Brought to you by Gifted Ones www.giftedones.net
Please do not stream or make profit from these subtitles.
Episode 216
Welcome home. How did it go?
The factory where you both work are gone...
I guess I'm unemployed.
What will I do now?
That should be the least of your worries.
Our factory's destroyed?
It couldn't be helped...
All the factories in the area burnt down.
We're lucky we still have this house!
It's all Mother's doing!
I'm impressed by her courage.
I almost gave up.
But I didn't want to have regrets later
if I ran away without doing anything.
I wanted to do my best. Just in case.
Now Yuu and Hitoshi will have a home to come back to, won't they?
I'll go to help out the other victims.
Let's eat white rice tonight, to celebrate our survival.
We shouldn't eat all our stock of rice!
I know, but we should eat while we still can.
- Mr. Tanokura! - I'll be right there!
- Bring that over here. - Okay.
Here.
What is it?
Ryuzo...
Ryuzo!
Let's offer some incense and water for Yuu...
Let's put an offering for him, too.
What is it?
Yuu... has been killed in action.
It's a lie...
This is just a piece of paper.
It's an official notice.
He died in the Philippines. It's an official report from his unit.
It's only a piece of paper! He can't be dead!
I won't believe it.
Not until I see his body or his ashes!
The draft notice was just a piece of paper, too.
And it's the same when you die!
Nozomi!
Please get Yuu some water, and some flowers, too.
Look at this! Do you believe this?
Look at this!
Hatsuko... Don't believe this.
Believe that Yuu is still alive. Wait for him!
That's what he's looking forward to.
Mother...
We'll have a wake for him tonight...
I will get the neighbors to join us...
I don't want anyone here.
Yuu is still alive!
I'll believe that until there's proof that he's dead!
I don't want anyone to offer incense!
It must've been so hot in the Philippines...
Did you have enough food?
I'll be the first one to attack our enemies if Japan is invaded.
I'll be joining you soon...
You can tell me your stories then...
I'll be looking forward to it.
You're still up?
Shall I help you?
No. It's not urgent.
Besides, you didn't get much sleep last night.
And you worked hard all day. You just rest.
That kimono...
It's Yuu's. It got wet last night.
I'd better wash it and restitch it.
Yuu loved this kimono... And he looked so good in it.
You can help me restitch it later.
Oshin...
I remember when Yuu was born.
Your mother was there. And Old Gen, too.
We were all so happy then...
We promised to do all we could for Yuu.
Even when we lost everything in the earthquake...
Having Yuu with us kept us going.
But going to Saga was a disaster for us...
Yuu and I had to live apart from one another.
Let's not talk about the past.
Even when you took Yuu and left Saga,
I never forgot about him.
It was he who gave me hope.
He made it possible for me to go on.
He kept you and me together.
That's right.
I was able to come this far because of him.
He and I were always together.
I never let him go, go matter how bad things were.
It was always Yuu and me...
Yuu knows that, and he'll be back...
He'll come home to me...
I'll wait for him...
I'll keep believing that he's still alive...
Oshin was determined to keep Yuu alive within her.
That was the only way to keep herself going.
It was reported that a new type of bomb
was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Then one August day...
I hear that those new bombs are terrible!
Can we really fend them off with this?
There's a flash of light,
and if you are exposed to it, you'll die.
They say white clothing will protect you from that flash of light.
It's hard to believe...
- All this seems so silly... - Mother!
You said you'd hang in there
until Yuu, Hitoshi and Tei can all be here with us again!
Mother, it's a letter from Hitoshi!
I have good news.
I've been named to the top of my flight class.
This is a great source of pride for me.
Give my best to Hatsuko, Nozomi, Tei and to my brother, Yuu at the front.
Hitoshi is going out on a mission, too?
There's going to be an important radio announcement today.
I think the war is finally ending.
The war was coming to an end.
But what would that mean? Oshin had no idea.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.