Woo La La/Transcript

The following is a transcript of the upcoming 2024 animated film, Woo La La.

Part 1: Prologue/Opening Titles
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Narrator: Have you ever felt like you were in a different country with different culture but on the same planet?

(The scene fades to a hand-drawn animated sequence that begins at the blue sky with several clouds flying by. The camera pans down to the city of Tokyo in Japan.)

Narrator: Like you had some good stuff in your country's culture to share with the world, if you could get people to see and know them well?

(The camera pans to Amai's house on a hill near Tokyo where 7-year-old Amai and his parents are having a peaceful day.)

Narrator: Then you know exactly where and when the story begins. It begins at this small house on a hill near the city of Tokyo in Japan, and this story... is about me.

(The camera zooms in through the window to reveal young Amai watching TV with his parents.)

Narrator: My name is Amai Kato. You may know me as the sweetest person in Japan, right? Yep, my parents were also sweet.

(The camera pans to Amai's mother.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) This is my mother, Aiko.

(The camera pans to Amai's father.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) And this is my father, Akira.

(The camera zooms out to reveal Amai's parents sitting together on the couch.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) They were a long-time couple a few years before I was born. However, this leads to a problem.

(The camera zooms out through the window and pans away from Amai's house to a building in Tokyo, where a greedy collector lives.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) Where there are couples, there's this evil place, a place that comes with an evil person with an evil plan to get rid of romance and love.

(The camera zooms in through the window to reveal Warui. He is throwing darts at pictures of couples on the wall.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) That is Warui. He's mean-spirited, ruthless, and greedy. He's a businessman who hates everything that has to do with romance, love, and sex, especially couples. He thinks couples, or groups of two lovers, are stupid and have absolutely nothing to do with life in Japan.

(Warui goes to his secret laboratory and visits the statue of a dragon in the statue room.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) Whenever he sees a couple, he brings legendary creatures to life to track them down.

(Warui hits the gong, unleashing the dragon inside the statue and bringing it to life. The dragon is large and powerful and is trained to hunt down couples. It flies off to track down Amai's parents. The scene cuts back to young Amai and his parents watching TV. The TV screen quickly goes to static.)

Akira: What the hell is going on here?

Aiko: I don't know.

(The TV screen quickly switches to the news channel.)

Japanese News Anchorman: 私たち中断しますこれプログラムニュース速報用. ご存知のように、ワルイという名の貪欲なコレクターは、彼が目にするすべてのカップルを追跡するために赤いドラゴンを解き放ちました. ドラゴンがあなたを攻撃しようとしているので、すぐにドアをロックし、窓をふさいでください. 定期的に予定されているすべてのテレビ番組は、ドラゴンがいなくなるまで再開されません. それは今のところすべてですの上NHKニュース7. 良い一日を. (We interrupt this program for breaking news. As you all know, a greedy collector named Warui has unleashed a red dragon to track down every couple he sees. We ask that you must lock your doors and block your windows immediately because the dragon is coming to attack you. All regularly scheduled television programming will not resume until the dragon is gone. That's all for now on NHK News 7. Have a good day.)

(The TV screen switches to the SMPTE color bars test screen.)

Akira: Oh, shit. This is bad.

Aiko: I know!

(Young Amai and his parents are worried about the dragon tracking them down. The scene cuts to the red dragon flying in the sky as he looks for Amai's parents. The dragon sees a house on a hill near Tokyo and flies over there. He then lands on the ground and finds young Amai and his parents. They see the dragon and try to hide, but the dragon busts down the door and is about to attack Amai's parents. Aiko turns to young Amai.)

Aiko: Amai, listen to me very carefully. This is very important.

Young Amai: What is it, Mom? What's happening?

Aiko: The dragon is coming to get me and your father.

Young Amai: Why?

Aiko: Because we're a married couple. That's why. Amai, this is your chance to escape from that dragon. Now, go! Save yourself!

Young Amai: But Mom, I can't leave without you!

Aiko: You must! It's your only chance to survive! I love you, my son. Remember this. Just remember it! Goodbye, Amai.

(Young Amai slowly steps back, turns around, runs out of the house, and hides in the woods as the red dragon eats his parents. They are never seen again, and the red dragon flies away. Young Amai comes out of hiding and walks back to the house only to find that his parents are indeed gone.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) My parents were gone. The dragon ate them.

(Young Amai sadly walks away and enters the city of Tokyo. The scene fades to young Amai sadly walking on the sidewalk.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) I walked away from the small house on the hill and entered the city of Tokyo, where I spend the rest of my life.

(Young Amai stops to see an orphanage in Tokyo. He goes to check it out. He walks to the front door and knocks on it. The door opens, revealing a man. He's the orphanage director. He looks down and sees young Amai.)

Japanese Orphanage Director: こんにちはそこの、少し男の子. あなたはここで何をしているの？ 迷子か何か？ (Hello there, little boy. What are you doing here? Are you lost or something?)

(Young Amai nods.)

Japanese Orphanage Director: おお！ それを聞いてとても残念です. 心配しないで！ 私はあなたの世話をしますそれまで私探す誰かに採用あなた. どうぞ入ってください. (Oh! I'm so sorry to hear that. Don't worry! I'll take good care of you until I find someone to adopt you. Please come in.)

(Young Amai enters the orphanage, and the orphanage director closes the front door.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) I went to the orphanage shortly after the death of my parents. The orphanage director was taking care of me since then.

(The scene fades to the orphanage 3 years later. That's when 10-year-old Amai gets adopted by a 34-year-old woman named Ying Yamada. The two get out of the orphanage and start walking to their apartment.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) Three years later, I was adopted by my new mother. Her name is Ying Yamada. As a result, I changed my name to Amai Yamada.

(Young Amai looks at Ying Yamada. She smiles at him. He smiles back at her.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) Oh, how I look up to her. I want to be like her one day.

(The scene cuts to young Amai and Ying walking together on the sidewalk to their apartment.)

Amai: (narrating off-screen) As I was saying, Ying adopted me and let me stay in her apartment. She's been taking care of me ever since. But there is one question that will change my life and my fate. Will the red dragon ever return if I have a girlfriend who is just as sweet and beautiful as me? No one would ever know unless it's true.

(The camera pans up to the blue sky.)

Warner Bros. Pictures Presents

In Association With Toho and Toei Animation

A Black Label Media and Apatow Productions Production

In Association With Marza Animation Planet and Kadokawa Daiei Studio

A Richard LaGravenese Film

(The text "OOH LA LA" fades in and freezes for 3 seconds. The "H" from the word "OOH" from "OOH LA LA" suddenly transforms into a "W". The "W" moves to the beginning of the word, thus creating a new word "WOO", which in turn creates the film's title "WOO LA LA". The opening sequence ends as the film's title fades away, and the scene changes from 2D anime-style hand-drawn animation to 3D CGI animation. The movie begins as the camera pans down to the city of Tokyo 14 years later.)

14 YEARS LATER

(The camera zooms in through the buildings and pans down to the streets in Tokyo.)

Part 2: Amai Goes to Work
Coming soon!