The Village of Yaku Kochi Prefecture. Shikoku
Your mother and father are here
They want to hear your voice again
It's so bright!
I can't see!
Mom?
Where are you?
Here!
Why did this happen to me?
I want to go home!
Akihiko
I want to get out of here!
SHIKOKU
Fumiya
And all my homework was done too!
They won't miss us You two catch cold all the time
It's so exciting skipping school
I wan't to get out of this village
There's lots of things I want to do
Hello
Sayori, shall we go?
No!
Mother's waiting
Sayori!
Lets go
Sayori!
Hinako...
You saw, didn't you.
Promise you won't tell anyone
Not even Fumiya
Or we aren't friends anymore
I'll get someone!
Hinako!
Mister! My friend's drowning!
Quick!
You OK?
No! I want to stay with Sayori!
Hinako. Hurry!
Will you come on!
You know the address
Call when you get there
I will, thanks.
Take care
Cheer up You'll make friends there
I'll be in touch when we get to Tokyo
Good luck with the new job
Hinako
You've got to go
Bye
Write to me
Hinako... come on
Thanks for everything
Hello
I'm on a bus right now.
Can I call you back?
To my home town...
in Kochi
A family matter
Let's not start that again
I'm just tired, that's all
It's the truth, isn't it? You always...
No Service
Hello
Mom!
Is she here?
Hello! I thought it was you when I heard the bus!
It's been years...
You've grown up so beautiful!
This is Shota
Hello
Say hello!
Come in! My husband's off
getting ready for the festival
Come in. You must be tired!
I'd like to see the house first
What are you going to do? Sell it?
I'll look at it and talk to my father
It'd be sad having no place to come back to
I took a futon over
I'll bring the key
Shota, get the key
It's so tiny!
It's been so long!
Fumiya
Hello!
Mr Hiura!
It's Myojin Hinako...
Hello?
It's Hinako from Tokyo...
Mother! Can you help me?
Coming!
What is it. Youkari?
Bring me a stool?
You can't do that all by yourself!
Yukari?
Yukari...
I'm Hinako. We were in school
Hinako?!
Just line them up here...
So you'll be here a while?
Yes
Yukari. Hurry with the beer!
Coming!
What?
Nothing
Sayori was in our class, too.
Hiura Sayon
What's she doing?
You didn't know?
Sayor died
A long time ago
In high school
She drowned
Sorry to keep you waiting!
Put that over there
I came here to have fun. Not to work!
Know who that is?
Who?
Hinako
Hi
Fumiya?
It's been a while.
Remember when
Sayori saved me from drowning?
Yeah
I was terrified of what would happen
if she left me
I felt so safe holding onto her
I wanted to see her
Her mother's gone on a pilgrimage
every year since she died
She says they're doing it together
Where's her father?
He's been in the hospital in town for years.
He had an accident
Accident?
He was climbing Mt Ishitsuchi...
... Over in Ehime Pretecture. He fell off a cliff.
I had no idea
What do you do in Tokyo?
I design packages,
do the arwork...
Wow!
Have you been here all this time?
I went to university in Kochi,
then worked three years in Osaka
I came back last year. I work in the village office.
I see.
I wanted to see Sayori...
What?
It felt like she was watching us.
I thought I saw someone at her house
Her mother maybe?
No, she's on her pilgrimage.
There's no one there.
I see...
what a mess!
Someone called the village office.
Must have been someone from the festival
It makes my blood run cold!
Ever gone in there?
No
They say there's a curse on anyone who does.
You never know...
Did someone really cut the heads
of the Jizo statues in the Valley?
Yeah.
Should we contact anyone, Mr Sakai?
No.
No?
Leave the valley of the Gods to the gods.
That's not our juristiction.
Have you ever gone in there?
Why would I?
The only ones who go there are the Hiuras.
Sayori had changed.
It was just after that.
She wanted to leave here and do things...
But she was the next Hiura priestess.
She and her father fought her mother
over her going to high school
I didn't know any of that.
I wrote and wrote but she never answered.
This is you...
Yeah.
She liked you. You know. Did you know that?
We were going out.
I'm sorry...
That's all right.
I should get back to work.
Oh, it's you. Hinako.. what are you doing here?
Someone from your office brought me over.
Something wrong?
Yeah. I saw Sayori last night.
I thought I was dreaming, but somehow it was different.
Don't talk like that!
'The newly dead come stand by you bed,' they say.
It was just a dream!
I found this where I saw her.
I gave her this when I moved away.
Don't talk crazy!
Maybe she want's to tell me something.
Like what?
Who wrecked those statues?
I saw something at her house.
Something strange is going on!
It was said that
Sayori hadn't drowned in the river...
... but that she'd called up an evil spirit that took her away.
Fumiya!
This place has some connection to the Hiura family
I saw her too.
We need a light.
Let's go.
Don't be silly!
You didn't see Grandpa!
Hiura Yasutaka.
He's been like this for the past eight years.
He can't move or speak.
Can he hear?
He doesn't react when you talk to him.
Call me if you need me.
16?
Mr Hiura's that bad, is he?
I'd keep away from the Hiuras if I were you.
People here won't like it.
What?
You're not one of us any more.
You shouldn't spend so much time with Fumiya, either.
All we're doing is talking.
This isn't Tokyo.
That's for sure.
Did you know that Sayori...
...was angry at you after you moved?
She said you were a stuck-up for moving Tokyo.
Stuck-up?!
She burned your letters.
She was mad because you'd left first.
She wanted to leave here too.
She was always alone somehow...
...even in middle school.
Maybe she need someone who'd do what she told her...
...and she thought that her friend had betrayed her.
You were always like a follower of hers.
Like you were attached to her.
Me?
Like shit sticks to a goldfish.
I didn't say that. Sayori did.
When she burned your letters.
What's wrong?
It was hard for her.
She had to argue even to go to high school.
She was jealous of you.
I guess she didn't think of me as a friend.
That's not true.
How could you think that?
The three of us were so close!
Sayori was very determined.
In middle school she was even more that way...
Then when you were here.
She didn't have the innocence she'd had when we were together.
It's OK, Fumiya.
Maybe it's you she wants to see.
Maybe I shouldn't have come.
You know...
...I feel relaxed when I'm with you.
I've never felt like that.