1 00:00:59,517 --> 00:01:01,936 BEWITCHED BY HALCION 2 00:01:03,229 --> 00:01:07,733 ARIA ON GAZES BY MAYA TOMU RA 3 00:01:41,934 --> 00:01:45,771 - You're bringing back Devio? 4 00:01:46,689 --> 00:01:47,690 - Yeah. 5 00:01:48,399 --> 00:01:51,152 Cameras also get sad if you don't use them. 6 00:01:52,987 --> 00:01:54,405 - It's too late for all that. 7 00:01:56,532 --> 00:01:58,868 - We wanted to exchange video diaries, 8 00:01:59,035 --> 00:02:03,247 so we called it Devio, short for "daily video." 9 00:02:04,081 --> 00:02:05,207 It was just for me, 10 00:02:07,918 --> 00:02:08,919 and for you. 11 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:12,757 A, E, I, O, U. 12 00:02:16,010 --> 00:02:17,970 It's our vocal warmup at the studio. 13 00:02:19,513 --> 00:02:21,223 - You're taking the course she took? 14 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,772 - I want to perform the play Maya left behind. 15 00:02:29,857 --> 00:02:33,694 The way she died... I want to do something for her. 16 00:02:35,655 --> 00:02:37,156 - Overdosing on Halcion? 17 00:02:40,951 --> 00:02:42,995 - I hadn't worn this jacket in a while. 18 00:02:45,623 --> 00:02:46,791 These were in the pocket. 19 00:02:50,086 --> 00:02:50,920 AKIHITO ESAKA PAX ELECTRICALS 20 00:02:51,003 --> 00:02:52,963 "Please call my husband if you need anything.“ 21 00:02:54,006 --> 00:02:56,008 I must have been handing out his cards. 22 00:03:28,165 --> 00:03:36,799 ARIA ON GAZES 23 00:03:43,347 --> 00:03:44,473 - Welcome home. 24 00:04:26,223 --> 00:04:31,145 - Our membership system guarantees your safety. 25 00:04:34,982 --> 00:04:38,194 The visitors don't know your identity. 26 00:04:38,694 --> 00:04:42,072 And you won't be able to see them 27 00:04:42,156 --> 00:04:44,450 because of the medicine you've been given. 28 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,500 You can keep your clothes on, if you prefer. 29 00:04:53,042 --> 00:04:55,252 You'll soon fall asleep. 30 00:04:56,796 --> 00:04:58,214 Close your eyes. 31 00:04:59,507 --> 00:05:01,383 You'll be fast asleep. 32 00:09:21,810 --> 00:09:22,811 - Mom. 33 00:09:24,772 --> 00:09:26,273 Looking at photos again? 34 00:09:28,108 --> 00:09:29,401 - Oh, you're back. 35 00:09:30,736 --> 00:09:32,279 You could have called first. 36 00:09:33,530 --> 00:09:35,324 - Aren't you happy to see me? 37 00:09:35,866 --> 00:09:37,117 - I didn't say that. 38 00:09:38,285 --> 00:09:40,662 - I had dinner with the guys from work. 39 00:09:41,663 --> 00:09:43,207 - Don't you want a family life? 40 00:09:44,875 --> 00:09:47,711 - Dinner, bath, bed. 41 00:09:48,837 --> 00:09:50,422 That's not the life I want. 42 00:09:50,506 --> 00:09:51,757 - I know, but... 43 00:09:53,258 --> 00:09:57,096 Maybe deep down, I crave conventionality. 44 00:09:57,179 --> 00:09:59,973 To be tied down by that kind of life. 45 00:10:01,683 --> 00:10:03,310 - Rent an ideal husband, then. 46 00:10:14,071 --> 00:10:15,739 - Get off me. 47 00:10:21,578 --> 00:10:22,621 Stop it. 48 00:10:39,721 --> 00:10:41,265 - It's normal, isn't it? 49 00:10:41,348 --> 00:10:42,683 - Not when you're like this. 50 00:10:44,518 --> 00:10:47,855 - I come home so seldom, I've become a stranger to you. 51 00:10:48,772 --> 00:10:49,773 - I didn't say that. 52 00:10:50,732 --> 00:10:51,733 But... 53 00:10:51,942 --> 00:10:52,943 - But what? 54 00:10:56,947 --> 00:10:59,533 Have you lost interest in sex, 55 00:11:02,286 --> 00:11:04,621 or just lost interest in me? 56 00:11:09,877 --> 00:11:10,878 - No. 57 00:11:12,629 --> 00:11:14,256 I want you. 58 00:11:16,758 --> 00:11:17,759 - But... 59 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:21,013 I don 't love you. 60 00:11:36,195 --> 00:11:37,696 A magic carpet. 61 00:15:18,125 --> 00:15:22,295 After a while, I stopped taking the medicine. 62 00:15:24,005 --> 00:15:26,133 I hated having to pretend I was asleep. 63 00:15:27,801 --> 00:15:29,386 I wanted to open my eyes 64 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:32,013 and stick out my tongue. 65 00:15:33,765 --> 00:15:34,766 But... 66 00:15:35,308 --> 00:15:39,479 I never opened my eyes or tried to look at the men who came. 67 00:15:41,481 --> 00:15:43,775 I thought it would be like looking into Hell. 68 00:15:47,612 --> 00:15:48,780 And so, 69 00:15:49,406 --> 00:15:51,408 I tried to find some balance 70 00:15:51,575 --> 00:15:53,743 in this strange situation of being alive, 71 00:15:53,910 --> 00:15:56,746 while otherwise existing in an apparent state of death. 72 00:15:58,790 --> 00:16:00,000 I felt frustrated 73 00:16:00,208 --> 00:16:02,252 and annoyed 74 00:16:02,335 --> 00:16:04,671 that I couldn't respond to the itching and stiffness 75 00:16:05,046 --> 00:16:06,840 that my brain perceived through my skin, 76 00:16:07,007 --> 00:16:10,051 through the movement of my body. 77 00:16:10,218 --> 00:16:11,720 Pain is pleasure. 78 00:16:12,762 --> 00:16:14,514 Pleasure is pain. 79 00:16:15,724 --> 00:16:17,267 I came to realize that for myself. 80 00:16:47,589 --> 00:16:51,468 KYOKO IS SITTING 81 00:16:51,551 --> 00:16:55,514 AT THE DESK 82 00:16:55,597 --> 00:16:59,059 AND WRITING. 83 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:06,816 HER HUSBAND ENTERS. 84 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,371 - She's dead. 85 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,559 - She must have taken too many pills. 86 00:18:22,934 --> 00:18:24,060 Let's get some air. 87 00:18:28,106 --> 00:18:31,109 We can go to the rooftop at my studio. 88 00:18:36,781 --> 00:18:39,284 So you're a student? That's great. 89 00:18:41,411 --> 00:18:43,121 - I can't find a job, though. 90 00:18:44,164 --> 00:18:45,749 So it's not that great. 91 00:18:46,708 --> 00:18:48,752 - I thought the same when I was your age. 92 00:18:53,590 --> 00:18:55,925 - Ah, it's so nice here. 93 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:04,392 - I come here at break times to clear my head. 94 00:19:06,853 --> 00:19:10,231 A, E, I, O, U. 95 00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:18,114 Until I met you there, I was worried that the sleeping room 96 00:19:18,865 --> 00:19:21,076 was just something I just dreamed up. 97 00:19:35,715 --> 00:19:36,716 What are you doing? 98 00:19:37,717 --> 00:19:41,096 - I'm so busy all day I don't get any sun, so I borrowed this. 99 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,559 - Make love to me. 100 00:19:47,686 --> 00:19:49,062 - Let me finish this. 101 00:19:50,313 --> 00:19:51,314 - No. 102 00:20:01,324 --> 00:20:03,368 - I'm Takano, the owner. 103 00:20:04,327 --> 00:20:06,204 I accept full responsibility 104 00:20:06,287 --> 00:20:09,416 for what happened to Kinue Nemoto and have taken care of it. 105 00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:12,919 It will not happen again. 106 00:20:13,753 --> 00:20:16,297 Please sleep soundly. 107 00:23:08,595 --> 00:23:11,598 - It's creaked right here the whole time I've known you. 108 00:23:13,016 --> 00:23:14,183 Why didn't you fix it? 109 00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:18,688 - All our lies are buried there. 110 00:23:20,273 --> 00:23:22,317 - That's not true. 111 00:23:29,198 --> 00:23:31,159 Mr. Computer Programmer, 112 00:23:31,993 --> 00:23:33,828 fancy becoming a rental husband? 113 00:23:34,203 --> 00:23:35,204 - Not really. 114 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:37,206 - I told you before. 115 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:41,544 Esaka said we could be man and wife when he's not around. 116 00:23:48,718 --> 00:23:53,222 You could cry for me, and laugh for me. 117 00:23:57,894 --> 00:23:59,437 You could love me. 118 00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:02,231 And hate me. 119 00:24:04,484 --> 00:24:08,112 Maybe family itself is just a sham and doesn't exist anyway. 120 00:24:10,281 --> 00:24:12,492 - So you want to use me to find out? 121 00:24:15,161 --> 00:24:18,998 - I feel like I could build something different if it's with you. 122 00:24:41,020 --> 00:24:42,772 - Pass me my medicine. 123 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,537 - Sorry. 124 00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:08,548 You're taking Halcion? 125 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,846 - Working with a computer strains your nerves. 126 00:25:15,513 --> 00:25:16,681 I can't sleep. 127 00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:18,850 - Since when? 128 00:25:21,144 --> 00:25:23,271 - A long time ago. 129 00:25:25,481 --> 00:25:28,985 I stick to the recommended dose, so it's harmless. 130 00:25:32,363 --> 00:25:35,658 - "Halcion" has such a strange ring to it. 131 00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:38,995 When I first heard its name, 132 00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:42,623 I thought it meant, "the sound of spring dying." 133 00:25:44,792 --> 00:25:47,336 - "Haru" like "spring," “shi” like "death," 134 00:25:49,338 --> 00:25:50,965 "on“ like "sound." 135 00:25:52,175 --> 00:25:55,678 - Spring dies and what comes next? 136 00:25:57,972 --> 00:25:59,557 The rainy season. 137 00:26:05,605 --> 00:26:09,650 Haven't you ever felt like you were dead when you were asleep? 138 00:26:12,236 --> 00:26:14,697 Maybe people can sleep because they think 139 00:26:14,781 --> 00:26:17,784 it'll still be the same world when they wake up. 140 00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:22,163 Don't you agree? 141 00:26:25,541 --> 00:26:27,001 - I get it. 142 00:26:28,169 --> 00:26:30,963 But it's the same world. 143 00:26:33,424 --> 00:26:35,176 It has to be. 144 00:31:16,248 --> 00:31:17,583 - That's enough. 145 00:31:18,292 --> 00:31:19,752 - Just a little more. 146 00:31:20,169 --> 00:31:22,046 You're the star of today's diary. 147 00:31:23,172 --> 00:31:24,590 - For your lovely husband. 148 00:31:28,302 --> 00:31:29,303 - The battery died. 149 00:31:35,059 --> 00:31:36,811 The battery ran out. 150 00:31:36,894 --> 00:31:38,479 I should've charged it first. 151 00:31:45,027 --> 00:31:46,737 - Why are you making me do this? 152 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,783 What if Esaka comes back? 153 00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:52,493 - He won't. 154 00:31:55,746 --> 00:31:58,040 - Introducing me to that girl as your husband. 155 00:31:58,707 --> 00:32:00,543 - You're a rental husband, aren't you? 156 00:32:01,127 --> 00:32:03,379 I'm choosing you right now. 157 00:32:04,964 --> 00:32:06,132 - How very self-involved. 158 00:32:10,678 --> 00:32:14,056 Why didn't you choose me when we were in university? 159 00:32:16,016 --> 00:32:18,769 - I really am self-involved, aren't I? 160 00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:23,732 I craved adolescent drama. 161 00:32:28,195 --> 00:32:31,949 I filmed her for the diary today. 162 00:32:32,491 --> 00:32:33,951 Now it's your turn. 163 00:32:35,161 --> 00:32:36,620 Don't you want to? 164 00:32:39,623 --> 00:32:43,127 Or do you have more important things to do? 165 00:32:45,212 --> 00:32:46,213 - No. 166 00:32:46,881 --> 00:32:48,048 - Well, go on then. 167 00:32:51,469 --> 00:32:52,887 Make a video. 168 00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:12,044 - Have you heard of Warhol? 169 00:36:33,899 --> 00:36:35,567 - Maya. 170 00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:26,053 - Why did you start going to the room? 171 00:38:28,931 --> 00:38:31,475 I wanted to write about it for my graduation thesis. 172 00:38:32,851 --> 00:38:34,228 "The sleepless generation." 173 00:38:36,438 --> 00:38:41,443 I live in a one-bedroom apartment that costs 55,000 yen a month. 174 00:38:42,569 --> 00:38:43,570 But... 175 00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:45,823 - But what? 176 00:38:46,907 --> 00:38:48,867 - I keep having this dream. 177 00:38:50,744 --> 00:38:55,165 A woman kills a man and buries him under the floorboards. 178 00:38:58,418 --> 00:39:02,756 - Something like that happened where I lived when I was a child. 179 00:39:04,883 --> 00:39:07,469 Maybe you're living in that apartment. 180 00:39:08,095 --> 00:39:09,638 - Oh, come on. 181 00:39:11,306 --> 00:39:14,726 I feel like I know that woman, somehow. 182 00:39:18,647 --> 00:39:21,358 When you go there, it's like you forget everything. 183 00:39:22,734 --> 00:39:25,696 It's nice not remembering, 184 00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:28,949 but... 185 00:39:30,742 --> 00:39:32,369 lately it's begun to scare me. 186 00:39:34,454 --> 00:39:35,539 I feel like 187 00:39:35,914 --> 00:39:37,666 something's following me. 188 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,838 - I've followed you before. 189 00:39:45,799 --> 00:39:48,677 I wanted to know how the people who come to the room live. 190 00:40:25,255 --> 00:40:27,507 Why do you always shoot stuff like this? 191 00:40:29,718 --> 00:40:31,303 It's all fake, isn't it? 192 00:40:35,057 --> 00:40:36,642 Come on, tell me. 193 00:40:40,604 --> 00:40:42,105 Hey. 194 00:44:19,781 --> 00:44:24,035 - Your body's heavy, like stone. 195 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,790 Get off me. 196 00:44:30,458 --> 00:44:32,252 You're too heavy. 197 00:44:33,712 --> 00:44:35,005 - Hold me. 198 00:44:35,964 --> 00:44:37,382 Don't let me go. 199 00:44:45,724 --> 00:44:47,309 The video of my sister. 200 00:44:48,602 --> 00:44:50,187 What's that about? 201 00:44:53,481 --> 00:44:55,317 You want to compare us? 202 00:44:58,862 --> 00:45:02,532 - You and her, you're alike but you're different. 203 00:45:04,618 --> 00:45:06,453 You're different, but you're alike. 204 00:45:07,954 --> 00:45:12,000 So for me, you are the same. 205 00:46:00,382 --> 00:46:05,178 - That day, I decided to do the thing I'd been avoiding. 206 00:46:06,930 --> 00:46:10,976 I wanted to find out who it was that was touching me. 207 00:46:12,602 --> 00:46:16,189 Whatever it was that I saw, I had no intention of rejecting it. 208 00:48:11,137 --> 00:48:12,305 - Mr. Takano. 209 00:48:13,598 --> 00:48:15,225 Where are you when you watch me? 210 00:48:17,268 --> 00:48:18,603 Are you watching right now? 211 00:48:21,106 --> 00:48:24,109 - I don't watch. I feel. 212 00:48:28,405 --> 00:48:29,531 - Where are you? 213 00:48:30,115 --> 00:48:31,366 Show yourself. 214 00:48:31,866 --> 00:48:35,203 - Are you under the impression I can pop out from the alarm bell? 215 00:48:43,503 --> 00:48:45,964 - You killed her, didn't you? 216 00:50:32,445 --> 00:50:35,031 It was you! You killed her, didn't you? 217 00:50:35,406 --> 00:50:37,700 Come on, answer me. 218 00:50:49,671 --> 00:50:52,048 Can I go on loving you? 219 00:50:57,262 --> 00:50:58,638 You're a murderer. 220 00:51:15,196 --> 00:51:17,490 But, I have to love you. 221 00:51:22,912 --> 00:51:24,247 - Maya... 222 00:51:25,873 --> 00:51:27,250 - What are you saying? 223 00:51:27,709 --> 00:51:29,335 I'm Kyoko. 224 00:51:30,211 --> 00:51:31,921 It's my last chance to start over. 225 00:51:32,755 --> 00:51:34,340 I'm already twenty-nine. 226 00:51:36,968 --> 00:51:38,177 - You're already doing it. 227 00:51:41,055 --> 00:51:43,308 The number's just going up by one, that's all. 228 00:51:46,477 --> 00:51:47,770 Like you said. 229 00:51:49,606 --> 00:51:51,274 Family is a sham. 230 00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:54,444 It's not real. 231 00:51:58,531 --> 00:51:59,907 I feel kind of... 232 00:52:01,284 --> 00:52:03,286 I feel kind of sleepy. 233 00:52:20,219 --> 00:52:21,804 - Stop looking at me. 234 00:56:00,439 --> 00:56:02,233 DRIPPING BLOOD... 235 00:56:03,609 --> 00:56:07,822 KYO KO: 236 00:56:08,698 --> 00:56:16,330 "WHO ARE YOU?" 237 00:56:17,790 --> 00:56:25,715 SHE TURNS AWAY 238 00:56:56,996 --> 00:56:59,415 Which of us did you like better, me or my sister? 239 00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:24,417 Who's there? 240 00:58:28,629 --> 00:58:30,006 Mr. Takano? 241 00:58:31,132 --> 00:58:32,591 - That's right. 242 00:58:50,985 --> 00:58:52,611 - You knew, didn't you? 243 00:58:53,362 --> 00:58:55,072 - I was watching you the whole time. 244 00:58:55,656 --> 00:58:57,074 - Why? 245 00:58:59,035 --> 00:59:00,745 - You're my wife. 246 00:59:04,165 --> 00:59:06,417 - You work for an electronics company. 247 00:59:06,500 --> 00:59:09,879 You wouldn't put a camera inside an alarm bell, would you? 248 00:59:11,881 --> 00:59:13,466 - You've got this all wrong. 249 00:59:15,384 --> 00:59:19,138 The only reason I was watching was to protect the members. 250 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:22,892 - But you didn't. 251 00:59:24,143 --> 00:59:26,020 He killed someone in there. 252 00:59:29,398 --> 00:59:31,317 - You think it was him? 253 00:59:35,196 --> 00:59:37,239 This is one of your diaries. 254 01:00:01,514 --> 01:00:02,807 Were you jealous? 255 01:00:10,606 --> 01:00:13,400 It was you who gave Kinue Nemoto the medicine. 256 01:00:23,077 --> 01:00:24,495 - No. 257 01:00:29,125 --> 01:00:31,168 - Think I can't prove it? 258 01:00:34,255 --> 01:00:36,882 You loved him so much you killed him? 259 01:00:37,341 --> 01:00:39,593 - He's not dead. He's just sleeping. 260 01:00:41,679 --> 01:00:45,141 - Sleepwalking is a common side effect of Halcion. 261 01:00:46,433 --> 01:00:47,852 As I'm sure you know. 262 01:00:49,854 --> 01:00:52,398 You've been taking too much. 263 01:00:54,567 --> 01:00:55,901 - I have? 264 01:00:57,945 --> 01:00:59,613 IdonT take Halcion. 265 01:01:01,407 --> 01:01:02,950 - Maya. 266 01:01:04,910 --> 01:01:06,787 It's time to wake up, now. 267 01:01:08,873 --> 01:01:12,209 - What are you talking about? Did you forget your own wife's name? 268 01:01:12,376 --> 01:01:14,670 - Kyoko died after overdosing on Halcion. 269 01:01:14,837 --> 01:01:16,839 You're her sister, Maya. 270 01:01:25,055 --> 01:01:28,392 Your sister's death had a profound effect on you. 271 01:01:30,728 --> 01:01:33,564 You upped the dose of your medicine. 272 01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,358 Your mind became confused 273 01:01:36,442 --> 01:01:38,944 and you began to think you were your sister, Kyoko. 274 01:01:43,824 --> 01:01:45,534 - You knew? 275 01:01:52,416 --> 01:01:55,002 - He didn't believe Kyoko's death was an accident. 276 01:01:55,628 --> 01:01:57,338 - She took her own life. 277 01:01:59,423 --> 01:02:00,507 - Perhaps she did. 278 01:02:05,596 --> 01:02:08,390 But I loved you. 279 01:02:12,686 --> 01:02:15,147 So I treated you as if you were my wife. 280 01:02:16,565 --> 01:02:18,400 - Locking me up in the sleeping room? 281 01:02:18,567 --> 01:02:19,777 - No! 282 01:02:20,569 --> 01:02:23,572 I thought your mind would settle with the right amount of medicine. 283 01:02:27,952 --> 01:02:30,120 - That place is supposed to be a treatment room? 284 01:02:33,415 --> 01:02:35,542 I'm leaving. 285 01:02:37,586 --> 01:02:39,213 - Where are you going? 286 01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:43,133 - To smash the eyes that are watching me. 287 01:02:44,969 --> 01:02:47,179 I've smashed so many already. 288 01:02:48,430 --> 01:02:50,307 But they're still watching me. 289 01:02:52,893 --> 01:02:55,729 IcanT bear it. 290 01:02:57,356 --> 01:02:59,525 Stop looking at me. 291 01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,078 - That day, the world entered the rainy season. 292 01:03:12,621 --> 01:03:17,376 A membrane of falling rain coils around dissolving everything. 293 01:03:19,003 --> 01:03:20,004 The Earth. 294 01:03:20,671 --> 01:03:21,672 The city. 295 01:03:22,881 --> 01:03:23,841 Me. 296 01:04:33,327 --> 01:04:34,912 - Welcome home. 297 01:04:45,464 --> 01:04:47,466 English subtitles by Hayley Scanlon