On August 10, 1945
<5 days before the end of the war>
<Nakagawa Kiyo went looking for her son Hiroto,
heading for the Toan Station on the Manchurian Railway.
Where the current border is between present day China and Russia.
Let's hurry.
Hiroto!
Please let me through,
Where are you?
Hiroto! Where!?
Taichi! Hiroto where?
Hiroto! Please reply!
Where!?
Mother! Mother!
Hiroto! Mother!
Hiroto, Mother will be following you soon.
I'll come for you!
Wait for me in the pioneer village Harupin.
Got it, wait for me!
You wait!
OK!
Mother will come soon!
22 Years Before, 1923
Mother...
Kiyo, age 8
please
Become healthy,
Why, the surgery was successful, right?
Mother, maybe she will die?
You, so you won't lose to a man, have to become strong.
Your mother,
If Kinue san dies, and this old guy is gone,
You'll have to do it alone.
Therefore, become strong.
Don't sob uncontrollably.
I'm not sobbing uncontrollably!
I am just worried about mom, I'll go wake her up!
What are you doing? Miss nurse.
I'm rubbing to make her better.
Then my mother will get better?
If we diligently nurse her,
she will surely wake up.
Really?
To hold hands means to treat one.
Now your power Lend it to your mother
Mother, hang in there.
Kiyo will study hard from now on.
I will do my homework properly
Just as you told me
I will become strong.
So please
get better, mother.
Miss nurse Mother held my hand!
Can you hear me? Open your eyes if you hear me please.
Kiyo...
Miss nurse.
Thank you
It is good now.
it what determined Kiyo's path in life.
Someday I want to be a woman like that nurse.
she continued to think from the bottom of her heart.
Kiyo studied hard to in this endeavor.
Until then she had been a tomboy poor at studying.
The impression on the young girl was strong,
and she soon saw improved results.
Her grades at school were better than the son of the Land Magnate,
Taro kun who had always had the best grades.
Taro kun, you surrender?
Yes
Is there anyone that can answer this last question?
Then Kiyo san.
Yes, correct!
Kiyo san, has really been studying hard.
applause!
Kiyo, cause you got praised, you're feeling good.
Not particularly feeling good. Think your so special, even though you're a girl!
Woman don't have to lose to men!
Well then can you jump from here?
After all it is impossible for a girl.
I can do it. So jump in as soon as possible.
Hurry, hurry and do it.
No way she will, let's go.
After all it is impossible for a girl let's go.
I can do it.
Kiyo?
Kiyo, somebody help!
Kiyo's floating away!
somebody help!
Somebody, help, Kiyo is floating away!
Grandpa, this way.
Thank you for what you did.
It's OK, as long as she is safe.
Please eat this.
So much...
It's too much.
What is this?
Some leafy stuff and a little soybeans, but it's not doing so well.
Honestly, I'm not sure what to do.
Potatoes would be good, they are strong.
I'll bring you some seeds.
Thank you, that you would do such.
Lee san, we'll come again.
Daisuke san,
You took some vegetables to that Chinese person today, right?
That's a problem doing that.
The villages fields have also been devastated.
If you give them food, then just more of them will come.
It was to thank him for saving my grandchild's life....
Go doing stuff like that on your own, it'll be hard for you in the village.
That is strange.
Village mayor, Landlord,
I am sorry.
It will be fine if you understand
Grandpa, I can't go see Lee san anymore?
You promised to give him potato seeds?
Grandpa!
Cause we have to live in this village.
Something that strange is wrong!
Grandpa.
Did you take seed potatoes to Lee san?
Yup
Lee's field will be better?
He will be able to grow lots of potatoes?
Potatoes are strong
It will definitely take root any place
Yuriko - I'm home
Nurse training school?
I want to be a Red Cross nurse
If I could get tuition for both the housing and uniforms,
it's 640 yen a month.
Grandpa, look at this,
Then money will come to the house,
What about the fields?
We're not in any position to get help from the people in the village.
Are they saying something again?
We're the only house in the village that hasn't sent any soldiers.
We feel a little ashamed. It's OK,
I will go to the battle front and be useful to the country.
What are you saying, women can't go there.
We can go.
If I join the Red Cross, I can go to the front as a rescue nurse.
Well, what can you do at the front?
I can save lives.
Since mother was hospitalized, I've wanted to become a nurse.
No matter what, I want to do it.
That's why I have studied so hard.
I want to save people.
At least as many lives as possible
Kiyo san,
I don't really understand well but,
if Kiyo has decided herself, please let her go.
But... Grandpa...
It's just, Kiyo even if you work just like a man,
it won't be as easy as you think.
No matter how frightening, or difficult, you can run away,
do you have that kind of resolution?
Please
Go ahead and go.
Yes
It was a time when women were in
a low social position without suffrage.
There women went out to get through the red gate at the nurse training center,
For women at the time, becoming a military nurse,
put them on the same standing with men at serving their country.
it was the sole opportunity.
It was the ideal of the women of the time,
to be a nurse that saves many soldiers on the battlefield,
becoming a nightingale.
For the nurses to be selected to serve on the battlefield,
they had to endure daily strict
military training.
Your legs are staggering, stay firm!
Hold it firmly!
Are you OK? I'm sorry
You're leg is impossible. It's OK!
It doesn't hurt, let's go.
For the woman who make it, they have the joy of helping the country,
and also offer aid to the enemy,
was the pride of the philanthropic spirit of the Red Cross.
As the days passed, for the women who finished the training,
a letter was sent out.
Excuse me, Kiyo san.
Is Kiyo san inn? Yes.
Oh, Kiyo san,
congratulations
The women's war time summary letter,
was the so-called red paper when delivered,
since that time was only for the women rescue nurses.
The day to head to the battlefield
<The prefectural governor also participated in the grand party to send the women off.
A parade was held from the prefectural office to Saga Station.
Looking at the women,
was a road filled with people.
That Morning
The pounding I now feel in my heart, cannot be suppressed.
You are all the same, right? Yes.
That you were once a nurse
hearing your stories of saving enemy soldiers on the battlefield,
has deeply moved me.
And under the large acacia, on par with military personnel,
we were able to talk together about the future of Asia and Japan.
That was a wonderful experience,
Everyone, as women representing the country,
we have expectations of activity that you won't be ashamed of.
Yes.
No doubt, with such a grand send off,
Thanks to Kiyo, I was astonished myself.
Kiyo senpai.
Haru san, you came.
It was a truly lively march, my heart was touched.
When I graduate from girls school, I will follow you.
I'm looking forward to it
Yes!
Take this.
Mother, this?
It's a simple thing, but
Winter is cold, right,
Thank you
I will cherish it
Grandma
About to depart Please move out of the way
Good?
Until now, I have taught you to not discriminate with people's lives,
The life of a Chinese is the same as the life of a Japanese.
When you go on the battlefield, then it's not that.
But with the Red Cross... No
The Red Cross also has nothing to do with it
On the battlefield,
On the battlefield, decency does not exist.
Remember that.
No matter what happens Think for yourself.
Got it.
At the time, no one of the women knew where they were going.
That was because it was a military secret
where the military nurses were to serve.
The nurses got off the train in Hiroshima,
from there boarded ships,
and crossed the ocean to an unknown destination.
Where they arrived, under control of Japan
was the gateway to Manchuria at
the port of Dairen.
From there they headed north on the Manchurian railroad on mainland China.
Their first place of duty was the capital city of Manchuria,
Shinkyo.
For many who were from rural areas like Kiyo,
it seemed to be a great city.
From a place that started with nearly nothing, with Japanese construction technology,
was a boulevard concentrated with military and government offices,
built in the short period of only 2 years.
At this time with for Kiyo and all, the future for Japan was bright.
and could only see it filled with hope.
And on this evening, a welcome party was held for them at a night club.
Head nurse, will our place of service always be here?
Are you dissatisfied? No such thing...
It's just that I was expecting...
Kiyo san?
There should be many battle fields where we are needed,
to save lives whether they are allies or enemies.
For that we became Red Cross nurses.
But here is... Prepared for the worst,
you will move in two weeks.
Think of the next place as your final place of service.
Wherever you go, you will have experiences
that you currently have never imagined.
Got it. Yes.
<And after 2 weeks they were again on the Manchurian Railway
from the mountain country of Japan, they headed north on a
seemingly infinite plain,
And where they finally arrived,
was the train station at Chamusu
close to the border of the Soviet Union,
the first communist country in the world.
Great job on the long journey, we've been waiting for you.
I'm with the health staff of Chamusu Army Hospital, name's Okano.
Please get in the truck here.
In this forest, it's an area with conflict,
all of you, please lie down.
This truck is likely to be targeted.
But we are the red cross rescue team
Let's display the Red Cross flag, then we'll be protected.
Lay down now!
What is going on? Guerrillas are attacking this truck.
Guerrillas?
At that time in Manchuria
the land was controlled by the Kwantung Army,
there was a rebellion of the Chinese farmers,
the Kwantung Army called them guerrillas.
they were being suppressed.
All right?
The Kwantung Army truck has arrived.
The rescue team will gather at the front entrance.
All present.
Waiting for them at Chamusu Army Hospital,
was a mountain of injured soldiers.
Start with moving the most seriously injured.
Yoko, are you OK? One two.
arrived at the hospital.
First of all, their work was
to remove the lice filled uniforms from the injured soldiers brought to the hospital,
after removing the larvae from the wounds, they would perform treatment.
Carried them to the hospital room for treatment.
Sorry, excuse me,
One two three!
The doctor will come soon.
Among other things, water for the wounded soldiers who couldn't walk,
Were dedicated in disposing of excretions,
exhausting work ending late at night,
continued to sleep like when it could be stolen.
And on this day,
We've received a severely injured patient, somebody please.
Yes.
Takase-san! This is bad, his feet are dark.
Otake Military Doctor,
Oh this is clostridial gas gangrene,
Give him sulfa? It's already too late.
The only choice is to amputate.
What you say?
If an Imperial soldier loses his feet I can not return to the mission.
Life is more important than feet Need to hurry.
No matter what, if I can't stand,
It'll be a living disgrace to be like that,
I'd rather die.
Please kill me!
Such brave things the Imperial soldiers say,
Hurry, hurry and kill me.
It is impossible to kill in vain
Even so, making such a racket,
you will make me angry.
Takase san, let's live and return home.
Takase san, don't you have a family?
You're family is hoping for you to live and come home.
Because you lost your legs for your country, there still are things you can be useful at.
For such a brave imperial soldier you can endure it.
Actually, we've run out of anesthesia.
Even if your legs fall apart, you're life alone will overwhelm you.
What are you saying, are you mad?
This is my job,
We have to be quick, quick.
Please open your mouth for a moment.
Let's do it!
Hold him.
It's painful to see the pitiful figure of a soldier.
Thinking if that happens to my husband, I want to run away.
Everyday being such a clutter, having to work.
With the soldiers, far from talking about the future,
just talk about meaningless things.
What is it that we heard from the head nurse I wonder.
It can't be helped, this is not Shinkyo city here.
Close to the border with the Soviet Union it's the edge on the north.
My luck wasn't good.
You're luck is good, now you get to nurse a lot of injured soldiers.
Stop it, you too are really tired, aren't you?
I am not tired.
"The Red Cross has nothing to do with it "
"On the battlefield decency does not exist "
"No matter what happens Think for yourself "
And in March 1935
Lieutenant Colonel Kurahara arrived at Chamusu Hospital,
The words of grandfather Daisuki gradually took on reality.
salute!
You can leave the hospital in a week.
Yes Togashi-san, after 1 week.
Rest for a week Yes
Yes, next! Corporal Funai.
Oh, you also have a week. Yes
Lieutenant Colonel Kurahara has arrived,
salute!
Imamura private, Kurosaka first class! Yes.
Togashi first class, Yes.
Corporal Funai. Yes.
First class Yoshikawa.
Sergeant Watanabe Yes
Congratulations you are discharged today.
Go back to the front line Please work for your country.
It's great for everyone,
As soldiers, you get to work again today.
Please wait a moment, military doctor.
The two you just told have two more weeks?
Don't say anything, Lieutenant Colonel Kurahara has decided.
However, if they can't have at least 2 or 3 more days,
based on the spirit of the Red Cross,
Otake military doctor
Can you not properly educate your subordinates?
I have no idea what a Red Cross nurse is.
These people compared to the imperial soldiers, are mere insects!
I'm sorry
On the front lines, we need every soldier possible,
While fighting as a brave imperial soldier, they can make their recovery.
That is the fighting spirit!
That is how they were trained.
Of course, just as the Lieutenant Colonel says.
Look now, prepare to be discharged.
Oh give me a break. Why do I get beaten.
Is this kind of thing always going to happen now?
Don't need to hear it from you without any sense.
These things are not unusual in the military.
If you think so, then give your opinion for the patient.
Are you stupid, I'll just get beaten again.
Sensei, are you giving up your mission as a doctor?
We all came to give treatment to patients!
That would be fine if it was a normal hospital, but
This is a battleground hospital.
Senior officials' top priority
standing up to them, won't get you anything.
So you're saying the spirit of the Red Cross doesn't apply here?
If you want to go home alive,
you should just follow the ways here.
Let me say this,
I am like this cause I don't want to die.
I would like to die properly on the tatami mat.
Military Doctor, it's time for surgery.
You, if you go on talking out of line,
please don't get me involved, OK.
It's annoying.
In the fall, endemic disease increased with large increases in epidemic patients.
The hallways were overflowing with patients that didn't fit in the rooms.
Sulfa drug and anesthesia How much is left?
We're out of anesthesia, and only one dose of sulfa left.
Good, alright, give him one, This person is OK.
When we get supplies, we'll immediately do surgery.
Yes.
The problem is this one, this is hopeless.
Go prepare the operating room immediately. Yes.
Please help me understood
It's OK, you'll be treated right away.
Stand.
salute!
On the right side there is my immediate subordinate,
You make him priority.
Something wrong?
I understand
His operation is first Prepare for it!
Wait a moment? Please don't say unnecessary things.
Lieutenant Colonel, are you saying you want that soldier killed?
At the moment, we have only medicine for one,
He will die waiting for supplies to arrive!
On the battlefield, it's a struggle for life!
Are not they all the same? 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!
For a superior officer, you give your life and die honorably,
That's a great last gift for a Japanese boy?
No way...
You against the order of a superior officer
this could be a situation for a court martial,
You want to avoid that, right?
Understood.
Hurry and prepare for surgery!
Higasa!
Carry him!
And after 6 hours He took his last breath.
I'm sorry
Head nurse,
What is it that we believed?
To save lives,
isn't that our job?
My frustration, is the same as you all.
Then can't you talk with the Lt. Colonel?
Our ideals and the Military are not the same?
So was that a lie?
Then what is the reason,
that we became Red Cross nurses?
Maki-san! Maki
I wonder about things.
Another nurse collapsed?
Upset with my treatment you think?
I wonder why it is that I have continued without collapsing?
You don't know?
It's also a scene when a serious patient dies.
Before you know it, you get used to it.
All kinds of paths one can take, who am I to say.
Anyway, don't overdo it.
Just fulfill your duty and wait for the day you return.
That is all we can do.
That's no good.
As a Red Cross rescue nurse I can regain my pride.
If we don't have hope,
Everyone will lose their energy and just collapse.
I do not have any hope here,
Having such strange ideals...
All such things have to be abandoned.
The soldier's are abandoning their lives.
When you decided to become a doctor, didn't you have ideals?
I forgot such things! I'm a soldier.
Looking away from the absurd things, is that how you get through?
Look you, you're own way of thinking,
don't think that everyone thinks like that, it's sweltering.
It's time for examinations busy, busy.
Sensei,
I will not give up, I will not give up!
Nurse, Yes.
I came from the pioneering village of Chiburi my name is Nakagawa Wataru.
I came to ask you to treat an injured person.
Pioneer village... Which one? In the truck outside.
At the time, in Manchuria which was under the control of Japan,
to make an ideal state in Asia,
Japanese were being encouraged to immigrate to Manchuria.
Hit by a bullet.
He was also hit.
Carry them in. Yes.
Being attacked by guerrillas, my brother got shot in the leg.
Wow ~ this is terrible Wow
But over time Do not worry if it's treated.
Sensei, please.
Who is this? Shot in the arm.
Does the chest hurt?
Able to breath?
Why doesn't he talk?
Or is he a guerrilla?
If he is, is it a problem at this hospital?
I will decide the problems!
I was told not to treat enemies.
Enemy... But Sun san,
we were given a vast land for our settlement,
he was just the original inhabitant.
For them who were chased of the land,
it is natural for them to hate us pioneers.
This morning looking for food to live
came attacking the pioneering village.
From their perspective it is their own land,
Wataru, it's guerrillas.
"Stop it"
And Sun san, fell from my brother's bullet.
Having him die is too much.
My brother thinks the same!
Everyone, will you deem my actions
as a non-patriotic Japanese citizen?
Of course, hurry and take him away.
I do not think so.
We came here with the spirit of the Red Cross in our heart.
If that is not permitted
what is our reason to continue with nursing?
Well then,
can you not treat Sun san?
Give me a break,
if I do that, the Lt. Colonel will kill me.
I have a suggestion
Just say that he is Japanese, OK?
Another brother of Nakagawa san, who cannot speak,
we'll keep it a secret that he's Chinese.
Okiyo san, of all the things you mess with, why...
Is saving lives something we mess with?
I am also asking.
If I could save his life
it will give us great hope.
It's like this.
Please Please
Doing that and doing nothing for me do you get something?
For a thank you... I don't have money, but
we have agricultural crops in abundance, If you like,
Sake?, Tobacco?
We have a little.
A little's useless, I want a lot of food.
Someone get some gentian,
the warehouse is full, have him eat some.
You have crossed a dangerous bridge.
Since you have done such, let's do it.
So...
No matter what happens, it's not my responsibility
Yes
This one time,
head nurse, prepare the anesthesia and sulfa drug. Yes.
Yes, Tami san.
Thank you
I am surprised.
that you
thought I was Japanese.
Not so.
For you to talk anymore, it's useless.
This is the last, OK.
It'll soon be gentian.
It's unexpectedly close
From Chamusu It's about 60 kilometers.
These are my fields.
Wow ~ such a wide field.
Is something wrong?
Been such a long time I've smelled such good earth.
So you understand?
Because I am the daughter of a peasant farmer in Saga.
The land in Manchuria is so fertile that fertilizer is not needed.
Really nice vegetables grow.
You must be happy to live in such a rich village.
Nakagawa san, when did you come to Manchuria?
Two years ago with my sister,
My sister is the second daughter and I am the third son.
It's convenient for my parents, less mouths to feed.
To cultivate such a large land I guess it is hard work.
There is plowing, but also pests,
but for the time, we have the hope of making
an ideal country, so.
But to gain the land for settlement,
what the Kwantung Army has done is too much...
But for us, we have to place to go back to.
For now with our own power,
we have to think of how to co-exist and co-prosper in the village.
Next, let me show you the village.
here you go
Wow ~ white
Brought the seeds from Nagano and I raised it.
So this is genuine Japanese rice
I humbly partake.
it's delicious
Just one bite is enough,
For the patients as well, I want them to eat it.
I thought so I prepared as much as possible
It's here now!
Amazing, both milk and eggs.
So much rice,
the patients will surely enjoy it.
Chen san, Gou san, thank you, please stack on the truck.
Do you do this with the Chinese people?
Cause it's so large, it's impossible by ourselves.
They also really work well.
Wataru san is always so kind, that is why.
(Speak in Chinese)
Elsewhere we're called "chinks."
Therefore we believe we're in a good position.
Sorry, but it was different than what I said at the meeting.
Be careful.
Something wrong?
Your earnestness and ideals have been rewarded.
You too.
You also saved me.
We were saved by you.
Hey, have a little taste.
How? Yeah good!
Was good?
It's done.
It is genuine Japanese rice
This is from the pioneers in Chiburi village.
Really delicious
Seems to have reinvigorated everyone?
Yes, cause Sun san had come.
We've all been talking about working harder.
I have good news for everyone.
Sun san has been safely discharged.
That's great, no one noticed.
he was carried to a friend's house.
We did it Kiyo san.
Finally as a Red Cross nurse
we got a job that we can take pride.
A week later, Wataru's brother in law was also discharged,
If I wasn't married, I'd stay in the hospital forever.
You'll still be in pain for awhile, be sure to rest.
Wataru san, thank you for the other day.
Likewise, thanks for caring for my brother.
This is for everyone.
Well, again so much vegetables.
Because we do have abundant food, come visit anytime.
Yes, I will be happy to.
It's a bank robbery, Please evacuate!
Sun san! Drop the guns!
Sun san!
Please stop!
Sun san, how come?
Take that guerrilla away right now.
Head nurse, how can you explain this situation?
That is, military Doctor Otake is prepared to be punished
for defying the order of a superior officer.
That's what happened.
What is it, Otake Military Doctor?
Answer the question!
Are you okay? Leave him!
Answer the question.
I am so sorry!
Who are you?
Nakagawa from the Manchurian Pioneer Group.
It was me that hide the Chinese and asked him to be treated.
I lied to Otake Military Doctor.
You unpatriotic~!
I am sorry.
Stop it!
Don't make it worse... But..
He resolved himself when he decided to protect the Chinese.
That man is not a military man,
so they cannot court martial.
The Lt. Colonel may also kill civilians.
Clean this up.
Collect all the Chinks in the twon square at 7 am tomorrow.
We'll show them what happens when they attack Japanese people.
Teach them a lesson.
Public execution.
Are you okay? Leave him!
If there's time to treat unpatriotic citizens,
would you please treat the Imperial soldiers?
I told you to leave him!
Move away! Treatment regardless of enemy or ally,
That is the spirit of the Red Cross I am a Red Cross nurse.
I cannot abandon this person!
For Sun san?
O Kiyo~!
You're fine spirit is like this!
Please leave me now.
Don't worry about me....
I'm okay here only the nurses know this place.
I am sorry.
Actually if we had given you more proper treatment,
Medicine is difficult to manage...
This is not good.
For what did I become a Red Cross Nurse for?
You are amazing.
Because of me,
Because of my rash action...
I've troubled everyone...
Even Sun san....
You have not done anything wrong,
Please live.
As you are now
Please keep on living
The man covered in this hood,
in the same way as Sun,
Entering the Japanese empire attacking the Manchuria Bank,
wounding a young imperial soldier,
Here will be a public execution.
for an example.
until the corpse decays.
to be left here.
Hey
Japan's Red Saga relief team finished their 18 month duty.
All of them were able to return safely.
Again they had a parade from Saga Station to the Prefectural Government Office.
They were enthusiastically welcomed.
Sorry to have kept you waiting, you're family members have arrived.
Please.
Was it difficult, you have returned safely.
Good work
Hey, seeing the success of everyone,
it was written in all the Japanese newspapers.
Oh, look.
Really.
Grandpa,
How was it, over there?
I was...
You don't have to say,
So it was trying?
That you all have returned safely, cheers!
Kiyo Senpai, great job. Haru san.
Senpai, I soon will also be able to serve the country.
What? Longing to be like you,
I've also entered the Red Cross Nurse training center.
Some day I will be able to join you on the battlefield.
Haru san, the battlefield is not what you think.
So you may want to reconsider... Senpai,
For me, I decided after giving it much thought.
Because it is a battle field, there will be various inconveniences,
That's why our work is important, right?
What I want to say is a more fundamental question.
Kiyo san.
I don't think I will where the white coat anymore.
What do you mean? Leave it right there.
I am sorry, Kiyo san is a bit tired.
Please come this way.
Cerrainly there were tough things, but
It was a difficult experience to save many lives, equally with the soldiers,
we talked about the future of Asia and Japan.
That was a wonderful experience.
You too as a woman representing the country,
I expect service that will not be shameful.
Yes
As a leader I will return to the Red Cross
Training may be difficult, but by all means
please continue with us.
Thank you I will do my best for my country.
What is your intention, tell the students of the spirit of the Red Cross,
then sent them out to the battlefield to betray them?
Look here, I have not given up on my ideals.
That we were unlucky
was only cause we were working under Lt. Colonel Kurahara.
There must be a superior officer out there that understands the ideal.
I do not have any such expectations.
"What has the Kwantung Army done to the Chinese people?"
You has a nurse, should understand that. Well then,
if there are no rescue nurses, who will help the soldiers?
Troops who suffer in the battlefield Do you want to let them die?
To save as many lives as possible
it was you that worked so hard!
I want to work with you again.
I'm sorry but
I can not respond to that expectation.
Is that so?
Tami san?
I too, do not intend to convene.
I now want to prioritize life with my husband.
Give him children,
For both of you, you will be missed.
Kiyo san, what are your plans now?
You want to marry a Manchurian pioneer?
Are you serious? Kiyo.
Yes
What are you saying Kiyo chan?
What are we going to do with this proposal, he is the son of a large landowner!?
He is saying, he really likes Kiyo chan.
Think about your age too.
For women, there is a time to sell.
Sorry, Village mayor,
Hey, I am ashamed,
For Daisuke san, I got fields and made promises.
If you do this, he'll no longer be a tenant farmer,
Though the scale is small, he'll become a landlord.
I have already decided.
Are you stupid, you can become a landlord. A landlord!
What is this?
Even without giving a man, finally you could be useful to the country,
Now you want to go to Manchuria, are you kidding!?
If you marry this man in Manchuria,
you will be separated from us.
Are you in agreement with that?
Yes
You will abandon your family?
There are reasons,
I was fortunate to meet him,
that man himself, is clearing land for his own life,
he has a pure heart.
Don't want to be away from him.
Really
Then I will disinherit you.
Village mayor, she is no longer our relation.
I cannot tell a stranger what to do.
I am sorry.
Are you stupid, you're stupid!
Stay a tenant farmer till you die!
Grandpa, mother, I am sorry.
Hey give this a try.
Delicious
You remember Lee san?
Of course, the one that saved me.
Perhaps this is...
That's right.
Sweet potatoes, they can grow anywhere.
Thanks grandpa
Because it's such times, living and seeing you again,
this may be the last time.
Next in 1936,
Kiyo crossed the sea alone,
heading to the pioneering village of Chiburi.
Good you're here,
We're indebted to you from that time.
I'm his older sister Kaori.
Hey Daichi, this is Kiyo san.
Hello
My name is Amano Kiyo, I am incompetent, but.
Please.
For me too, please.
That's all you could think of to say.
You're so glad to see her, total idiot, let's go.
Kiyo married Nakagawa Wataru, and the long awaited son was born two years later,
Hiroto was delivered, it was happy days for Wataru.
And soon five years came and went...
In the pioneering village of Chiburi, the number of settlers also increased,
Both with the Chinese, living without distinctions,
it became a village with abundance.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Kiyo san's potato stew, is really delicious.
Delicious!
Try to say it.
Mom's stew is my favorite.
My cheeks are full.
Thank you
In Chinese,
compliment your mama's cooking.
Even though my mama made potato stew,
Aunt Kiyo's is one hundred times more delicious.
Well I am sorry.
It's just that mama's is really bad.
Right, well said!
Now Daichi, you little...
Come here.
Daichi, wait.
He's growing up well. Without any discrimination to the Chinese.
It's cause of you.
That child will someday be the bridge between Japan and China.
Uncle..
Hanako, what happened to her?
This is bad, didn't think it was that bad of a scratch.
Like this, she can't walk.
Can you do something?
Maybe Kiyo will be able to do something.
Will Hanako be able to walk?
Yea, she'll be OK.
That's amazing, Okachan.
Hiroto's mother is a nurse.
Even when your uncle got injured, she nursed me back.
Good for you Hanako, I'll stay with you till morning.
So great, Daiji
I'll stay too.
Get well soon.
The days in Chiburi for Kiyo,
was a most peaceful and happy time.
<After the Marco-Polo bridge incident The Japan-China conflict becomes muddy>
<Japan, Germany, Italy, formed an alliance,
Leading to devastating defeat in 1945
They plunged forward into an unfortunate war.
With the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan began fighting with the United States.
And the second World War rushed in.
And again the fight for Southeast Asia expanded.
Soldier's from inside Japan joined the troops in Manchuria,
with the change in the climate and topography,
came down with acute infectious diseases.
Also near the pioneering village of Chiburi,
to accept soldiers with the acute infectious diseases,
a clinic was newly established.
Mother, did you work here?
No, I wonder if I know anyone.
Chiburi Cli...
Clinic
Kiyo Senpai.
Haru san, Tami san, why are you here?
We're assigned to Chamusu Army Hospital but
came here to support the clinic on rounds.
We thought we could see you here in Chiburi, were going to call when things calmed down.
So
Your child?
Hiroto, greet them.
Hello
Hiroto kun, how old?
I am 6 years old.
A good kid, I'm envious.
Tami san, did you not quit being a nurse?
That was my intention, but I wasn't blessed with children,
Your husband? Got a second red paper,
he's doing his best somewhere on the battlefield.
Sending Koki back to the battlefield, I realized when I was alone,
what I can do, is do what I can for the patients.
Kiyo Senpai, there's one other person you know here.
Let's go.
Senpai,
Sensei, we brought you a rare visitor.
Who is it?
Ha, you brought that troublesome person again.
It has been too long.
Is this your son? Say hello.
Kid, come here.
Oh, like your mother.
Indeed You're here?
Don't play dumb anymore, the day before last when he came,
"Kiyo is here, right?" "We'll have to look her up."
"Oh dear, I feel lonely."
Be quiet, sorry, sorry.
Your mother and your father,
worked so hard to help people, you have a great mother,
Mm, is that right? Yes.
At that time, we were really indebted to you.
My husband also recovered, is living now in good health.
That's good.
That Lt. Colonel Kurahara is now at the border, Chamusu has become peaceful.
And there isn't that someone that stirred things up.
It's easy now.
Lt. Colonel Kurahara's successor Major Mizoguchi is a lot better.
it's a lot calmer.
though it is a situation where we could even use a cat's help.
Then can't my mother help?
What?
If we had Kiyo Senpai's help, it would be reassuring.
As you said, it has not been ideal, but
I do not regret choosing this job.
I am sorry, but I've already been away several years.
I would refuse her.
If you came back, I'd be afraid of what would happen.
It's OK, she cured Uncle Hikari.
She also saved the calf Hanako.
To see mother wearing white, I want to see that.
Hiroto said that, Do you want to go back?
I don't want to lose the happiness I now have.
But...
thinking about the soldiers in beds, and the hardships of the nurses,
I get a little sense of guilt.
Uncle, Hiroto, Hiroto got hurt.
In the field, stepped on a sickle. What did you do?
It will need a lot of stitches, disinfectant,
Dear, white sake. Understood.
Don't worry, your mom will definitely help you.
This will hurt.
Hang in there.
Hiroto, what's wrong?
What is it?
No way, Kiyo..
Dear, to the hospital.
Sensei, over here.
What happened? Sensei, his situation is strange.
High fever, his tongue is tangled, maybe the wound...
Close the curtains, kill the lights. Yes.
Tetanus cramps react to light and sound.
Tetanus... But Sensei we have no serum.
Can't you get some? They might have it at the Army Hospital in Harupin.
If you go by train, can have it the day after tomorrow.
I will go Wait a minute, when you get there
go directly to Major Tanazawa, I'll send a letter.
Harupin also will be short on serum,
If we make a mistake in protocol, it'll be trouble.
Let's hold out until then. Yes.
If you would please.
Hiroto, hang in there, Hiroto.
Kiyo san, here. Thank you Tami san.
The Kwantung Army truck has arrived,
Sorry, I can't do more.
Are you all right, you're in a hospital. Minor injuries in the hall, serious ones in this room.
You are OK, we'll be treating you soon.
There is much bleeding, please disinfect
Are you okay
Water please.
Please stop the pain.
Dear, just for a little please.
It's water.
Thank you…
Kiyo san, thank you.
A little more.
It's all right.
I will disinfect, it'll hurt a little.
Sorry
It'll be alright.
Sorry
Hiroto, hang in there!
Hang in there!
Do your best.
Sensei, how is he?
It won't be here till morning,
Here, the serum!
Now, get it out!
Hey kiddo, with this you won't die!
Do not die!
Although it seems tough, just barely.
After this, it'll be this child's life force.
That's it.
Mom?
Hiroto.
You are all right. now.
I know, I
am mother's buddy.
Worried about me even in the middle of the night
you came to see me.
And then the doctor came also.
I see.
Everyone worked hard for Hiroto.
I want to become like the Sensei.
Dad, I have decided,
to become a doctor.
Whether it is Japanese or Chinese
be one that doesn't discriminate against people's lives must be a good person, OK
Sensei
Thank you, sensei I'm glad.
That kid, says he wants to become a doctor.
It's probably because of your influence.
Please stop. I was just kind to kids.
Just that.
Otake military doctor also used to be a doctor that burned with high ideals.
What? He divided the serum specially,
so Major Tanazawa said.
They were together in Shenyang way back,
Otake military doctor at that time Had the ideal for respect for human life.
went so far as to treat Chinese and keep it from his superiors.
But 10 years ago the military doctor was enthusiastic with a guerrilla in critical condition,
he saved him and hid him in a warehouse,
the Japanese guards found him,
in the fight,
a Japanese guard was stabbed and died in the end.
Nakano!
You saved the life of this chink, and were hiding him here?
"Because of you Kitamura private first class is dead "
"Take responsibility! "
"please wait Nakano military doctor followed my order... "
keep quiet!
Nakano, hopeless to run!
"Don't run away"
"Nakano Nakano! "
It was then that the Doctor hurt his leg.
Abandoned his ideals, or rather
said he started to hate them.
Surgery starts at 9 o'clock.
Understood, I will prepare.
I remembered a lot
Crying while my mother was cared for when I was young.
then longing to become a nurse myself.
For you being a nurse may be your calling from Heaven.
I understand.
You want to go back, right?
As a family member I want you to be near you forever.
But beyond that, I want to cherish your desires.
But... Do not worry about Hiroto,
My sister and her husband are here.
There's also Chen san and Guo san.
Japan's number one.
Then, do your best.
Yes
Mother you look really good.
That mother is a nurse again, I'm very happy.
It's a hanging decoration.
I made it for Hiroto, cause you are the year of the tiger.
I embroidered the tiger.
I'm the same.
this…?
Chen san taught me, I made it for you mother.
Mother is also year of the tiger, right.
Always keep it, OK.
I will.
No matter what happens, always
even if we're separated,
Hiroto and mother, will always be together.
Mother will do her best,
Hiroto do your best.
No matter what happens No matter how far you are
Because Mother is lucky
Whatever happens
No matter what happens
Live strongly
Yup
Well,
let's go
Come back safe.
And with the times,
this family of three started to move apart,
With excellent nursing skills and the strong spirit of Kiyo,
she answered the call
to return to nursing.
But there was cholera, dysentery such as typhus rampant,
an even more severe environment than before.
From this day Kiyo faced
the possibility of becoming infected with typhus herself,
while fighting that fear, kept smiling.
Sleeping but little, kept on nursing.
Even so, it was far from the ideal,
even though she once escaped the nursing occupation,
it may have been her trying to repent.
And then after 8 months, Wataru himself,
Wataru san. Yes.
Oh what's wrong.
congratulations
At this time in battlefields around the world, Japanese soldiers were falling one after another,
The number of soldiers was getting ever smaller,
In the end, men in Manchuria's settlements were called up.
What's wrong?
And in just three days, Wataru's departure day arrived,
Hiroto's mother Kiyo, and now his father Wataru were taken away by the war.
Hiroto was left alone to be looked after
by his Uncle who couldn't be drafted
because of a bad leg.
Sister, Brother in law, Daichi,
please care for Hiroto.
Don't worry.
Hiroto, be healthy!
Come back safe!
About this, Kiyo still didn't know.
Wataru had sent a letter informing her of his conscription but,
but it hadn't yet reached Kiyo.
Wataru's conscription was in June 1945,
It was in only two months that for Japan,
there would be great upheaval in only 2 months.
The Allied Army with a fierce ground fight had taken Okinawa.
In August, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In Manchuria, the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Treaty was broken as the Soviet Union invaded.
Therefore the Army Hospital at Chamusu
received a great number of injured soldiers.
And,
Good job.
Please start with the most serious injuries.
Hit in chest and abdomen, pulse is also weak.
Surgery is necessary immediately This person is given top priority to the operating room
Inform Ootake-sensei Yes
One two...
This is all? Yes all carried in.
That person there already?
Oh, he's still alive.
But with the left arm and both legs cut
It was cut at the field hospital,
But as he was left like that, the gangrene has quite advanced,
That's why, it will be difficult,
I am sorry, but I'll leave as is,
when he takes his last breath, I'll bury him somewhere.
Carry him in. No, he's already on death's door.
As long as there is life I will treat any condition.
Because that is our mission.
Is that right?
Alright with that, Okano san.
of course
Then let's move him. yes.
Ready, set.
Kiyo san.
This soldier is calling you.
What is wrong?
Dear…
Dear.
why…
why?
I didn't
want you to see
such a pitiful figure.
Don't worry about Hiroto.
Brother-in-law is watching
I'm happy
I got to meet you.
Truly,
I was happy.
You'll be OK.
Because I'm with you.
I will do anything.
You'll be OK.
Dear...
It's ready for cremation.
Let's go.
You have pursued your ideals,
to no avail You need to tell your son properly.
What I chased after,
what was it?
Wataru san with his hands and legs worked
desperately to cultivate beans, what was it for?
Things stack up, then it's all snatched away.
That is war.
Although I don't know philanthropy or anything We can't give up on everything.
Having watched the war, and it's futility, I understand enough.
Give it up.
The next day, with Wataru's remains,
Kiyo headed back to Chiburi.
Since she left Hiroto last,
it had been 10 months since she had been in the pioneer village.
it had become quietly deserted.
why…
Chen san.
Kiyo san.
What happened?
It was a raid of the Soviet forces.
Kaori san was caught,
Hikari san tried to save her.
Kaori san in the end...
Hiroto and Daichi?
Hiroto and Daichi,
headed with the people in the village to the station in Toan,
take the train from there, hoping to escape to the pioneering headquarters in Harupin.
Toan station? I'll go too.
Japanese alone is dangerous!
I'll take you.
Let's hurry.
Please let me through Please pass through
Hiroto, where are you?
Hiroto, where?
Hiroto, answer.
Where?
Where are?
Mother, mother!
Mother.
Where is Daichi? He's with me.
Aunt Kiyo.
Please, let me on. I cannot wait. Wait till the next train.
My son is inside. Please!
Hiroto, Mother will come soon,
I'll come for you.
Wait for me in pioneering village Harubin.
Wait for me, OK.
Got it.
Good?
Mother will come soon.
Wait for me.