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Episode 22
What's father going to talk to me about?
Is he going to yell at me again?
You babysit and do your chores well.
He has nothing to yell at you about!
Then what does he want?
As you all know about 800 families have gone to Brazil.
Two families from our village have gone there too.
The soil here is poor and the weather isn't good.
It's not good for rice cultivation.
We sharecroppers will never get ahead here.
I can understand why people want to move on.
Due to disease we'll have no rice crop this year.
As it is we'll be in debt for the rest of our lives.
I feel like giving up!
Father!
So I've decided to emigrate to Brazil.
Go to Brazil?
How else can we get out from under our debts?
You and I were both born here grandma and the kids too.
We've all worked hard for the land!
What good has come of it?
We can't even eat our fill here...
And we work until we can no longer move!
But there's no guarantee that Brazil will be better.
It's a strange land... What if things don't go right?
Brazil's soil is rich the sun shines all year around!
There's no winter there!
That should make things a lot easier.
They'll give us land too. Our own land!
What we plant and harvest will be all ours!
We can grow sugar cane and all kinds of crops!
We can make money!
I've applied for us to be among the next group going.
Father!
So get ready to travel!
Will I be going too?
Over there nobody will bother you about being with a deserter.
But...
I've made up my mind!
What about Haru and Mitsu?
We'll all go and work together.
Grandma's not well enough to go...
She can stay with either Kozo or Eizo.
With one of your younger brothers?
We can't take her... It can't be helped.
It's the eldest son's duty to care for his parents!
We can't let Eizo or Kozo take over that responsibility.
She's their mother too! Why should I have to do it all?
What did I ever get being the eldest?
I had to take over this sharecropper's post!
Father!
You understand don't you grandma?
It's for me and your grandchildren.
I'm against the idea!
You're willing to live like this forever?
I won't go if we have to leave grandma behind.
- You're going against me? - Yes I am.
She's your own mother!
Fuji...
Never mind me.
I know how tough things are here.
I'd go to Brazil if you could come too.
I'd only be in your way. Besides I'm too old to go abroad.
I won't go... I can't!
Thanks for feeling that way about me.
I'm grateful for having you as my son's wife.
I just want you all to be happy.
It'll make things easier for me too.
Dear Shunsaku. We'll be going to Brazil.
We'll be taking a big ship there.
I don't want to go but it can't be helped.
Grandma can't go... I feel so badly for her.
What's the matter?
Grandma!
Grandma?!
Where's grandma?
I'll go look for her so take care of the baby!
Grandma!
Grandma! Grandma!
She was headed for the river...
Grandma!
Grandma! Grandma!
Grandma!
What are you doing up there? It's dangerous!
Don't come... Don't come over here!
No don't!
Don't do such a stupid thing!
You were trying to jump...
Why did you stop me?
It's best for everybody if I'm gone...
I'm not good for anything...
I'd be a burden on Eizo and Kozo too.
Grandma...
Fuji doesn't want to leave me behind.
I'm holding her back from going to Brazil.
I'm better off dead...
You fool! You fool!
You're a fool grandma!
I won't go... I'll stay with you.
I'll work hard and when I'm older I'll care for you.
So please live a long life!
I won't go... You can go by yourself if you want to.
The contract is to go as a family together!
We have to work together.
Do you realize what you're putting grandma through?
You don't care if she dies?
Sakuzo!
Go on... Hit me some more!
I'll never abandon grandma to go to Brazil!
Fuji don't worry about me.
You should know why Grandma can't move around anymore!
She's worked her body to a breaking point raising her family!
Fuji...
Just because she can't get around...
it's inhumane to just abandon her now!
Even if the rice crop fails we'll get by.
We're sharecroppers. We're dead without the crop.
I'll go out and work...
A woman couldn't possibly earn enough!
She can if she puts her mind to it!
Fuji...
Oshin can take care of the little ones.
Grandma can help...
You still have a baby that needs milk!
You're thinking nonsense!
Let's go to work.
Do your legs hurt!
It's a wonder she could climb the cliff.
She hurt her leg when we almost fell.
I'm so glad you were there to stop her.
I couldn't have gone on if she'd killed herself.
I'm sorry...
I'm so sorry...
I'm the on who's sorry. You've had nothing but hardships.
Grandma...
You were nice to me when I came as a wife.
You made it bearable for me.
I don't care if you can't move. Don't die on us!
Oshin finally understood what it meant to be poor.
She wanted money. To help her mother and grandma.
This incident was to leave a permanent impression on Oshin as she grew up.
Sakuzo never again brought up going to Brazil.
But Fuji began going away to work.
Mother where will you go and what will you do?
What about the baby...
Will you be taking her too?
Mother?
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel