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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 25 "Miracle" Episode 144

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

Yoshizawa Kanako Nakamura Yūko

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Aikawa Setsuko Yamada Sumiko

Kagawa Toshio Tōrō Shū Sadaoka Yoshihiko\h FUMIHITO

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

One, two, one, two!

Heisei 13 (2001) October

The Show was just two weeks away...

...so they were increasingly practicing their walking.

You're clumsy! Walk more precisely!

There, yes, yes! You're slow! Please increase your speed a little more!

Wait!

Yes?

Please don't place any unnecessary stress on the patients.

Huh?

Stress is the source of all sorts of diseases.

Chief Nurse!

How to walk is the foundation of a Show!

If their way of walking is strange...

...it will embarrass the person themselves.

This is impossible, impossible! I can't walk without this.

Now, now, it'd be fine for you to walk with a cane.

Eh? A cane!

What is it?

That not sexy!

Well, that's...

Use a handsome man, a handsome man!

A handsome man?

A handsome man like this...

Have them go out like this.

Let's do that!

Do that!

You may do that.

That'll be fine.

Thanks for your hard work!

Thanks for your help!

You did great.

Ohara-sensei.

Wha... what is it?

It's late, but...

Could you add one more model?

It's the patient who was the last to leave just now.

I was wondering about her.

It's written there as final-stage cancer.

Unfortunately...

...current medical technology...

...well...

...hasn't caught up yet.

Even so, just between us...

You could say that what is medicine today...

...is all the things that it doesn't know.

Huh?

Well...

...to be honest, that is known.

Well, being here...

...at the scene of it everyday...

...each department here does whatever can be done.

Still...

...I don't think we completely understand...

...what it is we can do.

In the first place...

...human diseases...

...isn't really medicine.

Well, for now...

...that isn't the reason...

...we are desperately absorbed in treating patients...

...but we don't know...

...what its true form is somehow.

It may be that...

...there are ways other than medicine.

Well then again...

...there may not be, though.

Well...

I do know clothes.

I want to believe in and trust their power.

But...

...I agree with you...

...as I do it, the more I'm forced to understand each time.

Yet even so...

That's what the relationship is.

Thank you.

I'm counting on you.

Please do this.

Excuse me.

Are you Yoshizawa Kanako-san?

Yes.

Come in, come in already.

Excuse me.

I would see you all the time in the Day Room, sitting in the corner.

Yes.

It seems the Head Nurse was moved by you.

You were the only one...

...that she personally asked be entered into this.

I'm happy.

You want to go out there that much?

Yes.

Why?

Yes.

Um...

...I have two children.

I worry about how those children see me.

I...

...may be ill...

...but I don't want those children...

...to feel pity when they see me.

I've gotten thin...

...and my hair is gone.

Of course it's hard for me, too.

But...

As a mother...

When they see...

...their mother like this...

I can't help but think...

...of those children's feelings.

Those times when...

...my husband brings them to the hospital...

...their faces always have...

...these pitifully frightened looks on them...

...and it's hard.

I'd like to do something happy for them...

...so that they won't feel only sadness.

There, there.

I completely understand.

I understand completely.

Okay!

Look...

...let me tell you about me now.

I am eighty-eight years old now.

Being eighty-eight years old is a lot like you!

Your body falls apart here and there.

You can't walk without a cane.

Because at my age I could die at any time...

...whenever I meet my daughters...

..."I was worried. Are you okay, Mom?"...

...is written all over their faces.

Even so...

...well, when I got past eighty-five...

...I realized this wonderfully good thing.

Shall I tell you what it is?

Yes.

That growing old...

...gives you the qualification to perform miracles.

Miracles?

That's right.

For example...

...there's nothing surprising about young children running about...

...but to be running around at one hundred would be a miracle, wouldn't it?

Even at eighty-eight...

...I am still working and playing around as much as I like.

Being able to do as they please...

...brings a person happiness.

People don't have to be afraid of growing old.

When you age...

...you get weak, get sick and grow lonely.

But, even if...

...I can't do great things anymore...

...I can still eat eel...

...and get drunk...

...and help people out.

That's a great position to be in, isn't it?

Yes.

Even so...

...you should...

...do that.

Eh?

Smile.

Grin.

That's it!

Just that is a miracle!

Even a terminal cancer patient can smile.

For everyone with something like terminal cancer...

...they think they won't be able to smile again.

So just your smile...

...can be seen as a wonderful miracle to people.

So...

...you should dress up all sparkly...

...and walk happily across that stage.

And just by doing that...

...you will be encouraging people...

...and giving them hope.

Right now...

...that's what my qualifications are...

No...

...what my duties are, too.

You must think hard about...

...what your duties are, as well.

Yes.

Your turn will be our feature attraction.

We'll discuss your hair with you and get you a good wig.

You...

...will make a miracle!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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