The most important achievement in life The war brought misfortune to many Japanese families. Among them are the Torae and Yoshio family, who lost their home in the Tokyo bombing. However, they can be called a relatively happy married couple: the husband returned from the war alive and unharmed, and his wife and son managed to escape death in Tokyo thanks to the timely evacuation to the suburbs.
Now Yoshio was repairing roads, earning a meager salary, and Torae worked as a servant for a wealthy man, earning, of course, even less than her husband. The work of this couple was not easy, and there were almost no joys in their lives. Nevertheless, Torae and Yoshio had one great common goal in common, through which all their incessant work, and all their lives, acquired a deep meaning and purpose. Their goal is at all costs to give education to his only son, so that he could “go out into the people” and find a good, higher paid job than his parents.
The film tells us about parental love and the effort to give your child an education that is prohibitively expensive, but on which the further life of the child depends greatly, is so common in society that education opens the way to success and career growth. Whatever hardships and hardships (for example, saving on food, as well as unconditional refusal to drink, once giving at least some consolation after exhausting work) it may cost, the parents gathered all their strength and, united, worked for the future of their son.
Torae and Yoshio themselves did not have education and good jobs, they lived in poverty and in constant need, but despite this, their only and most important achievement in life was that they managed to raise their son to his feet. And even when their goal is achieved and their son is finally educated at the university, Torae and Yoshio’s difficulties will not end, because at any moment the son may need the help of his loving parents. This was the meaning of the life of a married couple - to be together and work hard, in spite of all material obstacles to give a happy life to their child.
9 out of 10