AISubs v3.6
I love you.
Since the day I met you,
I've been thinking only about you.
Someday, I'll be a suitable person for you,
and pour all of my love into you.
That's my dream.
No, "dream" might be too weak of a word.
The words you love are my purpose in life.
You are...
a movie.
Yes, you are my movie, my everything.
Phew, I'm tired.
Ah, economy class is tough.
Ouch!
My back hurts...
You've gotten older, onee-chan.
Whoa! Shiori!
You scared me! When did you get here?
Didn't onee-chan tell you to pick me up until Narita?
Oh, did she?
You know...
Just in time! Here, take my luggage!
It's heavy! What's this?
It's got movie equipment and stuff in it. Don't bump it!
If it's that important of a thing, you can take it yourself!
It took me about half a day's flight from New York to get here.
I don't know... I don't have enough strength...
You said you wanted to do it yourself!
Three years ago, your mother stopped you from doing it!
I'm studying to be a movie director!
All of a sudden...
There are things you can't study in Japan!
I've explained it many times!
It's not like that! It's too sudden!
No one can stop love!
Love?
I fell in love with a movie!
How should I put it...
Was it a fallout between me and the movie?
So you divorced?
What?
You gave up on the movie and came back, didn't you?
You fell in love with the movie and came back, didn't you?
Don't say it like that!
Forget it! Let's go!
Hey, Shiori! Take my luggage!
Shiori! I have somewhere to go!
Where are you going without even going home?
Shibuya!
Shibuya?
I'm waiting for you, my love!
It's been three years since I left for Shibuya.
In front of the station...
But...
On the opposite side of Hachikōkuchi that everyone thinks of...
Towards the bus terminal...
There was a place where I stood out.
Yes...
It is...
Shibuya's largest movie theater...
But...
Huh? No way... The pantheon is gone...
Three years ago, there was certainly a rightful building there.
Now it's just a pile of rubble, spreading out in front of me.
Um... A huge screen that could be said to be an era delay...
A chair that could never be said to be comfortable to sit on...
A floor that has become sticky from the juice spilled by customers...
Everything... Everything is just a piece of concrete.
Um... Hey you!
Ah... Yes!
You can't come in here! It's written there! It's dangerous!
When?
Huh?
When was this place destroyed?
It became news last year, didn't it? Come on, say it!
Ah... Um... Just one more thing!
What?!
What was the last movie shown here?
Huh? Ah... I think it was that...
Look... I saw it in the newspaper...
That... Look...
What is it?
That's right! "New Cinema Paradise"!
What?!
At that moment, I could clearly feel something breaking down inside of me.
"New Cinema Paradise".
It was the first movie I saw in a movie theater when I was a child.
The movie and my love for my hometown changed my childhood life.
"One day, I'll make a movie like this too".
"And then, I'll perform here on a big screen like a pantheon and tell people something".
With only those thoughts in my heart, I graduated high school and immediately flew to America.
However, life there was so different from what I had imagined.
I came back home with my tail curled up.
It may have been reckless.
But, I know very well that those thoughts were one and the same.
But...
One and the same thoughts are beautiful when they are broken for the first time.
People call it "a dream".
"New Cinema Paradise".
Shibuya Pantheon
Shibuya Pantheon, where I learned to be a movie director and went back home for the first time in three years, was no longer there.
My love for movies didn't go anywhere.
That day, I realized that the dream I had certainly imagined was just a dream after all.
Just like a movie film that is shown on a screen for the first time through light, I am just a piece of art that does not move without the light of a dream.
Late that night, I set foot on the site of the Pantheon again.
The sound of a loud construction in the afternoon was completely dark, and it was like a graveyard where the memories of the movie are sleeping, and it was quietly a ruins of a corner of Shibuya.
Passing through the walls and sneaking into the construction site, I was just walking there aimlessly.
Countless fragments lying under my feet are all pieces of the Pantheon floor, pieces of walls, and above all, pieces of my dream.
When I stopped, I stopped at one fragment under my feet. Like pulling a thread through a fragment of a dream, when I reached for it...
This is... a floor.
Yes, that sticky feeling was definitely the floor that spilled that juice.
The feelings of people who love movies that have been around for decades spilled out.
I just wanted to pick up a fragment of that floor, so I picked it up.
What is... this?
Under that fragment of Pantheon's floor was a small, brown, plastic object.
A film!
It was a fragment of a movie film.
Was it a movie that was screened here?
I looked at the film under the moonlight.
Ah!
Is this... a girl?
What was shown in that fragment of the film was...
a girl's smile that I had never seen before...
dim eyes...
impressive blades...
and most of all...
it was burned into the film.
Yes...
I was drawn to the girl's sense of happiness, which can only be described as air.
That was what I needed most right now.
I'm home!
Ah, you're finally home!
What do you mean "finally"?
I've been waiting for you, Mom!
I made you sukiyaki.
I went out to buy some.
I see.
Is that all?
That's all.
What's that?
I'm tired, so I'm going to sleep tonight.
Where?
In my room.
You don't have a room anymore!
It's my room now.
It's fine!
You have enough space for a bed, right?
No! It's my room!
Come on...
Hey...
By the way, how long are you going to stay in this house?
"How long"?
Don't say things you shouldn't say.
I'm saying it because you shouldn't say it.
What?!
You chased your dream and left the house, didn't you?
You left us and went out, didn't you?
Why did you come back?
You don't know.
You're the one who doesn't know!
Mom, do you know how lonely you were three years ago?
But you said you wanted to chase your dream,
so you didn't say anything and sent me to America, didn't you?!
I think I caused you trouble.
I do, but...
What?!
"Trouble"?
What's that?
"Trouble"?
You don't know anything about it!
I don't know?
You don't know anything about me or about me or about you!
About me?
Mom, I've never said what you're doing is troublesome!
If you think it's troublesome,
don't ever say "dream" or "love" again!
Shiori...
That's enough.
I'm going to sleep in your room.
Shiori, please!
Good night.
Oh, come on!
What am I supposed to do?!
At that moment...
From my pocket...
A fragment of the film I picked up at Pantheon...
Fluttered down my throat.
The girl's smile reflected in it was so dazzling that I couldn't look her in the eye.
I just put my face against the table and wet the tablecloth with falling tears.
A film called "First Life" is illuminated by the light of dream and draws a beautiful shape on the screen.
For me who lost the dream of becoming a movie director, my life from now on is just a piece of plastic.
Like a piece of film of this movie, which I picked up at the site of Pantheon,
The moon is beautiful.
I saw the smile of the girl reflected in the film through the moonlight again.
That girl's smile, which I didn't know her name, was too suitable for my current situation, and I didn't ask anyone about it, but just muttered vaguely.
Is this a souvenir for me, who are separated from the film, and a souvenir from God?
That's what I muttered, and I went to bed.
Leaving the film reflected by the girl by my pillow.
Hey, wake up.
Hmm?
Wake up. Hey.
Hmm?
What?
What time is it now?
It's time. Time.
Time?
By the way, who are you?
Huh?
I forgot. The worst.
Huh?
Ah.
That girl in the movie!
I don't know her name.
Ah. Huh? I see. This is a dream. I see, I see. It's a dream. Right?
Yeah, it's a dream.
Amazing. A real dream.
Dreams are always real.
Is that so?
So, what?
I came to say goodbye.
Goodbye?
Even though we just met?
That's not it. We've met a long time ago.
A long time ago?
Ever since you saw that movie.
New Cinema Paradise?
That's right.
Huh? You were in that movie theater?
You were staring at me all the time.
All the time?
For two hours.
Two hours... I mean, I was watching the movie.
So you were watching it all the time?
Huh? You... How should I put it?
So you're a movie itself?
It's hard to explain. Well, it's a dream.
Ah, I see. It's a dream.
I see, I see. I've turned a movie into a person and given it to her.
I don't know what's so hard about it.
Ah, goodbye?
Yeah, goodbye.
Ah, that's right. After all, I wasn't in a movie.
Yeah, I guess it can't be helped.
Goodbye, huh?
Give up being a movie director.
Haha, you're telling yourself that you can't do it in a dream, huh?
What am I?
Haha.
Is it weird?
It's weird.
Because I turned everything into a movie.
Even in my dream, it's like this.
Why is that?
Because I like movies.
You like them?
I like them.
Then you're weak.
"I love you." "I love you, but will you say goodbye?" "Because any love can't be one-way traffic, right?"
No matter how much I love the movie, the movie has to love me.
"It's not one-sided love. I chased it all the way to America, but in the end it didn't work." "I don't understand." "What?" "Am I here?"
When I said that, she showed me a full smile burned into that film.
"I'm here. I'll always be here." "Here? In Japan?" "Yes, in your dream." "In my dream?" "In my head?" "No, in my dream's heart."
"In your heart?" "Yes. The reason you and I have to say goodbye is because you're about to leave your heart behind."
"Ah... I..." "Then, goodbye." "Ah, wait! Hey, wait! Hey, you!" "Goodbye..." "Wait, you! What's your name? Hey!"
When I woke up, I was shedding tears.
But I think those tears were different from the ones I shed last night.
They were very hot, and I felt that it was probably because the tears were spilling out of my heart.
Good morning.
Good morning!
What is it? I'm saying good morning.
Where's Mom?
She's sleeping. Late at night.
Oh, that's right.
The breakfast Mom made is ready.
Wow! Miso soup!
Here you go.
Wow! This is it! Seaweed and onions! This is what I wanted to eat!
Hmm... It hasn't changed. Mom's taste.
It's like she's really come back!
What's wrong, Shiori?
I'm the one who made this!
What?! Really?!
I'm the only one who made the miso soup!
Really?!
Wow, Shiori! You're amazing! You've surpassed me!
Surpassed you?
You've surpassed me. In the past three years.
Onee-chan! You can't cook at all!
I see!
That's weird.
That's right! That's why I didn't get married and became a movie director!
And? And you came back?
I'm leaving.
Huh?
I'm looking for a room. I'll be out soon.
Are you going somewhere again?
Hmm... this time it's around Sancha.
Sancha? Not overseas?
Yeah. Sancha has a famous umbrella and Shibuya is close too. It looks like a lot of fun.
What are you going to do in Sancha?
What I'm going to do? It's decided. I'm going to live.
Live?
I'm not going to live my dream, I'm going to live reality.
Sancha has a cafe that seniors from high school go to.
They say it's a meeting place for movie lovers.
I'm going to study by myself and make a work of my own.
I'm going to catch and sell anyone there.
You're determined.
It's not a beautiful way to do it, but it's okay.
It's not a beautifully broken dream.
I'm going to choose a reality that exists even if it's disgraceful.
Because I...
Good luck.
Huh?
I said good luck.
Yeah.
I went to Shibuya with those feet.
Not to reminisce about the past, but to take a new step towards a future reality.
For the work I'm going to make next, I'm going to scout the cast.
Now then...
Anyway, I haven't written my script yet.
What's wrong with me?
Um...
Ah, yes?
Your backpack...
Did you leave it open?
Ah...
I don't like it.
Thank you.
Anyway...
Huh?
Wait a minute!
You...
Yes?
You...
Yes?
You were here.
Yes?
Yes.
That girl...
She's exactly like the girl in that movie I picked up at the Pantheon site.
Last night, in my dream, she came to say goodbye to me.
Me? Have we met before?
We have! At the movie theater!
Movie? I don't really watch it.
Oh, no, I mean, look! It's in this film.
Film? There's nothing in it.
What? You're kidding, right?
Look, if you hold it up against the light...
There's nothing in it.
Oh, I see! That's it!
That's weird.
Oh, hey, don't you... don't you watch movies?
Movies?
Yeah, would you like to watch a movie I picked up?
Oh, no, it's not a suspicious movie.
I mean, I'm a little suspicious, but...
It's not like... it's not like that.
It's a proper movie.
Or rather, a movie you intend to do properly?
That sounds kind of funny.
Right? Movies are...
No, you sound like you'd be interesting.
Me?
Yeah, I haven't really seen a lot of movies, but...
If it's you, I'd like it.
I see! Thank you!
Oh, right! Hey, where are you contacting me?
I'm here.
Am I... here?
Huh?
I'm always here! Nearby!
Look, I work at a convenience store behind Pantheon's mansion!
Oh! I see!
I see!
I understand everything now.
The pieces of film I picked up at Pantheon's mansion...
I'm sure...
They're all parts of a movie I'll make in the future.
Yes...
Everything from now on...
Will be made by me.
Movies...
My reality...
Will be made by me.