Dongju Page #5

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Win over Japanese to use in time of need.

Select Korean students

at imperial universities

who can get deep into the

military as officers.

You recognize Song Mong

Gyu's handwriting, right?

Signed by Song Mong Gyu.

Wasn't it Song who influenced

you to go to Rikkyo University?

Rikkyo Univ. Has a great teacher

called Professor Takamatsu.

He studied theology at

Cambridge and Harvard.

He was a genius at languages

since he was a child.

Hiranuma Doju.

Yes.

Your essay on Wordsworth

was it all your own thinking?

Yes, sir.

He's a man of noble character so

all the students respect him.

Even though he is not well off himself,

he helps out many poor students.

She's the daughter of my friend who

was an English literature professor

at Tohoku Imperial University.

Both her parents passed

away in an accident.

Hello. I'm Hukada Kumi.

In "The Excursion"...

what do you think

Wordsworth was aiming for?

I think he wanted to remind us

of human feelings that are

not active in our hearts

or are devalued.

Wordsworth himself said similar

things about this poem.

In the end, what moves the world...

is the gathered power of

individuals' deep internal changes.

Japanese militarism with the illusion

of "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity,"

how can it gather different

cultures and people

who have lasted thousands of years?

They've started a war

that can never be won.

These are materials I put together

when studying in England.

I'll lend them to you.

How can you lend me such

precious materials?

Because they are precious.

How about...

writing poems yourself?

A lot of the assignments you

turned in were literary.

Actually...

I write poems.

Do you?

So you're a poet.

I haven't published a book of poetry yet

so I can't call myself that.

Is it that you couldn't publish

because your poems are in Korean?

Casting a fragile shadow on the platform,

I smoked a cigarette.

Without any news

the train carried me afar.

Spring has now gone...

In the quiet rented room

on the outskirts of Tokyo

I long for a part of me

lingering in the old streets

just like I do for hope and love.

It's really beautiful.

My translation probably isn't

good enough to understand.

No, it's great.

I can't publish them anyway.

If that's the problem...

my father once published

a poetry collection of his

students' work in England.

Those who couldn't publish in Japan

had their poems published in English.

Wouldn't it be dangerous to

translate Korean poetry?

Some of my father's students are in Kyoto.

I think they can help.

Never mind. These poems are

not worth the trouble.

I want to read more of your poems.

It's not that dangerous.

What is it?

Your fearlessness...

It reminds me of a friend of mine.

That friend must like your poems, too.

Once translated into Japanese,

the English won't take long.

Even today,

the train meaninglessly

passed several times...

Even today

I shall linger

on a hill near the station

waiting for someone.

Oh...

let the youth remain there forever.

Professor Takamatsu...

is one of the foremost under

surveillance for opposing militarism.

You knew that, didn't you?

I got to know him after I

entered Rikkyo University.

He is a great man.

It's ones like Takamatsu

with their learning steeped

in cheap sentiment...

who interfere with the liberation of Asia!

They're pushing us into a corner

in the war that we can surely win.

Defeatists!

Cheap sentimentalists!

Are you going to go along with

ideas like their trash?

Even though we have great

teachers, we can't be at ease.

After the war started...

the situation even in this

school is getting worse.

What are you doing? We're

in the middle of a class!

Hiranuma Doju?

Yes.

Teaching filthy Western literature...

you call that a class?

Did you...

refuse military drill class?

Yes.

Yes?

Have you thought of...

what could that result

in when you're drafted?

Who is the greater? The heavenly sovereign?

Or Jesus Christ? Is individualism greater?

Or totalitarianism?

You aren't steeped in Japanese thinking

so you refuse the drill?

It's just...

I'm not used to military culture.

It's because you don't

understand the Japanese spirit.

Isn't that so?

Then...

I'll teach you how to be the

kind of man Japan needs.

But don't worry.

As yet, I can still manage college life.

The Great Japanese Empire has announced

a draft system for Koreans

from Showa year 19.

The Army and the Navy for

the liberation of Asia

will tie together all of Asia's strength,

so this is a significant declaration.

It is the only way to

resist Western powers.

How about going back to

your hometown for a while?

The draft order has been

announced everywhere.

Tokyo will get more and more dangerous.

Is there anywhere that's safe now?

How about Kyoto?

It'll be safer than Tokyo.

In Kyoto,

my father's students at Doshisha University

will be able to help.

Warmongers are running berserk.

Our Heavenly Father...

Although we are tried by hardships,

we pray that our daily

lives can go on peacefully

and we thank you God for

this precious sustenance

in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.

Amen.

Just because the US drops bombs

and the Soviets enter the war.

Do you think we'll get scared?

Intellectuals like Takamatsu...

Professor Takamatsu...

is a teacher respected by his students.

Respect?

It's so easy to get respect

touching individuals' weak minds

during wartime when individuals'

sacrifice is required.

Why do you think I go to all

this trouble talking to you?

In the war for Asian liberation

the individual's sacrifice is natural.

What in the world do you

mean by Asian liberation?

Hundreds of thousands are dying.

What kind of liberation is that?

Do you know how many tens

of thousands disappeared

in Poland's Auschwitz?

Because the weak like you who

interrupt human development

don't understand the meaning of war.

Asia! Asia will be

degraded to a second-class

nation to Western powers!

Why did you go to Kyoto?

Did Takamatsu send you?

Moreover how many soldiers

can we train and where

even if we can, would it compare to

even 1% of Japan's fighting power?

Hey, Dong Ju.

What brings you here so suddenly?

I've transferred to Doshisha University.

We're going to get going, Mong Gyu.

Long time no see.

Have a seat.

Why so suddenly?

Staying in Tokyo is tough.

What in the...

There's nowhere to run now.

Are you just going to get dragged away?

Let's rally the Korean students.

Let me join what you're doing.

Sorry, let me smoke a cigarette.

Hey, Dong Ju.

You keep writing poems.

I'll take up the gun.

Why?

You said writing poems is

running away to literature.

Why are you making me run away?

I can be with you.

The leader of the Korean students' incident

in Kyoto...

was you!

You came to Kyoto to incite

Song Mong Gyu, didn't you?

Of the Korean students in the Kyoto area...

and mainly those from

imperial universities...

looks like there will be more than

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