For anyone coming here after all these years : The guy didn't understand shit to the movie.
His sister is dead, and she wished to sacrifice her life to save the village from starvation.
Hinted throughout the movie.
The "dream" Budori sees is the afterlife. You've seen Night on the Galactic Railroad, you could've easily guessed that. He's taken to court because for some reason, Budori, like Giovanni in Night on the Galactic Railroad, is the only one with random access to the afterlife although he's still alive. That world can also be seen as Budori's internal conflict, trying to cope with the death of his sister and not accepting it (especially since whenever he's out of that dream world, he never even talks about his sister at all. It's only when he's in it that he searches her, hinting that in the real world he probably knows that she's dead, but whenever he's all alone and only with himself (dreaming), he still wants to believe she's alive and was taken).
When he "trusts" the judge ("supernatural cat") at the end, after making a wish in silence, it instantly hints you that this cat is from the afterlife and takes people's life in exchange of wishes, if they're willing to sacrifice themselves. And just like Budori does at the end of the movie, you can guess that it's probably exactly what happened at the beginning of the movie, except Neri made the wish.
This is about self-sacrifice, just like Night on the Galactic Railroad. And you've even seen both, how could you miss the point? What's so hard to get?
Also, I think the soundtrack is a ton better than Night on the Galactic Railroad.
For most of the movie (before the wish at the end and the last dream where the judge says he "trepassed" in that dream world), you don't really understand anything, but then it all becomes clear, which makes this a movie that's actually interesting to rewatch, because you won't be like "wait, what's happening again?" during half of the movie if you rewatch it. Was a little boring at the beginning since the explanations came so late, but in the end it becomes all clear if you actually use your head instead of watching with your brain turned off.
For anyone coming here after all these years : The guy didn't understand shit to the movie.
His sister is dead, and she wished to sacrifice her life to save the village from starvation.
Hinted throughout the movie.
The "dream" Budori sees is the afterlife. You've seen Night on the Galactic Railroad, you could've easily guessed that. He's taken to court because for some reason, Budori, like Giovanni in Night on the Galactic Railroad, is the only one with random access to the afterlife although he's still alive. That world can also be seen as Budori's internal conflict, trying to cope with the death of his sister and not accepting it (especially since whenever he's out of that dream world, he never even talks about his sister at all. It's only when he's in it that he searches her, hinting that in the real world he probably knows that she's dead, but whenever he's all alone and only with himself (dreaming), he still wants to believe she's alive and was taken).
When he "trusts" the judge ("supernatural cat") at the end, after making a wish in silence, it instantly hints you that this cat is from the afterlife and takes people's life in exchange of wishes, if they're willing to sacrifice themselves. And just like Budori does at the end of the movie, you can guess that it's probably exactly what happened at the beginning of the movie, except Neri made the wish.
This is about self-sacrifice, just like Night on the Galactic Railroad. And you've even seen both, how could you miss the point? What's so hard to get?
Also, I think the soundtrack is a ton better than Night on the Galactic Railroad.
For most of the movie (before the wish at the end and the last dream where the judge says he "trepassed" in that dream world), you don't really understand anything, but then it all becomes clear, which makes this a movie that's actually interesting to rewatch, because you won't be like "wait, what's happening again?" during half of the movie if you rewatch it. Was a little boring at the beginning since the explanations came so late, but in the end it becomes all clear if you actually use your head instead of watching with your brain turned off.