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hungry for seven days.

Mr. Han spent long days

researching these two pills to cure hunger.

We hope the government will fund

production and promotion.

These have the potential

to rescue every one

of the people in Henan now at death's door.

What are these things made of?

Family secret.

They're made according to

a secret family recipe.

If people's family secrets worked,

then no Chinese person would have starved

in the past two millennia.

The war is upon us.

Let's leave your hunger pills

for another day.

Governor Li,

The main reason I came today

wasn't to talk about the pills.

Troops have gathered in northern Henan.

Nine out of ten people are

on the verge of starvation.

I honestly can't go on in this position.

Ihoped

you might consider transferring me

to southern Henan.

My friend,

war is imminent.

The provincial government

is about to move away.

The only way the county and

provincial governments will survive

is if we are victorious in this war.

Gentlemen,

please.

This is a message from the

Jiangsu-Gansu Railway.

To support the war effort,

safeguard railway administration,

and prevent treason and espionage,

all refugees must register

at the train station.

You can only board the train for free

by showing your identification.

Violators who willfully disobey

this regulation and board the train

will be prosecuted under wartime.

Regulation Five, Article Eight.

Listen up.

There's not much room.

You can't bring anything onto the train.

Nothing.

We sold people for this food.

We can't just throw it away.

Then how will we get to Shaanxi?

Hold on to me, Liubao.

We'll think of something.

Let's go.

Turn back.

Why hasn't the train left yet?

Is the air raid alert still going?

Hurry. Hurry!

I need help here.

What?

I lost my pinwheel!

Shuanzhu!

Shuanzhu!

Shuanzhu!

Landlord!

Shuanzhu!

Go!

Hold tight.

Give me the tablets!

Hold tight, Lingdang!

Hold tight.

Climb up.

Liubao?

Liubao?

Lingdang?

Lingdang?

Liubao!

Lingdang!

Liubao!

Lingdang!

Lingdang!

Liubao!

Lingdang!

Liubao!

Lingdang!

Liubao!

Shuanzhu?

What's wrong?

Master Fan!

Master Fan!

Did you see Liubao and Lingdang?

Aren't they with you?

Damn it!

They must have gone to sleep

and fallen off!

I have to go find them!

Don't jump... you'll be hurt!

Shuanzhu.

Shuanzhu.

My millet.

My millet!

I sold my wife for that millet!

Train!

F*** you!

Shaanxi at last...

even if it's just the two of us.

What's wrong?

Turn back.

Sir...

I have orders to take the

refugees to Shaanxi.

I have orders too!

There are already millions

of refugees in Shaanxi.

If we let more in,

Shaanxi will be a disaster zone too.

Turn around!

I can't.

If I go back, I'll be executed.

I'll kill you now if you don't!

Turn back!

Faster!

Fire!

Aim above the train!

The rails are blocked!

Everyone get off! Run!

Liucheng?

Liucheng?

After all we went through to get here

lneverthought

I'd smother you to death.

There's nobody else left now.

God...

Why me?

Takahashi - san

how many troops do you have?

Three divisions were joined by five more,

so I have about 60,000 men.

How many Chinese troops

have assembled in Henan?

Jiang Dingwen has eight divisions.

I'll raise new forces for you.

Grain.

Grain?

Henan is suffering from a drought.

People are dying every day.

The Chinese government is helpless.

Your men are advancing along the same path

as the Chinese who are fleeing the famine.

How do you think they'll feel?

Because of your assistance,

they will either help on the frontline

or help to destroy the war

supplies of the Chinese army.

But they are Chinese.

No. More than anything, they're human.

In April that year,

the Japanese initiated the battle of Henan.

They encountered the stubborn resistance of

the Nationalist Army.

The Japanese army, with 60,000 soldiers,

consecutively captured twenty-eight cities,

including Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Luohe,

Zhumadian, Nanyang, Gongyi, and Luoyang.

The Kuomintang forces

sustained 300,000 casualties.

Hurry. Hurry!

Hurry. Hurry!

Faster!

Go!

Move!

Move!

Sir, reporting. We captured

a Chinese soldier.

That isn't mine.

Ifoundit

lfoundit.

What?

I picked it up on the road.

Not mine.

Shuanzhu?

Old Ma?

What are you doing here?

Staying alive.

Do you know each other?

Is he a soldier?

No, he's not a soldier.

He feeds livestock.

He's a good citizen!

He drives the cart.

Like this!

Cart.

Great.

He can stay and help with the horses.

He can stay

and help us with the horses.

You can stay.

We can stick together.

We are friends.

I have to find my kids.

You have to survive.

What a clever little thing.

Give it to him.

Not a chance.

What if I can't find the kids?

It's all I have to remember them.

Here...

Give me the pinwheel.

Let's trade.

Trade.

No!

Give it back to me.

My pinwheel.

Eat it.

Eat it, Shuanzhu,

so you can live.

Eat it.

Burn my daughter's pinwheel?

F*** your mother!

Ma.

Ma.

Come here.

Eat this.

Eat this.

Taste good?

Spicy.

Peiji,

I knew I could trust you.

That's why I sent you to Henan.

It seems now

that I wasn't doing you a favor.

I let you down, Generalissimo.

Those treacherous Japanese.

Giving grain to starving people?

I never would have imagined it.

I've heard

some of the refugees went

over to the Japanese

after eating their food.

Is that true?

This must be a rumor.

Pure sedition!

The majority of the people

support the government.

The ones causing problems

are from Wang Jingwei's clique.

Peiji,

How many people died in Henan?

Our figures say...

And the real number?

About...

Minister Soong wants to see you urgently.

It's about the summit

with the other leaders.

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

planned to meet in Cairo

to discuss the world order after the war.

But President Roosevelt

just sent a telegram

saying Churchill and Stalin

don't want us to attend.

After all we sacrificed for this war.

Why can't we have a voice in

discussing post-war affairs?

But Minister Soong is still working on it.

What about the Japanese?

Approaching the Henan-Shaanxi border.

Tell He Yingqin

he must hold the Tongguan pass.

If the Japanese take Shaanxi

I won't go to Cairo

even if they ask me.

Mister!

Are you coming from Shaanxi?

Why are you walking back?

There's no hope there either?

There's hope in Shaanxi,

but not for me.

You'll die if you turn back.

I don't want to keep living.

I just want to die closer to home.

Mommy!

Mommy!

Mommy!

Sweetie...

She's already cold.

Don't cry, now.

Everyone in my family has died.

I don't know anyone anymore.

Sweetie.

You can call me Grandpa.

And we'll know each other then.

Grandpa.

Granddaughter,

Let's go.

Fifteen years later,

this little girl became my mother.

As long as I can remember,

she never shed a tear

or ate meat.

Seventy years later,

I interviewed her about the year 1942.

She stared at me blankly.

I left all that misery behind me long ago.

Why bring it up again now?

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