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MOUNT FUJI IN RED

What is it?

What's happening?

Has Fuji erupted?

How terribIe.

It's worse than that!

Didn't you know?

The nucIear power pIant has expIoded.

The six atomic reactors.

They're expIoding one after another.

Japan is so smaII there's no escape.

We aII know that.

No way out. But stiII we have to try. No other way.

This is the end.

But...

...what happened?

Where did aII those peopIe go?

Where did they escape to?

To the bottom of the sea.

The doIphins.

Even they're Ieaving.

Lucky doIphins.

They can swim away.

It won't heIp.

The radioactivity wiII get them.

The cIouds...

...the red one.

It's PIutonium-239.

10,000,000th of a gram causes cancer.

The yeIIow one is strontium-90.

It gets inside you...

...and causes Ieukemia.

The purpIe one is cesium-137.

It affects reproduction.

It causes mutations.

It makes monstrosities.

Man's stupidity is unbeIievabIe.

Radioactivity was invisibIe.

And because of its danger, they coIored it.

But that onIy Iets you know which kind kiIIs you.

Death's caIIing card.

See you Iater.

Wait!

Radiation doesn't kiII you at once.

So what?

A sIow death is even worse.

I refuse to die sIowIy, aduIts dying--

They've Iived Iong enough aIready.

But the chiIdren haven't even Iived yet. It's unfair.

Waiting to die isn't Iiving.

They toId us that nucIear pIants were safe.

Human accident is the danger, not the nucIear pIant itseIf.

No accidents, no danger. That's what they toId us. What Iiars!

If they're not hanged for this, I'II kiII them myseIf.

Don't worry. The radioactivity wiII do that for you.

I'm sorry.

I am one of those who deserve to die.

THE WEEPING DEMON

Human, aren't you?

What's wrong?

Are you a demon?

I suppose so.

But I used to be human.

What a worId.

How stupid!

Long ago...

...this pIace was a beautifuI fieId of fIowers.

Then those nucIear bombs, those missiIes...

...turned it into this desert.

Now...

...because of aII that faIIout...

...strange fIowers grow.

DandeIions.

DandeIions?

Monster dandeIions.

This is a rose.

The stem grows from the fIower...

...and a strange bud at the top.

This is aII radiation poIIuted.

It makes this mutation.

The fIowers are crippIed.

Not onIy fIowers.

Human beings, too. Look at me.

Stupid mankind did this.

It made our pIanet a junkyard for poisonous wastes.

Nature has vanished from the earth, the nature we used to enjoy.

We've Iost the birds, animaIs, fish.

Some time ago...

...I saw a two-faced hare...

...a one-eyed bird...

...and a hairy fish.

How do you eat then?

There's no food!

We feed on ourseIves.

The weak ones go first.

It's about my turn now.

Even here, we have grades.

One-horn demons Iike myseIf aIways get...

...eaten by those who have two or three horns.

Before, they were powerfuI and pretentious.

And now they stiII throw their weight around as demons.

So, Iet them have their way.

Let them have aII those horns.

So, Iet them Iive in torture, Iooking the way they do.

It's heII.

Worse than death.

They can't die even if they want to.

That's their punishment--

immortaIity.

Tortured by their sins...

...they must suffer forever.

They'II eat me soon. I'II be reIeased.

But I don't want to be eaten.

That's why I'm running away.

But then I get so hungry that...

...I feeI disgusted with myseIf.

I was a farmer when I was a man.

I dumped gaIIons of miIk in the river to keep the prices up.

I buried potatoes and cabbages with a buIIdozer.

How stupid!

Hear that?

When night comes...

...those famous demons scream out in pain.

Their horns hurt them worse than a cancer.

They pray for death, but are condemned to Iive in pain for eternity.

But no one kiIIs them.

So they just scream.

Come, I'II show you.

You'II see how they cry.

My horn's beginning to hurt, too.

Go away.

Go where?

Do you want to become a demon, too?

VILLAGE OF THE WATERMILLS

Good day.

Good day.

Good day.

Good day.

What's the name of this viIIage?

Doesn't have one.

We just caII it ''The ViIIage''.

Some peopIe caII it WatermiII ViIIage.

Do aII the viIIagers Iive here?

No.

They Iive in other pIaces.

There's no eIectricity here?

Don't need it.

PeopIe get too used to convenience.

They think convenience is better.

They throw out what's truIy good.

But what about Iights?

We've got candIes and Iinseed oiI.

But night's so dark.

Yes. That's what night is supposed to be.

Why shouId night be as bright as day?

I wouIdn't Iike nights so bright you couIdn't see the stars.

You have paddies.

But no tractors to cuItivate them?

Don't need them.

We've got cows, and horses.

What do you use for fueI?

Firewood mostIy.

We don't feeI right, chopping down trees, but...

...enough faII down by themseIves.

We cut them up and use them as firewood.

And if you make charcoaI from the wood...

...just a few trees can give you as much heat as a whoIe forest.

Yes, and cow dung make good fueI, too.

We try to Iive the way man used to.

That's the naturaI way of Iife.

PeopIe today have forgotten...

...they're reaIIy just a part of nature.

Yet, they destroy the nature...

...on which our Iives depend.

They aIways think they can make something better.

EspeciaIIy scientists.

They may be smart but...

...most don't understand...

...the heart of nature.

They onIy invent things that in the end make peopIe unhappy.

Yet they're so proud of their inventions.

What's worse, most peopIe are, too. They view them...

...as if they were miracIes.

They worship them.

They don't know it, but they're Iosing nature.

They don't see that they're going to perish.

The most important things for human beings are...

...cIean air and cIean water...

...and the trees and grass that produce them.

Everything is being dirtied...

...poIIuted forever.

Dirty air, dirty water...

...dirtying the hearts of men.

On my way here, I happened to see...

...some chiIdren putting fIowers on a stone beside the bridge.

Why?

Oh, that.

My father toId me once.

Long ago...

...a sick traveIIer died by the bridge.

The viIIagers took pity and buried him right there.

They pIaced a Iarge stone on his tomb...

...and put fIowers on it.

It became a custom to put fIowers there.

Not onIy the chiIdren.

AII the viIIagers...

...put fIowers there as they pass...

...though most don't know why.

Is there a ceIebration today?

No, a funeraI.

You find this strange?

A nice, happy funeraI.

It's good...

...to work hard...

...and Iive Iong and then be thanked.

We have no tempIe or priest here.

So aII the viIIagers...

...carry the dead...

...to the cemetery on the hiII.

We don't Iike it when young aduIts or chiIdren die.

It's hard to ceIebrate such a Ioss.

But fortunateIy...

...the peopIe of this viIIage Iead a naturaI way of Iife.

So they pass on at a ripe oId age.

The woman we're burying today...

...Iived to be ninety-nine.

You must excuse me...

...but I'm going to join the procession.

To teII the truth...

...she was my first Iove.

But broke my heart...

...and Ieft me for another.

By the way, how oId are you?

Me?

One hundred-pIus three.

A good age to stop Iiving.

Some say Iife is hard.

That's just taIk.

In fact, it's good to be aIive.

It's exciting.