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It was quite a big earthquake, wasn't it?

Yeah.

I'm leaving now.

Oh yeah.

I'll come back again.

I see.

See you.

Hey, come here.

What the hell is this mud?

The earthquake this morning must've caused this area to flood.

Oh, yeah.

Is it for a robbery or assault?

No, no traces to indicate that.

Was she brought over from somewhere and abandoned here?

I'm not sure.

Hey!

Have you found any footprints or tire tracks?

Not yet?

If they abandoned the body before the flood,

all the evidence may be lost.

That's troublesome.

Is this salt?

What?

That is salt.

Excuse me, is water in the puddles around here sea water?

Yes, they really wanted to build condominiums,

so they rushed to reclaim land from the sea.

Oh.

Thank you very much.

Let's get it.

Ah!

What happened?

Water is coming out of her mouth.

How did she die?

Yoshioka! Let's go back.

Okay.

We've got the coroner's report.

Sure enough, it's a death by drowning.

And what's more, it's sea water.

Really.

At that place?

Hmm.

What's going on, do you know?

Harue? It's me.

I'd like to ask you some small thing.

Do you remember my black coat?

The one we bought at Citymart last year.

Yeah, that's it.

Do you know what happened to the middle button?

It's missing.

It's come off.

Who is it?

Who is it?

This is the police.

We know what happened!

Who is it? Come out!

Sakurai! Do you have a bag for material evidence?

Yes.

Well, I think I can find it somewhere here.

I found it.

Please take it to the lab.

Yes.

What is it?

I found it at the scene of the crime yesterday.

I left it in my pocket. I forgot about taking it to the lab.

I see.

Gee!

This button is for a man's coat, isn't it?

What?

I have a similar coat I bought at Citymart.

I don't want to hear your opinion.

Take it to the lab now.

Yes.

This is an enlarged photo of the fingernail of the F18.

What is the F18?

It's an "F" as of Female.

And her body was the 18th unidentified one this year.

I see.

A fingerprint other than hers was found from F18's fingernail.

It would be the suspect's?

I don't know, but...

it was probably made after the assumed time of the victim's death.

We are ready now.

Can we start the fingerprint collation?

- Please. - Yes.

I've got a match.

Let's look at it.

This is the guy.

Huh?

What the hell is this?

Does this have the records of all the internal personnel, too?

Yes, just in case.

Yoshioka, have you touched the body without wearing the gloves again?

Oh, well. We understand.

Thank you very much for your time.

Not at all.

Who the hell

are you?

What the hell am I doing?

Ah... over there.

It's a new empty lot.

Yeah.

What was built there before, remember?

Well... What was it?

Was it a condominium?

I don't remember.

It's a lot of work. You know, building and tearing down...

If an earthquake like the other day occurred a few more times in a row...

all the area around here might move back to sea again, don't you think?

I think so, too.

Actually, everybody might be hoping so, too.

When I was commuting from Kawasaki to the Ariake Police Station by the ferry...

The ferry? It's was fifteen years ago.

Yeah.

There was a wharf I could see from the ferry deck every day.

I have no idea where it is now.

Of course. It's been fifteen years.

They continued reclaiming more land from the sea...

and they would make it into a futuristic city...

that everybody was hoping for at that time, but...

I see. The plan fell through, right?

Things did not turn out the way we expected.

It's disappointing. The future is nothing special.

Are you insecure?

Hmm?

What are you insecure about?

I may not able to come back for a while.

Is that so?

It maybe for a week or two weeks...

I see.

I'll call you if I can come.

Yeah.

See you then.

All right.

Dr. Sakuma.

Please be ready for an operation.

I see. I'll be right there.

Please.

Doctor, we've received the anaesthetic sedatives that we ordered.

Bring them over here.

Yes.

If you make an error in dosage, the symptoms of a muscle relaxant will present.

Please be careful.

All right.

Dr. Sakuma!

There is a visitor waiting outside.

Have him wait.

I think it's your son.

It's rare for you to visit me at my workplace.

What is it?

Just...

I'm tied up right now. Can you wait at the cafeteria?

Well, can you get some syringes that are left over?

What?

My upperclassman asked me, "If he is a doctor, it must be easy to get it."

What for?

I have no idea.

How many do you need?

About a hundred.

What are you talking about?

You're going to throw them away, aren't you?

It is illegal to give that kind of syringe to the general public.

I owe that upperclassman some money.

No.

I see. That's okay then.

How much do you owe him?

It's $4,500.

That much?

Can you do something about it?

Give me some time, will you?

I need it now.

I'll talk with your mother about it when I get home.

If you talk with her, can you manage to give me money?

Not really.

I'm not going to ask you anymore then.

What are you doing?

Ouch!

Goddamn you!

What the fu...!

Goddamn you!

Thank you for your help.

Please contact Miyaji at the Ariake Police Station.

The M. O. Is the same as that of the F18.

There is a strong possibility it's a serial killer.

Yes, I understand.

- Will it be the same suspect? - Yeah.

- A serial killer? - Yeah.

There is a possibility that the information was leaking

over the Internet so that the same M.O. Was used for this.

- We've identified the victim. - Yeah.

Yusuke Sakuma, 17, sophomore at Meiwa High school.

He is a son of a doctor.

How did you identify him?

We've found the student ID card in his jacket.

It's sloppy.

The suspect seems like a completely different person

from the one in the previous case.

Please call them in.

I'd like to confirm the victim's identity with his family.

His mother is too mentally deranged to come.

How about his father?

He's a doctor, isn't he?

Yes, but he hasn't showed up at work today.

They're panicking at the hospital.

They can't get in touch with him.

Oh, Sakurai.

The name of the important witness is Shoichi Sakuma... 48 years old.

He is a surgeon at Koutou Daiichi Hospital.

Be prepared for putting him as a serial killer on the wanted list.

A serial killer... huh?

What?

If you have something you want to say, just spit it out!

Nothing.

Excuse me, Mr. Yoshioka.

Yes.

Regarding the F18...

Have you found her identity?

Not yet. However, abrasions on her wrists indicate that she'd been tied up.

Oh, yeah?

I've found a yellow paint stuck to them.

I see.

In other words the victim might've been tied with yellow cords or something.

What do you think the yellow cords are?

Well, I don't know. They're examining it at the lab.

Can you think of anything?

No.

Don't get close!

I'll jump off if you get closer.

You must be Shoichi Sakuma.

Don't!

What are you trying to do?

How come you stole my stuff?

They've got my fingerprints.

Goddamn you.

I'm in deep trouble because of you.

Are you serious or joking?

Which is it?

Why are you targeting me, huh?

Why me?

If you have a grudge against the police,

there are plenty of arrogant assholes there!

Target them!

We've taken Shoichi Sakuma, the important witness, into custody.

We had some resistance during the execution of his duties.

The important witness suffered minor wounds, but it won't be any problems.

All right, thank you very much.

You lost your temper, didn't you?

You'll have to take the blame if the suspect has any broken bones.

However, it's well done, I would say.

I wonder how you were able to locate the suspect only by your intuition.

Miyaji, I'll be in charge of questioning Sakuma, all right?

Yeah.

Don't pass it to others.

All right.

Mr. Sakuma...

You murdered your own son, Yusuke.

Any objections to this?

No.

What was your motivation?

My motivation was...

To sum up...

That child was beyond his parents' control.

I see.

Yusuke used to be a good son until junior high school.

But...

Soon after he was admitted to high school...

Suddenly he was beyond our control.

I don't know what motivated him.

Probably

I failed to bring him up properly.

Even so, no need to kill him, don't you think?

Yes.

I couldn't think of any way to bring him back where he was before.

Where he was before?

What do you mean by that?

I would cancel out my responsibility I owe my son.

That's impossible.

I know.

I should've killed myself too.

Unfortunately, you couldn't kill yourself.

Now you are about to be punished by a court of law

for the murder of your son.

Yes.

It's painful, isn't it?

Yes.

If you were dead, you would not have felt that pain.

That's a good thing about being alive, right?

Mr. Sakuma, why did you use that M. O?

Well.

About the way you killed your son.

What about it?

Why did you take him to the reclaimed land and have him drink salt water.

Why?

What about it?

Don't say what about it.

You've used the same M.O. Before, haven't you?

You've murdered a woman before, haven't you?

You made her drink salt water, too.

One is your own son and the other is an unrelated woman.

But you've used the same M.O. It's strange, isn't it?

Detective...

Yes?

Who is that person?

Who?

That person in the corner.

Mr. Sakuma...

I'm asking you about the woman you murdered first.

It's Yusuke, huh?

Excuse me for a moment.

Forgive me, Yusuke.

Forgive me, Yusuke. Don't!

Stop it!

Don't get closer.

Do you think you'll be cleared of suspicion for a series of murders

by acting like this?

Don't get close.

- Get a photo. - What?

Get the photo of F18!

- Right now! - Yes.

Mr. Sakuma, calm down.

Look at these photos.

Look at them!

Who is she?

The woman you murdered. Don't you remember her?

Who is she?

I'm asking the questions, not you.

I don't know her.

You must know her.

Mr. Yoshioka. Don't.

You'll be in trouble!

Who the hell are you?

Who are you? Don't get close.

Don't.

Stop!

Detective, please.

Please help me.

- Ask for psychiatric evaluation. - Yes.

Thanks for your work.

I've submitted a request for Sakuma's psychiatric evaluation.

Well,

I've taken this back from the lab.

The stuff you've recovered from the scene of crime.

This kind of cords were often used for

electric wiring in the old apartment buildings.

Yeah?

There are only a few apartments remaining around here

where they still use this kind of cord.

Really.

Your apartment is one of those, I believe.

It's true. So what?

It would be better not to submit this to the lab.

Things may get complicated.

Are you suspicious of me?

That's not true.

I don't believe you.

You suspect me, don't you?

Because of my fingerprint the other day.

Not at all.

If I were the murderer, why would I take this evidence to the lab?

I know that.

Nobody suspects you.

Don't worry about it.

No worry?

What are you talking about?

What did I do?

I'm just doing my job, all right?

Something is wrong with you!

Probably.

Sorry about that.

I wanted to avoid causing any trouble. That's it.

By the way, Yoshioka.

Why don't you try counseling once?

Counseling?

Everybody is doing it.

Everybody's under stress.

Actually I took one the other day.

They just listen to your complaints.

It will make you feel better.

I don't need it.

Who are you?

Who the hell are you?

It's me.

I don't know you.

- It's me. - I don't know you.

Why

didn't you stay with me?

You and I are

destined to meet up someday for sure.

I always thought so.

I don't know you.

I really don't know you!

I'm delighted to see you

again.

While you are on duty

is there anything that makes you feel uneasy or depressed?

Nothing.

How about the relationship with your superiors or

stress from performing your duty?

Nothing.

How is your health?

In a normal state, I think.

How is your private life?

Normal.

Are you still single?

Yes.

How about marriage?

No idea.

Are you proud of your own occupation?

What?

As a legal gatekeeper?

I feel the responsibility.

I see.

There's nothing wrong in particular.

You're slightly stressed out.

Thank you for coming.

- Thank you very much. - You're welcome.

He's been sedated.

He had a panic attack during our session.

What happened to him?

He is a young police officer at the traffic department.

He's been distressed every night

by a ghost.

What?

By a ghost.

He said so.

Since he cleaned up the scenes of a horrible car accident

the victims who were killed have appeared in his dreams.

That ghost opens the mouth and tries to talk to him,

but you can't hear the voice.

Are all the ghosts like that?

I don't know.

But the ghost who appeared in his dream

is probably talking truthfully.

The voice of the truth?

Did he make some mistake

at the scene of the accident?

He's riddled with doubt.

Let's say, through the voice of the dead

he is blamed; they say, "You were wrong."

Really.

You have to get used to it.

To the ghost?

Oh, no.

To the voice of the truth.

Your duty is to investigate the crime and let the laws take care of the rest.

That's the truth to you.

Nothing else. Right?

Yes.

Well...

Is it possible for the voice of the truth

to talk to a wrong person?

What?

In short,

for the ghost make a mistake to appear to the wrong person?

The truth is never wrong.

Of course, no?

I understand.

I must be leaving now.

Sorry. Did you wait?

Not really.

I couldn't finish my work on time.

Do you want to get a cup of tea?

You can talk to me here.

I don't have much time.

I see.

What do you want to talk to me about?

Well...

Harue,

would you like to go somewhere with me?

What?

A life for the two of us... somewhere far away...

I'm kidding.

I'm too selfish. And too late now, isn't it?

Do you want to get away from Tokyo?

I don't know why.

It's too sudden, but...

I understand.

How about traveling?

It's not good enough just to go traveling?

Go traveling?

Noboru...

Why don't you take a vacation and go by yourself?

For a week or two weeks

Go somewhere faraway.

It may be good to go overseas.

I'll wait for you here.

Tell me all about

your travel.

You're the detective on that case, aren't you?

Yeah.

It's awful around here.

They're not building nor tearing down.

We see things very clearly from our views in the back.

Do you want to get on board?

You may able to see some unpleasant scenes you don't want to remember.

Always...

I am...

close to you...

forever...

always...

Listen to me.

I don't know you.

I'm a total stranger to you.

Take a closer look at my face.

What did I do to you?

You killed me.

I didn't kill you.

You drowned me in a puddle of sea water.

I didn't do it!

Stop it!

It was a long darkness.

I couldn't step outside for a moment.

I felt so Ionely for so long.

Since then, all my senses,

memories,

and emotions as a human

disappeared one by one

and only despair was left at the end.

I don't get it.

What do you want?

What

have I done

a long time ago?

What

have I done

lately?

Such a thing doesn't matter.

It has nothing to do with our relationship.

Isn't that right?

What happened in the past is all illusion.

It only confuses you.

Please take care of this.

President, we've received this.

Thank you.

Ms. Yabe, excuse me for a moment.

Yes.

Miyuki.

I'm leaving my wife.

I've already decided.

I see.

She won't complain as long as I give her money.

It's settled.

Sorry to make you wait for so long.

But everything will be fine.

How about tonight?

I have some overtime work.

I'll wait here until you're done.

Excuse me now.

Wait.

I'm still working.

I've already found the condo for us.

Let's move in together there next month.

I put in the flooring you like.

It's the white tiles.

Let's go see furniture on the next holiday.

And...

I'd like to have three children.

It's up to you if they're girls or boys.

Yes.

Please come with me without any worries.

The victim is Seiji Onoda, 37.

The President of Onoda Trading Company.

The crime took place presumably at about eight at night.

The M.O. Looks almost exactly like the previous case.

Exactly. Sea water was used.

Tell the headquarters about that.

Hey, did you get hold of Yoshioka?

No, his cell phone was turned off.

What the hell is he doing?

The route for the coastal ferries fifteen years ago?

Yes.

Well, I think it's probably around this area.

A black building used to exist somewhere by this route.

I don't know if I can find it.

It might be better to look at a much older map, do you think?

Let me think.

Is this map before the war?

Yes.

What is this building by the bay?

This must be a sanitarium.

It's a hospital... for the brains.

I see.

They closed down soon after the war ended.

But all the inmates didn't want to leave that place.

They continued living there.

I see.

I remember one strange rumor.

At that sanitarium

they used to give corporal punishment to those who broke the rules.

Corporal punishment?

Yes.

They pressed the heads into the washbowls of sea water until they got suffocated.

What sort of punishment is it?

I don't know... it's only a rumor.

Yoshioka?

What are you doing here?

The coastal ferries?

What about them?

Something was disturbing me a bit.

What?

Why didn't you answer the phone?

Also...

Where were you last night?

What?

There was another murder, using the same M.O.

Is that so?

Where were you at eight last night?

I was wandering about nearby.

Can you prove it?

I'm a suspect, huh?

Whatever you like.

Hey, wait!

Hello, Mr. Yoshioka.

I didn't know that you're in the station.

So what?

Well...

I have two things to report.

First, I've got new information by an eyewitness...

...about the suspect for the murder last night.

Go on!

Yes.

Right after eight o'clock last night, a housewife in the neighborhood witnessed

someone running out of Onoda Trading Company building.

It was a woman.

She must be Miyuki Yabe, who is in charge of accounting for Onoda Company.

Hey, what do you think?

That woman may be the one who did it.

Yeah... what's the second one?

Yes.

The F18 was identified.

They've requested that Hachiouji Police Station to search for a missing woman this morning.

Her parents checked the photo of F18 and identified it as her daughter.

Reiko Shibata... 28 years old...

I don't know that woman.

Yoshioka, I'm sorry.

I suspected you back there.

It was reflexive.

Forgive me.

Reiko hadn't contacted us for three months.

I felt something could be wrong.

Did your daughter go to the coastal area often?

We have no idea.

She was a wild girl.

She didn't want full-time work.

She was living freely with a part-time job.

Occasionally, she said she was going traveling

or she was going to live off her friend.

She sometimes didn't come home for several weeks.

But...

We were the ones who brought her up that way.

We always told her to be independent,

and to do whatever she liked.

We regret what we said.

It's too late now.

Excuse me.

Who is it?

He was a year ahead of my daughter when they were at high school.

I'm sorry.

Well... actually...

Reiko got engaged to him once a long time ago.

Ultimately,

she broke off the engagement at our request.

But he...

was seeing her on and off.

Occasionally, he comes to bother us for money.

And he gets his way.

What a shame.

Excuse me for a moment.

Well, they're detectives... came here for Reiko...

Hope you don't mind.

Mrs. Shibata, what's his name?

Shinya Ichikawa.

Miyaji! Call backup, please!

All right!

You're Shinya Ichikawa, aren't you?

Right?

We'll bring you in the police station as an important eyewitness

for the murder of Reiko Shibata.

Ichikawa confessed now.

We also found hair of F18,

probably Reiko Shibata's, in his truck.

Once we get his DNA analysis, we can send the case to the prosecutor's office.

He'll probably be found guilty.

One more thing.

They found a coat in Ichikawa's apartment that was missing a button.

That is the one you found the other day.

It matched with that same button of the coat.

He bought that coat at Citymart.

I see.

We also found this underneath the seat in his truck.

We won't need to take this to DNA analysis then.

Aren't you satisfied yet?

Ichikawa, your murderer, is now at the detention center.

Also, your ashes were returned to your parents.

Isn't that enough?

You have no reason to stay here any longer.

If you still have a grudge, go talk to Ichikawa!

What else do you want me to do?

Don't tell me

you are

not Reiko Shibata.

Aren't you?

If you're not Reiko Shibata,

who are

you?

A long time ago

you saw me

and I saw you, too.

However,

everybody deserted me.

Are you that woman?

You must've seen me.

You must've known that.

What did you want me to do?

You must've had something you could do.

Like what?

Did you know what happened to me after then?

No.

I was there for many years.

I kept waiting.

Everyone forgot about me

and I died.

As you suspected, it turned out that Sakuma and Ichikawa

used to use the same ferry route.

I see.

They are also looking into Miyuki Yabe, who is still at large.

Really.

What the hell is happening?

Well...

You know something, don't you?

Tell me.

Don't give yourself airs.

I haven't the slightest clue.

Sorry about that.

I have no idea, either.

Harue, listen.

I don't know what's happening to me.

Let's leave here.

Yeah, traveling.

No.

We won't come back anymore.

You don't have to worry about my work.

Yeah, far away.

It may be overseas.

Yeah.

Harue...

Please.

Don't ask me anything.

Who are you?

You must be Miyuki Yabe, right?

Detective...

Let me ask you one thing.

Did you see the woman in red, too?

Stop it.

I saw her, too.

What did you do after you saw her?

Recall it.

I saw her in the mirror.

And?

When I noticed her in the mirror,

it seems like she noticed me, too.

And then, what happened?

Her emotions started flowing into me.

Nobody notices me.

I'll be forgotten in this world.

People who are in front of me

won't see me at all.

Onoda was one of those people.

All the plans in the future he was talking about are...

only for himself.

I wasn't there.

Suddenly, I wanted to call everything off.

That's why I killed him.

Go away!

Now!

I have no idea.

What does the woman in your dream signify?

Probably, the memories you had fifteen years ago

might have something to do with this.

She told me that everybody abandoned her.

What does it mean?

Maybe it surpassed some boundary.

Suppose...

there is someone else who saw her in their dreams besides you.

One more person, two more... and the number keeps growing.

That's impossible. What am I talking about?

That's it.

You don't have to come here anymore.

Solve the rest on your own.

Thank you very much.

Go!

What?

Harue.

I'm sorry.

Please go now.

I'll catch up with you later

after I take care of this business.

Am I leaving alone?

That's right.

I promise I'll catch up with you.

Can I get on board?

Sure. Where are you going?

Oh, that.

That's been around for a long time.

Can you pull over there?

Yeah, sure.

You finally came for me.

I'll forgive

only you.

Harue.

Did I do this?

It doesn't matter now.

Now I remember.

Six months ago

I did... you...

It's over now.

It cannot be helped.

Don't you have a grudge against me?

No.

Why not?

There is no use having a grudge against you.

You have your own future.

Please forget about me.

Harue.

Hate me.

Just like that woman did. Hate me.

I wish you hadn't remembered.

I had to.

I could not pretend

to be blind anymore.

I threw away my past.

That's a heavy responsibility.

Please don't.

Do you also forgive me?

How come

only me?

I have to go now.

What?

I'm leaving.

Wait!

Wait, Harue.

I need you after all.

Let's start all over again.

Forget about all in the past.

Let's just think about our future from now.

Harue, you think so too, right?

I know how to forget.

It's easy.

Let me try life with you one more time, please.

Harue!

Where are you?

Harue.

One more time, Harue.

Once again.

I'm dead.

Please, I wish everybody would die, too.

I'm dead.

Please, I wish everybody would die, too.

I'm dead.

Please, I wish everybody would die, too.

I'm dead.

Noboru Yoshioka KOJI YAKUSHO

Harue Nimura MANAMI KONISHI

Toru Miyaji TSUYOSHI IHARA

Young Detective Sakurai HIRO YUKI HIRABAYASHI

Shoichi Sakuma IKUJI NAKAMURA

Man on a Workboat RYO KASE

Miyuki Yabe KAORU OKUNUKI

Seiji Onoda HIRONOBU NOMURA

Psychiatrist Dr. Takagi JO ODAGIRI

Woman in Red RIONA HAZUKI

Executive Producers KAZUYA HAMANA, YASUSHI KOTANI RYUHEl CHIBA

Producer TAKASHIGE ICHISE

Music Composed by KUNIAKI HAISHIMA

Director of Photography AKIKO ASHIZAWA

Casting by MASASHI YAMAGUCHI

Production OZ

Written and Directed by KIYOSHI KUROSAWA