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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,765 --> 00:00:10,328 As the 'China Incident' dragged on and daily necessities ran short... 2 00:00:10,938 --> 00:00:15,068 my grandfather, the ex-police chief, came to Tokyo again... 3 00:00:15,309 --> 00:00:18,767 and summoned us to an inn in Yotsuya. 4 00:00:19,112 --> 00:00:21,103 We're going out! 5 00:00:24,585 --> 00:00:25,552 You're here? 6 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:27,380 Oh, no! 7 00:00:29,356 --> 00:00:30,789 Come this way. 8 00:00:40,367 --> 00:00:41,391 Here. 9 00:00:42,769 --> 00:00:44,828 I've brought the eggs. 10 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:49,805 They said we can have more meat if there's not enough. 11 00:00:51,545 --> 00:00:54,139 Can you break your own egg? 12 00:00:54,314 --> 00:00:55,303 Yes. 13 00:01:03,323 --> 00:01:05,723 What a waste! 14 00:01:09,229 --> 00:01:11,060 I'll bring a cloth. 15 00:01:14,868 --> 00:01:17,837 Father, who is that lady? 16 00:01:18,505 --> 00:01:20,803 My new wife. 17 00:01:22,609 --> 00:01:25,271 Why didn't you introduce us? 18 00:01:25,679 --> 00:01:28,477 I was just about to. 19 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,678 Thank you. 20 00:01:37,291 --> 00:01:40,351 You don't see much beef these days. 21 00:01:41,862 --> 00:01:44,660 There. Another egg. 22 00:01:44,998 --> 00:01:46,363 Thank you. 23 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:53,002 This inn's connected with the police. You can get anything you want. 24 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,374 I'll do the beef now. 25 00:01:59,846 --> 00:02:03,839 I should have spoken sooner. I'm his eldest daughter, Kayo. 26 00:02:04,017 --> 00:02:06,110 My father is in your care. 27 00:02:07,220 --> 00:02:09,120 Not at all. 28 00:02:10,023 --> 00:02:13,186 I understand your husband is in prison. 29 00:02:13,727 --> 00:02:16,161 I'm sorry we're so much trouble. 30 00:02:16,463 --> 00:02:20,797 I'm sure you're worried. The food must be awful in there. 31 00:02:20,968 --> 00:02:22,492 Sure it is! 32 00:02:23,036 --> 00:02:28,736 Soldiers out fighting for the nation don't even get decent food. 33 00:02:29,142 --> 00:02:33,442 Japan doesn't have the rice to feed traitors. 34 00:02:33,614 --> 00:02:34,945 Yes, dear. 35 00:02:35,315 --> 00:02:37,442 There you go. 36 00:02:38,485 --> 00:02:42,785 Kayo, did you read my letter? 37 00:02:42,956 --> 00:02:47,017 You resigned as head of the Community Center? 38 00:02:47,194 --> 00:02:51,290 I couldn't very well be a public servant... 39 00:02:51,565 --> 00:02:55,433 with my son-in-law in jail for thought crimes. 40 00:02:55,602 --> 00:02:57,900 Father, I'm sorry. 41 00:02:58,472 --> 00:03:03,307 I wonder if Shigeru could think about that? 42 00:03:04,044 --> 00:03:10,643 Whose fault is it a little woman like you has things so hard... 43 00:03:10,817 --> 00:03:17,086 out working, not eating right, keeping two girls in school? 44 00:03:17,658 --> 00:03:20,183 Spouting those foolish ideas... 45 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,488 and bringing grief to everyone around him! 46 00:03:24,398 --> 00:03:28,095 How's he going to change the world... 47 00:03:28,301 --> 00:03:32,203 when he can't even look after his own family? 48 00:03:32,372 --> 00:03:33,634 Isn't that so? 49 00:03:33,807 --> 00:03:36,275 Let them eat, will you? 50 00:03:36,443 --> 00:03:37,876 You keep quiet! 51 00:03:39,179 --> 00:03:41,477 So Kayo... 52 00:03:41,682 --> 00:03:48,417 Shigeru's written a recantation, hasn't he? 53 00:03:48,622 --> 00:03:52,786 He's written one, but they threw it back at him. 54 00:03:53,126 --> 00:03:55,720 I saw the Prosecutor today. 55 00:03:56,029 --> 00:03:59,328 I said Shigeru's had a change of heart... 56 00:03:59,499 --> 00:04:03,765 and sincerely regrets his past mistakes. 57 00:04:04,504 --> 00:04:05,698 Why? 58 00:04:06,339 --> 00:04:09,308 Why does he have to ha v e a change of heart? 59 00:04:10,477 --> 00:04:14,811 I don't believe that his ideas are foolish at all. 60 00:04:16,016 --> 00:04:18,109 Can this be?! 61 00:04:19,386 --> 00:04:24,881 My own daughter, professing treason? 62 00:04:26,727 --> 00:04:28,285 Father... 63 00:04:28,762 --> 00:04:33,631 I have never once regretted marrying Shigeru. 64 00:04:34,568 --> 00:04:39,403 If that's professing treason, then I'm guilty. 65 00:04:40,807 --> 00:04:45,267 Divorce Shigeru and come home to Yamaguchi. 66 00:04:45,445 --> 00:04:49,074 No. I will wait until he comes back. 67 00:04:53,854 --> 00:04:58,757 Then cut your throat and kill yourself here and now. 68 00:04:58,925 --> 00:05:01,291 And I'll do the same! 69 00:05:01,461 --> 00:05:02,428 Go on! 70 00:05:02,596 --> 00:05:06,123 Stop acting like a fool! 71 00:05:06,466 --> 00:05:08,263 The children are here! 72 00:05:11,872 --> 00:05:13,066 Kayo... 73 00:05:13,740 --> 00:05:15,139 forgive him. 74 00:05:16,843 --> 00:05:22,042 Back home they're all talking about how his son-in-law's a traitor. 75 00:05:22,482 --> 00:05:27,215 It's like your father's lying on a bed of nails. 76 00:05:28,355 --> 00:05:29,879 I realize that. 77 00:05:30,924 --> 00:05:32,186 Oh? 78 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:39,258 You understand my position, yet you continue to defy me? 79 00:05:39,699 --> 00:05:43,135 Then I've made up my mind. 80 00:05:43,870 --> 00:05:45,462 I disown you. 81 00:05:45,672 --> 00:05:47,401 You're no daughter of mine! 82 00:05:47,574 --> 00:05:48,871 Stop it! 83 00:05:49,042 --> 00:05:49,872 No... 84 00:05:50,043 --> 00:05:51,374 Out of my sight! 85 00:05:51,545 --> 00:05:52,512 We're going. 86 00:05:52,679 --> 00:05:54,772 Hatsuko, Terumi... 87 00:05:55,682 --> 00:05:57,513 The poor things! 88 00:05:58,685 --> 00:06:02,143 Take good care of my father. 89 00:06:09,496 --> 00:06:15,230 Talking like that after those girls came to see their grandfather! 90 00:06:16,169 --> 00:06:19,661 At least they could have had their sukiyaki... 91 00:06:34,254 --> 00:06:36,984 Stop that crying, will you! 92 00:06:37,724 --> 00:06:40,215 I wanted to eat beef! 93 00:06:40,594 --> 00:06:42,425 Don't be greedy! 94 00:06:43,430 --> 00:06:46,490 But I'm hungry! 95 00:06:47,434 --> 00:06:48,833 Kabei! 96 00:06:52,372 --> 00:06:54,670 Kabei, I'm hungry! 97 00:07:00,714 --> 00:07:02,181 Stop crying. 98 00:07:10,423 --> 00:07:19,730 'Today is a good day. 99 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:24,662 'Our Emperor was born. 100 00:07:24,838 --> 00:07:29,104 'Today is a good day. 101 00:07:29,542 --> 00:07:34,104 'Today is a good day. 102 00:07:34,281 --> 00:07:38,650 'The light... 103 00:07:38,919 --> 00:07:43,413 'shines upon us. 104 00:07:43,590 --> 00:07:47,856 'Today is a good day. 105 00:07:48,328 --> 00:07:52,822 'Together we celebrate... 106 00:07:52,999 --> 00:07:57,197 'he whose light... 107 00:07:57,570 --> 00:08:01,370 'shines on the world...' 108 00:08:01,541 --> 00:08:07,673 Hearing Mother had fainted, Yama rushed over on his bicycle. 109 00:08:10,483 --> 00:08:11,916 Sorry! 110 00:08:12,085 --> 00:08:13,052 Hey! 111 00:08:19,292 --> 00:08:22,227 Missus! Are you all right? 112 00:08:22,395 --> 00:08:23,623 Yama! 113 00:08:28,635 --> 00:08:30,068 I'm here... 114 00:08:31,504 --> 00:08:34,803 What are you doing? Does she have a fever? 115 00:08:35,008 --> 00:08:37,841 Just water won't help! 116 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:41,442 I'm going. 117 00:08:41,614 --> 00:08:42,273 Where? 118 00:08:42,449 --> 00:08:43,473 For ice! 119 00:08:55,362 --> 00:08:56,260 Ow! 120 00:08:57,464 --> 00:09:00,661 What are you doing?! Give me that. 121 00:09:05,739 --> 00:09:07,798 What did the doctor say? 122 00:09:07,974 --> 00:09:09,771 She hasn't seen one. 123 00:09:10,777 --> 00:09:14,144 Why? Didn't you call one? 124 00:09:14,314 --> 00:09:17,545 They use the Nomura Clinic by the station. 125 00:09:17,717 --> 00:09:19,378 Hatsu-bei went... 126 00:09:19,886 --> 00:09:24,846 but young Dr Nomura's been drafted, and his father's too busy to come. 127 00:09:25,425 --> 00:09:27,256 That's crazy! 128 00:09:27,427 --> 00:09:28,325 Hatsu-bei! 129 00:09:29,429 --> 00:09:31,761 Take me to that clinic! 130 00:09:39,272 --> 00:09:40,432 Get on. 131 00:09:47,113 --> 00:09:49,104 Doctor, I'm turning. 132 00:09:51,618 --> 00:09:52,516 Hi! 133 00:09:52,685 --> 00:09:53,879 Hello, Doctor! 134 00:10:05,565 --> 00:10:08,534 You need rest and nourishment. 135 00:10:09,169 --> 00:10:12,434 I realize that's hard these days... 136 00:10:13,073 --> 00:10:17,373 but keep on like you have, and you won't get better. 137 00:10:18,545 --> 00:10:21,514 I'll do my best for you... 138 00:10:21,815 --> 00:10:24,648 but you must take time off work. 139 00:10:25,718 --> 00:10:27,242 How long? 140 00:10:27,587 --> 00:10:31,284 Three weeks, or a month if you can. 141 00:10:33,827 --> 00:10:36,660 I've heard about your husband. 142 00:10:37,897 --> 00:10:40,388 What a world! 143 00:10:40,934 --> 00:10:44,768 Madness all around and we have to carry on... 144 00:10:45,071 --> 00:10:47,164 like it didn't bother us. 145 00:10:48,274 --> 00:10:52,472 Um, about your bill... 146 00:10:53,213 --> 00:10:55,943 I'm sorry? What did you say? 147 00:10:56,249 --> 00:10:58,183 About paying you... 148 00:10:58,351 --> 00:11:02,151 Oh, don't worry about that. 149 00:11:02,622 --> 00:11:05,420 Call it a gift for your husband. 150 00:11:08,695 --> 00:11:10,390 This'll hurt a bit... 151 00:11:12,465 --> 00:11:13,659 There. 152 00:11:16,870 --> 00:11:18,167 Here we go! 153 00:11:18,338 --> 00:11:19,396 We'll be right back. 154 00:11:19,572 --> 00:11:21,767 You're his amanuensis? 155 00:11:21,941 --> 00:11:22,805 Sorry? 156 00:11:23,243 --> 00:11:25,268 You're his amanuensis? 157 00:11:25,445 --> 00:11:27,310 Something like that. 158 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,348 You want to watch what you say these days. 159 00:11:31,518 --> 00:11:35,147 'The walls have ears and the doors have eyes.' 160 00:11:35,321 --> 00:11:38,119 Sorry, I'm deaf in my left ear. 161 00:11:38,291 --> 00:11:40,225 What did you say? 162 00:11:40,393 --> 00:11:42,953 I'm getting hard of hearing. 163 00:11:45,231 --> 00:11:49,429 Lately I don't hear very well. Getting old is no fun! 164 00:11:49,602 --> 00:11:50,569 I see! 165 00:11:51,905 --> 00:11:58,367 'The Princess was glad to see Taro, and every day she treated him...' 166 00:11:58,545 --> 00:11:59,739 Is that right? 167 00:12:01,281 --> 00:12:01,906 Yes. 168 00:12:02,081 --> 00:12:04,174 '...and taught him games.' 169 00:12:04,717 --> 00:12:06,912 What games? 170 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,312 Cards, maybe... 171 00:12:09,489 --> 00:12:10,956 That's not right... 172 00:12:11,124 --> 00:12:14,059 Princesses don't play cards! 173 00:12:14,227 --> 00:12:16,388 No? Mahjong, maybe? 174 00:12:16,563 --> 00:12:18,394 Quiet! I'm studying! 175 00:12:18,565 --> 00:12:20,829 I'm studying, too! 176 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,266 Stop shouting, will you? Kabei's asleep! 177 00:12:30,076 --> 00:12:31,907 Are you a wake? 178 00:12:32,979 --> 00:12:34,970 Will you have some rice gruel? 179 00:12:37,350 --> 00:12:38,908 Maybe I will. 180 00:12:39,852 --> 00:12:41,149 Great! 181 00:12:42,755 --> 00:12:45,019 Thank you, Yama. 182 00:12:47,460 --> 00:12:48,586 Feeling better? 183 00:12:51,965 --> 00:12:52,954 Hungry? 184 00:12:53,132 --> 00:12:54,827 Yes, a little. 185 00:12:56,269 --> 00:12:58,294 Did Auntie make dinner? 186 00:12:58,471 --> 00:12:59,096 Yeah. 187 00:12:59,272 --> 00:13:00,637 Was it good? 188 00:13:01,274 --> 00:13:02,571 No! 189 00:13:03,943 --> 00:13:08,971 That's right. She can draw, but she can't cook. 190 00:13:11,117 --> 00:13:12,607 She'll hear! 191 00:13:17,490 --> 00:13:18,957 What did you say? 192 00:13:19,826 --> 00:13:21,316 Nothing! 193 00:13:32,739 --> 00:13:33,797 Hatsu-bei... 194 00:13:38,278 --> 00:13:39,506 It's beautiful. 195 00:13:39,912 --> 00:13:41,243 Hatsu-bei! 196 00:13:44,417 --> 00:13:45,782 Thank you. 197 00:13:45,952 --> 00:13:47,112 Good night. 198 00:13:53,059 --> 00:13:54,754 Families are nice... 199 00:13:55,128 --> 00:13:58,291 You have one, don't you? 200 00:13:58,998 --> 00:14:04,595 My parents died when I was small. I hardly remember them. 201 00:14:05,038 --> 00:14:06,437 I see... 202 00:14:11,110 --> 00:14:15,513 What a beautiful full moon... 203 00:14:16,949 --> 00:14:18,382 Yama... 204 00:14:20,687 --> 00:14:25,283 It's good to have a man around the house. 205 00:14:30,963 --> 00:14:33,022 I didn't say that. 206 00:14:33,866 --> 00:14:37,962 Kayo did, just now. Under her breath. 207 00:14:41,207 --> 00:14:44,938 Keep on helping out, all right? 208 00:14:54,220 --> 00:14:55,619 Good night. 209 00:15:10,536 --> 00:15:13,562 The summer vacation of 1941. 210 00:15:15,274 --> 00:15:19,870 In Europe, Hitler's Germany went to war with the Soviet Union. 211 00:15:20,046 --> 00:15:23,243 In Asia, Japan occupied Vietnam... 212 00:15:23,549 --> 00:15:27,349 and the third Konoe cabinet took power. 213 00:15:28,955 --> 00:15:32,755 We went through those unsettling times... 214 00:15:32,925 --> 00:15:36,326 hoping against hope for my father's return. 215 00:15:43,436 --> 00:15:46,496 To my wife, from your husband. 216 00:15:47,540 --> 00:15:51,704 I write watching thunderclouds through the high window... 217 00:15:51,878 --> 00:15:53,812 of my cell. 218 00:15:54,981 --> 00:15:59,315 I am happy to hear that Yamazaki will take you... 219 00:15:59,552 --> 00:16:01,315 to the beach. 220 00:16:02,655 --> 00:16:07,524 That is something that I, as their father, should be doing. 221 00:16:08,094 --> 00:16:11,063 It pains me that again this year I cannot. 222 00:16:12,598 --> 00:16:18,366 I want to spend a brief holiday caressed by the sea breezes. 223 00:16:19,405 --> 00:16:21,566 Do not worry about me. 224 00:16:22,542 --> 00:16:24,908 I am eating properly. 225 00:16:33,352 --> 00:16:34,148 Cold! 226 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,514 It's cold! 227 00:16:36,155 --> 00:16:37,417 Come on, swim! 228 00:16:48,034 --> 00:16:49,626 Kabei! 229 00:17:09,455 --> 00:17:11,082 Give back the tube! 230 00:17:11,257 --> 00:17:12,849 No! 231 00:17:14,193 --> 00:17:17,629 Hatsu-bei! Teru-bei! 232 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:22,331 Come out for a bit! 233 00:17:24,904 --> 00:17:26,997 Come and sunbathe! 234 00:17:27,507 --> 00:17:28,997 You hear me? 235 00:17:29,775 --> 00:17:31,208 OK! 236 00:17:34,647 --> 00:17:36,547 I want to play more! 237 00:17:37,149 --> 00:17:38,548 That was fun! 238 00:17:38,718 --> 00:17:40,015 Good. 239 00:17:40,553 --> 00:17:42,987 Your lips are blue! 240 00:17:43,723 --> 00:17:44,815 Are you cold? 241 00:17:48,461 --> 00:17:51,123 Kabei, is that Yama? 242 00:17:57,436 --> 00:17:58,767 He's drowning. 243 00:17:59,071 --> 00:18:01,938 Not that close in... 244 00:18:05,645 --> 00:18:06,839 Help! 245 00:18:08,347 --> 00:18:09,541 I can't swim! 246 00:18:09,782 --> 00:18:11,044 Oh, no! 247 00:18:43,249 --> 00:18:44,273 Yama! 248 00:18:46,552 --> 00:18:47,644 Yama! 249 00:18:48,688 --> 00:18:49,484 Yama! 250 00:18:49,655 --> 00:18:50,713 Yama! 251 00:18:50,923 --> 00:18:52,857 No, don't! 252 00:18:53,392 --> 00:18:54,359 I'll get him! 253 00:18:54,527 --> 00:18:55,687 Please! 254 00:18:55,861 --> 00:18:58,921 It's all right! Settle down! 255 00:18:59,098 --> 00:19:00,395 It's all right! 256 00:19:08,174 --> 00:19:10,199 Lay him down here. 257 00:19:11,844 --> 00:19:12,970 Spit it out. 258 00:19:23,055 --> 00:19:25,023 Is Yama dead? 259 00:19:26,492 --> 00:19:29,484 He's fine. He just swallowed some water. 260 00:19:30,296 --> 00:19:31,957 Thank you. 261 00:19:35,668 --> 00:19:36,896 Yama... 262 00:19:37,570 --> 00:19:41,267 I thought I was dead! 263 00:19:52,618 --> 00:19:57,749 'At the east of Asia... 264 00:19:57,923 --> 00:20:02,951 'where the sun rises... 265 00:20:03,129 --> 00:20:08,226 'our holy Emperor... 266 00:20:08,401 --> 00:20:13,338 'appears. 267 00:20:13,506 --> 00:20:18,671 'His divine light... 268 00:20:18,844 --> 00:20:23,781 'dispels the fog... 269 00:20:23,949 --> 00:20:29,114 'covering the old land...' 270 00:20:30,322 --> 00:20:33,587 Later on that autumn, Aunt Hisako... 271 00:20:33,726 --> 00:20:36,752 went back to her home town of Hiroshima. 272 00:20:38,664 --> 00:20:42,191 Her mother had fallen ill. 273 00:20:43,536 --> 00:20:46,562 Tobei said to give you that. 274 00:20:46,739 --> 00:20:47,967 Really? 275 00:20:48,474 --> 00:20:51,204 These are some sweets for your mother. 276 00:20:51,377 --> 00:20:53,937 Even these are hard to find. 277 00:20:54,613 --> 00:20:57,605 And this is soap. 278 00:21:00,453 --> 00:21:04,753 Thank you for all you've done for me. 279 00:21:06,392 --> 00:21:08,155 We'll miss you. 280 00:21:08,994 --> 00:21:12,691 My brother can't be with Mother, so I will. 281 00:21:13,532 --> 00:21:15,295 The filial daughter. 282 00:21:15,468 --> 00:21:18,926 Can't you just take time off from art school... 283 00:21:19,105 --> 00:21:21,573 ...instead of quitting? 284 00:21:24,210 --> 00:21:29,204 Studying there made me realize I don't have any talent. 285 00:21:31,917 --> 00:21:36,013 I'll go back to Hiroshima, teach art to children... 286 00:21:36,388 --> 00:21:39,414 and meet somebody nice. 287 00:21:50,736 --> 00:21:56,732 You know, Hisako, I always thought you'd get together with Yama. 288 00:21:57,209 --> 00:21:58,437 I guess not. 289 00:22:05,351 --> 00:22:08,320 He doesn't appeal to you? 290 00:22:10,256 --> 00:22:13,885 He's got someone else. 291 00:22:14,293 --> 00:22:16,989 He does? 292 00:22:17,530 --> 00:22:20,624 What's she like? Do I know her? 293 00:22:22,802 --> 00:22:24,929 You haven't noticed? 294 00:22:27,740 --> 00:22:29,230 Don't you see? 295 00:22:32,144 --> 00:22:34,135 That's impossible! 296 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,173 I mean, I... 297 00:22:37,349 --> 00:22:39,442 You have a husband you love. 298 00:22:40,352 --> 00:22:46,257 Meaning that Yama's fallen in love with someone he shouldn't have. 299 00:22:47,393 --> 00:22:49,384 It's not your fault. 300 00:22:50,429 --> 00:22:54,126 It's sad, but what can you do? 301 00:22:54,834 --> 00:22:56,734 It's a shame, though. 302 00:22:59,205 --> 00:23:01,833 Give these to Teru-bei. 303 00:23:02,441 --> 00:23:03,874 My old stuff. 304 00:23:05,544 --> 00:23:09,173 She should paint, you know. 305 00:23:09,582 --> 00:23:13,279 She might be better at it than me. 306 00:23:13,786 --> 00:23:14,810 Oh? 307 00:23:18,824 --> 00:23:20,451 Hurry, Terumi! 308 00:23:20,793 --> 00:23:22,454 OK! 309 00:23:22,962 --> 00:23:23,758 I'm back! 310 00:23:23,929 --> 00:23:25,157 There she is. 311 00:23:25,764 --> 00:23:26,458 Hi! 312 00:23:26,632 --> 00:23:28,395 You're here, Auntie? 313 00:23:30,169 --> 00:23:32,000 You're staying for dinner? 314 00:23:32,171 --> 00:23:33,103 Hello. 315 00:23:33,272 --> 00:23:37,174 We're going to Sachiko's. Their dog had pups. 316 00:23:37,576 --> 00:23:38,668 Your homework! 317 00:23:38,844 --> 00:23:40,106 Later! 318 00:23:40,779 --> 00:23:42,041 Hello. 319 00:23:42,414 --> 00:23:44,712 Who's that pretty girl? 320 00:23:44,884 --> 00:23:47,717 She's not a girl. She's my aunt! 321 00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:54,690 Then came that morning... 322 00:23:58,664 --> 00:24:03,692 December 8th, 1941 323 00:24:04,937 --> 00:24:06,199 Good morning. 324 00:24:39,071 --> 00:24:41,539 The time is 7 o'clock. 325 00:24:42,841 --> 00:24:44,672 One moment, please. 326 00:24:54,586 --> 00:24:57,783 This is a special news announcement. 327 00:24:57,957 --> 00:25:02,451 From Imperial Headquarters, December 8th at 6:00 a.m. 328 00:25:02,628 --> 00:25:07,065 The Imperial Army and Na v y have opened hostilities against... 329 00:25:07,232 --> 00:25:10,531 American and English forces in the Western Pacific. 330 00:25:10,703 --> 00:25:15,003 The Imperial Army and Na v y have opened hostilities against... 331 00:25:15,174 --> 00:25:17,472 American and English forces in the Western Pacific. 332 00:25:17,643 --> 00:25:18,940 It's started! 333 00:25:27,086 --> 00:25:27,984 What's happened? 334 00:25:28,153 --> 00:25:29,814 Something terrible! 335 00:25:36,929 --> 00:25:38,419 Finally! 336 00:25:40,199 --> 00:25:43,965 War with America! It had to be! 337 00:25:46,505 --> 00:25:48,029 That's a relief! 338 00:25:48,273 --> 00:25:51,970 We have to knock them down! 339 00:25:52,945 --> 00:25:54,139 Don't we! 340 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,508 A surprise attack on American vessels and aircraft in Hawaii... 341 00:25:59,718 --> 00:26:01,948 has been a success. 342 00:26:02,121 --> 00:26:07,184 Two: today the Imperial Navy has invaded Singapore... 343 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,224 and achieved excellent results. 344 00:26:09,395 --> 00:26:12,626 Three: the Imperial Navy this morning attack ed... 345 00:26:12,798 --> 00:26:17,462 enemy installations in Davao, Wake, and Guam. 346 00:26:32,885 --> 00:26:34,614 The teacher! 347 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,187 Boys and girls, you all heard what the Principal said. 348 00:26:46,565 --> 00:26:50,661 Japan has gone to war with two great big countries... 349 00:26:50,836 --> 00:26:54,499 called America and England. 350 00:26:56,542 --> 00:27:01,570 Lessons are canceled today so you can go to Hachiman Shrine... 351 00:27:01,747 --> 00:27:05,410 and pray for victory in our crusade. 352 00:27:05,918 --> 00:27:08,148 Put your books away. 353 00:27:14,860 --> 00:27:17,954 That night the black out began... 354 00:27:18,197 --> 00:27:21,564 and the whole city went dark. 355 00:27:31,743 --> 00:27:32,675 Ow! 356 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,012 It's too dark to sew! 357 00:27:37,583 --> 00:27:39,141 Is that for Tobei? 358 00:27:39,318 --> 00:27:40,250 Yes. 359 00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:44,353 I thought I'd sew a lining into his kimono... 360 00:27:44,523 --> 00:27:46,889 since cold bothers him so much. 361 00:27:49,495 --> 00:27:50,757 Kabei! 362 00:27:51,396 --> 00:27:53,626 You know what Teru-bei's writing? 363 00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:54,959 What? 364 00:27:55,767 --> 00:27:58,668 'To Father, from Teru-bei. 365 00:27:58,837 --> 00:28:01,704 'Are you well? I'm feeling great!' 366 00:28:01,874 --> 00:28:02,966 Don't! 367 00:28:04,376 --> 00:28:06,241 He's sick, isn't he? 368 00:28:06,979 --> 00:28:08,970 Don't tell him you're great! 369 00:28:09,214 --> 00:28:10,442 Why not? 370 00:28:10,616 --> 00:28:13,983 Tobei will be happy to hear it. 371 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:18,253 What have you written? 372 00:28:21,193 --> 00:28:25,425 'Father, how are you feeling? 373 00:28:25,831 --> 00:28:28,766 'We are all doing fine. 374 00:28:28,934 --> 00:28:31,129 That's good. And? 375 00:28:33,238 --> 00:28:35,536 That's as far as I get. 376 00:28:37,743 --> 00:28:39,802 I'm not doing fine! 377 00:28:44,449 --> 00:28:45,973 To tell the truth... 378 00:28:48,954 --> 00:28:50,751 I hate school. 379 00:29:01,033 --> 00:29:01,727 Why? 380 00:29:05,204 --> 00:29:09,641 The other day in Etiquette class... 381 00:29:09,975 --> 00:29:13,911 I stirred the tea wrong and everyone laughed at me. 382 00:29:16,048 --> 00:29:17,982 Even the teacher. 383 00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:21,946 I cried. 384 00:29:23,388 --> 00:29:28,325 I couldn't stop till the next period, in Phys-ed. 385 00:29:30,762 --> 00:29:34,664 I want my life to be over. 386 00:29:34,833 --> 00:29:37,393 It's no fun being alive. 387 00:29:39,338 --> 00:29:46,369 But if I write that to Tobei, he'll just get worried. 388 00:29:47,646 --> 00:29:49,477 I don't think so. 389 00:29:49,881 --> 00:29:52,714 Write what's on your mind. 390 00:29:53,252 --> 00:29:57,086 I'm sure Tobei will listen. 391 00:29:57,956 --> 00:30:01,983 After all, he's always been on your side. 392 00:30:03,962 --> 00:30:04,894 All right. 393 00:30:06,865 --> 00:30:08,162 I will. 394 00:30:12,271 --> 00:30:13,932 What will you write? 395 00:30:15,173 --> 00:30:19,507 Yes...what should I write? 396 00:30:20,078 --> 00:30:22,171 Do you call him 'dear'? 397 00:30:23,548 --> 00:30:26,984 'To my dearest, from me. 398 00:30:28,253 --> 00:30:32,952 'The year is almost over. Do you have any news? 399 00:30:33,725 --> 00:30:36,751 'Things here go on as usual. 400 00:30:37,763 --> 00:30:44,293 'Hatsu-bei is doing more around the house, which is a great help.' 401 00:30:44,970 --> 00:30:46,767 What about me? 402 00:30:47,439 --> 00:30:51,535 'Teru-bey is her same old self, always saying... 403 00:30:51,710 --> 00:30:53,575 ' ''I'm hungry! I'm hungry!.'' 404 00:30:53,812 --> 00:30:56,246 I don't say that! 405 00:30:56,848 --> 00:30:58,645 Then how about this? 406 00:30:59,217 --> 00:31:02,084 'Teru-bei is a very good girl. 407 00:31:03,088 --> 00:31:07,616 'She draws wonderful pictures with the things her aunt left her. 408 00:31:08,393 --> 00:31:14,389 'Some day I'm sure she'll be as famous as Marie Laurencin.' 409 00:31:17,836 --> 00:31:18,996 Go on... 410 00:31:20,172 --> 00:31:25,405 'I very much enjoy watching the children grow up. 411 00:31:26,678 --> 00:31:32,082 'How much you must want to see them... 412 00:31:33,118 --> 00:31:36,519 'How much you must want... 413 00:31:37,055 --> 00:31:41,788 'to put your arms around them and hold them tight. 414 00:31:43,462 --> 00:31:46,192 'Just the thought of it... 415 00:31:56,908 --> 00:31:58,569 'stabs at... 416 00:32:01,113 --> 00:32:03,081 'stabs at my heart.' 417 00:32:12,190 --> 00:32:16,422 Mrs Nogami! We can see your light! 418 00:32:17,896 --> 00:32:19,056 Uh-oh... 419 00:32:19,231 --> 00:32:20,323 Turn it off. 420 00:32:24,636 --> 00:32:28,697 This isn't a drill! We're at war! 421 00:32:31,443 --> 00:32:34,241 What if they were really bombing us? 422 00:32:37,349 --> 00:32:38,077 One! 423 00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:38,716 Two! 424 00:32:38,884 --> 00:32:39,578 Three! 425 00:32:44,423 --> 00:32:45,481 Here goes... 426 00:32:46,057 --> 00:32:47,854 Hey, there's Yama! 427 00:32:50,228 --> 00:32:51,593 Happy New Year. 428 00:32:52,531 --> 00:32:54,021 Happy New Year. 429 00:32:55,033 --> 00:32:56,660 Were you up home? 430 00:32:56,835 --> 00:32:58,894 Yep, in my home town. 431 00:32:59,805 --> 00:33:00,999 Where's Kabei? 432 00:33:01,173 --> 00:33:05,974 In Shinjuku. She says if she lines up, she'll get butter. 433 00:33:07,579 --> 00:33:11,015 And you're here playing hanetsuki? 434 00:33:11,650 --> 00:33:15,882 It's no fun playing with Teru-bei. She keeps missing. 435 00:33:16,922 --> 00:33:18,685 Then I'll play you. 436 00:33:18,957 --> 00:33:20,015 A gift. 437 00:33:23,295 --> 00:33:24,523 Here. 438 00:33:25,464 --> 00:33:26,328 Teru-bei... 439 00:33:26,832 --> 00:33:28,697 You're the umpire. 440 00:33:31,703 --> 00:33:32,328 Here goes! 441 00:33:32,504 --> 00:33:33,493 Ready! 442 00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:35,028 One! 443 00:33:35,207 --> 00:33:36,003 Two! 444 00:33:36,174 --> 00:33:37,106 Three! 445 00:33:38,610 --> 00:33:39,838 You're awful! 446 00:33:40,011 --> 00:33:43,344 That was a fluke. It won't happen again. 447 00:33:44,783 --> 00:33:45,408 One! 448 00:33:45,584 --> 00:33:46,141 Two! 449 00:33:46,918 --> 00:33:47,976 Three! 450 00:33:51,289 --> 00:33:53,814 You can't just lash out at it! 451 00:33:53,992 --> 00:33:55,186 Sorry. 452 00:34:06,104 --> 00:34:07,230 Darn it! 453 00:34:07,405 --> 00:34:08,702 You're awful! 454 00:34:08,874 --> 00:34:10,034 Good afternoon. 455 00:34:10,775 --> 00:34:12,766 Is this the Nogami residence? 456 00:34:12,944 --> 00:34:14,002 That's right. 457 00:34:14,179 --> 00:34:15,305 Telegram. 458 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:16,913 Thank you. 459 00:34:21,419 --> 00:34:22,716 What should we do? 460 00:34:23,388 --> 00:34:24,548 Open it. 461 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:29,786 What does it say? 462 00:34:31,596 --> 00:34:33,757 I'II read it. 463 00:34:35,934 --> 00:34:41,702 'Shige...runoga...mi...' 464 00:34:41,873 --> 00:34:43,841 'Shigeru Nogami'... 465 00:34:44,342 --> 00:34:46,936 Oh, Tobei... 466 00:34:48,914 --> 00:34:55,217 'Died this morning...' 467 00:34:56,788 --> 00:34:58,153 Let me see. 468 00:35:13,238 --> 00:35:15,172 It's bad news. 469 00:35:23,281 --> 00:35:26,876 I want you to stay calm and listen to me. 470 00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:30,448 The professor... 471 00:35:34,092 --> 00:35:36,583 Your father... 472 00:35:39,598 --> 00:35:40,895 He's dead. 473 00:35:52,110 --> 00:35:53,941 When did Kabei leave? 474 00:35:55,113 --> 00:35:57,673 Just after 12. 475 00:36:00,652 --> 00:36:03,143 So she�ll be back in an hour... 476 00:36:06,124 --> 00:36:07,921 I'll wait at the station. 477 00:36:09,394 --> 00:36:10,986 You two stay here. 478 00:36:19,671 --> 00:36:21,104 You poor kids... 479 00:36:23,775 --> 00:36:25,367 You poor kids! 480 00:36:53,605 --> 00:36:57,006 shigeru nogami died today 7:30 am 481 00:36:57,175 --> 00:37:00,508 come sugamo prison hospital 482 00:37:16,761 --> 00:37:17,955 Hatsu-bei! 483 00:37:18,930 --> 00:37:20,522 Kabei's back! 484 00:37:30,175 --> 00:37:31,403 Kabei! 485 00:37:34,412 --> 00:37:35,811 Tobei! 486 00:37:53,264 --> 00:37:54,663 Where's that seal?! 487 00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:04,204 I should never have gone! 488 00:38:04,375 --> 00:38:07,742 I stood in line for an hour in the cold! 489 00:38:08,279 --> 00:38:10,042 What a fool I am! 490 00:38:15,253 --> 00:38:19,622 I might be late getting back, so lock the front door. 491 00:38:20,625 --> 00:38:25,722 If it gets too late, I'll send Yama on ahead. 492 00:38:28,833 --> 00:38:30,824 Be careful, you hear? 493 00:38:34,339 --> 00:38:37,308 Now, about dinner... 494 00:38:37,475 --> 00:38:41,241 Kabei, it's all right. We can do that. 495 00:38:41,646 --> 00:38:44,046 You can? All right. 496 00:38:46,718 --> 00:38:49,710 Yama, are you sure you don't mind coming? 497 00:38:49,888 --> 00:38:51,480 Of course! 498 00:38:58,463 --> 00:38:59,896 Take care. 499 00:39:23,221 --> 00:39:25,746 From Shigeru Nogami 500 00:39:26,958 --> 00:39:27,856 Hatsu-bei! 501 00:39:29,761 --> 00:39:31,752 A letter from Tobei! 502 00:39:34,499 --> 00:39:37,161 The telegram was wrong! 503 00:39:41,072 --> 00:39:44,667 Tobei sent this letter on December 24th. 504 00:39:45,343 --> 00:39:47,311 What's the date today? 505 00:39:47,846 --> 00:39:49,609 It's New Year's, stupid! 506 00:40:03,428 --> 00:40:05,419 To my wife and daughters. 507 00:40:06,364 --> 00:40:10,892 Today is what in the west they call Christmas Eve. 508 00:40:11,803 --> 00:40:15,364 I feel terrible that on this day I have no gifts... 509 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:17,931 to give you. 510 00:40:19,177 --> 00:40:21,668 Thank you for your letters. 511 00:40:23,014 --> 00:40:26,313 I am astonished at how mature Hatsu-bei is becoming. 512 00:40:28,386 --> 00:40:34,188 My spoiled little girl is now brooding seriously on life. 513 00:40:35,460 --> 00:40:38,486 How quickly time passes. 514 00:40:40,031 --> 00:40:42,659 At this point in your intellectual growth... 515 00:40:43,101 --> 00:40:46,093 when a father is most important to children... 516 00:40:46,638 --> 00:40:49,766 I regret I cannot be with you. 517 00:40:50,475 --> 00:40:54,275 Dear...we're home. 518 00:40:55,747 --> 00:40:59,012 Hatsu-bei and Teru-bei... 519 00:40:59,217 --> 00:41:02,675 you will have many griefs and dangers to face. 520 00:41:03,922 --> 00:41:04,980 That I know. 521 00:41:05,957 --> 00:41:09,791 As your father, is there nothing I can do... 522 00:41:10,361 --> 00:41:13,023 but pray for you? 523 00:41:30,915 --> 00:41:35,818 My father's funeral was held hidden from prying eyes. 524 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,384 With no time to grieve... 525 00:41:38,556 --> 00:41:41,525 my mother had to return to work. 526 00:41:47,031 --> 00:41:50,831 In February, while the conquest of Singapore... 527 00:41:51,002 --> 00:41:56,030 was being celebrated across the land with banquets and parades... 528 00:41:56,774 --> 00:41:57,604 Hello. 529 00:41:57,775 --> 00:42:00,801 There's an extra sak� ration till 3. 530 00:42:01,746 --> 00:42:04,374 All these victories! 531 00:42:15,326 --> 00:42:17,920 Yama, what are you doing? 532 00:42:18,663 --> 00:42:22,656 The bottom's coming off your mailbox. 533 00:42:23,401 --> 00:42:28,703 I'm sorry to be making a scholar like you do carpentry. 534 00:42:28,873 --> 00:42:30,704 I'm getting better at it. 535 00:42:30,875 --> 00:42:31,967 Oh? 536 00:42:48,626 --> 00:42:49,285 There. 537 00:42:59,404 --> 00:43:02,896 Thank you. I'll make some tea. 538 00:43:06,044 --> 00:43:07,409 Where are the girls? 539 00:43:07,578 --> 00:43:08,476 Sorry? 540 00:43:08,646 --> 00:43:10,113 The girls... 541 00:43:10,782 --> 00:43:15,617 They took a bottle to get some of the Singapore sak� ration. 542 00:43:16,087 --> 00:43:17,611 Perfect. 543 00:43:18,189 --> 00:43:21,090 You can have a drink tonight. 544 00:43:22,927 --> 00:43:24,258 I'm relieved. 545 00:43:25,596 --> 00:43:26,654 Why? 546 00:43:27,098 --> 00:43:31,262 You're back to your old self. Your color's come back. 547 00:43:32,170 --> 00:43:33,364 It has? 548 00:43:38,009 --> 00:43:41,570 The other day Hatsu-bei was saying... 549 00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:45,775 'if I get married, I want a man like Yama.' 550 00:43:46,184 --> 00:43:51,315 Then Teru-bei said 'I do, too!' and they both started fighting. 551 00:43:52,557 --> 00:43:56,425 You've been a real savior to us. 552 00:43:57,295 --> 00:43:59,263 I'm very grateful. 553 00:43:59,997 --> 00:44:01,021 Not at all. 554 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,265 Oh...I have a present for you. 555 00:44:12,410 --> 00:44:15,573 These were Tobei's socks. 556 00:44:15,746 --> 00:44:17,338 They're new. 557 00:44:18,149 --> 00:44:21,915 The girls and I wanted to give them to you. 558 00:44:22,887 --> 00:44:23,979 Garters, too. 559 00:44:32,263 --> 00:44:34,561 When was it? 560 00:44:35,566 --> 00:44:38,933 You were kneeling like that, and when you stood up... 561 00:44:39,437 --> 00:44:44,033 your feet were numb, and you fell over. 562 00:44:44,909 --> 00:44:49,141 Your big toe was sticking out of your sock. 563 00:44:51,015 --> 00:44:52,642 Do you remember that? 564 00:44:53,384 --> 00:44:54,908 Very well. 565 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,514 I'm very glad to have these. 566 00:45:03,461 --> 00:45:05,952 I'll wear them when I'm inducted. 567 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:13,068 What did you just say? 568 00:45:14,805 --> 00:45:15,999 Inducted? 569 00:45:17,241 --> 00:45:19,709 My draft notice came. 570 00:45:22,947 --> 00:45:29,011 I join my regiment in Yamagata the day after tomorrow at 10. 571 00:45:35,626 --> 00:45:41,087 But you said they wouldn't take you because of your bad ear. 572 00:45:41,699 --> 00:45:45,829 As of last November, even the physically unfit... 573 00:45:46,003 --> 00:45:48,267 are now subject to the draft. 574 00:45:49,774 --> 00:45:53,437 They're going to be needing soldiers. 575 00:45:58,015 --> 00:46:01,382 At least you have this evening, don't you? 576 00:46:02,853 --> 00:46:04,980 To have dinner with us... 577 00:46:05,723 --> 00:46:10,387 I have to take the overnight train to Yamagata. 578 00:46:12,830 --> 00:46:14,388 I'm out of time. 579 00:46:16,801 --> 00:46:21,261 I thought I'd just go and a void saying goodbye... 580 00:46:24,075 --> 00:46:28,409 but I had to see you one last time. 581 00:46:35,386 --> 00:46:41,347 Thank you for everything you've done for me. 582 00:46:51,535 --> 00:46:55,835 Are you going to go away without telling the girls? 583 00:46:57,141 --> 00:46:58,574 I can't face them. 584 00:46:59,310 --> 00:47:01,505 I know they'll start crying. 585 00:47:07,585 --> 00:47:09,519 I'II be going. 586 00:47:10,454 --> 00:47:12,285 I won't see you again? 587 00:47:14,325 --> 00:47:18,819 I'm going to war. I am resolved. 588 00:47:21,265 --> 00:47:22,732 'Resolved'? 589 00:47:23,367 --> 00:47:25,801 Resolved to die? 590 00:47:27,138 --> 00:47:29,663 That is correct. 591 00:47:36,580 --> 00:47:40,016 What kind of big talk is that? 592 00:47:41,319 --> 00:47:44,413 Why do you have to resolve that? 593 00:47:47,591 --> 00:47:49,149 A spineless... 594 00:47:51,796 --> 00:47:54,526 clumsy crybaby like you... 595 00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:57,394 who can't even swim! 596 00:47:59,470 --> 00:48:01,938 Why are they taking you? 597 00:48:05,643 --> 00:48:07,076 Yama... 598 00:48:08,446 --> 00:48:10,846 why are you leaving us?! 599 00:48:22,793 --> 00:48:24,158 We're back! 600 00:48:37,141 --> 00:48:38,335 Goodbye. 601 00:49:07,304 --> 00:49:13,004 After three years, atom bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki... 602 00:49:13,177 --> 00:49:17,136 and Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. 603 00:49:18,115 --> 00:49:22,745 In Hiroshima, our beautiful Aunt Hisako... 604 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:27,823 died a painful death from radiation sickness... 605 00:49:28,125 --> 00:49:30,093 a month after the war. 606 00:49:38,803 --> 00:49:41,328 Misery followed the war's end. 607 00:49:42,139 --> 00:49:44,903 With nothing to eat, nothing to wear... 608 00:49:45,142 --> 00:49:48,942 living one step ahead of starvation... 609 00:49:49,113 --> 00:49:53,675 my mother rushed around, working herself to the bone... 610 00:49:53,951 --> 00:49:58,752 to provide for two growing girls. 611 00:49:59,623 --> 00:50:02,057 And then one day... 612 00:50:12,303 --> 00:50:13,930 A jeep! 613 00:50:35,226 --> 00:50:36,523 Yama? 614 00:50:41,765 --> 00:50:43,756 Mrs Kayo Nogami? 615 00:50:45,603 --> 00:50:46,535 Yes. 616 00:50:47,638 --> 00:50:51,802 My name is Komiyama. I served with Yamazaki. 617 00:50:52,142 --> 00:50:53,439 How do you do. 618 00:50:58,249 --> 00:51:04,051 Our regiment was at a place called Mudanjiang, in Manchuria. 619 00:51:05,289 --> 00:51:08,053 We became good friends. 620 00:51:08,626 --> 00:51:13,586 We were moved north to Dongning, on the Soviet border. 621 00:51:14,532 --> 00:51:19,731 Then last fall we were suddenly sent south. 622 00:51:21,505 --> 00:51:23,700 We got summer uniforms... 623 00:51:25,075 --> 00:51:29,034 and boarded a troopship at a port in Korea. 624 00:51:30,581 --> 00:51:33,812 On the southern front it was one loss after another. 625 00:51:34,718 --> 00:51:41,146 No one said so, but it was about then we started feeling Japan would lose. 626 00:51:41,659 --> 00:51:43,126 Yes... 627 00:51:43,594 --> 00:51:47,360 The Americans had total command of the sea. 628 00:51:48,832 --> 00:51:52,734 The moment our ships reached the East China Sea... 629 00:51:53,237 --> 00:51:56,331 they'd be torpedoed and sunk. 630 00:51:58,909 --> 00:52:01,434 We sat in that sweltering ship... 631 00:52:02,346 --> 00:52:07,340 trembling in fear, wondering if now it was our turn. 632 00:52:11,388 --> 00:52:12,616 Komiyama... 633 00:52:13,691 --> 00:52:15,659 You're a good swimmer... 634 00:52:15,926 --> 00:52:19,362 Yeah. My dad's a fisherman. 635 00:52:20,230 --> 00:52:23,859 I can't. I swim like a hammer. 636 00:52:25,569 --> 00:52:29,232 If this ship goes down, I'm dead. 637 00:52:34,578 --> 00:52:38,514 But you've got to stay alive and make it back to land. 638 00:52:39,316 --> 00:52:40,374 And then... 639 00:52:43,153 --> 00:52:44,814 go to this house... 640 00:52:47,491 --> 00:52:49,550 and tell them how I died. 641 00:52:54,365 --> 00:52:59,200 There's a beautiful missus there named Kayo. 642 00:53:01,238 --> 00:53:03,263 Tell her this: 643 00:53:08,178 --> 00:53:10,908 'I'm no longer in this world... 644 00:53:12,082 --> 00:53:17,076 'but my spirit is always with you... 645 00:53:18,489 --> 00:53:20,286 'watching over you.' 646 00:53:22,926 --> 00:53:27,727 The next day we got hit by an enemy torpedo. 647 00:53:30,901 --> 00:53:33,870 We were on a freighter, lightly armored. 648 00:53:34,772 --> 00:53:36,399 It sank in a flash. 649 00:53:58,829 --> 00:54:05,462 I grabbed onto Yamazaki... 650 00:54:05,736 --> 00:54:07,863 as hard as I could... 651 00:54:10,974 --> 00:54:13,499 but he pushed my hand away. 652 00:54:19,583 --> 00:54:20,675 'It�s OK. 653 00:54:22,653 --> 00:54:24,143 'Don't bother'... 654 00:54:25,789 --> 00:54:27,051 he said. 655 00:55:08,932 --> 00:55:10,832 Can I see that? 656 00:55:11,001 --> 00:55:12,832 Now, look. 657 00:55:13,203 --> 00:55:18,835 The ear and the nose aren't level. Bring this down. 658 00:55:26,550 --> 00:55:28,711 Very imaginative! 659 00:55:28,886 --> 00:55:30,353 Yes! 660 00:55:32,022 --> 00:55:33,011 Excuse me... 661 00:55:41,865 --> 00:55:44,060 Everybody, listen! 662 00:55:44,234 --> 00:55:49,331 I have to go, so watch carefully while you draw. 663 00:55:49,506 --> 00:55:53,704 A well-rounded person needs more than just literature and math. 664 00:56:05,556 --> 00:56:08,719 Hi, it's me. Grandma's taken a turn? 665 00:56:10,127 --> 00:56:10,991 Yeah... 666 00:56:12,262 --> 00:56:13,194 Yeah... 667 00:56:14,565 --> 00:56:15,657 OK. 668 00:56:15,933 --> 00:56:18,163 I'll be over this afternoon. 669 00:56:18,502 --> 00:56:21,062 Tell your dad to get over there. 670 00:56:21,238 --> 00:56:23,229 You go, too. 671 00:56:24,208 --> 00:56:25,232 'Bye. 672 00:56:28,679 --> 00:56:30,078 Your mom's ill? 673 00:56:30,247 --> 00:56:31,111 She's old. 674 00:56:31,281 --> 00:56:32,248 Where is she? 675 00:56:32,416 --> 00:56:36,352 Mitaka. My sister's a doctor there, so that helps. 676 00:56:57,074 --> 00:56:58,132 Hatsu-bei... 677 00:56:58,475 --> 00:56:59,100 Hi. 678 00:56:59,276 --> 00:57:00,675 How is she? 679 00:57:00,844 --> 00:57:05,110 She recognizes the grand-kids. She's talked to each of them. 680 00:57:17,261 --> 00:57:21,425 Kabei...Teru-bei's here. 681 00:57:24,468 --> 00:57:27,995 Kabei, it's me. Can you hear me? 682 00:57:35,145 --> 00:57:37,511 What? 683 00:57:38,415 --> 00:57:39,905 What did you say? 684 00:57:43,854 --> 00:57:46,015 Thank you... 685 00:57:49,726 --> 00:57:51,421 for everything. 686 00:57:53,897 --> 00:57:58,266 What are you talking about? That's for us to say! 687 00:58:01,338 --> 00:58:02,930 Goodbye. 688 00:58:05,309 --> 00:58:08,039 Are you going? 689 00:58:12,015 --> 00:58:18,648 Yes...soon you'll see Tobei again. 690 00:58:20,123 --> 00:58:24,753 Yama, and Aunt Hisako... they'll all be there. 691 00:58:28,265 --> 00:58:29,960 Say that again? 692 00:58:38,942 --> 00:58:40,239 What?! 693 00:58:42,079 --> 00:58:43,341 No! 694 00:58:46,016 --> 00:58:47,449 What did she say? 695 00:58:50,420 --> 00:58:56,086 She wants Tobei in this world, not the next. 696 00:58:58,929 --> 00:59:01,762 She wants him alive, not dead. 697 00:59:22,652 --> 00:59:24,051 Hatsu-bei! 698 00:59:40,504 --> 00:59:42,096 5:30 a.m. 699 00:59:42,906 --> 00:59:45,101 That's when you wake. 700 00:59:47,611 --> 00:59:50,944 You turn on the gas. 701 00:59:52,816 --> 00:59:55,080 You start boiling the rice. 702 00:59:56,453 --> 00:59:57,579 Then... 703 00:59:57,888 --> 01:00:01,051 you wake up the girls for school. 704 01:00:01,725 --> 01:00:03,852 You make their lunches. 705 01:00:07,998 --> 01:00:12,628 You are a poorly paid supply teacher. 706 01:00:14,104 --> 01:00:16,197 Thin and worn as you are... 707 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,198 you must summon... 708 01:00:18,375 --> 01:00:20,843 all the energy of a child. 709 01:00:21,978 --> 01:00:25,914 You must sing your songs loud. 710 01:00:26,683 --> 01:00:31,382 How many hours a day must you work? 711 01:00:32,389 --> 01:00:34,516 All feel injustice... 712 01:00:35,158 --> 01:00:37,353 but all fear being fired. 713 01:00:38,161 --> 01:00:39,992 Lose that job... 714 01:00:40,664 --> 01:00:43,030 and you can never go back. 715 01:00:44,668 --> 01:00:47,728 For me, and for the children... 716 01:00:48,271 --> 01:00:50,364 you grit your teeth... 717 01:00:50,607 --> 01:00:52,768 and struggle on. 718 01:00:54,244 --> 01:00:59,238 Your aching body doesn't weigh 40 kilos. 719 01:01:00,851 --> 01:01:06,221 You are like a piece of cracked china. 720 01:01:07,591 --> 01:01:09,081 Who is it... 721 01:01:09,359 --> 01:01:12,487 that hurts you so? 722 01:01:13,296 --> 01:01:14,558 Who is it... 723 01:01:15,432 --> 01:01:18,492 forcing this grief on us? 724 01:01:19,503 --> 01:01:23,496 You are no longer beautiful. 725 01:01:24,174 --> 01:01:25,971 No longer young. 726 01:01:26,643 --> 01:01:29,806 But now a thought strikes me... 727 01:01:30,547 --> 01:01:33,345 and I must look at you anew. 728 01:01:34,384 --> 01:01:38,821 You glow with the force inside you! 729 01:01:39,823 --> 01:01:43,122 In my weakness, that gives me... 730 01:01:43,493 --> 01:01:45,620 the strength to live on... 731 01:01:46,229 --> 01:01:50,427 and reminds me... 732 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:52,898 that I am human. 733 01:02:36,279 --> 01:02:43,981 Directed b y Yoji Yamada 734 01:02:47,791 --> 01:02:51,158 Subtitles Ian MacDougall 47876

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