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Episode 236
In the spring of 1951, there was still no word from Hitoshi,
who had quit his retail job in Tokyo.
Oshin and Hatsuko were working hard,
and their business was growing a little.
But everyone was very worried about Hitoshi.
I'd like to stop peddling fish out of the three-wheeler,
and just concentrate on the store, but...
Our store sales haven't been enough.
Maybe Kawamura was right... We need a better location.
Our business started out from peddling fish.
We have a lot of faithful clients.
How can I ever give you a better life than this?
You'll miss out on your chances for marriage.
Once can't get rich selling fish and vegetables...
No wonder Hitoshi left us.
It's enough if it's just me.
Once I put Tei through college,
I'll just have myself to look after.
I thought you had a bigger dream?
You wanted to stop renting, and own a big store.
We were poor and miserable during the war and after the war.
But now we're free to do what we want!
We can run our business any way we want,
and you wanted to work towards success.
I felt that way at one time,
but Nozomi has gone his own way,
and Hitoshi didn't want to sell fish.
There isn't much I can do on my own.
But this way, I could pay for your wedding.
But Mother...
That made me feel better.
Eventually I will quit peddling fish.
I'm back again.
Mother is at the beach buying fish to sell.
I came to see you.
I came on business...
What do you want?
Please forget about me.
I'm not worthy of marriage.
After the war, I worked near an American base,
and the American soldiers were my customers...
I was a prostitute.
So don't ever come to see me again.
I don't care about any of that. It's all in the past.
I have my share of skeletons in my closet, too.
It's more strange to have led a decent life after that terrible war!
You had your reasons for doing what you did.
We all went over the edge.
We not only sold our bodies, but our souls, too.
That's what the war did to us!
It was no one's fault. It was the war!
Yuu starved to death in the jungle, and the rest of us who survived...
Hitoshi's got scars from the war, too!
Those of us who survived suffered the most!
Let's stop feeling sorry for ourselves.
Let's cut ourselves off from the memories of war!
I'll be in Nagoya for a while on business.
I'll come and look in on you. You'll let me do that, won't you?
So you told him?
I thought he'd get over me if he heard it...
But it didn't faze him.
He said we all wear scars from the war.
He said it's the scourge of our generation.
Kawamura has suffered, too.
Maybe you two can make a go of it.
I'm glad you told him!
Don't worry about me. Just do what you want.
We're running a little late today. We'd better hurry.
Are you one of the Tanokura family?
I want to see Hitoshi's mother.
I'm Hitoshi's mother. Do you know him?
He's been causing me a lot of trouble.
He won't leave. Will you take him back?
Where is he?
He's at my apartment in Nagoya. Will you come and get him?
He calls himself a broker, but all he does is leech off women!
He owes me ¥30,000. I want it back.
I don't know what you and Hitoshi have going,
but it doesn't concern me.
Oh, come on! You're his mother!
Save your breath. I'm not going to get him.
I don't even want him back!
You can do what you like with him.
- You...! - Wait!
Is he really living at your place?
Yes.
Hitoshi.
She's gone off to her job.
Shave off that beard! I hardly recognize you.
Let's get you ready to go home.
You want me to sell fish again?
You want me to sell dirt covered vegetables?
What else can you do?
You left home six months ago.
Were you able to do anything on your own?
At least, you learned that life isn't that easy.
It was worth leaving home.
Business begins from selling a single fish,
or a single stalk of radish!
One sells one fish today,
and think about selling two tomorrow.
Then three the next day... Four the next, and so on.
That's how business grows!
You can't go up the stairwell in a single bound.
Isn't that what business is all about?
If you don't want to come home with me,
then come home on your own.
Make sure you come home.
Come home... and let's start all over again.
How long are you going to wait for Hatsuko?
You haven't even eaten dinner!
Where could she have gone?
I'm going to bed.
I'm sorry to come home so late.
You must be hungry. I waited to have dinner with you.
Hitoshi is all right.
He has no intention of coming home?
We can drag him home, but that won't do him any good.
And there will be hard feelings between the two of you.
I want him to come home on his own.
If he doesn't come home, let's give up on him.
- Lock up and let's go! - Okay.
Mother! Wait.
- What is it? - Look!
Hitoshi has come home on his own.
Let me drive!
That's why I came home.
Hatsuko, you stay home. Take these bags in for me.
Let's go, Mother!
Hold on tight!
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.