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<i>Original Story</i>
Seicho Matsumoto

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<i>Kumako</i>
Kaori Momoi

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<i>Reiko</i>
Shima Iwashita

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Suspicion

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Cast

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Takeshi Kaga
Akira Emoto

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Kyoko Maya
Kensaku Morita

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Noboru Nakaya
Takao Ito
Taketoshi Naito

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Eitaro Ozawa
Tatsuo Matsumura

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Norihei Miki
Tanie Kitabayashi

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Tetsuro Tanba

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Isuzu Yamada

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<i>Director</i>
Yoshitaro Nomura

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A stone?

15
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No, more like glass...

16
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Wipe it.

17
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- Oh shit!
- An accident!

18
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Someone call the police!

19
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Somebody help!

20
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Look, a woman I think.

21
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Are you okay?

22
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Dive in.

23
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Someone help.

24
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Hold on here!

25
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Hang on!

26
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Hold firm.

27
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There.

28
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A little bit further, there!

29
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There!

30
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What happened? You dozed off?

31
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You okay?

32
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Hey, come on.

33
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An ambulance is coming.

34
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Hold on.

35
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Hey, what is it?

36
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My husband... my husband's inside.

37
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He's still in the car?

38
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ROAD SAFETY

39
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Yeah, a car plunged in.

40
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Quay A at Shinko Harbour.

41
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A fatality, yes.

42
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And Criminal Affairs...

43
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The unit chief's here too.

44
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Yeah,
it's been designated a criminal matter.

45
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I don't know. Anyway, I'm going over there.

46
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Hey, have you discovered anything?

47
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It's useless.

48
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It's pitch black down there!

49
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Try checking just by the position.

50
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Right.

51
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There are neither skid marks
nor signs of the brakes being applied.

52
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The people helping us?

53
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They've gone to change clothes.

54
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I see.

55
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I'll leave it to you.

56
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You've identified them?

57
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Yeah, I'm off to the hospital.

58
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Koba-chan!

59
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Koba-chan! Who the hell is it?

60
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Come on, tell me.

61
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The woman is Kumako Shirakawa.
It seems her husband's inside.

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- Shirakawa?
- Yeah.

63
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Of Shirakawa Breweries?

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Fukutaro.

65
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So the one rescued was that wife of his.

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Hey, hold it properly...

67
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Give it to me.

68
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How long are you going to be here?

69
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I'm exhausted.
I swallowed water and my head hurts.

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Just get out of my face.

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Mrs. Shirakawa.

72
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It doesn't give us any pleasure either.

73
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We have to give details to...

74
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Look, I've been telling you!

75
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My husband was at the wheel...

76
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and drove into the sea
through his own mistake.

77
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So...

78
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how did this incident come about?

79
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How the hell should I know!

80
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Hey, enough of that.

81
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Your husband's still in the water.

82
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We're sorry Mrs. Shirakawa,
it's unpleasant but it's our job.

83
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We're going to stay and keep you company.

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Nurse!

85
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Listen, nurse.

86
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How is she? Did she say anything?

87
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She's weird.

88
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Weird?

89
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It's strange.
Even though her husband's died.

90
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What?

91
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Can you determine whether it was
the man or woman driving?

92
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Well now, in this condition...

93
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Isn't the leg room a bit tight
on the driver's side?

94
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The lever's come loose.

95
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It's not necessarily due to
the driver's physique.

96
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Surely it wouldn't break so cleanly.

97
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I guess this shoe came off in the impact.

98
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Here, look.

99
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I take it you're a good swimmer.

100
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I lived in Amakusa when I was a kid.

101
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What of it?

102
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You knew that Fukutaro couldn't swim.

103
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Yes, I knew.

104
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Why did you go to the quay especially?

105
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Passing by your own home.

106
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My husband suggested seeing the night view.

107
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Even though you were tired
and it was raining as well.

108
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Sightseeing at night?

109
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Because he said he wanted to see
the night view.

110
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What about the insurance? How much is it?

111
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In total it amounts to 310 million yen!

112
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And you're the recipient!

113
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You have four previous convictions.

114
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Blackmail, fraud, assault,
intent to injure.

115
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It seems you were a hostess in Tokyo.

116
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How did you meet Fukutaro?

117
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What is this?

118
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So what if I've previous convictions?

119
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What have I done? Give it a rest.

120
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Cut the crap, you bitch!

121
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There's no need for insults.

122
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What are you saying?

123
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You think that I killed him?

124
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What rude people you are.

125
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I bet you didn't sleep a wink last night.

126
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No way can I sleep.

127
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A murder for the insurance money...

128
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would be an extraordinary crime.

129
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Mother-in-law.

130
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I thought something like this may happen.

131
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Katsuyuki.

132
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Did that woman kill him?

133
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If only your sister were still alive,

134
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Fukutaro wouldn't have picked up
that woman in Tokyo.

135
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Listen...

136
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Katsuyuki, please take care of Muneharu.

137
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That child is the last of the
Shirakawa family now.

138
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Yes.

139
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What for?

140
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Whatever is Kumako here for?

141
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Detective.

142
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That woman has come?

143
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Please send her away.

144
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I think you'll understand I can't
allow her to set foot in here.

145
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Actually, Mrs. Shirakawa, I'd like
to show her Fukutaro's corpse.

146
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To observe her reaction.

147
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Hey, get out the way.

148
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Let her out.

149
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A word please.

150
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Do it later!

151
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Kumako!

152
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You were saved and you're very much alive.

153
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Please just go and look at him!

154
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Fukutaro...

155
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Fukutaro...

156
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Kumako!

157
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Take a good look at his face
and pay your last respects.

158
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Please take a look!

159
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SUSPICIONS OVER KUMAKO INTENSIFY

160
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Yesterday, Professor Anzai of
Hokuriku University called me,

161
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so I can report his forensic opinion.

162
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Er, a detailed report will be submitted
later on regarding damage to the car...

163
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and the findings about the dead body.

164
00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:03,671
But in the professor's view...

165
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there's little doubt Kumako drove,
Fukutaro sat in the passenger seat.

166
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Er, clear signs of subcutaneous bleeding...

167
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covered both of Fukutaro's knees.

168
00:17:18,522 --> 00:17:22,652
And the baggage rack in front of
the passenger seat has dents.

169
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That means there's a strong possibility...

170
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the wounds were caused when his knees
smashed into the baggage rack.

171
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What about the spanner?

172
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Was it used to break the windscreen?

173
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It seems that can't be proven yet.

174
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What a joke!

175
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Then why exactly was it lying in the car?

176
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The toolbox was inside the trunk!

177
00:17:50,725 --> 00:17:53,725
Anyway, we can assume Kumako was driving.

178
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I think that's fine.

179
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- Why not seek an arrest warrant?
- But...

180
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all we have is the strong possibility that
Fukutaro was in the passenger seat.

181
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That being said,
since the case was reported,

182
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we've been inundated
with angry phone calls.

183
00:18:10,917 --> 00:18:12,127
But,

184
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even under arrest,
we can't expect her to confess.

185
00:18:15,957 --> 00:18:17,167
With more proof...

186
00:18:17,297 --> 00:18:18,297
Chief,

187
00:18:18,677 --> 00:18:21,548
we've almost finished the
blackmail charge...

188
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and the other gathering of
evidence from Kumako's past.

189
00:18:24,758 --> 00:18:28,178
Enough material has been collected
to retain her in custody.

190
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- So, an unrelated matter?
- Yes.

191
00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:32,059
No, let's avoid that.

192
00:18:32,439 --> 00:18:35,689
Go for an arrest warrant
on a murder charge.

193
00:18:37,029 --> 00:18:40,069
Commissioner,
Kumako's at the traffic division!

194
00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,030
- What?
- What for?

195
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She wants an accident certificate
for her insurance claim.

196
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Taking the piss!

197
00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,000
She must be taunting us!

198
00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:50,830
Don't fuck with the police!

199
00:18:51,711 --> 00:18:54,131
Why can't you issue it?

200
00:18:55,671 --> 00:18:59,301
Do you know what a
road accident certificate is?

201
00:19:00,631 --> 00:19:05,602
You're supposed to issue it
regardless of culpability or cause.

202
00:19:05,812 --> 00:19:08,482
Look, the investigation needs more time.

203
00:19:08,642 --> 00:19:12,522
But it's already known
that the car fell into the sea.

204
00:19:14,653 --> 00:19:17,403
Hey, guv'nor! Sort it out.

205
00:19:17,533 --> 00:19:19,323
Just reel her in.

206
00:19:19,493 --> 00:19:20,993
Such a dark charge.

207
00:19:21,153 --> 00:19:23,323
If only it were that simple.

208
00:19:23,823 --> 00:19:25,494
He's tetchy as well.

209
00:19:25,624 --> 00:19:26,874
Too true.

210
00:19:26,994 --> 00:19:29,454
At least keep giving it the big splash.

211
00:19:30,834 --> 00:19:31,834
Please.

212
00:19:32,214 --> 00:19:34,384
Christ, I want that bitch dead.

213
00:19:34,885 --> 00:19:36,255
Same again please.

214
00:19:36,675 --> 00:19:40,015
And the prospects?
How long will you leave it?

215
00:19:40,135 --> 00:19:42,765
Don't worry, we're making steady progress.

216
00:19:43,135 --> 00:19:45,145
This morning Yamazaki went to Tokyo...

217
00:19:45,265 --> 00:19:46,896
Hey, Sasaki!

218
00:19:47,516 --> 00:19:49,526
Tokyo? What for?

219
00:19:49,686 --> 00:19:51,146
Sasaki, that hasn't been...

220
00:19:51,276 --> 00:19:52,526
What's the problem?

221
00:19:53,276 --> 00:19:55,776
A pimp, you see, a pimp.

222
00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:59,657
He's Kumako's ex, Toyosaki.

223
00:20:00,157 --> 00:20:01,617
Jeez, I give up.

224
00:20:01,747 --> 00:20:03,787
You've had a few too many.

225
00:20:04,917 --> 00:20:06,917
Hey... hey, what is it?

226
00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:10,878
Sorry, I have to go...

227
00:20:11,008 --> 00:20:12,668
Hey! Akitani!

228
00:20:17,548 --> 00:20:19,719
Hello. Yeah, wait a second.

229
00:20:19,889 --> 00:20:21,389
Mr. Akitani, Tokyo office.

230
00:20:21,519 --> 00:20:22,519
Okay.

231
00:20:24,639 --> 00:20:26,269
Yes, it's me. Well?

232
00:20:26,399 --> 00:20:27,399
Yeah.

233
00:20:28,109 --> 00:20:29,940
Katsuo Toyosaki.

234
00:20:30,610 --> 00:20:33,190
Unemployed, no fixed address.

235
00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:37,870
Imprisoned for fraud three years ago.

236
00:20:37,990 --> 00:20:40,201
Currently on parole.

237
00:20:40,911 --> 00:20:43,871
Involved in all of Kumako's
previous crimes.

238
00:20:44,581 --> 00:20:46,221
Which train from Ueno?

239
00:20:49,491 --> 00:20:51,202
<i>This is Toyama.</i>

240
00:21:09,173 --> 00:21:12,884
Of course, it's possible that
she killed him.

241
00:21:13,184 --> 00:21:15,184
But it's nothing to do with me.

242
00:21:16,144 --> 00:21:19,144
I'm on parole, so I'm not too clued up.

243
00:21:20,894 --> 00:21:23,275
I can talk about the old days.

244
00:21:24,355 --> 00:21:28,195
But I haven't seen her for 3 years now.

245
00:21:29,115 --> 00:21:30,115
Besides,

246
00:21:30,155 --> 00:21:32,745
we were only involved in petty crimes.

247
00:21:34,366 --> 00:21:35,916
This time it's murder?

248
00:21:36,876 --> 00:21:39,086
Difficult to say really.

249
00:21:47,177 --> 00:21:49,177
Ah, did Toyosaki say anything?

250
00:21:49,307 --> 00:21:50,557
A few things.

251
00:21:50,807 --> 00:21:52,887
But nothing newsworthy.

252
00:21:53,057 --> 00:21:54,057
Where is he?

253
00:21:54,227 --> 00:21:55,227
Already left.

254
00:21:56,188 --> 00:21:57,558
Where's he gone?

255
00:21:57,898 --> 00:21:58,898
I couldn't say.

256
00:22:08,989 --> 00:22:09,659
Hello.

257
00:22:09,779 --> 00:22:12,909
It's on my company,
so let him drink sensibly.

258
00:22:13,579 --> 00:22:15,289
A cheap room's fine.

259
00:22:15,419 --> 00:22:16,419
Yes, certainly.

260
00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:19,590
Also...

261
00:22:19,790 --> 00:22:22,380
Let me know if he goes off somewhere.

262
00:22:22,510 --> 00:22:23,510
Yes, sir.

263
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,800
Sorry to keep you.

264
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,601
Why not have a drink
while your room's prepared?

265
00:22:32,101 --> 00:22:35,481
Ah, thanks for going to so much trouble.

266
00:22:35,981 --> 00:22:37,601
There's no need to worry.

267
00:22:37,771 --> 00:22:39,362
Let your hair down.

268
00:22:40,022 --> 00:22:42,692
Better than those papers
bothering you, isn't it?

269
00:22:42,862 --> 00:22:44,242
I don't talk to them.

270
00:22:44,942 --> 00:22:46,822
I know what you're saying.

271
00:22:46,952 --> 00:22:49,122
If you should recall something...

272
00:22:49,282 --> 00:22:51,123
Let's drink to it.

273
00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:54,583
Well... I'm really trying to remember...

274
00:22:55,963 --> 00:22:58,293
And... here's something.

275
00:22:59,213 --> 00:23:00,213
For now...

276
00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,504
Tell me if you need more.

277
00:23:03,054 --> 00:23:05,174
I wonder if I'll remember?

278
00:23:05,924 --> 00:23:06,924
Cheers.

279
00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:19,985
In these last few days
I've been in a daze...

280
00:23:21,985 --> 00:23:24,486
Wondering how something like this happened.

281
00:23:26,326 --> 00:23:29,496
Anyway, I can no longer sleep.

282
00:23:32,786 --> 00:23:35,507
When the car plunged into the sea,

283
00:23:35,667 --> 00:23:39,177
I was able to drag myself up
because the windscreen broke.

284
00:23:39,587 --> 00:23:42,097
Otherwise, I'd have surely died.

285
00:23:44,058 --> 00:23:47,058
And yet I have to be talked to like this,

286
00:23:47,178 --> 00:23:50,348
even though I'm an injured party.

287
00:23:50,478 --> 00:23:51,688
It's unbearable.

288
00:23:54,188 --> 00:24:00,779
But isn't a total insurance payout
of 300 million yen a bit excessive?

289
00:24:02,569 --> 00:24:03,779
Why?

290
00:24:04,529 --> 00:24:07,500
My husband's fortune is 1 billion.

291
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000
Shirakawa Breweries' annual turnover
exceeds 500 million.

292
00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,670
What was the motive
for taking out the insurance?

293
00:24:14,290 --> 00:24:18,131
Look, although he couldn't swim,
my husband went fishing a lot.

294
00:24:19,921 --> 00:24:24,181
I didn't ask him
to take out insurance especially.

295
00:24:25,011 --> 00:24:27,061
He suggested it himself.

296
00:24:30,102 --> 00:24:35,062
So your husband predicted
he would meet with an accident?

297
00:24:36,942 --> 00:24:39,573
Wasn't he taking a precaution?

298
00:24:40,653 --> 00:24:41,703
Isn't that it?

299
00:24:41,913 --> 00:24:43,203
Ordinarily.

300
00:24:43,573 --> 00:24:45,123
Which paper are you?

301
00:24:45,243 --> 00:24:46,743
The Hokuriku Daily Report.

302
00:24:48,913 --> 00:24:52,424
Who wrote that I broke the
windscreen with a spanner...

303
00:24:52,584 --> 00:24:55,884
and that I was driving the car,
amongst other rubbish.

304
00:24:56,094 --> 00:24:58,254
Our stories always have a foundation.

305
00:24:59,845 --> 00:25:05,095
Would you mind speaking from
a bit further back? I'd appreciate it.

306
00:25:06,935 --> 00:25:07,935
Get back.

307
00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:11,856
How interesting.

308
00:25:12,606 --> 00:25:17,826
I didn't kill him, so clearly I'm not guilty.
It's ridiculous.

309
00:25:20,366 --> 00:25:23,957
Writing sensationalist stories
for the hell of it,

310
00:25:24,207 --> 00:25:26,457
they call people like you <i>hacks</i>.

311
00:25:27,457 --> 00:25:28,917
Try saying that again.

312
00:25:29,417 --> 00:25:31,337
Don't deride the press!

313
00:25:32,758 --> 00:25:37,348
<i>Who'd do something so stupid as
driving a car into the sea...</i>

314
00:25:37,598 --> 00:25:40,718
<i>with the aim of getting
the insurance money?</i>

315
00:25:41,178 --> 00:25:44,269
<i>For a start, you could end up dead
and lose everything.</i>

316
00:25:44,479 --> 00:25:47,979
<i>Give it a try yourselves
if you think I'm lying.</i>

317
00:25:49,189 --> 00:25:54,490
<i>What's his name? Er... that stupid
police inspector... in Toyama?</i>

318
00:25:54,610 --> 00:25:55,660
<i>Yamazaki!</i>

319
00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:59,450
<i>I suppose it was his idea?
It's really unfortunate.</i>

320
00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:02,290
<i>We support these people with our taxes.</i>

321
00:26:02,660 --> 00:26:06,871
<i>Didn't he fabricate this case
to earn brownie points?</i>

322
00:26:07,001 --> 00:26:08,921
<i>It's because I'm a woman.</i>

323
00:26:09,041 --> 00:26:14,011
<i>I'm sure they don't have any evidence,
so how can the police arrest me?</i>

324
00:26:14,381 --> 00:26:16,182
<i>They should just try it.</i>

325
00:26:16,342 --> 00:26:18,182
Damn it! The bitch is mocking me.

326
00:26:19,512 --> 00:26:21,812
Hey, I saw that car.

327
00:26:21,932 --> 00:26:23,182
Eh, really?

328
00:26:23,432 --> 00:26:26,192
Yep! That woman was driving.

329
00:26:26,893 --> 00:26:29,863
You know... That night you stood me up...

330
00:26:30,863 --> 00:26:33,283
I called you from the harbour.

331
00:26:33,443 --> 00:26:34,903
Ah! Then.

332
00:26:35,033 --> 00:26:36,743
You should tell someone.

333
00:26:36,863 --> 00:26:38,034
That's right.

334
00:26:38,324 --> 00:26:39,704
Yeah, but...

335
00:26:39,804 --> 00:26:42,954
I don't want to get involved
in police matters.

336
00:26:50,145 --> 00:26:55,765
KUMAKO ARRESTED!
THANKS TO EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY

337
00:26:58,835 --> 00:27:03,656
DETERMINED TO BE A DISGUISED MURDER

338
00:27:04,236 --> 00:27:08,736
HEARTLESS, PREMEDITATED CRIME

339
00:27:14,737 --> 00:27:18,957
It seems you've had a request from
Kumako to be her defence counsel.

340
00:27:19,077 --> 00:27:20,077
Yes.

341
00:27:20,247 --> 00:27:22,998
As I'm the Shirakawas' legal adviser.

342
00:27:23,288 --> 00:27:25,878
She has nobody else to turn to.

343
00:27:26,668 --> 00:27:29,968
I got a phone call
shortly after the incident.

344
00:27:30,258 --> 00:27:32,639
She wants my help if it goes to trial.

345
00:27:33,389 --> 00:27:34,849
After the incident?

346
00:27:35,389 --> 00:27:38,599
So Kumako was expecting to be arrested?

347
00:27:39,779 --> 00:27:42,750
Because of the stuff you guys were writing.

348
00:27:44,110 --> 00:27:47,320
The Shirakawa family haven't said anything?

349
00:27:47,690 --> 00:27:49,320
About what?

350
00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:54,241
Well... one might say you're
working for the enemy.

351
00:27:54,621 --> 00:27:56,331
Don't talk nonsense.

352
00:27:56,451 --> 00:27:58,251
They're separate matters.

353
00:27:58,451 --> 00:28:01,291
I think they fully understand that.

354
00:28:03,421 --> 00:28:07,962
For co-counsel, I heard you made a
request to Kanetaka Okamura in Tokyo.

355
00:28:08,092 --> 00:28:09,762
Who told you?

356
00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:14,512
Apparently you went to Tokyo
to ask him personally.

357
00:28:14,762 --> 00:28:17,973
Mr. Okamura was my understudy at college.

358
00:28:18,683 --> 00:28:23,023
Presently, he's one of the foremost
criminal lawyers in Japan.

359
00:28:23,233 --> 00:28:28,404
It would be most encouraging should
someone so able agree to be co-counsel.

360
00:28:28,534 --> 00:28:30,244
It's not confirmed?

361
00:28:30,364 --> 00:28:33,994
No, I haven't yet got a binding agreement.

362
00:28:34,624 --> 00:28:38,835
He said he'd come and interview her
at the detention centre first.

363
00:28:38,955 --> 00:28:41,045
I should get an answer then.

364
00:28:43,965 --> 00:28:45,255
You're ill?

365
00:28:45,385 --> 00:28:48,756
Hmm? It's my liver. For 10 years now.

366
00:29:00,357 --> 00:29:02,527
- Thanks for coming.
- Ah, hello.

367
00:29:04,657 --> 00:29:06,317
So it leaked out then.

368
00:29:06,447 --> 00:29:08,077
My apologies.

369
00:29:08,197 --> 00:29:10,538
Seems the passenger list was checked.

370
00:29:10,588 --> 00:29:11,588
Yeah, that...

371
00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:29,259
TOYAMA PENITENTIARY

372
00:29:37,230 --> 00:29:42,071
That was a surprisingly long interview.
You spoke in detail?

373
00:29:43,571 --> 00:29:46,861
No questions came from me,
I merely listened.

374
00:29:46,991 --> 00:29:48,571
But it took two hours.

375
00:29:49,531 --> 00:29:52,832
Well, the accused argued her
innocence continuously.

376
00:29:52,952 --> 00:29:54,212
Pleading innocence?

377
00:29:55,412 --> 00:29:57,712
I wouldn't say it quite like that.

378
00:29:57,832 --> 00:29:59,462
It was more like a speech.

379
00:30:00,422 --> 00:30:04,473
How circumstantial evidence alone
isn't enough for a guilty verdict.

380
00:30:05,593 --> 00:30:07,643
She's studying the law in her cell.

381
00:30:07,763 --> 00:30:10,263
Well, it's a sound argument.

382
00:30:10,723 --> 00:30:13,933
It's as though she fancies
herself a trainee lawyer.

383
00:30:14,144 --> 00:30:16,734
What is she saying specifically?

384
00:30:17,024 --> 00:30:19,274
I can't say, I can't say.

385
00:30:19,734 --> 00:30:23,824
She spoke with the assumption
I'll be her defence counsel.

386
00:30:24,534 --> 00:30:27,325
We've a duty to protect
a defendant's secrets.

387
00:30:27,455 --> 00:30:30,285
But I guess you said a few words too?

388
00:30:31,285 --> 00:30:32,455
Just at the end.

389
00:30:32,625 --> 00:30:34,085
What did you say?

390
00:30:34,585 --> 00:30:38,216
That you can be convicted by
circumstantial evidence alone.

391
00:30:38,926 --> 00:30:40,386
How did she respond?

392
00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:42,716
Did she flare up at you?

393
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:46,597
Well, it seemed my words were
a considerable shock.

394
00:30:46,977 --> 00:30:50,397
She suddenly sank into silence
and stared at me.

395
00:30:50,687 --> 00:30:51,687
Sensei.

396
00:30:52,477 --> 00:30:56,817
What you said to the accused is
an extremely delicate matter.

397
00:30:56,987 --> 00:31:02,238
But can we take it you won't be able to
take on the role of defence counsel,

398
00:31:02,368 --> 00:31:05,748
due to the weight of
circumstantial evidence?

399
00:31:05,868 --> 00:31:07,078
Hey, come on.

400
00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:13,039
Listen, I take on defendants <i>because</i>
the odds are stacked against them.

401
00:31:13,289 --> 00:31:15,249
It's my true calling as a lawyer.

402
00:31:16,839 --> 00:31:18,259
Well, generally...

403
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,350
Once I've returned to Tokyo
and given it some thought,

404
00:31:23,470 --> 00:31:28,100
I'll give Mr. Harayama my answer on
whether I'll defend Kumako Shirakawa.

405
00:31:29,891 --> 00:31:32,441
I'm hopeful, though.

406
00:31:32,561 --> 00:31:37,031
Mr. Okamura's participation would be
a great advantage in the trial.

407
00:31:37,191 --> 00:31:38,651
We'd win.

408
00:31:39,201 --> 00:31:43,492
It's just circumstantial evidence.
Material evidence is quite absent.

409
00:31:43,702 --> 00:31:45,742
And there's no confession.

410
00:31:46,372 --> 00:31:51,963
I believe Mr. Okamura's prowess
will surely demolish the prosecution case.

411
00:31:53,673 --> 00:31:58,553
News-desk! It's rumoured Tokyo lawyer
Okamura declined the co-counsel role.

412
00:31:58,673 --> 00:32:02,053
- Really?
- Yep, it's swept the bar association.

413
00:32:02,223 --> 00:32:02,974
The reason?

414
00:32:03,094 --> 00:32:05,054
Officially, no comment.

415
00:32:05,184 --> 00:32:07,604
But it seems the family are opposed.

416
00:32:07,724 --> 00:32:11,984
Even if he took on the case and won,
he'd end up losing favour.

417
00:32:12,104 --> 00:32:16,155
It seems his estimation as a lawyer
would plummet.

418
00:32:16,865 --> 00:32:19,285
So much for his fine talk.

419
00:32:19,405 --> 00:32:21,155
After all, he's no fool.

420
00:32:22,265 --> 00:32:27,066
16TH SEPTEMBER 1981 PUBLIC HEARING BEGINS

421
00:33:13,550 --> 00:33:14,800
Stand!

422
00:33:33,862 --> 00:33:38,032
We will now commence the trial
of Kumako Shirakawa...

423
00:33:38,162 --> 00:33:41,123
in a homicide case
under public prosecution.

424
00:33:41,373 --> 00:33:42,703
Defendant, approach.

425
00:33:45,333 --> 00:33:46,423
Your honor.

426
00:33:47,213 --> 00:33:48,213
Yes?

427
00:33:48,633 --> 00:33:50,503
I know it's sudden.

428
00:33:51,054 --> 00:33:56,094
But I'd like to resign from the role of
defence counsel in the current case.

429
00:33:59,554 --> 00:34:01,224
Why is this?

430
00:34:02,525 --> 00:34:07,525
If this trial brings in a guilty verdict,
the defendant appeals.

431
00:34:08,235 --> 00:34:11,195
If not guilty, the prosecution appeals.

432
00:34:11,445 --> 00:34:15,246
Furthermore, a final appeal would go
to the supreme court.

433
00:34:16,036 --> 00:34:19,376
As for myself, I've long had a bad liver.

434
00:34:19,876 --> 00:34:23,877
I've neither the confidence nor the
stamina to see this through alone.

435
00:34:24,507 --> 00:34:28,967
Please allow me to beg your pardon.

436
00:34:30,387 --> 00:34:31,507
Hang on.

437
00:34:31,637 --> 00:34:33,557
Wait, you're my lawyer!

438
00:34:33,677 --> 00:34:35,888
Stop, calm down!

439
00:34:36,058 --> 00:34:37,098
Wait!

440
00:34:37,228 --> 00:34:38,558
Calm down!

441
00:34:39,478 --> 00:34:40,728
The first report!

442
00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:49,679
News-desk, lawyer Harayama
resigned in the courtroom.

443
00:34:50,179 --> 00:34:51,179
Why?

444
00:34:51,479 --> 00:34:56,980
I know it's hard to assign a lawyer, but
it's down to the criminal procedure law.

445
00:34:58,380 --> 00:35:02,980
Based on that, the court won't convene
unless there's a defence lawyer.

446
00:35:03,180 --> 00:35:08,481
A state appointment nominated by
the court wouldn't be objectionable.

447
00:35:08,631 --> 00:35:11,781
However, the selection criteria's vague.

448
00:35:13,571 --> 00:35:19,652
KUMAKO'S COURT-APPOINTED LAWYER

449
00:35:21,022 --> 00:35:22,402
Ritsuko Sahara?

450
00:35:22,862 --> 00:35:24,522
- A woman?
- Yes.

451
00:35:24,652 --> 00:35:27,112
It seems she specialises in civil law.

452
00:35:27,282 --> 00:35:30,033
She appears quite capable in that respect.

453
00:35:31,243 --> 00:35:33,033
But why someone like that?

454
00:35:33,243 --> 00:35:34,913
No one'll take it on.

455
00:35:35,783 --> 00:35:37,243
She's single.

456
00:35:37,583 --> 00:35:41,964
Though saying that, she's divorced
and has a kid with her ex-husband.

457
00:35:42,084 --> 00:35:44,544
Apparently, he has custody.

458
00:35:46,304 --> 00:35:48,964
Normally it goes to the woman.

459
00:35:49,634 --> 00:35:50,805
You'll make inquiries?

460
00:35:50,935 --> 00:35:52,475
No, it's too early.

461
00:35:52,765 --> 00:35:57,935
Someone like Kumako might not
take kindly to a female lawyer.

462
00:36:16,337 --> 00:36:18,047
I'm lawyer Sahara.

463
00:36:18,877 --> 00:36:20,337
I feel for you.

464
00:36:22,257 --> 00:36:24,258
You've drawn the short straw.

465
00:36:26,468 --> 00:36:29,058
Lawyers have been running
this way and that eh?

466
00:36:30,348 --> 00:36:32,518
How laughable.

467
00:36:34,849 --> 00:36:36,479
Four previous offences.

468
00:36:38,269 --> 00:36:42,489
Hokuriku's most evil woman,
insuring her husband then killing him.

469
00:36:42,819 --> 00:36:44,360
Kumako Onizuka...

470
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:49,450
The name Kumako Onizuka is unfortunate too.

471
00:36:51,590 --> 00:36:52,790
This is it.

472
00:36:54,290 --> 00:36:58,421
Hmm... with a name like
Sayoko Tachibana, for instance...

473
00:36:59,461 --> 00:37:01,761
or Shizuko Saotome...

474
00:37:01,881 --> 00:37:03,971
it'd be very different.

475
00:37:06,262 --> 00:37:08,642
I suppose you think I killed him?

476
00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:17,353
You know, I loathe your face.

477
00:37:19,573 --> 00:37:24,113
The police, the press...
you people are all the same...

478
00:37:26,193 --> 00:37:27,193
I...

479
00:37:28,284 --> 00:37:30,914
I'll go it alone, I don't need a lawyer.

480
00:37:32,414 --> 00:37:33,954
I'll manage.

481
00:37:34,294 --> 00:37:37,234
To hell with a perfunctory lawyer.

482
00:37:38,084 --> 00:37:40,415
You want to get the death penalty?

483
00:37:44,515 --> 00:37:47,845
You can refuse if you dislike me?

484
00:37:48,765 --> 00:37:51,606
I can also refuse to represent you.

485
00:37:52,476 --> 00:37:53,476
But...

486
00:37:53,936 --> 00:37:55,606
A trial for an offence...

487
00:37:55,736 --> 00:37:59,066
punishable by death, life imprisonment
or a term exceeding three years...

488
00:37:59,446 --> 00:38:01,617
is impossible without a defence lawyer.

489
00:38:02,027 --> 00:38:05,747
It's clearly stated in Article 289
of the criminal procedure code.

490
00:38:07,117 --> 00:38:10,127
I believe you're studying the statute books?

491
00:38:10,958 --> 00:38:12,168
Read it.

492
00:38:14,508 --> 00:38:16,548
<i>WRITTEN STATEMENT.</i>

493
00:38:18,588 --> 00:38:21,969
<i>I'll tell you what I know about
Kumako Shirakawa.</i>

494
00:38:22,399 --> 00:38:25,199
<i>Kumako was born on 3rd February 1954,</i>

495
00:38:25,499 --> 00:38:30,099
<i>the fifth daughter of Yohei Hamaguchi,
a fisherman from Amakusa.</i>

496
00:38:30,299 --> 00:38:32,099
<i>At the age of five...</i>

497
00:38:32,299 --> 00:38:38,700
<i>she was adopted by Kotaro Onizuka,
who ran an ironworks in Yatsushiro City.</i>

498
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,401
<i>I met Kumako after she'd dropped out
of her local high school...</i>

499
00:38:44,551 --> 00:38:49,251
<i>and was working as a hostess at
a snack bar in Nakasu, Fukuoka.</i>

500
00:38:50,001 --> 00:38:53,101
<i>At the time, I was a tending
at a nearby bar.</i>

501
00:38:53,501 --> 00:38:56,302
<i>After it closed we dated repeatedly...</i>

502
00:38:56,702 --> 00:38:58,902
<i>and soon things became intimate.</i>

503
00:38:59,302 --> 00:39:03,402
<i>We entered into cohabitation at
apartment 1-5 in Nishijin, Fukuoka.</i>

504
00:39:03,802 --> 00:39:08,203
<i>But while I was doing a stint in jail
due to a bit of fighting,</i>

505
00:39:08,403 --> 00:39:11,203
<i>Kumako married young master
Yoichi Moriguchi,</i>

506
00:39:11,403 --> 00:39:14,903
<i>of the family-owned,
traditional restaurant "Yoryu".</i>

507
00:39:15,403 --> 00:39:20,304
<i>And from Moriguchi's parents they
received their own detached house.</i>

508
00:39:20,604 --> 00:39:22,604
<i>It seems they lived happily.</i>

509
00:39:23,304 --> 00:39:28,505
<i>Three years later in 1975, because
I'd been released from prison,</i>

510
00:39:28,705 --> 00:39:33,805
<i>Kumako suggested taking the title deed
of the Moriguchi establishment.</i>

511
00:39:34,005 --> 00:39:37,405
<i>We disposed of it in exchange
for around 100 million yen.</i>

512
00:39:37,806 --> 00:39:39,806
<i>Naturally, she got divorced too.</i>

513
00:39:40,506 --> 00:39:47,406
<i>Taking the money, Kumako went with me
to Tokyo and opened a club in the Ginza.</i>

514
00:39:48,707 --> 00:39:54,707
<i>However, business was sluggish and
it finally went under in March 1977.</i>

515
00:39:55,507 --> 00:40:00,308
<i>That night, Kumako roughed up one
of the hostesses, Aiko Yamaguchi.</i>

516
00:40:00,608 --> 00:40:04,308
<i>She received a three-year jail term
for inflicting bodily harm,</i>

517
00:40:04,708 --> 00:40:06,808
<i>to be served at Tochigi Prison.</i>

518
00:40:07,058 --> 00:40:11,459
<i>After Kumako had been released
from that prison in August 1979,</i>

519
00:40:11,659 --> 00:40:15,459
<i>she drifted through jobs in the clubs
of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward.</i>

520
00:40:16,309 --> 00:40:21,610
<i>From December that year, while
I was doing time for a little extortion,</i>

521
00:40:22,010 --> 00:40:25,210
<i>Kumako worked as a hostess
at the club "Blue Flag",</i>

522
00:40:25,410 --> 00:40:30,510
<i>where apparently she met the victim
in this matter, Fukutaro Shirakawa.</i>

523
00:40:49,412 --> 00:40:51,712
Cute, isn't it? Here.

524
00:40:53,813 --> 00:40:55,513
You've taken on Kumako?

525
00:40:55,643 --> 00:40:58,513
Yes, I constantly get nuisance phone calls.

526
00:40:58,713 --> 00:41:00,013
Why not quit?

527
00:41:00,713 --> 00:41:03,213
My job is none of your business.

528
00:41:03,613 --> 00:41:04,814
I guess so.

529
00:41:04,864 --> 00:41:07,214
Here you go.

530
00:41:07,314 --> 00:41:09,884
But you'll be busy from now on.

531
00:41:10,014 --> 00:41:12,514
It's okay, I can make time.

532
00:41:13,414 --> 00:41:16,095
Aya-chan, where shall we go next month?

533
00:41:18,015 --> 00:41:19,115
Actually...

534
00:41:19,215 --> 00:41:20,215
Here.

535
00:41:22,715 --> 00:41:25,415
Sakie says she wants to meet you.

536
00:41:29,116 --> 00:41:31,416
She's helping me a great deal.

537
00:41:32,216 --> 00:41:33,916
It seems it's about Ayako.

538
00:41:34,416 --> 00:41:37,117
Really? It must be nice
having a dutiful wife.

539
00:41:40,127 --> 00:41:42,127
Oh, it's stopped has it?

540
00:41:44,757 --> 00:41:46,797
I don't see any need to meet her.

541
00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:21,321
20TH JANUARY 1982 THE TRIAL RESUMES

542
00:42:22,311 --> 00:42:25,141
Prosecutor, read out the charge.

543
00:42:26,351 --> 00:42:29,401
Er... the charged facts.

544
00:42:31,112 --> 00:42:34,942
The accused, plotting to kill an
insured party in a fake accident...

545
00:42:35,072 --> 00:42:37,492
and thus swindling a vast insurance payout,

546
00:42:37,612 --> 00:42:42,413
in late December 1979, while
looking for a suitable target,

547
00:42:42,533 --> 00:42:46,913
became acquainted with Fukutaro Shirakawa,
proprietor of Shirakawa Breweries,

548
00:42:47,293 --> 00:42:51,093
immediately currying favour with the
said person and making advances.

549
00:42:51,213 --> 00:42:54,554
On 1st June 1980,
got married to Fukutaro...

550
00:42:54,674 --> 00:42:58,184
and from 7th April to 10th June 1981...

551
00:42:58,304 --> 00:43:03,815
took out insurance with six firms,
including Marubishi Life Insurance,

552
00:43:03,975 --> 00:43:08,485
worth up to 310 million yen
in the event of Fukutaro's death.

553
00:43:08,645 --> 00:43:10,235
On 11th July that year,

554
00:43:10,655 --> 00:43:16,946
on the pretext of seeing Nata temple,
picked up the said person in a 1978 Crown,

555
00:43:17,406 --> 00:43:19,496
taking him out for a drive,

556
00:43:19,706 --> 00:43:22,286
and on that same day, at 7:20pm,

557
00:43:22,536 --> 00:43:25,167
to bring to fruition this long-held plan,

558
00:43:25,457 --> 00:43:27,967
and with Fukutaro still
in the passenger seat,

559
00:43:28,087 --> 00:43:34,387
drove the car off quay A of Shinko
Bay Harbour into 8 metres of seawater,

560
00:43:34,507 --> 00:43:37,558
sending the car and Fukutaro
to the bottom of the sea

561
00:43:37,678 --> 00:43:41,518
thus instantly drowning the
said person in an act of murder.

562
00:43:41,688 --> 00:43:43,688
The charge is murder.

563
00:43:43,938 --> 00:43:46,148
Penal statute Article 199.

564
00:43:49,189 --> 00:43:54,319
There will be times when you're
questioned in this courtroom.

565
00:43:54,989 --> 00:43:58,540
But you needn't answer
if you don't want to.

566
00:43:59,330 --> 00:44:03,500
You won't be disadvantaged
by choosing to remain silent.

567
00:44:04,630 --> 00:44:08,711
You are also free to make statements
if you wish.

568
00:44:09,051 --> 00:44:14,891
Those statements may be used as
evidence, either for or against you.

569
00:44:15,221 --> 00:44:16,261
Alright?

570
00:44:18,351 --> 00:44:25,112
So, do you have anything to say in
regard to the prosecution's indictment?

571
00:44:26,522 --> 00:44:29,992
The guy's right about the
marriage with Fukutaro,

572
00:44:30,573 --> 00:44:32,403
the insurance contracts,

573
00:44:32,573 --> 00:44:34,363
and the drive to Nata.

574
00:44:34,873 --> 00:44:37,413
But all the rest is bullshit.

575
00:44:38,543 --> 00:44:45,104
The kind of thing that's commonly
fabricated without any real evidence.

576
00:44:45,714 --> 00:44:47,424
It's preposterous.

577
00:44:48,174 --> 00:44:50,464
It wasn't me driving the car,

578
00:44:50,594 --> 00:44:52,725
my husband was driving it.

579
00:44:53,935 --> 00:44:57,855
My husband's death was caused
purely by his own mistake.

580
00:45:01,985 --> 00:45:03,236
Defence counsel?

581
00:45:03,776 --> 00:45:06,906
Er, the defence denies the charges.

582
00:45:07,116 --> 00:45:10,616
Accordingly, I assert
the defendant is innocent.

583
00:45:15,957 --> 00:45:17,127
Miss Sahara.

584
00:45:18,917 --> 00:45:22,297
- I'm Akitani of the Daily Report.
- Hello.

585
00:45:22,417 --> 00:45:25,548
I assume you read my news article.

586
00:45:25,968 --> 00:45:26,638
Well.

587
00:45:26,838 --> 00:45:29,808
Why did you undertake
to defend such a woman?

588
00:45:30,928 --> 00:45:33,308
Were you forced to take it on?

589
00:45:33,848 --> 00:45:35,639
Well, I sympathise.

590
00:45:35,939 --> 00:45:36,939
Sensei.

591
00:45:38,149 --> 00:45:39,559
Tell me your motive.

592
00:45:40,649 --> 00:45:41,649
Motive?

593
00:45:42,029 --> 00:45:44,649
Don't worry, it's off the record.

594
00:45:45,489 --> 00:45:49,160
Do you think you can
disprove Kumako's guilt?

595
00:45:49,410 --> 00:45:53,580
It's yet to be decided if Kumako
Shirakawa is guilty or not.

596
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,160
The guilt you speak of...

597
00:45:56,330 --> 00:45:58,831
is it the verdict passed by the media?

598
00:46:04,841 --> 00:46:08,442
24th Feb FIFTH HEARING.

599
00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:15,022
What was the basis of your conclusion
that the defendant was driving the car?

600
00:46:15,352 --> 00:46:18,443
A wound under Fukutaro's right kneecap...

601
00:46:18,653 --> 00:46:21,823
and a wound interior to his left kneecap...

602
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:26,533
correspond with two dents under
the car's glove compartment.

603
00:46:26,703 --> 00:46:30,124
So I concluded Fukutaro
was in the passenger seat.

604
00:46:30,664 --> 00:46:34,404
If that was the case,
it naturally means the defendant

605
00:46:34,424 --> 00:46:36,144
was in the driver's seat.

606
00:46:36,164 --> 00:46:41,505
Your inspection of the vehicle took
place 11 days after the accident.

607
00:46:41,715 --> 00:46:44,055
In other words, on the 22nd July.

608
00:46:44,175 --> 00:46:45,385
That's right.

609
00:46:45,515 --> 00:46:50,685
Here are some newspapers
covering the 11th to the 22nd July.

610
00:46:50,895 --> 00:46:56,026
"Car Plunges Into Sea -
Husband Drowns, Wife Escapes."

611
00:46:56,776 --> 00:47:01,566
"Many Anomalies, Dead Husband
Was Insured For 300m Yen."

612
00:47:02,777 --> 00:47:04,867
Did you read these articles?

613
00:47:04,987 --> 00:47:06,077
Yes, I did.

614
00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:07,657
However...

615
00:47:07,697 --> 00:47:10,917
it wasn't something that prejudiced
my conclusion.

616
00:47:12,377 --> 00:47:15,958
The spanner that allegedly
was used in the escape.

617
00:47:16,298 --> 00:47:21,088
Naturally, you have seen this spanner?

618
00:47:21,758 --> 00:47:22,428
Yes.

619
00:47:22,548 --> 00:47:27,929
It's 15 centimetres long and
about 4 millimetres thick.

620
00:47:28,599 --> 00:47:32,519
Do you think the windscreen
could be broken by this spanner?

621
00:47:32,649 --> 00:47:34,730
It's not impossible.

622
00:47:34,860 --> 00:47:36,980
But to break the windscreen,

623
00:47:37,110 --> 00:47:42,410
wouldn't it be more effective to use a
hammer rather than this spanner?

624
00:47:42,530 --> 00:47:46,081
Well, it's possible it would be
more effective.

625
00:47:46,581 --> 00:47:50,121
But the fact is a spanner
had been left in the car.

626
00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:56,092
Next, the point about Fukutaro's
left shoe having come off.

627
00:47:57,842 --> 00:48:01,342
Your description is extremely vague.

628
00:48:02,262 --> 00:48:06,562
Er, "By chance, the impact of the
plunge and the water..."

629
00:48:06,682 --> 00:48:08,393
Hey... hey.

630
00:48:09,023 --> 00:48:10,483
Come on...

631
00:48:10,853 --> 00:48:12,233
Hmm? What?

632
00:48:12,353 --> 00:48:14,273
Who's on trial here?

633
00:48:14,403 --> 00:48:17,233
- I am, aren't I?
- Please sit down.

634
00:48:17,363 --> 00:48:21,284
Listen, you're leaving me out of it.

635
00:48:22,324 --> 00:48:26,164
I wasn't driving,
I was in the passenger seat.

636
00:48:26,494 --> 00:48:29,245
Why suppose Fukutaro was the passenger?

637
00:48:29,375 --> 00:48:33,175
Look, it's because the damage
to the car and Fukutaro's injuries...

638
00:48:33,295 --> 00:48:35,135
I have injuries too!

639
00:48:35,255 --> 00:48:37,385
We suddenly crashed into the sea.

640
00:48:37,505 --> 00:48:39,005
It was mayhem.

641
00:48:39,175 --> 00:48:40,966
I've many injuries too.

642
00:48:41,636 --> 00:48:45,146
You can tell how each wound was made?

643
00:48:45,266 --> 00:48:46,896
- Tell us.
- But...

644
00:48:47,016 --> 00:48:48,016
Fukutaro...

645
00:48:48,186 --> 00:48:49,816
Fukutaro doesn't matter.

646
00:48:49,936 --> 00:48:53,397
Establish I was in the passenger seat
from my injuries.

647
00:48:54,527 --> 00:48:56,067
Why not ask me?

648
00:48:56,357 --> 00:48:57,987
Isn't this prejudice?

649
00:48:59,697 --> 00:49:01,368
You too.

650
00:49:01,698 --> 00:49:04,538
You should be grilling him on this point.

651
00:49:04,708 --> 00:49:08,708
The shoe and spanner are irrelevant,
are you stupid?

652
00:49:11,919 --> 00:49:15,629
Er, the defendant makes
a rather good point.

653
00:49:15,759 --> 00:49:18,429
It seems the occupants of the car...

654
00:49:18,549 --> 00:49:22,810
were frantically trying to escape
a car flooded with seawater.

655
00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:25,770
So in these circumstances,

656
00:49:25,890 --> 00:49:31,020
isn't it difficult to judge exactly
how any damage occurred?

657
00:49:31,110 --> 00:49:34,491
Er... well, I can't be entirely certain.

658
00:49:34,611 --> 00:49:35,931
- No more questions.
- Your honor.

659
00:49:36,951 --> 00:49:37,781
Proceed.

660
00:49:37,911 --> 00:49:43,911
Certainly, the accused may have caused
damage to the car's body here and there.

661
00:49:44,041 --> 00:49:46,792
But as there was a
sufficiently high chance...

662
00:49:46,922 --> 00:49:52,552
of a causal link between the damage to
the luggage rack and Fukutaro's knees,

663
00:49:52,672 --> 00:49:55,423
you concluded he was in the passenger seat?

664
00:49:55,593 --> 00:49:56,343
Correct.

665
00:49:56,473 --> 00:49:57,473
No further questions.

666
00:49:57,763 --> 00:49:58,473
Your honor.

667
00:49:58,593 --> 00:49:59,593
Proceed.

668
00:50:00,553 --> 00:50:05,273
It seems this establishes an
essential point in the case,

669
00:50:05,433 --> 00:50:09,354
so the defence will petition
the court for a crash test.

670
00:50:11,774 --> 00:50:15,404
You testified that
on the night of the incident,

671
00:50:15,534 --> 00:50:17,495
at quay A, Shinko Bay,

672
00:50:17,655 --> 00:50:23,335
you witnessed the vehicle in this case
race past a phone booth you were using.

673
00:50:23,705 --> 00:50:26,795
How do you know it was that vehicle?

674
00:50:28,046 --> 00:50:31,636
Because I knew the incident
happened at 7:20pm...

675
00:50:32,046 --> 00:50:37,306
and the car passed by just before that,
at 18 or 19 minutes past.

676
00:50:37,426 --> 00:50:40,767
Based on the timing,
I believe it was the car.

677
00:50:41,057 --> 00:50:43,267
How do you recall the time so exactly?

678
00:50:44,357 --> 00:50:48,487
Because I'd agreed to meet
my girlfriend there at 7 o'clock.

679
00:50:48,777 --> 00:50:53,488
But she hadn't come, so I called
her apartment at 7:15pm.

680
00:50:53,868 --> 00:50:56,658
I clearly recall checking my watch.

681
00:50:56,828 --> 00:50:59,328
How were the light conditions?

682
00:50:59,828 --> 00:51:01,119
It was raining,

683
00:51:01,249 --> 00:51:02,709
so it was really dark.

684
00:51:02,829 --> 00:51:09,089
But as I'd parked my car close by with
the headlights left switched on,

685
00:51:09,219 --> 00:51:14,100
the passengers in the passing car
could be seen in the light.

686
00:51:14,220 --> 00:51:18,180
Well then, could you see inside
when it wasn't in the light?

687
00:51:18,310 --> 00:51:20,520
No, I don't think so.

688
00:51:20,690 --> 00:51:24,111
So it was only visible
for a matter of seconds?

689
00:51:24,981 --> 00:51:25,991
Yes.

690
00:51:26,271 --> 00:51:27,691
What color car was it?

691
00:51:28,531 --> 00:51:29,781
Ivory.

692
00:51:30,571 --> 00:51:32,201
Er, here...

693
00:51:32,321 --> 00:51:36,032
are the records of your interview
with the police...

694
00:51:36,662 --> 00:51:39,702
and your statement
to the prosecutor's office.

695
00:51:40,002 --> 00:51:41,832
According to these,

696
00:51:42,042 --> 00:51:45,213
you told the police the car was white,

697
00:51:45,383 --> 00:51:49,423
but you stated it was ivory to
the prosecutor's office.

698
00:51:49,883 --> 00:51:51,223
Why is that?

699
00:51:51,553 --> 00:51:55,894
Well... it's because I heard the car
was actually an ivory color.

700
00:51:56,014 --> 00:52:01,054
I learned that due to halation it
appeared to be white in the headlights.

701
00:52:01,484 --> 00:52:06,905
I take it that afterwards someone
told you the color was really ivory.

702
00:52:07,615 --> 00:52:08,785
Yes.

703
00:52:09,535 --> 00:52:11,155
This will demonstrate...

704
00:52:12,495 --> 00:52:15,825
Er, from the relative positions
in this diagram.

705
00:52:16,206 --> 00:52:18,746
You were talking in a public phone box.

706
00:52:18,916 --> 00:52:22,166
Here's the right side of the car
as it headed toward the wharf.

707
00:52:22,296 --> 00:52:26,256
You saw the driver's side illuminated
by your car headlights.

708
00:52:26,546 --> 00:52:27,387
Correct?

709
00:52:27,507 --> 00:52:28,507
Yes.

710
00:52:28,557 --> 00:52:32,037
I saw a female figure dressed in white
in the driver's seat.

711
00:52:32,347 --> 00:52:33,787
You're sure it was a woman?

712
00:52:34,267 --> 00:52:35,267
Yes.

713
00:52:36,267 --> 00:52:41,738
Do you know what color clothing
Fukutaro was wearing at the time?

714
00:52:42,068 --> 00:52:43,068
No.

715
00:52:43,278 --> 00:52:44,818
Pale beige.

716
00:52:45,698 --> 00:52:49,619
Just now you said halation had made
ivory appear white.

717
00:52:49,869 --> 00:52:53,539
Might not beige also appear white
due to the same effect?

718
00:52:53,659 --> 00:52:54,659
Your honor.

719
00:52:54,959 --> 00:52:57,499
The defence is enjoining the witness.

720
00:52:57,919 --> 00:53:00,920
Whether the accused was
the one driving or not...

721
00:53:01,050 --> 00:53:03,130
forms the crux of this case.

722
00:53:03,420 --> 00:53:07,800
This is incriminating evidence
based on a vague impression,

723
00:53:07,970 --> 00:53:09,740
so it needs clarifying.

724
00:53:14,891 --> 00:53:17,331
Objection overruled.

725
00:53:17,811 --> 00:53:19,101
Hey, your honor.

726
00:53:20,151 --> 00:53:21,152
What is it?

727
00:53:21,652 --> 00:53:24,652
You, say what really happened.

728
00:53:24,822 --> 00:53:25,822
What?

729
00:53:25,862 --> 00:53:28,322
Weren't you chatting with your girlfriend?

730
00:53:28,452 --> 00:53:31,492
You wouldn't be paying attention
to what was outside.

731
00:53:31,792 --> 00:53:34,123
But... I saw it!

732
00:53:34,333 --> 00:53:35,413
You do realise?

733
00:53:36,333 --> 00:53:39,273
I might get the death penalty
because of you.

734
00:53:39,463 --> 00:53:40,503
Your honor!

735
00:53:41,173 --> 00:53:44,344
The defendant's remark
is intimidation of the witness.

736
00:53:45,134 --> 00:53:48,684
Discussions on applying the
death penalty are for the future...

737
00:53:48,804 --> 00:53:51,514
and can't have a direct influence
on evidence here.

738
00:53:52,014 --> 00:53:53,354
Please erase it.

739
00:53:53,775 --> 00:53:55,935
Because he's an irresponsible bastard!

740
00:53:56,065 --> 00:53:57,315
- Mrs. Shirakawa!
- Bastard?

741
00:53:58,445 --> 00:54:00,025
Be quiet!

742
00:54:01,195 --> 00:54:03,575
Doubtless you've something to say as well,

743
00:54:03,945 --> 00:54:06,366
but please confer with your lawyer.

744
00:54:07,206 --> 00:54:09,326
Because I was in the passenger seat.

745
00:54:09,456 --> 00:54:10,456
Mrs. Shirakawa!

746
00:54:10,956 --> 00:54:15,086
You bandied something about,
now you can't back out of it.

747
00:54:15,257 --> 00:54:16,757
That's not true!

748
00:54:17,087 --> 00:54:19,427
Then you wanted your name in the papers.

749
00:54:19,547 --> 00:54:23,967
You're wrong! I'm here to give a
true testimony in the name of justice!

750
00:54:24,097 --> 00:54:25,097
Justice?

751
00:54:25,137 --> 00:54:26,137
Lay off!

752
00:54:26,218 --> 00:54:28,768
I saw you in the driver's seat!

753
00:54:28,888 --> 00:54:30,938
I've no doubt it was you!

754
00:54:34,018 --> 00:54:37,099
Don't you realise you let him
make a telling comment.

755
00:54:37,439 --> 00:54:39,069
Come on!

756
00:54:39,399 --> 00:54:42,239
You incited him to state you were the driver.

757
00:54:42,699 --> 00:54:44,579
What's the big deal?

758
00:54:44,739 --> 00:54:47,449
He obviously got wound up by my questions.

759
00:54:47,579 --> 00:54:49,790
Anyone could see that.

760
00:54:51,190 --> 00:54:52,580
That doesn't help.

761
00:54:53,460 --> 00:54:57,420
It remains on record as witness testimony.

762
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,631
The judge is replaced in any retrial,

763
00:55:00,931 --> 00:55:02,931
so the record is significant.

764
00:55:03,391 --> 00:55:04,761
It isn't rescinded.

765
00:55:06,101 --> 00:55:11,562
That's the reality inside a courtroom.
Please bear it in mind.

766
00:55:12,152 --> 00:55:13,902
Your name?

767
00:55:14,482 --> 00:55:16,022
Tokie Horiuchi.

768
00:55:16,152 --> 00:55:17,152
Age?

769
00:55:18,992 --> 00:55:20,193
Age?

770
00:55:23,073 --> 00:55:25,533
As per the court appearance card.

771
00:55:26,243 --> 00:55:27,243
Address?

772
00:55:27,793 --> 00:55:31,794
8, 5-Chome, Hyakunincho district,
the Shinjuku ward, in Tokyo.

773
00:55:32,124 --> 00:55:33,294
Occupation?

774
00:55:33,634 --> 00:55:36,714
I run the "Blue Flag" club in Tokyo.

775
00:55:38,004 --> 00:55:41,594
When was the first time that
Fukutaro met the defendant,

776
00:55:41,724 --> 00:55:44,765
who was working at your establishment?

777
00:55:44,975 --> 00:55:51,355
It was on Christmas evening,
25th December, 1979.

778
00:55:52,996 --> 00:55:54,396
For seven years?

779
00:55:56,396 --> 00:55:58,696
So this turns you on?

780
00:55:59,596 --> 00:56:00,596
It does?

781
00:56:01,096 --> 00:56:02,696
Don't give me that!

782
00:56:03,997 --> 00:56:05,797
Mama! Ma-ma!

783
00:56:05,947 --> 00:56:06,947
What!

784
00:56:08,497 --> 00:56:12,297
Hey, this gentleman says it's been
seven years.

785
00:56:12,447 --> 00:56:13,897
Oh, you're a homo?

786
00:56:14,097 --> 00:56:17,998
It's not that... I'm just getting too old.

787
00:56:18,698 --> 00:56:20,798
Listen... are you hungry?

788
00:56:22,998 --> 00:56:27,599
Take good care of him.
You've a penchant for <i>Grey Romance</i>.

789
00:56:27,999 --> 00:56:32,999
Go on Mr. Shirakawa, be a man.
We're not in Toyama!

790
00:56:33,099 --> 00:56:35,099
No, really, I'm not...

791
00:56:35,249 --> 00:56:36,750
Liar.

792
00:56:46,710 --> 00:56:49,751
Did you explain to the
defendant beforehand...

793
00:56:50,381 --> 00:56:54,631
the type of customer Fukutaro was?

794
00:56:54,721 --> 00:56:56,431
Yes, of course.

795
00:56:56,681 --> 00:57:01,892
I said he's the richest man in Toyama
and had been single since his wife died.

796
00:57:02,972 --> 00:57:07,732
So from the start, knowing that
Fukutaro had considerable wealth,

797
00:57:07,902 --> 00:57:11,273
the defendant actively tried
to get close to him.

798
00:57:11,483 --> 00:57:12,483
Yes.

799
00:57:13,113 --> 00:57:15,743
They became intimate that very day.

800
00:57:16,073 --> 00:57:19,163
Rich guys from the sticks
succumb to her type.

801
00:57:19,283 --> 00:57:21,664
Come on, you told me to.

802
00:57:21,784 --> 00:57:23,704
I don't say things like that.

803
00:57:23,834 --> 00:57:25,084
I know about you.

804
00:57:25,334 --> 00:57:28,254
The defendant must stop interrupting!

805
00:57:28,424 --> 00:57:31,965
Thanks to me she swindled a
fortune from Tachibana.

806
00:57:32,095 --> 00:57:33,175
Mrs. Shirakawa!

807
00:57:33,715 --> 00:57:34,765
It's true.

808
00:57:34,885 --> 00:57:39,685
You turn up at a place like this
after all the profit I made for you.

809
00:57:39,765 --> 00:57:40,765
Be quiet!

810
00:57:41,896 --> 00:57:44,106
When did you let me make a profit?

811
00:57:44,566 --> 00:57:47,236
You poached the regulars for yourself.

812
00:57:47,356 --> 00:57:50,906
On top of that, you left without
repaying an advance.

813
00:57:51,066 --> 00:57:52,487
I lost out.

814
00:57:53,617 --> 00:57:58,407
You're close to Matsui's chief director,
Tachibana, aren't you?

815
00:57:58,577 --> 00:58:00,207
Yes, that's right.

816
00:58:00,327 --> 00:58:05,048
Just now the defendant suggested
you'd received money from Tachibana.

817
00:58:05,168 --> 00:58:06,668
Is that true?

818
00:58:07,378 --> 00:58:09,628
Is this the tax office?

819
00:58:10,008 --> 00:58:11,008
Your honor.

820
00:58:11,548 --> 00:58:15,139
Questions over cash affairs have
nothing to do with this case.

821
00:58:15,559 --> 00:58:18,909
Defence counsel,
what do you intend to show?

822
00:58:19,139 --> 00:58:24,820
The witness has testified the defendant
freely went after Fukutaro's fortune.

823
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:31,570
But actually, she knew the negotiations
between her client Matsui Commerce...

824
00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:35,831
and Shirakawa Breweries on the issue
of Sanrin Trading had hit the rocks.

825
00:58:36,121 --> 00:58:39,001
The suspicion exists
she planned to smooth...

826
00:58:39,161 --> 00:58:42,921
those negotiations by making the
defendant pursue Fukutaro.

827
00:58:43,131 --> 00:58:45,501
I want to make that point clear.

828
00:58:45,671 --> 00:58:46,912
What an ignoramus.

829
00:58:49,052 --> 00:58:52,052
Your honor, let me tell her something.

830
00:58:52,552 --> 00:58:55,182
Isn't it obvious women string
men along for money?

831
00:58:55,352 --> 00:58:57,683
Our customers are aware of that too.

832
00:58:58,023 --> 00:59:01,693
I've been in this business
for thirty years.

833
00:59:01,893 --> 00:59:03,903
If it's about men and women,

834
00:59:04,063 --> 00:59:07,023
I've been round the block
far more often than you.

835
00:59:07,533 --> 00:59:09,994
It's a fine line between
cheating or being cheated.

836
00:59:10,534 --> 00:59:13,824
So you can go far as a lawyer
without knowing that.

837
00:59:13,954 --> 00:59:15,914
Pay attention to your husband.

838
00:59:16,034 --> 00:59:17,994
He'll leave you if you're not careful.

839
00:59:19,255 --> 00:59:20,795
No further questions.

840
00:59:23,255 --> 00:59:28,805
But that guy Fukutaro was naive
in dealing with such things.

841
00:59:30,516 --> 00:59:34,096
When someone like that loses out,
nothing can be done.

842
00:59:40,066 --> 00:59:41,277
You get it?

843
00:59:42,197 --> 00:59:45,567
He was the one who started to fall in love.

844
00:59:47,027 --> 00:59:50,487
I didn't even pester him for an apartment.

845
00:59:50,747 --> 00:59:53,408
He took it upon himself to look for one.

846
00:59:54,788 --> 00:59:56,828
And he made me quit the bar.

847
00:59:58,128 --> 01:00:00,248
He couldn't stop worrying...

848
01:00:00,418 --> 01:00:02,549
that I'd be unfaithful to him.

849
01:00:04,679 --> 01:00:07,049
So it was great at first.

850
01:00:07,179 --> 01:00:09,279
What was great?

851
01:00:09,719 --> 01:00:11,269
The sex.

852
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:14,640
Hey!

853
01:00:15,270 --> 01:00:17,610
Aah! Look, hold on a bit!

854
01:00:17,810 --> 01:00:20,230
Christ, you're tearing it!

855
01:00:20,370 --> 01:00:22,470
Wait a moment...

856
01:00:22,820 --> 01:00:24,491
Oh God!

857
01:00:24,611 --> 01:00:27,321
I still have to get home!

858
01:00:30,821 --> 01:00:31,821
Wait a minute, OK?

859
01:00:32,321 --> 01:00:33,401
However...

860
01:00:37,502 --> 01:00:38,672
Not in the hole.

861
01:00:41,592 --> 01:00:44,632
I'd been thinking how much he likes it.

862
01:00:45,132 --> 01:00:48,453
But he was out of practice.
Impotence struck.

863
01:00:50,853 --> 01:00:53,813
Wasn't keeping me faithful
too much for him?

864
01:00:59,314 --> 01:01:00,654
What's the matter?

865
01:01:02,824 --> 01:01:04,654
What's with that face!

866
01:01:08,535 --> 01:01:10,455
Look, cheer up.

867
01:01:12,035 --> 01:01:13,165
Don't worry.

868
01:01:13,295 --> 01:01:14,875
It's fine, it's fine, right?

869
01:01:15,875 --> 01:01:17,325
It's fine, it's fine.

870
01:01:19,216 --> 01:01:22,006
Hmm... one more try?

871
01:01:22,596 --> 01:01:23,596
Once more.

872
01:01:27,346 --> 01:01:29,187
How about a drink then?

873
01:01:30,057 --> 01:01:31,357
Huh? It hurts!

874
01:01:31,477 --> 01:01:33,067
Kumako, marry me!

875
01:01:34,567 --> 01:01:35,567
What?

876
01:01:35,897 --> 01:01:37,107
Marry me.

877
01:01:38,567 --> 01:01:39,988
Marry me, Kumako.

878
01:01:41,198 --> 01:01:44,198
What's got into you all of a sudden?

879
01:01:44,368 --> 01:01:46,038
I can't do it any more.

880
01:01:46,658 --> 01:01:49,668
The thought of you in Tokyo,
alone, drives me mad.

881
01:01:50,289 --> 01:01:52,539
Marry me and come to Toyama.

882
01:01:52,789 --> 01:01:53,959
Hell no.

883
01:01:54,209 --> 01:01:56,009
You don't like me?

884
01:01:56,209 --> 01:02:00,219
It's not that, but living
in a backwater like Toyama...

885
01:02:00,299 --> 01:02:03,220
Toyama isn't a backwater!
It has everything!

886
01:02:04,100 --> 01:02:07,770
You can live as you like.
I'll do anything for you.

887
01:02:08,140 --> 01:02:09,390
I promise.

888
01:02:10,140 --> 01:02:11,900
So please marry me.

889
01:02:12,731 --> 01:02:15,151
Come on, Kumako!

890
01:02:15,271 --> 01:02:16,271
Please!

891
01:02:16,361 --> 01:02:17,571
Kumako!

892
01:02:28,812 --> 01:02:33,072
Because we heard she'd been
working in clubs and bars...

893
01:02:33,192 --> 01:02:35,493
it had been anticipated.

894
01:02:35,653 --> 01:02:38,413
Nevertheless, it was...

895
01:02:39,323 --> 01:02:40,913
too much.

896
01:02:41,033 --> 01:02:45,004
As for the president's wedding,
even if it was a remarriage,

897
01:02:45,374 --> 01:02:50,214
the ceremony must be worthy of a
family with the Shirakawa's pedigree.

898
01:02:50,504 --> 01:02:52,174
However,

899
01:02:52,754 --> 01:02:56,515
madam said it would be shameful
with such a bride.

900
01:02:57,225 --> 01:03:02,015
Of course, my colleagues and I
were of the same opinion.

901
01:03:02,145 --> 01:03:05,025
It was the president himself
who made it official.

902
01:03:05,185 --> 01:03:09,986
When we were told of it later we
were amazed and so too was madam.

903
01:03:10,316 --> 01:03:12,026
No, not at all.

904
01:03:12,196 --> 01:03:15,076
The president was inveigled by that woman.

905
01:03:15,196 --> 01:03:16,746
I think it's obvious.

906
01:03:17,407 --> 01:03:21,077
Because he had a sensitive
and generous side to him,

907
01:03:21,707 --> 01:03:22,707
sadly...

908
01:03:23,417 --> 01:03:24,707
This woman...

909
01:03:24,957 --> 01:03:26,957
Once it was official,

910
01:03:27,087 --> 01:03:29,508
she took on a haughty air.

911
01:03:29,718 --> 01:03:36,268
That she displayed an insolent attitude,
even towards madam, I found intolerable.

912
01:03:36,888 --> 01:03:41,059
Yes, madam admitted him
into the family home.

913
01:03:41,309 --> 01:03:45,649
You could hardly leave the son and heir
at the side of a woman like that!

914
01:03:45,979 --> 01:03:51,490
You know, the president really doted
on his son Muneharu-chan.

915
01:03:52,110 --> 01:03:54,700
It was clear to us
that when his son left...

916
01:03:54,830 --> 01:03:56,660
the president was dejected.

917
01:03:56,790 --> 01:03:58,200
However...

918
01:03:58,580 --> 01:04:02,581
I believe the step madam took
was the correct one.

919
01:04:02,711 --> 01:04:03,711
Yes.

920
01:04:04,001 --> 01:04:08,011
Anyway, she has wasteful habits,
and gets drunk and disorderly,

921
01:04:08,131 --> 01:04:09,551
and she's dissolute.

922
01:04:10,091 --> 01:04:13,592
I had a horrendous time of it, for sure.

923
01:04:22,273 --> 01:04:23,813
Just stop it!

924
01:04:25,563 --> 01:04:27,273
Treat me with some respect!

925
01:04:30,443 --> 01:04:32,413
You're late!

926
01:04:33,454 --> 01:04:34,744
See, he's here!

927
01:04:36,084 --> 01:04:39,664
Tell them unambiguously that I'm your wife.

928
01:04:39,794 --> 01:04:40,914
Tell them!

929
01:04:41,084 --> 01:04:42,584
They think I won't pay.

930
01:04:42,714 --> 01:04:44,085
No, far from it!

931
01:04:44,215 --> 01:04:47,135
Shirakawa is all mine.

932
01:04:47,755 --> 01:04:50,925
But I had no idea
you were Mr. Shirakawa's...

933
01:04:51,055 --> 01:04:52,635
- I'm very sorry.
- Hey...

934
01:04:52,805 --> 01:04:57,316
Make them apologise! Make them apologise!

935
01:04:58,226 --> 01:05:01,316
I was the one who called
all the relatives together.

936
01:05:02,146 --> 01:05:07,447
Anyway... this woman posed a
serious problem to the Shirakawas.

937
01:05:08,407 --> 01:05:12,707
I cottoned on straight away,
when I heard the talk of marriage.

938
01:05:13,497 --> 01:05:16,208
She was obviously after the money.

939
01:05:16,958 --> 01:05:20,378
And yet the law is inconsistent.

940
01:05:21,208 --> 01:05:23,838
My sister set up residence,
married to Fukutaro...

941
01:05:24,008 --> 01:05:28,099
and maintained the Shirakawa home
over many decades.

942
01:05:28,509 --> 01:05:31,349
But that ended when she suddenly died.

943
01:05:31,769 --> 01:05:36,189
If the husband dies... well,
specifically, in the situation here,

944
01:05:36,519 --> 01:05:42,030
I don't see why half the fortune
goes wholly to the second wife.

945
01:05:42,740 --> 01:05:47,660
Not that the Shirakawa fortune
concerns me directly.

946
01:05:48,530 --> 01:05:50,991
I was worried for Muneharu.

947
01:05:51,541 --> 01:05:54,871
Muneharu is my sister's only child.

948
01:05:55,711 --> 01:05:56,461
Actually,

949
01:05:56,581 --> 01:06:00,882
I wanted to tell the Shirakawas
to straighten things out.

950
01:06:02,052 --> 01:06:04,722
Get a divorce, divorce her.

951
01:06:06,592 --> 01:06:12,393
Consider your responsibilities as the
current head of Shirakawa Breweries.

952
01:06:12,473 --> 01:06:15,643
Do you know what they're saying in town?

953
01:06:16,233 --> 01:06:20,153
The Shirakawas' president
is under the thumb.

954
01:06:20,273 --> 01:06:21,574
Deplorable!

955
01:06:21,774 --> 01:06:24,824
You're bringing disgrace
on the whole family.

956
01:06:24,994 --> 01:06:26,404
Now, now, everyone.

957
01:06:26,614 --> 01:06:30,324
Separating after all this time
isn't so simple.

958
01:06:30,454 --> 01:06:32,085
You can offer her money.

959
01:06:32,205 --> 01:06:33,545
10 or 20 million...

960
01:06:33,665 --> 01:06:36,625
Now, if you don't listen to his side...

961
01:06:36,755 --> 01:06:38,755
he'll dig his heels in too.

962
01:06:39,005 --> 01:06:41,755
Have you some thoughts about it?

963
01:06:41,885 --> 01:06:45,016
Of course, it can't go on like this...

964
01:06:45,346 --> 01:06:48,346
After a year or two, then certainly...

965
01:06:48,516 --> 01:06:50,096
You'll leave her?

966
01:06:50,266 --> 01:06:51,266
Yes.

967
01:06:52,686 --> 01:06:54,107
I'm willing to.

968
01:06:54,277 --> 01:06:55,897
I don't believe you.

969
01:06:56,027 --> 01:06:59,697
You're saying you'll separate
in the future somehow.

970
01:06:59,857 --> 01:07:02,867
Consider how old you are now.

971
01:07:03,077 --> 01:07:08,078
That woman gets a large part of the
estate if anything happens to you.

972
01:07:08,958 --> 01:07:12,168
What about your son who'll be left behind?

973
01:07:12,288 --> 01:07:16,459
You seem content to crush the Shirakawa
family tradition in one generation.

974
01:07:16,589 --> 01:07:18,549
That's what Harue is saying.

975
01:07:18,759 --> 01:07:24,139
Look, I never intended to leave the
estate to that... to Kumako.

976
01:07:24,309 --> 01:07:28,560
But you entered her into the family register.

977
01:07:31,150 --> 01:07:33,730
Um... it's hard to suggest this.

978
01:07:33,860 --> 01:07:36,980
I've given it some consideration.

979
01:07:38,071 --> 01:07:39,321
What is it?

980
01:07:39,451 --> 01:07:42,991
Well, seeing as I'm connected
to Muneharu by blood...

981
01:07:43,161 --> 01:07:45,581
I wouldn't like to be misunderstood.

982
01:07:46,121 --> 01:07:49,332
However, thinking about
the Shirakawa family...

983
01:07:49,502 --> 01:07:51,712
You're Shizue's younger brother.

984
01:07:51,832 --> 01:07:53,582
Please speak freely.

985
01:07:56,172 --> 01:07:58,342
Actually, at this juncture...

986
01:07:58,462 --> 01:08:03,153
it may be advisable to transfer the
whole Shirakawa fortune to Muneharu.

987
01:08:04,513 --> 01:08:05,713
Muneharu?

988
01:08:06,353 --> 01:08:11,274
Yes. The tax on gifts
is significantly higher,

989
01:08:11,524 --> 01:08:14,314
but it's better than that woman getting it.

990
01:08:14,864 --> 01:08:18,534
I see. That sounds reasonable.

991
01:08:18,694 --> 01:08:20,114
Yes, I agree.

992
01:08:20,365 --> 01:08:26,035
It would be reassuring if you do that
as Muneharu will eventually inherit it.

993
01:08:26,205 --> 01:08:27,375
But...

994
01:08:27,585 --> 01:08:30,225
Muneharu is still at junior high school.

995
01:08:36,846 --> 01:08:40,056
Why do I have to be made to endure that!?

996
01:08:41,136 --> 01:08:43,387
I'll spread it around to everyone!

997
01:08:43,557 --> 01:08:47,557
Your relatives are trying
to drive out your new wife.

998
01:08:48,817 --> 01:08:50,727
I don't see why I should leave.

999
01:08:50,897 --> 01:08:53,358
Kumako, please stop this.

1000
01:08:53,698 --> 01:08:54,818
Don't say please to me.

1001
01:08:55,528 --> 01:08:57,528
Don't you understand?

1002
01:08:57,988 --> 01:09:00,118
You've been hoodwinked too.

1003
01:09:00,948 --> 01:09:04,919
From the start, your ex-wife's brother
was aiming to squeeze you out...

1004
01:09:05,039 --> 01:09:07,329
by becoming your son's legal guardian.

1005
01:09:09,879 --> 01:09:12,879
They'll all be having a big laugh about it.

1006
01:09:13,089 --> 01:09:14,129
No such thing,

1007
01:09:14,259 --> 01:09:16,340
they're not like that.

1008
01:09:16,470 --> 01:09:20,140
Why do you always see the other side?

1009
01:09:21,850 --> 01:09:25,100
You don't say anything in front
of that old woman.

1010
01:09:29,611 --> 01:09:31,401
This is stupid!

1011
01:09:31,981 --> 01:09:34,861
I wouldn't mind if we separated.

1012
01:09:34,991 --> 01:09:35,701
Kumako.

1013
01:09:35,821 --> 01:09:37,742
Pay me compensation.

1014
01:09:37,952 --> 01:09:42,292
Not a paltry 10 or 20 million.
Give me at least 100 million.

1015
01:09:44,462 --> 01:09:46,212
Ah! Insurance?

1016
01:09:46,582 --> 01:09:47,883
Insurance?

1017
01:09:48,713 --> 01:09:50,963
Because you're broke, aren't you?

1018
01:09:51,963 --> 01:09:54,343
Is there anything else?

1019
01:09:56,183 --> 01:09:58,594
Then that's the only way.

1020
01:10:04,394 --> 01:10:07,104
How am I going to live when you die?

1021
01:10:08,855 --> 01:10:10,115
Hey.

1022
01:10:11,155 --> 01:10:14,405
I'm young, you know!
I need the means to live.

1023
01:10:16,825 --> 01:10:19,876
How will I get by without money?

1024
01:10:23,706 --> 01:10:26,756
Perhaps it hasn't sunk in yet?

1025
01:10:27,756 --> 01:10:28,756
Hey.

1026
01:10:31,387 --> 01:10:32,807
Do you love me?

1027
01:10:32,927 --> 01:10:36,677
Hey... do you love me?

1028
01:10:39,437 --> 01:10:40,597
I love you!

1029
01:10:40,727 --> 01:10:41,938
Don't touch me!

1030
01:10:42,058 --> 01:10:43,568
Don't touch me!

1031
01:10:44,278 --> 01:10:46,978
Get insured, right! Get insured!

1032
01:10:47,028 --> 01:10:50,318
Get insured! Quickly!

1033
01:10:50,448 --> 01:10:51,868
Fill all of them!

1034
01:10:52,119 --> 01:10:55,579
100 million or so is no good,
so do as many as you can!

1035
01:10:55,739 --> 01:10:57,539
Hey, get insured!

1036
01:10:57,699 --> 01:10:58,869
Do it!

1037
01:10:59,039 --> 01:11:00,039
I will.

1038
01:11:05,380 --> 01:11:10,720
You took out a number of plans
which had extremely high premiums.

1039
01:11:11,550 --> 01:11:13,550
Paying out ten-fold in a calamity.

1040
01:11:14,101 --> 01:11:16,471
In other words it is worth
3 million at maturity,

1041
01:11:16,601 --> 01:11:19,121
but if there is an unexpected accident
it changes to 30 million.

1042
01:11:19,351 --> 01:11:22,861
Because he was nearly sixty.

1043
01:11:23,561 --> 01:11:28,072
Also he went fishing all year round,
even though he couldn't swim.

1044
01:11:29,362 --> 01:11:31,702
I think about the future too.

1045
01:11:31,992 --> 01:11:34,792
I wasn't going to kill him or anything.

1046
01:11:35,743 --> 01:11:38,293
But I wonder if they'll believe that.

1047
01:11:40,163 --> 01:11:44,403
One has to be able to show there
was no concrete plan to kill him.

1048
01:11:44,523 --> 01:11:47,804
Demonstrating that is your job.

1049
01:11:48,634 --> 01:11:52,634
Don't get sloppy just because
you're a state-selected lawyer.

1050
01:11:53,724 --> 01:11:55,514
Listen, in return...

1051
01:11:55,804 --> 01:12:00,145
I'll pay you a handsome fee
when I collect the insurance money.

1052
01:12:00,355 --> 01:12:03,795
So pull your finger out a bit.

1053
01:12:04,025 --> 01:12:05,865
What are you going on about?

1054
01:12:06,615 --> 01:12:10,326
The accused and her lawyer
are together in the same boat.

1055
01:12:10,446 --> 01:12:13,706
It goes round in circles or capsizes
if they don't concur.

1056
01:12:14,326 --> 01:12:15,706
Just remember that.

1057
01:12:20,957 --> 01:12:26,137
When was the last time you went
fishing with Fukutaro Shirakawa?

1058
01:12:27,257 --> 01:12:30,888
Yes. It was just about one month
before he died.

1059
01:12:31,178 --> 01:12:32,598
How did he seem?

1060
01:12:33,138 --> 01:12:37,938
Well, he didn't look well and I sensed
he was completely worn out,

1061
01:12:38,068 --> 01:12:40,288
so I wondered if he was ill.

1062
01:12:40,649 --> 01:12:44,709
Did he say anything to you about
the defendant on that occasion?

1063
01:12:45,319 --> 01:12:46,989
Yes, he did.

1064
01:12:47,159 --> 01:12:47,909
What did he say?

1065
01:12:48,029 --> 01:12:50,039
Well, it was shocking.

1066
01:12:50,159 --> 01:12:54,160
He said, "Sooner or later
that woman will kill me."

1067
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,670
"Getting married to her
was a huge mistake."

1068
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:03,221
"Anyway, she's obstinate,
hysterical and greedy."

1069
01:13:03,341 --> 01:13:05,801
"If I don't find a way out soon,"

1070
01:13:05,931 --> 01:13:07,301
"I'll be killed."

1071
01:13:07,891 --> 01:13:10,681
I thought this is a serious matter.

1072
01:13:10,811 --> 01:13:14,692
I'd heard the various rumors
about his wife.

1073
01:13:17,152 --> 01:13:19,272
"That woman will kill me."

1074
01:13:19,402 --> 01:13:23,863
Did Fukutaro tell you specifically
what he meant by that?

1075
01:13:24,243 --> 01:13:25,863
Specifically?

1076
01:13:26,323 --> 01:13:29,703
Yes. Perhaps he had evidence
she was trying to kill him.

1077
01:13:29,873 --> 01:13:31,583
Or she'd tried to kill him.

1078
01:13:31,993 --> 01:13:34,253
Or she told him she'd kill him.

1079
01:13:34,413 --> 01:13:36,294
Not particularly...

1080
01:13:36,464 --> 01:13:39,424
So Fukutaro wasn't saying...

1081
01:13:39,584 --> 01:13:43,214
he sensed the defendant had
a definite plan?

1082
01:13:43,344 --> 01:13:44,884
I suppose not.

1083
01:13:45,054 --> 01:13:48,695
But he actually said he'd be killed.
It was definite.

1084
01:13:50,935 --> 01:13:53,815
But aren't phrases like that...

1085
01:13:53,935 --> 01:13:57,276
regularly used casually, as a joke?

1086
01:13:57,646 --> 01:14:01,736
For example, "My wife will wring my neck?"
Or, "I'm being worked to death"?

1087
01:14:02,576 --> 01:14:06,116
Haven't you heard
those sorts of expressions?

1088
01:14:06,286 --> 01:14:07,747
I have.

1089
01:14:07,907 --> 01:14:10,877
But this time it didn't feel that way.

1090
01:14:11,077 --> 01:14:13,377
Or why would I come here?

1091
01:14:13,497 --> 01:14:15,087
That's how it came across.

1092
01:14:16,337 --> 01:14:18,088
Then why didn't you...

1093
01:14:18,258 --> 01:14:20,038
notify the police at once?

1094
01:14:20,838 --> 01:14:22,598
Well, it's...

1095
01:14:23,058 --> 01:14:26,768
You felt Fukutaro's words
were sincere, didn't you?

1096
01:14:26,888 --> 01:14:29,599
So wouldn't it be natural
to inform the police?

1097
01:14:29,729 --> 01:14:33,899
But at the time I didn't think
it would turn out...

1098
01:14:34,019 --> 01:14:36,989
In other words,
you didn't take it seriously?

1099
01:14:39,780 --> 01:14:40,990
No more questions.

1100
01:14:48,300 --> 01:14:53,301
8TH JULY 13TH HEARING

1101
01:14:55,091 --> 01:14:58,881
When did you learn that the
defendant had married Fukutaro?

1102
01:15:00,181 --> 01:15:03,512
Ah!...around the middle of April, 1980.

1103
01:15:04,262 --> 01:15:10,272
I'd just been released on parole from
Fuchu Prison after doing time for fraud.

1104
01:15:10,692 --> 01:15:13,813
Kumako had already left for Toyama.

1105
01:15:14,903 --> 01:15:18,033
You haven't seen the defendant since then?

1106
01:15:18,363 --> 01:15:19,363
I have.

1107
01:15:19,653 --> 01:15:20,653
Actually,

1108
01:15:21,993 --> 01:15:23,104
just the once.

1109
01:15:25,204 --> 01:15:26,284
They met?

1110
01:15:27,454 --> 01:15:28,704
You did meet?

1111
01:15:29,834 --> 01:15:31,144
When and where?

1112
01:15:32,584 --> 01:15:36,425
In August that year I went to Toyama...

1113
01:15:36,675 --> 01:15:39,125
and called Kumako from the station.

1114
01:15:40,345 --> 01:15:41,965
She responded?

1115
01:15:42,225 --> 01:15:45,516
Yes. She came in a car to pick me up.

1116
01:15:46,186 --> 01:15:50,816
We had a meal in town
and went for a short drive.

1117
01:15:51,696 --> 01:15:53,106
At the end we went to the coast.

1118
01:15:53,656 --> 01:15:54,746
Whereabouts?

1119
01:15:55,026 --> 01:15:56,467
Shinko Harbour.

1120
01:15:56,737 --> 01:15:58,197
That's a lie.

1121
01:15:59,617 --> 01:16:01,527
Why are you telling lies?

1122
01:16:01,867 --> 01:16:03,457
It's no lie.

1123
01:16:04,207 --> 01:16:06,247
We went there together.

1124
01:16:06,458 --> 01:16:08,038
You're up to something.

1125
01:16:08,208 --> 01:16:10,088
You must stop interrupting.

1126
01:16:10,628 --> 01:16:14,718
If you have something to say,
please convey it to your lawyer.

1127
01:16:18,889 --> 01:16:22,559
What did the defendant say
to you at Shinko Harbour?

1128
01:16:22,729 --> 01:16:24,729
She spoke of the Kennedy incident.

1129
01:16:24,849 --> 01:16:26,019
Kennedy incident?

1130
01:16:26,349 --> 01:16:29,730
Yes, it is a tale that
actually happened in America.

1131
01:16:30,730 --> 01:16:34,891
A man by the name of Edward Kennedy
crashed a car into a river.

1132
01:16:34,911 --> 01:16:35,340
[The "Chappaquiddick Incident"]

1133
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:39,121
He caused the death of a woman
travelling with him.

1134
01:16:39,951 --> 01:16:42,201
It was often in the tabloids.

1135
01:16:43,081 --> 01:16:45,251
Kumako took it as an example.

1136
01:16:45,581 --> 01:16:49,091
She said in that sort of situation
you wouldn't get caught,

1137
01:16:49,381 --> 01:16:52,042
as long as you insisted it was accidental.

1138
01:16:52,672 --> 01:16:54,262
Don't tell them that!

1139
01:16:54,422 --> 01:16:55,092
Mrs. Shirakawa.

1140
01:16:55,222 --> 01:16:56,222
You grass.

1141
01:16:57,892 --> 01:16:59,682
Grass?

1142
01:16:59,972 --> 01:17:03,523
In prison, they call
someone like you 'a grass'.

1143
01:17:03,643 --> 01:17:06,273
You should know, you're a jailbird!

1144
01:17:06,523 --> 01:17:08,953
He's spent most of his life in prison.

1145
01:17:09,113 --> 01:17:11,744
You're a fine one to talk!

1146
01:17:11,904 --> 01:17:13,854
Quiet! Quiet!

1147
01:17:14,074 --> 01:17:15,864
I'm telling the truth.

1148
01:17:16,034 --> 01:17:18,584
She said if it went well I'd get a share.

1149
01:17:20,124 --> 01:17:21,624
You Judas!

1150
01:17:21,794 --> 01:17:23,255
Mrs. Shirakawa!

1151
01:17:23,375 --> 01:17:26,075
- Who bought you?
- Stop it!

1152
01:17:29,465 --> 01:17:31,095
Please control yourself!

1153
01:17:31,215 --> 01:17:34,976
Leave! Have her removed.

1154
01:17:35,096 --> 01:17:37,976
Why do I have to leave!?

1155
01:17:38,306 --> 01:17:41,976
You want to kick me out
and have some bullshit trial!

1156
01:17:43,316 --> 01:17:44,817
You can't be serious!

1157
01:17:44,937 --> 01:17:47,487
You're deciding whether I live or die.

1158
01:17:47,607 --> 01:17:49,987
I won't accept being ignored!

1159
01:17:50,157 --> 01:17:51,697
Free my hands!

1160
01:17:52,077 --> 01:17:54,487
You wait! You'll regret this!

1161
01:17:54,657 --> 01:17:56,118
Free my hands!

1162
01:17:56,248 --> 01:17:57,958
Free my hands!

1163
01:17:58,068 --> 01:18:00,558
Free my...!

1164
01:18:02,788 --> 01:18:05,258
We'll have a 30-minute recess.

1165
01:18:05,669 --> 01:18:09,379
Defence counsel,
please consult with your client.

1166
01:18:16,730 --> 01:18:18,450
Why obstruct the testimony?

1167
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:21,320
Because...

1168
01:18:22,270 --> 01:18:26,360
I can't stay silent
when someone lies like that.

1169
01:18:27,191 --> 01:18:32,531
They all think you're a murderer
with eyes on the insurance money.

1170
01:18:33,241 --> 01:18:38,962
There are many defendants who interrupt
damaging evidence in desperation.

1171
01:18:40,542 --> 01:18:42,542
You want to appear like that?

1172
01:18:44,922 --> 01:18:50,133
That was some performance,
if you are guilty.

1173
01:18:50,683 --> 01:18:52,053
Congratulations.

1174
01:18:54,853 --> 01:18:59,523
When she said her husband was
insured for about 300 million,

1175
01:18:59,734 --> 01:19:01,104
I was taken aback.

1176
01:19:01,394 --> 01:19:06,904
The thought she intended to copy
the Kennedy incident was shocking.

1177
01:19:07,234 --> 01:19:10,404
I said it's fine if you alone survive.

1178
01:19:10,535 --> 01:19:14,535
But if you both end up dying
you lose everything.

1179
01:19:15,125 --> 01:19:18,835
Actually, a long time ago
I crashed a car into a river.

1180
01:19:19,085 --> 01:19:23,676
The windscreen didn't break
and I came close to drowning.

1181
01:19:24,796 --> 01:19:28,256
However, Kumako laughed
when I told her that.

1182
01:19:28,766 --> 01:19:33,977
She said, "You can just shatter it
with a hammer or something."

1183
01:19:35,107 --> 01:19:37,567
"Petty crime gets you nowhere."

1184
01:19:37,687 --> 01:19:39,437
"I'll take a chance."

1185
01:19:39,937 --> 01:19:42,777
"If it works out
you'll get 50 million yen."

1186
01:19:43,608 --> 01:19:45,448
That's what she told me.

1187
01:19:49,408 --> 01:19:53,158
You've been interviewed
previously by the police?

1188
01:19:53,328 --> 01:19:54,328
Yes.

1189
01:19:54,419 --> 01:19:56,919
Why didn't you give this testimony then?

1190
01:19:57,999 --> 01:20:01,049
Because I had been with Kumako a long time

1191
01:20:01,309 --> 01:20:04,469
and I didn't want to speak against her.

1192
01:20:05,440 --> 01:20:08,340
Why are you willing to express it now?

1193
01:20:08,970 --> 01:20:13,190
Earlier on, I wasn't fully aware
of the circumstances.

1194
01:20:13,330 --> 01:20:14,730
But is it not...

1195
01:20:14,850 --> 01:20:19,831
that in your world you set great
store on loyalty to your friends?

1196
01:20:21,031 --> 01:20:22,441
That's true.

1197
01:20:23,401 --> 01:20:26,992
But it's a serious matter
when a person dies.

1198
01:20:28,032 --> 01:20:30,352
I want to see justice done too.

1199
01:20:31,192 --> 01:20:36,432
I believe you've provided a lot of
material to the Hokuriku Daily Report.

1200
01:20:39,463 --> 01:20:44,263
About the defendant's days in Hakata
and Ginza that only you know.

1201
01:20:45,343 --> 01:20:47,933
Is there a special connection...

1202
01:20:48,184 --> 01:20:50,184
with that newspaper?

1203
01:20:50,354 --> 01:20:52,064
No, there isn't.

1204
01:20:53,024 --> 01:20:56,374
I don't like the police,
so I spoke to a paper.

1205
01:20:56,594 --> 01:21:01,405
So you also informed the paper of
this matter without telling the police?

1206
01:21:04,195 --> 01:21:05,205
That's right.

1207
01:21:06,205 --> 01:21:08,035
Because I was asked.

1208
01:21:08,205 --> 01:21:11,496
And I'm here because I was told
to inform the police.

1209
01:21:12,336 --> 01:21:13,706
No choice, I guess.

1210
01:21:14,206 --> 01:21:15,916
Oh, I see.

1211
01:21:16,046 --> 01:21:18,466
So you've turned up here today...

1212
01:21:18,676 --> 01:21:21,717
because you were told to by a newspaper.

1213
01:21:23,137 --> 01:21:24,767
Give me a break!

1214
01:21:25,387 --> 01:21:27,557
I felt I had to testify!

1215
01:21:28,307 --> 01:21:30,097
As I said before, it's justice...

1216
01:21:30,857 --> 01:21:32,068
Mrs. Shirakawa!

1217
01:21:33,268 --> 01:21:34,478
Stop it.

1218
01:21:35,238 --> 01:21:37,858
The defendant must desist.

1219
01:21:38,068 --> 01:21:40,028
Next time you'll be restrained.

1220
01:21:42,659 --> 01:21:43,789
Imbecile.

1221
01:21:43,909 --> 01:21:44,579
Jesus.

1222
01:21:44,739 --> 01:21:49,789
You testified that the defendant said
she'd give you 50 million if successful.

1223
01:21:49,919 --> 01:21:52,339
What was that 50 million yen about?

1224
01:21:53,380 --> 01:21:56,260
That's... my cut.

1225
01:21:57,050 --> 01:21:58,210
Of what?

1226
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,560
Look, from the murder proceeds.

1227
01:22:08,941 --> 01:22:10,351
Hang on a minute.

1228
01:22:11,271 --> 01:22:14,772
I wasn't helping her or anything.

1229
01:22:16,992 --> 01:22:18,322
I'm not involved!

1230
01:22:19,542 --> 01:22:22,622
That was just a manner of speaking.

1231
01:22:22,672 --> 01:22:24,082
Purely talk.

1232
01:22:24,912 --> 01:22:27,043
What makes you think that?

1233
01:22:27,663 --> 01:22:29,193
Tell me the reason.

1234
01:22:31,413 --> 01:22:35,133
Because at the time
she seemed in a bad temper...

1235
01:22:35,463 --> 01:22:37,194
and she got carried away.

1236
01:22:37,674 --> 01:22:40,224
She's the type who tends to talk big.

1237
01:22:41,384 --> 01:22:43,344
As if she'd give me 50 million.

1238
01:22:43,764 --> 01:22:47,565
If the talk of 50 million yen
wasn't meant literally,

1239
01:22:47,685 --> 01:22:50,565
don't you think it's the same
with the murder scheme?

1240
01:22:51,815 --> 01:22:53,985
But she actually killed him.

1241
01:22:54,155 --> 01:22:55,155
Objection.

1242
01:22:55,655 --> 01:22:58,526
These are excessively leading questions.

1243
01:22:59,326 --> 01:23:02,076
Since the accident occurred,

1244
01:23:02,206 --> 01:23:05,746
it has been reported in the media
day after day.

1245
01:23:06,126 --> 01:23:08,496
Er, they give the impression...

1246
01:23:08,666 --> 01:23:11,217
the judgement is a foregone conclusion.

1247
01:23:11,667 --> 01:23:15,757
It has been a great hindrance
to the truth emerging.

1248
01:23:16,677 --> 01:23:20,928
I've continued questioning this witness
because it seems there's a chance...

1249
01:23:21,058 --> 01:23:25,048
he twisted the defendant's words
on the basis of that preconception.

1250
01:23:30,528 --> 01:23:34,779
Since the tendency of which the
defence speaks is acknowledged...

1251
01:23:34,909 --> 01:23:39,159
and it's a cross-examination,
how about trying to answer?

1252
01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:45,710
Well then?

1253
01:23:46,250 --> 01:23:51,410
Don't you think the mention of the
murder plan was also simply angry talk?

1254
01:23:52,050 --> 01:23:53,881
I don't think so.

1255
01:23:54,471 --> 01:23:56,011
I think she killed him.

1256
01:23:59,011 --> 01:24:01,221
And what's your opinion?

1257
01:24:02,141 --> 01:24:03,642
She didn't do it?

1258
01:24:04,062 --> 01:24:06,152
Just answer the question.

1259
01:24:06,272 --> 01:24:07,982
You can't ask that.

1260
01:24:09,732 --> 01:24:12,892
Of course, I don't believe she did it.

1261
01:24:54,196 --> 01:24:57,477
Silence!...Calm down!

1262
01:24:58,937 --> 01:25:00,877
Calm down!

1263
01:25:07,657 --> 01:25:12,858
16TH AUGUST PLUNGE TESTING

1264
01:26:07,733 --> 01:26:09,163
Well, get the door.

1265
01:26:36,146 --> 01:26:40,166
Okay, lower!

1266
01:26:44,716 --> 01:26:47,617
Okay... we're done!

1267
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:24,770
This was captured by
a camera inside the car.

1268
01:27:24,900 --> 01:27:26,070
It's car 1.

1269
01:27:26,190 --> 01:27:27,190
Yes.

1270
01:27:43,712 --> 01:27:46,252
Wow... that's pretty amazing.

1271
01:28:07,614 --> 01:28:10,364
Um, the cause for the windscreen breaking?

1272
01:28:11,114 --> 01:28:14,165
For this one, the impact
with the surface of the water.

1273
01:28:17,875 --> 01:28:19,045
Car 2.

1274
01:28:24,876 --> 01:28:27,716
That's a considerable impact.

1275
01:28:42,817 --> 01:28:44,237
The same for Car 2?

1276
01:28:44,397 --> 01:28:45,397
Yes.

1277
01:28:56,959 --> 01:28:58,669
Hmm, it didn't break.

1278
01:28:59,249 --> 01:29:01,419
It broke later on, when underwater.

1279
01:29:02,799 --> 01:29:05,799
The water pressure alone can break it?

1280
01:29:05,929 --> 01:29:09,010
We have to examine that question further.

1281
01:29:28,362 --> 01:29:30,282
I wonder if it was then?

1282
01:29:47,973 --> 01:29:49,763
Well, anyway,

1283
01:29:50,184 --> 01:29:53,644
there are many conditions in which
the windscreen breaks.

1284
01:29:54,064 --> 01:29:57,814
It's not easy to establish if it
was broken by the spanner.

1285
01:29:58,064 --> 01:30:01,115
But even assuming the spanner wasn't used,

1286
01:30:01,315 --> 01:30:04,155
I expect it was there for that reason.

1287
01:30:04,365 --> 01:30:08,115
But maybe it was there
due to other circumstances.

1288
01:30:09,665 --> 01:30:14,166
Aside from that, there's
something else yet to be explained.

1289
01:30:15,376 --> 01:30:16,626
The shoe.

1290
01:30:17,666 --> 01:30:19,676
From Fukutaro's left foot.

1291
01:30:19,796 --> 01:30:23,807
Well, it's likely someone struggling
against a deluge of water,

1292
01:30:24,347 --> 01:30:26,427
could lose a shoe by chance.

1293
01:30:48,619 --> 01:30:49,619
Yes.

1294
01:30:52,329 --> 01:30:53,329
Who is it?

1295
01:30:53,499 --> 01:30:55,550
Ah sensei, it's me.

1296
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:56,840
Toyosaki.

1297
01:31:03,220 --> 01:31:05,260
Sorry to come at this late hour.

1298
01:31:06,101 --> 01:31:07,221
What is it?

1299
01:31:07,431 --> 01:31:09,891
There's something I'd like to say.

1300
01:31:11,231 --> 01:31:13,521
I wonder if you'd let me in.

1301
01:31:14,401 --> 01:31:17,112
Ah! You needn't be afraid.

1302
01:31:18,232 --> 01:31:20,702
What do you want to say?

1303
01:31:21,902 --> 01:31:22,992
Actually...

1304
01:31:23,412 --> 01:31:26,872
I think I did something bad to Kumako.

1305
01:31:27,793 --> 01:31:30,963
I felt sure she'd killed him.

1306
01:31:31,083 --> 01:31:33,623
Then you said she didn't do it.

1307
01:31:35,003 --> 01:31:39,554
The more I think about it,
the more I agree with you.

1308
01:31:41,474 --> 01:31:45,224
It'll be on my conscience
if she gets the death sentence.

1309
01:31:48,514 --> 01:31:50,275
- Come in.
- Excuse me.

1310
01:31:53,275 --> 01:31:55,945
I'm still not sure myself,

1311
01:31:56,275 --> 01:31:59,445
about whether she's lying
or telling the truth.

1312
01:31:59,575 --> 01:32:02,036
Yes, that's what she's like.

1313
01:32:02,956 --> 01:32:05,366
Is she capable of killing someone?

1314
01:32:05,956 --> 01:32:06,956
Could she?

1315
01:32:08,626 --> 01:32:11,957
I suppose you know her better than anyone?

1316
01:32:12,837 --> 01:32:16,467
Well, it's possible she could
kill someone on impulse.

1317
01:32:17,087 --> 01:32:19,967
When she gets mad
she loses control of herself.

1318
01:32:22,308 --> 01:32:25,648
But plotting to kill someone...

1319
01:32:26,978 --> 01:32:32,148
Ah! She was expelled from the
courtroom due to her antics.

1320
01:32:32,939 --> 01:32:34,359
That's it.

1321
01:32:35,149 --> 01:32:40,029
Once the red mist descends her
judgement is completely clouded.

1322
01:32:40,619 --> 01:32:42,449
It was the same in Ginza.

1323
01:32:42,579 --> 01:32:43,910
Ginza?

1324
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:46,170
When the club in Ginza collapsed...

1325
01:32:48,750 --> 01:32:49,850
Thanks a lot.

1326
01:32:51,670 --> 01:32:55,011
She confronted a hostess and
gave her a real beating.

1327
01:32:55,171 --> 01:32:59,301
Right, when she got a
three-year jail sentence?

1328
01:32:59,511 --> 01:33:00,601
Yeah, yeah.

1329
01:33:01,511 --> 01:33:06,692
The club in Ginza was her dream.
In her way she poured everything into it.

1330
01:33:07,402 --> 01:33:10,982
I think it was quite a shock
when it turned out like that.

1331
01:33:11,192 --> 01:33:14,362
Even so, killing someone is so brutal.

1332
01:33:15,242 --> 01:33:17,413
Well, it was traumatic.

1333
01:33:18,993 --> 01:33:20,103
Thank you.

1334
01:33:23,293 --> 01:33:24,293
It's good!

1335
01:33:24,383 --> 01:33:26,253
Ah, sensei! I...

1336
01:33:27,164 --> 01:33:30,464
Once I saw her at the point of tears.

1337
01:33:32,294 --> 01:33:37,385
I went to pick her up when she was
released from prison.

1338
01:33:51,106 --> 01:33:52,906
Hey, Kuma.

1339
01:33:53,406 --> 01:33:55,006
Sorry I'm late.

1340
01:33:56,306 --> 01:33:57,656
What's up?

1341
01:33:59,307 --> 01:34:02,007
Come on, get in. What's wrong?

1342
01:34:04,867 --> 01:34:08,177
LOVE HOTEL

1343
01:34:21,609 --> 01:34:23,009
Ah, I'm hungry.

1344
01:34:28,709 --> 01:34:30,309
Let's eat something.

1345
01:34:39,010 --> 01:34:41,710
What's got into you? Bringing me here.

1346
01:35:09,823 --> 01:35:11,493
Just for a moment,

1347
01:35:13,073 --> 01:35:16,084
she could have been an ordinary girl.

1348
01:35:18,994 --> 01:35:20,874
Irresistibly lovely.

1349
01:35:23,424 --> 01:35:25,174
Women are strange.

1350
01:35:26,885 --> 01:35:27,885
Then...

1351
01:35:28,925 --> 01:35:34,515
It's a lie that you heard a murder plot
from the defendant's lips!

1352
01:35:35,055 --> 01:35:36,355
That's right.

1353
01:35:37,356 --> 01:35:39,526
Certainly we spoke of such things.

1354
01:35:39,776 --> 01:35:41,526
But she didn't suggest it.

1355
01:35:41,686 --> 01:35:44,276
It was me who told her to kill him.

1356
01:35:45,526 --> 01:35:49,697
And you're saying that you also
brought up the Kennedy incident.

1357
01:35:49,737 --> 01:35:51,037
Look!

1358
01:35:51,197 --> 01:35:54,957
It was in a news weekly I found on a train.

1359
01:35:55,077 --> 01:35:57,037
I showed it to Kumako.

1360
01:35:57,207 --> 01:36:00,048
Then why didn't you say so earlier?

1361
01:36:01,208 --> 01:36:03,258
Why come out with it now?

1362
01:36:03,878 --> 01:36:05,088
Because...

1363
01:36:05,468 --> 01:36:08,388
I realised I'd had a lapse of memory.

1364
01:36:08,548 --> 01:36:10,219
Don't you have those?

1365
01:36:10,389 --> 01:36:11,809
Don't mock this court!

1366
01:36:12,849 --> 01:36:15,729
Your behaviour is most irresponsible!

1367
01:36:16,939 --> 01:36:18,689
Then can I be clear?

1368
01:36:19,980 --> 01:36:21,320
Go ahead.

1369
01:36:22,940 --> 01:36:25,740
I was worried how the police
would perceive me.

1370
01:36:25,910 --> 01:36:26,910
What?

1371
01:36:29,330 --> 01:36:31,081
The police are devious.

1372
01:36:31,741 --> 01:36:37,251
I'm on parole and from the start they
threatened me with a return to jail.

1373
01:36:38,421 --> 01:36:41,091
I let those guys say what they like.

1374
01:36:42,002 --> 01:36:43,762
Be careful what you say.

1375
01:36:44,842 --> 01:36:49,972
Try to testify accurately and in detail
what the police said to you!

1376
01:36:51,012 --> 01:36:54,483
Obviously they don't leave
a trail of evidence.

1377
01:36:55,603 --> 01:36:57,103
The written record too.

1378
01:36:57,273 --> 01:37:00,443
It was waved in front of my face
and duly signed.

1379
01:37:01,193 --> 01:37:02,863
That's how the police work.

1380
01:37:03,444 --> 01:37:05,824
You can't get away with perjury!

1381
01:37:06,454 --> 01:37:09,324
Look, I'm stating the truth!

1382
01:37:09,954 --> 01:37:13,664
Should I stay silent about this?

1383
01:37:14,545 --> 01:37:17,795
Are you saying it's not perjury
if I keep lying?

1384
01:37:22,425 --> 01:37:24,765
I've remembered something else.

1385
01:37:25,466 --> 01:37:27,426
That talk with Kumako.

1386
01:37:27,846 --> 01:37:30,556
It was at a restaurant, not by the sea.

1387
01:37:32,266 --> 01:37:33,316
Stop this nonsense.

1388
01:37:33,476 --> 01:37:34,896
It's true.

1389
01:37:35,146 --> 01:37:36,146
You know,

1390
01:37:36,857 --> 01:37:41,697
I had that journalist Akitani show me
the scene of the incident.

1391
01:37:41,867 --> 01:37:47,248
Amongst other things, I learnt that
the windscreen was broken.

1392
01:37:47,448 --> 01:37:48,618
So...

1393
01:37:48,868 --> 01:37:51,998
I thought why not say I spoke
with Kumako there?

1394
01:37:52,958 --> 01:37:57,168
I wanted to add some spice when
it came to writing up the story.

1395
01:37:58,919 --> 01:38:00,839
He's here in person.

1396
01:38:01,009 --> 01:38:02,389
You can ask him.

1397
01:38:05,719 --> 01:38:10,020
Jesus, you should've
made this clear before.

1398
01:38:10,190 --> 01:38:12,020
You're shameless!

1399
01:38:12,150 --> 01:38:14,820
I know, it's inexcusable!

1400
01:38:15,820 --> 01:38:19,821
Actually, the newspaper
provided a few favours.

1401
01:38:22,911 --> 01:38:23,951
No more questions.

1402
01:38:25,781 --> 01:38:29,081
Defence, any final questions?

1403
01:38:30,622 --> 01:38:32,042
Not really.

1404
01:38:32,832 --> 01:38:34,832
Shall we conclude?

1405
01:38:35,882 --> 01:38:37,762
Then the witness may step down.

1406
01:38:37,882 --> 01:38:38,932
Ah, your honor!

1407
01:38:41,083 --> 01:38:42,083
What?

1408
01:38:43,263 --> 01:38:45,433
May I say something?

1409
01:38:46,683 --> 01:38:48,313
What is it?

1410
01:38:48,603 --> 01:38:51,603
Sensei, please take care of matters.

1411
01:38:52,564 --> 01:38:55,154
And you, give it your best shot!

1412
01:38:58,034 --> 01:38:59,694
I'm very much obliged.

1413
01:39:13,506 --> 01:39:16,096
With this you'll be back in the slammer.

1414
01:39:16,676 --> 01:39:19,556
Then, the trial is over for today.

1415
01:39:20,176 --> 01:39:21,226
Stand!

1416
01:39:31,107 --> 01:39:32,777
It's as he said,

1417
01:39:32,947 --> 01:39:36,778
the police employ underhand methods!

1418
01:39:36,948 --> 01:39:40,288
Journos are no better,
clinging to them like lice.

1419
01:39:40,448 --> 01:39:44,208
Don't look down on me
in that condescending way.

1420
01:39:44,328 --> 01:39:46,579
Did you see the prosecutor's face?

1421
01:39:46,959 --> 01:39:47,959
Serves him right.

1422
01:39:48,039 --> 01:39:49,879
Such a great feeling.

1423
01:39:51,129 --> 01:39:52,969
Don't be complacent.

1424
01:39:55,299 --> 01:39:57,800
It's only gone against you more and more.

1425
01:39:59,010 --> 01:40:00,140
Why's that?

1426
01:40:00,470 --> 01:40:05,640
It came out in court that you refined a
murder plan for the insurance money,

1427
01:40:06,060 --> 01:40:08,441
inspired by the Kennedy incident.

1428
01:40:09,821 --> 01:40:10,981
Didn't it?

1429
01:40:12,231 --> 01:40:14,821
That's evidence of intent to kill.

1430
01:40:17,281 --> 01:40:20,162
You only ever see things negatively.

1431
01:40:20,832 --> 01:40:23,832
It's almost like you want me
to be found guilty.

1432
01:40:24,662 --> 01:40:27,582
I'm not defending you out of kindness.

1433
01:40:28,082 --> 01:40:31,633
I'm just thinking about my
professional responsibilities.

1434
01:40:34,013 --> 01:40:35,673
Don't misunderstand. OK?

1435
01:40:40,184 --> 01:40:41,684
Papa!

1436
01:40:44,524 --> 01:40:45,644
Welcome back.

1437
01:40:49,524 --> 01:40:50,905
See you later.

1438
01:40:51,025 --> 01:40:52,025
Take care.

1439
01:40:53,405 --> 01:40:54,195
Bye bye.

1440
01:40:54,365 --> 01:40:55,365
Bye bye.

1441
01:40:58,705 --> 01:41:01,996
- Where did you go to?
- The park!

1442
01:41:02,126 --> 01:41:05,006
There were lots of carp and goldfish.

1443
01:42:30,764 --> 01:42:32,724
Hello, Muneharu?

1444
01:42:34,604 --> 01:42:36,974
I'm the lawyer, Sahara.

1445
01:42:38,224 --> 01:42:42,315
I know, I've seen you defending that woman.

1446
01:42:42,945 --> 01:42:44,775
Could we have a chat?

1447
01:42:45,985 --> 01:42:47,905
Just five minutes will do.

1448
01:42:48,235 --> 01:42:50,116
But I have to be home early.

1449
01:42:50,246 --> 01:42:52,576
I'll take you, come on.

1450
01:43:03,797 --> 01:43:09,007
I've brought various things to light
in this trial.

1451
01:43:10,267 --> 01:43:12,428
But I've wondered...

1452
01:43:12,728 --> 01:43:17,058
if it wasn't you whom your father
loved most, rather than that woman.

1453
01:43:18,398 --> 01:43:20,728
You loved your father too?

1454
01:43:24,659 --> 01:43:27,369
Whose wish was it...

1455
01:43:28,029 --> 01:43:31,199
that you leave your father's place?

1456
01:43:32,579 --> 01:43:34,040
Your own?

1457
01:43:35,250 --> 01:43:37,500
Or was it grandma or someone else?

1458
01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:40,300
I suggested it.

1459
01:43:42,510 --> 01:43:44,381
I hated that woman.

1460
01:43:45,301 --> 01:43:46,301
And...

1461
01:43:46,931 --> 01:43:49,721
I hated father when he was with her.

1462
01:43:51,061 --> 01:43:53,811
When was the last time you saw him?

1463
01:43:56,232 --> 01:43:57,402
I forget.

1464
01:43:57,902 --> 01:44:00,902
Ah, you mustn't tell fibs.

1465
01:44:02,322 --> 01:44:04,152
In this trial...

1466
01:44:04,402 --> 01:44:07,413
everyone just lies to suit themselves.

1467
01:44:07,613 --> 01:44:09,743
The truth is entirely clouded.

1468
01:44:11,743 --> 01:44:13,583
That's grown-ups for you.

1469
01:44:14,763 --> 01:44:15,763
No good, eh?

1470
01:44:16,834 --> 01:44:20,384
But you should rise above those grown-ups.

1471
01:44:21,674 --> 01:44:23,344
Don't you remember?

1472
01:44:24,594 --> 01:44:27,434
When was the last time you saw him?

1473
01:44:28,725 --> 01:44:29,855
Last year.

1474
01:44:32,015 --> 01:44:33,525
The 10th of July.

1475
01:44:34,775 --> 01:44:36,235
July the 10th?

1476
01:44:36,735 --> 01:44:39,066
The day before the incident then.

1477
01:44:42,366 --> 01:44:44,906
What did the two of you talk about?

1478
01:44:46,076 --> 01:44:48,286
Didn't your father say anything?

1479
01:44:50,827 --> 01:44:53,797
He didn't say anything important.

1480
01:44:55,837 --> 01:44:59,177
He wanted to take me for a drive
and I refused.

1481
01:45:01,178 --> 01:45:02,258
That's all.

1482
01:45:08,478 --> 01:45:09,478
I see.

1483
01:45:10,648 --> 01:45:12,149
So that was all.

1484
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:17,149
Oh, Muneharu.

1485
01:45:18,149 --> 01:45:20,489
Will you take the witness stand?

1486
01:45:20,779 --> 01:45:21,780
What!

1487
01:45:22,780 --> 01:45:25,490
Simply say what you told me.

1488
01:45:25,660 --> 01:45:26,790
It's a pain.

1489
01:45:26,910 --> 01:45:31,830
It's highly significant that you saw
your father the day before he died.

1490
01:45:32,210 --> 01:45:36,091
No one's testified about that so far,
so nobody knows.

1491
01:45:37,171 --> 01:45:40,681
Only you can speak about your
father's demeanour at the time.

1492
01:45:43,762 --> 01:45:44,743
Alright?

1493
01:45:44,763 --> 01:45:47,682
You'll get a summons from the court later.

1494
01:45:49,022 --> 01:45:50,022
Okay?

1495
01:45:52,552 --> 01:45:53,552
Stand!

1496
01:46:09,694 --> 01:46:16,285
We'll now commence the trial of the
case concerning Kumako Shirakawa.

1497
01:46:16,825 --> 01:46:19,915
I believe today there is a defence witness.

1498
01:46:20,625 --> 01:46:25,205
Before that, I'd like to illustrate
something that happened to me.

1499
01:46:25,455 --> 01:46:30,636
Er, regarding the unresolved issue of
the spanner and the shoe left in the car.

1500
01:46:30,756 --> 01:46:31,756
Please do.

1501
01:46:32,756 --> 01:46:36,476
The other day, while driving my car,

1502
01:46:36,726 --> 01:46:38,977
I nearly caused an accident.

1503
01:46:39,137 --> 01:46:44,227
It was caused by an empty juice
can getting caught under the brake,

1504
01:46:44,517 --> 01:46:46,817
rendering it unusable.

1505
01:46:48,067 --> 01:46:50,028
Er, as a result...

1506
01:46:50,158 --> 01:46:53,448
I formed a hypothesis from the incident.

1507
01:46:53,658 --> 01:46:59,579
The gap between the floor and brake
in Fukutaro's car is exactly 7 centimetres.

1508
01:46:59,709 --> 01:47:03,499
The width of this shoe
belonging to Fukutaro...

1509
01:47:03,789 --> 01:47:05,669
is 6.7 centimetres.

1510
01:47:05,799 --> 01:47:08,009
So it fits neatly.

1511
01:47:08,589 --> 01:47:14,010
To wedge it in, an object of about
3 millimetres is necessary.

1512
01:47:14,350 --> 01:47:17,770
And this spanner is exactly
4 millimetres thick.

1513
01:47:18,100 --> 01:47:20,020
Wedge it in here...

1514
01:47:21,311 --> 01:47:23,901
and the brake pedal gets jammed.

1515
01:47:25,361 --> 01:47:29,191
No matter how you tread on it,
the brake won't function.

1516
01:47:37,872 --> 01:47:39,372
But...

1517
01:47:40,372 --> 01:47:43,543
what exactly are you trying to establish?

1518
01:47:43,583 --> 01:47:44,583
Right...

1519
01:47:46,043 --> 01:47:48,133
Er, it's conceivable,

1520
01:47:49,263 --> 01:47:51,553
that having resolved to die,

1521
01:47:51,723 --> 01:47:55,934
Fukutaro tampered with the brake
because he feared unwittingly...

1522
01:47:56,084 --> 01:48:00,564
stepping on it as the car was
about to plunge into the sea.

1523
01:48:00,734 --> 01:48:01,984
Then...

1524
01:48:02,734 --> 01:48:04,795
you're saying he killed himself?

1525
01:48:08,155 --> 01:48:09,155
Correct.

1526
01:48:09,365 --> 01:48:12,615
The defence counsel
is engaging in wild speculation!

1527
01:48:13,035 --> 01:48:18,496
Call it a hypothesis all you like.
Is there clear evidence supporting it?

1528
01:48:20,086 --> 01:48:21,666
Not really.

1529
01:48:22,586 --> 01:48:27,637
Therefore I'm hoping today's
witness can substantiate it.

1530
01:48:30,597 --> 01:48:34,187
Then let the witness take the stand.

1531
01:48:40,938 --> 01:48:42,188
Oath:

1532
01:48:43,278 --> 01:48:46,818
I hereby swear to tell the truth,

1533
01:48:47,869 --> 01:48:54,039
the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. Muneharu Shirakawa.

1534
01:48:59,750 --> 01:49:03,670
Since we've now taken an oath from you,

1535
01:49:04,800 --> 01:49:10,971
bear in mind that should you give
false testimony in these proceedings,

1536
01:49:11,851 --> 01:49:15,311
you will face being punished.

1537
01:49:15,691 --> 01:49:16,771
Okay?

1538
01:49:17,521 --> 01:49:18,521
Yes.

1539
01:49:20,192 --> 01:49:26,662
Er, on the 10th of July 1981, that is,
the night before the incident,

1540
01:49:26,992 --> 01:49:30,702
you saw your father Fukutaro, didn't you?

1541
01:49:31,283 --> 01:49:32,283
Yes.

1542
01:49:33,243 --> 01:49:34,583
Whereabouts?

1543
01:49:35,663 --> 01:49:40,923
Our family home's...
father approached outside my room.

1544
01:49:43,134 --> 01:49:46,134
Where outside your room exactly?

1545
01:49:47,014 --> 01:49:48,594
The back garden.

1546
01:49:49,554 --> 01:49:50,804
What time?

1547
01:49:51,764 --> 01:49:53,355
It was after 11.

1548
01:49:54,025 --> 01:49:57,525
Did your father say anything to you?

1549
01:49:58,565 --> 01:50:00,865
He wanted us to go for a drive.

1550
01:50:01,825 --> 01:50:03,405
But I refused.

1551
01:50:04,946 --> 01:50:05,946
And then?

1552
01:50:09,206 --> 01:50:12,206
Was that all he said to you that day?

1553
01:50:13,336 --> 01:50:15,417
Surely it was more than that.

1554
01:50:20,887 --> 01:50:22,967
No, not really...

1555
01:50:24,177 --> 01:50:25,848
That was all.

1556
01:50:27,888 --> 01:50:31,348
So, although he intended
to invite you for a drive,

1557
01:50:31,478 --> 01:50:35,228
he came through the back garden,
in order not to be noticed?

1558
01:50:35,358 --> 01:50:37,069
In his own house?

1559
01:50:39,569 --> 01:50:43,369
Presumably, your father
wanted to see only you.

1560
01:50:44,579 --> 01:50:47,080
He wanted to tell you something.

1561
01:50:48,330 --> 01:50:49,460
What was it?

1562
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:54,210
Can't you say?

1563
01:50:55,750 --> 01:50:57,460
You can't tell us?

1564
01:51:00,131 --> 01:51:02,971
Objection, the witness has answered.

1565
01:51:03,091 --> 01:51:04,971
No further response is needed.

1566
01:51:05,141 --> 01:51:07,771
It may be injurious to the witness himself.

1567
01:51:07,931 --> 01:51:12,352
The witness is suppressing evidence
because he resents the defendant.

1568
01:51:12,772 --> 01:51:18,822
Er, the fate of the defendant hangs
on an important fact that he's hiding.

1569
01:51:19,152 --> 01:51:24,373
It won't be harmful to the witness
himself, so please let him testify.

1570
01:51:29,753 --> 01:51:31,834
Objection dismissed.

1571
01:51:32,374 --> 01:51:34,794
The witness shall answer.

1572
01:51:39,554 --> 01:51:42,805
Come, Muneharu, tell us.

1573
01:51:43,185 --> 01:51:46,475
Your father came to do what?

1574
01:51:50,315 --> 01:51:52,316
You took an oath didn't you?

1575
01:51:52,486 --> 01:51:54,486
To tell the whole truth?

1576
01:51:54,816 --> 01:51:56,196
You'd lie in court?

1577
01:52:03,957 --> 01:52:05,417
Father...

1578
01:52:06,747 --> 01:52:08,377
had a letter...

1579
01:52:09,047 --> 01:52:10,047
Letter?

1580
01:52:13,718 --> 01:52:15,428
You received a letter?

1581
01:52:16,138 --> 01:52:17,508
Where is it?

1582
01:52:19,138 --> 01:52:20,218
It's gone.

1583
01:52:21,598 --> 01:52:23,688
I burnt it at the funeral wake.

1584
01:52:24,349 --> 01:52:26,689
Try telling us what was inside.

1585
01:52:30,819 --> 01:52:32,029
Muneharu?

1586
01:52:32,859 --> 01:52:34,699
If you don't tell us now,

1587
01:52:34,819 --> 01:52:38,030
you'll have to keep it hidden
the rest of your life.

1588
01:52:38,370 --> 01:52:41,200
You'll have to bear that load all your life.

1589
01:52:41,660 --> 01:52:42,870
Are you okay with that?

1590
01:52:48,171 --> 01:52:49,921
Isn't that unwelcome?

1591
01:52:52,091 --> 01:52:56,091
I don't think your deceased father
would be happy either.

1592
01:53:00,472 --> 01:53:01,852
Muneharu!

1593
01:53:05,062 --> 01:53:06,142
"I will..."

1594
01:53:08,653 --> 01:53:11,023
"I will kill Kumako..."

1595
01:53:11,773 --> 01:53:13,743
That's what was inside.

1596
01:53:17,533 --> 01:53:19,244
"For this family's sake."

1597
01:53:21,084 --> 01:53:24,374
"And... for your sake."

1598
01:53:25,754 --> 01:53:28,084
"My duty is to kill Kumako."

1599
01:53:28,794 --> 01:53:30,465
You can't be serious.

1600
01:53:32,425 --> 01:53:34,675
What did I do to deserve that?

1601
01:53:35,725 --> 01:53:37,885
You ruined the Shirakawa family!

1602
01:53:38,895 --> 01:53:40,356
Seeking its wealth...

1603
01:53:41,356 --> 01:53:43,606
you came to destroy the Shirakawas!

1604
01:53:43,816 --> 01:53:45,486
Don't give me that.

1605
01:53:46,526 --> 01:53:49,776
Your old man asked me to come, you know.

1606
01:53:50,406 --> 01:53:53,027
I came because he begged me to.

1607
01:53:53,947 --> 01:53:56,727
And the old fossil tries to kill me.

1608
01:53:56,867 --> 01:53:58,617
Don't slight my father!

1609
01:54:01,127 --> 01:54:03,538
Please tone down your remarks!

1610
01:54:06,298 --> 01:54:09,048
Come, Muneharu, continue.

1611
01:54:10,298 --> 01:54:12,388
What was written after that?

1612
01:54:14,519 --> 01:54:17,919
"Kumako is no good."

1613
01:54:20,119 --> 01:54:24,720
"But I'm in love with her."

1614
01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:32,220
"Letting her die alone
would be too heartbreaking."

1615
01:54:35,021 --> 01:54:39,421
"So I will die alongside her."

1616
01:54:41,921 --> 01:54:44,321
"Forgive my weakness."

1617
01:54:47,322 --> 01:54:50,922
"Please try to find happiness."

1618
01:54:55,922 --> 01:54:58,123
So a forced double suicide!

1619
01:54:59,923 --> 01:55:04,323
How foolish!
He screwed it up and died himself.

1620
01:55:07,424 --> 01:55:11,324
In which case, I'm in the clear.

1621
01:55:12,424 --> 01:55:14,224
What insolent people.

1622
01:55:16,124 --> 01:55:20,925
You're the one who drove him to it!
You killed my father!

1623
01:55:22,425 --> 01:55:25,225
"YOU KILLED HIM!"

1624
01:55:25,825 --> 01:55:30,026
CAR PLUNGE INCIDENT WAS
FORCED DOUBLE SUICIDE

1625
01:55:30,806 --> 01:55:33,806
(14TH OCTOBER)
We now pronounce judgement...

1626
01:55:34,056 --> 01:55:37,566
on the case concerning Kumako Shirakawa.

1627
01:55:37,726 --> 01:55:39,316
Come forward.

1628
01:55:43,227 --> 01:55:46,527
"Main Text: the accused is not guilty."

1629
01:55:47,727 --> 01:55:49,627
"The reasons as follows."

1630
01:55:49,927 --> 01:55:54,528
WICKED WOMAN KUMAKO IN NOT GUILTY VERDICT

1631
01:56:02,729 --> 01:56:08,229
KUMAKO EMBARKS ON 300 MILLION
INSURANCE PAYOUT CLAIM

1632
01:56:08,889 --> 01:56:09,889
Hello.

1633
01:56:10,099 --> 01:56:11,269
Hello.

1634
01:56:12,270 --> 01:56:17,400
Ah, is that lawyer Sahara?
It's Akitani of the Daily Report.

1635
01:56:17,770 --> 01:56:21,150
Congratulations on your victory. Well done.

1636
01:56:21,610 --> 01:56:22,821
Thank you.

1637
01:56:23,111 --> 01:56:24,111
<i>How is it?</i>

1638
01:56:24,781 --> 01:56:26,821
<i>I bet you get angry phone calls.</i>

1639
01:56:27,121 --> 01:56:28,661
Yes, I do.

1640
01:56:28,831 --> 01:56:30,491
How does it make you feel?

1641
01:56:31,291 --> 01:56:32,331
How?

1642
01:56:32,541 --> 01:56:34,122
You're not bothered?

1643
01:56:34,502 --> 01:56:36,292
<i>No, not particularly.</i>

1644
01:56:36,462 --> 01:56:37,632
Everyone's mad.

1645
01:56:37,962 --> 01:56:42,382
If she'd committed a crime then...
but that wasn't the case.

1646
01:56:42,672 --> 01:56:45,133
So proving her innocent is normal.

1647
01:56:45,303 --> 01:56:47,803
I see. I'm surprised.

1648
01:56:48,143 --> 01:56:51,263
So that's the way a lawyer thinks.

1649
01:56:51,933 --> 01:56:54,733
Completely different from the likes of us.

1650
01:56:55,694 --> 01:56:57,984
I was transferred thanks to this.

1651
01:56:58,814 --> 01:57:00,944
<i>I'm now at the Uozu office.</i>

1652
01:57:01,574 --> 01:57:03,324
But I don't regret it.

1653
01:57:04,904 --> 01:57:08,665
We don't need to defend a woman
like that in a newspaper.

1654
01:57:08,875 --> 01:57:10,665
She must be utterly condemned.

1655
01:57:11,245 --> 01:57:13,245
I still detest that woman.

1656
01:57:13,835 --> 01:57:16,215
<i>That's right, even now!</i>

1657
01:57:34,887 --> 01:57:40,218
Aya-chan... do you like them?

1658
01:57:47,828 --> 01:57:49,369
Sorry I'm late.

1659
01:57:50,709 --> 01:57:51,709
Aya-chan?

1660
01:57:51,919 --> 01:57:53,709
Yeah... she's here.

1661
01:57:54,419 --> 01:57:55,419
Where?

1662
01:57:57,169 --> 01:57:58,799
Sakie's here too.

1663
01:58:01,430 --> 01:58:03,510
She's dying to speak with you.

1664
01:58:04,510 --> 01:58:06,100
Will you see her?

1665
01:58:13,231 --> 01:58:15,571
Wow, there's loads of them.

1666
01:58:16,571 --> 01:58:17,571
Hey.

1667
01:58:18,441 --> 01:58:21,531
I don't resent you or anything.

1668
01:58:22,662 --> 01:58:24,742
I guess Tetsuro said so?

1669
01:58:27,542 --> 01:58:30,622
So I don't need an apology from you.

1670
01:58:34,423 --> 01:58:38,423
I'm content with being able
to see Ayako once a month.

1671
01:58:41,513 --> 01:58:43,844
Tetsuro and I are no longer involved.

1672
01:58:45,054 --> 01:58:46,054
No...

1673
01:58:48,064 --> 01:58:50,854
That's not what I wanted to see you about.

1674
01:58:53,104 --> 01:58:56,575
Could you stop meeting Aya-chan?

1675
01:58:58,945 --> 01:59:02,745
I don't think this situation
is good for her.

1676
01:59:03,915 --> 01:59:04,915
So...

1677
01:59:05,286 --> 01:59:09,206
But this is a condition
of the divorce settlement.

1678
01:59:09,836 --> 01:59:11,126
I know that.

1679
01:59:11,796 --> 01:59:13,506
So I'm asking you.

1680
01:59:15,046 --> 01:59:16,467
Please.

1681
01:59:17,847 --> 01:59:20,267
Give up on it now.

1682
01:59:21,347 --> 01:59:25,397
Please don't make us suffer any further.

1683
01:59:25,937 --> 01:59:28,938
When did I make you suffer?

1684
01:59:33,648 --> 01:59:35,278
Ayako is my child.

1685
01:59:37,408 --> 01:59:39,619
Only I have the right to say that.

1686
01:59:44,119 --> 01:59:46,709
I can't have children.

1687
01:59:48,750 --> 01:59:53,670
I intend to raise Aya-chan
with the belief she's mine.

1688
02:00:08,051 --> 02:00:09,851
- Aya-chan.
- Yes.

1689
02:00:13,752 --> 02:00:16,652
- Here, a present.
- Thank you.

1690
02:00:47,555 --> 02:00:48,605
Welcome.

1691
02:00:48,855 --> 02:00:50,945
Ah, sensei!...Sensei.

1692
02:00:51,015 --> 02:00:53,946
- Please!
- Here you are.

1693
02:00:54,156 --> 02:00:55,906
Don't just stand there.

1694
02:00:56,076 --> 02:00:57,826
A glass, bring a glass.

1695
02:00:58,366 --> 02:00:59,746
Wine, wine, wine!

1696
02:01:00,706 --> 02:01:01,706
Yes, please.

1697
02:01:01,746 --> 02:01:04,707
Anyway, she saved me, serve her a drink.

1698
02:01:04,837 --> 02:01:07,547
Yeah, she gets everyone off the hook.

1699
02:01:07,717 --> 02:01:08,717
Wow.

1700
02:01:13,057 --> 02:01:14,467
Cheers!

1701
02:01:14,597 --> 02:01:16,058
Thank you, sensei.

1702
02:01:20,148 --> 02:01:22,648
Hey sensei, something else happened.

1703
02:01:22,768 --> 02:01:25,228
I can't celebrate, advise me.

1704
02:01:25,398 --> 02:01:26,398
What is it?

1705
02:01:26,819 --> 02:01:29,949
The insurance firms
won't pay the 300 million yen.

1706
02:01:30,569 --> 02:01:34,789
They say I can't claim for a suicide
within a year of taking out the cover.

1707
02:01:34,949 --> 02:01:36,369
You know that,

1708
02:01:36,499 --> 02:01:38,160
it's in the contract.

1709
02:01:38,290 --> 02:01:40,040
That may be so,

1710
02:01:40,170 --> 02:01:43,960
but it's not like he killed himself
for the insurance money.

1711
02:01:44,550 --> 02:01:47,340
You're a lawyer, there must be some way.

1712
02:01:48,921 --> 02:01:53,471
If I can't get the 300 million, there
was no point in coming to Toyama.

1713
02:01:53,601 --> 02:01:54,721
My luck's out.

1714
02:01:54,851 --> 02:01:56,681
No chance, give it up.

1715
02:01:57,811 --> 02:02:01,442
Then what about reparations
from the Shirakawa family?

1716
02:02:02,352 --> 02:02:06,482
I need to teach them a little lesson
after what I suffered.

1717
02:02:07,322 --> 02:02:12,413
Come on, it goes both ways;
and they detest you as well.

1718
02:02:12,743 --> 02:02:15,743
He killed himself
because you drove him to it.

1719
02:02:16,453 --> 02:02:18,623
I shouldn't have done that?

1720
02:02:19,003 --> 02:02:21,964
So what if one or two people have died?

1721
02:02:23,134 --> 02:02:25,004
It wasn't really love.

1722
02:02:25,294 --> 02:02:28,924
He just wanted to tie me down
because he feared I'd leave him.

1723
02:02:29,634 --> 02:02:32,305
Don't give me that crap
about a double suicide.

1724
02:02:34,355 --> 02:02:36,765
On the whole, you did a lousy job.

1725
02:02:36,895 --> 02:02:41,355
I'll lose the insurance money
because you used that clumsy defence.

1726
02:02:41,695 --> 02:02:45,946
I was thinking of giving you
around 50 million.

1727
02:02:46,986 --> 02:02:48,536
You messed it up.

1728
02:02:49,326 --> 02:02:51,286
300 million yen up in smoke.

1729
02:02:52,616 --> 02:02:57,377
What would you have done if Fukutaro
hadn't set up that double suicide?

1730
02:02:59,377 --> 02:03:03,878
Could you have killed him or not?
Which is it?

1731
02:03:05,758 --> 02:03:09,848
You may be gutless,
but please stop pretending.

1732
02:03:10,018 --> 02:03:14,779
Yes, right, of course. I think
I would've, given a chance.

1733
02:03:21,109 --> 02:03:25,490
There's a real nasty expression
on your face.

1734
02:03:26,620 --> 02:03:29,180
You always see people as guinea pigs.

1735
02:03:29,540 --> 02:03:34,890
I truly loathe self-indulgent egotists
like yourself.

1736
02:03:36,251 --> 02:03:39,381
And I hate women like you.

1737
02:03:41,711 --> 02:03:46,091
No matter how evil
or shameful you may find it,

1738
02:03:46,301 --> 02:03:48,352
I don't care about others.

1739
02:03:48,852 --> 02:03:50,762
That's why I like me.

1740
02:03:50,932 --> 02:03:55,142
And you? Could you say you like yourself?

1741
02:03:56,062 --> 02:03:57,102
Probably not.

1742
02:03:58,113 --> 02:03:59,773
A pathetic specimen.

1743
02:04:02,443 --> 02:04:04,863
I hate all women like you.

1744
02:04:15,164 --> 02:04:16,794
You're disgusting.

1745
02:04:18,174 --> 02:04:20,885
You should be thankful
your life was spared.

1746
02:04:24,385 --> 02:04:26,475
Don't think I'm put off.

1747
02:04:27,265 --> 02:04:30,145
I've gained confidence from this.

1748
02:04:31,016 --> 02:04:34,486
I'll continue to live in my own way,

1749
02:04:35,486 --> 02:04:38,816
thankful I didn't become a woman like you.

1750
02:04:39,986 --> 02:04:42,867
I'll keep using men until the end.

1751
02:04:45,287 --> 02:04:49,077
I suppose that's the only way you can live.

1752
02:04:51,497 --> 02:04:54,508
I'll go on living my way.

1753
02:04:55,968 --> 02:04:58,338
Well, do your worst.

1754
02:05:00,088 --> 02:05:02,348
I'll defend you when you slip up.

1755
02:05:04,009 --> 02:05:05,179
Please do!

1756
02:06:45,738 --> 02:06:51,379
The End