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"In cooperation with THE KADOKAWA TRUST OF FUND FOR PUBLISHING-BUSINESS PROMOTION" "Production Advisor:" "Producers' Academia" "A SHIOTA Akihiko Film" "CANARY" "That year, authorities removed dozens of children from the terrorist cult group, Nirvana, into protective custody at a Child Welfare Center in western Japan" "Raised in constant fear of attack from the outside world, at first the children responded with ferocious defiance" "Yet over time, as they adapted to reality, they broke free of their parents' dogma" "However, there was one boy, who refused to abandon his rebelliousness," "the 12 year old, Iwase Koichi" "When his grandfather visited Koichi after 2 months of confinement, he refused custody of the boy, only taking his" "8 year-old sister, tearing the two children apart" "Koichi soon escaped from Child Welfare" "Kyoto" "Tokyo" "You know the type that's so smug about not being a pain in the ass" "That type totally pisses me off" "Every living person's a pain in the ass" "And it's even worse after they croak" "Right?" "Take my Mom..." "What?" "Convenience store" "Wanna stop?" "Nope" "When my Mom died, her bones took forever to burn" "The crematorium guys really had to work at it" ""Damn, she's still a pain even though she's dead,"" "that's how Grandma bitched about her." "And then, after awhile, Grandma kicked the bucket herself" "And no matter how long they burned her, she just stayed half-roasted, never turned to ash and bones." "I mean, damn!" "So when I die, I'm sure I'll be just the same" "Hey, man, tell me your real name" "How come?" "No big deal if you don't want to" "It's not that I don't want to..." "After, OK?" "Won't care, after" "Listen, man, I only agreed to take a drive with you" "I'm opening it" "I'm... a police officer" "Pull over, man I gotta pee" "Can't" "Why not?" "I can't hold it Stop!" "I said I can't I'm Dickin' around with adults, you punks!" "Why the fuck would I pay a kid 20,000 yen for taking a drive?" "Stop..." "The fuck I will!" "Get the cuffs out Get 'em out and cuff yourself" "Right wrist, too" "Is he alive?" "Can't tell" "Shit." "Shit." "Shit!" "This way." "This way!" "Fuck, I made it!" "I thought I was dead meat" "I feel kinda great..." "like this" "Hey, you, hang on" "Hey, you're that Nirvana kid, right?" "Don't bother pretending I remember you from Child Welfare" "Did you break out?" "No, no, no..." "No" "I just want to thank you" "Hey, let go!" "That guy in the car was going to abduct and kidnap me" "If you hadn't jumped out onto the road, who knows what would've happened to me" "Can you undo 'em?" "Thank you" "Where are you headed?" "Tokyo" "Tokyo?" "What for?" "Get my sister back from Grandpa" "Get her back?" "So you got cash?" "No way, right?" "How are you going to get to Tokyo without cash?" "Walk" "You've got guts But that's what's called, Impossible" "All right, then" "I'll get you the money you need to get to Tokyo" "Why?" "A present, to thank you" "I want to do something for you, OK?" "You got a name?" "Iwase Koichi" "That your real name?" "Huh" "My name's Yuki" "Sometimes I go by Aki or Miki, but it's really Yuki, Niina Yuki" "Hello?" "Oh, Mikari?" "You here?" "We're in a car" "What?" "Where?" "Mikari!" "Yuki, did your Dad beat you up again?" "Yeah, something like that Did you bring what I wanted?" "Yeah" "Here" "They're Mikari's brother's You'll get caught without a disguise" "The cash?" "This is it?" "I planned to lift more from Mom's purse but it didn't work out" "I don't know a thing about the details, but if Yuki's up for helping you, you must be all right I can't really help at all, but I'll be rooting for you in my heart, OK?" "Thank you" "Keep the money I'll settle for your support" "I've got other resources" "Sir, it's me, Yuki, from Midori Elementary" "Don't worry, nobody saw me" "Sir, sir" "Sir!" "Sir!" "It's me" "OK, sit, fast" "His hearing's cool, but he has trouble talking" "Right, Sir?" "Soak in that hot bath 'til you warm up, OK?" "And count to 500 real slow" "Don't you dare get out 'til then Got that?" "That'll be 10,000 yen, Sir" "No touching You touch me, it's 100,000 yen" "'On the long, long," ""never-ending trail," ""a winter storm" ""rages, but..." "'It's springtime In the valley," ""and flowers bloom" ""Alone, alone" ""another day alone," ""on the never-ending silvery trail"" "Mom used to sing that in the tub" "I just kind of picked it up" "What happens once you've seen your sister?" "Are you gonna go back to Nirvana?" "I'll find somewhere to live" "And then?" "Bring my Mom back there" "Where's your Mom?" "I don't know, but I swear I'll find her" "How about your Dad?" "Dead" "Right after my sister was born, he got sick and died" "My family's really the pits, but yours totally sucks" "There's no comparison" "This is where we part" "Don't lose that money I gave you" "I swear I'll pay you back" "Bye, then" "Hey, wait!" "I wanna go to Tokyo with you You wouldn't mind, would you?" "I hate this town!" "I don't want to go home!" "I want to help someone, make a difference" "Can't I?" "Can't I?" "Can't someone like me have dreams?" "You've got to make your own choices" "You said it" "You just said it" "Don't you dare forget what you just said!" "We take the train as far as we can from Ishiuchi station" "After that, it's anybody's guess" "I hope you're really ready to walk all the way to Tokyo" "Hey." "Hey!" "We've got to stop I can't walk anymore" "A little farther" "That's all you ever say and we never stop" "This is all that's left" "Aren't you eating?" "Hey, wait, Koichi!" "Hey, what's so wrong about shoplifting?" "Tell me." "I wouldn't bring it up if we weren't desperate" "No money, nothing to eat How else can we stay alive?" "If you've got a better plan, tell me!" "When you steal from someone, their pain always comes back to you" "What the hell is that?" "That one of your teachings?" "Then, why'd you kill all those people?" "Didn't you guys murder dozens of innocent people?" "I may be an idiot but I watch the news" "Why'd you guys murder people?" "We didn't murder" "If we did murder, there was a reason that justified it" "What kind of reason?" "What kind of reason justifies murder?" "Hey, wait, Koichi!" "You haven't given me any reason" "If you can't explain the reason, you might as well not have one" "Sorry, but it's time I was going home!" "You're the one who wanted me to make my own decisions" "You can go on to Tokyo by yourself!" "Koichi!" "Cut it out!" "Cut it out" "Eat up, you animals" "Thank you" "Don't mind him, it's just a habit" "Oh, yeah?" "Listen, are you guys really brother and sister?" "Yeah, he's my big brother" "But you probably thought I was older, right?" "Most people think that What do you guys think?" "I just don't believe you're related" "Exactly." "We actually have completely different moms and dads" "But it gets so complicated when you try to explain, so quit asking, OK?" "What's up with you two?" "Us?" "You saw us, back there..." "Yeah, but I don't really get it" "No, Yuki, you totally get it" ""Your eyes deliver 10,000 Volts" ""You're the last angel who came down to earth" ""Your eyes deliver 10,000 Volts" "' You're the last angel who came down to earth"" "I feel so clean" "Angels in hell They're kind of weird, but..." "I just washed my hair in the sink" "I feel so much better" "Hey, Koichi You should wash your hair, too" "Hey" "Don't touch me!" "No thanks" "I'm... used to being screamed at" "But, I'm so dumb, half the time I can't figure out what I did wrong" "That's the worst, for me" "If someone touches your head, you lose spiritual energy" "Spiritual energy?" "What's that?" "The usual?" "Teach me that stuff you're always chanting, too" "Hurry, c'mon" "No" "It's not some joke" "I know that, you idiot" "I was just hoping we could make up Idiot" "One time," "I really did think I'd kill myself" "Once, after Dad hit me," "I said to him," ""You're not my father" ""You should've died instead of Mom, you idiot"" "And he said back," ""How dare you, you twit" ""Your mother never even wanted to have you" ""It was too late, so she had no choice"" "Didn't I even know that?" "I knew that all along" "But I didn't want to have to hear it from Dad" "That night, I got a knife from the kitchen, and planned to shove it into my neck" "But then..." "But then, I suddenly heard Mom's voice, inside my head" "Suddenly, she started singing" "That song" "My mom's favourite song" "You know what I thought?" "That after people die, their spirits really do look out for you" "That stuff really happens" "What do you think of that story?" "Do you believe me?" "If you kill yourself, you go to hell in the next world" "So you're telling me, you go to hell for suicide, but heaven for murder?" "You and I have the worst chemistry I'm getting cold, and it's time for bed Bye" "Iwase Michiko, joins the Order today with two others" ""Upon joining the Order," ""I solemnly swear to the following:" ""One, I donate all my assets" ""and property to the Order" ""Two, no matter what may happen to me after this," ""I have chosen that fate freely," ""and I will cause no trouble for the Order" ""Three, if my body" ""should perish during practice," ""it is my wish that the Order inter my body" ""and the Master officiate at my funeral rites"" "Iwase Michiko" "Koichi" "Asako" "As you know, members of the Order live apart from their families" "You may be lonely at first" "But severing the attachments of love is the essence of our practice" "We pray for the final day of your completion" "Thank you" "Hey, wake up Time for offerings, wake up" "Hey, don't leave any of the offerings" "Why not?" "They contain the Master's energy" "You can't leave any" "Just eat it!" "Just eat it!" "Idiot!" "What did he do today?" "Threw his offering on the floor" "But we're full today" "Bind him!" "Listen..." "I'll show you just how terrible your offence is" "That offering was infused with our Master's energy" "To refuse that offering is no less than to turn against the Master" "Turn against the Master and your spirit will lodge in hell forever" "Do you have any idea what hell is?" "No, you haven't the faintest idea" "If you had, you would never have thrown that to the ground" "Never!" "Do you want to go to hell?" "Then go back to your room, pick up the offering and eat it" "Speak your answer!" "I'll pick up the offering and eat it" "Listen closely Your ignorance is hardly a sin" "Because you were never taught the real truth" "But no longer" "The gates of hell open for those who turn wilfully against the truth." "Got that!" "So, what does his teacher say?" "Yeah, yeah..." "What are you talking about?" "Stop it, that's not what I'm talking about" "What does that have to do with him?" "Please, we can discuss that some other time..." "Yuichi is not your mother's son, he's mine" "I bore him myself" "Hurry up, put Yuichi on" "Yuichi..." "Speak to Mommy" "If you're silent, I'll never know" "Something bad happen at school?" "Then, why won't you go to school?" "Why not, Yuichi?" "Then please talk so Mommy can understand" "Otherwise, how will Mommy know what to do?" "I want to see you!" "Mommy wants to see you, too" "Why can't you understand Mommy?" "Yeah, that's right" "On your next vacation," "Mommy's promised Daddy to come visit..." "Yeah..." "Yeah" "What?" "I can't read your mind I If you've got something to say, spit it out!" "I thought we were supposed to leave all that behind on this trip" "My son has a problem" "So fucking what!" "Kozue!" "What is this?" "You don't think I can understand how a parent feels!" "A pervert, a childless lesbian like me, can't understand a mother's feelings..." "Kozue, shut up or I'll hit you" "Fine, go ahead" "I never wanna see your face again!" "So don't ever look at me again!" "Beat it" "Shit." "Kozue san's really going away" "Saki san I Oh, no!" "I'll go bring her back" "We'd already decided, to break up after this trip anyway" "You're a solid young man, aren't you..." "Don't need it" "It's not for you, take it for my own sake" "Please take it" "Thank you" "Tokyo, Central Station" "Where's your sister?" "With Grandpa" "I know, where's he?" "The zoo stop on the Keio Line" "WANTED:" "Nirvana Members" "Iwase Michiko, aka Lucia (39)" "How are you today?" "Vegetables prices are rising thanks to a long rainy season and cool summer" "The fall may see..!" "Koichi" "From this day forth, you shall be called Ravana" "How was Garusha?" "How did she seem?" "The same" "Right" "Asako" "Asako, you can't just sleep all the time Come play with me outside" "Stop sucking on your clothes" "She looked skinny" "What?" "Garusha" "Really..." "Hey, Ravana!" "Mom!" "Mommy!" "Ravana" "Hurry, take this child away" "Mommy!" "Mommy!" "Wait!" "Mommy, don't go!" "Mommy, don't go!" "Ravana" "I'll put it here" "Asako" "Ravana" "Be strong" "Koichi!" "Ravana!" "you were delivering Garusha's letters to Yoshioka, weren't you?" "Hang him" "Ravana!" "Chant the Akashagalva Mantra 10,000 times, now!" "Ravana!" "Can't hear you!" "Ravana!" "Let's hear it." "Ravana, let's hear it!" "Ravana!" "Like you mean it." "Louder!" "Ravana!" "Let's hear it." "Koichi, can you hear me?" "Mother" "You were so foolish" "You're so impossible" "Mother" "Koichi" "You're not the only one it's hard for" "You're not the only one who's lonely" "Mother... can hardly bear being apart from you and Asako" "But if you can just be strong now," "I promise we can all live together again someday" "Koichi, we'll all die someday" "We all do die, someday" "You and I, might even die tomorrow" "If I were to die now, no matter how much I loved you and Asako," "I would never see you again" "But listen, Koichi" "That's not good enough for me" "I want to be with you in the next world and the world after that, forever" "If we follow the Master and practice, and seek salvation in this life, we will all be reincarnated together again" "You understand, don't you?" "I know you do Because you're my son" "Koichi, I've been assigned a special task now" "If I do it perfectly," "I know I'll win salvation" "I can get you and Asako and we'll all be together" "So, I know it's hard, but don't give up" "If you give up now, what'll become of Asako?" "So, please Chant the mantra with all your heart" ""Your mother was a total failure as a human being"" "That's what Grandpa said, at the Child Welfare Center" "So I lunged at him, and tried to strangle him" "While I was doing that..." "I thought I had every reason to kill him" "Tama Zoo" "This the street?" "Hey, wait There may be cops" "I'll go scope it out" "IWASE" "Apologize!" "Death Penalty" "Parents are Culpable" "Hey, what are we going to do, now." "Find Asako" "And just how are we going to do that?" "Huh?" "Wander all over Tokyo without any money?" "According to testimony by former members, the three additional Nirvana suspects accused of three counts of murder and manslaughter, in addition to the subway terror attacks, are Nirvana's top leaders, Tsumura Yoshio, aka Junana," "Tsuji Shoichl, aka Ronchenva, and Iwase Michiko, aka Lucia" "Concerned that these desperate fugitives may attempt further attacks, investigators have stepped up safety measures" "They are also planning additional raids on the dozens of Nirvana-affiliated sites throughout the nation" "Hey, Yuki" "I don't know what you're planning, but I'm against it" "What's wrong is wrong" "Yuki!" "All right" "Then, I'll steal" "Steal today, steal tomorrow, steal day and night, whenever you get hungry?" "Besides, if you steal you'll go to hell, won't you!" "Here's your lunch money" "What?" "Nothing" "Hey, hey, what the..." "Hey!" "What the!" ""Alone, alone, 'the never-ending trail," ""is a long hard road 'but take heart" ""Every steep climb" ""leads to a descent" "'Endlessly, endlessly" ""again tomorrow," ""on the never-ending silvery trail"" "Ravana!" "Yoshioka!" "Ravana" "Koichi" "Shuropa" "Did you escape from Child Welfare?" "Cosmo Recycling" "OK..." "We're almost ready" "I'll help, too" "Where's grandma?" "Kimura san went to get her" "Koichi," "I'm not Shuropa anymore" "I'm Izawa Akira" "That's true for all of us here" "We're all former believers, starting over together" "And Garusha?" "She stayed with the Order" "Koichi" "Do you hate me now?" "We'll get one of the old crowd to find out where your grandpa is" "Make yourself at home here, 'til then You, too, Yuki" "This is the Yuki I mentioned" "Oh, Yuki?" "Why, thank you" "Yuki... such small hands" "Thank you kindly" "Ready?" " And up - we go" "OK, OK" "Thanks" "Hey, wait, Koichi" "OK?" "And up we go" "Be careful, you two" "Hey, don't overdo it" "No sweat" "Thanks" "That's it" "We're off" "Off you go" "Ready" "Off you go" "Koichi!" "I'll help you" "Like this..." "Thanks" "Izawa san planned to swindle his Dad out of this place and donate it to the Order" "Lock his father up and steal the deed from him..." "All so he could move out of the Children's Division to better work" "It makes sense" "All his younger recruits were promoted ahead of him" "Take that old woman..." "Her daughter donated all the family goods, so, essentially, she joined the Order because she was homeless" "What the hell... were we thinking?" "Yuki san, shall I make you some origami?" "Grandma..." "you can make origami?" "Sure, I can make you anything" "Grandma, can you make a flying bird?" "You mean a crane?" "Like a crane, but different Its wings make this flapping sound" "My Mom used to make them for me before she died" "Oh..." "Watch carefully, now, Yuki" "So?" "Grandma, let me try" "I'll go show Koichi" "Yes, hello..." "Where... are you now?" "Tsumura..." "Please call me Junana..." "Shuropa" "Junana" "Did you... really do it?" "Do what?" "You want to make me to say it?" "What difference would my answer make?" "You'll just implicate yourself" "In fact, you know very well" "If you place your question within the Master's teachings, the answer will reveal itself" "Isn't that true?" "At this time, I have absolutely nothing to fear" "The police will never be able to catch me" "It's impossible for them to catch me" "Because the Master protects you...?" "Because we are practitioners of the Truth" "Because we offered our very selves in quest of absolute Truth, beyond the logic of the material world" "Authority and society function on the basest, human level" "But we are different" "We are devoted to Laws of Truth, beyond the human world" "Even if such people managed to apprehend our physical bodies, they would never capture or imprison our souls" "That's absolutely impossible" "You can't believe a word of that." "If you did, you wouldn't sit here and lecture me about it" "You don't believe it, you just want to believe it!" "Because unless you believe, you'll fall apart" "I know that all too well..." "Now, I do" "You're the one who's lecturing" "And you're the one who wants to believe... no?" "It was a mistake to come and see you" "I respected you for first showing me the way, out of my unenlightened ignorance" "What a shame" "Can I ask you one last thing?" "Yes" "Can you contact Lucia?" "What for?" "Lucia's son is staying with me" "His grandparents rejected him and he's adrift" "I want to help him" "I cannot contact Lucia" "I cannot contact anyone" "I understand" "Isn't there anything I can do?" "No" "Thank you" "It looks nice on her" "Oh... good" "I'm happy" "Koichi, your grandpa's address?" "Don't you lose that, now" "And... would you, Kimura san?" "It's not much, but it's a farewell gift from all of us here" "You can pay us back once you start making a living" "Thank you" "Koichi what did Nirvana mean to you?" "For me, Nirvana was a dream" "It was my future" "I hoped that by practicing at Nirvana, I would transform myself beyond recognition," "and then transform the world That's what I believed" "But... it was a colossal mistake" "Nirvana was just another reality..." "A reality exactly like this reality, just a different one..." "Shuropa" "I told you" "I'm not Shuropa anymore" "The Shuropa inside me is dead" "Koichi" "You're not a child of God" "Nor a child of Nirvana" "Koichi," "You're you You, yourself" "You're not anything else" "And so you have to decide for yourself, exactly who you are" "That may prove to be a harsh undertaking" "You may not be able to stand just being yourself" "But Koichi, don't let that weight crush you" "Just like I'm only me, you can't buckle under the weight of just being yourself" "You don't have umbrellas, do you?" "When you go, just take one of those umbrellas" "They've been forgotten here..." "We interrupt our broadcast with this news flash" "Shortly after 2PM, in an apartment in the North District, 6 bodies of Nirvana members wanted for terrorism were discovered" "The bodies showed no external wounds, and authorities are investigating the possibility of a mass suicide" "The confirmed dead include, the Nirvana leader presumed responsible for a terrorist attack, suspect Tsumura Yoshio, aka Junana" "Koichi..." "Likewise, suspect Tsuji Shoichi, known as Ronchenva... suspect Iwase Michiko, known as Lucia," "and Nishioka Masato!" "Koichi!" "Don't, Koichi!" "So what if your mom's dead!" "What'll happen to your sister if you die?" "What'll happen to that sister, who's waiting for you?" "I'll go get her for you" "And if I can't bring her, I'll die with you I" "'On the long, long," ""never-ending trail," ""a winter storm" ""rages, but..." "'It's springtime In the valley," ""and flowers bloom" ""Alone, alone" ""another day alone," ""on the never-ending silvery trail"" ""Alone, alone, 'the never-ending trail," ""is a long hard road 'but take heart" ""Every steep climb" ""leads to a descent" "'Endlessly, endlessly" ""again tomorrow," ""on the never-ending silvery trail"" "Grandma" "Koichi's... he's doing just fine" "No point talking to her" "She can't hear a thing" "Who are you?" "I've come to take Asako to Koichi" "Otherwise, I'll have to die with him" "I see So, Koichi's still safe" "Your name?" "Yuki" "Yuki... how old?" "Twelve" "Michiko was twelve when she learned to swim" "Her mother and I took her to the sea..." "She was so timid I had to scold her, but... she learned how to swim" "You mean, Koichi's Mom?" "This morning," "Michiko called" "She demanded" "I put Koichi on the phone, saying he must be here" "I told her," "I had refused to take him" "She went silent for a while, and then said in a tiny voice," ""I couldn't" ""save your soul, father"" "That's all she said, and then she killed herself" "I can't let Koichi have Asako" "Why not?" "I'm starting over with Asako" "I won't screw it up with her" "I'll never screw up like that again" "How dare you" "You tear Koichi and Asako apart How dare you?" "That's a huge screw up already." "Koichi and Michiko are the same It just won't do" "What the hell is that?" "That's no..." "That's no reason." "Why is that?" "Kids... we can't choose our parents." "Can parents choose their kids?" "I..." "I finally get it" "You're just like my father" "You're human scum!" "Koichi" ""I..." ""am..." ""He who... forgives all..."" ""What'll you do now?"" ""Go on living."" "ISHIDA Houshi" "TANIMURA Mitsuki" "NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi" "Ryo Tsugumi" "MIZUHASHI Kenji TODA Masahiro" "INOUE Yukiko" "SHINAGAWA Toru" "KODA Miyako" "Executive Producers:" "SASAKI Shiro NAKAGAWA Shigehiro, KAWASHIRO Kazumi" "Producer:" "MATSUDA Hiroko" "Co-Producers:" "MIZOGUCHI Yasushi, KOHNO Satoshi" "Director of Photography:" "YAMAZAKI Yutaka" "Lighting Director:" "SATO Yuzuru" "Sound:" "KORI Hiromichi" "Production Designer:" "HAYASHI China" "Costume Designer:" "MIYAMOTO Mari" "Hair  Makeup:" "HOSOKAWA Masako" "Editor:" "FUKANO Toshihide" "Music:" "OTOMO Yoshihide" "End Theme Music by MUKAI Shutoku and OTOMO Yoshihide" "Screenplay / Director:" "SHIOTA Akihiko" "English subtitles:" "Linda Hoaglund" "Produced by 'Canary' Film Partners" "Although inspired by actual events, this film is entirely fictional, and unrelated to actual persons or groups"