MEMORIES

About the story

This film consists of three unrelated stories. "Magnetic Rose": In 2092, a space-debris salvage ship led by Ivanov receives a distress signal from a "cosmic graveyard" on its return journey. Strangely, the signal contains passages from the opera Madama Butterfly. Crew members Heinz and Miguel go to help, only to enter the memories of an opera singer named Eva. These lifelike remembered scenes become a threat to the crew. "Stink Bomb": Nobuo Tanaka, a low-ranking employee at a pharmaceutical company, returns to work despite being ill and accidentally takes an experimental drug developed jointly by his company and the military. He becomes a living factory producing a deadly stench. Entirely unaware of this, Nobuo follows his superior's orders to deliver drug samples to the Tokyo headquarters, causing widespread panic along the way. The military has no choice but to send large numbers of troops to intercept and kill him. "Cannon Fodder": In a steam-powered city, a family of three begins another day. The mother goes to work in a shell factory, the father serves as a loader at a gun battery, and the young son learns about cannons at school. The battery fires ceaselessly, yet the enemy never appears…