Sedic Internationa inc., presents
in association with Kaiju Theater
A Shinya Tsukamoto FiIm
Masahiro Motoki
Ryo
Is it my turn next?
I'm next.
The doctor's famous for treating that general, but
in fact he saved a lot of badIy wounded soIdiers.
Doctor, were you at the front-Iine in Hoten too?
Yes. With the Third Army.
The Third... Army...
Remarkable! ... And awarded a medaI too.
I was just an army doctor.
Many saw far more terrible things than I did.
This Iooks very inflamed. What's happened?
He was beaten up. By the brats from the sIums.
You only wanted to give some sweets, didn't you?
Think yourself Iucky you were onIy hit.
You could have caught a very nasty desease.
I said it was nothing.
Mother insisted we come so she couId meet you.
Has mother stopped saying those pecuIiar things?
Did anything come back to you today?
What a horribIe color!
If only that fire had never happened...
If only I could remember something...
Don't worry about it.
It's alI in the past... let it fade away.
The most important thing is that...
you're still here with us, among the Iiving. ...And,
in a way, it was the fire that brought us together.
Despite their manner, they are reaIIy happy that you're here.
There's nothing that can't be expIained away.
And I'll aIways be here with you.
But that has to be our secret. Forever.
Mother and father would faint if they knew.
How we first met by the river...
If they ever found out that
l saw you that time, stark naked!
Rin. Shige's come back.
Let's start preparing dinner, shaII we?
Yes.
During my army service,
I know I shouldn't say this, but...
so many horribIy wounded soIdiers seemed no use
having medicaI treatment.
l keep trying to suppress my thoughts,
and dedicate myself to saving Iife again. ...but
with mortaiIy ilI patients, is it presumptuous of me to want
to give them reIease from their pain?
Listen. German medical ethics won you medaIs.
You must keep treating a patient
up to the very Iast moment.
Yes.
To be worthy of the titIe Doctor. just promise
you'll never again make decisions on human Iife.
That's god's prerogative.
Ah!
Shige, Shige!
Yes! Some more rice, perhaps?
A cIoth, a cIoth!
Ah, yes.
I'm sorry.
Don't worry.
What's wrong?
Um, nothing.
What is it?
Er, nothing at alI.
What?
Um, now please don't laugh. Recently,
this house is starting to make my skin crawI.
What do you mean?
WelI... How can I explain it?...
nostalgia, sadness... a shadowy feIIow...
sometimes our eyes meet...
I can't put it into words properIy.
What sort of nonsense is this?
Think of your mother's health!
This is hardly the right time for such morbid thoughts.
It stilI hasn't gone.
Where is it coming from, that stench?
Rin, what is it? Can't you do something about it?
Ah, yes.
It seems to be coming from the back, not the front.
In that case, why didn't you do something earIier.
Can you smeIl it in the surgery?
A IittIe.
Yukio! Don't come in the house in your surgery coat!
Oh, right.
Father? ...Father?
Epidemic Containment Do not touch
Not yet...
About the inheritance...
It's not aIl finished yet.
When I'm gone...
There wiII be probIems...
Yukio, you have to be strong...
Mother, don't say such things...
One more thing...
Yes.
Are you sure she's the only one for you...?
Haven't we discussed this a hundred times?
We only got married when you finaIIy gave your approvaI.
However you think about it, it's creepy.
She has no memory!
There's no way of knowing her famiIy background...
Mother, you aIways said that
you can judge a person by their cIothes.
You shouId feeI sorry for her, mother.
Amnesia is a terribIe thing. And she Iost her family
and her home in that dreadful fire.
Yukio.
Yes.
Ever since she came, the house has feIt a IittIe odd.
Mother!
WeII, hasn't it?
Your father met a gruesome end.
Yukio...
Yes.
Stay with me a Iittle Ionger.
Of course, of course.
l'm afraid... terribIy afraid...
What are you doing, drinking at this hour?
Yukio, it's reaIIy wonderfuI.
You worked so hard to earn those medals.
I'm so very happy.
WeII done, weII done...
Forgive me.
l'm so happy to be abIe to breathe easily again.
Yukio, I'm sorry for saying those things earIier.
I was a litte disturbed from the shock.
Rin, forgive me.
I'm alright now. Don't worry.
Go back to your own room now.
Tonight we'lI stay here with you.
Now, just relax and go back to sleep.
Is everything alI right?
What is it?
Everything's fine. l'm just going to the bathroom.
ShaII I go with you?
No! ...no! ...no! ...no!
ReaIly. WelI, good night. Everything's fine.
Good night.
Yukio-san,
what are aIl those peopIe doing in the house?
Her heart was weak too.
She followed her husband to the grave.
There's things we need to discuss, alI together.
So soon after her husband's death!
I think we shouId keep the funeraI very private, yes?
Did you... did you remember something?
We've a ready checked the rooms.
There's nothing suspicious.
Ah, so you're the famous Dr. Daitokuji are you?
Just because you have a few medaIs, don't let it go to your head,
you arrogant bastard.
Doctor!... Doctor!
Doctor!
Takie-san! Toshiko-san! Suzu-san!
Are you stilI here?
Anyone stiII around?
A pIague victim. Inform the poIice,
and the quarantine station immediateIy.
Doctor! Doctor! HeIp me!
Epidemic containment!
Bring the protective clothes from father's room.
Doctor! Open up. pIease!
Doctor! ...Doctor!
Quick!
What's the matter?
It's the mayor...
The mayor's had a IittIe too much to drink.
he feII down...
What?
A stake, he feII on a stake!
Doctor! Help me!
Doctor!
What's the matter, doctor? Doctor!
Toshiko-san. Suzu-san,
move them away as far away as possibIe,
and try not to touch the chiId.
Takie-san.
In here.
This way.
Yukio!... What about the mother and chiId?
Hold his legs and arms down, pIease.
I'II anesthetize him.
It's aII right.
Compared to the wounds I treated on the battIefieId, this is easy.
Yukio! Doctor!
What about the mother and chiId?
Please leave the room. You shouIdn't see this.
ScaIpeI.
Yes.
l'm sorry. It's just... the mother and chiId,
she'd heard the rumors about you too,
and believed it... totaIIy believed it...
You must know how terribIe the plague can be!
And where did they come from, do you think?
From the sIums!
The sIums are breeding grounds of infection.
And it's not just disease.
Robberies and break-ins and numerous other crimes.
Just the other day I treated a chiId
who had been struck by a brat from the sIums.
Maybe...
he said something hurtfuI to the slum chiIdren?
There must have been a reason.
That's not true.
They're just Iike that, those peopIe. From birth.
That's what father would have said ...
Instead of your house, the fire shouId have taken the sIums,
the whoIe place should be razed to the ground.
Strike at the very root of the probIem.
That would be the end of aIl our troubles.
... And you?
What do you think, Yukio?
Is that reaIIy what you think?
I don't want to think that way.
But it can't be heIped, can it?
It's not easy to protect a person from eviI.
So you're saying the sIum people aren't even human?
You're saying they're eviI?
And if they're not eviI, they're just nobody?
What's wrong with you?
Why are you so argumentative?
What's come over you?
You're not a nobody
simply because I validate your existence.
You yourself don't even know who you are!
Doctor.
Oh, are you stiII here?
There's no consulting this afternoon.
Yes. There was a caIl from the university hospitaI.
The mayor is making an exceIIent recovery.
He's back to his oId seIf,
and as soon as his stomach is recovered,
he'd Iike to come and pay his respects.
RealIy...
PersonaIly, I think you made the right choice that night.
Where the heII is Rin?
Rin?
Ah, you're awake, master!
I'lI get breakfast ready for you immediateIy.
Good morning.
Thank you.
Closed for a while
What is it?
Um, I've decided to close the surgery for a whiIe.
The sIum family from the other day may have Ieft their germs around.
Someone could falI sick because of it, and we can't have that.
Don't worry. Just think of it as a short holiday.
It's been so hectic lateIy.
You! Who are you?
Who are you?
I... am you.
I know everything about you.
Your habits, your tastes, everything.
So you're the one who's been spying on me.
I didn't have the desire to watch you in bed though.
Don't tell me you're thinking of laying a hand on my wife!
You dare, and I'lI kiII you!
Good.
But tell me, how do you pIan to get out and kiII me?
l never thought I'd hear such barbarous words from you.
You!...
You're the one who kiIled my parents... aren't you!
CouId be.
Why didn't I think to check that!
Rin. ...Rin.
Rin, forgive me. That time, everything happened so fast,
I couIdn't expIain properIy.
Maybe the mayor's wound reminded me of the front-Iine,
but I suddenly felt so exhausted...
I think I was Iooking for your approvaI.
I acted Iike a spoiIt chiId.
Your words brought out the tyrant in me.
I knew you were troubled too, Yukio.
And yet l repIied by shouting at you Iike that.
I acted disgracefuIIy.
My wife... did you make advances to my wife?
Did Rin accept you?
What... What have I ever done to you?...
l've tried to make people happy, I can't remember
doing anything that would inspire hatred.
So, what shalI we do about the Daitokuji Surgery?
Maybe I'll give your patients injections of my piss.
Help! Help! Open the cover!
Hey! Anybody!
Rin! Rin! Shige!
Hey! Anybody!
Rin! Rin! Shige!
Shige! Are you there, Shige!
What's the matter? Can't eat?
In that case, I'lI treat you to a deIicious taIe.
Want to hear it?
Or not? Oh weII, never mind.
What, you want to hear it? I can't hear you.
Do you want to hear the story or not?
I want to hear it...
ReaIly? Good. In that case, I'lI telI it to you.
Pay attention.
It's about your greatest anxiety right now.
Who am I? That's of no consequence.
No. It's about Rin.
She's one of those people you despise the most.
A woman from the sIums.
Rin is a beggar woman.
You think I'm lying. You want to beIieve I'm Iying.
I'm afraid it's the indisputabIe truth.
And most important of aII,
in the slums, Rin was my woman.
That burn mark on Rin's leg? It wasn't caused by the fire.
Yukio,
she doesn't suffer
from amnesia either.
No such thing. Can't you see that?
What on earth have you been thinking about Rin?
What the hell do you think you know?
I just meant a vow, a sign of our Iove. ...Not this...
not marking each other with the same scar.
A pIedge is enough, with our Iittle fingers.
Hey, stop fooling around, for god's sake!
Stop!
What's the matter?
QuickIy, come in.
Hey... Hey!
Hey!
That's a nice hair cIip.
l gave one just Iike it to my fiancee.
She's dead now though.
It's a terrible worId we live in.
Because peopIe Iike you exist!
Someone who'd kill a man's wife and his entire famiIy.
And then give his thievings to his woman.
Thank you. God.
At Iast. I've found him.
Leave me!
Sutekichi!
ImbeciIe! No matter how bad things got,
I never taught you to do that.
Thief!
Murderer!
Who picked the thief's purse in the middle of the night?
You bastard!
Why do you only act like my father when you upbraid me?
What? The truth is,
Sutekichi, you are not...
you're not my son.
Stop! Stop!
A baby came floating down the river.
When I saw it was still breathing, incredibIy. I picked it up for a Iark.
A performer's Iife is about attracting sympathy.
A chiId with a nasty birthmark like you was a godsend.
Idiot! After all I did to bring you up, you repay my kindness with eviI.
Never show your face here again!
You lot, get him out of my sight!
I'm sorry.....
I'm sorry.......
Sutekichi!
Rin! ...Rin!
Sutekichi!
Don't move!
Rin! You'lI only be with that bastard for a IittIe whiIe.
I'II come back for you.
Sutekichi!
Just wait.
Rin! ...Rin!
You've come back for me.
Sutekichi ...
What are you talking about. Rin?
Were you dreaming, Rin?
What?
Once... When I was a child... I had a dream...
My younger brother would come to see me...
ReaIIy. Your brother, huh.
That means your memory is sIowIy coming back, then.
Huh? Yes... It is...
Rin a woman from the sIums...
That's funny...
Ouch! ... My head... HeIp... HeIp!...
Somebody heIp me!
What is it. Rin?
Yukio... Recently, you reaIly seem to want me.
Before, when you embraced me, it was alI over in an instant.
What's come over you?
I reaIly can't fathom why you've become so strange.
Was spying on us in bed so unbearabIe?
Huh, sweet Sutekichi.
RealIy... WeIl. I suppose it would be...
Are you angry with me?
Even after you promised you'd come back for me,
I went and hooked up with another man.
But I was betrayed by circumstances, that's aIl .
Everybody works so hard.
You can't expect to get money for nothing?
Someone Iike you, must be used to rape everyday.
I'lI pay you to stay with me,
you sIut.
I have...
certain unusuaI tastes.
It's not my fauIt... He was wicked...
Sutekichi... Come back soon...
Sutekichi!
He's come back. Sutekichi, Iooking realIy fantastic.
And there was I in my rags. I was so embarrassed, I ran away.
l reaIly thought you'd come back...
Don't ask me to forgive you...
Berate me instead. ScoId me as much as you like,
pIease, scold me.
It's tragic.
You've Iost your memory, and you've become obsessed with this silIy story.
You... What is your relation to this famiIy?
Are you and he accomplices in some game?
Are you both playing with me?
If not, then telI me where the other one's gone?
It doesn't matter how long you go on pretending,
it's aIl over as soon as I see this.
l'm getting on better with your woman everyday.
Since she's getting on so welI with me, wilI you give up on her?
I mean, she's a sIum woman.
By the way, the game's over.
I won't be bringing you any more meaIs.
Savor your Iast mouthfuI.
A wonderful sight.
Yes, a wonderfuI sight...
Sutekichi. Today. I was in town, and I saw a fellow
who looked exactly like you.
Like a pea from the same pod! lt took my breath away.
Sutekichi, truth is you're not really my son.
A baby came floating down the river.
When l saw it was still breathing, incredibly, I picked it up for a lark.
How are you? Do you get it yet?
Your father and mother murdered me!
My father... my father was a doctor...
He saved Iives...
They'd never... do any such thing...
But they did. Your father and mother murdered me.
Because of this ugly birthmark.
I was murdered...
To keep the nasty truth hidden, eh?
Now, Iisten welI.
This fiIthy murderer's blood fIows in you too!
Father... mother... me too... we couId never kiII anything...
Lies! You're alI murderers.
KiIIers!
FiIthy murdering bastards!
Why do you think I came back to this town?
For Rin, of course.
Yesterday's enemy is today's friend.
The battle's over, the war's at an end...
KiII me... pIease...
We praise their martial skills.
They praise our courageous hearts...
KiII me... pIease...
What shaII I do?
KiII you?
Or not kilI you?
You decide.
With fond farewells and salutes.
We part, wheeling right and left...
A kiIIer... a kiIIer...
After aIl that I did to help, a murderer...
Daitokuji ... Yukio.
WelI. Do you intend to carry on this imposture even when we sIeep?
That's it. I was betrayed after aII. By you...
No matter how long l waited, you never came, did you...
As long as I keep waiting. Sutekichi wilI never return...
Sutekichi probably died somewhere,
and his souI took over Yukio's body to come and meet me.
In the ruins of that fire. I decided to start a new Iife, you see.
It's alI because you never came back for me.
That man, Yukio,
he toId me, he loved me, he was gentIe with me.
Much more gentIe than you ever were.
Just when I was about to be Ioved, you bastard,
you ruined it. You're too cruel.
Stop it, pIease.
I beg you.
I'lI do anything, anything you want,
if we could onIy go back to the way we were.
The happy reIationship we had.
Why are you acting so hystericaIIy?
From now on, Iet's try
and heal your sickness, the two of us, together.
Brother...
Sutekichi is dead...
And his soul has taken over Yukio, his denticaI twin...
He's come back to judge me for my sins...
Rin!....
Rin!
Come on, push, that's it, come on now.
Right, I'm off on my rounds.
Take care.
Madam. I'm back.
I've done the shopping.
Oh, there you are. Thank you.
Well, why don't you start preparing the meaI.
Oh, it's the golden medal boy. Been a Iong time.
Hey, how are you, you arrogant bastard...
Good day.