Original subtitles

The police will be inspecting the scene.

They're picking you up in the afternoon.

- The police? - Yes.

Don't worry. I'll be there with you.

They'll be asking you the details of your crime.

That has to match the victims' stories.

So speak the truth.

Think carefully and respond accurately.

I'll see you later.

I feel like I'm being put on show.

It can't be helped.

If you cooperate, it won't take long.

Everyone will stare. Maybe I'll escape.

You can't, you'll be handcuffed.

That's a civil rights violation.

I'll make it as painless as possible.

So don't make trouble.

Are you coming, too?

Yes, since I'm in charge of you.

Say that first.

In that case, I don't mind. It's like a date.

You know...

Are you...

painting me?

Don't look away.

Look at me.

Imagine.

No.

Why not? You don't like the model?

Do you think...

I did that thoughtlessly?

Even if everyone in the world were to have the same face as yourself...

To everyone.

You want to be found in the crown...

Is that what you think?

No, I don't.

As soon as possible.

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Transcriber/editor/timer: keiko1981

Also thanks to Avallac'h

Screenwriter: Nojima Shinji

Mikami Hiroshi as Ariake Yu

Hirosue Ryoko as Hayakawa Ai

Ishida Issei as Kasai Takao

Nakamura Aimi as Miike Anna

Ito Ayumi as Matsuda Eriko

Ikewaki Chizuru as Ikawa Masshiro

Magara Kanako as Suzuoka Kobato

Ukaji Takashi as Shigehisa Tadokoro

Yoshimoto Takami as Nagumo Akiko

Kato Mitsuru

Natsuyagi Isao as Koizumi Shogo

Kubozuka Yosuke as Makimura Koki

Tanaka Minako as Sawamura Yukino

Aso Yumi as Kuwata Chihiro

Theme Song "Friends" (remixed edition) by Rebecca

Producer: Sugio Atsuhiro

Director: Nagayama Kozo

Translation: Nippon Golden Network

- Does it hurt? - Not at all.

Cut it out.

Get inside.

Tell me about her today.

Her?

The flute player.

With how many?

I don't remember.

Were you okay with it?

What do you mean?

About having sex with total strangers?

Yeah.

Do you think so?

No, I don't. Definitely not.

So what do you think?

Did Makimura Koki have something on you?

Is that all you could conclude?

I can't blame you for saying that,

but I don't understand why a pretty girl like you would...

If you thought I was a pretty girl, then why didn't you hold me?

Because I'm a timid moralist.

Besides, I can't afford to be fired.

I thought you were a bad seed before.

I lied about that. I tried to act tough.

So you're using the honesty strategy now.

Don't take my timidness in the ordinary meaning.

The timid and sly adults just paid you off.

My timidness is a bit different from theirs.

In what way?

I couldn't help but feel sorry for you.

When you told me to hold you, I couldn't take it in a sexual sense.

If anything...

I thought you were asking for help.

Don't act like you know it all.

Forgive me if I'm wrong.

You're completely off. Why should I think that?

I did prostitution, as a means of attaining

the ultimate platonic love for Koki.

Is that what he brainwashed you with?

Yet you were in pain.

As you slept with men, you didn't know or love.

I was immature.

Did he scold you?

No. Koki just made a sad face.

You can't separate the mind and the body.

Koki can.

Koki is the chosen one.

And I was chosen by Koki.

The newcomer?

The dumb-looking one that grabbed my collar.

He's in charge of Miike Anna.

Anna must be bored.

He said that he would free her of you.

Him?

Is it that funny?

When we first heard it, we laughed, too.

He's the monkey that needs to be trained.

And you've basically trained Miike Anna.

I added the spice called love, in her life.

But maybe...

Just maybe...

He might succeed in breaking your spell.

After all, he is the exact opposite of you.

Then you'll be met with defeat.

By that monkey of an officer.

Want to make a bet?

Bet on what?

Our lives.

Excuse me, please clear the way.

Excuse me.

Sorry, let me through.

It's the police.

She's handcuffed.

She's still young.

Let's go through the motions again.

On the day of the crime,

you injured the female Oikawa Naka, age 18,

and the male Nakagawa Akihito, age 19.

Is she pretty?

Well, yes.

Is she skinny?

How tall? What is her voice like?

Does she smoke?

Long or short hair?

I can't answer all of them at once.

Don't you carry a photo of her?

No, I don't.

Who's prettier, me or her?

Her.

That's awfully blunt.

It's just a matter of taste.

Other people might say you're prettier.

If you don't like this face, I don't like it, too.

I didn't say I didn't like how you looked.

You said she's prettier.

That doesn't mean that I dislike how you look.

I have to be first place.

I understand.

You fall in love with the overall traits of the person,

and not only the appearance.

Don't you prefer her, overall?

Why are you silent? Hello?

Just come out already.

My stomach still hurts.

- Don't lie. - It's true.

Name.

What is her name?

Why would you want to know anyway?

Just tell me.

Or is there a policy that says that I can't know your beloved's name?

There's no such policy.

Then tell me.

All right.

What is it?

Chihiro.

Chihiro?

Yes.

Did you just visualize her face in your head?

No.

Don't lie.

Thanks for your help.

I want to eat ice cream.

You were good today.

As a reward, please forget about Chihiro.

You're speaking nonsense again.

You know what I mean. She's not interested in you anyway.

That's true, but...

Did that hurt you?

Sort of.

I was hurt, too.

Every time I hurt you, I hurt myself.

Get inside.

Sorry about the other day.

I'm not bothered by it.

Many aspiring artists come here,

including professionals, to have their art critiqued.

Most of them are worthless though.

As I'm a busy man, I'm simply abrupt with them.

As cruel as it sounds, it's better than having them come again and again.

After running this gallery for many years,

I came to realize that the truly talented artist

doesn't try to sell himself cheap. He would be proud like a king.

That's why I stopped going to exhibitions...

for that same line of reasoning.

Kings wouldn't want to be compared,

therefore, he wouldn't enter his artwork.

Why did you come to see my painting?

Because Chihiro had asked me to.

But also because of your brother.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, then.

Was the critical factor, lack of imagination?

You...

Come with me.

Why, that is...

It's your brother's painting.

He completed it shortly before his death.

What do you make of it?

You just mentioned imagination.

I didn't expect you to realize that.

I didn't realize it on my own. A girl helped me.

A girl?

Yes.

In any event, you were able to realize it.

Yes, now.

So what do you think of that painting?

Your brother painted it.

- Where's Mr. Koizumi? - He's upstairs.

Okay.

My brother...

was suffering.

Yes...

Hopelessly, too.

Don't tell me...

Did he...?

It was suicide.

I'm the only one that knows this.

Why?

You want to know why I didn't stop him?

The answer is simple.

That was his destiny... as a single artist.

Destiny?

Yes.

He was a truly talented artist, but he didn't have boundless talent.

After he used up all his talents,

there awaited him unbearable sufferings.

He had used up all his imaginative powers.

There are two kinds of talent.

A natural talent that keeps replenishing itself,

and a talent that is born from environmental factors and narcissism.

Unfortunately, your brother was the latter.

When he lost his creative powers,

he turned into a living corpse.

So my brother chose death?

Yeah.

But... that is...

Chihiro.

I wanted your painting...

to be critiqued by Mr. Koizumi again.

- Chihiro! - Don't come!

You had a boyfriend too, Masshiro?

More like a friend.

From the same school?

I used to see him often on the way to school.

I sort of liked him, but...

But what?

One day...

The bear in the forest?

Shut up.

Then what?

My skirt got cut in the train one day.

By a pervert?

Yeah, when I was in trouble, he took out his training uniform from his bag...

And lent it to you? How nice of him!

Then you know...

You started seeing him?

Aren't you going to write to him?

It's not that serious.

We just went out a few times, that's all.

So you dated him.

But I was so nervous, that I hardly talked.

In short, you were jilted by him?

- Don't be so direct. - It's all right.

I realized I wasn't ready for it yet.

You're naive, like me.

What's so funny!

You may not believe it,

but I'm very good at cooking and sewing.

I made the curtain for my boyfriend.

I don't even want to picture it.

How did you meet your boyfriend?

It can't be a decent meeting, I bet.

He made her sleep with other men.

You wouldn't be able to understand us.

I don't, either.

See? No one can understand it.

You wouldn't understand even if I explained it!

I don't care to understand.

Love is responding to the other person's needs.

I don't think so.

What do you know?!

All you experienced was puppy love!

I think yours is just the same, too.

Don't get so upset.

It's not like you to pick a fight, too.

Let's go to bed already.

Did something happen?

Did something happen last night?

What makes you say that?

Just a feeling I had.

It doesn't concern you.

That's not true.

What concerns you, concerns me, too.

- Everything? - Yes, everything.

It has to do with Chihiro.

How perceptive.

This isn't a pop quiz.

Tell me what happened.

I told you that my brother died seven years ago.

Yeah.

I found out that he actually committed suicide.

An art gallery owner who was a close friend

of my brother's, told me so.

And?

She unfortunately overheard that.

I can imagine the great shock it gave her.

She's not answering her telephone calls.

I stopped over at her house today, too.

Maybe she's followed him.

- What a thing to say! - I'm only kidding.

If she had that intent, she would have joined him seven years ago.

I'm sure she received some level of shock,

but I think she's more upset than sad.

She must be wondering what she meant to him.

Stop making a mockery of the situation.

Will you put yourself in her situation?

Her dearly beloved...

was in great enough agony to kill himself...

but she didn't even realize it.

She could be blaming herself for his death.

But that's so true!

I would've noticed his sufferings and saved him.

Not everyone wants to be saved.

He took the easy way out,

at the expense of stepping on her love.

I hate him too, for his act of selfishness.

I question whether he really loved her.

I'm mad.

You've got it wrong. You don't know her.

She's not like that.

She's fragile, and may fall apart.

She continued to love him even after he died.

Then go to her side.

This is your chance.

She's falling apart? Shall I give you Cemedine?

Then you can stick to her like glue.

A broken vase has no value to it though.

I'd like to have it...

if it will bring me together with her.

I don't care if it has no value.

- I panicked last night. - Why?

Because of you and Anna. Especially you.

Anna is always like that, so I'm used to it.

Anna reminds me of my mom.

In what way?

She does whatever her lover wants her to do.

That's why your mom got divorced and abused by her new husband.

She used to gripe that she had no luck with men,

but she might be thinking differently now.

She's partly to blame.

I don't want to think that, as her blood-related daughter.

You're in a bad mood.

More so, when I see your face.

Don't criticize my looks. I can't help it.

Stop joking around!

- Bored? - Extremely!

Looking for a thrill?

Well, yes.

Koki used to always make me feel excited.

What did he do?

Inflict physical harm.

Give me an example.

He would clench the thumbtacks in his hand.

Thumbtacks...

That sounds painful.

He said it didn't hurt because he loved me.

He said it was his way of expressing his love.

How many?

How many did he clench in his hand?

What are you getting at?

Stop it.

What else?

What else did he do?

Did he say he loved you?

What a fool. Why did you do that?

I really am a fool, so I couldn't think of anything else to do.

Did it have an effect on her?

I don't know. Maybe this is just a starter.

But I'm already deep in it.

Makimura is alive. I doubt I'll have to die.

Sorry.

I'll save her, for sure.

I feel like betting on you.

What?

Nothing.

Am I being too persistent?

Sit down.

You should eat something.

I met with your parents today,

and they were very worried about you.

When...

When I got a hint from them as to when you started...

drifting away.

Eat a little.

There probably wasn't... any love in this room.

Not a single bit.

Here.

You once got mad and said you weren't alone.

You had a younger brother, didn't you?

He died very young.

His name was Shu.

I killed him.

What?

I killed him.

I killed Shu.

I'll come again tomorrow.

Shu, Shu.

- Don't look up. - Walk in order.

You're quiet today.

Did you go to see Chihiro?

Well...

Did you comfort her?

I made her rice gruel, but she hardly ate.

Don't try to fool me!

Didn't you make love to her! Didn't you spend the night with her?

That cheered her up and she made coffee for you.

You had fresh baked croissant and scrambled eggs.

You gazed into each other's eyes with bashfulness.

Then smiled at each other. How disgusting!

What imagination!

It's the truth, isn't it?!

Yes, I slept until morning.

That's truly disgusting! How easy!

With Shu.

I remembered I didn't feed him.

You're lying.

I'm not.

You're lying.

You wouldn't pass up your chance.

You said you didn't mind if there was no value.

You have a good memory.

I remember everything that you say.

But honestly, I'm not lying!

I don't believe you.

Then prove it to me.

You can't can you?

Verify it with Shu.

Okay?

That's not fair.

I asked Shu too, why I left her apartment.

I didn't understand it myself so I asked Shu.

What did he say?

What did Shu say?

It's our little secret, as fellow men.

Don't keep me in suspense.

I will, you yelled at me.

Tell me quickly.

Come on.

According to Shu...

I was probably scared.

Of what?

Having you look straight at me with your black eyes...

Before you knew it?

I pictured you falling apart in the night.

So you feel the same way?

Once you fall apart, you can't be saved by anyone.

Do you feel for me?

At that moment, I felt very fondly of you.

Have you fallen for me?

For a moment.

I want to see my baby!

What?

He stabbed his eye.

I won't beat Makimura Koki.

Does he have artistic talent?

You can cry for yourself... in front of your friends.

Now it's your turn to open up. I'm here for you.