"Death Water." "Evil lurks in the water." "Those who drink it will be possessed." "It's also known as water for the dead..." "What I see with my eyes..." "Do I see the same as ...what others see?" "What part of this is real?" "And what part is not?" "This nightmare..." "Can I end it by stabbing myself in the eyes?" "Earthquake alert." "At 3:42 P.M., there was a tremor in the Kanto Plain." "Here are the magnitude details." "Western Tokyo and Yamanashi, 4." "Saitama and Kanagawa, 3." "Northern Chiba, 2." "There are no concerns about a tsunami..." "It was just another day like any other day." "A steaming hot summer day." ""Yomohira Home" In retrospect it was no coincidence that I visited" "In retrospect it was no coincidence that I visited that old people's home." "Hello." "I'm Kyoko Togakure from Tokyo Metro Newspaper." "Hello, anybody here?" "What's going on?" ""Room 4"" "Hello?" "Is anything wrong?" "Are you okay?" ""Death Water"" "That was the beginning of my nightmare." "Death Water" ""There was a tremor at 4:32 P.M.."" ""It was 4 on the seismic scale in Western Tokyo."" "Yohei?" "What's wrong?" "Right after my baby's birth my marriage came to an end." "I still don't understand why our marriage didn't last." "My husband just left one day and never came back." "You're not going to tell her?" "Yeah." "Do you think memories are beautiful?" "Or are they cruel?" "They're just a physiological phenomenon." "I know that." "It's odd that I can only remember irrelevant things." " Does Kyoko know about this?" " Omura..." "Thanks." "Don't mention it." "Will my dementia get worse?" "I can't say." "All right." ""Funeral service for Kiichiro Morikawa"" "Thank you for coming at short notice." "It's okay." "Shocking." "How come Professor Morikawa became a tramp?" "It's strange!" "Why did he stab himself in the eyes?" "Everybody at the lab is upset." "He'd been missing all semester." "Nobody expected this to happen..." "When did you see him last?" "About half a year ago but..." "He was okay then..." "Why would he kill himself?" "What's wrong?" "Didn't he go to Miyazaki about half a year ago?" "I just remembered something." "I think he was working on ...some kind of water research." "Right." "What was it?" "Water for the dead." "For the dead..." "There is something I found in his personal belongings." "Can you give me your opinions on it?" "Look at this." ""Water for the dead, don't drink it."" "What's it mean?" "I think he meant to write, "Don't drink the water for the dead."" "Is this related to his death?" "It must be." "Looks like it's written in a hurry." "I agree." "Maybe it's a warning." "What do you mean by that?" "The same thing is written on every page." ""Water for the dead, don't drink it."" "Who's she?" "Yumi." "She helped us at the lab." "The Professor was interested in her psychic ability." "Yumi." "We have to interrupt here for an earthquake report." "There was a tremor in the Kanto Plain at 8:02 P.M.." "We'll give you the details as soon as they come in." "Thank you for that, Kojima." "We're back at the studio." "Many tremors lately." "I know." "Did you hear about the landslide yesterday?" "No." "They found an archeological ruin." "A ruin?" "The landslide exposed the ruins of a shrine." "Sorry." "I have to take my medicine." "Don't you wish Professor Morikawa was here now?" "I know." ""Tokyo Metro News"" "Water..." ""Yuichi Oka"" "I cannot answer the phone right now." "Please leave a message after the tone." ""Answering service on" Please leave a message after the tone." " Shido." " Yes, sir." "You'd best stay away from that woman." "She brings bad luck." "She'll bring you bad luck too." "You know the article you've been working on." "It will be the feature in the next publication." "Really?" "Good luck is indispensable for a good newspaper writer." ""Research and Database"" "Nakane, could you help me?" "Research?" ""water, dead"" ""water for the dead"" ""Water for the dead."" ""Traditional ritual for the dying."" ""Water is given to those on their deathbed."" ""The family of the dying pour the water into his mouth."" "Did you find something?" "No..." "Where do you think the Professor heard the expression?" "Maybe it's originally from a local dialect." ""Half a Year Earlier"" "At that time I had visited him for a comment on a story about a cult group." "Thank you, Professor." "Looks like you delivered the baby safely." "Yes, my husband's at home with him now." "That is a pleasure that a single man doesn't have." "Professor, I'll go and do the preparations." "Excuse me now." "What's your research about?" "Do you know Yomotsu-hirasaka." "Pardon me?" "The myth of Japan's origins." "So your research is about the myth?" "It's about the Yomi." "It's at Yomotsu-hirasaka." "So it's about the mythical netherworld?" "No, it's about the Yomi fountain." "The fountain?" "If you drank from the fountain, you'd die." "Because it's connected to the netherworld." "That's the myth." "It's..." "You think it's ridiculous?" "According to the myth the Mother God left a curse that would kill 1000 people every day." "It's just a story." "The locals call it Death Water." "Death Water?" "It means, "cursed water." It's also called, "water for the dead."" "Sorry, I got carried away." "Let's go." "Kyoko?" "It's a horrible story." "Water is something we all need to survive..." "Oh, that's right, your husband's work involves water research." "Don't worry." "It's just hearsay." "That was the last time I saw him." ""Professor Kills Himself"" "Then he killed himself with that warning note, "Don't drink the water."" "Water..." "Misato." "Let's go." "Hello?" "You're back." "Misato, I think you're drinking way too much water." "Misato?" "Misato." "Are you okay?" "I'm very thirsty recently." "Getting old?" "That's right, I'm 17 already!" "I have sore shoulders." "I know." "I feel tired all the time." "I feel old." "I know!" "It's the same as..." "No, it's nothing." "What?" "What is it?" "Do you remember Hiromi?" "I just remembered that she was saying the same thing." "A long time ago in the village of Kori-mama in Shimousa there was a man named Katsushiro." "His family had lived there for 3 generations in prosperity." "Is Hiromi sick?" "Hiromi." "Hiromi." "Hiromi?" "Are you okay?" "Here's your cake." "Stop it..." "I'm sorry." "She was only 16 though." "No." "It's not about her age..." "What then?" "It's nothing." "Yumi." "Hiromi said she was tired." "She said she was very thirsty too." "She was always gobbling down water." "I'm sorry." "It just bothers me..." "Misato?" "What's wrong?" "I have to go." "Misato, what's wrong?" "Oh, no..." "I'm drinking again..." "What?" "When did I come home?" "This is Noda." "What's happening?" "What did I...?" "What's happening?" "What was that?" "Strange..." "What's this?" "You got me coffee?" "I always used to make you coffee." "What have you been eating?" "You look skinnier." "I can take care of myself." "That's good." "It's bitter." "Signature please." "You drink it black, right?" "I always have." "Do you have a pen?" "Why don't we go somewhere quiet?" "Need an opinion?" "What are you working on?" "It's about water." "Could a person go mad drinking tap water?" "What is it?" "Could he die drinking it?" "Does it have to be tap water?" "An acquaintance killed himself the other day." "He stabbed himself in the eyes." "And?" "He drank a lot of water before his suicide." "How about this." "Is it possible that the water was infected with a virus or a parasite?" "And his eyes were..." "I know what it is." "It's a biological weapon." "It's true that water carries many parasitic worms." "There are parasites that infect human eyes." "So we pay maximum attention to water hygiene." "We filter the water and chlorinate it." "It makes the water taste bad but it's clean." "The safest water in the world." "Even if something was in the water it's unlikely that whoever drank it would go insane or die." "What if it did happen?" "It'd be a weapon." "When did you start having this paranoid delusion?" "Have you heard of the water for the dead?" "Water for the dead." ""Water for the dead, don't drink it."" "What's this?" "The dead professor's memo pad." "Well?" "Well..." "This isn't proof of a connection between water and his death." "Suppose that the water contains something strange..." "I don't know." "There's no evidence." "That's why I visited you." "The water system is very complicated." "It's impossible to figure out the water source." "I have to go." "Yuichi." "Here you are." "Aya told me about you." "You're writing about water." "Sorry to interrupt your work but I wanted to..." "Are you concerned about the water, too?" "Yes." "My friends, well..." "I haven't discovered anything yet." "I just heard about the cursed water." "Didn't you hear about it from the Professor?" "I don't know anything about Professor Morikawa's research." "I thought you were helping him with his research." "Did Aya tell you so?" "That's not how it is." "He's trying to help me." "Because I'm cursed." "People around me keep dying." "God, what am I telling you?" "It's okay." "I don't blame you for thinking like that." "What with the Professor's death and..." "Yumi?" "What do you mean?" "He'd been missing and then the other day..." "Missing?" "You didn't know?" "It's a lie!" "Wait!" "Excuse me." "Wait!" ""Seika High School, Yumi Nagisa"" "It was beeping." "Thanks." ""Yuichi Oka"" "Kyoko?" "I have a strange question." "What is it?" "Are you really an unlucky woman?" "Did the Chief tell you that?" "Yes." "He's right..." "I got a divorce the moment I had a baby, so I must be." "Do you have a child?" "Unlikely?" "No..." "Your piece is going to be a feature?" "Uh, yes." "Great." "Go for it." "Hello, Yuichi?" "Sorry I couldn't answer before." "No problem." "What?" "You called me." "Yuichi?" "About the "water for the dead..."" "Yes?" "There's a guy called Noda at the center." "And his daughter died recently." "I know this sounds very strange but..." "Did she...?" "Yes, she died the same way Professor Morikawa died." "This one bothers me." "I'm going to her funeral now." "Come along and speak to him." "I will." "Where is it?" "Do you know the Kagurayama apartments?" ""Noda"" ""Kyoko Togakure"" "Do you know why they kept the coffin closed?" "I heard how she died." "She stabbed herself in the eyes." "Who's she?" "My colleague, Shiho Minoura." "Thank you for coming all this way for Misato." "I wonder... why did she do that to herself." "I honestly don't understand what could have possibly..." "She had no problems at all." "She was in adolescence so we didn't talk much..." "How's your wife taking this?" "She must be upset." "She stays in bed all day, though she can't sleep." "She's suffering from post-traumatic stress." "She says very strange things recently." "She drives me crazy." "Strange things?" "I understand how shocked she is but..." "She says she sees things." "Like ghosts." "Is this related?" "I have to investigate more." "We can't draw any conclusions yet." "Help me!" "Take care of yourself." "Shiho." "You startled me." ""Seika High School"" "You're Misato's sister?" "I didn't know she had one." "Have some tea." "Thank you." "I'm very sorry about your sister." "And... you want to see Yumi Nagisa?" "I want you to keep this between us." "She's been missing since yesterday." "She left school early and disappeared." "Her family?" "She lives with her mother but" "I can't reach her either." ""Nagisa"" "Hello?" "Anybody home?" "Hello?" "Who did this...?" "Is anybody here?" "Hello?" ""Missed call." "ID unsent."" "Yumi?" "Are you there?" "Yumi!" "Yumi!" ""Yumi Nagisa"" "Can I come in?" "I'll change the water." "Don't bother." "They'll die anyway." "I'll get some water." "I don't care about the flowers." "Sorry." "I don't want to see anything anymore." "I don't want to see..." "I'm so stupid." "I didn't even know that Professor Morikawa had died." "I had my eyes open but..." "I couldn't see that..." "I'm so stupid." "I'm blind now." "But the funny thing is that I can see the Professor now." "But he's the one person I don't want to see now..." "Why didn't you let me die?" "It's so complicated." "Maybe you shouldn't have saved her life." "But..." "How would you feel?" "How would you deal with the despair of blindness?" ""Death Certificate" "Misato Noda"" "The autopsy has revealed nothing." ""Kiichiro Morikawa" The autopsy has revealed nothing." ""Cause of death, Suicide"" ""Cause of death, Suicide" Nothing's wrong with them." ""Cause of death, Suicide"" "It's not that I doubt you or anything but..." "I triple checked every possibility." "For traces of poisoning or parasites." "I tested for food poisoning or some viral infection." "I tested every possibility there is." "It means nothing happened to them?" "Medically, that's the conclusion." "So much for the autopsy." "What is your opinion?" "Disregarding the test results..." "I'm desperately hoping to find some physical evidence." "Do you think you will?" "I may find out something from Yumi." "I don't think you will." "Have you ever heard of a substance that makes you want to kill yourself?" "Let's say it's parasites or a virus." "But how would it make a person suicidal?" "It conflicts with the rules of nature." "Of course we're well aware of that." "But we can't just quit because we found nothing." "I suggest that we explore other possibilities." "Like what?" "What about a curse." "I want to find some physical evidence that makes sense." "But this is logic defying." "Professor Morikawa left the memo because he figured out..." "Let's say you're right about a curse." "What should we do?" "Could you drink the cursed water and not be affected?" "I don't know." "I'm a scientist." "I'm concerned with quantitive values." "You haven't changed a bit." "What do you mean?" "You think you're above it all." "Thanks." "I'll investigate it alone." "That's all we can find." ""Old man stabs himself in the eyes."" ""Musashino, Tokyo"" ""College student sets fire to himself."" ""Chofu, Tokyo"" ""Man jumps in front of train."" ""Mitaka, Tokyo"" ""Oshima, Tokyo"" ""Hachijojima, Tokyo"" ""Musashino, Tokyo"" ""Akishima, Tokyo"" ""Mitaka, Tokyo"" ""Musashino"" ""Hamura, Tokyo"" ""Water system, Mitaka, Musashino"" ""Chofu, Akishima, Hamura"" ""Local culture surrounding spring water"" "Ground water." ""...abundant ground water supplies these towns..."" ""...water can be drunk from springs and wells..."" "Springs..." "Ground water." "...it's about the Yomi fountain." "Connected to the netherworld." ""Water for the dead, don't drink it."" "It can't be..." "The locals call it Death Water." ""Death Water"" "Death Water..." ""Keep out"" ""Enquiries can be made at the City Council"" "Come in." "Nothing's left in here." "Thank you." "Are you going to shut it down?" "With so many old people mysteriously dying..." "Is this the room?" "Poor Mr. Kitamura..." "Was he from around here?" "I heard that he was from down south, around Miyazaki." "Miyazaki?" "Didn't he go to Miyazaki about half a year ago?" "What kind of water supply do you have here?" "The water's from wells and springs around here." "The water's become muddy because of all the tremors recently." "Muddy?" "There was a landslide at the nearby mountain." "That must have dirtied the water." "You mean the landslide that unearthed the ruin?" "A ruin?" "The landslide exposed the ruins of a shrine." "I think that's all there is." "What was he going to do with the seismic data?" "The professor had known it..." "See?" "It's not the size of the tremors that's important." "The epicenters are underlined?" "The map?" "I knew it." "He's marked it." "They're scattered..." "No, it's the opposite." "They say that the real epicenter is in the center of the small clusters..." ""Yomohira"" ""Yomohira" It is Yomohira, isn't it?" "It is Yomohira, isn't it?" "Yomohira..." ""Yomohira Home"" "Do you know Yomotsu-hirasaka." "Yomotsu-hirasaka..." "It's about the Yomi." "It's at Yomotsu-hirasaka." "What if..." "If the Yomi spring is there..." "It's connected to the netherworld." ""Keep out Yomohira Dam Management"" "If you drank from the fountain, you'd die." "Because it's connected to the netherworld." "I'll catch up with you." "I don't have time for this nonsense." "This is not a coincidence!" "The water ends up in the dam." "You mean from the Yomi fountain?" "Are you serious?" "I wouldn't have come here so often if I wasn't." "Wait, Yuichi!" "Listen to me!" "This is crazy." "There's no evidence." "But it makes sense." "When you choose facts that work in your interest..." "You know nothing about ground water!" "It's not contained." "It wouldn't just contaminate the water supply of Western Tokyo." "Do you know how many people depend on the water from the dam?" "You just want to blame something supernatural!" "It's always somebody else's fault." "That's not true!" "It is!" "You've always been like that." "You always believe in those things and alienate me." "Is that what you've thought of me?" "Sorry to make you feel that." "I'm not as rational as you." "Why did I say that?" "The next item is from Akishima, Tokyo." "At Seika High School, a teacher Nozomi Nishimura," ""A High School Teacher Commits Suicide"" ""A High School Teacher Commits Suicide" was found dead in a grisly condition." "The police suspect it was suicide judging from the stanley knife she held... and the broken window on the 4th floor." "What am I doing?" "Help me!" "You think you're above it all." "Is that what you've thought of me?" "Sorry to make you feel that." "What was that?" "What the hell?" "Shiho...?" "What's going on?" "Hey!" "Somebody!" "Somebody!" "What's going on?" "Shiho." ""Shiho Minoura"" "What is this?" "Why did you do it?" "Yuichi..." "Do you have a pen?" "It can't be..." "Could a person go mad drinking tap water?" "She says she sees things." "Like ghosts." "Who's she?" "My colleague, Shiho Minoura." ""Ground water"" "Do you think memories are beautiful?" "Will my dementia get worse?" "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Come on." "Did you examine the girl, Yumi?" "Physically she has no problems." "Did you give her x-rays and take blood samples?" "Did you use conventional methods?" "I used the most reliable and modern technology for the tests." "Are you asking me to examine her surgically?" "That's a no." "She's not even sick." "Can't we?" "Are you sure about that?" "It's unethical." "I'd have to revive her afterwards." "She wants to die though." "What's wrong with you?" "What then?" "What can we do to deal with this?" "The only way left for us is to collect specimens." "How many?" "A hundred or a thousand..." "Until we find something." "So many..." "It doesn't give us the right to perform a vivisection on Yumi." "She's a minor and her mother has disappeared." "We can't do anything without her legal guardian's consent." "Okay." "We won't do anything to her." "Don't you understand?" "I'm infected." "Perform a vivisection on me." "Were you listening to me?" "We don't have to do it." "No." "There're things you can't find in regular examinations." "My infection was undetected by you." "Maybe it's something we can only see by operating on a live person." "Stop that nonsense!" "You never know what's in your body." "You'd die." "I don't mind dying." "Yuichi." "I'll kill myself sooner or later." "Do it for me." "Do it for Kyoko, too." "I thought about it a lot when we separated." "After all" "I might not have been a worthy man for her." "Had I done anything... that was of value to her?" "When I think about it..." "The only thing I did was to betray her." "If there's any reason that I got infected it's because I wasn't worthy of her." "Don't tell her anything." "More secret?" "I don't want her to..." "I don't want her to see me die." ""Better Breastfeeding"" "She used to tell me to live even a second longer than her." "She told me that." "Yuichi." ""Shiho Minoura"" "Shiho..." "Yuichi?" "Go back to sleep." "No, I want to look at the view." "Can we stop here?" "Omura?" ""Omura Clinic"" "It's been unused since my father died." ""To Kyoko"" ""Yuichi told me not to tell you about this."" ""But I want you to stop me doing a vivisection on him."" "It's rolling." "My name is Yuichi Oka." "I had a wife." "We are separated now." "When I left her I tried to convince myself that it was just inevitable for us." "We had to separate because we loved each other." "But my wife..." "Kyoko probably couldn't figure out why our marriage ended." "She told me this." ""Once separated, we'll never be"" ""...a family again."" "Yuichi." "My will and testament." "I'm infected with a strange disease." "The cause is yet to be explained." "One speculation is that it's in the water and spreading through the taps." "I want to understand this strange phenomenon." "So that I can determine how to solve it." "I want to end it." "And there is only one way to do it." "It's an ethically questionable thing to do." "A live body is needed." "So... the infection can be documented" "and the examination results will be known" "I can do this because I have no family now." "Kyoko should stay away from" "a man who chooses to die at his own will." "Kyoko, thank you." "Sorry I failed to make you happy." "You made me happy enough." "So thank you." "Yuichi died in the process." "What we didn't want to believe was that nothing could be found in his body." "He died in vain." "There was no way to stop the cursed water from spreading." "That was all we learned." "This is useless." "I wanted to write about it." "But I had no evidence." "It wasn't enough to write a story on." "Good afternoon." ""Water can't be contained." That's what Yuichi said." "Does that mean that the water can spread anywhere?" "The cursed water..." "What's wrong, Yohei?" "Yohei?" "Yohei?" "Yohei!" "Who is it?" "Yohei?" "Yohei?" "What's wrong?" "Good morning..." ""Research Assistant Commits Suicide"" ""Shiho Minoura"" ""Resignation Notice"" "You want to see Ms. Togakure?" "How has she been these days?" "Ms. Togakure?" "I haven't seen her for a whole week." "Really..." "I saw a bouquet at the entrance." "What was it for?" "Did you?" "It's for all those who jumped recently." "I guess this is a popular site." "You can go in." "Thank you." "Hello?" "I'll be here." "Kyoko?" "Kyoko." "What the...?" "What's this?" "I have to take my medicine." "Excuse me." "I heard that she lived with a baby..." "A baby?" "Yes." "There's a crib but no baby." "Just lots of these things." "May I?" "It looks like a piece of bone." "Was she eating a bone?" "It's an awfully tiny bone." "I don't know about the baby." "Kyoko!" "What I see with my eyes..." "Do I see the same as ...what others see?" "What part of this is real?" "And what part is not?" "This nightmare..." "Can I end it by stabbing myself in the eyes?" "Can I...?" "Haruka Igawa" "Atsuro Watabe" "Nanase Hoshii" "Mami Yamasaki" "Masaki Irie" "Yurey Yanagi" "Based on the story "Mizuchi" written by Hirofumi Tanaka" "Executive Producers :" "Hirofumi Ogoshi Junichi Watanabe, Yoshiro Yasunaga" "Co-Executive Producers :" "Hiroaki Kitano, Masakatsu Isoda" "Producers :" "Hiroyuki Tanahashi, Noriyasu Ueki Megumi Yoshida, Takafumi Ohhashi" "Co-Producers :" "Susumu Hieda, Junji Uchiyama" "Director of Photography :" "Tokusyo Kikumura" "Lighting :" "Masaru Saiki" "Art Director :" "Shimpei Inoue" "Editor :" "Nobuyuki Takahashi" "Produced by PONY CANYON INC." "SKYPerfect WellThink, Co." "Ltd." "Yahoo!" "JAPAN Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Incorporated GRADE Communication Inc." "TORNADO FILM" "Directed  Written by Kiyoshi Yamamoto" "© 2006 "Death Water" Film Partners"