"Artist Film and Nikkatsu Present:" "UA" "ASANO Tadanobu" "Hikaru" "OGAWA Mayumi" "Music by KANNO Yoko" "Producers:" "KAI Naoki NEGISHI Hiroyuki" "Director, Writer, Ed itor :" "SUGIMORI Hidenori" "WOMAN OF WATER" "Ryo..." "Ryo..." "All done" "One, two, three" "Never fails" "Never fails" "It never fails" "Never fails to what?" "Rain..." "She's having a wisdom tooth pulled today" "She a Rain Woman?" "It always rains, whenever something important happens to her" "Her name's Shimizu Ryo Means Cool Clear Water" "On top of that, she's a Pisces Rain can't stay away from her" "Hop, hop..." "Ouch!" "You've been a wonderful father..." "Not right..." "I'll always be your daughter..." "Doesn't sound very broken up..." "Engagement Gift" "We've been in the same class since kindergarten, like a sister to me" "I felt sorry for her" "If she came, it rained on every field trip and sports meet" "The kids were always blaming her" "Need an umbrella on every date?" "I'm used to it now" "Actually, it's hard to get in the mood..." "when it doesn't rain" "Wow, man..." "That's really cool" "Besides, you got all the luck working for her bathhouse" "Get to sit at the register all day, getting paid to peep at chicks" "Wish it were me" "I'm not sitting at the register I'm in the back, in the boiler room" "You nuts!" "That's still a great job" "You rode with a biker gang Never cut out to be a damn cop" "Right, so this is our last ride together..." "It's really starting to pour" "Here it comes..." "What do you want?" "Can't you leave me alone?" "Comforting me?" "Thank you..." "Temporarily Closed Hikari Bath House" "Don't play with that Give it to Ryo" "Oh, thanks" "It's only an estimate, so the figures aren't definite" "But my husband says your property is worth a lot, especially now" "Listen, don't get mad, OK?" "I'm only say ing this 'cause it's you" "What?" "Sorry, if it upsets you" "So, what is it?" "In a certain way, you're really free now" "No family, no fiance All alone in the world" "But you've got absolute freedom" "Do whatever you want, go anywhere you please" "Nobody to tellyou what to do Absolutely free" "It's like starting your life all over again" "See?" "Have a good trip" "To Mount Fuji" "Where in Kansai?" "I wonder" "Name?" "What?" "Your name?" "Listen, honey" "If you want to get along with strangers" "Don't ask questions" "Who cares about names and history and all that" "In a village in India, there was a couple renowned for their love" "The secret of their love?" "The husband made the most important decision, and the wife decided everything else" "But actually, the wife made all the decisions" "Buying the car and the house, choosing schools for the kids" "A friend said, "Hey, you're just a henpecked husband"" ""Your wife makes all the decisions"" "The husband retorts, "No, not at all"" "So the friend asks, "What's that most important decision?"" ""Whether or not there is a God"" ""That, I refuse to let her dec ide"" "Strange couple, right?" "Yeah" "Oh!" "This is it..." "What are you doing?" "It's here, here!" "I swear I've been here before" "You don't remember?" "I see it all the time in my dreams" "Deja vu?" "Hey, are you crying?" "Why?" "It just started to pour" "I'm sorry" "What are you sorry for?" "You're weird" "We'll name the baby Ryo" "Whether it's a boy... or a girl" "I'm home..." "Who are you?" "Hey, those c lothes!" "Hi, Mom" "Thanks, as always Come on in" "Mom, I'm sorry The bath is closed today" "Mom, you've hurt your finger" "Wait a minute" "Show me your finger" "Mom, I've been thinking about selling this place" "Sell it and start all over again" "Do you mind?" "But it'll mean you can't use the big bath anymore" "Thank you" "I'll start on this side, you start on that side..." "Thanks" "Ithought you couldn't talk" "Hadn't..." "What?" "I hadn't tal ked to anyone in a whi le" "You got anywhere to go?" "Take that umbrel la" "No..." "No..." "Don't!" "Stop It!" "Hot, hot!" "What the hel l" "That 's hot!" "That was hot" "That 's Acala" "Huh?" "That 's the God of Fi re" "See all the fl ames around him?" "Ri ght" "He I ooks really fr ighten ing, but he's not try ing to scare us" "He wraps h imsel f i n flames, to scare away the devi I in our souls" "You sure know a lot of useless stuff" "Whenever I see f ire, I wonder" "Is It burn ing to burn itself up, or burning to burn up everything around it..." "When I was I ittle, we'd have bonfires in our yard, at the beginning of each winter" ""I' I I start on this side, you start on that side"" "My Mom and I'd rake up all the fal len leaves" "Wind up with a huge mountain of leaves" "Then, we'd call Dad, who'd set it on fire" "We'd stand around the big fi re, roasting potatoes and chestnuts" "Can't remember how they tasted, but I sure remember the fi res" "I'd just stare into the flames" "Kinda... calmed me down" "I could stare at It forever" "Made me feel so happy" "But nobody has bonf ires anymore, and you can't fi nd big fi res anywhere" "At my place you could see one everyday" "My house i s a bathhouse" "You need a really bi g fi re to heat a real ly b ig bath" "Wanna come?" "It 's time for cleansing, for washing each other 's backs" "Fewer bathhouses, means less Chiva lry" "Less Chiva lry means fewer bathhouses" "Fewer bathhouses means less compass ion" "Less compass ion..." "Fewer bathhouses" "Rres idents and beggars, monks and..." "Yakuza, granddads and bab i es..." "We 're a I I the same in here" "A I I just bod ies need ing to be c I eansed" "No d i fferences at al l" "When we 're str ipped to our bodies we fee I each other 's souls all the more" "Looking after each other" "Gett ing along with each other" "We don 't owe this to schoo Is or laws" "Because, schools on ly teach you knowledge" "Can 't teach you about I i fe" "Laws can only teach you common sense" "Can 't teach you about I i fe" "Wh ich leaves the bathhouse the perfect place for learning about I ife" "The bathhouse, the bathhouse, th is is where we are" "The perfect place for learning about I ife" "It 's Japan 's number one..." "Dojo..." "Thanks for a n i ce bath" "Good n i ght" "Here, I' I I start on that s i de, and you start on th i s s i de" "Use all the water you want" "It a I I comes from our we I I so don 't worry" "Ryo san, thank you" "How d i d you know my name?" "I heard the customers call ing you" "Huh" "My name..." "Don't tell me" "Actually, I..." "Don't tell me I don't want to know" "I f you want to get al ong with strangers" "Don't ask quest i ons" "Use anythi ng you like" "Dad took care of h is thi ngs" "There must be some I eft from when he was young" "You may not want to wear a dead man's c lothes" "I don't mi nd I'm al ready dead anyway" "Wow!" "Thi s one's great" "It suits you" "It 's so hi gh up" "Yeah" "Ever been up?" "Nope" "Wonder what the vi ew's like" "It 's about t ime you changed the I i ghteni ng rod, and gave It a new paint job" "The next t ime, then?" "Sure" "Here" "Thank you" "Ever seen the real Mount Fuj i?" "Nope" "I saw It for the f i rst t ime, the other day" "Someone there to ld me..." "It rai ns a I ot on Mount Fuj i, ri ght?" "Know where all that rainwater goes?" "The surface of the mountain's all gravel and volcan ic rock" "The rainwater seeps down through all that, to settle in the heart of the mountain" "It takes that water, about a hundred years," "to flow out again from the foot of the mountain" "Kinda..." "Kind of like human beings, no?" "I'm thirsty" "Take whatever you want from the refrigerator" "This is real ly nice It looks great on you" "A present from someone?" "It was my mom's" "She died instead of me..." "Mom did..." "Huh" "You know what this stone is?" "No" "It's cal led Moonstone" "You smell like soap" "Hey!" "Cut it out!" "What happened?" "You OK?" "You OK?" "Feels good, right, Mom?" "all I can real ly do for you... is wash your body like this" "I hi red someone He's a good kid" "He really helps out" "Means I can keep the bathhouse go ing now all our customers are happy, too" "Dad always said" ""Happiness isn't about how much you have," ""It's about how much you g ive"" "I'm sure Dad's happy in heaven, too" "What?" "We I ook alike?" "It 's true We sure do" "She go home?" "Yeah" "Why don't you I ive together?" "Um..." "She's your mother" "Not really" "Huh?" "She's not my mother" "It was the year before last" "She was wander ing around" "Hadn't bathed in ages, dressed in rags" "Before we opened, when the bath was empty," "I call ed her i n and washed her back" "Then she started dropping by" "After that, before long, in her mind," "I'd become her daughter" "I've heard that she went mad, after her ch i I d drowned in a r iver" "She was in a hospital over the mountai n" "But she ran away" "Not really" "What?" "I don't really thi nk that's true" "The earthquake" "She lost everyth ing in that earthquake we had" "She had a perfectly good home and family" "Her husband..." "was maybe a college professor" "They had one daughter, who was training to be an opera singer" "That day, the i r happy I i fe together, changed forever" "That place is hell" "Her ru ined home, her family trapped beneath" "Her town, gone i n an i nstant" "But the real hel l came i n the emergency shel ter" "An e lementary school gym" "Every ni ght, there was steall ng, vi ol ence, and rape No one tri ed to stop It" "She was in shock" "She had noth ing and no one I eft to trust" "After 5 days, she escaped from the she Iter" "She kept wal ki ng Away from the ru ined town, across the r iver, al ong the road" "She wal ked forever and ever" "And fi nally, she came to thi s town" "She isn't crazy She just acts crazy" "It was the only way she coul d keep on I i vi ng" "How come you know?" "I just have a feel ing" "I don't care... wh ich is true" "Therapeutic Bath Today" "Oh, no!" "Was it today?" "You can't forget the ann iversary of your own mother 's death" "I'm sorry Go around the front, I'll un lock it" "Never fails, another sunny anni versary" "Beautiful Weather!" "Who is it?" "Gramps, the painter" "The painter?" "Every year, he repaints Mount Fuj i for us in memory of Mom" "I'll help you, Gramps" "No, don't bother Just found an assi stant" "On rainy nights" "I can't help missing you" "Wandering wet pavements" "With no place to go" "Now there' s Pop Art for you" "50 years of painting Mt." "Fuji This maestro, has been doing Keith Haring for half a century" "Amazing, no?" "Huh" "So, you own a bathhouse, huh?" "Yeah" "Great job" "You think?" "Nothing to make, nothing to leave behind" "Just wash away people's filth" "Wash it all down the drain Back to zero" "But everyday you make peop le happy, grateful" "That's amazi ng The best" "Thanks" "You're so happy" "Found yourse If a good guy, too" "Don't bother It 's written all over your face" "We only were together once, but I can tell that you love him all it takes is one look" "You really I ook beautiful now" "Thank you" "Why?" "That day..." "I real ly wanted to d ie" "But the minute I saw your face, the feeling vanished" "Thanks to you, I've fi nally found my maestro" "I swore I woul d thank you" "And today we got to meet again It's a miracle, it really is" "Just a minute ago, Itold God..." ""I don't mind believing in you today"" "See you next year" "Next year" "Good evening" "Good evening" "Hey, Ryo, how are things?" "Fine, thank you" "I've got another one" "Can I put it up?" " In the usual place?" " Sure" "Thanks" "One milk" "Mt." "fuji's beautiful" "Just hadit redone today" "Oh, wonderful Here you are runni ng the bath again" "Everything's working out" "Oh yeah, I hear" "You got the Associ at ion to find you a new boiler man" "Wonderful" "I know it's not easy, but you hang in there, you hear?" "You got that?" "OK, see you then" "Bye bye" "Bye bye" "Wanted:" "Multiple Arson Miyazawa Yusaku" "Mi yazawa..." "Yusaku" "Discount coupons" "They I ook good?" "Yeah" "I can scratch my itchy eyes" "Wonder where the moon is" "It was shining over our bath I ast night" "In my dream, I mean" "You' re kidding" "Was I scrubbing my body over and over?" "So I made It rai n, r ight?" "Thanks" "So pretty, isn't it?" "1,000 years ago, people must've watched beautiful sunrises just the way we are" "Hi." "Hi, good morning" "Hi, wait a sec" "Morning!" "Smel Is good, right?" "I love the smell of fresh-cut trees" "Take whatever you want" "Thanks, always" "Trees are great all they do is drink water" "But they keep on churning out oxygen" "Turn into houses and chopsticks Never even complain" "What i s It?" "Do it..." "Here..." "I'm sorry" "I, I ove..." "Rain..." "Look, they're happy, too" "Drink!" "Drink up, guys!" "Hello" "Oh, that one" "That 's mine!" "Thanks, sorry" "Oh, hello, it's me" "What do you mean "fuck you"!" "What the hell are you doing!" "I gave you the house, the car, the furniture" "My comic book collection You've got my sun lamp" "I gave you that, too I even gave you pubes!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Louis, you say something" "You listening?" "You listen ing?" "Every month, I send you ch i I d support" "Even sent a birthday present" "Right?" "Then why the hell... do you still turn up in my dreams!" "Cut it out!" "Stay out of them!" "You got that!" "Stay out of them!" "I won't let you!" "Why do you..." "Why do you turn up in my dreams?" "Why do you..." "Why do you..." "Turn up in my dreams?" "Hey, I'm crazy, aren't I?" "Si ck, right?" "all done?" "Yeah all the customers went home" "I feel so calm here, I just do" "You can stay here forever... and ever" "Liar" "What?" "There is no forever Not in this world" "What 's wrong?" "I..." "Scare myself" "A t iny thing wi I I just set me off" "I don't even know where it comes from" "The only thing that calms me is sitting here this way" "You can stay here, just the way you are" "I can't..." "It's too late" "Human beings aren't clean" "We're all filthy" "Our bodies get dirty all by themselves" "If only we could... wash away names and pasts like we wash our bodies" "Let's go I' I I wash your back" "Mom?" "Mom!" "Mom!" "Hey!" "Mom!" "Don't!" "Perfect..." "I was just getting tired of this place..." "What are you doing?" "I'm not your child!" "Crazy bitch!" "Come..." "Come..." "Harder... harder..."