"To show the world a self-independent Japan," ""Soya," which embarked on a voyage to the unknown continent Antarctica, was sailing south on the South China Sea." "Are you alright, Utsumi-san?" "I don't think so." "Why don't you take a walk with these guys for a change of pace?" "It'll be a nice diversion." "Don't worry, they won't bite." "Riki!" "I think it'll be fun living with you guys when we get to Antarctica." "But that's not..." "Yeah, I know, but still." "I tell you, it's a waste to set up a research station and just leave." "You think we should winter over too, don't you?" "Well, yes..." "Hey, wait Taro!" "What, again..." "I'm sorry." "He got away again." "Can you watch these guys for a bit?" "Hey, stop, stop!" "Winter over volunteers?" "Kuramochi-kun too?" "Yes." "Ten of us are thinking about staying in Antarctica for a year." "Wait a minute." "There's no way" "the government would allow..." "That's why we want you, Shirasaki-san, to persuade them." "Wintering over right away is dangerous." "That would be a suicidal act." "We will leave the wintering over to the second Antarctic expedition as originally planned." "Then is the second expedition going to be alright wintering over right away?" "Will the station we take all this trouble to set up be alright left unattended in Antarctica until then?" "Hurry up." "Man, you're slow." "Here you go." "You idiot!" "I told you to pile it on." "Pile it on!" "I'm amazed you can eat when the boat's rocking." "You can't winter over if you can't handle this." "Then you're volunteering to winter over too?" "You too?" "I already announced to my mountain buddies that I was going to." "Here you go." "Man, you're slow." "Why are you doing it, Samejima-san?" "Huh?" "Well..." "You can make big bucks if you winter over, can't you?" "No, I hear it's comparable to other government workers." "So those people are winter over volunteers, huh?" "Sanma combo meal." "If there's an winter over crew, naturally, you'll be there too, right?" "They'll need at least one cook." "What?" "Taro!" "Stop it." "Who let these damn dogs prowl around!" "Just like people, they need to exercise to maintain their physical strength." "If you want them to walk around, take them to the john!" "You!" "Dogs sure brighten up the place, don't they?" "Sensei." "Kuramochi-kun, I heard you volunteered to winter over too." "Well..." "Yes." "Sensei, then will you allow an winter over crew to be formed?" "I need to talk to you about that." "Please gather the winter over volunteers." "I want you to send me a telegram when the baby's born." ""Red Sun" if it's a boy." ""White Snow" if it's a girl." "Alright." "Got it." "First of all," "I will not allow wintering over." "Even if I were to allow it, there is no way the government will agree to this sudden change in plan." "To the contrary, wouldn't the government welcome it?" "It would be quite a feat if we can winter over before the actual observation." ""Inaccessible." Do you know what that means?" "In.." "Inacces..?" "Inaccessible." "It means it's unapproachable." "What's that supposed to mean?" "The survey area assigned to Japan is the Prince Harald Coast." "The climate changes rapidly there and until now, no country has been able to even approach it." "It's known as the land no man has ever explored." "How many degrees below zero does it get, what's the wind velocity during blizzards, can the research station withstand that, will snowmobiles actually work." "They're all anyone's guess." "Everything about this observation is a first-time experience." "Are you still going to say you'll winter over?" "What you'll be are human guinea pigs." "Are you really prepared for that?" "Samejima-kun, Funaki-kun, Yokomine-kun," "Inuzuka, Arashiyama-kun, Manpei-kun." "I'm ..." "A worst-case scenario is even possible." "What's a worst-case scenario?" "Getting stranded in the snow." "Stranded..." "If I may speak from the government's perspective," "I don't think it's a good idea to winter over either." "The Antarctic Expedition is a national project." "If you force an unplanned winter over, and if by chance someone should die, at that point this national project will be considered a failure." "But if we wait another year to winter over, Japan will fall behind the rest of the world again." "Kuramochi..." "Sensei." "I think we should take the chance here." "Like the time Shirase Expedition risked their lives to get to Antarctica." "Kuramochi-kun..." "I agree with Kuramochi-kun too." "Not that I have a good reason." "Right?" "Yes." "Comparable to government workers..." "What about you guys?" "I.." "I'll... go if Kuramochi-san goes." "Inuzuka." "Can I..." "change my mind?" "What are you talking about?" "We need you to handle the communications!" "I know, but my wife's having a baby soon." "Baby?" "Actually, she found out she was pregnant when I was selected for the expedition." "If the wintering over fails and if I should get stranded or something..." "Then don't even be here, you spineless chickenshit." "What's wrong with worrying about your wife?" "Haven't you ever worried about your family?" "Family?" "What do you know, you bastard." "Stop, stop!" "Let me go!" "Man, shut up." "You newspaper dog should just your mouth shut." "Who you calling dog, you bastard!" "A severe typhoon is approaching." "All members, prepare for the rolling." "We're hitting the swell!" "Anko!" "Crap." "What's the matter, Anko?" "It's okay, it's okay." "Anko, you're okay." "You're okay." "It's okay, Anko." "It's okay, it's okay." "Sensei, do you think Onii-chan's in Antarctica by now?" "I'm not sure." "We haven't heard anything yet." "When is he coming back?" "Well..." "I'm thinking about staying in Antarctica for a year." "I don't think they know for sure yet." "Why not~?" "This is the text of the telegram from Soya." "Soya ran into a typhoon in the South China Sea off the coast of Sumatra." "There was some damage to the hull, but it won't impact the operation." "Also, there are some members who are volunteering to winter over..." "The first expedition is there strictly for preliminary observation." "Tell Shirasaki-san to just do what they're supposed to do." "Yes, sir." "It sure rolled a lot." "Is it always like that?" "It's because the heel's been taken off to make it an ice breaker." "What's a heel?" "So let's secure everything." "Samejima-san, what's that?" "It ain't nothing." "The bone isn't broken, but he should rest for a while." "Sorry for asking you to treat the dog too." "That's okay." "I did some cramming before I came anyway." "Sensei..." "Are you against wintering over too?" "It doesn't matter if I'm for or against it." "If you're wintering over, you need at least one doctor." "But what about your family?" "My family..." "They both died in the war." "I'm sorry." "That's alright." "As I recall, Kuramochi-san, you too, lost your wife in the war, didn't you?" "And your family now?" "I have a sister-in-law." "That's good to hear." "It's nice to have someone waiting for your return." "Excuse me!" "Is this the right place for the information meeting on the expedition?" "Yes." "Are you a family member?" "Yes." "I am too." "Really?" "I'm Samejima Naohito's wife, Samejima Junko." "This is our son Kenta." "Hello." "Hello." "I'm Takaoka Miyuki, Kuramochi Takeshi's sister." "According to the telegram from Soya, your family members are safely on the Indian Ocean." "My husband isn't sick, is he?" "Is my son alright?" "Are they eating properly?" "I'm sorry but we can't take personal questions or messages." "Will the expedition be wintering over?" "Winter over?" "!" "Is that true?" "!" "Quiet please." "Quiet." "Please be quiet!" "The first expedition will not winter over." "What?" "But..." "Are you alright?" "What's the matter?" "Are you having pains?" "Excuse me." "I'm sorry for causing trouble." "How can he go to Antarctica at a time like this, huh?" "When's your due date?" "Next month, on Christmas Eve." "Is that right?" "I don't have any relatives, so I'll be alone when I give birth." "What?" "Thank you." "My husband's working hard, so" "I'll have to do my best too." "If you don't mind, let me help you." "No, that would be..." "Don't worry that you're imposing on us." "Those of us left behind have to help each other." "The guys are probably helping each other on the boat too." "Thank you very much." "Ouch." "Take a deep breath." "Around that time, Soya had crossed the Strait of Malacca, and was being exposed to the scorching sun on the Indian Ocean." "I lowered it all the way to 23 degrees." "It's not helping." "It's still too hot for them." "Hang in there, okay?" "Just until we enter the Antarctic Circle." "Kuramochi-san." "So we're not wintering over after all, right?" "You know, the leader hasn't said anything about it since." "Inuzuka, you don't have to force yourself to winter over, you know." "If they decide to do it, I'll go." "Even if you tell me not to, I'm going to follow Kuramochi-san." "Then take good care of the dogs." "If we decide to winter over, we're definitely going to need the dog sled." "Just a little longer." "Let's hang in there." "I don't have any intention of risking danger." "I thought it over very carefully." "I know." "However, they lack the solidarity, which is vital." "It's just that they just don't have the sense of reality yet." "Shirasaki-han." "Everything has a first time once, without fail." "Especially on an unknown continent, isn't it impossible to do a scientific research without exploring?" "Yokomine, you should reconsider about wintering over." "Yokomine." "Hey, hey." "Is it from your wife?" "Which is it~?" "Then, I say even." "You idiot." "I'm talking about whether there'll be an winter over crew or not." "Oh, yeah, which is it, huh?" "Why is it so hot in December?" "I say at least give us an air conditioner." "Isn't this a national project?" "There's one in the kennel." "An air conditioner." "What?" "What?" "Kuramochi, do you have a minute?" "You go on ahead." "We received a telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in regards to wintering over." "Did they approve it?" "Unnecessary?" "They're saying we're strictly a preliminary expedition so don't do anything beyond what's expected." "I'll help you with the dogs." "You're after the air conditioner, aren't you?" "That's for the dogs." "Hey!" "Give that back." "Hey, give it here." "Just enjoy your meal, eh?" "Samejima-san." "Please return it." "The dogs are susceptible to heat." "I'm susceptible to heat too." "Please hand it over." "I'm here on the boat prepared to winter over and risk my life." "I deserve preferential treatment over dogs." "Wait a minute." "What." "Get outta my way." "Please give it back." "What is it, you elite." "Inuzuka." "I was just feeling irritated by all this winter over stuff anyways." "We can't winter over!" "The Japanese government doesn't want us to do anything beyond what's necessary." "They don't think we're capable of wintering over!" "What do you mean?" "That it's not necessary for us to winter over." "They're saying that for the second expedition which is expected to winter over, they're planning to round up knowledgeable scientists and experts on Antarctica." "You mean to say ..." "they think we're incompetent?" "I also thought that we should winter over." "But if we're already fighting over such petty matters now, there's no way we can winter over!" "Unless we can be one in our belief in spite of individual reasons and circumstances," "it would be impossible." "Antarctica isn't a place to be taken lightly." "Even if you're willing to risk your own life, unless you're prepared to entrust your life to each other, all you're going to do is get stranded." "Yes." "Sensei." "I read the telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." "I'm sorry, I read it without permission." "No, that's alright." "Sensei." "Like you said, maybe wintering over isn't possible." "Not as we are now..." "If I was one of the crew members," "I would've volunteered to winter over, just like you." "The humiliation of being insulted" ""A defeated nation doesn't have the right to participate"" "at the International Conference in Brussels," "Those words, "If we miss the boat here, Japan will lose yet again"" "spoken by you." ""Everything has a first time" Hoshino-san told me." "I understand every single word all too well." "That's why first and foremost," "we must get to Antarctica safely." "I hope she can get through the delivery without complications." "She almost had a premature delivery earlier too." "Please clear the way." "Emergency patient coming through." "Naomi-san!" "We're taking her to the delivery room." "Miyuki-san, send a telegram to my husband." "Here you go." "I piled it on." "What the heck." "Go ahead, no one's sitting here." "Merry Christmas~" "Merry Christmas!" "I have presents too~" "Merry Christmas." "Here, it's nice and cold." "Merry Christmas." "This is an amazing demonstration of thoughtfulness." "What are you talking about?" "Okay, then." "Is everybody here?" "Yokomine isn't here yet." "That's right." "Truth is, his wife's due to have their baby today." "Yokomine, what happened?" "How did it go?" "I just got a telegram saying she's in the delivery room now." "I asked her to send me a telegram again once the baby's born," ""Red Sun" if it's a boy, "White Snow" if it's a girl." "That's exciting." "As an advance celebration for Yokomine-han too, everyone stand up." "Merry Christmas!" "Sudden outbreak of a severe rainstorm." "Outbreak of a rainstorm!" "Are you alright!" "It's coming again!" "Naomi-san, hang in there." "Apply full rudder!" "Storm zone?" "Looks like we got pulled into a low pressure area known as the ship's graveyard." "Are you alright?" "Keep steady at 0 degree!" "Hey, are you alright!" "Hey!" "Let's go!" "Inuzuka, go check the kennel!" "I'm going back to the radio room." "Be careful!" "Be careful!" "Yokomine..." "Yokomine!" "Hang in there." "You can do it." "You can do it." "Yokomine!" "Hey!" "Hey, get a hold of yourself." "Your baby's about to be born!" "Your family's waiting for you!" "Come on!" "Hey, Yokomine!" "Hey!" "Fire in the galley!" "Someone, come help!" "I'll go." "Be careful!" "Hey, Taro, Jiro." "Stay there, okay?" "Hey, Taro, Jiro." "Hey." "Move." "C'mon, c'mon." "Move it!" "Samejima-san." "Hand it over to Samejima-san!" "Funaki!" "Hey, keep it up!" "I'm taking Funaki to the infirmary." "Samejima-san, please take charge here!" "Okay, got it." "Himuro." "Hurry up and go." "I'm telling you, you should rest." "No, the radio room is my workplace." "Yokomine." "My wife is battling right now." "I can't sit around doing nothing." "Tani Sensei, I'm leaving Funaki with you." "He's unconscious." "Hoshino-san, can you please have him sit there." "Taro, Jiro!" "Arashiyama-san, Yamazato-san." "The dogs got away again." "Who cares about dogs now." "Let 'em go!" "Take good care of the dogs." "If we decide to winter over, we're definitely going to need the dog sled." "Taro, Jiro!" "Taro, Jiro." "Taro, Jiro." "Jiro, you fell in there, huh?" "Jiro, I'll be right there." "Jiro!" "Jiro, are you alright?" "Let's go." "Hey!" "He-y!" "Somebody, help!" "Here it comes!" "Kuramochi-chan!" "Inuzuka 's..." "Inuzuka's what?" "!" "He's over there, over there..." "Take him, please." "In the back there." "Hey!" "It's too heavy, I can't move it." "It's not opening." "Help!" "Inuzuka!" "Kuramochi-san." "Kuramochi-sa~n!" "Kuramochi-sa~n!" "Hang on!" "What are you looking for?" "Something like a crowbar" "to squeeze in there and pry it open." "Crowbar..." "Kuramochi-san, will this work?" "Yamazato." "Let's go." "Ready." "Don't worry, Jiro." "Kuramochi-san will save us." "Inuzuka!" "Hang in there, Jiro." "Shit." "It's messed up." "I'll get them fixed." "Hey, are you alright?" "Are you alright?" "One more push." "Inuzuka!" "Jiro, we're gonna make it." "Inuzuka!" "Jiro!" "Okay, come here, yeah, come here." "Inuzuka." "Thank you very much." "Also, Taro's..." "Taro?" "Alright, it's out now!" "Hey," "Mr. Government Representative." "If we were a bunch of scientists and experts, we would've died here as sure as hell." "So you're saying that's why you guys can winter over?" "No." "I'm saying we're the only ones who can do it." "Water's getting into the living quarters too!" "Ah shit." "Move!" "Taro, Taro!" "Hang on!" "That was close." "What are you doing here, huh?" "Hey, watch out!" "Taro!" "You must've been scared, huh?" "Okay, let's go." "Samejima-san." "Samejima-san." "You're conscious." "Kuramochi-kun found you on the floor unconscious and saved you." "Looking for this?" "It must be a very valuable thing." "No..." "It's an award I got in the Navy." "Let's see." "Hey, w-wait!" "The reason you wanted to winter over is maybe..." "I promised my kid." "That I'd live in Antarctica and bring him back stories he could brag about at school." "Although, like you said, unless you're prepared to entrust your life to each other, wintering over can't be done." "I was wrong." "If we ever get approved to winter over," "I look forward to working with you." "Boss." "It's fixed." "We did it." "Alright!" "This is..." "Samejima-san, are you alright?" "I'm indestructible." "Right, Boss?" "See?" "That's why I told you to take it easy." "Boss?" "Yeah, Boss." "That guy..." "Yokomine, what's the matter?" "Could that be... from your wife?" "Does it say red sun or white snow?" ""Red Sun"" ""White Snow"" ""Both healthy."" "Twins?" "!" "A boy and a girl, they're twins." "Banzai." "Banzai..." "They're cute." "A storm again?" "They sound the alarm and tell us to look outside, but there's nothing." "All I see is the ocean and sun." "What's going on, Funaki?" "Was it already morning?" "It's still 2 o'clock in the morning." "2 o'clock?" "It's the midnight sun." "The sun doesn't set all day." "In other words, we're finally in the Antarctic Circle." "Ice floes." "Antarctica... the continent." "Kuramochi-kun." "Sensei, look." "We've finally come to Antarctica." "***In celebration of entering the Antarctic Circle." "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Earlier, you said "I want to see if dreams can change Japan," didn't you?" "Do you want to see it?" "With us." "Sensei." "About the winter over, please reconsider one more time." "Wintering over will be done by the second expedition." "That's already been decided." "But even if we build a station, if the path isn't there," "I don't think we can move forward." "The path?" "The path that leads to the future of Japan." "I think we, as a group here, can be capable of clearing the path." "We can't back off now that" "we've seen that huge continent, huh?" "That's right." "I understand you have responsibility as the expedition leader." "However, we will protect our lives with our own hands." "The request comes from me too." "I will bear all responsibility." "Alright." "I'll see if" "I can negotiate with the government." "Yokomine-kun, I'm sending a telegram." "Please give me a hand." "Professor Shirasaki." "May I voice my opinion?" "Is this an opinion as a government representative?" "That too, but" "I have a request as a crew member." "They decided to winter over?" "Yes." "Leader Shirasaki has determined that for the actual observation to succeed next year, it's imperative that a preliminary survey be conducted by wintering over." "But who's going to be accountable if it fails?" "I was told that Leader Shirasaki alone will bear all responsibility." "Get all the vice ministers of the ministries involved." "I'm calling a meeting." "Tomorrow morning, we will finally set out to land on the continent of Antarctica." "However, we can't get too optimistic yet." "Prince Harald Coast where we're headed is an area with severe climate and current change, and is said to be inaccessible, or unapproachable." "Rather, our real work starts here." "And now, we have permission from the government." "If we make it ashore safely, set up the station, and all conditions are met, the First Antarctic Cross-Winter Expedition will be established, and additional investigation will be conducted in the field." "I will now announce the crew of the Cross-Winter Expedition." "Antarctic Cross-Winter Expedition Leader," "Hoshino Eitaro." "Thank you." "Good luck." "Antarctic Cross-Winter Expedition Assistant Leader," "Kuramochi Takeshi." "I'll be praying for your success." "I will give it my all." "In charge of press and general affairs, Utsumi Noriaki." "I'm counting on you." "Thank you." "In charge of communications, Yokomine Shinkichi." "Communication is the lifeline." "I'm counting on you." "Thank you." "In charge of medical care, Tani Kennosuke." "In charge of machinery, Samejima Naohito." "In charge of construction, Funaki Ikuzo." "Also in charge of construction, Arashiyama Hajime." "In charge of food preparation," "Yamazato Manpei." "In charge of dog sled," "Inuzuka Natsuo." "And acting as an auditor," "Himuro Haruaki." "Good luck." "In conclusion," "Expedition Leader Hoshino and the named eleven individuals are hereby assigned to the First Antarctic Cross-Winter Expedition." "Everyone was brimming with hope." "What does it say here?" "Winter over." "They're gonna winter over." "What's that mean?" "The plan for a short visit turned into a year-long stay." "Cross-Winter Expedition..." "Their destination, Prince Harald Coast, was before their very eyes." "However..." "What was that?" "We can't go forward or back up." "We're completely trapped." "This is..." "INACCESSIBLE."