1945 was
the catastrophic defeat in the unfortunate war.
It was an era when Japan took a step forward,
there were women that gathered and went forth to the battlefields.
Listen, on the battlefield, decency does not exist.
No matter what happens Think for yourself. Got it.
It was an era when work for women was limited, but serving as a nurse in the military
was a path that opened up.
However,
Abandoning a patient that can be saved, to put a priority on a mildly wounded patient?
The superior's order is the order of the nation!
The disappointed Kiyo met Wataru of a Manchurian Pioneering group.
We came to get help for some injured... Is this patient a problem at this hospital?
The treatment of the enemy was in secret,
was inviting disaster.
Unpatriotic!
All the chinks in the town will gather at 7 in the morning.
Public execution.
You didn't do anything wrong Please live.
As you are now Please keep on living
Kiyo after her duty of 18 months,
returned to the pioneer village in Manchuria to marry Wataru and was also blessed with a child Hiroto.
That child will someday be the bridge between Japan and China.
Hiroto, what's wrong? Oh no.
Sensei, there's something wrong with Hiroto.
Hiroto was nursed suffering from tetanus,
the figure of her former friends and
and Hiroto's own words,
Kiyo made the decision to wear the white coat again.
I will become a doctor.
Even if we are separated, Hiroto and mother will always be together.
However, the war
took away the life of her companions and husband.
Dear...
I was happy.
Dear!
Taking her husbands ashes to the pioneer village of Chiburi,
with the raids of the Soviet forces,
Hiroto had fled with the other villagers,
They headed to the train station in Toan.
Where?
Mother will come for you soon, wait in Harupin village for me, OK!
Got, wait there, OK.
You wait for me!
The invading Soviet troops to prevent the trains being used,
The Kwantung Army escaped leaving Japanese behind to be killed.
blowing up the railroad tracks and station.
That was on August 10, 1945.
A mere 5 days
before the end of the war.
Hitoto and Daichi arrived at Harupin,
were moving together with others from the village of Chiburi.
And,
"You are here."
It was the place Kiyo had promised,
they had finally arrived.
However, it was
a village that had been deserted.
With the coming invasion of the Soviet Army,
the people of the Harupin pioneer village also
had departed for the Japan home soil.
everyone was escaping to the south.
The villagers of Chiburi also
also followed after them heading south.
But Hiroto,
I will stay here.
Until Mother comes I will stay here!
But that explosion, whether she is even alive or not...
alive! Mother is alive!
About Lee san, you can't tell anyone.
Senpai, senpai,
Sensei, she's regained consciousness.
Chamusu Hospital was also attacked by the Soviet Army,
the patients who couldn't run fast enough, were burned in the hospital.
In the end, the Red Cross flag was of no use.
And then when we went to the station, most everyone else was killed.
But Sensei had found you there.
Chen san...
the person that was with me?
The Chinese man that layed over you?
Be grateful to him.
If that man hadn't been over you,
wasn't he a tenant farmer?
A Chinese man saving a Japanese?
And there's this, Wataru's ashes, almost all blown away.
this is what's left.
Hiroto kun? He was on the train that left.
I told him to wait in the Harupin pioneer village.
That being the case, we need to hurry, two days have already passed.
In the end, Hiroto and Daichi stayed.
They found food and other things that were left behind.
kept them from hunger.
From Chiburi to here, how long is it?
Approximately 400 km 400 km?
Since there is no train anymore...
walking 30 kilometers a day,
Two weeks? Yup
But cause they might be injured,
So we have to prepare for 3 weeks,
so we have to plan the food too. Right.
It's been 2 days since then.
It is those who survived that explosions.
Same as us they are headed to Harupin, right?
Treatment tools and drugs? We brought everything we could.
Let's go, everyone
Yes
When we get to Harupin, is there anything fun?
Will there be lots of friends?
They are all waiting for Sakura chan.
Here, drink this.
If you drink this, your fever will fall.
Here. You there!
Think about yourself a little!
Your kids waiting in Harupin, why don't you hurry?
People I see, I can't leave them alone.
And to desert these people, cause I'm in a hurry,
I don't think Hiroto would want that.
Me too.
Those who were shot and died they had it easy?
This war is really hell.
Cause Hiroto met the Sensei,
he now desires from the bottom of his heart to become a doctor.
Hiroto was always like the Sensei, whether Japanese or Chinese,
he wants to become a doctor that doesn't discriminate with people's lives.
Is what he said. What are you saying?
I heard
when you came to the war front with high aspirations.
Nakano, useless to run! running is useless.
"Nakano! "
You remember something so long ago?
At a separate storage room in Chamusu while nursing my husband,
you left medicine in the corridor,
didn't you Sensei? Stupid?
No, it was you.
I believe so
What ever you want.
Sensei, you told me didn't you,
when my husband died, give it up.
I will not give it up.
That sound... No way...
Run everyone, it's a Soviet fighter, run, run!
Run to the bushes! Hurry!
Hurry! Sakura chan.
Run!!
Sakura chan!
Are you okay?
Young lady, you safe? Sakura chan.
You're not hurt? Sensei, Kiyo san!?
Military doctor! It's okay it's okay.
Thank you
After what you had said, did you not end up helping me?
Just a whim
It's over now.
Still talking like that...
Mizoguchi Sensei, Otake sensei has....
We'll help you, Otake Sensei. It's OK.
You don't need to worry about me now.
Don't do anything, do nothing.
It's your fault,
saying you're not giving up.
Heard your sleep talking,
This Zama and
what you just said,
all that was the truth.
I also placed the drugs
you and that handsome man,
hoping you would quickly get together,
if I could get you to quit nursing,
but you never changed,
just like me,
At the hospital, no matter what happened, never giving up,
Watching you like that,
reminded me of what I was like,
I hated it.
Kiyo,
Thanks to you,
right to the very end,
you made me a little better.
I could feel like I was a doctor.
You have to survive.
find that boy!
Live and return home, Sensei.
Anyone around?
Certainly, everyone has left this village. Don't see anyone.
It had been three weeks,
From the occasional guerrillas, they hid successfully,
they had survived but,
This is 25th day, 3 weeks and 4 days.
Hey, Hiroto,
Should we go back to Chiburi?
We've been waiting this long, we might get hurt and won't be able to move.
Maybe she's at the hospital in Chamusu or Chiburi, maybe we could meet on the way.
But...
Alright.
Hiroto, do as you want, I'll stay with you.
Thanks
The next day, Kiyo's group
arrived at Harupin's outskirts.
Kiyo hid the rest of the people in a safe place,
together with Mizoguchi looked around for Hiroto.
in the now deserted village.
However, around there,
Hiroto's figure was no where to be found.
That same morning, Hiroto...
Daichi, What?
I couldn't sleep cause I was thinking, let's go to Chiburi.
It's useless to stay here now.
Well then, take as much food as we can and leave immediately.
May have headed south with the pioneer group.
Perhaps, even now
they may be on a ship headed to Japan.
That would be good.
Hiroto will survive.
whatever happens, survive.
Mother...
That same evening,
Kiyo's group arrived safely at the Harupin Army Hospital.
However after finally arriving there,
it was also bombed out.
Have the people of the settlement wait at the entrance.
It doesn't seem there are Soviet troops or guerrillas here but,
oh it's like this now?
There's a stove in the outside warehouse, also firewood and coal.
There are plenty of beds.
If we stay here, from the cold of the coming winter,
we will be able to protect ourselves.
Who?
someone?
Chief!
Maki-san! Oh, everyone
You are all safe?
Kiyo san, you have also returned.
Yes Me too
At the Saga prefectural office The words you told me
have always been stuck in my heart.
Last year, I volunteered here.
Since her appointment as head nurse, with the spirit of the Red Cross,
we also have been nursing Chinese in secret,
It's thanks to you.
We have some food left in the underground pit.
Also medical equipment and supplies and left over medicine, we can do treatment.
What happened to the military people here?
After the end of the war, the hospital was attacked, and then
everyone... End of the war?
End of the war, what do you mean?
Everyone, you haven't...
you don't know anything?
Japan, on August 15th,
declared an unconditional surrender. The war is over.
Did Japan lose?
What happens to the homeland?
Families in your hometown?
Like Manchuria was under Japanese rule,
it may be occupied by America.
But
That the war ended,
is that not a pleasing thing?
Us too Finally released from war,
It's not necessary to be afraid of the Soviet army's attacks... Defeat is not that sweet!
I have seen
what has been done in the name of war, what has been done
here in the land of Manchuria,
what terrible things were done by the Kwantung Army?
Okano kun,
This, one bag each give to each of the women.
Yes
this is?
It is a potassium cyanide,
Women on the losing side in a war,
become prey to men of the victorious countries.
that's a constant of war.
Those living will get raped!
When something goes wrong,
please protect the virtue of Yamato Nadeshiko.
Major.
I am no longer,
needed as a human who lived as an Imperial Soldier.
I will take blame and responsibility for the defeat.
That's just cowardice!
What is it to be a man?
It is not just taking the easy way out for yourself?
If you are really prepared to take true responsibility,
you should keep living as shameful as it is.
Stay alive and bring everyone back to Japan.
isn't that how you should take responsibility?
Now it is the worst, but if we overcome,
from now on, there are many good things.
Let's believe so
With this, at a time of peace,
please give it to the children again.
When you played it by the river,
although it was a short time,
it brought peace to the children.
good So good.
I was about to die?
Good we found a river.
Stop Hiroto.
But he may still be alive What?
After all, he is dead.
I will help now.
Ready set.
It's impossible, we have to get someone.
I'll find someone.
Pretend you are a Chinese child! I understood
We'll help you soon, don't worry.
It's OK, I won't tell anyone.
Can you speak Japanese?
A little
What are you going to do now?
Return to Chiburi In the pioneering village of Harupin,
we were waiting for my mother, but after three weeks she didn't come.
Is that right.
With the explosion at Toan station She may have been injured,
Yeah, so we're returning to Chiburi.
It's impossible But mother is...
It is impossible now. Japanese are being chased by Soviet forces
in Harupin and Chiburi too,
there is no place for Japanese anymore.
If you're mother was injured, she will come to Harupin.
Until then Will not you live at this uncle's house?
I have a wide field There are lots of foods
This uncle you know,
I have no children.
As a child of this uncle will you not live?
But we are Japanese people It's OK.
You need to be Chinese. What?
Japanese now in China,
are being captured and most are killed.
If you want to survive, you probably won't see your mother.
OK.
Arrived at the house.
Wow, is that a person's house?
Ha ha ha ha ha...
I'm back.
Master!
Where have you been?
The master has come back!
Welcome back.
Today, gather everyone together if nothing else
to introduce the new family members.
I owe my life to these two here,
They are war orphans who have lost their parents,
Today they are born again as my own sons.
Yashun kun and
Yashin kun.
With the shock of losing their parents, they do not talk much but
please be kind to them.
Kiyo hoped that Hiroto had safely made it to Japan, but
Ironically, the army hospital where Kiyo was, was only 10 km away
from where Hiroto was living as a Chinese.
Hiroto not even for a moment
had forgotten about his mother Kiyo.
Loved by the landlord Yang,
even though he was being cherished,
the feelings of wanting to see his mother,
could not be restrained.
And finally
Where are you going Hiroto?
Do you plan to run away?
Outside is dangerous, we don't know what will happen to Japanese?
But I want to see Mother.
I want to look for Mother.
Sorry I was quiet, but let me go.
When I find mother, I will come get you for sure.
If you go out alone,
you're dead father and mother would scold you.
I will also go with you.
They kept walking for two days,
till they were on the outskirts of Harupin,
arrived in Muran.
However without drinking or eating,
for the entire 2 days,
their hunger had reached it's limit.
I am hungry, can't move anymore.
That looks good.
Taking two, they won't notice.
Hot!
What are you?
Hiroto!
Don't run!
those brats!
Good.
You guys, Japanese?
Do not worry I am also a Japanese.
Japanese children hanging around in a place like this,
You will be caught and sold.
What are you doing in such a place?
We want to get to Chiburi.
My mother is probably there.
Your mother...
Is that right?
Alright, come with me.
close it.
Hey eat up.
Come in. Who are these kids?
Everyone are Japanese separated from their parents,
Somehow I want to get them back to Japan.
Just a few at a time, but we take them to the Port of Dairen to go by ship to Japan.
You want to see mother?
OK, I'll do something.
There is no safe way to go in the direction of Chamusu,
I'll investigate a bit, OK.
Have some food here.
It's good. Yea.
Hey get up,
I found a good way to get to Chiburi.
Sorry, it's a pig wagon, endure a little, OK.
Someone's coming, hurry.
Mother, I'm coming soon.
Is it a market?
Cute.
Come here.
They're going to sell us.
Get out!
What are you doing? Sorry, I need to live, OK.
Do Japanese people sell Japanese people?
I apologized didn't I.
Oh, it is your turn soon.
Look, get out.
Hey hurry up No..
Can I get 20 yen?
25 Yen?
How about it?
Good, sold for 20 yen!
Next is number 10, small Japanese devils,
Free to boil or bake,
Fluent in Chinese, and healthy ones too.
Start at 10 yen.
30 yen.
We have 30 yen, anyone give 40yen?
We have 45 yen, anyone give 50?
I'll give 50.
We have 50 yen, anyone give 55?
70 yen!
We have 70 yen,
Are they're any others, they're not!
Mother help me.
Then, sold for 70 yen!
I will pay 200 yen!
Together with number 11, 400 yen!
If there's anyone that will pay more, we'll meet it!
Are we agreed!?
Thanks to you, I made quite a bit.
Thanks.
Don't touch!
What of it?
The master's precious heirs,
don't touch with your filthy hands!
Well, let's go.
Father!
Father!, Father!
I'm sorry, Mr. Yang
I'm sorry I'm sorry
Have you forgotten,
you are our child.
It's difficult as a parent to see,
children suffer, don't you know.
I intent to be a genuine father to both of you.
So Yashin kun, I will say something strict as a father.
Your mother you know,
I think she is dead.
At the hospital because you were sad,
I could not tell the truth.
But because of the explosion at Toan Station,
it was said that there were few survivors.
But...
But if you want to believe she is alive, you can.
But if you are to live here,
Live as my child.
Live as a Chinese.
You understand?
It is for you to live.
Understood.
I will become Chinese.
"No matter what happens"
"Live strongly"
The season changed to fall,
At Harupin Army Hospital, former Japanese soldiers disguised as refugees,
and refugees from the pioneer villages came in.
In a place like this, it's cruel to say you are fine.
Kiyo san you're a liar,
there's nothing fun here.
Saying we're giving them a feast,
Children growing needing nutrition, somehow I want to provide for them.
But we're already running out of food to stave of starvation.
That's why I want to think with everyone,
In the outskirts by the Achi river is a Chinese farm, what about going there?
To a Chinese farm?
There was a rumor that the landlord was quite friendly with the Japanese,
I heard from many patients.
Let's try going. It's dangerous.
If you're found by other Chinese along the way, you don't know what will happen?
But either way, we'll run out of food and starve.
I heard your conversation.
I'll take on the danger myself.
2 days later
Everyone what you've been waiting for ~
Sweet smell
Delicious!
It was worth the effort Ah
Was it so hard?
You need some treatment!
No, it's not a big deal
Were you attacked?
Japanese monsters!
My brother's enemy!
"Mr. Mizoguchi! " "Should be fine"
Any closer and I'll shoot!
Back down!
More!
Hey mister. In here!
"let's go"
Hey kids,
did some Japanese run this way?
Yea, they went that way.
Alright, let's go!
Get the Japanese monsters!
"Hey sirs, it's OK now."
"Are you Japanese? "
We only speak a little Japanese.
You want food, don't you? Shall I ask father?
"Are your parent's the landlord? "
"that's right" "Really"
The house is right there, hurry.
The parents of the two boys
In the land owner Yang Jintao
We told him the circumstances, said take what we could.
Is that so
We also need to be grateful to those two Chinese boys.
But those kid's Japanese, wasn't it quite normal?
Saying wasn't it quite normal?
Would think they were Japanese.
What? That's it,
that decoration you are always holding.
It has tiger embroidery.
Kiyo-san What's wrong?
Was it not these children?
That's right this kid.
Older brother is also this kid.
Kiyo san, don't tell me...
That is my son.
He's alive.
in this Harupin land.
He's alive.
Please take me!
Please Please take me there.
Understood.
Because it is dangerous Let's wait for the night and then go.
We will take you.
Thank you!
Please relax Kiyo san.
If they are living as the sons of that landlord,
they are absolutely safe!
Everyone quietly!
No way...
Soviet troops. I'll try to stall them.
Meanwhile, only men it the big room.
And get the women and children in the underground pit.
Do not come out until there's a signal. Yes.
Absolutely.
stop!
Soviet troops came.
The time for having hope came to an end.
From today on it is to be managed by the Soviet Union.
Is it OK? Yes
Is this a ward? Yes
Are there no women? There are not.
If there is no woman Why are there flowers?
There are none.
If you value your life tell the truth.
There are no women.
On that day, any former Japanese soldiers that could move,
were taken away as prisoner's of war.
Long after the war ended, they were sent to
concentration camps in Siberia
were subjected to forced labor.
To not be taken as a prisoner of war
please live as a patient with a serious condition.
Also, there is no women in this hospital,
About the underground pit Keep it hidden.
Water and food, this is the last.
See you tomorrow.
In the underground cellar, no windows, running water or toilets,
With the potential of women being assaulted by the Soviets,
All of them waited there holding their breath.
Sakura-chan are you okay?
All right do not worry
Sakura-chan Kiyo Senpai.
Sakura-chan Sakura
All right?
Sakura-chan Spit here
Symptoms of laryngeal diphtheria
If she doesn't get treated soon, it'll be neuromasia or blindness,
also the possibility of suffocation by death.
Surgery?
Exhale and breath slowly.
What's wrong?
We have an emergency patient.
It is funny, although it's a hospital,
you don't have any nurses? There are none.
Isn't this a woman?
Hand over the women!
I can't.
Explain the reason for hiding her.
Speak quickly, quickly!
Actually,
She is a Typhus patient!
Therefore I couldn't have you see her.
If you value your life,
offer your allegiance.
Are you okay?
Sensei, Sakura chan
had come down with laryngeal diphtheria.
Please do surgery.
But we don't have any anesthesia.
And several nurses will also be needed.
If they're found by the Soviets, what will happen?
Understood.
Let's do it
But Major,
We'll do it after they're all asleep.
Understood.
I will prepare right now.
please wait
You are a typhus patient If you are found,
It's dangerous no matter who helps.
That night at 2 am,
when the Soviet guards were starting to nod off,
Sakura chan's surgery was quietly started.
Knowing the danger of assisting
were Kiyo the head nurse and Haru.
The surgery took just over two hours,
The surgery,
It went well.
Thank you very much
Sakura, immediately to the basement.
However that was not so simple,
You don't need to clean up, please return to the basement now.
Okano!
Sorry, but they noticed.
However I did not say anything about the basement.
Stop...
Please, please,
Please don't.
Okano san!
Head nurse.
Head nurse!
I don't know who it is at the front gate now, but
a nurse was thrown from a car and is fallen.
please wait!
It's my fault
I will go
Kiyo san.
Haru san!
Sorry
This day suddenly
without a word to the Japanese,
the Soviet army left Harupin
in an evacuation.
And passing them on the way in,
was the army the Japanese in Manchuria feared the most,
The Chinese Communist Party Army,
heading to the Army Hospital.
Because of how cruelly the Kwantung army had treated the Chinese,
had treated the Chinese,
they feared retribution for the atrocities.
Therefore, many of the Japanese patients,
thought they had no choice but
to choose to take their own lives rather than suffer the shame.
Are there no nurses?
There are none.
There...!
Did you forget?
Here was originally a Chinese Hospital.
Come with me.
It was,
the same for the nurses.
Come.
I can take no more!
With what I have tasted, I'd be way better off dead!
Everyone, being here without windows or a toilet,
Can you stand it anymore?
We don't know how long it will last,
If we're found,
having to be violated again, I...
Haru san.
This having to be violated again,
what do you mean?
I was..
raped by the Soviet troops.
to be violated again,
I cannot bear it!
Please do not insult us we
fight to free all people that is the Chinese Communist Party army.
Without violence, with ideals,
it is our mission to lead the world to peace.
Though you were citizens of an enemy country, you were also victims of Imperialism.
You should all be released,
to return to your homeland.
We want you to lead Japan to be a proper country.
Does that mean you will release us all?
Yes
Wow ~!
Everyone can return!
However!
as comrades with the Chinese Communist Party,
it is necessary that you show an attitude of support.
What is it we should do?
It's become a stooge of America,
the Constitutional Nationalist Party continues to fight with the Communist Party,
suffering injury and illness,
giving relief to our comrades at this moment is our main task.
Medical officials as our comrades,
we want you to participate with the military.
If you accept that,
the other refugees will be released.
What, we participate with the Communist army!?
But for us who were resigned to retribution,
Even if it's just a path for us to live,
don't you think we should be thankful?
But we have to be willing to wear this military uniform.
For an Imperial soldier, you mean we become a red.
It is to live!
Anything red or whatever, isn't it OK?
And then other people are saved!
Mizoguchi san, whatever you wear
what's inside us does not change!
you are a truly strong person.
Honestly, Hiroto kun
is here in Harupin, leaving can't help
but be painful, even so
Hiroto told me,
"I want you to save as many as you can."
If Hiroto is saved by a Chinese,
I also have to save Chinese people.
Regardless of enemy or ally saving them is the spirit of the Red Cross,
finally that can be realized!
That's right.
And as comrades of the Communist army,
the trip across the whole country of China began.
The communists treated Kiyo's company as equal comrades.
Meals, goods and time off,
were all passed out equally.
The Communist troops always with a gentlemanly attitude,
gave proper respect to the medical technology of the former Imperial army,
incorporating it diligently.
They had meetings to teach Chinese language and teach Communist Party thought.
lessons were held often.
In several months,
they moved across China,
coming to many places where hospitals were opened.
eventually going back to a place near Harupin
the city of Ajo.
And then a short time passed,
and Kiyo finally used a day off,
Together with Mizoguchi went to the town where Hiroto lived.
and called on the house of the Landlord, Yang.
Oh, it was here we hid?
It's close to here.
Uh! Here it is!
In such a fine home,
Hiroto and Daichi are? Yes.
Anyone here?
What's your business?
We'd like to see Yang san.
Is this possibly having to do with the people's court?
People's court?
Others also came,
however, Yang san is not here now.
Yang san, he had some sons,
Those boys, aren't they here?
Are you the mother?
Where are they?
Please come in.
Your fellows in the communist party,
with the belief of the organization of workers and farmers,
it has strengthened the oppression towards capitalists and landlords.
It was about 3 months ago,
that wave also came to Harupin.
Close the gate!
Master, this is terrible.
What is it, Ko san?
The landowner in the neighboring town, was just taken away,
and shot by the people's court.
Papa, escape now, Hurry!
Papa, Papa.
You two take care!
That I met you two, has made me happy.
Take care!
Then three weeks later,
he was caught by your friends in Changchun.
in the end, died by firing squad.
Then what about the boys?
I sent them away
After Yang san escaped,
I heard that they have also been executing landlord's families.
I gave them as much money as possible, but
I do not know where they headed.
Even though they are so young,
Here was their room.
sorry… Hiroto.
Mother was late...
sorry…
I was late…
Haru san is enthusiastic about studying.
I…
With the war, I lost my way of life,
I way be looking for a new way to live.
You listen to me
more diligently than anyone else.
The ideal world where the weak
oppressed by the strong coming to an end,
gives hope to a body that's been violated with violence.
Chief Comrade,
May I speak in Japanese?
Please.
That thought is one I cannot understand,
For us who were an enemy,
the Communist Party that's given us a way to live,
why is the same opportunity not given to some Chinese?
Then Comrade Kiyo, do you deny the revolution?
Japanese were caught up in an unfortunate war,
because Imperialist forces were not stopped.
For the salvation of the people, in order to realize an ideal society,
is not purification one way to it?
Haru san... It's comrade Haru.
Comrade Haru,
as a Red Cross nurse,
Despite being in a position to save lives,
you are affirming murder?
Now I am a nurse for the Communist Party!
I request you strongly reconsider.
Much like Haru,
the influence of the Chinese Communist Party grew.
It was the beginning of furious momentum of the red wind that rushed over China.
Hiroto and Daichi to escape the Communist Party pursuers,
they continued on their own heading south.
However,
when they arrived at the town of Uja,
All the money they had been given by the butler Ko san, was taken from them by deception.
What's this, working at stealing!
Small Japanese monsters!
You won't steal anything tonight.
Move on, move on.
Even if you eat like that,
if you work at our house.
you'll eat till your belly's full.
Our son died,
We're short on workers,
But us...
Your Japanese right?
Don't you worry.
I have been a little lucky myself.
Are you okay? Yup…
Eat that, then clean up.
Tei san
What is it?
This won't make my belly full.
What are you doing?
If you don't think that's enough,
then my own son will not be able to eat.
You understand?
He was killed by the Japanese in the war!
You tiny Japanese monsters!
It was your fault!
Shall we run away? Daichi.
Run away and go where?
Just being alive This place is good.
Even if it is painful for you we have no choice but to endure it
Mother...
Two years after that
Hiroto and Daichi continued to endure,
Hey Hiroto,
Aunt Kiyo may still be alive.
Daichi.
Tell me more about that,
This morning a communist soldier passed by,
it's rumored that there are Japanese nurses.
What? With the medical troops of the Communist Party,
there seems to be many people participating.
No way, Mother too !?
Maybe. Where at!?
I don't know...
Why are you sluffing off?
Sorry.
Heard a rumor about my mother.
Heard a rumor about your mother?
What about your mother?
This is your ingratitude for my caring for you!
Even though my son was taken from me in death!
Do you plan to see your mother!?
Even though today is my son's death anniversary,
On such a day.
Stop it!
You little Japanese devil!
What did you do!?
Want to kill me?
These guys want to kill me!
Japanese, want to die!?
I will run away!
They're running.
Catch them!
It's opened! Daichi.
You bastard!
Hiroto,
Look for mother...
The meaning of this commotion,
Hiroto did not yet understand.
This day was October 1, 1949 the Constitutional Nationalist Part was exiled
to Taiwan, Communist Leadership
established The People's Republic of China on that day.
The history of the People's Republic of China starts here.
We have won the fight!
With this grand gathering today,
Under the leadership of the Great Chairman Mao
a pleasant age is now realized.
Starting today,
This new flag, under the five star red flag,
Let us sweat to further unity!
And under this flag,
serve with timeless sincerity,
To all the predecessors and martyrs of the revolution
we have a deep reverence for!
give them the passionate celebration.
Communist party, Hooray!
You guys, are you the Japanese medical people?
Yes
Well, are work for the Communist Party,
no longer seems necessary.
Then does that mean we can go back to Japan?
Soon that will be the case.
Oh... finally.
What's wrong? Ah…
Then celebrate the new China.
cheers! cheers!
With the founding of the People's Republic of China,
all of now will be withdrawn from here.
For the Japanese people,
we would like you to immediately collect your things.
So great!
Comrade Oo, we have been in your care.
Even after returning to Japan,
we will be sure to relay your sincerity.
Comrade Mizoguchi, you seem to have misunderstood.
All of you, as our comrades moving forward,
we're asking you to act together with us,
more than ever now, please work for the people.
Hiroto went looking for Kiyo at the Communist Hospital,
walking there to inquire.
Arriving at the town of Aji one month
after Daichi died.
Mother...
You're Japanese, right?
Then, why don't you show me papers?
Answer?
Last time you eaten?
Six days.
That right…
Came here to find your mother,
You, why don't you join the People's Liberation Army as a boy soldier?
then you won't have any troubles eating.
People's Liberation Army?
With the Western Powers that are for Capitalism.
we have to keep fighting.
Boy soldiers are also welcome.
But
You are Japanese but, if you become a comrade, you'll be treated equal.
You also have an embroidered tiger?
What?
A Japanese nurse I met the other day,
also had a hanging decoration with tiger embroidery.
but the embroidery was quite bad.
Where is that person?
Should be back to Japan.
No way,
My mother,
would not leave me and go back to Japan!
Mama?
Right?
You're mother, is she tall?
Come to think about it, you kind of look like her.
But...
she was happily celebrating with her friends.
"I have it"
"Whatever happens"
Even if you are away from mother, I will always
be together with you, OK.
Mother has abandoned me.
I will join the People's Liberation Army.
Starting today,
as a Chinese person,
I'm Yashin!
However, waiting for him,
was sever circumstances.
You bastard!
Little Japanese monster gives up easily.
Give up already!
Stop that!
Even if he's Japanese, he's a comrade in the Communist Party army.
On the battlefield, you have to depend on each other for your lives!
Understood!
Yes.
You OK?
Don't think anything funny now!
It's done. Thanks
Take this back to the medical office.
Yes.
Hey
The medical office is the other way!
Yashin kun.
Stop!
To stop the bleeding you need to disinfect it.
If it's left like this,
it'll get gangrene, then you'll have to amputate.
For the guy that was kicking you?
What your name? Yashin.
Thank you, Yashin kun.
You're good.
Who'd you learn from?
No one particular.
How about you become a combat medic?
If you become a skilled medic,
everyone will recognize you.
However, shortly after this time, Hiroto himself
would be caught in the new war creeping up.
After the war on the Korean Peninsula it divided into two countries.
The war broke out between North Korea and South Korea.
Capitalist countries like the United States sent reinforcements to the Korean army,
in opposition, China's
Communist State for the North Korean army,
called for volunteer soldiers to be dispatched for support teams.
So the Chinese soldiers injured,
were treated in hospitals established
along the northern border with China.
Ienji Military Hospital
That nursing was performed by Kiyo and her comrades.
And the circumstances surrounding them moved towards a grand move,
it was March of 1953.
Take a break.
Everyone listen up.
All of the Japanese,
assemble in the hall.
Ladies and gentlemen, you are hereby dismissed from Ienji.
Please make preparation.
With the Korean War is intensifying Where are we going now?
No way, not to the front line?
For you here,
you will be returning to Japan.
What?
We can return to Japan?
Oh with the Japanese Red Cross Society, Due to the efforts of the Red Cross Society of China
From the Japanese government, there was a formal return request.
All of you
you really did well.
From the bottom of my heart
with appreciation,
and express my respect.
Comrade Kiyo,
Haru san.
We're separating.
Not going home to Japan?
I received a marriage proposal from Comrade Ou.
Now as a Chinese, I plan to be part of this country.
I don't want to return either.
What will be waiting in Japan for just myself?
I think Hiroto is living somewhere in this country.
If I stay in this country, someday we may meet.
I want to see Hiroto.
Meet him, all that he likes,
feed him till his tummy is full.
Hiroto hung in there and lived.
I want to hug him close.
Kiyo Senpai,
While I am also here, if I learn anything about Hiroto kun,
I'll be sure to contact you.
I will be praying that you will be able to meet again.
Thanks Haru san.
And so Kiyo and the others were forcibly returned to Japan.
From the day when she first arrived in Manchuria Twenty years had passed.
Grandpa.
It's her there.
For a while after the war, you cooperated with the Communist troops right?
Yes
It is a request of the Japanese government Follow me to the police.
You're wrong, I am not red or anything.
Come with me!
What are you doing!? Do something like this,
you insult all the people of the village,
even though they went through so much!
If you continue, you'll be interfering with a public servant,
I will have to take you in too.
It's you that's interfering!
You're not taking my grandchild, leave now!
Leave now!
It's OK.
Compared to Manchuria this much is just fine.
Thanks grandpa
Let's go.
Because I thought I was disinherited,
Just your feelings are enough.
I am happy.
Few days later
Someone with your wealth of experience,
is very reassuring. Thank you.
Then starting next week Yes, if you'll excuse me.
Tami-san!
Kiyo san...
You are also here?
Because I was with the Communist Army they suspect me of being red,
Moreover, my family's Ryokan, it's now...
What happened at your parents house?
"It is hot today," "Hello"
"Koki san!"
You are alive?
"Yes"
Hoping that I would see you again, was my only encouragement.
Hey father, is this person a customer?
Father?
"I'm sorry"
Didn't know you were alive,
Truly... Yuki chan
"Do not interfere with father"
Onechan? Sachi.
Mother, is this person father's friend?
"No way"
Sachi, you are Koki san's?
"I'm sorry, Onechan, because I didn't know "
thought you were dead.
"I'm sorry I'm sorry! "
Mother, you OK?
At that time, Hiroto was still risking his life on the battlefield.
Without any time for sleep, was diligent,
becoming the top assistant to the military doctors and medics.
On the other hand in Japan,
Kiyo was desperately pursuing the whereabouts of Hiroto.
I am really sorry, even though you have come so many times.
right now, diplomatic relations with China have broken down.
Anyway, if we learn any new information about your son,
we will contact you, please excuse me.
I will come again next week.
Like I said... I will come again and again.
Red Cross nurses,
seems that some have been receiving the red paper for the Korean war.
Injured soldiers from America and Korea
are being transported to Hakata with the purpose of being treated.
Though there is a possibility of being sent to the front line.
I am saying there is a possibility you will be called up too.
But what about coming to my hospital?
There are many patients with the aftermath of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki.
I as a Doctor, want to do what I can for them.
Kiyo san, please come along also.
With you, we have passed though many near death,
so for me, I cannot think of you as anything but family.
I want you to come.
Won't you walk with me in our new life?
For me..
I believe it is my fate to serve as a military nurse again.
Beyond that cloud,
Hiroto is still fighting a tough reality.
Your war, is still not over?
Yes
I have to do what I can until the end.
The U.S. Army backing the South Koreans heavy bombing,
was a daily attack on the North Korean's forces.
Among the North Korean prisoners of war,
there were called up Chinese Communist forces mixed in.
Anyone?
Is there anyone left alive!?
Yashin kun!
Lu san!
You still alive too?
I'm OK.
In such a place, you need help.
Reliable.
Surrounded!
Korean troops.
You go ahead and escape!
Escape now!
Hurry!
Fukuoka United Nations Hospital
Kiyo received the red paper once again.
She worked as a nurse for the wounded soldiers of the US military and Korean army.
It is a sad war
thanks to the conflict between America and the Soviet Union,
The Korean Peninsula is split in half.
It has divided families, some in both the north and the south,
blood relatives becoming enemies,
having to fight friends on the battlefield.
There are no wars that are not sad.
It's exactly as you say.
All the human's involved in a war,
enemies and allies, all are victims.
Captain Kevin You speak Japanese well
It's rather lousy.
As a member of GHQ,
because I was always in Tokyo and Yokohama,
I haven't been able to go home where my family is.
I also have had little life in my home country.
How many times do I have to tell you?
I'm not a spy or anything!
I can't speak Korean or English.
That...
That's the voice of a suspected spy brought in today.
Suspected spy?
Among the rescued Korean soldiers,
he slipped in with them wearing a Korean uniform, but is a volunteer soldier with the Chinese
Peoples Liberation Army.
That they were brought here, means they are injured, right?
Well...
You can't go!
Below here, there should only be bomb shelters.
I would like you to show me they are being treated properly.
Yes, sir.
I wonder if he was tortured for information?
This is terrible
Let's treat it right away I'll get some medicine.
stop it
Chinese soldiers supporting North Korea they are the enemy.
We are the rescue team holding the flag of the Red Cross.
Are you trying to save enemy troops?
We offer relief whether friend or foe.
The Red Cross in the United States should have the same spirit of philanthropy, right?
If you can not I will do it alone
Stop! I would like you to stop with you're self centered actions.
My life was saved by the Chinese Communist Army,
I cannot leave them alone.
It is because of you
Thank you.
It was a dangerous place,
his life was in the balance.
Thank you
My eyes were also opened,
Thank you
What's wrong?
Please go on ahead. Yes
Stepped on a sickle in the field, It'll need a lot of stitches, bring disinfectant.
Always keep it OK. I will.
"Whatever happens"
"Mother! "
What are you doing?
I am sorry.
I was just verifying your name.
Seeing the scar on your foot.
it reminded me of something long ago.
Do you know the name Yashin Bang?
Why do you know that name?
I heard from Yang san's steward, Go san.
What?
Yashin
is my son.
You are Hiroto, aren't you?
Wrong
I have no mother
I am not Japanese.
I am Chinese, Yashin.
Hiroto. I told you I'm not Hiroto!
My name is Yashin.
That you were always alone, I'm so sorry.
But I did not abandon you.
Lie,,,
At the founding of the People's Republic of China,
You celebrated at Ajo, abandoned me and went home!
Wrong! It's a misunderstanding... Stay away!
I have no mother.
Please do not call me a Hiroto ever again.
It's from your mother.
I heard the story
Is what she is saying true?
Kiyo san, only came back to Japan 2 months ago.
Hiroto, that you were left alone till now, I am sorry.
Immediately after you learned my whereabouts,
As a Communist Army nurse,
I was sent to Yanji,
I only returned to Japan just recently,
I really didn't want to come back.
I wanted to keep looking for you forever.
But I was forced to return.
Leaving you in China,
I forced onto a ship to Japan.
Even after coming back to Japan, I have continued to look for you.
Coming here too,
was because I had a hope of finding you.
here you go
Mother.
Even after being separated from you,
I have been your mother forever.
I wanted to see you for so long,
Thank you for being alive
This hand
nothing has changed since that time.
Always at the hospital grabbing my hand,
it is Mother's hand.
Mother, right now I'm an assistant Military Doctor.
I've been doing properly what you taught me.
Someday
I will become a doctor like Otake Sensei.
Mother.
Good bye.
Later, Hiroto returned to China, became a Doctor who saved many patients, While Kiyo continued as a nurse, rising to lead the the Japanese Red Cross Society. In 1972, when diplomacy between Japan and China resumed, the two of them reunited publicly.
This Drama is Fiction