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CELLULOID NIGHTMARES

- They filmed themselves cutting her up

and left a part of the body with the video.

- Scary, right?

- Ritual killing, maybe?

- Only in Japan.

"Do you have a job for Crime Hunter?

Please leave a message after the tone.“

- I can't help you.

- You won't do it?

How off-putting.

Can you put those on for me?

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- Thank you.

- Akira, how long are you going to go on watching that?

Can't you watch it at work?

- A customer left it behind.

- Why don't you keep it, then?

Come on, let's do it.

Let's commit incest.

Be gentle.

It hurts.

- Is filming at night your hobby?

You're a funny guy.

Or not, maybe.

- It's for video club.

- Hey, show me what you just shot.

The woman being forced into the car.

- The warning light came on.

- You mean it didn't record?

- I think it's broken.

- But we can still play it back, right?

This is from when you were running with the camera?

Do you want me to look into it?

- That won't be necessary.

- Know what they call these?

- Yeah, videos.

- UVF.

- "UVF"?

- Yeah, my friend from America told me about them.

"Underground Video Film."

The most extreme stuff out there.

Stuff that's completely illegal.

I'm talking about KKK lynchings.

Black men killing and raping white women.

Raping little girls, etc., etc.

Can't put those out on the shelves, right?

- So you think this is one of those UVF?

- Japanese UVF, maybe.

- Piqued your interest, Miss Crime Hunter?

- Take me to where you work next time.

- Why are you so interested?

- I've tried a lot of other places, but not the sex industry, yet.

- Good morning.

- You're late.

I'm going out for a bit. - Okay.

See you later.

- Who are they? - The girl's name is Mari.

The guy with sunglasses is Cross.

We call him Mr. Spielberg.

Why?

- I feel like I've seen them somewhere before.

What does "Spielberg" mean?

- He's a movie director famous for producing smash hit blockbusters.

- Maybe I saw him in a magazine.

- Cross had a hit movie called Sleepwalking.

- Sleepwalking?

A girl accidentally swallows a bug.

But the bug carries on growing inside her body.

It's writhing around in there,

and the girl is writhing around with it in agony and ecstasy.

At the end of the movie, the bug crawls out of her vagina.

But the bug can only survive inside her body.

So they both end up dying. It's like a lovers' suicide.

But it's kind of cool.

It's very Cross.

- It sounds kind of creepy.

I think it was probably shot on a good camera.

You feel this kind of slippery ecstasy.

The girl who swallows the bug looks a bit like Mari.

- The girl from just now? - Yeah.

I asked her about it once. - What did she say?

- She laughed and said it wasn't her.

- [Recording] You've reached Office Cross, but I'm at Omega right now.

If you'd like to leave a message, please do so after the tone.

- Omega?

I'd like to interview you on behalf of Video Zone magazine.

- Hey, Akira.

How can you watch that video every day?

It's really weird.

I get that you're watching it so closely because you're in the video club,

but isn't this a bit much?

- I'm pretty sure she was murdered.

- What? The girl in the video?

Come on, it's just a movie.

You in love with her or something?

What can you do with a dead girl?

- Hello?

- The results came back.

The bracelet you brought in had type B blood on it.

Probably the woman's.

- You can tell the gender?

- Someone sent us a woman's bloody fingernail.

It's exactly like the one in the video.

- Is that guy here?

- You mean Akira?

He hasn't come in yet.

Who are you?

- This is me.

- "Crime Hunter"?

What does that mean?

- Well, I investigate things.

- There's nothing going on here.

- Like I said, I'm here to see him.

- How do you know him?

- I'm a customer.

- Want a light? It's nothing fancy, though.

All part of the service.

- You seem familiar.

Aren't you the girl in Sleepwalking?

- People keep asking me that.

ButsheB young, right?

I'm too old to be her.

- Women can change, can't they?

Tell him to call me.

Mr. Cross? - That's right.

- I'm from Video Zone. You didn't return my call.

- Sorry, I'm not giving interviews right now.

- I heard you used to work at the TV station?

- TV, huh?

You're not a reporter, are you?

You should leave now.

Take your clothes off.

- What?

- All of them.

Do your job right!

- Just like back on Sleepwalking, huh?

Weren't you going to make a sequel? Why haven't you?

You don't like the leading lady?

- I made that film for you.

- So I'm not worth making a film for anymore?

- Hello?

Who is this?

Who are you?

Why didn't you call me?

- Why would I?

- Your boss didn't give you the message?

- I guess she was busy.

- The bracelet I found outside the building where I met you

had type B blood on it.

- Blood? What does that mean?

- I saw the video of the moment that woman was attacked.

- What woman?

- You must have seen who shot it.

- It was too dark to see anything.

- The camera had a light on it. You must have seen something.

Answer me! - It was dark when I was there.

- Hey!

- [Recording] Do you have a job for Crime Hunter?

Please leave a message after the tone.

- You like ambushing people, don't you? If you're following me...

- You can drive, right? - Yeah.

- Someone tried to run me over.

Just so you know, I figured out why you didn't see who shot the video.

It was you, wasn't it?

- Fancy being in a video?

- Huh?

- Cross is looking for a model.

He asked me if you were interested.

- A video, huh?

- Aren't you excited? It's for Cross.

- You're the one who'd be excited.

- You should audition, if you're interested.

- If I'm interested...

- Why don't you try dancing? I'll film it.

I'll show Cross the video.

- Where'd you get the camera?

- It was lying around at work, so I took it.

- Oh, my.

- Hurry up. I'll take it back soon.

Cross asked if she wanted to be in a video, so I filmed her.

- She's not much of an actress.

- Whose is it? - Huh?

- The camera.

- A customer left it behind.

- They forgot it?

- Let's close the office down soon,

so we can focus on Omega.

- You think we should?

- It's who you've always been.

- It's not like at the TV station.

That was real.

All of it.

- Yeah. It was a war.

But we went too far on that news show and ended up faking it.

- Leave it alone.

- Why?

I told you back then not to take it seriously,

that it didn't matter if it was fake.

- I don't remember.

- Why did you send me the photos?

- What photos?

- Where have you been?

- Watching videos.

She's screaming.

The girl in the video is screaming.

Shek screaming for help.

Butshe was killed.

She died.

I'm sure she's dead.

Wait, Cross.

Where are you going?

Wait, Cross, please.

Open the door.

Hey, Cross!

Talk to me, please!

Hey!

Where are you going?

- Where are you going? Come back!

- Want to know?

- Where are they going? - Omega.

- Where's that? - Shall I give you a lift?

You wanted to know about the videos?

I'll tell you.

This is Studio Omega.

We shoot nude movies.

UVF too.

Omega.

Great name, right?

It's from Cross' favorite poem.

“Oh, Omega,

the violet radiance of those eyes!"

I'll make you feel good.

Who's there?

Akira.

- You did it with this?

- Did what?

- Tomoe.

- You'll have to give me the project number.

- Put that down!

- You came to save me, right?

You said the girl in the video was screaming for help.

- The video?

- The girl who was raped.

It was me.

- What?

- I didn't want to look.

But I couldn't help myself.

Two years ago...

I was horribly scarred.

So I had extensive plastic surgery.

I quit training to be a newscaster and became Crime Hunter.

Ironic though, isn't it?

This case brought me into contact with the ones who shot the video.

- So you were the girl from back then.

That was a great experience.

It was my modified camera that inspired you.

You made something too.

You remade yourself.

I filmed you remaking yourself with my remade camera.

It's my latest picture.

- You're insane.

- And you're not?

What do you mean?

- I'm cold-blooded.

The cold-blooded kill.

The hot-blooded get killed.

That's all there is to it.

You survived because your blood is cold.

But now I need you to go back inside the camera.

- You have to go back.

Go back to your old face.

- You can't die twice.

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SCRIPT BY SHIRO YUMENO

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY SATOSHI SHIMOMOTO

MUSIC BY SO HAYAKAWA

DIRECTED BYA H ISAYASU SATO

English subtitles by Hayley Scanlon