Canary (2004) - full transcript

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

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