All language subtitles for 8.views.of.lake.biwa.2024.1080p.web.h264-emx. - engl

Many of us were
burnt or cooked alive,

some escaped here

because we never wanted to make the
sign of the cross with three fingers.

So they started to fish.

It was a time of trouble and wonders.

8 VIEWS OF LAKE BIWA
Film by Marko Raat

When the Sun disappears,

five special Stars appear in the sky.

They are called Moons.

God didn't place them
on one specific spot,

but they can move all around the sky
and, depending on the direction,

display either hate or love.

When that special Star or Moon

moves towards the Sun from the West,

shielding the Sun,

then the eclipse shows
God's rage against man.

When the Moon comes from the East,

it shields the Sun in a normal way.

Hanake...

You...

You write well.

Finish this class at last
and continue your studies.

I don't want to.

I'm not going to make you
re-do this class again.

You're almost a woman.

I am never going to grow up.

Be my guide in everything I do.

I can't abandon my evil thoughts.

But You threw Yourself to mercy.

Open Your merciful heart to me as
well and take me in as I come to You.

Thank you.

But we don't want
to eat fish every day.

Please don't bring any more.

1. Sunshine and Gust
of Wind from Amazu

In the middle of a scorching day
and with the gust of wind from Amazu,

there is a moment when the lake
turns into a green pasture,

with cherry tree branches
hanging over it.

One can step overboard
and walk without sinking.

But it only lasts
as long as the gust of wind.

Sora!

Sora!

And the mothers and fathers
cried out endlessly,

like the seals in the
salty sea in the fall.

Our school teacher
screamed like a seagull.

But the lake did not release
her husband Sora's body.

I...

I called the children
back to the boat,

but they didn't listen.

Then the wind died down.

Kids are blind when they're playing,
they pay attention to nothing else.

We trust everything into Your hands.

You are with us every day.

Thank You for that.

You cut, it hurts,

but You make us better this way.

But why did the lake carry you?

Tell me!

I can't.

Schoolmates who left us...

The fog will be your coats
to keep the cold away.

The candles will warm you

and incense smoke shall be the path
that leads you to God.

May I bring you fish now?

I'm with Sora's child.

It was Sora's last wish.

Should something
happen to me, marry Onne.

And take care of my child.

Sat in the kitchen, drunk.

Looked at you and tried to be quiet.

It was hard to hold back.

I still don't know
if it was the right thing to do.

What are you thinking?
You asked.

Nothing, I lied.

You?

I'm not thinking
about anything either.

Do you love me?

I do.

Tonight,

Under the gaze of
heaven's holy angels,

Without evil,

Without jealousy, envy.

In the depths of my heart light
a fire of love for my neighbour.

Give us our love.

Create affection in us.

No one is talking to me.

Do something that's necessary,
but nobody wants to do.

Volunteer as a fireman.

Or...

Or Defence League

Keep watch at the shore

and, when the fishing
inspector comes, alert the others.

Do something good.

Jesus, please don't summon my fish
back into the lake.

2. To See Sailboats
Returning to Yabase

I welcome you.

I love you.

I kill you.

I welcome you.

I love you.

I kill you.

I welcome you.
I love you. I kill you.

I welcome you.

I love you.

I kill you.

Did the yacht sink?

Idiot!

I welcome you.

I love you.

I kill you.

Be merciful to me as always.

Lying emotionless on the ground

I shall wake up this morning,
in the presence of holy angels.

May the sky open wide before me,
above me and around me.

So that I might see my beloved.

The yacht came to our marina.

I welcome you.

I love you.

I kill you.

In his name I spray water

on everything in my yard.

I will love the first man
I see on this boat.

Why? We weren't supposed to
become grown-ups.

I will become one today.

I am dying of longing for a desire

that is impossible to fulfil.

Now we have to wait a little.

I heard in the village that you have
crosses on your footboards.

So when you're raised from the dead
you can pull yourself out of bed.

Not a bad idea.

To care for the old and feeble.

Guide me.

Lead my heart.

So I could finish what I've
started with a sound mind.

I baptize you with washed fingers.

Nails clipped to the limit.

Platon invited me to go with them
when they leave in the morning.

He wants me another
hundred times. - Traitor.

Why so gloomy?

My bird died.

In my arms.

How did it die?

Of sadness.

Sing. The bird would like it.

I heard you, you sing well.

It wasn't me who sang,
it was Seashell.

Take me back to shore.

He says you sing well.
He wants you to sing to him.

May the raindrops fall
softly on your eyelids

May the gentle wind entertain you

May the rays of Sun
bring joy to your heart

May the burden of the
day be light to wear

And may He take you
into His loving arms.

Did you love the man you
slept with for the very first time?

No.

You pretended to love him.

I will not pretend.

My love wants me a
hundred more times,

but I'd rather know a
hundred different men.

Darling, don't make me
to pretend a hundred times.

I'd rather go to Tokyo's love market

where five thousand angels
offer themselves up each night.

Tomorrow, I'm going
to the city to work.

Well, I also started early.

3. To See Autumn
Moon over Ishiyama

Hanake...
- I'm sleeping.

I had a dream

that if I want to keep my job
and authority on the lake,

then I have to love for three nights

a woman who hasn't
seen the Sun or the Moon.

You want to get
married again? - Yes.

I shall return in 100 days.

Where are you going?

To Kyoto, to construction.

And you?

To Tokyo, to dance.

My friend is here for the first time.

The lower hole is 50,
the upper one is 30.

No need to use rubber.

I need her for three days.

That's a lot of money.

Can your friend be trusted?

Roman is a trusted municipal
official, a fishing inspector.

He has all the power over sky,
land and water in our village.

Are you sure this woman hasn't
seen the Sun or the Moon?

I have carefully kept her here.

She has not seen
the Moon or the Sun.

And, if you take her, you must
keep her in the dark

or have her to get used
to the light gradually.

What's her name?

Rabbit Eye.

Be careful with her...

nails.

I haven't cut them in a while.

She can scratch
your face up like a cat.

Arkadi!

I need a painting of my new wife.

One in full length.

A gift for her.

And for me, to get used to her.

Change your clothes.

You still smell like a raccoon dog.

I've come to see your new wife.

Rabbit Eye.

Take off your clothes.
The painter came to see you.

No need.

I know how to do the body.

I'll do that later at home.

Using icons.

I can see you are a city girl.

With a fair complexion.

Unscorched by the sun.

I seldom go to the city myself.

But my grandfather
used to haul firewood to the city.

He was such a fine man.

He even took wood
to the University of Tartu.

I'll have Rabbit Eye
for three more months.

This is for one.

I don't have more right now.

She danced for young people
who wanted to learn about love.

And lonely old people,
crushed by the worries of life,

before they die.

She danced for the sick, students,
craftsmen, noblemen and peasants.

And when the 100th night came
and she finished serving God,

she escaped in the middle
of the night, back home.

Change your clothes,
you smell of raccoon dogs.

What did you say?

Change your clothes,
you smell of raccoon dogs.

Hanake...

You look so bad.

I think you have an STD.

Or several.

Or all of them.

I'm sure she has, too.

All the old and noble ones.

Beautiful.

A lot more beautiful.

But not too beautiful.

Hanake.

I'll have one made for you as well.

I don't want anything.

4. To Observe the flight
of Wild Geese in Katata

Think about it.

Maybe you do want
a picture for yourself.

I want a painting
that depicts the wild

geese over the
lake as they fly away.

A specific tree and
mountain in the background,

that can be found in Katata,
so it forms a hieroglyph.

What kind of hieroglyph?

That I don't remember.
- Then it's impossible.

Ask for something else.

Then I don't want a picture at all.

I'll paint the picture.

Dear Hanake,

I'm doing pretty well.

I sing on a ship and take part
in a television singing competition.

Platon has helped me a lot.

Write to me about
Tokyo. How did it go?

Seashell

Thank you for the fish.

But I guess you had something more.

I can't understand my daughter.

Hanake wants a painting

depicting the wild geese
over the lake as they fly away.

A specific tree and
mountain in the background,

that can be found in Katata,
so it forms a hieroglyph.

How do you not get it?

It's easy!

I love you when I watch you go.

But you don't love me
because you're leaving.

Hanake is just in love.

She's in love with a man
who doesn't notice her.

So she wants that,
when this man comes

to visit her, he
would see the picture

then he... She would not
need to say it herself.

Look, here are the branches
of a twisted tree,

through the branches you can see
the edge of the mountain.

On the backdrop to this mountain,

there is a long line
of white and grey geese.

Flying in a jagged line.

The grey geese
disappear in the dusk,

and the line is broken.

Whereas the white ones stand out
against the evening sky

and form a written line.

Be praised.

My son came home
at four in the morning.

Took away my sleep and went to bed.

I was sleeping well.

Now he is sleeping well.

I don't have too much
else to give my son.

Now and forever.

What do they think
about possible war in Japan?

Everybody is eagerly waiting.

Is Hanake back?

Hanake's back, too.

Kiri, put on a uniform
when you go see Hanake.

Beautiful women like war.

Father...

Bless my flesh.

Father bless my soul.

Father bless my life.

5. To Hear Rainfall
at Night in Karasaki

Lord, cleanse us from our sins.

Lord, forgive our transgressions.

Lord, have mercy...

Ruler, forgive our transgressions.

Lord, cleanse us from our sins.

Lord, have mercy...

You are idiots.

Didn't you see the
reflection on the lake?

Of course.

I don't like it...
when you... look at me... leave.

I won't look at you leaving either.

Do you want to come tonight and
check the fishing nets on the lake?

For exactly a hundred times
I have been admired by others.

I don't want to smile and hug
unwillingly anymore.

Something is oppressing
and tormenting me.

Always telling me
to go against myself.

There are no celebrations today.

Why are the bells tolling?

I don't know.

True, no holidays.

It's the war.

It's not!

It's the war!
- No, it's not the war.

I have to go back to the shore.

Please don't go, stay here
on the lake with me.

But maybe I will be a hero?

Sure.

Sure you will.

A Turkish soldier
usually fights for Turkey.

Romanian soldier usually...

A Belgian soldier fights
for an ordinary Turkey.

Are Serbs usually
in Turkey for Belgium?

The Netherlands and
Portugal fight all the time.

Can I bring my own barrel?

You have to go to war.

I don't want to.

I am not a samurai.

Go my boy, war will make
you brave and immortal.

Go yourself if you want
to become immortal.

Kiri, go back to the lake, run away!

When you were born, the midwife said
you'd always be safe in the water.

Kiri!

Stop! Hold it!

You're protected on the lake.

He goes to war.

And will return as a hero.

Before they only sang in the
angels' language in the church.

Hallelujah, they sang.

Then Basileios came

and they started singing twice
in the angel's language

and the third time
in people's language.

They sang: hallelujah,
hallelujah, and glory to God...

The saints liked it.

When we sing three times,
but not four times.

Like those people sing.

God absolutely hates it:

hallelujah, hallelujah,

hallelujah,

and glory to You!

God detests it.

Wait.

Take this candle to Rabbit Eye.

She could see a little bit.

With one eye.

I think.

She sighed for the first time.

Then she said one sentence.

I know that sentence.

You smell of raccoon dogs.

Dear Hanake,

I hope you received the television.

Turn it on today at 6 and see
the final of the singing competition.

Next month, I'll go to a long tour.

On the Narva-Vyborg-Sapporo
cruise ship.

Write to me, I'm waiting eagerly.
Seashell

Arkadi says Rabbit Eye could be the

patron saint of the
blind and animals.

He said he'll fill
out the application.

He thinks it's possible,
because she has suffered enough.

Okuro, find the
remote and pack it up.

I'm not crying

You shouldn't cry for me too.

6. To Hear the Evening Bell
of the Miidera Temple

Good Almighty.

Take my son who died
heroically in the war

posthumously to Yourself.

Dear Almighty, protect my son.

Protect the lake.

The president could bring his
military medals. Or a minister.

And let the child come home
when the time is right.

The boy next door had the
celestial mark on his heart.

In his inside pocket, when he left.

Third night, fourth night...
I'm waiting for you.

He's writing that the bullets
fly past like little birdies.

But not one of them would touch him.

Don't let yourselves be
disturbed in your prayers.

We're here for only a moment.

Listening to the night rain.

We're only sitting
here for a moment...

Light us a candle. When its raining
then we come to see you again.

Don't let yourselves be disturbed
in your prayers.

We're here for only a moment,
listening to the night rain.

7. To See the Evening
Snow on Mount Hira

If you wouldn't close your eyes all
the time, we'd make it much farther.

I have no one to sing for there.
- So what?

There was one today.
Listened and watched.

I'll leave the ship in the next port.

I need a chance to
take care of someone.

But I'm afraid a pet
would tie me down too much.

And I live away from my kids.

No, I remember,
one of them lives at my house.

But the thing is
I don't live at that home myself.

When I lived on my own for a while,

I tried to take care of myself.

But it wasn't quite the same.

It's easier taking care of you

You do everything yourself

You cook for me and do the laundry.

The captain would be honoured

to invite the artist up to the bridge

to take a look
at the beautiful landscape.

We are approaching the
world's biggest windfarm.

Be back in half an hour.

People here still
want to listen to you.

Or just watch.

Break's almost over.

I have to go back to the stage.

May you have the endless calm
of a wave rolling towards the beach.

May you feel the
peace of the still air.

8. Red Dusk in Seta

Thanks to you, thousand ghosts.

Your temple is the only place
where I can meet my dead lover.

And gain momentary peace of mind.

It wasn't me.

It fell on its own?

It happens.

It was pretty old anyway.

I come to this temple often,

as my friend was lost
at a lake never to be found.

Exactly ten years ago today.

There's a head here made
from a rock that reminds me of him.

Almighty Ruler,

banish from my lousy heart and blind

mind, with Your holy
and mighty prayers

sorrow, forgetfulness
and foolishness

and all evil and
blasphemous thoughts,

extinguish the flame of my desires.

You look so much like my dead lover.

I don't want to know your name.
And where you live.

And you shouldn't
ask the same of me.

We won't set up a time to meet.

We leave it up to God.

If He wants our paths to cross.

Bless that which holds my hope.

Bless my mind and my purpose.

Bless my beloved partner in bed.

Grass I marvel at you

You are so pretty

So appeasingly tender

Living so softly in the
brushwood behind my house.

A fish swam up against my foot.

Have mercy on us
as good and loving people.

Think of those who have fallen asleep
without knowing You and save them.

In which way You know best.

Please tell me that it wasn't
the same man I met in the temple.

Dear God,

allow Your temple cat to
open its eyes and look at me

if my lover and the man I saw
with family are two separate men.

Open your eyes!

I'm going to lunch.

Okay.

But let me meet him one
more time so I could be sure.

And when I have no doubts
about it being my Sora,

May the lake spirit
strangle me to death.

Stefanus!

Stefanus!

Stefanus!

Spirit of the lake,

please give me time to
find the boy and say goodbye.

I have lived on the lake
for ten years.

Hid myself.

I've watched you countless
times through the window.

Put big fish on the boy's
fishing rod under water.

Why, Andrei?

I wanted to do a good deed.

Like you wanted.

Kill the inspector who
torments the fishermen.

It would have cleared me.

But it didn't work.

I am a fisherman and I don't
know how to stab someone.

And I am still the murderer
of school children.

You're not a murderer.

It was the sunshine

and the gust of wind from Amazu.

An accident.

It wasn't an accident.

I had a fight with Sora in the boat.

About you.

The boat tipped over.

The water was cold.

Only Hanake made it out.
- You're lying!

Hanake didn't say anything

because she was afraid of me.

Did...

Did Sora drown?

No.

We swam together until our feet
touched the ground.

And then?

Then I drowned him.

I'm gonna go look for Stefanus.

The boy is in his bed.

I came out from the reeds.

He saw me.

He was startled
and fell into the water.

I went to save him.

But he had already drowned.

Caught in the fishing net.

Come.

Run away to Russia with me.

There's nothing
keeping you here anymore.

Pack your things.

Wherever you place your head.

Wherever you press your forehead.

Mighty generous be
the sky against you.

You were made on the lake with Sora.

And the lake took you back.

We'll take the boy with us
and bury him at the lake.

Don't you touch him!

Nobody touch him until he is cold!

I waited...

for the boy to grow up.

So he wouldn't need you anymore,

because you
promised me you love me.

When I told you I loved you,

it was only so you
wouldn't hate Sora's child.

Grass...

Grass I marvel at you.

You are so pretty.

So appeasingly tender

Living so softly

In the brushwood behind my house.

But for one moment,

I really did see the cherry trees,

the dancing children,

and you came to meet me
across the water.