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Episode 221
Are you all right?
I'm worn out!
Oh, come on! Let's go.
One of my customers wanted a bridal gown.
Her daughter is getting married in November.
It's beautiful! People still have such things?
People that didn't lose their homes have a lot to trade.
But since those people are women or the elderly,
they can't go around trading for themselves.
You really impress me.
You certainly have a knack for dealing with strangers.
You're too unfriendly for the trading business.
All I have to do is tag along with you to help carry things.
I got you some dried sweet potatoes.
Some farmers gave us that with tea.
Nozomi didn't eat his and saved it for you.
Thanks.
When you are ready to get married,
I'll get a wedding dress for you, too.
I don't know when Yuu will be coming home.
Don't worry.
Many men believe to have been killed have come home.
Who knows what happened in the Philippines.
The government has started bringing home soldiers.
And civilians from Manchuria and South East Asia.
There must be many people over there.
I'm sure Yuu will be one of them. It won't be long!
Pack up all the things we need tomorrow.
I'll bathe.
Hitoshi.
Stop this black market business, and go to school.
Both of you.
School?
The schools are reopening!
No way!
I'm done with middle school. That's enough!
You both haven't gone to school
since your third year of middle school.
You'd both better finish up your education.
What good will school do?
What's important now is to work and eat!
I'll take care of that.
What can you do?
You can't just open up shop again.
Before you were born, I used to peddle fish.
I've been thinking...
Now isn't the time for opening up a shop.
I'll take over where you boys leave off.
Mother!
You're too old for it!
We carry loads that are too heavy for us.
And we hang from the sides of the trains.
Don't take me lightly! I'm used to hard work.
But you haven't worked in a long time.
It's not strength alone that you need to carry heavy loads.
There's a trick to doing it.
I'll go with you to help carry.
I'm just getting used to this work.
I can't just quit now.
Hitoshi.
I'm not going back to school.
There's no need to. I won't go!
You'll just be a black marketeer for the rest of your life?
Once I get enough money, I will open up a shop.
I don't mind you working,
but it's my duty to see that you and Nozomi get a decent education.
You'll go back to school!
Society is in confusion,
and you might not be able to see any sense in going to school.
But once things settle down, you'll need a college education.
College?
Of course! A man needs a college education.
You refuse to listen to me?
I won't allow you to continue black marketeering.
If you're not going to school,
you'll have to leave this house, and be on your own.
I don't need you feeding me this way!
Mother!
Oshin and Hatsuko took over as black marketeers.
In October, Hitoshi and Nozomi re-entered school
as fourth-year middle school students,
and Tei was a fourth grader in primary school.
Oshin began trading with the villagers she had known
when she was a fish peddler.
She'd trade and take goods to market in down.
There were people in town who were customers at Oshin's fish store,
and things were beginning to go well again for Oshin.
If only it weren't for that war...
I'm running out of things to trade.
How much longer will this go on?
But I'm glad you come to help us out.
Grandpa is sick, so I want to feed him white rice.
But with him being sick,
I haven't the time to go to down and buy some.
Prices keep going up, too.
It can't be helped...
Rationing isn't enough to go around.
You used to be so well off,
but now you've had to go back to peddling again.
My old customers really help me out now.
At least the war is over.
And the soldiers can't act big anymore.
I was really worried about the American occupation.
But there haven't been any problems.
It seems silly that we were all so afraid.
That's true. When the war ended,
none of us had any idea what was going to happen.
At least, we're all able to make a living.
Yes. You're lucky your house didn't burn down.
So many people are still living in shelters.
Yes. I feel so lucky.
People being repatriated from abroad
are coming home with nothing but the clothes they wear.
It sure is pathetic to lose a war...
- Are you okay? - Yes.
There's somebody here fighting with Hitoshi!
He says this is his house!
Where's the proof that this is your house?
Do you have proof that it's yours?!
You're just squatters! I'll go to the police!
Go ahead! We're doing nothing wrong!
Mother...
You are the one who took my house!
What's going on?
That's what I'd like to know. This is my house!
I left my house for the military to use when I left for Korea.
The agreement was that I'd get it back when I came home.
Now I'm back, so leave!
You're that man who went to Pyongyang?
You've been repatriated?
You seem to know what is going on.
My husband bought this house from the military.
They told us that you wouldn't be coming back to Japan.
We paid for it!
That's nonsense!
Here it is. Here it is! It was in my bag!
Look!
This is the rental agreement we had with the military!
My husband's name is Ohata Bunzo. See!
That boy had the nerve to ask us for proof!
They're like thieves!
You tried to take our house just because we were in Korea!
All your favorite plants in the garden are gone...
They dug a shelter and planted vegetables!
It's terrible! Fix it up the way it was before!
We planted a garden because it's our house!
We protected this house from fires during the air raid, too!
We did it all because the house is ours.
Do you have a deed to this house?
If you do, let's see it!
Actually, my husband died after the war ended.
So I can't tell you about the particulars of any agreement,
but he left the house to us.
I believe what my husband told me!
What counts are legal papers.
Bring out your papers if you have them!
Here, these are it.
What's this?
It's the receipts for payments we made for the house to the military.
It bears the regimental commander's seal.
But these papers aren't worth anything.
You had asked the military to sell this house!
I went abroad on military business.
So I'd asked them to rent it out for us.
I never asked them to sell it!
If you were moving permanently to Pyongyang,
you had no use for a house here in Japan.
We didn't say we were going for good!
The military is finished. Their papers are worth nothing!
I never signed any papers to sell!
What about the money my husband paid?
That's not my problem.
You didn't receive any payment?
You think we're lying?
Then where did this money go?
Maybe the military stole it.
They're all no good. That's why we lost the war.
We had to leave every- thing we owned in Korea.
This house is our only remaining asset!
- Mother. - Yes.
We're hungry.
When is dinner going to be ready?
Please make by bath, too!
Have rice and charcoal delivered.
All the shops are gone.
Then go find some. We have money to pay for it.
Mother...
I'll make you dinner.
Wait!
You're planning to stay here?
It's my house. I'm not leaving.
Do you have food?
I'm sure you haven't gotten ration papers.
Having money won't do you any good.
I'll feed you some dumpling soup tonight,
but don't complain about its meagerness.
Never mind!
You can't get away with this!
Let's let them stay for tonight.
They probably don't have anywhere else to go.
Please find a place to move to as soon as possible.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.