Ring: The Final Chapter (1999–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Shikumareta kioku - full transcript

Unu wa da-sen, yogora o ageru.

Who are you?!

Mai! What happened? Mai!

The rumor started here in this city that people

die after watching Matsuzaki Nao's music video.

Only five days left... Will l be able to find Sadako?

She's extremely weak.

She will need to rest for a while.

l'm sorry to have bothered you so suddenly.

l'll take over now.

l hear you work at the same
newspaper bureau as Asakawa?



Yes, l was his subordinate in the news section.

He was very scary and used to reprimand me a lot.

Are you and he...

Me?

l was a close friend of his late wife.

l see.

You said this girl is a friend of yours?

Yes. She came over to visit but suddenly fainted.

l'll take her home as soon as she gets better.

You've told two lies since you came here.

This girl is not a friend of yours.

And about Asakawa, he's someone you like

not someone you're scared of.

ls there something you're worrying about?



Would you like to talk about it?

lf it's a secret, l'm not going to force you.

But as a doctor, it would help
to know more about her.

This girl is extremely troubled.

She probably lost consciousness

because she's struggling

with something she doesn't want to remember.

lt's an unconscious defensive reaction.

Who is she?

l want Mai away from here.

They suspect her of killing Professor Kaneda.

But you must not tell anyone about this.

lf you betray me, l will never forgive you.

l'm sorry.

l can't tell you.

Well, let me know if you change your mind.

You can talk to me any time.

Hi, could l ask you something?
l'm from Chuo Shinbun.

There's a rumor spreading through the schools,

and l was wondering if you know
anything about it? The one about

people dying after watching
Matsuzaki Nao's music video.

Yes, l've heard about it on the radio. That's scary.

Do you have any idea who sent this fax?

Kitagawa City, Y.K.?

No, no idea.

Have you heard of Matsuzaki Nao?

We've heard of the name but nothing beyond that.

Do you have any friends with the initials Y.K.?

lf it were l.K. l do, but...

Yoichi?

Yoichi?

Yoichi! So you were here all
the time! Come on, let's go.

Mai?

Mai...

Miyashita!

Good morning.

l've told Ogaki the news.

l'm sure you'll soon start hearing
the rumor about the new virus.

Thank you.

l'm sorry.

l shouldn't have gotten you involved in all this.

l only want to get the stolen virus back.

Let me know if you find out anything.

Doctor.

Can you really find out why Mai's mentally unstable,

and what secret she's hiding inside?

Only with your help.

l do have qualifications in clinical psychology.

She is Takayama Ryuji's younger sister.

lt might have something to do with lkuma Sadako.

You know about lkuma Sadako, right?

The one who put a curse on a video tape.

She's Asakawa's and my adversary.

l've seen the video.

l've got just over seven days left.

Where is Takano Mai? Where is she hiding?

l've done some research on Mai.

She lost her parents 1k years ago.

That was a very mysterious case.

l'm sure you still remember it.

You were nine at the time.

lt's very interesting, isn't it?

You're a university student.

Right now you're on the campus.

You attend classes every day.

What do you see in front of you?

A corridor? A campus corridor?

You're walking along the campus corridor.

Where are you heading?

Don't be afraid.

Where are you?

Help me!

Where are you now?

At Professor Kaneda's home.

Professor Kaneda? ls he there now?

What happened there?

What did the professor do to you?

She harbors hatred for Professor
Kaneda, that's for sure.

Are you saying that she was
raped by Professor Kaneda,

and is in this state because of that?

No, l don't think so. lt's not
something as straightforward

that put her into this state.

She is hiding a much greater fear in her heart.

We don't have much time.

lt's Phys. Ed. right now and we snuck out halfway.

You were asking about Y.K., weren't you?

Yes. This is it.

This is for an article?

We're taking a big risk talking to you.

The school is really strict.

lf we get found out we'll be expelled right away.

lt's a private school and has to watch its image.

Will this do?

We think that Y.K. is a friend of ours.

Yuriko Koyama.

Do you think l could meet her?

She's dead. She died a week ago.

And at the house of a teacher
she was in love with, no less!

Because she died of heart
failure, there wasn't a big outcry.

And since a teacher was involved
the whole thing was hushed up.

But we know it wasn't just heart failure.

Yuriko told us before she died,

''l've finally seen it,

l might die soon.''

What did she see?

That goes without saying... it was
the real Matsuzaki Nao video!

Have you both seen it?

No way!

Did she say where she got the tape?

She wouldn't tell us. She said it was a secret.

The tape could still be at her home.

They've moved away.

Well, the neighbors were giving them a hard time.

ln any case, our school has
been cursed from the beginning.

lt originally was a tuberculosis sanitarium.

The sanitarium was closed
after something happened.

After that, the school was built on the site.

Something happened?

Oh! We've run out of time!

Yes, this is Nagao.

This is Ogaki over at Surgical Department 2.

There is something l'd like to discuss with you.

Relax.

Close your eyes.

Now let's go back to when you were little.

Little by little, let's go back in time.

You're now in grade school.

You can hear music? Sounds nice.

lt might be a music box.

ls it a tune from a music box?

What is it about that music box?

Brother...

Brother? Your brother gave you that music box?

lt must be very precious to you.

Did you show it to your parents?

Stop it!

lt's no use.

Who is that?

Don't be afraid, just relax.

Don't touch me!

There's someone inside her!

There's no one inside. lt's only Takano Mai.

Let me out of here!

What are you afraid of?

Calm down. lt's all right.

Who's beside you?

Your father? Your mother?

What do you see?

lt's all right, there's nothing to be afraid of.

lt really looks like something happened.

Happened?

Probably concerning her parents.

l'll go see what the newspapers can tell us.

From about 10 to 1k years ago.

Right.

Doctor!

''...the Takano family...husband, wife,

son Ryuji, and younger daughter Mai.

However when the police arrived,
the couple's bodies were...

nowhere to be found.''

Let's see if you can remember your parents, okay?

You remember your father and mother, don't you?

Mai...

You're five years old now.

Where are you now?

At home.

Mai's home?

Why are you crying?

ls your father there?

What about your mother?

Blood!!

Whose blood is it? What happened to your parents?

lt's all right.

Someone scary was there?

A man.

A man?

A man came and took me away.

What kind of a man? Can you see his face?

Who is it?

l can't see.

His face is all white.

l don't know who it is!

What's wrong?

Was someone there?

Sa...da...

So there was some connection
between Mai and lkuma Sadako.

l'll try to find out more about
what happened 1k years ago.

l'll go to the local police station.
They might know something.

This used to be a sanitarium for tuberculosis.

Just what was it that happened?

Ms. Yoshino!

Are you also checking up on the Takano case?

The statute of limitations has run out.

You didn't find anything new in the records, did you?

l'm Kashiwada from Miyato City.

l'm not a cop anymore.

l was in charge of the Takayama Ryuji case.

You're from the same Chuo
Shinbun as Asakawa, aren't you?

Do you know Asakawa?

Thanks to him, l am no longer a detective.

He threatened to expose my past and

forced me to release Takayama Ryuji.

But don't worry about it.

l was the one in the wrong in the first place.

So what do you think? Would
you like to work together?

l have an old friend working
here and he can get his hands

on all sorts of information.

Anyone here?!

The incident at the sanitarium?

lt happened over 20 years ago, but even now

it gives me the shivers when l
think about it. Do you know why?

The patients and employees
died one night, all 13 of them!

Thirteen?

Were you running this store at the time?

My father was. l would deliver groceries

and vegetables to the sanitarium every day.

Even on the morning after it happened!

Doctor?

What did the police say was the cause of death?

lt was said that they all died of heart failure.

Some people thought it might
have been some medical error

but the case ended without any other development.

Oh yes, there was one survivor!

Help me!

Why did everyone else die

and how come he was the only survivor?

No one understood why.

Do you know where the man who survived is now?

That's the Takano home
where the incident took place.

lt's been empty ever since and isn't used now.

The Takanos were killed 1k
years ago, in January 1984.

Their daughter Takano Mai was five years old.

There was also a boy they
adopted from an orphanage,

Takayama Ryuji.

As a welfare facility, they received
funds from the government.

The Takano family consisted of just the four of them.

The newspapers reported the case.

lt was actually worse than what was reported.

Both parents had their heads split open.

What weapon was used?

No one knows.

Actually, rather than being beaten, it
was more like their heads exploded.

No one knew how that happened.

A witness saw a man at the scene of the crime.

A man?

Someone scary was there?

A man.

What is it?

Nothing. What happened next?

The police suspected him of being the murderer

but never managed to find him
and the case was never solved.

Mai was looked after by relatives

and Takayama went back to a juvenile facility.

He became a scholar and, as
soon as he could, took Mai back.

What's wrong?

Nothing. lt feels like we're being
watched. l'm going to take a look.

l found out more about the
sanitarium's only survivor,

a man named Moriyama Shuhei.

This is Mr. Moriyama. He is
in a confused state of mind.

Lately he's gotten worse.

May l?

Please go ahead.

Mr. Moriyama, can you hear me?

l would like to ask you about
what happened at the sanitarium.

Do you know of a woman by
the name of lkuma Sadako?

You do know lkuma Sadako, don't you?

Mr. Moriyama!

Perhaps you should return when he's a little better.

All right.

What's this?

Mr. Moriyama brought that with him.

lt must hold a lot of memories for him.

He never lets it out of his sight.

You betrayed me!

You handed Mai over to the doctor!

You're trying to look into her
heart as if she's a lab experiment.

No.

No? Then can l make sure?

This is a potion made from the Calabar bean.

Have you heard of it?

The Calabar is used as a form of judgement in Africa.

lf somebody drinks this and lives,

he is declared innocent.

But anybody who has lied

will die after drinking it.

lt's all right. lf you're not lying,

you won't die.

Who are you waiting for?

No one's going to come. Drink it!

lsn't this just normal juice?

You don't know what's so special
about the Calabar juice, do you?

An innocent person will drink it with one gulp,

and go on living because he will throw it all up.

But liars will fearfully drink it little by little.

The stomach absorbs the poison bit by bit,

and the person will die.

You're dead.

Hello?

SENPAl!

Don't get up, you've got the
let the medicine take effect.

Where's my brother?

Has anything happened to your brother?

Where is he?

Your brother will be right back.

Relax and sleep.

Miyashita, l need to speak with you.

lt looks like the others are
making their move to get me out.

l'm sorry!!

Please stop! l lied!

Mai knows something!

She knows something about Sadako!!

STOP!!

Takayama!

Are you all right?

Why didn't you tell me anything?

What would've happened if l
had arrived a moment later?

l'm sorry for troubling you.

lt's not a question of being troubled!

l worry about you.

l don't want to lose any more
people who are important to me.

lt's enough that l take all the risks.

How did you know where l was?

How long do you think l've been
working as a news reporter?

l called Rieko.

Hello Papa?

Hey, Yoichi. What's up?

Nothing. You sound strange.

What time are you coming home?

l'll be back as soon as l can.

Papa! You sound tired.

Are you worried about me?

lt's been awhile so let's take a bath together.

l'll be waiting! l'll let Grandma talk to you now.

l don't need to, you go ahead
and talk to him some more.

Papa, Grandma said it's okay.

All right, l understand. Come home soon.

What's this?

Yagi must have dropped it.

Mr. Moriyama brought that with him.

lt must hold a lot of memories for him...

he never lets it out of his sight.

That plate is a prop for the play Salome!

She eloped. The guy was in
the same theatrical group.

That man had respiratory problems.

Tuberculosis sanitarium...

Only one survivor...

Moriyama's the man Sadako ran off with!

No wonder he survived!

What's wrong?

After Sadako graduated from high school

she joined the Hisho theatrical company.

But when her special powers were found out,

she eloped with Moriyama.

Moriyama suffered from respiratory problems.

The two of them went to the tuberculosis sanitarium.

Twenty years ago there was
an incident where 13 people,

patients and employees, died
mysteriously of heart failure.

And the only survivor was Moriyama?

Perhaps Moriyama was the
only person Sadako ever loved.

Brother! Stop!

Brother?

What happened?

Mr. Moriyama just died.

Moriyama? How come?

The tube was removed.

We think it's either an accident or murder.

The police are investigating
both possibilities right now.

Takayama!

Where are you now? What happened to you?!

What are you talking about?

Don't act dumb!

That was not you just now. What happened?!

Me?

Did you kill Kashiwada?

No.

Then who else was there besides you?

You should open your eyes to the truth.

Besides you, there is someone
else out to get Sadako.

Kashiwada was killed by that person.

That person knows everything about you,

and every move you're going to make.

That person is right beside you.

ls it Yoshino?

ls it Miyashita?

Or perhaps even your son.

Stop talking nonsense!

Takayama...

4 days left...