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Begin scheduled measurement.

What's that?

What's happened?

The link's dropping!

Come on!

Mr. Sonoda!

Mr. Sonoda!

No!

Who's that?!

IMMERSION

We've been waiting.

Kataoka, right?

Uh, yes.

Sorry. You're famous, so I've forgotten my manners.

Welcome to 'New World'.

I'm Ide, from Denagate, Inc. I'm the Chief here.

Hi.

Sorry I was rude...

to a genius.

Not at all.

So...

you've scanned the whole island?

Wow!

For this New World project we're digitizing the whole island...

and recreating it exactly as a virtual space.

With me, there are five of us.

They're young, but I've chosen the very best in programmers.

I'd like you to join.

When you settle in there's something I'd like to discuss.

As a fellow brain specialist, what you have here...

is something I need.

Hello?

Hello?

Um...

what are you doing?

What's this?

Are you watching something?

Can I try it?

Like this?

Don't!

Were you watching that?

What is it?

Rin!

What are you doing?

Behave yourself!

You don't even know the man.

Attention passengers.

This vessel is about to dock at Sakaijima.

Please ensure...

that you leave no personal items when you disembark.

Didn't you wonder 'why an island' for an IT job?

Not really.

No?

Given bandwidth and net environment, you don't have to be in the city.

New World is a closed environment.

Being physically removed suits IT from a security standpoint.

Yes, you're right about that.

However, you're around people who aren't scientific.

Oh, that...

There's probably a yuta house nearby.

'Yuta'?

A priestess.

A kind of shaman to the locals.

They say there's still a few.

The locals go to them when they have problems.

It's a different world out here.

Thank you.

This one's fine.

That's Shige. Cooking, washing, cleaning...

he does it all for us.

Ask him if you need anything.

Right.

Everyone! The great brain scientist has arrived.

Huh?

Hang on a minute, will you?

Shige, take that to the professor's room.

Hey!

Is anything wrong?

No.

This way.

Go in.

Watch your step, professor.

Here.

Everyone...

here he is.

Welcome to New World.

I'm Aoi Miura.

Howdy.

Tomohiko Kataoka? I'm Mio Fukasawa.

We've all heard of you. I'm Koji.

Koji Kitajima. Just call me 'Koji'.

So...where's my desk?

Uh...

how about here?

This is 'how do you do,' right?

Um...

at least introduce your...

This is still set to System User.

Where's my unit?

Oh.

I'll just open this up.

What?!

Hey, look...

Leave it, Kitajima.

There's already a board in there. You don't need that one.

How do you do.

Entering.

Huh?

What the...?!

Are you kidding me?!

The smell of the tide!

It even smells right. Wow!

Really!

Right?

You did this by yourself?

Yes.

But I didn't think it would share this well.

How did you do it?

With smell and other sense data...

I thought I might get a reverse Proust effect.

I mixed headset data to activate memory traces...

to synch cerebral cortex visual cues with signals from the hippocampus.

Oh. So that's how it's done.

Having said that...

we can only do shared experiences, like the smell of salt water.

Individual things are still beyond us.

That's great, Tomohiko Kataoka.

Fantastic!

Great!

Nope, not enough.

Sorry, it's gone down.

Over-processing.

Can we make this lighter?

What's wrong?

Nothing.

Tell me if you're short of memory. They take five days to deliver.

For now we can just swap in the back-up memory.

And empty the headset.

Yeah, the cache is full.

Um...

where's Ms. Ide?

I want to talk to her.

You haven't heard?

Ms. Ide is dead.

What?

I'm home!

Hi.

You're back in that fridge again? What's that food for?

To eat, of course!

Wait!

Where are you going?

To study with friends.

You liar!

It's true!

Where are you going, Rin?

To see that old man, right?

So what?

What's this?

It's mine.

You know what they call people like you?

Hypocrites!

Pass.

What's that look?!

Are you okay?

What are you doing?!

My glasses!

Rin!

What are you doing?!

You'll be ostracized, you know!

Hello!

Uncle Shige?

Are you here?

Demon Blocking Stone

Old fool.

Old fool!

Don't call him that!

Say it!

You shouldn't say that!

Who cares? He's dirty!

Old fool!

New Resident Register

So you're the new one at the house on the beach?

Yes.

Are you now!

Just a second.

Hm?

For Mr. Sonoda?

Sorry?

Well, well!

My condolences on your loss.

No!

No.

He's moved into the beach house.

What?!

Sorry!

But it's a real shame.

The lady was beautiful.

That's fine.

I'm sorry. It's a small island.

It was very sudden.

Did he mean Ms. Ide?

When did it happen?

I think...

it was last month, March 14th.

The day of the spring tide.

Welcome to 'New World'. I'm Ide, from Denagate, Inc.

Excuse me.

My name's Sonoda. I called.

For Mr. Sonoda?

This way.

Could you wait here, please?

Thanks.

Please sit down.

My condolences.

Stopping.

Opening door.

Moving.

Sorry.

Where are we?

Can I get a taxi around here?

What's going on?!

Do you often...

get lost?

Shigeru?

You know him?

Shigeru! Where are you?

Toki Minami

'...place mirror, bring treasures, the nine stars...

'the seven days, the 28 houses, stars near, stars far.

'Befriend me, defend my house through years, months, days.

'Preserve my house at night, preserve my house in day.

'Thy power is great, thy power is wise.

'Thus in the secret words I beseech thee, Inari.'

A great power has drawn you here, has it not?

A fluke.

Well...

I was told my father had died.

We'd been estranged for years, but still...

No.

The bus broke down near here.

Did it not?

You were meant to come here.

I got lost.

He died in water?

What happened to my father?

He died in a state of remorse.

Oh?

I see.

And now...

you.

The one who follows you died in the same way on the same day.

No, thank you.

What was that?

If anything else happens, come back any time.

Some people are amazing. I wonder what she saw.

I went and asked about him when I really didn't care.

'A state of remorse'?

Really?

He abandoned my mother and me.

He doesn't weigh on me at all.

The funeral burns all the protein.

But the calcium phosphate weighs something.

You're unusual, aren't you.

I am?

You don't like people much?

People?

I've never really thought about it.

You?

Well...

maybe I don't like them much either.

Especially now.

Oh, I'm Tamaki.

Tamaki Sonoda.

Kataoka.

Tomohiko Kataoka.

Anyway...

why don't we see anyone?

There's houses here.

It's like a ghost town.

It is?

It's like a platform we've scanned. I'm quite used to that.

A 'platform'?

OK.

What are you doing on this island?

Creating my own private world.

I don't really understand...

but maybe...

that's not a bad idea.

There.

Come in.

[Sonoda] All right.

Thanks.

That helped.

I should be offering you tea or something...

but this was a man's house. There's nothing here.

What was he doing way out here on this island?

It's here!

What's wrong?

Was your father...

living here with a woman?

Huh?

Why?

How was Tetsuo Sonoda connected to Ms. Ide?

Why do you want to know that?

To see what she was researching.

Please.

Not that again.

Sonoda?

Who's he? She was using an islander?

Ms. Ide always liked to go her own way.

Yeah, but...

the police already looked into it.

Heart failure. Sudden death.

Or so they wrote it off.

They both died on the same day, at the same time, in the same way.

In completely different places, with seawater in both rooms.

Here.

Look at this.

The day they died.

These are the images from Mr. Sonoda's final EEG recording.

What's that?

What was that?

Ms. Ide was keeping some research secret from you.

But that day, something happened to her subject.

They both died indoors...

but before that, on the beach, they both experienced the same thing.

But they're different avatars.

Meaning what?

Brain synchronicity.

Application for Divorce

Sonoda, Kumiko

Oshima Bank Sonoda, Tamaki

Dad... damn you!

'Brain synchronicity'.

It goes beyond sharing bodily sensation in a virtual space...

to a system where different people unite memories, thoughts and feelings.

Not just actions, but subjective data. Distress, grief, joy, anger...

or fear.

All the emotions in synch.

So to develop this, Ms. Ide was collecting...

data on her subject's brain activity?

One higher animal sees another do something, and imitates it.

'Mirror neurons'.

Yes.

In this century, it's been suggested that this is due to nerve cells.

That's true.

And by converting that neuron activity to data in real time...

We could link with another brain.

Brain synchronicity.

Seriously?

Where is this going?

It's like we're stepping into the world of the gods.

But there's a flaw in that world.

Two people are dead.

They may be physically dead...

but their data's preserved in the New World station.

What?

How can you just sit there and say that?

These are memory and emotion data measurements from...

the brains of Ms. Ide and Mr. Sonoda.

Their memories remain as fragments.

To experience this bug...

let's have the program learn our brain data as well.

Do you think this will leave us mentally naked?

Don't put it like that!

Does this change anything?

Not that I can see.

Well, Tomohiko?

Something's missing.

Looks like our five brains aren't enough.

Look.

Sonoda, Tamaki

My father was getting money from this company, regularly.

What's going on? You know something about this, don't you.

Why do you think my father was living with a woman?

Hmm...

I don't know.

If he was mixed up in something, I want to know.

'In the same way on the same day,' that woman said.

That's it!

Think of it as a hospital MRI.

Just more detailed.

I'm perfectly healthy, you know.

Whatever this is, will it help?

Definitely.

A brain model from a psychic?

Can you believe it?

Even though she's not 'scientific'.

Maybe for guys like him there's a very thin line.

What are you doing?

Concentrate on her as hard as you can.

Listen.

If it feels like you've gone in too far...

I'll let go.

Yes.

Concentrate on your father and nothing else.

'Inari is the only god, without form. Without substance, only spirit.

'With heaven and earth was made the God of the Country.

'Its spirit is in heaven, in earth and in humankind.

'It comes to us in the blessings of food and grain...'

Ow!

'Thy power is great, thy power is wise.

'Thus in the secret words I beseech thee, Inari.'

Ta-ma-ki.

Leave...this...

island.

Dad?

Wait! Just a little longer!

You're all right?

Open your eyes.

Toki!

What happened?!

Are you all right?

Now...

we're using Toki's data to build a memory-experience model.

What does that tell you?

That thing.

That.

What is 'that'?

We need to know...

what exactly happened to your father and Ms. Ide.

This means that any of us can experience...

that old lady's ESP-like thing.

You were being used so that we could understand it.

Hey!

Why are you always like that?

Stay out of the way or get lost!

Wow!

Mio!

I'm sorry, Tamaki. Lately he's been a bit strange.

Tomohiko...

you really like people, don't you.

What?

Your 'own private world'.

But you want to share it.

Doesn't that follow?

This'll take time.

Until morning.

Ah, Rin.

Four eights are 32.

Let's see...

'O grief, O sorrow

'A crimson flower blooming in her eye

'A crimson flower blooming in her hand

'Her arms stretched out like snakes'

So tomorrow we'll know what happened to my father?

Not just that.

We might be able to link with his memories and feelings.

How he felt about you.

About that...

I'm fine as I am.

Everything vague.

Why?

Well, the past stays the past.

And he's dead, so I can't change anything now.

But your worries and fears might disappear.

What should I say?

I'm afraid of no longer being afraid...

maybe.

All ready to go!

There's no one here!

Who left that there?!

Oh, me.

Aoi, I'm sorry! I'm just kind of lonely.

I don't understand that new guy, what's his name?

Is the rendering over?

What the hell?!

How's Ms. Ide's data?

It's OK. The rendering's all done.

What's going on?

What's that, Yamamoto?

Seaweed.

Just like with Ms. Ide.

He looks pretty drunk.

That jerk!

What?!

What's this? It's new to me.

We should shut down.

Everything?

What's going on?

Is that from my father?

Yes. It's his memory.

But why?

The bug?

Where did it go?

The red thing's not there.

What's going on?

It was there yesterday.

These are images from Kitajima's brain wave data.

What's this?

Damn thing!

A shrine gate? What's going on?

What's that?

I'm scared!

It's Kitajima!

Where is he?

Where'd he go?

What was that?

'What'?

That thing.

The one there.

What?!

Hey...

what's this?

Tamaki! Drop that!

It broke out of...

the data.

Walk, will you!

Are you okay?

Hey, careful!

Hey, Akina!

Come here.

What?

Stand here.

What for?

Just stand here.

Forget the umbrella.

Right here.

Hey, hey! Wait a minute!

What are you doing?!

Yuck!

- Wait! Where are you going? - Keep those hands off me!

Do that and you'll pay the price!

Come on! You're a civil servant, you know.

Civil servants piss.

Wanna piss with me?

Idiot!

I told you this would happen!

That stinks!

What was that?

Hey! What are you doing?

Hey!

Higo?

Where are you? Higo!

Cleaning main disk.

You were at Toki's, weren't you?

Sorry, uh...

'O grief, O sorrow

'A crimson flower blooming in her eye

'A crimson flower blooming in her hand

'Her arms stretched out like snakes

'Like snakes hanging down

'A child born a girl

'Born to be a slave'

Thank you for this funeral offering.

Name, please?

Thank you.

Why was he in a tree?

Sakae's been strange since then, too.

Hey!

Hey hey hey!

What's the likes of you doing here? Go away!

- Do you have salt? - Why?

To purify the place!

Oh, no!

Go away!

This is no place for the accursed!

Shigeru!

Why are you here?

Toki...

Even my class is allowed at funerals.

I can come if I want!

Shigeru, I want to ask you something.

The people working in that house...

what are they doing?

Any way you think, it's weird.

Something's going on.

At this rate, it'll get us all!

Tomohiko, let's just erase everything.

I'll do it.

New World is dissolved.

Is that the red woman you're seeing?

That's Imajo.

'Imajo'?

Her curse.

A sin this island birthed.

Imajo was young and beautiful.

She was a slave.

Her owner made her his mistress.

That made his wife jealous.

The wife's punishment was a terrible thing.

She was mocked, tormented, and hung up on a gate.

Soon after, strange things began to happen.

Not just the couple who had tormented her...

but the rest of the islanders began to die in strange ways.

Those who went mad were said to be possessed by Imajo.

The bitter remorse of all the islanders who were sacrificed came together...

in her curse...

as it covered the whole island.

That is the curse of Imajo.

This really happened?

I don't know.

This island has many sad songs about unhappy young women.

But...

legend or not, it's still...

Yes.

Islanders are being attacked, too.

Did Imajo attack my father, too?

Probably. Right now...

she's turning up both here and there.

'Both here and there'?

That world and this one.

The souls of those who die in remorse are somewhere in that other world.

It's said they are tied to another island.

One just like this.

That one is 'over there'.

Is that...

the world we're making?

At this rate...

the island will teem with the dead and the mad.

Toki, how do we return Imajo to the other side?

That gate...

where she met her end...

is where the two worlds meet.

To return her to the other side so she never returns here...

the gate has to be closed from this side.

Over there...

if she grabs hold of you...

you might never get back.

Maybe not.

But I opened up the program, and I'll close it.

But...

you only did that because I asked about my father.

Even now...

I still doubt that woman.

I couldn't care less about ghosts and curses.

More than that...

how did Imajo get into the program?

The only way to find that bug...

is to log in again.

Wait.

Aoi, hook this up.

Tamaki...

Yes?

If I see your father, should I tell him anything from you?

Right now you're supposed to promise that you'll come back safe.

Huh?

Tomohiko, your mike...

Huh?

Aoi?

Aoi!

What happened?!

Mio! Log me in!

Me, too!

What's wrong?!

Hey!

What's going on?!

Aoi!

Aoi!

Tomohiko!

Mio, what if we log out right now?

No! What if he can't make it back?

Or if he does, and brings her with him?

Then what?!

Is there another way to log me in?

Another avatar?

We can't do that without Tomohiko!

That world and this...

There must be a beach here to match that virtual one.

Toki said the gate has to be closed from this side.

That shrine gate!

That's the link!

It must be somewhere on this island!

I'm in charge of satellite scanning.

I'll do an analysis.

And we can get in from there?

This is the right way?

You're fine. Go straight ahead.

What?

Tomohiko's avatar...

just broke apart.

What about him?

He's connected.

Imajo might be coming to take him with her.

Anyway, keep calling him.

Tomohiko?

Tomohiko!

Tomohiko!

Hey! The emergency lights!

Mio?

What's going on?

The shrine gate...it's here!

I see the ocean.

So that's her gateway...

Tomohiko! Come back!

Tomohiko!

Tamaki! Watch out!

The gate!

Tomohiko!

The link!

The link's dropping!

Don't lose it!

Shige?

Free Imajo.

Shige? What's going on?

Shige!

Free Imajo.

Shige!

Cleaning main...

Cleaning main...

Shige!

Tomohiko!

What are you doing?!

Thank you for all you've done.

Shige!

Yamamoto? Can you hear me?

Yamamoto?

Yamamoto!

Tomohiko, he's not answering.

Tomohiko?

Is the world in that box really the world you wanted?

Shige's brain data?

Misfortune struck a certain family.

The mother suddenly changed.

One after another, she seduced the men of the island...

and caused quarrels everywhere.

The father, in despair, killed himself.

The mother couldn't stop herself.

'The madness of Imajo', they called it.

The worst affected was her son.

'The son of Imajo', they called him, and he was hated.

And that's Shige?

Yes.

The island made him a victim...

of Imajo.

What happened to his mother?

I don't know. No man here...

would touch her.

Eventually she disappeared.

Shigeru!

'At evening, she sinks into the sea

'The sun sinks together with her

'O grief, O sorrow

'A crimson flower blooming on her feet

'A crimson flower blooming down there...'

Hello!

Uncle Shige?

Sorry to bother you. Can I come in?

Uncle Shige?

I'm coming in.

Uncle Shige?

Uncle Shige? What's going on?

What are you doing?!

Rin, stay there.

Stay there.

Why?

Imajo's here.

'Imajo'?

Does this have anything to do with that shrine gate?

Uncle Shige?

This island will turn to hell.

You mustn't come out of there, understand?

Where are you going?

All right?

Uncle Shige! I'll come, too!

Uncle Shige?

Uncle Shige?

Uncle Shige!

I'm on your side.

This is...

Rin?

You did what with Imajo?

There was nowhere left to shut her in.

She drove your mother mad, and now you.

Do you think this will make her happy?

You're being a fool!

Toki... I'm sorry.

This is the end.

Uncle Shige's...

mother.

Shige's conflated Imajo with his own mother.

The island made him...

a victim of Imajo.

The island...

will teem with the dead and the mad.

We have to stop Shige and Imajo.

Are you sure it's this way?

Yes.

Ma...

you've waited so long.

Shige...

set Imajo free...

to take revenge.

Thank you for all you've done.

Mio! Aoi!

Tamaki! We have to burn this!

Rin, you help!

That was...

Tomohiko.

It was, wasn't it.

To return her to the other side...

the gate has to be closed from this side.

If she grabs hold of you, you might never get back.

Tamaki?

What are you doing on this island?

Creating my own private world.

I don't really understand...

but maybe...

that's not a bad idea.

Where are you all now?

Who are you with?

I'm alone now.

This seems to be the world I wanted.

Tomohiko!

Tomohiko!

Tomohiko!

To be with you all...

Tomohiko!

Tomohiko!

To be with you all!

Tomohiko!

Welcome back.

Tamaki...

I'm here.

'Bye.

'O grief, O sorrow

Daigo Nishihata (Naniwa Danshi) 'A crimson flower

blooming in her eye

[Rina Ikoma, Yuta Hiraoka] 'A crimson flower

[Atomu Mizuishi, Noa Kawazoe] blooming in her hand

[Yasumasa Oba, Kilala Inori] 'Her arms stretched out

[Taeko Yoshida, Takashi Sasano] like snakes

[Ami Touma, Takeshi Nadagi] 'Like snakes hanging down

[Ayumi Ito, Mizuki Yamamoto] 'A child born a girl

'Born to be a slave

'At evening, she sinks into the sea

'The sun sinks together with her'

Produced by Muneyuki Kii, Takara Kosugi

Written by Kiyotaka Inagaki, Takashi Shimizu

Music by Kosuke Yamashita

Director of Photography Moritada Iju

Production Designer Yuji Tsuzuki

Lighting Designer Takahide Sakai

Sound Designer Hironobu Tanaka

Editor Osamu Suzuki

Directed by Takashi Shimizu

'O grief, O sorrow'

Subtitles Ian MacDougall