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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 22 "Youth Without Regret" Episode 125

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

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Ohara Satoko Yasuda Misako

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

Masako Genkaku Yūko

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

Miura Heizō Kondō Masaomi

London?!

Sensei...

Showa 48 (1973) January

...why would you permit such a thing?!

Well, and then...

...Satako's two scary sisters started ganging up on her...

...so that she just hung her head and couldn't say anything back.

When I saw that, I felt sorry for her and I just got flared up about it.

Can you understand?

And, well...

...she just kept saying...

"I want to go to London."

Trying to look cool again when it wasn't necessary, geez.

Well, I wasn't trying to look cool.

But...

...since she's saying, "I want to go," and if I let her go...

...that would be best for when she returns.

But, if by some chance...

Huh?

If by some chance...

...she doesn't want to come back from over there...

...then what'll you do?!

Once Sato-chan goes...

...she might not come back again!

Eh...

Then...

If that time comes...

I'll do as much as I can for as long as I can...

...and then fold things up afterwards.

That's all I can do.

Ohara Dressmaking Store

My treasured signboard...

...in the end...

...wasn't wanted by any of them.

Senshū Textile Trade Union

Happy New Year!

Oh.

Please help me out this year as well.

Well, ah, eh... same to you...

Ah...

I'm sorry Union President.

It's embarrassing to say this, what with the new year and all...

...but truth is...

...that talk we had the other day...

...about my third daughter taking over the store...

...well in the end...

Huh?

Is something the matter?

Right there...

Just until now...

...Suo was sitting there.

I shouldn't bring that up?

No...

Ah...

Well, geez, I was just speaking to him a moment ago...

Ah...

He says he's going back to Nagasaki.

Suo-san is?

Yeah.

That guy...

...his children have all left the nest and since his wife is dead, he's all alone.

So it was like that, that he said...

..."I guess I want to go back to the place where I was born and grew up in."

He'll buy a single-family home in Nagasaki...

...and work the fields for his livelihood.

Something the matter?

No...

He won't be lonely?

Huh?

He'll be alone...

...in a new place again...

Well, he won't...

...be lonely...

...maybe.

Don't...

...worry anymore.

Look, he's taking the path that he's chosen.

Look...

...wherever a good man like Suo goes...

...he'll be able to manage somehow.

And he'll be a man on his own just at first, right?

Look, before long all the oba-chans in the area will be meddling with him.

There's nothing to cry about!

Nothing!

Coffee Shop

Taiko

Look, three orders of pancakes.

Yes.

Eh?

Why three orders?

Because you'll eat two of them.

I won't eat that much!

Why?

Why?

Eh? Well...

...I'll be eating different things this year.

Somehow...

...that's lonely.

Right?

Well, even if you say such things, I can't eat it.

Hmm... Well then, two orders.

Yes...

And what are you going to do when you get to London?

First off, take classes in English...

...and then look for work while I'm doing that.

What do you aim to do?

I don't have any aims, but I want to make use of my dressmaking skills.

Will you be okay like that?

Umm.

I think if I can do this in Japan...

...I should be able to do it in London.

What's that?

I'm like a dog that can live anywhere.

At last, you're going off somewhere, too.

Will you be lonely?

Fool! Why would I be lonely?

Liar; you will be lonely!

As long as I'm here, you can come to my house to eat.

And then, Sir, when I'm not here...

...you can come over and have Grandma make you something to eat.

So don't worry.

About your Mom.

Eh?

What's her favorite flower?

Mom's?

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'll be going to bed first.

Please make yourself at home.

Ah, Ma'am, have a good rest. Good night.

Good night.

G'night.

G'night.

And? What is it?

What did you come to talk about?

Oh...

Ah...

...it's about Yūko.

Yeah.

Has she told you about her license contract with me?

She hasn't told me. Is it true?

Yeah.

When her store opened...

...using that as a precondition for giving her financing was something of a joke...

...but because Ohara Yūko's become famous and is selling...

...it's not a joke anymore.

Hmm...

She's doing that well.

Sometime next year, we'll be taking it to Tokyo.

Who will?

Yūko?

Yūko and me, too.

I hadn't heard a thing about this.

What about Satoru-san?

Has he given his okay?

Yeah...

Before that, something not very good happened.

Huh?!

I guess I saw it coming.

I became concerned when...

...Satoru-san didn't show his face this year at New Year's.

Yūko says she's already separated with him.

Hot!

Really?!

Ah... Hot...

What is it?

Hey you...

Why did you bring those flowers out of the blue for?

What do you mean?

Huh?

I know.

Since long ago...

...I'm the sort of person who's can't sense those sorts of things.

Even so...

You've been stealing glances at her! Huh?!

Are you...

...misunderstanding something?

Huh?

There's nothing going on between Yūko and me.

Eh?

Tha... that's not it?

Fool!

Why would I do something with Yūko? That's disgusting!

What's that?

I was wrong?

Just what were you thinking?

Thank goodness...

You don't understand anything!

These flowers... These flowers...

I bought them for you!

Eh?

Thank you.

You...

You're not going to Nagasaki?

I'm not going.

I can't go.

Well then, I...

Will you come to Tokyo with me?

Tokyo?

That's right.

What for?

What for?

For work.

I've decided.

I want you to be Vice President of my new company in Tokyo.

Well...

Even President would be fine.

If you were there, that'd make things easier.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Can I have a little time?

I'll give it some thought.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Posing in a Order-Made Dress (circa Showa 35 (1960), at Nishinomiya Shrine)