Nagai yume (2000)

[bunniefuu]

The most primitive of all
human emotions...

is the fear of death

Death comes to one and all.
inevitably

We turn a blind eye to it.

hiding that fear deep in
our hearts

However.

what if...

mankind can possess immortality?

This is the story of one man
who dreamt of such immortality

I'm not about to die

I'm going to wait for you in
the eternal world of dreams

With love...

LONG DREAM

I don't want to die...

Who is it?

Who's there?

Patient: Mami Takeshima


Illness: Benign Tumor

Have you calmed down a bit?

You were cryi ng again

Doctor...

I'm dying. Aren't I?

You're not going to die

I... I don't want to die

I can't...

Mami. Li ke I said before.

we diagnosed you early

We won't need to operate.
and you'll see full recovery

So don't lose hope

But...

It's over

Death already came for me

The previous night

Mami. That man wasn't Death

He's another patient here

Lies! That was no human!

That wasn't a human face

It was Death...
Death came for me

Mami. It's okay...

I don't believe
a craniotomy is necessary

The tumor is small enough that a
Gamma Knife treatment should suffice

Agreed

I'm just glad it's benign

Indeed

She's awfully sensitive. Though

Seeing Death. Huh?

Yes. She's quite delicate

She's very anxious about this
notion of dying

Not even tranquilizers are helpi ng

Yamauchi. You seem quite i nvested
in her case

No. Well. She's my first patient
That's all

Remember. You can't get too attached
to patients i n our line of work

Of course

Say. About that patient
who visited her room...

What about hi m?

I heard he's a special patient
under your care

He is. And his wandering about
at night has become a problem

He's probably scared of sleeping

Scared of sleeping?

I ntrigued?

I'd love to learn more

Mami... I mean Ms. Takeshima
said his face wasn't human

What sort of illness does he have?

He's human. Alright

But i n his case.

I'm not sure I can call it an ill ness

I might dare say
his problem is...

i n his dreams

Dreams?

He's about to wake up

Would you like to meet him?

His name is Tetsuro M ukouda

He came here two months ago

And he complained of seei ng
long dreams

Two months earlier

Patient: Tetsuro Mukouda


Patient: Tetsuro Mukouda


Illness: Unknown

Long dreams?

Yes

How long do they feel to you?

Early on. One night's dream...

felt li ke two or three days

When did this start?

About a month ago

So you're saying that
it feels long after you wake up?

No

It feels long while I'm dreami ng

Lucidly

I thought I was i magining things

But...

as the days passed...

the dreams kept getti ng longer

I wouldn't mi nd if they were all
pleasant dreams...

but they were mostly nightmares

It felt eerie.

and I started to worry

And now?

How long are your dreams now?

Last night's dream was...

about a year long

A year. Huh?

Doctor. It's true

Now I can't even remember
yesterday clearly

And it's starting to affect
my everyday life

For me.

what happened yesterday
feels like...

it was a year ago

I believed he was either lying...

or suffering from some
psychological condition...

that made him believe he was
seeing long dreams

For one night's dream...

to contain a whole year's
worth of time...

is a preposterous notion

At any rate, I checked him in
and put his sleep under observation

And that night...

his body convulsed and
his eyes darted violently

It was brief,

but the readings showed he was
in the deepest part of sleep

Hey. Wake up!

Where am I?

I n the hospital
You've been here si nce yesterday

Hospital?

Did you dream?

Did you?

So you did dream?

How long was it?

A year and a half...

It sent chills up my spine

He isn't lying
I was convinced

He was truly having long dreams

We repeated the observations
over and over.

but we couldn't determi ne the
cause of his strange dreams

There's one thi ng we know

In his deep sleep. There's a moment
when his body begi ns to convulse

To hi m. The dream he sees in that
moment feels like months

In other words.

he has the ill usion of a long d ream

A hallucination?

If you'd seen what I've seen
you wouldn't say that

It's all in your head

So there's no need to fear
the length of your d reams

My d reams keep getti ng longer...

More real...

More vulgar...

More frightening...

You've no idea!

Last night's dream was ten years long

I n the dream.

I was a soldier. Hidi ng in the jungle

If found. I'd be k*lled

With no food.

I ate bloody human flesh

When that ran out.

I ate my own feet

Ten years of pai n and fear...
Can you understand?

Two nights ago...
I was i n exam hell

Cram and exam. Over and over
for nine years...

Once. I searched for a restroom
for eight years. It was agony.

I understand

I'm doi ng my best to identify
the cause

I need you to hold on for now

Alright. But please hurry

Otherwise my dreams will grow
to hundreds of years

If that happens...

I might lose it

Just as he said.

his dreams grew e xponentially longer

And soon.

dreams began to i nvade his reality

After 20 days in the hospital,

he began to experience difficulty...

remembering memories of
his own reality

After a month,

he began to speak in different
intonations each time he awoke,

just as we speak differently from
people from the previous century

It's as if his brain has actually
lived those countless years,

his mind now wandering in a universe
far from ours...

in a separate dimension

What's more. Even his face and
appearance has started to transform

Transform?

Just as mankind evolved
over its long history

Here we are

When you see him.
try not to show any shock

Yes. Si r

M ukouda

Where am I?

Who're you?

I'm your doctor. Kuroda
Remember me?

Recently he's been prone to some
odd behavior with no apparent meani ng

Does he think he's still i n his dreams?

Mami?

Where's Mami?

Where's my wife. Mami?

We haven't been apart...

since marrying 500 years ago!

You're the one...
Way back then...

who tried to keep me from her!

Where did you hide her?

Mami. Where are you...

Stop him!

Yes. Sir

Kana...

Mami

What's the matter?

Death!

Somebody hel p me!

Death? Me?

Back to your room!

Death...?

Death...?

Death...?

I see now.
It was all a dream

Those days spent with Mami...

were nothi ng but a dream

In reality.

not only is Mami not my wife.

she believes I'm Death himself

Perhaps...

the memory of seei ng Mami
last night...

had an effect on your dreams

Doctor Kuroda. I'm frightened

At this rate. My d reams will
keep growing longer

What if one night I have a
never... ending dream?

If...

I were to have an everlasting dream.

what would happen to me?

What would happen to me...

...the morning after a never... ending
dream?

How is she?

Well...

The anesthetics finally put
her to sleep

But I fear psychological damage from
the trauma

Hopefully she'll stay calm

Say. What about him?

He's drawing on the wall again

Must be terrified of sleepi ng

Doctor! Are you al right?

Sorry. Just a little dizzy

You should get some rest. Doctor

I'm fine

I must get back to...

I'll take care of M ukouda.
so get some rest

I appreciate it

Kana

Kana

Yamauchi. Wake up

I'm sorry

Let's switch
Sleep in the night... duty room

Yes. Sir

He'd undergone severe transformation

Any semblance of humanity was gone

How far into the future
had he gone this time?

If he were to see an eternal dream,
what would happen to this man?

Would he ever awaken again?

Kana

As I go to sleep thinking of you

I see a blissful dream,

like a gleaming mirage

Your eyes softer than ever...

Your voice clear and resonant...

You, glowing like the sun at dawn...

Your voice calling me
liberates me from earth...

And we run towards the light...

Heaven awaits us, leaving a
slight break in the clouds...

The unknown brilliance glimpsed
in that moment...

A holy light!

Doctor?

Doctor Kuroda?

Leaving only his weathered remains,

his spirit set out
into his eternal dream

From his rotted brain,

I discovered an unknown,
crystallized substance

This substance must have something
to do with the man's strange dreams

Yet endless observations through a
microscope yielded nothing

Mami. How are you feeling?

I've been feeling much better

I even sleep well at night

Is that right?

Have you noticed anything unusual?

No

I see

Actually...

What is it?

It's rather odd. But...

my dreams have been getting longer

How long. Exactly?

Last night...

I was i n my dreams for a month

Doctor. What's goi ng on?

Success

Success?

I mean. She looks great
thanks to your treatment

But her symptoms match M ukouda's!
Perhaps it's contagious?

Impossi ble. No such virus
has been detected

But...

Like I explai ned before.

seeing a long dream is nothing
but a halluci nation

And Mami's well now

Forget such futile inquiries

In any case.
she's all yours now

I'm counting on you

Her dreams grew longer
by the day

Her symptoms advanced faster
than in Mukouda's case

This can't be normal...

Hello?

Ah. Miyama

Tal k?

At midnight?

Yes. I'd just gotten to the sixth
floor to attend to a patient. When...

Are you sure?

Yes. There's no mistake

What is it?

I nside...

Miyama!

Tell me about yesterday's dream

The dream was ten years long

It ends with me defeati ng
the woman in white

How come?

Because she was bad

Bad?

She tried to get between
me and Doctor Kuroda

You and...
Doctor Kuroda?

Right. We'd been lovers
for ten years

All those years.
she was threatening hi m...

that she'd tell on us
if we didn't break up

Tell what?

I'm not sure. But she was in the way.
so I k*lled her

Stabbed her with scissors!

It felt so real!

But. Seriously.
I actually do like Doctor...

I took care of the body

The cause of death is shock
from ex cessive bleedi ng

I doubt she suffered long

What about the police?

Mami's your first patient

You really want to hand her
to the police?

The act was committed as
an extension of her dream

She can't be charged with
a crime anyway

It would blemish your career

It certainly wouldn't be
in her best interest

Do you really want to
abandon her mid... treatment?

I...

Listen

This never happened

And I'm getting rid of this tape

What is that?

Supplements...
I haven't been feeling well

You've got bags under your eyes

I know

Ever since Mukouda died,
he's clearly been acting strange

I couldn't shake my
lingering suspicion that...

the doctor was hiding something

I was determined to
find out what it was

Doctor. Who's this?

Will you be staying here
again tonight?

No. I'm meeti ng someone tomorrow.
so I made a hotel reservation

I see...
I'll sleep over here. Then

I'm worried about Mami. So...

Ah. Please do

Yes. Well...
Good night

Kana Sakurai

Benign tumor

Death by suffocation caused by
excessive intake of Phenobarbital

A female patient at Akatsuki Hospital
has committed suicide...



...reportedly deranged since
learning of her tumor worsening...

...and amid suspicion of
euthanasia by Doctor Kuroda...

...who we just learned was
engaged to the deceased...

...acquitted due to
insufficient evidence...

To Shusuke Kuroda

I'm not about to die

I'm not going to wait for you in
the eternal world of dreams

With love...

Kana Sakurai

Karte 'Long Dream'?

Leaving only his weathered remains,

his spirit set out into his
eternal dream

From his rotted brain,

I discovered an unknown,
crystallized substance

This substance must have something
to do with the man's strange dreams

Yet endless observations through
a microscope yielded nothing

What if this is my path
to Kana's world?

I need a clinical trial on a human

Doctor Kuroda,
what is this shot for?

It's to help you sleep well

No need to worry

Nothing at all

What's the matter. Yamauchi?

How could you?

That substance was
completely unknown

To determi ne its effects.

a clinical trial on the human body
was absol utely necessary

That's how medici ne advances

And it was a success

You call that success?

I took away her fear of death

With that crystal substance.

mankind can at last attain
immortality

What you performed was an
ill*gal human experiment!

An affront to everyone who endures
that fear of death!

You're no doctor

With that tape as evidence.

I'm reporting you to the police

Calm down. Yamauchi

You've lost your head

Your feelings for Mami are
clouding your judgment

You're jealous of me

Yes...

You're right

I liked Mami

But look who's talking!

You did it all for your
dead gi rlfriend. Kana!

She's not dead!

Kana's just...

gone to the world of dreams

To join her in that world
of dreams forever.

I needed those crystals

But why... why...?

Why won't it work on me?

Why won't my dreams get longer?

That's not all

I've stopped dreaming
completely...

Kana!

I see now

So those crystals had no effect
on you. Huh?

The world of eternal dreams
wouldn't let you in

You didn't qualify

It's poetic justice

You'd trespassed into forbidden
territory

And now you're bei ng punished...

by d reams...

What do you know!

You wouldn't understand!

You wouldn't...!

Kana!

Good...

Bye...

Bye...

Kana...

Kana!

Kana!

Patient: Shusuke Kuroda


Illness: Unknown

...several days in one night...

...it was contagious...
...so I k*lled him...

...a whole month...
...Death himself...

...you haven't seen my d reams...

...how can you say that...
...the God of Death...

Are you awake now. Kuroda?

Kana