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農村と都会。
都会のパパは近代経済の荒波に飲み込まれ、かつての自分を失いつつある。
息子の希望を満たすために金に糸目はつけない。
都会のパパは今日も経済の波に翻弄され、必死で戦っている。
一方、田舎の息子は家に帰っても、金のない貧しい暮らし。
土を耕し、自然と闘い生きるだけの無骨な親爺。
だが、その親爺が息子の大学就学のために、
娘に退学を納得させ、村中を借金頼みに駆け回った。
二人の息子の悩みは大きい。
都会に戻る田舎の息子の後ろ姿に、茅葺き屋根の上から親爺が声を掛ける。
「飯は食えよ、父ちゃん、金はあるからな!」
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A Farming village and a big city.
The papa in the city seems to be losing his identity struggling in severe competitions of the business world. He spends a lot of money to gratify his son's aspiration. Every day he is making desperate efforts as he is tossed about by cruel waves of the cut-throat economic competition.
The father's son, on the other hand, finds himself in a poor and miserable life in the countryside.
His father is a rustic man who does nothing but cultivate the soil in harsh Nature.
But the father is thinking of sending his son to a college in the city.
He goes and asks other farmers in the village to lend him the money needed for son's education.
His daughter is a student of the village school, and he even persuades her to leave school to get enough money for her brother.
Both of the two sons know what their fathers have done for them, and wonder if they deserve their father's devotion.
To the son who is going up to the college in the city, his father says from the roof top of his thatched house, "Don't fail to have decent meal! I've got sufficient money for you."
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