A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4.

“I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.”

– John Triton

“It's a lot of work, ya know, just staying alive.”

– Rosemary Scott

Someone naps or sleeps*

“I guess we like each other a lot, huh?”

– Monika Eriksson

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.

Someone goes to a spa, beach, or retreat*

“There’s something almost poetic about finding a hairpin in the bath. It’s like the sole of my foot has been pierced by poetry.”

– Nanmura, via

Relaxing at an onsen, a soldier steps on the titular kanzashi. Now injured with too much time on his hands, he and his fellow nosy patrons go out looking for its owner.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.

Everything's expensive: someone is a at bank or ATM*

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.

“Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell.”

– Lt. Sam Lubinsky

“I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on.”

– Ansell

“The house takes care of itself.”

– Roz Allardyce