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- Mr. Yajima, how are you feeling?

- "Yajima"?

- I guess you still don't remember.

You've lost your memory.

We've been calling you "Akira Yajima."

You sustained damage to your hypothalamus.

- My hypothalamus? - Yes.

There's a spot right here where your nerves converge.

If it's damaged, your sensory perception is dulled.

That's to say,

a man may take on the characteristics of a woman.

You're undergoing that process right now.

That's why I'm administering male hormones.

- So, that's what the nurse just gave me?

What happens if I stop treatment?

- Well, first of all, you'd lose interest in women.

- This isn't funny.

- Don't you think your beard is taking a while to grow?

Your hormones are all mixed up.

- That's enough.

Who am I?

- If you don't know, how should I?

- You must know something.

Tell me!

- I wasn't there when it happened.

I was told you were found lying in the street near the hospital.

A trainee nurse found you as she was passing by.

Maybe it was a hit and run?

She called to let us know.

S0 the nurse from just now,

she and the security guard brought you in.

I was put in charge of your case.

- A lot more young people

in the cities

are killing themselves.

But,

the problem is,

it's raining.

I don't have an umbrella

and I have to go out.

I have to see you.

I have to go to your city.

I'll get wet in the rain.

- Good morning.

- Miss Uchida? - Yes?

- Miss lkezawa will be here tomorrow, right?

- Yes, why do you ask?

- No reason.

She's always fussing over you

like a little sister, so I thought you'd know.

- She doesn't "fuss over" me.

She's a mystery to me too.

- [TV Audio] I'm here at the scene of the metal bat attack.

We'll now recreate events based on the victim's statement.

At about 12:30 AM last night,

Twenty-one-year-old Hiroshi Sasaki was returning from work

when he was suddenly struck on the head

from behind with a metal bat.

He was knocked out and did not see the attacker's face.

It may be the same perpetrator as the recent spate of metal bat attacks,

but there were no witnesses.

- No, don't.

- "Don't touch me directly."

"Use rubber gloves."

"Wear a condom."

"Human bodies are full of germs."

When I do this, I'm overcome by the urge

to take my scalpel and cut the body open

to see what it's like inside.

I think there's something wrong with me.

- But that's alright, isn't it?

- A lot more young people

in the cities

are killing themselves.

But,

the problem is,

it's raining.

- Can I borrow an umbrella?

- I don't have an umbrella. - Huh?

- I didn't bring one.

- What will you do?

- They get in the way.

- Out of the way!

- What happened to your arm?

L1lhave to report this.

- Don't.

- You were attacked.

- Reporting it will only put a target on your back.

- Did you remember something?

- No, it just seems that way to me.

- What happens if I die?

- Why would you ask me that?

- When someone with no memory dies, do they go to heaven or hell?

- Well, first you'd go to the morgue.

- The morgue?

- The pool where we store the bodies.

MORGUE

What are you doing here?

- I came to take a look.

Out for a nighttime stroll?

- You're not allowed in here.

- I wanted to go for a swim.

- Good morning. - Morning.

- Mr. Yajima is mysterious, isn't he? Just your type.

- Don't be silly.

- It just seems like you're fond of him.

- Amnesia's frightening, isn't it?

So I want him to get better as soon as possible.

- It's an occupational hazard in this industry,

falling for your patients.

- Don't call it an "industry."

- What's up with you? You're not normally this serious.

Anyway, please tell him not to go wandering around the hospital.

- Did something happen?

- He went to the morgue!

He's a real handful.

- You like baseball now? - I'm not getting enough exercise.

- Right.

You're always busy with research.

Why not a golf club, then?

- Something wrong with a bat?

- I didn't say that.

It suits you.

- Hello, there.

- Here to sell me some new medicine? Or do you have something else in mind?

- I do want to talk to her too, but I'm here on business.

Could I have a look at your bat?

- Hey!

- Sorry, old habits die hard.

- You played baseball?

- We made it to the finals in high school. We were winning in the first half.

Butthen it started to rain.

All our luck suddenly went down the drain.

We lost. So we never made it to Koshien.

NO LONGER IN BUSINESS

- Hey! Don't touch me!

- Why were you following me?

- I wanted to see where you were going.

- I was looking for them. - Huh?

- My memories.

- This is really all I had?

- I don't know.

- Will you help me?

To look for my memories.

- [TV Audio] It will continue to rain in the Tokyo area this morning,

with thick stagnant air.

The Meteorological Agency has described the month-long spell of continuous rain

as nothing more than "extreme weather" and has no contingency plans in place.

The extreme weather has provoked interest

from all quarters rather than just meteorologists.

Non-governmental organizations claim a Chernobyl-level nuclear disaster

in a neighboring Asian nation is the cause of the continuous rain.

If the rains continue,

it may cause a degree of psychological panic.

Events anticipating this state of panic have, in fact, already occurred,

such as the recent spate of metal bat attacks.

Now let's hear from crime commentator Takeshi Asakura

about the metal bat attacks which have been occurring recently.

While we're all put out by this rain,

it's possible that the attacker may be irritated by it.

- Oh! I forgot to pray.

- Good morning.

- Morning.

What's that?

- I've taken up golf.

- Can I have a look? - No way!

I've only just started, so I feel a bit embarrassed somehow.

- Why did you bring them, then?

- I can practice my swing when I get tired at night.

- Be gentle, won't you?

N0!

Stop!

N0!

N0!

Please.

CAN THE BODY AND MIND BE CONVERTED?

- Excuse me.

- The treatment of the hypothalamus is coming along nicely.

- I've been administering the medicine as you instructed,

but it doesn't seem to have reached the critical point you mentioned.

- Oh, really? I wonder why.

- He thinks of rne as a woman rather than as a nurse.

- Isn't that because you see him as a man and not a patient?

You're projecting your own perceptions.

- Why do you have to analyze everything?

- I'm a neurologist. It's my job.

- It may be second nature to you,

but don't you go analyzing me.

- You're in love with him, aren't you?

Yajima.

- A little something to speed your recovery.

- Is it medicine?

- Sand.

It's smooth and dry, but also sticky.

It's funny, isn't it?

A little bottle of mystery.

I get injections sometimes too.

At times like those I have this sensation that lasts for hours

like I've lost my memory.

- Don't make fun of me.

- It's true.

I'm like you.

- Like me?

- Ah, so you do know how to smile.

Don't.

Sorry for calling you over here.

But there's something I want you to see.

- This is the sand you were talking about?

- To me, everything outside of it is the sea.

- The sea?

- I feel afraid when I'm alone.

It makes me want to scream out loud.

- They're mine?

- They fell out of your pocket when I was bringing you into the hospital.

I kept meaning to give them back to you, but they frightened me.

- So these are my memories.

- Have you remembered something?

- Come on.

You bitch!

- Excuse me.

This is you, isn't it?

The man who attacked me had it.

- What are you talking about? - That's what I'd like to know.

Go back to your post.

- It's too much for you alone.

So I asked Miss Uchida to help.

' "Help"?

With the experiment, you mean? - Hey!

- You gave her the same thing you've been giving me?

- What are you trying to say?

- Did you think I didn't know?

- Experiment?

- He's conducting a series of experiments.

Right now, this guy is his guinea pig.

- In medicine, all patients are guinea pigs.

- How very like you.

- All doctors think it.

You treat the patient, but they die anyway.

So I gave up on all that.

I wanted to start over by myself.

- No.

Something that was always inside you has awoken.

- I see.

By the way, you're a bit of a clean freak, aren't you?

Sexually, too. An extreme case.

- Stop it.

- That's why you need me.

Butthen you, Yajima.

You showed up.

She was drawn to something in you.

Something aside from the sexual desire she feels for me.

Pure love, maybe?

Your heart and body want different things,

and so you resent me.

- You're probably right.

But...

What turned me into such a clean freak

was that six months ago,

I was raped at a print shop.

- How could you...

- I didn't tell anyone.

It was too painful.

I was in so much pain. - That's enough!

- Leave her alone.

- But, the experiment is real.

The medicine he's been giving you for your damaged hypothalamus

is female hormones, not male ones.

If you keep taking it, there's a chance that it'll turn you into a woman.

- You knew I was giving you male hormones, didn't you?

- It was fun, in the beginning.

Evenif I knew...

- This is all your fault!

- You're not getting enough exercise, huh?

_ H€y--'

- Your medicine's pretty effective.

- Give me the bat.

Hand it over.

- It's the male hormones.

- Hey, stop this!

- The next one won't miss.

- What are you playing at?

- That blow to the head brought my memory back.

Shock therapy, I guess.

Pretty intense, though.

Dr. Yoshimura, I finally figured it out.

It was you.

You were my target.

- Don't be ridiculous.

- You abandoned a patient after finding out their secret.

But you picked the wrong person.

They had a big organization behind them.

- You tricked us?

You were faking your amnesia, weren't you?

- N0, that was real.

I'm a hit man.

I was on my way to a job.

But someone attacked me.

And then, suddenly...

- Kaori...

'one

I wanted to lose my memory too.

That's why I had this.

One shot of this, and...

But, now I know...

He's the one who should lose his memory.

Isn't that right, Doctor?

- Hey!

- It's strong, but he won't die.

He won't live either, though.

- Drop it.

The person who attacked me had a bat like that.

- Hold me...

Okay?

Hold me.

Make love to me.

Here, and now.

Make love to me.

- Defendant Aya Ikezawa

your colleague Kaori Uchida told you she had been raped

by a customer with a red umbrella while working at a print shop

before taking up her job at the hospital.

Your obsessive personality caused you

to empathize with her to an extreme degree

in which you came to believe you yourself had been raped.

While menstruating on a rainy day,

you indiscriminately attacked men with red umbrellas.

We believe you were behind the spate of metal bat attacks.

Thankfully, no one was killed.

But your actions caused fear and anxiety among the general population.

Nevertheless, according to the results of the psychological evaluation,

you were of unsound mind at the time of the incidents.

On the condition you undergo psychiatric treatment,

we find you not guilty.

- Hey, do you think it's okay for me to have a baby?

- Let's go.

MAYA SHIRAKI

- A lot more young people

in the cities

YOKO FUJITA

are killing themselves.

SHIGERU SASAKI, MASAHIKO ITOH, AKIRA SOKURA, TOMOKAZU HASHII

SHOICHIRO SAKATA But,

the problem is,

TAKESHI ITO it's raining.

PRODUCED BY KOKUEI COMPANY I don't have an umbrella

and I have to go out.

SCRIPT BY SHIRO YUMENO

I have to see you.

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY KOICHI SAITO MUSIC BY SO HAYAKAWA

I have to go to your city.

DIRECTED BYA H ISAYASU SATO

I'll get wet in the rain.

THE END

English subtitles by Hayley Scanlon