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Come in.
We’ve been waiting.
You look so serious... what’s your name?
I hate my name.
Can we call you ‘Hanako’?
‘Hanako’?
That’s my parrot’s name.
OK...
...then I’ll call you ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’.
That’s fine.
Or ‘One’, ‘Two’ and ‘Three’.
Today’s your birthday...
You’re 17, aren’t you.
For the next year, you’re our lover.
All of us are infertile, unfortunately.
You’ll have no worries.
From now on, your body is ours.
We’ll make love to you.
As much as we like.
You’ll come here for that.
All right...
...show us your body.
Parrot’s wings!
No. They’re angel’s.
Whatever
Just to be sure...
...you’re willing to have us buy you?
OK, here goes.
You’re really something.
- Who’s that? - I don’t know.
- She’s still watching you. - Come on.
Your daughter?
Cute, isn’t she.
Something’s not right...
Like what?
You’ve got a bad history.
When your wife was in here...
...I was tempted to tell her.
What wife? I’m not married.
She’s not your daughter?
Just kidding.
Mr Osaki, I never know when you’re joking or not.
Anything you like?
That looks nice. Try it on.
Well?
You look great.
Pervert.
That’s pretty harsh from someone who’s so wet.
Real soon I want to teach you how to come.
Animal!
This is against the law, you know.
I saw Hanako.
His daughter.
I wonder if she knows her father’s dead...
I hate them.
They stink.
I’m sick of this.
Toshihiro...
...raise some more money.
You’re too sick to do another one.
Stupid! I don’t mean a film.
Is there something you want?
Yes.
Come here.
Look...that girl standing alone on the balcony.
She just turned.
Hanako?
She looks like her, doesn’t she.
I watch her every day.
I want to force her open with my dick, stick it into her again and again...
...wiggle it around, and make her ass quiver.
I want to make her a woman who wants to open her legs for me.
It’s a funeral.
So how do you mourn? By fucking? I guess that’s what it’s about.
What?
You think that’s it?
Don’t think. Just follow your dick.
Well, you sure seem to be doing what he’d have wanted.
Aw, shuddup.
Hanako?
You still in there?
Hanako?
You’re tired...
She’ll catch cold.
There he goes again...
Where were you?
Chikako...
Are you starting that again?
No!
A friend of yours came by earlier...
A friend?
A cicada...
Want to come to my place?
I’m busy.
Yeah?
A boyfriend?
OK. Another time.
Here.
You can have this.
They give a lot of summer homework these days...
It’s not primary school.
So...
...what did you do last summer?
I went to my Grandma’s.
Summer at Grandma’s...
Wasn’t that a movie?
What was it called?
‘Surprise Party’.
What was the girl’s name?
‘Lisa’
Lisa?
Yeah, that’s it.
1984.
That long ago?
You’re the expert.
Thanks.
I always spend the summer at my grandmother’s.
But this year I’ve got summer school.
And us, don’t forget.
Hey, you were good in school. Give her a hand.
This is easy!
Want a drink?
No, thanks.
What the hell?!
Don’t!
What is it?
It took off!
Over there!
Catch it!
It went in the bedroom!
Do you see it?
There it goes!
Careful, careful... take it easy...
It took off again!
Where?
Huh?
Let’s take her somewhere.
Yeah...
There it is!
We’ve got a cage...
Does all the stuff here belong to you guys?
No.
Was it here when you came?
No.
Then whose is it?
Dunno.
Here’s the cage.
Hey! ‘Uncle Gitanes’!
So it is you!
It’s been a while. Remember me?
Yeah.
Are you still making films?
No.
My dad died, didn’t he.
Was there a funeral?
You don’t know either?
Mom won’t tell me anything.
When I heard he’d died, I tried to remember him...
...but I couldn’t even remember his face.
We’re going!
Gotta go.
Don’t smoke too much. Stay healthy.
‘Bye.
No school today?
I’m taking the day off.
I don’t want to go.
Why are you here so early?
I came to wake you up.
That’s nice.
Tell me...
...why did you take this on?
What?
Us.
Do I have to answer?
Not really.
Money, maybe...
I can see that.
The timing?
Of course.
Then what should I say?
Good question...
Hey...
Why do you never do it with me? All you do is watch.
You don’t like that?
You’re like a brother.
I think I have a half-brother. Not my mother’s son.
Cut it out, will you? No one’s asked you that.
Can’t you get it up?
Back off.
Can you do that?
Let me see. What colour?
- Blue. - Blue? This is blue here.
Here. There’s three left. Turn it 180 degrees...
Back off.
No! That’s the same one!
You had a blue there!
Wait a minute!
Is Toshihiro here?
Not yet.
It’s time to leave. Shall we go on ahead?
Yeah...
Oh, I saw a girl here, in the same school uniform as yours.
A friend?
No one I know.
So you’re here, are you...
Wow! It’s huge!
Aren’t you watching?
Yes, I am.
Widening out...
...beyond the wide sky...
...all our different memories...
...run in their tracks...
...and never fade.
A freshly picked orange...
...and then an old well...
All our different memories...
...like a flashlight...
...never fade.
Changing light and shadow...
...echo through this world.
It’s love, I guess.
Ah, I’ve found the underside...
...of memories that can’t return.
I’ve found it!
That night it came home to me that even these people...
...had once been children.
They had bought a year of my life.
Thinking that, I felt as if...
...all their grief was flowing into my body.
Changing light and shadow echo through this world.
It’s love, I guess.
36 degrees, 7 minutes, a slight fever...
That’s fine with me.
That’s fine, isn’t it?
After that night, ‘C’ stopped coming.
Morning.
Good morning, boss.
There he is.
Hey! You OK?
Just before the summer ended, both my cicada and my Grandma died.
I didn’t feel sad.
RIP CICADA
Your friend phoned.
Call her back.
KARATANI RYOKO
Sorry it’s so late.
Aren’t you at home?
Yeah. The window’s open.
What’s up?
Want to skip school tomorrow?
I found a movie that looks pretty good.
But...
Why not? Exams are over.
Well...
...if it rains.
Are you sorry you said you’d come if it rained?
No.
I’m glad you did.
My little brother. He just showed up.
You dragged me along!
I’ll buy you a ticket.
You don’t have to...
It’s OK. I invited you.
Three adults.
I got yours, too.
Damn right!
You’ll want a drink. I’ll get you one.
The middle OK?
Here.
Thanks
Where’s mine?
I didn’t get you one. I can’t carry three.
Go get your own.
Unbelievable!
Um...
...that boyfriend of yours is really old, isn’t he.
I saw him. I followed you once in the summer.
What are you up to, anyway?
I don’t know.
You just came up and started talking to me...I don’t even know you.
That’s true, but I’ve been watching you ever since Grade 10.
Why?
You were always out on the balcony, looking really bored.
But you still came to school, even with a hickey.
I was jealous.
Of what?
I wonder...
So do I.
Ever since I first saw you...
...I’ve wanted to be you.
I imagine how you look...
...when you’re having sex.
Ow!
I’m sorry! Are you OK?
Yeah.
Put some water on it.
I will.
I can do that myself.
I decided I would forget this day.
The day itself, the movie theatre...
...what had been squirted into me...
All of it should have been erased.
That kiss should have erased it.
Are you sick?
Maybe my cold’s not over.
Serves you right for taking a rain check.
You’re ours.
When we were in primary school, maybe Grade 5...
...we saved up our allowances to buy radio-controlled aircraft.
It was a secret. Then my parents went and bought me one for Christmas.
So next we fixed on 10-speed bikes.
We knew if we told our parents they’d buy them for us.
For dumb-ass kids like us...
...there was nothing we couldn’t get.
‘Maybe when we grow up,’ we told ourselves...
...and agreed to keep saving up in secret.
So you are...
...our radio-controlled plane...
...and our 10-speed bike.
Hey!
What’s wrong?!
Are you OK?!
Hang on!
Hello? I need an ambulance...
I’m OK.
The same room...
We’ll get you moved when another one opens up.
This is fine.
Part of the funeral.
Don’t talk like that. Get some rest.
That’s nice of you.
You can see my school...
What’s wrong?
You missed Phys-Ed class. Are you on your period?
He’s good, is he?
Not really.
What were you thinking about?
Everyone’s having such fun. I can’t be innocent like that.
I can’t remember when I could.
I feel like I’m an empty shell.
Are you like that?
Maybe.
Maybe everyone else feels like they’re really alive...
I envy them.
Don’t act like you’ve already lost what you’re afraid to lose.
Take it to the grave if you want. It’ll be rotten by then, though.
Huh?
Are you here again?
You’ve grown up a bit...
...become a woman.
Why are you crying?
You’re weird.
GYNAECOLOGY
It’s me.
Remember?
I think I got pregnant that time in the theatre.
What?
The phone call.
Just forget it.
I was there, too.
Hey...
What can you do?
Get rid of it.
How?
Why did I call him?
Maybe I just wanted to have that day in common with him.
I’m no good with women.
I want things to stay like this!
Can’t be done.
I knew a man who wanted everything like it was when he was a boy.
He was a fool. He’s dead now.
Hello, Princess.
You’re carrying his baby?
The Prince doesn’t want an heir.
He wants us to sign as your guardians so you can dump the kid.
Don’t say it like that!
Keep quiet.
That’s no attitude to take when you’re asking a favour, kid.
Hanako...
...you’re still under contract.
Your body is ours.
Screw this.
Let’s go.
Hanako...
...take off your panties and open your legs.
You crazy old fart!
Don’t!
Hey!
Lift your skirt and insert your finger.
Deeper.
Try to touch your womb.
Stop it...
Stop it! Please!
I thought his eyes were beautiful.
Maybe...
...I kept on because they were too beautiful.
I heard.
I was mean to him.
The kid came to the hospital with you?
He’s got balls.
Take your clothes off.
I can’t do it yet.
That’s OK.
I can’t, either.
You can’t be an angel and a person, too.
Who drew these?
The man who chose you.
A dead man, who said he wanted to make you his lover.
Maybe he thought I looked like someone.
Maybe so.
Hi.
How are you?
Who are you?
It’s me!
Chika!
‘Hanako’?
That’s right.
Hi.
Why the coats? It’s spring, after all.
‘It’s spring, after all...’
What song was that?
I don’t know.
You wouldn’t. You weren’t even born
Is it that old?
We’ve brought her. This is our Hanako.
ALL IS VANITY
Today I turned 18.
A year ago I was afraid.
I just remembered...
...I thought that if I was going to crumble into ugliness and decay...
...I wanted to be buried before that happened.
But now...
Hey...
Hanako...
...it’s your birthday. Congratulations.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
Hanako!
Nozomi ANDO
Tomorowo TAGUCHI
Jun MURAKAMI
Ren OSUGI
Planning: Yoshihiro NAGATA Naoya NARITA
Producers: Yasuhiko HIGASHI Hironao MUKUJYU
Based on a comic book by: Naito YAMADA Screenplay: Kei SHITIRI
Cinematographer: Kazuhiro SUZUKI
Production: Arcimboldo
Presented by Happinet Pictures
Directed by Ryuichi HIROKI