Years of Upheaval (1991–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.4 - full transcript
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Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad
- Imperial Army 15th Division -
Nanjing, China
- Episode 4 -
Aired on 10/10/1991
Your head!
Keep your head up!
We both went to the Beijing Academy,
and even took the same train
back home during the holidays.
At first he didn't want to go,
but I managed to convince him.
They drafted us the moment
we reached home.
We actually had a chance to run away,
but I feared our families would be humiliated
if we didn't go, so I stopped him.
I even told him,
"The army?! What's the big deal..."
"Just a few months of waving their flag,
and we'll head back home."
He was scared.
He kept making excuses, saying he
didn't want to grovel at the Japs' feet,
but it was just fear.
Deep down, I even laughed at him.
I did it all the time.
But seeing him die like that...
Dying right under my eyes...
And I couldn't do anything to stop it.
What are you, laughing at
me like all the others?
Are you?
I made this blanket myself.
Clean, isn't it?
Doesn't it look so?
- Ceramic Bomb Production -
- Ceramic Bomb -
This is what we call the
Ishii ceramic bomb.
Captain Mita, how about it?
- It was impressive, Sir.
- Impressive?!
Are you suggesting that you're
aware of the differences...
between a normal bomb
and a ceramic one?
Did you know?
Mita majored in economics at the
Tokyo Imperial University.
He joined us to find economical
solutions to our war matters.
With regular bombs, most of the infected
fleas would die in the explosion,
but with the ceramic bomb
developed by General Ishii,
it only takes a fraction of the
firepower to be detonated,
so it is much more effective in...
In killing a significantly larger
amount of people, Sir.
Using pest bacteria inside a bomb?!
No doubt a good idea, but it
could also prove dangerous.
If the bomber is taken down, the bomb
could detonate in friendly territory.
We can't risk killing our people that way.
Write it down.
Use experiments to determine maximum
range and mortality rate of the disease.
Also, the effect these tests can
have on ongoing production.
Finally...
In two months, we can produce
45 kilograms of infected fleas.
And a hundred thousand fleas
only weigh ten grams.
Do the math.
45 kilograms mean 450 million fleas.
Even the amount we have at this moment
alone can kill a hundred million people.
To make a long story short,
all those lives are in my hands.
And yet what most matters
to me is my own life.
Take a look.
Would you find bacteria on this? But you
still end up looking, fearing the worst.
- Have you witnessed it firsthand?
- What?
People killed by those bacteria.
That?!
The maruta prisons are filled with them.
See?
That is what war is about.
You do whatever it takes to win.
Win the war, and they'll even
make heroes out of people like me.
Lose, and...
Nah... No way.
No use worrying about the impossible.
But I guess we humans still have one
thing over these rats, don't you think?
The fact that we can be easily appeased,
should the need arise.
And turn a complex matter
into a very simple one.
- Maruta Special Prisons -
- Maruta -
Literally "logs," this became slang for all
the prisoners subjected to the unit's tests.
When dealing with such large cultures
of bacteria, toxicity could decrease.
And that is why we created a
compromise with this maruta system.
This is obtained by gradually increasing
the amount of bacteria injected.
The human body's antibodies would
generally resist the infection.
But these pest bacteria adapt to human
antibodies and gradually overcome them.
We then extract the infected blood
and inject it to other maruta.
This continued and gradual evolution
allows the bacteria's toxicity to improve.
No. 1237.
In this particular case, the patient
has survived three injections.
In other words, his immune system
has resisted the infection a lot longer.
Just one injection and
you'll let me go, right?
Naeuri, please answer me!
You'll let me go after the injection, right?
I beg you... I'll head back to my
hometown without looking back!
Send me back to Joseon!!
Send me back to Joseon.
I'll spend the rest of my days farming
and never come here again!
Send me back to Joseon, Naeuri!
I'll live quietly farming the fields...
Let me go, please...
Aigoo... How will my poor mother survive?
They don't even listen.
It's just maruta.
Maruta.
Logs.
They're not people. It's like wood
you burn whenever needed.
Where did all those people come from?
Didn't you listen to what I just said?
They're not people!
I guess you could compare them
to lab mice or rabbits.
Goddamn... This is stuff for
the missus to deal with...
Where did I put that button again?
Seen a button around?
Step aside.
Haven't seen any buttons?
- Spring 1944, Gyeongseong -
Is she really pregnant with Harim's child?
Yes, Mother.
The Japanese woman he always
talks about in his letters?
Yes, it's her.
Is it.. Is it really you?
I'm so glad you came...
So glad...
Thank you for coming.
It's a relief you made it here safely.
Finding this place with just an
address must have been hard.
I was worried you'd leave
me out of the door.
How could we? Especially when a Japanese
knocks at her future in-laws' door.
We had no reason to bear suspicions.
Had it been the opposite,
that would be a whole different story.
The fact your brother was from
Joseon never mattered to me.
But it'll be much more
complicated than you think.
Living as Joseon people
in this day and age.
I certainly don't deserve it,
but please help me out.
Likewise.
The last letter we got from Harim was
before he enlisted, and nothing ever since.
I was thinking that maybe...
I'm just shocked to see you here.
Waiting for him in Japan would have
been so much easier for you...
Coming all the way here can only mean...
- Imperial Japanese Army 15th Division -
Nanjing, China
One... One, two, one.
One... One, two, one.
Let's see those legs go higher!
Lift them up,
you useless Chosen scum!
Stop!
Get up!
I said up, you scummy vermin.
Wake the hell up.
Is that all you can do,
you Chosen scum?
Get up!
Get the hell up.
Off with it!
Take it!
On the double!
Can you...
This.
It's Yeook, my name.
Yoon Yeook.
I know.
You said Daechi, right?
Choi Daechi.
Yeah.
Yeook is my name.
Yoon Yeook.
So don't forget it.
I come from Namwon.
Chunhyang's Namwon.
The hometown of Chunhyang,
symbol of loyalty.
I'm from Gaeseong.
And my father's a blacksmith.
I was going to school
in Gyeongseong.
While I was there, I got
word from my hometown.
That my mother was on her deathbed.
I ran back as fast as I could,
and looks like my father
had come there in secret.
So the police beat her to a pulp for that.
To find out where he was hiding.
What could she possibly know?!
I actually found out on that day.
That my father had joined the
independence movement.
The moment I got there, they
started asking me the same thing.
To tell them where my father was.
Claiming that I was refusing
to talk, they forced me here.
The day they took me away,
my mother kept following the truck,
wailing in despair.
My father's name is Yoon Hongcheol.
Will you remember that?
You two should meet.
He's the kindest man you'll ever meet.
You know...
I'm...
pregnant.
And there is only one who
could be the father.
You know what I mean?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just...
- Unit 731, Epidemic Prevention and
Water Purification Department -
Harbin, China
- Lieutenant General Ishii Shiro -
- Penetration Test -
To verify how many aligned men a single
Type 39 infantry rifle bullet could penetrate.
Heavy clothing penetration rate.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Four in total.
Military uniform.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Five in total.
Exposed body penetration rate.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Seven in total.
- Don't kill me...
- Please.
Don't kill me.
I did nothing but irrigate rice paddies!
If I shouldn't be here,
I'll go back home right away!
Let me go back to Joseon.
I'll leave right away.
I did nothing wrong... Please...
Want a drink?
I thought they'd limit you
to bacteria experiments,
but I see you're dealing
with maruta as well.
I suggest you get acquainted
with the bottle.
Because you ain't seen nothing yet.
How long do you think it'll take for a maruta
to die, if you hang him upside down?
Ever seen what can happen to them
when put inside a centrifuge?
Or when injected with monkey blood.
It's not sarcasm.
I'm just telling you because you
don't feel like the rest of them.
So I wish you luck.
Shut your mouth!
And stop acting like you're any better.
- What the...
- Listen well.
I'm from Joseon.
"Chosen scum."
All you Japs are insane.
This is no war.
So all this would be for the motherland?
It's pure madness.
- Like you're any different?
- You're Japanese!
Got it?
And seeing you Japs act as if you
had any mercy just sickens me.
Stop making excuses!
Where does Japan end and
Joseon start, anyway?
You're no different.
You're a stooge doing as you're told!
What else should I say?
Tell them I won't do it?
- And you're telling me off?!
- Want me to go scream it out loud?
- You're all insane!
- Want to live that bad?
You really think all these
atrocities will be forgiven?
After the war is over... Even a hundred
years later, think people will have forgotten?
We're on the same boat.
You're condemning countless people
to death only to save yourself!
I will survive!
But will I do it getting drunk like you?
Will I let your insanity
devour me from within?
I...
will live instead.
Until the very end,
I'll survive.
Stop pretending to be human.
You're making me sick.
- Unit 731, Animal Testing Lab -
Ohara!
What are you doing?!
Don't!
Ever heard of Ohtani-sensei? He was
one of the luminaries of his generation.
I was one of his top students.
I had talent.
These hands could paint
beauty like few others.
My works ended up on women's kimonos.
Such great beauty.
But look.
This is what I do now.
I draw for them.
Draw them cutting a maruta
open to remove his liver.
"This one doesn't look right."
"Ohara, hurry up."
And so I paint,
thinking to myself.
"What was this experiment for?"
"Will I get infected staying so close?"
What is it they make you do?
Pest? Cholera?
Chilblains tests?
How many can you kill with that,
and how quickly?
- Imperial Army 15th Division -
Nanjing, China
And halt!
Face right!
Ten-hut!
Sir!
At ease.
At ease.
Everyone, rejoice.
They are finally giving us a chance.
This will be the perfect opportunity to restore
the morale we lost after fighting in Luoyang.
- Who is on duty?
- Sir!
Head to the kitchen and bring
something to drink.
Dr... Drink, Sir?
It comes directly from
His Majesty the Emperor!
The whole battalion will
deploy tomorrow at dawn.
Our destination, Burma.
We will be marching for 2,500 ri.
Should anyone fall behind,
I will be the first to break his legs,
is that clear?
Yes, Sir!
If they called us from such a remote place,
it's clear it won't be easy.
We will take part in a battle which
could decide the fate of our empire!
- How does it feel?
- We're grateful, Sir!
Sakai...
Sakai.
Good job.
Go have a drink now.
Sakai... Sakai.
She's my daughter.
Look.
Pretty, isn't she?
She's probably eight by now.
Pretty, right? Her name's Junko.
After her mother ran away,
she's been living with my brother.
She'll be waiting for my return.
If I don't go back,
she won't even get married.
She'll end up becoming a prostitute...
Look.
Pretty, isn't she?
Isn't she?
Sakai...
Junko...
Who's there?
Go back!
Go back!
Hey.
Wake up.
Aigoo...
I'm deploying tomorrow.
We're going to Burma.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
What about me?
You must survive, got it?
Survive at all cost.
I came to tell you that.
Survive and give birth to my kid.
Will you do that for me?
That'll do.
That's all I ask.
I'll come back whatever it takes.
You have my word.
You prick!
What the hell are you doing?
- WithS2 Presented -
20th Anniversary Special
E Y E S of D A W N
- Episode 4 -
- Starring -
PARK Sangwon (Jang Harim)
CHAE Sira (Yoon Yeook)
CHOI Jaesung (Choi Daechi)
JANG Hangseon (Oe)
PARK Inhwan (Kubota)
KIM Heunggi (Mita)
MIN Jihwan (Ishii)
KIM Hyeonju (Katsuko)
LEE Seongwoong (Yamada)
KIM Sowon (Harim's Mother)
KIM Donghyeon (Gyeongrim)
AHN Haesuk (Gyeongrim's Wife)
JEONG Hogeun (Kwon Dongjin)
HONG Sunchang (Isaki)
- Written By -
SONG Jina
- Based Upon the Novel By -
KIM Seongjong
- Produced By -
KIM Jonghak
- Translated and Timed By -
Anarchist
- Timing QC-
julier
- Editing -
langdon813
- Coordinators -
ay_link, mily2
Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad
- Imperial Army 15th Division -
Nanjing, China
- Episode 4 -
Aired on 10/10/1991
Your head!
Keep your head up!
We both went to the Beijing Academy,
and even took the same train
back home during the holidays.
At first he didn't want to go,
but I managed to convince him.
They drafted us the moment
we reached home.
We actually had a chance to run away,
but I feared our families would be humiliated
if we didn't go, so I stopped him.
I even told him,
"The army?! What's the big deal..."
"Just a few months of waving their flag,
and we'll head back home."
He was scared.
He kept making excuses, saying he
didn't want to grovel at the Japs' feet,
but it was just fear.
Deep down, I even laughed at him.
I did it all the time.
But seeing him die like that...
Dying right under my eyes...
And I couldn't do anything to stop it.
What are you, laughing at
me like all the others?
Are you?
I made this blanket myself.
Clean, isn't it?
Doesn't it look so?
- Ceramic Bomb Production -
- Ceramic Bomb -
This is what we call the
Ishii ceramic bomb.
Captain Mita, how about it?
- It was impressive, Sir.
- Impressive?!
Are you suggesting that you're
aware of the differences...
between a normal bomb
and a ceramic one?
Did you know?
Mita majored in economics at the
Tokyo Imperial University.
He joined us to find economical
solutions to our war matters.
With regular bombs, most of the infected
fleas would die in the explosion,
but with the ceramic bomb
developed by General Ishii,
it only takes a fraction of the
firepower to be detonated,
so it is much more effective in...
In killing a significantly larger
amount of people, Sir.
Using pest bacteria inside a bomb?!
No doubt a good idea, but it
could also prove dangerous.
If the bomber is taken down, the bomb
could detonate in friendly territory.
We can't risk killing our people that way.
Write it down.
Use experiments to determine maximum
range and mortality rate of the disease.
Also, the effect these tests can
have on ongoing production.
Finally...
In two months, we can produce
45 kilograms of infected fleas.
And a hundred thousand fleas
only weigh ten grams.
Do the math.
45 kilograms mean 450 million fleas.
Even the amount we have at this moment
alone can kill a hundred million people.
To make a long story short,
all those lives are in my hands.
And yet what most matters
to me is my own life.
Take a look.
Would you find bacteria on this? But you
still end up looking, fearing the worst.
- Have you witnessed it firsthand?
- What?
People killed by those bacteria.
That?!
The maruta prisons are filled with them.
See?
That is what war is about.
You do whatever it takes to win.
Win the war, and they'll even
make heroes out of people like me.
Lose, and...
Nah... No way.
No use worrying about the impossible.
But I guess we humans still have one
thing over these rats, don't you think?
The fact that we can be easily appeased,
should the need arise.
And turn a complex matter
into a very simple one.
- Maruta Special Prisons -
- Maruta -
Literally "logs," this became slang for all
the prisoners subjected to the unit's tests.
When dealing with such large cultures
of bacteria, toxicity could decrease.
And that is why we created a
compromise with this maruta system.
This is obtained by gradually increasing
the amount of bacteria injected.
The human body's antibodies would
generally resist the infection.
But these pest bacteria adapt to human
antibodies and gradually overcome them.
We then extract the infected blood
and inject it to other maruta.
This continued and gradual evolution
allows the bacteria's toxicity to improve.
No. 1237.
In this particular case, the patient
has survived three injections.
In other words, his immune system
has resisted the infection a lot longer.
Just one injection and
you'll let me go, right?
Naeuri, please answer me!
You'll let me go after the injection, right?
I beg you... I'll head back to my
hometown without looking back!
Send me back to Joseon!!
Send me back to Joseon.
I'll spend the rest of my days farming
and never come here again!
Send me back to Joseon, Naeuri!
I'll live quietly farming the fields...
Let me go, please...
Aigoo... How will my poor mother survive?
They don't even listen.
It's just maruta.
Maruta.
Logs.
They're not people. It's like wood
you burn whenever needed.
Where did all those people come from?
Didn't you listen to what I just said?
They're not people!
I guess you could compare them
to lab mice or rabbits.
Goddamn... This is stuff for
the missus to deal with...
Where did I put that button again?
Seen a button around?
Step aside.
Haven't seen any buttons?
- Spring 1944, Gyeongseong -
Is she really pregnant with Harim's child?
Yes, Mother.
The Japanese woman he always
talks about in his letters?
Yes, it's her.
Is it.. Is it really you?
I'm so glad you came...
So glad...
Thank you for coming.
It's a relief you made it here safely.
Finding this place with just an
address must have been hard.
I was worried you'd leave
me out of the door.
How could we? Especially when a Japanese
knocks at her future in-laws' door.
We had no reason to bear suspicions.
Had it been the opposite,
that would be a whole different story.
The fact your brother was from
Joseon never mattered to me.
But it'll be much more
complicated than you think.
Living as Joseon people
in this day and age.
I certainly don't deserve it,
but please help me out.
Likewise.
The last letter we got from Harim was
before he enlisted, and nothing ever since.
I was thinking that maybe...
I'm just shocked to see you here.
Waiting for him in Japan would have
been so much easier for you...
Coming all the way here can only mean...
- Imperial Japanese Army 15th Division -
Nanjing, China
One... One, two, one.
One... One, two, one.
Let's see those legs go higher!
Lift them up,
you useless Chosen scum!
Stop!
Get up!
I said up, you scummy vermin.
Wake the hell up.
Is that all you can do,
you Chosen scum?
Get up!
Get the hell up.
Off with it!
Take it!
On the double!
Can you...
This.
It's Yeook, my name.
Yoon Yeook.
I know.
You said Daechi, right?
Choi Daechi.
Yeah.
Yeook is my name.
Yoon Yeook.
So don't forget it.
I come from Namwon.
Chunhyang's Namwon.
The hometown of Chunhyang,
symbol of loyalty.
I'm from Gaeseong.
And my father's a blacksmith.
I was going to school
in Gyeongseong.
While I was there, I got
word from my hometown.
That my mother was on her deathbed.
I ran back as fast as I could,
and looks like my father
had come there in secret.
So the police beat her to a pulp for that.
To find out where he was hiding.
What could she possibly know?!
I actually found out on that day.
That my father had joined the
independence movement.
The moment I got there, they
started asking me the same thing.
To tell them where my father was.
Claiming that I was refusing
to talk, they forced me here.
The day they took me away,
my mother kept following the truck,
wailing in despair.
My father's name is Yoon Hongcheol.
Will you remember that?
You two should meet.
He's the kindest man you'll ever meet.
You know...
I'm...
pregnant.
And there is only one who
could be the father.
You know what I mean?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just...
- Unit 731, Epidemic Prevention and
Water Purification Department -
Harbin, China
- Lieutenant General Ishii Shiro -
- Penetration Test -
To verify how many aligned men a single
Type 39 infantry rifle bullet could penetrate.
Heavy clothing penetration rate.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Four in total.
Military uniform.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Five in total.
Exposed body penetration rate.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Seven in total.
- Don't kill me...
- Please.
Don't kill me.
I did nothing but irrigate rice paddies!
If I shouldn't be here,
I'll go back home right away!
Let me go back to Joseon.
I'll leave right away.
I did nothing wrong... Please...
Want a drink?
I thought they'd limit you
to bacteria experiments,
but I see you're dealing
with maruta as well.
I suggest you get acquainted
with the bottle.
Because you ain't seen nothing yet.
How long do you think it'll take for a maruta
to die, if you hang him upside down?
Ever seen what can happen to them
when put inside a centrifuge?
Or when injected with monkey blood.
It's not sarcasm.
I'm just telling you because you
don't feel like the rest of them.
So I wish you luck.
Shut your mouth!
And stop acting like you're any better.
- What the...
- Listen well.
I'm from Joseon.
"Chosen scum."
All you Japs are insane.
This is no war.
So all this would be for the motherland?
It's pure madness.
- Like you're any different?
- You're Japanese!
Got it?
And seeing you Japs act as if you
had any mercy just sickens me.
Stop making excuses!
Where does Japan end and
Joseon start, anyway?
You're no different.
You're a stooge doing as you're told!
What else should I say?
Tell them I won't do it?
- And you're telling me off?!
- Want me to go scream it out loud?
- You're all insane!
- Want to live that bad?
You really think all these
atrocities will be forgiven?
After the war is over... Even a hundred
years later, think people will have forgotten?
We're on the same boat.
You're condemning countless people
to death only to save yourself!
I will survive!
But will I do it getting drunk like you?
Will I let your insanity
devour me from within?
I...
will live instead.
Until the very end,
I'll survive.
Stop pretending to be human.
You're making me sick.
- Unit 731, Animal Testing Lab -
Ohara!
What are you doing?!
Don't!
Ever heard of Ohtani-sensei? He was
one of the luminaries of his generation.
I was one of his top students.
I had talent.
These hands could paint
beauty like few others.
My works ended up on women's kimonos.
Such great beauty.
But look.
This is what I do now.
I draw for them.
Draw them cutting a maruta
open to remove his liver.
"This one doesn't look right."
"Ohara, hurry up."
And so I paint,
thinking to myself.
"What was this experiment for?"
"Will I get infected staying so close?"
What is it they make you do?
Pest? Cholera?
Chilblains tests?
How many can you kill with that,
and how quickly?
- Imperial Army 15th Division -
Nanjing, China
And halt!
Face right!
Ten-hut!
Sir!
At ease.
At ease.
Everyone, rejoice.
They are finally giving us a chance.
This will be the perfect opportunity to restore
the morale we lost after fighting in Luoyang.
- Who is on duty?
- Sir!
Head to the kitchen and bring
something to drink.
Dr... Drink, Sir?
It comes directly from
His Majesty the Emperor!
The whole battalion will
deploy tomorrow at dawn.
Our destination, Burma.
We will be marching for 2,500 ri.
Should anyone fall behind,
I will be the first to break his legs,
is that clear?
Yes, Sir!
If they called us from such a remote place,
it's clear it won't be easy.
We will take part in a battle which
could decide the fate of our empire!
- How does it feel?
- We're grateful, Sir!
Sakai...
Sakai.
Good job.
Go have a drink now.
Sakai... Sakai.
She's my daughter.
Look.
Pretty, isn't she?
She's probably eight by now.
Pretty, right? Her name's Junko.
After her mother ran away,
she's been living with my brother.
She'll be waiting for my return.
If I don't go back,
she won't even get married.
She'll end up becoming a prostitute...
Look.
Pretty, isn't she?
Isn't she?
Sakai...
Junko...
Who's there?
Go back!
Go back!
Hey.
Wake up.
Aigoo...
I'm deploying tomorrow.
We're going to Burma.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
What about me?
You must survive, got it?
Survive at all cost.
I came to tell you that.
Survive and give birth to my kid.
Will you do that for me?
That'll do.
That's all I ask.
I'll come back whatever it takes.
You have my word.
You prick!
What the hell are you doing?
- WithS2 Presented -
20th Anniversary Special
E Y E S of D A W N
- Episode 4 -
- Starring -
PARK Sangwon (Jang Harim)
CHAE Sira (Yoon Yeook)
CHOI Jaesung (Choi Daechi)
JANG Hangseon (Oe)
PARK Inhwan (Kubota)
KIM Heunggi (Mita)
MIN Jihwan (Ishii)
KIM Hyeonju (Katsuko)
LEE Seongwoong (Yamada)
KIM Sowon (Harim's Mother)
KIM Donghyeon (Gyeongrim)
AHN Haesuk (Gyeongrim's Wife)
JEONG Hogeun (Kwon Dongjin)
HONG Sunchang (Isaki)
- Written By -
SONG Jina
- Based Upon the Novel By -
KIM Seongjong
- Produced By -
KIM Jonghak
- Translated and Timed By -
Anarchist
- Timing QC-
julier
- Editing -
langdon813
- Coordinators -
ay_link, mily2