I'm home.
I should've listened to you and taken my umbrella.
I'm soaking wet.
So I called him outside on his lunch break and I told him,
"There's lots of guys waiting to take your place."
Right at the busiest time of the lunch hour,
he was just spacing out in the kitchen.
He's totally not helpful.
Who does he think runs that place?
What?
I think he's 3 years younger than me.
That's right, he's an only child.
His parents totally spoiled him. Unbelievable.
Well, who cares about him anyway.
What do you think?
It's so late already.
Skip the bath tonight?
Nozomi... You're beautiful.
Nozomi...
Welcome.
Welcome. Yes, just a moment.
Welcome.
It's so cold.
You're beautiful today, too.
I'm off.
Beau-ti-ful.
AIR DOLL
Moe! Hey, wait!
I forgot.
Off you go!
I'm off!
I'm off...
Burnable, burnable.
Burnable...
Not burnable.
Burnable.
Burnable, not burnable.
Kishida! The stickers!
Thank you.
Not burnable.
Not burnable, burnable.
Burnable...
Thank you.
Do you remember when that family
was murdered in that upper-class neighborhood?
It says here it happened on the 20th of last month.
A judge and his wife
and their daughter, a pianist.
Each of them murdered in their sleep, late at night.
The murderer was already arrested.
He was a failed student.
Her parents wouldn't let him date their daughter.
"Don't copy me.
"Mr. Echo.
"Mr. Copycat."
Cold!
Come here.
Rio!
Yuzu! Yuzuki! Come here.
Haruna! Come!
Yuuki!
Video Rental Shop
Are you looking for something?
Help Wanted
Here we are!
This hill!
Pretending to go straight!
It warmed you up.
I found myself with a heart...
With a heart I was not supposed to have.
Movies are made with film.
Light passes through it and on to a screen.
Film.
Right. You never watched a movie?
That's just a substitute.
You have to watch movies in a movie theater.
Movie... theater?
Kids these days are unbelievable.
What have you seen at a theater recently?
Me?
You know...
There's this one or...
But you can't beat
"Battles Without Honor and Humanity."
"Battles Without Honor and Humanity..."
Battles...
Without...
Don't worry, don't worry.
It'll be fine. Don't worry about what your boss told you.
I don't see you that way at all.
So don't you worry.
I can't believe they keep
that useless guy in charge.
What are they thinking? Right, exactly.
Thank you very much.
Thank you...
What are you looking for?
What?
Wasn't "Battles" great?
"I've still got bullets left, Yamamori san."
Didn't you watch Part 1?
Part 2 is "Hiroshima." Want to rent both?
What are you doing for Christmas, Nozomi?
With your boyfriend?
Your boyfriend, your favorite guy.
You have one, right?
No.
Really?
Yes.
The first time,
I asked my wife out to "Love Story."
I told a lie.
Because I found a heart, I told a lie.
"Planet of the Apes."
"Purple Noon."
Chaplin's "The Great Dictator."
Junichi likes musicals.
Musicals are fun movies with singing and dancing.
"There's Something about Mary" is supposed to be really funny.
The water's just right.
You've got to get all the way in.
Your only flaw is that your body's so cold.
Can you tell?
Smells great. It's a popular shampoo.
I spent 100 Yen more than the usual shampoo.
100 Yen makes a big difference.
Great...
Lucky you. You don't age.
I... found a white hair down there.
What a shock.
I wonder how much longer I can make love to you.
So damned pretty.
The Winter Triangle.
Don't make me repeat myself.
Can't you ever remember?
There's Sirius.
And Procyon.
And Betelgeuse.
That's not true. You're beautiful, too.
No point being jealous of the stars.
I am an air doll.
A substitute for handling sexual desire.
Nozomi... Always stay beside me.
Do you like it?
What is up there?
Up in the sky, there's air. And clouds float there.
At night, the moon and the stars come out.
It's invisible, so you can't see it. But it's there.
You can't see it. But it's there.
Hard to understand.
Is that the ocean?
Yes, that's right.
Have you never seen the ocean?
No.
There's so many boats.
What does it mean "To get old"?
It means aging and getting closer to death.
Death?
Yes.
Losing life.
Life...
Even here, you can smell the sea.
This smell reminds me of my childhood.
Reminds me, too...
You can eat your broccoli.
Aren't you going to eat?
No.
Moe, that's not a comb.
But Ariel was doing it.
Who?
A-ri-el.
Ariel... Right, she was.
You don't know, Daddy. I saw it with Mommy.
Excuse me.
A beer.
And also, what I asked for before.
Yes, sir.
Hey, you ate your carrot?
Yeah.
You can eat the rest then.
Hey, what happened?
A blackout?
Is it a blackout?
What?
A birthday.
A birthday?
They're celebrating the day she was born into this world.
Look, a present from your mom.
Blow them out.
Does everybody have one?
A birthday?
What's that?
White clover.
White clover... White clover...
That's a dandelion.
Is this about to be born, now?
No, it's already wilted.
Poor thing.
But it has to die someday.
Otherwise the world would be overrun.
Hard to understand.
What else do you want to know?
I want to know more about you.
"Candy..."
"5,980 Yen."
I'm home.
Were you lonely?
Okabe suddenly took the day off.
What's he thinking...
I'm an air doll.
A late model, cheap one...
A girl called Ari or Mari or something,
is combing her hair with a fork, like this...
You don't know?
No...
That must be "The Little Mermaid." It's over here.
You have it. Thanks.
I'm sorry...
A movie with a super-bad cop in it.
Like a totally corrupt cop, making bad drug deals, rotten to the core.
Rotten?
Yeah, got anything?
Then, how about,
"Bad Lieutenant", Abel Ferrara.
Is it really bad?
It's more than bad. Harvey Keitel is the worst.
The worst...
Why don't you rent "Donnie Brasco", too?
Al Pacino plays a guy in the mafia.
And Johnny Depp is a cop?
Yeah.
I've seen it.
You have.
Excuse me...
You can wipe them off with this.
The lines.
Lines?
"Dreams?"
"Dream..."
"Dream?"
OK, how about Theo Angelopoulos?
"The Beekeeper."
Gelo?
Angelo...
Across the river there's a big DVD store.
You can't rent "Dream of Light." You have to buy it.
"The Beekeeper" comes in a box set,
so you probably can't rent it, even there.
Thanks.
Across the river...
Thank you.
I'm sorry...
I am useless...
What's your name?
Look at the flowers.
What's the flower called?
Excuse me.
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Say, do you know a bug called the mayfly?
The mayfly...
Dies a day or 2 after it gives birth.
So its body is empty.
No stomach or intestines.
It's filled with eggs instead.
It's a creature that's born only to give birth.
Humans aren't so different.
Pointless...
I'm empty, too...
A marvelous coincidence.
I'm the same...
I'm all empty.
I wonder if there are others.
These days, everybody is.
Everybody?
Yes, especially
everyone living in this kind of city.
You're not the only one.
Say, do you know this poem?
Poem?
You don't know poems?
Doesn't matter.
"Life is..."
Life is...
Let's see, "life is..."
Let's see, life is?
It seems life
is constructed in a way
that no one can fulfill it alone.
Just as
it's not enough for flowers
to have pistils and stamens.
An insect or a breeze
must introduce a pistil to a stamen.
Life contains its own absence
which only an Other can fulfill.
It seems the world is the summation of Others.
And yet,
We neither know nor are told
that we will fulfill each other.
We lead our scattered lives,
perfectly unaware of each other...
Welcome, would you like to buy a cake?
The master has come home.
Welcome back, Master.
Or at times, allowed to find
the Other's presence disagreeable.
Why is it,
that the world is constructed so loosely?
I'm Misato.
How old are you, Misato?
I'm 24.
24...
Misato, do you know a good restaurant nearby?
I just started yesterday.
I understand.
What do you like?
I like pasta.
I like pasta, too!
I want Extra Rice.
I want Extra Rice, too.
Cancel the ham and cheese hamburg steak.
Lunch specials?
More water with lots of ice.
Right away.
I'll take the lunch special instead.
The lunch special?
The suspect, Kume, confessed
that he had bought one gram from a foreigner for 7,000 Yen when he traveled to Osaka.
So expensive...
A horse fly,
bathed in light,
flies in close
to a blooming flower.
I, too, might have been
someone's horse fly.
Perhaps you, too,
had once been my breeze.
No customers...
No...
I hope it'll be OK.
I like it here...
This store.
What's the name of the movie adapted
from a Stephen King novel, starring River Phoenix when he was 15?
"Stand by Me."
Correct.
Great!
OK, then,
the Hollywood movie that became Matsuda Yusaku's last film?