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HELL IN A BOTTLE

Screenplay: Gaira

Cinematography: Koichi Suzuki

CAST

Hitomi Kobayashi Chiyako Ogura

Once you get this far out, it's really quite beautiful!

Kenji Omata Saori Shibori Jun Numaoka

Japan isn't done for yet!

Minako Ogawa Eimei Esumi

Megumi, are you okay?

Brother, make it go faster!

Directed by: Yoshihiro Kawasaki

My father's vacation home is on the other side of that cape.

But Hirokazu, isn't it yours now?

That's true, but...

Even though he's dead, it still feels like it's his.

When we were kids, he used to bring us here every summer.

Right, Megumi?

Right!

Catch!

Here.

Megumi, isn't this nostalgic?

Yeah, I haven't been here in three years!

There's a rental car shop and even a supermarket now.

It's become convenient!

I remember when old ladies would come to sell us flowers and fish!

Wow...

So many beautiful bottles!

Megumi collected those.

- She collected them? - Yeah.

She used to go out and look for new ones everyday.

They always washed up on the beach.

Megumi, what room do you want?

I'll take father's room!

Father used to study ocean currents here.

He collected a lot of rare objects from the sea.

So Megumi and I always thought there was treasure hidden in here.

I see! So you were following in your father's footsteps!

If we came in here without asking, Father would give us a terrible scolding.

- Right, Megumi? - Yeah.

I wonder what this bottle is?

It's been displayed very prominently.

Oh, that...

They say one of the islanders found it on the beach and brought it to Father.

They say it came from one of the southern islands.

Wow...

How romantic!

Now, if you would allow me, may I lead you to our suite?

My future wife!

Stop it...

Hey, let's go swimming!

- But we just got here! - I don't care!

If you wait, you'll miss out!

You'll get burnt to a crisp!

Well, you can experience for yourself, how painful a sunburn can be.

"Bottle of Unhappiness"...

Father, I want that bottle!

This is the "Bottle of Unhappiness."

Inside this bottle, there are many frightening things.

Listen to me, Megumi.

You must never touch it!

It is one of your father's most special treasures.

You have your own bottles, don't you?

Try to understand.

Hurry up!

Wait for me!

My heart is tormented by delusions, more than any other man on earth.

There is no respite from these feelings of jealousy, pity and empathy.

If only I had never received that bottle,

or read the letter that was sealed inside,

I might have been able to escape this agony.

Shipwrecked in a furious storm,

a brother and sister arrived on a deserted island in the south seas.

Little did they know, that on this island paradise,

a cruel and seductive world was waiting for them.

They could not have predicted what lay in store for them.

However, they soon became ensnared,

with no hope of escape.

Look!

Come and get it!

Don't!

Stop...

Alone in nature, in a land without disease,

full of beautiful flowers, insects, and the endless sea...

Alive and gleaming in the light of the sun,

it was only a matter of time before the young male and female would mate.

However, the knowledge that they had broken an unforgivable taboo,

filled their hearts with profound guilt, and weighed heavily on their conscience.

This knowledge tortured the young couple endlessly.

How must the young couple have felt as they wrote this letter?

Today, when I left...

I told my father that you would be going to Seattle for research in the fall.

What did he say?

Well, he said...

"I guess I won't be able to see my grandchild's face for some time."

"Your wedding can wait until later, so just think of it as a honeymoon!"

That's it.

Wow, he usually seems so serious!

Brother?

What do you think it's like to have sex on a deserted island?

Megumi, you found something weird in Father's room again, didn't you?

So you know about it?

The letter in the bottle.

I never touched the things that Father told us not to.

I was a good boy.

What's she talking about?

I don't get it!

What she means is...

She saw a cobra slither out of that bottle and start dancing!

Ew, that's disgusting!

Sorry, that was a weird question.

But you know...

I'm jealous of you, Megumi.

After all, you know things about Hirokazu that I don't know.

Thanks for dinner.

Hey, at least help with the dishes!

That's okay.

I'll just have my future husband help me!

You know, that talk about our honeymoon...

Maybe it was a little too much for Megumi.

Yeah...

We should have brought her a boyfriend or something.

But...

It's hard to compete with a little sister.

I might get jealous.

You say that, but...

You know me in a way that Megumi doesn't.

You're naughty!

I want you to do things to me...

Things that you can't do to Megumi...

No, don't...

Surrounded by the vastness of nature,

caught between their natural instincts and the moral taboos of society...

Why does the pain of this young man and woman

fill my heart with such pleasure?

I am frightened by myself.

Frightened, because I am able to imagine it so clearly...

This sweet, abominable world...

Ayako, stop that!

This is truly hell.

The true nature of hell came to me,

sent from the south seas and sealed in a glass bottle.

If this had been the story of a regular young couple,

it would not have caused such excitement within me.

This man and woman broke a taboo that can never be forgiven.

They were brother and sister.

Brother!

Brother!

A- amazing!

I can't...

I can't feel my legs!

It's been awhile.

Your muscles are probably sore.

That was so intense!

Let's go upstairs.

Oh, no!

Megumi, are you awake?

Brother...

"Brother"?

When I think of this brother and sister,

and the story of their shameful passion,

washed ashore from the farthest seas,

I thought, what if this had been my own children?

I became consumed by the fearful thought that Hirokazu and Megumi might share this fate.

But although I know that this must be prevented at all costs,

in my head, I see visions of Hirokazu and Megumi all grown up,

their bodies entwined and hips grinding,

as they consummate their forbidden lust.

You shouldn't treat Father's treasures like this, you know.

So you knew, after all.

About Father's diary.

Yeah.

But I never understood why he read so much into that letter,

or why he was so tortured by it.

I feel like...

I understand how he felt.

He was usually so nice to us,

but if we ever touched that bottle, he exploded into a demonic rage.

He must have been afraid.

Afraid that it would happen to us.

Do you really believe that?

Fuck me!

Please...

We can't!

We're brother and sister!

Brother, I love you!

Megumi...

Let go of me, Megumi!

I'm your brother!

Brother, don't you love me?

Tell me...

Can't you make love to your sister?

Megumi...

I want you to make love to me!

Megumi!

Hey!

Megumi!

Hirokazu?

Good morning!

You were sleeping really soundly!

What were you doing?

Oh... She's just so cute, so I was watching her sleep!

It was like...

You were stroking her hair like a lover.

What are you talking about?!

Okay, let's eat breakfast.

Megumi, wake up!

It's morning!

Here you go.

Let's go cruising today.

Sure!

Good morning!

Here you go.

Hey, Yoshiko.

Bring me a hot coffee with milk.

Here's your coffee.

Okay, I'm gonna hit it now!

Megumi!

Megumi, hold on!

Shark!

There's a shark coming!

Megumi, are you okay?

I knew you would come and save me, brother.

What were you thinking?

There's a shark!

It's coming this way! We better hurry!

Don't thrash around like that! If we move slow, it can't hear us.

Hurry up!

This feels so good...

I want to stay...

Just like this, forever...

Megumi...

We're destined to be lovers.

I don't care if we're eaten by sharks.

If we're together...

No, don't!

Standing before their parents,

who would have been so happy to see their children alive,

they knew they must atone for their forbidden existence.

Was their cruel fate a blessing, or a curse?

However, from the first time that they joined together in flesh,

they had already accepted this fate from the bottom of their hearts.

The two of us...

We have no choice...

but to jump from this cliff and be eaten by the sharks.

Brother!

Having accepted their death,

they fell into their last and most passionate carnal embrace.

In their passion, these two were much like Hirokazu and Megumi...

Hirokazu...

Megumi scares me.

I feel that you're being pulled towards her.

Don't worry about me!

Please, promise me!

Promise you won't leave me!

I just...

Megumi...

Shall we dance?

Hey, when will you make love to me?

I think that father actually hoped that we would turn into beasts.

Megumi...

Are you worried about that woman?

You're so timid, brother.

I'm not afraid of her.

Stop it!

Do you two realize what you're doing?

Hirokazu...

What am I to you, anyway?

What about last night?

- What was that? - Stop it, Yoshiko!

Megumi...

Do you really want to be a beast so badly?

What you're dreaming of...

It's the same as being a dog or a pig!

You wouldn't understand.

It's just me and my brother...

We don't need you!

No, no...

No...

Hirokazu!

Help me!

Please... please...

- Please! - Yoshiko...

Yoshiko!

It's okay.

It wasn't serious.

I gave her some painkillers, so she's fast asleep now.

Brother...

Put it in...

No!

Please...

Stop it!

Do you want to lose everything?

If you don't stop...

I'll shoot!

Then shoot!

Before it's too late!

Stop it, Megumi!

- No... - Megumi!

Please...

Do it one more time!

We can't!

We can't do it like this.

No, please...

Fuck me, brother!

Megumi!

Let's go to our island!

Then we can do it all the time!

Island?

We're going to that island?

You two...

You're insane!

If you want to become beasts...

Just do it by yourselves!

Don't drag me into it!

I know it's not fair to you.

But there's a reason that we had to bring you along.

I want you to watch everything that we do.

Well, Megumi...

Let's start.

Okay!

Come on!

No...

Stop...

Stop it!

Brother!

Megumi...

You'll be our letter.

Tell everyone what you saw on this island.

After you tell them...

When the boats come to rescue us...

We'll have sex for the last time.

Then we'll jump off a cliff and be eaten by sharks!

No, please!

Please don't do this!

Stop it...

Help me!

Help!

Please...

My brother and I are living happily on this island.

Please, come and save us.

THE END

Subtitles: JMS