Edit/Notice: If you post my screenshots somewhere, at least have the decency to INCLUDE THE FUCKING ICE CREAM.
Edit/Notice 2: Oro pm’ed me on IRC about how we get the ISO, apparently he had been told that I downloaded it from p2p. We buy it through a person living in Japan and they rip it for us.
Welp, my usual “hey guys I have the ISO here’s some screenshots” thread on /jp/ got deleted earlier tonight so I’ll post some here instead. Except I feel retarded about making image dump posts here unless they’re images of Schneizel so here’s a vague and shallow summary attached to some screenshots.
ufotable’s claymation this time is about eating and drinking during movies. Rin and Sakura from the last claymation join the characters in the audience watching the film, which is now Rider on a bike. Shiki gets irritated by Neko Arc slurping loudly and Touko going munch munch. (The katakana around her is boribori, the onomatopoeia for munching.) Shiki uses her trusty knife to destroy a bo-shape.
Movie 4, The Hollow: garan-no-dou, begins with Shiki being taken to the hospital before the time skip at the end of Movie 2, making it take place 2nd chronologically. While Shiki is laying unconscious in the hospital over 2 years, there are scenes inside of her head. Initially it’s filled with other figures, but they all vanish. Her other personality, the male SHIKI, dies while inside of her. There’s a scene inside of her head where the two Shiki’s are drifting away from each other, and Shiki seemingly becomes hollow then.
After SHIKI dies, Shiki awakens and sees things differently now with her eyes. She turns towards a note and vase of roses on the nightstand and sees black and red acid trip-looking lines across them. Later when the doctor comes to talk to her, she’s shaken by her new vision and tries to shove her palms in her eyes to make the lines go away. Kokutou, who is called a loyal puppy by the hospital staff, comes to visit her but the nurse turns him away due to her attempt to smash her eyeballs in.
Shiki refuses to speak to anyone at the hospital and gets diagnosed with a speech impairment. A speech therapist comes to talk to Shiki who turns out to be Kokutou’s boss, Touko. She’s come there on purpose pretending to be a speech therapist to talk with Shiki. At night time, various spirits wander the hospital. One takes the form of SHIKI and tells Shiki that he’s going to enter her (shut up about sex jokes). Later after some conversations of tl;dr between Touko and Shiki about SHIKI’s death that I don’t fully understand, the spirit manages to enter another patient and turns them into a zombie of sorts. Using this body, the spirit attacks Shiki saying he’s going to enter again. With bandages still over her eyes, Shiki tries to escape her attacker and ends up jumping out of her window. Touko shows up outside of the hospital and casts fire magic using a cigarette, but it’s super not effective.
Touko can’t kill the zombie because it’s already dead and she tells Shiki that she can’t either, but Shiki points out it’s technically alive and animated so she’s going to kill it. During the convos of tl;dr that I skipped over in the previous paragraph because I was trying to cheat at writing the summary, something important was discussed that I now need to bring up to continue on: Shiki’s life and SHIKI’s death and the generic stuff that anime characters say about being alive and filling your empty/hollow self with something. Basically, after confronting all of that through talking with Touko, then jumping out of a window to save herself thus proving that she does value her life although kinda recklessly, Shiki leveled up and is no longer hollow. She is now filled with memories of Kokutou singing “Singin’ in the Rain” in horrible Engrish. Touko passes her a knife which she uses to cut her hair then she cuts the lines and destroys the physical host of the spirit. The spirit enters Shiki next and Shiki sticks her knife into her chest to kill the spirit.
Next time on Kara no Kyoukai, Paradox Spiral: Paradox Paradigm a.k.a. “Nakata Jouji in a 2hr long movie that all of the KnK novel people have said is going to be awesome.” (Also, the return of strawberry ice cream.) I found movie 4 to be refreshing because the plot wasn’t driven by “random murders around town” unlike the first 3. The movie uses an instrumental version of the ending theme, aria, during some scenes but I would keep hearing the lyrics playing in my head because of the karaoke.

I honestly can’t wait for the translation, I’m as happy as a little puppy now. :D