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Serial TV Story

What is it?

You have some business with me?

Heiwa Fansubs Presents...

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 25 "Miracle" Episode 141

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 Natsuki Mari

Yamaguchi Takae Takeuchi Miyako Kagawa Toshio \h Tōrō Shū

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Mizuno Kōji Kozasa Masatsugu Shinoyama Matoko \h Nakayama Takuya Fumiko\h Senda Toshiko

Yoshida Natsu (flashback) Kuriyama Chiaki Yoshida Natsu (11 years old, flashback) \h Takasa Ruka Sakurai Takeo (flashback) \h Sasaaru Ishii

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

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

Aikawa Setsuko Yamada Sumiko

Tatsumura Eiichi Tatsumi Takurou

Sakurai Natsu Enami Kyōko

I had heard from Yaeko-san...

...that you had moved to Shikoku.

That's right.

My husband's country home.

But once my husband passed away...

...I got tired of doing nothing but cleaning that huge house...

...so I returned here.

When was that?

Ten...

...or eleven years ago.

You've been here that long?

That's right.

Why didn't you get in touch with me?

Some reason why I should have?

Look...

...are you...

...living alone now?

I guess.

What illness do you have?

Huh?

Why have you been admitted to the hospital?

That's got nothing to do with you, right?

You...

...haven't changed a bit.

Those are MY words!

Ten years ago...

...the Bubble Economy burst...

...taking many large shopping centers in Kishiwada along with it.

This shopping district had become quite deserted as well.

For Sale

The discount ticket seller had already closed...

...along with those gilded Nii-chans from the real estate office.

By the way...

...the Nii-chan from the discount ticket shop was working.

Having grown up, he was now working for me.

Shinoyama Matoko

Sensei!

You're much too late! Namihaya Commercial's Harada-san has been waiting all this time for you.

Ah, that's right.

Harada-san has come today with his usual monthly report...

...and then after that, let's see, he says Maruyama Commerce...

...wishes to break off the licensing agreement they have with you at this time.

I see.

Ah, it's gotten intense.

Well, this is a recession, isn't it?

It wasn't only that.

Around this time...

...products for the silver-age market just weren't coming out.

Maybe this business...

...would never come back...

Mustn't get naive.

Ah Sensei, you've returned.

Huh?

Have you made the preparations?

For what?

Ahh!

For the interview you have with "Every Morning" newspaper at 3 pm!

Ah... that's right, huh?

It's not, "that's right, huh," geez! Please hurry and change clothes. Geez!

This is a nice project, isn't it? "Ohara Itoko and her 88 boyfriends".

Ohara Itoko And Her 88 boyfriends

This was originally just a tiny gathering.

I would gather men whose wives had passed away before them...

...and have a meal with them here at my home.

Ah!

Not all of the men were acquaintances of mine...

...but it's all very casual...

...and they got along really well together.

Ah!

Once those people who cheerfully gathered here...

...and had the very beautiful Ohara girls to feed them...

...before long other people began peeping in...

...and our members increased one after another.

And thus we became noticed.

Are there 88 of them?

Well...

...I don't know if there's 88.

But I think there was on my 88th birthday, though.

I envy you.

I'd like to be that lucky.

How old are you?

Forty-nine.

Start from here!

When I was that young, I thought I could overcome anything.

Sensei, what were you like when you were young?

Me?

I was one plain pig-monkey.

Have any of them talked to you about that?

They haven't talked about that. Geez. Damn!

Maybe I can find a guy in this photo...

Nothing.

Fool! Fool, fool! Ugly!

This pig!

Don't come again!

You...

I have nothing to do with you at all!

Truly...

...thank you!

Even so...

...we had met...

...while we were both not yet senile.

This must be a miracle, huh?

Ahh... I'm so busy, so busy!

This is our Chief Nurse, Aikawa.

Chief Nurse Aikawa Setsuko

Nice to meet you.

I'm Ohara.

We're grateful to have...

...such a famous Sensei like you undertake such an event at this hospital.

Well even so, between your work and this...

...I feel you must be careful not to enjoy it so much that you overdo things.

Ah...

Well, still...

...when it comes to the things I undertake...

...I am very precise about them.

Ah.

Please don't use up your spare time thinking about that.

Ah, I have to go to my next appointment.

No, no, Director!

Where are you going? Please stay!

Eh? Really?

First off, I need you to hurry with the selection of models.

I'll need fifteen of them. I don't care how old they are.

I also don't care at all about their heights or weights.

Huh?

Will that really be okay?

Yes.

However, I do have a request.

Huh?

I was told you would be selecting the models from your staff.

Yes.

Could you make half of them patients instead?

Huh?

The patients?

Yes.

That would be impossible.

Why is that?

If anything should happen to the patients...

Well, of course we won't of course ask them to do anything they can't.

Still, I think there are patients here...

...who would definitely want to go out for it.

If at all possible, I would want such people to appear in it as well.

Eh?

Where are you going?

I have my next appointment.

That again!

Please don't run away from this!

It's bad for my reputation if you say I'm running away.

Director! Director!

You shouldn't have been saying such things.

Please don't make these unnecessary initiatives of yours.

Anyhow, the Director has no intention of taking responsibility for this.

He places all these troublesome things on those of us at the scene.

Why would you do this!

Ohara-san.

That a famous Sensei would do this is an honor...

...and you should well know that...

...the amateurs we have for an event like this will be unsatisfactory.

Still, this is a hospital.

If anything strange happened to the patients...

...that would be a problem for us.

That would be impossible.

We will refuse it.

Well still, Head Nurse.

I have been a pro at this for seventy years now.

I know full well about that.

You guys...

...believe in the power of medical treatments and work with that every day, don't you?

It is my belief in the power of clothes...

...that I work at it.

There is an incredible power that comes from clothing.

Really good clothes can bring comfort to a person...

...hearten them...

...and even encourage them.

I would like to be...

...of assistance to you guys with my clothes.

I want to dress the patients with good clothes...

...put a spotlight on them and have them walk around in them.

And I want the other patients to see that.

You may think this has nothing to do with medical care.

But...

...I know very well...

...that such things can give people strength.

Half...

...no...

...even just a third of the people would be fine.

I hope you will please find patients who will participate in this.

Please do this.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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