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- Winter, 1943 - Yalu River
- Episode 1 - Aired on October 7, 1991
- Baimaozi (White Hat) Station - Manchuria
We'll be stopping here tonight.
Pass the pot.
Give him that pot, you dirty Chosen* bitches! [*Joseon in Japanese]
Look up. I said look up!
Look up.
You. Get up.
You, get up.
Up! Get up.
Get up.
Get out.
Hurry up and get out!
Move!
Line up.
Stand up straight. Get in line, move!
Here... Get out. You remain here.
You.
It's empty.
You little...
Help me!
Help!
Help...
Please...
Please, don't.
Please...
Mom...
- Keep quiet, you bitch. - Mom...
Where did they take you, uh? Where have you been?
Hey... What happened? Where did they take you?
Yeook. What happened? Where have you been?
What's wrong with your hair?
Mom...
With the Battle of Midway,
Japan's seemingly invincible legacy was dealt a crippling blow.
By the middle of 1943,
the Allied Forces had gained enough ground to launch a massive offensive.
Immediately following Italy's unconditional surrender on September 1943,
military strategists moved Japan to consider alternative stratagems.
Favoring defense over offense in order to buy time for their reprisal,
Japan drew a new defense line,
and concentrated its efforts on holding back the Allied Forces through relentless fighting.
- November 1943 - American Forces land on Tarawa and Makin, Gilbert Islands.
Its defense forces chose to sacrifice their lives fighting...
instead of abandoning such strategically crucial positions.
- 4,500 Japanese Troops Annihilated - Their resistance was fierce, but drenched in despair.
Back in China, Chiang Kaishek's army, getting by through human wave tactics,
finally began receiving support from the Allied Forces.
But Japan still could count on its invincible Kwantung Army.
- November 1943 - Imperial Japanese Army Captures Luoyang
Second unit.
Owaku. Kenji.
Oda, Sakai. Sakai!
- Is this all? - Yes, Sir. Just them.
Nishihara. Question her.
Where there's a woman, wouldn't there be a man?
Get up!
I said get up!
Come.
- Sakai! - Sir!
Shoot her!
Where the hell are you going?
What are you waiting for? Dirty Chosen scum!
Hurry up and shoot her!
Sakai!!
- Shimonoseki, Japan -
Next.
- What is your major in college? - Medicine, Sir.
But why didn't you join the army?
A medical certificate... Tuberculosis?
Yes.
Here.
Next.
I just came, after all.
I couldn't possibly wait.
Maybe I shouldn't have sent you that letter?
How can you say that...
I got a hold of myself after reading that letter of yours,
and I was already on a train. From Tokyo to Shimonoseki.
I felt embarrassed every minute I spent in here all alone.
What are you thinking?
That I'm a shameless woman,
and you can't stand me anymore?
If I were you, I would have long abandoned a woman like me.
I'm much older, and used to be someone else's wife.
And I'm a Chosen man.
Does it make you that nervous?
It does.
I don't even think about things that make me nervous.
I just don't.
Because even if filled only with happiness, life would still be too short.
I had a dream on my way here.
I found myself in hell,
but I still had a smile on my face.
I must have been thinking about you.
I'll never let you go to a place like hell.
- Tokyo, Japan -
I'll have this.
Natsuo-san...
Natsuo-san?
Natsuo-san!
My name is Yamada, I'm from the Metropolitan Police's High Inspectorate*. [*in charge of eradicating anti-Japanese] movements during the colonial era]
I offer you my sincerest condolences for losing your husband in battle.
By the way...
About that student you went all the way to Shimonoseki to meet.
How long have you two known each other?
It's been about three years,
since when my husband was still alive, he used to board here.
Because he was one of my husband's students.
Were you aware of the fact that he's from Chosen?
Yes.
Then I'm sure you know of his involvement in the anti-war movement as well.
There must be a misunderstanding here.
He's a very simple-minded man.
If anyone is to blame for any misdeed, that is me.
Misdeed?!
What misdeed are you referring to?
That of forsaking your late husband's legacy,
and defying His Majesty the Emperor's wishes...
to abandon yourself in the pleasures of the flesh...
Are you referring to such vile and unpatriotic misdeeds?
And to the fact that you are knowingly abetting his anti-war activities in exchange?
We have no idea what these anti-war activities you speak of are.
But if I must be blamed for seducing a diligent student,
then I will accept any punishment.
So I'll have to suppose you really didn't know about his anti-war activities,
and that since it's already been exposed, you can't help but admit your unethical conduct.
Fine.
I suppose my cordial approach is to blame.
- Yangzhou, China - (Northeast of Nanjing)
Sakai... Kaneyama!
You take the front!
Owaku! Takano! Second squad!
Front squad, move!
Second squad!
Kaneyama!
Ehh... You dirty Chosen scum!
Scummy Chosen bastards...
Sakai.
- Private Second Class Kaneyama... - Raise that damn voice.
Private Second Class Kaneyama!
So I hear that among the comfort women coming our way, some will be Japanese?
Don't even dream about them, they're for senior officers.
I miss our women so much!
Ehh Ehh... Those from the peninsula are not that bad, either.
Especially considering that the Japanese women coming here are nothing but prostitutes.
But although those Chosen wenches might be dirty on the outside,
they're fresh and clean inside, that's how it is.
Private Second Class Kaneyama, proudly serving the Imperial...
Private Second Class Kaneyama...
His Majesty the Emperor bestowed that rifle upon you.
And you dare just throw it around?
Are you implying that it's completely useless in battle?
Since you'll be foolishly hiding while everyone else fights.
Look at me, I'm illiterate.
Plowing fields was all I ever knew.
And yet I perfectly understand how to behave like a soldier in battle.
- Sakai. - Sir!
You're from the Beijing Academy like him, aren't you?
I am, Sir!
Is that how they trained you student soldiers over there?
To hide yourself the moment you hear a gunshot?
- No, Sir! - Then?
Is it in your dirty Chosen blood?
To throw precious rifles around and hiding yourselves during battle!
No, Sir!
Student soldiers, and Chosen scum at that?
And you're telling me I have to endure not one, but two of you?
You're here to stake your life!
Dirty Chosen scumbags...
You can't even tell who your real foes are.
If we came here to read romance novels, you'd be on the frontline.
You don't know the first thing about dying like a man!
I'm fighting to make sure scum like you can live in freedom!
By putting my life on the line every single day!
Want to run another hundred laps?
Get up!
It's killing me...
Then, please. Just die.
Do I have to go through this all the time?
Every damn time, because of you.
Aren't you sick and tired of being called "Chosen scum"?
Get up... Get the hell up, Kaneyama!
My name is Dongjin.
Kwon. Dong. Jin.
You deranged son of a bitch.
We're Joseon people.
Let's run away, Choi Daechi. Let's leave this place!
You must really be out of your mind.
Move!
This is their war.
We're Joseon people!
Joseon, my ass!
It's because of that goddamned Joseon that we're in this state!
Let's go... Before someone comes looking for us.
You just grovel at their feet like a dog, Choi Daechi.
Is that how you want to live? Killing innocent children.
One! Two! Three! Four...
One, two, three, four... One!
Two...
I never even contemplated the idea of joining the anti-war movement.
- Ueno Police Station, Tokyo -
How do you feel about Japan?
I think that Japanese citizens and colonials from the peninsula...
should unite as one and faithfully serve His Majesty the Emperor.
Come on in.
What's your name?
Don't you have any ancestors?
Are you a baseborn Chosen mutt?
Jang Harim.
I asked for your name.
I'm Harimoto Natsuo.
I see we get it.
But I really can't figure out that Katsuko.
Why would she choose someone like you?
You are no man.
So you never subscribed to any anti-war doctrine.
And if it weren't for your lung disease, you would join the army right away,
and honorably fight alongside your fellow compatriots, is that it?
Yes, Sir.
We just got the result of your x-ray scans.
Turns out that you did suffer from a lung disease,
but now you're completely recovered.
Was it here?
That disease you had.
My congratulations, Harimoto.
I let them take their best shot at me,
doing everything I could to get out of there.
Giving up my pride, my motherland... Doing everything to please that detective.
Are you going to be drafted now?
I'm sure Yamada was disappointed as well.
He used my alleged anti-war activities as a pretext,
but Harimoto Natsuo,
Jang Harim was nothing but a loafer who flirts around all day.
If they draft you, will you go?
They probably feel sending me home would be too much of a waste.
Don't go.
I don't want to join the army, either.
I have no intention of dying for no reason.
I can't stand this Japan you call home.
Please don't go.
And now I can't even stand you anymore.
Meet a decent man.
A Japanese one with power, if you can.
Will you please leave, now?
I'm not going to show you out.
I know you're just lying.
You really think that acting like this will make me feel any better?
Is that really what's best for my sake?
I don't care.
I don't care if it means I'll never see you again.
But I'm not going to let you go.
You can't leave me.
You said you had something to discuss.
I want your word.
Is it for Harimoto?
I'm the only thing I can offer you in exchange.
So take me...
and give me your word.
I've heard that Chosen's student soldiers are sent to the front line.
Make sure he doesn't get drafted.
Is Harimoto behind this?
I can't live without that man.
Natsuo-san...
What's the matter, Katsuko?
Natsuo-san...
Natsuo-san!
You don't need to join the army.
He gave me his word. Please...
You sure are a lucky man, Harimoto.
- WithS2 Presented - 20th Anniversary Special E Y E S of D A W N - Episode 1 -
- Starring - PARK Sangwon (Jang Harim) CHAE Sira (Yoon Yeook)
CHOI Jaesung (Choi Daechi) JANG Hangseon (Oe)
PARK Inhwan (Kubota) KIM Hyeonju (Katsuko)
LEE Seongwoong (Yamada) JEONG Hogeun (Kwon Dongjin)
OH Yeonsu (Bongsun) LEE Migyeong (Hanako)
JEONG Hanheon (Nishihara) KIM Hongseok (Owaku)
IM Daeho (Kenji) JEON Heeryong (Policeman) JO Seongsuk (Japanese Woman)
- Written By - SONG Jina
- Based Upon the Novel By - KIM Seongjong
- Produced By - KIM Jonghak
- Subtitles By - Anarchist
- Fine Tuning - julier
- Editor/QC - langdon813
- Coordinators - ay_link, mily2