Kiichi-san, welcome.
Ochika
Aunt, good to see you again.
I'm surprised you came so quickly.
Head Maid Oshima
Ochika-san has been waiting for you longingly.
Ochika's brother Kiichi
Ochika.
Brother.
Wife of Mishimaya Otami
Now, now. Let's come on up, Kiichi-san.
Sandal wholesaler Echigoya
The storehouse...
What?
The storehouse opened.
Final Night The Rattling House
Mishimaya, a bag wholesaler in Mishima-cho, Kanda-sujikai,
is collecting mysterious stories.
They are grateful to anyone
who has any of these strange tales to send over to them.
The listener is Ochika, the niece of Master Ihei.
She is clever and charming,
and seems to allow the speaker to reveal the essence of the story,
but it may also awaken sleeping ghosts.
Mysteries awaken other mysteries...
Brother, did you bring this all by yourself?
Everyone is busy with the influx of autumn visitors paying homage to the Great Priest.
I can't drag our workers out when everyone is so extremely busy.
Wow~.
Wow, look at these, so beautiful Ochika!
Oh,
I'll take the snow-covered pine tree
and Ochika can have the snow-covered bamboo.
Head of Mishimaya Ihei
Wow, such nice goods!
It's perfect for the coming season!
Ah, I'm so grateful that Otami cares so much about everyone~.
I have travelled between Kawasaki and Edo many times,
but this is the first time I was actually afraid of highway robbers.
If these kimono were stolen, I could not go home.
Oh, that's right.
What a difficult thing to do!
I'm sure you have plenty of stories.
Kiichi, you don't have to be shy,
so stay for as many days as you want.
Thank you very much.
I knew it...
It wasn't always easy, was it?
No.
Uncle and aunt
have been really good to me.
I'm sincerely grateful.
I see....
Sometimes, mother tells me that father is depressed.
"It was good that Ochika left Marusen."
He would say, encouragingly,
"It was much better for her to go to Mishimaya-san than to stay here."
Father and mother are in good health,
aren't they?
I'm trying to keep my nerve somehow.
Yeah...
If you keep wearing this, you'll always be happy.
Yoshisuke-san,
Matsutaro
please take good care of my lady.
Yoshisuke
Ochika will become my wife,
Kiichi and I will become brothers-in-law,
and Marusen and Naminoya will become one inn,
there is no place for you anymore!
Get your stuff together and go!
You were staring....
You were staring at Ochika!
Stop~!
Matsutaro!
I'll never forgive you.
I'll never forget what you did to me!
Ah!
How are the folks at Naminoya doing?
Aunt sleeps and wakes up better than before,
but she's lost weight.
Uncle's more resilient than father.
He defended Marusen by saying that
what Matsutaro did
was only Matsutaro's fault and Marusen had nothing to do with it,
so father was not taken in by the government
and Marusen did not go bankrupt.
No amount of bowing will ever be enough.
Ochika...
I thought you were getting stronger.
It's not like that.
But... well,
Uncle Ihei gave me a slightly different kind of rough treatment
and maybe it's working.
What do you mean rough treatment?
In the Black-White room,
I talked about Yoshisuke-san and Matsutaro-san.
Brother?
What's wrong?
Brother! Pull yourself together!
Ah.
Why is Uncle Ihei
indulging in his eccentricity by letting you do such a scary thing?
He didn't force me.
At first I was angry
because I didn't understand what was going on,
but not anymore.
Are you saying that listening to others with deeper troubles,
is helping you in some way?
It's not that trivial, brother.
I can't explain it well, but...
by listening to others,
I think I'm better able to understand what it is that I'm afraid of.
I've come to realize that
it's better than running around scared in the dark,
not knowing who I really am.
Hey, Ochika.
You're facing such horrific things.
You...
you haven't seen anything terrifying in this house, have you?
What terrifying thing?
I...
I just listen to their stories.
Speaking of which, brother,
did you see anything terrifying?
Something's going on at Marusen, isn't it?
Something is going on over there,
and you're worried about me,
so you rushed over to see me, didn't you?
What's going on? Brother.
Tell me about it, please.
After you came here,
about half a month later,
He appeared.
Go ahead.
This is the room.
Excuse me.
Please, come in.
Whoa! Whoa!!
What's wrong?
Oh...
it's nothing.
My apologies.
What's that?
He scared me.
W-Wait, Matsutaro.
Don't tell me...
you came out of hiding to look for Ochika, didn't you?
If you were planning to do that, I'll never forgive you.
I'll pull you out of your grave!
Then...
what the hell is it?
"Before I new what was going on, I was wondering around in bewilderment,
worried about you."
"Still, I finally figured out where I needed to go
and I'm headed there."
"I won't bother you anymore.", he said.
So I asked, "Where are you going?
Then he said,
"In any case, the boundary is calling out to me."
"They say I can go there, so I'm going."
Where is it?
That's why I thought it was here.
I thought, "This time it must be Ochika's place."
I lost my head and rushed here.
Then you tell me about this hundred stories business.
You may think it's a game,
but it invites weird things, you know?
Hey...
it's not like you don't know, right?
I know.
But
I never met the ghost of Matsutaro-san.
Really?
I would never lie about something like this.
If he's not here,
then where the hell did Matsutaro go?
He said it was "calling out to him", right?
Yeah.
What do you make of it?
It was around that time that I met Matsudaya-san.
Because I talked with Matsudaya-san about red spider lilies
and remembered that thing...
But... even if remembered,
there were plenty of times before that, weren't there?
How could you ever forget?
Until then, it wasn't so much that I remembered it,
more like it popped into my head suddenly,
and I hastily hid it away
because it was painful and sad.
But
since I started on the Hundred Stories,
I've come to recall them myself,
and I've also begun to look at them more closely.
Maybe that's why Matsutaro-san was
summoned to come out to Marusen.
Then
why isn't he here now?
What's wrong?
Sister?
Ochika-san...
Otaka
What's wrong with Ochika-san?
A man...
A man?
The young master of Echigoya...
Intermediary Touan
is he going to Mishimaya?
Echigoya Seitaro
Madam, I know this is a very rude and unreasonable request,
but it is of the utmost importance, that I meet with Ochika-san.
Please,
could you arrange for that to happen?
Oh my, why are you in such a hurry?
At the moment, Ochika is out on a little errand.
Wait.
Why are you stopping me?
Let Kiichi observe Seitaro a little more.
Who is that guy? Ochika.
He is a relative of the person who told me the story
of the terrifying mansion in Andozaka that swallowed people's souls.
He is the young master of a sandal wholesaler.
He has a reputation
for having a good sense of humor and a good eye for business.
He looks like a kind man.
He's had many offers of courtship, but he has turned them down one by one.
He said, "I'm not ready to settle down yet."
That's concerning.
Men who say these kinds of pretentious things are usually up to no good.
Why are you being so mean to him?
Just a few more minutes.
He is a sexy man who could be an actor.
What?
Don't tell me he's....
he's obsessed with Ochika. Huh Uncle?
Hmmm.
Now is not the time to be worrying about such things, is it, brother?
What are you getting so worked up about?
I'm not getting worked up about it.
I'm saying it's disrespectful to our guest.
Now, now, now...
I was concerned about Ochi-san's condition, so I went overboard.
If I may ask a frank question.
Have you noticed
anything unusual about Ochika-san recently?
For example, bring frightened
or distressed about something.
Something distressing Ochika?
Do you see any signs of this?
It is fine if you do not answer.
It is a matter of your own concern after all.
However, recently....
"However recently..." What?
My sister, Otaka,
started to say things that she had never said before,
and among those, Ochika's name was mentioned.
And one more name...
Matsutaro.
What?
Seitaro-san, this is Chika.
I am here to talk to you about this.
As I mentioned before,
my sister is now living in something like
a confinement room at the back of Echigoya.
So that's what happened after all.
Yes, but it's not as confining as a prison.
We simply locked the doorway
so that my sister could not go out alone.
That's exactly what it is, a prison cell.
Brother.
Huh?
Brother?
Yes,
I am her brother, Kiichi.
I apologize for this!
I thought you were the head clerk here.
Head clerk?
Oh, that sounds good, we could use one?
Yasosuke will be angry to hear that.
Seitaro-san,
I have shared with my brother the story
I heard here in the Black-White Room.
I'm sorry.
Therefore, my brother
also knows about Otaka-san and the Andozaka mansion.
Please do not be offended.
No, of course not.
Back to my sister...
She had no facial expression
and did not move her body,
as if she were a living doll.
But as I looked into my sister's eyes,
something moved behind her eyes
and in a small voice, she said,
"The storehouse has opened."
Hey, we have a guest at the mansion.
I'm so happy!
It's so lively.
And Otaka-san called out Matsutaro-san's name, right?
How is that?
My sister said she had another guest, so I asked.
so I asked, "Who and where is this guest?"
He's called Matsutaro.
I do not know anyone by that name.
Then I asked again, "Is this man an acquaintance of yours, sister?"
The lady from Mishimaya knows.
Matsutaro-san wants to see Ochika-san at Mishimaya.
Ochika-san should come here too.
No. I'm sure she will come.
To see Matsutaro-san.
There is no reason for her not to come.
I'm sorry.
My chest is beating frantically.
How does he know Matsutaro?
Why is Matsutaro with Otaka?
Brother, calm down.
Now I know who called Matsutaro-san, what called him, and where he went.
But why are you going to such an incomprehensible place...?
It's because the Andozaka mansion is looking for human souls.
That's how I got to know Otaka-san...
how everyone is connected.
That's the kind of place the mansion is.
I don't get it.
You said the mansion was burned down.
It's in Otaka.
What?
The mansion?
I asked my sister, "What kind of person is Matsutaro?"
A dead man.
Ochika-san knows him well.
He died for Ochika.
That's why Ochika-san is coming here.
She knows that very well.
She's being stalked by a dead man.
Stop it!
Don't let Ochika hear you talking like that!
Kiichi... Kiichi!
Ochika,
tell Seitaro about your story.
You can do it, right?
I know you have built the resolve for it.
If you don't tell him,
Seitaro won't understand what's going on, will he?
Yes.
I will tell you about it.
Stop~!
Thank you for your cooperation.
For my mother, the Andozaka mansion is my father's enemy.
That being the case, I feel doubly sorry for Otaka-san.
I feel bitterness and regret,
that my grandfather Seiroku sacrificed his life to rescue Otaka-san,
and she is still being held captive
in that mansion.
Aren't you scared, Seitaro-san?
When you were a child, Seitaro, you were under the spell of that lock, weren't you?
Actually, I don't remember that.
I was only told by my parents about all of this when I was a lot older.
I see.
Ochika-san, having gotten yourself involved in all this,
isn't it terrifying for you as well?
Nothing compared to the horror of that time.
Ochika is going through hell.
From this point forward is my sister's tatami room,
which was covered with painted karakami paper.
The pattern of this karakami appears to change from time to time.
Not just to one person....
It just changed, didn't it?
Since when did this....
It was after my sister returned from Mishimaya.
Come in.
Otaka-san,
I am Chika from Mishimaya.
Finally,
I was able to visit you.
Otaka-san,
you're there, aren't you?
I'm Chika,
the Chika that is suited for visiting the Andozaka mansion.
Please
welcome me into it.
What is this...? Seitaro-san!
I do not know.
Whoa!
Sister Otaka?
Ochika?
Ochika-san!
Where...
where did you go, Ochika...
Ochika!
Otaka-san?
Brother?
Seitaro-san?
Otaka-san?
Otaka, 6 years old
Wait... Otaka-chan.
Otaka-chan?
Otaka-chan!
Isn't it beautiful?
There are many beautiful things here.
Do you want it?
Otaka-chan...
Are you here alone?
Have you been alone all this time?
Wouldn't you like a kimono?
Try it on your body and I'm sure you'll be dying for it.
Wait.
You want to play tag?
Don't get caught, okay?
You didn't come alone, did you?
What?
Sneaky!
I came alone.
I'm alone.
Liar!
Otaka-chan!
Matsutaro-san?
My lady.... from Mishimaya.
Matsudaya-san.
Matsudaya Toubei
As long as you hide among the red spider lilies, you'll be fine.
This is a different world from the mansion.
The mansion will not find you.
You're...
supposed to be dead.
Yes.
I am no longer in this world.
That's why I was able to follow you, my lady.
I will not stand by and let you be taken by the mansion.
Earlier,
when Otaka-chan said I didn't come alone...
Yes.
But I am not the only one.
Who are those people?
Don't you know?
Are you...
Osai-san and Ichitaro-san?
Yes.
Ichitaro
Osai
Why?
...Why are you here?
It is because my lady listened.
Our... heartache.
Our regret for the mistakes we made when we were alive.
You listened and understood.
You shed tears in your heart.
Despite it being someone else's foolish and unpleasant circumstances,
you did not turn your back on us...
You mourned as if it were one of your own.
Our sins
became part of my lady's soul,
cleansed by you tears.
Thanks to Ochika-san,
I was freed.
Is this...
the entrance to the underworld?
Am I dead?
No.
Ochika-san, you are alive.
That's why we want to help you.
Because the one who is tormenting Ochika-san
was summoned and he came here.
You mean Matsutaro-san?
Matsutaro-san is not to blame.
But...
what Matsutaro-san did
is causing you to suffer.
You may think differently,
but what has been done cannot be erased.
By tormenting my lady,
Matsutaro-san is also tormented and lost.
The mansion wants those souls.
If that is the case,
Matsutaro-san will not be left alone.
Matsutaro-san,
can he be helped by all of us?
Let's all go there
and empty the mansion.
Then....
It seems that Okichi was also able to be set free.
I've been trapped up here for a long time!
Ofuku has grown up, hasn't she?
Thanks to Ochika-san, I was able to see it.
Do you remember Sosuke, the servant who was loyal to Ishikuraya?
Are you also concerned about Sosuke?
I will never forget.
Both of them... I think they're here.
Because of Ochika-san's thoughts.
Where?
Somewhere in the mansion.
Then... I will go there.
Sosuke
This is the young wife Okichi.
She was brought into the family after her father died,
so you don't know about her...
Then you must be Sosuke-san, right?
Yes.
You were always worried about Ishikuraya, weren't you?
Ochiki
Okichi-san, you must have been scared.
But it's all right now.
I was... alone and scared.
Right.
It was scary and lonely, right?
But it's all over now.
I...
why am I here?
You will know soon enough.
Shall we go?
I will accompany the young wife.
Sosuke-san,
please take care of Okichi-san.
Let her rest among the red spider lilies.
Strange...
I thought I had escaped here.
Master Locksmith Seiroku
Seiroku-san... right?
I came looking for Little Taka.
Oh.
I have a feeling I know you.
That's strange.
I don't know why I feel like I know you, even though you're not my client.
That's thanks to Ochika-san here.
Ochika-san?
Yes, it is!
You are the one who listened to us.
Yes.
Who are they over there...?
It must be the family of the locksmith Tatsujiro.
I learned about that story here, too.
Is this connected to the Black-White Room?
I am here, from a feeling of my lady.
You have been coming and going,
connecting with Otaka-san,
and finally she came here.
Otaka-san is now a child again.
Master...
Locksmith Tatsujiro
I apologize for the trouble I have caused.
He really
doesn't listen to his master....
I should have given him
more detailed explanations when I let him be independent.
Heh.
So sorry about that.
I believe that the family
was immersed in the dreamlike illusion of the villa
and disappeared one by one.
The child, Otaka-san, was trying to protect the family all by herself.
But...
Little Taka!
Wh-What's the matter with you, all alone in a place like this...?
Little Taka, let's go!
I want to stay here!
I'm not going anywhere!
I want to stay here!
It's her turn next!
What a terrible incident...
It is a terrible thing indeed.
It's unjust and unfair!
That's what the master of this mansion is like.
Otaka-chan didn't even get to say goodbye to everyone.
Furthermore... we have to get Matsutaro-san out.
We have to defeat this mansion.
But how...
I'm sure my lady already knows this.
I know?
It is nothing difficult.
What my lady did for us,
you now must do for the master of this mansion.
Sister Otaka!
Come here, sis!
Matsudaya-san, I'm going there!
I will no longer be misled.
Then I'll stay here with everyone.
Yes.
My name is Chika of Mishimaya, a bag shop in Kanda Mishima-cho.
I am the one who has been assigned by my uncle,
Mishimaya Ihei, to listen to the 100 stories.
It is with this same spirit
that I am here today
to humbly listen to your mysterious story,
that you wish to share.
Who is it that would like to tell me a story?
I am well aware of you, my lady.
You don't have to go on and on about it.
You must be angry with me.
I am sure that the story you think I know
is not the same as the story you hold close to your heart.
Oh, yeah.
That did not happen.
I made it happen
... and you resent it.
Listen to me!
I'm sure my lady is angry with me!
May I know who are you?
How dare you make fun of me.
I humbly ask again.
Who are you?
You are hiding inside Matsutaro-san, aren't you?
Don't be afraid.
It's all right.
Please give me your answer.
And please
come out.
My lady....
Matsutaro-san!
I'm sorry, my lady.
I was summoned to this place.
How did I get here?
My lady, what are you....
It is not your fault.
I'm sorry.
It's not your fault.
Sorry...
How I wanted to apologize.
Apologize?
Apologize to me?
Why..!
I laid my hand on Yoshisuke-san.
I ended the person my lady loves.
And yet you are apologizing...
It's my fault that you became so worked up.
Because of my miserable arrogance.
I am not the only one.
My brother wants to apologize to you, too.
Ahhh... My lady.
Enough with the sweet talk!
You slut.
Don't do that!
Stop doing that! Stop it!
Stop it! I said stop!
My lady....
Matsutaro-san...
I was...
a straggler.
It would have been better if I had never been born.
It was my dad who threw me off the cliff.
I just couldn't bring myself to tell everyone at Marusen.
He's still breathing!
He's alive! Hurry up!
I felt like if I told you, you would all abandon me again...
It is impossible for anyone to take care of a child who is abandoned by his parents.
So I couldn't say it.
That worsened my inferiority complex.
I became frightened.
But...
everyone at Marusen
has always been kind
to this straggler.
Ah... my dear.
Come over here.
And yet...
why did I do what I did?
That time...
that moment...
I've become this ungrateful person.
Matsutaro-san,
you were family.
I was very happy that Matsutaro-san came to Marusen.
My lady....
Otaka, Otaka, Otaka, come out~!
Grandpa Seiroku!
Mom!
Hurry up, Ochika-san!
I am....
Ochika!
Whoa!
Calm down, I will not run away!
The dragon...
Finally, we are now able to talk amongst ourselves.
I am going to open it!
Is this...
emptiness...
all that you really are?
Is this your story?
If I could just get in here...
You will be satisfied.
And I...
get to escape my suffering, too.
My lady, no!
Once you enter, you can't get out.
Thank you, Matsutaro-san.
I understand.
It's all right now.
I've been a little...
cowardly.
Are you sad that you have been forgotten?
It frustrates you that you are being forgotten.
We will not forget!
My lady....
All this was a long time ago.
Sadness,
suffering,
resentment and anger.
It all remains timeless.
You want to get out of here, don't you?
Come with me...
let's go outside!
My lady, come here and don't look back.
Yes.
Come, you too as well.
Together with us.
My lady, you are done here.
Please bring Otaka-chan back home.
Please take care of Otaka.
Go on....
Father!
Mother!
Sis!
Brother!
Harukichi!
Matsutaro-san...
Is this place finally empty?
Or...
will you stay instead?
Who are you?
I am a merchant.
Just like your uncle.
What I buy and sell,
I give to those who want it.
I deal with customers on a path that connects the two places.
It is the same as Mishimaya.
Two places?
The other world and this world.
It's people like you
that make my business possible.
Although... Ochika-san.
You don't care about Yoshisuke-san?
He was a total loss.
Because you always want to forgive Matsutaro,
Yoshisuke-san's resentment and grief are shelved.
Ochika...
You are trying to forgive yourself by forgiving Matsutaro.
It's all for your convenience.
What's going to happen to me?
Ochika...
You are not Yoshisuke-san.
You forgot me!
I will never forget you, Yoshisuke-san!
Ochika...
I'm...
He was killed so fast,
he didn't have time to think about it.
It can't be helped.
Now it's time to finally put an end to this.
Well, never mind.
You will continue to live.
I'm sure we'll have a chance to meet again.
Your story is not over.
Your business and mine will continue for a long time to come.
I look forward to the future.
I'm looking forward to it from the bottom of my stomach.
By the way,
you'd have to get back from here,
but don't you need directions?
I don't need your guidance.
Ochika!
Brother...
The girl is... Sister Otaka?
Sister?
Otaka-chan... it's all right now.
You don't have to be afraid.
Thank you, Ochika-san.
...I'm not afraid anymore. I'm fine.
Ochika-san helped me.
Sister... do you understand?
Yes.
I'm sorry for all the trouble.
Ochika...
you just disappeared.
It was only for a short while.
I didn't know what to do...
Brother...
Matsutaro-san has finally left.
Matsutaro...
I see.
Ochika...
Mishimaya has recently
teamed up with Echigoya, a Japanese sandal wholesaler, to sell sandal straps for footwear.
The novelty of the design of the sandal strap soon became popular
The people of Edo, who are fond of fashionable and rare things,
pick and buy them.
There is a rumor that the niece of Mishimaya is expected to succeed Echigoya,
but it is not certain.
However,
it is certain that Echigoya's daughter who had been suffering
from a long and strange illness has recovered nicely
and is getting along like sisters with the niece at Mishimaya,
that I am sure of.
It is said that Mishimaya's 100 stories are involved,
but only the customers who visit Mishimaya
with mysterious stories to tell
can know what kind of stories they are told.
The listener of these hundred strange tales
is the beautiful niece of Mishimaya.