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Episode 20
How could you do that to her?
Oshin are you all right?
That was no way for a father to act!
She shouldn't be in this house...
She made me lose face!
No matter what you say I'll care for Oshin.
She's my daughter too!
You dare go against me?
What has she done wrong?
At her age she shouldn't be working away from home.
It's our fault... We were wrong!
I'm saying...
She didn't know the man was a deserter. She liked him!
If he hadn't saved her she would be dead!
He was our benefactor!
He fed her and took care of her.
It's only natural that she's grateful!
We caused her this grief by sending her out to work.
Oshin...
I'm sorry... It's our fault.
You'll sleep with me and take your meals with me.
Oshin...
Aren't you still in pain? Don't overwork yourself.
I'm all right.
I can't let mother do all the work.
If only I were in better shape to work.
Grandma...
Oshin!
You were with a deserter!
The military police got him!
Why weren't you killed too?
You should die too!
- You should... - Stop it!
Are you hurt?
Those kids are terrible.
Go tell them off!
What they say is the truth. People all hate us now.
Shoji!
Maybe he was a deserter but he'd fought in the war!
He's killed a lot of enemy soldiers. He's an honorable wounded veteran!
But he ran away. A deserter's a coward!
He's no coward!
What are you doing?!
Apologize for what you said!
Apologize! I told you to apologize!
Stop it!
Oshin...
Matsu-ji...
I heard the harmonica I knew it was you!
This isn't a good place for us to talk.
Is being a deserter such a bad thing?
It goes against the Emperor's orders.
Are you a criminal too?
Are all the things people are saying true then?
Shunsaku's no criminal.
But he was killed as a deserter.
He did run away from the army...
But it wasn't because he was scared of fighting.
Shunsaku's from an old samurai family.
His father was a military officer and so were his brothers.
He had great respect for the military
but it all changed when he was on the front lines at Port Arthur.
He saw so many people killed... Not just the enemy
but all of his friends and comrade in arms.
He began wondering what all the killings were for.
Enemy and friends alike he knew that
the dead had families and he began hating war.
That Russian fort on Hill 203 was impregnable.
Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers died attacking it.
Shunsaku got wounded too.
They were going to ship him back to the front when he got better
so he escaped from the hospital before he was completely healed.
He said he doesn't remember how he got away.
I found him passed out up in the mountains.
He was almost dead from fever due to his wounds.
I took him back to my shack
and I'd wanted to protect him for as long as I could.
But he's gone now...
If he hadn't saved me he might still be alive...
It's all my fault...
Oh come on...
You made Shunsaku happy! I was happy too.
He was on the run... He was very lonely.
He'd killed and he'd ordered his men into death.
That's a big burden to live with.
Life was a living hell for him...
He used to carve those Kannon figures
to atone for having killed people in battle.
He was having a hard time...
Maybe it's best that he died like that...
Maybe he's better off now...
He told me when he died... He told me not to worry...
That he was finally going to a better place.
Is that what he said?
Oshin...
Shunsaku's no coward... He just hated war!
He told me never to hate...
He said I'd one day have to experience war
but he also told me to resist! I now understand what he meant.
It was the war that made him like that...
It killed him!
That's right.
Even if people call him a deserter
I want you to understand him for what he was.
Otherwise he'd never rest in peace.
I don't care what they all say. He was good.
To me he was the greatest. That's enough for me.
I'm glad I came. I wanted to tell you about him.
Please come again. I'll be waiting.
Oshin I don't live up those hills anymore.
I'll probably never come this way again.
Where will you go?
I was happy being with you and Shunsaku.
I'll never forget...
You'll face difficulties in life but never give up!
Live like the waterfall that never freezes... Always flow!
Live for Shunsaku too!
You were only seven and you witnessed such cruelty.
I was eight by then...
There's not much difference.
What was I doing when I was eight?
Your mother used to complain that all you wanted to do was play.
That you never did your homework!
I wasn't like you at all... You were denied education!
Parents have to beg their kids to study nowadays.
There's no more draft... I guess we're lucky.
That's right.
Second and third sons of a farm family had no choice
but to go into the army... To help their families out.
It was just after the terrible Russo-Japanese War...
Deserters were considered the lowest of the low.
What a terrible time that was.
We got to where we are now because of what we went through.
For me it was the most important of times.
I got to meet somebody wonderful like Shunsaku...
I learned that one didn't need money
or things to be happy as long as you had a warm heart.
I also learned how terrible war could be...
Shunsaku taught me all that...
I shouldn't have to be reminded of these things in my old age.
You've always done your best. You've done good!
You wouldn't understand...
Oshin was looking back upon herself.
She wanted to return to her former self once again.
She wanted to live her life differently... All over again.
Oshin was filled once again with regret and nostalgia.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel