Restored to life? Who?
Me?
You fell from the roof of the company, right?
I'm not the kind of person who would commit suicide and leave you and Riku behind!
Maybe Saeki killed me.
He was fixated on the idea that having a family and working hard for it would make him happy.
That was a tremendous burden.
Tetsuo...
Why did you die?
Let's go, I borrowed the key.
Yes.
It will be fine.
And? Do you remember anything?
I'm home.
Welcome home.
- This is for you. - Hmm?
Office of the Resurrected Association
The "Resurrected Association"?
"We have formed
the Resurrected Association for those of you who have come back to life in various parts of the country.
The purpose of this association is to work with legal professionals to resolve issues that may hinder
future life, such as family registration, employment, and social security..."
Resurrected Association members
Fill in the Blanks
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Excuse me.
- You are a resurrected, right? - Yes.
I am Kinoshita.
May I ask your name?
Ah... I'm Tsuchiya, Tsuchiya Tetsuo.
- Tsuchiya? - Yes.
The girl I liked in middle school had the same surname.
- I see... - How did you die?
What? Well...
Oh, if it's hard to answer, that's fine.
I drowned, in the ocean.
- Do you know what a rip current is? - No...
There are places on the beach where the tide recedes toward the sea with a tremendous strength.
I was paddling on a beach in Ishigaki Island,
and in the blink of an eye, I was swept by the sea and died.
I never thought I would be a drowning victim,
so looking back on it now, I'm like, "huh?"
You... you remember your death, right?
Yes, you don't?
- No... - It's better if you don't remember.
I get into a panic when I see the ocean on TV.
Doesn't look like it, right? I'm naive, even with this.
Ah, mine was an accident.
I fell from a high place in the company's factory.
Everyone has their own way of dying.
Oh, I can see it now.
Protect the rights of the living~!
Resurrected, don't come back!
Protect the rights of the living~!
We won't allow the privileges to the resurrected!
Do we have privileges?
It's because we don't pay taxes, since we don't have income from the previous year.
Don't come back to life any more!
Even if they ask that...
I was running a website called "kokyuukai.com" as part of an IT venture.
- Have you seen it before? - I don't think I have.
It is a site where people who want to go to a joint party can post when and where they are going,
and people who want to go can join the party.
You see, it is very difficult to gather people when you are the organizer of a gathering, isn't it?
So I thought it would be nice if we could do it online.
I see, you makes sites and so.
Exactly. I don't look like it, right?
- Mr. Tsuchiya. - Yes.
- Mr. Kinoshita. - Yes.
- That way, please. - Thank you.
The media is here.
I wonder if we'll be on TV.
Oh, a celebrity came too.
I was waiting at a traffic light with my club members, and a car ran into us....
Ah, I've seen that girl on TV.
- Oh, over there too. - Who is that?
He is the man who jumped into the fire
to save an old lady when her traditional house in Kyoto caught fire.
When he came back to life, he was on the news quite a bit.
As a Japanese, I thank Mr. Radek!
You gave me courage! Please shake my hand!
Huh? Do you know each other?
- Ah, we made eye contact, and I panicked. - I see.
I am Furugasaki, former Minister of Finance.
Congratulations on the establishment of the Resurrected Association.
I am now very moved.
Because I clearly understand the reason for your resurrection.
Take a look around this venue.
Exactly, there isn't a single elderly person.
The country's biggest problem is its aging population.
The working population is shrinking at a frightening rate.
I hope you will all return to society and work hard again.
That is the meaning of your resurrection!
There is nothing dreamy or hopeful about coming back to life to work.
That's true...
Ota Shiro, representative of the Resurrected Association will now deliver his greetings.
Hello.
I am truly happy to be able to meet so many friends here today.
We are the ones who know firsthand what it means to live.
We know more than anyone else the preciousness of life and the wonder of living.
And yet we are being discriminated in a very unfair way.
Let's fight unjustified discrimination!
Let's make this society a place worth living in again!
Hmm?
This is my company's...
The day I died?
That's me that day...
Only 6 minutes left.
In 6 more minutes I...
Yes, I was definitely standing there.
4 minutes left...
3 more minutes...
Stop...
No! Stop!
That black shadow...
No one is coming.
I was not killed by anyone.
I... I killed myself.
Next person, please.
I am Sato, and I resurrected.
Did one of these people put that DVD there...?
Who... who was it?
In the end, she started to say
"are you really my husband? Or an impostor pretending to be my husband?"
You are late. Were you sleeping?
No, I just...
Fortunately, I was able to work at the construction company where I used to work.
I heard it's not easy for the resurrected in Japan to find a job.
Truly, life is precious.
This is the only thing I can think of now that I am back.
The next person, please start by introducing yourself.
It's her turn now.
I am Nomoto Koishi.
In my last day before my resurrection, I was at school until about 6:00 for club activities.
While waiting at a traffic light, a car suddenly run into me
and a rainbow-colored light spread out before my eyes....
Then all of a sudden everything went dark...
From somewhere, a silver bird feather fell.
The bird's feathers suddenly stood up and drew a circle around my feet.
I looked down and saw myself lying in a hospital bed
and my father and mother crying.
You could see that I was still wearing the yellow apron, right?
- I did. - That girl...
I wonder if it was like that before....
She said something like that on TV too.
And then, from somewhere...
I heard "You can't go yet. Go back to the world."
Was it a man's voice? Or a woman's voice?
Err...
It was a man's voice, right?
Yes, it was a man.
In that year it took you to come back to life,
were you always in that dazzling place you mentioned earlier?
The time... I couldn't say.
Maybe there is no time in heaven, I think.
It's not "I think", it's a fact there isn't.
What this girl saw...
What this child saw was not heaven, it was much before that.
If we were talking about mountains, we would talk about the second or third station.
If you really go to heaven, there is no way you can return.
Um... unlike this girl, what I saw was a large meadow-like area
surrounded by strange shades of blue mountains...
It is natural that the world immediately after death is different.
We all take different paths on the way to heaven.
How can you see that? Have you seen it?
Everyone sees it. There are studies on this.
Studies? What's that?
I didn't see any afterlife.
That's because you fell somewhere that isn't heaven.
Wait, excuse me. Let's stop for now.
Huh?! Are you implying I went to hell?
You go to hell yourself! With that occult crap!
Are you really a resurrected? You've never died, have you?
And you, stop making fun of adults!
What's that silver bird? Liar!
What are you doing? Talking to somebody's kid like that!
- Let's calm down for once.... - What the hell did she do, huh!
- Let's calm down! - Apologize!!
- Apologize! - Calm down! - Don't touch me...
Please, wait a moment.
Isn't it too cruel to tell somebody they fell to hell?
There are things you can say and things you can't say.
What proof do you have to say such a thing?
How can you say that as if it was a fact when everyone is feeling anxious!
I was dead for 3 years,
I don't remember a single thing from when I was dead,
I didn't even get to meet my late father!
The ones that forget are mostly the ones that have a problem with the way they died.
How did you die?
That... that's not related.
So that's how it is, after all.
It was an accident! In the roof of the company...
- Everybody, we're sorry. - Let's take a short break.
It will be around 15 minutes. We'll re-start in around 15 minutes.
You are surprisingly outspoken.
No...
That lady from before was pretty. Should I talk to her?
Excuse me, excuse me...
What is it with these people here?
Why are you here?
How can they be so happy to be back to life?
Don't tell me even you are happy.
It is hell to continue living in such a world.
I would die as many times as it takes.
It was you who gave me that DVD?
Yes.
You and that noisy factory worker
have been saying that I killed you, it seems.
I laughed, as expected.
I was just reassessing you.
Isn't it great? Through your own will.
I have watched the DVD I gave you many times.
Right before dying, you were quite unconcerned, huh? Scratching your nose and all.
Stop...
And yet, you treat me as the culprit...
Isn't that cruel?
You didn't remember your own death?
- Yeah... - Then, with this you know
the cause of your death.
It's all thanks to me. Be thankful.
- Why did you tell Chika that? - What thing?
You told her I died because my family was a burden.
Ah, yes.
Why did you tell her that...?
Didn't you say so?
Of course not!
You said you are happy to work for your family.
And how does that make them a burden?!
- Your father die early in life? - What about it.
So you were trying to create the family that you could not experience?
How ridiculous.
You!
It's okay. Please, do it.
You can hit me. You can kill me.
You're tired again, aren't you?
You don't know what you are living for again, right?
Wh... what are you saying?
Haven't you been on me since the moment
you warned me about killing the pigeons?
- That's you! - I went there to comfort your wife.
She looked really gloomy because of your suicide.
Society is cruel.
What would you think if your wife was
at the souvenirs stall smiling normally?
That woman is living happily every day even though her husband committed suicide.
Must be so refreshed after her husband's death.
Apparently, the couple had not always been on good terms.
Maybe she killed him!
I heard she got a lot in insurance money....
That woman is the worst. Her child will not grow up to be a good man.
They will say endless things like that.
That's...
You really heard that?
That's what society is about.
Don't the bereaved families of the suicides have the right to smile?
You were so fed up with this world that
you killed yourself leaving your wife and son behind, right?
I think that's your choice, too.
But the world will never allow a wounded person's heart to be completely healed.
Convinced that you should suffer for the rest of your life
as it oozes, festering forever.
It's an insidious assumption to the point of resignation.
Tetsuo...
Why did you die?
It's one thing to act cheerful,
but to really live cheerfully is out of the question.
What a heartless woman.
Doesn't she think she's responsible for it?
After all, human beings desperately need someone who is unhappier than they are.
Otherwise, they would go crazy with anxiety.
That's why they can be thoroughly ferocious.
It's terrifying. It makes you shiver, right?
So I understood it very well.
How much pain your wife is in.
You trampled on that suffering person.
I just told her that following such worldly values
with stupid honesty would only make her more and more unhappy.
Society wanted to make her as unhappy as possible,
but she was strangely obsessed with remaining in that unhappy cage.
I wonder why.
Your wife is the same kind of person as me, for sure.
I felt like I could be more truly at ease with your wife.
- She's nothing like you! - No, we're the same.
- Wrong! - What about asking your wife directly?
She told me all about you.
You are despised.
I know that much.
I'm an unlovable person.
Even if the other person is the same kind as me.
Do you know what kind of world that is?
How would I know? You are full of lies.
You don't know, right?
The loneliness of not being loved.
Everybody will know tomorrow.
I'm only late because I had to put Riku to bed...
That has nothing to do...
But he said it wasn't my fault...
I know. It's my fault.
It is my fault that my husband committed suicide and that our life is so difficult now.
For now, let's start with the first two as a first step...
- Like a trial. Please, join. - Wait a minute, there are only 3 of us...
- But isn't it a great idea? - It is.
- Tetsuo! - Yeah.
- We just finished. - How was it?
Hmm, it was great.
Some people talk about the afterlife.
That sounds awesome.
Yeah...
A woman got angry, it was exciting.
Is that exciting?
They were talking about the opening ceremony on the evening news.
It was on the news already?
I should have recorded it.
- They may show it tomorrow morning too. - Maybe, yeah.
Riku and I were watching the show, and when I said, "Dad is going there,"
he got caught up in the TV and was looking for you. Desperately.
We are both waiting for you to come back home.
Yeah...
Thanks...
What's wrong? Are you okay?
Yeah... yeah, I'm perfectly fine.
Really?
I want to go home already...
Are you homesick already? Wasn't that fast?
You're right.
Come home right after it ends, okay?
Yeah...
Yes. Good night.
Good night.
What's wrong?
Ah... no, it's nothing.
Are you feeling sick?
Well... I just... yeah...
Did you cry?
No, this... yes.
Let's cry. Until you are satisfied.
If it's hard to say, you don't have to say it.
I committed suicide.
I jumped off the company building.
May I ask why?
I don't know.
I really don't know.
The time before I died is just a blank, I don't remember it at all.
I was frustrated that everyone around me thought I had committed suicide.
But...
In the end, that was the case.
I killed myself.
But... really, I just don't understand!
I'm not the kind of person who would commit suicide, I'm sure!
I had a wife and one child, the child was only a year old, and I even had a mother and a grandmother.
We had just bought a house, and my work was going well.
Besides, I lost my father to a heart attack when I was one and a half years old.
So as a father, it was my dream to make my own family happy.
So why would I commit suicide?
It's absolutely ridiculous...
I understand how you feel.
I was not the kind of person who would sacrifice himself to die for others.
Dying that way was so very unlike me.
An unlike way of dying...
When I came back to life, I was standing in front of the boarding house that had been destroyed in a fire.
I was glad that I hadn't jumped into that fire after all.
That was everyone's nightmare.
Being glad of not having done such a stupid thing...
I thought so from the bottom of my heart.
On the day of the fire, I was reading "Ise Monogatari."
"If it were not for cherry blossoms in the world, I would have calmer spring days."
I could feel a delicate tenderness.
At that time, I smelled burning,
when I went out into the hallway, the staircase was black with smoke and I couldn't see anything.
I jumped from the second floor window.
When I went outside, there was no smoke coming from the building,
but I could see flames behind the glass doors.
The old lady was inside.
I called for her, but she didn't come out.
I felt eternity in a moment.
I was lost in that eternity.
As if something was pushing me,
I jumped into the blazing fire.
It was pitch-dark inside, and all I felt was the sensation of stepping on the tatami mats.
I immediately felt I was making a great mistake.
Unable to think of helping or running away.
I couldn't breathe because of the smoke,
I clearly understood that I was going to die like that.
When I returned, I was told I was very courageous.
But it wasn't courage.
Didn't you jump into the fire?
I am actually a very weak person.
I was just thoughtless.
I've done some sinful things in the past.
Jumping into the fire to save that old lady
won't cancel that out!
Your death will never erase the wonderful things
you've done, or negate your life.
Death stains life with arrogance.
That the color of the ink spilled in the end
dyes everything in that one color...
That's wrong.
My death and your death...
aren't they just one of the countless acts we've done in our lifetime?
Thank you very much. I feel a little better now.
I'm glad we could talk.
Resurrected people often ask about the issue of life insurance refunds, how about it?
The issue of life insurance refunds is a common problem for many resurrected,
First, there is a way to file a class action lawsuit and ask for a moratorium period.
In the first place, everyone is on a temporary family register,
so their original family register is the same as when they died....
We have been asked to refund 36 million yen.
Refund estimates and so...
I don't have a clear idea.
How was the lawyer consultation?
Worst case, they told me to file for bankruptcy.
There are more people than yesterday.
To the light... to the light!
This way.
Yes.
- Good morning. - Oh, thanks for yesterday.
We were so drunk at the end I got quite excited...
Are you okay with beer?
Not everyone feels that way.
Living is wonderful is what people who love to live say.
It's like when a sports lover says sports are great.
It's a talk that people who don't like it to begin with, won't understand.
Are there people who don't like living?
Do you know who started Buddhism?
Huh? Buddha? Wasn't it Buddha?
Buddha says that everything and everyone is suffering.
Everything in life is suffering.
Buddhism is a religion to prevent people from being born again after they have died.
That's an extreme view.
It's not about liking or disliking living.
It's our duty to live.
Duties go as far as people decide to follow them.
I absolutely consider it a personal choice what to do with one's life.
There's only one life, shouldn't we treasure it?
Everybody here
devalued that saying, right?
- Since you've had two. - What are you trying to say?
The meaning of life is the life we have received it. To fulfill that life....
Enough of your incomprehensible fictions!
I want you to tell me.
The meaning of living.
What's wrong with you?
I am the shadow of yourselves,
that you are trampling over.
We all die sooner or later.
What kind of value system is it that says
it's admirable for people to just wait and see what happens, and it's shameful
for people to voluntarily take care of their own lives?
What's what people without the courage to live say.
They are cowards and lazy,
so they turn their backs on their duty to live and escape through death.
Who decided that it is our duty to live?
Don't decide for everybody.
Can anyone answer?
Don't make up stuff about duty or courage,
and tell me what the meaning of life is.
Well, isn't that okay?
If you want to think so, think so.
Are you a little drunk?
You don't know.
The loneliness of not being loved.
Everybody will know tomorrow.
No!
That man is dangerous! Stop him!
What are you doing?
- Stop... - What right do you have to stop me?
Isn't it a personal freedom?
It's not a freedom.
You only think that because you're trapped.
It's not your free will!
What do you think human free will is?
I myself have chosen this day and this place.
Are you going to deny me that?
Let go.
Don't die.
You are truly an unusual person, huh?
I... understood you.
You understand me too, right?
Let's go.
Wait, Tetsuo.
You still don't see it.
What?
I'm the one who killed you.
I'm your father who died when you were one year old and came back to life.
Wh... what?
I killed you.
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