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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 126

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 Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

Ohara Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

Masako Genkaku Yūko Kioka Miyo \h Iijima Junko Kinomoto Setsuko \h Nishimura Ayako

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

Yoshida Natsu (photo) Kuriyama Chiaki Yasuoka Tamae (photo) \h Hamada Mari Yasuoka Tarō (photo) \h Kuramoto Akira

Showa 48 (1973) March

Grandma.

This is Satoko's face.

Don't you forget it!

All right.

I won't forget.

It's time to go.

So long.

I'm off.

Get going.

Get going.

Be careful.

Good luck.

Be sure to eat properly and stay healthy.

Get going!

Get going!

Satoko! Get going!

I'm off!

Be careful!

On Showa 48, March...

...Satoko truly went to London.

Osaka, Shisaibashi

That Satoko.

She's going overseas first even before me and Naoko.

What a laugh.

Thank you.

Say...

You'll be going to Tokyo?

Ah...

Yeah.

Are you getting divorced from Satoru-san?

Yeah.

That's our intention.

You didn't tell me such an important thing.

Why did I have to hear about it from Kitamura?

I'm sorry.

I thought it would worry you.

It would have, but isn't that what a parent is for?

Yeah.

How about you, Mom?

Huh?

Are you going to Tokyo?

Hmm.

I heard from Kitamura-san...

...but I don't think it's such a bad idea.

Well...

...how about for you guys?

Tokyo this, Tokyo that. Why do you want to go to Tokyo so badly?

That's, I guess, because Tokyo is an economic and cultural center.

We feel if our apparel is to be taken seriously...

...we have to reach out, using Tokyo initially as a base.

For example, my plan...

...is to first have a main store in Tokyo...

...and then add branches all over the rest of the country.

That's fine.

Then I'll be confirmed as a success.

And then five years from now, I'll have fifty stores...

I heard what she was saying...

...and a thirty-fold increase in sales.

...but I couldn't find anything fascinating in what Yūko was telling me.

Ito-chan, welcome back.

I'm back.

Did Sato-chan catch her flight okay?

Yeah, thankfully.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Just a little more is fine! Geez!

It's okay, isn't it?

There's no one here you need to feel reserved over.

Well, that's true, huh...

Shall I get another sake bottle?

Ah... That's okay, Mom! Masa-chan, you go!

Yes.

Ma'am, I'll get it.

Eh...

Eh?

I said I'll get it.

Mom's been getting increasingly dangerous these days.

I don't dare let her go to the kitchen alone.

Ah...

I see.

And, what's up?

Ah, yeah.

You wanted to talk to me?

That's right.

I was thinking it's about time for me to close my store.

Eh?

Tarō keeps asking me to come live with him already.

He says he's worried about me being alone in the shop.

It's true that it's getting harder for me...

...to endure a full day of standing nowadays.

I was thinking it's still a little early for that though.

It takes energy to get used to a new way of life.

I see.

Sad, isn't it?

That's true.

Even so, there's that.

Ito-chan'll still be doing her best for a long time to come.

At Kishiwada's number one famous shop, Ohara Dressmaking Store.

Well, about that...

Just recently...

...I was invited to go to Tokyo, too.

Ah, really.

Umm.

Go to Tokyo and help out Yūko there next year.

Kitamura is going, too.

Naoko is there, too.

And that's why I should go, too.

Ah, well...

...I shouldn't have said an unnecessary thing like that. Well, forgive me.

No.

Even so, it's great when you say it's to Tokyo! That's cool!

Ah, shh!

Go ahead; please continue.

Eh?

I know about it.

Eh?

Both I and Megumi-san...

...were thinking that that would be best for Sensei.

Thank you for that.

What is it?

Some difficult talk?

No, no...

...there's nothing difficult about it at all.

Don't worry, Ma'am.

It's by no means that.

This is a good talk.

It's fine to decide on that, isn't it?

Yeah...

You're hesitating?

Well, to be honest...

...I'm not quite sure.

Going to Tokyo or staying in Kishiwada.

I'm just wondering to myself...

...which would be the most interesting for me.

That's the main point I'm split over.

I'm pitiful.

Wouldn't...

...Tokyo be more interesting?

Huh?

Everyone else is going to Tokyo because it is so interesting, aren't they?

Yeah...

Well...

...it would be...

...the start of...

...a new game for me.

Game?

Yeah.

I heard from Yūko about it and her interest in it.

A war that is pretty much...

...the same as a game.

And...

...that it is extremely interesting.

Like I thought, it is interesting!

Ah...

It's just some tiresome game.

Only enemies...

...and only having to use your head.

It'd be better...

...if I was making clothes.

So, before I even realized it...

...clothes had become...

...just a game, too.

The Sensei who taught me about Western clothes, Nigishi-sensei, said this.

"Really good clothes..."

"...give people both dignity and pride."

"A person with dignity and pride..."

"...can have hope for the first time."

I understand that.

Nowadays though...

...the power of Mode is incredibly strong.

The best clothes from last year...

...are already out of fashion this year.

Whatever careful consideration you put into the fabric you choose...

...Mode'll come along like a typhoon and turn it upside-down.

That's true.

It's easy for it to snatch away...

...the hope you've given people.

I feel such things...

...are being repeated over and over again.

Yeah!

No!

I won't complain anymore.

It's my age...

It's just my age...

That's not true.

Huh?

That's not true, now is it! Ito-chan!

What's the matter, Yaeko-san?

What are you saying now of all times, Ito-chan?

Ah... You're so pathetic, geez! I'm pathetic, too!

Eh? You're leaving?

Why is she angry with me?

And then, about ten minutes later...

...Yaeko-san returned.

This is my treasure!

It may be worn out...

But this is the precious, precious treasure...

...that gave hope to me and Mother and Nat-chan!

I... I was able to live thanks to these!

It was as if I had been slapped.

It was as if...

...I had been slapped by my old self.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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Dressed Up and On The Town (Showa 45 (1970), Nagoya)