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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

Final Week "Your Love Is Alive" Episode 148

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

Ohara Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Kawakami Ameku Michiko

Yamaguchi Takae Takeuchi Miyako Mizuno Kōji\h Kozasa Masatsugu

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Shinoyama Makoto Nakayama Takuya Fumiko\h Senda Toshiko

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

Even so, this really isn't a promising thing.

That my dress designer is someone...

...the same age as me and still active.

Really?

It is, it is!

Well... It bothers me that I may still have...

Heisei 17 (2005) December

...a long ways to go yet.

No, it's not "a long ways to go yet," but "from here on."

It's from here on for us!

Yes...

Ah, Yūko-san. Good afternoon.

Next week Wednesday?

I don't think that's open though...

Ah, it's not open.

She has a lecture in Nagoya the day before...

...and from there she moves on to Kishiwada, so...

Ah, well, even so...

...then she starts out again from first thing in the morning the very next day.

Yeah. She shouldn't be pushing her current body like that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Hello, yes?

Ah, it's arrived?

The car's coming?

Yes.

It should be here soon.

Mom, let's go. Here.

Okay!

Look, I'll ask you for that much, Ohara-san.

Leave it to me. I'll make something wonderfully good.

I'll look forward to it! So long.

So long.

That's okay. You don't have to see me off.

I'll come right away.

This is really wonderful, isn't it?

Sensei, thank you very much.

Thank you.

I'll come again.

Thank you very much.

Yes? Ah, Yūko.

What's up?

Next week Wednesday? Why?

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, I'll go!

Leave it to me and don't worry about it.

Leave it to me, leave it to me.

In short...

...that was a stupid reason.

While we're worrying over the Senpei's health, as a set they think of ways to work you desperately.

The thing is...

...Yūko-san and the others aren't thinking seriously about the Sensei's health.

Um, well, I don't feel they don't think about it at all...

...but we're already here with Sensei!

All the work that you do just flies around in my head.

They know all about that.

If a parent and child love that work so much, that's fine.

But what will happen before long, I have no idea!

She really is angry, isn't she?

Well of course she is.

Hey... What can we do afterwards to cheer her up?

I have no idea.

I was asked by Yūko...

Tokyo

...to give a lecture at a Tokyo hospital.

Originally Yūko had accepted to do it...

...but in the long run, her circumstances had gotten worse.

I'm sorry. This elderly woman will have to substitute for her.

Not in the least.

When they heard the significance of this, everyone was delighted.

That's right, Sensei. This is Kawakami...

Um, I will be assisting you for today.

I am Kawakami.

She was the Chief Nurse before me...

...but when we were told by Yūko-san that you would be substituting for her...

...she here said she wanted to volunteer to help you out.

Ah.

Um truth is, there was a time long ago when I lived in Kishiwada.

At the time you held the fashion show at that hospital...

...a friend of mine sent me a newspaper article about it...

...and I was deeply moved by it.

Ah... Is that right?

Yes.

Everyone, it's nice to meet you.

I am Ohara Itoko.

I have a dressmaking shop in the Osaka area city of Kishiwada...

...where I am a designer.

For today's hospital lecture...

...I have prepared one covering multiple themes.

I have devoted my lifetime...

...to making Western clothes.

If there is anything...

...I wanted to talk to those of you in the medical field about...

...there's just one thing...

Ah, Yūko-san?

Yes, the Sensei's lecture just finished.

We're in the lounge on the 15th floor.

You came to meet us?

Thank you so much for that wonderful talk.

Thank you very much.

I'm happy I had a chance to give it.

Thank you very much as well.

Well, I'm sorry. We'll have to excuse ourselves.

Excuse us.

You're excused.

Sensei, it seems Yūko-san just arrived for us at the front entrance.

Yūko? That girl said she had some other business to do.

She said it ended early, so she wanted to drop by and show her face.

I'll just go and get her. If you would please.

Thank you.

Well then Sensei, I will come again when it's time for the taxi to appear.

Until then, please take your time here.

Well then.

Ala...

Since you went to so much trouble for me, let's talk for awhile.

You aren't tired?

Well...

...it's when my body gets tired that I want to talk to people like you.

Thank you very much!

That was a wonderful talk you gave.

It brought me to tears many times.

Is that right?

I definitely would like to meet...

...that Kishiwada Chief Nurse just once.

Since I, too, have been involved in the medical field for over forty years.

You should come at least once.

I will introduce you to her.

You were in Kishiwada until how old?

Ah...

I was... twenty-four years old.

Did you come here due your marriage?

Yes.

Even though you lived there until you were twenty-four...

...your Kishiwada dialect has gone, hasn't it?

Yes...

Though each of my daughters left a long time ago...

...their Kishiwada dialect hasn't left them at all.

Yes.

That's...

Um...

...because I was in Nagasaki until I was ten years old.

Sensei, truth is...

My dead father was...

...for a time, at Sensei's place and under your care.

Ah, you... You are?

Yes.

I...

I am Suo Ryūichi's daughter.

Ah! I'm very sorry.

Please excuse me.

Sensei?

For what happened back then...

...please excuse my little brother.

I'm sorry, too.

My mother...

I'm very sorry about that.

No.

To hate a person...

...is a painful thing.

You could say my one salvation was that...

...my Father's partner was Sensei.

I held onto the hate...

...for how long was it...

But as the years gathered on me...

...I came to think as I do now.

Even so...

...to say that I had...

...no feelings of it being dirty...

...would be a lie.

But, then...

...when I looked into Sensei's eyes earlier, even that disappeared.

I could feel that...

...Sensei had been keeping it in her heart all this time, too.

I have a long, long memory.

That is the epitome of being elderly.

By trying to protect it...

...by burying it in the darkness...

...I may have inadvertently brought it into the open.

Roaring out of this decrepit old body...

...beaten up and forgiven.

Even so...

I also feel I have lived just to see this.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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