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Episode 225
Thank you.
This is the last bundle.
We're leaving the house that your father bought us...
Mother!
I know. We'll soon be able to buy another one.
I'll build us a bigger, better house!
Mail for you.
Thank you.
It's from Hatsuko!
Oh.
What's all this money?
I'm doing well, so don't worry.
Please make use of the money enclosed.
I'll send you more soon. - Hatsuko
What's going on?
That's all it says.
Where is she?
There's no return address.
What is she thinking?
All this money!
She didn't go home, and she's working somewhere.
Then why doesn't she tell us where she is?
Sending us money like this!
Look, Hitoshi.
The postmark says Tokyo. She's in Tokyo!
What could she be doing in Tokyo?
I'm sure there is a lot of work in Tokyo.
Maybe she'll write to us again soon.
Let's finish up before it gets too late.
Mother...
Oshin.
I never thought we would meet again.
You seem well. I'm so glad.
Is your husband well, too?
It's hard to believe that your husband and Yuu are gone...
Ryuzo committed suicide.
He didn't die of an illness?
Why?
He felt responsible.
Responsible?
What did he do that he had to pay for with his own life?
He cooperated in the war effort.
He sold fish and goods to the military.
He even owned a military uniform factory.
That wasn't much. If everyone felt that way,
there wouldn't be a single former military man left alive!
Everybody is a war criminal!
Everything he ever believed in collapsed around him...
He didn't want to keep living anymore.
It was his way of life. That's how I've accepted it.
That's true.
There are those like me,
who changed their convictions along the way
in order to keep living.
Compared to me, he was honorable.
We had our share of problems...
But I don't regret having been his wife.
I'll always be proud that I was his wife.
Oshin...
Thinking back... My life seems so empty.
I'd given my youth for agricultural land reforms.
And as soon as Japan loses a war,
all that we worked so hard for is suddenly a reality.
What was it that we worked so hard for?
We were called traitors and criminals,
for not having actively supported the war.
Now everybody is anti-war!
I'm the same way.
I let my husband and son die, because I didn't do enough.
I won't be fooled anymore.
I'll live my life as I see fit!
I lost my shop in the bombings.
I sell things out of a shack now.
If I can be of help to you, please let me know.
I'm a coward who changed my life so that I could live.
My duty now is to help others survive.
Thank you.
Hisa!
How did it go?
We caught so much fish! We were only out on a trial run.
Really?
We'll surely bring in great catches for a couple of years!
I'll be right there!
I'll go see what they caught.
But we'll start selling fish first thing in the morning!
- Okay? - Yes.
Yuu and I often walked along this beach...
Yuu is now dead...
but I'm about to start selling fish again, pushing a cart.
Oshin...
It's hardest on those who are left behind...
But we've survived.
It was time for Oshin to start over again.
She vowed to regain all that she had lost in the war.
It was the summer of 1946, and Oshin was 46 years old.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.