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Kanzaki! Wake up!

You were here all night?

Idiot!

I went over the case again.

Don't you know what day this is?!

Yeah, I know.

Amazing!

You're looking good. Like a leading man.

I just sit there. You're the star today.

I figured you'd be here. I brought your tux.

Here.

"What a friend we have in Jesus..."

How does that go again?

The heart had been cut out, just like in the first two cases.

Mr. Jojima?

I hear you.

Maya Ito, 22, university student.

No connection with where she was found.

Went missing on her way to work.

You're not the only one on this case.

I've seen a lot of guys who let work screw up their home life.

It's OK. She understands.

I mean you, not Mina.

Being a detective isn't a job, it's an illness.

Without meaning to, you can become a burden.

Remember that.

Yes, sir.

Kanzaki...

Buckle up.

That was fast!

I feel sick...

Don't be too long.

Mina...

Sorry I'm late.

You shouldn't be here.

Mina...

Later.

I'll be waiting.

Welcome to the Gate of Rage.

I am Izuko, Guardian of the Gate.

You have died. You exist only as a spirit.

To the Gate of Rage come those dead of misadventure, or murder.

Her e you may choose one way to proceed...

...out of three.

Three ways?

One:

Accept death, ascend to Paradise, and prepare for rebirth.

Two:

As a ghost, forever haunt the realm of the living.

And three:

Curse one living person, and bring about their death.

One who kills, however, falls into Hell...

...to suffer eternal torment.

What's all this about? What are you?

You haven't accepted it.

You were murdered.

You have 12 days in which to choose.

You may return to the realm of the living.

They, of course, will not be able to perceive you.

Go and see the world you have left.

It's the same M.O. As the other three.

The heart cut out and taken away.

In just a few minutes?

Unbelievable.

I don't get it. I just don't get it.

So whoever did this still has Mina's heart.

Kanzaki, take some time off.

We'll find your perp.

Why?

Someone murdered you.

Who?!

Will you forget and be reborn?

Become a ghost?

Find and cur se your murderer?

Do I choose?

Yes.

It is my task to guide you.

But I haven't the faintest idea what to do!

There is still time.

Where does this go?

Any where you like.

Here, then.

Should I put this over there?

Sure. Why not?

Work with me on this! You're going to be living here.

Don't you mean "we"?

Then it needs both our ideas.

The kind of place you like is where I want to live.

Well?

It's great.

Come over here.

Welcome home.

Kohei is going to kill whoever murdered me.

Those who kill, when they die...

...fall forever into Hell, there to suffer eternal torment.

Suicides, as well.

Then that means that Kohei...

How did this happen?

Why was I killed?

If you wish...

...you can follow the memory of your resentment and find out.

I want to know.

Later.

I'll be waiting.

Beretta 84, one.

Walther P99, one.

And...

...a Smith & Wesson 658.

These days the criminals have the best guns.

I don't know how well they've been kept.

You might want to test it first.

Maybe...

Sorry.

Just kidding.

I won't arrest him.

I�ll stop his heart, and get Mina's back.

That won't make her happy.

"Happy"?

The dead can't be "happy". Death is the end of that.

You know...

...dealing with the dead every day like I do...

...you get to sense things.

You realize...

...you're not alone.

When someone dies, their weight goes up 35 grams.

Strange, huh?

It�s scientific fact. Some say it's the weight of the spirit.

The spirit has negative weight.

If that's true, then ghosts really exist.

A photographer friend took a Polaroid of a plane he was supposed to get on.

There was this great big hand grabbing the plane.

He decided to stay home.

The plane crashed.

You're a doctor...

That's how I know that no one walks without a heart in them.

Meaning?

Why take the heart? There must be a reason.

This isn't your plain everyday serial killing.

Bullshit!

I'll find him and kill him.

Spare me the crap!

Sayuri!

Good morning, Chief.

I had some problems with my siderodromophobia...

Then someone jumped in front of the train I was on...

Save the excuses, OK?

What were you working on?

"How optical fiber and the development of communications net works..."

"...affect the world economy."

Oh yeah... that.

Did I mess up again?

This is big.

What?!

It's not trouble. Do you know who Tatsuya Kudo is?

A genetics researcher, and a likely Nobel candidate.

Owner of Kudo Genetics, and top-of-the-list billionaire.

Interview him.

Me?

It's not my idea. He asked for you.

He's handsome.

I don't get it. You've never even handled a story alone.

Tatsuya Kudo will be our cover story, so don't screw up!

I�ll do my best.

And make sure you're on time.

Stand up straight.

And don't simper.

The reporter?

She's coming.

Tatsuya Kudo...

Who are you?

Take us to the safe.

You want money?

Yeah!

Move it!

What the fuck?!

Scared to die?

I'd rather die than be slime like you.

Don't kill him.

This is the best I can do.

It�s a likeness.

Who's this?

An unknown woman I saw by the church.

All right. I�ll check her out.

You be a good boy.

Where are you going?

And three:

Bring death on a living person, and fall into Hell.

The curse!

I don't understand what you're talking about!

"Go, then!"

Can't you knock?

You're still dealing?

Don't you know the law?

It�s called "illegal entry".

I�m not here to hurt your business. I just want information.

She's my girl.

Oh yeah?

Who is she?

She's connected to a serial killing.

Serial killing?

With the hearts cut out?

I don't know people like that. It's not my style.

Call me if you hear anything.

Why would I help a cop who couldn't even protect his own girl?

Whoa, Chief! Take it easy!

Shut up.

Mina had it worse than this.

Talk like that again and I�ll kill you.

With the human genome mapped...

...it's said we might soon find the cause of diseases held to be incurable.

We do at least understand why all the human cells exist.

With the mapping of the genome...

...we see the limits to what people can do.

I see.

To change the subject, does a man with your honor s and status...

...ever find himself troubled?

Troubled?

For example, I'm always late.

I wasn't late today because I had a ride.

I mess up at work a lot, I'm not much use to anyone...

I wonder what the point is in me being alive.

The point, huh?

It's no big thing, really. My troubles are small ones.

My life isn't perfect, either. Some things don't work out.

For example...

...there are things no amount of money will buy.

You mean, like, love?

That kind of thing.

Anyway, medicine has always been a territorial dispute with the Gods.

They decide who's born...

...who gets sick...

...and how long we live.

But someone who doesn't want to lose the sick person defies them...

...tries to cure the disease and prolong life.

Yes...

Eventually humanity starts to fiddle with its own schematics.

The genes.

Advances in research might produce people who don't get sick.

But some say that profanes the Gods.

But to save those we love...

We try to do that instinctively.

Even if that profanes the Gods...

...they gave us that instinct.

Therefore...

...it's completely natural for us to defy the Gods.

But I'm rambling. Let's talk about this in private sometime.

Not again!

Mina...

Will see you if I die?

No, Kohei!

You'll go to Hell and we�ll never meet!

Don't!

Kohei, no!

This is that picture.

You brought me here to see this?

Crap!

That's what they said at the airport when Kishi showed it to them.

But three hours later...

Kolans Air, Flight 632. Remember?

He's taken another one.

There's a hand reaching for this woman's heart.

She might be in danger.

This has nothing to do with our case.

No.

It does.

You're looking for this woman.

You know her?

She's Tatsuya Kudo's secretary.

Tatsuya Kudo?

Of Kudo Genetics.

Can you see me?

Vaguely.

But you�ll get clearer.

With ever y sacrifice I get stronger...

...and more superhuman.

Who are you? What do you have against me?

Nothing. I needed you.

You "needed" me? I never caused you any trouble.

Why did you need to kill me?!

You took happiness for granted.

That happiness is fragile.

So you broke it!

"You broke it!"

I wouldn't cry like that.

What was stolen...

...I would take back.

What's this for?

That?

I used to be like you.

I took happiness for granted.

But happiness can shatter at any time.

It was sudden for me, too.

One day my wife was smiling gently, the next she couldn�t move.

I was frantic trying to find out what was wrong.

But it happened. There's no going back.

The question is what to do now.

But why me?

I've already said the question is meaningless.

Only actions have meaning.

I have another meeting.

I hope you won't mind...

Ow!

I broke something!

What are you doing?

It hurts!

You're dead, you know.

Face it.

Over here.

Who are you?

Maya Ito. Those two took my heart as well.

Sanae and Katsumi.

All of you?

Yes. They killed all of us.

Where have I seen you before?

At the church.

We tried to warn you.

But why us?

All of you once served as Guardian of the Gate of Rage.

Guardian?

Like you?

In your last existence, or perhaps before that...

...you stood as Izuko at this gate...

...and guided the dead.

That is what connects you.

That's incredible!

All of us?

Don't be surprised.

Souls here are reborn again and again.

Many have served at this gate.

My last existence?!

I've got no memory of that! Why should that get me killed?

My task is to guide the dead.

It is you who must decide what to do.

But...

You have yet to decide...

Soon you must...

...make your choice.

She's not answering!

The first victim, Sanae Takeuchi.

Katsumi Okamoto...

...and Maya Ito.

You'd see it clearer if I'd taken the pictures.

I've always been able to photograph it.

It�s like I'm an antenna.

Like that kid with Bruce Willis in "Sixth Sense".

Or like in "The Omen". It�s a warning!

That doesn't help much now.

Enough of this talk.

OK, don't believe me.

But this picture means Sayuri is going to be next!

Please! Save her!

She's back...

I can sort of see you.

I'm Kazuo Kishi.

His girlfriend?

What's your name?

"Mina"...

Give me a break!

Did you tell him that stuff?

No!

She's telling me to stop you.

Cut it out!

Those who kill go to Hell. She doesn't want that.

Oh...

...I get it.

You cooked this up to stop me...

You don't believe it?

Of course not!

Tell him something only he and I would know.

OK.

Last month...

...you two moved into an apartment.

What?

You put the sofa by the wall, and her picture on the chest...

...beside the bed.

And today you said...

..."Will I see you if I die?"...

...and put a gun to your head.

Trying to stop you, she screamed.

A glass table-top broke, you were distracted, and didn't kill yourself.

She stopped you.

She's beside you now, talking to me.

She says she loves you. She doesn't want you to die.

The other side.

You worked hard on this.

Did you bug the place? Where's the camera?

You don't believe me?

Sayuri? Where are you?

You don't have to shout.

Why all the messages? Is it urgent?

Where are you?!

Now? On a date with Mr. Kudo.

Kudo?!

Get out of there!

What are you talking about?

You're in serious danger!

He's not like you. He's a perfect gentleman.

Though I wouldn't mind if he wasn't.

I�m telling you. You're in real danger!

Are you jealous, Mr. Kishi?

No!

I've got to go. The performance is starting.

I'm on a date, so don't call me so much.

In fact, don't call me again, OK?

Sayuri! Sayuri!

She's with Kudo. Find her!

You're a detective. Are you going to let her get killed?!

What if I'm right?

No one believed me about the plane crash, either.

You�ll regret it!

OK.

What did she say?

Uh... something about a performance starting...

A concert? A play?

Kyoko, check the city listings.

What else?

I heard music...

Schubert..."Death and the Maiden".

A Schubert concert starting now...

Yes! Organon Hall, the Stanley Quartet.

He's after another heart.

Get out of here!

Please!

Get out!

Mr. Kudo?

You wanted to know the point of your being alive.

I�ll tell you.

You have lived in order to die here.

I need your heart.

The first victim was found here.

The second...

...and third.

An equilateral triangle.

And here?

I don't get it. I just don't get it.

Wait a minute... the concert hall Kanzaki went to is here.

What does a concert hall have to do with it?

Look at this.

What is it?

They went there because they think that girl's next.

A figure of some kind...

Come on.

Right.

Hey!

Halt!

Are you OK?!

Snap out of it!

The Guardian of the Gate...

...Izuko.

Hey!

What happened?!

Kishi! Are you OK?

Another victim. The killers are Tatsuya Kudo and his secretary.

He was holding her heart. It was still beating.

What?

I can't...

What's wrong?

As a doctor I�m not ready for this. This man has no pulse.

But he's alive.

His heart isn't beating.

You can do what you like in this world.

But I won't let you raise a hand against the souls at my gate.

There's a spell on this sword.

It even cuts down the dead.

Am I crazy, or are you?

Look inside this...

"Shuho Kamina"...

She's our only hope.

Who is she?

After the plane crash I was haunted by the ghosts...

...of the 430 people who died.

She exorcised them for me.

Take my car.

I'm from the old school. I don't under stand this.

I'll handle things here. Get going before the uniforms arrive.

Go!

Hey!

Are you OK?

What's wrong?

I'm sorry.

I failed to guide your souls.

What do you mean?

Soon I will vanish...

...because of that sword.

Vanish?

You are the Guardian now.

Me?

I can't do that!

Now you have all the wisdom you will need.

But nothing's changed!

You just haven't realized your power.

You can do it. Guide the souls of the dead...

...and guar d the gate.

But...

Look!

So I guess I got killed, huh?

I'd just got started!

"Got started"?

I fixed tea and made copies...

...until they finally let me write.

I got shouted at, chewed out...

This was my first by-line article.

And then my subject kills me.

I knew it was too good to be true.

I couldn�t save you...

It�s not your fault.

Tell me...

...what's more important, the past or the future?

I choose the future.

It�s stupid to hold the future hostage to an old grudge.

What's the point of living, any way?

The point?

We're all dead, you know.

We didn't live just to die.

I'm going.

I�m going to be reborn. Next time I'll do the things I should have done.

'Bye.

I want to have that kind of confidence in my own life.

I'm going to be reborn, too.

I've never thought about it...

...but I might have things to do as well.

"Things to do"?

Bring the man here, before it's too late.

Mother Shuho!

Lay down.

His heart had stopped...

It's beating now. An evil force had it in its grip.

This is a wraith.

Pure murderous intent.

If it's this clear, it must be very powerful.

That woman.

Her name is Rei.

What is she?

She lets a man named Kudo use her.

Use her?

She takes the lives of the sacrificial victims.

The one conducting the rite must not be defiled.

He's the one doing it!

Only according to the laws of man.

A spirit must bear the burden of its own actions.

He puts her up to it.

Does he?

To kill or not is her choice.

She has chosen to kill for him.

If she didn't, no one would die.

That doesn't make sense!

It�s an act of nature, like rain turning into a river.

Nature is not always fair.

What are they?

No longer human.

Their power grows as they kill...

...from the rites he performs.

His body holds superhuman power.

The forces of darkness sustain him.

This gun is of no use now.

And I know you intend to kill them, "Detective".

What do they want to do with this "rite" of theirs?

Kudo wishes to summon the Devil.

The Devil?

This way.

Tatsuya?

No.

I am Izuko.

Listen to me... this is not the world of the living.

You are ill.

You lay on a bed, connected to machines.

What?

Kudo and Rei are killing people... for your sake.

It�s true.

I am one of them.

Tatsuya's doing that?

So you...

...died for me?

I�m sorry.

Then I will go.

I thought if I waited I'd see Tatsuya again.

But my being here has led him into sin.

Do me this favor.

Tell him.

Eri is dead.

But don't worry.

If the rite succeeds...

...death is not a problem.

Just one more...

The "Book of Death" describes rites that will summon the departed.

Kudo has the same book?

Not exactly. His is from the West.

But it's much the same.

The Star of David!

That's one name.

Since King Solomon�s time it's been used to summon demons.

In Japan it's kagome, used in the study of Yin and Yang.

The hexagram.

"To summon the demon, form the hexagram".

"The mortal enemy of demons are the Guardians".

"At the six points, consecrate the hearts of their line".

"There display the corpses, to shame them."

"Their line"?

The reborn Guardians.

"Guardians"?

Those who die by accident or murder go to The Gate of Rage.

There they have three choices.

Paradise, then rebirth...

...return to this world as a ghost...

...or a fatal curse against one person, and descent into Hell.

And its Guardian instructs them?

Yes. And also watches to see the demons are kept sealed in.

So they're enemies.

And you can see all of this?

Why haven't you done anything?

What will happen cannot be changed. If it could, no one would ever die.

So we're wasting our time? We can't do anything?

These are elemental forces. You cannot stop a storm.

But you can prepare.

"When the six hearts are laid, the Gate of Rage is broken..."

"...and evil ones may be called forth from Hell."

"They will grant the wishes of those who summon them..."

"...and in return bring darkness upon the earth."

The end of the world?

Something like that.

That will happen when they sacrifice one more victim.

One more thing...

"A sacrifice must be made at each of the six points."

Here.

This is the concert hall where Sayuri was killed.

Right here!

They've come.

Yes.

I was a Guardian once.

Can you use this?

Yeah...

You two stay here.

Come on.

Stay here.

What will happen now is not for eyes such as yours to see.

Kudo!

I'll shoot!

Stay back!

I mean it!

Stay back!

I've come...

...for your heart.

It won't be that easy.

Some diseases are incurable.

My wife had one. She lay in a coma, waiting to die.

Doctors couldn't help her.

My money, my position, my research, all useless.

Her eyes wouldn't open.

If this is fate the Gods have decided, then I defy the Gods.

While I was trying to find a way to save her, I came upon a book.

A book about the laws of this world and the next.

The "Book of Death"...

Yes. Those who are summoned will grant any wish.

Very soon...

...I�ll be able to bring Eri back.

So you killed Mina...

...believing in that craziness?!

You only believe in what you can see and understand.

That's where we differ.

Eri was everything to me. I won't accept a world without her.

Crazy as it may be, if that's the only way to save her...

...I'll believe it!

You want revenge?

Go ahead.

Kill me and take my Book of Death!

Screw you!

To bring back your love...

...you'd do the same.

No?

To save the one I love, I�ll fight the entire world.

If you can't do that, you're a loser!

Get out!

Kill me and you go to Hell, too.

Shall we continue there, then?

For you...

...I'll do anything.

We don't need your heart.

I have one, too!

For the rite, you need the heart of one who was a Guardian.

Here is...

...your sixth heart.

Kudo...

If you hate me, shoot.

No!

He's not worth going to Hell for!

I killed your love.

Don't you want revenge?

No! You're a detective!

For love, I will make a hell of this world.

And you?

What will you do for love?

What will happen cannot be changed.

Kudo was fated to die here?

Yes.

But I'm amazed this woman offered her heart.

She was a Guardian?

Yes.

Some people, like me, are reborn still remembering the gate.

But before any connection from a previous life...

...she chose to help Kudo and her elder sister.

So is it over?

Not yet.

Those killed go to...

...The Gate of Rage.

Hey...

...we�ll meet...

...in our next life, won't we?

Yes.

I was expecting you.

So...

...you're the Guardian?

You can't run now.

I won't run. I will do those things I should.

You've changed.

What happened?

The question is meaningless.

Only actions have meaning.

Out of my way.

I curse the world that robbed me of Eri.

You don't have that choice.

The one I�m talking to...

...is behind the gate.

In return...

...I will have Eri back.

I am Izuko...

...Guardian of the Gate.

To summon the demon...

...you must go to the Gate of Rage.

That's why Kudo didn't do the killing.

It�s up to her now.

"Her"?

Mina. Now she is the Guardian of the Gate.

What?!

I'll go to the gate.

Shoot me.

Huh?

It�s the only way. I can stop Kudo.

Yes.

That is your choice?

What are you talking about? Are you both crazy?!

Crazy as it may be...

...if that's the only way to save Mina...

...then I'll go.

Take this.

Shoot me.

Don't!

Death is the end of everything!

Kishi! Don't!

I can't do it!

Kishi...

No!

Kanzaki!

Kanzaki!

The gate will open!

Kudo!

The evil...

...grows weaker.

I talked to Eri.

She has accepted her fate and gone to Paradise.

She left a message.

"Though our flesh may fail, and wherever our souls go..."

"...I will always..."

"...love you."

You have been purified.

You have three choices.

I lay...

...a curse on myself.

Go, then.

No!

No!

No!

I won't let you die!

Kanzaki! Please!

Sorry I'm late.

You shouldn't be here.

I came here for you!

If you've died for me, live for me now.

Let me stay.

I can't.

Mina...

I wanted to be with you.

But when my life was taken I realized how wonderful...

...it is to be alive.

Death isn't the end.

And that means you have to live life to the fullest.

You've...

...gotten stronger.

People change.

I can't...

...live without you.

You can change too, Kohei.

But...

...I'm dead.

It's all right. You can still be brought back.

Will I see you again?

Welcome to the Gate of Rage.

Go, then.

Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura