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Showa Era - 27th Year
(1950)

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<i>Onikobe Mura
(Devil's Skull Village)</i>

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I... the truth is...

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I think I can give you everything.

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No...

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It wouldn't be right.

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Why not, Kanao?

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Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
It's just...

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Until we make it formal,
let's stay the same.

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You sure there's no one else?

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No. No.

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No one.

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You know... it's very sudden.

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How will Shizu-chan welcome Chi-chan?

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- He'll treat her as an official visitor.
- That's great.

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No, brother. Not an official visitor?

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Isn't that OK?

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Chi-chan doesn't like such formality.

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That's true.

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There's Kanao.

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And Yasu-chan too.

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Eh! Since we all know you're a couple,
we can't leave you on your own.

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What's up?

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About Chi-chan's welcome ceremony...
I'd like everyone's opinion.

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Are you sure of the date?

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Yes, it'll be tomorrow.

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Wasn't it planned for around three...

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Isn't there a meeting in the winery?

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- You going to go?
- No.

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It's all the same to me.

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Of course.

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Chi's singing's the only reason
anyone's heard of our village.

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For many years...
I too have wanted to see her.

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Hi! You leaving?

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Who's that?

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He arrived at our guesthouse
yesterday.

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I warned him
that bike's got no brakes.

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Kamenoyu Inn.

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Ah... Inspector Isokawa.

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It's Rika.

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Yes... he arrived here yesterday.

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You were expecting him there...

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but he's waiting here.
You must've got things mixed up.

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Yes... so where're you now?

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Eh? Still in the Okayama precinct?

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I know... I'm sorry.

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I got called away to Hiroshima
on urgent business.

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I've only just got back.

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So...
you going to catch the train?

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Ah. Here he is now.

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Is it for me?

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The last bus to Okinobe
leaves at 5.

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If you catch that,
you can still make it.

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Yes. I'll tell him.

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Mr. Isokawa will arrive
later this evening.

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I said it's a shame
he'll arrive so late.

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So, Mr. Isokawa... that is...
he's known here?

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Yes. He's an old friend of mine
from way back.

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Kanao?

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How was your cycle ride?

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It was fine.

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Are you the only maid here?

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Yes. In the holiday season
it gets very busy...

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sometimes they hire extra help...

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though usually they don't.

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A while ago I saw a young girl
in the garden.

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Is she the owner's daughter?

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Did you see Sato-chan?

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Yes, just for a moment.

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Does she always live in the storeroom?

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Yes.

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Why's that?

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It's because of her condition,
isn't it.

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What happened to her?

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It's her heart.
Even a little walking tires her out.

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Excuse me... are you...

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...the man Inspector Isokawa
called from Tokyo?

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Yes.

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I'm of the Tatara family...

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a family of policemen since...

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well, before the Edo era.

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Through degenerate living
I ruined my family...

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and now live as a hermit.

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I'm Kindaichi.
Pleased to meet you.

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I'm researching the history of Kyoto.

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Among the many legends around here
there's one...

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"Tale of the Demon's Severed Head."

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Doesn't the Kanji read "Devil's Skull".

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More correctly it should be
"Demon's Severed Head"...

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but it's shortened and we say
"Devil's Skull".

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Language is curious, isn't it.

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In the Muromachi period...
a powerful sorceress came here...

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Fearful, village hunters killed her at
the village gate and put her head on a stake.

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They say a demon entered the head...

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The eyes glowed with a scorching power,
their gaze cursing the whole village.

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That's why they call this village
devil's head.

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One shouldn't make light of
incantations and spells.

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For example, they say here that if a
pregnant woman gets too close to fire...

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...it causes the baby
to be born with red blotches.

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It's true. You know the guesthouse
owner's daughter, Satoko?

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Eh?

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Half of her face... and half her body
are covered with red blotches.

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You mean... something happened to
Ms. Kamenoyu when she was pregnant?

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Who knows!...

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I don't usually come to bathe
at this inn.

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The truth is today...
I came here to ask you a favour.

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What's that?

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I would like you to write a letter for me.

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It's just my right hand... it's
paralyzed due to my degenerate life.

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A visitor has arrived.

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Who is it?

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It's Mr. Nire.

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- Welcome
- Don't stop. Don't stop.

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Hearing you play the shimsen is like
medicine... it makes me young again.

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I don't play as often as I used to.

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And Kanao?

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He left earlier to go to the shops.

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Rika...

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since it appears that Kanao
is falling in love with Yasuko...

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I'd be relieved if you'd formally
agree to marry him to my Fumi.

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Again the same old thing.

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Kanao is still too young
to take a wife.

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For the time being, I'm not thinking
about any woman for him.

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Sit down.
- Thanks.

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Kanao's projects will make Onikobe famous
for the finest wines in the region.

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These dreams are all he talks about
these days.

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If he isn't indispensible to you...

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I've been thinking... I could make him
the manager of my winery.

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And besides, Rika...

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Satoko can't go on living
in the storeroom all the time.

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It's getting colder these days.

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How discourteous of me...
Let me serve you some hot sake.

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On my way here,
as I passed the "Devil's" swamp...

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I recalled the horrible events
of twenty years ago.

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Please don't speak of it.
It brings me such sorrowful memories.

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<i>Akuma no temari-uta
"Curse of the Devil's Skull"
( Rhyme of Vengeance )</i>

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Please excuse me.

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I was expecting you.
Please, come in.

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What do you think, Mr. Kindaichi?
Elegant accommodations, eh?

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Yes...

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Before anything else, please read this.

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It seems...
to be a request to remarry.

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It's from Ohan.
She was my fifth wife.

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Your fifth..?!

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That means...
you've been married 5 times?

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What do you mean!

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8 times.

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8 times..?!

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I was popular with the ladies.

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Some I left,
the ones wanted to fence me in...

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others left me out of shame.

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Ohan left me too... but I think
she regrets it now she's older.

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That's why the old girl
wrote asking my forgiveness.

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I've decided to forgive her.

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And I'm to write your reply?

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"I'm no longer so impatient,
and won't treat you as badly as before.

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When you receive this letter, come back."
Write that, please.

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My writing's terrible. Besides...
it's not something a stranger should write.

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What do you mean? You think Ohan
wrote such a pretty letter.

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I'm sure someone wrote it for her.

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Mr. Hooan...
why didn't you ask a villager?

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I've got lots of reasons.

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The wind...

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These days the north wind
blows in cold, straight from the swamp.

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It's an ancient swamp...

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...seems to be fed from deep underground.

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One year we had a terrible drought,
but the swamp never dried up.

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The mud is very deep...

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If someone falls in, his legs sink
in the mud and he never escapes.

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Everyone calls it, "the devil's swamp".

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Hello.

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Say, going to offer me
some of your fine wine?

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Sure, a little later.

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Good, before I go to bed,
I hope.

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Who knows?

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You.. on vacation?

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Yes, though I never get to enjoy it...
work always interferes.

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It's been at least six months...
since you last came.

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You haven't changed at all
in two years.

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Really?

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Good evening.
- Good evening.

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I'm glad to see you.
- Me too.

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Though it's a little old
it's a good guesthouse.

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Mr. Isokawa, why'd you ask me to come
to such a remote mountain village?

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Mr. Kindaichi, though remote,
life still goes on here.

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The owner of the guesthouse
was murdered.

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The husband of the proprietor?

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Don't be so surprised.

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Though I said "murdered",
I didn't say it happened recently.

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- The case is 20 years old.
- 20 years old?!

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Why didn't you tell me before?

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We still haven't found the murderer.

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The case has become
an unsolved mystery, right?

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But, what has it to do with me?

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Back then I was assigned to the case.

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At first it seemed
a normal enough case, however...

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something about it just didn't feel right.

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- Because you never caught the murderer?
- No.

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I worried that maybe I had confused
the murderer with the victim.

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Then, you think the owner
was himself the murderer.

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I had no real proof...

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and no one listens to a rookie
with an unorthodox theory.

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At the time, I didn't persist...

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but, even after all these years...
I can't get it out of my mind.

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That you're still thinking of it
after 20 years... is truly amazing.

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I haven't just been thinking about it.

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I've been investigating
persistently on my own.

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But my efforts
have gotten me nowhere.

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Mr. Kindaichi, I'd like you
to work on the case with me.

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Me?

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May I enter please.

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Welcome.

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Hello. I'm here too.

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What great timing!

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Thanks for giving him my message.

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It was nothing.

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You get younger every day, eh?

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Bah. Mr. Isokawa always says that.
It's just a habit for him now.

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You've come to investigate that case,
haven't you?

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You said so before I did.
The truth is yes.

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I want to close this case
and I've asked Mr. Kindaichi to help me.

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He's a private detective!
Ah... Kyoto, Kyoto.

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What is this "Kyoto"?

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Around here it means "watch out".

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- Watch out?
- He's a good man. Don't worry.

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Really...?

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Don't you trust the police?!

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I only trust people
whom I know are trustworthy.

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Thanks for your concern, but it's
in the past now. It's such a long time ago.

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I'm afraid I'm just too stubborn.

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It's the fixation of a man
who's followed a case far too long.

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Please, allow me my quirks.

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By the way, I'm hungry.
Could we have dinner now.

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Yes, yes. Right away.

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She doesn't seem like someone
who carries sadness from the past.

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She's the kind who
leaves old things in the past.

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For example...
you won't get leftovers for dinner...

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if it's old...
she'll leave it in the past!

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Apropos the incident,
in the autumn of 1929...

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a man arrived in the village
who called himself "Ikuo Onda".

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He was about 35 or 36
and wore gold-rim glasses...

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...and had a small mustache.

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He made wreaths...
Know what I mean?

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Like the garlands they use at Christmas
and at festivals.

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Made from local materials.

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Of course, they're a popular item.
So he began making wreaths in the village.

247
00:22:02,479 --> 00:22:06,909
In 1931, the Manchurian conflict
broke out.

248
00:22:07,949 --> 00:22:10,979
And there was an economic crisis
and food shortages.

249
00:22:11,239 --> 00:22:14,239
Thus, they were only too happy
to have his business.

250
00:22:18,749 --> 00:22:21,589
All went well for half a year...

251
00:22:22,089 --> 00:22:25,049
until Onda stopped making
his wreaths...

252
00:22:25,549 --> 00:22:27,589
refusing to fill any more orders.

253
00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:30,799
- He'd been conning them, eh?
- Yes.

254
00:22:31,599 --> 00:22:35,729
Then, the second son of the ex-owner
of the guesthouse, Genjiro...

255
00:22:36,229 --> 00:22:38,808
returned to the village
with his wife, Rika...

256
00:22:38,809 --> 00:22:41,978
and a son of 15 or 16.

257
00:22:41,979 --> 00:22:45,399
- And this Genjiro, where had been?
- I'm getting to that...

258
00:22:45,689 --> 00:22:48,009
When he was a child he left home...

259
00:22:48,279 --> 00:22:51,489
and sought to make
his living in Kobe.

260
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,739
Genjiro guessed that Onda
was commiting fraud...

261
00:22:54,829 --> 00:22:56,249
and when he found proof...

262
00:22:56,369 --> 00:22:58,618
confronted him with it and...

263
00:22:58,619 --> 00:23:00,878
But Onda killed him, right?

264
00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:02,539
Yes, just so.

265
00:23:05,799 --> 00:23:11,049
Death was caused by a blow to the back
of the skull, which broke his neck.

266
00:23:11,429 --> 00:23:14,969
The murder weapon was a log
from beside the hearth.

267
00:23:15,139 --> 00:23:20,579
He was found by his wife Rika. When he
didn't return, she went to look for him...

268
00:23:20,679 --> 00:23:22,108
with a man called Hooan.

269
00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:22,939
Hooan?

270
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:24,939
You know of him?

271
00:23:25,689 --> 00:23:28,069
I was in his house earlier today.

272
00:23:28,569 --> 00:23:29,279
Why?

273
00:23:30,109 --> 00:23:31,159
Well...

274
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,449
Ok, let's leave it for now.
I'll continue.

275
00:23:35,159 --> 00:23:38,459
Hooan had rented Onda
a house just outside town.

276
00:23:38,769 --> 00:23:41,719
Onda didn't always stay in Okinobe...

277
00:23:41,879 --> 00:23:47,419
Once a month, he went 2 or 3 days
to Tokyo for supplies, then came back.

278
00:23:47,629 --> 00:23:50,298
It was his wife who
identified the body, correct?

279
00:23:50,299 --> 00:23:52,679
Ah that's just it, the body...

280
00:23:56,219 --> 00:24:00,388
The face was burnt beyond recognition.
The head had been in the fire.

281
00:24:00,389 --> 00:24:02,188
- Was there any sign of a fight?
- Nothing.

282
00:24:02,189 --> 00:24:04,189
So what made you so suspicious?

283
00:24:05,109 --> 00:24:06,649
In the first place...

284
00:24:06,899 --> 00:24:11,449
Why did the murderer
need to hide the victim's identity?

285
00:24:12,199 --> 00:24:12,779
In the second place...

286
00:24:13,199 --> 00:24:16,159
we've found no new information
on the murderer since his escape.

287
00:24:16,489 --> 00:24:18,158
We looked into the garland business...

288
00:24:18,159 --> 00:24:20,079
but obviously Onda was a false name.

289
00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:24,219
He never showed up at his business.

290
00:24:27,459 --> 00:24:29,589
It's been 20 years...

291
00:24:30,589 --> 00:24:34,799
Are you asking me to look into a case
that's been closed all that time?

292
00:24:36,759 --> 00:24:40,019
And it's you who wants to hire me?

293
00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:40,975
Just so.

294
00:24:41,019 --> 00:24:43,098
That's why you called me from Tokyo?

295
00:24:43,099 --> 00:24:44,059
Just so.

296
00:24:45,769 --> 00:24:47,648
You can't be serious!

297
00:24:47,649 --> 00:24:49,438
You can be sure I am!

298
00:24:49,439 --> 00:24:51,898
Of course I'll pay you and
cover your expenses.

299
00:24:51,899 --> 00:24:55,159
No, I can't accept your money.

300
00:24:56,319 --> 00:24:58,239
What to do?

301
00:24:59,369 --> 00:25:03,437
It's the first time I've heard of a
policeman hiring a private detective.

302
00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:04,508
Really?

303
00:25:04,533 --> 00:25:06,833
Really!
- Seriously?

304
00:25:13,839 --> 00:25:18,179
Ah! Maam. Dinner for Mr. Isokawa?

305
00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:21,599
Ah! I completely forgot.

306
00:25:34,489 --> 00:25:37,199
<i>What happened was a terrible tragedy...</i>

307
00:25:37,659 --> 00:25:40,909
<i>you could say it was related
to a power struggle in the village.</i>

308
00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:45,498
<i>In Onikobe at that time
there were two powerful families:</i>

309
00:25:45,499 --> 00:25:47,579
<i>the Yuras and the Nires.</i>

310
00:25:47,959 --> 00:25:50,629
<i>The Nires were modern
and the late grandfather...</i>

311
00:25:51,089 --> 00:25:53,009
<i>had staked everything on grapes.</i>

312
00:25:53,129 --> 00:25:54,799
<i>And it turned out well.</i>

313
00:25:58,469 --> 00:25:59,349
Shiego!

314
00:26:00,179 --> 00:26:01,428
Stop bothering.

315
00:26:01,429 --> 00:26:04,179
But my sister Chie's coming...

316
00:26:04,189 --> 00:26:06,848
Whether she stays or not...

317
00:26:06,849 --> 00:26:09,729
it won't change the fact
that the Nires are still the most powerful.

318
00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:12,479
Why all this bother!

319
00:26:13,399 --> 00:26:17,698
It's only a bastard girl
coming back to the village.

320
00:26:17,699 --> 00:26:21,119
Papa... don't say such things out loud.

321
00:26:22,949 --> 00:26:24,749
Everyone in the village
knows it's true.

322
00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:29,039
<i>The only estate winery in the village...</i>

323
00:26:30,999 --> 00:26:32,709
<i>is owned by the Nire family.</i>

324
00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:40,259
<i>The Yura family had been granted
a lot of land by royal edict.</i>

325
00:26:40,719 --> 00:26:43,969
<i>But now power was shifting
to the Nire family.</i>

326
00:26:44,309 --> 00:26:48,229
<i>Realising this, they panicked and
invested heavily in the wreath scam.</i>

327
00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:53,819
<i>Utaro realising it was a fraud
and that they had lost everything...</i>

328
00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:56,359
<i>died, wasted by a deep depression.</i>

329
00:26:56,859 --> 00:27:01,239
<i>After that, the Yuras
lost their status and privileges.</i>

330
00:27:05,159 --> 00:27:07,749
There was a time when
we never removed the devil masks.

331
00:27:08,959 --> 00:27:13,549
There was a time.

332
00:27:15,879 --> 00:27:17,339
Mama...

333
00:27:17,919 --> 00:27:19,929
I'm going to pick-up Chie-chan.

334
00:27:20,589 --> 00:27:21,549
Cool! The masks!

335
00:27:22,349 --> 00:27:26,059
The Yuras are a very ancient
and important family.

336
00:27:26,469 --> 00:27:29,979
Generations have handed down
these masks to protect our village.

337
00:27:30,769 --> 00:27:33,569
Toshiro. -Yes
Eiko. - Yes.

338
00:27:34,109 --> 00:27:35,319
Look at them.

339
00:27:37,529 --> 00:27:40,948
The Nire family...
why d'you always compete...

340
00:27:40,949 --> 00:27:41,949
What are you saying!

341
00:27:44,739 --> 00:27:48,288
When the decorations are finished
I'm going to invite Chie-chan.

342
00:27:48,289 --> 00:27:49,249
Leave it.

343
00:27:50,249 --> 00:27:54,709
Before, when important people
came to the village from Tokyo,

344
00:27:54,999 --> 00:27:57,589
they always stayed with the Yuras.

345
00:28:06,429 --> 00:28:08,348
Thanks so much for coming to pick me up.

346
00:28:08,349 --> 00:28:09,929
Chie-chan!

347
00:28:15,899 --> 00:28:16,899
Fumi-chan.

348
00:28:22,196 --> 00:28:26,526
Mr. Isokawa, you've already
investigated Ichiya many times.

349
00:28:27,026 --> 00:28:30,246
It's unlikely I'll turn up
much new there now.

350
00:28:30,296 --> 00:28:33,636
No...
Better you follow your own plan.

351
00:28:33,876 --> 00:28:36,666
We need to find some new leads.

352
00:28:36,876 --> 00:28:39,665
Speaking of which,
Mrs. Oito at the Inozu store...

353
00:28:39,666 --> 00:28:42,045
is somehow involved in this case.

354
00:28:42,046 --> 00:28:44,715
Seeing her won't be a waste of your time.

355
00:28:44,716 --> 00:28:48,006
You're going walking to the village, eh?

356
00:28:48,425 --> 00:28:51,225
I thought I'd enjoy a walk
in the country.

357
00:28:51,426 --> 00:28:54,086
That it's still quite hot
is rather strange!

358
00:28:54,186 --> 00:28:55,936
If anything's strange, it's her.

359
00:28:57,356 --> 00:29:00,726
Kindaichi...
you know Bessho Chie?

360
00:29:00,736 --> 00:29:03,086
I haven't seen her,
but I know who she is.

361
00:29:03,276 --> 00:29:04,855
I heard she's arriving today.

362
00:29:04,856 --> 00:29:08,066
She was born here,
but in not too happy circumstances.

363
00:29:08,276 --> 00:29:11,196
She was the result... of Onda's seed.

364
00:29:12,286 --> 00:29:16,325
I heard that Haure,
the daughter of locks...

365
00:29:16,326 --> 00:29:20,661
cared for Onda and he got her pregnant.

366
00:29:20,706 --> 00:29:23,295
You mean daughter
of the family of locks.

367
00:29:23,296 --> 00:29:27,505
We don't say of the family...
just of locks.

368
00:29:27,506 --> 00:29:31,305
In my village we say we're born
of what we've traditionally made.

369
00:29:31,306 --> 00:29:33,595
The Nire, of weigh scales...
the Yura, glass measures.

370
00:29:33,596 --> 00:29:35,725
We're hollow gourds.

371
00:29:35,726 --> 00:29:38,556
Hollow gourds?
- Spot on!

372
00:30:27,446 --> 00:30:33,326
Good afternoon,
I'm the one called Ohan.

373
00:30:34,196 --> 00:30:39,206
You must be from the inn.

374
00:30:41,376 --> 00:30:46,256
Pleased to...
have made your acquaintance.

375
00:30:59,226 --> 00:31:02,356
Ah, it's you!

376
00:31:03,186 --> 00:31:05,856
Why didn't you say something?
You frightened me!

377
00:31:07,146 --> 00:31:13,366
Harue, you see your brother after such
a long time and you greet me like this!

378
00:31:14,526 --> 00:31:16,486
Why don't you ever come to see me?

379
00:31:20,306 --> 00:31:22,626
I see you're still the same
when you're drunk.

380
00:31:23,456 --> 00:31:25,876
Don't think you'll get any
favours out of me.

381
00:31:26,086 --> 00:31:27,836
How can you say that!

382
00:31:29,216 --> 00:31:32,046
I have a proposal.

383
00:31:34,716 --> 00:31:37,055
Good, good, welcome.

384
00:31:37,056 --> 00:31:40,225
Thanks for caring for my brother, and...

385
00:31:40,226 --> 00:31:42,305
Good. Please sit. Sit down.

386
00:31:42,306 --> 00:31:46,516
...and for finding my daughter
a place at the inn.

387
00:31:46,526 --> 00:31:49,276
I'm so pleased that you've returned.

388
00:31:50,066 --> 00:31:52,906
It's a great honour for me.

389
00:31:53,526 --> 00:31:56,406
You're the manager?

390
00:31:56,576 --> 00:31:59,745
Yes, I am...

391
00:31:59,746 --> 00:32:01,456
You've had a lot of troubles, eh?

392
00:32:03,746 --> 00:32:05,165
I can just imagine.
These days...

393
00:32:05,166 --> 00:32:09,376
as a result of the war,
the spirit of the people has been broken.

394
00:32:11,776 --> 00:32:14,546
"SOUJA"

395
00:32:14,966 --> 00:32:22,726
<i>All that happened...
such a long time ago.</i>

396
00:32:23,936 --> 00:32:29,896
<i>At the time, Harue was 19.</i>

397
00:32:31,986 --> 00:32:34,696
Although for me
it was just a job...

398
00:32:35,616 --> 00:32:37,776
a girl of 19 is ready...

399
00:32:38,406 --> 00:32:41,576
one has to be careful
with girls these days...

400
00:32:42,286 --> 00:32:47,086
that's what we said,
my dead husband and I.

401
00:32:47,416 --> 00:32:55,546
It's just that she often came
to our house with that "Onda" man.

402
00:32:56,046 --> 00:33:01,345
Mr. Isokawa told me everything
you told him back then.

403
00:33:01,346 --> 00:33:03,976
He told me and that's why I'm here.

404
00:33:04,306 --> 00:33:05,936
Oh, is that so?...

405
00:33:06,436 --> 00:33:09,395
So he told you everything eh?

406
00:33:09,396 --> 00:33:13,316
I heard that in the end
they were unable to identify "Onda".

407
00:33:14,276 --> 00:33:16,906
And it's true you've heard
nothing at all of him? - Yes.

408
00:33:18,116 --> 00:33:24,206
It was all the same to me
where he came from or who he was...

409
00:33:24,956 --> 00:33:29,586
but Harue fell in love with him.

410
00:33:31,126 --> 00:33:33,666
Since it happened...

411
00:33:34,666 --> 00:33:37,136
I've asked myself time and again...

412
00:33:38,006 --> 00:33:43,636
why she received no letter
or information, just left crying.

413
00:33:44,926 --> 00:33:49,856
And then Chie was born.

414
00:33:51,476 --> 00:33:55,566
And grew into such a marvellous child.

415
00:33:56,316 --> 00:33:59,856
No one knows a persons fortune,
it's true, eh?

416
00:33:59,956 --> 00:34:02,696
And you've had no word
since Onda fled?

417
00:34:03,236 --> 00:34:09,705
Bearing the child
of such a swindler and murderer...

418
00:34:09,706 --> 00:34:16,626
Harue was exposed to the contempt
of the entire village.

419
00:34:17,176 --> 00:34:24,596
So she left her baby with her brother,
left the village...

420
00:34:25,476 --> 00:34:29,476
and worked as a maid in Tokyo.

421
00:34:30,556 --> 00:34:34,776
During the war, she had no choice
but to return to the village.

422
00:34:35,526 --> 00:34:44,196
Being only 20... or 22, naturally
she couldn't stand the cold looks...

423
00:34:44,486 --> 00:34:50,286
and once again left Onikobe...
but this time with Chie.

424
00:34:50,996 --> 00:34:54,836
Why did Onda use this inn?

425
00:34:56,296 --> 00:35:00,135
The first time, the policeman
brought him here.

426
00:35:00,136 --> 00:35:01,795
What? The police?

427
00:35:01,796 --> 00:35:05,305
Don't you know him?
The one called Hooan?

428
00:35:05,306 --> 00:35:07,136
Yes, I know him.

429
00:35:09,037 --> 00:35:14,937
Then the one who brought him here...
was the man called Hooan.

430
00:35:15,316 --> 00:35:17,856
You know how I feel for Yasuko, no?...

431
00:35:18,566 --> 00:35:21,196
then why count on me for Fumiko?

432
00:35:21,406 --> 00:35:23,405
That's not what I was saying.

433
00:35:23,406 --> 00:35:24,526
How so!

434
00:35:25,406 --> 00:35:27,905
Just now they've been telling me.

435
00:35:27,906 --> 00:35:30,786
- You don't take them seriously, do you?
- Yes, I do.

436
00:35:31,076 --> 00:35:34,126
This is about
the Yura-Nire struggle, isn't it?

437
00:35:36,586 --> 00:35:40,085
Really...
you think your mother's like that?

438
00:35:40,086 --> 00:35:42,836
Then why aren't you happy
with Yasuko?

439
00:35:42,846 --> 00:35:46,126
I've refused for Fumiko.

440
00:35:47,426 --> 00:35:49,626
The same with Yasuko.

441
00:35:50,016 --> 00:35:51,136
What are you trying to say?

442
00:35:51,266 --> 00:35:53,186
How many times
do I have to tell you?

443
00:35:54,186 --> 00:35:57,146
Kanao, you're still too young.

444
00:35:57,526 --> 00:36:00,436
You're not old enough
to get married.

445
00:36:01,986 --> 00:36:04,016
Is your mother...

446
00:36:04,276 --> 00:36:08,785
the only one in Onikobe
who knows this.

447
00:36:08,786 --> 00:36:10,956
I'm old enough to know!

448
00:36:11,156 --> 00:36:13,246
I don't care
if you're against Yasuko.

449
00:36:13,666 --> 00:36:15,706
We've already decided.
- Kanao.

450
00:36:18,086 --> 00:36:20,756
Kanao, wait. Kanao.

451
00:36:21,166 --> 00:36:23,086
Japan's a democratic state.

452
00:36:23,546 --> 00:36:27,346
At 20 you can get married
without your parents permission.

453
00:36:31,176 --> 00:36:34,935
Do you know of a woman called Ohan?

454
00:36:34,936 --> 00:36:36,556
I think she was the fifth...

455
00:36:36,566 --> 00:36:41,526
- Yes, yes. I know all about her.
- She's come back to Hooan's house.

456
00:36:43,316 --> 00:36:47,406
Sir, what are you trying to say?

457
00:36:47,776 --> 00:36:49,366
What "trying to say"?...

458
00:36:50,246 --> 00:36:54,076
Ohan sent a letter saying
she wanted to come back to Hooan.

459
00:36:55,536 --> 00:36:57,586
Misses, what's the matter?

460
00:36:58,496 --> 00:37:01,336
Is there something wrong with
her returning?

461
00:37:01,416 --> 00:37:02,966
Ohan is...

462
00:37:03,126 --> 00:37:10,515
On my way back through Sennintoge
pass, I happened on Ohan-san.

463
00:37:10,516 --> 00:37:16,725
Ohan-san... just last autumn...
passed away.

464
00:37:16,726 --> 00:37:18,395
But that's imposible!

465
00:37:18,396 --> 00:37:20,566
But it's true.

466
00:37:21,526 --> 00:37:24,986
Ohan-san was better
than Hooan's other wives.

467
00:37:25,736 --> 00:37:32,696
I was very close to her
and knew her well.

468
00:37:33,366 --> 00:37:38,125
Last spring I went to Kobe
and visited her tomb.

469
00:37:38,126 --> 00:37:39,626
Her tomb!

470
00:37:39,916 --> 00:37:40,746
Just so.

471
00:37:40,747 --> 00:37:43,586
But it's true,
I saw her in Sennintoge...

472
00:37:45,756 --> 00:37:53,216
Then... the person in Sennintoge...
who was it?

473
00:37:55,386 --> 00:37:59,516
Excuse me, I have to make a call.

474
00:38:11,156 --> 00:38:12,116
Where's Hooan?

475
00:38:12,117 --> 00:38:13,446
He isn't.
- What?

476
00:38:22,546 --> 00:38:26,036
When you told me, I came to see,
and found this.

477
00:38:27,086 --> 00:38:32,596
It looks like he was drinking
with someone, no?

478
00:38:33,466 --> 00:38:39,015
The blood is black, it's been vomited.
It's not from a wound.

479
00:38:39,016 --> 00:38:43,065
Mr. Kindaichi, you're sure
you wrote a letter to Ohan?

480
00:38:43,066 --> 00:38:45,606
Of course. I even signed it.

481
00:38:47,066 --> 00:38:53,116
And are you sure
it was Ohan you saw?

482
00:38:54,036 --> 00:38:57,995
I clearly remeber her saying,
"I'm the one called Ohan".

483
00:38:57,996 --> 00:39:01,916
You're sure the woman you saw
really was her?

484
00:39:02,786 --> 00:39:04,626
She didn't seem to be lying to me.

485
00:39:11,386 --> 00:39:14,465
Mr. Isokawa, there's a footprint.

486
00:39:14,466 --> 00:39:17,926
Then it's certain that someone
was here with him.

487
00:39:20,186 --> 00:39:23,226
When I got here, there was no light.

488
00:39:23,686 --> 00:39:27,986
I checked and the fuses were blown.

489
00:39:29,356 --> 00:39:31,566
That's why the candle, then.

490
00:39:31,816 --> 00:39:35,906
There are two cups. It would appear
that two people were drinking saké.

491
00:39:41,286 --> 00:39:42,166
No!

492
00:39:43,496 --> 00:39:46,126
It's poison.
It's a poisonous plant.

493
00:39:46,456 --> 00:39:47,916
A poisonous plant?
- Yes.

494
00:39:48,336 --> 00:39:52,586
It's a type of aconite (monkshood).
Around here we call it "police shrub".

495
00:39:53,046 --> 00:39:54,796
Police shrub?
- Yes.

496
00:40:14,026 --> 00:40:17,656
What a large salamander.

497
00:40:23,286 --> 00:40:24,826
Police station.

498
00:40:25,416 --> 00:40:27,796
Eh? The Okayama chief of police?

499
00:40:29,006 --> 00:40:31,506
Yes. At your service.

500
00:40:32,716 --> 00:40:34,506
Yes, it's cold here.

501
00:40:39,306 --> 00:40:44,106
That... yes...
I'll go right away.

502
00:40:44,936 --> 00:40:47,105
Dear, aren't you going to have dinner?

503
00:40:47,106 --> 00:40:50,316
You can eat mine too.
You have to eat for two now.

504
00:40:50,896 --> 00:40:52,446
Mr. Isokawa!
- Yes.

505
00:40:53,196 --> 00:40:54,856
I found the letter I wrote to Ohan.

506
00:40:57,736 --> 00:41:00,746
This proves what you said.

507
00:41:02,616 --> 00:41:03,826
What is it?

508
00:41:05,126 --> 00:41:09,126
The date stamp... when I wrote the letter
I didn't notice it, but...

509
00:41:09,876 --> 00:41:12,216
it appears to have been tampered with.

510
00:41:12,916 --> 00:41:16,546
The 7 in "27th year"
is smudged and unclear.

511
00:41:17,596 --> 00:41:20,006
Perhaps someone altered this letter
from years ago...

512
00:41:20,016 --> 00:41:23,636
to make it look like
it arrived just now.

513
00:41:26,976 --> 00:41:29,816
Are you sub-inspector Isokawa?
I'm Constable Nakamura.

514
00:41:30,026 --> 00:41:32,436
I was transferred here
three months ago.

515
00:41:32,446 --> 00:41:34,946
We're searching for Hooan.

516
00:41:35,656 --> 00:41:36,736
Has something happened?

517
00:41:37,316 --> 00:41:38,366
We're not sure yet.

518
00:41:38,946 --> 00:41:43,495
They'll need to send the vomitted
blood to a lab for identification.

519
00:41:43,496 --> 00:41:44,535
Blood?

520
00:41:44,536 --> 00:41:45,536
Over there.

521
00:41:49,166 --> 00:41:53,665
I'm sorry, but I would like to know
from the chief of police in Hiogo...

522
00:41:53,666 --> 00:41:56,126
if Ohan is alive or dead?

523
00:41:56,216 --> 00:41:57,216
And you are...?

524
00:41:57,217 --> 00:41:58,296
I'm a private investigator.

525
00:41:59,006 --> 00:42:02,056
Private investigator?

526
00:42:03,658 --> 00:42:05,077
How long will you be staying?

527
00:42:05,078 --> 00:42:07,247
My mother wants me to return soon.

528
00:42:07,248 --> 00:42:10,617
There are so many things
I wanted to say to you...

529
00:42:10,618 --> 00:42:12,457
but now you're here
I can't find the words.

530
00:42:12,458 --> 00:42:13,926
Your emotions get in the way?

531
00:42:14,588 --> 00:42:15,838
Why have you come back?

532
00:42:16,208 --> 00:42:17,837
I wanted to see you all.

533
00:42:17,838 --> 00:42:18,798
Only that?

534
00:42:19,298 --> 00:42:20,717
Well for something else as well.

535
00:42:20,718 --> 00:42:23,387
What, seeing us was only secondary!

536
00:42:23,388 --> 00:42:24,548
It's not like that.

537
00:42:25,348 --> 00:42:27,783
If possible, I'd like to know something.

538
00:42:27,869 --> 00:42:28,928
What's that?

539
00:42:30,638 --> 00:42:32,767
It's about my father.

540
00:42:32,768 --> 00:42:33,978
You surprise me.

541
00:42:34,728 --> 00:42:36,357
You're still hung up on that.

542
00:42:36,358 --> 00:42:41,947
But it was my father who killed
Kanao and Sato's father.

543
00:42:41,948 --> 00:42:43,907
Fathers are father...
children are children.

544
00:42:43,908 --> 00:42:45,577
It's nothing to do with children.

545
00:42:45,578 --> 00:42:49,947
What bothers me...
is that my father was never arrested...

546
00:42:49,948 --> 00:42:52,498
even after 20 years.

547
00:42:53,788 --> 00:42:56,207
He could be alive somewhere.

548
00:42:56,208 --> 00:42:57,498
I've got a great idea...

549
00:42:57,708 --> 00:43:00,337
There's a private detective
staying at Kanao's inn.

550
00:43:00,338 --> 00:43:01,967
Why don't we ask him to help us?

551
00:43:01,968 --> 00:43:04,758
I'm not sure that's such a good idea.

552
00:43:05,468 --> 00:43:07,717
Yasu's getting kinda late.

553
00:43:07,718 --> 00:43:09,597
You sure she's coming.

554
00:43:09,598 --> 00:43:11,727
- Should I call her.
- It couldn't hurt.

555
00:43:11,728 --> 00:43:14,198
She doesn't go out much,
maybe she's still getting ready.

556
00:43:19,028 --> 00:43:23,568
Sato-san, it's strange your going out.

557
00:43:24,318 --> 00:43:27,078
It's been a long time
since we were all together.

558
00:43:27,528 --> 00:43:31,158
Thanks to you,
I too can see Chie-san.

559
00:43:31,618 --> 00:43:33,158
I'm lucky.

560
00:43:33,748 --> 00:43:37,248
But I'm sorry I delayed you
finishing my chores.

561
00:43:46,218 --> 00:43:49,468
Isn't that Yasu?

562
00:43:50,218 --> 00:43:55,687
That's strange.
She should be there already.

563
00:43:55,688 --> 00:43:57,558
Who are you talking to?

564
00:43:58,148 --> 00:44:00,437
It's Yasu's friend, Fumiko.

565
00:44:00,438 --> 00:44:03,027
The Nire girl?
What's she want?

566
00:44:03,028 --> 00:44:06,278
She's asking if something happened,
because Yasu still hasn't shown up.

567
00:44:18,918 --> 00:44:20,128
It's getting late.

568
00:45:01,628 --> 00:45:03,837
What a terrible jeep!

569
00:45:03,838 --> 00:45:05,588
It's the road that's terrible.

570
00:45:06,548 --> 00:45:08,298
Hold on tightly, please.

571
00:45:25,818 --> 00:45:26,608
Is it here?

572
00:45:26,778 --> 00:45:29,988
- Yes, I think so.
- Aren't you sure?

573
00:45:40,038 --> 00:45:41,958
Hello.
- Mr. Isokawa.

574
00:45:42,998 --> 00:45:45,757
Got a case while on holidays.

575
00:45:45,758 --> 00:45:47,967
- What bad luck!
- Goes with the territory.

576
00:45:47,968 --> 00:45:50,467
Since it is you,
the chief investigator who's here...

577
00:45:50,468 --> 00:45:53,098
it only follows,
the case will soon be solved.

578
00:45:55,388 --> 00:45:57,678
This is inspector Tachibana
of the Okayama Prefecture.

579
00:45:58,848 --> 00:46:00,018
The crime scene?

580
00:46:14,303 --> 00:46:15,911
Between midnight and two in the morning.

581
00:46:15,936 --> 00:46:20,012
When the victim didn't return home,
the youth club began searching...

582
00:46:20,368 --> 00:46:25,838
finally around 4 am Kanao and Goro
came upon the body here.

583
00:46:30,008 --> 00:46:33,427
But why has the murderer
created such a macabre scene.

584
00:46:33,428 --> 00:46:36,177
Does it have any significance.

585
00:46:36,178 --> 00:46:38,557
The victim is Yasu,
the daughter of Yura.

586
00:46:38,558 --> 00:46:40,848
Her mother identified her.

587
00:46:43,728 --> 00:46:46,648
Eh! Drowned?

588
00:46:47,438 --> 00:46:49,988
Excuse me, it looks to me
like death by strangulation.

589
00:46:50,858 --> 00:46:52,777
On the neck...
- Who are you?

590
00:46:52,778 --> 00:46:54,237
A private investigator.

591
00:46:54,238 --> 00:46:57,038
He's a friend of mine.
His name is Kindaichi.

592
00:47:04,038 --> 00:47:08,508
Is that a measure and a funnel?

593
00:47:09,338 --> 00:47:11,338
What do you make of that?

594
00:47:11,718 --> 00:47:14,338
Both objects symbolise
the same thing.

595
00:47:14,348 --> 00:47:15,178
What?

596
00:47:16,298 --> 00:47:17,428
Symbolise?

597
00:47:18,258 --> 00:47:20,677
It's the sign of the scales.

598
00:47:20,678 --> 00:47:24,018
It means it's to do
with the Nire family.

599
00:47:30,278 --> 00:47:31,817
Who are you?
- I'm Nire.

600
00:47:31,818 --> 00:47:32,738
Nire!

601
00:47:32,739 --> 00:47:35,698
When I call the police,
they come running.

602
00:47:36,488 --> 00:47:41,577
Then please confirm if the boul
and funnel are from your family.

603
00:47:41,578 --> 00:47:43,118
There can be no doubt.

604
00:47:43,668 --> 00:47:48,378
Anything to do with measures
and weights can only be mine.

605
00:47:49,128 --> 00:47:50,378
Kahei.

606
00:47:52,668 --> 00:47:53,858
Maam...

607
00:47:54,468 --> 00:47:56,828
- Hey you...
- She's the mother of the victim.

608
00:47:56,928 --> 00:48:00,268
Did you do this?

609
00:48:04,638 --> 00:48:06,148
Answer me, Kahei.

610
00:48:06,558 --> 00:48:09,937
I'm asking you if you
had anything to do with this.

611
00:48:09,938 --> 00:48:13,857
What are you saying!
You're talking nonsense.

612
00:48:13,858 --> 00:48:14,858
No, Kahei.

613
00:48:15,408 --> 00:48:20,448
I know you thought that Yasu
was getting in the way of your plans.

614
00:48:22,788 --> 00:48:26,168
Kahei, I'm asking you again!

615
00:48:26,788 --> 00:48:29,747
It was you.
Won't you admit it?

616
00:48:29,748 --> 00:48:36,178
No, Atsuko. I had
absolutely nothing to do with it.

617
00:48:39,678 --> 00:48:44,848
Ah, I accept it.
It's good.

618
00:48:46,638 --> 00:48:49,478
I'm sorry I spoke so rudely to you.

619
00:48:50,318 --> 00:48:52,528
Please forgive me.

620
00:49:00,198 --> 00:49:03,118
Eh, stay away!

621
00:49:03,337 --> 00:49:04,368
What are you doing!

622
00:49:24,598 --> 00:49:25,598
<i>"Situation Room"</i>

623
00:49:25,652 --> 00:49:27,863
<i>"Investigation into
the Onikobe Village Murder"</i>

624
00:49:31,358 --> 00:49:36,438
Are you saying you saw not only Yasu...
but an old woman as well.

625
00:49:38,528 --> 00:49:41,158
You saw both of them?

626
00:49:41,738 --> 00:49:46,788
This old lady had a bent back
and a scarf on her head?

627
00:49:48,118 --> 00:49:52,538
Well it was very dark...
it seemed like it.

628
00:49:53,998 --> 00:49:56,668
Isn't it true, Omiki?
- Yes.

629
00:49:57,418 --> 00:49:59,678
Then Ohan's alive?

630
00:50:01,178 --> 00:50:04,057
Judging from Ms. Sato's statement,
it appears to be true.

631
00:50:04,058 --> 00:50:05,558
What are you talking about?

632
00:50:06,348 --> 00:50:11,148
The strange old woman connected with
Hooan's blood, I was telling you about.

633
00:50:11,648 --> 00:50:14,008
Ah, that's a different matter.

634
00:50:14,398 --> 00:50:17,438
Hooan still hasn't returned to his house?

635
00:50:17,898 --> 00:50:20,408
Not yet. I confirmed it this morning.

636
00:50:20,818 --> 00:50:22,948
What a mess!

637
00:50:23,278 --> 00:50:24,965
Be seated.
- Yes.

638
00:50:25,111 --> 00:50:29,411
And what time
did you leave the house?

639
00:50:30,498 --> 00:50:33,038
I think it was a little before eight.

640
00:50:33,668 --> 00:50:36,748
Is that right, Omiki?
- Yes.

641
00:50:37,008 --> 00:50:41,427
You said your mother saw you off
at the front door, no?

642
00:50:41,428 --> 00:50:43,968
That would have been
when we were at Hooan's house.

643
00:50:50,759 --> 00:50:52,499
- Let me help you?
- No, it's fine thanks.

644
00:50:52,524 --> 00:50:55,358
- Thank you so much for everything.
- It's nothing really.

645
00:50:55,438 --> 00:50:58,777
Mr. Isokawa told us
that you could arrange...

646
00:50:58,778 --> 00:51:01,857
our situation room in your inn.
Thank you very much.

647
00:51:01,858 --> 00:51:04,027
Feel free to use it
as long as you need.

648
00:51:04,028 --> 00:51:09,037
Your daughter was the last person
to see the victim alive.

649
00:51:09,038 --> 00:51:13,288
Sato, don't worry about anything.

650
00:51:13,998 --> 00:51:18,458
Whatever the inspector asks,
tell him what you know.

651
00:51:18,958 --> 00:51:19,918
If at that moment...

652
00:51:21,168 --> 00:51:22,968
we'd have called out to Yasu...

653
00:51:24,508 --> 00:51:26,548
things might have been different.

654
00:51:28,258 --> 00:51:30,727
When I think of it,
I feel terrible for my brother.

655
00:51:30,728 --> 00:51:35,808
What do you mean when you say
you feel terrible for your brother?

656
00:51:36,768 --> 00:51:41,607
My brother was in love with Yasu,
and she loved him.

657
00:51:41,608 --> 00:51:45,818
On top of that,
Yasu was upset because of Fumi.

658
00:51:45,828 --> 00:51:46,738
Sato!

659
00:51:48,278 --> 00:51:50,788
What happened with Fumi, Maam?

660
00:51:55,458 --> 00:51:58,747
Well, it's a shame on our family.

661
00:51:58,748 --> 00:52:02,508
But you need to tell us everything...
to explain it clearly.

662
00:52:05,088 --> 00:52:06,298
Of course.

663
00:52:08,848 --> 00:52:16,767
The truth is we were thinking of Fumi
to marry my son Kanao.

664
00:52:16,768 --> 00:52:18,308
A fight over a husband.

665
00:52:19,608 --> 00:52:20,817
Now I understand why...

666
00:52:20,818 --> 00:52:24,607
the symbols of the Nire family
were at the crime scene.

667
00:52:24,608 --> 00:52:26,158
But Tachibana Sir...

668
00:52:26,988 --> 00:52:30,948
the murderer wouldn't leave us clues
telling us that he killed her.

669
00:52:32,498 --> 00:52:35,287
If the old woman
is connected to this crime...

670
00:52:35,288 --> 00:52:38,787
I have a feeling that it's also connected
to the disappearance of Hooan.

671
00:52:38,788 --> 00:52:40,338
It's a...
- What's the matter?

672
00:52:40,958 --> 00:52:44,127
Could I move to the other side
with my daughter?

673
00:52:44,128 --> 00:52:46,218
Yes, please do.
- Thank you.

674
00:52:47,548 --> 00:52:50,467
Excuse me, I was careless
and forgot to inform you of something.

675
00:52:50,468 --> 00:52:51,058
What's that?

676
00:52:51,059 --> 00:52:54,137
Unikobe Nº 47 here.
The installation's finished.

677
00:52:54,138 --> 00:52:56,388
This morning,
we received the forensic report...

678
00:52:56,398 --> 00:53:00,858
They found alkaloids of aconitum poison...

679
00:53:01,768 --> 00:53:06,148
in the blood samples
found at Hooan's house.

680
00:53:06,158 --> 00:53:07,568
I see.

681
00:53:08,198 --> 00:53:09,488
I just been at the Nire house.

682
00:53:10,618 --> 00:53:13,828
At the estimated time of the murder,
between 10 and 11 last night...

683
00:53:15,538 --> 00:53:19,538
niether Kahei, his wife Naota,
nor Fumiko left the house.

684
00:53:19,708 --> 00:53:21,038
They have witnesses.

685
00:53:22,838 --> 00:53:24,128
Understood.

686
00:53:25,258 --> 00:53:27,128
That's it. I have it.

687
00:53:27,628 --> 00:53:28,508
Mr. Isokawa...

688
00:53:28,758 --> 00:53:34,388
The Nire family hired the old woman
to kill Yasu and it was she poisoned Hooan.

689
00:53:34,598 --> 00:53:37,187
Why would she kill Hooan?

690
00:53:37,188 --> 00:53:41,647
Hooan found out about the murder of Yasu,
and had to be silenced.

691
00:53:41,648 --> 00:53:43,647
The body was thrown in the swamp
near the old man's house.

692
00:53:43,648 --> 00:53:46,688
Hello... I'm finished with the telephone.

693
00:53:46,698 --> 00:53:47,358
Thank you.

694
00:53:47,608 --> 00:53:51,277
Leaving aside your theory,
we should definitely search the swamp.

695
00:53:51,278 --> 00:53:52,137
Certainly.

696
00:53:52,238 --> 00:53:55,118
You, start a search of the swamp.

697
00:53:56,448 --> 00:53:58,158
By myself?

698
00:53:58,168 --> 00:54:00,538
Get the youth club to help you.

699
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:13,139
Excuse me... Toshiro Yura has come.
He wants to tell you something.

700
00:54:13,140 --> 00:54:15,099
Mr. Toshiro?

701
00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:16,640
He's the victim's older brother.

702
00:54:18,430 --> 00:54:23,649
Actually... grandmother
would like to speak with the police.

703
00:54:23,650 --> 00:54:25,269
What about?

704
00:54:25,270 --> 00:54:27,689
She says you should listen
to a folk song.

705
00:54:27,690 --> 00:54:29,110
A song?
- Yes.

706
00:54:29,490 --> 00:54:33,159
What foolishness.
We're too busy to be listening to songs.

707
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:36,780
Eh, why would you think
this is a police matter?

708
00:54:36,990 --> 00:54:38,159
It's just that grandmother...

709
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,369
won't give up
until someone listens to her.

710
00:54:40,370 --> 00:54:43,080
The elderly can be stubborn.
How old is she?

711
00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:45,459
What?
- Her age.

712
00:54:45,460 --> 00:54:47,670
She's eighty-eight.

713
00:54:48,130 --> 00:54:49,960
Eighty-eight!

714
00:54:52,090 --> 00:54:54,509
If you wish, I could go.

715
00:54:54,510 --> 00:54:55,800
Yes, go, go.

716
00:54:56,300 --> 00:54:58,600
It's perfect for you.

717
00:54:59,180 --> 00:55:01,390
Well, I'll go too.

718
00:55:14,740 --> 00:55:17,580
Thanks.
- It's nothing.

719
00:55:18,740 --> 00:55:22,580
Inspector Tachibana seems to be
a very energetic kind of fellow.

720
00:55:22,910 --> 00:55:25,250
Yes, he gets very animated.

721
00:55:25,420 --> 00:55:28,210
He makes me feel my age.

722
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,090
Mr. Isokawa, you're still young.

723
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:37,180
I'm getting old. It's already 2 years
since I got my final promotion.

724
00:55:42,730 --> 00:55:47,360
"Three little sparrows,
sitting side by side".

725
00:55:48,020 --> 00:55:53,110
"The first little sparrow...
hopped up and said..."

726
00:55:53,900 --> 00:55:58,619
"I am the high king of...
the sacred Shinto temple..."

727
00:55:58,620 --> 00:56:06,080
"I hunt fine saké and the...
best women too..."

728
00:56:07,380 --> 00:56:12,550
"Which woman is finer,
the daughter of the measures?"

729
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:17,840
"She is very pretty, but nothing more."

730
00:56:18,390 --> 00:56:23,640
"She fills up the measure,
and drinks through a funnel."

731
00:56:23,850 --> 00:56:28,650
"Drinking and drinking...
all through the day."

732
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:34,859
"And still she wants to drink..."

733
00:56:34,860 --> 00:56:40,240
"Please send her home...
please send her home."

734
00:56:42,950 --> 00:56:44,580
What's the matter, Kindaichi?

735
00:56:47,830 --> 00:56:53,380
Isokawa, the murderer
did it just like in the song.

736
00:56:55,130 --> 00:57:01,140
Did you hear, "She fills up the measure,
and drinks through a funnel."?

737
00:57:05,140 --> 00:57:09,230
The house of measures...
is the Yura family.

738
00:57:09,900 --> 00:57:14,110
At the end it says: "Please send
her home..." What does it mean?

739
00:57:14,610 --> 00:57:18,529
When I was a young girl...

740
00:57:18,530 --> 00:57:24,159
it was the fashion to sing
while bouncing a ball.

741
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:28,329
My mother is a little deaf,
and even a little senile.

742
00:57:28,330 --> 00:57:30,420
I can answer that.

743
00:57:31,420 --> 00:57:35,839
"Please kill her soon, please kill her soon."
is how I remember the last line.

744
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:37,300
Kill her soon?

745
00:57:38,930 --> 00:57:43,140
Madam, why would she want us
to hear this song?

746
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,850
We told her how
my daughter Yasu died.

747
00:57:47,310 --> 00:57:51,060
Then, suddenly she began
to sing this song.

748
00:57:51,350 --> 00:57:55,069
Generally these bouncing ball songs...

749
00:57:55,070 --> 00:57:59,700
make reference to 3 objects,
then 5 and finally 7.

750
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:04,280
The first verse begins with
"Three little sparrows, sitting side by side"

751
00:58:04,530 --> 00:58:06,450
I believe this is a song about women.

752
00:58:06,870 --> 00:58:10,750
Therefore after,
"The one little sparrow said..."

753
00:58:11,540 --> 00:58:16,170
would come stanzas with what
the second and third sparrow said.

754
00:58:16,250 --> 00:58:17,459
Kindaichi...

755
00:58:17,460 --> 00:58:20,130
Does that mean there will be
more women murdered?

756
00:58:22,890 --> 00:58:27,060
Regardless if there are more or not,
I'd like to know what follows.

757
00:58:28,100 --> 00:58:29,680
Could we ask her?

758
00:58:39,940 --> 00:58:42,280
She says she wont say.

759
00:58:42,570 --> 00:58:44,620
What a pain!

760
00:58:45,410 --> 00:58:49,539
Is there no one else in this house
who knows this song?

761
00:58:49,540 --> 00:58:50,540
Ask her please.

762
00:58:57,550 --> 00:59:02,840
She says she's sure that
Hooan knows it.

763
00:59:03,510 --> 00:59:07,560
Are you sure that Hooan's
at the bottom of the swamp?

764
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:09,309
That's what the inspector says.

765
00:59:09,310 --> 00:59:11,979
Why are we searching
for that dried up old goat?

766
00:59:11,980 --> 00:59:14,350
Stop talking like that
and give me a hand.

767
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,359
If we search carefully
we'll catch some salamanders.

768
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,989
When Nire discovered a relationship
between Kanao and my daughter Yasu...

769
00:59:21,990 --> 00:59:25,159
he blocked it by formally announcing...

770
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,700
that Fumiko would be Kanao's wife.

771
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,210
Thus making Yasu
only a minor inconvenience to him.

772
00:59:33,250 --> 00:59:39,420
It doesn't make any sense
to suspect Nire?

773
00:59:44,010 --> 00:59:50,060
Nire was motivated
to get Fumiko married soon.

774
00:59:50,930 --> 00:59:53,144
Since the war, there are fewer men...

775
00:59:53,284 --> 00:59:55,229
For every husband,
there's a truckload of women...

776
00:59:55,230 --> 00:59:56,730
That's not all.

777
00:59:57,020 --> 01:00:01,439
Fumiko has no father...
she's an orphan.

778
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:02,372
An orphan?

779
01:00:02,397 --> 01:00:04,977
The whole village knows it.

780
01:00:05,490 --> 01:00:10,659
But no one says it publically
because they're afraid of Nire.

781
01:00:10,660 --> 01:00:14,869
So, what do you mean
that Nire isn't Fumiko's father?

782
01:00:14,870 --> 01:00:16,170
Just that.

783
01:00:16,420 --> 01:00:17,959
Speaking of Fumiko...

784
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,959
Kahei's sister is called Sakie...

785
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,760
and when she worked in an inn...

786
01:00:24,380 --> 01:00:28,140
she became pregnant.
I don't know from whom.

787
01:00:28,390 --> 01:00:31,140
I didn't know that.

788
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,770
And where is Sakie now?

789
01:00:35,770 --> 01:00:37,690
Nire had to keep up appearances...

790
01:00:37,940 --> 01:00:42,109
He took Sakie to Hyogo hospital
and she gave birth there...

791
01:00:42,110 --> 01:00:43,985
The Nire family
took the baby as their own...

792
01:00:44,110 --> 01:00:48,200
but they married Sakie off
to a family in Tottori province.

793
01:00:48,740 --> 01:00:53,829
And nobody knew who it was
made Sakie pregnant?

794
01:00:53,830 --> 01:00:54,950
It seems not...

795
01:00:56,330 --> 01:01:00,080
- One day he told the police.
- Was it Hooan?

796
01:01:03,090 --> 01:01:05,220
Onda more likely...
- Onda?!

797
01:01:05,630 --> 01:01:07,839
You mean the Onda, the swindler...

798
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,759
who murdered Genjiro
of Kamenoyu inn?

799
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,849
Onda conned and cheated Utaro,
her husband...

800
01:01:13,850 --> 01:01:16,770
He died young because of it.

801
01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:19,689
For her he's a villainous rogue.

802
01:01:19,690 --> 01:01:22,690
He came to this house often, no?

803
01:01:23,150 --> 01:01:24,400
Yes.

804
01:01:24,780 --> 01:01:27,280
In fact, this man
had the gift of the gab.

805
01:01:28,030 --> 01:01:32,620
- He deceived them all with ease.
- Yes, I can imagine...

806
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:39,580
Then Chie and Fumiko...
are half-sisters by the same father.

807
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,340
But separated and
living in totally different worlds...

808
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,930
unaware of their shadowy connection.

809
01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:52,830
Madam?...

810
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:59,560
When you mentioned Hooan,
you only suspected him, no?

811
01:02:00,730 --> 01:02:04,069
Or did you have reason
for your accusation?

812
01:02:04,070 --> 01:02:05,280
He said he saw..

813
01:02:06,110 --> 01:02:12,490
Onda and Sakie often walking together
by Sooja.

814
01:02:14,700 --> 01:02:20,040
It was because of them
that my daughter Yasu is dead.

815
01:02:20,580 --> 01:02:23,670
How humiliating!

816
01:02:24,170 --> 01:02:29,010
During our investigations at that time,
Onda kept coming up.

817
01:02:29,260 --> 01:02:33,640
Was no one else close to Onda?

818
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,980
Well... perhaps Tatsuzo.

819
01:02:39,930 --> 01:02:41,560
Yes, I agree.

820
01:02:42,270 --> 01:02:47,190
Thank you very much.
If I find something, I'll call him.

821
01:02:51,820 --> 01:02:54,909
Chief, I just spoke
with the Hyogo police...

822
01:02:54,910 --> 01:02:57,540
they confirmed that Ohan
is in fact dead.

823
01:02:58,500 --> 01:02:59,450
Really?

824
01:02:59,620 --> 01:03:02,039
She died the 22nd November last year...

825
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,839
The manager of the restaurant
where she worked...

826
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,420
presented her death certificate.

827
01:03:09,090 --> 01:03:11,840
She died of kidney cancer.

828
01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:18,520
Now I'm really confused.

829
01:04:07,110 --> 01:04:10,360
This wine is from our estate.
Please try some.

830
01:04:21,740 --> 01:04:24,209
The cellars have no cooling systems

831
01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:27,379
so we have to use
other aging techniques.

832
01:04:27,380 --> 01:04:30,240
But it'll still get you happy.

833
01:04:31,630 --> 01:04:32,880
Tatsuzo...

834
01:04:37,510 --> 01:04:41,510
When were the measure boul
and funnel stolen?

835
01:04:42,140 --> 01:04:45,440
There's no shortage of them around here.

836
01:04:46,100 --> 01:04:48,950
If you wanted,
you could take as many as you like.

837
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:51,770
Are you saying I'm the murderer?!

838
01:04:51,780 --> 01:04:57,359
Tatsuzo, you knew Onda well, no?

839
01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:58,990
Yes, too well.

840
01:04:59,570 --> 01:05:03,120
Because he conned my father with the
wreath scam, and on top of that...

841
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:06,160
got my sister Harue, pregnant.

842
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,709
You're happy Harue came back
after such a long time, aren't you?

843
01:05:10,710 --> 01:05:12,210
What are you trying to say, rascal?

844
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,009
I don't like it
that Nire obliges me...

845
01:05:17,010 --> 01:05:20,640
to work in this filthy, smelly hole.

846
01:05:21,140 --> 01:05:24,100
Then they say they've closed
their accounts and...

847
01:05:24,430 --> 01:05:26,769
shamelessly say:
"I don't want to give you another cent".

848
01:05:26,770 --> 01:05:28,730
You must remember Oochi Genjiro?

849
01:05:29,810 --> 01:05:35,690
In school Genjiro... was older than me...
six years older.

850
01:05:36,070 --> 01:05:39,320
After school he went to Kobe...

851
01:05:39,910 --> 01:05:41,369
I don't know much about him.

852
01:05:41,370 --> 01:05:42,866
And after he returned to the village?

853
01:05:42,891 --> 01:05:48,791
After he returned,
the very next month he was killed.

854
01:05:49,790 --> 01:05:53,379
Do you know what Genjiro
was doing in Kobe?

855
01:05:53,380 --> 01:05:59,009
I heard that he worked in Kobe
as a narrator in films.

856
01:05:59,010 --> 01:06:00,180
Narrator?

857
01:06:04,350 --> 01:06:07,520
Genjiro was
a narrator (benshi) in films?

858
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:42,590
Yes, he worked as Aoyagi Yujiro.

859
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:46,309
I didn't mention it because
I didn't think it was important.

860
01:06:46,310 --> 01:06:48,680
Does it mean something?
- No.

861
01:06:50,060 --> 01:06:53,350
He took up an unusual occupation.

862
01:08:06,540 --> 01:08:09,749
A movie named "Morroco"...

863
01:08:09,750 --> 01:08:12,040
began playing in 1931.

864
01:08:12,460 --> 01:08:17,420
When my husband saw it
he said that now he was finally finished.

865
01:08:18,170 --> 01:08:21,010
Between 31 and 32...

866
01:08:21,300 --> 01:08:24,809
'Talking Films' began to be popular
and the narrators...

867
01:08:24,810 --> 01:08:27,120
began to lose their jobs, no?

868
01:08:28,060 --> 01:08:30,769
For the early 'Talkies'
they lowered the volume...

869
01:08:30,770 --> 01:08:32,810
and the narrator translated the dialogue.

870
01:08:33,610 --> 01:08:39,280
But after that film
they started to use subtitles.

871
01:08:39,860 --> 01:08:42,490
Ah... like that.

872
01:08:43,870 --> 01:08:48,080
The year our Kanao was born,
he got work as a narrator...

873
01:08:48,460 --> 01:08:51,500
but it goes without saying,
if it weren't for the advent of sound...

874
01:08:52,388 --> 01:08:53,765
we wouldn't have been forced

875
01:08:53,850 --> 01:08:56,640
to return here
in such a desparate state.

876
01:08:57,380 --> 01:08:58,670
If we hadn't returned...

877
01:08:59,270 --> 01:09:02,760
my husband wouldn't have been
so cruelly murdered.

878
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:08,590
When I think of it, I've always
resented the advent of the 'Talkies'.

879
01:09:10,060 --> 01:09:12,939
Oh my! It's gotten very late.

880
01:09:12,940 --> 01:09:15,609
Ah, we have to attend Yasu's funeral.

881
01:09:15,610 --> 01:09:17,859
Mr. Kindaichi and I
are going together.

882
01:09:17,860 --> 01:09:21,739
Being at such a large house,
I have to go and help.

883
01:09:21,740 --> 01:09:25,829
Excuse me... but before you met
your husband, what did you do?

884
01:09:25,830 --> 01:09:27,409
She worked in a variety show.

885
01:09:27,410 --> 01:09:29,619
Oh... Mr. Isokawa.

886
01:09:29,620 --> 01:09:31,040
What's there?

887
01:09:31,250 --> 01:09:34,040
There's nothing
to be ashamed of in that.

888
01:09:34,750 --> 01:09:37,960
A Vaudeville Show?
- Yes.

889
01:09:38,380 --> 01:09:40,380
There was a musical interlude.

890
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:42,300
Some girls playing...

891
01:09:42,510 --> 01:09:44,639
five or six girls...

892
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:46,599
playing the shamisen...

893
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,639
folk music...

894
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:50,430
folk songs as well.

895
01:10:15,380 --> 01:10:19,130
When I left school at the age of 16...

896
01:10:19,750 --> 01:10:21,800
I entered show business.

897
01:10:23,550 --> 01:10:25,180
I never realized.

898
01:10:26,090 --> 01:10:32,769
We... my late husband and I
met during a tour.

899
01:10:32,770 --> 01:10:36,940
We married without asking
our parents permission.

900
01:10:37,190 --> 01:10:40,570
So when we returned
the village looked down on us.

901
01:10:41,820 --> 01:10:46,950
Only one person was kind to us...
Hooan.

902
01:10:47,910 --> 01:10:49,199
Hooan?

903
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:54,829
Yes. Oh... would you like
some pickles with your tea?

904
01:10:54,830 --> 01:10:56,039
Ah... Rika, Rika...

905
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:58,459
Hooan was a great fan
of public theatre.

906
01:10:58,460 --> 01:11:01,419
Maybe that's why he
and my husband got on so well.

907
01:11:01,420 --> 01:11:02,959
Leave it Rika...
We have to go...

908
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:08,220
They say he even acted
in the theatre in costume.

909
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:14,890
Mr. Isokawa.

910
01:11:17,061 --> 01:11:19,021
Excuse me...
Have a look at this, please.

911
01:11:19,311 --> 01:11:20,351
It's a letter.

912
01:11:20,981 --> 01:11:24,021
It was found at the
scene of the crime.

913
01:11:27,651 --> 01:11:30,471
"About your dear Father..."

914
01:11:31,161 --> 01:11:32,620
You'd better read it.

915
01:11:32,621 --> 01:11:33,661
Alright...

916
01:11:34,621 --> 01:11:41,920
"About your dear Father, if you want
to know the truth about his death...

917
01:11:41,921 --> 01:11:45,130
"come to Bench Falls
at nine this evening.

918
01:11:45,131 --> 01:11:47,840
"I'll tell you a great secret.

919
01:11:47,841 --> 01:11:50,341
"From Hooan, to Yasu."

920
01:11:50,631 --> 01:11:53,640
Perhaps the victim kept it
in a fold of her kimono.

921
01:11:53,641 --> 01:11:57,390
When she fell in the water
it ended up in the rocks.

922
01:11:57,391 --> 01:12:00,561
Somehow it floated loose.

923
01:12:00,941 --> 01:12:02,021
No doubt.

924
01:12:02,981 --> 01:12:06,570
But, the characters
are written so badly.

925
01:12:06,571 --> 01:12:09,241
Could be because
he couldn't use his right hand.

926
01:12:09,861 --> 01:12:11,860
So he wrote it with his left hand.

927
01:12:11,861 --> 01:12:16,660
And the secret
about the death of Yasu's father...

928
01:12:16,661 --> 01:12:18,171
what was it?

929
01:12:19,541 --> 01:12:24,501
I see it. Yes, I've got it.

930
01:12:24,921 --> 01:12:26,380
The murderer was Hooan.

931
01:12:26,381 --> 01:12:31,220
But you just said...
it was Ohan who did it.

932
01:12:31,221 --> 01:12:33,801
We have confirmed now
that Ohan is dead.

933
01:12:34,471 --> 01:12:38,430
That means that it was really Hooan
disguised as Ohan in Sennintoge Pass...

934
01:12:38,431 --> 01:12:41,641
so that Kindaichi
would believe she was alive.

935
01:12:42,391 --> 01:12:46,860
Can't you tell the difference
between a man and a woman?

936
01:12:46,861 --> 01:12:49,571
You should observe
more carefully.

937
01:12:51,111 --> 01:12:53,070
And Hooan left clues...

938
01:12:53,071 --> 01:12:57,241
to suggest someone had
poisined him in his house.

939
01:12:57,451 --> 01:12:59,491
And after disappearing...

940
01:12:59,621 --> 01:13:03,460
wrote the letter to Yasu
and killed her. I'm sure.

941
01:13:03,461 --> 01:13:05,000
But it's all conjecture...

942
01:13:05,001 --> 01:13:07,251
This letter is absolute proof.

943
01:13:08,001 --> 01:13:09,131
Kanao!

944
01:13:11,711 --> 01:13:15,761
When you go to the funeral...
take Sato with you.

945
01:13:16,261 --> 01:13:17,851
What do you care?

946
01:13:18,301 --> 01:13:22,100
Deep inside... you're actually
relieved Yasu's dead.

947
01:13:22,101 --> 01:13:24,270
What are you saying?

948
01:13:24,271 --> 01:13:28,941
You can be sure...
I won't let him get away with it.

949
01:13:31,821 --> 01:13:34,071
This is a matter for the police.

950
01:13:35,571 --> 01:13:39,910
Oh, no one outside the investigation team
knows about this letter...

951
01:13:39,911 --> 01:13:42,041
Let's keep it that way,
understood?

952
01:13:42,361 --> 01:13:44,581
Oh, constable...
- Yes.

953
01:13:45,581 --> 01:13:47,331
Are they still searching the swamp?

954
01:13:47,631 --> 01:13:48,791
I believe so.

955
01:13:48,921 --> 01:13:50,211
Tell them to stop.

956
01:13:50,431 --> 01:13:52,171
Hooan is still alive.

957
01:14:13,691 --> 01:14:14,651
I'm Chie.

958
01:14:16,151 --> 01:14:21,621
I don't know... what to say...
I'm so sorry.

959
01:14:22,741 --> 01:14:27,621
Chie, thanks for coming.

960
01:14:43,391 --> 01:14:46,481
- Is there enough saké left?
- I think so.

961
01:14:46,641 --> 01:14:50,150
Escuse me... about the body...

962
01:14:50,151 --> 01:14:56,191
Ah, as of yet... they haven't finished
the autopsy at Soja hospital.

963
01:14:56,491 --> 01:14:59,410
This is very hard
for the family of the deceased.

964
01:14:59,411 --> 01:15:00,701
I can understand.

965
01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:18,381
Oh my... Mr. Kindaichi.

966
01:15:18,631 --> 01:15:21,341
I came to offer my condolences.

967
01:15:21,971 --> 01:15:23,931
And... Mr. Isokawa?

968
01:15:24,351 --> 01:15:27,060
Unfortunately he's
suffering from stomach ache.

969
01:15:27,061 --> 01:15:29,391
Well, I hope it's not serious.

970
01:15:29,521 --> 01:15:30,651
Rika!

971
01:15:33,401 --> 01:15:35,441
Harue.

972
01:15:38,651 --> 01:15:41,071
- It's been too long.
- Much too long.

973
01:15:41,281 --> 01:15:44,281
I heard you had returned...

974
01:15:44,451 --> 01:15:45,700
Later then...

975
01:15:45,701 --> 01:15:47,121
Yes, of course.

976
01:15:48,041 --> 01:15:51,040
Chie has become
a very fine young woman.

977
01:15:51,041 --> 01:15:53,291
You're very kind.

978
01:15:53,671 --> 01:15:59,131
Finally we can live without shame,
as mother and daughter.

979
01:16:00,721 --> 01:16:04,351
We've forgotten all that.
Please excuse me.

980
01:16:07,181 --> 01:16:09,271
Yasu, your daughter Sato...

981
01:16:09,481 --> 01:16:13,271
the Nire's Fumi, and my Chie
are the same age...

982
01:16:13,771 --> 01:16:16,191
and always good friends, but...

983
01:16:18,031 --> 01:16:19,240
one is no more.

984
01:16:19,241 --> 01:16:21,780
It's true, my Sato is no more.

985
01:16:21,781 --> 01:16:23,030
Ah, let me help out.

986
01:16:23,031 --> 01:16:25,240
No. You're our guest,
all the way from Tokyo.

987
01:16:25,241 --> 01:16:29,041
Please, sit with the deceased,
and don't worry about a thing.

988
01:16:32,711 --> 01:16:36,961
My father asked your mother...

989
01:16:37,801 --> 01:16:43,551
if I could be your wife.
I had nothing to do with it.

990
01:16:44,141 --> 01:16:47,851
But... I love you.

991
01:16:49,221 --> 01:16:53,810
If nothing had happened to Yasu...
I'd have said nothing.

992
01:16:53,811 --> 01:16:58,530
But I've...
always dreamed of being your wife.

993
01:16:58,531 --> 01:16:59,731
Fumi!

994
01:16:59,741 --> 01:17:01,780
- What are you saying?
- It's true.

995
01:17:01,781 --> 01:17:07,950
Even though she's dead,
I want Yasu to hear me.

996
01:17:07,951 --> 01:17:10,121
Fumi, that's enough.

997
01:17:29,431 --> 01:17:32,730
Excuse me. Do you know where Fumi is?

998
01:17:32,731 --> 01:17:36,101
Fumi? No...

999
01:17:38,571 --> 01:17:41,401
Where could she have gone... Fumi?

1000
01:17:59,841 --> 01:18:01,881
What happened?
Who was that?

1001
01:18:08,091 --> 01:18:13,141
Excuse me, sorry...
What happened?

1002
01:18:14,521 --> 01:18:17,271
The shadow of an old woman...

1003
01:18:24,781 --> 01:18:27,611
Let me through. Chie!

1004
01:18:28,281 --> 01:18:31,741
Chie, what happened.
Get up.

1005
01:18:32,291 --> 01:18:36,080
A fearful shadow...
It appeared in the shed.

1006
01:18:36,081 --> 01:18:38,710
In the shed?
Are you sure?

1007
01:18:38,711 --> 01:18:39,545
What's going on?

1008
01:18:39,570 --> 01:18:43,410
I screamed... and it went
behind the hut.

1009
01:18:44,131 --> 01:18:47,051
By the hut there?

1010
01:18:48,341 --> 01:18:53,141
This shadow figure...
it didn't harm you in any way?

1011
01:18:53,641 --> 01:18:54,601
No.

1012
01:18:54,602 --> 01:18:58,481
But... it must have intended
to harm someone.

1013
01:19:04,481 --> 01:19:05,861
Good evening.

1014
01:19:13,951 --> 01:19:16,120
The clinic's closed for the day.

1015
01:19:16,121 --> 01:19:22,250
Doctor Gondo,
don't you remember me?

1016
01:19:22,251 --> 01:19:23,591
Not really.

1017
01:19:24,131 --> 01:19:27,221
You examined the body
of Aochi Genjiro...

1018
01:19:28,221 --> 01:19:31,341
at the Kamenoyu Inn,
some 20 years ago.

1019
01:19:31,551 --> 01:19:33,640
I was investigating the case.

1020
01:19:33,641 --> 01:19:35,770
Ah, so you're not a patient?

1021
01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:38,230
No... actually I do have
a stomach ache.

1022
01:19:38,231 --> 01:19:41,561
That's what reminded me of you
and so I came here.

1023
01:19:42,231 --> 01:19:46,650
You must already know
about last night and Yasu, right?

1024
01:19:46,651 --> 01:19:48,741
There was quite a commotion.

1025
01:19:49,361 --> 01:19:52,871
It is something that goes
a long way back...

1026
01:19:53,241 --> 01:19:59,211
back to Yasu's father... I heard you
signed Utaro's the death certificate.

1027
01:19:59,711 --> 01:20:01,880
But you couldn't discover
the cause, could you?

1028
01:20:01,881 --> 01:20:04,681
Screw that noise!
There was nothing wrong.

1029
01:20:07,211 --> 01:20:09,050
What a good memory.

1030
01:20:09,051 --> 01:20:12,470
Well, I don't forget such details.

1031
01:20:12,471 --> 01:20:14,261
Thank you very much.

1032
01:20:15,511 --> 01:20:19,061
So then...
he died of natural causes.

1033
01:20:20,731 --> 01:20:22,481
Just one more thing...

1034
01:20:23,101 --> 01:20:26,480
I heard that you knew Hooan well.

1035
01:20:26,481 --> 01:20:30,610
I heard that you both belonged
to the village historical society.

1036
01:20:30,611 --> 01:20:32,661
I didn't know him that well.

1037
01:20:33,031 --> 01:20:35,201
Ah, your stomach upset...
let me have a look.

1038
01:20:35,241 --> 01:20:37,041
No, it's better now.

1039
01:21:04,441 --> 01:21:06,400
Has Fumi gone home already?

1040
01:21:06,401 --> 01:21:11,441
No, they said they were going
back together. So I don't think so.

1041
01:21:11,611 --> 01:21:13,360
- Eh, Ryuji, go look for her.
- Okay.

1042
01:21:13,361 --> 01:21:17,411
Chie, we should have left already.

1043
01:21:20,161 --> 01:21:24,291
Sato, how did it go?
Did you see Fumi?

1044
01:21:26,291 --> 01:21:28,711
Oh, Mr. Tatsuzo...

1045
01:21:29,461 --> 01:21:35,341
Be careful. No more saké for you...
you're not even fit to go home.

1046
01:21:38,811 --> 01:21:42,481
Are you still there?

1047
01:21:43,441 --> 01:21:46,861
Fumiko? She hasn't come back yet.

1048
01:21:47,441 --> 01:21:50,941
Call Mitchiko, your wife.

1049
01:21:52,031 --> 01:21:55,991
Ah, Mitchiko, is she still there?

1050
01:21:56,084 --> 01:21:58,371
My bed isn't made yet.

1051
01:23:07,466 --> 01:23:08,965
Ah, Ryuji...

1052
01:23:08,966 --> 01:23:12,675
They just told me
and it upset me so. Poor Fumi...

1053
01:23:12,676 --> 01:23:13,845
Is Kanao in?

1054
01:23:13,846 --> 01:23:16,346
Yes, he's in the bathing room.

1055
01:23:18,726 --> 01:23:22,015
Kanao! I didn't believe...

1056
01:23:22,016 --> 01:23:26,686
that you of all people, would take
such cruel revenge on Fumi.

1057
01:23:27,026 --> 01:23:29,565
What? Don't be such a fool.

1058
01:23:29,566 --> 01:23:30,856
What do you mean, fool!

1059
01:23:31,406 --> 01:23:35,076
Tell me then, haven't you been
a little scarce since yesterday.

1060
01:23:35,446 --> 01:23:39,075
No, not just a little...
a lot scarce.

1061
01:23:39,076 --> 01:23:41,576
Stop it! It's nonsense.

1062
01:23:41,996 --> 01:23:45,916
What about your father.
He's the one was so cruel to Yasu.

1063
01:23:46,546 --> 01:23:50,625
What? What motive
could my father have to kill Yasu?

1064
01:23:50,626 --> 01:23:53,465
- Say it. Tell me.
- I'll tell you.

1065
01:23:53,466 --> 01:23:54,730
You want me to tell you?

1066
01:23:54,755 --> 01:23:58,635
Your father wanted to force me
to marry the orphan Fumi.

1067
01:23:58,636 --> 01:24:01,055
But Yasu got in the way
so he killed her.

1068
01:24:01,056 --> 01:24:02,766
He didn't kill her!

1069
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:08,477
That's enough!

1070
01:24:09,487 --> 01:24:11,687
Break it up!

1071
01:24:25,046 --> 01:24:28,756
Can't this old wreck go any faster?

1072
01:24:29,466 --> 01:24:31,266
I'm going as fast as I can.

1073
01:24:32,306 --> 01:24:34,936
Kahei Nire's an arrogant man.

1074
01:24:35,136 --> 01:24:38,106
If he's kept waiting,
he'll be a pain to question.

1075
01:24:39,146 --> 01:24:41,936
Nire engaged Hooan
to kill Yasu...

1076
01:24:42,396 --> 01:24:45,316
and now they've murdered
his daughter.

1077
01:24:45,906 --> 01:24:47,065
How's that?

1078
01:24:47,066 --> 01:24:48,906
Nothing's as it seems.

1079
01:24:49,576 --> 01:24:52,496
During the investigation
I was surprised to find that...

1080
01:24:52,536 --> 01:24:56,575
most of Hooan's land and houses...

1081
01:24:56,576 --> 01:24:59,336
were bought by the Nire
and Yura families.

1082
01:24:59,416 --> 01:25:00,956
Overall, mostly by Nire.

1083
01:25:01,456 --> 01:25:06,376
I'm sure Nire took advantage of Hooan's
weak position to get below value prices.

1084
01:25:07,466 --> 01:25:08,846
Ah, that's why.

1085
01:25:10,426 --> 01:25:13,266
That's why Hooan held a grudge?

1086
01:25:14,056 --> 01:25:17,185
Yes, his motive for murder
was vengence.

1087
01:25:17,186 --> 01:25:20,145
I'm so sorry about what happened.

1088
01:25:20,146 --> 01:25:22,936
When your suit's dry,
I'll iron it.

1089
01:25:24,436 --> 01:25:26,276
Will this do?

1090
01:25:26,816 --> 01:25:27,946
Yes. And Kanao?

1091
01:25:28,526 --> 01:25:31,076
He's already much calmer.

1092
01:25:31,446 --> 01:25:34,616
Ryuji apologised
when he was leaving.

1093
01:25:35,156 --> 01:25:38,206
I understand why Ryuji was upset.

1094
01:25:39,286 --> 01:25:42,706
His sister was cruelly murdered.

1095
01:25:42,996 --> 01:25:48,295
I hear they left tokens
of the curse at the scene.

1096
01:25:48,296 --> 01:25:50,796
Yes, Roman and antique coins.

1097
01:25:51,176 --> 01:25:54,266
The two things related
to the Tatsuzo household.

1098
01:25:55,556 --> 01:26:01,515
He's a lazy waster it's true,
but he wouldn't hurt a fly.

1099
01:26:01,516 --> 01:26:05,066
Kindaichi, what are you writing?

1100
01:26:06,776 --> 01:26:12,575
The police are building their investigation
on Hooan's hatred of Nire.

1101
01:26:12,576 --> 01:26:16,956
Who owns the vineyard now
that used to belong to Hooan?

1102
01:26:17,456 --> 01:26:22,286
Nire and Yura drove the price
to a ridiculous figure...

1103
01:26:22,836 --> 01:26:24,996
as Hooan so often said.

1104
01:26:25,006 --> 01:26:28,926
And then Hooan wasted all of it,
gambling and fooling around.

1105
01:26:30,586 --> 01:26:35,215
So where did Hooan get
money to live on.

1106
01:26:35,216 --> 01:26:40,515
He said he had a relative in Kobe
who sent him money...

1107
01:26:40,516 --> 01:26:46,726
but the relative died 3 years ago
and left him in dire straits.

1108
01:26:46,736 --> 01:26:50,776
So he had no income...
and no work.

1109
01:26:52,196 --> 01:26:53,196
Nevertheless...

1110
01:26:53,197 --> 01:26:56,195
Kindaichi, then you believe...

1111
01:26:56,196 --> 01:27:00,496
someone in the village
was secretly giving Hooan money?

1112
01:27:01,576 --> 01:27:04,126
Yes, but for what reason?

1113
01:27:06,746 --> 01:27:11,505
Didn't you two come here
to solve a 20 year old case?

1114
01:27:11,506 --> 01:27:12,795
But Rika...

1115
01:27:12,796 --> 01:27:15,635
I believe that if we can solve
this new case...

1116
01:27:15,636 --> 01:27:19,975
it'll shed light on the mystery
of the old case.

1117
01:27:19,976 --> 01:27:23,895
Madam, the iron is very hot,
aren't you going to use it?

1118
01:27:23,896 --> 01:27:25,146
Oh, I forgot!

1119
01:27:28,986 --> 01:27:31,986
This place needs firemen
more than policemen, eh.

1120
01:27:41,916 --> 01:27:45,285
A little while ago,
I heard from constable Nakamura...

1121
01:27:45,286 --> 01:27:49,456
that Sakie, dead Fumi's real mother
has returned from Tottori...

1122
01:27:49,466 --> 01:27:52,795
in response to a police summons.

1123
01:27:52,796 --> 01:27:54,386
Sakie?

1124
01:27:55,176 --> 01:27:58,095
Although I knew it,
I haven't told a soul.

1125
01:27:58,096 --> 01:28:00,596
Kindaichi, we should go
and interview her.

1126
01:28:01,346 --> 01:28:04,596
Mr. Tachibana is investigating
at Nire's house, isn't he?

1127
01:28:25,826 --> 01:28:27,376
She's my younger sister.

1128
01:28:27,706 --> 01:28:30,456
Heh... these men are from the police.

1129
01:28:30,956 --> 01:28:33,926
Pleased to meet you.

1130
01:28:35,586 --> 01:28:44,095
I am Sakie...
mother of... the deceased.

1131
01:28:44,096 --> 01:28:46,806
Losing Fumi was a terrible tragedy...

1132
01:28:47,516 --> 01:28:50,646
but she lost more...
the chance to know her love.

1133
01:28:52,026 --> 01:28:57,566
She was never able to tell Fumi
that she was her daughter.

1134
01:28:58,776 --> 01:29:01,616
I regret it deeply.

1135
01:29:02,576 --> 01:29:06,496
Please excuse the circumstances
of our meeting...

1136
01:29:07,536 --> 01:29:09,245
I'm ashamed.

1137
01:29:09,246 --> 01:29:15,546
I'm not going to cry.
Please avenge my poor daughter.

1138
01:29:15,926 --> 01:29:22,676
We'd like to ask you some questions.
Did she know that Onda was her father?

1139
01:29:24,136 --> 01:29:26,845
You... how do you know?

1140
01:29:26,846 --> 01:29:30,606
Atsuko, of the Yura family, told us.

1141
01:29:32,646 --> 01:29:42,236
Brother, Fumiko has been murdered...
it's no time to worry about appearances.

1142
01:29:43,076 --> 01:29:46,076
We should tell them everything.

1143
01:29:50,076 --> 01:29:53,756
Onda was certainly the father.

1144
01:29:54,416 --> 01:29:58,216
But Fumi never knew.

1145
01:29:59,756 --> 01:30:05,676
In Tottori, my present husband
loved me and gave me 3 sons...

1146
01:30:05,976 --> 01:30:10,476
But I could never forget
or stop dreaming

1147
01:30:11,806 --> 01:30:13,936
about Fumi.

1148
01:30:14,146 --> 01:30:15,606
And about you.

1149
01:30:16,606 --> 01:30:20,905
She was told by my brother.

1150
01:30:20,906 --> 01:30:24,696
Surely she wanted to know
who her father was.

1151
01:30:25,656 --> 01:30:28,535
Perhaps the murderer lured her
into the wine cellear...

1152
01:30:28,536 --> 01:30:30,036
by promising he would tell her.

1153
01:30:30,446 --> 01:30:34,705
Kandaichi, how can you know that?

1154
01:30:34,706 --> 01:30:37,416
For the moment, it's just speculation...

1155
01:30:38,216 --> 01:30:40,795
as Yasu too was lured
with a letter singed by...

1156
01:30:40,796 --> 01:30:43,136
Hooan, promising to reveal
her father's name.

1157
01:30:44,386 --> 01:30:52,515
Perhaps... Yasu and Fumi were killed...
by the same murderer.

1158
01:30:52,516 --> 01:30:54,266
I was thinking the same thing.

1159
01:30:57,026 --> 01:31:03,526
Because both Yasu and Fumi
shared similar backgrounds.

1160
01:31:05,406 --> 01:31:13,626
If Atsuko spoke about my past,
she can't mind... if I speak of hers.

1161
01:31:14,496 --> 01:31:20,465
Yasu was the daughter of
Atsuko and Onda.

1162
01:31:20,466 --> 01:31:21,466
Is it true?

1163
01:31:22,466 --> 01:31:32,226
It's true.
Onda told me... when we separated.

1164
01:31:43,196 --> 01:31:45,667
Excuse me...
someone's here from the Yura's.

1165
01:31:45,825 --> 01:31:46,860
What is it?!

1166
01:31:46,986 --> 01:31:51,325
The grandmother wants the police
to listen to a folk song.

1167
01:31:51,326 --> 01:31:53,166
Not again!

1168
01:31:54,626 --> 01:31:58,505
It's a bit late isn't it,
after everything that's happened.

1169
01:31:58,506 --> 01:32:00,466
We might regret not going.

1170
01:32:00,836 --> 01:32:02,376
Just in case, I'd better go.

1171
01:32:02,676 --> 01:32:05,005
I'm afraid the old girl's
having us on.

1172
01:32:05,006 --> 01:32:11,766
"Three little sparrows,
the second one said..."

1173
01:32:12,436 --> 01:32:18,565
"I am the high king of
the sacred Shinto temple."

1174
01:32:18,566 --> 01:32:27,776
"I hunt fine saké and the...
best women too."

1175
01:32:29,036 --> 01:32:35,625
"Which woman is finer...
the daughter of the scales?"

1176
01:32:35,626 --> 01:32:42,506
"She is very pretty,
But her nails are so long."

1177
01:32:43,006 --> 01:32:49,636
"She puts coins on the scale
and hangs them in the balance."

1178
01:32:50,136 --> 01:32:56,145
"She spends all her days
caring for the king."

1179
01:32:56,146 --> 01:32:59,816
Toshiro, tell her
we want to hear the third verse.

1180
01:33:00,106 --> 01:33:03,436
This type of murderer
often follows a pattern.

1181
01:33:03,446 --> 01:33:06,026
I beg her to agree.

1182
01:33:06,446 --> 01:33:07,866
Is there no way?

1183
01:33:08,776 --> 01:33:12,655
Granny, won't you please continue?

1184
01:33:12,656 --> 01:33:17,286
Thanks for listening to me.

1185
01:33:27,136 --> 01:33:29,135
Sato.

1186
01:33:29,136 --> 01:33:30,885
I'm going to Yasu's funeral.

1187
01:33:30,886 --> 01:33:31,676
Without your veil?

1188
01:33:31,676 --> 01:33:32,556
Mom...

1189
01:33:33,976 --> 01:33:35,846
It doesn't matter anymore.

1190
01:33:36,596 --> 01:33:39,516
Chei gave me one...
exactly the same as Chie's.

1191
01:33:42,356 --> 01:33:43,646
Oh, hello sir.

1192
01:33:45,986 --> 01:33:48,816
What was... that all about?

1193
01:33:51,906 --> 01:33:57,246
I understand how hard it must be...
two of her friends are dead.

1194
01:33:59,036 --> 01:34:02,836
The police are concentrating
their efforts on Hooan...

1195
01:34:03,036 --> 01:34:05,046
they've started searching the hills.

1196
01:34:05,756 --> 01:34:07,716
Ah, I see.

1197
01:34:09,636 --> 01:34:15,016
Whenever I think of Hooan...
it's always with a sense of dread.

1198
01:34:15,306 --> 01:34:17,096
What do you mean?

1199
01:34:17,346 --> 01:34:25,735
I don't know how to put it.
It's not as if he were a bad person.

1200
01:34:25,736 --> 01:34:31,616
Ah, Rika...
Yasu was also Onda's child.

1201
01:34:32,486 --> 01:34:36,196
I didn't know that Onda
was such a thorough villain.

1202
01:34:37,996 --> 01:34:40,916
He really was an evil man.

1203
01:34:42,286 --> 01:34:47,546
Not only did he fool women...
and take advantage of them...

1204
01:34:48,246 --> 01:34:50,886
and then betray them...

1205
01:34:51,386 --> 01:34:53,636
but even now, 20 years later...

1206
01:34:53,736 --> 01:34:58,056
he's involved his daughters
in these tragic events.

1207
01:34:58,806 --> 01:35:03,686
My loathing... can never be enough.

1208
01:35:05,106 --> 01:35:10,485
I see that what happened
20 years ago, still obsesses you.

1209
01:35:10,486 --> 01:35:11,736
Me?

1210
01:35:12,026 --> 01:35:13,526
You hate Onda.

1211
01:35:15,076 --> 01:35:16,736
Well...

1212
01:35:21,706 --> 01:35:23,326
I understand, Rika.

1213
01:35:23,966 --> 01:35:26,406
I'd like to free you
of this obsession.

1214
01:35:26,626 --> 01:35:28,545
If it's as I suspect, your husband...

1215
01:35:28,546 --> 01:35:30,125
You think he committed murder
and ran off.

1216
01:35:30,126 --> 01:35:33,465
I wish you'd accept this as reality.

1217
01:35:33,466 --> 01:35:38,885
But then my husband
must be alive somewhere.

1218
01:35:38,886 --> 01:35:42,395
I'm sorry, but you have
to stop thinking about him.

1219
01:35:42,396 --> 01:35:44,225
Get him out of your head.

1220
01:35:44,226 --> 01:35:46,106
You think he was that bad?

1221
01:35:48,606 --> 01:35:51,776
Well... it's the truth.

1222
01:35:55,116 --> 01:35:59,576
For your concern...
I'm deeply obliged.

1223
01:36:00,496 --> 01:36:03,426
I'm only sorry I haven't helped you.

1224
01:36:10,216 --> 01:36:17,526
By the way...
how did you meet Mr. Kindaichi?

1225
01:36:19,636 --> 01:36:24,346
Once... we risked our lives
working a case together.

1226
01:36:26,226 --> 01:36:28,645
Ah... ever since I arrived...

1227
01:36:28,646 --> 01:36:31,066
your're always busy,
now finally we can...

1228
01:36:31,166 --> 01:36:34,235
Now that you mention it,
I really should get busy.

1229
01:36:34,236 --> 01:36:39,116
I have to attend the funeral.
Please excuse me. I have to get ready.

1230
01:36:39,576 --> 01:36:40,946
But, Rika...

1231
01:36:41,656 --> 01:36:43,615
about the razor I mentioned...

1232
01:36:43,616 --> 01:36:46,206
It's done... it's in your room.

1233
01:38:27,096 --> 01:38:29,306
Did you find out anything?

1234
01:38:29,976 --> 01:38:32,066
Not what I was looking for.

1235
01:38:33,726 --> 01:38:37,026
Where could Hooan be hiding?

1236
01:38:37,896 --> 01:38:42,275
I think we should widen
our list of suspects.

1237
01:38:42,276 --> 01:38:43,326
Who, for example?

1238
01:38:44,156 --> 01:38:48,576
It was complete confusion last night.
People running in all directions.

1239
01:38:49,666 --> 01:38:53,745
For at least 30 minutes,
nobody knew what was going on.

1240
01:38:53,746 --> 01:38:56,546
Anyone could have committed the crime.

1241
01:38:57,506 --> 01:39:01,816
So you think the murderer might be
someone attending the function?

1242
01:39:02,546 --> 01:39:05,556
Other than Kahei,
everyone was there.

1243
01:39:06,096 --> 01:39:11,345
We can eliminate the Nires
and the retiring Ioko...

1244
01:39:11,346 --> 01:39:13,355
and Yasu's mother.

1245
01:39:13,356 --> 01:39:17,775
That leaves us Harue, Kusakabe,
Tatsuzo... and who else?

1246
01:39:17,776 --> 01:39:23,196
Toshiro's wedding party
and the staff of the inn.

1247
01:39:25,326 --> 01:39:27,035
Do you seriously suspect Rika?

1248
01:39:27,036 --> 01:39:29,865
No, I'm only looking
at all possibilities.

1249
01:39:29,866 --> 01:39:32,036
Have you no feelings?!

1250
01:39:34,086 --> 01:39:37,505
We have to start by
suspecting everyone...

1251
01:39:37,506 --> 01:39:39,166
Didn't you say that?

1252
01:39:39,176 --> 01:39:40,586
It's not the same.

1253
01:39:41,086 --> 01:39:43,546
I meant like Genjiro...
was he the victim or the perp.

1254
01:39:44,046 --> 01:39:48,136
For the last 20 years Rika
has known nothing but suffering.

1255
01:39:51,556 --> 01:39:58,476
No doubt, you compared
the photos of Genjiro and Onda?

1256
01:39:59,856 --> 01:40:01,146
Photos?

1257
01:40:03,106 --> 01:40:11,456
But there were no photos...
none at all of Genjiro.

1258
01:40:12,996 --> 01:40:14,326
How's that?

1259
01:40:14,336 --> 01:40:16,875
They said that before he returned,

1260
01:40:16,876 --> 01:40:21,466
being old-fashioned, and disapproving
of his work in the movies,

1261
01:40:22,256 --> 01:40:25,266
they burned all his photos.

1262
01:40:25,466 --> 01:40:29,466
And Onda...
weren't there any photos of him?

1263
01:40:29,476 --> 01:40:34,476
He'd been an intinerant...
no one knew what areas he'd lived in.

1264
01:40:35,016 --> 01:40:39,606
We couldn't put his poster
in every town in the country...

1265
01:40:43,486 --> 01:40:45,106
That's it.

1266
01:40:45,116 --> 01:40:47,155
We should ask.

1267
01:40:47,156 --> 01:40:49,365
Photos?

1268
01:40:49,366 --> 01:40:53,156
I asked for a photo
but he said he didn't have one.

1269
01:40:53,666 --> 01:40:55,666
Not even one of them together.

1270
01:40:56,876 --> 01:40:57,916
As I suspected.

1271
01:40:57,996 --> 01:41:00,875
Do you think it has anything to do
with the recent events?

1272
01:41:00,876 --> 01:41:03,836
There's something significant
in the lack of photos...

1273
01:41:04,376 --> 01:41:12,386
Onda's body... did it have
any marks... distinguishing marks?

1274
01:41:14,096 --> 01:41:17,055
But what does that have to do
with recent events?

1275
01:41:17,056 --> 01:41:20,106
Even the smallest detail
could be important.

1276
01:41:20,526 --> 01:41:21,896
But...

1277
01:41:23,776 --> 01:41:26,196
For example, was he bow-legged,
or something?

1278
01:41:27,276 --> 01:41:29,156
His legs...
- What?

1279
01:41:30,406 --> 01:41:34,495
I just remembered that his toes
were different, weren't they?

1280
01:41:34,496 --> 01:41:35,746
How so?

1281
01:41:39,036 --> 01:41:44,255
His middle toes...
were a little longer than normal.

1282
01:41:44,256 --> 01:41:49,716
He used to complain that
they always caused holes in his socks.

1283
01:41:57,686 --> 01:42:02,105
Onda and Harue
gave birth to Chie.

1284
01:42:02,106 --> 01:42:07,445
Onda and Sakie
gave birth to Fumi.

1285
01:42:07,446 --> 01:42:11,736
Onda and Atsuko
gave birth to Yasu.

1286
01:42:12,076 --> 01:42:13,575
Have you finished yet?

1287
01:42:13,576 --> 01:42:15,406
Ah... Omiki.

1288
01:42:15,906 --> 01:42:17,616
Oh, he left his shaving things...

1289
01:42:17,826 --> 01:42:24,415
Hooan... when did he start...
to come regularly to the baths here?

1290
01:42:24,416 --> 01:42:28,426
Well... it was before
I started working here.

1291
01:42:28,966 --> 01:42:32,255
As Madam didn't complain
and took special care of him...

1292
01:42:32,256 --> 01:42:35,555
- He thought he was special.
- Took special care...?

1293
01:42:35,556 --> 01:42:39,396
Yes, sometimes she cooked for him.

1294
01:42:40,856 --> 01:42:44,686
Although I always took it
to the bathing pools for him.

1295
01:42:45,606 --> 01:42:48,815
That's right, I remember something...

1296
01:42:48,816 --> 01:42:53,796
Normally, she left the basket
of food wrapped in a cloth.

1297
01:42:53,896 --> 01:42:55,906
But one day, without thinking,
I removed the cloth...

1298
01:42:56,246 --> 01:42:59,616
and inside there was
and envelope with money.

1299
01:43:03,246 --> 01:43:06,376
You'll get dandruff
all over your mandarin, Mr. Kindaichi!

1300
01:43:07,256 --> 01:43:08,586
Would you like one, Omiki?

1301
01:43:08,796 --> 01:43:10,716
There's none left.

1302
01:43:12,176 --> 01:43:14,056
That's strange...

1303
01:43:15,136 --> 01:43:18,136
I thought I had 2 here.

1304
01:43:24,766 --> 01:43:28,485
Why are you so surprised?

1305
01:43:28,486 --> 01:43:33,235
The second one was
just a reflection in the mirror.

1306
01:43:33,236 --> 01:43:35,026
Well then...

1307
01:43:45,496 --> 01:43:47,256
Mr. Kindaichi!

1308
01:43:50,876 --> 01:43:53,176
A call for you.

1309
01:44:00,266 --> 01:44:05,185
Why don't you ever come
to see me when you're ill.

1310
01:44:05,186 --> 01:44:08,776
- Don't you know I'm a doctor?
- There... have a look.

1311
01:44:11,276 --> 01:44:13,156
<i>"THE MURDER CASE
OF AOCHI GENJIRO "</i>

1312
01:44:16,236 --> 01:44:20,036
See anything useful?

1313
01:44:21,706 --> 01:44:25,915
But these photos must be
in the police file, no?

1314
01:44:25,916 --> 01:44:28,295
This case was before the war...

1315
01:44:28,296 --> 01:44:31,506
and most of those files were burnt.

1316
01:44:31,796 --> 01:44:32,876
This is it!

1317
01:44:33,676 --> 01:44:36,925
Don't the middle toes on this corpse
appear to be longer than normal?

1318
01:44:36,926 --> 01:44:40,135
Yes, I remember
they were abnormal.

1319
01:44:40,136 --> 01:44:43,685
But there was nothing about it
in the forensic report.

1320
01:44:43,686 --> 01:44:46,646
It had nothing to do
with the cause of death.

1321
01:44:49,026 --> 01:44:50,186
Kindaichi.

1322
01:44:51,986 --> 01:44:55,316
The murdered man was Onda,
as we thought. Look here!

1323
01:44:57,866 --> 01:45:02,706
I can see. You're patience
and persistence finally paid off.

1324
01:45:03,246 --> 01:45:06,035
Why did Rika make a false statement?

1325
01:45:06,036 --> 01:45:08,626
Hooan identified the body, too.

1326
01:45:09,456 --> 01:45:11,706
But... what if it wasn't false?

1327
01:45:12,256 --> 01:45:13,545
What are you saying?

1328
01:45:13,546 --> 01:45:17,045
Isokawa,
I think I should go to Kobe.

1329
01:45:17,046 --> 01:45:18,296
To Kobe?

1330
01:45:18,306 --> 01:45:22,015
It seems to me that
the key to this case is in Kobe.

1331
01:45:22,016 --> 01:45:24,685
I'd like to have physical proof...
though I might not find any.

1332
01:45:24,686 --> 01:45:25,805
So would I...

1333
01:45:25,806 --> 01:45:27,605
You stay here.

1334
01:45:27,606 --> 01:45:30,225
And make sure Chie's safe.

1335
01:45:30,226 --> 01:45:34,145
The bouncing ball song says:
"The third little sparrow said..."

1336
01:45:34,146 --> 01:45:37,275
"Which one is finer?
The daughter of the lock-makers."

1337
01:45:37,276 --> 01:45:38,865
That's what worries me.

1338
01:45:38,866 --> 01:45:41,236
Get Mr. Tachibana on side too.

1339
01:45:41,656 --> 01:45:45,285
And don't tell anyone
that I'm going to Kobe.

1340
01:45:45,286 --> 01:45:49,375
Criminals have ways
of finding such things out.

1341
01:45:49,376 --> 01:45:51,796
Criminals also have ways
of getting themselves caught.

1342
01:46:10,186 --> 01:46:12,396
If he hasn't arrived yet,
don't wait for him.

1343
01:46:19,026 --> 01:46:20,445
What can I do to help?

1344
01:46:20,446 --> 01:46:24,575
No way! They'd have my head!

1345
01:46:24,576 --> 01:46:26,206
I'd rather be occupied.

1346
01:46:28,286 --> 01:46:29,916
Of course, I'm sorry.

1347
01:46:31,376 --> 01:46:33,755
I've never seen anything like it...

1348
01:46:33,756 --> 01:46:38,716
- Okinobe's cursed by the demon...
- Should I take this over there?

1349
01:46:45,226 --> 01:46:47,016
- Chie??
She's fine.

1350
01:46:47,806 --> 01:46:49,226
She's helping in the kitchen.

1351
01:46:51,186 --> 01:46:55,985
Why would someone want
to murder Chie?

1352
01:46:55,986 --> 01:46:59,316
They say it's because
she's Onda's daughter.

1353
01:47:01,776 --> 01:47:02,776
Harue...

1354
01:47:04,196 --> 01:47:09,576
Fumi and Yasu who were murdered...
were also Onda's daughters.

1355
01:47:12,336 --> 01:47:16,836
Yasu was... Onda's daughter too!

1356
01:47:22,176 --> 01:47:23,096
A sign!

1357
01:47:24,676 --> 01:47:26,925
They're all drinking
like there's no tomorrow!

1358
01:47:26,926 --> 01:47:30,095
Since it's Fumi's wake,
let them drink lots.

1359
01:47:30,096 --> 01:47:33,856
- Rika, don't carry so many.
- Don't worry, I'm fine.

1360
01:47:53,206 --> 01:47:57,795
It's true that Onda
used to speak of Mrs. Atsuko.

1361
01:47:57,796 --> 01:48:00,125
- Are you allright?
- Yes, I'm OK now.

1362
01:48:00,126 --> 01:48:03,336
I thought he did it to tease me.

1363
01:48:04,046 --> 01:48:06,256
But it was true.

1364
01:48:06,266 --> 01:48:09,766
Are you sure?
- Yes.

1365
01:48:10,556 --> 01:48:14,265
The one who knew everything
about Onda...

1366
01:48:14,266 --> 01:48:15,605
was Hooan.

1367
01:48:15,606 --> 01:48:20,065
Chie was saying that the murders
are related to an old folk song.

1368
01:48:20,066 --> 01:48:25,906
No, that's nothing... It's just
one of Kindaichi's crazy ideas.

1369
01:48:26,576 --> 01:48:30,326
That's why last night
we kept watch on Chie.

1370
01:48:32,206 --> 01:48:35,165
But in the end, nothing happened.

1371
01:48:35,166 --> 01:48:39,375
And so...
this Kindaichi, where's he?

1372
01:48:39,376 --> 01:48:42,676
He's just a fly-by-night
private investigator!

1373
01:48:43,216 --> 01:48:46,135
He's all worked up
about some other person...

1374
01:48:46,136 --> 01:48:50,596
and went off to Wakayama
following his own leads.

1375
01:48:51,136 --> 01:48:53,596
So, Isokawa... isn't that so?

1376
01:50:03,915 --> 01:50:08,125
<i>"KOBE"</i>

1377
01:50:37,285 --> 01:50:39,825
Mom!

1378
01:50:46,795 --> 01:50:51,385
Mom... Sato!
Sato's been murdered!

1379
01:50:57,845 --> 01:51:01,845
- It can't be.
- It is... in Tsuji.

1380
01:51:10,525 --> 01:51:13,654
The retired manager of Yachiyokan
put me on to...

1381
01:51:13,655 --> 01:51:16,284
the watchman at the Aoi cinema.

1382
01:51:16,285 --> 01:51:21,414
He said... the Sanyu theatre
projectionist was still alive.

1383
01:51:21,415 --> 01:51:27,625
When I met him, he mentioned that...
you, the musician Noro....

1384
01:51:29,835 --> 01:51:34,635
and the narrator, Aoyagi Yogiro,
had always kept in touch.

1385
01:51:35,005 --> 01:51:37,594
That's why I came here.

1386
01:51:37,595 --> 01:51:38,975
Ah... here's one.

1387
01:51:39,635 --> 01:51:40,935
Did you find one?

1388
01:51:42,265 --> 01:51:47,474
It's a photo of our protest
against laying-off the narrators.

1389
01:51:47,475 --> 01:51:51,315
See, the one speaking
before the tribunal...

1390
01:51:51,815 --> 01:51:52,815
that's me.

1391
01:51:54,815 --> 01:51:56,275
Then this photo....

1392
01:51:56,285 --> 01:51:58,944
If they hadn't invented
films with sound...

1393
01:51:58,945 --> 01:52:00,545
my son would've gone
to university.

1394
01:52:00,655 --> 01:52:04,525
But, please... I'm looking for
a photo of Aoyagi Yogiro.

1395
01:52:05,205 --> 01:52:08,414
Ah, he wasn't such a great narrator.

1396
01:52:08,415 --> 01:52:13,634
But he introduced the use
of European poetry into narration.

1397
01:52:13,635 --> 01:52:15,544
And the youth loved it.

1398
01:52:15,545 --> 01:52:18,174
For example, in a sad scene...

1399
01:52:18,175 --> 01:52:20,514
"My heart is weeping...

1400
01:52:20,515 --> 01:52:24,514
"like rain in the dark city."

1401
01:52:24,515 --> 01:52:26,805
It's by Baudelaire.

1402
01:52:27,765 --> 01:52:30,435
It worked very well.

1403
01:52:35,065 --> 01:52:36,445
This is my wife.

1404
01:52:38,615 --> 01:52:41,495
She's old now,
but she was never very sociable.

1405
01:52:42,455 --> 01:52:44,865
Ah, here's one.

1406
01:52:48,125 --> 01:52:50,504
They're all playing instruments.

1407
01:52:50,505 --> 01:52:53,624
It was when we started
the KT orchestra.

1408
01:52:53,625 --> 01:52:56,175
As I recall, I was first violin.

1409
01:52:59,805 --> 01:53:00,845
What's this?

1410
01:53:03,515 --> 01:53:07,845
"Okouchi Genjiro conducts
3 works in the Edo style."

1411
01:53:07,945 --> 01:53:10,224
It's just a concert program.

1412
01:53:10,225 --> 01:53:12,144
She's going senile.

1413
01:53:12,145 --> 01:53:16,695
This gentleman is looking
for a photo of Aoyagi Yogiro.

1414
01:53:20,195 --> 01:53:22,245
Just there... that's Aoyagi.

1415
01:53:24,035 --> 01:53:27,284
You see the four narrators...

1416
01:53:27,285 --> 01:53:29,285
he's the one on the far right.

1417
01:53:29,995 --> 01:53:34,044
Their reunion was the big attraction
of that concert...

1418
01:53:34,045 --> 01:53:36,985
the four famous narrators.

1419
01:53:38,085 --> 01:53:38,965
The murder weapon?

1420
01:53:38,966 --> 01:53:40,884
- A bottle filled with sand.
- Footprints?

1421
01:53:40,885 --> 01:53:41,965
There weren't any.

1422
01:53:44,015 --> 01:53:46,765
There was a lock and key
left at the scene.

1423
01:53:47,435 --> 01:53:50,144
If it follows the song,
the victim should have been...

1424
01:53:50,145 --> 01:53:53,225
the daughter of the house
of lock makers.

1425
01:53:53,235 --> 01:53:56,985
So why did they kill Sato,
from Kamenoyu inn?

1426
01:53:57,485 --> 01:54:01,365
Exactly. It dosn't make sense.

1427
01:54:02,075 --> 01:54:05,784
The murderer pretended to kill
only the daughters of Onda...

1428
01:54:05,785 --> 01:54:09,455
but Sato was the one
he intended to kill.

1429
01:54:10,165 --> 01:54:13,415
He very cleverly decieved us.

1430
01:54:15,625 --> 01:54:18,544
Has Rika come back yet.

1431
01:54:18,545 --> 01:54:24,885
No, she left in a police car
and hasn't come back yet.

1432
01:54:26,345 --> 01:54:33,434
I can still see her grief stricken face,
calling out and weeping.

1433
01:54:33,435 --> 01:54:36,945
Poor madam.

1434
01:54:42,405 --> 01:54:44,735
Isokawa, it's Mr. Kindaichi.

1435
01:54:46,155 --> 01:54:49,325
Kindaichi, there's been another murder.

1436
01:54:49,705 --> 01:54:51,595
No, not Chie.

1437
01:54:52,495 --> 01:54:54,584
It's Sato from Kamenoyu.

1438
01:54:54,585 --> 01:54:56,295
Sato?

1439
01:54:56,965 --> 01:54:59,085
Kindaichi, did you hear me?

1440
01:55:00,755 --> 01:55:02,005
They left a lock and key.

1441
01:55:02,545 --> 01:55:04,805
What? Booklet?

1442
01:55:05,675 --> 01:55:08,885
Yes, "Minkan zensho" (Complete Folk Songs)
And?

1443
01:55:11,265 --> 01:55:12,935
Ah, just a minute.

1444
01:55:13,935 --> 01:55:17,775
You say at Doctor Gondo's.
Good, what else?

1445
01:55:20,485 --> 01:55:24,324
I'll get them rounded up.
Yes, right away.

1446
01:55:24,325 --> 01:55:26,905
For sure, where are you now?

1447
01:55:30,075 --> 01:55:32,205
The earth is soft here, eh?

1448
01:55:33,125 --> 01:55:36,125
He said the wild dogs
had likely disturbed it.

1449
01:55:36,873 --> 01:55:39,165
But it seems like somethings
been taken from the grave.

1450
01:55:39,965 --> 01:55:41,375
See.

1451
01:55:43,635 --> 01:55:48,925
This is Fuyu's grave,
Hooan's eighth wife.

1452
01:55:49,345 --> 01:55:52,845
She was buried 5 or 6 years ago.

1453
01:55:53,345 --> 01:55:57,395
As far as City Hall's concerned,
we can't ignore this.

1454
01:56:04,865 --> 01:56:06,484
It's all so sudden.

1455
01:56:06,485 --> 01:56:10,285
Why have you brought us
to this dirty clinic?

1456
01:56:10,905 --> 01:56:15,535
Are you going to say
that the murder is one of us?

1457
01:56:16,285 --> 01:56:22,124
They told me that the three of us
are strangely linked...

1458
01:56:22,125 --> 01:56:25,255
I was truly surprised.

1459
01:56:27,215 --> 01:56:29,515
All I need say is it's about Onda.

1460
01:56:32,885 --> 01:56:41,685
I'm cold and very tired.
Can't I go home now?

1461
01:56:41,986 --> 01:56:43,086
Why are we here?

1462
01:56:43,725 --> 01:56:45,605
We're waiting for Mr. Kindaichi.

1463
01:56:46,205 --> 01:56:50,915
When he gets here,
we'll find out why we're here.

1464
01:58:31,545 --> 01:58:32,634
So, this publication...

1465
01:58:32,635 --> 01:58:40,225
contains all the bouncing ball songs
of Onikobe. It's called "Minkan zensho".

1466
01:58:43,175 --> 01:58:47,094
- This writing looks like Hooan's.
- That's right.

1467
01:58:47,095 --> 01:58:48,394
Where did you find it?

1468
01:58:48,395 --> 01:58:51,145
Who had it?
- I did.

1469
01:58:53,145 --> 01:58:55,025
It's not like I was trying to hide it.

1470
01:58:55,815 --> 01:58:58,734
Although Mr. Isokawa asked me
about local history...

1471
01:58:58,735 --> 01:59:02,324
he didn't say anything
at the time about "Minkan zensho".

1472
01:59:02,325 --> 01:59:04,745
What made you think it was here?

1473
01:59:05,405 --> 01:59:09,075
Mr. Kindaichi found a copy
in the Okayama library.

1474
01:59:10,125 --> 01:59:13,954
He called to say that Dr. Gondo's name
was in the list of sponsors.

1475
01:59:13,955 --> 01:59:16,165
As expected,
the third sparrow names...

1476
01:59:18,005 --> 01:59:20,175
"the daughter of the lock makers.

1477
01:59:21,965 --> 01:59:23,255
He's come.

1478
01:59:27,055 --> 01:59:28,844
Excuse me for keeping you waiting.

1479
01:59:28,845 --> 01:59:31,764
Kindaichi, did you find
the photo you were looking for?

1480
01:59:31,765 --> 01:59:33,515
Yes. Did you find "Minkan zensho"?

1481
01:59:33,525 --> 01:59:34,604
Yes, it's here.

1482
01:59:34,605 --> 01:59:35,895
Good.

1483
01:59:36,855 --> 01:59:38,985
I'm sorry I had you brought here.

1484
01:59:39,695 --> 01:59:43,655
The truth is I wanted
you to see this photo.

1485
01:59:44,235 --> 01:59:46,445
I'm sorry it's so small.

1486
01:59:46,455 --> 01:59:49,165
Please pass it along.

1487
01:59:50,075 --> 01:59:51,664
The one on the far right.

1488
01:59:51,665 --> 01:59:54,334
Although he has no mustache
in the picture...

1489
01:59:54,335 --> 02:00:00,045
try to imagine him
wearing a mustache.

1490
02:00:14,685 --> 02:00:17,854
Listen, where did you find this photo

1491
02:00:17,855 --> 02:00:20,444
The man in the photo is
Onda Ikuzo.

1492
02:00:20,445 --> 02:00:21,855
Onda's photo!?

1493
02:00:21,865 --> 02:00:26,155
Mrs. Sakie,
whose photo do you think it is?

1494
02:00:27,055 --> 02:00:31,485
I'm certain...
exactly as Mrs. Atsuko said.

1495
02:00:31,785 --> 02:00:33,915
Mrs. Harue,
what's your oppinion?

1496
02:00:34,915 --> 02:00:42,635
Yes, it's Chie's father.
I'm sure.

1497
02:00:47,845 --> 02:00:50,055
The man in the photo
isn't Onda...

1498
02:00:50,555 --> 02:00:57,224
but the narrator Aoyagi Yogiro,
that's to say, Aochi Genjiro.

1499
02:00:57,225 --> 02:01:00,315
So... Onda and Genjiro...

1500
02:01:01,025 --> 02:01:02,605
are the same person?

1501
02:01:04,315 --> 02:01:05,405
Yes.

1502
02:01:09,445 --> 02:01:11,745
What do you mean?

1503
02:01:12,165 --> 02:01:15,454
The key to deciphering the mystery
was a mandarin orange.

1504
02:01:15,455 --> 02:01:16,455
A mandarin?

1505
02:01:16,456 --> 02:01:18,294
It made me see...
one person played two roles.

1506
02:01:18,295 --> 02:01:24,175
Then... although there was a criminal,
he was also the victim?

1507
02:01:32,595 --> 02:01:39,105
Kindaichi... the guilty party...

1508
02:01:46,025 --> 02:01:48,025
...is Rika?

1509
02:02:18,305 --> 02:02:23,605
Chie... thanks for coming.

1510
02:02:24,355 --> 02:02:26,024
Since you called me.

1511
02:02:26,025 --> 02:02:32,115
No one knows you came here?

1512
02:02:34,365 --> 02:02:37,534
No. By the way,
this is Sato's purse.

1513
02:02:37,535 --> 02:02:40,165
Last night it got switched with mine.

1514
02:02:41,625 --> 02:02:45,505
I realized it wasn't mine
and was looking for Sato.

1515
02:02:46,545 --> 02:02:49,425
But I was too late.

1516
02:02:53,155 --> 02:02:57,344
She must have seen someone
putting a note in my purse.

1517
02:02:57,345 --> 02:03:01,395
I think it was something
about my father.

1518
02:03:05,605 --> 02:03:07,235
She switched purses.

1519
02:03:12,235 --> 02:03:22,035
But... how did she know that...
that person was the murderer?

1520
02:03:34,465 --> 02:03:39,145
Then, the person
standing at the kitchen door...

1521
02:03:40,095 --> 02:03:42,065
was Sato.

1522
02:03:46,315 --> 02:03:52,525
Sato... removed her scarf
and showed her face...

1523
02:03:55,365 --> 02:04:01,075
to show me
she had discovered my secret.

1524
02:04:03,165 --> 02:04:09,045
I killed her, thinking she was you.

1525
02:04:13,215 --> 02:04:18,305
Chie... I...

1526
02:04:26,975 --> 02:04:30,484
Having lost his work as narrator,
Genjiro...

1527
02:04:30,485 --> 02:04:35,074
now calling himself Onda,
came to the village selling wreathes.

1528
02:04:35,075 --> 02:04:37,695
That was year 6, Showa era.
(1931)

1529
02:04:38,365 --> 02:04:42,665
This village suited him
because he knew it from before.

1530
02:04:43,205 --> 02:04:45,585
That's why he hid
his true identity...

1531
02:04:46,375 --> 02:04:48,124
and used a false name.

1532
02:04:48,125 --> 02:04:52,254
Genjiro left his wife Rika preganant
and with his son in Kobe...

1533
02:04:52,255 --> 02:04:55,174
He came to this village
once a month...

1534
02:04:55,175 --> 02:04:57,715
and cleverly spent a day
with each of you.

1535
02:04:58,265 --> 02:05:01,515
Of course,
that was to make money.

1536
02:05:04,185 --> 02:05:09,935
I was completely taken in by him.

1537
02:05:10,815 --> 02:05:12,905
As was I.

1538
02:05:17,655 --> 02:05:22,535
Nevertheless, there was someone
who discovered his double life.

1539
02:05:23,115 --> 02:05:24,414
Hooan.

1540
02:05:24,415 --> 02:05:26,705
Yes, he'd rented the ajoining room.

1541
02:05:28,455 --> 02:05:31,005
Rika also found out.

1542
02:05:32,295 --> 02:05:34,505
Hooan deliberately told her.

1543
02:05:35,465 --> 02:05:36,545
Why?

1544
02:05:38,715 --> 02:05:42,345
Perhaps he desired Rika
and her money?

1545
02:05:44,435 --> 02:05:45,975
We can't find Chie!

1546
02:05:49,275 --> 02:05:53,395
Chie, I...

1547
02:05:54,905 --> 02:06:00,325
felt so sad that my daughter was born
with such a horrible birthmark

1548
02:06:02,285 --> 02:06:10,375
Such that, in the end I began
to resent the lives of her sisters.

1549
02:06:11,835 --> 02:06:14,755
Her sisters' lives?

1550
02:06:18,135 --> 02:06:20,345
Fate is cruel.

1551
02:06:23,845 --> 02:06:26,475
Your father, Onda...

1552
02:06:28,185 --> 02:06:32,025
was also my husband, Genjiro.

1553
02:06:35,445 --> 02:06:44,995
That's why I killed Yasu and Fumi.

1554
02:06:47,245 --> 02:06:56,085
So that Kanao wouldn't marry
one of you.

1555
02:06:58,425 --> 02:07:00,045
Does Kanao know?

1556
02:07:03,555 --> 02:07:07,975
I could never bring myself
to tell him.

1557
02:07:11,605 --> 02:07:14,185
Forgive me.

1558
02:07:15,445 --> 02:07:21,115
In my panic, I've stained
my hands with their blood.

1559
02:07:21,985 --> 02:07:35,165
And Sato, showed me my crimes,
at the cost of her life.

1560
02:07:53,185 --> 02:07:56,815
Rika... you.

1561
02:07:57,855 --> 02:08:00,355
Isokawa...

1562
02:08:04,695 --> 02:08:07,534
I'm so sorry.

1563
02:08:07,535 --> 02:08:09,865
Rika... I...

1564
02:08:13,335 --> 02:08:21,635
I wanted to tell Chie everything.

1565
02:08:22,845 --> 02:08:28,385
I imagined it would have
a great impact on her.

1566
02:08:29,385 --> 02:08:38,895
As for myself, when he told me that
my husband and Onda were the same man...

1567
02:08:40,605 --> 02:08:43,615
I couldn't believe it.

1568
02:08:45,535 --> 02:08:48,615
Hooan told you, didn't he?

1569
02:08:52,535 --> 02:08:54,415
When did he tell you?

1570
02:08:57,125 --> 02:09:01,924
That day, 20 years ago.

1571
02:09:01,925 --> 02:09:07,844
My husband left saying
he was going to expose Onda.

1572
02:09:07,845 --> 02:09:10,684
Then Hooan turned up.

1573
02:09:10,685 --> 02:09:16,724
And said that if I didn't want
my husband's secret revealed...

1574
02:09:16,725 --> 02:09:21,445
I would have to do
whatever he asked.

1575
02:09:23,735 --> 02:09:29,535
But I couldn't believe that
of my husband and went to his house.

1576
02:09:31,575 --> 02:09:35,285
Then I realised... it was true.

1577
02:09:37,295 --> 02:09:44,794
Thinking of Kanao and expecting Sato,
I swallowed my anger.

1578
02:09:44,795 --> 02:09:48,095
And I begged my husband
to come back to his old life.

1579
02:09:49,015 --> 02:09:52,345
But he was in the least sorry.

1580
02:09:53,555 --> 02:09:55,854
In an insolent tone he told me...

1581
02:09:55,855 --> 02:10:01,885
he was leaving me
and going to China with Harue.

1582
02:10:33,595 --> 02:10:36,264
If I'd been able
to truly hate my husband...

1583
02:10:36,265 --> 02:10:38,605
none of this would have happened.

1584
02:10:39,265 --> 02:10:43,944
Even though I realised
he was a heartless man, I loved him.

1585
02:10:43,945 --> 02:10:45,315
Rika.

1586
02:10:47,905 --> 02:10:50,535
I can't forget him.

1587
02:10:57,165 --> 02:10:59,705
I regret that I didn't concentrate
on Hooan from the start.

1588
02:11:00,585 --> 02:11:04,415
I might have prevented the murders.

1589
02:11:08,175 --> 02:11:12,305
Rika, the reply letter
which you wrote for Hooan...

1590
02:11:12,765 --> 02:11:17,015
You removed it
under some pretext, didn't you?

1591
02:11:22,355 --> 02:11:27,565
That was the first of your traps
I fell into.

1592
02:11:29,655 --> 02:11:32,074
You had to extablish
the existence of Ohan...

1593
02:11:32,075 --> 02:11:34,365
in spite of her being dead.

1594
02:11:36,785 --> 02:11:42,085
You took a shortcut and waited
for me to arrive at Sennintoge Pass.

1595
02:11:43,545 --> 02:11:46,335
And then went to Hooan's house.

1596
02:11:47,375 --> 02:11:51,924
Why didn't Hooan notice
that you were disguised as Ohan?

1597
02:11:51,925 --> 02:11:56,635
Hooan had night blindness.

1598
02:11:59,645 --> 02:12:02,265
That's why the salamander was there.

1599
02:12:04,355 --> 02:12:07,985
The villagers say
it cures night blindness.

1600
02:12:36,885 --> 02:12:48,185
I meant to implicate Hooan
by following my plan.

1601
02:12:48,195 --> 02:12:51,855
That's why you used
the "Onikobe" folk song.

1602
02:12:53,275 --> 02:12:56,035
The daughter of the measures
and then of the scales.

1603
02:12:57,745 --> 02:13:01,784
On the day of Yasu's funeral,
Mr. Nire said...

1604
02:13:01,785 --> 02:13:03,124
Yasu's dead.

1605
02:13:03,125 --> 02:13:07,085
It's clear that my Fumi
will be Kanao's wife.

1606
02:13:52,875 --> 02:14:01,885
I intended to go on to Chie...

1607
02:14:03,555 --> 02:14:12,695
But killed my own daughter,
as reward.

1608
02:14:16,695 --> 02:14:17,945
Chie!

1609
02:14:19,075 --> 02:14:20,115
Rika.

1610
02:14:21,195 --> 02:14:24,955
I don't know how
to ask Kanao's forgiveness.

1611
02:14:25,825 --> 02:14:27,415
He knows nothing.

1612
02:14:27,835 --> 02:14:34,215
He said he was going to search
in the hills to avenge Yasu and Sato.

1613
02:14:34,675 --> 02:14:38,805
Rika, you have to
give yourself up to the police.

1614
02:14:44,135 --> 02:14:48,975
The losses have been too great.

1615
02:14:50,815 --> 02:14:55,195
Surrender to the police,
please... please...

1616
02:15:06,455 --> 02:15:08,575
Hooan's body's been found.

1617
02:15:09,675 --> 02:15:11,135
Are you sure?

1618
02:15:11,335 --> 02:15:13,935
Constable Nakamura just called.

1619
02:15:15,725 --> 02:15:17,225
Has she confessed?

1620
02:15:21,845 --> 02:15:29,435
Isokawa, you should go now with
Mr. Kindaichi to identify Hooan's body.

1621
02:15:30,765 --> 02:15:33,255
You, keep an eye on the lady.

1622
02:15:41,195 --> 02:15:44,785
Finally Mr. Tachibana and the others
are coming.

1623
02:15:54,085 --> 02:15:58,715
I'd like to be near Rika.

1624
02:15:59,795 --> 02:16:03,055
Please, carry on. Excuse me.

1625
02:16:27,705 --> 02:16:30,664
Hey, where's Rika.

1626
02:16:30,665 --> 02:16:35,954
Eh? The Okayama police just called.
I had to take it.

1627
02:16:35,955 --> 02:16:37,504
Isn't she there?

1628
02:16:37,505 --> 02:16:38,965
Idiot!

1629
02:18:13,725 --> 02:18:17,605
They've found the murderer!

1630
02:18:19,145 --> 02:18:22,645
The murderer's been caught!

1631
02:18:58,395 --> 02:19:00,605
Hold on.
- Let me go.

1632
02:19:01,025 --> 02:19:03,735
I want to see the killer's body!

1633
02:19:05,355 --> 02:19:09,775
Isokawa... it might be better
to let him see.

1634
02:19:10,615 --> 02:19:11,985
Kanao!

1635
02:19:39,265 --> 02:19:42,105
No!

1636
02:20:16,225 --> 02:20:18,015
Mother.

1637
02:20:19,345 --> 02:20:21,435
Mother.

1638
02:20:30,525 --> 02:20:33,865
Mother!

1639
02:20:46,455 --> 02:20:48,215
Kindaichi...

1640
02:20:49,965 --> 02:20:55,674
I'd like to go to Okayama with you, but
there's something I have to take care of.

1641
02:20:55,675 --> 02:20:58,515
Here.
- Thank you.

1642
02:20:59,345 --> 02:21:04,394
Your retainer as well as expenses.

1643
02:21:04,395 --> 02:21:06,475
I'm only charging expenses.

1644
02:21:06,485 --> 02:21:10,445
What're you saying?
Don't be so stubborn.

1645
02:21:13,275 --> 02:21:14,985
Keep it for next time.

1646
02:21:19,535 --> 02:21:22,455
But won't it leave you short?

1647
02:21:23,955 --> 02:21:26,375
Well... I'll get by.

1648
02:21:28,125 --> 02:21:30,755
Can I look?
- Yes, of course.

1649
02:21:32,425 --> 02:21:35,755
The total expenses
came to 630 yen, no?

1650
02:21:36,835 --> 02:21:38,295
That's fine.

1651
02:21:49,315 --> 02:21:54,775
Kanao's finally agreed
to come... and live with me.

1652
02:21:55,865 --> 02:21:59,945
He's going to attend
the Agricultural College in Okayama.

1653
02:22:01,205 --> 02:22:03,115
I'm glad.

1654
02:22:07,245 --> 02:22:08,875
Thanks for everything.

1655
02:22:11,625 --> 02:22:12,715
No... I thank you.

1656
02:22:31,485 --> 02:22:35,945
Isokawa,
you loved Rika, didn't you?

1657
02:22:37,575 --> 02:22:39,365
What'd you say?

1658
02:23:13,666 --> 02:23:20,366
<i>The End</i>

1659
02:23:20,593 --> 02:23:25,616
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