"Produced by Shochiku Co." "Ltd." "And Hashimoto Productions" "Presented by Shochiku" "Producers:" "Shinobu Hashimoto" "Masayuki Sato Yoshiharu Mishima" "Original Story:" "Seicho Matsumoto" "Screenplay:" "Shinobu Hashimoto Yoji Yamada" "Photography:" "Takashi Kawamata" "Director of Music:" "Yasushi Akutagawa" "Music Composer:" "Mitsuaki Kanno" "The Cast:" "Tetsuro Tamba" "Go Kata" "Kensaku Morita" "Yoko Shimada" "Karin Yamaguchi" "Yoshi Kato" "Seiji Matsuyama" "Chishu Ryu" "Masumi Harukawa" "Shin Saburi" "Ken Ogata" "Kiyoshi Atsumi" "Directed by:" "Yoshitaro Nomura" "KAMEDA, A SMALL TOWN AT THE NORTHERN TIP OF JAPAN" "What about breakfast?" "All right." "Let's go there." "You're young." "You eat and sleep well." "Couldn't you sleep?" "I woke up early." "Composed a poem?" "First time in Tohoku." "It should inspire a verse." "But work comes first." "KAMEDA POLICE STATION" "Eitaro Imanishi, Investigation 1st Section, Metropolitan Police Department and Hiroshi Yoshimura, Detective, Kamata Police Station" "Please be seated." "You thought at first that Kameda was a surname?" "Inquiries were sent to the Tohoku prefectures." "No results were produced." "But the only clues we have are" "Tohoku dialect and Kameda." "We then thought it might be a geographical name and so" "This is a small town." "Everything comes to our notice." "So we sent the report." "Will it be of some help?" "This man stayed at Asahiya, an inn with a long history." "I refused him at first because of his looks and clothing." "But he said he would pay in advance." "He paid promptly?" "Even gave a tip to the maid." "His looks?" "Was he tall or short?" "Of average build?" "Over here?" "No, over there." "You there!" "Yes, you." "That man was standing here?" "Yes, near the roots of that tree." "This tall?" "He stood here for 30 minutes without speaking?" "At times he crouched." "Sometimes he walked back and forth." "Avery strange man." "The he did nothing special?" "It's hard to say what he was looking at or trying to do." "He lay sprawled here?" "That's right." "Without doing anything at all?" "Not many idle people here, so he drew attention." "When I asked, at least 5 or 6 persons remembered seeing him." "The man disappeared and never returned?" "That's right." "Impossible to trace." "Probably a false name and address." "Only here one day." "He's vanished." "What about the nearby towns and villages?" "Let the local police do it." "Imanishi, do you intend to go back?" "Melon?" "Must we return empty-handed?" "Eat your melon." "I know it's inexcusable." "Nothing to show for coming here." "Our work requires waste of time and labor." "Let's forget about this man." "Since we're here." "Let's check if anyone left for Tokyo and failed to return." "We can do that." "Tohoku dialect." "That and Kameda are all we have." "Tohoku dialect." "Kameda." "The crime was discovered June 24, 1971." "In the Kamata marshaling yard, Tokyo." "Getting late." "Lot of trouble for you." "A corpse brought here." "Well?" "Investigating." "The victim's age 60 to 65." "Rather slender build." "Wearing gray suit." "No name." "No personal affects." "Identity unknown." "Blood type:" "Group O." "Cause of death:" "Fractured skull." "Struck on head and face with a rock." "Killing by train faked after death." "Presence of alcohol detected." "Lapse of time after death:" "3-4 hours." "Came into your bar between 10 and 10:30 p." "M?" "Yes." "Spoke in zu-zu manner?" "He had a provincial accent typical of the Tohoku area." "In Tohoku dialect?" "You heard it?" "No mistake?" "Very strong accent." "You placed the whisky on the table and started to sit down" "It was a private talk." "He asked me to leave." "The younger one?" "The one seated there." "And then?" "I left and went to the counter." "The two left here shortly before 11:30 p." "M?" "That's right." "Ordered more drinks." "Kept on talking." "The older man was speaking earnestly to the younger man." "Yes." "Couldn't you hear what they were saying?" "Music was being played at the time." "Besides, they weren't talking loudly." "This man spoke earnestly." "What was their relationship?" "A business deal?" "Or just friends?" "It needn't be definite." "Isn't there some word that you remember hearing?" "Didn't you notice?" "When we served the second drinks?" "Can't remember." "And you?" "When serving the second drinks." "I clearly heard the word Kameda." "Kameda?" "I heard the word 2 or 3 times." "How is Kameda?" "Has Kameda changed in any way?" "You're sure that it was Kameda?" "No mistake." "It's narrowed down." "The young man who as drinking in the bar is the likely suspect." "He was said to be wearing a white sport shirt." "Blood must have splattered on him." "He couldn't go very far." "Over there." "It might not be as simple as that." "Why not?" "The sport shirt." "Could have been thrown into the river." "An undershirt would be enough." "No one would be suspicious in this hot weather." "It so, the sport shirt would have been found." "It hasn't been." "The investigation faced numerous difficulties." "Above all, the victim had not been identified yet." "The young man who was at the bar." "It's still a mystery." "Who was he and where did he go?" "The bloodstained shirt also remains missing." "Therefore." "The one word remembered by the hostess." "The word both men knew." "Kameda is our principal clue." "The Police Agency assisted us." "64 Kameda families were found in the Tohoku area." "The families, relatives, friends knew of no missing person." "The investigation has become snagged." "Despite your efforts." "We are baffled." "In pursuing the investigation further." "I would like to hear your views and ideas." "Speak frankly." "About that name Kameda." "Why limit it to the Tohoku area?" "Their mutual friend might be living here in Tokyo." "Or somewhere west of Tokyo." "I've something to say about Kameda too." "How's Kameda?" "Any change?" "Were being asked at the bar." "Was it a man's name?" "It might have been a locality." "I've had that thought." "Yesterday I looked at a railway map." "Kameda?" "Where?" "In Akita." "Bring an Akita map!" "Kameda, a small town at the northern tip of Japan." "After 2 fruitless days." "In Kameda, Tohoku district." "They decided to go back." "If it could be linked to that strange man." "We'd have something to show." "Deep colored sea." "Lighter on Pacific side." "Appears enriched." "That's Tohoku for you." "Yoshimura, what happened to that shirt?" "Sport shirt?" "Since it wasn't found around Kamata." "He didn't live there." "Yes, he couldn't have gone far." "Maybe he had a relay point." "Where he could change." "You mean a hideout, friend or sweetheart somewhere near Kamata?" "Transfer made at Ugo-Honjo to the express train Chokai." "Shall we eat?" "The dining car." "Let's have beer." "No use brooding." "I'll treat." "You're blocking the aisle." "I'd like to travel more." "2 men together?" "Not much fun." "Meaning?" "Don't be foolish." "I meant taking my child along." "Sorry." "I forgot something." "Autograph, please." "Who's that fellow?" "Can I have some tea?" "Who is he?" "Eiryo Waga?" "You mean the musician?" "Noted conductor." "He's been invited by an American orchestra." "According to newspapers." "Great expectations are being placed in him." "Looks quite young." "How's this?" "You were writing a poem?" "Not about the search?" "Sorry." "Green leaves reflected in the river and a man asleep." "Refers to that strange man?" "More or less" "Summer in the north." "Water colored deep." "Good expression." "I like this part." "In memory of this trip." "Returned to Tokyo at 6:43 a. m." "The trip to Tohoku was failure." "The Metropolitan Police Department took over the case." "Near Enzan in the central part of Japan." "Yoshimura!" "That new assignment." "Forget about the killing." "You're not on that now." "Forget it!" "Get me the Maicho Shimbun." "I'm not certain whether it was a letter." "Could it have been cloth instead of paper?" "I didn't look that closely." "Some special reason?" "Not particularly." "Shall I introduce her to you?" "It was 4 or 5 days ago." "Just by chance." "I was with a writer friend in the Ginza." "Met her unexpectedly." "Care for a drink." "Nope." "Waiting for Rieko?" "I'm Rieko." "Just a few questions for my own information." "You rode on the Chuo Line recently?" "Chuo Line?" "Why, no." "I haven't left Tokyo for a long time." "Strange." "Someone is sure that he saw you." "Is that so?" "It couldn't possibly have been me." "Akiko" "Cigarette?" "Never mind." "I left my handbag." "I'll be right back." "All right." "Would you care for a soft drink?" "No thanks." "The composer?" "Yes, Eiryo Waga." "He's going to America in autumn to conduct an orchestra." "He's working on a major composition now." "Destiny for piano and orchestra." "He has confidence." "Announcing the title so boldly." "Destiny?" "That woman?" "Not sure." "It might possibly be Sachiko Tadokoro." "Father is a former Finance Minister." "Akiko, where's Rieko?" "Went to get her handbag." "Not there." "Where did she go?" "August 9." "The case saw an unexpected development." "The victim's son appeared." "No mistake?" "We must ask you next." "To identify the body at the morgue." "He's your father?" "Yes?" "He is." "Thank you for preserving the body." "He has been identified." "Thank you." "He started out for the Grand Shrines of Ise." "Didn't return." "At the beginning." "We didn't worry." "But 50 days passed by." "We decided to ask the police to search." "We were told there was a nationwide inquiry from Tokyo." "The photo shown to us." "Looked so much like my father." "I had to come here at once." "21 Emi Town, Aida County, Okayama Prefecture?" "Father was Kenichi Miki." "My name's Shokichi." "How old was he?" "He was 65." "Occupation?" "Grocer." "Eldest son?" "No, I'm an adopted son." "He had no child." "I was an employee at first." "Father later adopted me." "Then I married." "An adopted son and daughter then?" "That's how it was." "From a year ago, father let us take care of the business." "He virtually retired." "You say he left for Ise?" "He had long wanted to visit the Grand Shrines." "Early in June, he said he wanted to travel in a carefree manner." "We agreed to his plan." "He left when?" "On June 10." "How much money?" "I think he took 120,000 or 130,000 with him." "There was no word after that?" "Only these." "One postcard from Kotohira, another from Ise." "Kotohira?" "Kompira Shrine in Shikoku." "Reached Ise via Kyoto and Nara." "Will return after 2 days here." "But to Tokyo" "Had business here?" "Don't think so." "We can't understand why Father visited Tokyo." "No reason for it." "Kameda?" "Did your father have a friend name Kameda?" "No one by that name." "He didn't?" "Is there a place called Kameda near your town?" "There isn't." "This is very important, so please think carefully." "Have you ever heard of a person or place called Kameda?" "Neither a person nor a place like that." "Never did?" "Birthplace?" "Father was born and lived to Emi." "Did he ever speak in the Tohoku dialect?" "Why, no." "Never in the Tohoku dialect." "Did he ever live in Tohoku?" "No." "He was policeman in Shimane for awhile." "After retirement, he returned to his hometown, Emi." "The he opened a grocery shop." "I don't think he ever went to the Tohoku area." "Did your father have an enemy?" "Someone bearing a grudge?" "No one like that." "He was kind to everyone." "They all respected him." "You said that he was once a policeman in Shimane Prefecture." "A policeman comes into contact with all kinds of people." "At that time?" "I'm an adopted son." "Don't know much about the past." "But not in Father's case." "Even if I do say so." "He was certainly a splendid man." "No backbiters at all." "You'll understand if you make inquiries." "A tough case." "We're back at the beginning again." "Still, the victim has been identified." "A big step forward." "But the Tohoku dialect and Kameda?" "You still have an attachment for Kameda?" "National Language Institute" "Whether the Tohoku dialect is spoken elsewhere?" "I want to check that." "No, it is not." "It is spoken only in Tohoku." "It might so happen that" "An entire Tohoku village moves to Hokkaido." "That's very rare case." "But phonemic similarities do exist." "Phonemic?" "Method of pronunciation, the sound system." "Platform vendor's call" "If Sushi is pronounced Susu." "People in Eastern Japan will say that's Tohoku." "But in Western Japan, they'll think of the Shimane area." "Shimane!" "Tohoku is identified with the so-called zu-zu dialect." "But in northeast Shimane." "There is a district where the zu-zu dialect is spoken." "Shimane area?" "This particular Shimane district." "And Tohoku have a phonemic similarity." "Drink all you want." "Eat Yakitori." "What's happened?" "I'll tell you all about it." "I'm curious." "Linked!" "The victim and Tohoku district." "Really?" "Is that Kamedaka?" "In the zu-zu dialect" "A word's ending is not clear." "A characteristic." "When a zu-zu dialect man says Kamedake." "It'll sound like Kameda to us." "Bravo!" "Shimane police sent me a report." "The victim, Miki, was a policeman." "For 20 years at Kamedake." "How's that?" "Going to Shimane?" "By bullet train to Osaka." "Then express." "Excursion ticket?" "Convenient." "I envy you." "The main work will center on..." "A checkup." "Meanwhile..." "I'll pursue that sport shirt." "That hostess?" "She's vanished." "I've asked around." "No trace." "She has moved somewhere." "I'll make a thorough search of the Chuo Line." "Of course, this isn't my assignment." "Wouldn't it be better after I return from Shimane?" "This will be different." "I'll bring back some kind of a present this time." "11 hours after leaving Tokyo," "Eiryo Waga Composing" "Grand Symphony Destiny" "Waiting for the local train to go to Mimori." "You must be tired." "It's so hot." "Please be seated." "I had a report on your visit." "About Kenichi Miki, isn't it?" "It's an old story." "Goes back about 20 years into the past." "None of the policemen here now know about him." "So today I've called two or three who have already retired." "Thank you." "Among those arrested by Miki while he was at Kamedake." "There's no one who would bear a grudge against him?" "In a rural area like this, no major crime is likely to occur." "Admonition or warning generally suffices." "There was only one sent to prison." "For theft." "That man still thinks of Miki as a god." "Meaning?" "After he was released, Miki found a good job for him." "I met him yesterday." "He said he's able to lead a decent life." "All because of Miki." "At first the people showed a cold attitude toward him." "Felt like quitting at times but never went back to his old wavered." "The main reason was Miki's strong encouragement." "Miki had a firm sense of justice that never wavered." "I could never have emulated the high example that he set." "Everyone seems to speak very highly of Miki." "The records here show that he received 3 citations." "His former colleagues all agree." "That he was both serious and kind." "If there's a grudge theory in the present case." "The cause wasn't while he was a policeman." "If there is any." "It must have been after he returned to Okayama." "But then, the dialect problem and Kameda won't fit in." "That's true." "At Kamedake." "There are many who knew Miki quite closely." "They might be able to help." "But far to the village." "Please feel free to use our jeep." "Kamedake Station?" "Were you born here?" "Yes, I was." "You show no trace of a dialect." "I'm just being careful." "Among ourselves?" "You wouldn't understand the old folks." "To Kirihara's house?" "Almost time for supper." "Can you take me to an inn?" "Call at our substation tomorrow." "I'll leave word there." "The Kirihara house visited." "Kirihara, Miki's closest friend" "When he was a policeman here," "He was a very police and quiet-mannered man." "What I'm asking?" "I'd call him a paragon." "The entire village practically adored him." "Mr. Kirihara, please think carefully." "Was there anyone who might bear a grudge against him?" "How could such a crime happen?" "Who raised his hand against a saint?" "The reason." "Might be hidden here." "Can you think of such a person?" "Or occurrence?" "You've come from afar to ask that?" "No one in this village would have a grudge." "Occurrence?" "During a flood, he saved the lives of 2 women." "He also rescued a baby from a fire." "Didn't the police chief?" "He told me about that." "That's not all." "Many other examples." "I remember that there was a woodcutter." "One day he became sick deep in the mountain." "A doctor could not get there." "Miki carried the woodcutter on his shoulders to a hospital." "I also remember the time." "When an ailing beggar and his child came." "Miki sent the man to a hospital, took care of the boy." "Miki was a totally unselfish man." "After he was promoted to section chief at the Mimori station." "His wife passed away." "It was unfortunate that Miki did not have a child." "Besides the old man, Kirihara." "About 17 or 18 other persons were interviewed." "They all concurred that Miki was a model police officer." "No motive whatsoever for the killing could be discovered here." "Listen." "Drive there." "History of Kamedake?" "I want to read it." "It's all I can do." "Better go home." "Official trip as yet." "Back to work tomorrow." "By the way, that detective who went with you to Tohoku." "Yoshimura?" "Tenacious!" "Near Enzan in the central part of Japan." "A thorough search of the Chuo Line." "He's come across 5 or 6 scraps." "Scraps of paper?" "Looks like cloth." "Colored spots." "Sent to the science lab." "Blood perhaps." "Human blood?" "Blood type?" "Not definite as yet." "It'll take about 10 hours." "Can't it be done in 1 hour, 2 hours?" "That's absurd." "Imanishi!" "When?" "Good work!" "Any success?" "10 hours passed." "The victim's blood type:" "O" "Back to Kamata, scene of the crime." "The former investigators were summoned." "An intensive search began for Rieko Takagi." "You'd better move again." "The city center might be safer." "I have a request." "I've done everything you've asked me to do." "Up to now." "That's why?" "I'm not afraid of surgery." "No!" "Never!" "Absolutely no!" "I've told you before." "History of Kamedake Village" "Policeman Miki of the substation." "Not only took good care of the boy." "But decided to adopt him as his son." "After he was promoted to section chief at the Mimori station." "His wife passed away." "It was unfortunate that Miki did not have a child." "12 million people in Tokyo." "Why not announce it in newspapers?" "She's not the main culprit, of course." "But find her." "She can lead us to the killer." "Her photo in newspaper might get quick results." "But the very next day, in a river or Tokyo Bay." "The body of a strangled woman might float to the surface." "A kite without a string." "The killer will escape." "Beer!" "More beer!" "I'd like to go to Ise." "Why did Kenichi Miki come to Tokyo?" "For what purpose?" "His itinerary never included Tokyo." "Why a sudden change of plan after arriving in Ise?" "Perhaps something he couldn't tell his son?" "His character rules that out." "Then why?" "It might be that he met someone unexpectedly." "Or else?" "It's difficult to know." "Anyway, I'd like to go to Ise once." "Both the Tohoku and Shimane trips proved fruitless." "It's hard to make another request." "Papa here?" "In his office." "To the Seifukaku later." "Yes, certainly." "Excuse me for awhile." "What will you have?" "I'm famished." "Eiryo, what do you prefer?" "Let's see." "The specialties here are shellfish and barbecued shrimps." "That's just fine for me." "For me too." "Please wait for awhile." "The guests are waiting for you." "I'm going to dine here with these two." "Let them wait." "The guests?" "Some politicians and industrialists." "About money again?" "As a patron, I'd like to meet you more often but no time." "I wanted show this." "Cultural bureau members made it." "The tickets are?" "Being taken care of." "Papa, a Culture Ministry should be formed with you as Minister." "Trend of the times." "How is your composition progressing?" "I'm working on it." "Do you best." "All preparations are being made." "Don't worry, Papa." "He's inspired this time." "It'll be superb." "Am I right?" "Well, do it." "I'll provide whatever help I can." "It'll be tough from now." "A protruding nail is hit." "Many people are envious." "Be careful." "One never knows who's a friend or foe." "They'll smile, then try to kick you from the back." "Artists aren't like politicians." "They're both human beings." "There's not much difference." "Except for one thing." "We create our own victory or defeat." "DESTINY" "Went to Ise, the last stop on the victim's sightseeing schedule." "Thought he was from Tohoku?" "He had that kind of an accent." "He arrived here on June 19." "About what time was it?" "At night." "I asked if he had eaten already." "He said no, so I had supper prepared." "Then he went out?" "No." "He said he was tired." "He asked for a masseur." "Then went to bed." "No one visited him?" "No one at all." "On June 20?" "He went out after breakfast and returned in the evening." "Worshipped at the Inner and Outer Shrines." "He said he went to Toba too." "To Toba?" "Yes." "Was he in a good mood?" "Why, yes." "That is, he seemed to be." "Did he mention about meeting someone?" "Stayed a second night?" "Anything unusual happen?" "He saw a movie." "He said he felt bored." "Asked where a movie theater was." "I told him." "Which one?" "Hikariza." "That's the closest." "His return?" "It wasn't so late." "No visitor after that?" "No phone call?" "None." "On the 21st?" "He was scheduled to leave on the 9:20 train." "He breakfasted at 8." "Then suddenly changed his plan." "Said he would stay till night." "Sudden change?" "What did he do?" "He went out after noon." "Where?" "To a movie." "A movie?" "At the same place, Hikariza." "The same film that he had seen the night before?" "Morning Mist of Tone and Street of Men were being shown?" "Double feature." "Bring soft drinks." "Don't bother." "These give the plots of the films that were screened." "The entire cast is listed here?" "The speaking roles." "Where can I see these films now?" "They're in the storage room at the head office." "Some crimes involved?" "I'm asking just for reference." "You want to know about June 21?" "Just to make sure." "Hm." "That's a Saturday." "It was a new program." "Hokkaido." "Edo Devil." "June 20 and 21 films were different?" "That's right." "We change Saturdays." "Is something wrong?" "It seems to be taking form." "What is destiny?" "No one ever knows." "Is that true for music?" "Understandable." "When completed." "Papa's worried about us." "Weekly magazine gossip." "He favors an early marriage." "Not right now." "After this work is over?" "I feel I could be happy with you." "It's not so with you?" "Happiness?" "In this world?" "It doesn't exit." "People only pursue a shadow." "And that's destiny?" "No, it's much larger, stronger." "Larger?" "Stronger?" "The very fact that we were born." "Perhaps the fact that we are living." "To be born and to exist?" "Destiny." "I can understand that." "But let's make one destiny clear." "It was in your pocket" " Delicate perfume." "I don't know who she is but see that she goes away." "Your journey on that hot summer day must have been arduous." "It was most kind of you to visit me." "Despite your visit?" "I was unable to offer any help." "Thank you for the kind letter you sent me." "I greatly appreciated it." "I wanted to answer at once." "But in seeking the facts." "Time passed." "I apologize for the delay." "Concerning your inquiry about the beggar and child." "The man's name was Chiyokichi Motoura." "He came from the village of Obatake," "Ishikawa Prefecture." "Yamanaka Spa" "Obatake Village, Kaminuma County, Ishikawa Prefecture" "Chiyokichi Motoura's main family?" "Yes." "I'm an old friend of Chiyokichi." "I came to Yamanaka Spa." "This is a small gift." "Thank you." "Chiyokichi never spoke much about his wife." "What happened to her?" "She died." "She separated from Chiyokichi." "I suppose it couldn't be helped." "She went to Kanazawa and worked at a restaurant." "It was three years later that she died." "What about their son Hideo?" "Chiyokichi brought up Hideo?" "All by himself." "Does Hideo come here?" "Chiyokichi took Hideo with him." "No word after that." "It seems so long ago." "I think it was in summer 1942." "He received farewell gifts from all the villagers." "Chiyokichi was 36 and Hideo 6 or 7." "Hello." "Oh, it's you." "What!" "It's true." "I did go to the hospital." "Then I saw a young mother carrying a baby." "Together with her mother and her husband." "Then I couldn't!" "I'm not saying I want a child to force you into marrying me." "You can get married to Sachiko Tadokoro." "All I'm asking is to let the child be born." "And after that?" "The baby?" "I'll give birth to the child and bring it up myself." "I don't need your help!" "I want the child!" "No!" "Don't let it be born." "I'll have the child." "I'll bring it up alone." "It won't have a father." "Happier than you!" "Happier?" "Much happier." "Unlike you, the child will have a mother!" "You... you lost both parents in the Osaka air raid." "Wait!" "Help!" "Miscarriage." "Abnormal bleeding." "Taxi driver thought it was a traffic accident." "No way to know her identity." "Should have gone to an obstetrician." "But no time." "Died... at 1:12 a. m." "At that moment Imanishi was waiting at Maibara, to transfer to a train" "He intended to check on the family register of a certain person." "1 Ebisu-cho 1- chome." "Is that it?" "Is this name registered at that address?" "Just a moment." "Yes, it's here." "Are you sure?" "It's in the register." "No mistake?" "Never any fraud here." "Of course not." "This is who I am." "Could I look at the original register?" "I'll ask." "1 Ebisu-cho 1- chome." "Father:" "Eizo Waga." "Born June 17, 1908." "Died March 14, 1945." "Mother:" "Katsue." "Born February 7, 1912." "Died March 14, 1945." "Son:" "Eiryo." "Born October 11, 1937." "Appears correct." "Both Eizo Waga and his wife Katsue died on the same day?" "March 14, 1945 was the day of the air raid on Osaka." "This entire area was burned out." "In an air raid." "Is there something...?" "I've had occasion to look at many family registers." "This paper appears new." "The air raid burned the former register." "Burned?" "Was this copied from somewhere?" "I think the Legal Affairs Bureau records were destroyed but..." "Just as I thought." "Those records were burned too." "Then how was this register complied?" "By declaration." "Declaration?" "In case of war damage." "The register is restored by asking the people." "This is recognized by law." "1- chome 1, is it?" "Someone familiar with that area." "Prewar and postwar days." "Let's see." "The town association head?" "There's the Kyoeikai, an association of restaurants, shops." "It's acting secretary might be best." "Over there." "See that tobacco shop?" "Before the air raid, it used to be a bicycle shop." "Bicycle?" "Luckily we evacuated early." "Eizo and his wife were really good people." "Both killed." "How did their son escape?" "Childless." "They had no son?" "The couple and an apprentice." "Sort of a shopboy." "He was a smart lad." "The Wagas treated him like their own son." "October 2." "Joint conference" "Regarding the crime discovered earlier this year." "The victim's body in the marshalling yard at Kamata." "The prime suspect, permanent domicile in Osaka." "Present address 3 Onden, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo." "Is Eiryo Waga." "I ask for..." "A warrant of arrest." "DESTINY" "I shall speak, first of all," "About the victim, Kenichi Miki." "He became a policeman in Shimane Prefecture in 1923." "He retired in 1948." "After that he opened a grocery store in his hometown." "And adopted a son." "He led a peaceful life in Okayama." "On June 10 he started out on a visit." "To the Grand Shrines of Ise and Kansai area." "It was an unhurried trip to Kotohira, Osaka, Kyoto." "Then on June 19 he reached Ise and stayed at the Ogiya inn." "But after arriving in Ise." "He decided to visit Tokyo by changing his plan." "Tuning finished?" "Why did he decided to visit Tokyo?" "The only thing he did that attracts our attention." "Was going to a theater, Hikariza." "To see movies 2 days in a row." "At first I though he had seen." "Some unexpected person in the films." "But Hikariza was showing entirely different films." "On these two days." "In other words, his interest was not in the films." "How about seeing the show?" "I won't have time." "Back to Tokyo?" "The next train..." "It's too late for the 2:14" "Why not take a bus to Ise, then go to Nagoya?" "Oh, that photo?" "Ex-Finance Minister?" "Tadokoro is from this prefecture." "Our president helped in his campaign." "As a kind of chief of staff." "You have copies of the photo made later by the Ise police." "The caption below." "From right:" "Bank president, Hikariza's Hayashi." "Tadokoro and his wife." "Their daughter Sachiko." "Extreme left:" "Eiryo Waga." "What stirred Kenichi Miki." "Made him go again the next day for confirmation." "And led to his sudden visit to Tokyo." "Was neither the banker nor the Tadokoros in the photo." "It was Eiryo Waga." "Birth and the time to live at last?" "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Thanks, everybody." "Thus Kenichi Miki left Ise by the night train on June 21." "He contacted Eiryo Waga on arrival June 22." "But for Eiryo Waga, Miki was the one person." "He absolutely did not want to meet." "Waga went very reluctantly." "He decided to murder Miki." "This he did." "His sweetheart Rieko disposed of the sport shirt that he wore." "By scattering pieces from the Chuo Line." "Detective Yoshimura found the scraps." "He can tell you about Rieko and Waga's relationship." "Yoshimura" "On August 20." "Rieko Takagi suffered a miscarriage on the street." "In Setagaya Ward." "She bled excessively." "Although taken to a clinic." "She died the next day, August 31, at 1:12 a. m." "A woman named Ishii occupied room 7." "She went out on the 20th." "Didn't return for a week." "I reported to the police." "She had been found dying on the street." "Unidentified." "Could this have been the woman you mentioned?" "That's her." "Miss Ishii." "The man stood in front of room 7." "Pressing the bell, fumbling with the knob." "I thought he had come for her belongings." "Miss Ishii?" "Gone out?" "Miss Ishii has died." "I've been seeking her relatives." "Were you related?" "As with us, the suspect Eiryo Waga." "Ironically, Rieko's death led to verification." "Of her relationship with Eiryo Waga." "His fingerprints have been found." "On the bell and doorknob of room 7." "Imanishi... now tell us why you suspect Waga." "First, about Waga's birthplace." "Permanent domiciles:" "1 Ebisu-cho 1-chome, Naniwa Ward, Osaka." "Father:" "Eizo Waga." "Mother:" "Katsue." "This is fiction." "Actually he was an employee there." "This was his false declaration after the war." "This is real." "Permanent domicile:" "12 Nonake, Obatake Village, Ishikawa." "Father:" "Chiyokichi Motoura." "Mothers:" "Fusa." "He was their child and was named Hideo Motoura." "He was born on March 17, 1937." "When Hideo Motoura was 3 years old." "His father became ill." "The mother went away." "The boy was brought up by his father." "In summer 1942." "Chiyokichi abandoned his native village." "He left, leading 6-year-old Hideo by the hand." "The mother gone." "The two abandoned their native village." "Why?" "His father's illness." "Incurable at the time." "Was leprosy." "What was their journey like?" "The father and son?" "I can only imagine it." "They are the only ones who know." "The events after that." "Have been pieced together from Miki's police diary." "Documents of the Shimane Sanitation Bureau." "History of Kamedake Village." "And the accounts of elderly villagers." "Miki took the man to the substation." "Heard his story." "Took steps for medical examination." "He contacted the main station and asked for instructions." "Ordinarily the man would have been sent away." "But not policeman Miki." "He knew help was needed." "Obatake Village, Ishikawa Prefecture?" "You left it when?" "Summer 2 years ago." "Have you ever seen a doctor?" "No, because..." "Eat the cake." "Contacting his village, receiving instructions took times." "Miki decided that the man should be placed in an isolation hospital." "About a week later, confirmation came." "From their village, identifying Chiyokichi and Hideo." "Instructions came for the man to be placed in a loprosariua" "On August 21 Jikoen officials came to receive Chiyokichi." "You don't want to be separated from Hideo?" "What will you do if he should contract the disease?" "Not only the disease." "What of Hideo's future?" "You can't go on like this!" "You'd better think it over carefully." "Chiyokichi did not agree for a long time." "To be separated from Hideo." "Miki persuaded him." "His logic finally made Chiyokichi reach a decision." "On August 22 Chiyokichi left Kamedake Village." "Miki took care of Hideo and sought a guardian." "His father's sickness made this difficult." "The childless Miki." "Finally decided to raise Hideo as him own son." "Despite such signs of affection." "The vagabond habit?" "Or was it an attempt to find his father?" "Hideo!" "Then this Hideo who ran away." "Reached Osaka by some unknown route." "And began working at Eizo Waga's shop?" "Exactly." "He became a shopboy at Waga's bicycle shop late in 1944." "In 1948, through contrivance, he became Eiryo Waga." "In his career after that." "He worked his way through Kyoto High School." "At Tokyo Arts University, his talent came to light." "He became what he is." "Smooth sailing as Eiryo Waga." "With a brilliant future." "Miki appeared unexpectedly." "The motive for the killing." "Was to keep his true birth from becoming known." "We'll have to wait for Waga's confession." "We can only guess." "Miki wouldn't speak lightly of Waga's past." "But there was one problem that Miki just had to touch upon." "According to the maid at the Ise inn." "Miki boarded the night train leaving Ise at 10:35" "This train arrived in Tokyo at 6:10" "Nothing else to do." "He looked in the phone book, contacted Waga." "The two must have met at once." "They met for the second time at the Kamata bar." "Why was this second meeting held?" "Miki strongly urged Waga to visit his father." "Whose days are numbered." "What!" "Chiyokichi Motoura is still alive?" "He is." "You're Motoura?" "I came to ask." "Do you know this person?" "Chiyokichi Motoura clearly recognized Waga as Hideo?" "Don't know him?" "No!" "Never saw or met him?" "One who resembles him?" "Suppose a boy whom you know well." "Grows up..." "Wouldn't he look like this young man?" "I..." "I don't know anyone like that!" "Why won't you go to see him?" "It'll interfere with your work?" "What are you saying?" "I can't understand you." "Your father with whom you traveled so long." "For your own sake, I'll take you there." "Even if a rope is necessary." "Come, Hideo!" "With the doctor in charge and nurse as witnesses." "His effects were examined." "There were 50 letters." "I have them here." "They were all sent by Kenichi Miki." "No one else ever wrote to him." "As far as Chiyokichi was concerned." "Kenichi Miki was his sole link with the outside world." "Miki and Chiyokichi corresponded for about 24 years." "These letters continued." "Even after Miki's retirement and his return to Okayama." "Nearly all of Chiyokichi's letters were centered on Hideo." "Where is he now?" "If only..." "I could see him once." "Chiyokichi kept repeating that wish." "Miki wrote that Hideo was bright." "Must be achieving great success somewhere." "No need to worry." "Hideo was bound to come and see his father someday." "Without fail." "Miki kept repeating that." "Over and over again." "To console Chiyokichi." "Imanishi" "Didn't Waga wish?" "Of course!" "They're meeting now!" "Waga can only meet his father" "Through music!" "Medical science has advanced." "Hansen's disease can be cured." "Patients are able to recover completely and return to society" "The only barriers existing now." "Are unscientific prejudiced and discrimination." "Japan no longer has patients like Chiyokichi Motoura." "Nevertheless no matter what change is undergone by the journey of life" "The destiny that binds parent and child remains eternal."