:22:04
She asked the Gods to take her life
in exchange for her mother's.
:22:09
If you call it superstition,
it's superstition.
:22:12
But if you believe in it...
:22:14
it will prove itself very swiftly.
:22:17
After only one month...
:22:19
my grandmother recovered...
:22:22
but my mother fell ill.
:22:26
She was taken
to a Japanese doctor.
:22:31
The diagnosis was bad news.
:22:34
She had tuberculosis.
:22:37
The doctor insisted that...
:22:39
she had to stay in the hospital.
:22:42
So, against her will,
that's what she did.
:22:45
She stayed for another two months,
and was released...
:22:49
on the 1 3th day of the 7th moon,
two days before the Ghost Festival.
:22:55
She was recovering slowly,
and was hungry.
:22:58
She discussed with my father,
and they decided...
:23:02
that since the Ghost Festival
was coming, they would buy a duck.
:23:07
This duck could be used
as an altar offering.
:23:10
Maybe this would help her appetite.
:23:12
And so...
:23:14
my father took me to the market
to buy a duck.
:23:18
We ate it on the evening
of the Festival.
:23:21
The next day,
my mother had a serious relapse.
:23:25
Through the night
of the 1 6th...
:23:30
until almost the break of dawn
on the 1 7th--
:23:34
that was when my mother died.