Wolf's Rain (2003) - full transcript

In a post-apocalyptic future where humans live in domed cities surrounded by wasteland, wolves are assumed to be two hundred years extinct. Yet wolves do walk among them, disguising themselves as humans in order to survive in the human world. Now four young wolves will follow the scent of Lunar Flowers on a dangerous quest to find that which legend promises them: Paradise.

Toboe...

Let's go back,
Hige.

I no longer
feel pain.

Jaguara's poison is slowly
eating away at me.

Your kind are wolves who debased
themselves by becoming human...

...and were driven out
of Paradise.

You cannot return
to your original form.

Mister...

Pops...

I'm sorry...

I...



I shot you,
so why are you...

I promised Blue...

...that I'd protect you.

But I couldn't...

I'm sorry...

I wish I could've stayed at your side like Blue
my whole life, looking out for you...

I wish we all could have gone
to Paradise together...

Let me sleep here...

That was...

Now I get it...

That... was you?

That was you...

Toboe!

Toboe! Toboe!



You dumb kid...

Hey!

Hey!

What's going on?

Where are you guys?!

You!

So, you're
a mere human?

I know you have the stone
that opens Paradise.

What are you
waiting for?

I have been waiting
for a wolf. For you.

What?

You will soon lose everything,
as I have lost everything.

You must discard everything
that you now possess.

That is the law
of the new world.

The seal is broken.

Hurry.

Paradise is right
under your nose.

- Pops!
- Toboe!

Pops...

This can't...
How did this happen?

Pops...

Quent...

Why?

Why did this
have to happen...?

Toboe...

We have to hurry.
He's trying to reach Paradise.

He's heading for
our Paradise.

Isn't that strange?

Why doesn't he open up his own
Paradise? One for the Nobles?

The Tree of All Seeds
is over there.

The Tree of All Seeds
told this one.

We have to go.

We don't have time
to stand around.

How about you?
What are you going to do?

After coming all this way,
what are you planning to do?

Where are you going
to run and hide this time?

I'm not running. I just figured that I'm
not needed on this journey anymore.

That's all
I was thinking.

None of us
is indispensable.

Nothing is indispensable.

You are.

You're the only one
who can open Paradise.

You're the only one
who can go all the way there.

Even Tsume must have
realized that by now.

I'll go.

Even if Paradise turns me away,
I'll go as far as I can.

So you have
to come, too.

I know you want to go!
Stop making excuses!

Blue...

It's starting to fall apart...
Even this close to the center.

It looks like we should
get a move on, all right.

Don't worry
about me.

When it starts to look like
I'll slow you down,

I'll take care
of it myself.

I want to go as far
as I can, too.

Go on ahead.

I want to talk
with the runt for a bit.

We understand.

Hige.

I've betrayed
you guys before.

I'm scared.
I might betray you again.

No matter what you do to us now,
I won't think of it as a betrayal.

No matter what it is,
I'll just accept it.

When I think you're trying to kill me,
then I'll fight you.

Sure.
I'll hold you to that.

You know, you've
grown pretty big...

When I first met you, you were
still a scrawny little pup.

I knew back then that you loved humans
more than anything, but I...

No, maybe I never did
understand anything.

But I...
Are you listening, Toboe?

You asked me about my scar once, remember?
About how I got it.

It's the mark
of my sin.

I abandoned my packmates and ran
as they were being killed.

And I was run out
of the pack.

I didn't need
any friends.

I never
trusted them.

I always betrayed
those around me.

Until I met you guys.

I wanted to take you
to Paradise.

You were the one who
brought me all this way.

C'mon, Tsume!
Let's go!

I believe in you,
Tsume.

I won't whine anymore.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

Old man, take care
of the runt for me.

See ya.

Am I the only one who's
having trouble breathing?

No, so are we.

We're pretty high up,
that's why.

We are almost there. The Tree of
All Seeds is waiting up ahead.

The Tree of All Seeds
has been alive this whole time.

It has felt pain
all this time.

But now, it is
breathing freely.

Thank you.

The crest of
House Darcia?

That's what this was...
This is the Tower of the Seal.

It says here that the Nobles built this
to seal off the wolves' Paradise.

Seal?

"The seal is broken"...
That's what he said to me.

He was starting
to turn into a wolf.

Darcia, you mean?

He had a wolf's eye.

When Jaguara's... When the
Noble's Paradise started to open,

he gave up on
going there himself.

He's trying to
become a wolf.

And if he opens
Paradise first...?

Our kind will have
no future.

Hey, in that book,
how is Paradise described?

It doesn't say anything...

The last page
is blank.

Over there.
The first mountain.

That is the entrance
to Paradise.

Are you okay?

Yeah... I'm sorry.
Don't worry about me, go on ahead.

I'll take my time
as I climb.

Just a little more, and you'll reach
a spot where you can rest.

It's beautiful...

Can you see that,
Cher?

I tell you now the words
of the Red Moon.

The wolf was born from the Great Spirit,
and man became the messenger of the beast.

He lives his life
in silence,

where the blessing of the blood
of the gods is bestowed upon him.

- Hey!
- Hold on!

For all my tough talk, I guess I won't
be able to make it with you to the end...

I guess the area up ahead is a place
I won't be able to set foot in.

Hang on tight!

Stay back!
Don't try to come down!

I'm not afraid.

You wolves will open up
the next world for us.

I have faith
that you will...

I didn't need the gun,
after all...

The flower wins the favor
of the lord of the night,

and gives off
her scent.

Firm and eternal in countenance, her form
is as a lily-white, supple maiden.

She distills and condenses time
until all is a precious, frozen mass.

It is then that the beast
shall appear.

Next Time

Next Time

A journey's end is always
a little depressing.

A journey's end is always
a little depressing.

It was a long trip, but now that it's over,
it seems like the blink of an eye.

Anyway, it's been
pretty fun.

See ya.

If it's meant to be, I hope we meet again.