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Episode 223
It must have been a rough trip.
You rode a freight car from Ueno?
The trip wasn't a problem.
But I regret having gone all the way to Yamagata.
Mother...
I'm not begrudging them for refusing me a loan.
I hate myself for having had to ask for help.
But I feel better having gone through it.
We just have to work it out for ourselves.
That means we'll have to stay here longer?
I'm going to keep working. As a black marketeer.
I don't care how many times I get arrested,
I'm going to keep at my trade!
I'll save my money and move out of here.
We'll get a house for Yuu to return to.
I'll do all I can to help!
Yuu...?
Yuu!
Mother!
Yuu!
I'm sorry...
I thought you were my son.
It's been a long time. I'm Kawamura.
Remember him? He was in the regiment with Yuu!
You're his army buddy?
I remember you fed us ohagi on visiting day.
I'm so glad you're safe! When did you get back?
I arrived in Japan about three days ago.
I came straight here.
Please come inside.
Come inside!
I brought you back Cadet Tanokura's belongings!
He died in action on April 18, 1945!
It was an honorable death in Luzon!
This is all I could manage to save...
It's his diary. I knew that you'd want to keep it.
You can read it for yourself.
I won't glorify his death.
He starved to death.
Starved?
The military knew the war was a lost cause.
Yet they sent virtuous, promising people like Tanokura there!
I can't forgive the military, and I hate war!
That's why I'm telling this to you now.
Tanokura shouldn't have died that way!
He was killed slowly, but surely!
Stop it! Please...
Hatsuko...
He talked about you a lot. You meant everything to him.
If you don't keep him alive in your memory,
he will never rest in peace.
You must hate those who killed him!
Otherwise, his death would have been for nothing.
He kept saying
that he promised his mother that he'd come back to her.
He would've crawled back to Japan if he had to!
But...
Malaria finally got him...
Then the American patrols fell upon us...
He was too weak to escape...
I offered to carry him on my back.
But he refused... He said he was tired of running.
He gave me his diary to give to you...
He said he was sorry he couldn't fulfill his promise to you...
But he was happy to end his suffering...
The other soldiers all perished, too.
They all starved, too!
It hurts...
It hurts me to remember...
We weren't living as human beings!
I couldn't even...
...bring his ashes home.
Please forgive me!
Kawamura...
Thank you.
I know it was very hard for you to tell me about Yuu.
I'm so full of regret...
Why did we have to go through this?
Why were we sacrificed in a senseless battle?
No more wars...
Never again!
Mother... It's true that man can live on water alone.
We've been marching along a mountain stream,
and we have lots of water to drink.
We've been living on weeds and water.
I have no more body tissue to lose.
I want to eat the curry you always make.
As a child, whenever we had curry,
I'd loosen my belt before sitting down to eat.
I realize now, that was true happiness.
Will those days ever return?
How happy I was...
I realize it now, but it's too late.
I could really enjoy your curry now.
But it's too late...
Mother... I remember the rice balls you used to
make with burnt rice and soy sauce.
The gomoku rice you used to make with all the trimmings.
The ohagi rice cakes with bean jam.
Everything you made was delicious.
I'm not very manly.
But I sometimes wonder why I'm here in this tropical hell.
Why must I wander aimlessly in the jungle, half-starved?
Why? And for whom?
Mother... Please tell me.
Before my country. Before the Emperor.
My first responsibility was to you!
Mother... I'm sorry.
That night, Oshin played the harmonica
that Shunsaku, the deserter had given her.
She hated herself for having been taught about the horrors of war,
and not standing up against it.
The music was also a requiem for both Ryuzo and Yuu.
Oshin finally understood the pain
that Shunsaku experienced whenever he played the harmonica.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.