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- Alisa, what's wrong?

What's upset you so?

What's happened to make you sad?

Is it the music?

It's alright now.

I've punished that horrible music that was upsetting you so.

- It wasn't the music.

Papa, that wasn't it at all.

I'm afraid.

Somehow I don't feel alive.

- You don't feel alive? - No, I don't.

I can get up and walk around.

I'm breathing.

And talking to you like this.

But I don't feel as if I'm alive.

I feel as if I was a corpse.

- Don't be so silly.

Alisa, you're my little treasure.

My hope.

My heavenly goddess.

Please don't say such upsetting things.

I...

want to see what's beyond the sea.

- I've told you many times.

There's nothing beyond the sea.

Just dull little people fixated on their dull little lives.

That's all there is.

- Even so, I...

would like to see...

- Late last night,

the International Physics Association announced

that the speed of light, which has remained constant

at 299,792.458 kilometers per second,

has changed.

According to their official findings, at midnight,

as you can see on the graph here,

the speed of light was 287, 932.311 kilometers per second.

At the present time, it is declining in speed.

Scientists have set up an emergency investigative committee.

Einstein's theories of the universe

which have stood for 100 years have been turned on their head.

What does this mean?

I hope they figure it out soon.

In other news...

- They say that children are a blessing,

but it seems our gods are not amiable towards us.

- I'm sorry.

- You've nothing to apologize for, Harumi.

It's just one of those things.

Yoshio is an only child.

He's been lonely all his life.

I hoped that he would have many children.

But after five years of marriage,

not a single child has been conceived.

I'm sorry to ask such a sensitive question,

but you haven't been refusing his sexual advances, have you?

- Of course not.

- Are you having sex with Yoshio?

- Yes.

- Do you love every part of him?

- Yes.

- Do you love his face,

his neck, shoulders, chest, stomach,

and his penis too?

-Ido...

- Well, then.

Tell me how you show your love to Yoshio's beloved penis.

It's very important.

Come on, how do you love it?

- With my hand.

- What do you do with your hand?

- I touch it.

- And then,

are you so stingy with your love to do no more for him than this?

- I use my tongue.

I lick it.

And take it in my mouth.

- And what does Yoshio do?

- He starts to get bigger,

and harder.

- And then...

- I start to get wet down there.

Soaking wet.

I want him to put it in.

- Put what in?

What do you want him to put in?

- Yoshio's...

erect penis.

Put it in where?

Down there,

where I'm

soaking wet.

- You want him to put it in?

- I want it.

I want it in me.

Put it in.

- I'm done.

I'm too tired for a bath tonight.

There's no need for that.

- Can't you be a little kinder?

- You're barely human.

If you want my love, hurry up and have my child.

Get it over with.

Or is that I'm not good enough for you?

- How can she say such shameful things so casually?

What a dreadful wife.

Sucking on his penis.

Taking it in her mouth.

He starts to get bigger,

And harder.

I start to get wet down there.

Soaking wet.

My...

Put it in.

Put it in me.

Yoshio...

- Who's that?

- Who? - Over there.

- She's all wet. Did she come from the sea?

- A mermaid?

- Idiot! Mermaids aren't real.

- Good evening. It is cold, isn't it?

- Young lady, if you hang around here on your own, bad men will attack you.

- Bad men? What do you mean?

- Well, they're men who are bad.

They'd eat a pretty little thing like you right up.

- Come on, people like that don't exist, do they?

- No, they don't.

There are no bad people anywhere.

- Alisa...

- What are you doing?

- Nothing. Nothing at all.

I'm going to make you feel good. That's all.

- Alisa.

- Hey, no coming!

Let me have a go.

- I'm fucking a mermaid!

A fucking mermaid!

- You got a death wish or something?

- Go ahead and kill me.

Ifucked a mermaid.

I don't care if I die right now.

- Dirty bastard.

You guys seem to be enjoying yourselves.

Who might this young lady be?

You kidnapped her, didn't you? Answer me!

- She came out of the sea.

- The sea?

- I thought maybe she escaped from a hospital or something.

- Quite the fine young lady, isn't she?

Far too good for the likes of you.

- You're one of the bad men they were talking about!

- Not all there, is she?

Makes things easier for me, though.

- Harumi, I'm off to volunteer with the Women's Association.

- Will you be late tonight, too?

- I should think so. The baby cries at night.

I'll probably be looking after it until morning, as usual.

- It's hard work looking after an orphan.

- Well, it's only once a week.

And it feels surprisingly good to help other people.

Harumi, you've outdone yourself with these pickles!

Oh, I see.

You're making up for not being able to have a baby.

Good foryou.

- Don't be ridiculous.

- I've got my keys.

Remember to lock up before you go to bed.

- See you tomorrow.

- Those sluts.

- I feel like doing it with a woman. Maybe I'll find one here.

Got one!

Where are you headed?

- Into town.

- No problem. Hop in.

- Thanks.

- It's boring on your own, anyway.

I'm glad you showed up.

Where are you off to, then? Work?

- Eyes on the road, or we'll end up in an accident.

To answer your question, I'm not going to work.

I'm going to play.

- What's all this?

Is it some kind of festival?

- Did you escape from some hospital way out in the sticks?

It's like talking to a brick wall.

Neon signs mean nothing to her.

- It's the mermaid!

- Have you seen her?

You have, haven't you?

- Yes, but she's not here now.

Some guy came and took her away.

- Where is she?

Where has he taken her?

- They went off that way.

- What's your name?

- Alisa.

- Alisa, listen very carefully.

In the city, everyone has to work.

If someone gives you a job, you have to do it properly.

Do you understand?

I have a job for you.

There's a bad boy in the room next door. Use this to punish him.

- A bad boy?

- Yes, a very bad boy.

Go in there and glare at him.

- A bad boy...

- I guess I'm the one who got a free ride.

That was great.

I'd pick up a girl like you anytime.

Oh, come on.

I guess you were going to work after all.

- I'm here to play.

- What the hell are you doing?

It's burning!

Stupid bitch.

Shit, what am I going to do with these?

I'll have to go to the bank.

- Hey, what the hell are you doing?

What's with her?

This is beyond a joke!

- Stop it, please!

After her, now!

- Did a girl come by here?

- There's a girl right here, isn't there?

- Don't test me bitch, I'll fucking kill you.

- I'd rather suck on it instead.

- Slut.

- It's alright. He's gone.

I don't know what you've done,

but you can't go around like that.

There are a lot of brothels around here.

Maybe there's something you can wear.

Hey, you'd look good in this.

Get changed and go home. It's not safe around here.

- Thanks.

- Stop following me. I'm here to have fun on my own.

Look, I helped you out once. Don't read anything into it.

You're just some runaway, okay? It's none of my business.

- Our clients aren't just local doctors and factory bosses.

They're the elites who rule this city, no, Japan itself.

- You mean, like politicians?

- Just keep your mouth shut, alright?

We have to find that girl and get the tape back.

- But we have no idea where she is.

- We have to find her, no matter what.

- Hey lady, looking for a good time?

That's not very nice.

I just wanted to show you a good time.

If you're going to be like that, I'll have to teach you a lesson.

You think I don't know what you've been up to,

Harumi?

Stupid bitch.

Slut.

- Are you alright? Come on.

- Yoshio...

- Hey, you!

What's going on here?

Hey!

Are you alright? Hey, buddy!

You okay?

Hey!Can you hear me?

What happened?

- What...

am I doing here?

Who are you?

I don't remember my name.

- Alright, have you brought any of her belongings?

- Yes, I have this.

- That'll do nicely.

Take off your shoe and sock and place your right foot on the table.

Now that we're connected like this,

our hearts are as one.

She's coming into view.

Please be reassured.

The person you seek

is safe and well.

In a mere matter of hours,

you shall be reunited with the person you are seeking.

But, it's strange...

The person with whom you will be reunited

is not as they were before.

- What do you mean?

In other words,

the one with whom you will be reunited,

is an entirely new person.

- A new Alisa?

- At the present time, they are...

in an old house in the direction of my foot.

-Anom house, you say?

- Hey, pay up!

Where's the money?

- I can't go back.

I can never return to that house.

- What's wrong?

Why are you crying?

It's alright, don't cry.

- It's okay. - Leave me alone!

This is all your fault!

Why did you have to do that?

- I was just trying to help you.

It's all because of you!

What am I doing?

Hey!

Don't die!

Please don't die on me!

Come on!

- My Papa told me.

That there was nothing beyond the sea.

Just dull little people fixated on their dull little lives.

But that's not true.

He just told me that to keep me there.

I understand that now.

- Stop the car.

- What is it?

- There's somewhere we haven't looked yet.

- Where?

You can't mean in there? Isn't it haunted?

- That's right. It's the perfect hiding place.

I must be losing my touch.

Why didn't I think of it before?

- We don't really have to go in, though, do we?

I mean...

There are actual ghosts in there.

- I suggest you get in there right now or risk becoming a ghost yourself.

- Excuse me, is Alisa there?

- Have you ever heard of rafflesia?

- Raff lesia?

- Yeah.

It's the biggest flower in the world.

It blooms deep in the forest where people can't see it.

I dreamed of seeing that flower

when I was a child.

The world's biggest flower.

Hidden deep in the jungle.

It only blooms once every few years.

An ethereal flower.

An ethereal flower.

I'd forgotten all about it.

It suddenly came back to me when I met you.

I wonder why.

It's just a dream I had as a child.

- Do you still want to see it?

Let's go find it.

We can buy the whole lot.

- Hello there, are you alright?

If there's something bothering you, you can tell me all about it.

Come on, you can tell me anything.

- Do you happen to know my name?

Do you know who I am?

- Hey! Let me go!

- Tell me!

Who am I?

Who the hell am I?

- How on earth should I know?

- You said I could tell you anything.

- I meant within reason!

- I'm begging you, please.

Who am I?

What's my name?

- Creep!

- A ghost!

- Have you seen Alisa?

- What are you so afraid of? It's just some homeless guy.

For goodness' sake.

- Alisa.

- What's that?

- Who knows?

- Did you hear that?

- Hear what?

- Alisa!

After her, quickly!

- What are you doing here?

- Harumi...

- You know her?

- Harumi,

what are you doing in a place like this?

I never knew volunteering

with the Women's Association was so dangerous.

The girl's coming with me, hand her over.

- No.

- Sure about that? - I am.

- Slutty bitch.

- Dirty old woman.

- I always knew it would end this way.

- It's a woman's fate, I suppose.

- I see pickles aren't the only thing you've mastered recently.

What was the point of it all

if I'm just going to die here like this?

- You bitch!

Looks like

I lost.

- Are you alright?

- It's just a scratch.

- Alisa!

- Papa...

- I missed you so much!

Alisa, let's go home.

Let's go home right now.

- Papa, I'm not going back.

- What are you talking about?

Why would you say that?

You've seen everything already.

Stop this nonsense and come home with me right now.

- Papa, I'm going with her.

- So you're the one who's got her all fired up!

- No, leave her alone! It's not her fault.

What have you done to Alisa?

Why are you taking her away from me?

- Papa, stop it!

- Alisa, you're...

You're not Alisa!

Alisa, where are you?

Alisa!

- Papa!

Goodbye, Papa.

- A new Alisa...

A new Alisa...

A new Alisa...

Alisa!

- Alisa?

You mean me?

Is my name Alisa?

It fits just right.

- Of course it does.

It's your shoe, Alisa.

- Alisa...

My name is Alisa!

But, who might you be?

- I'm your Papa, aren't I?

- Papa!

- Alisa!

- I missed you so much!

I missed you so much this whole time!

- I finally found you. The real Alisa.

Alisa...

- Papa!

- Stop the car.

Hey, where are you off to?

- Mermaid!

- Where are you headed?

- 0h, we're not really going anywhere.

- We were thinking of starting over in another town.

- That's great!

We're going to find rafflesia flowers.

Do you want to come?

- Come with you?

- Yeah. Don't you want to?

- Well, it's not that, but...

- We're going to blow all this money.

And we can throw in something extra for nice gentlemen like you.

- You'll come, won't you?

- Yeah, we're coming!

- Papa.

- Alisa.

- Come on, let's go.

- Okay.

Alright.

- By the way, Mermaid Ladies,

that raffu... whatever it was, the flower,

where is it?

- Deep in the jungle.

- At the edge of dawn.

THE END

English subtitles by Hayley Scanlon