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Episode 202
Oshin!
Welcome home!
- The truck is here! - It's arrived?
I have it parked at the neighbor's.
Have some tea first.
We won't have to hire the transporters from tomorrow.
We'll save a lot of money using our own truck.
The military will give us all the gasoline we need.
We're all set!
Do you have another order due tomorrow?
Yes.
Fish is a lot cheaper than meat. And it's just as nutritious!
The dish officer must have a lot of problems.
He's asking for recipes.
I'd better study up on cooking tips.
Can't I help, too?
I could ride with you on the truck.
Women aren't allowed into the barracks.
This is a man's work!
I'm staking my life on it, so relax.
Yes, but...
Just concentrate on keeping the house.
I want you to be able to take it easy.
I want to make it up to you...
I understand... I won't bother you anymore.
But let me continue the fish store.
You still don't understand?!
I'm able to feed everybody now. There's no need for you to work.
It's not just the money, I need something to do.
You have plenty to do around the house.
Cleaning and washing. Cooking and mending.
Just concentrate on that.
Hatsuko can help me.
And I want to reopen for our regular customers.
I want to run my store again!
You just want to stay in business, don't you?
You sure are a poor girl at heart.
After all I've done to make life easier for you.
Thank you!
I'll get you the fish to sell here, too.
That'll be a great help. I knew you'd say that!
Ryuzo's new business was growing,
and Oshin kept working hard at running the fish store.
In the spring of 1938,
a new crisis came to the Tanokura family...
It was time to choose higher schooling for Yuu.
- We're home. - Welcome home.
I need something to eat.
Didn't you eat your lunch at school?
I can't eat this. It's rice with just one pickled plum.
The teacher told you to bring a lunch
that represents the Japanese national flag today.
Yes, but I saw kids who had eggs hidden underneath their rice!
They're not patriotic!
We eat simple lunches to help out our troops at the front.
Isn't that so?
That's right. Don't be ungrateful.
It's wartime, we all have to cut back!
- Nozomi, what about your lunch? - I ate it all.
See, Nozomi is doing his part!
I don't like my lunch like that!
Then just don't eat! We have nothing else to eat.
I'll babysit Tei for you. Let's go Tei.
- I'm home! - Welcome home.
- Where's Hatsuko? - Why do you need her?
I need a belt made for the fish market owner's son.
He got a draft notice, so he needs it in a hurry.
Hatsuko was born in the Year of the Tiger.
She can make all the stitches by herself, can't she?
Yes. They say a tiger always finds its way home.
It's a lucky sign.
Tell her I need it by tomorrow morning.
Please rest. You were up early in the morning.
I have nothing else to do today.
Running the store is my job.
I'll help whenever I'm free,
but maybe we won't be able to sell as much...
The government's calling for conservation efforts.
There sure are a lot of restrictions...
But we're safe as long as we have the military.
I'm so glad I listened to my brother.
We won't have any fish to sell here?
Not if the war keeps on...
- I'm home! - You're home early.
They let us out early to study for exams.
You don't have to go out anywhere today?
No.
Then I need to talk to you.
- Sorry to be late. - Welcome home.
We had to stay to sew 1,000- stitch-amulet belts (senninbari).
Most of my classmates are Tiger-year girls,
so we were asked. I'll be right out to help you!
I guess she's pretty busy, too.
Let's talk while we can.
Please make one more belt for me by morning.
Make me one when I go off to war.
You're going to war?
He's still only 16.
The war will be over before he can take his military physical.
Play in the next room. We need to talk.
Okay.
Let's go, Tei.
You don't have to join them in their conversation?
It's men's talk. I'd just be in the way.
I can take care of things here for you.
Yuu seems so serious... I'm worried.
The teacher told us
to make our educational plans before summer vacation.
I've decided to go on to Officers' Candidate School.
I really want to go!
Officers' Candidate School?
You think you can get in?
My family background check is no problem,
and I'll study hard to pass the entrance exams.
I'm the eldest son...
I know I should be taking over your business.
But if you let me...
I want your permission!
I had no idea this is what you wanted...
Please.
All right. I have no objections.
The military holds sway now.
I'd be proud to have you serve as an officer.
- It's all right? - Yes.
I have no intention of making you into a fish dealer.
I'm only doing it for you kids.
I'd be happy if each of you chose your own way.
I'm the only fish dealer the family needs.
I'm so glad.
I didn't bring it up before, because I thought you'd refuse me.
You'd better follow through with this!
I'll make my wishes come true!
Mother...
I'm against it.
Oshin!
A military man?
I didn't raise you to be a military man!
Father supports me. You can't stand in my way.
Don't get smart!
He's not your only parent.
You wouldn't understand how a boy feels.
If you love him, let him go his own way.
A man could never know how a mother feels.
What's wrong with being a military man?
The military determines Japan's future now!
We live here in peace because of them.
For our son to serve, it'd be an honor!
The whole family would be saving face.
Maybe we make our living off of the military,
but that's not reason enough for Yuu to become a military man!
I'm joining because I want to!
For a Japanese male, it's the noblest profession.
What's so noble about it?!
- All they do is make war! - Japan is at war.
If we didn't defend Japan now, who would?
Yuu!
To protect Japan means to protect our family.
It's not just for our nation or Emperor that I want to serve.
I want to protect my family. You have no reason to oppose it!
Being in the military isn't the only way.
You can be a civil servant, or a businessman.
That's helping our country, too!
You hate military men that much?
Yes, I do! I'm against the war, too!
Mother!
But I have no power to oppose it...
Now even our business is with the military.
We have no choice but to go along.
But I'm really having a hard time of it.
So I don't want you to become a military man!
You're not being fair!
You deal with the military for money,
but you don't want your own son in the military.
That's not logical!
- Yuu... - And you're anti-war?
Japan is not fighting because it wants to.
If we don't fight, we'll be destroyed!
This is no time to be talking about right or wrong.
We must win!
It's our duty as people of Japan!
You can tell me,
but don't ever tell anybody else that you're against the war.
You'll be sorry.
I'm happy that Father agrees with me.
I will apply for Officers' Candidate School.
Oshin...
Yuu is stronger than I gave him credit for.
He understands the world situation well.
Let's just be happy that we have such a good son.
Okay?
Yuu has gone off to where I can't reach him...
Translation: UTB Channel
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