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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,010 Brought to you by Gifted Ones www.giftedones.net 2 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,010 Please do not stream or make profit from these subtitles. 3 00:01:19,010 --> 00:01:22,710 Episode 216 4 00:01:40,050 --> 00:01:44,010 Welcome home. How did it go? 5 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:57,610 The factory where you both work are gone... 6 00:01:58,450 --> 00:02:00,400 I guess I'm unemployed. 7 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,310 What will I do now? 8 00:02:03,310 --> 00:02:05,310 That should be the least of your worries. 9 00:02:06,610 --> 00:02:11,490 Our factory's destroyed? 10 00:02:11,490 --> 00:02:14,830 It couldn't be helped... 11 00:02:14,830 --> 00:02:22,430 All the factories in the area burnt down. 12 00:02:24,150 --> 00:02:29,000 We're lucky we still have this house! 13 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,890 It's all Mother's doing! 14 00:02:30,890 --> 00:02:35,600 I'm impressed by her courage. 15 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,940 I almost gave up. 16 00:02:40,940 --> 00:02:43,530 But I didn't want to have regrets later 17 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:45,760 if I ran away without doing anything. 18 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,050 I wanted to do my best. Just in case. 19 00:02:50,050 --> 00:02:57,020 Now Yuu and Hitoshi will have a home to come back to, won't they? 20 00:02:58,430 --> 00:03:02,920 I'll go to help out the other victims. 21 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:13,210 Let's eat white rice tonight, to celebrate our survival. 22 00:03:13,210 --> 00:03:17,730 We shouldn't eat all our stock of rice! 23 00:03:17,730 --> 00:03:24,520 I know, but we should eat while we still can. 24 00:03:27,790 --> 00:03:32,400 - Mr. Tanokura! - I'll be right there! 25 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:38,310 - Bring that over here. - Okay. 26 00:03:38,310 --> 00:03:40,480 Here. 27 00:03:57,020 --> 00:03:59,470 What is it? 28 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,740 Ryuzo... 29 00:04:12,890 --> 00:04:15,250 Ryuzo! 30 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:27,660 Let's offer some incense and water for Yuu... 31 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:29,470 Let's put an offering for him, too. 32 00:04:29,470 --> 00:04:30,700 What is it? 33 00:04:34,730 --> 00:04:37,700 Yuu... has been killed in action. 34 00:04:43,670 --> 00:04:46,980 It's a lie... 35 00:04:47,790 --> 00:04:50,280 This is just a piece of paper. 36 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:53,280 It's an official notice. 37 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:58,290 He died in the Philippines. It's an official report from his unit. 38 00:04:58,290 --> 00:05:05,000 It's only a piece of paper! He can't be dead! 39 00:05:06,060 --> 00:05:09,660 I won't believe it. 40 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:13,160 Not until I see his body or his ashes! 41 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,960 The draft notice was just a piece of paper, too. 42 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,730 And it's the same when you die! 43 00:05:20,730 --> 00:05:22,750 Nozomi! 44 00:05:28,090 --> 00:05:37,010 Please get Yuu some water, and some flowers, too. 45 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:46,200 Look at this! Do you believe this? 46 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,510 Look at this! 47 00:05:53,160 --> 00:06:00,020 Hatsuko... Don't believe this. 48 00:06:01,110 --> 00:06:07,030 Believe that Yuu is still alive. Wait for him! 49 00:06:07,030 --> 00:06:12,530 That's what he's looking forward to. 50 00:06:15,030 --> 00:06:18,500 Mother... 51 00:06:19,740 --> 00:06:27,480 We'll have a wake for him tonight... 52 00:06:28,230 --> 00:06:34,420 I will get the neighbors to join us... 53 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:42,000 I don't want anyone here. 54 00:06:42,690 --> 00:06:46,470 Yuu is still alive! 55 00:06:46,470 --> 00:06:53,020 I'll believe that until there's proof that he's dead! 56 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,770 I don't want anyone to offer incense! 57 00:07:16,930 --> 00:07:26,020 It must've been so hot in the Philippines... 58 00:07:27,730 --> 00:07:30,340 Did you have enough food? 59 00:07:32,950 --> 00:07:44,010 I'll be the first one to attack our enemies if Japan is invaded. 60 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,430 I'll be joining you soon... 61 00:07:55,010 --> 00:08:02,000 You can tell me your stories then... 62 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:10,820 I'll be looking forward to it. 63 00:08:19,420 --> 00:08:24,150 You're still up? 64 00:08:24,150 --> 00:08:26,130 Shall I help you? 65 00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:31,140 No. It's not urgent. 66 00:08:31,140 --> 00:08:35,180 Besides, you didn't get much sleep last night. 67 00:08:35,180 --> 00:08:42,630 And you worked hard all day. You just rest. 68 00:08:42,630 --> 00:08:44,750 That kimono... 69 00:08:45,370 --> 00:08:50,570 It's Yuu's. It got wet last night. 70 00:08:50,570 --> 00:08:56,660 I'd better wash it and restitch it. 71 00:08:56,660 --> 00:09:04,840 Yuu loved this kimono... And he looked so good in it. 72 00:09:06,790 --> 00:09:11,250 You can help me restitch it later. 73 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,490 Oshin... 74 00:09:50,510 --> 00:09:54,990 I remember when Yuu was born. 75 00:09:56,140 --> 00:10:03,770 Your mother was there. And Old Gen, too. 76 00:10:04,790 --> 00:10:08,000 We were all so happy then... 77 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,260 We promised to do all we could for Yuu. 78 00:10:14,790 --> 00:10:19,660 Even when we lost everything in the earthquake... 79 00:10:19,660 --> 00:10:24,000 Having Yuu with us kept us going. 80 00:10:25,710 --> 00:10:33,700 But going to Saga was a disaster for us... 81 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:38,520 Yuu and I had to live apart from one another. 82 00:10:40,860 --> 00:10:46,520 Let's not talk about the past. 83 00:10:49,770 --> 00:10:52,810 Even when you took Yuu and left Saga, 84 00:10:52,810 --> 00:10:57,010 I never forgot about him. 85 00:10:57,710 --> 00:11:01,050 It was he who gave me hope. 86 00:11:01,050 --> 00:11:05,530 He made it possible for me to go on. 87 00:11:07,460 --> 00:11:14,100 He kept you and me together. 88 00:11:16,070 --> 00:11:18,980 That's right. 89 00:11:19,910 --> 00:11:27,000 I was able to come this far because of him. 90 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:35,530 He and I were always together. 91 00:11:37,050 --> 00:11:43,360 I never let him go, go matter how bad things were. 92 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,750 It was always Yuu and me... 93 00:11:53,960 --> 00:12:04,020 Yuu knows that, and he'll be back... 94 00:12:05,130 --> 00:12:07,420 He'll come home to me... 95 00:12:14,020 --> 00:12:19,020 I'll wait for him... 96 00:12:22,660 --> 00:12:26,610 I'll keep believing that he's still alive... 97 00:12:54,260 --> 00:13:00,670 Oshin was determined to keep Yuu alive within her. 98 00:13:00,670 --> 00:13:04,970 That was the only way to keep herself going. 99 00:13:07,750 --> 00:13:10,180 It was reported that a new type of bomb 100 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:13,220 was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 101 00:13:13,220 --> 00:13:19,400 Then one August day... 102 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,050 I hear that those new bombs are terrible! 103 00:13:24,050 --> 00:13:27,480 Can we really fend them off with this? 104 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,400 There's a flash of light, 105 00:13:31,410 --> 00:13:34,560 and if you are exposed to it, you'll die. 106 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:40,010 They say white clothing will protect you from that flash of light. 107 00:13:40,010 --> 00:13:44,030 It's hard to believe... 108 00:13:46,340 --> 00:13:50,750 - All this seems so silly... - Mother! 109 00:13:52,650 --> 00:13:54,950 You said you'd hang in there 110 00:13:54,950 --> 00:14:00,600 until Yuu, Hitoshi and Tei can all be here with us again! 111 00:14:02,310 --> 00:14:03,940 Mother, it's a letter from Hitoshi! 112 00:14:07,570 --> 00:14:13,260 I have good news. 113 00:14:13,260 --> 00:14:17,650 I've been named to the top of my flight class. 114 00:14:17,650 --> 00:14:21,800 This is a great source of pride for me. 115 00:14:21,810 --> 00:14:30,330 Give my best to Hatsuko, Nozomi, Tei and to my brother, Yuu at the front. 116 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,660 Hitoshi is going out on a mission, too? 117 00:14:34,660 --> 00:14:40,910 There's going to be an important radio announcement today. 118 00:14:41,750 --> 00:14:46,000 I think the war is finally ending. 119 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,140 The war was coming to an end. 120 00:15:01,140 --> 00:15:07,430 But what would that mean? Oshin had no idea. 121 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:18,720 Episode 217 122 00:15:22,390 --> 00:15:26,000 At noon, on August 15, 1945... 123 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:31,900 Oshin heard the Emperor's speech on the radio. 124 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:34,110 He was announcing the end of the war. 125 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:41,110 The 15-year war that had begun in Manchuria was now over. 126 00:15:41,110 --> 00:15:49,220 Neither Oshin nor anyone else had any idea as to what that meant. 127 00:15:57,140 --> 00:16:00,830 So that's what our Emperor sounds like. 128 00:16:00,830 --> 00:16:03,930 I've never heard him before. 129 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:07,510 This is a great honor for us all, 130 00:16:07,510 --> 00:16:15,220 to be able to hear the Emperor's own voice. 131 00:16:16,150 --> 00:16:20,290 Now that the Emperor has said it's all over, 132 00:16:20,290 --> 00:16:22,320 does it mean we can all stop fighting? 133 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,360 Of course! 134 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:30,290 The military can't overrule the Emperor, no matter how powerful they are. 135 00:16:30,290 --> 00:16:33,800 The military must follow the Emperor's orders. 136 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,710 That's why the Emperor broadcast his message to the whole country. 137 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,940 The war is really over. 138 00:16:44,940 --> 00:16:52,220 It just means that Japan lost! 139 00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:59,890 What happens now that we're defeated? 140 00:16:59,890 --> 00:17:04,200 Will Japan cease to be? 141 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:09,210 What will become of us? 142 00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:22,830 At least there won't be any more air attacks. 143 00:17:22,830 --> 00:17:27,540 And the soldiers at the front can stop fighting. 144 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:30,520 That means they'll all be able to come home? 145 00:17:31,060 --> 00:17:34,200 If Yuu is alive, he'll be coming home? 146 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,620 We can get Tei. 147 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:41,130 We can all live together again. Hitoshi, too. 148 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,730 Hitoshi... 149 00:17:47,450 --> 00:17:49,840 Hitoshi is supposed to be on a mission today. 150 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,900 He must already be in the air! 151 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:58,000 No, he can't! The war is over! 152 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:05,250 Maybe he didn't have to go. Maybe they got the news, too. 153 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:10,560 If he flew off on a mission, he'd be dying for nothing! 154 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:15,880 I'll go to his squadron. I will find out. 155 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,440 The trains must still be running. 156 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,720 - What's the use in going? - But... 157 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:32,220 You don't know what it means to lose a war! 158 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,620 Japan no longer has a military. 159 00:18:36,620 --> 00:18:39,140 Who knows what happened to the air squadrons. 160 00:18:48,860 --> 00:18:52,650 You're still up working? 161 00:18:52,850 --> 00:18:57,260 Candlelight isn't good for your eyes. 162 00:18:57,260 --> 00:19:01,940 Wait until it gets light. 163 00:19:02,650 --> 00:19:08,910 The war is over. Why don't we have electricity yet? 164 00:19:08,910 --> 00:19:12,730 We can't work at all in the dark! 165 00:19:15,270 --> 00:19:20,230 I never thought that Japan would lose... 166 00:19:20,230 --> 00:19:23,190 We were supposed to win! 167 00:19:25,070 --> 00:19:29,220 No use talking like that now. 168 00:19:29,220 --> 00:19:31,450 I'm not regretting it. 169 00:19:33,470 --> 00:19:39,600 I believed in the war, and I did my part. 170 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,160 The military gave me a chance to succeed. 171 00:19:45,970 --> 00:19:49,860 As a man, I'm proud of what I've done. 172 00:19:49,860 --> 00:19:56,990 I'm grateful for having lived life to the fullest. 173 00:19:56,990 --> 00:20:00,590 But...? 174 00:20:00,590 --> 00:20:08,690 But many will say that I did wrong... 175 00:20:10,180 --> 00:20:15,580 I worked side-by-side with the military. 176 00:20:15,580 --> 00:20:18,520 And as the head of our neighborhood committee, 177 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:23,200 I helped promote the war. 178 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:32,200 Boys signed up for the war at my urging. 179 00:20:32,740 --> 00:20:38,200 Some of them have died... 180 00:20:40,450 --> 00:20:49,590 I made people buy war bonds, too. Now those bonds are all worthless. 181 00:20:49,590 --> 00:20:54,210 It's not your fault. 182 00:20:55,240 --> 00:21:02,920 The boys and the bonds. The government ordered you 183 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:07,410 to push them for the sake of our country. 184 00:21:07,410 --> 00:21:10,700 I could've refused. 185 00:21:13,630 --> 00:21:17,800 But I didn't do that... 186 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:24,240 I believed in what I did. 187 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:34,200 I have no regrets. But I'm responsible 188 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:40,380 for having gotten people deeper into the mess of the war. 189 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:51,340 You couldn't help it... It was the war. 190 00:21:51,340 --> 00:21:59,950 People all thought this war was just. 191 00:22:59,050 --> 00:23:01,710 You can't sleep? 192 00:23:01,710 --> 00:23:04,720 You, too? 193 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,010 Oshin... 194 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:25,060 How many years have we been together? 195 00:23:26,930 --> 00:23:38,070 Let's see... I'm 45 now. I married you when I was 22. 196 00:23:38,070 --> 00:23:44,700 It's been more than 20 years. 197 00:23:45,620 --> 00:23:50,380 It seems like yesterday... 198 00:23:50,380 --> 00:23:57,050 But then again, it feels like ages... 199 00:23:59,130 --> 00:24:01,950 So much has happened. 200 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,700 I've given you nothing but hardships. 201 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,580 I'm a worthless husband, I'm sorry. 202 00:24:17,780 --> 00:24:21,210 Why? 203 00:24:23,410 --> 00:24:29,700 You did your best. 204 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:36,620 You built up our clothing business. 205 00:24:38,020 --> 00:24:47,200 And you worked hard at running our fish store. 206 00:24:48,430 --> 00:24:52,410 Then you began selling fish to the Army. 207 00:24:52,410 --> 00:25:00,220 And you eventually ran a munitions factory, too. 208 00:25:01,780 --> 00:25:09,190 You did it all on your own. 209 00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:15,710 You're a real man! 210 00:25:20,050 --> 00:25:24,700 You did well... 211 00:25:25,730 --> 00:25:27,700 Thanks to you. 212 00:25:31,740 --> 00:25:37,730 The most wonderful thing in my life... 213 00:25:37,730 --> 00:25:39,860 was having met you. 214 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:52,190 Why are you talking like that now? 215 00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:59,210 I've always wanted to tell you so... 216 00:26:02,850 --> 00:26:11,210 Thanks to you, I was able to do a man's job. 217 00:26:12,270 --> 00:26:16,200 You gave me wonderful children, too. 218 00:26:16,970 --> 00:26:22,700 You made my life full. 219 00:26:29,110 --> 00:26:32,710 Thank you. 220 00:26:37,670 --> 00:26:42,200 The same is true for me, too. 221 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:52,210 I was able to persevere because of you. 222 00:26:52,210 --> 00:27:03,720 No matter what we have to face, I can manage if I have you. 223 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,520 I love you... 224 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,890 I don't have to wear a uniform anymore. 225 00:28:00,050 --> 00:28:02,890 I'll go say goodbye to all the Army people. 226 00:28:03,970 --> 00:28:09,660 You look good in a suit. It looks good on you! 227 00:28:11,140 --> 00:28:13,300 Thanks. 228 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:18,200 I hadn't taken a morning bath in ages. 229 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,450 I've washed off all the dirt of war. 230 00:28:22,450 --> 00:28:25,200 I'm glad. 231 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,700 - I'll be going. - Take care. 232 00:28:54,320 --> 00:29:00,090 That was the last time Oshin saw Ryuzo... 233 00:29:07,860 --> 00:29:12,610 Episode 218 234 00:29:28,490 --> 00:29:30,080 Tei? 235 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,080 Father! 236 00:29:36,110 --> 00:29:42,630 I'm so glad. Now I can go home. 237 00:29:42,630 --> 00:29:44,720 What are you doing here? 238 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,890 I was hoping one of you would come to get me. 239 00:29:50,890 --> 00:29:52,210 Tei... 240 00:29:52,620 --> 00:29:55,510 The war is over, isn't it? No more bombings. 241 00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:57,910 They said I could go home now. 242 00:29:59,610 --> 00:30:01,880 Yes... 243 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:09,860 You can go home to your mother. 244 00:30:09,860 --> 00:30:13,880 She'll come to take you home. 245 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:19,110 I'll go home with you! 246 00:30:23,370 --> 00:30:32,610 I just came to see how you were... 247 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,100 I'm glad to see you're well. 248 00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:48,350 You did well. You persevered. 249 00:30:48,350 --> 00:30:53,610 You're not here to take me home? 250 00:30:56,060 --> 00:31:03,450 Japan lost the war... The Americans will be here soon. 251 00:31:03,450 --> 00:31:07,960 If they harm you now, 252 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:16,150 surviving the bombings would've been for nothing. 253 00:31:16,150 --> 00:31:19,610 So just stay here for now. 254 00:31:22,460 --> 00:31:25,700 You understand, don't you? 255 00:31:27,070 --> 00:31:31,170 You were able to bear it this long. Just a little longer. 256 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,910 Are you sure she'll come for me? 257 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,600 Yes. 258 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:57,620 Once you come home, take good care of your mother. 259 00:31:58,570 --> 00:32:03,120 You're our only daughter. 260 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,840 You need to be a good friend to your mother. 261 00:32:08,130 --> 00:32:10,640 Do that for me. 262 00:32:24,230 --> 00:32:30,600 Your hair is just like your mother's... 263 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,360 Such nice hair... 264 00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:41,620 I wish... 265 00:32:43,510 --> 00:32:49,580 I wish I could have seen you get married... 266 00:32:50,350 --> 00:33:03,600 I'll bet you'll be as pretty as when your mother came to me... 267 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,130 Tei... 268 00:33:16,540 --> 00:33:23,080 Be a good, sweet girl. 269 00:33:24,460 --> 00:33:36,330 Be like your mother, and be good to everyone. 270 00:33:40,450 --> 00:33:45,100 Live a happy life for me... 271 00:34:03,970 --> 00:34:09,130 That night, Ryuzo did not come home. 272 00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:17,610 He failed to return the following night, too. 273 00:34:30,470 --> 00:34:33,360 Welcome home! 274 00:34:36,870 --> 00:34:38,120 Ryuzo? 275 00:34:41,350 --> 00:34:44,100 - Mother? - Is Father home? 276 00:34:44,110 --> 00:34:50,750 That's strange... I heard his voice. 277 00:34:50,750 --> 00:34:52,600 And he was pounding on the door. 278 00:34:53,730 --> 00:34:58,040 - I heard him! - Maybe you were dreaming. 279 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,480 - I was awake. - I didn't hear anything. 280 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:06,950 It's because you've been worrying about him. 281 00:35:15,630 --> 00:35:17,220 Oh, it's you. 282 00:35:18,270 --> 00:35:23,080 Did you find out anything? 283 00:35:23,750 --> 00:35:26,920 I went to the regiment, but no one would talk to me. 284 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,510 They're all too busy burning documents. 285 00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:34,740 I guess they're too busy to worry about Father. 286 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,320 This letter from him was in the mail box. 287 00:35:41,060 --> 00:35:46,320 See, he sent word! We were worrying for nothing. 288 00:36:03,850 --> 00:36:08,680 I know you'll be shocked to read this, 289 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:16,170 but I'd been thinking about this for a long time. 290 00:36:16,170 --> 00:36:22,310 I always believed that Japan would win. 291 00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:28,830 I did my best to realize a victory. 292 00:36:28,830 --> 00:36:32,080 You all know that to be true. 293 00:36:33,740 --> 00:36:40,960 But my convictions have caused us to lose Yuu and Hitoshi. 294 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,840 I caused our neighborhood boys to join the fighting, 295 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,350 and one was killed in action. 296 00:36:49,310 --> 00:36:54,530 I must've caused everyone so much pain. 297 00:36:54,530 --> 00:36:58,740 I feel responsible. 298 00:36:58,740 --> 00:37:06,360 I know my death won't resolve anything. 299 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:11,850 But as the one who caused one's own children to die, 300 00:37:11,850 --> 00:37:14,880 and as a human being, 301 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:21,600 I'm guilty of the crime of cooperating in the war effort. 302 00:37:23,740 --> 00:37:26,930 That's why I must die. 303 00:37:26,930 --> 00:37:33,380 I firmly believe that I should die. 304 00:37:33,380 --> 00:37:40,080 It would be harder to live a life of guilt. 305 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,050 I'm not that strong. 306 00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:52,120 And I couldn't live under foreign domination. 307 00:37:53,640 --> 00:38:02,300 I lived through a generation. I have no regrets. 308 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,470 I'll go where I can be with Yuu and Hitoshi. 309 00:38:08,470 --> 00:38:12,310 Thank you, Oshin. 310 00:38:12,310 --> 00:38:21,100 Thank you for everything. - Ryuzo 311 00:38:22,110 --> 00:38:24,610 Mother... 312 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:35,100 He is... dead... 313 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,110 Mother... 314 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,630 That night, the night the war ended... 315 00:39:08,820 --> 00:39:16,620 We talked about a lot of things... 316 00:39:17,950 --> 00:39:27,620 I guess he'd already decided then... 317 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,220 And I had no idea... 318 00:39:36,650 --> 00:39:44,100 We were together for more than 20 years... 319 00:39:45,350 --> 00:39:50,060 Yet, I still had no idea... 320 00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:52,740 I can't believe Father killed himself! 321 00:39:52,740 --> 00:39:56,110 How could he leave you and Tei behind?! 322 00:40:00,270 --> 00:40:03,580 Ryuzo... 323 00:40:04,410 --> 00:40:07,750 I'd better find him... 324 00:40:07,750 --> 00:40:10,920 Mother! 325 00:40:14,740 --> 00:40:15,920 Excuse me. 326 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,520 - Is this the Tanokura house? - Yes. 327 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:25,880 - Does a Ryuzo live here? - That's my father. 328 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,470 - And you are? - She's my mother. 329 00:40:28,470 --> 00:40:34,600 Good. I've been searching for you. Please follow me. 330 00:40:36,370 --> 00:40:42,480 I work at the village office near here. 331 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,160 The phone lines are down, 332 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,760 and the police force has been disbanded. 333 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:52,260 So I came here myself. 334 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,270 My father... 335 00:40:54,270 --> 00:41:00,180 I found his name and blood type listed on the papers in his wallet. 336 00:41:00,180 --> 00:41:02,570 That's why I'm here. 337 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,340 I may have the wrong family... 338 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:14,620 So could you come to identify the body? 339 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,940 Yes, that's my husband. 340 00:41:34,940 --> 00:41:37,580 I see... 341 00:41:41,330 --> 00:41:45,640 I hear many have died by their own hands, 342 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,660 after the news of our defeat. 343 00:41:49,660 --> 00:41:55,860 I suppose your husband felt the same way... 344 00:41:55,860 --> 00:42:02,560 The villagers found him in a sitting position in the forest. 345 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:07,120 He showed great composure. 346 00:42:07,750 --> 00:42:10,480 They took him to a doctor, 347 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:14,850 but he'd already been dead for a day. 348 00:42:14,850 --> 00:42:26,610 He had stabbed himself in the heart. 349 00:43:02,150 --> 00:43:07,410 Episode 219 350 00:43:11,420 --> 00:43:17,880 Ryuzo had committed suicide, the day after the war ended. 351 00:43:18,270 --> 00:43:22,410 It was two days later that Oshin learned of his fate, 352 00:43:22,410 --> 00:43:25,700 and went to identify his body. 353 00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:35,420 Oshin returned home with his ashes. 354 00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:47,890 Dear... We're home. 355 00:43:52,810 --> 00:43:56,550 Don't tell me he's already been cremated! 356 00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:03,190 I wish you could have all been there 357 00:44:03,190 --> 00:44:10,270 to offer him your last farewell... 358 00:44:10,270 --> 00:44:16,370 We couldn't find a car or anybody to bring his body home. 359 00:44:18,980 --> 00:44:22,080 Father... 360 00:44:25,660 --> 00:44:29,080 I'll go and get Tei tomorrow. 361 00:44:29,450 --> 00:44:33,780 What about the funeral arrangements? 362 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:43,400 They found his body in the mountains... 363 00:44:44,170 --> 00:44:48,270 It was an out of the way place. 364 00:44:48,270 --> 00:44:50,400 He planned on dying quietly... 365 00:44:54,290 --> 00:45:04,920 Where no one would find him. 366 00:45:07,330 --> 00:45:11,030 That's what I think. 367 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:24,630 He wouldn't want a big funeral. 368 00:45:26,490 --> 00:45:32,390 Tei will be so sad when she finds out... 369 00:45:33,290 --> 00:45:42,380 Tei was his favorite... She was very close to him. 370 00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:45,150 He was selfish! 371 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,650 He'd lived through this terrible war. 372 00:45:50,650 --> 00:45:54,260 Why did he have to waste his life! 373 00:45:54,260 --> 00:45:57,970 What about those of us who are left behind?! 374 00:45:57,970 --> 00:45:58,940 Hatsuko! 375 00:45:58,940 --> 00:46:01,170 Didn't he think of you and Tei?! 376 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:12,900 Yuu will be so sad when he comes home... 377 00:46:16,180 --> 00:46:25,400 Your father believed that Yuu and Hitoshi were dead... 378 00:46:29,550 --> 00:46:34,760 They say it's easier to die than to live... 379 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:43,910 He must have been determined to die. 380 00:46:48,020 --> 00:47:01,920 He wanted to die... To be with Yuu and Hitoshi. 381 00:47:03,510 --> 00:47:06,820 That thought is my only consolation. 382 00:47:06,820 --> 00:47:12,220 Maybe the three of them are happy together now. 383 00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:13,850 No! 384 00:47:14,590 --> 00:47:20,050 Yuu and Hitoshi are still alive! 385 00:47:25,100 --> 00:47:30,410 Let's just have a family funeral for him... 386 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:39,300 We'll keep the suicide a private matter. 387 00:47:43,940 --> 00:47:52,380 I'm sure that's how he would've wanted it. 388 00:48:02,270 --> 00:48:06,490 Oshin, it's me. 389 00:48:06,490 --> 00:48:07,860 Oshin! 390 00:48:13,670 --> 00:48:16,270 Good. You're home. 391 00:48:19,780 --> 00:48:23,080 I have brought my mother with me. 392 00:48:25,850 --> 00:48:27,420 Okiyo... 393 00:48:27,420 --> 00:48:30,820 She insisted on coming. 394 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,250 You fool! 395 00:48:52,250 --> 00:48:53,900 Mother! 396 00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:56,200 What's this about taking responsibility 397 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,620 for cooperating with the war effort! 398 00:48:58,620 --> 00:49:04,720 Your primary responsibility was to your family! 399 00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:10,730 You took the easy way out! You coward! 400 00:49:11,430 --> 00:49:15,850 How will Oshin and Tei make it from now on! 401 00:49:15,850 --> 00:49:17,240 Okiyo... 402 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,340 You're such a coward! 403 00:49:20,340 --> 00:49:28,520 You were afraid of starting anew! 404 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:37,260 I feel so badly for Oshin... 405 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,150 Okiyo... 406 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:52,870 I'm very proud of Ryuzo. 407 00:49:57,260 --> 00:50:00,400 There are too many people 408 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,520 who never spoke up against the war while it was going on. 409 00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:09,050 And now that it's over, 410 00:50:09,050 --> 00:50:14,050 they have the nerve to criticize the war. 411 00:50:15,660 --> 00:50:19,420 I'm one of them, too. 412 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,810 I said nothing about Ryuzo's work, 413 00:50:24,810 --> 00:50:29,960 because it was making life better for us. 414 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:37,440 Only now, do I really hate the war. 415 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:45,910 I hate the war that took my Yuu and Hitoshi away... 416 00:50:46,650 --> 00:50:51,700 Compared to people such as myself, Ryuzo was great! 417 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,230 He was true to himself until the end. 418 00:50:57,230 --> 00:51:04,110 And he never wavered. He put an end to himself. 419 00:51:07,550 --> 00:51:11,920 I love him for that. 420 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,920 I love him very much. 421 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:31,910 Much happened in our marriage... 422 00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:38,670 I tried to leave him many times. 423 00:51:42,050 --> 00:51:51,910 But now, I'm glad that I married him. 424 00:51:53,660 --> 00:52:01,380 I was his wife for more than 20 years. 425 00:52:01,380 --> 00:52:08,770 I'm very proud of that fact. 426 00:52:14,810 --> 00:52:26,210 Ryuzo was lucky to have a good wife. 427 00:52:26,210 --> 00:52:35,300 You understand him better than I do. 428 00:52:37,010 --> 00:52:39,530 In his last testament, 429 00:52:39,530 --> 00:52:47,480 he said that meeting you was the best thing to happen to him. 430 00:52:50,550 --> 00:52:56,440 I understand that now... 431 00:53:00,470 --> 00:53:08,390 I'm glad I took the trouble to come. 432 00:53:09,250 --> 00:53:20,400 I won't cry for Ryuzo anymore, but I'm concerned about you now. 433 00:53:23,260 --> 00:53:31,850 Father wants you to come back to Saga with Tei. 434 00:53:31,850 --> 00:53:34,530 You can't get enough to eat here. 435 00:53:38,910 --> 00:53:42,410 Thank you. 436 00:53:46,130 --> 00:53:55,950 But I have Hatsuko and Nozomi to think about. 437 00:53:55,950 --> 00:54:00,450 And I haven't given up on Yuu and Hitoshi. 438 00:54:04,010 --> 00:54:10,800 Until I have proof that they're both dead, 439 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:19,900 I'll continue to wait for them no matter how long it takes. 440 00:54:22,750 --> 00:54:27,980 And I want to be here for them when they return. 441 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:42,290 That's how a mother should feel. 442 00:54:52,150 --> 00:55:07,410 Thanks for putting up with Ryuzo for so long. 443 00:55:08,780 --> 00:55:14,410 Thank you very much... 444 00:55:18,910 --> 00:55:28,480 We'll probably never see each other again... 445 00:55:31,450 --> 00:55:36,390 I'm glad I got the chance to thank you. 446 00:55:42,750 --> 00:55:53,400 Okiyo left the next day with a small portion of Ryuzo's ashes. 447 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:06,710 On August 28th, the occupation forces arrived at Atsugi Field. 448 00:56:07,660 --> 00:56:11,010 The people were all afraid. 449 00:56:19,660 --> 00:56:25,130 Let's have some tea. 450 00:56:47,700 --> 00:56:49,050 Hitoshi... 451 00:56:56,950 --> 00:57:01,460 Episode 220 452 00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:07,070 Hitoshi is home. 453 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,460 He's here sleeping. 454 00:57:10,460 --> 00:57:11,880 Mother... 455 00:57:12,420 --> 00:57:14,670 He's snoring! 456 00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,260 Are you all right? 457 00:57:18,260 --> 00:57:20,320 What do you mean? 458 00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,290 Get ahold of yourself! 459 00:57:23,130 --> 00:57:27,800 I'm sane! It's true! 460 00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,450 And he's so dirty! 461 00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,350 It's Hitoshi! 462 00:57:41,350 --> 00:57:45,940 He's alive! He's come home! 463 00:57:45,940 --> 00:57:46,890 Hey, Hitoshi. 464 00:57:46,890 --> 00:57:51,610 Let's let him sleep all he wants to. 465 00:57:51,610 --> 00:57:57,200 You should've written us and told us! 466 00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,620 He's so carefree. 467 00:57:59,620 --> 00:58:06,370 See, he came back. 468 00:58:06,370 --> 00:58:08,740 Let's make him a bath. 469 00:58:08,740 --> 00:58:12,940 He smells. I'll go heat the water. 470 00:58:12,940 --> 00:58:15,460 And I'll make some food. 471 00:58:15,460 --> 00:58:18,890 We have mochi rice and azuki beans from Saga. 472 00:58:18,890 --> 00:58:23,890 We'll make him red rice and beans. 473 00:58:23,890 --> 00:58:26,530 But we'll make some dumpling soup first, 474 00:58:26,530 --> 00:58:29,710 so he can eat it as soon as he wakes up. 475 00:58:38,910 --> 00:58:41,800 The bath is ready, but he's still asleep. 476 00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,810 The dumplings are ready, too. 477 00:58:43,810 --> 00:58:47,200 He must be dead tired. 478 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,440 Smells good. Is it udon? 479 00:58:50,610 --> 00:58:53,230 You're awake! 480 00:58:58,380 --> 00:59:01,740 That's right... I'm home. 481 00:59:01,740 --> 00:59:04,620 Why didn't you write us? 482 00:59:04,620 --> 00:59:06,560 I didn't have the time. 483 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,290 As soon as the war ended, 484 00:59:09,290 --> 00:59:14,920 we got busy burning all military documents. 485 00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:20,280 We even talked about fighting the occupation forces. 486 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:26,950 Then we got thrown off the base. 487 00:59:27,750 --> 00:59:32,480 The Imperial Navy just collapsed. 488 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:38,200 I thought you'd flown out on a suicide mission. 489 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:43,320 You sent us that postcard. 490 00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:48,550 I was selected as the first flier to go from our class of junior fliers. 491 00:59:48,550 --> 00:59:51,430 I was to go to Kagoshima. 492 00:59:51,430 --> 00:59:54,490 But unfortunately, my plane broke down. 493 00:59:54,490 --> 00:59:56,900 I couldn't even get to Kagoshima. 494 00:59:56,900 --> 01:00:01,280 Then the war suddenly ended. That really angered me! 495 01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:05,220 You weren't unfortunate. 496 01:00:05,220 --> 01:00:08,950 If your plane had not broken down... 497 01:00:08,950 --> 01:00:12,660 I was ready to die! If I had died, 498 01:00:12,660 --> 01:00:14,440 I wouldn't have had to face our nation's defeat, 499 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,450 or this American occupation! 500 01:00:17,980 --> 01:00:19,660 I'm ashamed to be alive! 501 01:00:19,660 --> 01:00:20,660 Hitoshi... 502 01:00:20,660 --> 01:00:27,200 What will I do now? I have nothing left to live for! 503 01:00:27,810 --> 01:00:33,440 Welcome home. 504 01:00:36,900 --> 01:00:38,950 I'm glad you came home to us safely. 505 01:00:42,510 --> 01:00:43,220 Mother... 506 01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:52,050 What was all my training for? 507 01:00:52,050 --> 01:00:54,670 Why did so many of us have to die? 508 01:00:54,670 --> 01:01:01,140 All for nothing... It doesn't make sense. 509 01:01:01,140 --> 01:01:08,350 If the war was wrong, what did all of our men die for? 510 01:01:08,350 --> 01:01:10,700 What are we supposed to do now? 511 01:01:12,790 --> 01:01:16,010 I was ready to die for my country... 512 01:01:18,410 --> 01:01:25,950 I believed it was my duty to die for the Emperor. 513 01:01:25,950 --> 01:01:33,770 But they told us it was now our duty to live on. 514 01:01:33,770 --> 01:01:35,590 Then they sent us all home... 515 01:01:35,590 --> 01:01:37,770 What am i supposed to believe in now?! 516 01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:56,560 I don't want to talk about how right or wrong this war was. 517 01:01:56,560 --> 01:02:00,780 No matter what this war was about. 518 01:02:00,780 --> 01:02:11,170 You devoted yourself to a cause. And that's enough. 519 01:02:11,170 --> 01:02:18,210 You're lucky to have had such a chance. 520 01:02:21,710 --> 01:02:24,250 You can cherish it as a memory. 521 01:02:26,650 --> 01:02:35,570 You'll think back on it one day. Keep it with you always. 522 01:02:41,030 --> 01:02:44,180 Your father, too. 523 01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:58,950 He never had regrets about having cooperated in the war effort. 524 01:02:58,950 --> 01:03:03,980 He was proud to have lived his conviction... 525 01:03:03,980 --> 01:03:06,160 And he died a satisfied man. 526 01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:10,390 Mother... 527 01:03:12,730 --> 01:03:17,280 Go and tell your father that you're home safe. 528 01:03:25,970 --> 01:03:28,350 I know how you felt. 529 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:35,580 We both believed, and we were both betrayed. 530 01:03:35,580 --> 01:03:39,730 The Japan we believed in is gone, 531 01:03:39,730 --> 01:03:43,190 and a new Japan is about to emerge. 532 01:03:43,190 --> 01:03:49,130 I know how you felt about not wanting to live in such a place. 533 01:03:49,130 --> 01:03:50,500 Hitoshi... 534 01:03:50,500 --> 01:03:52,380 I wish I could die, too. 535 01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:59,810 I want to die for my convictions like you! 536 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:05,250 But I don't have the courage like you. 537 01:04:05,250 --> 01:04:09,400 I was ready to crash my plane into an enemy ship. 538 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,340 But compared to you, I'm just a coward. 539 01:04:12,340 --> 01:04:15,580 After seeing Mother's face, I'm glad I'm still alive. 540 01:04:15,580 --> 01:04:18,930 I'm prepared to live on with the shame! 541 01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:23,370 It's all right. That's how it was supposed to be. 542 01:04:23,550 --> 01:04:27,310 The American occupation will change everything. 543 01:04:27,310 --> 01:04:30,510 The main thing is to keep living. 544 01:04:30,990 --> 01:04:33,600 I don't want to be told what to do anymore. 545 01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,350 I don't want to be forced 546 01:04:35,350 --> 01:04:37,880 to believe in things that can change overnight. 547 01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:39,620 From now on, I want to live for myself. 548 01:04:39,940 --> 01:04:44,060 To hell with love of the country! 549 01:04:44,060 --> 01:04:45,090 Nozomi. 550 01:04:45,090 --> 01:04:48,700 One has to think like that in order to survive! 551 01:04:49,090 --> 01:04:53,350 Sure... I'll be a coward and live on. 552 01:04:53,350 --> 01:04:55,600 My beliefs have been betrayed. 553 01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,040 I'll never belie in anything again. 554 01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:01,310 I've died once. Now I'm afraid of nothing. 555 01:05:01,310 --> 01:05:02,780 I'll face up to anything! 556 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,730 - Here you go. - Let's eat. 557 01:05:12,830 --> 01:05:15,160 I know you hate dumpling soup, 558 01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,260 but I'll make you red rice and beans for dinner. 559 01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,540 Is this what you still eat? 560 01:05:21,540 --> 01:05:23,700 We don't eat like the soldiers do. 561 01:05:23,700 --> 01:05:27,590 The food wasn't good in Oita, 562 01:05:27,590 --> 01:05:31,010 but they fed us white rice everyday. 563 01:05:31,010 --> 01:05:33,700 Dumpling soup is a luxury! 564 01:05:33,700 --> 01:05:39,650 People have to eat potatoes and vegetable tops. 565 01:05:39,650 --> 01:05:43,810 I have sugar and canned foods from the Navy. 566 01:05:43,810 --> 01:05:47,020 I'll trade them for some rice. 567 01:05:47,390 --> 01:05:53,330 Then I'll sell the rice in town, and buy more goods to trade. 568 01:05:53,330 --> 01:05:55,210 You want to do that? 569 01:05:55,210 --> 01:05:56,740 That's black marketing! 570 01:05:56,740 --> 01:06:00,980 Who cares! There's no more military or police here. 571 01:06:00,980 --> 01:06:03,520 Our country can no longer protect us. 572 01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:06,200 We each have to find our own way to eat. 573 01:06:08,540 --> 01:06:11,700 I will work hard, and I'm willing to do anything! 574 01:06:11,700 --> 01:06:15,710 I'll be the man of the house until Yuu returns. 575 01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,860 More, please! 576 01:06:25,450 --> 01:06:31,840 After losing Ryuzo at the end of the war, 577 01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,090 Oshin was glad to have Hitoshi come home to her. 578 01:06:35,090 --> 01:06:39,190 It gave her more hope about Yuu. 579 01:06:39,190 --> 01:06:48,050 The very next day, Hitoshi went out to trade. 580 01:06:48,050 --> 01:06:51,050 Where is he? He's been gone a long time. 581 01:06:51,050 --> 01:06:57,110 He didn't even say where he was going! 582 01:06:57,110 --> 01:07:00,190 What's he up to? 583 01:07:00,190 --> 01:07:06,290 Remember when Nozomi took some of your kimono to trade for rice? 584 01:07:06,290 --> 01:07:13,230 He failed, and he never wanted to go again. 585 01:07:13,790 --> 01:07:17,180 They both talk big, 586 01:07:17,180 --> 01:07:20,540 but those boys are only 16 years old. 587 01:07:20,540 --> 01:07:27,050 He could never become a black marketeer. 588 01:07:27,050 --> 01:07:31,160 I guess it doesn't hurt to try... 589 01:07:34,350 --> 01:07:39,820 We can't wait for him forever. Let's eat. 590 01:07:39,820 --> 01:07:42,180 Yes. 591 01:07:54,460 --> 01:07:56,290 You're back! 592 01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:06,530 I got rice and soybeans. This is for us. 593 01:08:06,530 --> 01:08:08,330 You didn't... 594 01:08:08,330 --> 01:08:11,770 Everybody wanted my sugar and canned foods. 595 01:08:11,770 --> 01:08:14,850 What I took was gone in no time. 596 01:08:14,850 --> 01:08:16,890 You just approached strangers? 597 01:08:16,890 --> 01:08:19,610 Of course! I didn't know those villagers. 598 01:08:20,140 --> 01:08:22,640 I told them I'm a survivor of the suicide squad, 599 01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,850 and told them if I didn't do this, 600 01:08:24,850 --> 01:08:28,960 we couldn't survive. They all felt sorry for me. 601 01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:32,070 They told me to come back. 602 01:08:32,070 --> 01:08:40,430 They want soap, towels and children's clothes. 603 01:08:40,850 --> 01:08:46,000 So I went to town and traded the rest of my rice and beans for such goods. 604 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,430 Where did you go? 605 01:08:47,430 --> 01:08:50,580 I'd just walk into the shops that were still standing. 606 01:08:50,580 --> 01:08:53,170 I'd explain myself and trade stuff. 607 01:08:53,170 --> 01:08:57,750 I did fairly well. 608 01:08:57,750 --> 01:09:02,760 Do you need soap? I have towels, too. 609 01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,190 No, we still have some. 610 01:09:06,460 --> 01:09:13,660 I'll deal with the same people I dealt with today. 611 01:09:13,660 --> 01:09:15,100 Then I'll expand. 612 01:09:17,090 --> 01:09:24,510 I can earn enough for us to eat. We can go and get Tei, too. 613 01:09:24,510 --> 01:09:28,270 There hasn't been any problems with the occupation forces. 614 01:09:28,460 --> 01:09:33,720 Will you go and get Tei tomorrow? 615 01:09:34,440 --> 01:09:39,220 Tell Tei that Father died from an illness. 616 01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:44,450 She wouldn't understand why he committed suicide. 617 01:09:47,110 --> 01:09:49,950 Who did you take after? 618 01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,280 I never thought you'd be good at such things. 619 01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:57,420 Once you consider yourself dead, you can do anything! 620 01:09:57,420 --> 01:10:02,280 What good would it do to be embarrassed? 621 01:10:10,540 --> 01:10:14,190 It sure is nice to eat with family members! 622 01:10:14,190 --> 01:10:17,130 Eat all you want. 623 01:10:17,130 --> 01:10:19,620 I'll make sure that you never go hungry again. 624 01:10:21,260 --> 01:10:23,370 The meals were meager, 625 01:10:23,370 --> 01:10:30,760 but Oshin was happy to be able to eat with her family. 626 01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:36,100 In September, the schools reopened. 627 01:10:36,100 --> 01:10:48,460 Oshin had to think of what to do about school for Nozomi and Hitoshi. 628 01:10:50,250 --> 01:10:55,250 Episode 221 629 01:11:02,890 --> 01:11:04,920 Are you all right? 630 01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:06,560 I'm worn out! 631 01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:10,510 Oh, come on! Let's go. 632 01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:25,160 One of my customers wanted a bridal gown. 633 01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:31,730 Her daughter is getting married in November. 634 01:11:34,500 --> 01:11:40,940 It's beautiful! People still have such things? 635 01:11:40,940 --> 01:11:43,940 People that didn't lose their homes have a lot to trade. 636 01:11:44,330 --> 01:11:46,940 But since those people are women or the elderly, 637 01:11:46,940 --> 01:11:48,450 they can't go around trading for themselves. 638 01:11:48,730 --> 01:11:51,080 You really impress me. 639 01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:57,210 You certainly have a knack for dealing with strangers. 640 01:11:57,210 --> 01:12:00,360 You're too unfriendly for the trading business. 641 01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:02,980 All I have to do is tag along with you to help carry things. 642 01:12:02,980 --> 01:12:07,490 I got you some dried sweet potatoes. 643 01:12:07,490 --> 01:12:09,900 Some farmers gave us that with tea. 644 01:12:09,900 --> 01:12:12,520 Nozomi didn't eat his and saved it for you. 645 01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:14,720 Thanks. 646 01:12:15,270 --> 01:12:17,450 When you are ready to get married, 647 01:12:17,450 --> 01:12:21,540 I'll get a wedding dress for you, too. 648 01:12:21,540 --> 01:12:24,810 I don't know when Yuu will be coming home. 649 01:12:24,810 --> 01:12:25,920 Don't worry. 650 01:12:26,350 --> 01:12:30,760 Many men believe to have been killed have come home. 651 01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,630 Who knows what happened in the Philippines. 652 01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:39,630 The government has started bringing home soldiers. 653 01:12:40,870 --> 01:12:44,900 And civilians from Manchuria and South East Asia. 654 01:12:44,900 --> 01:12:47,640 There must be many people over there. 655 01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:52,030 I'm sure Yuu will be one of them. It won't be long! 656 01:12:56,190 --> 01:12:59,840 Pack up all the things we need tomorrow. 657 01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:01,600 I'll bathe. 658 01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:02,970 Hitoshi. 659 01:13:02,970 --> 01:13:05,910 Stop this black market business, and go to school. 660 01:13:05,910 --> 01:13:07,710 Both of you. 661 01:13:07,900 --> 01:13:09,280 School? 662 01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,730 The schools are reopening! 663 01:13:11,730 --> 01:13:13,080 No way! 664 01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:19,350 I'm done with middle school. That's enough! 665 01:13:19,350 --> 01:13:23,410 You both haven't gone to school 666 01:13:23,410 --> 01:13:28,510 since your third year of middle school. 667 01:13:28,510 --> 01:13:31,430 You'd both better finish up your education. 668 01:13:31,430 --> 01:13:33,820 What good will school do? 669 01:13:34,020 --> 01:13:38,690 What's important now is to work and eat! 670 01:13:38,690 --> 01:13:41,290 I'll take care of that. 671 01:13:41,290 --> 01:13:43,840 What can you do? 672 01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,470 You can't just open up shop again. 673 01:13:46,470 --> 01:13:53,740 Before you were born, I used to peddle fish. 674 01:13:54,370 --> 01:13:56,830 I've been thinking... 675 01:13:56,830 --> 01:14:02,920 Now isn't the time for opening up a shop. 676 01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:05,120 I'll take over where you boys leave off. 677 01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:06,340 Mother! 678 01:14:06,340 --> 01:14:08,770 You're too old for it! 679 01:14:08,770 --> 01:14:11,570 We carry loads that are too heavy for us. 680 01:14:11,570 --> 01:14:15,310 And we hang from the sides of the trains. 681 01:14:15,310 --> 01:14:19,290 Don't take me lightly! I'm used to hard work. 682 01:14:19,290 --> 01:14:22,010 But you haven't worked in a long time. 683 01:14:22,690 --> 01:14:26,040 It's not strength alone that you need to carry heavy loads. 684 01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:27,910 There's a trick to doing it. 685 01:14:27,910 --> 01:14:31,680 I'll go with you to help carry. 686 01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,440 I'm just getting used to this work. 687 01:14:35,440 --> 01:14:37,880 I can't just quit now. 688 01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:38,730 Hitoshi. 689 01:14:38,730 --> 01:14:40,420 I'm not going back to school. 690 01:14:40,420 --> 01:14:43,750 There's no need to. I won't go! 691 01:14:44,540 --> 01:14:47,970 You'll just be a black marketeer for the rest of your life? 692 01:14:47,970 --> 01:14:51,710 Once I get enough money, I will open up a shop. 693 01:14:51,710 --> 01:14:54,960 I don't mind you working, 694 01:14:55,420 --> 01:15:00,560 but it's my duty to see that you and Nozomi get a decent education. 695 01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:03,320 You'll go back to school! 696 01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:05,420 Society is in confusion, 697 01:15:05,420 --> 01:15:09,230 and you might not be able to see any sense in going to school. 698 01:15:09,230 --> 01:15:13,090 But once things settle down, you'll need a college education. 699 01:15:13,440 --> 01:15:14,540 College? 700 01:15:14,540 --> 01:15:16,370 Of course! A man needs a college education. 701 01:15:16,370 --> 01:15:20,150 You refuse to listen to me? 702 01:15:20,150 --> 01:15:23,980 I won't allow you to continue black marketeering. 703 01:15:23,980 --> 01:15:25,550 If you're not going to school, 704 01:15:25,550 --> 01:15:28,180 you'll have to leave this house, and be on your own. 705 01:15:28,180 --> 01:15:30,940 I don't need you feeding me this way! 706 01:15:31,470 --> 01:15:33,750 Mother! 707 01:15:34,140 --> 01:15:38,530 Oshin and Hatsuko took over as black marketeers. 708 01:15:38,530 --> 01:15:40,240 In October, Hitoshi and Nozomi re-entered school 709 01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:42,810 as fourth-year middle school students, 710 01:15:42,810 --> 01:15:45,560 and Tei was a fourth grader in primary school. 711 01:15:46,860 --> 01:15:49,990 Oshin began trading with the villagers she had known 712 01:15:49,990 --> 01:15:51,800 when she was a fish peddler. 713 01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:57,880 She'd trade and take goods to market in down. 714 01:15:58,870 --> 01:16:02,850 There were people in town who were customers at Oshin's fish store, 715 01:16:02,850 --> 01:16:08,720 and things were beginning to go well again for Oshin. 716 01:16:09,220 --> 01:16:12,200 If only it weren't for that war... 717 01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:15,590 I'm running out of things to trade. 718 01:16:15,590 --> 01:16:18,670 How much longer will this go on? 719 01:16:18,670 --> 01:16:21,690 But I'm glad you come to help us out. 720 01:16:22,100 --> 01:16:27,820 Grandpa is sick, so I want to feed him white rice. 721 01:16:27,820 --> 01:16:29,210 But with him being sick, 722 01:16:29,210 --> 01:16:31,530 I haven't the time to go to down and buy some. 723 01:16:31,530 --> 01:16:37,640 Prices keep going up, too. 724 01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:39,700 It can't be helped... 725 01:16:39,700 --> 01:16:44,810 Rationing isn't enough to go around. 726 01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,840 You used to be so well off, 727 01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:54,070 but now you've had to go back to peddling again. 728 01:16:55,180 --> 01:17:00,450 My old customers really help me out now. 729 01:17:00,450 --> 01:17:03,120 At least the war is over. 730 01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:06,660 And the soldiers can't act big anymore. 731 01:17:06,660 --> 01:17:11,880 I was really worried about the American occupation. 732 01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:15,370 But there haven't been any problems. 733 01:17:15,370 --> 01:17:19,870 It seems silly that we were all so afraid. 734 01:17:19,870 --> 01:17:23,480 That's true. When the war ended, 735 01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:28,230 none of us had any idea what was going to happen. 736 01:17:28,230 --> 01:17:32,320 At least, we're all able to make a living. 737 01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:37,900 Yes. You're lucky your house didn't burn down. 738 01:17:38,140 --> 01:17:42,590 So many people are still living in shelters. 739 01:17:42,590 --> 01:17:46,210 Yes. I feel so lucky. 740 01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:49,510 People being repatriated from abroad 741 01:17:49,510 --> 01:17:53,630 are coming home with nothing but the clothes they wear. 742 01:17:53,630 --> 01:17:59,750 It sure is pathetic to lose a war... 743 01:18:13,380 --> 01:18:14,910 - Are you okay? - Yes. 744 01:18:14,910 --> 01:18:18,830 There's somebody here fighting with Hitoshi! 745 01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:23,510 He says this is his house! 746 01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:28,930 Where's the proof that this is your house? 747 01:18:28,930 --> 01:18:33,460 Do you have proof that it's yours?! 748 01:18:33,460 --> 01:18:37,090 You're just squatters! I'll go to the police! 749 01:18:37,090 --> 01:18:40,700 Go ahead! We're doing nothing wrong! 750 01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:42,750 Mother... 751 01:18:42,750 --> 01:18:47,890 You are the one who took my house! 752 01:18:47,890 --> 01:18:49,700 What's going on? 753 01:18:49,700 --> 01:18:55,100 That's what I'd like to know. This is my house! 754 01:18:55,100 --> 01:19:00,310 I left my house for the military to use when I left for Korea. 755 01:19:00,310 --> 01:19:05,530 The agreement was that I'd get it back when I came home. 756 01:19:05,530 --> 01:19:07,360 Now I'm back, so leave! 757 01:19:07,910 --> 01:19:11,770 You're that man who went to Pyongyang? 758 01:19:11,770 --> 01:19:14,010 You've been repatriated? 759 01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:19,640 You seem to know what is going on. 760 01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:26,280 My husband bought this house from the military. 761 01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:30,100 They told us that you wouldn't be coming back to Japan. 762 01:19:30,100 --> 01:19:34,860 We paid for it! 763 01:19:34,860 --> 01:19:36,760 That's nonsense! 764 01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:43,220 Here it is. Here it is! It was in my bag! 765 01:19:43,220 --> 01:19:44,960 Look! 766 01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:52,740 This is the rental agreement we had with the military! 767 01:19:52,740 --> 01:19:58,000 My husband's name is Ohata Bunzo. See! 768 01:19:58,540 --> 01:20:03,320 That boy had the nerve to ask us for proof! 769 01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:08,150 They're like thieves! 770 01:20:08,150 --> 01:20:13,560 You tried to take our house just because we were in Korea! 771 01:20:15,610 --> 01:20:22,260 All your favorite plants in the garden are gone... 772 01:20:22,260 --> 01:20:26,070 They dug a shelter and planted vegetables! 773 01:20:26,070 --> 01:20:31,050 It's terrible! Fix it up the way it was before! 774 01:20:31,050 --> 01:20:37,180 We planted a garden because it's our house! 775 01:20:37,180 --> 01:20:44,100 We protected this house from fires during the air raid, too! 776 01:20:44,100 --> 01:20:47,240 We did it all because the house is ours. 777 01:20:47,530 --> 01:20:52,460 Do you have a deed to this house? 778 01:20:52,460 --> 01:20:54,770 If you do, let's see it! 779 01:20:56,430 --> 01:21:00,910 Actually, my husband died after the war ended. 780 01:21:00,910 --> 01:21:06,880 So I can't tell you about the particulars of any agreement, 781 01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:10,120 but he left the house to us. 782 01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,500 I believe what my husband told me! 783 01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:17,900 What counts are legal papers. 784 01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:25,000 Bring out your papers if you have them! 785 01:21:27,980 --> 01:21:28,900 Here, these are it. 786 01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:32,200 What's this? 787 01:21:32,870 --> 01:21:42,000 It's the receipts for payments we made for the house to the military. 788 01:21:42,850 --> 01:21:46,980 It bears the regimental commander's seal. 789 01:21:46,980 --> 01:21:49,610 But these papers aren't worth anything. 790 01:21:49,610 --> 01:21:56,100 You had asked the military to sell this house! 791 01:21:56,100 --> 01:21:59,340 I went abroad on military business. 792 01:21:59,340 --> 01:22:07,120 So I'd asked them to rent it out for us. 793 01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:10,010 I never asked them to sell it! 794 01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,600 If you were moving permanently to Pyongyang, 795 01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,930 you had no use for a house here in Japan. 796 01:22:14,930 --> 01:22:17,000 We didn't say we were going for good! 797 01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:25,130 The military is finished. Their papers are worth nothing! 798 01:22:25,130 --> 01:22:29,250 I never signed any papers to sell! 799 01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:35,260 What about the money my husband paid? 800 01:22:35,260 --> 01:22:37,100 That's not my problem. 801 01:22:37,100 --> 01:22:41,130 You didn't receive any payment? 802 01:22:41,130 --> 01:22:46,170 You think we're lying? 803 01:22:46,170 --> 01:22:49,400 Then where did this money go? 804 01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:53,530 Maybe the military stole it. 805 01:22:53,530 --> 01:22:59,230 They're all no good. That's why we lost the war. 806 01:22:59,230 --> 01:23:04,150 We had to leave every- thing we owned in Korea. 807 01:23:04,150 --> 01:23:07,340 This house is our only remaining asset! 808 01:23:07,340 --> 01:23:10,510 - Mother. - Yes. 809 01:23:11,340 --> 01:23:12,650 We're hungry. 810 01:23:12,650 --> 01:23:15,580 When is dinner going to be ready? 811 01:23:15,580 --> 01:23:20,200 Please make by bath, too! 812 01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:26,600 Have rice and charcoal delivered. 813 01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:31,170 All the shops are gone. 814 01:23:31,170 --> 01:23:38,800 Then go find some. We have money to pay for it. 815 01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:41,240 Mother... 816 01:23:41,900 --> 01:23:46,060 I'll make you dinner. 817 01:23:46,060 --> 01:23:47,470 Wait! 818 01:23:47,900 --> 01:23:49,880 You're planning to stay here? 819 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:55,590 It's my house. I'm not leaving. 820 01:23:57,780 --> 01:24:00,080 Do you have food? 821 01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,080 I'm sure you haven't gotten ration papers. 822 01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:05,930 Having money won't do you any good. 823 01:24:05,930 --> 01:24:09,970 I'll feed you some dumpling soup tonight, 824 01:24:09,970 --> 01:24:13,750 but don't complain about its meagerness. 825 01:24:13,750 --> 01:24:15,190 Never mind! 826 01:24:15,190 --> 01:24:17,650 You can't get away with this! 827 01:24:17,650 --> 01:24:19,930 Let's let them stay for tonight. 828 01:24:19,930 --> 01:24:25,200 They probably don't have anywhere else to go. 829 01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:31,040 Please find a place to move to as soon as possible. 830 01:24:43,250 --> 01:24:48,010 Episode 222 831 01:24:51,690 --> 01:24:55,750 The former owners of Oshin's house 832 01:24:55,750 --> 01:25:02,040 suddenly returned from Korea to reclaim it. 833 01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:05,430 Oshin had no intentions of leaving the house 834 01:25:05,430 --> 01:25:08,960 that she believed rightfully belonged to her. 835 01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,400 As a compromise, 836 01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:18,060 the two families began living under the same roof. 837 01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:27,230 How did it go? 838 01:25:29,470 --> 01:25:33,680 Nobody at the regiment knows anything about it... 839 01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:38,010 The regiment's commander put his seal to the document! 840 01:25:38,510 --> 01:25:47,010 The military has been disbanded, and the commander's subordinate 841 01:25:47,010 --> 01:25:50,400 who actually worked on the papers is gone. 842 01:25:50,410 --> 01:25:52,500 Does that mean we have to give the house up? 843 01:25:53,580 --> 01:25:55,900 It can't be helped... 844 01:25:55,910 --> 01:26:01,010 It's one big confusing mess now that we've lost the war. 845 01:26:08,810 --> 01:26:11,050 - Keep it down! - Hitoshi... 846 01:26:11,050 --> 01:26:12,750 If you don't like it, leave this house! 847 01:26:12,750 --> 01:26:16,550 You are lucky we let you stay. 848 01:26:16,550 --> 01:26:18,430 - What's that! - Stop it! 849 01:26:18,430 --> 01:26:20,980 They're so pushy! 850 01:26:20,980 --> 01:26:25,100 We let them stay only because they have nowhere else to go. 851 01:26:25,110 --> 01:26:31,110 Squatters should not say anything! 852 01:26:31,110 --> 01:26:33,570 Don't fight with them! 853 01:26:33,570 --> 01:26:36,180 How much longer must we live like this?! 854 01:26:38,060 --> 01:26:42,100 If we're not going to chase them out, let's just leave ourselves. 855 01:26:42,110 --> 01:26:46,510 I'd rather be homeless than live here with them! 856 01:26:47,110 --> 01:26:51,010 We can't leave until Yuu comes home. 857 01:26:51,010 --> 01:26:53,500 He must return home to us here. 858 01:26:55,810 --> 01:26:58,900 Never mind what they say. 859 01:26:58,910 --> 01:27:03,710 We're lucky that we have a roof over our head. 860 01:27:03,710 --> 01:27:10,230 It doesn't bother me. Your father paid for this house. 861 01:27:10,230 --> 01:27:14,920 And we kept it from burning down in the air raids. 862 01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:18,610 We have no reason to leave here. 863 01:27:18,610 --> 01:27:22,120 They're cooking mochi again... 864 01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,610 Where do they get it? 865 01:27:24,620 --> 01:27:26,920 Tei. 866 01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:32,820 It sure smells good... 867 01:27:34,630 --> 01:27:41,440 Oshin knew how the children felt, and she felt very badly for them. 868 01:27:41,440 --> 01:27:45,880 However, if they were to leave, they'd be without a house. 869 01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:47,540 Oshin had no relatives to count on, 870 01:27:47,540 --> 01:27:51,510 or any money to rent another house. 871 01:27:51,510 --> 01:27:55,000 Oshin's task now was to keep working 872 01:27:55,010 --> 01:27:59,750 as a black marketeer to keep her family fed. 873 01:28:00,830 --> 01:28:07,400 Six months passed quickly... 874 01:28:07,410 --> 01:28:13,370 Be careful. The police are cracking down. 875 01:28:14,430 --> 01:28:18,880 If you get caught, just toss everything and run away. 876 01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:20,650 If you get caught with the goods, 877 01:28:20,650 --> 01:28:25,980 they will use it as proof against you. 878 01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:37,500 It's the cops! 879 01:28:37,510 --> 01:28:39,400 - Run! - Hurry, Mother! 880 01:28:40,140 --> 01:28:43,610 - Mother! - I'm not committing any crime! 881 01:28:46,500 --> 01:28:48,250 Open your bags! 882 01:28:48,250 --> 01:28:51,950 Let's see what you have. 883 01:28:53,930 --> 01:28:55,920 Rice is a rationed goods. 884 01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,320 You can't buy and sell it on your own! 885 01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:02,630 I know that. That's why I'm in business. 886 01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,220 My husband is dead, 887 01:29:06,220 --> 01:29:08,940 and my son isn't home from the war yet. 888 01:29:08,940 --> 01:29:12,640 I have five people to support in my family! 889 01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:16,750 I can't get a job, so this is all I can do! 890 01:29:16,750 --> 01:29:20,610 If you arrest me, my family will starve. 891 01:29:20,610 --> 01:29:23,360 People without money have to die? 892 01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:25,460 Come to the station! 893 01:29:25,460 --> 01:29:31,030 Tell me how we're supposed to live! 894 01:29:31,030 --> 01:29:37,730 Show me a way that I can make a living. 895 01:29:37,730 --> 01:29:41,940 The government has to figure out how all of us 896 01:29:41,940 --> 01:29:44,840 can make an honest living! 897 01:29:44,840 --> 01:29:52,060 Tell your story at the police station! 898 01:29:54,830 --> 01:29:57,260 Tei... 899 01:29:57,260 --> 01:30:00,830 I have some steamed potatoes left. 900 01:30:00,830 --> 01:30:03,870 What is taking Mother so long? 901 01:30:03,870 --> 01:30:06,520 She'll be home soon. 902 01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:13,650 Oh, hello. How are you? 903 01:30:13,650 --> 01:30:15,940 A charming little face. 904 01:30:15,940 --> 01:30:17,820 Look, I have something for you. Some chocolate. 905 01:30:18,550 --> 01:30:19,280 Come on take it. 906 01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:22,000 Go on take it. Jimmy is a nice man. 907 01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:26,130 No! 908 01:30:26,130 --> 01:30:28,970 How rude of you. 909 01:30:28,970 --> 01:30:34,100 Don't you realize what the Americans have done to us! 910 01:30:34,110 --> 01:30:37,620 They killed millions of civilians with bombs! 911 01:30:37,620 --> 01:30:40,670 They even dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 912 01:30:40,670 --> 01:30:43,600 and killed countless innocent people! 913 01:30:43,610 --> 01:30:47,270 We'd rather starve than take handouts from them! 914 01:30:47,270 --> 01:30:48,410 How dare you! 915 01:30:48,410 --> 01:30:51,640 Welcome, Jimmy! 916 01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:54,300 You people are trash! 917 01:30:54,310 --> 01:30:56,950 You are fraternizing with the enemy. 918 01:30:56,950 --> 01:30:59,080 You're whores! 919 01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:01,730 Don't you dare talk like that to us! 920 01:31:01,730 --> 01:31:03,700 I'm just calling you what you really are! 921 01:31:03,710 --> 01:31:08,080 We let you stay because we felt sorry for you. 922 01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:13,080 Now we want you out! Leave first thing tomorrow! 923 01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:17,220 Welcome, Jimmy. Come inside. 924 01:31:17,220 --> 01:31:21,520 We were waiting for you. 925 01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:29,800 Mother... 926 01:31:30,310 --> 01:31:33,540 American soldiers have everything. 927 01:31:33,540 --> 01:31:37,000 The other day, he brought over a big piece of meat. 928 01:31:37,420 --> 01:31:42,020 And their sugar is white and powdery! 929 01:31:42,020 --> 01:31:42,810 Tei! 930 01:31:43,810 --> 01:31:46,750 I should have accepted those chocolate bars... 931 01:31:48,370 --> 01:31:50,920 Hitoshi... 932 01:31:55,530 --> 01:31:59,020 I'm going to Yamagata tomorrow. 933 01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:01,950 What for? 934 01:32:01,950 --> 01:32:05,160 The trains don't run on schedule. It'll take you days to get there. 935 01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:09,450 I want to leave here. 936 01:32:09,450 --> 01:32:13,010 If we don't, our lives will be ruined. 937 01:32:15,070 --> 01:32:15,840 Really? 938 01:32:17,390 --> 01:32:21,340 Maybe I can borrow some money in Yamagata. 939 01:32:21,340 --> 01:32:23,850 We need money to move out of here. 940 01:32:24,260 --> 01:32:28,580 I will quit school and help you work! 941 01:32:28,580 --> 01:32:31,650 Oh, come on... 942 01:32:31,650 --> 01:32:39,090 I want us to leave here so that you kids can study. 943 01:32:39,090 --> 01:32:43,710 I think farmers have it better now. 944 01:32:43,710 --> 01:32:47,080 Maybe they can help. 945 01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:55,780 I don't have anyone else to look to for help. 946 01:33:08,810 --> 01:33:10,430 Thank you very much. 947 01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:12,610 Please come again. 948 01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:33,030 Oshin! 949 01:33:37,070 --> 01:33:40,430 It's been a long time. 950 01:33:40,430 --> 01:33:43,890 I'm glad you came. 951 01:33:43,890 --> 01:33:45,600 It must have been rough getting here. 952 01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:53,960 It's good to see you! Things must be tough in town. 953 01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:58,790 People are coming out here to buy rice. 954 01:33:58,790 --> 01:34:03,370 I've been poor a long time, 955 01:34:03,370 --> 01:34:05,710 but I'm sure glad that I stuck it out! 956 01:34:05,710 --> 01:34:11,270 Soon there won't be any big land- owners or sharecroppers anymore! 957 01:34:13,220 --> 01:34:20,090 Land reforms are bing done under MacArthur's orders. 958 01:34:20,260 --> 01:34:22,070 Is it true? 959 01:34:22,750 --> 01:34:25,580 The farmers are finally winning their freedom. 960 01:34:27,440 --> 01:34:28,880 I'm so glad. 961 01:34:30,060 --> 01:34:37,820 We'll get to buy our own land at low prices. 962 01:34:37,820 --> 01:34:45,370 If you're here for money, we can't help you. 963 01:34:45,370 --> 01:34:51,250 I'm taking out a loan to buy my own land. 964 01:34:51,590 --> 01:34:55,060 Our eldest son is getting married, too. 965 01:34:55,060 --> 01:34:57,950 So we have to build him a new house. 966 01:34:58,530 --> 01:35:04,720 We don't have enough money as it is! 967 01:35:05,550 --> 01:35:13,750 We will be cutting down cedar trees to sell. 968 01:35:13,750 --> 01:35:17,070 Sell the trees for lumber? 969 01:35:17,070 --> 01:35:26,470 Yes. Some trees are more than 40 years old. 970 01:35:26,470 --> 01:35:30,990 It's been 40 years? 971 01:35:33,820 --> 01:35:42,350 I was eight when I helped carry seedlings up here... 972 01:35:42,350 --> 01:35:49,960 We planted trees every day. It was hard work! 973 01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:55,730 I wanted those trees for myself... 974 01:35:55,730 --> 01:36:02,520 I didn't want others to reap the profits of my hard labor. 975 01:36:03,620 --> 01:36:09,700 But now I can't even buy a single tree... 976 01:36:09,700 --> 01:36:11,490 I came here to borrow money. 977 01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:16,990 - Oshin... - Shoji. 978 01:36:18,700 --> 01:36:27,020 Will you loan me ¥1,000 when you sell those trees? 979 01:36:30,290 --> 01:36:38,440 I stayed and suffered here for years... 980 01:36:38,440 --> 01:36:42,110 I wanted to leave countless times. 981 01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:49,520 It was a long rough haul... 982 01:36:51,330 --> 01:36:59,680 But now the cedars and the fields... 983 01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:07,000 The land I paid for with my sweat and blood will be mine! 984 01:37:08,260 --> 01:37:13,040 Everything I have, I paid for with my life. 985 01:37:17,230 --> 01:37:23,050 Come on inside! 986 01:37:24,420 --> 01:37:30,530 Stay with us, and eat your fill. 987 01:37:30,530 --> 01:37:35,490 That's all we can do for you now. 988 01:38:08,910 --> 01:38:12,480 Oshin had a lot to say to her brother. 989 01:38:12,480 --> 01:38:16,530 But she kept it to herself. 990 01:38:16,530 --> 01:38:21,770 She was sorry to have even considered depending on her brother. 991 01:38:21,770 --> 01:38:28,410 She returned to Ise with only the memories of their hospitality. 992 01:38:28,410 --> 01:38:31,520 Sadness dwelled within her. 993 01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:43,010 Episode 223 994 01:38:45,070 --> 01:38:47,630 It must have been a rough trip. 995 01:38:47,630 --> 01:38:51,110 You rode a freight car from Ueno? 996 01:38:51,110 --> 01:38:54,980 The trip wasn't a problem. 997 01:38:54,980 --> 01:39:02,340 But I regret having gone all the way to Yamagata. 998 01:39:02,340 --> 01:39:03,780 Mother... 999 01:39:05,490 --> 01:39:10,290 I'm not begrudging them for refusing me a loan. 1000 01:39:10,290 --> 01:39:17,030 I hate myself for having had to ask for help. 1001 01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:24,000 But I feel better having gone through it. 1002 01:39:24,860 --> 01:39:29,250 We just have to work it out for ourselves. 1003 01:39:29,250 --> 01:39:32,180 That means we'll have to stay here longer? 1004 01:39:32,440 --> 01:39:37,340 I'm going to keep working. As a black marketeer. 1005 01:39:37,340 --> 01:39:40,750 I don't care how many times I get arrested, 1006 01:39:40,750 --> 01:39:43,430 I'm going to keep at my trade! 1007 01:39:44,200 --> 01:39:49,220 I'll save my money and move out of here. 1008 01:39:49,220 --> 01:39:54,710 We'll get a house for Yuu to return to. 1009 01:39:54,710 --> 01:39:58,770 I'll do all I can to help! 1010 01:40:08,550 --> 01:40:09,490 Yuu...? 1011 01:40:12,780 --> 01:40:13,720 Yuu! 1012 01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:14,990 Mother! 1013 01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:24,000 Yuu! 1014 01:40:29,380 --> 01:40:32,030 I'm sorry... 1015 01:40:32,030 --> 01:40:33,810 I thought you were my son. 1016 01:40:36,440 --> 01:40:40,610 It's been a long time. I'm Kawamura. 1017 01:40:42,680 --> 01:40:48,250 Remember him? He was in the regiment with Yuu! 1018 01:40:49,780 --> 01:40:52,690 You're his army buddy? 1019 01:40:52,690 --> 01:40:58,270 I remember you fed us ohagi on visiting day. 1020 01:40:58,270 --> 01:41:03,730 I'm so glad you're safe! When did you get back? 1021 01:41:03,730 --> 01:41:06,080 I arrived in Japan about three days ago. 1022 01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:08,930 I came straight here. 1023 01:41:08,930 --> 01:41:12,760 Please come inside. 1024 01:41:12,760 --> 01:41:15,020 Come inside! 1025 01:41:16,870 --> 01:41:21,850 I brought you back Cadet Tanokura's belongings! 1026 01:41:23,450 --> 01:41:32,180 He died in action on April 18, 1945! 1027 01:41:32,180 --> 01:41:34,670 It was an honorable death in Luzon! 1028 01:41:40,530 --> 01:41:43,740 This is all I could manage to save... 1029 01:41:44,850 --> 01:41:51,030 It's his diary. I knew that you'd want to keep it. 1030 01:41:58,580 --> 01:42:03,010 You can read it for yourself. 1031 01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:09,020 I won't glorify his death. 1032 01:42:11,630 --> 01:42:15,510 He starved to death. 1033 01:42:19,690 --> 01:42:21,540 Starved? 1034 01:42:21,830 --> 01:42:25,250 The military knew the war was a lost cause. 1035 01:42:26,090 --> 01:42:29,600 Yet they sent virtuous, promising people like Tanokura there! 1036 01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:34,090 I can't forgive the military, and I hate war! 1037 01:42:34,090 --> 01:42:38,030 That's why I'm telling this to you now. 1038 01:42:38,030 --> 01:42:40,140 Tanokura shouldn't have died that way! 1039 01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:48,890 He was killed slowly, but surely! 1040 01:42:48,890 --> 01:42:51,740 Stop it! Please... 1041 01:42:51,740 --> 01:42:53,050 Hatsuko... 1042 01:42:56,100 --> 01:43:03,520 He talked about you a lot. You meant everything to him. 1043 01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:06,660 If you don't keep him alive in your memory, 1044 01:43:06,660 --> 01:43:10,200 he will never rest in peace. 1045 01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:16,810 You must hate those who killed him! 1046 01:43:16,810 --> 01:43:18,880 Otherwise, his death would have been for nothing. 1047 01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:29,950 He kept saying 1048 01:43:29,950 --> 01:43:32,950 that he promised his mother that he'd come back to her. 1049 01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:36,920 He would've crawled back to Japan if he had to! 1050 01:43:41,500 --> 01:43:44,530 But... 1051 01:43:45,960 --> 01:43:50,500 Malaria finally got him... 1052 01:43:51,730 --> 01:43:56,000 Then the American patrols fell upon us... 1053 01:43:56,770 --> 01:43:58,650 He was too weak to escape... 1054 01:44:05,020 --> 01:44:08,880 I offered to carry him on my back. 1055 01:44:08,880 --> 01:44:14,330 But he refused... He said he was tired of running. 1056 01:44:18,430 --> 01:44:23,020 He gave me his diary to give to you... 1057 01:44:23,020 --> 01:44:28,510 He said he was sorry he couldn't fulfill his promise to you... 1058 01:44:28,510 --> 01:44:35,530 But he was happy to end his suffering... 1059 01:44:47,160 --> 01:44:51,500 The other soldiers all perished, too. 1060 01:44:52,650 --> 01:44:54,970 They all starved, too! 1061 01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:58,510 It hurts... 1062 01:45:00,750 --> 01:45:05,740 It hurts me to remember... 1063 01:45:09,010 --> 01:45:13,010 We weren't living as human beings! 1064 01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:19,040 I couldn't even... 1065 01:45:19,730 --> 01:45:28,500 ...bring his ashes home. 1066 01:45:29,860 --> 01:45:34,490 Please forgive me! 1067 01:46:01,630 --> 01:46:05,010 Kawamura... 1068 01:46:07,350 --> 01:46:09,410 Thank you. 1069 01:46:13,860 --> 01:46:27,510 I know it was very hard for you to tell me about Yuu. 1070 01:46:29,420 --> 01:46:35,630 I'm so full of regret... 1071 01:46:37,810 --> 01:46:43,510 Why did we have to go through this? 1072 01:46:46,660 --> 01:46:56,520 Why were we sacrificed in a senseless battle? 1073 01:46:59,890 --> 01:47:04,010 No more wars... 1074 01:47:05,610 --> 01:47:09,500 Never again! 1075 01:47:52,880 --> 01:48:00,160 Mother... It's true that man can live on water alone. 1076 01:48:00,160 --> 01:48:04,150 We've been marching along a mountain stream, 1077 01:48:04,150 --> 01:48:07,910 and we have lots of water to drink. 1078 01:48:07,910 --> 01:48:13,110 We've been living on weeds and water. 1079 01:48:13,110 --> 01:48:19,060 I have no more body tissue to lose. 1080 01:48:19,060 --> 01:48:21,010 I want to eat the curry you always make. 1081 01:48:22,690 --> 01:48:26,360 As a child, whenever we had curry, 1082 01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:30,950 I'd loosen my belt before sitting down to eat. 1083 01:48:30,950 --> 01:48:38,370 I realize now, that was true happiness. 1084 01:48:38,370 --> 01:48:42,730 Will those days ever return? 1085 01:48:44,040 --> 01:48:49,680 How happy I was... 1086 01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:55,640 I realize it now, but it's too late. 1087 01:48:57,050 --> 01:49:05,450 I could really enjoy your curry now. 1088 01:49:05,450 --> 01:49:10,970 But it's too late... 1089 01:49:14,100 --> 01:49:18,920 Mother... I remember the rice balls you used to 1090 01:49:18,920 --> 01:49:23,500 make with burnt rice and soy sauce. 1091 01:49:24,730 --> 01:49:34,130 The gomoku rice you used to make with all the trimmings. 1092 01:49:34,130 --> 01:49:42,220 The ohagi rice cakes with bean jam. 1093 01:49:43,790 --> 01:49:48,260 Everything you made was delicious. 1094 01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:11,530 I'm not very manly. 1095 01:50:11,530 --> 01:50:19,280 But I sometimes wonder why I'm here in this tropical hell. 1096 01:50:19,280 --> 01:50:24,360 Why must I wander aimlessly in the jungle, half-starved? 1097 01:50:24,360 --> 01:50:29,410 Why? And for whom? 1098 01:50:29,410 --> 01:50:34,300 Mother... Please tell me. 1099 01:50:34,300 --> 01:50:40,450 Before my country. Before the Emperor. 1100 01:50:40,450 --> 01:50:45,110 My first responsibility was to you! 1101 01:50:46,230 --> 01:50:51,990 Mother... I'm sorry. 1102 01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:55,000 That night, Oshin played the harmonica 1103 01:51:55,000 --> 01:52:01,510 that Shunsaku, the deserter had given her. 1104 01:52:02,360 --> 01:52:06,760 She hated herself for having been taught about the horrors of war, 1105 01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:10,440 and not standing up against it. 1106 01:52:10,440 --> 01:52:17,340 The music was also a requiem for both Ryuzo and Yuu. 1107 01:52:17,340 --> 01:52:20,570 Oshin finally understood the pain 1108 01:52:20,570 --> 01:52:29,500 that Shunsaku experienced whenever he played the harmonica. 1109 01:52:34,030 --> 01:52:38,670 Episode 224 1110 01:52:42,630 --> 01:52:48,200 Mother... Japan is so far away. 1111 01:52:49,460 --> 01:52:54,400 I don't think I can keep my promise to you. 1112 01:52:54,400 --> 01:53:00,010 I'll have to break the promise I made to Hatsuko, too. 1113 01:53:00,010 --> 01:53:06,020 Please tell her to forget me, and have her find happiness in life. 1114 01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:11,300 If I could be reborn, 1115 01:53:11,310 --> 01:53:13,400 I'd like to come back to a world without war. 1116 01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:19,270 But I'd still like to be your son. 1117 01:53:19,270 --> 01:53:22,440 And meet Hatsuko again. 1118 01:53:22,440 --> 01:53:25,140 I'd be a filial son to you. 1119 01:53:26,300 --> 01:53:30,810 And Hatsuko and I could be happy. 1120 01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:38,680 I can't take it anymore! 1121 01:53:38,680 --> 01:53:40,940 Let's leave this house. Right away! 1122 01:53:40,940 --> 01:53:42,000 Hitoshi... 1123 01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:43,930 Father and Yuu won't be able to rest in peace 1124 01:53:43,930 --> 01:53:47,380 if they have to put up with that music! 1125 01:53:47,380 --> 01:53:48,500 Don't you feel badly for them? 1126 01:53:49,080 --> 01:53:52,700 It can't be helped. 1127 01:53:52,710 --> 01:53:58,010 I'll work hard and earn lots of money. 1128 01:53:59,410 --> 01:54:05,280 Father is gone, and Yuu isn't coming back. 1129 01:54:05,280 --> 01:54:07,250 It's all up to me now. 1130 01:54:10,400 --> 01:54:13,060 I'll never count on anyone ever again! 1131 01:54:15,050 --> 01:54:23,700 I'll regain everything that this war has taken from me. 1132 01:54:23,710 --> 01:54:28,400 I'll get it all back, on my own! 1133 01:54:28,410 --> 01:54:31,070 I will help. 1134 01:54:31,650 --> 01:54:36,230 I don't need to go to college. I don't want to live like this. 1135 01:54:36,230 --> 01:54:39,020 I don't want to be hungry anymore! 1136 01:54:39,020 --> 01:54:42,880 We'll be miserable forever if we have no money. 1137 01:54:42,880 --> 01:54:43,770 Hitoshi. 1138 01:54:43,770 --> 01:54:45,480 Isn't that so?! 1139 01:54:45,480 --> 01:54:48,350 Those who have money rule the world now! 1140 01:54:48,350 --> 01:54:51,280 Think about it... We have to go to farmers, 1141 01:54:51,280 --> 01:54:53,700 whom we used to look down upon for our food. 1142 01:54:54,460 --> 01:55:00,150 The successful are those with a full stomach. 1143 01:55:00,150 --> 01:55:03,800 To be a starving college graduate is meaningless! 1144 01:55:03,810 --> 01:55:08,450 He's right. I'm not taking my entrance exams! 1145 01:55:08,450 --> 01:55:10,420 You, too? 1146 01:55:10,700 --> 01:55:13,920 Please let me do what I want to do. 1147 01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:20,730 You both just want to get out of studying for entrance exams. 1148 01:55:22,180 --> 01:55:24,310 What is it that you want to do? 1149 01:55:24,310 --> 01:55:25,700 I don't know yet, 1150 01:55:25,710 --> 01:55:30,770 but I'm talking about after I'm finished with middle school. 1151 01:55:40,450 --> 01:55:46,740 Had I the chance to pick my own fate, 1152 01:55:46,740 --> 01:55:50,830 what would I have become? 1153 01:55:50,830 --> 01:55:53,700 I don't want to take over Father's business. 1154 01:55:55,050 --> 01:55:58,900 A historian? Or a college professor? 1155 01:55:58,910 --> 01:56:02,780 Maybe a teacher or a novelist. 1156 01:56:02,780 --> 01:56:07,340 If I could choose, 1157 01:56:07,340 --> 01:56:09,810 I'd have a difficult time deciding. 1158 01:56:10,400 --> 01:56:17,310 I long for freedom, but freedom isn't easily gained. 1159 01:56:17,310 --> 01:56:21,200 Is it because we're not used to freedom? 1160 01:56:21,210 --> 01:56:28,820 Just once... I wish I could have lived freely. 1161 01:56:31,480 --> 01:56:37,830 I told you to take the day off. 1162 01:56:37,830 --> 01:56:41,800 You haven't slept, and you haven't eaten. 1163 01:56:41,810 --> 01:56:48,770 You'll wear yourself out. 1164 01:56:50,700 --> 01:56:55,280 I'm sorry to make you worry. 1165 01:57:03,780 --> 01:57:04,860 Hatsuko. 1166 01:57:08,760 --> 01:57:17,010 I never talked about the two of you getting together, 1167 01:57:17,010 --> 01:57:22,310 because I thought it would be hard on you. 1168 01:57:23,540 --> 01:57:27,470 But I still think of you as my daughter, 1169 01:57:27,470 --> 01:57:31,180 and not just because Yuu is dead. 1170 01:57:34,000 --> 01:57:39,700 You give me so much strength to go on. 1171 01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:47,850 But for you to remain with us 1172 01:57:47,850 --> 01:57:52,150 would mean that you'd constantly be reminded of Yuu. 1173 01:57:52,150 --> 01:57:54,840 It would be painful for you... 1174 01:57:58,680 --> 01:58:09,280 Maybe it's best that you return to Yamagata and forget Yuu. 1175 01:58:09,940 --> 01:58:14,900 Find a nice man to marry. 1176 01:58:15,730 --> 01:58:20,880 Yuu wrote that in his diary. 1177 01:58:20,880 --> 01:58:24,920 And that's how it should be. 1178 01:58:26,150 --> 01:58:33,290 That would give me a sense of relief, too. 1179 01:58:37,350 --> 01:58:41,230 You're still young! 1180 01:58:42,450 --> 01:58:48,230 But I don't really know what to do to help you now. 1181 01:58:50,750 --> 01:58:56,600 If you're helping me out of a sense of obligation, 1182 01:58:56,610 --> 01:59:00,300 it's not necessary. 1183 01:59:02,180 --> 01:59:09,650 Going home to your parents can help you to forget Yuu... 1184 01:59:14,080 --> 01:59:16,700 I'm saying this for your own good. 1185 01:59:21,920 --> 01:59:24,510 You understand, don't you? 1186 01:59:46,120 --> 01:59:48,830 Hatsuko... 1187 01:59:50,770 --> 01:59:53,100 Hatsuko. 1188 02:00:17,980 --> 02:00:20,330 Hatsuko? 1189 02:00:24,760 --> 02:00:29,800 Hatsuko is gone. Where could she be? 1190 02:00:30,120 --> 02:00:33,810 I found this note under her bedding. 1191 02:00:34,170 --> 02:00:38,140 It's a letter from Hatsuko. 1192 02:00:41,580 --> 02:00:46,750 Dear Mother, I've decided to leave you, after all. 1193 02:00:48,040 --> 02:00:53,770 I've lived a life, and that life is over now. 1194 02:00:53,770 --> 02:00:56,470 I was very happy. 1195 02:00:56,470 --> 02:01:00,630 I'll never forget what everybody did for me. 1196 02:01:00,630 --> 02:01:03,620 I know I should tell you this in person, 1197 02:01:03,620 --> 02:01:06,430 but that would've been too hard on me. 1198 02:01:06,430 --> 02:01:08,840 Please forgive me. 1199 02:01:08,840 --> 02:01:10,470 Why did she do this? 1200 02:01:10,730 --> 02:01:13,850 She's deeply hurt by Yuu's death. 1201 02:01:13,850 --> 02:01:16,600 Where could she have gone? 1202 02:01:16,610 --> 02:01:20,620 She has gone home to Yamagata... 1203 02:01:20,620 --> 02:01:23,960 I told her to go. 1204 02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:28,140 Then why did she sneak away? 1205 02:01:28,140 --> 02:01:32,480 Now that she knows that Yuu will never come home, 1206 02:01:32,480 --> 02:01:33,860 she just left us! 1207 02:01:34,840 --> 02:01:37,340 You don't know how she really feels! 1208 02:01:37,340 --> 02:01:39,010 I know! 1209 02:01:39,010 --> 02:01:43,340 But it was her duty to put her personal sorrow to rest, 1210 02:01:43,340 --> 02:01:48,080 and help you! 1211 02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:50,540 She knows how hard you have to work. 1212 02:01:50,540 --> 02:01:53,450 Now she all of sudden leaves for Yamagata! 1213 02:01:53,450 --> 02:02:02,340 I didn't take her in so that she could help me. 1214 02:02:02,340 --> 02:02:06,790 That's not why I raised her. 1215 02:02:07,460 --> 02:02:14,180 Hatsuko has done so much for us... 1216 02:02:14,180 --> 02:02:17,410 I'm happy for all that she's done. 1217 02:02:22,910 --> 02:02:25,230 - Mother! - We're home. 1218 02:02:25,230 --> 02:02:29,820 Did a letter come from Hatsuko? 1219 02:02:30,340 --> 02:02:35,400 She could at least tell us that she arrived home safely. 1220 02:02:35,400 --> 02:02:41,000 You have a visitor. She insisted on waiting. 1221 02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:43,440 Who could it be? 1222 02:02:45,460 --> 02:02:46,740 Oshin. 1223 02:02:49,950 --> 02:02:54,020 I'm so glad to see you! 1224 02:02:54,020 --> 02:02:58,230 When did you get back? 1225 02:02:58,230 --> 02:03:03,260 Four or five days ago. I couldn't wait to see you! 1226 02:03:03,260 --> 02:03:04,610 It's been such a long time. 1227 02:03:04,610 --> 02:03:10,670 The world was in turmoil all around us. 1228 02:03:10,880 --> 02:03:15,980 We each had to survive on our own. 1229 02:03:15,980 --> 02:03:20,580 But I'm so glad you're safe! 1230 02:03:23,420 --> 02:03:29,480 When you're little girl showed me in... 1231 02:03:30,870 --> 02:03:35,830 I saw the picture of Ryuzo and Yuu on the altar... 1232 02:03:35,830 --> 02:03:38,480 It came as such a shock to me... 1233 02:03:41,800 --> 02:03:48,810 Thank you for all you've done for us. 1234 02:03:49,980 --> 02:03:54,840 You took such good care of my Yuu. 1235 02:03:59,630 --> 02:04:04,450 How is everybody in your family? 1236 02:04:04,450 --> 02:04:11,350 My son's house in Tokyo didn't burn down. 1237 02:04:11,350 --> 02:04:14,320 They're all safe. 1238 02:04:14,320 --> 02:04:16,300 Why are you here? 1239 02:04:16,300 --> 02:04:19,160 I'm back to stay! 1240 02:04:19,420 --> 02:04:24,270 We can put boats out to fish again. 1241 02:04:24,270 --> 02:04:25,950 Because of the food shortage, 1242 02:04:25,950 --> 02:04:31,070 they have a gasoline ration for fishing boats. 1243 02:04:31,930 --> 02:04:35,350 Then it's like the old days? 1244 02:04:35,350 --> 02:04:37,100 Yes. 1245 02:04:37,100 --> 02:04:44,920 None of my own boys want to be fishermen. 1246 02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:50,160 So it's all up to me again! 1247 02:04:51,590 --> 02:04:54,450 I see. 1248 02:04:54,450 --> 02:04:56,870 You're back to stay? 1249 02:04:57,350 --> 02:05:04,210 Ise is so nice... I love the sea! 1250 02:05:04,210 --> 02:05:08,580 My house is still there, too. 1251 02:05:09,710 --> 02:05:19,280 I miss that house on the seashore... 1252 02:05:19,280 --> 02:05:29,000 I've been wanting to go there, but I've been much too busy. 1253 02:05:29,000 --> 02:05:34,340 Come home with me. 1254 02:05:34,340 --> 02:05:38,630 Tei has told me about your problem. 1255 02:05:38,630 --> 02:05:43,420 Is it true that there's a deed dispute? 1256 02:05:44,900 --> 02:05:48,750 There's been so many misunderstandings... 1257 02:05:48,750 --> 02:05:51,890 They want you out of the house? 1258 02:05:53,140 --> 02:05:55,960 Tei has told you all that? 1259 02:05:55,960 --> 02:05:59,560 So it's true... 1260 02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:03,230 Then why stay where you're not wanted? 1261 02:06:03,230 --> 02:06:06,870 Let's all live together again. 1262 02:06:06,870 --> 02:06:16,060 It would be good for me, too. 1263 02:06:16,560 --> 02:06:21,620 So come home with me! 1264 02:06:22,100 --> 02:06:24,300 Hisa... 1265 02:06:28,650 --> 02:06:33,530 Episode 225 1266 02:06:41,100 --> 02:06:43,870 Thank you. 1267 02:06:50,380 --> 02:06:53,880 This is the last bundle. 1268 02:07:01,670 --> 02:07:08,400 We're leaving the house that your father bought us... 1269 02:07:08,410 --> 02:07:10,900 Mother! 1270 02:07:11,920 --> 02:07:18,660 I know. We'll soon be able to buy another one. 1271 02:07:18,660 --> 02:07:23,400 I'll build us a bigger, better house! 1272 02:07:30,770 --> 02:07:34,630 Mail for you. 1273 02:07:34,630 --> 02:07:38,410 Thank you. 1274 02:07:38,410 --> 02:07:40,630 It's from Hatsuko! 1275 02:07:46,000 --> 02:07:46,540 Oh. 1276 02:07:47,050 --> 02:07:52,410 What's all this money? 1277 02:07:54,470 --> 02:07:57,930 I'm doing well, so don't worry. 1278 02:07:57,930 --> 02:08:01,920 Please make use of the money enclosed. 1279 02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:06,750 I'll send you more soon. - Hatsuko 1280 02:08:06,750 --> 02:08:08,960 What's going on? 1281 02:08:08,960 --> 02:08:11,780 That's all it says. 1282 02:08:11,780 --> 02:08:14,430 Where is she? 1283 02:08:14,430 --> 02:08:17,460 There's no return address. 1284 02:08:17,460 --> 02:08:19,380 What is she thinking? 1285 02:08:19,380 --> 02:08:22,700 All this money! 1286 02:08:22,710 --> 02:08:25,610 She didn't go home, and she's working somewhere. 1287 02:08:25,610 --> 02:08:29,110 Then why doesn't she tell us where she is? 1288 02:08:29,110 --> 02:08:34,160 Sending us money like this! 1289 02:08:34,680 --> 02:08:37,820 Look, Hitoshi. 1290 02:08:37,820 --> 02:08:43,160 The postmark says Tokyo. She's in Tokyo! 1291 02:08:43,160 --> 02:08:46,280 What could she be doing in Tokyo? 1292 02:08:46,280 --> 02:08:48,720 I'm sure there is a lot of work in Tokyo. 1293 02:08:48,720 --> 02:08:50,940 Maybe she'll write to us again soon. 1294 02:08:50,940 --> 02:08:55,880 Let's finish up before it gets too late. 1295 02:09:54,370 --> 02:09:57,660 Mother... 1296 02:10:02,410 --> 02:10:05,880 Mother... 1297 02:10:43,780 --> 02:10:45,680 Oshin. 1298 02:10:53,460 --> 02:10:58,900 I never thought we would meet again. 1299 02:11:07,250 --> 02:11:12,810 You seem well. I'm so glad. 1300 02:11:16,840 --> 02:11:20,120 Is your husband well, too? 1301 02:11:58,370 --> 02:12:05,900 It's hard to believe that your husband and Yuu are gone... 1302 02:12:07,650 --> 02:12:11,920 Ryuzo committed suicide. 1303 02:12:11,920 --> 02:12:16,820 He didn't die of an illness? 1304 02:12:16,820 --> 02:12:19,820 Why? 1305 02:12:19,820 --> 02:12:24,700 He felt responsible. 1306 02:12:24,710 --> 02:12:26,860 Responsible? 1307 02:12:26,860 --> 02:12:32,540 What did he do that he had to pay for with his own life? 1308 02:12:32,540 --> 02:12:35,400 He cooperated in the war effort. 1309 02:12:37,950 --> 02:12:44,530 He sold fish and goods to the military. 1310 02:12:44,530 --> 02:12:49,540 He even owned a military uniform factory. 1311 02:12:49,540 --> 02:12:57,650 That wasn't much. If everyone felt that way, 1312 02:12:57,650 --> 02:13:01,620 there wouldn't be a single former military man left alive! 1313 02:13:01,620 --> 02:13:04,750 Everybody is a war criminal! 1314 02:13:08,030 --> 02:13:18,270 Everything he ever believed in collapsed around him... 1315 02:13:20,760 --> 02:13:26,410 He didn't want to keep living anymore. 1316 02:13:28,900 --> 02:13:37,750 It was his way of life. That's how I've accepted it. 1317 02:13:37,750 --> 02:13:41,080 That's true. 1318 02:13:41,080 --> 02:13:43,060 There are those like me, 1319 02:13:43,060 --> 02:13:47,520 who changed their convictions along the way 1320 02:13:47,520 --> 02:13:53,740 in order to keep living. 1321 02:13:53,740 --> 02:13:59,240 Compared to me, he was honorable. 1322 02:14:03,280 --> 02:14:09,630 We had our share of problems... 1323 02:14:09,650 --> 02:14:16,380 But I don't regret having been his wife. 1324 02:14:18,030 --> 02:14:27,470 I'll always be proud that I was his wife. 1325 02:14:30,650 --> 02:14:32,410 Oshin... 1326 02:14:37,320 --> 02:14:46,740 Thinking back... My life seems so empty. 1327 02:14:46,740 --> 02:14:52,130 I'd given my youth for agricultural land reforms. 1328 02:14:52,130 --> 02:14:54,670 And as soon as Japan loses a war, 1329 02:14:54,670 --> 02:14:59,880 all that we worked so hard for is suddenly a reality. 1330 02:15:01,850 --> 02:15:08,340 What was it that we worked so hard for? 1331 02:15:10,740 --> 02:15:19,580 We were called traitors and criminals, 1332 02:15:19,580 --> 02:15:23,160 for not having actively supported the war. 1333 02:15:23,160 --> 02:15:27,030 Now everybody is anti-war! 1334 02:15:28,660 --> 02:15:31,400 I'm the same way. 1335 02:15:31,410 --> 02:15:36,170 I let my husband and son die, because I didn't do enough. 1336 02:15:40,470 --> 02:15:45,580 I won't be fooled anymore. 1337 02:15:45,580 --> 02:15:50,580 I'll live my life as I see fit! 1338 02:16:04,850 --> 02:16:12,380 I lost my shop in the bombings. 1339 02:16:12,380 --> 02:16:17,410 I sell things out of a shack now. 1340 02:16:21,350 --> 02:16:30,800 If I can be of help to you, please let me know. 1341 02:16:32,280 --> 02:16:40,560 I'm a coward who changed my life so that I could live. 1342 02:16:40,560 --> 02:16:46,770 My duty now is to help others survive. 1343 02:16:52,710 --> 02:16:56,750 Thank you. 1344 02:16:57,280 --> 02:16:59,160 Hisa! 1345 02:16:59,160 --> 02:16:59,940 How did it go? 1346 02:16:59,940 --> 02:17:02,980 We caught so much fish! We were only out on a trial run. 1347 02:17:02,980 --> 02:17:04,810 Really? 1348 02:17:04,810 --> 02:17:07,740 We'll surely bring in great catches for a couple of years! 1349 02:17:07,740 --> 02:17:09,860 I'll be right there! 1350 02:17:09,860 --> 02:17:13,230 I'll go see what they caught. 1351 02:17:13,230 --> 02:17:17,310 But we'll start selling fish first thing in the morning! 1352 02:17:17,570 --> 02:17:19,640 - Okay? - Yes. 1353 02:17:40,730 --> 02:17:52,420 Yuu and I often walked along this beach... 1354 02:17:55,060 --> 02:17:59,920 Yuu is now dead... 1355 02:18:00,780 --> 02:18:08,740 but I'm about to start selling fish again, pushing a cart. 1356 02:18:08,740 --> 02:18:12,230 Oshin... 1357 02:18:13,550 --> 02:18:18,980 It's hardest on those who are left behind... 1358 02:18:18,980 --> 02:18:21,740 But we've survived. 1359 02:19:06,630 --> 02:19:13,340 It was time for Oshin to start over again. 1360 02:19:13,340 --> 02:19:21,930 She vowed to regain all that she had lost in the war. 1361 02:19:32,430 --> 02:19:40,480 It was the summer of 1946, and Oshin was 46 years old. 1362 02:20:21,010 --> 02:20:25,400 Translation: UTB Channel 1363 02:20:21,010 --> 02:20:25,410 Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts. 102652