Taiko’s Code

Taiko’s Code (太鼓のコード: 世紀末, Taiko No Kōdo: Seikimatsu (EN: The Code of Taiko: End of the Century) is the first movie in the Taiko’s Code series. 
== Production ==
A former employee from Studio Ghibli, Higuchi Isamu, came up with the idea during a brainstorming session to have an anime-styled movie with a secret code. Higuchi’s idea was laughed at and thrown out, until nine years after his retirement, 2004, when a Ghibli employee dug through ideas in an old trash can and found his idea. This time, it was not dismissed as a hilarious joke and got made into a movie.
== Script ==
=== Opening Scene ===
# There were two people in the ancient land of Taiko that believed in the gods of the sky and one day, the gods told them to make a secret code. One code that would be only known by the divine interventions of the people and be spoken once in a century. The samurais brought the code to the town of Tochigi, where it was drowned in a water well for the people of the future to find.
# Tatami: Konichiwa! I'm Tatami, a resident in Tochigi.
# Sathe (falls from the sky): AAAAAAAAA! YOU ARE THE KEY, TOCHIGI! GO TO THE CODE!
# Tatami: What code?
# Sathe (pointing to the local water well): The code in the well.
# Tatami: There's no code...
# Sathe: Follow me.
# (Shigeru, Tatami's husband, follows Tatami and Sathe.)
# Shigeru: Hello, I'm Shigeru.
# Sathe: Hello, Shigeru!
# (Sathe, Tatami and Shigeru arrive at the water well.)
# Tatami: I never noticed that katana before.
# (Sathe pulls the katana and slices the well like how a samurai slices bamboo.)
# Shigeru: I've always wanted to go inside that well since I was a child.
# Sathe: Well, you're in luck! The code is inside.
# (Tatami and Shigeru follow Sathe to a secret entrance that hasn't been opened in a century.)
# Tatami: Wow.
# Sathe: And there it is.
# (A centenarian emerges out of nowhere. He tells them to go away.)
# Yushin: GO AWAY, YOU THREE! THIS IS A SECRET PLACE!
# Sathe: No.
# Yushin: Oh, never mind. Hello, my dear Sathe. And who are you two?
# Tatami: I'm Tatami, and this is Shigeru.￼
# Yushin: I'm sorry, but I will reveal the code if you are selected by the gods, and that will happen in...
# (Yushin checks his watch.) 
# Yushin: …about one minute. Uh-oh, better rush!
# (Thunder strikes.)
# Yushin: It is time. 
# (Yushin blows a big warhorn-shaped object. It makes a sound resembling an Aztec death whistle pitched lower. Sathe grabs their hands and walks up the steps. A crowd is gathered and a cloud resembling a finger makes lightning strikes that eventually morph into a strong and powerful voice known as the God.)
=== The Picking ===
# God: Konichiwa.
# (Everyone bows towards the cloud.)
# Everyone: Oss!
# God: I will now pick the receiver of the code. I have been very observant, and I have warned last century’s receiver about the perfect qualities of his successor, and he has picked several candidates. Unfortunately, all of them have turned down the offer.
# (A murmur erupts.)
# God: I have given many clues to you all, and the answer is…
# (The murmur stops and lightning strikes on Tatami.)
# God: Tatami!
# (Tatami is whisked away by Yushin into the well.)
=== The Code ===
# Yushin: I am 124 years old, and I am the previous receiver. The code grants you immortality.
# Tatami: Oss.
# Yushin: Ski and listen to me. This is the only reading of the code, but before, go to the soundproof room.
# (Tatami goes into the Japanese bowing position, then follows Yushin to the soundproof room.)
# Yushin: I shall read the code in san, ni, ichi...now.
# (Tatami listens attentively.)
# Yushin: Force upon and believe in placebos, and the death will stop. 55,515. Repeat after me, and all sadness will disappear tomorrow. 55,515, this placebo of sadness does not work, let the placebo of happiness affect me in feelings and calmness.
# Tatami: 55,515, this placebo of sadness does not work, let the placebo of happiness affect me in feelings and calmness.
# (Yushin talks but without any sound coming out from it. A song plays as a montage of videos of Yushin explaining the code and Tatami repeating it follows immediately.)