Original subtitles

A Hiroto Yokoyama Production

HARUNA TAKASE

YOSHIO HARADA

Director HIROTO YOKOYAMA

MAN“ (Swastika)

who're you?

Oh, you came to give me hush money?

- I... - Don't worry.

I'm not a busybody. I won't tell the cops.

You can't tell anyone.

I won't. Go away.

I have some money.

You're so uncool.

I'm really...

I didn't say you could come in.

I...

My husband's a cop.

He's a detective in the Ikejiri precinct.

So if this gets out...

I can get you some more.

Enough already.

Don't stare.

Tm son-y.

I won't tell anyone you are a thief.

Will this do?

Thanks.

Leave.

I appreciate it.

May I clean your house to thank you?

What should I do?

Wait.

I didn't say you could come in.

Let me do something.

Hey, you. Don't touch anything.

I said don't.

Hit me some more.

Are you satisfied?

You still want to do something?

I'll do anything.

Then lick the milk off the floor.

You said you'd do anything.

You're a pig.

Since you're a cop's wife.

You cut my mouth.

Does it hurt?

There's dust in the milk.

You're very pretty-

You have cute breasts.

Do you want to suck them?

Damn you. You forgot again.

Stop.

But... no. Use protection.

Protection?

Okay.

Which one today? The red one?

I can't get in the mood just like that.

What about dinner?

What's this scratch?

Scratch?

This is no ordinary scratch.

I don't know how it got there.

You must know.

Someone scratched you.

It's just an abrasion.

I must have...

That's a lie. A lie.

What do you suspect me of?

Damn you. Tell me.

- What did you do? - I don't know.

You must know You're lying.

I can't know everything about myself.

Do you think I'm having an affair?

Don't forget the protection.

Welcome.

Sony to keep you waiting.

I thought I had the wrong restaurant.

Tm son-y. Forgive me.

This is my treat.

The paella here is fabulous.

I love paella.

I thought so.

Two beers please.

Or do you prefer wine?

How long did you wait?

Three days.

But...

...here we are.

This is so extreme.

Yes. Like a horse.

An iron horse. This model costs about 50,000 dollars.

Five? Mitsuko, you know a lot about bikes?

I have an RZ.

Doesn't it have a nice behind?

Yeah, how much?

I'll give it to you for free.

Idiot.

Fool.

Oh.

I need to pee.

Hold it in.

I can't.

Hum!-

Sonoko?

Say' Pee... Pee...

Pee?

Pee...

Peeee...

I can't go. Do it again.

Peee...

Peee...

Peee...

That's the third train.

Will you get on the next one?

I'll watch you go.

I don't like this.

Why won't you see me home?

It's already 11 p.m.

I'm not good at goodbyes. Always.

I'm not a sprinter.

I want to be in for the long run.

Along distance runner...

Someone I can run with forever.

That's the kind of person I like.

Then I'm not your type.

You can run.

Do you think I can still run?

Not still.

I can run.

You should be positive. Now.

Bye.

Mitsuko.

I'm home.

You're late again.

Tm son-y.

I hear the number of husbands

who don't want their wives hanging around is increasing.

Do you have something on your mind?

You can't do this while you're pre-occupied.

You're not feeling well?

Yes?

Then let's not.

Did something happen?

Are you hiding something from me?

No?

Is that the truth?

Okay then.

Go to sleep.

Wine and spare ribs.

Thanks for bringing them.

I've been hungry since morning.

But I didn't feel like doing anything.

My period started this morning.

I have heavy periods, I feel blue.

- Is that so? - How about you?

Mine are light.

I envy you.

I'd rather do a lump-sum payment. Don't you?

Lump-Sum payment?

Yeah, it's like paying interest every month.

You think it's finished but it keeps coming back...

Look, Sonoko.

Wouldn't it be great

if ours happened at the same time?

If yours is heavy,

I wish mine could be too, so I could feel blue.

Then I'll look forward to my periods.

Well?

I couldn't tell what was happening inside.

- Who is she? - I asked the super.

She comes from Osaka, 2-18-3 Ashiya City.

Her name's Mitsuko, an eldest daughter.

She works at Tokyo Research in Jinnan, Shibuya.

It's a part-time job.

Did she have a man in there?

I was outside the door.

But her hair seemed a bit disheveled.

Disheveled? Is that so?

Where are you going?

Please don't leave.

I won't.

You're lying.

You were looking at your watch.

My husband comes home at seven.

Oh?

I'm the type who won't be lonely

even if I'm left alone.

Does he get mad when you come home late?

Do you make up in bed, then?

You probably moan while you're doing it.

Mitsuko.

Even so, I love you.

Your body, your tender heart...

I can't leave.

When you say such things,

I don't care what happens anymore.

Sonoko.

I had to hear your voice before I went home.

I can't go home, I won't sleep if I did.

Sonoko. Did you think you could sleep tonight?

I've given up long ago.

No matter how many sheep I count, I can't sleep.

I'm going to drink with a friend till morning.

Friend?

I have friends from Osaka and from work.

I have two friends with me now.

I'm not lonely.

So don't worry and go home.

Go home to your husband.

Mitsuko.

Come for just one hour. Please?

I will.

Mitsuko.

Welcome home.

What are you doing? You're a housewife.

I have obligations. It can't be helped.

You have to be more responsible.

Mitsuko Shido.

Who is she? The woman in that apartment.

What do you do in that room?

What apartment?

Don't act innocent.

But...

It's no use denying it.

Look.

You left home at 10 a.m. and went to Hiroo in a taxi.

There you bought wine and spare ribs.

Then you went to this Shido woman's apartment.

Not me.

I didn't go to Hiroo today.

You... That's a big lie.

Was it really me?

Can you say definitely it was me?

Then why didn't you call out to me?

You...

You followed some other woman.

If you're following someone, you don't announce yourself.

Who is it?

Yes?

Are you Miss Shido?

Yes...

What's your relationship with my wife?

- Huh? - Don't "huh" me.

How do you know my wife?

What do you mean?

You're brazen. Lying like that.

I'm not really... But who are you?

- I... - You keep quiet.

You must be in the wrong apartment.

You've got the wrong person.

I don't. I saw.

What did you see?

I have something on the stove. Please leave.

Tum it off.

I don't take orders from you.

Who are you?

I have never set eyes on this woman before.

That won't fly.

I'm a cop.

How long has it been since I last saw you?

When I try to remember your face at night,

the details escape me.

I hate myself for not remembering.

I wrote letters to you... many times.

Although I didn't send them.

Give them to me.

I tore them up.

Idiot.

We can't use my place anymore.

Since the cop came,

my super warned me in a roundabout way.

Let's meet somewhere else from now on.

Where?

Let's see...

What was the grave we just saw?

There were two names on the same grave.

Two people who committed double suicide

are buried together there.

Oh.

I'd like to be buried with you, like that.

Let's buy a plot somewhere for the two of us.

Then we can be buried together.

We'll be together forever.

You promise?

Look I'm going to hide behind that grave.

Pretend I'm dead

and tell me everything you're feeling.

I can't.

I want you to tell me honestly how you really feel about me.

You can do it if you think I'm really dead.

All right? Tell me everything.

This is my grave.

Mitsuko.

Mitsuko...

You know... When you were alive,

I always wanted you so much it hurt.

That's right.

I loved everything about you.

Your breasts...

I wanted to rip them off and make them my own

and always have them with me.

When I kissed the eyes I loved,

I wanted to suck them in

and swallow them.

Sometimes, I'd want to tear you to pieces.

I was afraid of my own feelings.

No...

I still am.

Mitsuko.

Say something.

Why did you die?

We should have died together.

Exactly at the same second.

Mitsuko?

I can tell you this because you're dead.

Laugh from beyond the grave.

I wanted our bodies to be connected deep inside

and do anything, no matter how hard,

to create something between the two of us.

You could have been the one. Or I.

No, I wanted you to have it.

Our baby.

If we had to die, I wanted all three of us...

You and I alone, all three of us to die together.

I'm freezing.

I wish the whole world would just freeze over.

I wish everyone else would die,

leaving just the two of us.

I'm going to bury the sea.

It's so serene, it's such a liar.

Idiot!

Pretending everything': fine.

That's right.

Life's not like that.

She's right.

Say it will be.

Mitsuko. I got my period.

Now?

I'm hot.

I'm so hot.

Huh?

Me, too.

Mitsuko.

We're...

Sonoko, we buried the sea.

Sea? We can do anything.

If you look serene tomorrow

I won't forgive you.

Yes, this is Kakiuchi.

What?

Oh, you're staying over?

You're staying there?

You don't want to come home?

Er, no. That's fine.

Yes go ahead.

Here you go.

You have to think about the last train

when you're having an affair.

It's not like that.

You were always bad at details, Sonoko.

Shoko, are you...?

Does it show?

How far along?

Twenty-four weeks, so six months.

You're brave.

Single parents are in these days.

Oh, you have a guest?

Here, Shoko.

Why did you come all the way from Osaka...

You drank my liquor.

I thought you wouldn't mind. Don't scold.

What about the news dealership?

Who's going to manage it if you're not there?

I hired a new guy.

He's really handsome. A hard worker.

I left him in charge.

Oh, another man.

Forgive me. I really feel guilty about you.

I was giving up men and focusing on the business.

That was my intention, but before I knew it,

I had a man. I don't know how it happened.

How should I know?

I need to talk to you.

Have some.

Thanks.

Don't get mad.

I won't know until you tell me.

You're so cold towards me. It's hard on me.

I'm pregnant.

Again;

I didn't plan it.

It happened all of a sudden.

At your age?

No? I guess I shouldn't.

I'm asking why you weren't careful?

I was just drifting off.

I didn't want to refuse him.

So it just happened.

Tell me what to do.

What's there to do?

If you say get rid of it,

I was going to do it in Tokyo secretly.

How shameful.

If I were you, I'd killed myself long ago.

It's not like I'm a nymphomaniac.

I'm just lonely.

Sometimes I'm so lonely I can't stand it.

You'll understand when you're my age.

As you get older,

you find a cold weight settling on you.

A sorrow you can't explain to anyone.

I bet Sonoko': awake.

She's all uptight.

Why don't you help her relax?

Idiot.

No!

Stop.

Sonoko!

Mitsuko...

I'm home.

Hi.

We have a guest?

It's Ms. Shido.

- What? - It's not like that.

I ran into her in Shibuya after that.

We got friendly over coffee.

You have lots of awards.

Any cop who's been working for ten years has them.

You were so happy when you received the Commissioner's Award.

He was like a kid. He did a painting about it.

Commissioner's Award?

Does he do oil painting?

He's a weekend painter.

Rather, he paints on his days off.

A cop Henri Rousseau?

- Is this his? - Yes.

A clothes hanger? What a strange painting.

This is a crime scene.

Crime scene?

The corpse was under the hanger.

A Corpse?

“Di a girl.

I thought for a moment

the girl slipped off the clothes hanger and died.

Scary.

I was a detective in Fukagawa then.

The crime scene was in Shimotakaido.

Shimotakaido?

When I moved to Tokyo,

my first apartment was in Shimotakaido.

Oh yeah?

Then you must know the theater near the station.

Of course.

It happened in an old apartment behind it.

I see...

You're still up?

Why? Does it bother you?

I thought you said you'd see her to the station.

We got talking...

Come here.

I was hoping I was wrong...

What do you mean?

You must know what I suspect.

Why don't you come out and say it?

You two are... you know...

les... lesbians.

You're so vulgar.

I'll try to forget everything until now.

- So stop seeing her. - No.

What if I refuse?

I'll kill.

Which one of us?

Me or Mitsuko?

I don't care which.

If one dies, the other won't keep on living.

Don't you get it?

What you two are doing is... unnatural.

It's abnormal.

I can't help being in love with her.

I love Mitsuko so much...

It's not as though I'm having an affair with a man.

What's it's to you if I have a close woman friend?

Of course it matters. Since we live together.

Are you out of your mind?

You're older so you'll be held responsible.

I know that.

What about me, then?

Even if I look the other way, even if I didn't know,

I'd be the one people will blame.

I'll be mined.

You always think of yourself.

You won't try to understand...

me GS a WONG“.

That's not true.

I've gone along with you about not having a baby.

I've always worn protection the past ten years.

I've tried to live according to your wishes.

But I won't condone lesbianism.

Then we'll have to split up.

Divorce me. Let me go.

I have no reason to.

"Why did you get divorced?"

"My wife had an illicit lesbian relationship."

How can I admit that in public?

Think about it.

What did our lives together mean, then?

We can argue because we have a ten-year history.

But you talk of divorce so easily.

Let's try to work this out.

Right.

Then consent to my seeing her.

I won't. Are you kidding?

Think of your age!

It was a gift.

It's too much for me alone.

Dear? Can Mitsuko stay over tonight?

Really? You sure?

Right?

I loved Kamakura.

Don't you want to go again?

Kamakura?

That cemetery, remember?

I wonder if the sea is flat again tonight.

When did you go to Kamakura?

When? I forget.

I'm going to sleep.

But...

I'm not saying you can't go.

I think your husband's cold.

Dear? Can you try not to cough?

I can't sleep.

But I'm cold.

I have an idea.

It'll be warm if all three of us slept close together.

Just like kids, we'll squish together.

There's nothing dirty about it.

So let's.

Good night.

Good night.

- Rice. - Coming.

Aren't you eating?

I want to watch you eat.

I want to many you.

We're already a couple.

Why don't you move in?

I could... but I'm scared of your husband.

I wasn't going to tell you...

but when I woke to go to the bathroom,

your husband got up, too,

and when we passed, he groped my ass.

I'm scared.

Is she still there?

What? How brazen of her.

I... I hate that type of women.

She's staying over again?

All right. I'll come home early.

Dear which necktie?

What? The right.

Right? You mean this?

The other one.

Hey. Is that woman still asleep?

She got up ages ago.-

Be careful. She's pushy. There's no end to this.

'Morning.

Six.

He really is a cop.

He sneaked up on me and whispered,

"We need to talk."

He's pretending he has business with you and said,

- "Come to Ginza." - "I'll buy you dinner."

"Meet me in front of Wako at six p.m."

I wonder what he wants to talk to me about.

I wonder if he's going to seduce me.

Are you going?

Should I?

Go.

If you say so.

I'll go.

Let's go together.

What?

Sorry-

I love babies.

Go to your mama.

I have to go to work.

Oh, he's wet. Excuse me.

Sonoko? Can you stop by my apartment and get my boots?

Sure.

It's the slouchy one near the door.

- All right. - Thanks.

Mitsuko. Why don't you just move in?

But, don't you like having a second house?

And it's the place where we first...

You'll be late. Why don't you go?

I'm leaving.

- Come again. - Thanks.

Sonoko?

Does your husband know about you two?

Yes.

How long has she been living with you?

Three months.

I think you're going to lose control of her.

- It happened here? - Oh, wait.

Now.

Wow. It's that painting.

How old was she?

Sixteen.

Her grandpa killed her.

Her grandpa?

How old are you?

Sixteen.

Sixteen?

Should I strangle you?

You mustn't.

No.

No.

I can't, where someone was strangled.

You're a special guest to my workplace today.

You mustn't object.

Not these.

I wanted the short one.

Oh. Tm son-y.

I'm home.

It's cold.

I asked her to fetch my boots from my apartment.

She brought the wrong one.

I'll go exchange them tomorrow.

No. I'll go.

I can fetch them on my way home.

Really?

It's the grey one in the hack of the shoe cabinet.

The grey one? Okay,

If you need anything else, write it down.

Is the bath ready?

Oh, my earrings...

I...

I'm thinking of going back to my apartment.

I don't get enough sleep here.

Why?

When you and your husband are fast asleep,

I try not to disturb you so I can't sleep.

All this time?

Yes.

Why didn't you tell me?

I can't be so selfish.

If you can't sleep, I'll stay awake, too.

I will never sleep.

Can you sleep?

No.

I can't either.

Look, since we're all up, why don't we play a game?

Whit game?

I'll be the wolf.

You two are travelers.

Us, travelers?

The travelers will be mauled to death.

The travelers are camping in a cold hut in the fields.

At midnight, the wolf starts to howl outside the door.

You two. In here.

Sit and pretend to be travelers.

Hum!-

Now. Make a campfire.

Hey, listen to the wolf. Add wood into the fire.

What are you doing?

Slop!

Sonoko. I ate your leg. You can't walk.

You win.

You're a corpse. Don't get up.

Die.

When you killed me, you did it so quickly.

Dear?

Bathroom.

Mitsuko?

What?

I want to be alone with you like before.

Mitsuko?

When did you live here?

It was just when I moved to Tokyo...

so three years ago?

Did you live here alone?

What are you asking?

You had sex with a man here before haven't you?

I suppose.

How many?

One, two, three, four... lots more.

I'm a savage, so I can't count higher.

You're avoiding my question.

Mitsuko?

How about women?

You fool.

I wanted to come here with you.

It's so quiet, I love it here.

The hanger': strong.

It's a weird room.

You can see the firehouse from the back window

and there's two firetrucks in an otherwise empty garage,

crouched like beasts.

Mitsuko.

Let's play police interrogation tonight.

Police interrogation?

- You're hurting me. - Sit.

I am going to start the interrogation.

We don't say that. First...

I'll start the interrogation.

Tell us everything.

Takeshi Kakiuchi.

You know a woman named Mitsuko Shido?

Yes, I do.

You do not have to make incriminating statements,

but you must not lie.

When did you and Mitsuko Shida

become intimate?

Answer me.

I did not have sex with Mitsuko Shido.

How many times have you met her

in the room with the hanger?

I have proof.

I want dates and times of the sexual encounters.

Sexual encounter?

I forget.

- Don't lie. - Hey, don't do that.

Answer me.

Takeshi Kakiuchi affidavit.

About 6 p.m. on January 25th,

I met Mitsuko Shido at Sakamoto restaurant in Dogenzaka Shibuya

and afterwards went to Hotel Chateau nearby

and had sex with her for the first time.

We were at the hotel for three hours.

The hotel cost 62 dollars.

Since February 2nd was a Saturday,

Hotel Chateau was full.

We went to Hotel Eden next door.

After sexual intercourse,

Mitsuko asked my opinion of the difference

between her body and that of my wife Sonoko.

When I said Mitsuko's taut stomach was more appealing

to my wife's sagging stomach,

Mitsuko was inordinately happy-

Because of that, the second sex act

seemed more pleasurable than the first.

Stop, stop. I quit.

This isn't funny.

- I'm quitting. - You can't.

- Don't run. - This isn't play acting.

Sit.

- This isn't fun. - Sit.

This is a real investigation.

You just listen and answer the questions.

What is this?

Takeshi Kakiuchi.

First you were annoyed

when Mitsuko started living in your house.

But in the end, you gave your implicit consent

of a man and two women living together.

Is that correct?

- Yes, that may be... - It wasn't implicit.

He was very pleased.

Are you kidding? I was just...

If you didn't want the three of us to live together,

why didn't you chase us out?

I thought many times of leaving myself.

Then why didn't you?

You're really stupid.

If I left, how could you two keep on living in police housing?

Have you lost your minds?

I was prepared to face public opinion.

Who cares about public opinion?

Don't underestimate it.

You're small-minded.

You had a lover then.

Tell me her name.

Sonoko Kakiuchi.

Yet, you had sex with her husband.

Didn't you think that was a betrayal?

I did.

But there isn't a law that punishes a lover's betrayal.

But if you love someone you want to be hers alone...

Even if you think so, it's impossible to do.

In the first place,

why do you think I fell in love with Kakiuchi?

Because he was your husband.

That was huge.

If he wasn't your husband,

I wouldn't look twice at this middle-aged man.

I bet it was the same with him.

Because I was yours, he was intrigued by me.

Isn't that right?

Then what am I?

Hey, Detective. Shine the light on her.

You used the light on me.

Why don't you do the same and make her talk?

Shut up!

Look...

I felt sexual pleasure with him.

But what about him? I wonder about that.

I wonder how ejaculation feels.

- Do you want to know? - I do.

But I'll never know.

A woman can't know how intense it is.

Does a man really enjoy it?

When I think like that, I find men unsatisfactory.

Do you mean you weren't satisfied with my body?

That's not it.

I can't trust men.

Is it Takeshi Kaikuchi you can't trust

or all men?

That's important, so you must think carefully.

I will.

Who can't you trust?

Takeshi Kakiuchi.

But... I fell in love with him

and I couldn't stop myself even for you

because my body responded.

- Mitsuko... - It's true.

- When I... - Stop.

You know,

sometimes it was a burden...

You were so serious.

"I, Sonoko Kakiuchi

"begged Mitsuko to continue the relationship

"in her apartment.

"I groveled for three hours licking

“Mitsuko Shido's attractive breasts, her underarm

"and lower abdomen... every inch of her body.

"And was in ecstasy."

Did you really do that?

How did you do it? Show me.

Were you always a lesbian?

Answer me.

I plead the fifth.

I inquire for background.

Are you glad you were born a woman?

- Yes. - Why?

Why is it better than being a man?

Because women have a uterus.

That doesn't mean anything.

Never mind that.

Talk about your relationship with your husband.

No, don't. Don't talk.

"What shocked me

"was being in bed with my back to my husband

"and masturbating.

"I've done it several times after my husband fell asleep.

"I loved the certainty of masturbation.

"My husband confided that he did it sometimes, too."

So what's wrong with that?

How does that reflect on our marriage?

Listen to me, Sonoko.

You must have enjoyed doing it the last ten years?

Tell me the truth.

It just hurt.

Don't lie.

I remember, although the times were few,

when you were convulsing with pleasure.

There are those infrequent moments.

More frequent than that.

So, Sonoko.

Tell me one thing.

That room with the hanger?

Why did you take Sonoko Kakiuchi there?

When did you go?

Did you want to end all this?

Confess.

I said, confess.

What the...

No, not like that.

This is how it's done...

Ow...

Tell me. Confess.

Answer me, Mitsuko.

Say something.

The telephone': ringing.

Aren't you going to get it?

Hello? Yeah?

What?

All right.

Who are you?

What? What?

He hung up.

What?

A whistle blower.

Mitsuko Shido': hiding

that she's three months pregnant.

That's ridiculous.

Who impregnated you?

He didn't say.

- Who is it? - Stop this nonsense.

You have to tell the truth.

It's true.

I am pregnant.

Tell me the truth.

I'm pregnant with your child, Sonoko.

Sonoko.

We've already paid a heavy price.

Can we start over?

Live an uneventful life...

peaceful...

Then what was the ten years you spent together?

It's no use trying to be considerate of each other now.

Sonoko.

You have to leave him. With me.

Why not?

You're pregnant, Mitsuko.

Yes.

My period...

started this morning.

That interrogation?

That was Sonoko holding her own wake.

Sonoko.

You mustn't say that. Don't.

Sonoko.

Directed by HIROTO YOKOYAMA

THE END