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- I want to change.

- Right.

But it's better to go halfway.

However you look at it.

- You think? - Yeah.

- That must be nice.

Doing it with your dad.

I'd like to try it sometime.

No, stop it.

KYRIE ELEISON

- I've had a mark on my right breast ever since I was born.

Maybe it only started to bother me when I imagined myself giving birth,

and having a baby suckling at my breast.

OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

But the image I have in my mind

is not of a normal birth.

It's more like the child is extracted

through something like a Cesarean section.

Though I was afraid, I wanted to know.

I wanted to know why I have those nightmares.

- Sorry.

YO KAG EYAMA

KORIN VIDEO DRUG PRESCRIPTION

KORIN IS A VIDEO DRUG THAT CAN BRING PEACE TO WORRIED MINDS

- Hello, you've reached Korin.

If you have anything on your mind you'd like to discuss,

please leave a message after the tone.

We can give you the appropriate advice.

Be sure to leave your full name, address,

age, occupation, and telephone number.

- I think I may be pregnant.

But ifl am, I'll have to have an abortion.

The father is a married man.

Or rather, I 'm frightened.

I'm frightened of giving birth.

I can't take it anymore.

- Wiretapping?

- I thought I'd talk to you about it, seeing as you've studied counseling.

- I've read a few books, that's all.

Is this about the telephone dream?

- That too.

But my wiretapping partner, Inumaru, was in an accident.

I'm feeling a bit anxious.

- It would be better if you gave up wiretapping.

- All I do at work is interact with machines.

It takes me a while to hear human voices.

- But you're still using machines to do that.

You're good with hardware.

- I'm not so sure.

- New wiretapping gear comes out all the time, right?

- Inumaru taught me all about that.

- The man who died in an accident?

- He's not dead.

- He's in a vegetative state. That's the same as being dead.

- How sad...

- I think you should tell Inumaru's wife about the baby.

- Why?

- You're each one side of the mirror to Inumaru, aren't you?

- That's my advice to you.

- The Korin video you wanted me to order for the wiretapping arrived.

But...

what am I supposed to do with it on my own?

Come in, please.

Take a seat.

- I'm so sorry.

It must have fallen down.

I've only just vacuumed.

- Don't worry about it.

I'm sorry for showing up out of the blue.

- I wasn't busy, anyway.

Would you like a drink?

I don't know what you like.

- That's alright.

You're not working right now?

- I don't know what Inumaru told you.

I was an office lady.

I quit after the accident.

- But it seems like you don't visit him at the hospital?

- I didn't quit to look after him.

I had a nervous breakdown.

- I have to tell you something that might be upsetting.

- Inumaru told me all about you.

You're pregnant.

Right?

I can't say I'm surprised.

So, you want me to tell you what to do?

- No, that's not it.

Ijust wanted to talk.

- Of course.

It's your body.

There's nothing I can do about it.

There was one right above your head.

- One of what?

- A blue moth.

They fly in at night.

They drop scales all over and eat everything up.

Didn't Inumaru tell you?

He usually mentions it after a few drinks.

- Why do you think his eyes stayed open?

- When he had the car accident,

he must have seen something that shocked him.

- You look exhausted.

What happened?

- Your advice backfired.

- Oh, really? I'm sorry.

I was worried, so I came to find you.

- You're pretty well informed.

- I played detective for a day.

I checked the address and phone number with a map at the bookstore.

- So, what?

You thought you'd come and rescue me again?

- That's harsh.

You're still doing the wiretapping?

- What's it to you?

-Ithought I could help.

- It's not much fun.

- So you're giving it up?

- I've thought about it so many times.

But I guess you could say I'm hooked on sound.

- I want to try it too.

- You want to make yourself ill?

- I don't know.

- "Since you're here, want to come over?"

Is that what you wanted me to say?

I still have his scent inside me.

- Huh?

- The man in the hospital.

Here.

- You don't want it?

- I just wanted something cold to cool my head.

RESEARCH REQUEST

- What will you do with the tape?

- It was her company that requested it.

They said they wanted a scandal to fire her over.

- Is that a common request?

- It's almost always sex.

There are a lot of people who want to hear other people's secrets.

- A job well done.

- I need to confirm the payment.

Then it's "the end."

- It's Miki, are you free tonight?

Hello?

- So you're the one who called me?

- You're Yo Kageyama?

My name's KanzakL

- Do I know you?

- I saw you at the hospital.

- At the hospital?

- I'm a good friend of Inumaru's.

- You know Inumaru?

- He told me all about you.

“Kageyama.”

I remembered right away when I heard your name.

You're from Nagoya, aren't you?

- What's it to you?

- My father was a newspaper reporter.

He often mentioned the name "Kageyama."

In a suburban residential area,

a young woman was killed by a burglar while her husband was away.

It was a tragic state of affairs.

- What are you trying to say?

- You and Inumaru were wiretapping for an investigation into Korin, right?

- Korin?

One eye or both,

it's hard for me to open them, but yours are left open.

Where are you looking?

What can you see?

Are you looking at me?

Can you see me?

I met your friend, Kanzaki.

He asked me about the Korin wiretapping.

Is he the one who hired you?

He said something really strange.

That you can do psychic photography.

That's not true, right?

You took a Polaroid of me.

I'm sure you would have shown me if you could do something like that.

I thought I'd try, anyway.

He lent me this camera.

I wanted you to take it, but you can't.

I1ltake itforyou.

These are my goggles.

- At that time, [felt like someone was calling me.

It was like a human voice,

but also like a machine.

If I had to say,

it felt like the words produced by electronic signals on a computer.

Maybe you could understand if I put it that way.

The words entered my head and whispered.

"You must go to Nagoya, " they said.

I rang the office and told them I wasn't feeling well,

so I'd be leaving early.

I left for Nagoya by train on the Hikari 17 departing at 13:07.

When I stepped off the train,

there were no further messages from inside my head.

I was sure I'd been to an uncle's house there

when I was a child.

But that was a long time ago.

I no longer had anywhere to go there.

As there were no further messages, I had no choice but to go home.

I ran to the other platform

and jumped on the Hikari 244 departing at 15:01.

As soon as we passed through Shin-Yokohama,

I could see an ominous red sky hanging over Tokyo

as if it were stained with blood.

I wondered if I had been wiretapping my own heart.

[felt as if I had been.

- She's trying to kill the baby?

I'm sure that's not true.

- It wouldn't surprise me if Inumaru's wife felt that way.

When I watched the video...

- Did you have another dream?

- What was it?

- I don't want to talk about it.

- Not much of a counselor, am I?

- I'm going to listen in.

Knowing Inumaru, he's probably had his own house wiretapped.

- I'll help you.

- This is my problem.

- Unable to bear being alone,

I drown my tears in sake

You misheard "ugly" for "boogie"

and laughed at me

I fell in love

with your indifference

I turned around

so many times.

My boogie-woogie

I'm sorry to come so late.

But...

I can't help feeling like you're the one who hurt my eye.

You can move around.

But you pretend you can't, so you can watch everything around you.

You control it all.

I kept this on, but my eye's fine now.

I felt like you were sending something to my eye through the bandage.

Is it you on the phone?

What do you want to say?

What are you trying to show me?

Huh?

Are you spying on me?

- I was listening in.

It didn't occur to you to check under the bed?

It's easy to miss what's right in front of you.

- Do you have any idea what you're doing?

- I'm doing exactly what you do.

- Give that back.

- I can't give back what's not yours.

- You know he wears goggles?

- So what?

The hospital provides them.

- Inumaru's gone back to how he was before.

[feel like he's calling out her name.

How dare he!

- You tried to kill him with your car, but now you're jealous.

Still have feelings for him?

- Of course not!

- He had me bugged and was poking around in my business.

- That's no reason to kill him.

- I was scared he'd carry on wiretapping you and me.

So...

- Anyway,

he had that woman look into Korin.

- Why did he do that?

What even is Korin?

- The videos I make at my company weren't selling very well.

Inumaru came up with the idea.

We'd sell videos through a telephone messaging service.

It took off faster than I expected.

The papers started calling it a "media religion.“

- Reporters calling him some kind of guru.

Typical Inumaru.

- Inumaru dug up a few interesting things looking into that woman.

- Like what?

- A heavily pregnant woman getting killed in a robbery.

- When was that?

- A long time ago.

I have a hunch that woman has something to do with it.

- Inumaru kept it a secret,

but you said he could do psychic photography?

- Yeah.

- If he's really capable of something like that,

then maybe he saw right through us.

- Don't be silly.

Anyway, this place isn't bugged, right?

- Don't worry. I've checked several times.

- I feel like I'm going crazy.

- Someone's trying to kill me, help!

- This isn't funny.

- Mom, help me!

- Who is this?

Where are you calling from?

My body has become a wiretapping device.

Close your eyes, my love.

- You want to be with me, don't you?

Hello.

- Yo, it's me.

- You had us bugged, right?

- I heard he had a file on you, so I went looking for it.

- Shut up!

- Let him go.

- Kanzaki!

- He made me do it.

Do you believe me?

- If I hadn't overheard what they were saying,

I might not have.

- What did they say?

- That he has special powers and can do psychic photography.

I've read a lot of books about people with superpowers.

One of them was about someone

whose powers awakened after an accident.

- You think that's what happened to Inumaru?

- Only you know that.

- Leave it.

- Let me see.

- You wouldn't understand.

- Then why did you ask for my advice and let me help you?

- My father noticed my mother's symptoms

about eight months into the pregnancy.

When her intense desire to give birth to her child was about to be fulfilled,

she was overcome by fear of going into labor.

My mother began to talk to me, the baby inside her,

through the telephone.

"Help me."

"Yo, save me."

My mother cried out to me

while battling the fear of whether she would give birth to a healthy child.

However,

my father became impatient and was plagued by delusions.

He thought the baby might not be his.

ATELEPHONE RECEIVER IN HER BELLY

The point of the knife my father thrust

scarred the baby's right breast.

"Rubbing the scar arouses you, "

you told me that once.

- He felt something

in the depths of your consciousness.

By having you look into Korin,

he was looking for the root of your anxiety.

- I'm sure of it.

He did it...

because you're so...

important to him.

That's why he hurt anyone who tried to get close to you.

So you could love each other.

- Hang in there, I'm coming to save you.

I wanted to search inside my body.

You helped me do it.

This is me.

Look at me, the inside of me.

Stay out of my head.

Don't call out to me.

- You requested an abortion, but it's a phantom pregnancy.

Take good care of yourself, alright?

- Are you okay?

You had a bad dream because of the anesthetic.

You're lying.

Give me back my baby.

The baby you extracted through Cesarean section.

It's mine.

Huh?

"Cut the circuit."

You said that, didn't you?

You want to die, right?

WIRETAPPING COMPLETE

PRODUCED BY: SHISHI PRODUCTION

KIYOMI ITO

MAKO MOMORI ASANO

KOICHI IMAIZUMI MASATO KINO

TAKESHI ITO

SCRIPT BY: SHIRO YUMENO

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: TOSHIHIKO URIU

DIRECTED BY:A H ISAYASU SATO

English subtitles by Hayley Scanlon