1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:05,566 --> 00:01:07,818 Based on the novel by Kobo Abe. 4 00:01:08,027 --> 00:01:10,321 Screenplay by Kiyotaka Inagaki & Gakuryu Ishii. 5 00:01:15,242 --> 00:01:17,995 Masatoshi Nagase. 6 00:01:22,208 --> 00:01:24,919 Tadanobu Asano. 7 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:31,467 Ayana Shiramoto. 8 00:01:35,387 --> 00:01:37,807 Kiyohiko Shibukawa Yuko Nakamura. 9 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:43,729 Koichi Sato. 10 00:01:50,569 --> 00:01:53,239 Directed by Gakuryu Ishii. 11 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,660 Showa era prosperity ends. Economic growth slows. 12 00:01:58,118 --> 00:02:01,872 Unrest sparked by the student movement abates. 13 00:02:02,540 --> 00:02:08,170 Before a flashy economic bubble swells, a vacuum-like time prevails. 14 00:02:09,255 --> 00:02:10,923 I 973. 15 00:02:12,383 --> 00:02:17,388 A new breed of Japanese is in the chrysalis stage of evolution. 16 00:02:23,227 --> 00:02:24,979 Is this just cardboard? 17 00:02:25,563 --> 00:02:27,022 Just garbage? 18 00:02:28,023 --> 00:02:30,401 A pitiful failure in life. 19 00:02:31,193 --> 00:02:32,653 Huh? 20 00:02:33,279 --> 00:02:37,533 Think what you want Look down on me all you like. 21 00:03:12,067 --> 00:03:14,361 But the truth is the reverse. 22 00:03:15,529 --> 00:03:18,198 You are looked down upon. 23 00:03:19,575 --> 00:03:22,077 I see right through everything. 24 00:03:24,079 --> 00:03:26,790 A fabricated box you place your faith in. 25 00:03:28,083 --> 00:03:31,503 It is you people who live inside it. 26 00:03:40,304 --> 00:03:43,182 I have abandoned all that is fake, 27 00:03:43,933 --> 00:03:46,185 to obtain the real thing. 28 00:03:47,645 --> 00:03:49,271 What is more, 29 00:03:49,647 --> 00:03:51,315 I can see. 30 00:03:52,149 --> 00:03:54,985 You people as you truly are. 31 00:03:56,362 --> 00:04:00,074 The hidden shape of this world. 32 00:04:20,970 --> 00:04:22,763 Together with this box, 33 00:04:23,597 --> 00:04:26,183 the world shall be fully reborn. 34 00:04:44,827 --> 00:04:45,869 I am 35 00:04:46,787 --> 00:04:47,787 the box man. 36 00:04:49,957 --> 00:04:52,167 I gaze at you unilaterally. 37 00:04:57,673 --> 00:04:59,717 I become unidentifiable. 38 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:16,900 Inside this box, 39 00:05:18,152 --> 00:05:19,862 I exist as I please. 40 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,453 You may see me, 41 00:05:28,454 --> 00:05:30,164 but you pay no attention. 42 00:05:44,011 --> 00:05:45,804 You feign ignorance. 43 00:05:58,442 --> 00:06:00,527 I take what I need from you, 44 00:06:01,487 --> 00:06:03,405 but you don't even notice. 45 00:06:04,239 --> 00:06:06,283 That suits me just fine. 46 00:06:12,539 --> 00:06:13,539 And yet, 47 00:06:13,916 --> 00:06:15,751 just as I once did.. 48 00:06:23,217 --> 00:06:27,012 If you become overly aware of the box man. 49 00:06:28,222 --> 00:06:30,724 Those who obsess over the box man 50 00:06:30,933 --> 00:06:32,434 become the box man. 51 00:06:42,069 --> 00:06:43,529 Nevertheless, 52 00:06:43,821 --> 00:06:45,656 being unidentifiable means 53 00:06:46,573 --> 00:06:49,743 whether he lives or dies, no one cares. 54 00:07:03,340 --> 00:07:04,591 The box man 55 00:07:05,425 --> 00:07:07,344 could be killed at any time. 56 00:07:08,011 --> 00:07:09,763 He would even accept death, 57 00:07:10,931 --> 00:07:12,683 as the king of this world. 58 00:08:11,325 --> 00:08:15,078 Those who obsess over the box man become the box man. 59 00:09:55,512 --> 00:09:57,431 What I seek is 60 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:00,392 total solitude, 61 00:10:01,893 --> 00:10:03,478 and total anonymity. 62 00:10:05,063 --> 00:10:06,106 Also, 63 00:10:07,441 --> 00:10:09,568 a darkroom and cave of my own. 64 00:10:12,070 --> 00:10:13,739 This darkness and light 65 00:10:15,282 --> 00:10:17,659 forms new visions of the world. 66 00:10:32,507 --> 00:10:35,260 Abe Hospital. 67 00:11:06,625 --> 00:11:09,795 No Entry. 68 00:11:26,895 --> 00:11:28,021 Excuse me. 69 00:11:29,189 --> 00:11:31,441 Now it doesn't matter where he goes. 70 00:11:33,485 --> 00:11:34,903 He's there now... 71 00:11:38,281 --> 00:11:41,451 Mucus builds up in my eyes. Why, I wonder? 72 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:43,453 Well, 73 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:48,250 your condition is worsening. You need immediate treatment. 74 00:11:49,334 --> 00:11:50,085 See this here... 75 00:11:50,335 --> 00:11:51,628 Clean them for me. 76 00:11:52,421 --> 00:11:53,547 You. 77 00:12:11,231 --> 00:12:12,983 You'll always be here, 78 00:12:13,942 --> 00:12:15,902 to clean my eyes, won't you? 79 00:12:17,404 --> 00:12:20,282 If need be, I can get started right away. 80 00:12:35,380 --> 00:12:36,882 Oh dear, oh dear... 81 00:12:37,549 --> 00:12:39,885 Thank you, my servant. 82 00:12:41,470 --> 00:12:42,596 Ah, how rude of me. 83 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:45,307 You're a doctor, aren't you? 84 00:12:47,601 --> 00:12:49,769 A fake doctor, albeit. 85 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:57,152 You may be a real doctor, but now this unlicensed fake 86 00:12:57,736 --> 00:12:58,904 is more real. 87 00:13:00,655 --> 00:13:01,698 This reminds me 88 00:13:02,616 --> 00:13:04,409 of her buttocks. 89 00:13:07,746 --> 00:13:09,748 So, let's be on the same page. 90 00:13:10,582 --> 00:13:14,044 Be sure to write your will, in your own handwriting. 91 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:23,136 "My alarmist tendencies spiraled out of control." 92 00:13:24,971 --> 00:13:28,642 "Eventually, I shut myself away in my room," 93 00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:33,355 "to either starve, or hang myself," 94 00:13:33,939 --> 00:13:35,148 "and die." 95 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:41,029 "However, to go on deceiving the world," 96 00:13:41,655 --> 00:13:43,782 "until I died, felt unbearable to me," 97 00:13:44,741 --> 00:13:48,203 "so with this, I shall document the truth." 98 00:14:47,095 --> 00:14:48,638 A box man, the real thing, 99 00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:51,016 must endure all physical pain, 100 00:14:51,808 --> 00:14:54,269 and survive all dangerous situations. 101 00:14:55,604 --> 00:14:58,148 Itchiness, and discomfort, 102 00:14:59,482 --> 00:15:01,192 are merely beginner level. 103 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:46,655 Indeed The powers that be maintain public order 104 00:15:47,238 --> 00:15:50,575 by employing professional killers. My sworn enemy, 105 00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:53,119 badge-wearing beggars! 106 00:17:36,639 --> 00:17:39,559 A love-hate relationship? Or just a game? 107 00:17:47,901 --> 00:17:50,278 He means business! How foolish of me! 108 00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:25,748 Who is that sniper? 109 00:19:27,292 --> 00:19:32,213 Like my former self, hating the box man who infected me? 110 00:19:34,382 --> 00:19:35,382 If so, 111 00:19:36,551 --> 00:19:40,096 if anyone must endure inner pain, it is him. 112 00:19:45,977 --> 00:19:48,730 There's a hospital nearby. 113 00:21:15,692 --> 00:21:19,654 Do those legs belong to a loyal aide of my executioner? 114 00:21:21,364 --> 00:21:23,908 Or an angel, offering me salvation? 115 00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:27,120 Foolish thinking. 116 00:21:29,414 --> 00:21:30,414 Then again, 117 00:21:32,667 --> 00:21:34,335 it is a promising invitation. 118 00:21:41,342 --> 00:21:42,427 I'll remove this. 119 00:21:42,802 --> 00:21:43,803 Help me. 120 00:22:00,945 --> 00:22:01,945 Sit him up. 121 00:22:02,363 --> 00:22:03,740 Excuse me. 122 00:22:10,747 --> 00:22:13,374 People take mischief too far these days. 123 00:22:21,466 --> 00:22:22,842 Did you report this? 124 00:22:24,677 --> 00:22:25,677 No. 125 00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:29,307 Well, that's probably a wise move. 126 00:22:30,308 --> 00:22:32,310 You could provoke your assailant. 127 00:22:33,728 --> 00:22:36,606 But I can issue a medical certificate. 128 00:22:37,315 --> 00:22:40,359 Also, this is suppurating, so I'll treat it. 129 00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:43,321 Local anesthetic. 130 00:22:45,073 --> 00:22:47,033 - Lay him down. - If I may... 131 00:22:52,163 --> 00:22:53,414 You'll feel a prick. 132 00:23:14,769 --> 00:23:16,771 Those who obsess over the box man 133 00:23:18,731 --> 00:23:19,982 become the box man. 134 00:23:40,461 --> 00:23:41,796 All of this 135 00:23:45,508 --> 00:23:46,717 .Is ridiculous. 136 00:23:55,268 --> 00:23:56,727 Time is merely 137 00:23:58,104 --> 00:23:59,564 .Passing me by. 138 00:24:41,939 --> 00:24:43,024 That thing! 139 00:26:24,292 --> 00:26:25,292 "This is" 140 00:26:25,918 --> 00:26:28,671 "a record chronicling the box man." 141 00:26:30,131 --> 00:26:33,884 "Right now, I am writing this within the box.." 142 00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:06,334 Day by day 143 00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:09,754 .This presence 144 00:27:12,882 --> 00:27:14,425 .Becomes more inescapable. 145 00:27:57,343 --> 00:27:59,720 Those who obsess over the box man 146 00:28:00,763 --> 00:28:02,223 become the box man. 147 00:28:29,333 --> 00:28:30,793 You shouldn't get up yet. 148 00:28:36,048 --> 00:28:37,508 What's your line of work? 149 00:28:41,846 --> 00:28:43,597 I don't normally ask that. 150 00:28:46,642 --> 00:28:47,643 Photos. 151 00:28:51,605 --> 00:28:54,150 I was convinced you were a writer. 152 00:28:55,234 --> 00:28:57,862 You mutter novel-like prose in your sleep. 153 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:03,159 You were taking photos? 154 00:29:04,618 --> 00:29:05,828 Before the assault? 155 00:29:07,872 --> 00:29:08,914 Of scenery. 156 00:29:11,876 --> 00:29:12,876 People too? 157 00:29:17,798 --> 00:29:19,175 You don't shoot people? 158 00:29:22,428 --> 00:29:23,428 No. 159 00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:31,562 The person who hurt you, 160 00:29:32,396 --> 00:29:34,190 was it a homeless man in a box? 161 00:29:38,486 --> 00:29:41,864 Don't you know? He pops up here and there lately. 162 00:29:45,910 --> 00:29:46,910 I know. 163 00:29:49,622 --> 00:29:50,748 Photographers are 164 00:29:51,540 --> 00:29:52,583 like peeping toms, 165 00:29:54,293 --> 00:29:55,377 so we know things. 166 00:29:56,504 --> 00:29:57,880 I hear he's aggressive. 167 00:30:00,716 --> 00:30:02,009 He wasn't in a box. 168 00:30:09,099 --> 00:30:10,099 But... 169 00:30:12,019 --> 00:30:13,019 Maybe, 170 00:30:14,396 --> 00:30:15,481 the box man 171 00:30:17,775 --> 00:30:19,318 is a photographer I know. 172 00:30:22,446 --> 00:30:23,614 He only takes photos 173 00:30:25,449 --> 00:30:27,117 of things people don't know. 174 00:30:29,286 --> 00:30:30,454 He's a peeping tom? 175 00:30:31,372 --> 00:30:32,540 The box man? 176 00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:36,126 Like paring with a knife, 177 00:30:37,169 --> 00:30:38,295 he peers at people. 178 00:30:40,923 --> 00:30:42,341 His gaze is sharp enough 179 00:30:43,717 --> 00:30:44,927 to peel off clothing. 180 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,225 I'd be fine with that. 181 00:30:53,394 --> 00:30:56,564 I was a model, for quite a long time. 182 00:31:00,150 --> 00:31:03,404 When I say model, I mean nude modeling for artists, 183 00:31:05,406 --> 00:31:06,907 or photos for their use. 184 00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:19,210 At first, 185 00:31:19,837 --> 00:31:22,840 I was so nervous, you could hear my skin crawl. 186 00:31:25,467 --> 00:31:27,428 At some point, that changed. 187 00:31:28,053 --> 00:31:29,638 I began to sense the pulses 188 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:32,474 and thoughts of people watching. 189 00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:35,519 It became fulfilling to me. 190 00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:38,564 Many men came on to me. 191 00:31:39,648 --> 00:31:41,233 I was exceedingly curious. 192 00:31:42,860 --> 00:31:44,820 I don't know who made me pregnant, 193 00:31:46,947 --> 00:31:48,532 yet I wanted the child. 194 00:31:49,783 --> 00:31:51,201 But my body couldn't... 195 00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:54,622 Oh. 196 00:31:55,956 --> 00:31:57,541 I crumbled emotionally too. 197 00:31:59,543 --> 00:32:01,503 I recovered thanks to that doctor. 198 00:32:04,048 --> 00:32:05,424 So now he 199 00:32:06,258 --> 00:32:07,718 takes advantage of you? 200 00:32:13,182 --> 00:32:15,059 It's good to be useful. 201 00:32:16,143 --> 00:32:18,604 I quite enjoy working as a nurse. 202 00:32:20,564 --> 00:32:23,525 Modeling's difficult enough in itself. 203 00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:30,783 Just between you and me. 204 00:32:34,078 --> 00:32:35,537 I'm not qualified. 205 00:32:36,789 --> 00:32:37,873 I'm a fake. 206 00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:46,548 I have a favor to ask about the box man. 207 00:32:50,302 --> 00:32:52,763 If it's... something I can do. 208 00:33:08,696 --> 00:33:10,197 I want that box. 209 00:33:14,743 --> 00:33:16,286 Could you tell him? 210 00:33:17,705 --> 00:33:19,039 That I want to buy it. 211 00:33:33,762 --> 00:33:34,805 Take care. 212 00:33:45,107 --> 00:33:46,108 Will you 213 00:33:48,152 --> 00:33:49,695 help me? 214 00:35:07,773 --> 00:35:09,316 I think that went well. 215 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:12,318 Thanks. 216 00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:19,617 So, next... 217 00:35:56,822 --> 00:35:57,948 Which do you prefer? 218 00:35:59,825 --> 00:36:00,825 This one? 219 00:36:22,681 --> 00:36:24,892 Sorry, I forgot something... 220 00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,396 It'll be over soon. 221 00:36:30,564 --> 00:36:31,607 Trust me. 222 00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:14,107 No Entry. 223 00:37:49,351 --> 00:37:50,435 Ms.Yoko. 224 00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:54,105 Ms.Yoko. 225 00:37:57,693 --> 00:37:58,693 Come here. 226 00:38:16,044 --> 00:38:17,044 Sweat... 227 00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:22,843 Ms.Yoko. 228 00:38:24,511 --> 00:38:25,762 Come closer. 229 00:38:43,238 --> 00:38:44,406 It's frizzy. 230 00:38:47,034 --> 00:38:48,452 Perhaps it will rain. 231 00:39:12,267 --> 00:39:13,560 No need to worry. 232 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:23,570 All we experience happens within a delusion. 233 00:40:21,461 --> 00:40:23,755 The assassin is that doctor.. 234 00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:26,633 If so, 235 00:40:28,051 --> 00:40:29,970 is that woman his minion? 236 00:40:31,638 --> 00:40:32,639 Or could it be, 237 00:40:34,182 --> 00:40:36,852 she truly wants me to save her? 238 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:04,795 Yes? 239 00:41:05,881 --> 00:41:06,881 I see. 240 00:41:08,049 --> 00:41:09,049 Alright. 241 00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:32,782 Wait till you're ready to call me! 242 00:41:33,909 --> 00:41:35,493 I am ready. 243 00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:40,874 You too must learn 244 00:41:41,958 --> 00:41:43,919 how it feels to be a box man. 245 00:41:44,377 --> 00:41:46,713 No.That's not necessary for me. 246 00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:51,259 Ms.Yoko. 247 00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:56,473 What if he peeps from inside the box, 248 00:41:57,474 --> 00:41:58,808 as we continue? 249 00:41:59,309 --> 00:42:01,269 No, that's not necessary! 250 00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:04,522 I want you to peep. 251 00:42:07,067 --> 00:42:10,904 No no, that's not my style. You and I aren't the same. 252 00:42:20,497 --> 00:42:21,497 Then, 253 00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:24,292 how long should I wait? 254 00:42:27,754 --> 00:42:29,589 My preparations are complete! 255 00:42:38,014 --> 00:42:40,267 That box is far from the real thing. 256 00:42:42,352 --> 00:42:43,979 I'll destroy the real box. 257 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,899 Are you truly ready to destroy it? 258 00:42:50,443 --> 00:42:52,153 Are you truly ready? 259 00:42:54,030 --> 00:42:55,699 I am Jubilant. 260 00:42:57,492 --> 00:42:59,369 You've taken care of everything. 261 00:43:06,209 --> 00:43:07,794 Even my death. 262 00:43:10,171 --> 00:43:13,550 Until that time, we proceed as promised. 263 00:43:15,302 --> 00:43:16,302 So, 264 00:43:17,304 --> 00:43:19,180 are we doing it or not? 265 00:43:20,473 --> 00:43:21,641 Or instead, 266 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,102 shall we end this? 267 00:43:30,066 --> 00:43:31,609 Very soon, you'll become 268 00:43:32,861 --> 00:43:34,029 the real thing. 269 00:43:37,782 --> 00:43:39,534 Stay the course. 270 00:44:07,479 --> 00:44:09,564 I'm sorry. This'll be over soon. 271 00:44:11,066 --> 00:44:12,192 Once it's over, 272 00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:14,277 what should I do? 273 00:44:15,862 --> 00:44:16,863 You know. 274 00:44:17,447 --> 00:44:20,533 He goes away. That's all! Why? 275 00:44:22,619 --> 00:44:25,747 Since encountering the box man, you've changed. 276 00:44:26,790 --> 00:44:27,790 Huh? 277 00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:34,756 His notes... 278 00:44:35,382 --> 00:44:36,382 What? 279 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,051 They're vital to him. 280 00:44:55,402 --> 00:44:56,986 You'll go in that box too? 281 00:44:59,864 --> 00:45:03,827 To pull off the perfect crime, it might be necessary. 282 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,166 I don't understand. 283 00:45:10,750 --> 00:45:12,127 It makes no sense to me. 284 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,365 Why did she say she wants the box? 285 00:45:43,950 --> 00:45:45,577 Smells like a trap. 286 00:45:47,162 --> 00:45:48,496 Did I agree because. 287 00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:50,748 I had no reason to doubt? 288 00:45:52,834 --> 00:45:54,127 Or because it was her? 289 00:45:57,130 --> 00:45:58,715 We agreed to meet here. 290 00:46:00,049 --> 00:46:01,049 Of course, 291 00:46:01,593 --> 00:46:05,680 I shall count on her coming, as she promised. 292 00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:08,850 However, 293 00:46:09,726 --> 00:46:11,603 in case that doctor tries 294 00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,314 to kill me again, 295 00:46:15,857 --> 00:46:19,194 these notes and negatives will be evidence. 296 00:46:21,154 --> 00:46:23,823 They will prove the identity of 297 00:46:25,033 --> 00:46:27,452 the box man murderer. 298 00:46:44,511 --> 00:46:46,012 "I shall trust you." 299 00:46:47,222 --> 00:46:48,681 "A receipt is unnecessary." 300 00:46:50,016 --> 00:46:52,018 "You shall relinquish the box." 301 00:46:53,686 --> 00:46:54,686 "By morning," 302 00:46:56,272 --> 00:46:58,191 "relinquish the box completely." 303 00:47:48,324 --> 00:47:50,660 Don't you see this box's true value? 304 00:47:55,498 --> 00:47:57,458 You only do that doctor's bidding. 305 00:47:59,627 --> 00:48:01,296 Is that hospital your prison? 306 00:48:04,048 --> 00:48:05,842 Isn't that your prison? 307 00:48:07,427 --> 00:48:08,427 That's 308 00:48:09,304 --> 00:48:10,930 just a cardboard box. 309 00:48:12,265 --> 00:48:13,308 No! 310 00:48:14,934 --> 00:48:16,728 It's an exit to another world. 311 00:48:19,856 --> 00:48:20,898 Would you 312 00:48:23,359 --> 00:48:24,611 care to join me? 313 00:48:30,742 --> 00:48:32,410 You shall take the money, 314 00:48:33,661 --> 00:48:36,122 obey our contract, and relinquish the box. 315 00:48:38,333 --> 00:48:40,001 Think about nothing more. 316 00:48:44,213 --> 00:48:45,673 You speak from the heart? 317 00:48:54,140 --> 00:48:55,767 Do you know where the heart 318 00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:57,934 truly lies? 319 00:50:03,543 --> 00:50:04,669 Will you 320 00:50:06,587 --> 00:50:07,964 help me? 321 00:50:38,661 --> 00:50:42,331 But the box obscured his face, making him even scarier. 322 00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:46,711 This is only a reenactment. Don't be afraid. 323 00:50:50,506 --> 00:50:51,799 Now, get undressed. 324 00:51:29,045 --> 00:51:30,755 First, may I ask something? 325 00:51:31,506 --> 00:51:33,883 No no, that'll only waste time. 326 00:51:35,092 --> 00:51:37,220 No, that's what I said to him. 327 00:51:37,929 --> 00:51:39,013 Oh, I get you. 328 00:51:53,945 --> 00:51:55,530 He gave me a beer. 329 00:52:02,662 --> 00:52:03,662 Thanks. 330 00:52:09,418 --> 00:52:10,795 You drank it like that? 331 00:52:12,213 --> 00:52:13,673 Yes. Naked. 332 00:52:15,591 --> 00:52:16,717 How bright was ♪It? 333 00:52:18,302 --> 00:52:19,637 The light in the room. 334 00:52:20,429 --> 00:52:21,429 This bright? 335 00:52:21,472 --> 00:52:22,765 Totally pitch black. 336 00:52:24,559 --> 00:52:27,436 That can't be. He wanted to be seen, right? 337 00:52:27,770 --> 00:52:28,813 Perfectionist. 338 00:52:29,063 --> 00:52:31,315 He's my doppelganger... Unforgivable! 339 00:52:31,732 --> 00:52:34,360 This experiment requires accuracy. 340 00:52:38,739 --> 00:52:40,908 He suddenly ate this cactus. 341 00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:45,913 Not a cactus. A euphorbia ingens, brought back from Kenya. 342 00:52:46,581 --> 00:52:48,749 If you want to be accurate, eat it. 343 00:52:56,799 --> 00:53:00,887 He made me adopt different poses, as if searching for treasure. 344 00:53:02,346 --> 00:53:04,432 Then he began to look odd... 345 00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:07,602 Was he high off the cactus? 346 00:53:08,603 --> 00:53:12,148 Euphorbia doesn't do that. It's only a purgative. 347 00:53:12,732 --> 00:53:16,193 That was the only discovery from his research. 348 00:53:16,569 --> 00:53:17,588 A "purgative"? 349 00:53:17,612 --> 00:53:18,612 A laxative. 350 00:53:21,490 --> 00:53:22,490 A laxative?! 351 00:53:22,867 --> 00:53:25,411 A laxative, as well as enemas? 352 00:53:26,162 --> 00:53:27,622 - Enemas? - Yes. 353 00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:30,499 Without tiring. So many enemas. 354 00:53:30,833 --> 00:53:33,419 He said, "See if it's bigger." 355 00:53:33,961 --> 00:53:36,589 I said, "About 80," and he got mad. 356 00:53:36,881 --> 00:53:40,593 "That can't be right. I know my body better than you." 357 00:53:41,928 --> 00:53:44,639 But, wait. Wasn't the room pitch black? 358 00:53:46,766 --> 00:53:48,726 He asked me to turn a light on. 359 00:53:49,268 --> 00:53:52,772 Hey hey. Hold on. Don't skimp on the details. 360 00:53:53,314 --> 00:53:54,482 How big was it? 361 00:53:55,358 --> 00:53:56,585 How big? 362 00:53:56,609 --> 00:53:57,610 What? 363 00:53:59,111 --> 00:54:00,196 I forgot. 364 00:54:01,197 --> 00:54:03,616 He was almost erect off my smell, 365 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,910 so he told me to come closer. 366 00:54:07,620 --> 00:54:09,330 - This close? - Closer. 367 00:54:10,957 --> 00:54:12,291 - This close? - Closer. 368 00:54:13,417 --> 00:54:15,127 - Closer. - This close? 369 00:54:16,587 --> 00:54:17,880 That close. 370 00:54:18,506 --> 00:54:19,506 Then what? 371 00:54:19,924 --> 00:54:24,303 "Get on all fours. Peeking at your behind is heavenly." 372 00:54:25,513 --> 00:54:26,847 Did you do it for him? 373 00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:30,226 The thought of him peeking at me 374 00:54:30,643 --> 00:54:33,479 drains me, and the blood from my rear, 375 00:54:34,021 --> 00:54:35,272 making me feel numb. 376 00:54:36,565 --> 00:54:37,942 Like turning to stone. 377 00:54:39,026 --> 00:54:40,236 And the enemas? 378 00:54:40,653 --> 00:54:44,073 "More, more," he said. Didn't make him bigger. 379 00:54:45,825 --> 00:54:48,035 This experiment requires accuracy. 380 00:54:49,161 --> 00:54:51,122 Of course, you'll reenact it? 381 00:54:52,665 --> 00:54:56,002 You need to know, right? Talking's not enough. 382 00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:01,007 Talking's not enough! 383 00:55:11,809 --> 00:55:13,019 Inserting it now. 384 00:55:20,776 --> 00:55:21,902 Don't tense up. 385 00:55:25,698 --> 00:55:26,907 40 more. 386 00:55:27,783 --> 00:55:28,868 20. 387 00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:30,745 Almost there. 388 00:55:32,496 --> 00:55:33,497 Stay still. 389 00:55:35,166 --> 00:55:36,375 There, all done. 390 00:55:38,085 --> 00:55:40,254 He trembled just like you. 391 00:55:45,551 --> 00:55:47,094 Sure you want to continue? 392 00:55:47,511 --> 00:55:49,430 How can I not continue? 393 00:55:49,722 --> 00:55:50,765 How can I?! 394 00:55:57,354 --> 00:56:02,359 It was hard to see, but he'd made another hole ♪In the box. 395 00:56:04,195 --> 00:56:07,031 He used it to sniff me like a dog. 396 00:56:08,324 --> 00:56:09,492 Like this?! 397 00:56:10,159 --> 00:56:13,496 Yes. It seems peeping wasn't enough for him. 398 00:56:16,832 --> 00:56:17,832 More. 399 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:20,960 More. 400 00:56:21,712 --> 00:56:22,797 Well done. 401 00:56:23,422 --> 00:56:24,673 Keep going. 402 00:56:26,509 --> 00:56:28,302 Yes, that's the way. 403 00:56:29,220 --> 00:56:30,220 More. 404 00:56:30,846 --> 00:56:32,014 Good. 405 00:56:32,473 --> 00:56:33,473 Keep going. 406 00:56:34,433 --> 00:56:35,433 That's it. 407 00:56:43,317 --> 00:56:44,317 That's it. 408 00:56:45,653 --> 00:56:46,737 More. 409 00:56:48,364 --> 00:56:49,365 More. 410 00:56:50,157 --> 00:56:51,157 That's it. 411 00:58:07,943 --> 00:58:08,943 Doctor? 412 00:58:21,957 --> 00:58:22,957 What's wrong? 413 00:58:24,335 --> 00:58:27,087 Inside that box, I became certain. 414 00:58:28,923 --> 00:58:32,509 The real key to it isn't peeping, it's the notes. 415 00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:36,972 Notes? 416 00:58:39,642 --> 00:58:40,976 The act of note-taking. 417 00:58:42,811 --> 00:58:45,648 That's what makes him the box man. 418 00:58:51,612 --> 00:58:55,282 I must act before he destroys the notes with the box! 419 00:58:55,908 --> 00:58:56,908 Oh not. 420 00:59:26,939 --> 00:59:30,734 I contemplate why she is in the doctor's thrall. 421 00:59:35,614 --> 00:59:37,866 Lewd acts are unbecoming of her. 422 00:59:40,327 --> 00:59:42,371 If the box is a mobile tunnel, 423 00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:46,292 she is the light at the end of it. 424 00:59:48,711 --> 00:59:50,379 Light that will make me 425 00:59:51,338 --> 00:59:52,673 shed the box? 426 00:59:59,847 --> 01:00:02,933 I don't want you to laugh or rage at me. 427 01:00:04,810 --> 01:00:06,312 What's important is 428 01:00:07,521 --> 01:00:09,982 that the one laughing and raging 429 01:00:11,150 --> 01:00:12,985 is you. 430 01:01:53,794 --> 01:01:56,630 Last Will and Testament. 431 01:02:08,350 --> 01:02:11,603 "I chose death of my own volition. 432 01:02:11,770 --> 01:02:16,024 "Even if some may believe that I was murdered". 433 01:03:05,824 --> 01:03:10,662 "That is entirely down to my own clumsiness The future.." 434 01:04:07,553 --> 01:04:09,596 So, who are you exactly? 435 01:04:11,807 --> 01:04:13,100 Now now. 436 01:04:13,767 --> 01:04:18,230 Asking the box man's identity is the world's most moronic question. 437 01:04:20,524 --> 01:04:21,692 Fair enough. 438 01:04:22,526 --> 01:04:25,904 Still, seeing a box is way different to wearing one. 439 01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:30,867 A town can only accommodate one box man. 440 01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:33,579 That's an unwritten code. 441 01:04:35,247 --> 01:04:37,165 Surely you know that already. 442 01:04:38,959 --> 01:04:42,337 Actually, yesterday, I spent the night in this box. 443 01:04:43,297 --> 01:04:48,093 It was a revelation. No wonder you want to be a box man. 444 01:04:49,219 --> 01:04:50,470 Can you pay the cost? 445 01:04:50,971 --> 01:04:52,139 Absolutely. 446 01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,686 Excuse me. Please refrain from smoking. 447 01:04:58,270 --> 01:04:59,688 It's bad for the skin. 448 01:05:00,939 --> 01:05:02,858 What? I'm not smoking. 449 01:05:06,528 --> 01:05:07,696 Neither am I. 450 01:05:09,698 --> 01:05:11,658 Yet I smell cigarette smoke. 451 01:05:32,763 --> 01:05:37,017 "Forget about that". 452 01:05:40,687 --> 01:05:43,607 Forget about that. So, what do you say? 453 01:05:44,232 --> 01:05:45,984 Will you choose me or him? 454 01:05:48,236 --> 01:05:51,823 Without you, Doctor, your patients would suffer. 455 01:05:54,826 --> 01:05:56,370 That's an evasive answer. 456 01:05:59,539 --> 01:06:00,957 Well anyway, listen. 457 01:06:01,833 --> 01:06:03,835 I'd like to offer a compromise. 458 01:06:06,963 --> 01:06:08,340 "What's important is 459 01:06:08,632 --> 01:06:12,469 "that the one laughing and raging is you."Yes... 460 01:06:15,847 --> 01:06:17,933 You seem rather smitten with her. 461 01:06:20,852 --> 01:06:23,980 Say. Why not get naked and show him? 462 01:06:25,607 --> 01:06:26,607 What? 463 01:06:27,359 --> 01:06:28,652 No skin off your nose. 464 01:06:40,706 --> 01:06:42,874 For example, how about, well... 465 01:06:43,417 --> 01:06:47,379 If you were to take off your box, I could give her to you. 466 01:06:50,757 --> 01:06:54,928 Use this place to your liking. I won't interfere at all. 467 01:06:55,595 --> 01:06:57,764 Oh, sorry! One more thing. Er... 468 01:06:58,390 --> 01:07:00,225 Allow me the freedom to peep. 469 01:07:00,934 --> 01:07:02,811 From inside this box, of course. 470 01:07:03,645 --> 01:07:05,522 As inconspicuous as a trash bin. 471 01:07:10,110 --> 01:07:11,110 Are you 472 01:07:12,279 --> 01:07:14,114 a slave to this pervert? 473 01:07:16,575 --> 01:07:18,034 Want to stop? I will. 474 01:07:20,746 --> 01:07:23,123 You're quite an indecisive fellow. 475 01:07:24,374 --> 01:07:27,419 If you want to take photos of me, you can. 476 01:07:28,128 --> 01:07:29,480 Hey, listen. 477 01:07:29,504 --> 01:07:33,383 More than photos, he'd rather be more direct. Right? 478 01:07:35,385 --> 01:07:38,889 Go on, drop the pretense. Act like I'm not here. 479 01:07:39,639 --> 01:07:41,183 Enjoy yourself with her. 480 01:07:42,809 --> 01:07:45,645 You know, she's not following my orders. 481 01:07:46,313 --> 01:07:50,901 She's pragmatic and clever. She instinctively chooses correctly. 482 01:07:52,486 --> 01:07:54,321 Hurting people isn't for me. 483 01:07:56,406 --> 01:08:00,076 That's not quite right. You can be supremely cruel. 484 01:08:00,702 --> 01:08:02,037 You never get attached. 485 01:08:06,291 --> 01:08:07,291 Wait a moment. 486 01:08:07,709 --> 01:08:08,709 Hey. 487 01:08:09,377 --> 01:08:13,048 She's stripping for you, so take a good look. 488 01:08:13,882 --> 01:08:15,050 Like a box man does! 489 01:08:17,511 --> 01:08:21,973 Listen, copulation and violence come from the same instinct. 490 01:08:22,682 --> 01:08:25,560 Territory drives living things to pounce. 491 01:08:26,269 --> 01:08:28,688 For humans, it's our arms' length. 492 01:08:29,189 --> 01:08:33,276 Come within that, and we throw hands, or copulate. 493 01:08:33,944 --> 01:08:36,738 Either way, skin's meeting skin intensely. 494 01:08:37,364 --> 01:08:40,408 In your case, she's only half a step away. 495 01:08:41,117 --> 01:08:43,912 Take half a step, and she's all yours. 496 01:09:00,428 --> 01:09:01,428 What? 497 01:09:01,596 --> 01:09:02,764 What what what?! 498 01:09:06,643 --> 01:09:07,727 That's your answer? 499 01:09:09,729 --> 01:09:10,856 This is a trap. 500 01:09:12,274 --> 01:09:13,567 Alas, I have evidence. 501 01:09:18,530 --> 01:09:22,534 You want the box man gone. You want to destroy me. 502 01:09:24,369 --> 01:09:26,788 Just as an aspiring box man would. 503 01:09:29,624 --> 01:09:30,624 I know because. 504 01:09:32,043 --> 01:09:33,837 I did the exact same thing. 505 01:09:36,423 --> 01:09:37,591 Give that to me! 506 01:09:38,258 --> 01:09:39,509 Sure, sure. 507 01:09:42,095 --> 01:09:43,555 The negatives are well... 508 01:09:45,140 --> 01:09:46,516 Well hidden away. 509 01:09:53,648 --> 01:09:55,025 You leave me no choice. 510 01:10:01,823 --> 01:10:03,366 Enough pointless babble. 511 01:10:04,743 --> 01:10:07,078 You should've followed your instincts. 512 01:10:08,705 --> 01:10:09,831 This town isn't 513 01:10:10,916 --> 01:10:12,876 big enough for two box men! 514 01:10:19,049 --> 01:10:20,049 Screw you! 515 01:10:25,347 --> 01:10:26,389 Yoko get down! 516 01:10:36,691 --> 01:10:37,691 H I uh? 517 01:10:38,151 --> 01:10:39,151 Shit! 518 01:10:43,323 --> 01:10:44,323 Owt. 519 01:10:50,372 --> 01:10:52,916 Yoko! Reload this for me! 520 01:10:57,337 --> 01:10:58,337 Doctor. 521 01:10:59,297 --> 01:11:00,340 This'll do. 522 01:11:05,804 --> 01:11:06,888 Come back! 523 01:11:07,806 --> 01:11:09,349 You sonovabitch. 524 01:11:20,735 --> 01:11:22,028 Screw you! 525 01:11:24,864 --> 01:11:25,864 Owt. 526 01:11:33,456 --> 01:11:37,585 You got some nerve! How could you do that to Yoko. 527 01:11:38,503 --> 01:11:39,503 Don't! 528 01:11:42,090 --> 01:11:43,090 Shitwad! 529 01:11:45,218 --> 01:11:46,218 That hurt. 530 01:11:53,601 --> 01:11:54,769 Get back here! 531 01:11:55,937 --> 01:11:57,355 Get back here! 532 01:12:05,905 --> 01:12:06,905 Doctor. 533 01:12:27,135 --> 01:12:28,178 Where'd he go?! 534 01:12:33,433 --> 01:12:34,642 You piece of shit. 535 01:12:39,189 --> 01:12:40,189 My eyes! 536 01:12:54,954 --> 01:12:56,122 Now you die. 537 01:12:56,414 --> 01:12:58,041 No! 538 01:13:11,221 --> 01:13:14,224 Right now, where are you and what are you doing?! 539 01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:19,604 As you can see. 540 01:13:22,816 --> 01:13:24,150 I'm fighting you. 541 01:13:26,528 --> 01:13:27,612 And I won. 542 01:13:30,406 --> 01:13:31,406 If so, 543 01:13:32,033 --> 01:13:33,827 who's writing these notes? 544 01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:38,164 This has all been written! Somebody must be writing it! 545 01:13:42,210 --> 01:13:43,210 That is. 546 01:13:44,587 --> 01:13:45,797 "Myself." 547 01:13:46,881 --> 01:13:47,881 Then right now, 548 01:13:48,508 --> 01:13:50,135 who's standing before me?! 549 01:13:53,930 --> 01:13:54,973 Aha. 550 01:13:56,182 --> 01:13:58,560 I've finally figured out who you are. 551 01:13:59,769 --> 01:14:02,647 You, this run-down hospital, 552 01:14:03,857 --> 01:14:05,400 and Yoko too, are all 553 01:14:05,942 --> 01:14:07,902 figments of a delusion by "Myself." 554 01:14:08,903 --> 01:14:12,907 That proves that "Myself" is the real box man. 555 01:14:14,450 --> 01:14:15,450 Maybe, 556 01:14:16,244 --> 01:14:18,621 that's what somebody else is writing. 557 01:14:19,706 --> 01:14:20,999 Such as me. 558 01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:24,960 This is 559 01:14:25,628 --> 01:14:27,338 a story about "Myself." 560 01:14:28,214 --> 01:14:29,214 Maybe, 561 01:14:29,757 --> 01:14:32,051 somebody's writing that on the fly too. 562 01:14:38,766 --> 01:14:42,353 The box man is "Myself!" "Myself"! "Myself"! 563 01:14:42,812 --> 01:14:44,248 "Myself"! "Myself"! 564 01:14:44,272 --> 01:14:45,607 Stop it! 565 01:15:25,521 --> 01:15:26,564 Who 566 01:15:27,732 --> 01:15:28,816 is this? 567 01:15:32,070 --> 01:15:33,404 Who is. 568 01:15:34,572 --> 01:15:35,698 "Myself"? 569 01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:05,687 I'm alright. 570 01:16:07,230 --> 01:16:11,067 Stop. Apart from you-know-who, I don't mind living here. 571 01:16:13,736 --> 01:16:15,405 Something's gotten into you. 572 01:16:17,031 --> 01:16:18,031 I can't stop. 573 01:16:18,408 --> 01:16:22,745 This surpasses a mystery novel plot. It's the perfect crime. 574 01:16:23,162 --> 01:16:26,040 Listen. The world will hear of an outlaw, 575 01:16:26,624 --> 01:16:30,646 a crazed anonymous box man, drowning by accident! 576 01:16:30,670 --> 01:16:32,797 You don't have to make it happen. 577 01:16:34,340 --> 01:16:37,218 If he wants to die, let him do it himself. 578 01:16:39,345 --> 01:16:43,516 He's aching for euthanasia. It's in his notes. 579 01:16:44,017 --> 01:16:48,646 But his notes carry more credence, so I need to rewrite them. 580 01:16:49,188 --> 01:16:52,900 Once I do, it'll be the perfect crime. Euthanasia. 581 01:16:55,778 --> 01:16:57,322 He has little time left. 582 01:16:58,448 --> 01:16:59,615 I can tell. 583 01:17:00,491 --> 01:17:01,909 He stinks of death. 584 01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:10,293 So please, don't risk your life recklessly. 585 01:17:10,877 --> 01:17:12,253 I'll be fine. 586 01:17:15,048 --> 01:17:17,925 I'm a better doctor than that real one. 587 01:17:18,343 --> 01:17:20,428 Why would I fake his drowning? 588 01:17:21,012 --> 01:17:23,765 Plus, I've accumulated evidence, for us. 589 01:17:24,390 --> 01:17:27,310 I'll add an alibi framing him as the box man. 590 01:17:29,937 --> 01:17:33,649 It'll work. Go watch a streaming movie or something. 591 01:17:36,694 --> 01:17:39,697 I need to write our police statements... 592 01:17:48,623 --> 01:17:49,749 Steady on... 593 01:18:16,609 --> 01:18:19,779 Everything I say is nothing but the truth. 594 01:18:21,114 --> 01:18:24,492 As for the corpse that washed up on the shore.. 595 01:18:40,883 --> 01:18:42,051 Found any evidence? 596 01:18:42,635 --> 01:18:43,719 Not yet. 597 01:18:44,929 --> 01:18:45,929 I'll take a look. 598 01:19:09,787 --> 01:19:14,542 There have been multiple sightings of a box-wearing vagrant in town. 599 01:19:15,501 --> 01:19:17,253 It seems he fell into the sea. 600 01:19:18,588 --> 01:19:20,548 Severe damage to his corpse. 601 01:19:20,882 --> 01:19:23,092 Sea water was found in his lungs. 602 01:19:24,093 --> 01:19:29,265 Apart from the cardboard box, he had a thick notebook and a watch. 603 01:19:30,224 --> 01:19:33,686 The autopsy estimates the time of death was 604 01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:35,980 30 hours earlier. 605 01:19:46,407 --> 01:19:48,701 The general had a suicidal streak. 606 01:19:49,660 --> 01:19:50,660 "General"? 607 01:19:51,162 --> 01:19:54,373 Oh, at our hospital, we called him that. 608 01:19:56,334 --> 01:20:01,464 He was SDF surgeon general, then took over his father's practice, 609 01:20:01,839 --> 01:20:04,300 providing medical support in war zones. 610 01:20:05,009 --> 01:20:07,970 I first met him near the Somali border, 611 01:20:08,221 --> 01:20:10,723 at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. 612 01:20:18,731 --> 01:20:19,732 I see. 613 01:20:21,526 --> 01:20:25,404 However, you've been practicing without a license. 614 01:20:26,072 --> 01:20:27,072 Oh, well... 615 01:20:28,324 --> 01:20:31,702 You're correct, I lack a doctor's license. 616 01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:36,249 With regard to that, I'll humbly await judgment. But, 617 01:20:36,958 --> 01:20:40,336 let me explain my relationship with the general. 618 01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:42,255 - Go ahead. - Alright. 619 01:20:43,798 --> 01:20:47,802 As a nurse, I aided the general with the best intentions. 620 01:20:48,886 --> 01:20:53,099 However, unfortunately, he contracted a rare disease. 621 01:20:54,475 --> 01:20:58,312 While providing medical support, he was researching 622 01:20:58,688 --> 01:21:03,025 the medicinal properties of an African succulent, 623 01:21:03,401 --> 01:21:06,571 using himself as a test subject, making him ill. 624 01:21:07,321 --> 01:21:11,677 But there was no treatment for the mysterious disease, 625 01:21:11,701 --> 01:21:14,370 which left only pain relief. Meaning, 626 01:21:14,745 --> 01:21:16,789 the use of medical narcotics. 627 01:21:18,249 --> 01:21:21,794 Indeed, traces of drugs were found in his blood. 628 01:21:22,587 --> 01:21:23,754 Right... 629 01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:31,596 From then on, our fate was sealed. 630 01:21:32,263 --> 01:21:37,476 I couldn't ignore the general's plight, so I returned to Japan with him. 631 01:21:38,311 --> 01:21:41,772 I began to work at his private hospital, 632 01:21:42,148 --> 01:21:45,359 but his condition only kept deteriorating. 633 01:21:45,651 --> 01:21:48,070 The narcotics made him act strangely... 634 01:21:49,614 --> 01:21:51,198 You kept supplying him? 635 01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:54,952 Well, you see, as a true friend, 636 01:21:55,453 --> 01:21:59,040 the idea of rehab made sense. Conversely, 637 01:21:59,332 --> 01:22:02,710 the drugs he used were hopelessly addictive. 638 01:22:03,336 --> 01:22:07,757 What I'm trying to say is, taking drugs from the general 639 01:22:08,633 --> 01:22:11,052 was tantamount to encouraging suicide. 640 01:22:12,553 --> 01:22:13,553 I see. 641 01:22:16,057 --> 01:22:18,851 No excuse for lacking a license though. 642 01:22:20,645 --> 01:22:21,771 I'm aware of that. 643 01:22:24,273 --> 01:22:25,399 This all began 644 01:22:26,484 --> 01:22:31,405 because the general secretly left war zone medical support to me. 645 01:22:31,906 --> 01:22:33,574 A rare disease, narcotics... 646 01:22:34,116 --> 01:22:37,495 The general was in no state to carry out his duties. 647 01:22:38,496 --> 01:22:42,541 Well, fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, 648 01:22:43,501 --> 01:22:46,629 my medical prowess eclipsed the general's. 649 01:22:49,548 --> 01:22:52,218 Anyway, that's why after I returned, 650 01:22:52,593 --> 01:22:57,139 to desperately protect his reputation, I kept up the ruse. 651 01:22:57,932 --> 01:23:00,976 Of course, I'm aware that's no excuse. Still, 652 01:23:01,852 --> 01:23:05,231 it was what I had to do to protect his livelihood. 653 01:23:07,358 --> 01:23:08,484 Understood. 654 01:23:09,193 --> 01:23:12,196 That being said, the general eventually died. 655 01:23:13,197 --> 01:23:14,907 Moreover, in a cardboard box. 656 01:23:16,784 --> 01:23:19,453 You didn't know he was wandering the town? 657 01:23:22,748 --> 01:23:23,749 Well, 658 01:23:24,125 --> 01:23:26,877 actually, as of late, the general 659 01:23:27,336 --> 01:23:29,171 and his addiction had worsened. 660 01:23:30,214 --> 01:23:32,925 So, in a private room in the hospital, 661 01:23:33,467 --> 01:23:38,472 he locked himself inside and cut himself off from us. 662 01:23:39,390 --> 01:23:40,516 On top of that, 663 01:23:41,100 --> 01:23:43,811 the staff and I were rather preoccupied, 664 01:23:44,687 --> 01:23:48,399 so we weren't able to keep tabs on him completely. 665 01:23:49,817 --> 01:23:51,902 There's something you're not saying. 666 01:23:52,778 --> 01:23:54,864 Hiding it will do you no good. 667 01:23:55,573 --> 01:23:56,573 No... 668 01:23:57,450 --> 01:24:01,495 No no, I just can't speak ill of someone who chose to die... 669 01:24:01,746 --> 01:24:02,746 Tell me. 670 01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:09,627 Well... 671 01:24:10,296 --> 01:24:14,675 To be frank, the general was blackmailing me. 672 01:24:16,844 --> 01:24:20,723 He repeatedly threatened suicide to get more drugs, 673 01:24:21,098 --> 01:24:23,267 and said he'd expose my deceit. 674 01:24:23,726 --> 01:24:25,644 Eventually, drugs weren't enough. 675 01:24:27,313 --> 01:24:29,857 He'd always been an eccentric, 676 01:24:30,649 --> 01:24:33,486 but he lost control of his perversions. 677 01:24:34,278 --> 01:24:35,821 This is quite embarrassing... 678 01:24:36,697 --> 01:24:41,535 He demanded my common-law wife, so he could watch her naked. 679 01:24:42,661 --> 01:24:45,039 He even made her administer enemas. 680 01:24:48,042 --> 01:24:52,379 I don't resent him. I was just deeply troubled by him. 681 01:24:52,963 --> 01:24:55,132 Him wandering around in a box? 682 01:24:55,716 --> 01:24:57,635 How could I have stopped him? 683 01:26:30,936 --> 01:26:33,898 I'm ready to fake your death by drowning. 684 01:26:34,523 --> 01:26:36,442 In accordance with your wishes. 685 01:26:39,570 --> 01:26:40,738 At last... 686 01:26:44,700 --> 01:26:46,285 What's with that getup? 687 01:26:48,245 --> 01:26:50,331 You doubt your executioner? 688 01:26:51,832 --> 01:26:54,084 The truth is, you're already dead. 689 01:26:55,044 --> 01:26:57,171 You didn't want an ordinary suicide. 690 01:26:58,631 --> 01:27:01,926 You don't care who takes you out of existence. 691 01:27:02,885 --> 01:27:05,054 Who better than the box man? 692 01:27:08,140 --> 01:27:09,183 No. 693 01:27:10,434 --> 01:27:12,519 I'll die as the box man. 694 01:27:13,604 --> 01:27:16,649 In this drama, that's where the ecstasy resides. 695 01:27:19,068 --> 01:27:22,071 Getting killed by the box man is more amusing. 696 01:27:25,950 --> 01:27:27,242 Where is Yoko? 697 01:27:28,661 --> 01:27:30,287 You still want a woman? 698 01:27:33,290 --> 01:27:36,919 She desires intercourse with me. 699 01:27:38,963 --> 01:27:41,840 I must satiate her in-suppressible curiosity. 700 01:27:42,883 --> 01:27:44,176 Begging for your life? 701 01:27:45,511 --> 01:27:47,596 Life and death are irrelevant. 702 01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:51,475 Only experiencing euphoria matters... 703 01:27:56,480 --> 01:27:59,358 Rest assured. I'll kill you perfectly. 704 01:27:59,984 --> 01:28:01,944 It's already written in my notes. 705 01:28:04,613 --> 01:28:07,825 You arrogantly presumed that I'm not capable. 706 01:28:10,577 --> 01:28:14,289 If I don't kill you, you'll expose me as a fake. 707 01:28:14,540 --> 01:28:16,083 You toyed with our lives. 708 01:28:17,042 --> 01:28:21,964 Using the box man to fake your suicide can't be a perfect crime? 709 01:28:23,382 --> 01:28:25,259 You always thought we were... 710 01:28:28,971 --> 01:28:30,222 Mood wrecker. 711 01:28:32,016 --> 01:28:33,600 Do it the way we agreed. 712 01:28:37,855 --> 01:28:39,857 I never needed evidence. 713 01:28:41,483 --> 01:28:45,446 Once I kill you, and become the box man, it's a perfect crime. 714 01:28:57,583 --> 01:28:59,543 In your own words, 715 01:29:00,294 --> 01:29:02,421 I'll become the real thing at last. 716 01:29:05,174 --> 01:29:09,428 There is only one real thing, and that is me. 717 01:29:23,275 --> 01:29:24,359 Bliss... 718 01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:16,160 Doctor. 719 01:30:19,456 --> 01:30:20,456 Doctor. 720 01:30:24,044 --> 01:30:25,212 I'm not a doctor. 721 01:30:25,879 --> 01:30:26,922 What are you then? 722 01:30:27,881 --> 01:30:30,384 The box man. The real thing. 723 01:30:33,345 --> 01:30:34,346 Why? 724 01:30:37,141 --> 01:30:38,308 You're free. 725 01:30:40,227 --> 01:30:41,353 And so am I. 726 01:33:38,947 --> 01:33:39,947 You... 727 01:33:41,616 --> 01:33:42,659 Who are you? 728 01:33:45,829 --> 01:33:47,914 Speculating on who is inside 729 01:33:48,540 --> 01:33:50,751 is most unbecoming of a box man. 730 01:33:54,171 --> 01:33:56,423 Turns out you were a fake box man. 731 01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:03,305 Want to be the real thing? 732 01:34:09,686 --> 01:34:12,356 Try finding the answer in here. 733 01:34:17,277 --> 01:34:19,154 I don't need it anymore. 734 01:34:22,282 --> 01:34:23,282 These are 735 01:34:24,910 --> 01:34:26,453 the notes I wrote. 736 01:34:26,995 --> 01:34:29,539 Maybe, somebody wrote that too. 737 01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,607 Closed today. 738 01:35:50,162 --> 01:35:51,246 What do you want? 739 01:35:54,499 --> 01:35:56,126 I have unfinished business. 740 01:36:22,235 --> 01:36:23,278 He wrote 741 01:36:25,363 --> 01:36:27,532 a more genuine version of myself, 742 01:36:29,576 --> 01:36:31,286 and became a real box man. 743 01:36:37,334 --> 01:36:39,961 So he's not coming back. The doctor. 744 01:36:43,131 --> 01:36:44,131 Can't I 745 01:36:47,427 --> 01:36:49,095 become the real thing? 746 01:36:52,807 --> 01:36:54,434 That box is filthy. 747 01:36:55,268 --> 01:36:56,436 Why not take it off? 748 01:37:07,364 --> 01:37:09,032 Aren't you tired of it yet? 749 01:37:12,035 --> 01:37:13,035 Could you 750 01:37:15,413 --> 01:37:16,957 lend me something to wear? 751 01:37:18,625 --> 01:37:19,751 I'm naked. 752 01:37:29,761 --> 01:37:31,513 So, you do feel shame? 753 01:37:53,785 --> 01:37:57,539 Experience how it feels... to be watched. 754 01:38:20,478 --> 01:38:21,478 There. 755 01:38:25,233 --> 01:38:26,233 How's this? 756 01:38:40,790 --> 01:38:41,790 Come out. 757 01:38:59,309 --> 01:39:00,352 She is, 758 01:39:01,561 --> 01:39:02,561 indeed, 759 01:39:04,522 --> 01:39:06,107 the exit of this tunnel. 760 01:40:00,745 --> 01:40:03,707 Your unfinished business. What is it? 761 01:41:05,852 --> 01:41:08,062 An exit... Never mind a conclusion! 762 01:41:09,481 --> 01:41:10,732 What conclusion? 763 01:41:14,068 --> 01:41:15,068 That's it! 764 01:41:17,030 --> 01:41:18,364 Why not take the world, 765 01:41:19,449 --> 01:41:21,701 and shut it all away in a box? 766 01:41:48,144 --> 01:41:49,604 We'll begin from the end. 767 01:41:53,483 --> 01:41:54,483 I can feel 768 01:41:55,652 --> 01:41:56,736 a warm breeze. 769 01:41:59,155 --> 01:42:00,448 It is summer, you know. 770 01:42:23,179 --> 01:42:25,807 "What I.." 771 01:42:30,103 --> 01:42:32,856 We'll begin from the end. This warm breeze... 772 01:42:34,816 --> 01:42:36,860 Did that box turn you into a poet? 773 01:42:38,820 --> 01:42:41,739 "What I believe I am seeing 774 01:42:41,906 --> 01:42:45,827 is a world yet to begin, an illusory time". 775 01:43:16,983 --> 01:43:18,610 You want to hole up here? 776 01:43:45,136 --> 01:43:46,262 It's so quiet. 777 01:43:48,806 --> 01:43:49,806 It feels lovely. 778 01:43:54,687 --> 01:43:55,813 In here, there are 779 01:44:01,027 --> 01:44:02,445 no watchers or watched. 780 01:44:04,822 --> 01:44:07,408 Will our differences also cease to exist? 781 01:44:42,694 --> 01:44:43,694 Time stops... 782 01:44:46,280 --> 01:44:47,699 And forever comes? 783 01:44:53,746 --> 01:44:55,123 The scent of your hair. 784 01:44:58,710 --> 01:45:01,421 Your behind, big and round. 785 01:45:20,857 --> 01:45:24,110 What's. Next for us? 786 01:45:26,154 --> 01:45:27,363 I don't know. 787 01:45:51,012 --> 01:45:54,182 A chrysalis, hardened into a hideaway shell. 788 01:45:56,893 --> 01:45:58,644 But inside that shell, 789 01:46:01,522 --> 01:46:02,982 everything melts, 790 01:46:05,943 --> 01:46:07,779 becomes one, 791 01:46:09,989 --> 01:46:12,325 and is reborn in a different form. 792 01:46:15,369 --> 01:46:17,538 A butterfly that will take flight? 793 01:50:23,117 --> 01:50:24,744 I am not mistaken. 794 01:50:26,579 --> 01:50:29,999 I may have failed, but I have no regrets. 795 01:50:33,210 --> 01:50:35,171 The sound of her closing the door 796 01:50:36,213 --> 01:50:40,217 conveyed heartfelt pity and compassion. 797 01:51:02,490 --> 01:51:06,827 It was not... the sound of her exit. 798 01:51:11,290 --> 01:51:12,416 She did not 799 01:51:13,209 --> 01:51:15,461 escape to the outside world. 800 01:51:16,962 --> 01:51:19,965 She ventured into a world deeper within. 801 01:51:35,147 --> 01:51:36,357 In this box, 802 01:51:37,566 --> 01:51:39,235 the more you struggle, 803 01:51:40,069 --> 01:51:42,488 the more labyrinths you create. 804 01:51:43,781 --> 01:51:46,575 This world is an exit-less black hole. 805 01:51:50,830 --> 01:51:51,830 She is 806 01:51:52,873 --> 01:51:54,917 simply lost somewhere within. 807 01:52:43,924 --> 01:52:47,178 I could not become the real thing, 808 01:52:50,181 --> 01:52:54,852 so within this labyrinth, I shall seek an exit, 809 01:53:11,076 --> 01:53:14,455 continuing to struggle for all time. 810 01:56:02,623 --> 01:56:04,917 The one who watches this world, 811 01:56:07,461 --> 01:56:09,630 fantasizes this world, 812 01:56:12,216 --> 01:56:14,134 creates this world, 813 01:56:16,261 --> 01:56:18,180 and rules this world is. 814 01:56:28,941 --> 01:56:30,776 Within this fantasy, 815 01:56:31,527 --> 01:56:33,404 we are all fake. 816 01:56:35,114 --> 01:56:37,908 Merely figments of imagination. 817 01:56:40,703 --> 01:56:41,870 And so, 818 01:56:42,871 --> 01:56:44,456 the real box man 819 01:56:45,374 --> 01:56:47,960 keeps watching unilaterally, 820 01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:52,131 wavering between joy and sorrow. 821 01:56:57,511 --> 01:56:58,512 Indeed. 822 01:57:00,013 --> 01:57:01,432 The box man is, 823 01:57:03,267 --> 01:57:04,518 namely. 824 01:57:09,440 --> 01:57:10,774 .Yourself. 825 01:57:18,741 --> 01:57:22,327 Myself: Masatoshi Nagase. 826 01:57:23,620 --> 01:57:27,207 Fake doctor: Tadanobu Asano. 827 01:57:28,542 --> 01:57:32,129 Yoko: Ayana Shiramoto. 828 01:57:33,672 --> 01:57:36,633 Badge-wearing beggar: Kiyohiko Shibukawa. 829 01:57:37,009 --> 01:57:39,970 Detective: Yuko Nakamura. 830 01:57:49,980 --> 01:57:53,525 General: Koichi Sato. 831 01:57:54,818 --> 01:57:57,780 Producers: Keisuke Konishi &Tomohiko Seki. 832 01:57:57,946 --> 01:58:00,908 Based on the novel by Kobo Abe. 833 01:58:01,074 --> 01:58:04,036 Screenplay by Kiyotaka Inagaki & Gakuryu Ishii. 834 01:58:04,203 --> 01:58:07,164 Director of Photography: Hideho Urata. 835 01:58:07,331 --> 01:58:10,292 Lighting Director: Yoshio Tsunetani. 836 01:58:10,459 --> 01:58:13,420 Production Designer: Yuji Hayashida. 837 01:58:13,587 --> 01:58:16,548 Sound Mixer: Masashi Furuya. 838 01:58:16,715 --> 01:58:19,676 Costume Designer: Yoshie Ogasawara. 839 01:58:19,843 --> 01:58:22,805 Character Supervisor: Shinji Hashimoto. 840 01:58:22,971 --> 01:58:25,933 Editor: Banri Nagase 841 01:58:26,099 --> 01:58:29,061 VFX Producers: Hiromasa Inoue & Ayumi Yamada. 842 01:58:29,228 --> 01:58:32,147 Music: Michiaki Katsumoto. 843 01:58:32,356 --> 01:58:35,275 Sound Effects Editor: Masatoshi Katsumata. 844 01:59:41,091 --> 01:59:44,052 Photos in opening sequence: Kobo Abe. 845 02:00:10,662 --> 02:00:13,624 A cogitoworks production. 846 02:00:14,666 --> 02:00:17,628 Happinet Phantom Studios presents. 847 02:00:18,670 --> 02:00:21,798 In association with cogitoworks & THEYOMIURI SHIMBUN. 848 02:00:25,052 --> 02:00:29,014 Directed by Gakuryu Ishii. 849 02:00:35,395 --> 02:00:38,732 English subtitles by Don Brown