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Episode 5
Hello! Yashiro.
Oh Kei?
Yes I was working. I was interrupted.
Somebody switched the phone to my workshop.
Never mind...
When is grandma coming back?
She deserves to take a trip.
Does it matter where? I'll be with her.
So don't worry.
It's me Yes I'm fine.
I'm sure I'm causing you all concern.
But I didn't leave out of protest.
So let's just say it's an old woman's willfulness.
Money? Sure I have some.
I'd planned on taking a long trip.
I'll be monopolizing Kei for a while.
He insists on coming along.
I'll call you again soon. Good night.
Hello?
You're not going to have any fun following me around.
I wanted to help you pick up the pieces you left behind in your 83 years of life.
You've turned 20... You grew up in good times...
Soon nobody will know what real poverty is like.
Let's go to the bath. I'll wash your back.
I finally feel like I'm at a hot-spring resort.
I've been so worried about you that I haven't had the time to enjoy the baths.
Young people needn't hear stories told by old people.
You're a strange one...
It had been a long life...
She left pieces of her life behind her.
And she wanted to pick up the forgotten pieces...
Kei was moved by Oshin's determination.
She must've had a life that he knew nothing about.
What has she gone through in her life?
She had never talked much about her past.
Kei was curious to hear her tell her story.
What's daikon gruel?
You told me that's what you ate as a child it sounds good.
It's not!
After paying off the rent with the rice we grew
there wouldn't be much left for us to eat.
We'd cut up the daikon turnip into small pieces
and cook it together with the rice.
It's awful stuff.
But all the neighbors did the same so we thought nothing of it.
I didn't think it was terrible then or that we were living in poverty.
After all I was only seven at the time.
Oshin was born in 1901 the 34th year of Meiji
in a small village in the Yamagata Prefecture.
Her family worked their farm as sharecroppers.
Her mother and father did the heavy labor.
Her grandfather was dead and her grandmother would do a little weaving for extra income.
By the time Oshin came to know her the grandmother
was afflicted with rheumatism and couldn't do much of anything.
Her parents worked the fields by day
and stayed up late at night making straw sandals.
During the winter they'd either go and make charcoal
or barter the little produce that they grew.
They all worked day and nights...
Still by the time planting season came around
their winter's stock of food would all but be depleted.
In time of extended winters rice would have to be
borrowed from the landlord increasing their debt.
The more children they had the more they suffered.
Oshin grew up during such hard times.
But she was used to poverty and didn't think much about it.
What bolstered her was the love shown by her family.
It was the spring of her seventh Oshin first realized her situation.
Oshin.
Is this the girl. She seems bright!
Are you Oshin?
I'll be coming for you later on.
Thank you for coming.
I'll take good care of her.
Who is that man?
Come here Oshin!
Sakuzo!
You're doing this to Oshin too?
Fuji...
Oshin.
I'm against it!
I don't care if I don't eat... I don't want her to go!
Get in here!
I can't let her go she's still only seven.
They say it's all right so I let it be...
I feel sorry for Oshin!
You want us all to starve?
Can't we figure out something?
Figure what out?
I've borrowed all that I can...
Oshin!
- Did you call me? - Yes.
Go play outside...
You'll have to finish your field work.
- Oshin. - Father!
It's best to get it over with!
Go on and play...
I'm not doing this because I want to.
She has to go or none of us will eat!
Sit down over here...
Listen.
You'll be going off to work...
At a lumber dealer down the river from here.
You're going to be babysitting.
It's a big business and they're rich.
You'll get to eat a lot!
Why do I have to go?
You don't get enough to eat here...
- If you... - No.
I don't care if I don't eat. I won't go!
Oshin!
It's already been decided.
I'm not going.
I start school soon with Kiyo!
You won't do as I say Oshin?!
Father!
Oshin... we have no more rice for you to eat.
That's why you have to go. Do you understand?
They'll feed you well.
Your sisters went so why can't you?
No I want to say with you all. I don't want to go anywhere!
Oshin!
My brother doesn't have to go why do I?
He's a boy...
We need his help in the fields.
I'll help in the fields and I'll babysit too.
So please let me stay...
Do as I say!
I want to go to school with Kiyo!
What's the use of girls learning how to read and write!
Father!
I'll talk to her later.
Oshin don't cry. Go play outside.
Mother!
Fuji...
Never mind... You won't have to go.
If only I could work...
Don't worry I'll do whatever it takes.
Oshin I'll let you go to school.
You like going to school so you'll do well in your studies.
Father...
Please reconsider Oshin's situation.
Why can we stay together if we all starve anyway?
We'll all have to work more that's all.
I'm sure we'll be able to make it!
You're carrying another child...
One more mouth to feed.
We'll manage...
At that time
I still didn't know what it was like to be dead poor.
That's why I was able to protest.
Later I did realize...
Let's go to sleep.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Sorry for visiting in the early morning
but I thought I'd come and tell you...
I've already heard.
Mother's not coming home for a while?
- She called. - Where is she?
She and Kei won't say.
She said she didn't leave out of protest
so she wanted you both to know that.
Then why didn't she call us directly? Kei too!
It's just and old woman being willful.
We can't take it so lightly. Think of how we feel!
Never mind we can manage without her.
Let her take her trip!
I'm sure Kei will let us know if there's a problem.
Good morning.
Tatsunori what is it?
I have to talk to you.
The Namiki store by the train station has agreed
to sell its business and lot to that large supermarket chain!
It sure is cold!
I'm sure my father's getting a hard time from your son and his wife.
Because I didn't tell him where we are.
I'm sure Hitoshi's got other worries more pressing.
Where will you go today?
Maybe we should rest you had a tough day yesterday.
Maybe we'll go up the Mogami River.
- Get us a taxi? - Okay.
You didn't have to go to work as a child?
Or did you go?
Just get the taxi!
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel