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Episode 40
I need to go out but I'll be right back.
Okay.
Oshin.
Yes?
Who was that call from?
Somebody from back home is in town.
I was concerned. You seemed worried.
It's nothing.
I just wanted to go visit for a while.
Go ahead and your friend can have lunch here.
Hello.
Is there a Mr. Yasuda staying here?
You must be Oshin. He's waiting for you upstairs.
It's Oshin.
I'm sorry to have you come like this.
Please come in.
Sit down.
I shouldn't be asking you for favors
but I don't have anybody else to turn to.
I hate to trouble you again
but I missed meeting someone here in Sakata and I'm out of money.
We maids have to send money home so I don't have any money...
No it's not that.
I called home to have them wire me money
but I can't receive it here at the inn.
So I had it sent to you at Kaga-ya.
To me?
I can't have people knowing where I am.
You'll be receiving money by wire.
Why are you asking me to do this?
I don't know anyone else here in Sakata whom I can trust.
I know I'm imposing but there's no other way.
I can't help you.
I've already made the arrangements!
The money will come by tomorrow morning.
Without it I can't do anything.
I'm sorry but I can't help you.
Why can't you receive your own money?
I just don't understand. Please cancel the money order.
If I could I wouldn't be asking you like this.
I don't want my parents to know where I am.
I can't even go to the post office!
Please understand.
I'm leaving.
I thought I could count on you please!
I'll show my gratitude.
I can't help you in matters I don't understand.
I thought you'd called me about Miss Okayo.
I know she thinks a lot of you.
I don't want her getting involved with a strange man.
This has nothing to do with Okayo.
I'm glad. Now if you excuse me.
You think I'm a suspicious character but I'm not!
And yes I'm being followed but there's something I must do.
Do you know about farmers called sharecroppers?
They don't own their own land and grow rice for others.
They pay half their crop to the landlord for rent.
The remaining half isn't enough to sustain them.
They must keep taking out loans from the landlord.
They have to pay this rice back with interest.
Life is hell for them.
They grow rice but they can't eat their fill.
They mix daikon turnips in with the rice for gruel.
They don't even get enough of that!
The landlords don't work.
They live off the sweat of their sharecroppers.
It's so unfair!
We want to get society right.
I guess you wouldn't understand.
I want sharecroppers to have a decent life.
Can that be done?
If one doesn't have one's own land
one has to rent that land from the landlord.
Yes it can be done!
If the rent paid to the landlord can be reduced from 50% to 30%.
You're dreaming.
All sharecroppers must band together.
We must explain this to all the sharecroppers.
But today ideas like these are considered dangerous.
I saw how sharecroppers live in the Tohoku region.
I wanted to devote my life to their cause.
That's why the secret police are after me.
That's why I can't even tell my parents where I am.
To be afraid is to do nothing.
I'll one day form a union of all sharecroppers
and show people that life can be better.
I'll bring you the money once it's wired to me.
Thank you.
I'm a daughter of a sharecropper.
I grew up eating daikon gruel.
I know how hard poverty is.
I've been working away from home since age seven.
My grandmother died without even eating much white rice.
My little sister was given away as a baby.
My parents still can't make ends meet.
A sharecropper's life is worse than that in hell.
Sharecroppers feel that there's nothing they can do.
I don't know much about you
and I guess I was telling you what you already knew.
I can also do your laundry. That's the least I can do for you.
Thank you.
- Welcome back. - Welcome back.
Sorry to leave like that.
I've cleaned all the rooms.
We'll have to start dinner soon.
Miss Okayo was looking for you.
It's me Oshin.
I heard you were seeing a visitor.
I'm sorry I wasn't around.
It's not often you get visitors from back home.
What can I do for you?
I'm going out so pack me a meal.
You're going to visit Mr. Yasuda?
That's not his real name.
He's working undercover for a cause.
He told you about himself?
People like that don't talk about themselves.
But I know a little bit about these things.
I've tried to get him to talk but he won't.
That's proof that he is with a movement.
That's what's so cool about him!
You'll be starting lessons today in tea ceremony and flower arrangement.
I don't have time to bother with that.
Kayo!
You needn't go to school but a girl must know about these arts.
It's not a skill. It's training for one's heart.
It's so hard to figure out what you're thinking!
Kayo!
No more lectures!
No use being too hard on her she'll rebel.
Just arrange a marriage for her. I'll set her straight when it's set.
Has she told you anything?
You have a telegram money order. i signed for it.
Thank you so much.
Who could be sending you money?
A friend of mine in Tokyo wants
me to send her something from Sakata.
The food in Tokyo doesn't taste good.
Thank you. You've been a great help.
This is for your trouble.
I didn't do it for the money!
I insist you went through a lot of trouble for me.
I'm just glad to be of help.
It's a lot of money I was surprised.
I hate to trouble my parents but I must eat.
They must be so worried about you.
They've given up on me.
They just want me to be safe.
They think it's their fault that I entered the farm movement.
My father's a big landowner.
I can't even liberate our own sharecroppers.
And I get tainted money from my father.
It's pathetic.
I'd better go.
I ordered some tea.
Miss Okayo will be coming soon.
I asked her not to come.
I don't want her to bother me.
She seems to know a lot about you.
She's very smart but she just wants to be fashionable.
She's just rebelling. She's at a dangerous age.
But...
I appreciated the food she brought.
The food here is terrible.
Especially since you made it. It was very good.
I'm leaving tonight but I'll be back.
Will you see me when I come back?
I'll write to you.
Please be waiting for me.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel