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Kinbaku began about 15,000 years ago in the Jomon Era.

It exists in ropes on "torii" in shrines, casks of "sake" and "miso",

divine trees, divine rocks, sumo wrestlers' belts to show their dignity,

"mizuhiki" used in the envelopes containing cash for religious occasions.

Japanese history has always been with Kinbaku, and it still remains now.

"Hojojutsu" began as a martial art in the Sengoku Era,

and sophisticated as official punishment in the Edo era,

and descended to the Kinbaku masters now.

Kinbaku: Shining Moon

Are you alright?

Oh... It's nothing, not really.

So, can you accept my offer?

I'll direct my show. On stage, you're just a participant.

You have to obey all my orders. If you agree, I'll accept.

If you punish that woman, you can do anything you like.

I don't have any objections.

My Kinbaku is very expensive.

I understand that.

Is this life insurance?

Yes, my late husband's.

I have enough money, so please don't worry.

An accident?

No! It was a suicide.

My deepest sympathies.

I will never forgive that woman.

That woman drove my husband Mikio to commit suicide.

I will definitely take revenge.

Ms. Mizuki, are you here?

Well, because I have something I need to finish today.

And Mr. Hirata?

I forgot something.

Today, Satsuki was upset at the funeral, wasn't she?

If your husband died you'd be upset too.

Ms. Mizuki, don't worry about it.

What?

About that?

How dare you come here?

You practically killed Mikio!

Even if she's upset, why did she say that to Ms. Mizuki?

You took care of her. Do you remember?

You mean when Satsuki was working here?

Oh well... I'm not sure.

I kind of remember.

Aha. I can understand that.

It's 2 years since she quit.

She was just an office temp,

as a manager you might not remember.

Especially if she came to find a husband and left when she married.

Mr. Hirata, what do you think?

About what?

About Mr. Fujimura's suicide.

The police and the insurance company said it was an accident.

It's Satsuki's imagination.

He didn't kill himself because you abused him.

Would a grown man do that?

It's a common cause.

Really?

I just looked it up online.

After money and health, relationship at work comes 3rd.

Family and relatives is 3rd too.

Aha. But he's not a teenager.

What do you think?

About what?

Do you think I abused Mr.Fujimura?

Well, everyone has their likes and dislikes when it comes to people...

Summarizing is easy. If you can't finish in time, it's just trash.

No matter if it is trash or careful work.

You must tell me if you can't finish! Now someone else has to do it.

"Report, Note and Discuss" is vital! Give warning earlier!

It's like you're a new employee!

I did abuse him. You were correct about me.

I was insane without realizing it.

No, no. No one is saying that.

Anyway, no need to worry.

After marrying, Satsuki has been a housewife, so she was very close-minded.

Thank you. But it's all right.

I don't deny it. I don't try to hide my sins.

Even if I sin, I won't do anything about it.

But at least I want to know it myself.

I'll go home.

Take care.

I asked Kinbaku master Joji Ando for an interview.

And I was invited to a private Kinbaku show again.

I heard today's show is a revenge of a widow

whose husband committed suicide because of bullying.

The female boss who bullied him is bound in front of the widow.

Satsuki! What the hell is this?

You know why. I have arranged to take my revenge on you.

I'll abuse you mercilessly, and let you beg for apology.

In front of the portrait of Mikio, I'll show your shameful figure.

Please don't!

Do you think Mr. Fujimura will be satisfied by this?

You mean, you understand him so well?

Not in that way...

I'm his wife. I think I know Mikio more than anyone.

Shut your mouth. Just take punishment!

The master bind both wrists and the chest,

and ties the folded rope with the horizontal rope.

He makes another knot to make it strong.

"Nawagashira", the extra length of the rope is kept.

"Nawajiri", the tail of the rope goes through the pulley

and tied with the folded rope.

He throws the tail to the pulley, to the folded nawagashira,

and ties with the rope between the pulley and the back.

Now, she is hanged to the pulley with her wrists bound.

The next rope is bound around her waist twice,

and a knot is made on the left waist.

Nawagashira is tied twice to make it strong,

and to be prepared for the suspension.

The rest of the rope is bound around the hip,

crotch, the front body, and the right thigh.

He pulls the rope around the waist to make a gap,

and passes the rope around the thigh under the gap, and do it again.

He pulls the rope down, makes a gap between the waist and the rope,

passes the tail to make a circle, and passes the tail inside the circle.

A harness tying the waist and the thigh is made.

The rest of the rope is bound around the rope between the waist and the thigh,

separate the tail into two, and ties them.

The next rope is bound around the left thigh, near the knee.

He binds the left thigh twice, passes the other side of the rope under it .

He makes a knot again to make it strong.

He hooks the tail to the pulley, pulls the rope to rise the legs.

When the leg is pulled up, he passes the tail into the folded rope,

and hooks it to the pulley.

The rest of the rope is tied around the rope hooked to the pulley.

The body is impressing with the pulled leg and exposed crotch,

but the master's work hasn't finished.

Everyone on stage know what will happen next.

The boss and the widow are waiting for the moment with excitement and fear.

The master takes a breath, and pulls the rope in a second.

The body floats in the air. It's called "yokozuri-shibari", or sided binding.

If he hangs her face down, it's like famous "Suruga-doi".

If he hangs her face up and stretched arms and legs, it's "kemono-shibari".

That means the binding is used when hunters bind beasts.

Take me down... Take me down...

What a nice view!

Are you really a college-educated fulltime worker? Miss Supervisor?

That's embarrassing! So funny! I can't stop laughing!

Mr. Fujimura won't be happy about this!

That again? You are the one who bullied Mikio to commit suicide.

I didn't...

You didn't abuse him? You didn't mean it?

The abuser always says so.

Only the victim can understand the feeling of being abused.

Maybe it's true.

But Satsuki... Why did you think...

Mr. Fujimura committed suicide?

The police and the insurance company concluded it was an accident, right?

With no suicide note or will, it's regarded as an accident.

Or an unexplained death.

There must be a note or a will to add it to the suicide statistics.

The insurance company will pay after one year even if it's suicide.

With no possibility of fraud there's no need to know the cause of death.

But I know it.

Mikio's hobby was to go fishing at a mountain once a month.

He quit drinking and smoking after marrying, so that was his only hobby.

Mikio slipped on the cliff, and then he fell from a height of 3 floors.

But the body wasn't found below the cliff.

It was found far down the stream.

His backpack was left at the place where he fell.

His helmet was also there.

Everything needed for that season on the mountain was in the backpack.

His helmet was cracked by the impact and covered in blood.

He got a blow to his head and internal bleeding,

but the inquest said this couldn't be the cause of death.

There's a first aid kit in his backpack,

but no sign he tried to patch himself up.

The cliff was high, so he tried to find a place to climb up by swimming down.

Then he drowned. Did it happen like this?

But there was no water in the lungs.

The cause of death was not drowning. He didn't try to swim.

The reason was hypothermia from the cold water.

His face was peaceful as if he was sleeping.

As if he was dreaming.

He looked peaceful as a child, he was even smiling.

I am sure! Mikio committed suicide!

What? Stop! Why am I involved in this? I didn't ask for this.

I said I'll direct my show.

Obey me on stage.

Didn't you agree?

Yes, but...!

The Kinbaku for the widow starts.

First, he binds the head of the rope to the right wrist,

and passes the head between the rope and wrist.

He then passes the rope to the right shoulder and right arm to bind it.

It still have a risk to be loosened easily.

To prevent this, he binds the rope twice,

hooks it to the rope around the wrist,

and binds the whole arm again.

Now, perfectly fixed.

Then, he pulls the rope down from the right arm

to bind the left arm.

The binding of the left arm isn't simple as the right.

He binds the upper left arm, upper right arm,

and ties the rope with the rope of the right arm.

Now, the both arms are firmly tied.

He binds the rest of the rope.

When he ties the tail, "teppo-shibari" is finished.

"Teppo" means gun. "Teppo-shibari" is named after a hunter holding a gun.

The boss is like a beast, and the widow is like a hunter.

The art of a hunter and a game appears here.

Mr. Hirata, why are you here?

Because I was asked to come.

What do you mean? I didn't ask you.

I just asked you to help us abduct her.

What?

I'll go home.

Take care.

Hello. This is Hirata.

Ms. Mizuki has just left.

Yes. She's alone. No one is with her.

She'll go straight home, so she'll be at the alley in 10 minutes.

Are you also an accomplice?

I just called to tell the situation. I didn't do anything this time.

This time?

Why did you come here?

Well, I asked him. I wanted him to join on the stage.

"Teppo-shibari" doesn't have many ropes in the front body.

He can rub the defenseless breast and the crotch easily.

Stop it!

You're saying that, but you're already getting wet.

Actually you're quite an attractive woman.

A wife, especially a widow, is tempting.

I won't deny that.

But I didn't see just a young temp casting loving looks. I've adored Manager.

Fine education, successful career. And also my direct boss.

In fact you've been my masturbation object from the start.

No!

No!

No... No... Stop it!

No... Stop it!

No... No...

No... Stop it.

Please stop.

I'll teach you a lesson for doing that!

No!

Aha, the Manager is also becoming nicely ready.

No! I'm not.

Yes, you are. I'll enter you right now.

A vibrator is too rude for Ms. Mizuki. So I'll put in my bare cock!

No!

It's not too late, please stop this madness.

Ah, my dream has come true. I've wished for this.

I wanted sex with Ms. Mizuki.

It's no fun to fuck a temp who spreads her legs.

I'll take a girl if she won't put out,

It's what men dream of!

Feeling good? Are you in ecstasy? Hah? Ms. Mizuki?

It can't feel very nice!

You liar! Dripping love juice and wriggling your body, you must feel nice!

There's no woman who enjoys being fucked by force!

Aha, is that so? You can say that.

It was really good that Fujimura married Satsuki.

If Fujimura and you had become a couple,

I might have killed myself from inferiority complex.

What are you talking about?

Wow! Did you think I didn't notice?

Ms. Mizuki and Fujimura used to be in a good mood. I've noticed that.

Don't work overtime for free.

Thank you. But this is all my fault anyway.

I don't want to bother you.

Alright. Let's get this done together and go out eat.

Okay.

You know what? I wasn't the only one but Satsuki knew about you two.

What? Satsuki did?

So, do you have a girlfriend?

Never. I'm not attractive to women.

What's your favorite type?

I bet you like a girl who is sweet, so maybe a younger girl?

What about you?

You like an older man who is reliable to you?

Actually, I kind of like a younger man these days.

I like an older woman these days.

Something is going on between them.

Yeah, I guess so.

How could you ignore that?

You fancy Ms. Mizuki, right?

You don't care if they get together?

No, but I can't help it anyway.

So you just let her go?

I can't do that.

I like Mr. Fujimura.

I'm serious about him.

I want to get marry him.

Let's work this out together.

What exactly are we doing?

We'll be evil Cupids.

No matter how much they attract each other,

I bet we still have a chance to make them split.

Ms. Mizuki is our president's favorite, you know?

We can make up she's the president's lover so Mr. Fujimura will hesitate.

And to Ms. Mizuki,

we tell that Mr. Fujimura is going to marry me.

She is a kind of snob

and can't be bothered to come against a temp woman.

Did you know Ms. Mizuki is the president's lover?

Really?

By the way, do you want to go eat with me later?

Did you know they're going out these days?

Oh, really.

It's about time for you to be honest.

You two stop fighting and open your mind.

Well, in this case, open your legs and talk.

I bet you'll understand each other.

The Kinbaku master controls the stage.

It's a wonder that insulting raises a woman's sexual feeling.

Some people say sexual assaults can raise the possibility of pregnancy.

It's an instinct to survive.

Many men know their penis can erect when they're exhausted.

That is a phenomenon to leave offspring in danger.

Women also have that instinct.

Researchers say ovulation can be induced under a physical danger like violence.

We don't have any evidence to say it's true,

so it's a mere hypothesis.

But it's persuasive in some way.

Infertility treatment makes progress now.

Women can easily be pregnant when they're teenagers or in twenties.

They should bear a child soon, but they go to college and work instead.

They earn money just for hobby, traveling, or boyfriends.

They marry in their thirties, but they can't bear a child easily.

It's ridiculous to use money for infertility treatment.

Rape may be better than useless infertility treatment.

A husband should violate his wife harshly,

abuse mentally, and make her be in danger of life.

By doing so, wives can be pregnant easily keeping their health.

Women's rights and severe punishment for

sexual crimes are required in the world now.

Women hate rape, but some of them desire to be raped as a masturbation.

What the hell women want?

Mikio might have realized what I was up to.

So he fed up with me and longed for Ms. Mizuki.

But he had no choice and killed himself.

If it was so...

I'm the one who pushed him hard to end his life.

What did I do?

If I didn't do that stupid thing,

Mikio could get marry Ms. Mizuki and be happy.

I don't think so.

Although if I was his girlfriend, I wouldn't marry him.

Marriage is not for me though I enjoyed dating and having sex with him.

I'm a workaholic and love the way I am. I won't change it anyway.

I can't stand to get involved in all the family events.

No way that I have babies and raise them.

I know Japan might perish from the declining birth rate, but so what?

I just want to keep working until I quit and die alone in a luxury care home.

Marriage might not be for Mikio either.

He would've liked feeling lonely outside of marriage.

He married me because I was so desperate.

I don't think so. He wanted to have kids.

Yes. He was happy to marry you.

If so, how come he chose to die?

He maybe chose to die because of me.

He died just to punish me for my sins.

Nothing proves his suicide.

And you can't say he meant to punish you.

He wasn't a person who punishes someone.

He was so naive and sweet.

He was a man of self-sacrificing. He'd take all the burdens for others.

He wouldn't mind to work alone overtime for free.

He hated to bother someone else so didn't ask for help.

He was such a sweet awkward man.

Yeah, actually he was like that.

Maybe he didn't want you to suffer from aftereffects of his brain injury.

But the coroner said the injury was not mortal.

But still, it was possible for him to have aftereffects.

He couldn't stand if his wife had to spend all the rest of her life

looking after her disabled husband.

Instead, he chose to die leaving high life insurance to you.

Yeah, that sounds more like him.

What about him?

Was he happy to end his life like that?

No one would know that, even he himself.

It doesn't matter what a person passed away was thinking.

What matters is how people left face their loss.

That's because they have to live on their own life.

The deceased don't need a story. Only people alive makes a story.

I'm pregnant...

with Mikio's baby.

He didn't even know it.

After I visited the police to confirm Mikio's body,

I went to the hospital and knew that I got pregnant.

I didn't tell anybody about it.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to bear the baby.

But now I decide.

I'm having this baby.

I'm going to raise Mikio's child.

Many Japanese women say they don't want a husband, but a child.

The husband who left money for his wife and child may be an ideal.

In Japan, 30,000 people commit suicide every year,

but some people say there are more hidden.

"Suspicious death" without a suicide note is classified as

suicide by WHO, and the number is up to 180,000.

It's larger than the victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Every day, 500 people commit suicide.

Today, 500 people commit suicide in Japan. So as tomorrow.

In Japan, where traditional marriage system remains,

more and more couple will refuse to marry in the future.

And, much less children.

If no Japanese left, the country can't exist.

Japan is in danger of its extinction.

The country with 2600 years of history is going to disappear from the world.

Kinbaku existed from 15,000 years ago in the prehistoric Jomon era.

Many people say Kinbaku makes women be honest.

Many women say by being bound, they can throw away their vanity and be free.

Ironically, an ultimate form of violence and binding can produce freedom.

If Kinbaku, a simulated danger of life can induce ovulation of women,

Kinbaku is the winning formula

for infertility treatment that can avoid extinction.

Kinbaku is Japanese wisdom that UK and the other countries should learn.