684 A caterpillar's crossing the bridge. 384 00:36:04,036 --> 00:36:08,667 We have to go ahead. Watch your step carefully. 385 00:36:08,799 --> 00:36:10,637 I'll be coming. 386 00:36:10,854 --> 00:36:12,814 Dear Nui... 387 00:36:13,095 --> 00:36:17,399 We are not without hands to hold out to her. 388 00:36:17,478 --> 00:36:19,665 But we mustn't do that. 389 00:36:20,878 --> 00:36:24,276 There'll be another and another. 390 00:36:24,714 --> 00:36:29,892 Soon a second and then a third will suffer from weak legs. 391 00:36:30,459 --> 00:36:34,525 That's what getting old means for all of us. 392 00:36:34,701 --> 00:36:37,839 Who knows what tomorrow will bring. 393 00:36:49,591 --> 00:36:54,970 They're working with the Kamiyas and Tazoes... the old ones. 394 00:36:55,271 --> 00:36:57,263 It would be better... 395 00:36:58,091 --> 00:37:02,615 if they weren't made to work so hard in this heat. 396 00:37:11,207 --> 00:37:13,097 Take one. 397 00:37:21,205 --> 00:37:24,044 Don't you want it? 398 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:30,246 Just this one is plenty for me. 399 00:37:40,544 --> 00:37:42,715 Dear Nui... 400 00:37:43,223 --> 00:37:46,616 women and washing seems to be something special. 401 00:37:47,259 --> 00:37:51,329 Women, when they gather to do their washing... 402 00:37:51,548 --> 00:37:56,493 are glad at heart... and smile while they work. 403 00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,449 I wonder if through washing... 404 00:38:00,784 --> 00:38:03,479 the tensions are released from one's soul? 405 00:38:03,588 --> 00:38:06,547 It hurts! Ahh! 406 00:38:07,885 --> 00:38:12,235 I washed my hair... and washed my clothes. 407 00:38:12,329 --> 00:38:16,732 We have to make an effort to look pretty. 408 00:38:17,221 --> 00:38:21,841 That's for sure... in Warabino, there're three shabby old men. 409 00:38:21,947 --> 00:38:25,287 Shall we share them? 410 00:38:26,785 --> 00:38:31,488 Before that could happen, we'd have to scrub 'em in the river. 411 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:36,864 Why do men when they grow older, also grow shabbier. 412 00:38:44,448 --> 00:38:46,597 What's wrong? 413 00:38:48,144 --> 00:38:49,964 You haven't started yet? 414 00:38:52,246 --> 00:38:57,155 I've been trying to walk... over and over again... 415 00:38:57,527 --> 00:39:01,623 but my good right foot, has also gone numb today. 416 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,768 Then, you aren't going today? 417 00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:10,974 In the morning... 418 00:39:11,169 --> 00:39:14,880 even the birds go down to the village to find food. 419 00:39:14,959 --> 00:39:20,697 That's right. Tome, you should go, too. 420 00:39:29,164 --> 00:39:30,188 You going? 421 00:39:31,068 --> 00:39:32,620 Yeah! 422 00:39:33,713 --> 00:39:36,987 I have to go and eat. 423 00:39:41,741 --> 00:39:43,748 Dear Nui... 424 00:39:44,068 --> 00:39:46,206 Tome got up and left. 425 00:39:47,112 --> 00:39:49,843 After a while, we did too. 426 00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:53,600 Oh... I see her. 427 00:39:58,163 --> 00:40:00,101 She's coming. 428 00:40:44,464 --> 00:40:48,572 It's time to leave and head to the village. 429 00:40:54,018 --> 00:40:56,400 Jingorou! 430 00:41:01,209 --> 00:41:03,420 Stop dreaming! 431 00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:08,383 Bring your rain-cape and hat. 432 00:41:09,099 --> 00:41:10,935 Do it! 433 00:41:19,513 --> 00:41:21,083 Dear Granny... 434 00:41:21,380 --> 00:41:24,434 when will this rain ever stop? 435 00:41:25,001 --> 00:41:30,198 It's been raining without stop for at least half a month. 436 00:41:30,910 --> 00:41:36,076 Daemon sends Isaku to check the bridge every morning. 437 00:41:36,293 --> 00:41:38,308 Soon... the upper bank will collapse. 438 00:41:38,355 --> 00:41:42,887 Already this summer... it's unusually chilly. 439 00:41:42,967 --> 00:41:48,193 Daemon plans to grow radish in case the harvest fails. 440 00:41:48,372 --> 00:41:51,997 But in this heavy rain, he can't do anything. 441 00:41:52,058 --> 00:41:55,957 Pretty soon the bridge... will wash away too. 442 00:42:07,793 --> 00:42:10,659 You should eat this. 443 00:42:14,514 --> 00:42:16,553 People, you know.... 444 00:42:17,459 --> 00:42:22,709 find their own, different ways to die. 445 00:42:23,303 --> 00:42:25,177 It's like that. 446 00:42:25,643 --> 00:42:28,833 You won't die just yet. 447 00:42:31,018 --> 00:42:34,322 Some people take time... 448 00:42:34,767 --> 00:42:38,831 and die very slowly. 449 00:42:41,378 --> 00:42:43,503 But since... 450 00:42:43,831 --> 00:42:48,784 both my legs have become weak... 451 00:42:49,152 --> 00:42:55,238 I cannot take my own time. 452 00:42:58,746 --> 00:43:01,356 As it stands... 453 00:43:01,637 --> 00:43:05,570 I'd better hurry up and die. 454 00:43:12,389 --> 00:43:14,016 Sister... 455 00:43:15,565 --> 00:43:19,260 There's one truth... 456 00:43:19,768 --> 00:43:23,447 I'd like to tell you. 457 00:43:26,236 --> 00:43:31,236 After not eating for 5 whole days... 458 00:43:31,580 --> 00:43:34,978 I realized something. 459 00:43:37,849 --> 00:43:42,450 If you go on surviving on meager portions... 460 00:43:43,381 --> 00:43:49,324 your hunger will never end. 461 00:43:51,140 --> 00:43:55,999 But if you give up eating alltogether... 462 00:43:57,401 --> 00:44:00,572 somehow you find that... 463 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,401 the hunger pangs... 464 00:44:04,651 --> 00:44:07,768 fade completely away. 465 00:44:30,046 --> 00:44:31,609 All this... 466 00:44:32,406 --> 00:44:35,851 can you not see how I'm... 467 00:44:37,469 --> 00:44:40,742 finally at peace? 468 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:52,065 The agony of starving... has completely left me now. 469 00:44:55,019 --> 00:44:59,411 As long as I can remember... 470 00:44:59,544 --> 00:45:03,754 all I knew was hunger. 471 00:45:06,462 --> 00:45:09,520 But now finally... 472 00:45:10,349 --> 00:45:14,360 I have... ended... it. 473 00:45:23,254 --> 00:45:25,122 Dear Nui... 474 00:45:25,755 --> 00:45:30,765 there was no grief... nor suffering... 475 00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:34,890 She was the first Warabi... 476 00:45:35,289 --> 00:45:38,132 that we saw off. 477 00:45:56,086 --> 00:45:57,898 What's wrong? 478 00:45:59,516 --> 00:46:05,281 It's starting... the baby... is going to come now. 479 00:46:05,429 --> 00:46:08,490 So then... won't you go home? 480 00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:12,338 No, there's no time. 481 00:46:12,634 --> 00:46:17,640 As it's my third delivery... it shouldn't take long. 482 00:46:22,746 --> 00:46:24,675 Tera! 483 00:46:31,417 --> 00:46:33,307 Tera! 484 00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:41,510 Tera isn't around. What will you do? 485 00:46:41,843 --> 00:46:46,679 Don't worry. in the past... I did it alone. 486 00:46:46,737 --> 00:46:48,348 What's that? 487 00:46:51,141 --> 00:46:54,509 What are you doing,Seki? What can I do? 488 00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:58,055 Be useful. Over here! 489 00:46:59,216 --> 00:47:03,084 What do you see? Is it the baby's head? 490 00:47:03,202 --> 00:47:10,009 I can see something smooth... not a head... the bottom... or shoulder? 491 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:11,987 It's upside down. 492 00:47:12,071 --> 00:47:13,824 What do we do? 493 00:47:14,981 --> 00:47:16,637 We've no choice. 494 00:47:17,903 --> 00:47:22,566 You'll have to... draw it out... with your hands. 495 00:47:22,806 --> 00:47:24,970 Grasp it anywhere you can... 496 00:47:25,939 --> 00:47:28,649 somehow... pull the baby out. 497 00:47:28,833 --> 00:47:31,477 It might die! - Just do it! 498 00:47:34,194 --> 00:47:41,350 If this baby... doesn't come out now, it'll die anyway. 499 00:47:43,588 --> 00:47:45,830 Better pull. 500 00:48:09,793 --> 00:48:11,543 Its not crying! 501 00:48:11,688 --> 00:48:17,830 Hold it upside down... and spank it. 502 00:48:26,997 --> 00:48:28,672 Dear Granny... 503 00:48:29,139 --> 00:48:33,834 Seki's labour we found, wasn't over. There was a twin. 504 00:48:34,244 --> 00:48:37,924 But even by nightfall the second baby hadn't come. 505 00:48:38,228 --> 00:48:40,447 Even with the help of the midwife... 506 00:48:40,595 --> 00:48:43,584 the baby refused to come. 507 00:48:44,121 --> 00:48:48,589 We tried everything but finally we asked Yamane's grandma to come. 508 00:48:48,652 --> 00:48:52,433 Then it grew into a big issue. 509 00:49:10,940 --> 00:49:15,298 The faith healer's saying some strange things. 510 00:49:15,506 --> 00:49:19,053 She's saying the baby's stuck because of the ditch by the house? 511 00:49:19,116 --> 00:49:22,804 Childbirth... is very mysterious. 512 00:49:23,202 --> 00:49:25,186 Dear Granny... 513 00:49:25,639 --> 00:49:27,818 Yamane's old grandma told us... 514 00:49:27,896 --> 00:49:33,108 to clean the ditch by the house as quick as possible. 515 00:49:33,216 --> 00:49:35,317 She said the baby was stuck... 516 00:49:35,472 --> 00:49:38,105 because the ditch was clogged. 517 00:49:38,408 --> 00:49:42,118 It was as Daemon had said, very strange. 518 00:49:42,647 --> 00:49:45,405 Then Yamane's grandma told us... 519 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,253 to throw rice balls into the river. 520 00:49:48,385 --> 00:49:51,079 First the ditch, now the river! 521 00:49:51,396 --> 00:49:54,028 She emphasized they had to be made... 522 00:49:54,114 --> 00:49:56,848 with polished rice and nothing else. 523 00:49:57,966 --> 00:49:59,763 Dear Granny... 524 00:50:00,020 --> 00:50:02,575 then the baby came. 525 00:50:02,778 --> 00:50:05,864 But the baby was already dead. 526 00:50:06,136 --> 00:50:11,251 Do babies go down the river on rice balls when they die? 527 00:50:11,962 --> 00:50:15,524 Four children are too many for one family. 528 00:50:15,611 --> 00:50:18,290 That's why the baby chose to return. 529 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,852 Yamane's old grandma told us that. 530 00:50:24,538 --> 00:50:26,413 Dear Granny... 531 00:50:26,936 --> 00:50:33,493 Somehow... I had a strange feeling... like I'd given birth. 532 00:50:35,632 --> 00:50:39,183 Later on... the rain got even heavier. 533 00:50:39,277 --> 00:50:43,105 Kosaku and Yonegi, our tenants came to see us. 534 00:50:43,273 --> 00:50:47,445 The rain had flooded their land, causing the water to surge over it... 535 00:50:47,539 --> 00:50:49,554 washing away the soil. 536 00:50:58,493 --> 00:50:59,945 Dear Nui... 537 00:51:00,194 --> 00:51:05,904 this unending rain... has washed away our food sources. 538 00:51:08,899 --> 00:51:13,042 Did you know that straw can be eaten? 539 00:51:13,230 --> 00:51:15,738 It's possible to eat it. 540 00:51:16,074 --> 00:51:18,402 You roast it... grind it... 541 00:51:18,555 --> 00:51:20,695 then dissolve that in water... 542 00:51:20,781 --> 00:51:24,104 and mix in dried bracken fern powder. 543 00:51:35,529 --> 00:51:41,796 A hundred was reduced to thirty. 544 00:51:41,935 --> 00:51:44,721 All the rest starved to death. 545 00:51:44,836 --> 00:51:47,430 Where did that happen? 546 00:51:47,571 --> 00:51:51,957 Well... I don't know. 547 00:51:52,085 --> 00:51:57,271 But in one family, only the father and son survived. 548 00:51:57,647 --> 00:52:03,069 The father went to the neighbours and said to them... 549 00:52:03,386 --> 00:52:08,223 "My son has fallen and his... days are numbered.” 550 00:52:08,889 --> 00:52:12,148 "If together we were to kill him... 551 00:52:12,226 --> 00:52:15,492 "we could all share his flesh.” 552 00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:17,614 I have also heard that story. 553 00:52:17,631 --> 00:52:21,678 My mother told me... when I was still just a young girl. 554 00:52:21,747 --> 00:52:25,130 The neighbour being hungry, and greedy for meat... 555 00:52:25,192 --> 00:52:28,538 had no hesitation in agreeing to the plan... 556 00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,600 and killed the son. 557 00:52:30,676 --> 00:52:33,806 And then... - Hey, it's my story! 558 00:52:33,917 --> 00:52:38,292 Ah, right, right... let Jingorou tell the rest. 559 00:52:38,463 --> 00:52:41,658 And then... the father, seeing him do it... 560 00:52:41,712 --> 00:52:45,353 suddenly picked up an axe and raising it said... 561 00:52:45,455 --> 00:52:48,459 "this is to avenge my son" and 562 00:52:48,618 --> 00:52:52,994 killed the neighbour with a single swing. 563 00:52:53,637 --> 00:52:57,637 Now he had the flesh of both dead men... 564 00:52:57,723 --> 00:52:59,839 his son and his neighbour. 565 00:52:59,996 --> 00:53:03,712 Preserving them in salt, he lived off them for a month. 566 00:53:03,813 --> 00:53:06,399 When almost running out of meat... 567 00:53:06,454 --> 00:53:10,547 he was arrested and sentenced... to death. 568 00:53:10,761 --> 00:53:14,688 Do you know... how they discovered the murderer? 569 00:53:14,761 --> 00:53:19,347 One night the father went out... for a walk in the rain. 570 00:53:19,427 --> 00:53:24,991 A weak light glowed around him and moved with him as he walked. 571 00:53:25,284 --> 00:53:27,072 Because of that... 572 00:53:27,205 --> 00:53:31,587 if a man eats a man, it will definitely become known. 573 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,249 Never forget that. 574 00:53:59,102 --> 00:54:04,529 No matter what... I must not die before Matsuya does. 575 00:54:05,057 --> 00:54:07,697 Before Matsuya can eat you... 576 00:54:07,814 --> 00:54:13,043 I will kill her... and I'll eat her myself. 577 00:55:06,743 --> 00:55:10,941 Do you remember... doing things like that once? 578 00:55:11,041 --> 00:55:13,703 Yes... I remember. 579 00:55:14,344 --> 00:55:19,404 I too remember... doing things like that. 580 00:55:40,809 --> 00:55:42,917 Oh Ren...! 581 00:55:45,181 --> 00:55:47,434 Come in. 582 00:55:57,854 --> 00:56:00,551 You caught them? 583 00:56:02,806 --> 00:56:05,110 Is it possible... 584 00:56:05,587 --> 00:56:09,304 to eat birds and animals and die in peace? 585 00:56:09,563 --> 00:56:11,046 Well... 586 00:56:11,179 --> 00:56:15,004 I didn't kill them. I did nothing. 587 00:56:16,410 --> 00:56:20,448 Two birds... were fighting in the sky. 588 00:56:20,542 --> 00:56:24,369 Then they flew into each other knocking each other out. 589 00:56:24,432 --> 00:56:26,907 First one... then the other... 590 00:56:27,072 --> 00:56:29,586 fell to the ground. 591 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,148 Not having been there... I can't say it's not so. 592 00:56:34,401 --> 00:56:36,273 Let's share with the others. 593 00:56:36,364 --> 00:56:39,848 If we show Matsuya, she will insist on having them all to herself. 594 00:56:39,957 --> 00:56:44,055 Before that... we'll cut and cook 'em. 595 00:56:57,144 --> 00:57:01,581 Now this... is what I call real food. 596 00:57:08,658 --> 00:57:11,357 Are you happy, Ren? 597 00:57:12,796 --> 00:57:17,577 To tell you the truth... I caught them for you. 598 00:57:17,648 --> 00:57:20,233 Meat! Meat! 599 00:57:20,930 --> 00:57:22,499 Meat! Meat! 600 00:57:22,652 --> 00:57:26,601 We'll share it just now! We'll share it now! 601 00:57:28,031 --> 00:57:29,882 Dear Nui... 602 00:57:30,195 --> 00:57:33,445 we're old and really starving. 603 00:57:33,686 --> 00:57:37,553 Maybe eating meat will keep us from reaching the Buddha-land... 604 00:57:37,623 --> 00:57:41,990 maybe not... I won't know til I die. 605 00:57:42,052 --> 00:57:44,294 But for now... 606 00:57:44,528 --> 00:57:48,267 I'll close my eyes and go ahead. 607 00:57:48,438 --> 00:57:51,703 I just want to live as long as I can. 608 00:57:51,766 --> 00:57:53,805 That's how I feel. 609 00:58:06,532 --> 00:58:08,070 Dear Granny... 610 00:58:08,211 --> 00:58:11,062 the endless rain has finally stopped... 611 00:58:11,211 --> 00:58:14,133 but summer is almost over. 612 00:58:14,491 --> 00:58:16,272 By this time... 613 00:58:16,429 --> 00:58:19,256 the grains of rice aught to be ripe and heavy. 614 00:58:19,562 --> 00:58:22,202 But in the upper and the lower villages... 615 00:58:22,311 --> 00:58:26,249 many plants bear few grains... or none. 616 00:58:26,707 --> 00:58:31,516 This autum... we're facing a meager crop. 617 00:58:31,642 --> 00:58:34,438 The upper village headman Tokube Okuyama... 618 00:58:34,533 --> 00:58:36,785 advocates that we go now and ask... 619 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,103 our feudal lord to spare us rice... enough to survive. 620 00:58:43,620 --> 00:58:47,472 Men too easily... loose their nerve. 621 00:58:47,598 --> 00:58:51,301 but women aren't shaken... by the first little wind. 622 00:58:51,912 --> 00:58:55,768 Its a true thing I'm telling you. 623 00:58:59,302 --> 00:59:03,422 People think it's sad going off to Warabino... 624 00:59:04,367 --> 00:59:08,985 But Nui... I'm looking forward to going. 625 00:59:09,255 --> 00:59:11,044 Isaku or me... 626 00:59:11,161 --> 00:59:14,700 which one of us will be the hardier... 627 00:59:14,818 --> 00:59:16,864 we'll soon find out. 628 00:59:18,101 --> 00:59:20,356 You'll compete with your husband? 629 00:59:20,449 --> 00:59:22,558 That would be fun for me. 630 00:59:32,309 --> 00:59:34,952 Is Granny coming back? 631 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,560 Well isn't she? 632 00:59:38,408 --> 00:59:41,587 What did it mean ending the Warabis' labour? 633 00:59:43,846 --> 00:59:48,266 If their work is done... doesn't it mean they're finished there? 634 00:59:48,347 --> 00:59:52,462 If that's the case... shouldn't they come back soon? 635 00:59:54,130 --> 00:59:57,999 She said she'd return in late autumn. 636 00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:04,347 If their work is done... shouldn't that day come soon? 637 01:00:09,662 --> 01:00:12,371 Last night I overheard you telling Isaku... 638 01:00:12,491 --> 01:00:16,170 for them... life was too cruel. 639 01:00:16,446 --> 01:00:19,704 I said nothing then because I shouldn't eavesdrop. 640 01:00:19,876 --> 01:00:23,891 But I have to know what your words meant. 641 01:00:27,724 --> 01:00:30,372 Have you no ears? 642 01:00:30,660 --> 01:00:35,605 That subject... can only be discussed among the three village headmen. 643 01:00:35,707 --> 01:00:38,683 It must not be talked of by others. 644 01:00:41,649 --> 01:00:43,860 Dear Granny... 645 01:00:44,381 --> 01:00:45,974 How come some men... 646 01:00:46,577 --> 01:00:50,342 those among our village leaders in particular... 647 01:00:50,421 --> 01:00:54,490 are so cold and somehow so vehement? 648 01:00:55,318 --> 01:01:01,681 When will I and Daemon... really understand each other? 649 01:01:03,512 --> 01:01:05,918 Will you come back? 650 01:01:08,409 --> 01:01:10,824 Please Granny! 651 01:01:42,565 --> 01:01:44,955 Please Granny! 652 01:01:45,176 --> 01:01:47,083 Dear Nui... 653 01:01:47,341 --> 01:01:51,934 what do you expect this old woman to tell you? 654 01:01:52,875 --> 01:01:56,054 I, just like Daemon... 655 01:01:56,703 --> 01:02:00,390 have no words to give you. 656 01:02:02,385 --> 01:02:05,005 I know you're still too young... 657 01:02:05,115 --> 01:02:09,247 to understand Daemon and come close to him. 658 01:02:09,442 --> 01:02:15,286 But in time, you'll come to understand the ways of men's hearts. 659 01:02:16,299 --> 01:02:21,759 The time will come when you will love Daemon more than me. 660 01:02:21,904 --> 01:02:27,788 And you will realize that men... can be very dependable. 661 01:02:33,549 --> 01:02:39,415 The end of Warabi labour... is scheduled... the first of next month. 662 01:02:39,486 --> 01:02:40,885 Is Granny coming back? 663 01:02:40,957 --> 01:02:43,738 She won't. - Why not? 664 01:02:45,828 --> 01:02:49,361 She won't be back... until the end of autumn. 665 01:02:50,633 --> 01:02:54,857 But why, if their labour will finish so early? 666 01:02:55,037 --> 01:02:59,677 We're harvesting rice next month... and the Warabis could help us. 667 01:02:59,732 --> 01:03:02,349 They won't last that long. 668 01:03:02,545 --> 01:03:04,693 What do you mean? 669 01:03:06,062 --> 01:03:08,084 With the crops severely damaged... 670 01:03:08,178 --> 01:03:11,249 we are not sure of surviving autumn and winter. 671 01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,983 We will know more early next month. 672 01:03:14,948 --> 01:03:16,557 Wherever you look... 673 01:03:16,681 --> 01:03:20,946 there isn't enough work for Warabis... not anywhere. 674 01:03:21,063 --> 01:03:23,896 So then... call them here to the middle village. 675 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,765 Whom do you think we should save, the villagers or the Warabis. 676 01:03:27,898 --> 01:03:30,257 Isn't it obvious? 677 01:03:31,474 --> 01:03:35,839 That's the reason... Warabino exists. 678 01:03:46,839 --> 01:03:49,026 Dear Granny... 679 01:03:49,463 --> 01:03:52,254 I have no idea what to do. 680 01:03:52,495 --> 01:03:55,518 It's still only the end of summer... 681 01:03:55,597 --> 01:04:00,034 and you must wait two more months before you can return. 682 01:04:00,580 --> 01:04:05,681 Will you be able to find... something to eat? 683 01:04:18,352 --> 01:04:20,227 Nui dear... 684 01:04:20,594 --> 01:04:25,841 do you think we old folks are going to die when summer ends? 685 01:04:26,049 --> 01:04:30,104 We'll think of some way to keep ourselves going. 686 01:04:30,369 --> 01:04:34,596 We must find... a way to live until winter. 687 01:04:34,770 --> 01:04:38,123 What can we find to eat and live on? 688 01:04:39,048 --> 01:04:42,883 There are... birds in the sky... and... 689 01:04:42,962 --> 01:04:47,235 rabbits in the fields... and... fish in the river. 690 01:04:47,350 --> 01:04:51,967 Are you saying the Warabi should survive by eating impure things? 691 01:04:52,044 --> 01:04:53,747 Of course! 692 01:04:54,223 --> 01:04:58,012 From the sky a little... the fields a little.... and the river a little. 693 01:04:58,137 --> 01:05:00,660 Just a little of nature's blessings... 694 01:05:00,863 --> 01:05:04,819 to keep alive... we Warabi for two or three months. 695 01:05:04,879 --> 01:05:07,777 What gods of nature would be angry? 696 01:05:08,104 --> 01:05:12,178 Let's eat birds, rabbits, and fish too! 697 01:05:12,675 --> 01:05:17,602 We... don't even know how to catch birds. 698 01:05:18,180 --> 01:05:21,219 I'll... teach you to catch rabbits. 699 01:05:21,395 --> 01:05:25,432 Catching rabbits and fishes... Jing and Tome can do it. 700 01:05:25,788 --> 01:05:30,327 With determination... you can learn to do anything. 701 01:05:30,526 --> 01:05:34,225 If you men go hunting, I'll dig the ground. 702 01:05:34,334 --> 01:05:38,970 I might find a mole, or cicada larvae... something at least! 703 01:05:39,302 --> 01:05:41,973 So long as we can stay alive... 704 01:05:42,129 --> 01:05:44,614 let's not look at rules and morals. 705 01:05:44,723 --> 01:05:49,733 In Warabino we'll eat anything in order to stay alive! 706 01:05:52,631 --> 01:05:53,531 Dear Nui... 707 01:05:54,708 --> 01:06:00,625 Umakichi explained to me... that there are two kinds of birds. 708 01:06:01,164 --> 01:06:05,425 Some fly in the sky and some run on the ground. 709 01:06:05,594 --> 01:06:07,416 For us at our age... 710 01:06:07,503 --> 01:06:10,940 killing birds in the sky is difficult. 711 01:06:11,070 --> 01:06:17,036 That's why... he's showing us how to hunt ground birds. 712 01:06:18,779 --> 01:06:24,619 I haven't learnt new things like this for ages. 713 01:06:24,780 --> 01:06:29,997 I feel as excited as i did when I was a child. 714 01:07:09,925 --> 01:07:13,565 Hurry up... or I'll leave you behind. 715 01:07:13,691 --> 01:07:15,800 He sure is a hard one. 716 01:07:15,866 --> 01:07:18,431 That he sure is. 717 01:07:47,963 --> 01:07:52,525 I'll go set the rest... you two wait here. 718 01:07:58,678 --> 01:08:04,365 At this rate... he might even become Warabino's headman. 719 01:08:04,717 --> 01:08:07,249 If he survives the winter. 720 01:08:20,463 --> 01:08:22,181 Ren! 721 01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:35,272 I caught it! I caught it! 722 01:09:03,458 --> 01:09:06,771 The crows are suffering too! 723 01:09:06,864 --> 01:09:12,372 Even if they go to the village they won't find food like before. 724 01:09:12,448 --> 01:09:15,624 They are all so skinny. 725 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:24,172 Jingorou come! Jingo... Please come! 726 01:09:26,729 --> 01:09:30,875 Jingorou...! If you don't find food, you won't eat. 727 01:09:30,963 --> 01:09:34,916 Wasting time with Chiya, you'll end up starving. 728 01:09:36,249 --> 01:09:39,190 You'll both end up hungry. 729 01:09:39,401 --> 01:09:41,057 Matsuya... 730 01:09:41,190 --> 01:09:46,689 you too may need Jingorou's back... to carry you someday soon. 731 01:09:47,033 --> 01:09:50,556 No one can live entirely on their own. 732 01:09:57,126 --> 01:09:59,172 Dear Granny... 733 01:09:59,662 --> 01:10:05,431 Daemon told me strictly... not to give any food to beggars. 734 01:10:06,207 --> 01:10:11,043 If their number increases... day by day our stocks will go down... 735 01:10:11,106 --> 01:10:14,746 til there isn't enough for us let alone our tenants. 736 01:10:15,144 --> 01:10:20,211 All the same... I feel sorry for the ones with children. 737 01:10:21,884 --> 01:10:23,772 Dear Granny... 738 01:10:24,643 --> 01:10:29,916 In a year like this... without your guidance, I fell completely helpless. 739 01:10:30,010 --> 01:10:32,986 My words can't express it. 740 01:10:34,163 --> 01:10:38,051 Please return before winter, dear Granny. 741 01:10:39,168 --> 01:10:41,528 Promise me that. 742 01:10:42,271 --> 01:10:48,304 These are... horse chestnuts. 743 01:10:48,477 --> 01:10:54,625 Soak them in water, and make dumplings. 744 01:10:54,750 --> 01:11:00,201 These are... 'Akebi'. ( Edible wild fruit. ) 745 01:11:00,287 --> 01:11:03,709 Let Jingorou eat them. 746 01:11:03,892 --> 01:11:08,825 These are... the wild vines. 747 01:11:08,987 --> 01:11:13,161 As they're tasty... I'll eat them. 748 01:11:13,369 --> 01:11:17,979 Hey Chiya... what shall we do with the acorns? 749 01:11:18,098 --> 01:11:21,846 Parch them and let Jingorou have them. 750 01:11:22,226 --> 01:11:25,035 Then, how about these Kaya nuts? ( Japanese Yew nuts. ) 751 01:11:25,170 --> 01:11:28,856 Let Jingorou have them too. 752 01:11:30,952 --> 01:11:36,022 Jingorou is such a lucky fellow. He's a real treasure! 753 01:11:36,179 --> 01:11:42,136 If Jingorou gets them all, I'd feel sorry for the others. 754 01:11:42,197 --> 01:11:45,030 Won't you leave some for Umakichi? 755 01:11:45,234 --> 01:11:51,978 I'll give nothing to Uma. He's dirty and he smells bad. 756 01:12:02,017 --> 01:12:03,712 This is all we have today. 757 01:12:03,819 --> 01:12:07,619 Chiya scavenged all these... expecially for you. 758 01:12:07,723 --> 01:12:13,543 Jingorou come! Jing-ya. 759 01:12:13,737 --> 01:12:16,534 Come here! 760 01:12:39,199 --> 01:12:41,687 Not that way. Overlooking the village. 761 01:12:41,730 --> 01:12:43,449 Go that way. 762 01:13:03,178 --> 01:13:07,275 He has a hard time of it, poor Jin! 763 01:13:19,995 --> 01:13:24,865 Oh Jin! Come here! 764 01:13:25,334 --> 01:13:31,419 Jin-o... isn't... your husband. 765 01:13:32,183 --> 01:13:33,830 Chiya... 766 01:13:34,271 --> 01:13:40,424 your husband is Tasaku and he's already dead. 767 01:13:41,241 --> 01:13:43,623 In this world... 768 01:13:44,146 --> 01:13:49,117 there is no man whose name you can call. 769 01:13:49,651 --> 01:13:54,922 I don't know any Tasaku.. My husband is Jin. 770 01:13:55,008 --> 01:13:56,497 All right. 771 01:13:56,698 --> 01:13:59,416 Chiya has gone senile. 772 01:13:59,807 --> 01:14:03,393 We'll just have to accept the fact. 773 01:14:05,641 --> 01:14:11,130 Jingo... you have become Chiya's husband. 774 01:14:11,213 --> 01:14:14,306 Out here away from the world... 775 01:14:14,416 --> 01:14:17,213 no one will object. 776 01:14:17,376 --> 01:14:19,570 Take Chiya as your second wife. 777 01:14:19,671 --> 01:14:22,279 Oh I see. 778 01:14:22,700 --> 01:14:26,237 Then I'll marry Chiya. 779 01:14:26,528 --> 01:14:31,163 I think tenderly of her as she's always calling me. 780 01:14:32,459 --> 01:14:36,372 What a rare and touching story that would make! 781 01:14:36,528 --> 01:14:39,535 If only there were someone to tell. 782 01:14:39,675 --> 01:14:42,816 You can tell anyone you like here. 783 01:14:42,972 --> 01:14:45,728 There are no more human beings here. 784 01:14:45,807 --> 01:14:50,158 All of us have turned into Warabis... who just look human. 785 01:14:50,257 --> 01:14:55,796 Chiya's not alone... Jin's too has gone senile. 786 01:15:24,849 --> 01:15:27,022 Chiya just let out... 787 01:15:29,712 --> 01:15:31,998 her last breath. 788 01:16:04,665 --> 01:16:06,812 Well at last... 789 01:16:06,985 --> 01:16:11,227 your Warabi duties... are finally over. 790 01:16:12,035 --> 01:16:15,003 Now you are free from work. 791 01:16:15,371 --> 01:16:18,581 You can truly rest now. 792 01:16:30,991 --> 01:16:32,780 Dear Nui... 793 01:16:33,026 --> 01:16:37,807 The other night... I had a dream. 794 01:16:38,129 --> 01:16:40,116 Grandma! 795 01:16:40,583 --> 01:16:42,488 Who is it? 796 01:16:42,769 --> 01:16:45,352 It's Choutarou. 797 01:16:59,749 --> 01:17:03,217 Grandma... remember me? 798 01:17:03,620 --> 01:17:06,139 Choutarou... 799 01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,561 how could I forget? 800 01:17:09,926 --> 01:17:12,847 Such a tragedy you were born dead. 801 01:17:12,934 --> 01:17:16,535 We could do so little, but my husband, Buemon... 802 01:17:16,625 --> 01:17:18,835 gave you a name... 803 01:17:19,038 --> 01:17:21,243 before we buried you. 804 01:17:21,304 --> 01:17:26,945 All this time... I've floated in space until reaching this age. 805 01:17:27,230 --> 01:17:32,932 It's so nice of you to have come to see me... my dear grandson. 806 01:17:33,064 --> 01:17:38,094 Today I want... to tell you something. - Of course. 807 01:17:38,517 --> 01:17:41,215 Say anything you want. 808 01:17:41,458 --> 01:17:47,625 My... longed for return to life... soon, will come to fruition. 809 01:17:47,731 --> 01:17:50,894 Good for you. Where will you be born? 810 01:17:50,985 --> 01:17:55,653 Curiously... by a twist of fate to Daemon once again. 811 01:17:55,767 --> 01:17:59,533 You mean... Nui's become pregnant? 812 01:17:59,576 --> 01:18:01,501 Just so. 813 01:18:03,805 --> 01:18:05,632 But... 814 01:18:05,961 --> 01:18:08,562 in a year like this one... 815 01:18:08,711 --> 01:18:11,375 it would be hard to survive. 816 01:18:11,529 --> 01:18:14,681 Day and night, Nui thinks seriously... 817 01:18:14,748 --> 01:18:18,232 of miscarrying her baby. 818 01:18:18,388 --> 01:18:19,740 If she does... 819 01:18:19,833 --> 01:18:23,443 my earnest wish will burst like a bubble. 820 01:18:23,622 --> 01:18:27,259 Grandma, please tell Nui. 821 01:18:27,835 --> 01:18:29,514 My dear Choutarou... 822 01:18:29,663 --> 01:18:32,804 if you're sure to be born again... 823 01:18:32,913 --> 01:18:35,546 you should wait for your next chance. 824 01:18:35,679 --> 01:18:39,879 Nui is young, it'll surely happen before long. 825 01:18:39,964 --> 01:18:41,722 I cannot do that! 826 01:18:41,807 --> 01:18:46,074 Oh... Tell me all about it then. 827 01:18:46,156 --> 01:18:48,794 To be born, there's an order. 828 01:18:48,885 --> 01:18:50,353 What order? 829 01:18:50,399 --> 01:18:54,841 First... she'll next bear a daughter... 830 01:18:55,099 --> 01:18:58,663 Only then will my turn come again. 831 01:18:58,868 --> 01:19:02,219 If the first girl is miscarried... 832 01:19:02,337 --> 01:19:06,438 Nui must then... conceive a girl again. 833 01:19:06,576 --> 01:19:11,229 Therefore... I'd loose my chance to come into the world. 834 01:19:11,381 --> 01:19:15,963 And then... Daemon... would have no successor. 835 01:19:16,134 --> 01:19:18,125 Oh my, what a mystery! 836 01:19:18,259 --> 01:19:22,869 I'll die and then be born again to my daughter-in-law? 837 01:19:23,259 --> 01:19:26,231 I know it sounds strange to you. 838 01:19:26,396 --> 01:19:30,561 But... when you're still in this world, its only natural. 839 01:19:30,714 --> 01:19:33,120 When you're back in the spirit world, 840 01:19:33,206 --> 01:19:36,964 it will all become clear to you. 841 01:19:38,409 --> 01:19:42,830 Granny... after I'm born as the head of the Maniwas, 842 01:19:42,925 --> 01:19:46,799 I'll devote myself to making the district prosper. 843 01:19:46,950 --> 01:19:49,197 How admirable! 844 01:19:49,326 --> 01:19:52,551 You must work hard too as my younger sister. 845 01:19:52,637 --> 01:19:55,715 Oh... sure I will. 846 01:19:55,839 --> 01:20:01,749 So Granny... convince Nui to keep her first baby... please. 847 01:20:18,014 --> 01:20:19,840 Dear Nui... 848 01:20:21,686 --> 01:20:23,988 have your baby. 849 01:20:50,042 --> 01:20:53,089 When will it be born? 850 01:20:54,651 --> 01:20:57,855 Probably next April. 851 01:21:00,528 --> 01:21:02,684 Like Yasaku's wife... 852 01:21:02,934 --> 01:21:05,665 should I jump holding a stone? 853 01:21:06,529 --> 01:21:09,485 I can still do it now? 854 01:21:16,674 --> 01:21:19,158 Those who have lost their babies... 855 01:21:19,252 --> 01:21:22,236 will hate to see a newborn. 856 01:21:23,079 --> 01:21:25,719 The headman incurs people's enmity... 857 01:21:25,837 --> 01:21:28,907 especially in a year like this. 858 01:21:31,020 --> 01:21:32,566 No! 859 01:21:32,822 --> 01:21:37,107 But then... soon my belly will get too big. 860 01:21:39,458 --> 01:21:40,794 The whole village... 861 01:21:40,926 --> 01:21:44,339 must aspire with one will, or we won't survive the winter. 862 01:21:44,500 --> 01:21:47,194 I've been careful not to dress or eat... 863 01:21:47,278 --> 01:21:51,434 in any way different from the tenants' wives. 864 01:21:52,579 --> 01:21:55,471 It was your mother who taught me. 865 01:21:56,464 --> 01:22:02,619 All those efforts will come to nothing... if I have this baby. 866 01:22:03,847 --> 01:22:07,738 This baby... have it. 867 01:22:10,298 --> 01:22:11,954 It's my child. 868 01:22:12,195 --> 01:22:13,672 And if a boy... 869 01:22:13,876 --> 01:22:16,578 he'll take over the house of Maniwa. 870 01:22:18,548 --> 01:22:22,113 We became Warabis and left their world... 871 01:22:22,338 --> 01:22:27,284 so that... our children and grandchildren wouldn't starve. 872 01:22:27,438 --> 01:22:29,609 But I hear that many houses... 873 01:22:29,734 --> 01:22:33,340 are even running out of millet. 874 01:22:33,703 --> 01:22:37,999 If we all starve, coming here will have been in vain. 875 01:22:38,383 --> 01:22:40,367 We starve here... 876 01:22:40,538 --> 01:22:43,997 and they starve in the village. 877 01:22:45,247 --> 01:22:49,912 If our grandchildren are to eat... we should catch something for them. 878 01:22:50,026 --> 01:22:51,807 Even if you can catch them... 879 01:22:51,917 --> 01:22:53,940 who'll deliver them? 880 01:22:54,366 --> 01:22:58,593 We're no longer allowed to even go to the village. 881 01:22:58,931 --> 01:23:01,385 I'll take them at night... 882 01:23:01,542 --> 01:23:03,631 and leave them at their doors. 883 01:23:03,753 --> 01:23:08,128 All those traps... are you going to set them all alone? 884 01:23:11,521 --> 01:23:14,881 If I set ten... only one or two will be full. 885 01:23:14,937 --> 01:23:16,796 Even this isn't enough. 886 01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:20,716 Tomezou please! Tomezou! 887 01:23:21,416 --> 01:23:23,579 Has he lost his mind? 888 01:23:24,025 --> 01:23:27,627 Usually he's so gentle and quiet. 889 01:23:47,209 --> 01:23:49,365 Uma... 890 01:24:32,914 --> 01:24:35,397 You're hard at work. 891 01:24:37,687 --> 01:24:40,897 They're not for my children... 892 01:24:41,452 --> 01:24:44,491 nor even my grandchildren. 893 01:24:45,415 --> 01:24:48,437 They're for myself. 894 01:25:01,324 --> 01:25:03,157 Ren... 895 01:25:03,318 --> 01:25:06,402 If I should die before you... 896 01:25:06,629 --> 01:25:09,409 then these are for you. 897 01:25:09,764 --> 01:25:13,623 You're strong-minded and still in good health. 898 01:25:14,490 --> 01:25:16,506 You should eat them... 899 01:25:16,701 --> 01:25:21,372 so that... you live longer than the rest. 900 01:25:23,115 --> 01:25:24,600 Back in the village... 901 01:25:24,725 --> 01:25:28,029 you were always good to me. 902 01:25:28,186 --> 01:25:30,881 While still in this world... 903 01:25:31,498 --> 01:25:35,315 I want to repay... your kindness. 904 01:26:00,456 --> 01:26:02,459 How many traps did he take? 905 01:26:02,613 --> 01:26:05,845 Twenty three, or maybe twenty-four. 906 01:26:12,568 --> 01:26:16,320 With Tomezo's legs, he won't be back before dark. 907 01:26:17,533 --> 01:26:19,743 On a game path after sun down... 908 01:26:19,830 --> 01:26:21,923 you can't see a thing. 909 01:26:26,306 --> 01:26:27,712 Jingo...! 910 01:26:27,861 --> 01:26:30,282 Let's go find him. 911 01:26:36,016 --> 01:26:38,775 Greed's turned his brain... our Tome. 912 01:26:38,897 --> 01:26:43,755 Doing it for his children and grandchildren is so sad! 913 01:27:14,107 --> 01:27:16,572 Did you find him? 914 01:27:24,740 --> 01:27:26,299 He was dead. 915 01:27:26,576 --> 01:27:28,255 Oh no. 916 01:27:32,422 --> 01:27:36,188 Crossing the river he must've sliipped in the dark... 917 01:27:36,282 --> 01:27:40,040 hit his head on a rock... and died. 918 01:27:40,658 --> 01:27:43,064 It's a lie! 919 01:27:45,382 --> 01:27:50,647 It can't be! It can't be so! 920 01:27:52,735 --> 01:27:55,790 Jin... we should get some sleep. 921 01:27:58,618 --> 01:28:00,211 Tomorrow... 922 01:28:00,508 --> 01:28:04,117 we'll go and carry his body back. 923 01:28:04,258 --> 01:28:06,742 Now our bodies must rest. 924 01:28:23,755 --> 01:28:25,484 Sister... 925 01:28:26,255 --> 01:28:27,966 there are four ridges. 926 01:28:28,090 --> 01:28:31,978 If we're determined... we can cross them. 927 01:28:32,197 --> 01:28:35,268 And reach the other side of the mountains. 928 01:28:37,013 --> 01:28:39,607 It's better on the other side. 929 01:28:39,732 --> 01:28:41,982 The wind is milder... 930 01:28:42,255 --> 01:28:45,708 and it doesn't snow as heavily. 931 01:28:46,657 --> 01:28:49,444 That's where I live. 932 01:28:51,327 --> 01:28:54,295 Even the birds and animals... 933 01:28:55,968 --> 01:28:59,920 winter on... the other side of the mountains. 934 01:29:00,265 --> 01:29:01,648 Sister... 935 01:29:02,499 --> 01:29:04,487 you'll have enough food there. 936 01:29:04,574 --> 01:29:07,136 I'll carry you on my back. 937 01:29:09,143 --> 01:29:11,397 I'll feed you birds! 938 01:29:13,049 --> 01:29:16,939 There's venison... to eat. 939 01:29:17,057 --> 01:29:20,463 And your body will be warm. 940 01:29:22,758 --> 01:29:24,453 If we leave now... 941 01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:27,589 we can be there by dusk. 942 01:29:28,907 --> 01:29:30,852 I have some 'Gumi' wine... ( Gumi = sour wild cherry. ) 943 01:29:30,853 --> 01:29:34,618 If you drink some... it'll perk you up. ( Gumi = sour wild cherry. ) 944 01:29:34,770 --> 01:29:36,887 So let's go. Let's go! 945 01:29:37,332 --> 01:29:40,082 I'll carry you on my back. 946 01:29:41,331 --> 01:29:45,144 I can only take your heart's kindness. 947 01:29:46,185 --> 01:29:50,708 Before any Warabis see you... hurry back home. 948 01:29:51,147 --> 01:29:52,944 Why... 949 01:29:54,467 --> 01:29:57,897 Why... won't you come with me? 950 01:29:58,294 --> 01:29:59,809 You... 951 01:30:00,614 --> 01:30:03,992 Are you afraid of your own sister? 952 01:30:04,681 --> 01:30:08,682 Is it because I'm a mountain woman, you won't come? 953 01:30:09,258 --> 01:30:11,593 Such a long time... 954 01:30:11,937 --> 01:30:15,671 has it changed us so much... we two sisters? 955 01:30:15,890 --> 01:30:17,866 Dear Shika... 956 01:30:18,663 --> 01:30:22,972 I'm supposed to live here... and nowhere else. 957 01:30:23,846 --> 01:30:26,338 They've thrown you away. 958 01:30:26,651 --> 01:30:29,338 Let me pick you up. 959 01:30:30,474 --> 01:30:33,278 We're away from the world... 960 01:30:34,099 --> 01:30:36,059 no one will blame us. 961 01:30:37,286 --> 01:30:39,410 As for the Warabis... 962 01:30:40,142 --> 01:30:42,431 the villagers don't give a damn... 963 01:30:43,025 --> 01:30:45,840 whether you live or die! 964 01:30:56,090 --> 01:30:58,605 Since last summer... 965 01:30:59,796 --> 01:31:02,726 there've been changes in the mountains. 966 01:31:04,565 --> 01:31:08,330 Women from the villages started to come. 967 01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:11,517 Very likely... 968 01:31:12,025 --> 01:31:15,860 they were kicked out by their husbands like me. 969 01:31:17,540 --> 01:31:19,375 I even saw... 970 01:31:20,469 --> 01:31:24,231 one with her unweaned baby at her breast. 971 01:31:25,614 --> 01:31:27,403 All of them... 972 01:31:28,175 --> 01:31:30,543 go deep into the mountains... 973 01:31:30,956 --> 01:31:34,800 and hide themselves... somehow. 974 01:31:37,970 --> 01:31:40,532 But I'm sure... 975 01:31:43,001 --> 01:31:46,030 somehow they've all survived. 976 01:31:51,774 --> 01:31:53,681 Sister... 977 01:32:00,193 --> 01:32:01,708 Sister... 978 01:32:02,051 --> 01:32:06,667 the mountains... will welcome you and support you. 979 01:32:09,175 --> 01:32:12,081 You have the rest of your life... 980 01:32:12,527 --> 01:32:15,019 to live there. 981 01:32:17,761 --> 01:32:19,870 I cannot. 982 01:32:22,936 --> 01:32:25,896 Some of you chose to renounce our world. 983 01:32:26,006 --> 01:32:28,529 We Warabis chose to live in it. 984 01:32:28,612 --> 01:32:32,463 Until recently, we lived in that world. 985 01:32:32,636 --> 01:32:36,683 Warabino is a natural extension of it. 986 01:32:38,619 --> 01:32:41,246 Now that I have found my sister... 987 01:32:41,332 --> 01:32:44,019 I have no more regrets. 988 01:32:45,191 --> 01:32:46,091 Shika dear... 989 01:32:47,323 --> 01:32:50,408 go back to the mountains before the snow flies. 990 01:32:50,745 --> 01:32:52,370 And... 991 01:32:52,660 --> 01:32:55,152 take good care of yourself... 992 01:32:55,402 --> 01:32:58,908 live in the arms of the mountains. 993 01:33:02,705 --> 01:33:05,993 This will be our last meeting. 994 01:33:14,077 --> 01:33:16,486 My sister! 995 01:33:16,892 --> 01:33:19,236 Go back now! 996 01:33:24,914 --> 01:33:30,729 Hurry back to your home! Hurry back! 997 01:33:55,030 --> 01:34:00,301 Matsuya, you sound so pained. 998 01:34:00,567 --> 01:34:02,223 Your laboured breathing... 999 01:34:02,332 --> 01:34:07,207 it's the way I always know... where you've gotten to. 1000 01:34:07,324 --> 01:34:09,261 I can depend on it. 1001 01:34:09,431 --> 01:34:11,157 My, my... 1002 01:34:11,313 --> 01:34:13,813 you say that... 1003 01:34:13,930 --> 01:34:18,777 now that Chiya's gone... do you want me as your next wife? 1004 01:34:19,221 --> 01:34:25,434 Even loosing your sight, you're still trying to win a woman. 1005 01:34:25,804 --> 01:34:30,573 Jingorou, you're a lucky fellow. 1006 01:34:30,799 --> 01:34:37,424 Losing your sight... you don't have to see what miserable old women we are. 1007 01:34:37,673 --> 01:34:43,553 Back in the village, your voice was always... so sweet and gentle. 1008 01:34:43,822 --> 01:34:47,947 It was lovely as a pretty red yew berry. 1009 01:34:48,212 --> 01:34:50,962 Matsuya has a sharp voice. 1010 01:34:51,033 --> 01:34:53,141 like the 'gamazumi' fruit. ( Linden fruit ) 1011 01:34:53,282 --> 01:34:56,797 Each one of you is like a different tree fruit. 1012 01:34:56,985 --> 01:35:00,618 I'm like... 'gamazumi'... you say? ( Lit: toad-like ) 1013 01:35:00,719 --> 01:35:02,281 That's right. 1014 01:35:02,398 --> 01:35:08,418 Unlike it's unbecoming name, it's small red berry is like a ruby. 1015 01:35:09,373 --> 01:35:12,184 Oh, that's what you meant. 1016 01:35:12,301 --> 01:35:16,262 It truly is a very pretty berry. 1017 01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:40,763 Dear Granny... 1018 01:35:41,217 --> 01:35:44,326 the snow has started to fall. 1019 01:35:45,270 --> 01:35:49,158 You said you'd return by the end of autumn. 1020 01:35:49,411 --> 01:35:52,606 What happened to your promise? 1021 01:35:52,915 --> 01:35:59,122 Come back... as soon as possible... dear Granny. 1022 01:36:06,047 --> 01:36:08,200 Give her up. 1023 01:36:10,981 --> 01:36:14,011 She's your mother, Daemon! 1024 01:36:15,168 --> 01:36:17,777 How can you give up on her? 1025 01:36:18,558 --> 01:36:21,620 At any rate... let's go to the border with Warabino. 1026 01:36:21,689 --> 01:36:25,909 It's too late... she's already dead. 1027 01:36:30,586 --> 01:36:35,344 If she wasn't... she would've returned a long time ago. 1028 01:36:35,958 --> 01:36:40,732 Usually... Warabis come back at the end of autumn... 1029 01:36:41,453 --> 01:36:46,063 about the time... the first snow falls on Mt. Nokobuse. 1030 01:36:46,668 --> 01:36:50,305 Too late... by two weeks already. 1031 01:36:51,607 --> 01:36:56,293 All eight of them... would die at the same time? 1032 01:36:56,449 --> 01:36:59,636 Wouldn't one or two have survived? 1033 01:36:59,848 --> 01:37:02,894 I can't imagine they'd all be dead. - No... 1034 01:37:03,050 --> 01:37:06,144 Their labour visits were closed early this year. 1035 01:37:06,371 --> 01:37:08,988 Their food would have finished. 1036 01:37:09,353 --> 01:37:11,134 By now... 1037 01:37:12,212 --> 01:37:15,259 they've likely all passed away. 1038 01:37:15,864 --> 01:37:19,934 Finally... free from hunger and cold... 1039 01:37:20,661 --> 01:37:23,035 resting in peace. 1040 01:37:34,135 --> 01:37:36,119 Dear Nui... 1041 01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:41,892 since the first snow fell... about 10 days ago... 1042 01:37:42,229 --> 01:37:45,798 we're now covered in deep snow. 1043 01:37:47,763 --> 01:37:53,177 Tose, add some Mayumi leaves to give it body. 1044 01:37:53,402 --> 01:37:58,497 Don't worry the rabbit meat I've already added... will be enough. 1045 01:37:59,575 --> 01:38:03,481 Tose, there is no rabbit meat. 1046 01:38:06,248 --> 01:38:09,373 Take a good look at it. 1047 01:38:11,276 --> 01:38:15,900 You're right... there's only water in here. 1048 01:38:19,261 --> 01:38:22,131 What happened to Matsuya? 1049 01:38:24,233 --> 01:38:27,512 I can't hear any breathing. 1050 01:38:32,174 --> 01:38:33,977 Matsuya, dear. 1051 01:38:34,109 --> 01:38:40,647 She was... a wicked old woman... but she died well. 1052 01:38:47,007 --> 01:38:49,804 The gamazumi berry... 1053 01:38:51,461 --> 01:38:54,023 has breathed her last. 1054 01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:54,904 Umakichi... you just ate. 1055 01:39:54,967 --> 01:39:58,056 You should rest awhile. 1056 01:40:04,412 --> 01:40:06,843 What is it? 1057 01:40:34,938 --> 01:40:37,360 Hey Uma! 1058 01:40:46,975 --> 01:40:51,034 Are you going... to catch birds now? 1059 01:40:51,259 --> 01:40:53,802 I going to catch rabbits. 1060 01:40:53,982 --> 01:40:56,446 You don't have to go today. 1061 01:40:56,780 --> 01:40:58,676 I'm starving. 1062 01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:02,282 Just now... you had some gruel. 1063 01:41:02,524 --> 01:41:05,338 All the same... I'm still hungry. 1064 01:41:05,407 --> 01:41:08,352 I'm starving to death. 1065 01:41:08,697 --> 01:41:10,900 I want to eat rabbits... 1066 01:41:11,447 --> 01:41:12,947 or birds... 1067 01:41:13,088 --> 01:41:14,697 anything damn thing! 1068 01:41:14,780 --> 01:41:18,523 Lost your mind... Umakichi? 1069 01:41:19,316 --> 01:41:21,680 Keep it together! 1070 01:41:22,577 --> 01:41:28,867 Uma... you are the mainstay for all of us! Uma! 1071 01:41:29,618 --> 01:41:35,156 Uma! Uma! 1072 01:41:36,224 --> 01:41:39,067 We must first send off Jingorou and Tose, 1073 01:41:39,154 --> 01:41:42,856 a blind man and a senile woman. 1074 01:41:42,998 --> 01:41:46,014 We cannot die before them. 1075 01:41:49,237 --> 01:41:51,834 Be strong! 1076 01:41:52,259 --> 01:41:54,541 Uma! 1077 01:42:09,191 --> 01:42:11,284 Ren... 1078 01:42:12,127 --> 01:42:14,495 I want to eat you, too. 1079 01:42:14,629 --> 01:42:16,792 Are you mad? 1080 01:42:17,032 --> 01:42:22,630 I'll have you... in my stomach I'll eat you, and we'll die together. 1081 01:42:22,771 --> 01:42:25,789 I haven't got any meat left on me. 1082 01:42:25,907 --> 01:42:30,668 I don't need your meat. I'll eat your bones. 1083 01:42:31,713 --> 01:42:36,424 Ren, you are so dear to me. 1084 01:42:42,173 --> 01:42:43,649 In that world... 1085 01:42:43,727 --> 01:42:46,369 I lost you to Buemon of Maniwa... 1086 01:42:46,469 --> 01:42:49,523 but that tie has now been severed. 1087 01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:53,862 Let us now... leave here together. 1088 01:42:54,125 --> 01:42:56,816 Leave for where? 1089 01:42:57,105 --> 01:42:59,300 To the next world... 1090 01:42:59,675 --> 01:43:02,315 the two of us together. 1091 01:43:09,117 --> 01:43:12,111 Umayo... 1092 01:43:14,929 --> 01:43:21,379 In the sky I see a white lotus... it's falling down. 1093 01:45:03,527 --> 01:45:06,056 Where's Jingorou? 1094 01:45:06,801 --> 01:45:13,635 Last night... he said jokingly that he was going to see Chiya. 1095 01:45:14,643 --> 01:45:17,373 Did he mean her forest grave? 1096 01:45:17,751 --> 01:45:24,301 Could it be... he went after Chiya's spirit? 1097 01:46:25,550 --> 01:46:29,915 Jin-yo! 1098 01:46:30,394 --> 01:46:38,087 Jingorou! Jin-yo! 1099 01:46:54,817 --> 01:47:00,543 Ren... are you preparinq for death? 1100 01:47:01,085 --> 01:47:07,967 The buckets will dry out and leak... if no water's left in them. 1101 01:47:10,658 --> 01:47:14,606 Don't just watch, give me a hand. 1102 01:47:46,661 --> 01:47:48,431 Nui... 1103 01:47:48,670 --> 01:47:53,198 Granny... I've come for you. I'll carry you on my back. 1104 01:47:53,301 --> 01:47:57,357 I'm taking you home... just as I promised. 1105 01:47:59,035 --> 01:48:01,012 Dear Nui... 1106 01:48:02,433 --> 01:48:06,806 this old lady deceived you. 1107 01:48:07,856 --> 01:48:12,050 Come. Let's go back. Let's go home. 1108 01:48:12,457 --> 01:48:14,808 Dear Nui... 1109 01:48:15,566 --> 01:48:20,680 you cried like a small child when I left you... 1110 01:48:20,820 --> 01:48:26,599 so I just couldn't tell you that I would never... return. 1111 01:48:27,174 --> 01:48:31,783 I convinced Daemon, Isaku and Tera not to tell you. 1112 01:48:31,987 --> 01:48:38,955 Shamefully... I lied... saying I would return in autumn. 1113 01:48:39,268 --> 01:48:42,888 I lied... knowingly. 1114 01:48:43,761 --> 01:48:46,135 Dear Nui... 1115 01:48:46,714 --> 01:48:49,159 honestly... 1116 01:48:50,824 --> 01:48:55,573 from Warbino... there is no way to go back. 1117 01:48:55,713 --> 01:48:58,562 So... let's go back? 1118 01:48:59,100 --> 01:49:01,478 Can't you hear me? 1119 01:49:01,569 --> 01:49:05,874 Here... please let me carry you back. 1120 01:49:06,124 --> 01:49:08,514 Hurry back home. 1121 01:49:10,215 --> 01:49:15,152 You live... in the human world, while I... 1122 01:49:15,261 --> 01:49:17,995 live in the warabi world. 1123 01:49:18,109 --> 01:49:23,259 Nui dear... go home and fulfill your duty as a Maniwa wife. 1124 01:49:23,366 --> 01:49:28,686 Bear a child... work the paddy fields. 1125 01:49:29,063 --> 01:49:34,406 And look toward the hill of Warabino... anytime you need me. 1126 01:49:37,372 --> 01:49:40,864 Before long, spring will arrive. 1127 01:49:41,581 --> 01:49:46,010 When the first buds of bracken push up... 1128 01:49:47,112 --> 01:49:50,532 in the fuzz on their spiral buds... 1129 01:49:51,352 --> 01:49:55,131 you will see my gray hair. 1130 01:50:01,275 --> 01:50:05,088 Before the season turns to spring... 1131 01:50:05,890 --> 01:50:08,780 I will become spirit... 1132 01:50:10,155 --> 01:50:13,921 and watch over you all. 1133 01:50:30,051 --> 01:50:31,964 Ren... 1134 01:50:33,042 --> 01:50:35,386 are you cold? 1135 01:50:36,719 --> 01:50:39,688 I really am. 1136 01:50:54,621 --> 01:50:57,253 In that case... 1137 01:50:58,034 --> 01:51:04,404 I'll put my warm arms... around you. 1138 01:51:15,299 --> 01:51:17,830 A broken down old granny... 1139 01:51:18,072 --> 01:51:20,713 like this one... 1140 01:51:22,737 --> 01:51:26,494 aren't I unpleasant to hold? 1141 01:51:30,526 --> 01:51:36,595 Even an old granny is a woman... and so is pleasant. 1142 01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:48,033 Your appearance... may have changed... 1143 01:51:48,456 --> 01:51:50,791 as you've grown old. 1144 01:51:52,300 --> 01:51:55,910 Still you're petite and slender... 1145 01:51:56,495 --> 01:51:59,786 my affection is still the same. 1146 01:52:00,004 --> 01:52:03,309 Until your very last breath... 1147 01:52:03,762 --> 01:52:09,215 your nature... will never change. 1148 01:52:10,124 --> 01:52:12,216 Dear Uma... 1149 01:52:14,088 --> 01:52:18,572 Even on the threshold of the next world... 1150 01:52:19,244 --> 01:52:22,593 would you try to seduce a woman? 1151 01:52:23,304 --> 01:52:26,057 Sure I would. 1152 01:52:28,023 --> 01:52:32,675 And... I'll pledqe to you... 1153 01:52:32,855 --> 01:52:38,715 that you and I... will be married in the next world. 1154 01:52:43,129 --> 01:52:45,839 The image of you... 1155 01:52:46,574 --> 01:52:50,118 planting rice as a young girl... 1156 01:52:51,766 --> 01:52:57,255 even now... is clear in my mind. 1157 01:53:02,080 --> 01:53:05,807 If we pledge here in Warabino... 1158 01:53:06,540 --> 01:53:10,665 to get married in the next life... 1159 01:53:12,831 --> 01:53:18,759 you're bound to me... to be my wife there. 1160 01:53:21,649 --> 01:53:25,500 You're certainly are tenacious! 1161 01:53:29,856 --> 01:53:32,417 But Uma... 1162 01:53:36,511 --> 01:53:38,240 now I feel... 1163 01:53:41,282 --> 01:53:44,749 that the next life... 1164 01:53:44,829 --> 01:53:47,586 is not far off. 1165 01:53:50,224 --> 01:53:53,216 It's very near. 1166 01:53:54,729 --> 01:53:58,522 I can feel it... 1167 01:53:59,909 --> 01:54:03,807 almost as if I could touch it. 1168 01:54:06,525 --> 01:54:10,124 I feel it in my bones. 1169 01:54:16,805 --> 01:54:18,883 Dear Ren... 1170 01:54:19,767 --> 01:54:22,157 are you sleepy? 1171 01:54:30,174 --> 01:54:34,863 If so... go to sleep. 1172 01:54:37,939 --> 01:54:40,086 I too... 1173 01:54:41,039 --> 01:54:45,067 will soon... fall asleep. 1174 01:55:50,371 --> 01:55:54,740 Tose! Don't you feel light? 1175 01:55:55,028 --> 01:55:57,153 I really do. 1176 01:55:57,332 --> 01:56:00,818 Finally there's nothing more I have to do. 1177 01:56:01,122 --> 01:56:05,778 Now I feel light, light... as if I've become a cloud. 1178 01:56:06,692 --> 01:56:11,432 I was trapped in such a small shell for so long... 1179 01:56:13,401 --> 01:56:16,307 all cold and joyless. 1180 01:56:16,378 --> 01:56:18,471 That's so! 1181 01:56:18,629 --> 01:56:22,774 I feel much better this way. 1182 01:56:23,165 --> 01:56:27,415 Uma... I'll go first. 1183 01:56:27,562 --> 01:56:30,179 Be sure to find me later. 1184 01:56:34,255 --> 01:56:37,316 Ren, here I have to leave you. 1185 01:56:37,425 --> 01:56:39,160 Not to the village? 1186 01:56:39,293 --> 01:56:45,488 Not me... I'll go to the graveyard... and wait for my husband to come next year. 1187 01:56:45,582 --> 01:56:48,764 That's good. I'll leave and head to the village. 1188 01:56:48,869 --> 01:56:50,461 That's also good. 1189 01:56:50,538 --> 01:56:52,719 Could you do me a favour? 1190 01:56:52,776 --> 01:56:57,254 You'll find my grandson in the graveyard. His name's Choutarou. 1191 01:56:57,356 --> 01:57:02,226 Tell him to wait peacefully... till his time comes. 1192 01:57:02,416 --> 01:57:05,789 I promise I'll tell him. 1193 01:57:08,330 --> 01:57:12,793 Ren... aren't we so very light? - For sure! 1194 01:57:12,878 --> 01:57:15,812 I feel so light as if I could fly like a bird. 1195 01:59:58,022 --> 02:00:00,350 Dear Nui... 1196 02:00:00,982 --> 02:00:06,021 I still have something left to do in Oshibuse. 1197 02:00:06,123 --> 02:00:11,482 I am still attached... and need to live here once more. 1198 02:00:12,212 --> 02:00:16,250 If the land were fertile I'd have no regrets. 1199 02:00:16,696 --> 02:00:20,001 Because the land is suffering so... 1200 02:00:20,149 --> 02:00:23,345 I simply cannot abandon it. 1201 02:00:23,957 --> 02:00:30,063 That's why... I must take a human life again. 1202 02:00:30,867 --> 02:00:35,803 And to our village... return once again. 1203 02:00:37,930 --> 02:00:42,036 Original English Subtitles by Maki Takemitsu. 1204 02:00:42,302 --> 02:00:49,232 Subs extensively rewritten and re-timed by salmond. Translation help by Keiko Mima. 94071

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