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I thought of Satoko as a child who was in her usual corner, only smiling...

Today I...

...quit from tennis.

Why?

I'm so lonely.

I'm lonely.

So I was surprised to see...

...an expression like that on her for the first time.

Mom.

Huh?

When I graduate from Junior College...

...will you let me go to dressmaking school?

Yeah.

If you want to.

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 21 "A Vivid Attitude" Episode 116

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 Sponsor Motoke Shigeki Photography Cooperation \h Kishiwada-shi, Osaka Gokenyamachi Town Council

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

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 Chiyo Asau Yumi

Ohara Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

遥か空へ身を預けて

Haruka sora e mi o azukete

I entrust my body to that distant sky

Ohara Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Ohara Satoko Yasuda Misako

。。。生きよう。。。

...ikiyou...

...and live...

何も要らない私が今

Nani mo iranai watashi ga ima

I who needed nothing, right now

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 Ichihara Makoto

Showa 38 (1964) April

I'm off.

Get going.

Do your best.

Up till now, I had just taken whatever the day would bring me...

...but I wonder what I'll be given from here on?

Get going!

I'm going!

It was unusual for me to be so sweet.

However...

Huh?

What did you say just now?

Thing is...

I want to quit.

Quit what?

School.

Quit school?!

Huh?!

You just went for your third day, didn't you?!

Umm...

What's with the "Umm..."?!

Do you understand the meaning of what you're saying? Huh?!

For now let's...

...let's hear her out.

Oi!

Huh?!

Let her talk a little while. Okay?

Three whole days...

Ah...

Desk?

I...

All I do is sit at a desk and study...

...but it really just doesn't take for me.

Look you...

You were the one who said, "Let me go to dressmaking school," weren't you?

Yes...

That's right.

Well then, put up with it!

It's normal at first to just sit at your desk and study!

Understand?

Do you understand?!

Hmm?

"Like hammering a nail into rice-bran."

Even so, I had already paid for her school tuition.

I'm off!

So of course I made her go the next morning.

I really do have a stupid daughter.

You guys need to do your best for just a little while longer. Put your fighting spirit into it.

Ah!

They'll be making their selections soon for the other schools after all.

Sensei!

I've neglected to call on you, Sensei.

Well, I as well.

I'm truly sorry for that time back then.

I completely understand.

You do?

Yes.

Satoko-san is just such a child, Ma'am.

What sort of child is she?

She's different from the type without spirit who says, "I want to quit school."

Satoko-san's spirit is quite wonderful.

If she says, "I'll run 10km," she certainly will.

She can do 200 push-ups and 1,000 suburis.

Suburi - thrusting a wooden sword downward from a starting position above one's head

There wasn't one case of something she wanted to do that she didn't.

It's either do it perfectly or collapse for her.

Ah...

Anyhow, it's important to place...

...a HUGE mountain in front of her.

If you tell her, "climb this mountain"...

...and then turn away as if rejecting her, she'll start climbing it.

Then, before you realize it, she'll have already reached the summit.

Ah...

Her reasoning isn't just simply, "I want to quit school."

It's that she wants to go directly and recklessly into making dresses.

I want such a spirit.

This was what her former middle school teacher should have known.

Sensei...

Huh?

Thank you.

Not at all.

I...

...truly thank you.

I would put up a big mountain for her right away.

These are my designs.

From today on, you'll practice with these.

If you can draw them in the same way so I can't tell which is which...

...I'll let you quit school.

Yes.

At first I really didn't know what sort of mountain I had put up for her.

Now, time for bed.

Ala...

Are you still up?

Ala...

The next morning, I took a peep in.

Anyhow, it was interesting that she really was starting to climb that mountain.

For now...

I'll just leave her alone...

For the time being, I didn't tell her she had to go to school.

Tokyo, Ginza

On the other hand, Naoko's store in Tokyo...

...was now a wonderfully popular store.

Don't.

Mina, it took quite awhile to get that tapered, so make use of it.

Really?

But I don't like it myself. I'm already a tall woman.

That sort of timidity is no good.

If you're wearing one of my dresses...

...I want you to be much more dignified.

Then, I won't make it for you.

No! That would be a problem!

All right.

I'll be dignified in it.

That's right. Nothing less than that all the time.

Good afternoon.

Welcome in...

Are you here for my sister?

Yes.

I'm sorry.

She's away on a business trip right now.

Ala, is that right?

Because she should return on Friday, can I get your names?

Ohara Dressmaking Store

What she meant by "business trip" was...

...that she had come to the Ohara Dressmaking Store in Kishiwada.

Yūko had, for these last two years...

...had been commuting and living in both Kishiwada and Tokyo the entire time.

Ah... I'm dead!

She's got that terribly level-headed look on her again.

Thanks for your hard work.

Is the store thriving as usual?

Our sales last month...

...were double what they were last year.

Ah... That's incredible.

Sixty percent of the sales are from me.

Naoko takes the other forty percent.

I guess it's your clothes that are doing the selling, huh?

That's right.

And, well, seems Naoko has an inferiority complex about it.

Where is Yūko-san?

We're very sorry.

At present, she is away on a business trip.

Then...

...I'll come again next week.

While Yūko was taking up those jobs that Naoko disliked...

...Yūko's customers were increasing one after another.

Please come again.

Well, at that one store...

...there's two Itokos there, right?

That would make it difficult, wouldn't it?

Why would it be difficult?

It'd be easier to work that way, wouldn't it?

Right!

Even so, what Naoko herself was saying...

Good afternoon.

Would you have some time right now?

Ah, excuse us for a little while.

Could it be they're doing an article?

Yeah. For "Mode Japan."

Whaa, incredible. Just what I expected of you!

I really am sorry. Come again.

I'm sorry. Please go over there.

I kinda hate it.

I've had lots of interviews for articles already.

But they don't come for my sister at all.

...was this.

Satoko.

Yes!

What are you doing?

Ah...

Welcome home.

Practicing drawing designs.

Hmm...

Ehh...

Using Mom's patterns, huh?

Umm.

Thanks for your hard work.

Welcome back, Yūko-san.

Welcome back.

How'd things go while I was away?

I've gathered them.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Ah, that's right Naoko.

Huh?

Do you have some of your old designs?

Ah!

A few days after Yūko returned to Tokyo...

...Satoko received a new mountain to climb.

Mom's designs and Yūko-neechan's designs...

...and Naoko-neechan's designs are all totally different!

Incredible! Really!

No!

I won't lose to them.

I won't lose!

They were so good it was irritating.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Good Friends in Homemade Dresses (circa first half of Showa 30 (1955))