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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 12 "Fervent Wish" Episode 70

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

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 Haru Shoji Terue

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Ohara Shizuko \h Yagyū Miyu

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

Ohara Yūko Hanada Yusato Ohara Naoko\h Konoha Rin\h Ootani Mio

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Sachiko Takada Mai Tome\h Yoshizawa Shana

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 (photo) Kobayashi Kaoru

Showa 18 (1943) September

Shh!

Namuamidabutsu I sincerely believe in Amitabha

Namuamidabutsu I sincerely believe in Amitabha

I sent a postcard to Masaru-san at the front to notify him about Dad passing away...

...but, as ever, I kept on receiving postcards from him asking...

"Is Dad in good health?" like that.

Is Dad in good health?

Masaru

Mom, I have returned home!

Welcome home.

Welcome back.

Thanks to the enthusiastic war education she was getting from the National Grade School...

...in those days, Yūko loved behaving like a military girl.

I'm home!

Welcome back, Yū-chan.

Don't betray the country

Protect the country

Watch out for enemy bullets

The amount of underwear will increase by the end of the day, so we'll have sets tomorrow.

I see.

Then we'll have Tome-chan take them around tomorrow.

Mom! I will be doing military drills outside!

Ah, get going.

It's getting hot, so it'd be best for her to go in the morning.

Well, that's true.

She should go first thing in the morning...

I will be going!

Get going.

Yā! Yā! Yā!

Ow!

Yūko-san!

Yūko-san!

Hanako-san, Miyo-san...

...I won't be around for much longer...

What are you saying?!

You mustn't give up!

Even if I die, please promise you'll fight to the last person...

All right. We'll fight to the very end.

That's good. Hearing that, I...

...can die with peace of mind.

You can die in peace, Yūko-san.

Thank you...

Ungh!

Yūko-saaaan!

Yūko-saaan!

Yūko-saaan!

Yūko-saan!

What are you doing, Naoko!? Don't stare at us!

Go over there!

In those days, most of the shopping district stores had closed...

...and even what we received through rationing was steadily decreasing.

Now, most of our food was what we brought in for ourselves.

We planted vegetables in a garden...

...and, with the underwear and socks we made...

...started exchanging them directly for food with the surrounding farmers.

Do you guys know why...

...I'm called "Itoko"?

Huh?

I don't.

My Kobe Grandpa gave that name to me saying...

..."With thread (Ito), you can feed yourself your entire life."

Ehh...

I'm thankful for that.

Thread is true and won't easily break.

That's true, isn't it.

Go on, get going please.

We're going!

Be careful!

Yes!

Have a nice time!

We're going!

Ah...

I wish Heaven would come and take me soon.

It won't come.

You still like eating your porridge.

With no role to fill...

...all I do is eat porridge...

Having a long life...

You don't need some bothersome old person around.

Haven't you taken over Dad's strong inferiority complex?

Zensaku's dead...

...and the whole world's at war.

What fun is there in me living a little longer?

Ah... I'm better off dead.

You're eating!

Yā! Yā! Yā!

Mom, I have returned! I want to go to this movie!

A movie?

Let's see...

There's one coming to the Assembly Hall tomorrow.

Decisive War Man

Hana-chan and Miyo-chan both said they're going.

Decisive War Man

What is it? A war film?

I wanna go! Say, take me!

No.

Why not?!

Mom's busy.

No! I wanna go to this movie!

No.

Say Mom, I wanna go to this movie! Hey, Mom!

Hey, Mom! Take me to this movie!

I need you to have these properly checked with the factory...

Be quiet!

Make sure you contact someone with the factory.

Yeah, all right.

Hey, Mom!

Say, Mom, I wanna go to the movie.

I wanna go to the movie, too.

Say, take us!

I wanna see the movie, too!

Shut up!

Well...

Hey, Mom!

O tete tsunaide Hand in hand

...I decided to take them.

Nomichi o yukeba We go along the field path

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon!

Where are you going?

Over to the Assembly Hall for a little while.

They're having a movie there today.

Ehh... Have a nice time.

We're going.

Uta o utaeba kutsuganaru Singing songs, our shoes shining

Will it be any good?

Of course it'll be good!

It'll definitely, definitely be good!

Really?

Ah!

Ah!

It's starting.

It wasn't any good...

It was nothing but soldiers in battle.

Say Mom, I wanna go outside.

Ah, I see.

Say, wanna go outside?

Yeah.

Yūko. Me and Naoko are going outside.

Excuse us.

How was it?

I've had enough, too.

It wasn't any good?

Yeah.

Okay, let's go home.

Yeah. Go home, go home.

I wanna see a much more fun one!

Yeah.

I wanna see a fun...

...and pretty movie.

What kind of movie is a pretty one?

With a pretty princess...

...wearing a pretty dress.

That's right. And with a pretty castle...

...where pretty flowers bloom, right?

Yeah!

Naoko...

I was thinking...

...that since this war has been going on ever since you were born...

...you haven't seen anything pretty, have you?

Wait!

Hey you, wait there!

Don't look!

What is this filth?!

It's filth!

What are you doing?!

Let's go!

Mom...

...I'm scared.

What is "filth"?

I'm scared!

What is "filth"?

Yūko.

If white is added to red, what do you get?

Eh?

What color does it become?

Pink.

And if you added some more?

Sakura pink.

And...

...if you added a little blue?

Let's see...

Purple!

Blue! Green!

Olive green! Yellow!

Mom, are these really mine?

Why did you buy these for me?

You're good at drawing, aren't you?

With those you can draw pretty pictures and show them to Naoko and Satoko.

How much were those?

Don't worry about the money.

Saying that again!

Such high-quality things like that...

At least ten yen, right?

Ahh...

There!

Ahh... It'll soon be time for the danjiri again this year.

Ala.

Yo, Ito-chan!

We're off to the festival meeting.

I see. Good luck.

Yeah!

We're off!

Have a nice time!

The young men were all gone off to the war...

...so there were only older men around to pull it.

We should have the danjiri...

...no matter what happens.

Or so I said.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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