Dad...
Dad!
Shokichi's grandpa...
Kita no kuni kara
Episode 16
-Around 2:30? -Yes.
-Did you find a picture? -No.
I'll go ask Shokichi.
Will you be in charge of the funeral service?
I'll help you too.
Kan, will you handle the accounting?
Sure.
Talking to the funeral home... that will be Yaguchi's job.
Ms. Yoshida, will you be in charge of food?
Kosuke is coming on the afternoon train.
He's going to contact Nobuo, Hideaki and Sanji, too.
-I haven't got a hold of Midori yet. -Okay, thanks.
The monk will come at 5:00.
There aren't many teacups. How many people will there be?
A little too small.
How about this one?
Shokichi?
Class went on in school as usual.
But,
I couldn't bring myself to study.
When he came to our house last night...
He was pretty drunk.
No.
He'd been drunk since that afternoon.
I'm sure...
it was because he sold the horse...
he'd had for 18 years like he talked about last night.
Have you two seen Shokichi?
-He's not at home? -No.
Get in.
-He's gone? -To where?
We don't know.
-Did you look for him? -We did.
His grandpa is dead. Where could he have gone?
Shokichi!
What's wrong?
Oh. We can't find Shokichi!
-Can't find him? -No!
Shokichi!
Did you see Shokichi?
Do you know where he might've gone?
Goro!
Hey!
The boss wants you to come!
That's strange... Where could he have gone?
I think I might know!
Where is he?
Where're you going?
Shokichi?
He's up there.
Shokichi?
What's wrong?
Everyone's looking for you.
You're a boy, aren't you? You have to be strong.
His grandpa's wake was that night.
Dear Keiko...
Grandpa Kasamatsu's wake is being held right now.
Shokichi's grandpa had a bad reputation and everyone called him a big cheater.
It was only yesterday that he got drunk...
and was bad mouthing people,
but today he's as still and hard as a rock.
Kosuke, good to see you again.
-Sorry for the trouble. -No problem.
-You live in Sapporo? -Yeah.
-I heard you're doing really well. -Nah.
How many years has it been?
I got in touch with Midori.
That idiot wasn't at her apartment?
-She'll be here soon. -Are you Sanji?
Hi.
What're you doing now?
-I'm a fisherman. -I see.
Have some more.
-Mizue. -Yes.
Will you get me those dishes?
-Big ones? -Small ones.
Thanks.
You got a cloth?
Yeah.
Ma? Here.
Thank you. Have you offered incense yet?
Not yet.
Go on and pay your respects.
I think you should change now.
You think? Thank you.
Oh.
You're the Kitamura's Sota?
My sympathies.
Thank you for coming.
Have a seat.
Seikichi, he's grown into a fine man.
He's going to stay here for life?
Sit down, Sota.
Yeah, sit down.
-Drink in his memory. -But I have to drive, so...
One drink won't hurt. Someone else can drive.
I really can't.
Hey.
So your're still here, huh?
I thought you'd have run away a long time ago.
Seikichi?
Yeah.
It was a tragedy.
Yeah.
He came to our home drunk last night.
He was on his way home.
I knew I should've driven him home.
I heard he finally sold that horse.
He said they came to get it yesterday morning and...
it cried when they parted.
He told me.
So...
that was the horse's last job.
When it found the car buried in the snow with Yukiko and Jun in it.
Right.
Cars and machines took that horse's job away,
but its last job was to find a car.
Thank you.
I knew this would happen someday.
Hotaru.
How did you know about that place?
The tree house?
Yeah.
Grandpa took me there once.
When?
When you were in Tokyo.
You never told me anything about it.
Grandpa told me not to.
He said I could go there when I felt lonely, to cry.
The next day,
he was cremated.
And there was a big feast that night.
I'd never been to a funeral before.
In TV shows, everyone cries and sobs,
but for some reason, his funeral wasn't like that at all.
I know I shouldn't say this, but it was like a festival night.
Everyone looked like they were having fun.
So, when is your fight?
Probably this summer.
-The 4th bout? -Yeah.
We'll have to go and cheer for you.
No, it's just an opening act.
Can anyone fight?
No. You get qualified in Tokyo.
-Are you confident? -To get qualified?
No, to win.
I have to give it a try.
You were always good in a fight, Sota.
But Grandpa knocked you on the head a lot.
Grandpa'd hit anybody.
He did.
-Is that why you ran away from here? -That may be.
We'd go around and apologize when Mom was alive,
'cause he'd get wild when he was drunk.
No wonder he had such a bad reputation.
Oh well, thanks for your help till now.
It was nothing.
We weren't comfortable here,
since people would talk bad about Dad.
He was stubborn.
Grandpa praised your dad.
Grandpa said your dad was such a good guy.
How long has that tree house been there?
Ever since Mom brought me here and left.
-Did your grandpa build it for you? -Yeah.
Whenever I cried, he took me there.
About that land, Dad was at fault.
That's what I heard.
He always tried to take land away from folks by moving his stakes.
And it was only a tiny bit.
What that would be worth anyway?
That's something you don't understand, isn't it?
What?
But Seikichi, that's called stealing.
It's inexcusable.
I know that.
He tried to take the land away.
You're right.
The candles are burning down.
Oh, yeah.
But you still...
didn't understand your father.
What do you mean?
Hey hey hey, Seikichi. Drink up.
Hey! We're out of sake!
Seikichi.
Are you saying that was only a tiny bit?
That was only a tiny bit for you?
Seikichi, what's wrong? Let's drink tonight.
To clear that tiny land,
what'd you do if there was a huge boulder on it?
Or the roots of a huge tree grew in it?
Here's the sake.
What's wrong?
It took 2 years to clear 2.5 acres.
Do you know the kind of obsession a man would have who had worked that hard for his land?
O--Of course, I do.
-I worked it a long time ago. -But you abandoned the land.
A--Abandoned?
Why did you run away?
We couldn't make a living here. This land can't support all of us.
What's wrong, dear?
I'm sorry.
Dear!
Those that have abandoned this land don't have any right to say anything about it.
That was my point.
Okay! Okay! Drink up now.
Let me. There you go.
Geez.
So how much did he get for that horse?
Don't know.
-About 200,000 or 300,000 yen? -Probably.
He probably could've sold it for more if he sold it earlier.
You don't understand anything.
You don't understand anything at all.
Seikichi.
Not just you. Everyone's forgotten.
It took 2 years to clear 2.5 acres.
Everyone's forgotten the brave men that worked so hard!
You all forgot about them!
Seikichi.
Sure, he has a bad reputation now.
But a long time ago,
folks called him a saint!
There was once a time like that!
So...
why do you talk about him like that now?
It's because...
you've all forgotten how much he suffered!
Only that horse never forgot.
Only that horse understood him.
When...
he let the horse go,
when he sold that horse...!
What's wrong, Dear! This is his funeral!
Nah, it's nothing.
Seikichi is just...
Seikichi!
You're getting to be like my old man, Seikichi!
Let's go home, Dad.
Let's drink more.
-What was that? -Drink up.
Pour it for me.
-He's gotten old. -Indeed.
That night,
Mr. Tatsumi took us home,
and Dad stayed.
But,
Seikichi's words kept ringing in my ears.
Only that horse understood him!
And when he let the horse go,
when he sold that horse...!
When I got up later that night,
Dad was home.
Oh no!
You're awake?
You must be tired.
That was the first funeral you'd ever been to, right?
Oh, I got a letter from Aunty Yukiko today.
She said Mom was really happy...
that you went to see her.
Dad,
Yeah?
I'm sorry.
For what?
Lately, I've been...
sick.
You're...?
Yes.
How?
Um...
Well...
How should I say it...
My head is strange...
I was too embarrassed to tell you...
so I tried to hide it.
I mean...
Even if I know it's not right...
I can't help noticing women.
Their...
breasts and legs...
and hips...
I can't stop looking at them.
The more I try not to,
the more I can't stop looking.
I know...
I'm clearly i--ill.
Jun.
Yes.
You're not ill.
Adults are...
like that, too.
But...
It's just proof that...
you're becoming an adult.
But...
in my case...
What?
I'm really embarrassed but...
my thingy gets big.
Adults get big, too.
But my case is worse.
When I get up in the morning, it's already big.
That's how it is with grown men.
-Really? -Really.
-You, too, Dad? -Of course.
Well...
not so much these days but...
It's nothing to be embarrassed about.
It's natural. You should be proud.
Really?
So you're a man now.
I'd better start treating you like one.
Yes.
And that means you'll have to start working like one, too.
I will.
Good.
Thanks.
-We'll have a lot of fun things this year. -Like what?
The seeds we planted will sprout soon.
-The corn and pumpkins? -Right.
And...
I'll tell you a big secret.
What?
We're going to build a new house by fall.
-A house? -Yeah.
But we don't have that kind of money.
We're going to build it ourselves.
By ourselves? That'll be impossible.
You can do anything if you try.
We did it with the electricity and the water pipe.
I guess so... but a house?
Giving up before we even begin?
I'll need a lot of your help, Jun.
-But a house is-- -It'll be...
a sturdy log cabin.
-A log cabin? -Yeah.
Where?
I haven't decided yet.
Ya-hoo!
-Will it be big? -No, it'll be small,
but let's make it a fun house.
-Will we have our own rooms? -Sure.
We're going to design it.
-Me too! -Sure.
-All 3 of us will plan it. -Ya-hoo!
You should get going now.
We will!
Are we going to make a room for Aunty Yukiko, too?
Probably!
Ya-hoo!
Yay!
Bye!
Damn you!
Give it back!
I'm sorry I haven't written, Goro.
Have you been well?
Sis's condition isn't very good.
Jun may've told you a little about it,
but we're having trouble with her hospital.
To be honest, I can't depend on them.
I discussed it with other doctors...
and they think we should move her to a bigger hospital.
But...
she refuses to agree.
The pain is still intense...
and her symptoms have remained unchanged.
To tell you the truth,
the reason Sis refuses to change hospitals is because...
the man she's seeing is the one who sent her there.
The hospital is owned by the relative of his superior.
That's why changing hospitals would put him in a bad spot.
And Sis is concerned about that.
We still don't know what's causing the pain...
and all they can do is give her morphine shots to relieve it.
Goro,
please tell her that her life is more important than an obligation.
-She won't listen to me anymore. -Hey!
Yo, bastard!
You bastard!
Ouch!
Hi.
Thanks for everything.
No problem.
Have things settled down?
My older brothers all left.
Let's all have dinner together, tonight.
Are you sure?
I'm sure.
It's lonely with just the two of us at home.
I'll cook. I even brought the ingredients.
Ya-hoo! Awesome!
Don't go far!
We won't!
-It must've been tough on you. -It was.
I shouldn't have told him to sell the horse.
At the funeral,
what Seikichi said really hit me hard.
-He didn't mean any harm. -He was right.
I think it hit my brothers pretty hard, too.
When did they leave?
This morning.
They didn't leave. They ran away again.
It must've been tough cleaning everything up all alone.
But complaining doesn't do any good.
Nakahata was such a big help.
He bought a lot of the old wood Dad had piled up.
I was very grateful.
What?
I'm going to get that wood.
You bought the wood?
Nothing like that. I was looking for wood because I'm going to build a house.
-You're building a house with the wood? -Yeah.
But that's really...old wood.
It's from an old bridge.
I've seen it. It's still usable.
I asked Nakahata a while ago to keep an eye out for some.
Thanks.
It's nice to have childhood friends, isn't it?
That's why hometowns are so nice, I guess.
What're you saying?
I'm the one that's grateful.
Do you know that Nakajima Miyuki song about a foreign country?
-No.
It really gets to you.
"I forgot... or try to pretend I've forgotten."
"But there is always an open space for my shoes back home."
I wonder how old Nakajima Miyuki is.
So... how is your wife?
In the hospital.
She is?
I told you...
she had a man, right?
Yeah.
His boss's relative owns the hospital and he sent her there.
But I hear it's not a good one.
-You mean the hospital? -Yeah.
So her younger sister's desperately trying to get her to go to another hospital,
but she won't agree.
She feels obligated to him, I guess.
Since his boss is involved.
He'd be in trouble.
That idiot.
The pain isn't going away and she still....
She's a good woman.
That's why...
you must've fallen in love with her.
That was a long time ago.
Let's go back!
-Are we leaving already? -Still early.
We have to leave eventually. Bye!
Bye-bye!
When will you be coming back to school?
But,
Shokichi didn't come back...
the next day or the day after that.
I wanted to go over to play,
Dad told me not to go there because...
he and his family were too busy cleaning up.
-Stand up!
Bow.
Good bye.
Hold on, I have to tell you something.
Shokichi quit school.
He left last night to go far away because of family circumstances.
He wanted to say good-bye to all of you and he asked me to apologize.
Shokichi left...
our school.
Shokichi went...
far away.
I don't believe it.
He never said anything when we saw him last time.
Mister.
Is Shokichi...
really gone?
Yeah.
We got...
another abandoned house in this town.
That night,
I had a dream.
Shokichi, Hotaru and I...
were playing intently at the tree house.
The sun was streaming through the leaves.
We were laughing and laughing without any reason,
and having a great time.
But,
when I woke up,
for some reason,
my eyes were full of tears.
Hurry, Jun! Hurry!
On May 26,
sprouts started coming up from the daikon radish seeds we had planted.
It was the first time I'd ever felt so excited...
since coming here.
We should be able to eat them around August.
All right.
Use the logs whole?
I'd like to use beams, but it's too much trouble.
-Won't they be the same size? -I checked.
I think I can manage using the same size ones.
-How big will the house be? -About 60 sq. yards.
-So you'll cut the grooves in advance? -Right.
You're going to do it yourself?
That's my plan.
You'll ask our help sooner or later.
We'll help you.
I can't!
Look. How do you do the corner here?
I think it's like this.
See, this is the log. Then...
you make the cut here and...
-fit them together. Like this. -I see.
So you don't cut off the excess?
-I think that's better. -The book says so too.
-It'll be stronger and look cool. -Yeah, I think so too.
Then...
make the cut on this log...
to fit the next log and frame this one like this.
But you see the gap between the logs? What will you do with it?
They said it's good to fill them with moss.
But not sure if I can gather that much moss.
-I think it'll be hard. -Yeah. I could use plaster.
What about the foundation?
For the foundation...
I'm planning to use rocks.
Rocks, you know.
You put four across and three down.
And then...
1 Ken: 181.8 cm
Let's say... 5 Ken x 3 Ken*.
So I put 4 rocks horizontally and 3 rocks vertically.
-12 altogether? -Right.
I see.
Stack the logs like this...
So, I see...
-You don't make the framework like a traditional house... -No, just keep stacking logs.
Keep stacking...
Like this.
What's this?
That's a window! Couldn't you tell?
We need windows!
You make the window frame first--
It's not a pig pen!
Just frame it when it's done...
Not at first?
Not at first. It's faster that way.
-Like this? -Yup.
It goes here...
-Oh, this one is first. -Oh.
Okay?
This one goes here.
Hold on.
There you go.
This one here...
All right.
Goro.
-Hold on. -There. Right there.
Here?
Nah, here.
There you go. That's right.
What do you think?
It could be better.
Dad built the model log house...
while explaining it to us all.
It was only a small house, but it was our dream.
How does this window open?
Towards the outside.
Where do you wanna sleep, Hotaru?
I don't know.
I'll make a dog house by the front and you'll sleep there.
I'm not a dog! It'll be cold in winter.
You're right.
Here, this is where you'll sleep.
Near the fire place.
It'll come out. Look.
-Where is the kitchen? -Kitchen will be here.
-Will there be a bathroom? -Right here.
This is cool.
You can come to stay at night. I'll give you a discount.
Subtitled by Chuks Edited by Phoenix