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- Am I wandering around the town,

or is it the town itself that's wandering?

I'm a castaway who washed up in Tokyo six months ago.

Right now, I don't have anything like a steady job.

Back home, I was a school teacher.

At the some time,

I wrote screenplays on the side for a friend who was a TV director.

I fell in love with a girl who was in one of the shows.

I was serious about her.

I was thinking of asking her to marry me.

But she ran off with another man.

I wandered around aimlessly in a sea of broken-hearted despair.

When I opened my eyes, I was here.

"Here, I'm no one at all.

Just someone trying to live."

That's what I thought then.

I had to get to know someone.

So I started following people I saw around town.

I call myself an observer

of Unidentified Followed Objects.

There are always objects around.

LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY You don't have to believe me.

But I can't explain it any other way.

- I believe you.

For now, anyway.

"Unidentified Followed Objects,“ that's funny.

Like a UFO grabber.

This place is mine, though. Don't get in my way, okay?

- Kind of selfish, huh?

- It's our right to be selfish.

Here.

1000 yen.

- You know her?

- Well, yeah.

This is our secret garden.

But you followed me here and found it. So, so much for that.

1000 yen's pretty cheap for observing an Unidentified Followed Object.

- Alright.

- Heard of Blood Storm?

- Huh?

- Chiruchiru, Michiru.

Michiru, Chiru.

KUREBAYASHI

UNIDENTIFIED FOLLOWED OBJECTS OBSERVATION LOG

OFFICIAL WARNING

- Yeah, that's it. A bit more that way.

A little more.

What the hell did you do that for?

Come on, this way.

No, I told you, come on.

You're completely useless at this.

- The bodies found recently were drained of all their blood.

Some people fear it's the work of a modern-day vampire.

What do you think?

- Who the hell cares?

- I'd like to be bitten by a vampire.

- Ah, the observer of Unidentified Followed Objects.

- So you don't study UFOs?

- Seems like he follows random people around all day.

- A detective, then?

- No.

It's his hobby. No one hired him to do it.

He does it for fun.

- Japanese people are weird.

- Hey, you're Japanese too.

- I grew up overseas, though.

- Don't be ridiculous.

Whichever way you look at it, you're Japanese.

- You're the one who's ridiculous.

Do you even understand Japanese?

Inever said I wasn't.

- Why do you talk like a guy, then?

- Fuck you.

- Are you okay?

I'll tell you about Blood Storm to cheer you up.

It's like this.

You have special relationships with people like lovers, or friends.

Know what I mean?

So as proof of the connection that we share,

we use a syringe to draw a little of our blood

and inject it into each other.

The new blood from the other person flows through my veins.

And my blood flows through theirs.

It's pure ecstasy.

Way better than sex or drugs.

- Haven't you heard about AIDS?

- I've seen it on TV.

- You'll die. - Who cares?

Speedis aUI need.

I'd rather die than slow down.

- You want to die? - I want to live.

But to live means running endlessly toward death.

- I knew a boy like you when I was a teacher.

He played the saxophone in the school band.

Used to practice up on the roof.

One day,

a friend thought they heard a scream, so they went up to check on him.

He was lying on the ground.

He'd injected himself with air.

He died instantly.

He must have thrown the sax away in a fit as he died.

It lay on the ground below broken into pieces.

Then it was just shards of metal.

- What a beautiful story.

- Shut up, you're just a kid.

- We're the same age!

- Hey.

Call an ambulance.

- 9948, 9948.

What do I do?

I'll get an ambulance.

- Hey!

TOHTO HOSPITAL

Hey, I guess he's well enough to be running around.

- What's wrong with you?

- Stalker-itis?

- Look, thanks for calling the ambulance.

But I really have to go now.

- Hey, hang on. Are you better, then?

- I'm a bit tired, but it's just a cold.

- Bessho, right?

- Yes.

- Do you remember me?

My name's Atsuo Kurebayashi. I'm a doctor at Tohto Hospital.

- Oh, you're a doctor.

- I'm the one who examined you when you were brought in by ambulance.

Although someone else took over after that.

- I see.

I was in and out of it just then, so I don't really remember anything.

- You were raving deliriously.

But thanks to that,

I found out you're an observer of Unidentified Followed Objects.

- Oh, did I tell you that?

- I came because I have a favor to ask you.

Will you hear me out?

I want you to follow the woman in the dark coat and sunglasses.

She's a doctor of internal medicine.

I specialize in dermatology.

She's been testing a new dermatological

steroid that we're developing.

Obviously,

we'd stop right away if there were any strange side effects.

Butsheb incredibly neurotic.

She's afraid of the treatment stopping.

And she's under a lot of pressure as a doctor treating

so many patients.

So she won't stop taking the medicine.

- I caught your interest, so you followed me?

DonT.

Why do you want light?

Can't stand a world without shadows?

- I want to see you.

- Answer the question.

- You said it yourself.

I'm interested in you.

That's all.

- By interest, you mean desire.

- I want to know someone.

- "Interest."

Ultimately, you want to fulfill your sexual desire.

- That's what you think.

I...

My body could feel somehow that someone was following me.

But if I took pleasure in your gaze,

then I must desire you too.

- I can't see.

- You don't need to.

It's better in the dark.

I'm myself and no one.

I'm a woman without a face.

In the darkness, I have the face of the woman you love.

- She's dead.

- I see.

Well, then.

I'm dead too.

- Show me the face of a dead woman.

- Never look into a dead person's eyes.

- Why?

- They're an empty shell.

Nothing more than wet glass.

- Take off your glasses.

Look at me properly.

- Take them off yourself.

You're still reeling from the shock of a broken heart.

- You think that's why I couldn't get it up?

What do you know?

She was just a kid, maybe not even twenty.

- Age has nothing to do with it.

You cared about her.

- You know, you...

- Don't say I remind you of her.

She's better off forgotten.

- You've heard about the vampire, right?

Maybe I'm just tired these days,

but suddenly she seems like a vampire to me.

Maybe it's just because of the sunglasses and dark coat.

- It's like something inside of her has collapsed

leaving a gaping hole behind.

- You've come to understand my wife quite well.

Even if I can watch over her, I can't know her current condition.

That's why I hired you.

There's another reason too.

We took a blood test when you were in the hospital.

You have Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

AIDS.

- I have AIDS?

Are you insane?

I wanted to give you something you could focus on,

so you'd have something to live for.

A surprising idea came to me while I was watching you.

My wife.

She'd be worthy of your devotion.

Digitalis.

Take it if you lose the will to live.

- You don't even see her as human, do you?

You're just going to sign her over to me?

I don't have AIDS or anything else.

- We fell out of love a long time ago.

We're no longer husband and wife.

We're not lovers, either.

I'm watching her through you.

I'm nothing more than an observer now. Just like you.

AIDS TEST RESULT: POSITIVE

- Hell of a souvenir.

Digitalis.

A poisonous plant that produces cardiotonic agents used in medicine.

In Japan, we call it "foxglove."

MODERN-DAY VAMPIRE

- Hey, he's coming.

- We're here to collect our pay for observing an observer

of Unidentified Followed Objects.

We appreciate your generosity. You'll be getting the full service.

- Alright.

Hey, mister.

Come on.

Hurry up.

You're not thinking about your wife, are you?

Come on.

Hurry up.

- This is so boring.

- Yeah, it's total dullsville.

CHIRUCHIRU

MICHIRU

- Okay.

Chiruchiru.

- Michiru.

- [Both] Michiru, Chiru.

- They're dead.

Dead.

- It's a code.

"Everyone in Tokyo will die."

- Who's the little boy?

- Me, when I was small.

The little girl must be you.

- You were so bored it made you want to kill?

- It was fun.

But everything went black when it was over.

- Black...

- Fade out.

Everything disappeared.

When I looked around, no one was there.

- But I'm here.

- The observed object is a bloodsucking killer.

She couldn't forgive the pharmaceutical companies

and sales reps that sold blood products contaminated with the AIDS virus,

so she killed two of their people.

The client who hired the observer suspected as much,

but took no action of his own.

He couldn't bear the thought

that his wife had murdered two people

because long-term steroid use had left her warped in body and mind.

- It's like a police report.

- Do you believe it?

Are you turning her in?

- Let her have her dignity.

Don't call her a bloodsucking killer.

You don't understand.

As a doctor, she couldn't let those who let contaminated blood products

reach the market get away with it.

So she bled them dry.

In that sense, she is a modern-day vampire.

But it's more like the vampire has borrowed her body

to get revenge for those who died

after receiving the contaminated blood.

- You're not experiencing any side effects from the steroids?

- You've been so kind to me, I'm feeling quite relaxed.

It was you who tore this up, not Kurebayashi.

He believed the whole thing, right?

So then, I guess I'm a bloodsucking killer.

- Aren't you?

- Do you know how much blood you can lose before you die?

I do, obviously. I'm a doctor.

But, you know.

Kurebayashi is a doctor too.

- So it was him? - It doesn't matter which of us did it.

They're still dead.

Killed by a vampire.

- Isn't the reason

that your body didn't show any unusual reactions to the steroids

because you're not

as deeply involved with me

as you are with Kurebayashi?

That's why

your nerves are under control

and there are no hypersensitive reactions.

If what I've said is true,

then you must still be

deeply in love

with Ku rebayashi.

Am I wrong?

- I'll drain you of your despair.

- Chiruchiru, Michiru.

The cherry blossoms...

- The cherry blossoms fall. Chiruchiru.

Michiru, Chiru.

If the cherry blossoms don't fall,

Japan will.

IfJapan doesn't fall,

the cherry blossoms will.

Chiruchiru, Michiru.

Michiru, Chiru.

- No luck.

- In other news,

the police received a call this afternoon reporting a suicide.

They've since confirmed

that a man has been found dead in an apartment.

The body belonged to the apartment's owner,

Atsuo Kurebayashi, a doctor at Tohto Hospital.

An investigation is ongoing.

Next up...

-Ishone in your gaze.

I lived because you followed me.

But,

you should leave now.

You should run from me.

I'll follow you.

Wherever you go, I'll follow.

So run.

- Looking good.

Hello. How are you feeling?

- It's pretty cramped in here, but it makes the city seem huge.

Yeah, they're long gone.

- Huh?

So this is a double suicide?

- Like in classical Japanese class? - Yeah.

Chikamatsu Kadoemon, or something.

- Idiot. It's "Monzaemon."

- Is it?

Hey, so this is kind of random,

but let's have sex!

- We can't do it here.

- But the vibes are amazing.

- That's not the point.

Anyway.

There's something way better we can do.

- Huh?

- [Both] Want a red drug that will send you to another world?

PRODUCED BY: KOKUEI COMPANY

KIYOMI ITO

TAKESHI ITO

RYUMEI HOMU RA

DAI HIRAMATSU

SATOMI SHINOZAKI, HIROYUKI KAWASAKI, RAMO NAKAJIMA, KOICHI IMAIZUMI

SHIRO SHIMOMOTO

SCRIPT BY: TORU BESSHO (SHIRO YUMENO)

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: MASASHI INAYOSHI

DIRECTED BY: A HISAKAZU HATA (HISAYASU SATO)

English subtitles by Hayley Scanlon