"CURE "Kyua"" "Takabe Fumie" "Once upon a time in a forest, there lived a man and his beautiful daughter." "One day a golden carriage drawn by six horses stopped before their house." "Out of it stepped a king." "Would you give me your daughter to be my wife?" "He asked the man." "Delighted, the man agreed." "The king was very handsome." "His only flaw being his beard, which was blue." "Apart from this, there was no fault to be found with him." "BLAUBARC Bluebeard Helmurt Barz What does to kill a woman you love mean?" "Anything wrong?" "Nothing." "Enough of the book, I guess." "Let's talk about something else." "Yes, please." "Feeling all right?" "Yes." "I know how... the story ends." "In the end, the daughter kills Bluebeard." "You are...?" "Takabe, from Headquarters." "Thank you for coming." "Takabe-san!" "Do you want to talk to the man who found the body?" "He is a cleaner working at this hotel." "No." "The victim is a prostitute." "Something like this was bound to happen someday..." "I'm Takabe." "I'm Yasukawa, from the Precinct." "Find anything?" "Yes." "Driver's License Kuwano Ichiro May 05, 1951 Home:2-1198-32 Honmachi, Asaka City, Saitama Prefecture Domicile (Honseki):8-10-15 Oomori Nishi, Oota-ku, Tokyo Issued on April 30, 1996" "If it was this Kuwano guy, he ran away naked." "And he left us his ID." "Excuse me..." "She was struck with a blunt object, but she died from loss of blood." "It wouldn't have taken long." "Both carotid arteries, the vessels in the neck have been cut off." "Have you ever seen wounds like this before, Yasukawa-san?" "No." "I see." "But the perpetrator is no ordinary character." "You don't have to go this far just to kill someone." "The suspect may have a motorcycle or a bicycle." "Check all the service roads." "I'll join you soon." "I'll check out this neighborhood." "You want to tag along with me?" "Oh, Takabe...this." "Then there was blood everywhere..." "Lots of it." "Sakuma...this came from the Shibaura Precinct." "And then..." "I looked at her face..." "He looks normal to me." "They've requested a psychiatrist..." "What's the point?" "So he's like the rest?" "Yeah." "He admits intent, then says afterwards he was stunned." "The devil made them do it, is all I can guess." "Three cases in two months..." "What's going on?" "The media don't know?" "No." "We haven't released any details." "No TV or book plots like this?" "None." "We checked." "There've been no leaks, either." "Unless you've said something in one of your lectures..." "Give me a break!" "The perps aren't connected, and they're all perfectly rational." "So it just happened." "Just happened?" "People like to think that a crime has some meaning." "But most of them don't." "So somebody "just happened" to do this?" "!" "Where is this?" "Shirasato Beach." "Where did you say it is?" "Shirasato Beach." "Where?" "Shirasato Beach in Chiba." "Shirasato Beach?" "Where's that?" "Where are you going?" "Nowhere in particular." "Anything else?" "What's the date?" "February 26th." "Where is this?" "I just told you!" "When was that?" "A few minutes ago." "Do you know who I am?" "What?" "I don't know who I am." "You what?" "Help me." "Please." "I don't remember anything!" "Could he use a drink?" "No, coffee's fine." "Here..." "What's that sound out there?" "The waves." "It's so quiet..." ""Mamiya" is written here." "Might that be your name?" "I don't know." "You could be Mamiya-san." ""Mamiya"..." "That's fine with me." "Mamiya can be my name." "It probably is." "Maybe we can find the Missing Person Request at the Police." "No." "No police." "Why not?" "Then let's talk some more." "Perhaps your family, your work..." "First tell me about yourself." "Me?" "I teach at Elementary School." "And I'm married." "That's it." "Where is your wife?" "Sleeping upstairs." "Why is she sleeping upstairs?" "She has a cold." "Who does?" "Mamiya-san." "Mamiya-san!" "Who's that?" "You, Mamiya-san..." "Well, I've told you about me." "Now tell me about you." "About what?" "Anything." "Doesn't the name "Mamiya" bring back anything?" "No." "Why were you on the beach?" "Where?" "Shirasato Beach." "I don't know what you're talking about!" "OK, let's change the subject." "I want to hear about you." "I've already told you." "Yeah?" "I don't remember..." "I teach at Elementary School." "There's just me and my wife." "What does your wife do?" "Nothing." "She's a housewife." "Who is?" "My wife." "Oh, the woman in the pink negligee..." "You saw her?" "I don't remember anything." "It's you who remember things." "Tell me more about your wife." "Yes, I understand." "Will you wait for a second?" "Thank you for coming." "Could you give me a minute?" "Bunch of idiots!" "What did I do wrong?" "I do things my way!" "What?" "Go to hell!" "Damn right I'm mad!" "Stop fucking around, you dumb shit!" "Sorry to keep you." "Oh, thanks." "Here we are." "There you go." "Good." "Thanks." "Thank you." "Come again." "Takabe-sama..." "one moment." "Welcome back." "Sorry, did I wake you?" "I'll do that." "No, I will..." "No, I feel good today." "Where's the bottle opener?" "Here." "I poured you some beer." "Thanks." "How's work?" "Busy?" "Yeah." "How about you?" "Me?" "I just did nothing all day long." "Fumie... eh?" "When this case is over, let's take a trip somewhere." "No need to overdo it." "No, I'd like to go somewhere." "We're definitely going." "You decide where." "Where to?" "I'll leave that up to you." "Okinawa, Hokkaido, anywhere..." "The South and the North End." "One extreme to the other..." "You decide." "All right." "The victim is identified." "Hanaoka Tomoko, 26, Hanaoka Toru, the suspect's wife." "Her carotid arteries were cut." "Suspect teaches at elementary school." "Committed to his work, a good teacher Popular among students and PTA." "High-school classmates, married two years ago." "Neighbors describe them as a fine couple." "No debt trouble or anything." "The devil made him do it...?" "Hanaoka-san..." "Last night you killed your wife Tomoko-san." "Is that correct?" "Hanaoka-san?" "You sliced her open with a knife from her throat to her chest." "Why?" "Why did you kill her like that?" "I don't know." "Why did I do it?" "Did you read some novel, or see a movie like that?" "Did someone talk to you?" "No." "I see." "You hated your wife." "Hanaoka-san, things weren't going well between you." "Isn't that right?" "No, that's not true." "Then isn't it strange?" "What is it, Hanaoka-san?" "I remember everything what I had done." "I killed Tomoko." "At the time it just seemed the natural thing to do." "Was there a quarrel?" "No." "It's weird." "There's no reason to kill her." "There is no reason at all." "But I killed Tomoko!" "Hanaoka-san..." "Crying won't help." "I'm going to keep on asking you until you tell me." "I'm sure this is hard for you..." "That's enough, Takabe." "No." "That's enough." "Take him." "He's not lying." "He remembers everything." "Chances are he's completely sane." "Hey!" "Stop that!" "Will a person cut someone up like that because the devil made them do it?" "What if they all had some similar trauma in their childhoods?" "It lays suppressed for years, then they explode..." "Could that happen?" "Since when did you become a shrink?" "I've been reading up..." "you know, my wife, Fumie..." "Don't laugh." "Beginners' books." "Don't believe everything you read." "Well, it's in a book..." "No other person can understand what motivates a criminal." "Sometimes not even the criminal can." "No one understands." "Don't go in too deep." "No." "All I want is to find words that will explain the crimes." "That's my job." "Yeah, I guess so." "How is your wife, by the way?" "She's attending the hospital you suggested." "She's a lot better." "Yeah?" "At least, it looks that way." "I don't know if she really is." "Thank you very much." "That's all right." "I might have to come again." "I understand." "Could you contact this officer if someone else moves in?" "All right." "Give him your number." "Hey, you!" "What are you doing up there?" "!" "You'll get hurt!" "Come down!" "I'm coming up!" "Damn fool!" "Shiomicho Police Box Koto-ku Ward" "Name, address and particulars...unknown." "He appears to be in his late 20s." "Yes, I know that." "All right, thank you." "Well, we are checking at the station, but you know nothing." "Even the computer won't pick up anything." "Don't worry." "Tomorrow we'll get you to a hospital." "Have some tea." "Is this your place?" "No, it's a police box." "You're a cop?" "Yes." "Why am I talking to you?" "I want to ask you some questions." "About me?" "Do you remember standing on that roof?" "eh?" "How about coming to this police box with me?" "Is this a police box?" "Yes." "Who are you?" "Oh, boy!" "I can't fill in forms..." "Can I smoke?" "Sure." "Ooida-san!" "You can't smoke here!" "That's OK." "Here." "I don't smoke on duty." "Is that so?" "Here." "Oh, thanks." "I'll go do my rounds." "It must be hard work." "What?" "Sometimes..." "I'm sleepy." "I'll sleep a bit." "OK." "Ooida-san?" "eh?" "Look at this." "You hear me, don't you?" "Yes..." "I'd like to hear about you." "Huh?" "Tell me." "Shiomicho Hospital" "I think it's the flu." "Does your throat hurt?" "A little." "Lower your pants and lie down, please." "eh?" "Lower your pants and lie down." "OK." "That's good enough." "Raise your knees a bit." "You're bold, aren't you?" "Your lymph glands are a bit swollen." "Fine, thank you." "What do you want at this hour?" "!" "Sorry." "This won't take long." "10 minutes, and that's all!" "Listen...you don't think it might be some kind of hypnosis, do you?" "Huh?" "You know, someone looks at a flashing light... then does whatever someone tells them?" ""Hypnotic suggestion"..." "Is it possible?" "What do you think?" "You're the only one I dare ask..." "Well?" "Got some new evidence?" "Just an idea." "Hypnotism itself is a very common technique." "But even if you manage to hypnotize someone, you can't change their basic moral sense." "A person who thinks murder is evil won't kill someone, through Hypnotic Suggestion." "Could you induce someone to cut in that "X" pattern?" "It'd take a long process to get that suggestion into place." "Impossible?" "I didn't say that... if the hypnotist was a genius." "But why would someone do that?" "I don't know." "A thrill killing?" "Some thrill that'd be!" "No one knows what motivates a criminal." "That's what you told me." "Ooida-san!" "Yes?" "Do you know where the documents we must deliver to the local ward office is?" "On the right-hand shelf." "Yeah, I found it." "Like I said." "Yes." "Be right back." "Come in." "Sorry I'm late." "That's all right." "Did something happen?" "I got lost." "Got lost?" "Yes." "Did you come another way?" "I don't know." "Suddenly I just didn't know where I was." "How did you get here, then?" "I don't know." "Suddenly I was in front of the hospital." "Hmm...well, it all worked out for the best." "You got here." "Yes." "That book..." "Hm?" "Bluebeard." "Do you remember it?" "No, I've never seen it before." "There's nothing physically wrong." "Just a sprained ankle." "Nothing to worry about." "So how's your memory?" "Tomorrow we'll move you to a hospital with a proper psychiatric department." "Sure." "How far back... do you remember?" "I remember talking to you." "That's all." "Any worries?" "Worries?" "About what?" "You're quite calm." "You're the one with worries." "Sorry?" "Can I smoke?" "There's no smoking here." "I see." "What do you mean, I have worries?" "Uh, what?" "..." "I forgot." "Water..." "Doctor, can I tell you something?" "Certainly." "All the things that used to be inside me," "Now they're all outside." "So I can see all of the things inside you, Doctor." "But the inside of me...is empty." "Don't look at me." "Now you tell me about you." "About me?" "What about me?" "Why you became a doctor..." "Why?" "You're just a woman." "Why did you become a doctor?" ""Just a woman"?" ""Just a woman" That's what people said, isn't it?" "They did, didn't they?" "Think back." "Remember exactly how you felt..." "Just a woman..." "Woman is a lower life form than man." "Is this correct?" "See?" "Now you remember..." "When you were in medical school..." "You dissected a corpse, didn't you." "The first corpse you'd ever seen." "It was a man, wasn't it?" "Think back..." "You'd never seen a naked man before." "You took your scalpel and cut into him." "It made you feel good, didn't it." "Didn't it?" "Think back..." "You wanted to be a Surgeon... but you weren't sure you could, and you picked Internal Medicine." "No, that's not correct." "What you really wanted to do was cut a man open." "Shiomicho Police Box Koto-ku Ward Metropolitan Police Dept." "You shot him in the head." "Wasn't that enough?" "Is there a reason why you cut into the dead man with a knife?" "Yes." "I hated him." "Why?" "Various reasons..." "It's been 3 years since he was transferred to our box." "I put up with him all that time." "Finally I couldn't stand it any more." "But to kill him?" "Yes." "Detective, you've never killed anyone, have you?" "That's how you get when you hate someone from the bottom of your heart." "So it was an angry impulse?" "No." "I was calm." "Isn't that a bit strange?" "Yes, it definitely is strange." "May I?" "I'm Sakuma, a psychiatrist." "Ooida-san, do you remember seeing anything shiny?" "For example..." "Something like this?" "Hm?" "...no." "Were you talking to anyone before the crime?" "No." "Is that true?" "Try to remember..." "Could you stop doing that, please?" "Sakuma, keep going..." "Don't stop!" "Ooida-san, you did meet someone, didn't you?" "We know you did." "Look at the light." "No." "No one." "Yes, you did." "Who was it?" "What was his name?" "I didn't!" "Enough!" "Ooida-san..." "You must have seen a light like this." "Was anyone there?" "Someone told you to do this, didn't they?" "Who was it?" "There might have been someone there." "Who was there?" "I don't know!" "Of course, you know!" "Who was it?" "Tell me his name, please." "His name?" "Yes, his name." "What was his name?" "He...didn't have a name." "He didn't?" "What do you mean?" "Ooida-san, look at the light!" "That's enough!" "Excuse me..." "I'm thirsty." "It is hypnosis, isn't it?" "We can't be sure of that." "But his reaction wasn't normal!" "I decide what's normal and what's not." "Stop traumatizing people." "Sakuma, we're not counseling this man." "We're interrogating him!" "No mistake about it!" "Don't move!" "But..." "Just stay there." "Ooida-san?" "Ooida-san!" "Huh?" "What did you do just now?" "Just now?" "Nothing..." "What was your hand movement?" "You mean this?" "I don't know..." "Nothing in particular." "Tell me about what you just did." "I just remembered... about him." "That's all." "Nothing more than that." "Public Toilet (Men) (Women) Chuo-Park" "How long will this go on!" "Takabe-san!" "What are you doing?" "Another murder." "The toilets in Chuo Park." "Get over there." "There was a report of a suspicious person at Shiomicho Hospital at Koto-ku Ward." "3 days ago, Ooida took him in there." "Shiomicho Hospital" "Amnesia?" "Looks like it." "Where is he?" "He's not in his room." "So where is he?" "They say he hasn't left the hospital." "Okay, I know you are in here" "Come on out." "Where?" "Here." "I don't know where I am." "Well then, I'll have to come to you." "Where are you?" "Come on out!" "Who are you?" "Police." "Who?" "Police." "Do you understand my question?" "I've got some questions to ask you." "I want to hear about you." "I'm asking the questions!" "You answer!" "Who are you?" "Where are you?" "!" "Who are you?" "Takabe of Investigation Section 1!" "Stop screwing around!" "Name?" "I forgot." "Address, Age And Occupation." "I don't know." "Since when were you at the hospital?" "Where?" "Shiomicho Hospital." "eh?" "Shiomicho Hospital." "You were treated by Dr. Miyajima Akiko." "Where?" "Round In Circles!" "Dr. Miyajima Akiko" " Kuwano Ichiro--Officer Ooida" "Hanaoka Toru--Tomoko" " Sakuma Makoto" "You've met these people, haven't you?" "I don't remember." "How about this person?" "I don't know." "This is you." "It looks like me." "So now we're sure of one thing." "That's you." "All right?" "I don't know him." "So this is me..." "Who are you?" "A detective." "How about these?" "Corpses." "Do you like these?" "No." "If you don't like them, why do you have them?" "It's my job." "Job?" "What's your job?" "Right now, I'm asking you questions." "Why?" "You're an important source of information." "Me?" "Why?" "At the Hanaoka house, we found your fingerprints." "Whether you remember or not, you met Hanaoka." "Oh, is that what you mean?" "You know everything, Detective." "Not what's inside your head." "My head?" "Here?" "Your attitude is not to your advantage." "Why?" "I want you to remember from the beginning." "First of all, before you came here," "You were in Shiomicho Hospital." "You admit this, don't you?" "What's wrong?" "Why are you raising your voice?" "Because you won't answer properly." "Why?" "Answer my questions properly." "Can I smoke?" "No!" "Takabe!" "Detective..." "Yes?" "Tell me more about yourself." "After you talk." "Stop it!" "Leave the room!" "Of course thorough examination and testing is needed." "There are clear symptoms of typical psychosis." "Don't get into it with him." "You'll just get confused." "Hey, you all right?" "Yeah." "I'm all right." "I went to the convenience store, and I got lost." "I see." "I thought we'll need toothbrushes." "Toothbrushes...." "We will, won't we?" "What if we stay at an inn and we didn't have toothbrushes?" "We'll be in trouble, won't we?" "Yes, we will, won't we?" "I'll do the shopping." "OK?" "You're tired." "You don't have to do everything for me." "We don't have to take a trip, either." "We'll take a trip." "Definitely." "My next holiday." "Definitely!" "Hey..." "Impound all that guy's stuff." "But he's a witness, not a suspect." "I don't care." "Just do it." "What's that?" "The scar from a burn." "not an old one." "Maybe he touched something metal..." "Something round and hot..." "Round and hot?" "This way." "No one's home." "Do you have the key?" "Yeah." "Is Mamiya-san in some kind of trouble?" "That's what I'm here to find out." "I see." "Well, it's all yours." "Excuse me?" "Huh?" "When did you last see Mamiya-san?" "About 6 months ago, maybe..." "I don't come out here much." "He paid a year's rent in advance." "I'll be downstairs, if you need me." "Various Psychology-Related Books" "Mesmer of Paris The Revolution, And Animal Magnetism Robert Darnton" "Mesmer" "Animal Magnetism  It's Psychological Effects" "Mamiya Kunihiko Musashino Medical University" ""Mesmerism" involves some social role-playing with the mesmerizer..." "Sakuma?" "I've found out who our man is." "His name is Mamiya Kunihiko." "A psychology major at Musashino Medical University until 3 years ago." "His professors said he hardly ever showed up for classes." "Yeah, just like you." "Then he was a live-in part-timer at a Recycle Center in Kawasaki." "That's probably when he got burned." "He vanished 6 months ago." "No, I don't know what he was doing." "Sakuma, do you know "Mesmer"?" "OK." "Tell me when I get back." "Takebe Residence 401" "What's wrong?" "What happened?" "Don't scare me like that!" "Are you ill?" "Why are you home now?" "Nothing, I just..." "He's sick." "I've moved him to hospital." "On whose authority?" "Mine." "You're taking him from me?" "Yes." "It's dangerous for you to keep talking to him." "You bastard!" "Hey!" "Don't you wanna know about Mesmer?" "I'll ask him!" "No one's supposed to see him." "Open up." "Move." "What's wrong?" "Your hands are shaking." "I found out." "Mamiya Kunihiko" "That's your name." "Oh, is that so?" "Mamiya!" "Who is Mesmer?" "Who?" "Mesmer." "At Musashino Medical University, you studied Mesmer and Hypnotic Suggestion." "What?" "Whether you remember or not..." "I'll have you arraigned for instigation to murder." "It's over." "You saw your wife dead, didn't you." "Your wife is sick, isn't she?" "It is hard caring for her at home, isn't it?" "Where did you hear about that?" "The other young detective told me." "Does it bother you, talking about your wife?" "Anyway, there'll be lots of time." "There's no way out of here for you." "It's you who wants out." "I know what you did." "Tell me whatever you like." "That's why you came, isn't it?" "Mamiya, you planted a hypnotic suggestion in those people's minds." "It's hard to be a detective with a crazy wife." "Shut up!" "You do it by keeping your work and your home life completely apart." "How did you do it?" "The detective or the husband..." "Which is the real you?" "How did you hypnotize them?" "Neither one is the real you." "There is no real you." "Your wife knows that, too." "How did you hypnotize them?" "Watch!" "You're right!" "My wife is a burden." "I know." "You don't have to tell me!" "I'm a detective." "I've been taught never to show emotion, even with my family." "And this is the result!" "I don't understand her." "She doesn't understand what I go through." "I know it's my fault it's that way." "So what?" "What else could you do?" "That's right!" "What other way is there?" "Look..." "You think this is how I wanted to end up?" "We should all relax, enjoy ourselves, lead peaceful lives." "What a crap!" "Society isn't like that!" "Oh, so society's to blame..." "It's people like you." "It's guys like you who have my head about to split open!" "Lunatics like you have it easy while citizens like me go through hell!" "I must spend my whole life taking care of that wife of mine!" "If it weren't for you... things would be fine with my wife and me." "MY WIFE, I can forgive... but YOU, I won't!" "You're amazing." "You like that?" "Hearing me talk?" "Yeah." "Good!" "Now it's your turn." "I want the whole story." "Plenty of it." "What's wrong?" "Can't talk without your lighter?" "Here." "You're amazing!" "That water will make you calm." "It will make you empty..." "You'll be born again." "Just like me..." "Are you all right, Takebe-san?" "Was it you?" "Huh?" "Did you tell him about me?" "Uh, well, you know..." "He keeps asking all these questions..." "Mesmer was an 18th-century Austrian doctor." "He is the first man to study hypnosis." "It wasn't recognized then as a medical treatment." "They saw it as fakery, magic... or witchcraft." "And?" "There's still a lot we don't know about Mesmer." "Some say he really did study magic, and alchemy." "And Mamiya's doing that?" "Impossible." "If so... the diagnosis would be simple." "He'd simply be a megalomaniac." "But that's not it." "He has definitely lost his memory, but otherwise he's not abnormal." "But he's also a man with a very complex personality." "I see..." "OK." "Takabe..." "It's dangerous to talk to him." "You don't know what could happen." "Don't get too deep." "I know." "#1 Conference Room" "Takabe." "Yes." "Mamiya-san, could you tell us your name, your date of birth... anything you remember." "Well?" "Do you remember anything about yourself?" "No..." "Mamiya-san..." "Are you aware of the situation you are in at present?" "I mean the charges against you." "Who are you?" "Fujiwara, the Chief Inspector." "Well, Mamiya-san?" "Do you understand why you are here now?" "What?" "Don't ask questions, answer them." "What question?" "Mamiya-san..." "Instigation to murder can bring the death penalty." "Do you understand that?" "Is that your boss?" "Yes." "That must be a drag." "Mamiya-san, answer my question." "Who are you?" "Fujiwara. the Chief Inspector." "Who?" "Are you being smart?" "!" "Who are you?" "Takabe, what's wrong with this man?" "I'm asking who you are." "Answer my question!" "All right, I'll ask you again." "Fujiwara, the Chief Inspector," "Who are you?" "What is it that you want to ask me?" "You figure it out by yourself." "I'm very sorry!" "You must understand, he has amnesia." "As it has been this way since day one," "What a bunch!" "our interrogation has not been smooth." "They don't understand, do they?" "About me, or about you..." "Detective..." "Do you hear my voice?" "You do, don't you?" "That proves you're a special person." "You knew that from the start." "So did I." "You're different from them." "You're someone who can understand what I'm really saying." "Take him away." "Okinawa Tour Pamphlets, fliers, etc." "Will Okinawa be warm?" "I'll eat lots of good food." "What do you want to eat?" "Fumie, we're not going to Okinawa." "Yes..." "The sea there must be beautiful..." "I'll pick her up as soon as my work settles down." "I understand." "I'll take her bag." "Shall we go?" "Thank you, Doctor." "Takabe-san..." "It's not good to work too hard." "You look sicker than your wife to me." "I'm sorry, I don't have the tag." "I wonder where it went?" "A week ago, wasn't it?" "Yes." "Takabe-sama, right?" "One moment, please." "I'm sorry, Sir, but it's not here." "That can't be..." "Maybe you took it somewhere else..." "No." "Or you gave it to your wife..." "No." "May I take your plate?" "Yes." "Hello?" "Sakuma?" "What?" "No, I'm not busy." "Now?" "I want to show you something." "What?" "A film on hypnotherapy." "I transferred it on video at the University." "The oldest material on hypnotism in Japan, possibly." "It probably dates from the end of the 19th century." "Look at the man's hand?" "You have to look closely..." "See?" "There." "He is drawing what looks like an X?" "Is that all?" "Yeah." "What does it mean?" "Her name was Murakawa Suzu." "She was treated for hysteria." "That's all that's recorded." "According to the Police Records," "Murakwa Suzu was arrested for the murder of her son in 1898." "Now the way she has murdered her son..." "It was by cutting the shape of a cross into his neck." "That's all we know." "Did Mamiya see this film?" "I don't know..." "There's not much chance even medical students would see it." "But even if he had... that still wouldn't explain his actions." "Who's this man in the film?" "We don't know." "We do know, however, why he didn't show his face to the camera." "You know what they called hypnotism in Japan then?" "Soul-Conjuring" "Like clairvoyance, spiritualism..." "the same sort of thing." "The authorities in any age always suppress occultism... and the Meiji Government then would have suppressed this technique." "It would only have been performed in secret ceremonies..." "Heresles An opinion or doctrine beliefs" "Mesmerian Chapter 4" "Hakuraku Tojiro (?" "~1898)" "Sakuma..." "Sakuma..." "Sakuma..." "Sakuma..." "Huh?" "So what is Mamiya, then?" "What's your guess?" "Tell me." "A Missionary." "A Missionary?" "To propagate the knowledge to the un-reached peoples." "I see..." "Sorry, I was just imagining things." "What am I saying?" "Don't take me seriously, Takabe!" "I'm a little tired." "Let's call it a day." "Now I'm getting in too deep!" "Sakuma..." "What's that?" "Oh, that?" "I just thought it might help me to think." "About what?" "Yeah..." "What is it?" "I don't know well." "You met Mamiya..." "No." "Yes, you did." "It's weird..." "I don't remember." "Mamiya Kunihiko's whereabouts is unknown." "Earlier reports of him near Kawasaki Station were inaccurate." "In the absence of further information..." "The search area is being widened from Tokyo and Saitama... to the entire Kanto Region." "Hello?" "One moment, please." "Takabe-san, from Shirogane Precinct." "Hello?" "I see..." "We're on our way." "Dr. Sakuma's body has been taken to the hospital." "It was probably suicide." "He strangled himself." "He'd cuffed his right hand to that pipe." "Weird as that sounds." "You finally came, Detective..." "Why did you let me escape?" "I know why?" "By letting me escape, you could learn my true secret." "All by yourself." "You didn't have to, though." "Anyone who wants to meet his true self is bound to come here." "It's fate." "Remember now?" "Do you remember everything?" "You do?" "This is the end for you, too." "Fear is a road to cure." "Your hand is a healing hand." "Road of healing is long way to go." "Cure..." "Cure..." "Take a knife and cure!" "A man is just like dew." "Cure common people's fear." "Wind is a storm!" "Devote yourself for Cure." "Accept all for the road of healing." "Cure!" "Take a knife and cure!" "Shall I bring you a coffee?" "Yes." "Hello?" "All right." "Bring the car to the Precinct." "Here you are." "Thanks." "CURE Kyua" "Yakusho Koji as Takabe Kenichi" "Hagiwara Masato as Mamiya Kunio" "Ujiki Tsuyoshi as Sakuma Makoto" "Nakagawa Anna as Takabe Fumie" "Douguchi Yoriko as Dr.Miyajima Akiko" "Hotaru Yukijiro as Kuwano Ichiro" "Suwa Mitsuyo as Hotel Murder Victim" "Denden as Ooida" "Oosugi Ren as Fujiwara" "Toda Masahiro as Hanaoka Toru" "Haruki Misayo as Hanaoka Tomoko" "Nakayama Shun as Kimura" "Ootaka Akira as Yasukawa" "Suzuki Shogo as Tamura" "Kato Toshi as Psychiatrist" "Tanimoto Hajime as Takabe's Boss Directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi" "Script by Kurosawa Kiyoshi" "Prepared for friends at a.b.m.j (01-19-2004)" "This drama is fictitious and bears no resemblances (except for names) to any real person."