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COPRODUCED BY JAPAN ART THEATRE GUILD AND SOZOSHA

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PRODUCED BY SOZOSHA

PRODUCERS NAKAJIMA Masayuki YAMAGUCHI Takuji

SCREENPLAY TAMURA Tsutomu

CINEMATOGRAPHY YOSHIOKA Yasuhiro SENGEN Seizo

ART DIRECTION TODA Jusho MUSIC HAYASHI Hikaru

SOUND NISHIZAKI Hideo EDITING SHIRAISHI Sueko

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OGASAWARA Kioshi OSEKI Daichi

CAMERA ASSISTANCE

ASSISTENT EDITOR, CONTINUITY AND SPECIAL EFFECTS

SOUND EFFECTS AND RECORDING SUZUKI Akira

FATHER WATANABE Fumio

MOTHER KOYAMA Akiko

BOY ABE Tetsuo

YOUNGER BROTHER KINOSHITA Takeshi

DIRECTED BY OSHIMA Nagisa

BOY

I'm calling you to come!

Land here!

Now... I'm "it"

Got to hide now

"On the bridge at Kochi, once there was a priest..."

"He bought a woman's hair pin. Whatever for? Whatever for?"

I�ve caught you!

You�re supposed to cry. Whenever you�re caught you cry

Where are you? All of you?

I�II get you all! Yes, each one of you who�s playing hooky

They�re coming. Father. They�re coming

One more

Two more

The money I�ve been expecting from Osaka just hasn�t arrived yet

That�s all right, You�ve paid regularly so far

Thank you very much

Well, boy, shall we go?

You want Daddy to carry you?

If he sees something sad happening, he�ll start crying

Mother!

It's no good!

The car number was...

41

It�s no good

Want to sit on my lap?

We have to go on trying, we have to!

Pinch me

Pinch my back

Harder... harder

Mother, are you all right?

But I wasn�t speeding, I drove carefully.

You hit her!

I hit her?

Mother�s been hurt

Show me your license

You�re not a policeman

Don�t you have one?

Of course I do!

I�ve never had an accident before

Well... bad luck!

I�m laid up for two weeks

But I can�t stay off my job for two weeks! Impossible!

How am I supposed to look after the kids with a broken hip?

A broken hip?

We�ll know after the X-rays. Then we�ll go to the police

Do we have to?

Well, it�s somebody�s fault, but it�s not mine!

It�s not mine either

We'd better ask them to look into this properly

What are you talking about?

Mother! Are you all right? Does it hurt?

Look, this is my first accident

Couldn�t we sort of settle this between us?

No, don�t do that!

If people like you aren�t caught, there will always be accidents

Will you come over here, please?

Does it really hurt you?

If you get hurt down there, you can�t have babies any more

I can�t eat this. It�s too greasy

Order something else

I don�t feel good. Besides it hurts down there

You can rest for a couple of days

Two weeks. That�s what the doctor said

We have to go on working, we have to

And why don�t you do it?

Me? You know I�m all shot up

Yes... war-wounds, diarrhea and what else?

It�s just right for a goof accident

What are you doing?

Shut up!

Does it taste good?

Eat this too

I don�t want to

Well, you can always go back... to your grandmother�s house

Couldn�t we stop doing this kind of work? I don�t really like it

I don�t like it either, but...

...there seems to be no way for us to go on living together

Be quiet and sit down

You want to go see your real mother?

You know, she�s almost dying

And what would you do in the hospital?

I won�t go

Do you want to go to grandmother�s?

No, I don�t

You see? He�s my child

You don�t have to do it, you know

I can talk to your father

What do you want?

Soup

Don�t be silly!

Two orders of noodles and one soup

That�s mine!

If I�m not working, I�m not hungry

Want to go to the toilet?

Let�s go. You can finish later

I will go to the station to get the tickets

After you finished the job, call the station, and let them page me.

But if...

It's no problem, you will succeed. Anyway, work is work.

I�d better buy new glasses

It isn�t that I don�t want to, but I get scared

I used to be, too

If only we could use magic!

There isn�t any magic

If we were from outer space...

There aren�t any such things

Buy that for me

No taxis and no fast drivers...

...just delivery trucks or woman drivers

Look, sea gulls... sea gulls

Sea gulls...

Yes, sea gulls. They eat fish.

Fish...

Yes, the big ones and the little ones

And the little ones eat seaweed

S-e-a-w-e-e-d

Seaweed...

Look the sea covers the whole world

And on the bottom there are mountains, rivers and roads.

And great big monsters, too.

M-o-n-s-t-e-r-s

Monsters

Their eyes light up and fire comes out of their mouths

But the men from outer space defeat them.

I'm a man from the Andromeda galaxy.

I�ve come to save the world

I look like an ordinary human but...

in reality I'm a man from outer space. From the nebula of Andromeda

Andromeda...

Good! You�ve got it

I�ve come to kill all the bad people who want to destroy the earth

I�m a Messenger of Justice, a cosmic messenger.

We�ve done it seven times so far

Only twice didn't it turn out well

I�ve gotten much better at it

Now I can get hit without getting hurt

The worst is, when the doctors examine me

I always feel they'll know I'm lying

Father taught me how to say "it hurts" while holding my breath

Soon we'll arrive in Onomichi. Shikoku can't be seen anymore.

Mother gives me a hundred yen each time and soon...

... I'll have a thousand yen

Does it hurt?

A little

Boy!

Does it hurt?

You should have been careful!

I am sorry

You�d better stay here and have a thorough examination

But we�re going somewhere. We even have our tickets

Can�t we settle this?

All right. I�II settle for fifty thousand yen... in cash

How can a simple driver like me find fifty thousand yen so easily?

Then we�ll go to the police

All right, let�s go then

Aren�t you sorry you hit our boy like that?

WAIVER OF LIABILITY

Will you have lunch?

None for me

Me neither

Boy?

Later

Call me when you�re ready

Can�t you do anything but yawn?

All right. What?

I don�t know

If I were in Osaka I could play cards

No gambling! We�re not going to waste any money

Who said I gambled?

Go play pachinko

You can�t win on that

It�s no fun not having your own home

What are you talking about? This place is nice enough

Where are you going?

Toilet

Kokura, Wakamatsu, Tobata, Yahata...

It�s all right. Never mind

Aren�t you hungry?

Where is boy?

So he�s run away?

Possibly

He had not enough money so far but you�re the one who gave it to him

But if you�re worried take the money back

I�m pregnant

What will we do?

We can�t do anything about it

Is it all right then?

It�s all right

You mean it?

No, go get an abortion

We can�t go on living like this not with another one

You must get a job

We need a decent room

We must send the children to school

Stop it!

Let�s not rush things

We�ll go on like we have for a while

After all, we�ve saved a little

I wonder what he thinks about it

I meant... about me

You were separated from your parents when you were four, weren�t you?

Yes, my stepmother got married four times

You�ll wake the baby

I hated her. I really thought it was better to be completely alone

Then he�s probably thinking the same

Stop it! Not until we decide whether I can have this baby

Do whatever you want

I want it

But I don�t

Then I�II have an abortion

I�II get a doctor tomorrow?

I won�t do it here

I lived a long time in Fukui I know a good doctor there

Very well. Let�s go to Fukui then

When?

Right now. I�II pay the bill, you go and pack

We don�t have to rush. The boy isn�t even here

You think he ran off?

What if he has?

We�ll think about it later

I�m fed up! Pregnant and all

You�re getting an abortion

When I say no, it�s no

Boy can't run away.

Shit, sure he can!

Go look for him, if you�re so worried!

I'll take the baby and go to the station getting the tickets.

Why do you look like that? You bumped into us

I'm sorry

What do you mean bumping into us like that?

I was reading

Some excuse! You won�t get away with it

I really didn�t mean to

All right then, but you have to give us some... compensation

Compensation?

Yes, money! You hit us and we need some for the hospital bills

One thousand! That�s all?

Just be careful from now on

And don�t you look at me like that!

What are you looking at?

Mother!

Where have you been?

Well, I was...

Running away, weren�t you?

No

You won�t get away so easily

What's the matter?

We�re going away. We have to hurry

My hat...

What about it?

I was drying it

It's junk! Throw it away!

You want to get killed?

How about here?

Wait. Isn�t this too expensive?

We�re going to have the best

Come on, now. Cheer up, we�re going to have a good time

I envy you - all together like this

I wish I had a father like him. Isn�t that true, boy?

Yes

Would you like another song?

Well, let�s see...

What would you like?

How about a popular song?

Where are you from?

From Fukui

Actually, we�re from Kochi

Then we�ll do a Kochi song

"On the bridge at Kochi, once there was a priest..."

"He bought a woman's hair pin. Whatever for? Whatever for?"

"How long it's been..."

"Since I left Kochi..."

"I remember my friends..."

"That day I left"

Even if you go back there, your grandmother won�t be pleased

They were very happy when you left

It�s true. They wrote me that in a letter

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They�ve forgotten all about you at school

Even your desk is gone now

Understand?

"Since I swore..."

"To serve my country..."

"How can I die vanquished?"

"When I hear the trumpet sound..."

"I remember my country's flag"

"Travelling through the fields..."

"Where trees are burning..."

"My brave horse trotting..."

"Following my flag..."

"How then can I die vanquished?"

"Cannons, tanks, bayonets..."

"All left behind..."

"Last night in a dream..."

"My father said Don't die, son, come back alive..."

"I awoke and saw but the enemy's sky"

DEPARTURES

Some bread, please

Fifteen rolls, please, and five packs of gum

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One thousand four hundred yen...

...divided by two...

...makes seven hundred

One half-fare to Kochi

320

Which Kochi?

The Kochi in Shikoku

1,500 yen

I�m under twelve, so it�s half-fare

You�re older than that

You�re wearing your school uniform. 1,500 yen!

I�ve only got 1,000 yen

Then you can�t go to Shikoku

Have you run away?

No. I was lying, when I said Shikoku

If you want to lie, go home

I want to go to Amano-Hashidate

Another fib?

It�s true this time

All right then

Two hundred thirty yen

Seven hundred seventy back

Seven, eight, nine... for the third day...

...ten, eleven, twelve... for the fourth day...

Grandmother, here I am. I'm back

See, I'm here

I rode the train for four days and was in the boat all alone

And I only ate bread. I ate fifteen rolls

I'm tired. I'm going to sleep now

Good night

Tomorrow...

...wake me up any time

How much does a doctor cost?

For what?

For that... abortion

About this much

Then an emergency might cost about that much

Today, we�ll get 70,000 yen

We�re getting expensive

That much, right?

I'll go with Mom

All right, go then

Does it hurt?

No. I was just clumsy

You should tell me, if it hurts

Just a little

Good. It�ll look more real and more serious to the doctor

And since it�s swollen, we won�t have to inject anything

It�s hard for you too, isn�t it?

You...

You...

What is it?

Do I still have to go today?

Of course. That�s why we came to Fukui...

...and kept this room

Just don�t look up any old friends

You don't have to tell me. How could I face them?

I'll take the baby to the department store with me

It�ll be over in an hour

Then there�s no work today?

You go with your mother

What do you mean by that?

I'm not so sure that you're really going to a doctor

Why did you come back?

I thought you never would

Why?

I don�t know

But I did come back

Yes, but...

I�ve been to this hospital before

I was with a man. Do you understand things like that?

A little

Now, go play somewhere

For about an hour?

Be back in about two hours

Bastard! You were spying on me. You wanted to tell your father, didn�t you?

Go on, say something

I know, I�m just your stepmother...

...and you hate me. You�re worse than he is!

Come on, say something

I�m sorry

Why apologize? Don�t be such a hypocrite

I know you tell him bad things about me

No, I don�t

You�re lying

All children hate their step-parents

It�s natural that you hate me

You hate me, so you spy on me

Come on, say that you hate me

Do I have to say that?

Well, what does it matter!

I don�t think anything about anything

Stupid boy!

Anything you would like? I�ve got some money

I�d like a watch

A wrist watch?

With the date and the day

That�s expensive

Well, forget it

I�II get you one, but don�t you tell your father then

You really will?

Well... your mother went to the hospital...

...and boy played for two hours in the park

Sure... I played in the park

Don�t show it to him. It�s a secret

What day�s today?

Wednesday

No, Friday. The day after tomorrow is Sunday

Every day�s like Sunday

I�ll leave it on Sunday

You�ll be able to go to school someday

I guess so

You�ll go to school, he'll go to kindergarten and I�II have a new baby

When, though?

Real soon

We�ll work and save as much as we can

We need a lot, right?

Yes, we need a lot

We need a lot, right?

We�ve been to lots of places...

Tsuruga...

... Nishimaizuru...

... Kanazawa, Toyama

If you look at a map, they all are in the Sea of Japan

Father says we're getting more and more experience

Since it really hurts now...

... I don't have to lie to the doctor

Even an ordinary child can say that it hurts...

... when it really does hurt

My younger brother is bigger now

He understands more of what I say now

He always asks me to tell him...

... about the men from outer space

Some of these appear to be old

Have you been hurt before?

It hurts! Stop it!

We�ll take X-rays, but he won�t recover before a month

A month! Look, I didn�t hit him that hard

May I use the telephone?

Give me the police

And you�re not even sorry?

Look, I�m a car mechanic

I know what a car looks like when it�s hit someone

Does it hurt?

Stop it! Taking a sick child out like this... keeping him up so late...

Is this how the police act?

Get things ready

Everything is settled?

He�s paying 60,000 yen! I�II get it at the station

Then there is no rush

Yes. We can�t stay here. The police might call us again

It�s that bad?

Just a hunch. They took our pictures

It�s not the first time

I know. That�s why

Come on, get up

What is it?

Where are we going?

The tickets are for Fukushima

We�ve already passed it

Is that so?

Really, where are we going?

We�ll keep changing trains for two days

You�re joking!

You should know better. You really think I�m joking?

We�ve been photographed before, but...

...that was the second time for me

If they compare them, they�ll know who I am

The same goes for me

Yes, but I�ve got a record

We�re going to stop and change our clothes too

It�s already winter

It�s already winter

Can you see?

Yes, I can see

They make you dizzy when you�re not used to them

Do I have to keep them on?

Except when you sleep

They hurt my eyes

Naturally! We bought them for your mother. They wouldn�t fit you

You wear them instead of her

We�re going to stop in a different hotel for a few days

This isn�t getting warm

It�s broken

The heater�s broken! Do you have another one?

No, we don�t. It�ll get warmer after a while

You can have a stove, but you must pay for the charcoal

Where is the telephone?

Over there

Hotel Prince? Room 312, please!

It�s me

Nothing special, but...

Hello...? Hello!

Don�t try too hard now

Mind your own business

You want the stove?

Mother!

What�s wrong

Nothing! Go on back

Thirteenth, fourteenth...

...fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth...

...eighteenth, nineteenth

I won�t show it to him, all right?

It doesn�t matter now

Let's go see your father

Third floor?

Shall I call him?

Daddy!

Be careful, you!

Shall we do it, mother?

Mother!

Are you all right?

Mother!

Are you hurt?

Why do you drive at night?

Thank God, you weren�t hit!

What do you mean? I�m in my fourth month

I�II drive you to the hospital

Not the hospital The police is best

Go call an ambulance

No, get in my car

No, an ambulance

Wait, please!

Perhaps... some money...

Don�t talk like that! It�s not money we want

I know, but really... it would be better if we didn�t go to the police

How much?

I'll give you whatever you want.

You go to the department store and I'll get two hotels

Not the same?

Of course not

Then we�ll do it again tonight

Again?

We did it last night

Boy, you have to wear your glasses.

I made him throw them away

We'll do it together

Go on, get your two hotels. Let's go, boy

I'm still pregnant, you see? I'm going to save money for the baby

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I'm gonna have that baby! That's why... you idiot!

Let's go, boy

Where to?

Some place in an airplane

An airplane... really?

We�ll be men from outer space!

You want to fly that much?

Then we�re not?

No, it�s true!

Where do you think you're going?

Hokkaido

Even if you say no!

I want to go there, too

Yes, Hokkaido would be all right

Look, clouds... a whole sea of clouds!

And there are monsters in this sea

Bird-monsters, butterfly-monsters...

Monsters...

Yes, monsters

Men from outer space will come flying out of those clouds

They always know right away where the monsters are

They come all the way from Andromeda

...all from Andromeda...

We really went to Hokkaido

I had been brought up in Kochi, and I had never seen snow before

It was white, very white... a whole sea of snow

Hakodate, Iwamizawa, Obihiro...

Kushiro, Abashiri, Asahikawa Wakkanai...

Father had told us not to work, but...

... mother and I did anyway

We worked around the stations

It was too cold to walk far

"Furthest Northern Point"

"Latitude 45�31'"

"Japan's Northern Point"

"Further East: Sea of Okhotsk"

"West: Sea of Japan"

"Meeting of two Seas"

"Sakhalin, 23 miles away, is visible by clear weather"

Come on, eat them

They are made with real sake.

Makes them taste very special.

I wonder if I'll ever come back here

Why not, if we have money

Is this the end of Japan?

Yes, over there it�s not Japan. Why do you ask?

We've gone everywhere - nowhere else to go

Only outer space is left

Let's get an apartment and live decently

You mean it?

We've already made a lot of money

You think that 600,000 yen is that much?

If we get an apartment and buy supplies it'll be gone in three months

But you'll get a job

What do you mean? I�m an invalid...

You knew that from the very first...

I wish Japan were bigger

Stop it! Don't do it now

We've done it for two days now. We should stop for a while...

I'll get a good hotel. We'll have another party

This will kill us, if we go on

It's too late now

No! We'll hide for three months...

It'll work... even if we start again from Kyushu

I've had enough

That's why I'm working so hard now

What are you doing?

All right... I understand. We'll stop

No, it's so dangerous, let's separate for a while. All right?

You've understood that much

Then I'll take the boy

What?

You take the baby

Oh no, you don't!

But it's better this way

You know damn well that me and you are done

We can go on by ourselves

How old are you?

Ten

Where were you born?

Osaka

Whose child are you?

You're mine, aren't you? I'm your father

What are you doing?

Boy!

Mother, let's go

Give that!

Trying to bribe him by giving him watches like this?

Go pick it up!

Pick it up!

What?

Bastard!

Baby!

Let's get out of here!

Boy!

Come, come up here!

Sit over here!

I�ve died once already, in the war

My left shoulder, arm... shattered

And you're saying that you're working? You've never even had a broken arm!

Have you ever thought you'd die?

All you do is bump into a car and then scream

You think I should be grateful for that?

Then you can go on and say that I'm not your father?

You don't know what war is like, do you?

You take a crap and the next minute your head's blowing off

I've been there... moments between life and death

Not only did I see it, it was just like being dead myself

And then you come and say I'm no good?

Nonsense!

Shut up!

Wouldn't you be sorry to leave a husband, a father like me?

Boy... you think you can go on living like this?

Dead... she's dead

In the accident?

Maybe I killed her

Don't think about that!

Throw this crap away!

Idiot!

What do you think you're doing?

Bastard! Why didn't you die in your war?

Father, husband! Some joke!

Just now, you were about to run away!

You're the one who was happy when the boy really got hurt

All right... kill us all!

I'll kill you all right!

You can kill me, but not my unborn child!

You bitch! I'll strangle you... I will!

What's going on?

Nothing

Shall I take the baby?

No, it's all right

So, I'll die then

Good-bye Mother, good-bye Father

Brother!

Brother!

Go on back now... go on

Brother!

Brother!

Go back... go on back!

I'm going where no one else but I can go

Brother... brother... brother!

I understand. Don�t cry

You know what this is?

It's not an ordinary snowman It's a man from outer space

Outer space...

That's it. Now watch

You understand now, don't you? He came all the way from Andromeda

Andromeda...

He�s a messenger of justice...

...who came to destroy all bad men

He's not afraid. Not even of monsters

Not even of trains and cars

If he runs into them... they break

He never gets hurt, he never cries

He doesn�t even have any tears

He has no parents, he's all alone

No mother, no father

When he's really afraid, then other outer space men come and save him

I was going to become someone just like him

That's what I wanted

But I couldn't. I�m just an ordinary boy

I don�t even know how to die

You stupid thing... you idiot!

Is it Sunday?

Getting ready for Christmas

The day Christ died?

No, the day He was born

And then we stopped working

We went back to Kochi and then to Osaka

Now we live in a real house

One of those new ones, recently built

COUPLE FAKES ACCIDENTS WITH OWN CHILD EARNS 400000 YEN IN COMPENSATIONS

SUSPECTED COUPLE INDICTED

MOTHER BORN IN OSAKA

COUPLE DISCOVERED THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION

From October to December a series of fake accidents happened all over Japan...

staged by a couple, who used their own child to cash in on compensations

The police investigated 16 cases with damages amounting to 747,200 Yen

The culprits are a middle-aged couple with a boy and a baby.

The alleged father, Omura Takeo, 45 years old, was born in Kochi prefecture.

He is jobless and has a criminal record with 3 offences.

Since Dec. 20 he and his accomplices are wanted by Gumma Prefecture Police

Despite his severe injuries the child was taken away by the couple.

Thus the National Police Agency has ordered a nationwide search.

Are you Takeko Taniguchi?

You should never have started using your child

Father, run away!

You had lots of accidents?

Was it your father who told you to do it?

Then your mother?

I like my mother

When did you come to Osaka?

I don't remember

And so, you went all over Japan

I was never on a train

No lies, now. That's bad

This is you here. You have a hat on, though

That's a man from outer space

It must have hurt, getting hit like that

I've never gotten hit

Then how did you get hurt there?

It was just a scratch

Why are you doing this? No one asked you to

The police asked me to

If you're hurt, we'll try to cure you

I'm not hurt

Maybe, but if it got worse we'd have to cut the arm off

All right then, go ahead

Omura Takeo, born in 1922...

Third child of six. Mother and father were fishermen and farmers

Lost his father at the age of five...

At age eleven, went to Osaka...

Committed robbery...

... went to reformatory...

Then joins the army

Wounded in China in 1942...

Ended the war in Okayama Military Hospital

Sold clothes after the war...

In 1953, he married Kazuyo Yamamoto

A son, Toshio, was born in 1956 The child is now 10 years old

Taniguchi Takeko, born in 1939 in Osaka

Adopted at the age of four...

Step-mother twice remarried...

Lived with four different families

1958 married an 18 year old man

Had a child, then returned to Osaka and worked in a cabaret

This is where she met Omura in 1959

Abandoned family and began living with him

In 1963, she had a child by Omura. Child is now 3 years old

Do you like the sea?

And you rode on a plane too

It must have been nice

Yes, I went to Hokkaido

THE END