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Kurozu-cho, town of my birlh. Let me tell you the story...

of a strangeness that happened here.

U*ZU*MA*K| [ spiral]

Oh no... I'll lose again.

Chapter 1 : Premonition

Yamaguchi!

Surprised?

Right?

Of oourse!

It’s just something I do.

It is, huh? How nice for you.

Wh-What do you want?

Goshima... be my gir1friend.

What?!

OK, OK...

You win; I'm surprised. But I'm in a hurry. Bye.

Goshima! |_'m serious! I really like you!

Is that Shuichi's dad?

Hello.

You're here.

Guess I win today.

Hey!

Two on a bike's illegal, you dumb kids.

Wanted: lto Junji

Beauty Salon "Marble"

Hello!

Back from school?

It’s all tidied up inside.

Thanks so much.

Huh?

The sign's gone.

Oh, dear... You're right!

I don't get why we need tests.

It's okay for someone smart like you, Shuichi...

Me, I could keep up in middle school pretty easy...

Not now in high school, though.

Especially math. I can't get it.

Makes me dizzy.

So...

Yeah? ...What.

I saw your dad on the street a While ago.

He was filming this snail shell...

But...maybe...it wasn't him.

It was dark.

ltwas him.

He's weird lately.

Is he?

Kinda, yeah.

You don't look well these days either...

Too much studying, maybe?

I think you can relax a bit...

You'll get into a good university. Your grades are great, and—

...Kirie.

Will you elope with me?

What? Elope?

No, you can't, can you.

Right out of the blue? There's a time for everything...

Sorry. Forget I said it.

Let’s go.

Shuichi...

"480 yen, please.

Here you go.

"200,000 yen change.

That’s right, I hear yourfather took top prize.

Yes, he did.

That’s great.

So now he's "Goshima-sensei," eh?

No, please don't call him that.

Oh, rig ht.

It’s still a special day, so...

Are you sure?

Of course! To celebrate.

Oh, wow... Thanks!

You get better and better, Mr. Goshima.

You won the Midoriyama Exhibition prize, didn't you?

Oh, that?...that was just luck.

No, no...

Pottery is the truest of the arts.

The one with the true uzumaki.

The uzumaki as art? | see.

|dosee...!

Uzumakr! Sometimes it makes me dizzy, I must admrt.

Marvelous.

_ Well, Mr. Goshima? Will you create me a piece?

A platter that will really make my eyes sprn.

Make me one in an uzumaki pattern.

So, a platter with an uzumakr pattern.

Yes.

Aspiral.

One that goes round and round and round.

Round and round and round.

Yes.

All right.

I'll do it.

Excellent.

You know, Mr. Goshima...

when | see the uzumakil feel...

a sense...

of deepest mystery.

You feel deepest mystery.

I knew you'd understand, Mr. Goshima.

The uzumaki is sublime.

It is, in itself, the greatest work of art.

And you are the great artist...

bringing it forth!

Yum.

And here's dessert.

Fancy today, aren't we.

It's from the greengrocer, to celebrate.

Well, then!

Another blessing from your o-mamorr' charm, Kirie.

Take some credit, Dad.

Shuichi's father_even said so. Gotta keep It up, now.

Guess so.

Here goes...

Hey-y-y, hovr/d you knovrfl Were you listening?

Oh, that's a good melon.

Is it?

You're right! That is good.

Isn't it?

Delicious.

Kirie

lwas such a klutz, but you were always there.

Even when my mother died...

Don't cry, Kirie.

Don't cry.

I'll be your mother for you.

I don't want a boy for a mother!

...Kirie. Will you elope with me?

Elope, huh?

Not quite yet...

dear Shuichi.

Morning.

Morning.

Shuichi's trying for a Tokyo university, isn't he.

And what’s it to you...?

I guess so, yeah.

You "guess"? You mean you haven't talked about it?

What kind've answer‘s that?! You're going out, aren't you?

We're not "going out," exactly.

Now see? That’s where you—

Surprised?

Yamaguchi!

You're wasting your time.

Kirie has a boyfriend.

Shiho!

I know. Saito Shuichi. Forget him, he's a drag.

If l can score a hottie like you, ll! make everyone jealous.

You're the drag. Come on, Kirie.

Hey, wait!

Don't follow us!

Goshima!

That's some stalker you got.

He ambushed me yesterday, too.

He what?!

Better be careful. You're not the first one he's bothered.

For real?

When you see him...

What’s that.

"Skirt" around him.

Three points.

Three-and-a-half.

Three.

Miyazaki!

I liked him, too...

You all right, Kirie?

Yeah. Thanks.

I'm fine now.

What a nastything to see.

They said he was doing acrobatics on the handrail.

What an idiot.

But didn't he look like he had a smile on his face?

Would you smile?

Sekino...

It doesn't matter how, so long as you're notioed, yes?

If you're not noticed, it's like you're not alive.

I love it when people look at me.

Wouldn't you two agree?

I don't really like sticking out...

The guy's dead, okaY?!

'Cause it's the only way he'd be noticed.

I, too, want to be noticed... especially now.

I want to be seen... in the truest possible way.

It was a spiral staircase, wasn't rt.

Hovr/d you knovrfl

The uzumaki.

The "uzuma" what?

What’s the uzumaki.

The spiral-pattern draws the eye.

Whoever drew it, wanted to draw other eyes, too.

The uzumaki drew the dead guy into it.

No way.

it was just an accident.

|'ve_started having a bad feeling about this place...

| get dizzy just coming home through that tunnel.

This town's cursed by the uzumaki.

I don't feel anything...

My dad went to your place yesterday, didn't he.

Huh? Yeah...

He wanted a dish with an uzumaki pattern.

He called my dad a great artist--

...You see? Uzumaki.

But that’s silly. _ Lots of people like uzumakl patt--

You don't know what you're talking about!

I'm so "Y

My dad's over the edge.

He's stopped going to work. He just walks around...

bringing home anything he finds with uzumaki.

The house is full of stuff. if you call, he won't answer.

He just sits there, staring.

Just last night...

Dad's sick, you know.

And you can't take much more.

He needs help.

Beauty Salon "Marble"

Here.

It's been a long day.

Hey...

More spiral fishcake.

That was the last of it.

What? No more?

I'm so "Y

Don't apologize.

And I'm supposed to eat miso soup Without it?!

That calmed him down a bit.

It's not funny.

But...

Come to my house.

You'll see.

Dumb kids!!

You've no idea what you've done. I can't allow it.

Please, stop...

Dad! What’s wrong with you?!

My collection...she threw it out!

I threw it out.

You're better off without it.

What?!

What would you knovW!

You weren't always like this...

If only you could see--

Ah, well.

If it's gone, it's gone.

The collection's not important. The idea's enough.

Finally, I've realized that.

One makes one's own uzumaki.

You listen, and listen good:

One brings forth one's own uzumaki.

Like this, for example.

Chapter 2: Erosion

What’s wrong? You seem down.

Haven't seen Shuichi, huh?

Did you fight?

Another girl?

You got dumped?

Then what’s wrong?!

lshikawa!

Yes, sir...

Do you want to fail again?

Katayama! What time do you think it is?!

S-Sorry...

l-l don' know what... I left at the usual time, but—

I know.

its 'cause he's so slow. A snail goes faster.

Tsumura...

"Snail, snail; you leave a trail..."

Oyama!

Shut up with that stupid song!

Katayama...

it's true you only come to_schoo| these days when it rains.

You come to the office later.

Y-Yessir.

Yeah, in two years.

We'll be graduated then.

Just sit down, will you?

I hate to agree with Tsuyama, but he really is slow, isn't he.

lshikawa!

Yes, sir.

I didn't say you could sit down.

You slimy fuck...

I can't even look at you, fat boy.

You're pissin' me off.

Like lwanna hurl.

Hey.

Hey!

Hey! Cut that out!

Oyama! Stop it!

Tsumura!

All of you! Sit down!

Don't worry. We'll find someone.

Surprised?

Move.

Open it.

Don't want to.

Won't you even look inside? You can at least open it.

Did you like that?

Go away!

Why don't you like me?!

You're just not my type. Now leave me alone.

Goshima... lwon'tgive up, you know.

I'll make you like me.

I'm home. Sorry it’s late.

Welcome back.

I'll get supper.

Kirie...

Would you mind bringing this dish over to Shuichi's father?

Wha-a-t?

What, "wha-a-t."

if he doesn't like it, tell him I'll do another.

Hello?

Shuichi...?

Hey!

Shuichi, you there?

Shuichi?

Shuichi...?

Hey, I said.

Where are you?

Shuichi?

Shuichi...?

That’s Kirie!

Kirie.

What’s wrong?

Kirie, what's the matter?

Uzumaki.

Did you hear how he died?

Heart attack, wasn't it?

No, suicide...!

Though they haven't said that to the relatives.

Come to think of it, the coffin was closed.

Wonder what he looked like...?

l'm counting on you.

Are you OK? You look pale.

What about you?

I had a feeling something like this would happen.

it's my mother who worries me.

I haven't told her yet, but when this is over...

Mrs. Saito! What’s wrong?

What’s that?

No more! Please! Stop it!

Mom! What’s wrong?

Shuichi!

Mom! Calm down!

Shuichi... There, up there! it's your father!

Mom! Mom!

Call an ambulance!

Mom!

Dragonfly Pond...

Be brave.

Kirie...

Let's get out of this town before it's too late.

What?

ltold you...

This town's cursed by the uzumaki.

We've got to get out.

What about your mother? She'll need a few more days.

Are you Saito Shuichi?

Tamura lchiro, Reporter

My sympathies.

You knew my father?

Actually, a few weeks ago he came to our office.

He said he was interested in town history.

We showed him what we had.

Was he acting strange?

May |?

Well...

He kept going on about uzumaki.

The police told me how your father died.

What I want to know is, why did he die like that?

It's not for an article.

| just want to know why.

I keep thinking his death has some deeper significance.

Plus there was that smoke at the crematorium...

Will you trust me?

Hello. ..?

Hey, isn't that--?

My dad taped it.

He was taping when he died, too.

Hello. ..?

Let’s see it again.

A mirror?

My mom's mirror.

But why take in a mirror?

Not to mention--

Can I hang onto the video? I'll call soon as | find something.

So you and Shuichi spend a lot of time together?

Yes... We've been friends since we were little.

Ah, childhood friends, eh?

The best kind to be.

It's just...

He's always been there for me.

He's always cheered me up when I've been down.

Now, though...

Now it’s he who needs me.

I've no idea what to do.

What is there to do...

for poor Shuichi?

There's nothing.

At a time like this, there's nothing anyone can do.

He'll have to find his own way through.

Still... Call it reporter‘s instinct...

but I have the feeling just having you around's a big oomfortto him.

"Comfort"...?

Sure.

So be confident, and do your best.

You've gotta be strong.

...OK.

I'll need directions to your house.

Right at the next oorner.

Next oorner, turn right.

What th'--!?

Dad!

You all right??

I'm fine.

But you're covered in mud!

I went for clay at Dragonfly Pond.

Dad...

Dad!

You'll catch cold.

Go away! Go back to bed.

But...

Get your ass back in bed!

Next.

You study for the biology test, Kirie?

What?

You didn't forget??

You're the girl from another planet lately. You really OK?

Whoa, whoa, whoa... Check that.

Was her hair like that earlier? I don't remember.

Dude, yo, slow down. Or you're gonna puke it up later.

Mirror

Serpent

Ka mi, "mirror." Ka mi, "se ent." Sgrane reading, diffegeant charargters.

Mirror

Serpent

Mirror

Worship the Serpent

Serpent Cult

Eternal Life

"Ancient Minors Retrieved from Dragonfly Pond"

_ Foryourmom. _ She likes sweet things, right?

Thanks.

Oh, sorry. lt'sjust my mom can't have those.

Sorry.

the greatest work of art. she sees my dad there, dead.

I'm so sorry...

Fingerprints are uzumaki too, so we musn't let her see hands.

Sorry about the weird outfits,

Sorry about the weird outfits, but the staffs being careful, too.

She's obliterated every uzumaki she can find.

"Obliterated"... Hovtfl

You'll see.

Her "spirophobia" is the first thing we have to work on.

Saito Yu kie

Mom.

Why, Kirie...!

Saib Shuichi, Saito Shuichi...

Please come to the nurses'station.

l'm Saito. Someone paged me?

Yes, a Mr. Tamura wants you to call him right away

All right, thank you.

Hello? lt's Saito...

Shuichi?

I've found something important.

Can you meet me at Dragonfly Pond right away.)

Right novW

Yes, all right.

Here's another one.

What are you doing?!

if my mom realizes there's uzumaki in the ear, who knows what she...??

Mr. Tamura seems to have found something.

We may solve the mystery yet.

So you shut me down for a loser like this...?

Kirie, who is he.

It's OK, though.

I've made up my mind.

We're in a hurry—

Shut up!

Goshima, I guarantee that you vvrll never, ever forget me.

Yamaguchi!

Kirie...

Kirie...

We used to play here.

You were such a scaredy-cat.

Once I said there was a big snake here who ate little girls...

and you burst out crying.

I remember.

it made you uncomfortable.

You told me not to worry, 'cause you'd always protect me.

it's so quiet...

It's as if none of it were real.

But if this is all a dream, I hope I wake up soon.

it's not a dream. Real people are really dying.

This town is cursed by the uzumaki.

Kirie?

Shuichi...

I'm scared...

l'll protect you...

Shuichi...

Chapter 3: \fisitation

Saito Yu kie

Yukie...

Yukie...

Why do you hate the spiral so?

All this time, it’s been inside you...

I want to go deep inside your ear...

Let me curl around it and sleep inside you...

Stop it!

The spiral is deep inside you...

deep inside your ear...

The spiral is in your ear...

The spiral...

No! There's that smoke again...

lt spirals like that when they cremate someone...

whether they/re from this town or not.

Say...

Doesn't that look like a faoe...?

Eew! You're right!

You see it, right?

Mom...

...Now for weather

Unsettled weather conditions this season...

have, thus far, prevented typhoon formation.

Final , the first typhoon of the jl'lvear has appeared

is about to make landfall

Strangeness in Kurozu-cho!?

Hello. I'm Maruyama Chie.

As a large typhoon nears Kurozu-cho...

a bizarre series of incidents has taken place.

First, giant snails have appeared...

reportedly as large as a human being.

Giant Snails Invade Local High School!!

Hang on, waita sec...

They-y-y're so cu-u-ute...

There's this guY? In our class? Called [BLEEP]?

So he gets this uzumaki? On his back?

And he only comes _to scth on rainy days, right?

It's like this totally cute pattern, tho'.

Justthinking about it, |... Ohmigod!!

That asshole? Yeah, that’s [BLEEP]. He starts chugging tons of water...

then he starts gettin' real slow.

My dad, he says he saw these "human snails" outside town.

These huge snails were, apparently, onoe human.

Although the creatures' whereabouts are currently unknown...

these two so-called human snails were last seen |eavrng town...

for the hills outside it, where a search is now underway.

But the strange events in Kurozu-cho don't end there...!

In common: a strange spiral pattern that—

This town's doomed. We gotta get out of here.

I'll get my father.

Kirie...

I'll come with you.

How much further?

How much further? The tunnel.

Good. Here's hoping the next story won't be so weird.

I can't see the other end...

"l-l-l found a sp-i-i-ral... "

Huh?

He was right here...

Maybe he's atthe kiln.

Dad?

Where can he be?

Dad...

Shuichi! What’s wrong?

Kirie...

it's got me.

Stay back!

Get away from here. it's too late for me now.

No!

No.

You said we'd both go.

Kirie...

I'm sorry.

l... I didn't protectyou...

You can do it, we...

Kirie... l...

Shuichi?

Shuichi...?

No!

You promised me!

You said that you'd always...

be here to care for me.

Don't die on me!

Don't die.

Come into the spiral...

Come into the uzumaki.

Kirie...

Come into the uzumaki.

Kurozu-cho, town of my birth. Let me tell you the story...

Goshima Kirie HATSUNE ERIKO

Saito Shuichi FHI FAN

Sekino Kyoko SAEKI HINAKOI

Maruyama Chie SHIN EUN KYUNG

Saito Yukie TAKAHASHI KEIKO

Saito Toshio OSUGI REN

Executive Producers YOKOHAMA Toyoyuki

Producer MIYAKE Sumiji

Based on the Manga "Uzumaki" by ITO Junji

Screenplay NITTA Takao

Director of Photography KOBAYASHI Gen

Art Director HAYASHIDA Hiroshi

Music KASHIBUCHI Tetsuro

Planning MIYAZAKI Dai

Directed by HIGUCHINSKY

Subtities for Viz Films T. LEDOUX