"SURVEY MAP OF A PARADISE LOST" "Hello?" "Hi, I finally got through..." "How old are you?" "Your age?" "Your age?" "What's it got to do with you?" "Well, if I don't know your age how am I supposed to come up with suitable topics to talk about?" "Okay then, I'm 1 7." " Are you pretty?" " Yeah, I am." "Do you wanna fuck me?" "Things related to me... completed." "Things related to surroundings..." "society... completed." "The end." "Currently in the telephone club..." "How are you getting on with that phone club article?" "I'm wondering whether to go and see it for myself." "You believe in experiencing everything don't you?" "How can you write about something without experiencing it?" "If we tried everything we wrote about, we'd be in prison by now." "But if you want to go, I'II introduce you to an interesting girl there." " Where?" " The phone club." " hello?" " Hello?" "Hello..." "hello?" "What's going on?" " hello?" " I'm Midori, member no. 33." "Midori?" "You're the girl Kato told me about?" " You're Mr Nukada, right?" " Can I meet you somewhere?" " I'll be right with you." " What's that?" "hello?" "Weren't you expecting me?" "Er... not so soon... but..." "where have you just come from?" "The office." "Ah..." "I see." "I thought you were calling from an outside line." "Here." " So what do you normally do here?" " Nothing special." " This and that?" " Yeah." "I'm just a student." "Do you sometimes date the clients?" "No, I don't." "But if there's no girls around, I'II fill in for them." "fill in?" "I pretend that I'm calling from somewhere else." "Faking it..." "How do you write Midori?" "Men are always asking me that." "Hoshikawa..." "Midori." "What's your real name?" "Don't be silly." "I don't use an alias." "That's strange." "I thought you'd use a different name." "You think it's strange, right?" "Yeah, most of the girls use fake names." " But I don't bother." " Are you a member then?" "A member of the club?" "No, I'm not." "But you just gave your member number on the phone." "Oh, that..." "I just made it up." "(Onyanko Club used member numbers)" "I see." "Did you also answer the first call and then hang up?" "Yeah, the lines get crossed sometimes." "It causes us a Iot of trouble." "I see." "So that's what happened earlier." "You gonna date me for my article?" " I promised Mr Kato." "It's cool." " Ready?" "Get in." "Hey, who're you?" " I booked her before you." "Get in." " Hey!" "That's business for you!" "Hey!" "Hey wait." "I'm interviewing her." "I've already made an appointment." "only a journalist." "Wait!" "Sorry." "I'm not into perverts." "I'm having my period." "That's why I want to do it." "I want to taste your blood." "You're like dracula." "Hey, what do you do?" "Huh?" "Where do you work?" "Didn't I tell you last time?" "Maybe I forgot because of the strange things you did to me." "NDT. com." "That's a really big company." "Who cares?" "AII I do is type C into a computer." "That's cool." "Huh?" "You don't deal with people." "I find men who handle machinery super-cooI." "Is that so?" "I think that's why you're into such strange things." "So the other men don't do anything strange?" "I don't know." "I've only had sex with you." "only me?" "I meant at the Banana club." "But why?" "When you called me, I felt like making love." "You felt like it..." "I see." " Hey." " Huh?" "You see that dell over there?" "Yeah." "Yumiko Okada threw herself from the top of that building." "Ah... that pop star." "I heard about it." "I was working there when it happened." "I heard the noise." "Like a boom..." "It was quite a soft noise." "I was serving someone who wanted a salmon lunch and a seaweed lunch." ""What's that?" I wondered, and noticed a red stain on my dress." "I wondered what had happened then someone screamed." "But it wasn't really a scream." "It was more like someone going "Aaah"" "in a small voice." "Then I Iooked outside and she was Iying there, covered in blood." "When we die, we're all the same." "She was Iying there, with her arms and legs spread, covered in blood." "She was beautiful." "beautiful?" "It was so sexy." "You're a strange girl." "I felt hot." "I shuddered." "Then I began having a dream where it was me that had jumped." "I hit my head on the concrete, as if I did it often, but I didn't feel any pain." "I'm supposed to be dead but I'm just watching the blood that's gradually pooling around me." "Then I find myself sleeping like this in the morning." "So when you have that dream, it gives you the hots?" "Can I have a phone call, please?" "A seaweed lunch and a salmon lunch." "I don't know why I remember such things." "It's so nice and cool here." "This is the Naittei Detective Agency." "I've got some pictures ready for you." "If you're in a hurry, I can fax them through to you." "Ah, yes... if you would." " Is your fax ready to receive?" " Yes." "Don't do anything weird." "You've been so rough lately and the marks aren't fading." "Itchy..." "Hey, get me the pills." "You should stop taking those pills." "They'II kill you." "Itchy..." "I'm so itchy." "Itchy." "I'm so itchy." "No!" "I'm so itchy." "Scratch..." "Let me scratch..." "Stop it." "Untie me..." "It's NDT. com." "I'm sorry to bother you, but your phone is being tapped." "hello?" "Please enter password:" "PPW012584" "THEOREM OF DEATH" "This is the estimation calculated from the inputted data..." "Today, around 8pm, police received a report that 2 bodies had been found at a love-hotel in Shinjuku." "The police discovered the couple's blood-soaked bodies in a bathroom." "The man, who was announced dead at the scene has been identified as Norio Kihara, an employee for NDT. com." "He was 29 years old." "The woman, who cannot be named is a 1 7 year-old student from a private Tokyo high school." "She suffered massive blood loss, but her condition is reported to be stable." " What's up?" " Nothing really." "I've heard an interesting rumor." "There's a video of it." "The death at the Iove-hoteI." " Midori's hotel?" " That's right." "What do you mean?" "apparently, Kihara was filming himself and Midori having sex and ended up taping the entire incident." " The murder?" " That's right." "Where is it?" " The police are holding it as evidence." " Can we see it?" "I don't think that's possible." "Can't you speak to your contacts?" "You've got to get hold of it!" "well, Iet me think..." "Excuse me." "I'm Nukada, a friend of Kihara." "How can I help you?" "It was so shocking and sudden and I was passing by." "I came to see how you are." "could I present an incense stick to his ashes?" "I'm afraid I don't have them." "He didn't agree with presenting incense or displaying pictures after death." " I'm very sorry" " Ah, I see." "How did you know Kihara?" "well... we used to go drinking together." "Are you feeling alright?" "It's a copy." "apparently, Kihara was tapping phone conversations in the office." " Did you know that?" " Tapping?" "Yeah..." "I was doing a bit of snooping and came across a juicy bit of gossip." "NDT has been getting a Iot of attention since its stock went up so much so they've covered it up somehow to avoid ruining their reputation." "But apparently, someone was nearly for the chop." "What exactly was he listening to?" "I don't know." "But Nukada, why are you so involved with this case?" "If you're worried because you talked to Midori, you have nothing to do with it." "No." "Please stop it." "I'll erase it later, nobody else will see it." "It's not about being seen." "I just don't like being recorded." "You'II enjoy watching it after." " It's the real thing, not made up." " You do some strange stuff." "What's wrong with that?" "You'II enjoy watching all the kinky stuff you'II be doing." "I'm going home." "You had that dream again, didn't you?" "That's why you called the Banana club and coincidentally it was me who answered." "It seems like we're connected somehow." "Something's not right." "Why is it always you that takes my call?" "There's a secret." "It's called tapping." "I tweaked the company's equipment to do it." "Every time you call the Banana club, I can pick up the call." "Why would you do such a thing?" "First of all, I Iike your voice." "secondly, I Iike your face." "I can see in your face that you're not the type who takes life too seriously." "And I Iike your body." "However much I hurt it, it bounces back." "Stop being selfish." "I let you do it because I thought it was exciting." "But I don't want to do any more strange stuff." "I know you Iike the strange stuff." "Even though you pretend not to." "Stop it!" "It's hurts!" "It's too late." "The adult video has begun." "Why?" "Why do you do such things?" "I didn't expect you'd say things like that." "You usually act so cool." "Huh?" "New generation girl?" " I'm not Iike that." " Then what are you?" "Are you scared?" "Say something." "I thought you wanted to die." "You're someone who wants to die, right?" "You're looking for a place to die, right?" "Huh?" "Am I wrong?" "If you want to die... then die." "Which large canal was built first?" "The Panama or the Suez?" " Contestant 1?" " The Suez." "That's right, the Suez Canal was built first in 1869." "Homo Neanderthalensis is believed to have lived in the Stone Age..." "hello, editorial room." "Nukada." "Line 1 for you." "hello?" "hello?" "Yes, that's right." "Midori...?" "Oh, it's you!" "Midori Hoshikawa." "What's wrong?" "Where are you?" "Well, the media won't leave me alone." " I'm the media too." " I know you, so that's OK." "I had to speak to so many people that I didn't know so I felt like speaking to someone I knew." "That's cool." "There's something I wanted to ask you too." "I'm not supposed to go too far because I'm under police surveillance." "You'II be OK." "We're almost there." "We're heading to Kihara's house." "Ready?" "Watch carefully." "So you two knew each other." "What's that?" "Kihara must have used the same videotape to record all his movies." "But you can still see some of the earlier stuff that wasn't taped over." "You only see it for a couple of frames." "Watching the tape under normal circumstances, you'd never catch it." "I discovered it purely by accident." "Ha..." "I'm impressed." "Then?" "Then?" "That's what I want to ask you." "Did the victim's wife know the woman who may have killed him?" "So Kihara knew." "He knew we were in touch, he was taping us." "Why?" "I don't know." "She asked me to kill him." "What are you talking about?" "It's too late." "What do you mean?" "Kihara started getting rough with her during sex." "Her scars and bruises weren't fading, so she began to resent him." "She wanted to divorce Kihara, but he wouldn't accept it." "Then she found out about me." "She got my number from a detective agency and called me." "She's lying!" "She called me and said "Kihara seems to be stalking you." ""Why not help me kill him?"" "And she said because I'm under 18 the police would treat it as seIf-defense." "So." "You created a situation where you could kill him in seIf-defense." "Sort of." "You had no reason to kill Kihara." "Yeah, you're right." "But is that true?" "He was too persistent." "For him, things he found exciting yesterday were still exciting today." "That's why he always did the same things over and over." "That's a bad mistake!" "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are all totally different days." "But he thought everyday was the same." "I hate that!" "Why is it fixed?" "Who decided that?" "You killed him because you don't like doing the same thing twice?" "I don't know." "He killed himself." "Kihara suddenly turned into a violent person." "I couldn't take it anymore." "He started doing all kinds of perverted things." "To heal my body, I took a Iot of drugs." "And every time the drugs wore off, it started to itch." "It's so itchy and I can't stand it." "You like the kinky stuff, don't you?" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "I'm itchy." "please scratch me." "So itchy... itchy... scratch it!" "I'm itchy... so itchy!" "Scratch me!" "I'm itchy!" "Scratch me!" "Where'd you get the camera?" "I had it in the car." " I was going to tape you." " For the interview?" "No, for my hobby." "So I'II be in your home movies then?" "I want to jump." "Do you mean fly in the sky?" "I told Kihara about it once." " Can you tell me?" " I don't want to talk about it anymore." "Then... will you be able to tell me after you jump?" "I don't know." "I see." "I'II tell you, Mr Nukada." "Then I'II watch the video after you've told me." "Huh?" "Your video." "Aren't you going to tell the police?" "I don't think I saw the truth hidden in a couple of frames." "It was a dream." "Mr Nukada, I think you fancy me." "Why?" "Because I'm pretty." "I'm ill." "I found out 6 months ago." "It's terminal." "That's alright." "I decided to input all the data about myself into this computer." "And it figured out that suicide is best for me." "But I'm quite a coward and I can't kill myself." "So I've chosen some people who have a better chance of killing me." "If you haven't begun to unravel things before you see this video this won't make any sense to you." "But if you've discovered what's going on at the beginning of the tape." "then it'll probably make sense to you." "It could be important to you." "This is the truth." "I committed suicide." "I killed myself." "Understand?" "Why am I sending you this video?" "It's because you're a journalist." "I'm sending you the curse of the dead." "I've spread my illness sufficiently." "I've destroyed myself." "Farewell." "You're Satoshi Nukada." "Right?" "What do you want?" "You attempted to hide the truth from us." "What crime have I committed?" "We'll think about it, look through the laws and come up with something." "You bugged the Kihara house." "That's a criminal violation." "By the way, I can give you some information you don't have." "The results for Kihara's post mortem have been announced." "Kihara was tested HIV+." "AIDS?" "Produced by Kokuei Corporation Project Manager:" "Taisuke Akakura" "screenplay:" "Shiro Yumeno Camera:" "Satoshi Shimomoto" "Lighting:" "Harumi Kato Editing:" "Masatsugu Saki" "Assistant Director:" "Masahiro Kasai Director's Assistant:" "Tadami Kobara" "Camera Assistant:" "Eiichi Sakuma Lighting Assistant:" "Kiyoshi Matsumoto" "steal:" "Ichiro Sawada Recording:" "Ginza Sound" "film development:" "Toei chemical Corporation" "CAST" "Rio Yamagawa" "Kiyomi Ito" "Toru Nakane" "Shun Sato" "Yuji Teshima" "Kazuhiro Sano" "Directed by Hisayasu Sato"