Say Hi to Shinigami

If death is a game which you can decide the outcome,
how do you decide whether it should be EXECUTE or PASS OVER?

Sweet rain @ 死神の精度 (Accuracy of Death)
Adaption from novel by Kotaro Isaka

Everyone's death is foretold. But, suspension might happen.
Chiba, a Shinigami (there are more than one Shinigamis out there!) is assigned to evaluate those who are about to die in 7 days.
Then, he made the decision. Execute, or Pass Over?

The three cases started with Kazue Fujiki. An Office Lady with no hope in her world.
Verdict: PASS OVER

Next, the fate of the Older Yakuza is passed to him. He will be double-crossed while in a revenge.
Verdict: EXECUTE one day after he saved his chinpira Akatsu

Finally, Chiba is assigned to a 70-year-old hairdresser. The task has challenged his accuracy of making decisions ...
Verdict: CHECK IT YOURSELF in the movie

Although seems to involve in three different scenarios, Chiba is actually altering the life of solely one person.
Kazue Fujiki's, exactly.
If you are careful enough, you can link all three cases into a big picture.

This is why the term "accuracy" comes.
You made two decisions. In the end, both come to a final scenario.
There, you have to make a final verdict, and also a self-evaluation on how well were you in that.



How is the worth of a living human calculated? One's responsibility or one's happiness?
Chiba extends Fujiki's life, thinking that she has incomplete tasks.
However, the people around her are facing mishaps. She even ended up abandoning her own son.
Did Chiba make wrong decisions? It's subjective.

"What do you think about death?" should better be intepreted as "What do you think about life?"
They are in contrary, yet unseparable.



In the movie, what Chiba encounters is always rainy days. He has never seen sunny day and blue sky before.
While the movie theme song, sung by Manami Konishi (or Kazue FUjiki in the movie), is named SUNNY DAY.

SUNNY DAY

koboreochita no wa
namida jyanaku inoru koe
miagete ita no wa
kumo no ue no taiyou

nemuru youni ikite ita
itsumo kodoku datta
kimi ni deau sono hi made wa
zutto zutto koko de

hitori demo utaeru
ai no uta ga aru toshite mo
hitori de wa sagasenai
ryoute ni fureta kono nukumori

kamen wo matoeba
wasurerareru kigashiteta
kioku wo shimatta
hako ni kagi wo kakete

anna kurai basho de sae
kimi wo mitsukedaseta
modoru koto ga dekinakute mo
motto motto tooku

hitorikiri oboeta
ai no uta ga aru toshite mo
hitori de wa todokanai
doa no mukou de matsu ashita e
koko kara mou ichido arukidasu
with you...

kanashimi wo yasashisa ni
kaete miseru kara
itsuka wa kanarazu
hontou no jibun wo yurusetara
itami mo kieteku
kitto

hitori demo utaeru
ai no uta wa mou iranai
hitori de wa sagasenai
hidamari no youna kono nukumori
kimi to nara sagaseru
mita koto no nai ashita wo

What spilled down
wasn’t a tear but a praying voice
What I looked up at
was the sun above the clouds

I was living like I was asleep
I was always alone
Until the day I meet you
I am always, always here

Even if there’s a love song
I could sing by myself
The warmth of the touch of two hands
can’t be found alone

I put on a mask
to feel like I have been forgotten
I shut away my memories
and locked them in a box

Even in a dark place
I will be able to find you
Even if I can’t return
I’ll keep going farther, farther

Even if there’s a love song
that I can experience alone,
I won't appreciate it
From here, I’ll walk out once more
Toward the door to tomorrow
With you…

I’ll transform sadness
into kindness
And someday,
once I’ve set my true self free
the pain will disappear
I know it

I don’t need a love song which
I can sing by myself anymore
A warm place like sunshines
can’t be found alone
Together, we can find a tomorrow which is never seen

"A warm place like sunshine ... where is it?"
Heavy rain in Johor Bahru now.