Tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of the Ark of Truth disaster.
The religious cult introduced a genetically engineered virus
into Tokyo's water supply, which serves 11 million people.
The contamination left
128 dead, and 8,000 others poisoned.
Tomorrow morning at 8AM, Memorial services will be held
for victims families at the 5 contaminated reservoirs.
Those attending
will offer silent prayers
3 years after the cult was forced
to disband, former members have
again begun proselytizing
and they are once more under police surveillance.
Tomorrow, exactly 3 years after the disaster, Victims Groups
are expected to appeal to the government for strict sanctions
against any activity by former cult members.
That's all for the news Next we'll be going live
from the first round of the 82nd Annual High School.
Baseball National Championships.
No outs, runners on first and second...
the pitcher is ready to throw his 4th pitch, and it's...
Hello.
Time to check your temperature, Tanabe san.
Temperature time.
Your son's visiting you today.
What music did you like back then? What kind of music?
we listened to lots of recited songs...
And also... popular music, old ones like...
We don't have any kids, so bring yours to visit.
What's her name again?
Ayumi.
Ayumi? How old?
A year and a half.
That's when they're cutest There was a time when
my wife and I talked about it too, but it's too late now.
We gave up... Besides, it's so much fun spoiling other people's kids.
Hey you...
I'm home.
So I told the boss...
"Leave it all to Kai and he'll do a great job"
I'm always telling him to keep you where you are.
Thank you
I'm not like, fishing for your gratitude,
but whenever you're the best one for the job,
I'll tell him so.
You take care of things like today, everything'll be fine, OK?
Do my best.
It'd be great if I could get a ride with you.
Which way are you going, Atsushi? Mind picking me up in Shibuya?
See you there, then.
Yeah, great, thanks! Bye then.
See.
Who?
That's Atsushi, a friend from high school.
Says he wants to get together tomorrow.
Can I come along?
Why not?
It's my day off and everything Don't shut me out
I take you lots of places.
Yeah, but I want to meet your friends.
Cut it out.
You re hiding something.
It was a guy.
How could I tell?
I called him Atsushi, right?
You never know, could be a...
Oh, enough...
Can't fool me.
Did you get sauce on my cheek?
Hot!
Nothin' better to do...
She should get a life.
I mean, all she does is spy on us.
It's not like they own the place.
We live upstairs and have a kid, that's all.
Her husband's useless anyway.
Oh, there there, now, there there.
Papa! Papa!
She wants her papa.
Hey, wow!
Hear that?
Those lilies?
Golden rayed.
For real?
Yeah, for real.
Guess they know not to grow low where people can reach them.
Wanna get one?
Yeah.
Can you?
Probably...
if I really go for it.
I can get it.
Impossible... A little impossible.
Kind of steep, huh.
Oh, hello.
Been awhile.
Did you just arrive?
No, nodded off.
Caught the first train First one here again.
Been well?
They're not here yet.
No...
Do I reek? Of booze?
Oh... no.
What a nice day...
Yeah, I mean, last year With all that rain...
Kept wishing I'd brought rain boots.
But this year it's good...
Looks like it'll hold.
What the...
They're here.
Thanks
Sorry.
You're late, jerk.
It's just there was this lily...
Right, forget it.
Thank you.
Been awhile.
Been awhile Sorry we're late
Sorry, really.
Hey, been awhile.
Been awhile.
So are you still a teacher, Kiyoka san?
Yeah.
She could teach you.
Yeah, I guess...
Still a student?
Guess I should get a little smarter.
Kids get crushes on you?
No.
Kids like me...
But they tease me.
Like about sex?
Like what?
A fantasy of yours?
Always wanted...
Huh...
But like where do you live?
Really digging, huh?
Not digging... 'Course I'm on the outskirts.
Apartment? Public housing?
Something like that...
Something like that?
How big a place, then? A 1 bedroom?
Something like that...
Something like what... C'mon, tell me! Ours is small.
Hey, you're married?
Yeah, didn't you know?
Oh, second time!
Who asked you?
Right, when the road gets so narrow...
Can you get the radio here? Hey, what time, what time is it?
Eleven.
The radio, radio, the radio OK?
Sure, fine.
Listen, today's...
Toto Engineering, that was my school.
That right?
Championships?
Hey, hey, hey, quiet!
Toto's last championship
was 17 years ago, my class I was on the team.
For real?
For real, real! We lost in no time.
Bench warming right?
Position?
Me? Second.
The earth's special at the Championships Arena.
When you step on the ground there,
it's feels like super hot... You listening?
The earth at the Arena, they use volcanic ash from Kagoshima,
and special sand from the Tottori dunes.
Don't you root for Tokyo? Your local team?
Never.
Man, you're no fun.
For someone who...
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Aren't you a little loud back there, for real!
Hey! Turn it up! Louder! Hey! Hey!
The second batter's cleared third! He stopped!
Don't stop there! Go, go go!
Oh, that...
No, I got it.
Thank you.
What a crappy bike.
We re off, Masaru.
Yeah, sure.
Hey, gettin' cloudy.
It's not cloudy, just some clouds.
Listen to this brat.
What's that long stick, Masaru? That thing.
This? A flute.
A flute? You sure?
Watch out for bees.
Bees, right They just love dark clothes.
They can't keep away I think you blew it
I blew it.
The flute itself was made in Indonesia.
Huh, got anything to do with your brother...
Nope.
Like praying for his spirit or something like that?
Nope, not at all.
Sure?
Thought it'd feel good to play it here.
Muddy!
Man, did I wear the wrong shoes!
that was sorta cool.
You OK?
Gettin' hungry.
Yeah.
Sure smells good.
Great weather.
Ouch!
That's gotta be him
I've seen that guy on TV.
I swear.
Kiyoka, what did you bring for lunch? What's for lunch?
Secret.
No fair.
Have to wait for lunch.
Did you pack rice balls?
Secret.
Why? Don't be like that.
Man, that was good.
Look look.
Woops.
Lousy.
Dropped it.
Hey, I hear it's hard to make good rolled omelets, you listening?
My wife says so... Yours are better than hers.
Really?
Guess that's not nice Hers aren't so bad.
How old is your daughter now?
One and a half Listen...
Listening!
Ayumi!
Ayumi, huh?
She's still tiny... but she says Papa and Mama, right?
And when she's throwing something away,
she says " poi," like " poi" It sounds so great.
And my wife does manicures and
you know those fedi...
Pedicures!
Exactly, so those fedicures, which my wife does,
she gives them to our girl, too, and it's so cute.
Just like little red rubies.
The apple of your eye.
Listen, you know, it's all about having a family, you know.
Makes you wanna work hard.
Turn around, Kiyoka san.
Oh, great, your dimples were all adorable.
Meaning?
I say let's go have dinner.
Yeah, anything's fine.
Can't wait to get home and give Ayumi her bath.
Watch out!
Watch it!
What is this Some kind of sick joke?
Is this for real? The pits.
What happened here?
Stolen... you think?
Time to call... the cops on the cell phone, right?
For real? For real?
No good We're out of range.
Real bummer.
What do we...
It'll... work out...
Um, this was like... Pretty far by car, wasn't it?
Quite a ways.
Not walking distance.
Can't walk it Impossible.
Leave anything in the car?
Oh, no.
Minoru san?
Where are you going?
Minoru san.
Let's walk back.
Impossible, absolutely.
No point staying here
Masaru,
staying here...
gets us nowhere Time to walk, guys.
Minoru san
Kai san... Kai san!
Hurry before the sun sets.
Can't camp out here.
No, even if you walk...
Minoru san! You'll just end up camping out anyway.
Listen, c'mon, let's sit down and think this thing through.
Forget it, I'll go alone.
We shouldn't split up We better stay together.
Calm down.
If something happens...
And work tomorrow?
It'll turn pitch black part way.
What, then?
You re... with the cult, aren't you?
Bike... yours?
It's mine.
It's gone.
What?
I think it got like stolen.
What?
Can't get back...
Be pretty rough from here.
We're all related to the perpetrators.
We came to pray on their anniversary.
By car... It was gone when we got back...
The closest...
No, there's nothing around here.
But you lived around here?
Around here, but it's still a good ways.
Do you have a phone?
We've got phones, but we re out of range.
Yeah, right.
What'll you do?
The guy in navy says he's going back.
Oh, no, that's impossible It's really a long way.
But I've got to get back.
Can't we go... there?
Forget that guy, man.
Just wait a minute, just a minute.
I guess that's our only choice...
But... it's been a real long time since I...
There's nothing...
Just having a roof...
I'm taking off, Masaru!
We don't have many options...
C'mon, for real Listen, I'm serious.
Forget it, why would I go there? I'm not going there, man!
Why would I go with him!
You guys are crazy, man!
Pretty standard.
Stinks in here.
What, take em off? Have to take our shoes off?
No shoes allowed? Shoes off?
If you don't mind.
What the...
Second floor?
Yeah.
Years of dust...
Cobwebs...
Blech!
Rusty, rust.
You all... lived here.
Six of you?
Yes...
What'd you do?
We had a garden, so we'd tend it and...
So you grew stuff... and ate it.
Yes, we ate it.
Like I told you, I'm Satoshi's younger brother, Enoki Masaru.
And she's...
I'm Yamamoto.
Oh, Yamamoto san's wife...
And the one who wanted to walk back before...
He's Kai san, Kai Minoru.
And the one outside is Mizuhara Atsushi
I think his sister was here...
Can you tell?
Mizuhara san's brother?
Yes
I'm gonna go out.
What, now?
Right back...
It's getting dark.
Be fine...
It's dangerous...
Wait.
Take this.
Thanks, be right back!
OK
We're getting, we're
being contaminated,
in our everyday lives and by the environment, but...
But isn't that what life... does to people?
But don't you see, that's your position.
But you start to see the pollution, once you really go there.
It's because you haven't truly opened yourself, nobody has.
But that's life, isn't it?
Don't you see,
you have to open yourself, grasp the truth and then live.
It's not about not living, of course we live, we eat food and...
So when I'm there, I engage in serious practice.
What about Takuya?
We take him along I can teach him everything over.
First you open yourself
that's our mantra.
Once you open yourself, it comes out from a deeper place.
If you practiced there, you'd discover it.
It's inside of you The truth is.
Let's go... C'mon...
So let's go and then we can come back here again.
And talk it over again... OK?
I'm... I'm happy as I am.
You're different now.
We used to talk about all this when we were students.
Why'd you have to become this way?
Become so different?
We used to be more serious.
About the truth.
About what real education is.
There's real education there.
They've put me in charge of education there.
Let's work together.
Hey.
Go, go, go!
Can I go pee?
The bathroom? Sure.
Your arms...
It's kind of a waste, though, isn't it?
All your medical studies.
You've only got 2 years left, right? You can still do it after that.
I can continue studying medicine in the Group.
And actually I can practice more fundamental healing there.
Fundamental? What's that?
Western medicine only heals the human body, right?
Huh... really?
Why, of course But...
What I want... is to spend my whole life,
studying techniques of healing the human soul.
For real! The soul!
Well, I mean, the thing is...
They say the healthy soul resides in a healthy body, you need exercise!
You always ridicule my ideas.
I mean, it's interesting and all, but,
I think it's fine.
You know, for me, I can only see and believe in my reality.
It's fine that people like you exist, we can't all be the same.
Well, it's fine that people like you exist, too.
Yup It comes down to that.
What's this "Cypress" about?
The thing about cypress...
I mean, wow!
It's not just a matter of finishing the course work
I'm always good at that.
Popsicle's melting.
What?
You want it?
Popsicles... still upset your stomach?
Why'd you buy it, then?
Still super-sensitive, huh.
Did you ever learn to swim? Learn to swim?
At the pool...
I broke into a cold sweat just looking at the water.
Dad used to throw you into the pool, didn't he?
And you never even tried to help me either, like that time...
Really?
Car coming.
But the statute of limitation's up.
I forgive you both You and Dad.
We part here, then.
Oh...
I plan to leave the family officially tomorrow.
With Dad's memorial service over, it's time for me to go
I won't be seeing you again for a long time.
Leave the family...
Your hand's sticky from the Popsicle.
Come every year?
No, not every year.
My first time back...
Your name?
Me?
Atsushi.
Her brother?
Yes.
What was my sister like?
She was a quiet person.
What do you do?
I work in a flower shop.
You got along?
But then everyone who lived here got along...
well.
Have you ever gone in?
Sure.
No, how far?
Pretty far over, actually.
You mean all the way over... to the other side?
I don't believe it!
I have!
All the guys have
I don't believe you...
No, it's...
But I've been here longer.
But we really have.
When did you go?
Like when just the guys came here and swam.
Why just the guys?
Why? Once in awhile, just the guys...
I've even shouted here.
Feels super great.
It echoes.
No...
Really, really.
Amazing, huh?
Where you going?
Nowhere, really.
What a pain to go all the way back.
You see much of the people you came with?
No, only rarely.
We e-mail some, but...
Did you know each other from before
your sister died...
No.
Just go!
I told you to get out.
Just go!
What are you doing here!
You're not involved, leave!
Get out!
Please listen...
No, you jerk, this is about our marriage.
Just get out!
You guys...
Do whatever, then.
Sure fooled me.
I thought you were awful serious about yoga class, but look at this.
Some nerve while I'm workin' my butt off.
What the fuck!
There...
in the Group... we trust each other
very deeply.
It's not your fault, dear.
My fault? You don't trust me, then?
But...
I try to talk to you.
You were never really willing to face me.
What I want is to
start my life over again.
Why?
Finally,
at last,
I have something to live for.
And what's that?
Something... My marriage...
I didn't have at home.
What happened?
Where are all your memories? You're crazy.
Have you been tricked?
It's not funny.
And with Miyamura, of all people, what the hell is this?
After all I did for him.
Who do you trust? Huh?
You trust him or me?
It's not about that.
Who!
It's not about you or him, it's that,
I found a very precious set of values there.
That's called religion You gotta resort to that crap?
No...
This jerk here was worthless even in high school
I had to find him a job, which he up and quit!
Minoru san, your...
Cut the Minoru san crap! Asshole!
You may think I'm a bench warmer, worthless scum...
But...
No buts around here, I don't give a shit, just get out!
I'm living under a completely different set of values now
I've found the absolute.
What the hell's the absolute!
I'm telling you I'm not the same person I was then.
What the... You guys haven't changed at all.
You know what you're doing?
You're breaking the law.
You know that?
Know what you're doing?
You're soliciting You're swindling.
Cut the crap, man.
You jerk, you, it's like... you can't get anything right,
so you just run away from reality.
Cut the crap, man You haven't even got a job.
How you gonna eat, man?
Something's definitely wrong, man.
Then, Minoru san, your reality...
Isn't it false?
What?
Get out, asshole!
Is it genuine?
What the fuck's 'genuine"!
Huh! What's genuine!
Get out of here Huh?
Enough of your crap, you jerk...
Do you need this?
He doesn't need it, the jerk! Just get out!
Dear...
Thank you.
Oh, sorry...
Thanks.
Thank you.
Sure is chilly here.
Have a seat
I'm fine.
Sit down.
You're such an idiot.
Why'd you join the Group?
Well... I wonder...
Your folks?
No... I haven't been in touch with them at all.
Not even your siblings?
No...
Married?
Not married either.
That Group... was it like, comfortable?
It's quiet.
Very quiet.
It's gotten colder.
You OK?
I'm fine.
It's so quiet you can hear everything
I've just been wondering...
What it was like for my sister and everyone.
Was it like a family... Had a warm atmosphere?
Well, yes, in a way.
You ate together?
We did.
You all slept together here?
Together.
Upstairs?
No, not upstairs.
But all those futons.
The police stacked them up like that.
They took everything else away.
You all slept, lined up like sardines in a can?
No, we all slept separately
I slept in the living room
Kai san, she slept up there, where you were before.
With?
There was Kai san and... Mizuhara san...
Mostly... I think the women slept in one room...
Huh... and the guys, were...
Yeah, in the living room or downstairs...
Earlier...
I think it was my sister's.
I found this by the window.
Its fragrance is gone.
It's a daisy sachet.
The bouquet you brought...
My sister's favorite
I see...
I haven't been able to find anything...
But maybe that's just as well.
Why?
We ended up here quite unexpectedly, right?
And I'm not sure
I'd know what to do, if I did find
something of his.
It may sound strange...
Just between you and me,
the last time I saw him, he left his shoes behind.
And I've...
I've never known what to... I still have them.
And if there was something else of his...
You know...
I want to go over there.
To go over there?
You can hear so many birds, but they don't fly.
Yeah... they're just hiding in the trees.
Know the 5 conditions of a solitary bird?
No.
A solitary bird? What's that?
The 5 conditions of a solitary bird The first.
First, the solitary bird
flies to the highest point.
The highest point... How high is that?
Higher than where any other birds fly.
Higher... Huh...
The second.
A solitary bird does not suffer for company
even of its own bird.
The third?
A solitary bird...
Aims its beak to the skies.
What does it mean to aim your beak to the skies?
Like this?
Maybe like this.
Looking at the sky?
Maybe...
See, that bird's high It's flying high, maybe a solitary bird?
Maybe it's solitary.
It's awfully high.
So high.
Where's Masaru?
The bathroom.
What a pee.
How far'd you go?
Into the mountains.
Cold in the mountains.
See anything?
Saw some beetles.
Huh.
Cold...
Cigarettes?
Sure.
Atsushi and Kiyoka, you guys OK missing work tomorrow?
Not me, huh?
You re a student
I'm fine.
And you?
I'll be just fine... We're all in this together.
Tryin' to act cool...
No, just kidding.
You jerk...
You got a little sunburned.
Sunburned? It was so sunny Cut it out, you're blinding me.
Really sunburned.
You sure are.
Teaching fun?
Sure it is.
Go to work, come home...
It's more than that.
No, I mean, I'm sorry, you go to work and teach,
then you go home What do you do when you get home?
After I get home?
Plan my classes, grade papers...
Oh, right.
There's tests... Just like you have
I don't have tests.
Only practical training, so life's a breeze, breezy life.
Have you changed jobs?
No, same job.
What kind of work?
Construction company.
Um... you wear a suit?
Sometimes, coveralls, sometimes.
You like a foreman?
Stuff like that, lots of stuff.
You tired?
Exhausted.
What were those flowers you brought?
Those were... daisies.
You know daisies?
Do you?
Nope.
They were cute You arrange em?
Yeah, from our store.
They smell really good.
Yeah.
Man I'm wiped.
According to statements made by Group members,
the perpetrators bodies were burned,
and their ashes scattered in the lake.
For our part, we conducted an extensive search of the lake,
but found nothing No remains, no articles
I've known him since we were students.
He's a very serious person,
deeply committed to education.
When did you realize your husband was different?
Didn't you know?
What? I couldn't hear.
Your wife had an abortion... Twice.
It's all there in the hospital records.
When was that?
Before she joined the Group.
So you didn't know?
No.
Which means...
She did it without consulting you.
Flowers meant a lot to...
Especially...
the lilies that symbolized the Group.
Always displayed in the entryway.
I remember that distinctly.
Um...
Did you ever notice anything about him
that may have predisposed him to such actions?
I don't know... I mean... From when we were little?
Well, not necessarily from when he was a child, but at any time.
Was there anything... I don't think so.
You didn't live together much.
No, we did.
But we never paid each other much attention.
So, I see... Huh...
A drag...
It's still comin' down pretty hard.
There's a time they call Silent Blue...
I think that's my favorite time of day...
When night becomes morning.
Is that...
the end or the beginning of a day?
It's that moment,
when one day ends and the next begins.
I think maybe I'm...
inside that Silent Blue right now.
I'm participating in a history...
that's about to end, then begin again.
Atsushi, you know,
going back to that stuff about God we were talking about.
God? God, huh...
Do you believe? First, do you or don't you believe?
I don't believe in... God.
So that's your... So there's no God.
Yeah, there's no what you would call "God" inside of me.
Don't you think humans invented the word God in the first place?
I think so too.
So then, is there a God... or what people mean
when they say God, something like that inside of you?
Yeah, there is.
But that's God, isn't it?
For me,
there really is something that takes the place of a God inside me
I don't know that it's absolute.
But whatever it is that I believe in that moment,
I would call it the equivalent of God.
But ultimately God...
and righteousness have been
used to justify
things like mass murder, right?
I think for me, If I...
were going to hurt people,
because I had those beliefs,
then I'd much rather choose a life
of not believing in anything.
Tamaki san.
Welcome home.
Remember?
The poetry book, "For you, my Students".
What are you..?
Just listen,
"Arguing only from past history, and from geological data,
"all of the faiths and ethics of our ancestors,
"and perhaps even our own, appear to be based on falsehoods..."
Didn't you come home?
"foreshadowing only suicide and despair."
Hey!
"Our petty..."
Come back!
Wait! " Our petty squabbles in life and work..."
What is this!
"must now be laid aside..."
What is this!
This is the part! "The time is upon us to unite..."
This is where his poem ends
I finally understand what he was trying to say!
What is this!
Wait, c'mon! I finally understand it...
What is this! What about Takuya?
You don't even ask about him!
What about me!
Hey, read this part...
What is this! What is this!
Read that part, c'mon, hey...
Read this, read this, read this, here!
No! No!
Cut it out! Stop it!
"is upon us to unite..."
Oh... please!
Enough!
Who cares about a poem!
Yamamoto san? Let's see.
He really looked after us,
he really took care of me.
I guess... 'cause he was a teacher,
he brought us closer together.
I was always kind of a slacker,
but he was always serious... Always thinking about everyone else.
He was really generous...
Why... was he...
one of the perpetrators?
I wonder... Yamamoto san was...
I mean it sounds strange, but he was elite.
He was a gifted person and I don't really know why he was,
but for someone like me,
to be chosen to join them, I mean I was just an underling
which makes sense, 'cause I'm stupid.
I mean...
When I was brought into
his circle, I was shocked...
You know he's betrayed us.
He's the kind of elitist who always runs off.
Don't worry, Tamaki san will come back.
He's just gone to bid his wife farewell.
But if he does that, they'll find out.
And so much for all our plans if they find out.
He's definitely suspect.
I mean he's always talking about education and stuff,
but when push comes to shove, he takes off.
Thinks he's elite.
And you, Sakata? No regrets about leaving that world?
I don't think so...
None at all.
Is it really going to work?
I know we have to make it work, but...
I guess we've all got to make it work...
It'll work.
I don't know who's expecting what...
Not that I need anybody's expectations, it's up to me, but...
It's all going to end, isn't it?
It's not ending.
It's not ending, but I kind of like living here...
So it's kind of sad that I won't have that any more
I'm glad
I'm really glad that I got to meet you here.
Oh boy, it's raining hard again.
Thank you.
Wanna escape?
It'll be fine, it'll definitely work We'll succeed
I mean we've already made up our minds, right?
So we can escape.
Having made up our minds is plenty.
Let's take off together.
Of course you won't...
We'll definitely succeed!
We'll succeed.
Yeah, sure, but...
How do we do this?
Put that on...
Put that one under...
Sakata san, why don't you come by the fire.
Sure's cold.
Sure is.
It's wet, but go ahead.
Can I have one?
Back then...
Yeah, we'd light fires just like this.
You couldn't have stopped them, Sakata san?
There's really nothing to say about that.
All kinds of people have asked me that...
I've even been attacked for it,
just walking down the street.
But you had to... some things you would only know if you were here.
And I didn't mean to betray them, but it turned out that way
I wanted to be part of them, still, and if possible,
if we could all agree
to take things in a different direction, that's what I'd hoped.
But there really are some things you can't possibly
understand if you weren't here.
Did you sleep?
A little.
Really, it's that I got sucked into their way of thinking
and it carried me away, that's what I think.
But after everything in this world is washed away
only the chosen few will remain That's what they teach, isn't it?
What's that?
Well... I don't know... I don't really...
Don't "well..." me.
Well... considering who I am, I probably
couldn't comprehend it.
They didn't tell me anything while I was there
I just sensed that maybe
all kinds of horrible things might happen
and I was afraid of what would happen to me if I stayed around for it.
I couldn't stop it...
I wonder what the other five think of you now.
Surely, some of them really cared about you.
Well... I don't really think
I was involved so deeply.
So I don't know what they'd think of me
and I didn't know what they were thinking then
I bet they think you betrayed them.
Well... maybe they think I betrayed them...
But from my point of view, they were the crazy ones.
I don't like to think I belong with people who'd do such things.
I mean, it's obvious, they re the crazy ones.
So even if they think I betrayed them,
it wouldn't mean anything to me Fine, let them think I betrayed them.
So for you...
You'd rather they just disappeared?
Yeah, I guess Yeah, definitely.
Because for me
the truth is, I don't care about them anymore.
You know,
he's dead, your leader.
Couldn't take the pressure Killed himself.
Just what you wanted, huh?
No, it's not what I wanted, but...
I guess in a way... Is that really true?
They were like... "Is your,
"is your life genuine..." and like...
"Minoru san,
"is your life genuine..." that's what they said.
Maybe I'm running away.
I don't know, I really don't know.
But...
Is it really so bad to run away?
Were you close to your sister?
We were.
You don't resemble her
I don't?
She was older by...
Two years.
Don't resemble her?
What was the leader like?
The leader... Well...
When I first joined, it's...
kind of embarrassing, but he was like a father.
When I first joined,
it wasn't such a big
religious organization,
so it felt something like a family, he was like the father.
And now...
What do you think about him now?
I don't think about him at all now.
Shall we go?
Thanks.
Drink some, Atsushi.
Tastes great!
I'd like an egg on that.
An egg, oh, sure.
There you go.
That's mine!
Hello.
Um... Listen...
It's that...
Um... No, like stuff happened.
Um, we had to stay over...
Of course I didn't!
No way I'd do that, c'mon.
Your noodles are ready
I'm sorry, that OK?
I'm sorry, thank you.
There are your noodles.
Thank you.
No I did not!
I'm totally fine.
Thanks.
Enjoy.
I'll explain it later... OK, of course not.
Coming back next year?
There's one thing that bothers me.
Who are you, really?
Um... Are you really her brother?
Yes I am Why? What is it?
The thing is, what I heard,
was that her brother had killed himself a few years back.
That's what my sister said?
That's right.
She probably lied.
No...
If she were lying...
She wouldn't have said it that way.
We're about to reach our final destination.
Please take all your belongings with you.
Thank you for riding Japan Railways today.
Thank you for your patronage
I'm off then.
OK then, see you next year.
Tanabe san passed away Three days ago.
I just assumed you were his son...
But you re not.
His real son came...
He never visited while his father was alive, but...
Who exactly are...
You regret marrying me, don't you?
What about the children? Don't you love them?
You work in a flower shop, too, don't you?
Yes.
Flowers?
I love flowers.
Were you influenced?
I don't think I was influenced...
But I remember the smell of the lilies vividly.
I don't think I was influenced.
One out!
OK, here, bring some water.
Infield, throw to first!
Run, run!
When you get the ball, it's one two!
Move in, in, in!
That ball wasn't for the shortstop!
Who's faster, shortstop or second base, huh?
Keep alert, now!
Don't bother answering me! Be serious!
Keep your eye on the ball!
Oh, and this is great, too.
Pretty, right?
Somehow she's always in the picture.
Look, this guy sitting there's Minoru.
He's that type, huh?
Yeah, we're pretty alike.
All different ages?
Yeah.
This is when our car got stolen at the end.
Car got stolen?
Yeah, what a mess.
What a drag!
That's why my phone didn't work.
But from now on, can't you try to not get so hysterical?
But!
But you said you were coming back
and you didn't...
I thought something'd happened.
Something did
I couldn't sleep, kept calling
I was fine...
But you were in your pajamas, right? You were all ready to go to sleep.
What's the difference!
You always say stuff like that and lie to me, Masaru.
Can you swim?
You know how to swim?
I can't Didn't I tell you, I can't swim.
I'll teach you how.
Why?
Hello?
Oh, Takuya?
Yeah How was it?
Oh, that's wonderful.
Really?
How's grandpa?
That might be a little difficult.
Father...
ARATA
ISEYA Yusuke
TERAJIMA Susumu
NATSUKAWA Yui
ASANO Tadanobu
RYO
NAKAMURA Baijaku
Executive Producers SHIGENOBU Yutaka, SAITO Akira
Development Producer YASUDA Masahiro
Producer AKIEDA Masayuki
Associate Producers URATANI Toshiro, ARAKAWA Reiko
Cinematography YAMAZAKI Yutaka
Sound MORI Eiji
Art Direction ISOMI Toshihiro
Production Manager SHIRAISHI Osamu
Still Photography WAKAGI Shingo
Produced by TV Man Union/ Engine Film Japan Rental System Supply / Imagica Corp.
Directed, Written and Edited by KORE-EDA Hirokazu
English subtitles Linda Hoaglund