Izo (2004)

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He's coming...

The mailicious man is coming.

Who is he...?

One with a figure, and yet without a figure...

He is with a soul, and yet, without a soul.

He is, frankly, the
personification of absurdity.

He's coming...

Izo is coming...

Stop right there, Izo!

I am a vengeful spirit that was k*lled
miserably by your lawless sword.

Saya... Saya...

Learn the agony that was
etched into my very core.

Damn you, Izo...

How can you be so brutal...?

Are you brutal because you're human?

Or is it that...

...you're human because you're brutal?

Brutality is from the lesson of life itself.

Where you are going
and what do you want?

I want vengeance...

What do you want to have vengeance on?

Everything that exists.

Everything that exists...

So, where are you going?

To the stronghold of the repulsive rulers.

And when you get there?

Divine retribution!

I was hired by those people, so
I'm not going to let you pass.

What a pain...

Is dying such a painful task?

Pain is proof of your existence.

Did I ever exist?

What have I existed for?

You exist, and you'll die.

What is that for...

Izo, it's you, isn't it?

I've waited for ages.

Izo...

Why did you leave me?

It was us, you and I, who
made love so passionately.

It was just my instinct for sex.

Nothing special, a natural act.

How are you going to make up for...

...my rage and grief from
conceiving a baby and drowning it?

Your vag*na felt good, but smelled horrible.

It stunk.

Even a cat or dog might have liked it...

..but I am a human after all...

You are not a human.

Izo, I will curse you forever...

...even if hellfire burns me to ash.

Rage is proof of your soul.

Bear it all to the depths of hell.

Izo.

Are you still running this
devilish road by yourself...

...and can't just peacefully
return to the afterworld?

Why don't you just quit this
pitiful struggle and linger here?

Why don't you?

If a horse comes, we slay the horse.

If a human comes, we slay the human.

If a devil comes, simply...

...we k*ll the devil.

You are a disgusting vengeful spirit.

You, the minions of a fraud...

You, a revolting dead soul.

Time for judgment.

You, sordid half-dead, I
will send you back to hell!

You destroy the flesh and blood of
man and, likewise, call your own ruin.

Kneel down before the gods, sinful one.

If you do so, your barbarous soul filled...

...with resentment and malice,
may be blessed with some mercy.

You fraud.

What do you rule?

What do you create?

Step back!

Sinful one, bow your head before god.

Then, summon that 'god' you say.

If there really is that sort of
existence, make an appearance of it!!

You, fool.

God won't make his grand
appearance in front of a fool like you.

Frauds,like you, create the existence
of something that doesn't exist.

There is no god! You are the
worst fraud in existance!

Insolent man!

You are irredeemable.

Stay back, you who dares
disturb my meditation.

Who are you?

I am the mouthpiece of god...

...and the evidence of hir greatness.

You are sh*t.

It hurts...

The descendant of my very own blood...

I'm glad you've made all the way here.

You are the response of my
thought that I left in Mitochondria.

I...

I am the mother of all mankind.

Come here...

...with all of the natural, inbred lust in you.

f*ck me as hard as my womb will bear.

Come.

Fill me full of vigorous blood, my child!

The Archbishop has been k*lled, sir.

Barbarians.

By any chance, they won't
get roused, will they?

Premier, that's the main
concern of us financiers.

Please do not worry.

Those rebellions are castrated and
controlled by our law manipulation...

...as if they were as tame sheep on a farm.

As for that theory...

It's constituted by our erudite scholars
with their wide range of wisdom.

And even if these didn't
work, and in case of riot...

...the great army under my
authority will subdue them at once.

This perfect collaboration
of we, the governing class.

This spotless cooperation is what weaves
graceful history in past, present, and future.

Isn't that correct?

Then, as for the archbishop...

There shouldn't be any problem if we make
the next hierarch take over the position.

Constraint of domination and oppression
is an intrinsic nature of human operation.

Izo is coming...

...with his body fully filled with fury.

Who is Izo?

'Who' is merely a vengeful spirit.

'Who' is an existence that
goes against us aristocracy.

Namely...

...'who' is an unknown disruption in
the system that appears occasionally.

Where is he!?

Izo will flow out in the system.

Izo is what's unacceptable.

Izo is a loathsome nonsense.

I don't know what you're looking
for, but anyway, it's meaningless.

It's so futile.

You'd better learn how
to reach a compromise.

Absurdity?

What about that?

Simply the pathos in your mind is the
principal cause of everything for you.

Exactly.

Well, excuse us.

We haven't introduced ourselves yet.

We are from the company that's selling...

...vacation houses for your
rich post-retirement years...

Hell is in your heart...

Salvation is nowhere in the world.

My blood is gushing out...

Izo, where are you going?

Where are you going?

Don't go!

You can't go. You can't leave me.

You can't leave me, who gave birth to you.

k*lling your mother means k*lling yourself.

Izo!

Repent.

Guilty of being against human morality.

Guilty of being against god.

Guilty of existing.

What about you, who lies about
the existence of nonexistence!

Where is this?

Who... am I?

Izo!

Mr. Kanpeta is calling you.

History is written in blood.

Human history is nothing but
a chain of bloody events.

Thus, know that a new age will come
only from massacres and bloodshed.

Say, Izo...

What is revolution!?

'What' is to slaughter people!

That's too clean...

k*lling people one after another!

You are born k*ller!

A k*ller in the form of a human!

Yes, sir.

I am a born-k*ller...

Has the filth disturbing a
phase not yet wiped out?

It will happen soon.

Why is he so strong?

This imperfect incoherence...

It is that the phases are the
more imperfect, the stronger.

Every phase happens
because they are imperfect.

A perfect phase creates
imperfection to remain perfect...

...and produce the phase of absurdity.

The imperfection that drips out of perfection
is the fundamental nature of existence.

In the first place, existence itself is absurd,
namely, the fundamental incoherence.

How long does it take for the
imperfection to be perfect?

An eon of evolution...

Then finally, humans would
raise to the level of gods?

That's too clean, Izo.

k*lling one after another...

Mr. Yamada, what is love?

Yes.

It is a word.

A word does not necessarily accompany
with the fundamental nature of its meaning.

It is a code of sounds, sometimes...

Then, tell us about democracy?

Yes.

Democracy is a by-product of
human civilization; an illusion.

Has human civilization rightly evolved...

Okay then, Ms. Sato, what is a nation?

Yes.

A nation is a vicious delusion
exists only in human minds.

It is an imaginary notion of falsehood
only there to control and...

...govern people that
instinctively gather into flocks.

It is the basic principle of the fiction
that requires one side to be sacrificed.

Well done.

We're done for today.

Stand up.

Bow.

It is hell to live.

But it is hell to die too.

One sunny day, the mate of a crow died.

On this beautiful day, the
gods are all weeping...

Is he a minion of Kanpeta?

Hate is something that is everywhere.

Grudge is not only the root of life
but also the mother of destruction.

Destruction is familiar...

...but life is unknown...

Thus, we are unknown...

Then, we are mere illusions.

All life is simply illusion.

Why is that man weeping?

It's because he's k*lled too many souls.

Why does a man weep if
he kills too many souls?

He hasn't been k*lled and died.

If a man slays too many flesh
and bones of the living...

... his blood starts to flow out
from deep in his heart, too.

Is that painful?

Yes it is.

It is as painful and tormenting as those
souls of those who have been slain.

Where will this man go?
What will this man do?

He's going to a place where the
meaningless are to find meanings.

He is pitiful. I feel sorry for him.

All souls are pitiful.

Why is he looking so sad?

Because he's lonely.

Why is his face looking so painful?

Why doesn't he just be happy
and smiling, like how we are?

It's so pathetic that he's deluded...

..so he thinks he can reach all the
answers if he just questions them.

Let's laugh at him.

To the back.

k*ll him! He's a useless maggot!
Don't let him get away!

What skill.

I'll show you my first-ranked sword skill too.

You're Izo, correct?

Who are you?

I don't personally have any grudge
towards you, but I need you dead.

Die!

You are so pathetic.

Why don't you just give up.

You won't ever find what you're looking for.

You're so f*ck' dumb.

I'm going to crush your head
and smash your stupid brain.

Get him!

Why are you you?

For what reason are you you?

What the hell are you talking about?

You dumb a*s.

Stupid f*ck.

Saya, look after the house.

Fight well for our country.

Take good care of yourself.

Yes.

Is that you..?

Your face...

Saya. I'm back.

What are you? Why are you following me?

I'm the tally of your soul.

I was destined to meet you.

You? The tally of my soul!?

I am the tally of your soul...

...who was destined to meet
you but couldn't meet you.

I was craving to meet you...

...and unfulfilled...

A man's soul and a woman's
soul are supposed to be one.

Then, souls can endure all the
loneliness, desperation, and desires.

I don't know you.

I am always alone.

We, the two souls that were supposed
to meet, finally can't meet...

....though we were destined
to meet one another.

Why...

How would I know?

But I don't care any more.

We are here together now.

Whatever.

Come in.

I have just heard from our scout.

That Izo has been transforming...

Transforming... Izo...?

Yes.

His figure is nothing but the figure
of a devil, if there ever was.

Excellency, what exactly is Izo?

Hate is the soul of a devil.

A devilish appearence
is only suitable for him.

Even we must be anticipated.

Mr. Izo, do you have to go
even if you have to k*ll us?

What villainy. What cruelty.

You are evil. You are the devil.

Exactly.

I am non-human.

What is it that you want?

What is your desire?

What's the reason that
drives you to do all this?

There is no reason.

No, it can't be...

Let Izo through. Yield a path.

Please tell us why.

What is this?

Please tell us what the
reason is to blot us out.

Please tell us why we get k*lled.

This is outrageous that you
stray here without any reason!!

You people, who die for your own ignorance,
if you want to be saved, yield a path.

Retribution... for what you have done...

The horrifying cause and
effect of your own deeds.

Of course, you can't remain
in the figure of human.

Are you still straying?

I am a devil, and so are you. We live
together in this total darkness...

You monster!

What'd you come here for?

You wanna die?

Get the hell out of here while
it's still light out, or you'll die.

Where do you think this is, c*cksucker?

Piece of cake. That monster...

Izo... never-ending agony...

...only choice is to remain alive and
suffer... that is nothing but hell.

You!? Again?

Damn you, you half-dead monster...

We can't stop that monster.

It's a horrifying threat.

I know that.

Care out the order I give
even at the risk of your life...

...that's what I pay tons of money to you for.

My boys are dead, all
lying next to each other.

I can't do anything more.

Wait, where are you going?

I'm taking off. Nothing good
will happen staying here.

That's unusual.

This will be humiliating for
you. You are a boss after all.

Not really. I'm just a yakuza.

Let me through!!!

You, the devil defying against order!

I cannot believe this hap...happening.

The situation is already
way beyond our control.

The general is dead!

This is absolutely an emergency.

Now is the time to scale our
crisis managemental skill!

We are merely humans after
all. Just a glimpse of a dream...

I don't believe someone like that monster
comes this close to the stronghold.

No logic can explain this.

Arrogance is what it is.

We can in no way denying this.

Then, what's the solution!?

I'm sure you have some
plan in your head, right?

His Highness is coming.

What are you going crazy for?

Is there anything you want here?

We'll give you anything
you want!! Anything!!

Money? Power?

Or status?

We claim this!

That we will renounce all the
crimes that you are charged of...

...and we will have you
as one of us, aristocrats.

As the head of congress...

I will grant you an authoritative doctorate...

...namely the title of
the Minister of all Honor.

Divine retribution.

Izo, what's that ugly look for?

Divine retribution...

Lowly and greedy souls will be
in the same way in the future.

Izo, come back and be
my underling once again.

Divine retribution!

You've become a monster that
can't understand words any more?

Well, then, I will give you judgment.

Damn you, Izo!

You revolting lowly piece of sh*t!

It's hell where you're going.

Here's no place for you to go except hell!

Can't die?

You belonging of a different world...

At dusk, everybody becomes like that:

Becomes one of the birds and spits up.

Instead of your hometown, you
get a brand-new piece of a sky.

People in your hometown are the mother.

The name of the disease is the singer.

The doctor is the audience.

The nurse is the poet.

Yhe one who strikes his
voice against the floor...

...is the bud of a cherry blossom
in the sound of blood and fury.

He's mine.

You... How did you live your
life and what did you see?

Never, never it's you.

It'll be full-moon tonight.

I will go anywhere from here.

I can be anybody in the future.

You, who are eating in front of me, who
are eating with such gusto in your eyes...

At dusk everybody becomes like that:

Becomes one of the birds and spits up.

Instead of your hometown, you
get a brand-new piece of a sky.