Eyes Of Dawn (Yeomyeongui Nundongja / 여명의 눈동자 / 黎明의 눈동자)

Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad

- Winter, 1943 - Yalu River

- Episode 1 - Aired on October 7, 1991

- Baimaozi (White Hat) Station - Manchuria

We'll be stopping here tonight.

Pass the pot.

Give him that pot, you dirty Chosen* bitches!

Look up. I said look up!

Look up.

You. Get up.

You, get up.

You, get up.

Up! Get up.

Get up.

Get out.

Hurry up and get out!

Move!

Line up.

Stand up straight. Get in line, move!

Here... Get out. You remain here.

You.

It's empty.

You little...

Help me!

Help!

Help!

Help...

Please...

Please, don't.

Please...

Mom...

- Keep quiet, you bitch. - Mom...

Where did they take you, uh? Where have you been?

Hey... What happened? Where did they take you?

Yeook. What happened? Where have you been?

What's wrong with your hair?

Mom...

With the Battle of Midway,

Japan's seemingly invincible legacy was dealt a crippling blow.

By the middle of 1943,

the Allied Forces had gained enough ground to launch a massive offensive.

Immediately following Italy's unconditional surrender on September 1943,

military strategists moved Japan to consider alternative stratagems.

Favoring defense over offense in order to buy time for their reprisal,

Japan drew a new defense line,

and concentrated its efforts on holding back the Allied Forces through relentless fighting.

- November 1943 - American Forces land on Tarawa and Makin, Gilbert Islands.

Its defense forces chose to sacrifice their lives fighting...

instead of abandoning such strategically crucial positions.

- 4,500 Japanese Troops Annihilated - Their resistance was fierce, but drenched in despair.

Back in China, Chiang Kaishek's army, getting by through human wave tactics,

finally began receiving support from the Allied Forces.

But Japan still could count on its invincible Kwantung Army.

- November 1943 - Imperial Japanese Army Captures Luoyang

Second unit.

Owaku. Kenji.

Oda, Sakai. Sakai!

- Is this all? - Yes, Sir. Just them.

Nishihara. Question her.

Where there's a woman, wouldn't there be a man?

Get up!

I said get up!

Come.

- Sakai! - Sir!

Shoot her!

Where the hell are you going?

What are you waiting for? Dirty Chosen scum!

Hurry up and shoot her!

Sakai!!

Shimonoseki, Japan -

Next.

- What is your major in college? - Medicine, Sir.

But why didn't you join the army?

A medical certificate... Tuberculosis?

Yes.

Here.

Next.

I just came, after all.

I couldn't possibly wait.

Maybe I shouldn't have sent you that letter?

How can you say that...

I got a hold of myself after reading that letter of yours,

and I was already on a train. From Tokyo to Shimonoseki.

I felt embarrassed every minute I spent in here all alone.

What are you thinking?

That I'm a shameless woman,

and you can't stand me anymore?

If I were you, I would have long abandoned a woman like me.

I'm much older, and used to be someone else's wife.

And I'm a Chosen man.

Does it make you that nervous?

It does.

I don't even think about things that make me nervous.

I just don't.

Because even if filled only with happiness, life would still be too short.

I had a dream on my way here.

I found myself in hell,

but I still had a smile on my face.

I must have been thinking about you.

I'll never let you go to a place like hell.

Tokyo, Japan -

I'll have this.

Natsuo-san...

Natsuo-san?

Natsuo-san!

Natsuo-san!

My name is Yamada, I'm from the Metropolitan Police's High Inspectorate*. movements during the colonial era]

I offer you my sincerest condolences for losing your husband in battle.

By the way...

About that student you went all the way to Shimonoseki to meet.

How long have you two known each other?

It's been about three years,

since when my husband was still alive, he used to board here.

Because he was one of my husband's students.

Were you aware of the fact that he's from Chosen?

Yes.

Then I'm sure you know of his involvement in the anti-war movement as well.

There must be a misunderstanding here.

He's a very simple-minded man.

If anyone is to blame for any misdeed, that is me.

Misdeed?!

What misdeed are you referring to?

That of forsaking your late husband's legacy,

and defying His Majesty the Emperor's wishes...

to abandon yourself in the pleasures of the flesh...

Are you referring to such vile and unpatriotic misdeeds?

And to the fact that you are knowingly abetting his anti-war activities in exchange?

We have no idea what these anti-war activities you speak of are.

But if I must be blamed for seducing a diligent student,

then I will accept any punishment.

So I'll have to suppose you really didn't know about his anti-war activities,

and that since it's already been exposed, you can't help but admit your unethical conduct.

Fine.

I suppose my cordial approach is to blame.

Yangzhou, China -

Sakai... Kaneyama!

You take the front!

Owaku! Takano! Second squad!

Front squad, move!

Second squad!

Kaneyama!

Ehh... You dirty Chosen scum!

Scummy Chosen bastards...

Sakai.

- Private Second Class Kaneyama... - Raise that damn voice.

Private Second Class Kaneyama!