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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 "Fading Hope" Episode 72

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 Chiyo Asau Yumi

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

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Kioka Yasuo\h Uesugi Shōzō

Yasuoka Yaeko Tamaru Maki Yasuoka Kansuke\h Onoue Hiroyuki

Ohara Shizuko Yagyū Miyu Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Okunaka Sōjirō Komatsu Ken'etsu Ohara Kyoko \h Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori

Rin Ootani Mio Sachiko\h Takada Mai Tome\h Yoshizawa Shana

Ohara Yūko Hanada Yusato Ohara Naoko\h Konoha Yasuoka Tarō \h Ohara Kōtarō

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 19 (1944) September

Zen-chan.

This year's danjiri... has been canceled...

Please forgive us!

Well, it wasn't my fault.

I didn't particularly say it was any of your fault.

No...

That look in your eyes is saying...

...that you do blame me.

I'm not blaming you.

It's just frustrating.

That we won't have a danjiri...

I said that, but there just wasn't enough fuel for it.

To run along pulling a heavy thing like the danjiri...

...first needed a young man's hands and feet...

...and even then with the bone and meat on them...

...from having eaten fully.

But all of them have been sent to the front...

...where in the end they have to wear such seedy trousers and underwear like these...

That is if they aren't blown up in Saipan or burned to a crisp in Guam.

Ah... such foolishness!

Yah! Yah! Yah!

Our soldiers were saying, "American soldiers need to be stabbed."

Like this.

"Yah!"

Shout that with all your might.

You're great.

From the beginning, the Greater East-Asia War was started to free the Asian peoples from...

...the oppression of America and Great Britain.

Both my Dad...

...and all of your Dads, too...

...are fighting for those other countries and their people.

That's splendid of them!

Splendid of them!

I want to hurry and join the preparatory courses, too.

I want to be a splendid flight soldier devoted to his country.

Sorry for keeping you waiting.

Now, let's go home.

So long, Yū-chan, see you tomorrow.

Goodbye, Oba-chan! Goodbye, Tarō-niichan!

The only things the children were being taught at school...

...were either ways to kill themselves or how to kill others...

...while the citizens were only taught the best way to prepare them to be corpses.

Ohara Naoko

This is a name tag, containing information about Naoko, including her address, blood type, etc.

I'm fed up with it...

Mom.

Huh?

Why won't we have the danjiri?

Come here.

All the men are at the front now, right?

Yeah.

So there's no one here who can pull it.

In that case, it should be okay for women to pull it.

That...

The danjiri...

...is something that women can't pull.

Who said that we can't?

Dunno...

Well... God?

If God says I or anyone else can't pull the danjiri, then I hate them.

Next year I'm gonna pull it!

Oh?

Even if the men aren't here, I'm gonna pull it.

Definitely, definitely pull it.

Hey you. I prepare your bag everyday, so you should come and get it.

This is my way.

Tarō was growing up to be a good boy.

He was probably thinking that staying with Kansuke and his Grandma...

...wasn't the best thing for him.

He wouldn't show it to Yaeko-san or us...

...but I'm certain he was getting tired of holding that in.

Tarō...

...you should pull the danjiri next year, too.

Ah...

Right!

A boy like you who doesn't go to the front, but stays in Kishwada should pull the danjiri.

I would really like that.

What Ito-chan says is true.

All this boy has been saying lately is, "I want to go for the preparatory courses."

Well, so long. See you tomorrow, Ito-chan!

So long!

So long!

So long!

That's okay. That's okay already! It's not hard for me to walk with this.

Several Days Later

Yaeko-san!

Ah... Yaeko-san?

Ah... I'm sorry.

Ah, well...

You guys.

Did't I tell you to look them over and inspect them?!

Look at this!

Do you guys think this brings any credibility to this store?!

If we just calmly delivered these defective goods to the factory...

...we'd be scolded!

And in the end, they wouldn't give us any more work!

I'm very sorry!

I'm very sorry!

Say, Itoko.

Huh?

Yaeko-san's been in a strange state since this morning, staring off into space...

It must be that something's happened, isn't it?

Eh?! Something's happened?

I wonder what it could be...

It's the spirit of this age for women to protect the family on her own. Whatever happens.

If you... could talk to her...

I already have my hands full.

Listen, Mom.

Right now, I don't have the free time anymore...

...to deal with someone who can't even carry their own baggage.

We have no choice but to just carry our own baggage!

Geez...

Kinmu tsukizuki mizuki kinkin Working every month for the fire, water, wood and money

Could we turn these over to them?

We can't take advantage of them.

What were you thinking?

Here, here and here. Look at these buttons.

Mit-chan...

...it's been a long time.

Kansuke-chan.

These should be removed.

Seems Ito-chan's full of energy, too.

Look, look, walking in these.

See here?

What do you think will happen when a soldier walks in these?

Mit-chan...

Itoko-chan... Make sure you help her out.

Itoko-neechan...

Huh?

Won't you go meet her?

I won't meet her.

I...

...no longer have the right to do that.

It's all...

...finally...

...coming to an end.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

What is it?

Did the factory get angry at you again?

Then what is it?

What is it?

I can't understand you if you're crying. Tell me.

Eh?

Mit-chan...

Did you meet with Kansuke-chan?

Eh?

Yeah...

With Kansuke?

Why?

Today...

Kansuke-chan is being sent back to the front.

The front?

Kansuke is going?

Did you talk with him?

Yeah...

Kansuke-chan...

...looked as though he was giving his final will.

Kansuke!

Kansuke!

Kansuke!

Kansuke!

Kansuke!!

In the end, I didn't get to have a final meeting or even talk to him...

It was only one month later...

...that the funeral procession for Kansuke came along.

Namuamidabutsu I sincerely believe in Amitabha

Kansuke...

Kansuke...

Kansuke...

To Be Continued

Week 13 "To Live"

Carnation

End

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