"For this month" "Take care of yourself." "Thank you." "You too." "Write to me when you're settled." "Sir!" "Come here for minute." "So long." "Produced by Tomohiro Kaiyama" "Based on the novel by Screenplay by Shintaro Ishihara Nobuo Yamada" "Cinematography by Kozo Okazaki" "Original Music by Toru Takemitsu" "Art Design by Kiyoshi Awazu" "Cast" "Kenichi Hagiwara" "Sayoko Ninomiya Masako Yagi" "Shima Iwashita" "Haruko Sugimura" "The Petrified Forest" "Directed bv Masahiro Shinoda" "It's glioblastomas." "The tumor has grown substantially." "It has grown quite deep inside the brain." "There will be a recurrent tumor even if we operated on it." "Wait there." "What are the current symptoms?" "Vision and hearing are impaired." "With this kind of tumor, the patient won't recover his hearing." "He'll be deaf but he'll survive." "What are the odds?" "I might pull off the operation but it doesn't guarantee survival." "You..." "You won't repeat what you've heard here, understand?" "Yes, sir." "There's a room down the hall." "You can wait there." "Don't worry. lt'll be successful." "Dr. Miyaji, the operating surgeon guarantees it." "Scalpel." "Drill." "Forceps." "Clip." "Suction tube." "Dish." "Any operation in the temporal lobe may result in damaging the neural system." "Most likely the auditory nerve will be damaged." "Consequently the patient may suffer from a loss of hearing." "Next." "Despite all the negative implications I decided to perform the operation which in the end minimized the chance of a recurrence." "I also gave the patient a chance of full recovery." "Lights." "As previously mentioned, glioblastomas is malignant." "Often it can't be removed entirely by operating." "Even by removing the perceptible tumor the undetectable tumor would eventually grow." "In other words, he's deaf." "How cruel!" "Haruo Himoto?" "I knew it was you, Haruo." "It's me, remember?" "Eiko lzawa?" "You remember me!" "How have you been?" "I didn't recognize you in that uniform." "This?" "I'm a manicurist at the barber downstairs." "You mean a barber for men?" "That's right." "Men have manicures?" "Sure." "Foreigners manicure their nails, like the Filipinos." "How about a coffee?" "I've just had one but I'll have one more." "I have to meet somebody on the 9th floor." "Eiko." "Have you been back home?" "No, not once." "Do you ever meet old high school friends?" "I haven't had the chance." "Me neither." "Eiko." "A client?" "He's waiting." "Where's Jun?" "It's her turn." "But Mr. Clone asked for you." "Call me. I'm off after 7." "Give my regards to Dr. Takano." "Yes, I will." "Hello." "Oh..." "May I take your coat?" "Can I have a manicure?" "Follow me please." "What's wrong?" "He glared at me." "He's an asshole." "Yeah." "He's a prick." "Got the hots for you?" "I don't know." "He's still looking at me." "Where did you disappear to?" "To a private high school. I quit in the middle of my senior year, though." "YYour disappearance caused a lot of rumors." "I can just hear the careless gossip." "Very careless." "My friends and I always talked about you." "Like what?" "Sleazy rumors that made me think about your naked body." "You're kidding." "I heard about your family too." "Oh yeah?" "Was it your mother's or father's fault?" "I don't really know..." "Both are guilty." "It's none of my business anyway." "You're right." "Aren't you lonely though?" "How about you?" "You're alone too." "Not always but sometimes... I'm thirsty." "Can you close the door?" "Here's your cola." "Not again." "What's wrong?" "The man across the street is always peeping." "He's just a high school dropout." "He turns his lights off and watches me." "Can I turn it off?" "Spooky to think that he's watching." "What is it?" "I used to watch you too." "Oh, when?" " Always." " No!" "It's true." "Always with my mind's eye." "I watched you and did what boys naturally do." "You're horrible..." "Wait." "I've still got these old photos." "Which one's you?" "Here!" "Oh, yeah..." "Can you tell which one's me?" "This one?" "No, that one...?" "Wrong." "This is me." "is this you?" "Look how innocent you looked then!" "I'll hit you!" "Matsuoka is here." "Cucumber's here too." "Look how prissy the Princess looks." "Who's this guy?" "Shiratori." "And Takahashi too." "The Vulture." "Remember?" "I do, I do." "The master cheater." "Takashi Kurokawa." "He became a hero, stealing your undies." " No!" " Yes!" "I smelled them." "You didn't." "They smelled nice." "They didn't!" "They did." "I feel embarrassed." ""Give me a call." "Mother"" "What are you doing?" "Guests are coming!" "Get off your lazy ass and do your work!" "I'll help you when I'm done with this." "Turn it back on." "Get up and work!" "I'm too old for this." "You always say that but I don't care." "Now, move along!" "Tatsuko." "What is it?" "You have a visitor." "Send him to the Finland Suite." "I'm sorry..." "This is not the place to talk..." "Let's go to the guest room." "No." "This is fine." "Please sit down... lf you'd called me, I would have come to see you..." "What do you want with me?" "Tell me what you want." "Nothing..." "I just moved in to your neighborhood..." "Do you want money?" "No. I have money... I'm working. I don't want your money." "Let's get one thing clear." "It's against my morals to think of you as my mother." "Do you understand?" "Where you choose to live is none of my business." "But do not call the university asking for my apartment's address." "I'll move out of my apartment." "Do not look for me." "Take care." "But I'm your...!" "Strange family." "Do you feel better?" "Doctor?" "is anything worrying you?" "What's happened to his hearing?" "His vision's come back..." "He recognized me and smiled at me this morning." "But he doesn't appear to hear me at all..." "Didn't Dr. Miyaji tell you anything?" "I asked him questions but he said it was too early to draw conclusions." "Today?" "No." "He didn't come by today." "What's wrong with my son?" "I can't tell you anything definite because I'm only a student." "But hearing doesn't necessarily improve with vision." "His hearing will recover if things go well... lf things go well?" "What I was explaining the other day was confidential." "It was not meant to be relayed to the patient and his family by anyone except me." "You promised not to repeat what you had heard." "I just thought that I should tell the truth." "You would have told them eventually." "I'll decide when the timing's right." "Listen!" "Do you have the ability to read my mind?" "You may be a good doctor but that's besides the point." "As a medical doctor, your thinking is fundamentally wrong." "I'll report you to the Senior Professors' Board." "Do you want that?" "No, Eiko's still not in." "She hasn't called so I don't know where she is." "Like I told you the other day." "No, I don't know." "Who's this?" "The man who was here the other day." "Are you Dr. Miyaji's lover?" "Are you his pet dog?" "I want to shove dynamite up your vagina." "It is speculated that his death was caused by a new product manufactured by Nippon Chemical." "It's called mediathion and it's an approved insecticide." "The corpse was a medical engineer from Nippon Chemical's farm." "Presumably he accidentally came in contact with mediathion." "There were several other engineers at the farm who have reported having the same symptoms as the deceased." "The deceased must have had more exposure to the chemical." "Recently pests are becoming more immune to insecticides." "The manufacturers have been developing more effective products." "There are two major types of insecticides." "There's organochlorine compound based insecticides like DDT." "Another is based on an organophosphorus compound." "The latter is regarded as being a poison rather than a insecticide." "German researchers of poisonous gas found it as a by product." "The most famous of this kind of poison are parathion and malathion." "Mediathion has been developed from parathion." "A scientist once consumed parathion to see how little it would take to poison a person." "It was only 0.004 ounce of parathion." "He didn't have time to reach the antidote and died." "It's a rather famous story." "For parathlon to affect a human body it doesn't have to be consumed." "It can accumulate on skin, permeate membrane or abrasions causing serious damage to a human body." "is mediathion poisonous only on contact?" "is the vapor dangerous too?" "The answer is no." "But direct contact with the poison will result in death." "It must be highly permeable." "What's in this bottle must be 100,000 times as strong as any of the poison that the Borgia family ever produced." "When you deal with it in experiments be advised to use gloves and pipettes with caution." "Can we experiment with it?" "Certainly." "What's with the outfit?" "I thought you were a gangster's girl." "What's wrong?" "I'll take you home." "No." "Let's find a hotel then." " Take me to your place." " My place?" "Did he do this to you?" "Why...?" "Why did he do such a thing?" "I want to kill him!" "Tell me why." "Money. I borrowed some from the son-of-a-bitch." "He's also jealous about you..." "He interrogated me like a mad man." "I told him that I'd slept with you." "Then he tied me up naked and locked me up in a wardrobe." "When he came back from work, he dragged me out and tortured me." "I want to kill the bastard..." "I want to murder him!" "Don't stop!" "Let me forget about him." "I'll kill him." "I'll kill him for you." "No, I want to kill him myself." "We'll do it together." "Together?" "Do you really mean it?" "Yes." "Do you have any poison?" "I'll poison him." "There have been a few people who I've wanted to kill..." "There are a few I want to kill now." "When you hate somebody, don't hide it until you kill him." "Everybody wants to kill somebody..." "We're all full of hatred." "But we all deceive ourselves." "We live like we're petrified." "In the end all we do is to hate the rest of the world." "You're right..." "Parents, siblings..." "They're no exceptions." "Yeah." "We're no exception either." "Someday we'll hate each other to death." "No!" "I won't hate you!" "You're different." "A murder has to be done perfectly." "What should I do?" "Make him forget his suspicions." "Make him think that nothing's wrong." "Okay. I'll do anything you say." "This is what we're experimenting at the medical school." "Nobody knows about this yet." "Nobodv knows exactly how this thing works." "Mix this into the manicure." "Put it on his nails, okay?" "is this really going to kill him?" "Will he really die?" "Yes." "He'll definitely die." "Does it work right away?" "If he has a cut on his finger it will work quicker." "This thing will kill him... lf you don't treat it properly it'll get you too." "Poison doesn't choose who to kill." "What's the name of it?" "There's no name yet." "Tell her I'm not home now." "Who?" "Just make her go away." "What were you two talking about?" "What's the big deal?" "She's your mother!" "She brought some goodies for her boy." "Can I open it?" "She knew that you were home." "She sounds like a good mother." "I promised her that I would be her friend." "She's so lonely all by herself." "I said that I'd become her daughter." "She was so happy." "Yum!" "Sweets." "What's wrong with you?" "Maybe you miss your mommy?" "Come to mommy." "Come on." "Let me manicure your nails for you." "We're quiet at the moment." "Sure." "Why not?" "I'll get ready." "Let's do a pedicure too." "Why do you have a plaster?" "My new golf shoes cut my feet." "Better watch out for infections." "Does it hurt?" "Just a little..." "Let's go away somewhere next Wednesday." "I'll meet you at Tokyo Station at 9 o'clock." "Okay." "Are you still seeing that guy?" "It feels so nice..." "What do you think?" "Her handwriting is exceptional, isn't it?" "What is your opinion of Mother?" "Tell me before she arrives." "Because you've rejected her, she wrote me a letter." "It's embarrassing." "I hid it from my family." "It's not embarrassing at all." "It's natural for an old woman to want to live with her children." "Oh!" "Are you going to live with her?" "That would solve our problem." "I'll speak my mind when the woman arrives." "The woman?" "Don't be a snob." "Are you still upset about what happened?" "I thought it was all behind us now." "What made him so upset?" "Ask your big brother." "Tell me." "I'm almost 20. I can handle anything." "I've always wanted to know what happened." "Why don't you tell me?" "What happened to Mother?" "Tell me!" "Nothing happened." "Sure, something happened." "What is it?" "Mother committed adultery." "And Haruo saw her with her lover." "That's what happened..." "And...?" "She left home and never came back." "That's what happened 7 years ago." "I was 23, Haruo was 18 and you were 13." "Adultery!" "What else?" "That's all." "is that all?" "You heard me." "I expected something more dramatic... I'm disappointed." "That's no big deal." "It's no big deal?" "Did you hear that?" "No big deal." "It happens all the time." "Look, she's here." "You two haven't met for so long." "What can I get you?" "Tea, Mother?" "Let me make one thing clear to you." "Don't involve strangers in our personal problems." "I'm talking about Eiko lzawa." "Do not bring strangers into this mess." "What kind of way is that to talk to your own mother?" "Apologize to her!" "Keep you voice down." "People are looking." "Who cares about them!" "We're a family!" "I read your letter to Kyoko." "You want to live with me." "Not this instant..." "You know..." "Let me make this clear to you." "It's unlikely that I'll ever be able to accommodate your wishes." "Why are you speaking like that to Mother?" "Mother, we've gone through a lot." "We should appreciate the fact that we still see each other like this." "But I'm married and have my own family." "Haruo and Hiroo will soon graduate from school and be independent." "Dad has passed away too... I think you have to put the past behind you and start over." "You wrote in your letter that you were very lonely everyday." "But aren't we all?" "I have a kid and a husband." "But I'm still lonely." "The people around us are the same too." "I'm so glad to have met you today." "You don't look 58 at all, Mother." "Take care of this, Haruo." "Everything's up to you after all." "I have to go now. I have an errand to do for my husband." "You have some business too, Haruo?" "What are you going to do?" "I want to speak with Mother." "All right. ls Mother okay with that?" "Mother, listen." "We can go to some nice restaurant." "So long, Mother." "When you send me a letter, don't mention the name of the motel." "Good bye now." "Let's go somewhere else, Mother." "I have enough money." "I want to live with Haruo..." "Don't turn it on." "What's going on?" "I did it today." "I applied the poison to his nails." "He was snoozing, oblivious to what was happening." "He had a hangnail too." "He's dead and he doesn't know it." "He's dying." "Decomposing." "His heart." "His liver." "Everything's failing." "We're perfect." "This is a perfect crime." "We should get married." "Yeah." "We should get married." "Are you leaving the hospital?" "Why?" "Dr. Miyaji told us that we could." "When?" "Yesterday." "What else did he tell you?" ""Go home and wait patiently."" "He told us to come back twice a month." "Did he say that your son's hearing would come back?" "He said there was a possibility." "That I shouldn't despair." "is Dr. Miyaji lying to us?" "Our family is falling apart..." "What's wrong, Mom?" "Nothing, sweetie." "Pack up your things, Kazuhiko." "How should I explain things to him?" "What kind of life can he expect?" "Aren't you ready to go yet?" "What's wrong?" "Thank the doctor." "He has been taking very good care of us." "Dr. Miyaji." "When are you going to tell the mother the truth?" "I need to know because I share your secret." "Do you really think the boy will get his hearing back?" "Tell the mother the truth before she leaves the hospital." "They need to know, so that they can get on with their lives." "Morally it's the right thing to do as a doctor." "I heard that you've worked hard to pay your tuition." "I also heard that you're a good student." "If you want to stay with this hospital, leave this alone." "I don't want to lose a good doctor like you." "Did you see the doctor?" "I did." "He said that I have a bad liver... I feel dizzy and breathless even when I take a few steps..." "You shouldn't have come in." "You should have rested at home." "I wanted to see your face." "We can't go away now..." "It's boring." "I'll take you somewhere when I get well." "Anywhere." "Hello." "It's him." "Kick him out of here." "He makes me sick." "Yeah..." "What can I do for you?" "Give me a shave." "You can't play golf either." "That's the last thing I want now." "Mr. Suzuki is here." "Tell him to wait for me at the cafe." "Are you okay?" "There's a problem!" "Your boss's collapsed!" "What happened?" "Looks like he can't breathe." "I'll bring him here." "Call the doctor in the meantime." "Hello?" "is Dr. Matsuyama there?" "He's out on house calls?" "Oh, no..." "This is an emergencv." "Okay..." "I'll do that." "I don't know what to do..." "How about the dentist next door?" "A dentist's no good." "Call an ambulance." "Excuse me." "I'm a medical student." "I can help you until the doctor arrives." "Yes, please." "How did he collapse?" "He said he was giddy and started scratching his chest." "Then he fell off the chair." "Has it happened before?" "No." "But he's been suffering from a bad liver." "Does he have anemia?" "This isn't anemia." "It's a cardiac arrest." "Bring me some hot towels." "Get me a cotton ball saturated in alcohol." "Yes." "We have to get him to the hospital." "Call an ambulance." "Hi, honey." "What are these things?" "I brought them from my apartment." "I had to use a taxi." " Here master." " lt's boiling over." "What happened?" "I went to the hospital with him." "Which hospital did he go to?" "The closest one." "The doctors said that no treatment was helping." "Do you think he's going to die there?" "You saturated the cotton ball with the poison, didn't you?" "Didn't you?" "That will kill him." "Wasn't that what you wanted?" "The final blow?" "It was." "Hey, what happened to the owl?" "I threw it out. lt's gross living with a dead bird." "Don't you want me to move in here?" "I thought we were going to get married." "Your mother thinks it's a good thing that I move in with you." "Did you see her?" "Sorry I didn't tell you but I've met her 3 times since that first time." "Mother wants to live together with us." "She's had a hard life." "You shouldn't let her work in a motel." "I think I'd really get along with her." "Hello?" "That's right." "Hold on please." "It's the hospital." "You gave them this number?" "Hello, this is Eiko lzawa." "How's his condition?" "...ls he dead...?" "Did he really die?" "I'll get some cigarettes." "Scared?" "Don't be silly." "You'll be safe as long as I remain quiet." "Where's the rest of the poison?" "It's in my apartment." "Dispose of it right awav." "Okay. I'll do that." "That must be your mother." "I'll answer the door." "May I help you?" "My name is Kikue Shiomi." "Sorry to bother you so late but is Dr. Himoto home?" "What is it about?" "What's happened?" "I'm sorry to bother you but I have nobody else to turn to." "is Kazuhiko okay?" "No..." "Suddenly he began acting strangely." "Has he gone mad?" "You want to invite her in?" "I'm coming with you." "Let me get ready." "Who is that woman?" "A patient's mother." "Send her away." "Don't forget that this is an important day for us." "I'll be late, so leave the key out for me." "Don't go!" "He's gone crazy, hasn't he?" "No, that's not what it is." "Any healthy child can behave like this." "It's a kind of emotional instabilitv." "He never acted like this before the surgery." "Stop worrying." "It may take time but he'll be okay." "Who are you?" "He is... I'm Dr. Himoto." "I met you at the hospital." "You again..." "Leave us alone." "Don't say such a thing." "I asked him to come and help us." "You should stop drinking so much." "We have a life to deal with." "I'm Kazuhiko's father." "Tell him to leave." "Please...!" "'l need some time alone to think about the recent incident"" "It's coming!" "What's wrong with you, idiots!" "?" "Kazuhiko!" "Are you okay?" "Are you his mother?" "This is the man who saved your son." "...lt's you... lt's a coincidence." "I was on my way back from your place." "It was dangerously close." "It's a miracle!" "He's moved out without telling us." "Haruo's escaped from us." "Us?" "Yes, from you and me." ""to think about the recent incident..." What's that mean?" "Do you have any idea?" "Mother... I have something to confess to you." "We killed a man." "Haruo and I have murdered a man." "Stop talking and start working, will you?" "I've still got the bottle of poison." "I can take it to the police." "I'm going to do it." "Seriously." "Uh-huh." "Do what pleases you." "But Mother..." "He dumped us both and ran away." "Murderers should be hanged." "Both you and Haruo." "No..." "Mother, what am I going to do?" "Tell me what to do..." "Stop crying. lt's embarrassing." "You want my help?" "You have to do what I say then." "Promise?" "First, don't tell anybody about this." "Okay?" "Leave Haruo to me." "I'll smooth things out with him." "I'm a woman, too." "So I know how you feel." "But..." "A relationship between a man and a woman isn't just about sex." "Men are the world for a woman." "Through men she learns about the world, little by little." "Finally a lot will be revealed." "You'll understand things eventually." ""Mother prays, lt's a miraclel"" "You're sick!" "Are you jealous of the man who saved Kazuhiko's life?" "You're sick." "Please see a doctor." "You're ganging up against me." "You want me to think that I'm crazy!" "Did you sleep with him?" "Did you?" "Did you?" "Tell me..." "Tell!" "Say it!" "You..." "Don't play innocent with me!" "Say it!" "Say it!" "What's that glare?" "I slept with him." "I love him." "I'll kill you!" "You..." "Rotten brat..." "Stop!" "I'll wait here." "Come inside with us." "I don't think I..." "You go inside. I'll wait for you here." "Excuse me, but are you a doctor?" "I used to be a doctor, too." "I can smell formaldehyde on you." "There are manv of us who turned away from medicine." "Turned to the church, to the way of god." "Let me accompany you into the church." "Come on." "Have courage." "You put religion and medicine side by side and tell me to choose one?" "I didn't put them side by side." "Religion and medicine belong to totally different dimensions." "Religion existed before science and is above science." "Do you think medical science is invalid?" "It isn't invalid." "But trusting it could lead to horrible consequences." "It's a belief that is misleading." "All efficient doctors know this." "But they won't tell you what they know." "Some of them even think it's their responsibility not to tell." "Giving people blind faith in medical science." "What should they be informed about?" "The true salvation of life." "It's either life or death." "We only have two choices." "Any sickness can either be cured or remain uncured." "Everybody knows that." "Everybody knows that!" "Imagine a building on fire." "You put out a fire on the 4th floor." "But if the 1st floor's still on fire the building will burn down." "How about cancer?" "Modern medical science can't cure cancer." "So there is the choice." "You either live, or die." "Can religion cure cancer?" "No." "But it can save the patient." "Modern medicine can't even do that." "That is mere rhetoric." "That's just what I used to sav to counter argue the ministers." "But, isn't religion just a personal manifestation of emotions?" "You're right." "You're right and wrong." "More rhetoric." "Come inside with me to the shrine." "It's time for a prayer." "If you enter the door, you will know what I mean." "I have to ask you one thing." "Please ask." "Suppose l was a murderer." "Would I be let through the church door?" "A murderer?" "That's right." "It's speculation." "I can't give an answer to that." "If it weren't speculation..." "More speculation." "I killed... I killed a man... I'm a murderer." "Will I be forgiven?" "You'll be judged by the god inside you." "Why did we commit a murder?" "What for...?" "I did it for myself." "Not for you." "You mean you don't need me any more?" "Answer me." "You'd better go home now." "You'll miss the last train." "I'm exhausted now." "What do you see in that woman?" "Let me remind you that you can't escape from me." "You and I killed a man together." "We're murderers." "Who is that man?" "Where are you hiding my wife and child?" "You have ruined my family completely." "Kikue and Kazuhiko have left me." "They've left me alone." "Young lady, tell this bastard." "He seduced my wife and took her away from me." "He stole my wife and my son." "Tell him to give them back to me." "Kikue!" "Kikue." "Are you going to look for her?" "Now I see you for what you really are." "You think v ou've acted autonomously." "But you live with the hatred you have for your poor old mother." "Out of guilt you are kind to the woman and her son." "What you really want is your mother's love." "But you can't get it so you've found a substitute." "You think I don't see it." "But I know that you're twisted with a mother complex!" "How dare you say that!" "You can hit me!" "Or kill me!" "That'll send you to the electric chair!" "I hate you." "I hate you as much as I hated him..." "Thank you for everything." "I was kind of nasty to you." "Sorry." "Because I was lazy. lt's okay." "Come to my new place some day." "Nice air, nice area." "It's great that you can live with your son." "That's been your dream." "I'm a lucky woman." "I'm Haruo's mother." "I came to thank you for taking care of my son." "This is something for you to eat." "Just a little something to show my gratitude." "Haruo, I'd like to speak with you." "Eiko told me everything." "What's that?" "What did she tell you?" "That she and you killed a person." "But I don't believe her." "A woman like her would say anything." "But I wonder..." "She's telling the truth." "I killed a man." "She's hysterically upset." "Babbling on about taking the poison to the police or killing herself..." "She was particularly upset about a woman named Kikue." "Young women do crazy things when they are desperate." "I've calmed her down, so she'll be quiet for a while." "But she's dangerous." "You can't just leave her." "I've been thinking." "If I move in with you you'll regain her trust and she'll calm down." "If we followed this plan she'd stop having these stupid ideas." "I appreciate your concern but I'll deal with her myself." "How are you going to do that?" "You are going to kill her, too." "That's nonsense." "Mother!" "I've been waiting for you." "Look at all the food I got!" "Mother." "What's going on with you?" "You're squashing the tofu." "I'm so happy, Mother." "I thought I'd never see anybodv ever again." "Stop hugging me." "People will see us." "Let's go inside." "That was the best Sukiyaki I've ever had." "I'm glad you liked it." "Oh, I'm a little bit drunk." "Would you like a cola too?" "No, I've had enough." "Eiko, can you show me the chemical?" "The poison you were talking about." "The one that Haruo stole from the laboratory." "Oh, that?" "Okay." "is this it?" "Don't touch it." "You'll die instantly." "Keep it away from me. lt's horrible." "It's not dangerous if you don't touch it." "You're so timid." "Maybe I can show you something else, too." "Only show me if it's something good." "What's this?" "It's my will." "Your will?" "When I die, the police will get it." "Then Haruo won't ever be able to escape from me." "You wrote so many pages... I wrote down everything." "I wrote two copies of it and sent the other copy to Kikue." "But if you did such a thing...!" "That woman won't go to the police." "I don't care what happens in the end." "I just want to destroy her." "Mommy, I can't see..." "You can't see?" "What's wrong?" "Come this way." "Kazuhiko, try hard to see." "I can't see." "Mommy, I can't see." "I'm scared. I can't see." "What's going on?" "I'm scared. I can't see." "No!" "Since when?" "Don't touch him!" "What's wrong?" "Don't touch my child." "What are you talking about?" "What is it that you've read?" "What's written in it?" "Listen to me, Kikue!" "It's not what you think!" "What I did was..." "Not like that!" "It's too late. I know it's too late." "I know now." "Kazuhiko will never get better." "In a way I killed Kazuhiko." "Because we committed a sin." "We're all damned!" "That night at your apartment..." "Kazuhiko saw us committing a sin." "Kikue." "This isn't right." "This isn't true." "This isn't what you think!" "This is not what it is!" "I swear to have unconditional belief in the Buddha... I'm home." "How was the bath?" "It was so nice." "You should have come with me." "Oh, have you been cleaning?" "Thank you." "Do you want to have something cold?" "Yeah. I want a cola." "I'll do the rest, so why don't you join me?" "No, thank you." "I'll bring you the cola." "Thank you, Mother." "Thank you." "Sorry to treat you like a maid." "Delicious." "What's wrong?" "Mother... I can't breath..." "You're home late." "What took you so long?" "I'll make tea for you." "Everything's taken care of." "I took care of her." "Eiko's dead." "I killed her for you." "I killed her with your poison." "It's true." "Eiko trusted me too much." "It's her fault." "She even told me where she hid the poison." "She had nobody to talk to." "Nobody to confide to." "She was a lonely woman." "I disposed of the rest of the poison." "And I burned her will and letters." "There's nothing to worry about." "Why...?" "Why did you...?" "Because you would have been found out." "How could I let it happen?" "After all, I'm your..." "Now I'm just as sinful as you are." "My throat's become bad again..." "Mother..." "Yes...?"