"A Shin Toho Presentation" "At the Mercy of the Darkness:" "Ayano's Bizarre Delusions" "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Today I report that some sort of dead remains were discovered..." "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Here in the Meguro ward, at a garbage dump near a children's park." "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Part of a dead body was discovered." "A garbage dump near the scene." "Here in the Meguro ward, at a garbage dump near a children's park." "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Part of a dead body was discovered." "A garbage dump near the scene." "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Part of a dead body was discovered." "A garbage dump near the scene." "The police have rushed to the scene." "There's no mistake..." "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Part of a dead body was discovered." "A garbage dump near the scene." "The dead body was taken to the garbage dump." "The shocking actual scene!" "Part of a dead body was discovered." "A garbage dump near the scene." "We 've just found out that it was part of a dismembered human corpse." "Part of a dead body was discovered." "A garbage dump near the scene." "We've just found out that it was part of a dismembered human corpse." "We've just found out that it was part of a dismembered human corpse." "The police have begun a murder investigation..." "Did you take a shower in the middle of last night?" "Uh, yeah." "Was it noisy?" "Sorry..." "It's no big deal." "My husband was my sempai, back in a circle in my student days." "I married him right after graduation." "I never got a job, because my husband didn't want me to." "The reason was that he said he despised worldly women." "But I don't know if it was right or not..." "A year after our marriage, he left his job to form an event company, with friends from the circle back in our school days, and then it failed." "Uh, what about tonight?" "You're eating dinner, right?" " Yeah." " Have a good day at work." "Have a good day at work!" "I'll be back home..." "Oh!" "It's already this late?" "At least I got our moderate debt covered by going crying to our families." "He went back to work, and the conditions are worse than at his old job, but it can't be helped." "So then I had to start working." "USA Plaza, Inc." "USA Plaza, Inc." "I registered at a temporary agency..." "I registered at a temporary agency... and started working in their office as one of their employees." "I'm sorry for interrupting you when you're busy..." "I'm Mizoguchi, of USA Plaza." "I'm sorry for asking this out of the blue, but do you have any interest in going overseas, Tanaka?" "Like travel... or studying abroad?" "Yes..." "Yes..." "Right." "Sure." "At Plaza, we're linked with an American company... we're doing a lot of international exchange." "We'd like to broaden our activities though..." "Essentially, I'm selling English learning materials." "It's the type of thing where a CD and materials are delivered to the home every month." "A set goes for about 300,000 to 400,000 yen." "The price is outrageous." "Yes, I know, Tanaka, but if you put in the time and money, you can do it." "It's like living English..." "Yes, very well, can I meet you?" "I want you to explain it all to me, while I'm checking out the learning materials..." "The learning materials themselves aren't bad, but to become that good at speaking English would require quite a lot of will power, wouldn't it?" "Yes..." "Yes..." "Very well." "How about Wednesday afternoon, around 2 O'clock?" "Sure, see you then..." "Yes, good bye." "You made an appointment." "Isn't that good?" "No, it's kind of SP-ish, though." "It seems the person who joined before me, Keiko Itakura, still hasn't gotten even one contract." "Even though it's somebody else's business, I'm worried because the salary is based on commission." "Look, my hourly wage..." "It's 55.7 yen." "Uhm, there's this girl at work..." "She's interesting." "Should I describe her as mysterious?" "She's an airhead." "Even the people at work call her Itako." "Shut up!" "Oh, I'm sorry." "Are you working?" "Sorry." "I'm Mizoguchi, from USA Plaza." "Uhm..." "Tanaka?" "I'm Mizoguchi." "I made an arrangement with you over the phone." "Tanaka?" "I knew it was SP..." "By the way, SP is a special term within our company." "It means "stood up."" "Yo!" "Uhm, was your name Mizoguchi?" "Yes." "I'm Mizoguchi." "Why are you making such a grim face?" "When you're doing sales, you've got to do it with a smile." "Yes..." "This person is Saijo, a regular full-time employee." "He's the top seller in the company, but I had a hard-time dealing with him." "Can I have a sip?" "My throat is parched." "I don't use phones at all." "I jump right into door-to-door sales." "That's all I do:" "Door-to-door sales." "The challenge is on until you open the door, even just getting something like an intercom." "This is difficult, so would you forgive me if I'm turned away at the door?" "That happens a lot." "But if I visit 10 homes, one of them will open the door." "I've got it going on." "Yeah, surprisingly, there're a lot of office ladies, housewives, and married women who live alone." "So I was wondering... what good would it do for such a person to learn English so late?" "Just kidding." "I do think that, but it isn't my job to consider stuff like that." "A married woman... studying abroad." "Isn't that nice?" "Well, it's kind of my field of expertise." "Listening to people talk, and stuff." "Like discussing their problems..." "Thank you." "All right, don't be discouraged." " Yes." " Hey, smile, smile!" "See ya!" "He's tall, good-looking, and has a bright personality." "He has a charming smile, and there's nothing bad about him at all." "He walks through main street swinging both arms during the day." "That's the sort of vibe." "I'm certain... he has a wife, and a child or something." "A happy family..." "Hey..." "Maybe I'm not good at dealing with Saijo because he makes me feel a sense of inferiority." "No matter what I do, I'm average, and there's nothing I can boast about." "I've never even seriously loved, or been loved by anyone." "My life is like a train-wreck." "Saijo seems to be different from myself, and that's why I have trouble around him." "Essentially, I have an inferiority complex." "Thank you for calling." "It's USA Plaza." "Hello." "Can you put Yamada on the phone?" "Yamada... is it?" "I know that person." "She's a contractor who quit when you joined." "Uhm, Yamada quit..." "I'm Mizoguchi, but I can visit you if you'd like." "Yamada introduced me to the English teaching materials before." "I told her to bring a pamphlet, but she never showed up." "That's why I'm worried." "Uhm, if that's it, then shall it bring it for you?" "Who are you?" "Uhm, we made an arrangement over the phone." "I'm Mizoguchi, of USA Plaza." "I'm here to explain the English teaching materials..." "Oh, yes..." "But I can't decide whether or not to buy it..." "I'll have to discuss that with my husband." "It was a very pretty hand." "When I was a kid, I was attracted by the left hand... that I saw in an advertisement in a magazine my mother was reading." "When I think about it now, I realize it was probably an advertisement for a ring." ""When I grow up, I wonder if I'll have hands like that?"" "That's the sort of thing I was thinking." "But it didn't turn out that way." "The shape is ugly, and the skin is rough." "And I haven't even gotten my nails done." "These hands of mine are like a reflection of my chaotic emotions." "Those hands were beautiful, like they were pulled out of that picture in the advertisement." "U-Uhm..." "In that case, I'll just leave the pamphlet behind and be on my way." "Please discuss it with me." "I'll contact you again later." "Thanks." "I don't want any." "I've already eaten." "But this morning, you said you'd be eating dinner, right?" "I ate." "I didn't say whether I'd eat at home or eat out." "But I texted you many times." "Couldn't you at least have replied?" "I can't do something like that in front of the people at work." "What are you saying?" "Isn't it obvious?" "Are you stupid?" "More importantly, get me off." "If it feels good, I'll do you for the first time in a while." "Hey, if I don't hang this up, it'll get wrinkled." "Shut up!" "Do it better than that." "I'm tired because I just got back from work." "I've been working too." "But you can't get any contracts, right?" "Or were you able to sell?" "Fine, shall I buy a new PC?" "When are you going to get a payment from commission?" "My salary becomes his spending money." "He thinks it's a natural thing." "I can't say anything." "Jerk it at the base with your fingers." "Your hands hurt." "They're rough." "At least take care of your fingernails." "I'm sorry..." ""Whose fault is it that my hands are like this?", is what I couldn't say." "It's okay..." "It's better to do it yourself." "Clean it up." "Uhm, just talk to me!" "Uhm..." " Good work." " Yo, Mizoguchi, good work, good work." "Uhm, can I have a sip?" "Yeah, go ahead." "I owe you one for last time anyway." "Thanks." "The way you drink is sexy." "It's an indirect kiss... an indirect kiss." "I couldn't help but think about how his wife probably had the same ring." "I pictured those pretty hands from yesterday in my mind." "In my imagination, the image of those pretty hands melded with the image of Saijo's wife, who I've never even seen." "At that moment, I got extremely turned on." "It was an extreme lust, the likes of which I had never felt before in my life, until then." "I became aware of my uterus, the way one becomes aware of one's stomach, when one gets hungry." "My uterus grew hot and throbbed, asserting its existence." "My face flushed, and my eyes grew wet." "I could tell it even myself." "What sort of person is your wife, Saijo?" "Nothing special." "Just an ordinary person." "I think what makes a man popular is his awareness of women's desires." "Most men are dull, and go by without noticing a woman's amorous glances... or feelings of affection, but popular men are different." "It's like they have a high-powered antenna... they never miss the waves aimed towards them." "Several minutes later, I was at a hotel doing it with Saijo..." "It feels good..." "You have pretty tits." "Is that so?" "I've never been told that." "Really?" "Not by anyone?" "It's because my husband was my first man." "Then I'm the first man you've ever been with, besides your husband?" "It's an honour." "A big flood..." "I'm embarrassed." "Do you always get this wet?" "It's because it's been a long time for me." "Is that so?" "What a waste." "There's something wrong with your husband." "How could he let such a treasure go to waste?" "Let me see the treasure." " No." " It's all right, just show me." "Do you always do it in this sort of way?" "No way..." "I just want to see what a beautiful woman like Mizoguchi's would look like." "Oh!" "Just as I thought, you're beautiful there too." "I'm too embarrassed." "But you're pleased to be seen." "Can't you tell by yourself that your juices are overflowing?" "I can't tell something like that." "It's good!" "It's good!" "It feels good." "No..." "Ah, No..." "You're overdoing it." "It's too sensitive." "Why?" "I want you to feel it more." "This time..." "I'll do it." "It feels good." "Mizoguchi, you're great." "Well?" "Does it hurt with my hands?" "Your hands?" "No, never mind..." "It feels great." "First time I've had anything like this." "It's great for me too, Mizoguchi." "I don't like to be called that way, because it's my husband's surname." " Then what should I call you?" " Maybe Ayuno..." "A-chan?" "That was my nickname in elementary school." "It was incredible sex..." "So much pleasure surged through my body that it was frightening." "I had orgasms, two, then three times in a row." "We already used up all our condoms;" "I can't believe we're doing it raw." "Is today a 'safe day'?" "I'm not so sure about that." "Then it would be really bad to cum inside." "Fine, then please tell me when you're about to cum..." " and I'll receive it in my mouth." " Yeah..." "Aren't you happy that I'll swallow for you?" "I want to swallow it." "Because, Saijo, yours is delicious." "It feels good..." "I'm going to cum again." "Ah, it feels good!" "I drowned in my relationship with Saijo." "A-chan..." "We met between sales and had sex at hotels." "Once a week became three times a day." "We started doing it almost every day." "I didn't feel guilty about it whatsoever..." "Why is it necessary to feel guilty for having sex with someone you love?" "If my husband found out about me and Saijo... and got really mad, I think it would be a strange feeling." "No-one had a right to be angry with me." "That's the way I felt about it." "And I also completely stopped worrying about it... when my husband came home really late." "I didn't care that he was using my salary as pocket money, or that he kept looking at adult sites." "Of course, I didn't care about us not having sex, either." ""Love resuscitates women."" ""Adultery is what keeps marriages happy"." "That's what I thought." "I started feeling positive, and even started taking care of my own hands a little bit." "Nothing but good came of it." "And the more I did it, the more the pleasure amplified." "And the love deepened as it did." "Soon, I started feeling that I wanted to have him all to myself." "Yes, I think I can be there by 5:30 pm." "Yes." "Yes..." "Yes, I understand." "I'll go right away." "They were probably just jealous of Saijo, our top seller." "There were no good rumours from before." "When he went around doing door-to-door sales, he was fucking all the housewives." "He was forcing them to buy it, by threatening to expose the affairs." "There were actually married couples that got divorced for that reason." "The husbands even came to our company." "I could have just ignored these rumours, but I was worried." "I didn't care about anything like his humanity, the social system, or professional ethics." "It was just that when I imagined him having sex with other women," "I was almost going mad with jealousy." "With this plan, the payment method will be this." "Ma'am, this is the plan that I'd like to recommend for you." "With this, you'll have to make 30 payments..." "I even became jealous of Saijo's wife, whose face I didn't even know." "Hey, are you having sex with your wife?" "A-chan, I can't even get it up anymore, since I'm doing it so much with you." "You're without equal..." "Don't joke like that anymore." "I haven't been, not since she got pregnant." "It's already been several years..." "maybe four years, I guess." "Because she's my kid's mother, I can no longer look at her as a woman." " Really?" " It's the truth, I tell you." "A wife is family..." "Sex with family makes you a pervert, right?" "That's good!" "Besides... my philosophy is not to bring work and sex home." "Since I dropped that pamphlet off at the home of that married woman with the pretty hands," "I haven't gone even another time." "Maybe because somehow her image and the image of Saijo's wife merged together." "Jealous delusions..." "I think it's childish myself." "Mizoguchi, did you do it with Saijo?" "Huh?" "What?" "Why?" "Your sales are going up, plus you've become pretty." "It's like you're in top form." "It seems even your hips have become fuller." "Is that so?" "My hips..." "But..." "Don't you feel bad?" "Saijo is dragging along a lot of bad spirits, right?" "Spirits?" "Yeah, spirits..." "No way!" "There are people like that sometimes." "Those who are resented by many..." "But he doesn't realize it himself at all." "He's successful, and he's one of the winners in life." "He's a cheerful, refreshing sportsman, so it seems like the ones talking bad about him are more miserable." "There are even people who died cursing him... vengeful spirits of the living and the dead." "A lot of them are stuck to him." "They're following him wherever he goes." "Drag, drag, drag, drag - he's dragging all those spirits around as he walks, but he's fine himself, because he doesn't realize it at all." "Because he's a cheerful and refreshing sportsman." "I think I understand Itako's nickname..." "Itako, 'the girl who hurts'." "Itako the itako." "Anyway... one day, I saw that pretty hand again..." "U-Uhm, Ma'am!" "It's Mizoguchi!" "From USA Plaza!" "Remember the English learning materials?" "!" "Ma'am!" "Please wait!" "Ma'am!" "I wanted to see her face..." "Thanks." "I wasn't looking at her face back then, either." "I wonder how it'll be, just because I saw her face." "Now can I project it onto Saijo's wife, who I've never even seen?" "I think it's kind of ridiculous myself, but I couldn't control the urge." "When I came to, a crowd had formed around me." "It seems that somebody called an ambulance, but I panicked and ran from that place." "The shameful, ugly sight of an adulteress driven mad by jealousy." "It was more embarrassing than having people catch me masturbating." " Thanks." " Don't mention it." " It's better for you to get some sleep." " But I have to go back to work." "You can just skip work." "It's about time for you to resign soon, anyway." "Yeah..." "I'll come check up on you again later." "Bye bye." "My hair was dishevelled, there was blood on my forehead, and I was ghastly pale." "I probably really looked like a ghost." "I had a dream..." "I was having sweet, melty sex with Saijo, but... before I knew it... it turned into some housewife from sometime..." "And then it became Keiko Itakura." "It's not a joke." ""Why are you doing this?" That's what I was thinking." "Impossible." "I can't forgive this." "She woke up." "It's okay." "She bumped her head... so she can't move her body anyway." "That's true as well." "Are you okay?" "She said you fell?" "Are you okay?" " Uh... yes..." " No, your face is an awful colour." " That head injury scares me." " Yeah, she should go to the hospital." " I'll call a taxi." " Ah, Saijo..." "The criminal responsible for the Meguro ward murder/ dismemberment incident has committed suicide." "Yamanaka will report from the scene of the incident." " Huh... the TV..." " It wasn't me." "As you can see, this is a quiet residential district." "Even within the city... it appears that the locals can't hide their unrest." "Uh, this incident?" "We've just found out that the remains of the woman discovered on the 10th of last month... belong to Yuri Akagi, a 30-year old who lived in an apartment in Meguro ward's Ohashi district." "The police were continuing an investigation into the possible involvement of Yuri's unemployed... 35-year old husband Keiichi Akagi, who went missing at the same time that the incident occurred, and that brings us to the suicide this time." "It seems the incident is going to conclude on an awfully sour note." "It was discovered in central park." "A dismembered corpse, right?" "Heh, the guilty husband committed suicide." "'Dismembered'?" "Huh?" "Didn't you know?" "You!" "You!" "The husband snapped when he learned of his wife's cheating." "He killed his wife and dismembered her body." "His wife was cheating?" "It's a common story..." "I heard she was screwing some salesman." "The crime occurred in the afternoon on the 8th of last month." "All of the neighbors were out on the day that it happened, so we weren't able to get any compelling witness information." "The apartment where the incident happened." "The crime occurred in the afternoon on the 8th of last month." "All of the neighbours were out on the day that it happened, so we weren't able to get any compelling witness information." "The apartment where the incident happened." "All of the neighbours were out on the day that it happened, so we weren't able to get any compelling witness information." "The apartment where the incident happened." "It appears to have been committed in the Ohashi apartment where the two of them lived." "Ohashi?" "On the 8th?" "It seems there may still be some parts of... the dismembered corpse of the wife that haven't been found yet." "So, Keiichi Akagi committed suicide by jumping from this multi-storey parking lot, but some local students happened to catch the moment on tape, by chance." "Wait a minute..." "What's that." "Isn't it dangerous?" "That guy is in danger." "It's dangerous." "It's dangerous." "It's dangerous." "Wait." "Wait!" "Wait, you!" "What are you doing!" "?" "Hey..." "Wait, are you serious?" "Wow!" "For real?" "What's that..." "His brains are coming out." "For real?" "Wow, incredible!" "Can you show something like this on TV?" "The part of the dismembered body that hasn't been found..." "Would it happen to be a left hand?" "Yeah, maybe that was it..." "What, Mizoguchi?" "So you know about it?" "Because at that angle, I couldn't see the face and the body." "It was unnatural..." "The taxi will come soon." "What, did you already get home?" "You're early yourself." "What?" "Are you going out again?" "I'm going out to eat." "I'll be back." "What?" "A friend?" "What are you saying?" "The husband, Kenji Mizoguchi, an employee aged 28, fell from the veranda and died instantly." "The police said they are doing an investigation and looking into... the possibilities of both murder and suicide on TV, but the possibility that he was pushed off seems high." "The culprit is his wife Ayano, aged 25." "It seems to be me." "But, as I thought, I'm dead." "It seems that I strangled myself to death." "Is it even possible to commit suicide by strangling oneself?" "!" "But it seems the neighbours who came running... to see what all the commotion was about, witnessed me strangling myself." "They also said that the finger impressions left on my neck also match my own." "Maybe it was all true." ""Living separately under the same roof,"" ""Only nominally husband and wife,"" ""The crime of an ignored wife,"" ""Grief of a temporary worker,"" "Favourable?" "Critical?" "There were a lot of articles I didn't understand, but none of it mattered to me." "The only thing that bothered me... was the fact that that married woman with the pretty hand... was probably having sex with Saijo, as I thought." "And it was after seeing that hand... that I had sex with Saijo for the first time." "I wonder if there's some meaning behind it all?" "That irrational lust I felt back then..." "The sensation was like being possessed by someone else's desires." "Could it have been the tenacious spirit of that woman?" "Did she want to have sex with Saijo, even if she'd have to use my body to do it?" "Is something like that even possible?" "It couldn't be..." "This is probably all my delusion." "I resented my husband." "I wanted to escape from the gloomy days, and become romantically involved with someone." "I wanted to indulge in sex." "Saijo was charming... that's why I loved him." "That's all it was." "My love was my own." "A ghost had nothing to do with it." "Me... but I wonder if I'll be any good at it?" "Of course." "Let me tell you about our company's system..." "Saijo's refreshing today, as well." "I heard his wife is pregnant with a second child, or something." "I knew it." "It seems they were doing a lot of fucking." "That's good..." "But this is an adulterous man's password." "I guess it was stupid of me to believe that he hadn't done it with his wife for a long time." "As I suspected, Itakura can probably see it." "A group of white shadows, following Saijo about..." "And now I'm there too, as one of them..." "You're so stupid!" "Kotono" "Tsubasa Usagi" "Taishi Takemoto Yukiharu Inoue" "Yuya Takayama" "Mariko Tsuboi" " Mari Yamaguchi Yoko Satomi" "Special Appearance by Shungiku Uchida" "Based on the manga "At the Mercy of the Darkness" by Shungiku Uchida" "Planning:" "Nakodo Kinugawa (Shin Toho) Project Coordination:" "Kenji Ishibashi" " Yoichi Sumida" "Producer:" "Masaru Ikeda Casting Director:" "Seiichi Nadaya" "Screenplay:" "Naoyuki Tomomatsu" "Director of Photography:" "Loka Seiei" "Assistant Directors:" "Yozo Tainaka" " Masayuki Hayashi" "Still Photographer:" "Senri Yamamoto" "Special Modelling:" "Nishimura Eizo Co." "Ltd." "VFX:" "Takeshi Kazuno" "Translated by brolen for kemushi Timed by lordretsudo" "Directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu"