Original subtitles

Serial TV Story

Heiwa Fansubs Presents...

Carnation

小さく丸めた躯は今

Chisaku marumeta karada wa ima

My body, tiny and curled up, is right now

Week 9 "Always Feeling" Episode 54

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

Music Satō Naoki Musical Performance\h Face Music

Theme Song "Carnation" Sheena Ringo

命を表していろのね

Inochi o arawashite iro no ne

My life is represented by my color, isn't it

Cast

Ohara Itoko Ono Machiko

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Yoshida Natsu Kuriyama Chiaki

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Ohara Masaru Sugura Tarō

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Yasuoka Taizō \h Suga Takamasa

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

Yasuoka Kansuke Onoue Hiroyuki Ohara Shizuko \h Yagyū Miyu

Masako Genkaku Yūko Ohara Kyoko \h Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori

Sei Tatano Sei Rin\h Ootani Mio Yoshida Yasuo \h Manabe Taku

心を育てているのね

Kokoro o sodatete iru no ne

That's how a heart is raised, isn't it

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Hageta atama ni ke ga 3-pon I'd rather be bald with just 3 hairs

Hairdresser Yasuoka

Showa 16 (1941)

Ah hazukashi ya hazukashi ya Ah, you should be embarrassed, embarrassed

Pāmanento wa yamemashou Stop these permanents

Hey you!

Those are really mischievous boys!

Those just now were mine. I've been telling them.

Eh?

That if they're still this mischievous ten years from now...

...they won't be able to chase after pretty girls in their perms.

Really?

The current climate of "those who are fashionable are traitors," was growing by the day.

That was so, but due to the traitors who surged in every day...

...our store was just as prosperous as ever.

I was thinking you could make me a blouse, too.

Let us know anytime.

Yes!

The second floor saw increasingly less work.

Men who wanted business suits were really few...

...and, because of the Kokumin-fuku decree, they only came in dribbles.

Another good thing...

...was that even for those Bosses who couldn't make a profit from the war...

...there was a Boss who had made a profit...

Bring out another ten bottles of sake!

Another ten bottles, please!

Yes, another ten bottles.

Let's have one more round. One, two...

"Treating generously during such times..."

"...and accepting that treat with thanks is our duty,"

...is what the men of the shopping district would say and all they did these days was play around.

Tegara tatezu ni shina ryō ka Without great deeds, what's the point of death

Shingun rappa Sound the trumpets to march

Both Yoshida-ya and the Yoshidas...

...were truly prospering greatly from the war as well.

Ah... Are you good at that? Good at that?

Well, I don't mind!

Oh! Sorry 'bout that!

Thank you very much for that one!

Hey, Dear!

Huh?

What are you doing?

Mixing with the customers in this condition!

Now, now, Proprietress! Be patient with him!

Natsu's Husband Yoshida Yasuo

A Boss has to take a breather from time to time, too, right?

Right!

Don't mind him.

Whatever portion the Boss here drinks, I'll pay for it.

Kioka's Younger Brother Sei

That way the store makes it's profit, right!

Right! Just think that for the restaurant's profits, I have to drink.

Oh!

Huh?!

I said it!

I'm normally too scared of her to say such things!

That was amusing!

Ah, you really told her!

Okay! You really told her! You really told her!

Let's drink to that! Oh!

Oh, oh! Oh, scary!

Mother...

Hmm?

Should I stop already?

With what?

Giving perms.

It seems various things are being said to the children at school, too.

I only started giving permanents...

...because I felt sorry since it was becoming painful for everyone, but...

Are you a fool?!

Are you saying such naive words again?!

If you stop your perms, could we go on here at the store?

Could you go back to being just a hairstylist again?

I'm sorry...

Saying you'll protect this store is a serious thing.

It's a serious and proper thing to say.

When there are good times, there are also bad times!

It's easy to just to ride along with the good times...

...but you mustn't get discouraged when the bad times come!

Remember that well!

Yes...

Yasuoka-san, you have a telegram!

Yes!

Thank you!

Here.

Thanks for your hard work.

Thank you.

Ah...

It's from Kansuke!

Eh?!

Kansuke...

...is coming home!

Is it for real, Mother?!

He's coming home!

Kansuke's coming home!

Really? Kansuke's coming back? When?

Next week, Wednesday!

Wednesday?

Yeah.

The week after next they'll be pulling the Danjiri. This is great!

Right? It's really great!

Oi! Let's throw him a party to celebrate!

Let's drink! To our fill!

Should we go to Yoshida-ya?

I can talk Sei into paying for the Bamboo Room and six geisha again!

Fool!

He doesn't even know Kansuke.

Ah!

Sir, who's that?

Well, he's my younger brother.

He's just got this tiny sewing factory but he's making a huge profit from making uniforms.

Ah!

He's the one you're always sponging off of?

Hey!

Don't use the word "sponging." You'll give him a bad reputation!

This talk is about a fellow man's duty to one another!

Maybe so, but I wonder if we should have a banquet from someone Kansuke doesn't even know.

We should do one at our place like we did when he went to the front!

Yes, here you go!

This is delicious!

Here, here!

Oh, thank you.

Ah, Yaeko-san.

Come quick. The men have already started drinking.

Hasn't Kansuke come back yet?

Eh?

Huh?

He hasn't come back yet?

Or else he has come back?

Good evening...

You've come at last!

Just a minute. Just a minute.

Where's Kansuke?

Ah... About that. Kansuke-chan...

...has a bit of a stomach-ache today, so...

...he said to excuse him.

Eh?!

Did something happen?

It's not a big deal.

I'm not sure what it is, but he seems to have gotten some stomach trouble on the way home.

Ah! He was so happy at being back in Japan after so long...

...he ate every last thing he could lay his eyes on, right?

I think that's probably it. I'm sorry everyone.

Geez! What was that guy doing!

And after closing the store for the first time in a while and waiting for him!

Please forgive him.

You tell him, "First thing when you get better, you go around and apologize!"

I'll tell him! I'll be sure and tell him!

I wonder what it was he ate that upset his stomach?

We really are sorry.

Everyone, we really are very sorry!

That guy really is an idiot.

In the end, only Taizō-niichan and Yaeko-san showed their faces that day.

Kansuke and his mother never came.

That's him, right!

And then, for many days thereafter, Kansuke didn't even peep in at the store...

...and he didn't show up for the Festival, either.

Why, I wonder?

Good afternoon!

Ah...

Ito-chan, welcome.

I thought I'd buy something for him to eat.

Is he here?

Yeah, he's here.

He's upstairs.

Okay, sorry for disturbing you.

It's been awhile.

What's this?

You still have your hands and feet.

When you didn't make an appearance, I thought you'd been seriously shot up.

Were you worried?

You should've come and shown yourself!

Don't you have lots of fun things you were thinking about doing with us?

Are you even listening?!

I still have...

...my hands and feet, but...

Eh?

I lost...

...much more than that.

What's that?

My soul...

Your soul?

I'll come again.

Sorry for disturbing you.

Come again.

Probably Kansuke-chan...

...saw too much of the war.

He himself thinks he's lost his soul...

...and so he says that.

Huh?

What is that?

What is that?!

Can't his soul come back to him, too?

"Come back to him..." you say.

I want to believe that.

Both I and Mother and Taizō-san, too...

That after a long, deep sleep and...

That after eating meals his mother has made...

That he'll go back to being the old Kansuke-chan again...

He will come back!

He'll definitely come back!

He doesn't have to think so exaggeratedly!

Going off to war can do that...

...but that'll go poof after a little while.

He'll be back in no time!

He'll be back right away, Yaeko-san!

Shouting it out that way...

...I wanted to show I thought that more than anyone else.

To Be Continued

Week 10 "Secrets"

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Early Showa Era, Girl's School Graduation Photo