La llave

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[English subtitled version]

Kimura: [breaking the fourth wall in talking directly into the camera] Man's aging is believed to begin at the age of ten. Eyes begin to lose their elasticity at ten. Ears begin to dull at twenty. Man's eyesight begins to weaken at forty. His sense of taste becomes blunt at fifty. His sense of smell abates at sixty. Then, at seventy, he loses two-thirds of his physical functions. This theory says a man becomes twelve millimeters shorter every twenty years. This theory may not be conclusive. Yet no one can escape the effects of aging. It is inevitable. You too.

Kimura: [after smiling and laughing] This is the interesting case of a pathetic man who attempted to fight aging. He's not a complete stranger to me.

[the scene opens up to show that Kimura is in his medical office with middle-age patient, Kenji Kenmochi, about who he was speaking]