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A Daiei/Nippon Television Network/Hakuhodo /IMAGICA Production

Change course -direction, 120 degrees

Roger, hard to port

Hard to port

I need navigational information

It all began one day,

without warning.

Like this...

Still no answer at Taguchi's?

No

It's been a week, he must have his reasons

It shouldn't take a whole week to work on that disk

No...

Something's wrong

Maybe I should see if he's OK

I just got the creeps

What?

I don't know, I just feel like something's wrong

Like something's... horribly wrong

What's up with Taguchi?

I don't know

If we don't get that disk now, we're in real trouble

The deadline's tomorrow

I know that

What am I supposed to do? We haven't heard a thing

I think I'd better go see how he's doing

A Kiyoshi Kurosawa film

Taguchi?

KAIRO (Pulse)

Hey, you are here

Hey. Michi...

I was worried about you, you haven't called

Right, sorry

Did you finish working on that disk?

Yeah, it's somewhere in that pile

You OK? Are you sick?

No...

What have you been up to, all on your lonesome? We're friends

Yeah... stuff...

Help yourself to the disk

You ought to label your disks

This it?

The one marked Work File?

Taguchi?

Michi

Oh, Junco

You OK? Was it awful?

I'm fine

I'd say it's break time

Oh, I forgot, here

Thanks

It's so upsetting

I don't know what he was so depressed about

He never said anything, so what could we have done?

Maybe.

He suddenly just wanted to die

I get that way sometimes

It's so easy to hang yourself

Hey! Why so gloomy

Oh, sorry

About Taguchi?

It's just... If only I'd...

He seemed like the Taguchi I know

I never imagined he'd do something like that

Time to put it behind us Besides, it wasn't your fault

Yeah...

Say... Would you take a look?

At what?

Taguchi's disk

What is it?

It's Taguchi's place

Is that Taguchi?

Yeah, I think so

Look

What's going on? Isn't that the same scene?

I can't tell

Hey. Look

That's a face...

A reflection

You're right

Can you blow it up?

Let me see...

That was Taguchi wasn't it?

Sure seems like it

What's going on?

Maybe something strange is going on

Strange?

I don't know

I don't even care anymore

Something's definitely not right

A message in a bottle launched 10 years ago

by a boy on Tanegashima Island.

Was recently discovered

on a beach in Malaysia some 4,000 kms away

Hikono Koichi was

a 4th grader when he sent off his message

Members of a local group, cleaning up the beach,

a sea turtle habitat,

discovered the bottle by accident

I never imagined it would find it's way to some foreign country

I was shocked to get an answer after 10 years

The group located Hikono

through his former elementary school

Next, the National Weather Service

forecasts another unseasonably hot summer, it's the 3rd

for eastern Japan... for western Japan...

Northern Japan... will...

"Welcome to the Internet"

No, this way, here

OK

Next, OK

Next

"Have Fun" OK I'll have fun

Done "OK"

What's this crap? Yes, I agree

Next...

What? I guess that's OK

Next again, huh

What?

What the... oh well...

What the hell...

Hey... this...

Who's... what's...

Would you like to meet a ghost?

Stupid crap!

What the...

Maybe you should change the size on this batch file

Using the variable?

Yeah

So you'll find it's property, right?

Oh, conventional memory

Right

See

So that's how you do it

Say...

Can the internet dial you up itself?

You in computer science?

No, economics, no relation

Huh... Sounds like a hacker

A hacker...

Huh...

It said "Do you want to meet a ghost?"

Some website like that

A ghost, huh...

Which website was that?

What?

Something about meeting ghosts?

I don't really know. It just appeared last night

Know the address?

What? Um... address?

I see

Windows?

Yeah

Open the Explorer log...

Oh, no, no, I really don't

know anything about computers

The next time the site shows up,

click on it to bookmark it

Not so fast

Click...

Can you repeat that?

Click on it

Click... on... it...

To bookmark it

To...

Bookmark it

If that doesn't work,

You know the print screen key?

Yeah, this one?

Try pressing it

If it doesn't work...

Print screen key

Press the...

Print screen...

Got it

Let me know?

Sure

See you

Don't bother with that Mom

What? Sure

Are you eating this junk again?

It's not good for you

I'm going now

Have you called your father?

Nope

I see... but what if you get in trouble?

I can't rush over

It's awkward for me to see him, but you should

Forget it. He's out of the picture

He lives here in Tokyo

But Tokyo's huge

I know, but...

I'm fine. I've got my friends

You sure? I guess you'll be alright then

You're so trusting and get carried away...

Hello

Hello

Help...

Help...

Help...

Who's this?

Help...

What is this...

The Forbidden Room

Taguchi?

What happened, Taguchi...

What?

What am I saying?

What happened to Yabe?

Try his house?

No answer

Huh...

I hope nothing's wrong

Oh no, what's he up to?

I've got to go see him

No! Don't go!

He'll turn up. He'll come if we wait!

Nothing strange has happened yet

Yeah...

Let's just act normal

Yeah, at least for today

Sorry, I'm late

Sure, sure

Where were you? Why didn't you call?

Hey!

Can you believe, he's ignoring us!

What's going on?

Who cares...

What do I do now?

Click it,

and bookmark it

Doesn't work

If that doesn't work, press the print screen key

There

Hi

You're the one...

Um...

Kawashima

Kawashima

Yeah, Kawashima

I'm Karasawa Harue

Harue san, Harue san

How'd it go?

Well, it came back again

Really?

Yeah

And,

I pressed that print screen key...

Right

Can I come over and check it out?

Yeah, sure, absolutely fine

I just need a minute

Um...

What's this?

That? Something we programmed here

If two dots get too close, they die,

but if they get too far apart, they're drawn closer

Huh... what's it for?

A miniature model of our world...

But only the grad student who designed it understands it

I wouldn't...

Suggest staring at it too long

Sorry, it's a mess

Thank you

There you go

Thank you

Getting the data?

Yeah, almost set

What got you started on the internet?

Nothing in particular...

You don't like computers, right?

No

Wanted to connect with other people?

Maybe... I don't really know

Everybody else is into it

People don't really connect, you know

What?

Like those dots simulating humans

We all live totally separately

That's how it seems to me

Oh... Huh...

I wonder...

Yabe...

Kudo san

Yes

Can you move these orchids into the greenhouse?

Yes

Um, boss...

Yes?

Isn't Yabe acting strange?

You think so?

Can I go check on him?

Fine, but...

It might be a waste of time

Words said in friendship with the best of intentions

always wind up hurting your friends deeply

And then you wind up getting hurt

Is friendship always that way?

If that's so, what's left?

If I were you...

Who needs friends like that

A courageous choice in itself

Are you OK?

Did something happen?

If something happened, let's talk about it

Both Junco and I,

are really worried

I saw...

A face...

What?

A horrible face...

I've never seen anything like it...

What are you saying? What did you see?

The Forbidden Room

Forbidden Room? What's that?

Is that...

The room with the red tape?

Don't dare go in there!

Please,

tell me

What happened?

I'm cold

Yabe...

Are you OK?

Exit

Harue

Hi

I don't really use the library much

Couldn't find the way out

Phantoms

You reading this?

Yeah

Is it related to your work in the lab?

Yeah

Huh...

Do you have a minute?

What? Sure

Come

Isn't it strange?

Yeah... sort of...

Almost like ghosts, right?

You're right, they're like ghosts

Sometimes, these turn up

At first, they look like the other dots

What are they?

I don't know

A bug?

No

That website...

What?

Oh, what happened with that?

Nothing... yet...

Huh...

But I think they're related...

I'm sure they're related

You think?

Let me know if anything happens

Yeah, sure

Karasawa san

I need you to check this

Yes

And you are?

My friend, Kawashima

Huh...

The grad student, Yoshizaki san

Hello

I forgot to give you my number

Oh, right

Call me, OK?

Right

Anytime, OK?

Yeah

Thank you

"Everyone dies, therefore there's no logical reason for ghosts not to exist..."

"How many ghosts have..."

"existed since prehistoric times..."

Do you see it too?

Sure you do, because it's really there

Who is that?

You'll have to catch him to find out

Start right now, and you might succeed

Have a go?

What?

Why don't you, right now

He disappeared

I see

He must be a student... I don't know him

Maybe you're right. Sorry I encouraged you

See you

wait a minute

Just what was that?

I'm cold...

The spirit...

Or consciousness, the soul, whatever you want to call it,

it turns out the realm they inhabit has a finite capacity

Whether that capacity accommodates billions or trillions,

eventually, it will run out of space

Once it's filled to the brim,

it's got to overflow somehow, somewhere

But where?

The souls have no choice

but to ooze into another realm, that is to say, our world

Maybe, at first...

it started with something really simple

Once that realm reached critical mass,

any device would have sufficed

Thrown it together with the means and materials at hand

That's how I see it

Excuse me, do you have any tape?

Anything will do, some tape

How's this?

Thank you

After many hours or days,

or many weeks, it finally happens

Through that process, it spreads around the world

But now they're no longer the faint presence they began as

You saw one yourself

I don't believe your stories

Right, sorry, it's all hypothetical

Thanks for the tea

Are you OK?

Just fine

But if this really happened,

there's no turning back

No matter how simple the device,

once the system's complete, it'll function on its own

and become permanent

In other words,

the passage is now open... that's how it looks

Hello

Oh, I see, our boss isn't there?

Yes, I understand

If he does stop by,

will you please ask him to call us?

Yes, thank you very much

Michi.

What do you think is going on?

Why's everyone disappearing?

Oh, hello, this is Sunny Plant Sales calling

Thank you for your business

Is our boss there with you by any chance?

Oh, I see... Thank you, and excuse me

I'll go look for him

Wait, Junco, wait

Yes. Hello...

Boss?

Help

Yabe!

Are you Yabe?

Yabe!

Help me...

Help me...

Help...

Help...

Junco...

Junco!

Junco, no!

Junco!

Are you OK?

Are you OK?

Junco

Help me...

Help me...

Help me...

Junco!

Look, I'm right here

I'm right here, it's OK

Excuse me

Karasawa Harue tel: 090 -4079 -2677

What are you doing, Harue!

You're dripping wet!

They went away...

They've all disappeared... They always do...

I have to run away...

Run away somewhere...

Harue!

Hey. Harue!

Listen, Harue!

Harue!

Calm down! Harue!

Thank you...

I always wondered what it's like to die...

From when I was really little...

I was always alone

Any parents or family?

Sure, but they're irrelevant

Right...

That after death,

you live happily with everyone over there

Can we stop talking about this?

But it may be true

Sure, but...

Then in high school it dawned on me

you might be all alone after death, too

There's no way to know

How could you?

The idea was so terrifying

I couldn't even bear it

That nothing changes with death,

just right now, forever

Is that what becoming a ghost is about?

You can't mess with that. It's really bad

What have ghosts got to do with us?

Besides, we're alive

Then, who are they?

Are they really alive?

How are they different from ghosts?

In fact,

ghosts and people are the same,

whether they're dead or alive

It's not right. It's wrong

They're all crazy

Nobody knows what happens when you die

All this about ghosts, but I won't believe in them, even if I see one

But I do know,

that I'm definitely alive and so are you, Harue

That's for sure, right?

So I don't want to think about the fact we'll die someday

Just maybe...

In 10 years, or at least while we're still alive,

they'll invent a drug that prevents death

Then, we could live forever and ever

Of course you might think I'm crazy to say that, but...

I'd rather bet on that

You want to live forever?

Yeah

That sounds like fun?

Yeah... That's what I think

Huh... Maybe I've got it all wrong

No...

It'll turn out just like you say

I'm sure

What?

Ghosts won't kill people

Because that would just make more ghosts

Isn't that right?

Instead, they'll try to make people immortal

By quietly...

trapping them in their own loneliness

Help...

Help...

Junco, it'll be OK

It'll be OK

OK...

I fell asleep...

How do you feel?

Yeah

Something to drink? How about some coffee?

Michi...

What?

Am I just going to die like this?

Of course not

That's right...

I'll just keep on living, all alone...

What?

No

Junco!

Junco

Junco!

Junco!

Why! Why!

Junco, don't go!

Junco

Mother?

Mother?

Mother!

I'll be right there

Harue...

Harue! Hey...

Kawashima... take me with you

I'm scared to be alone

Take me somewhere

OK, sure

Where to?

Somewhere far away

Out of Order

Shit, let's just go!

There's no one...

No...

Where did everyone go?

I'm here

I'm here beside you

Even if,

there's no one else, it doesn't matter

We are both definitely here

Guess that's true...

What happened!

I've got to go back!

What? No! We've come this far!

But this is the end of the line

That's not true. It'll start moving

I'll go check with the driver. Come with me

OK, but promise you'll wait right here

I'll be right back. Promise

Harue!

The Forbidden Room

Construction Materials -red tape

I'm...

Not alone...

Harue.

It's me, Kawashima

Harue! Listen!

Listen, what do you say to this...

The two of us live together

That way, we can always be together

If we keep living alone,

we'll just get worse and worse because we're weak

We'll balance each other out

How about living that way?

Would you try it with me?

What do you think, Harue! Listen!

Harue!

Harue!

Harue!

Tokyo: Missing Sakai Mitsuo, age 35

Tokyo: Missing Yamazaki Naoko, age 6

Kanagawa: Missing Hirayama Michio, age 80

Kanagawa: Missing Kawahara Takumi, age 25

Saitama: Missing Tomioka Shigeki, age 8

Tokyo: Missing Yoshida Tomoko, age 21

Tokyo: Missing Nakajima Kumi, age 5

Kanagawa: Missing Kitaoka Eri, age 3

Tokyo: Missing Fukuda Tatsuya, age 57

Um... are you OK?

Breakdown?

Yeah

Want some?

You are?

Oh, me? Um...

What are you doing here?

What am I doing here...

You?

So neither your dad nor your mom

made it through...

No...

So many things happened at once,

it's impossible to sort them all out

Yeah

Me too. My head's all messed up

So you're a student, Kawashima?

Yeah

Lucky you

I don't think so

Here

Oh, thanks...

And you?

I had a job

Wow, amazing

Nothing amazing

Did you have any friends?

Friends?

Maybe one, I guess

What was she like?

What? I don't really know...

I never really found out...

Where is she?

Somewhere...

OK, try starting it

OK, good

Why don't you look for her?

What?

She's still somewhere, right? You've got to help her then

But...

Let's go find her. I'll help you

This is the last stop...

After that we go as far as we can

I can sort of see...

The future...

"Help"

Look over there

An abandoned factory?

I wonder...

Shall we try it?

Listen, even if you see a door sealed with red tape,

don't go near it, OK?

I know

You OK?

Look... at this

Look... over there

Kawashima

Harue!

Watch out!

What happened, Harue!

What are you doing with that?

Let's get out of this place, together

Together?

Yeah

Come on, hand it over

Harue! Harue!

Oh, no, a hospital...

Harue! Don't die!

Come on! Please!

Help me!

Harue!

We couldn't save her...

No...

We're out of gas...

I'll get some, there was gas back there

You'll be OK?

Wait for me. I'll be OK

Forever...

Death was...

Eternal loneliness...

Help

Help

Help

Don't ask me! What's that got to do with me!

Forever...

Death was...

Eternal loneliness...

You're not real

I refuse to acknowledge... Never...

I refuse to acknowledge death!

I know

I'll catch you

Then you'll disappear

That's it, right! Right!

You can't beat me!

I am...

Real...

Kawashima!

What is it?

Forget it... Let's go...

It's too much...

What... Are you doing?

You went in there...

Me?

Yeah, I did. But I'm fine

Don't cry

You want to go back?

To what's left of Harue?

That make you feel better?

If that's what you want, I'll go with you

No...

Let's go...

As far as we can go

Are you sure about that?

Yeah

Can you get out?

You OK?

Be careful

Wait here. OK?

Death comes to us all...

If so, maybe we would have been happier,

had we gone with the rest

But we chose to keep going

into the future...

We'll head for Latin America

We're still getting signals there

Though they're pretty weak

We've got to give it a try,

no matter what we find

If anyone's survived,

we can head out again

and go as far as we can

Come on, be strong

Have I done the right thing?

Yes

Are you sure?

Yes

You're doing the right thing

Now, alone with my last friend in the world,

I have found happiness

"My blue weapon"

Cast Kawashima: KATO Haruhiko

Michi: ASO Kumiko Harue: KOYUKI "have rusted away"

Junco: ARISAKA Kurume Yabe: MATSUO Masatoshi

The Boss: SUGATA Shun Taguchi: MIZUHASHI Keni

The Ghost: SHIONOYA Masayuki "On the roof"

The Worker: AIKAWA Show Michi's mother: FUBUKI Jun "has only eaten the sweet words"

Yoshi zaki: TAKEDA Shinji "Won't come back"

The Captain: YAKUSHO Koji "Won't return"

Executive Producer: TOKUMA Yasuyoshi "There is nothing here"

Producers: SHIMIZU Shun OKUDA Seiji

Producers: INOUE Ken SHIMODA Atsuyuki

Director of Photography: HAYASHI Junichiro "come together"

Lighting Director: TOMIYAMA Meicho "Ahh. It will break apart"

Production Designer: MARUO Tomoyuki "Wings, out of breath"

Sound: IKA Makio "whirled up"

Editor: KIKUCHI Junichi "and will return to the earth"

Music Producer: WADA Toru Composer: HAKETA Takefumi

Theme Song by: Cocco "Wings ~ lay down my arms ~"

Visual Effects: ASANO Shuji

"Ahh. Only the memories"

"come together"

"Ahh. It will break apart"

"Wings, out of breath"

"whirled up"

"even you hold me"

"Ahh, I can not touch the season"

"Ashes will burn out"

"and fall off soon"

"Where shall I go?"