THE DIRECTOR'S WORDS

Why do we have to face inescapable suffering in the course of living?
It is especially hard for a person who pursue the rightness sincerely.

It is our reality that people with wrong thoughts attain power
and those who seek the truth are in derision.

When I see the ferocity of justified insanity which sweeps over the world,
I am obliged to doubt the raison d' etre of human beings.

Does the universe really needs human beings to exist?
Humans might be malformed-noxious beasts which have evolved by mistake.

Upon occasion, however, I find out sublimity in this absurd living creature.
Then, I discover eternity and infinity in the depth of the sublimity.

Within this ugly creature, the totality of the world is hiding.
Further, the living thing possesses "nothingness"
which is beyond the reach of Nature…

For that reason, I extremely affirm this pathetic living being.
Of its possibility…and potential, more than its reality.

The immense love that we capture in the end of ultimate abhorrence.
That is the power which this film creates.

I strongly hope that
a stream of power will drain into the tranquil ocean
which exists at the abyss of our soul
and then grow into furtile brilliancy.

TSUCHIHASHI MASAHIRO