So, what it the actual story of the book?
It's said by a character in this film that it was originally a story that had been translated word-for-word. So when translated back, word-for-word, and then translated properly, what is it?
shareWe never find out. It doesn't matter, anyway.
If you did actually translate anything word for word from English to Japanese and back again, it would make no sense at all. You can't translate like that, the languages are too different. That's the point of the story.