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I priced those suits resolutely...

...at 180,000 yen.

180,000 yen?!

I've already sold out...

...95 of those 100 bolts of fabric.

Is that true?!

Sensei! And that's why we've come to ask you for a favor today.

What is it, geez.

Could you please allow us...

...to make a Sensei Fashion Brand?

Huh?

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

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Carnation

Week 24 "Declaration" Episode 134

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 Natsuki Mari

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 Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Yamaguchi Takae Takeuchi Miyako Ohara Rika \h Kojima Fujiko

遥か空へ身を預けて

Haruka sora e mi o azukete

I entrust my body to that distant sky

Kawase Yuzuru Kawaoka Daijirō Yoshioka Einosuke \h Shigeyama Ippei

Takayama Mamoru Touma Sora Mizuno Kōji \h Kozasa Masatsugu

。。。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 Kumano Takashito

Takayama Mamoru

To be formal, I am Takayama Mamoru of Shunkō Trading.

Takayama Mamoru

So there's now a third foolish person...

Showa 61 (1986) January

...this one from a splendid trading firm.

Yes. I'm in charge of apparel.

And then, Sensei...

...will you listen to what we have to say?

Ohara Itoko

Well anyhow...

Kawase Yuzuru

Yoshioka Einosuke

...that suit of yours is wonderful.

So the next day, I took a sample of it around to all of our best clients.

And then...

...within a week, I had sold off nearly half of it.

Hmm...

All of our customers, in unison, have said in any case, "this is a good design."

And... "It's smart and stylish and I feel good while wearing it" and, "it's such a fun thing."

"The person who created this understands the bodies of older people," they said...

..."as if they could see through people."

And, "If you make this again, I'd definitely take it," they kept telling me.

Hmm...

They would. I'm the one who designed it.

It's different from those just-adequate goods intended for grannies that are around.

And then, thinking it was such a good article...

...I felt it could be made into a far more expansive business...

...and so I proposed the idea to this Takayama-kun.

This guy's company is a specialist at this sort of thing.

Well... Truth is...

...my company's focus since long ago has directed itself towards...

...the development of goods for those in their silver years.

So I immediately borrowed that sample to turn it into a business...

...but when the remaining half sold out right away...

...there was a need to import more of that fabric and to even increase production in the end.

Ehh...

But I really thought this.

That the customer's desire for this is insatiable.

The clothes you are making, Sensei.

And then we said, "Let's make more!"

And, "We should create a Sensei fashion brand!" right?

We got all riled up!

We did get riled up.

What's that?

Let's do this, Sensei!

What's with you guys...

Sticking other people's necks into your schemes while my own store is flourishing all by itself.

That's why we shrewdly planned our getting involved with you in this business, Sensei.

Like this, we're a fabric shop and a dry-goods shop together.

Well...

...last year...

...when my Mom died, I felt ashamed and started thinking...

...that it was about time I got serious about working harder at this.

That's why I've been sticking by this guy's side...

...when I heard him talking about Sensei.

You could say I was thinking of studying fabric shops...

...in order to find a new business.

I guess you could put it as, "The best defense is a good offense."

Huh? What's that?

Eh?

Offense... what?

Ah... Let's see. You could say it's...

..."Attacking is the best way of protecting yourself."

Ah...

That's an interesting saying.

Well, I wasn't the one who thought it up, though.

What do you think, Sensei?

Hmm...

Could you consider it positively somehow?

Hmm...

I guess...

There's that.

How about some eel?

Rika.

Get us some eel. Four servings of their choicest.

The choicest!

Yes.

Ah...

I completely understand your story.

I think it's a level-headed, good idea.

The plan has a clear direction.

I think you're being different from the fools you were before.

But...

Yes?

I'm very sorry about this, but when it comes to this...

...I guess I'm just a custom-made craftsman.

I...

...put up my dressmaking shop signboard 50 years ago.

For ten of those years, during the war...

...I wasn't able to freely make the Western-style clothes I wanted to.

When the war ended at last...

...the world rapidly changed from one set of ready-made clothes to the next.

From then on, custom-made was a business in its sunset era.

"When would it end?"

"Should I stop and convert to being a ready-made shop?"

That was a discussion I had with myself...

...over and over again.

But, well...

I then decided.

I...

...would keep on with custom-made all of my life.

Why was that?

Huh?

Why did you decide that?

It was pride.

Pride?

Even if it meant my being the last one...

...I would show off my pride at being a custom-made craftsman.

Well, that's how I felt.

Ehh?

What is it?

That's not a good way of showing off your pride.

Huh?!

That's right. If Sensei intended to show that off, there's no one who'd see it. Right?

I haven't seen it at all.

You should just toss that aside...

...and make a new brand with us.

You... you guys...

You don't understand my pride of these fifty years!?

I don't understand it.

I don't understand it at all.

Rika! Cancel that eel from earlier!

Huh?

There's no way I could feed these guys eel!

No, no, no, no, we'll eat it.

It's special after all.

No!

No way am I giving eel to fools like you guys!

Delicious...

Delicious, isn't it?

It's great.

This is from a truly famous store.

Is it in the neighborhood?

Don't talk. Just hurry and eat and leave.

Yūko's Second Daughter Ohara Rika

Thank you for the meal.

It was delicious.

Thank you very much for this.

Leave!

Hurry! Hurry and leave...

Yes, yes, yes...

I've had enough of you.

And you'd really better not come around again!

Excuse me.

Still, Sensei.

If by chance your feelings change...

They won't change!

I told you, "they definitely won't change!"

Yes, yes...

For pete's sake!

Young men these days...

...are just slimy, slimy potatoes...

...who won't stop nagging you, geez!

I'm back.

Here, Sensei.

What's this?

Yamaguchi Takae

This was given to me by those boys out there.

Still, believe in us. Yuzuru & Einosuke & Mamoru

Even so...

My design...

...was popular in other places.

Young people...

...were eagerly being introduced to this business because of it.

Still, believe in us. Yuzuru & Einosuke & Mamoru

I gradually became happier.

The feeling of tension began to leave me.

Sensei, we have a customer.

If you would please.

Welcome.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Eh? They sold ninty-five bolts worth of suits for 180,000 each?!

Seems so.

Ahh... That certainly is incredible.

Isn't it?

Ehh...

I guess there is a niche in the silver-age generation.

I should do some work intended for the silver-age group, too.

Fool.

If you suddenly prepped for that, you wouldn't be like me.

That's true.

I don't know anything about body shapes of those over fifty.

Right?

Sorry, but I know everything about that.

How to dress the elderly in clothes, how to show them and how to sell them.

I see.

An Ohara Itoko silver-age Fashion Brand should be raised.

That those fools got their eye on it is wonderfully good though.

Still Mom...

...don't do it.

Huh?

Pret-a-porter is really, really tough work...

...and at your age it would be impossible.

I know that!

Even if you hadn't told me...

...I wouldn't get into pret-a-porter.

I'm a custom-made craftsman!

In that case, it's fine.

I was just telling you what those fool kids were saying.

Thanks for the meal.

You can tidy up afterwards.

Eh?

But it's you today, Grandma.

I'm more tired than usual today, aren't I?

Can't you tell just by looking?

I could tell, but...

You're still young, so you could occasionally say, "I'll take your place."

Now! I'm off for a bath.

It's a pain...

...being old.

Truth is, I want an elderly person's temper.

But even so, my body won't permit that.

Sore knees...

...sore hips.

My body's so heavy...

Grandma?!

Grandma?!

Grandma?!

Grandma, what happened?

Ah...

Grandma, Grandma, are you okay?!

Grandma!

To Be Continued

I'm calling for an ambulance.

Carnation

End

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