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Episode 14
Oshin could remember trying to walk home
through the blizzard but that was all...
When she came to she was in this hut.
A man had saved her from a frozen death.
But Oshin had no idea who this man was.
I want to help. What can I do?
I can clean and I can cook rice too.
We have no rice to cook.
I just throw whatever I have into this pot.
Tonight we have rabbit turnips and chestnuts.
Rabbit meat is good!
You melt snow for water?
When there's no snow I go down to the river.
You and that other man live up here all year long?
We make charcoal throughout the seasons.
You're a charcoal maker?
I'll cut that.
You keep making the fire.
You live all alone? You have no mother or father?
How old are you?
I'm seven years old.
And they sent you out to work?
I have many younger siblings so there's not enough food for all of us.
We got a whole bale of rice as my wages!
Now my mother's baby won't have to die.
She can give birth without worry.
Was it rough?
So rough that you ran away?
It wasn't the work...
I was wrongly accused of stealing!
That wasn't all of it...
They took away the 50-sen coin that grandma gave me
when I went off to work. That coin was precious to her!
When I was hungry I was tempted to spend that money but I didn't.
Grandma had saved it all these years!
They said I stole that coin and took it away!
I tried to hang in there...
I was paid a bale of rice to work there
I wasn't about to run off and go home.
But while I was washing diapers in the icy river
I suddenly wanted to go home.
That's enough!
Why didn't I stay?
All I had to do was last until the spring.
What's your name?
Oshin.
That's a good name.
"Shin" means believing and it also means heart.
It's also the "shin" in the word for perseverance
and the "shin" in the word for center.
"Shin" also means new. As well as truth!
"Shin" as in perseverance...
The character for gods can be read "shin" too.
You have a truly wonderful name!
Don't cry or your name will suffer.
Even if my name is so good I still can't go home.
Not while there's still snow.
You can't do anything no matter what.
Just stay here.
Everything will be all right in the spring.
The food is ready.
You insist on keeping that girl?
Take her down. And tell her not to turn you in!
We have food enough for only you and me.
No matter how much charcoal I make or how many pelts you collect
you can't go down to town to sell any of it!
We can't eat charcoal or pelts!
This is good!
Go on eat more!
I've never eaten so much!
At work I got a bowl of daikon gruel and cold soup.
There was never anything in the soup.
It was terrible!
Even at home...
I wish I could feed this to mother and grandma.
Poor thing.
Your family must be poor sharecroppers.
I was the third son of a poor farmer.
I went to work for the landlord at about her age.
Even when my term was up I had no plot to call my own.
I couldn't get married so I started making charcoal.
I'd go from mountain to mountain. I finally found a wife and had sons.
Then the army took them when they grew up.
But... The army was their only chance to get ahead.
But they were both killed.
Who killed them?
The war killed them up on Hill 203!
They volunteered to serve their country
because they didn't want to end up with a life like this as charcoal makers.
Don't keep talking about it. They won't come back.
I'm telling you so that you'll learn!
Do whatever you can to stay alive!
You gave me this life I have. I won't waste it.
My father makes charcoal in the winter too.
But I've never seen him doing it.
Do you always work up here?
No when I run out of trees I move on.
The young man too?
Yes.
It's time we all moved on. We'll go elsewhere in the spring.
Where will you go next?
How should I know!
The young man has nowhere to go too?
This is home to us!
That's him!
We'll have to move as soon as we get her down from here.
She'll tell on him!
You killed it?
You're a master with the gun!
This life was all new to Oshin.
Oshin was captivated by all that she saw.
Soon she had forgotten all about work or home
as if they had happened in a distant world.
You told us she was nine. She's only seven!
She's worthless and she ran away!
It was a mistake to trust your words!
I'm sorry.
We have no word from her family.
We don't know if she reached home safely.
It's been 20 days... We're so worried!
If something happened we would know about it.
I'll go see her family.
Don't bother bringing her back here!
I tried to teach her well and she reneged on me!
We want that rice we paid for her!
Otsune!
That's the deal!
Bring us another girl. A better one!
The madam here needs a babysitter.
It's all your fault!
Work fast!
If you see Oshin give her this 50-sen coin.
Make sure you give it to her.
What's this for?
Oshin will know.
Tell her it was our mistake and we're sorry.
There's no need to tell her anything! It's her fault for not persevering.
So don't worry about it!
You're a hunter?
I shoot animals eat the meat and trade furs.
I guess I'm a hunter.
Hunters speak differently? You don't talk like the rest of us.
Really?
You can read too? I see that you have a book.
I can read the katakana script.
But those words in that book are different.
I'd like to learn to read like you.
I wish I could go to school and learn.
You like books?
I've never read one. You went to school?
Get to bed...
I can write in katakana too. I even wrote a letter home!
There's no mail service here.
I wish I could send word to them that I'm being cared for
by a hunter and a charcoal maker so they don't have to worry.
I want to stay up here forever.
I'll get to bed now.
Gensuke!
You came all the way up here in the snow?
Has something happened to Haru or Mitsu?
I hear Oshin's come home...
Oshin?
I got scolded for getting her the job!
You've ruined my reputation!
Oshin's not here!
You can't try to fool me!
She ran away more than 20 days ago!
Where would she go?
That long ago?
I'm not here to take her back.
They don't want her but we'll have to settle.
It's the truth! Oshin's not here!
Did something happen? Where could she be?
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel