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EDOGAWA RAMPO ZENSHU KYOU KIKEI NINGEN

COLLECTED TALES O EDOGAWA RAMPO: HORRORS O MALORMED MEN

PRODUCERS SHIGERU OKADA, KANJI AMAO

STORY EDOGAWA RAMPO

SCREENPLAY TERUO ISHII, MASAHIRO KAKEUDA

DIRECTOR O PHOTOGRAPHY SHIGERU AKATSUKA

PRODUCTION DESIGN AKIRA YOSHIMURA

MUSIC MASAO YAGI

EDITING TADAO KANDA

COOPERATION KINOSHITA CIRCUS

STARRING

TERUO YOSHIDA

YUKIE KAGAWA, TERUKO YUMI, MITSUKO AOI

MICHIKO KOBATA, YUMIKO KATAYAMA

KATSURA KIYAMA, REIKO MIKASA, MIKI OBANA

HIDEO KO, AKIRA OIZUMI, TORU YURI, KICHIJIRO UEDA

TATSUMI HIJIKATA ANKOKU BUTOH SCHOOL

TATSUMI HIJIKATA, ASAO KOIKE

MINORU OHKI

DIRECTED BY TERUO ISHII

This story begins inside a gray room--

an unusual gray room.

The autumn of the thirteenth year of the Taisho era ( 1 825).

Hey, knock it off.

I Iook away for a second and you bring in men.

You strung out pigs.

Take this! Take this!

Shut up!

I said be quiet!

Stop it!

You! Damn you!

Hey, I said be quiet!

Are you satisfied now?

Back to your ceII.

Hirosuke Hitomi.

The next time I find you in the women's ceII,

you're finished.

Attention!

I am Army GeneraI Ashihara!

What is that attitude? SaIute!

SaIute!

DarIing, hoId me.

Let me show you.

You said you Iove me.

Wait. Wait.

Why are you running away?

You stupid, crueI man.

You can run, but I won't Iet go.

Hurry aIong.

Don't you know your own ceII?

I thought you had improved and I Iet you waIk around...

and Iook what happens.

You're not stepping out for a whiIe.

You don't understand anything I'm saying.

l am not insane.

l was studying to be a doctor.

Have l really gone insane?

l can hear it.

l can hear it again.

That lullaby.

l've heard it before.

Over and over.

l hear waves.

l remember. Waves were hitting these cliffs.

lt was a dark ocean.

l was watching the cliffs and the raging waves.

Then l saw it.

Was it human, or an animal? What was it?

Then there was the dark, shadowy storage room.

l remember being inside it with another person.

Sleep, little baby...

The sound of creaking stairs.

- And that lullaby. - Sleep, little baby...

And that strange girl.

Or was it a infant?

No. Was it a girl?

That beautiful girl's face would suddenly change to the face of an ugly man.

That ugly face.

That two-faced maiden.

That lullaby.

ls this a hallucination? ls this the cause?

Am l truly insane?

No.

I'm not crazy.

I'm not crazy!

Let me out.

Open this ceII!

Let me out.

lt's that man again.

He's always staring at me, that bald man.

Who is he?

Hey! Who the heII are you?

Why are you watching me?

Answer me!

Be quiet.

Doctor, I'm sure Hitomi is agitating the crazies again.

No! I'm not crazy.

I'm not!

- I am not insane! - Shut up.

Stop it.

Don't. Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Stop. No. No.

l lost consciousness.

How long has it been, l wonder?

A door quietly creaks open.

The bald man appeared before my eyes.

l killed him.

But why did this bald-headed man come after me?

Sleep, little baby...

The sitter went over the mountains and went back home.

Sleep, little baby...

Sleep, little baby...

Baby is a good boy...

Sleep, sleep...

You.

Where did you Iearn that song?

Why?

- I know it. - You're a rude man, aren't you?

You.

Hey, wait.

Let go.

Hey.

I'm the chiId of a magician.

I'm not kidding. Listen.

How do you know it?

Nobody knows this song in Tokyo.

So this song is from your hometown?

I don't know who taught it to me.

I grew up in a circus.

Was I orphaned?

Maybe I was kidnapped.

If you were kidnapped,

maybe it was a song

your mother sang to you when you were IittIe.

In psychoIogy it's caIIed episodic memory.

Wow, you know some big words.

My name is Hirosuke Hitomi.

I'm studying to be a doctor.

I'm Hatsuyo. I'm on tour.

If my mother sang this song,

Maybe we can Iook into where it's from.

and find out where I came from.

Yes, and where I came from, too.

What? You don't know where you're from?

No.

I onIy have an idea.

Hey, have you ever seen this picture?

Hey!

- Over there. - What is it?

lt's nothing.

I'II draw the picture and bring it tomorrow.

- AII right. - Good-bye.

This is the picture. Have you ever seen it?

This is exactIy it.

Good.

Does it heIp you recaII anything from your past?

I'm not sure.

Try to remember. I'm sure you wiII.

Come to think of it, our producer Tatsuzo heard that tune,

and said it comes from the Japan Sea coastIine.

The Japan Sea coastIine?

So this picture may be an isIand aIong that coast.

So this isIand is my home?

Let's meet Mr. Tatsuzo.

But the circus impresario overheard us and fired him.

ired him?

Yes.

I remember!

That time, Mr. Tatsuzo said, ''On the Japan Sea coast--''

What happened?

Hey!

He has a knife.

Murderer!

''Beautiful Circus Girl Murdered. ''

''Daytime Assault. ''

''Bearded Man Stalked Beautiful Girl. ''

Who framed me as a murderer?

Why? What for?

And who killed that poor girl, Hatsuyo?

The answer lies in some town along this coast.

l will unravel this mystery. l swear it.

Genzaburo, head of the Komoda family

dies of unknown causes.

HEAD O THE KOMODA AMILY DIES O UNKNOWN CAUSES

This wasn't me.

But in this land of riddles was a man identical to me.

The Komoda family is famous in this town.

The man of the house was a strange one.

What do you mean?

Like me, he had bad eyesight.

Oh, bad eyesight.

And Iike a frog, on his hands he had webbed fingers.

He didn't want to be seen Iike that,

so within a year after getting married,

he retreated by himseIf to his isIand.

There. You can see it.

It's that isIand.

He Ieft Hirukawa, their steward, in charge of the main househoId.

PIease Iie down.

Wait.

The wife had a chiId on the isIand.

The chiId came back to the main househoId when he was three.

The wet nurse raised him by herseIf.

I don't condone Ieaving a precious heir

to be raised by a wet nurse!

So it was the son that died?

Yes. Genzaburo.

I received patronage from him.

The reIationship between parent and chiId must've been weak.

I suppose.

I don't know why Jogoro, the father,

invested so much money on that inconvenient isIand.

It's rumored that their fortune is in jeopardy.

Investing in some kind of business?

The story is they're converting the entire isIand

into some kind of fairytaIe isIand.

That deserted isIand...

Deserted isIand?

Sir, you know you have a scar on the soIe of your foot?

The Iate Genzaburo Komoda had the same kind of scar.

Hey, that tickIes.

It's so strange.

What a coincidence.

This same scar as the Komoda family heir,

and an identical face.

l got as much as l could out of the masseuse.

This woman is Chioko, widow of Genzaburo.

That must be Shizuko, a distant relative of the family.

Hirukawa, the steward.

That old woman,

Gindashi, the wet nurse.

And the three women must be the maids.

The most distinguished family of the coastal Sea of Japan.

The funeral procession for the Komoda family heir

extended along a rainy seaside road.

There must be a connection between

the deceased Genzaburo Komoda and myself.

A plan.

As of today, Hirosuke Hitomi disappears from the world

and will exchange places with Genzaburo Komoda's corpse.

The same gammadion symbol as mine.

Herein lies the key to the mystery.

Hey!

Somebody drowned himseIf!

Young Master Komoda.

Master, don't hesitate. PIease go to heaven.

Chiho! Chiho!

- Yes, I'm coming. - Hurry.

You caIIed me?

What can I do?

- I have a stomachache. - Oh, no.

Carry me to the tempIe.

Yes, sir. Go ahead.

Are you ready?

HoId on tight.

- Go. - Yes.

Diarrhea? It's been coId.

I drank too much water.

It smeIIs. It's starting to smeII.

I Ieaked a bit.

I see. We're at the steps.

I'm going to jump.

Stop it.

Chiho! Chiho!

Have mercy.

How dare you disrespect a dead person.

It's cIinging on.

You shouId heIp, too.

It won't Iet go.

WeII, weII, weII.

This is reaIIy strange.

There is a reaI strong puIse.

What are you taIking about, you quack?

I waIked here because it has a puIse.

WaIked here?

If it wasn't for quack doctors Iike you,

haIf the dead peopIe wouId be aIive today.

What do you mean, ''quack''?

What about aII the money you priests make?

orget it.

Anyway, strange things do happen.

A death certificate was issued,

we had a funeraI, and he was taken to the cemetery...

Hey, what are you doing?

We screw around a Iot.

She's my oId girIfriend.

Don't get mad.

I'II give her to you, buIIdog. Here.

What?

- I return her. - You wiII?

- Yes. - ine then.

Then everybody's satisfied.

How about it?

ShaII we prayer-cIap? This is the pIace for it, isn't it?

WeII, then...

- CongratuIations. - CongratuIations.

''Komoda Family Heir, Genzaburo, Miraculously Resurrects. ''

''A Rush to Burial-- No Error in Diagnosis. ''

Genzaburo's resurrection was diagnosed as

the result of temporary asphyxiation.

l spent a couple days feigning to be an emaciated patient.

DarIing, your medicine.

Chioko is a virtuous woman.

l felt l might succumb to her allure.

But that would be dangerous.

She knows his body and all his dispositions.

l waited until Chioko was asleep,

then l thoroughly searched the house.

What are you doing?

I can't sIeep.

I wanted to see your photographs.

It's so nostaIgic.

You cried a Iot at night.

Genzaburo was left-handed.

l almost made a huge mistake.

lt was a splendid wedding.

You married such a beautifuI woman.

I was so happy.

WouId you Iike another heIping, sir?

No. Give me tea.

You must eat more.

But your compIexion has returned.

A person Iike you comes once every

one thousand or ten thousand years.

You shouId resoIve yourseIf to Iiving a Iong Iife.

Bring the paper.

Okei, bring the newspaper.

Yes.

Take this away.

Master, your gIasses.

Dear...

when did your eyes get better?

I wish they had, but they're not any better.

- Bring my gIasses. - Yes.

Go around.

Good.

Now sit.

Good dog.

Hey!

Stop it!

Stop! What are you doing?

He's the master!

Stop!

Back! Back!

What are you doing?

It's okay, it's okay.

Good. Let's go.

l could fool humans,

but the dog knew his master's scent.

Hirukawa, the steward, looked at me with suspicion.

l've made consecutive mistakes.

Dear...

your medicine.

Chioko desires my body,

and l desire her.

This is dangerous.

A few days later, there was a great celebration.

l gave all my attention towards the small talk of the guests.

Being Genzaburo's imposter exhausted me.

- ...a cause for celebration... - ...try this food...

...yes, indeed.

Where are you going?

The toiIet.

- ...young man, incredible... - ...please eat and drink...

You've been coId to me these days.

Chioko is going out tomorrow night.

I'II be waiting.

It's a promise.

That attitude... this is not an ordinary relationship.

Dear...

are you aII right?

You drank too suddenIy.

I'm fine. Go to sIeep.

Dear...

It's as if you're a different person.

You keep trying to avoid me.

Chioko.

That's not true.

Come.

Dear.

I oversIept.

She hasn't noticed.

But how am l to deal with Shizuko's invitation?

Genzaburo!

I wanted to see you so much.

Ever since you recovered,

you've been ignoring me.

I aIways want to be next to you.

TeII me you Iove me Iike you did before.

Say it.

Nothing's changed.

It's the same as before.

I'm happy.

What should l do?

lf l avoid her now, she may suspect me.

Master, Mr. Ozeki of the Nanara ishing Company has come to see you.

Show him in.

Yes.

Your signature pIease.

This may be a trap.

l can't write with my left hand.

What should l do?

Excuse me.

l'll use this.

- I am sorry... - Mr. Ozeki...

This is useIess now.

No.

Oh, weII. It may be more work,

but pIease create another document.

Yes.

Somebody come!

HeIp!

Somebodyl

Help mel

Over there.

Ma'am, there's a snake.

That snake was caIIed a hame mamushi

and couId kiII you with one bite.

They Iive in the mountains.

Why were they here?

Somebody may be trying to kiII Shizuko.

Who Iit the bath-fire?

I did.

Who are you?

He's here to repIace Gensuke, who went back to his famiIy.

He's new. He's name is Shinkichi.

How do you do.

You were tending the bath-fire?

Yes.

Did you see anybody?

No. Nobody.

''Shizuko, you have lured the resurrected Genzaburo

''into an alcove and showered him with kisses,

disrobed and exposed your body... ''

Somebody is watching us.

This Ietter was found here.

Who put it there and when?

I'm scared.

I don't know what to do.

This house is cursed.

We're going to be murdered!

That's not going to happen.

I won't aIIow it.

Promise.

Promise to protect me.

''Chioko, on the night of the great celebration,

''you cried upon the chest of the sleeping Genzaburo,

''and said, 'It's as if you're a different person.

''You keep trying to avoid me.'

''As you spoke with sweet words,

you Iay on top of Genzaburo and put your Iips onto his Iips.''

Somebody is watching us.

Who couId it be...

Who couId it be?

I am sorry.

What a bIunder I caused.

Shizuko won't Ieave her room.

And the madam won't eat at aII.

A Iot of creepy things have been happening.

You can't bIame them.

Maybe I shouId take a vacation.

- Those snakes might... - Stop it!

Don't even joke about it.

No!

HeIp!

Somebody come!

Somebody come!

HeIp!

Somebody!

May I heIp you?

What are you doing?

I was about to kindIe the bath water.

Master, what's the matter?

Did you see a strange man just now?

Don't think so.

Is somebody prowIing?

It's a big house.

I wouIdn't know.

ls this man really not involved?

Chioko.

What's the matter?

Chioko. Chioko!

Hey, somebody heIp!

Chioko.

On the lam as a murderer,

l had to treat Chioko's mysterious death

as due to sickness.

With the wealth and credibility of the Komoda family,

such a measure was possible.

Poor Chioko.

Who killed her?

Or was it a suicide?

Sleep, little baby...

Sleep, little baby...

...baby is a good boy...

Sleep, little baby

...baby sleeps so deep...

Sleep

Gin.

Master.

What was that IuIIaby?

You don't remember?

We used to sing it together aII the time.

After you returned here from the isIand,

we sang it everyday.

SIeep, IittIe baby...

lt's those cliffs l imagined.

Genzaburo must have drawn it.

Hirukawa, I want to go to the isIand tomorrow.

Make the preparations.

What are you saying?

I want to see my father.

No.

The consequences of disobeying your father,

who ordered that no one go near the isIand, are too great.

I want to see the progress of the deveIopment there.

If we do that, your father wiII onIy ask for more money.

Any more expenditures and the Komoda famiIy wiII truIy go bankrupt.

Hirukawa, are you abIe to do what I'm asking?

lt wasn't a dream or hallucination.

l have been here before.

But when?

And under what circumstances?

Genzaburo, I have not permitted you to come here--

There are many things I want to taIk to you about.

Just the two of us.

I cannot taIk to my father?

Of course,

but untiI my vision for this isIand is compIete,

I did not want anybody to come.

But since things are aImost compIete, I wiII show you.

I wiII show you my ideaI worId.

There are still more things to investigate.

The image of the dark storage room.

Was it real?

Does it exist on this island?

Sleep, little baby...

Sleep, little baby...

Baby is a good boy

Sleep

You. You are...?

Who are you?

Genzaburo.

Can't you teII?

The son of the oId master?

I am Hideko.

Are you aIways here?

I'm toId I'm different from the others and shouIdn't go out.

What do you mean, ''different from the others''?

You can't teII?

What's wrong?

Siamese twins.

But in the history of medicine,

there have only been same-sex Siamese twins.

Male and female Siamese twins are an impossibility.

Stop it.

You must stop!

PIease stop.

It hurts.

- Knock it off! - Stop it!

Knock it off!

Don't be so surprised.

I have far more interesting things to show you.

Genzaburo, this is your worId.

I wanted you to see it.

Why? What for?

I have gathered normaI babies and oId peopIe,

and then deformed them.

When this isIand is finished, these maIformed peopIe wiII be free.

MaIformed men wiII ruIe!

We'II gather beautifuI women and do what we want.

I won't Iet you.

Genzaburo, you cannot Ieave this isIand.

Not just you. Hirukawa and Shizuko as weII.

That man Shinkichi, too.

None of you can Ieave this isIand.

You are to serve as our sIaves untiI you die.

You're crazy. You're aII crazy.

You physicaIIy normaI peopIe don't understand

the sufferings of the maIformed.

To be stared at, sneered at, and scorned.

RidicuIed... What wouId you understand?

This time, it's your turn to suffer.

You wiII aIso become maIformed men.

I've been waiting for this day.

Who is going to do that?

By what means?

That is why I sent your brother to Iearn surgery in Tokyo.

Hirukawa said he is finishing his internship

and coming home soon.

You are going to be deformed

by the hands of your younger brother.

Younger brother?

My younger brother is in Tokyo?

I never toId you about your younger brother.

I Ieft him with my younger brother, who runs a circus.

rom there he commuted to Toyo MedicaI University.

Toyo MedicaI...

The gammadion symbol on the sole.

The identical face.

Genzaburo Komoda was my older brother,

and this crazy man is my father.

There are many more things I want to taIk about.

But that wiII aII be after the surgery.

I can't be part of this madness.

You're dreaming a warped dream.

You don't want to Iive?

ather.

Can you shoot your own chiId?

I can kiII anybody that dares to shatter my dream.

ather, I am not Genzaburo.

I am Hirosuke.

My brother died on that funeraI day.

He never resurrected.

You are Hirosuke?

I was an intern when I was forcefuIIy confined to a mentaI hospitaI.

I don't know why, or who did such a thing.

In order to escape the hospitaI,

I kiIIed a man and became a fugitive.

Who? Who did such a thing?

I got a Iead from a circus girI named Hatsuyo...

and came here.

I posed as Genzaburo Komoda and infiItrated this isIand

in order to get away and find the truth.

Hatsuyo was a vaIuabIe treasure.

She was to Iure you to this isIand.

This girI is Hatsuyo's younger sister.

Hirosuke, do as I wish.

I sent you to Tokyo at the tender age of three.

I waited for you to become a first rate surgeon.

or 25 years I deveIoped this isIand and waited

in order to reaIize this dream.

Hirosuke, pIease Iisten to my request.

Are you saying you cannot?

Wait.

PIease return them to their originaI form.

If you couId do that...

You wiII do as I say?

Hirosuke, I have wonderfuI things prepared on this isIand for you.

The following month passed by like a dream.

l lived in the storage room alone with Hideko.

I've aIways watched you two.

Your bodies have intertwined.

Your bIood has intermingIed.

As a marriage present, wouId you Iike to meet your mother?

They're here.

Baby, sleep...

Sleep, baby, sleep

Baby is a good boy

Sleep, baby, sleep

Mother.

Mother.

You are?

It's me, Hideko.

This man operated on me and made me whoIe.

You fixed Hideko?

Thank you.

Then you wiII forgive me?

This is a seIfish woman.

Shizuko. Hirukawa.

This is the wife with whom I had a grand wedding.

lt was said by the villagers that Toki was

the most beautiful woman in all of Japan, China, and lndia.

And l became the ugly bridegroom of that woman.

But l was happy no matter what anybody said.

My soul was smitten.

When she gardened, Toki was more beautiful than the flowers.

Even in the kitchen, she was the cleverest housewife.

l let her do whatever she wanted.

But it seemed that Toki didn't want me out and about

or seen next to her.

l observed her from a distance

as though l was an outcast prostitute.

Nonetheless, l was satisfied.

Just as she wanted, l hired her cousin, Hayashida, as a steward.

After Hayashida's arrival, l became wary of Toki.

l would often awaken at night and not find her.

One night, l decided to investigate what she was up to.

Up until then, l was too scared to find out.

Hold me tight.

l witnessed the unbearable sight of Toki and Hayashida.

Toki became pregnant.

l prayed the child was mine.

We received a mountain of offerings,

and what grew in my heart was a mountain of misgivings.

But l could not resolve to let go of Toki.

Just before Toki gave birth, l hired Hirukawa as steward,

brought in my distant relative, Shizuko,

and moved to this deserted island.

l brought with me Toki and her lover Hayashida.

Hayashida was weak and became mentally exhausted and sick.

l left them alone for half a month.

- HeIp! PIease! PIease! - Help.

Help.

- PIease. - PIease.

PIease, darIing.

After being left for only five days...

I heard peopIe don't die easiIy.

PIease forgive me.

- orgive me. - orgive...

- DarIing, forgive me. - PIease forgive me.

I wiII do anything to atone.

PIease.

Spare my Iife.

- PIease, save me. - Spare my Iife.

But women are strong.

Toki cared for her child so much that she couldn't die.

DarIing...

l left them for ten more days.

Hayashida died and Toki was in the darkness by herself.

lt was Toki's worst fear.

Toki, Iive a IittIe Ionger. Three more days.

Then I wiII bring your baby.

Do you mean that?

or that, you must eat or die.

Eat.

There's pIenty to eat.

PIenty?

Those crabs.

Crabs?

Do you want to see your baby?

Toki ate the crabs that ate her lover's dead flesh.

She devoured those crabs.

They ate Hayashida to the bone.

And...what happened to Hayashida?

He's stiII right here.

Genzaburo and Hirosuke were on this isIand

untiI three years of age.

Genzaburo went to the Komoda house.

Hirosuke went to my haIf-brother who ran the circus

and was encouraged to study at a medicaI university in Tokyo.

Upon your return,

unIike my originaI Siamese twins,

I decided that you were to create stranger

and more fabuIous maIformed men.

After Hayashida died,

I hired an ugIy hunchback to rape Toki.

Toki had a daughter.

That was Hatsuyo.

I gave her to the circus.

The next year, she had another daughter--

Hideko, here with us now.

Mother.

I bought an ugIy baby named Takeshi.

l tore off his backside and attached him to Hideko.

Now, Hirosuke has returned.

Without knowing it, you sIept with your own sister, Hideko.

You copuIated as man and woman.

You two have committed the bIasphemous act of incest.

Stop it. Enough!

I wiII not deform peopIe.

Do as I say or stay in this cave untiI you die.

The one that dies first is food for the crabs and insects.

They, in turn, are your food.

PIease stop!

Please let me see.

l can get out.

Even in this pitch black maze,

there are symboIs aIong the rocks that onIy I can understand.

Hirosuke, I wiII be back in two or three days.

Take your time to decide whether you wiII do as I say

and create maIformed men.

Master, pIease wait.

This has nothing to do with me.

PIease spare me.

Hirukawa, you deceived me.

Hirosuke was put in a mentaI institution and aImost kiIIed by a baId man.

Not true. I don't know anything about it.

It was a misunderstanding.

PIease heIp.

Shizuko, you've had a reIationship with Hirukawa.

I had the hunchbacks watch you.

Not true! I hate this man! Save me!

Who's there?

Who's Iaughing?

Who are you?

Why are you here?

I want to add to the things you just said.

Mr. Hirukawa, there is a man, in the vast city of Tokyo,

who is extremeIy interested in soIving crimes.

His name is Kogoro Akechi.

He Iikes soIving crimes more than he Iikes to eat.

One day, he noticed

an ad in the papers.

Toyo Building put out a vacancy ad for ten straight days.

One day, the ad was gone.

l assumed there was a renter.

But the next day, TO YO BUILDING - ROOM #13 VACANT

once again, there was an ad for Room #1 3 of Toyo Building.

lf there was a renter, that meant he paid a lot of money

to use the space for one day.

l was suspicious.

l visited Toyo Building.

At the same time he signed the rent contract,

he put out an ad for femaIe office workers?

On the day he signed, a Iot of furniture moved in,

and about two hundred girIs Iined up for the job.

ApparentIy, the job terms were incredibIy good.

What was strange was that on the night of the job caII,

he came to cancel the rent contract.

Two to three days after that,

there were numerous requests to the poIice

to investigate runaway girIs.

The day the girIs went missing was the same day

the job caII was conducted by the renter.

What's that got to do with me?

I finaIIy reaIized your connection when I came here.

I taIked to the beautifuI sIaves on this isIand.

They were aII girIs who answered the job caII at Toyo BuiIding.

They were aII girIs who hadn't mentioned to their famiIies

that they were answering a job call.

Luring these girls to a new recruit welcoming party

was your routine.

You bribed the director of a mental institution

that was having financial difficulties.

There, you confined the girls you deceptively gathered

until you transported them to the island.

You are also a pervert who took drugs, chose girls you liked,

and acted out your perversions on them.

No.

- No, no. - Come with me.

Go on.

No.

WeII...

No!

No.

How's this?

No!

Hirukawa's subordinates confined Mr. Hitomi to the institution.

Under Hirukawa's orders, the bald man

sought an opportunity to murder Mr. Hitomi.

But the reverse happened, and he was killed by Mr. Hitomi.

Mr. Hitomi escaped from the institution

and met Hatsuyo from the circus.

Hatsuyo mentioned that the lullaby was from the Japan Sea coastline.

That is when you, Hirukawa, threw your knife and killed her.

l found out that the circus impresario came from the Japan Sea coastline.

So l came here to the coast.

l found the resurrection of Genzaburo

to be suspicious, so l opened his grave.

l found his body without his white burial kimono.

Somebody was posing as Genzaburo and entered the Komoda family.

l infiltrated the household as a manservant.

l carefully staked out Chioko and Shizuko

to find out who was sending them threatening letters.

l discovered a secret compartment in Chioko's chair.

The suspect who sent the letters must have hidden in the chair,

and at times felt up Chioko's body through the chair

as he eavesdropped on the couple.

The only one who would do such a thing

is a perverted man such as you, Hirukawa.

Your perversions were discovered by Shizuko.

There is a murderer in the Komoda famiIy.

The night that Chioko was kiIIed,

l saw a shadowy figure in the rafters.

There was an opening to the attic.

Shizuko, you performed an elaborate trick.

You sent yourself a threat.

Your were in a position to write the details.

To raise credibility, you also sent a letter to Chioko.

From the attic, you lowered a thread into the mouth of Genzaburo.

You poured down poison...

to ironic consequences.

- Chioko. What's wrong? - l'm sick.

- Chiokol Chiokol - Darlingl

You both threatened. You both Iured.

You both conspired to bring down the Komoda famiIy.

You used Genzaburo's death

and worked to have his younger brother go missing.

With the two of them gone,

Shizuko, you were the soIe inheritor of the Komoda fortune.

You conspired with Hirukawa

and went after the remaining Komoda famiIy fortune.

Is there any fauIt in my Iogic?

Hirukawa, you bastard. You know what happens

when you doubIe-cross me.

orgive me. I was a diIigent worker.

This was aII Shizuko's doing.

Don't think you can be a do-gooder now.

Don't.

I am stiII a IoyaI subordinate.

I worked hard to send women to this isIand.

Don't shoot.

Shoot her.

She's the bad one.

Don't. PIease.

Save me!

Stop your whining.

I wiII deform both of you as I see fit.

- Don't, don't. - PIease don't, uncIe.

- I don't beIieve this. - Watch out.

UncIe.

Are you serious?

The water wiII end your Iife!

Drink pIenty of it!

Hirosuke, this time you have to obey me.

I want you to buiId a statue of a horse-headed god

to protect this isIand.

It wiII have three heads and eIeven taiIs.

It is to be crowned with a Iiving horse's head.

It has been my dream for 30 years.

Use living human flesh to build it.

That's insane. You are insane.

I won't buiId such a thing.

There wiII never be greater a chaIIenge

for a medicaI graduate.

Jogoro, forget your eviI dreams.

Mr. Hitomi, undo Toki's chains.

What?

Don't get in the way.

I took out the buIIets.

Damn it.

Jogoro, give up.

Let's go, hurry.

Wait!

Hey!

Come any cIoser and the isIand wiII become a sea of fire.

Mother.

I'II come back for you.

Mother.

Are you aII right?

Mother, hand this to Mr. Akechi.

Jogoro, you don't intend to kiII aII the innocent peopIe in this isIand?

I just might.

My dreams have been shattered.

CaIm down.

Your wife has been punished enough,

and her chiIdren as weII.

The pain of seeing her chiIdren for the first time in over 20 years

and having her shame reveaIed by you,

the feeIings of the chiIdren that found out--

Think about that.

And there is the sad Iove between you two.

A Iove that was Iost.

I was a crueI man.

- Wait. PIease wait. - Madam.

It's not his fauIt.

It is aII my sin.

Madam, where are Hirosuke and Hideko?

They said they wouId come back for me and went off.

They Ieft this for you.

''Even though we are siblings, we cannot part.

''lt is a forbidden love, but our love burns even brighter.

''We want to end in a beautiful way,

''like a quick burst of fireworks in the sunset.

''We will embrace atop the fireworks mortar.

''We will scatter magnificently across the great sky.

''l ask from the bottom of my heart

''to please care for my poor mother.

Farewell. ''

DarIing.

Madam...

Jogoro!

Darling.

Toki...

Darling.

Toki.

I'm so sorry.

DarIing?

Why?

orgive me.

I bIamed you.

But I couId never forget you

for even one night.

DarIing, it was my fauIt.

Because of me...

you and I...

and everybody...

aII of us suffered.

I'm sorry.

DarIing.

You truIy forgive me?

Yes.

DarIing.

DarIing.

Motherl

Motherl

Motherl

Motherl

Motherl

THE END