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The war...

...is over.

Sae!

The young men are starting to come back.

In addition to them, American soldiers are also walking around the neighborhoods.

Even now I can hear the cries for fashionable things to wear!

Let's go to Tokyo.

Tokyo!

Let's go to Tokyo and buy a perm machine!

Eh?

It'll be perms and Western clothes from now on!

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Heiwa Fansubs Presents...

Carnation

Week 15 "The Power of Love" Episode 80

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

Music Satō Naoki Musical Performance\h Face Music

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

Theme Song "Carnation" Sheena Ringo

Period Research Myochin Kenji Video Titles \h Tsujikawa Koichiro Title Logo \h Kitayama Masakazu

Data Sponsors Motoke Shigeki Photography Cooperation \h Kishiwada-shi, Osaka

かじかむ指ひろげて

Kajikamu yubi hirogete

I spread my fingers, numb with the cold

Cast

Ohara Itoko Ono Machiko

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

風に揺れ雨に晒され

Kaze ni yure ame ni sarasare

Shaken by the wind and exposed to the rain

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari

遥か空へ身を預けて

Haruka sora e mi o azukete

I entrust my body to that distant sky

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Ohara Shizuko\h Yagyū Miyu

Ohara Shizuko Yagyū Miyu Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

Kioka Miyo Iijima Junko Ohara Kyoko \h Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori

。。。生きよう。。。

...ikiyou...

...and live...

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

Yasuoka Tarō Ohara Kōtarō Ohara Yūko\h Noda Kotono Ohara Naoko\h Ninomiya Hoshi

何も要らない私が今

Nani mo iranai watashi ga ima

I who needed nothing, right now

Ohara Masaru (Photo) Sugura Tarō Yasuoka Taizō (Photo)\h Suga Takamasa Yasuoka Kansuke (Photo)\h Onoue Hiroyuki

本当に欲しいもの等

Hontōni hoshii mono nado

Of all the things and such I really wanted

Production Integration Shiroya Atsushi

唯一つ、唯一つだけ

Tada hitotsu, tada hitotsu dake

There's just one and only one thing

Director Adachi Mojiri

Showa 20 (1945) December

G'morning!

Ala... G'morning.

Oba-chan, where's Ito-chan?

Itoko? Ala, Itoko, huh...

The perm machine arrived at last. The perm machine!

Ala, my! Truly?!

Yes!

Well... That's great!

The perm machine came?!

It came! I'll put it to good use!

That's great, isn't it?!

Thank goodness. I can finally give perms again!

Ito-chan, Masa-chan...

...when you have time today, please come to the store.

Eh?

Huh?

In thanks, I'll give you both perms!

All right!

Really?! Wow...!

Ito-chan and Masa-chan, it's all thanks to you after all!

Thank you!

Well, what'll I do? A perm, huh?

A perm! A perm!

Sensei, what should we do? When could we make some time today?

Ah, we have been pretty busy in the mornings, huh?

Well, sorry about this, but I'm going this morning.

Huh? You're going to ignore me and go first?

I'm going!

Yaeko-san, you don't mind?

Ah, that's fine, that's fine!

Are you sure?

Look, I'm not busy in the morning.

Hurry, hurry, Masa-chan!

Wait...

Just like that, Masa-chan left.

That afternoon, she returned with a face beaming in pride.

Wait, wait, wait. Masa-chan.

What happened to your head?

Ah, I just had a little permanent done.

Yasuoka Hairdressing

Kansuke...

Taizō-niichan.

I'm about to get a perm, too.

If I fail, the two of them would scold me...

...so I definitely can't fail.

Where's Oba-chan?

Ah...

Upstairs.

She couldn't stomach that I had bought a perm machine on my own...

...so she hasn't come down since.

I see...

Well, I don't mind that.

This is my work. I'll pour my love into it.

There, all done!

Ahh!

Wow... Is this me?

Yeah.

Ah...

Well...

Eh?

Eh?!

Here, look, look!

Well, I'm going to be really fashionable in this neighborhood!

Yeah, it looks really good on you.

Yaeko-san, thank you.

Thank you, too. Really.

Ito-chan, if it hadn't been for what you said...

...I wouldn't have gotten this far on my own.

No, no, no. Yaeko-san, it'll be like this from here on!

That's true!

If you and Masa-chan want another perm...

...just come tell me.

I will!

I'll...

...do my best from here on!

Yeah!

Ahh!

It really does look good on you.

Eh, really?

At year's end, things used for the New Year's celebration had come up for sale.

Ah!

It's Bōdara!

Bodara - dried codfish soaked in water for few days, and cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and water; used during New Year celebrations

Oh!

Sir, it's Bōdara!

Whaa, you're right!

Don't push. Hey there!

Don't push so much!

Oi!

Sir!

Where are you going?

Ito-chan!

As ever, I still couldn't find any fabric.

Don't look! Don't look! Ignore them!

On New Year's Eve of that year...

...the radio played the "Kōhaku Ongaku Shiai."

Kohaku Ongaku Shiai - the year-end battle of songs which started in 1945 to cheer people up and eventually morphed into the modern "Kohaku Uta Gassen."

Akai ringo ni kuchi biru yosete Bringing the red apple to my lips

Second Daughter Ohara Naoko

Eldest Daughter Ohara Yūko

Damatte mite iru aoi sora The pale blue sky watching on silently

Ringo wa nan'nimo iwanaikeredo The apple says nothing, but

Ringo no kimochi wa yoku wakaru I know well how the apple feels

Third Daughter Ohara Satoko

Ringo kawaii ya kawaii ya ringo The darling apple, the so darling apple

I pray that the coming year will be far better.

Mother. Won't you eat the New Year's soba with us?

Okay. Let's eat.

Itadakimasu.

Yasuoka Jiro

Itadakimasu!

Yasuoka Tarō

Yasuoka Saburō

It's hot, so be careful.

Yeah, I know.

I pray that everyone smiles and gets along this year.

As the New Year begins this Showa 21...

Showa 21 (1946) February

...as ever the only fabrics I have to sell are military ones...

But on the other hand, the number of customers increases day by day.

Now I could get a babysitter and put all the seamstresses back to work again.

Still, well, there was...

Okawokoete yukōyo Let's go over the hill

Masumi no sora wa hogaraka ni To Masumi's clear skies

Be quiet! Be quiet!

Harete tanoshī kokoro With a sunny and happy heart

Yū-chan!

Na-chan!

Be quiet!

Tataeyo waga aru o Extolling in our youth

Iza yuke haruka kibō no okawokoete Our hopes rise far beyond those hills

You two... Really!

Forgive me!

I told you, didn't I?!

Here, here!

Go outside!

But I don't wanna go outside!

Go and play outside! Outside! Outside!

Don't wanna!

Here! Hey! Hey!

Don't wanna go!

Go!

And don't come back until 5 o'clock!

Beeda!

Really...

Um...

Ah, is this Ohara Masaru-san's home?

Yes.

Nice to meet you.

Masaru-san and I were in the same unit together.

Ah...

Thank you for your hard work.

What's important is that you're prospering.

He was always saying how worried he was about this store.

Where was my husband?

At the end he was in Hunan Province, on the continent.

Ah, I see...

He was under your care.

Ah, yes...

He was a good guy.

Right up until his final moments...

...he was carefree.

Huh? Carefree?

Ah, no, no...

Truth is, I think it was hard on him.

But still, looking on from a bystander's point of view, he was...

Hmm...

He was in a good humor?

Yes! Ah...

That's right.

I understand.

Ah...

...I came to return this.

The thing he treasured the most.

Can't be helped...

I forgive you.

At last... I was finally burning that photo.

Nee-chan?

Nee-chan!

Coming!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Kishiwada Woman with Perm (circa Showa 21 (1946))