All language subtitles for The Towers of Musahino Line (1997)

Look.

Miharu, look at this.

Look.

Miharu.

Are you watching this?
Miharu.

What are you doing?
Miharu have a fever.

The Towers of Musahino Line.

Miharu, you're in sixth grade, right?

With that attitude, what have you been up to?
Don't take it lightly.

Hoya City, Tokyo Metropolis.

Thursday,
August 24.

That summer, my parents decided
to live separately,

So at the start of the new school term,

I transferred to a primary school in
Nagasaki where my mother's family lives.

Why did my parents decided to live separately?

I haven't been shared any details regarding it.

The remaining time until the move during
summer vacation slipped by unnoticed,

And my close friends,

all went on trip or to the countryside,
and my surroundings became quiet.

Miharu!

If we go to Nagasaki, let's visit Huis Ten Bosch.
Grandpa said he would take us in his car.

Miharu, Saturn's rings completely disappeared,
you can see it clearly.

Miharu,
Miharu.

When I was little, I lived in Chiba City.

Back then, my father and I spent every
Sunday beneath the transmission tower,

Miharu, it's just like I said.

See, as I thought, it has some real power.

I can still clearly remember
the faint sound of electricity

that I heard by putting my ear
to the transmission tower.

Musashino Line.
Tower no. 71.

Musashino Line.
Tower no. 70.

I discovered a certain fact that
I had not noticed until then.

Tower no 69.

What this means is that if you
keep following these railways,

you will eventually reach
Towner no. 1 of Musahino Line.

What could possibly be waiting there?

I couldn't keep this discovery from Akira.

Akira, who is two years younger than me,

and I have always shared adventures and secrets,
dividing hidden treasures together.

As September approached
and we would inevitably part ways,

I couldn't bring myself to tell Akira.

It became my first secret,

one I didn't share with Akira.

Musashino Line.
Tower no. 1.

Here, go ahead.

Did you have a fun summer vacation?

Yes.

It's the last summer vacation of
your elementary school, after all.

Time flies, doesn't it?

Miharu-kun, you're already in junior high.

It’s still in the future, though.

Oh, really?
It's still in future.

I died again.

- Hey, mom?
- Hmm?

How do you defeat it?

I won't tell you.

Then give me a hint.

No hints.

You're so unfair.

Micchan, do you want to play?

Miharu-kun, I'll take on your challenge.

Just wait a moment while
I finish folding the laundry.

Akira!

More importantly,
I'm certain about it.

What are you doing?

Keep a good watch.

- What are you burying?
- I'll tell you later.

What’s this? It’s just a beer cap.
I have a lot of the same ones from Kirin.

Yeah, Kirin is pretty common.

There are a lot of Asahi ones too.

By the way, did you notice that
the pyramid has become taller?

I noticed?

If that's the case,
It's possibly looks like transmission tower.

So it has power or something...

Eh, it's cool, that's why you buried the medal.

Micchan, let me do it too.

Akira, don’t be impertinent.

But how do you use it?
That power?

How to...

It’s not just for that.
It can also be used as evidence, you know.

What do you mean?

Akira, It's a secret.

Where do you think electricity comes from?

- From sky?
- Sky?

Anyway, let's go.

Mii-chan.

Where are we going?

- Do you want to go home, Akira?
- That's not what I mean.

Let's go and bury
the medals until the very end.

Where exactly do we need
to go to finish it all the way?

It's unfair, Micchan. Please tell me.

To the No.1 Transmission tower.

What's that?

What is underneath the No. 1 tower?

such as a basement or round rooms?

Are there amazing machines?

Like a Famicom?

Come on, Mi-chan, tell me.

Walk slower I'm tired, Micchan.

Instead of talking,
be careful climbing up.

- What's wrong? Micchan?
- Watch out for the thorns.

Oh, got it.

What's wrong, Micchan?

Akira, this place is kind of sketchy.

Huh? Why?

This is a hotel that adults visits.

Huh, a hotel?
There aren't any guests.

Because it's a secret.

Akira!

Mr. Ohara.

Miharu, what are you doing here?

Do you want to grab dinner at Denny's?

Uh, Danny's...

It's fine I already contacted your home.

If I don't eat at home,
I'll get in trouble.

Hey, Micchan?

Huh?

Today, we went to such an amazing places, right?

Yes, we went to such an amazing places,
didn’t we?

Akira, how far did you go on your bike?

I went to the waterworks with my mom;

It isn't far at all.

I can go much further.

Really?

Really.

Alright,

then tomorrow we'll go out on our bikes.

Bikes?

Do you think we could make it by bike?

Hey Micchan?

What are you making?

While spending Sundays under
the transmission tower,

I discovered the secrets of the towers.

The towers could be classified into
various types based on their shapes.

Miharu-kun,
What are you drawing about?

Tranmission towers?

This has voice has of boys, this has voice of girls,
And this receive a voice.

You draw it so well.

However, as I entered
the upper grades of elementary school,

I stopped spending time under
the towers with my father,

And my interest in the towers
gradually faded away.

Miharu, you have call from Mr. Ohara.

- What’s with those gloves?
- Well, we’re an investigation team, aren’t we?

Your mom didn't scold you?

Ah, she said it's totally fine.

Yeah, are you excited?

Yeah.

Alright, I'll go ahead.

Dad.

Akira do you know there are
male & female transmission towers?

You're joking.

There are really female towers.

How come?

Teach me.

Brother, I really wanna learn it.

Akira you know how towers operates?

Please teach me, brother.

Then listen me carefully.

That thing from earlier,
it's protruding out to horizontally, right?

- Horizontal?
- Yeah, because it's horizontal, it's a female.

So, what about Males?

Don't rush.
Try looking at the next one.

It looks like something is hanging down below.

Right?

I get it now,
that's why it's male tower.

That's right.

Even from here
You can see their own shapes.

This tower looks strange.

Huh, what do you mean?

Try looking at things like
the structural features too.

I can't tell what's flickering.

It's hanging down partway.

It's turned into a female.

Why did it become a female
even though it was a male?

I wonder if it's fun.

Got it,
It was modified.

Modified?

It was modified tower.

That's cool.

It was another modified tower.

For real.

Maybe we've discovered something amazing.

We found two modified towers, didn't we?

That's another modified tower, right?

What? It's modified again?

Don't drink that,
it'll upset your stomach.

But I was thirsty.

What's that?

It's dead.

Wow, this is really something.

Did it die from the heat?

Who knows?

Akira,

I've got a great idea.

Huh? What?

Electric shock.

Electric shock?
What's that?

I've heard even human can be revived with it.

Oh, I've seen that on TV.

Let's do it, Akira.

Are you really doing this?

Let's do.

Let's do it, Akira.

This is bad, let's stop.

I can't do this.

Got it.

Mii-chan i already turned it.

Do you think it’s safe enough, Micchan?

It’s risky if you hold it in hand, though.

Let's stop.

This is the perfect chance.

But...

It's an experiment,
we're not doing anything bad.

- Did you hear anything?
- Seriously?

Well then try opening it.

What if we get shocked?

A shock?

Maybe.

So, what do we do?

Micchan, I heard a sound.

Mii-chan wait for me.

Did we get shocked?

It could be our imagination.

But Micchan ran away.

It's the farmer.

You're right.

Damn!

I wonder if that old guy wiil be okay.

He might have been one who
Put stag beetle inside the can.

Brother, I can't cross.

Look, over here.

Brother, this is bad.

What’s wrong.

Towers are all connected.

Really.

I wonder how far we will have to go.

How far, I wonder.

Brother, I've already done it.

Take a look, there’s no one around,

and even the farmers are having their lunch.
If we do it now, we won’t get scolded.

Ah, Micchan, if I die,

please give me an
electric shock before going to the grave.

Micchan, I'm done for.

How far we have to go.

Akira,

the next field will be the last one;
it's turning into a forest.

Is it really the end of the field?

I wanna have pickles or Calpis Water..

Or Honey Lemon.

I like Fanta Lemon.

Sunkist's pulpy orange or

UCC Apple.

Let's go.

Akira, look.

Do I really have to go buy it?

Let's give you electric shock.

Mii-chan, wait I'm not dead.

Brother, can I tell mom about this?

Of course not.

We're doing something so cool.

- This is our secret.
- Secret, right?

Akira, which tower did you like?

I don't know.

How about you, Micchan?

When you look up at the lady tower from below at an angle,
it looks like the tower is smiling gently.

When I was little,
I called it the lady tower's smile angle.

The smiling angle of the 65th tower
on the Musashino Line was so beautiful

that before I knew it,
I was reminded of Akira's mother.

I felt that it was something very
embarrassing towards Akira's mother,

and somehow also towards Akira,
so I couldn't bring myself to say it.

What the heck,
What's this...

What should we do?

Akira, come.

It's strategy meeting.

What should we do, brother?

Akira, sometimes you do take charge.

But I wonder, have you ever
done anything dangerous?

- I've even jumped out of a room before.
- How high was it?

- This high.
- It's not high at all.

Anything else?

Anything else...

When I was playing around,

I couldn't make the turn and ended
up jumping and falling into the field.

What? So, you just fell again, huh?

That happened with me too.

Suddenly going down a slope, I hit the front brake and
ended up flipping once, crashing my head into the road.

- Really?
- Really.

Let's take a break.

Akira, be careful.

It's a dog that keeps repeating, isn't it?

I wonder if there are a lot of them.

It would hurt if you got bitten, wouldn't it?

Let's go.

I wonder if they understand,

Before they they play around
and mess all the things.

Do you want to drink, buddy?

That's it...

No way!

Brother, wait for me.

Wait a bit.

They were smiling at us, weren’t they?

Keep quite.

Micchan if we had talked with them, they might
have joined the Transmission tower investigation team.

Want to join the railway investigation team?

It's interesting.

You don't have to if you don't want to.

Going as far as the No. 1 tower and figuring out
what happens after that is basically our task.

Find out what’s there after that.

What do you want to do?

Once you you Join,
you'll end up anywhere.

- Do you wannna go?
- What do you think?

It's great if you join.

Fine,

Don't bother with something like that.

Hey, you,
He's over there, Togashi-san.

wait!

I was just bored.

Akira run.

Hurry up, Akira, run.

Hurry up Akira.

Those old guys suddenly got angry,
it's stressful, right?

It's not even their Tower,
so why are they getting in our way?

That's right.

No way!

Akira, hurry up.

I'm gonna die.

Akira, hurry up.

Oh no,
They're gone.

They're gone, right?

That old guy,
he really loves dogs, doesn’t he?

Yeah, come to think of it, he kind of looks
like a dog himself, especially his face.

So, maybe his birthday matches up with a dog’s
or something? That would be pretty fitting.

He told me,

My dad has been struck my listening.

The lightning strikes the top of tower,
and then it will be transmitted to my father, right?

It's a huge spider.

It's poking me with its web.
It's gross!

Micchan, help me.
Micchan.

Well. I realized that I only have
a few of these in my entire life.

I understood that it is a happy time.

Micchan, this is bad.

Akira.

Brother, it's over.

What happened?

It's a flat tire.

Flat tire?

What should we do?

It's true.

Micchan

What should we do?

What are we going to do?

It's bad.

I'm not going home yet.

If we walk,
it will be evening.

We can come again.

Again?

Like in September.

Let's go back already.

Micchan, where is the Tower no.1?

How far we have to walk?

Mii-chan, I'm kinda sleepy.

So let's go home now.

Where did you come from?

Did you get lost?

I know best, so it's okay.

If you say so,
but your face is completely black.

They had the nerve to build a fence when
It's not even their own transmission tower.

Are you okay, Mii-chan?

How about you do it for a change?

I don't want to.

Just do it.

No way.

I wonder if we can really make it to No. 1 tower.

If bike hadn’t had a breakdown,

we would have reached
No. 1 tower quickly.

If I'm late,
mom will get mad.

It's embarrassing to still be saying
"Mama, Mama" even at the 4th-grade level.

Well, it can't be helped until Papa comes back.

When is he coming back?

He's better than Icchan's dad, right?
He's always looking through the telescope.

What did you say?

You said that yourself!

Uh, it's "One" Again.

"One" again.

What's going on?

This will makes it twice as many.

But I wonder what time it is?

It's "One" again.

For real.

Micchan,
the sky is turning into evening.

Micchan!

If it's tower No. 25-1 next,
then let's give up.

But it's No. 25. In that case,
let's go just a little further.

Akira, It's No. 25.

It won't be over until No. 1 tower.

Mii-chan, let's go home.

I'm gonna drop dead.

Let's go back.

Hey, Micchan.

Let's go back.

What's wrong, Mi-chan?

Akira, can you go home alone?

Alone?

I'm going to stay.

where?

Around number 23.

But that would leave you without any shelter;
You'll catch a cold!

But, I...

Let's go home together.

I'll stay.

I'll stay and continue the tower investigation.

You go home first.

It's getting late.

Mii-chan

Well then.

I'll

Go home.

Sorry I can't go with you.

Akira?

Actually

I wanted to go with you,

Until the end.

Akira, keep following
the transmission towers way back.

Yeah.

The towers are just like a map.

It’s okay.

Bye, Mi-chan.

Bye.

Hello, Mom.

Is it Miharu?

Yes.

Where have you been this late?

At a friend's house.

I'll have dinner and stay here.

Everyone's instinting me to stay.

Whose house is it?

Kurokawa.

We became friends at a soccer match.

The goalkeeper of the opposing team.

From another school,
but I'll come back tomorrow.

Aren't you outside?
Aren't you calling from public phone?

No, I'm inside the house.

Okay, bye.

In the afternoon,
I dreamed that Akira was electrocuted.

Even though Akira was dead,
he was smiling.

I couldn’t solve the mystery of that.

- Is it this one?
- Yes, around there, around there.

I was surprised.

Are you Tamaki Miharu?

Actually, there's a missing
person's report for you.

This is your doing too, right?

W-wait a moment.

Miharu-kun.

You've been following the towers all along,
haven't you?

Do you like towers that much?

I'll become a tower for you.

Let's go home!

Ok?

Come on!

Oh my god!

Hey, wait.

Did you come here alone?

Did you come with somebody?

What are you doing here?

I don't understand if you stay silent,
looking so dirty.

Did you come here to steal something?

I'm asking why you came here.

- I came to look for a stag beetle.
- Stag beetle?

Alright, get out immediately.
Get out right now.

You can't get away with it,
wandering around anymore.

I want to see the tower.
I want to go to the base of the tower.

I'm just wishing for that.

Why do various obstacles block my path?

The wish to reach the first
Tower was starting to fade.

Earlier, I didn't realize that if I waited here,

you would definitely come.

Can you get in the car?

You left home with Masueda Akira yesterday
and haven't returned yet, have you?

Akira went home.

He's with everyone now.

Well then,
get in the car.

Let's go home.

This is Patrol Car No. 3.

Child protection under the Musashino Line
No. 4 railway.

Heading to Hinataoka Police Station.

Police station?

Where are you going?

Library.

You can't borrow it anymore;

Because we've moving tomorrow.

I understand, I'll just return it.

If you don't stop by anywhere,
come back by noon.

I'll make something delicious in return.

Miharu!

What are you doing, Miharu?

Miharu?

Aren't you taking this?

I'm leaving it here.

- Are you Tamaki-chan?
- Yes.

There's delivery for you.

It's for Miharu..

From Mr. Ohara..

What did he sent you?

Watch.

Kazusa Town, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Everyone was looking forward to you coming.

Let’s get along well, okay?

Miharu-kun,
There's sone fresh oranges come eat.

Next summer.

Manako-san, thank you very much.

Brother.

It was tough, wasn't it,
coming from far away.

I couldn’t get a plane right away.

It's summer vacation, right?

Thank you.

By the way,
Just moment.

At a time like this?
It's something, but.

Formally, I mean.
I wonder how it's going.

About the divorce.

Oh no. About the mock test.
About who will take it.

Well. Sorry to bring this up at a time like this.
But. We really need to decide.

Why are you spending so much on tourism?

Miharu-kun,
It was sudden.

I was looking forward to you
coming home for summer vacation.

You keep drinking these things.

It's really a shame, isn't?

That person.

Miharu,

your father was also more on
the indifferent side, if you had to choose.

Sorry, it's not an insult.

Yaru-chan, eat sushi.

I'm sorry, Mika-chan,
please sit down.

By the way, was Haruo into some
kind of cult or something?

I don't know.

No, I'm not gossiping, ok?

Just that,

every now and then,

he'd talk about power
or something like that.

- Maybe, it's Haruo's doing?
- Big brothers?

Why not,
Can't it be?

Let's go eat Wanton noodles, ok?

Wonton noodles.

Yeah, excuse me,
even the small one too.

Look, it's Wonton Noodles.

Electricity flows comes through translation
Towers from faraway place.

So, at that place,
the gods all gathered together.

Which horse will get it first place..

(If you have no business at this facility,
please refrain from entering beyond this point.)

What you wanna eat?

- Wonton Noodles.
- Wonton Noodles, right.

Alright, how's the work?

Yes, it's tough, Mom.

Weeding today was really hard again.

The grass inside the transformer station
grows uncontrollably.

It might take another 2 or 3 days.

The transformer station must
be very lively, right?

The grass in Sano is also good, I suppose.

Please, Mom, if we do that, both Takase san and
I will end up letting our hair grow out of control.

For me, it's lever-neura stir-fry set meal.

What about you?

- Mom?
- Yes?

That's right,
It's the semifinals, you know.

I can't focus on work now.

Takaesan do you wanna go to abroad
after finishing this?

The Tetsutou Musashino Line is
a real transmission line that:

Connects Hoya City in Tokyo
with Hidaka City in Saitama Prefecture,

Has a total length of 28.1 kilometers,

Carries a transmission voltage of 154,000 volts.

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