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Episode 46
Oshin had returned home with a broken heart.
Haru Oshin's sister had returned home with TB.
She had developed the disease while toiling at the textile factory.
Sis...
How do you feel?
I guess I feel good being home.
Too bad you have to sleep out in the shed.
It's okay I feel more comfortable out here.
I made you white rice.
You'll get stronger and better in no time.
Don't mind me.
I'm not worth anything I can't work anymore.
Don't get father and brother upset. Then you'll have it harder too.
Don't be silly.
You got ill working for all of us!
It's only natural that we get you well again.
Just relax and get well!
You haven't changed.
Eat it while it's hot.
It's so good!
Gruel made with white rice is the best.
At the factory we only got barley mix to eat.
But it was better than the daikon gruel we have here.
Eat all you want.
That factory was bad.
We slept two to a futon.
Two people together?
No.
We'd work two separate shifts.
Since we use the same bedding if one gets TB
the other one will catch it too.
That's absurd!
We were all weak from overwork. Many girls got sent home to die.
We were exhausted from working 12-hour shifts.
They told us we'd learn tea and flower arranging
but all we ever wanted was to sleep during breaks.
I would ask myself why I was doing all this.
But I had to work to earn the money.
It's been hell for the past eight years.
You had nothing but hardship for eight years.
Compared to you I had it easy.
I didn't have it all bad.
There was a supervisor who was good to me.
He'd stick up for me.
His name was Hirano and we'd talk often.
I lasted because of him.
If I hadn't gotten ill
I would still be happy working with Mr. Hirano.
I've given up on him because of my illness.
I feel sad because I can't see him anymore.
You were in love with him?
Did you two promise to marry?
I was just a worker.
Besides I got sick.
How did we get on to this subject? I've never told anyone before.
It's your fault!
I feel better now. You didn't have it all bad.
It doesn't do much good to talk about him.
I can't ever see him again.
You can see him when you get better!
That's why you have to get better!
Haru!
Mother!
I got the telegram. I came rushing home!
Why are you sleeping out here?
Mother...
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong?
You sent the telegram?
A real busybody!
A mother should be with her daughter when she's sick!
We need you to work.
We had a bad harvest last year.
And we just finished planting this year's crop.
We need money for food until the harvest.
We have a sick one and Oshin too!
You being here is not going to get Haru better!
You call yourself a human being? All you think about is money?
Oshin did right in sending for me.
You want money so badly?
I won't eat and I'll take care of Haru!
I don't like being the way I am!
No matter how much I work we are still poor!
Life isn't easy!
Stop it Shoji.
Shoji has it rough too.
He is the eldest son. He's responsible for everything.
He works and gets no rewards.
I don't blame him for saying those things.
He's not the only one working. Haru Mitsu and Oshin
they all worked to help the family out.
It's so unfair.
Being a sharecropper is the problem.
We have to pay out high rents to the landlord.
We never have enough rice left for ourselves.
We're forced to take out high-interest loans.
We have to borrow more before the first loan's all paid off.
The landlord doesn't work yet his coffers are full!
The sharecroppers just gets deeper into debt.
As long as there are sharecroppers there will always be poor people.
It's wrong that only the landowner gets rich!
Oshin...
It's nobody's fault. It's the system that's wrong!
The system is what made my brother like that
and the system made my sister ill.
If Haru dies it's as if the landowner killed her.
When did you learn such things! Who taught you this?
Don't ever say such things outside the house.
Without the landowner how are we landless farmers going to live?
We have been under the landowner's care for generations.
There's nothing we can do to change anything.
The police are looking for agitators
who are stirring up the sharecroppers.
So don't talk like that again!
Thinking like that is what keeps the sharecroppers down!
That's why you'll always be poor.
What's that?
Apologize!
I'm not saying anything wrong.
Apologize Oshin!
I won't let her talk that way to me!
What did you say?!
Please...
Please don't...
Stop! Stop it!
Oshin! Apologize to him!
Josei Textile Factory
I'm Hirano.
I'm sorry to come unannounced.
You're Haru's sister? How's your sister?
She mentioned how kind you were to her.
Please sit down.
She was very weak when she left.
You came to give me news about her?
I have a request.
Can you come and visit her just once?
I don't know if you have feelings for her
but I want her to be able to see you before anything happens to her.
She hasn't much longer to live.
It's her last wish.
I have one yen here use it for your journey.
I don't understand.
I love someone too.
I know how much my sister wants to see you.
You don't have to mean it.
Just make her feel that it was worth living.
I feel so badly for her.
She has never had any joy in her life.
You're the only bright spot in her life.
Please understand.
Haru was nice. We would talk often.
But I didn't know she felt that way about me.
You won't come?
Haru are you all right?
Poor thing.
We can't do anything for you.
I wish I could change places with you.
She started coughing blood after you left.
Mr. Hirano.
Thank you for coming the other day.
I was afraid you wouldn't make it here in time!
Is she that bad off?
I'm sure she'll get better the minute she sees you.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel