:04:09
And when the war ended,
:04:12
his longstanding ties with
shady characters caught up with him,
:04:17
and thy locked him up
in prison for long time.
:04:26
Most of his fellow prisoners
:04:30
were executed, one after another,
with hardly any benefit of a trial.
:04:49
The executions always took place
at two in the afternoon.
:04:55
One day, without warning,
:04:59
they'd drag him to the courtyard, too,
:05:01
and shoot him in the head
with an automatic rifle.
:05:09
In that place, the boundary
between life and death...
:05:12
Was as slim as a single strand of hair
:05:41
Takitani Shozaburo
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returned to Japan,
no more than a bag of bones,
:05:48
In the spring of 1946
:05:59
He found his home had been
destroyed in the firebombing,