Retribution (2006)

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Avex Entertainment, Oz, Nikkatsu

AN OZ PRODUCTION

RETRIBUTION

It was quite a big earthquake, wasn't it?

Yeah.

I'm leaving now.

Oh yeah.

I'll come back again.

I see.

See you.

Hey, come here.

What the hell is this mud?

The earthquake this morning
must've caused this area to flood.

Oh, yeah.

Is it for a robbery or as*ault?

No, no traces to indicate that.

Was she brought over from somewhere
and abandoned here?

I'm not sure.

Hey!

Have you found any footprints
or tire tracks?

Not yet?

If they abandoned the body
before the flood,

all the evidence may be lost.

That's troublesome.

Is this salt?

What?

That is salt.

Excuse me, is water in the puddles
around here sea water?

Yes, they really wanted
to build condominiums,

so they rushed to reclaim land
from the sea.

Oh.

Thank you very much.

Let's get it.

Ah!

What happened?

Water is coming out of her mouth.

How did she die?

Yoshioka! Let's go back.

Okay.

We've got the coroner's report.

Sure enough, it's a death by drowning.

And what's more, it's sea water.

Really.

At that place?

Hmm.

What's going on, do you know?

Harue? It's me.

I'd like to ask you some small thing.

Do you remember my black coat?

The one we bought at Citymart last year.

Yeah, that's it.

Do you know what happened
to the middle button?

It's missing.

It's come off.

Who is it?

Who is it?

This is the police.

We know what happened!

Who is it? Come out!

Sakurai! Do you have a bag
for material evidence?

Yes.

Well, I think I can find it
somewhere here.

I found it.

Please take it to the lab.

Yes.

What is it?

I found it at the scene
of the crime yesterday.

I left it in my pocket.
I forgot about taking it to the lab.

I see.

Gee!

This button is for a man's coat, isn't it?

What?

I have a similar coat
I bought at Citymart.

I don't want to hear your opinion.

Take it to the lab now.

Yes.

This is an enlarged photo
of the fingernail of the F18.

What is the F18?

It's an "F" as of Female.

And her body was
the 18th unidentified one this year.

I see.

A fingerprint other than hers
was found from F18's fingernail.

It would be the suspect's?

I don't know, but...

it was probably made after
the assumed time of the victim's death.

We are ready now.

Can we start the fingerprint collation?

- Please.
- Yes.

I've got a match.

Let's look at it.

This is the guy.

Huh?

What the hell is this?

Does this have the records
of all the internal personnel, too?

Yes, just in case.

Yoshioka, have you touched the body
without wearing the gloves again?

Oh, well. We understand.

Thank you very much for your time.

Not at all.

Who the hell

are you?

What the hell am I doing?

Ah... over there.

It's a new empty lot.

Yeah.

What was built there before, remember?

Well... What was it?

Was it a condominium?

I don't remember.

It's a lot of work. You know,
building and tearing down...

If an earthquake like the other day occurred
a few more times in a row...

all the area around here might move
back to sea again, don't you think?

I think so, too.

Actually, everybody might be
hoping so, too.

When I was commuting from Kawasaki
to the Ariake Police Station by the ferry...

The ferry? It's was fifteen years ago.

Yeah.

There was a wharf I could see
from the ferry deck every day.

I have no idea where it is now.

Of course. It's been fifteen years.

They continued reclaiming
more land from the sea...

and they would make it
into a futuristic city...

that everybody was hoping for
at that time, but...

I see. The plan fell through, right?

Things did not turn out the way
we expected.

It's disappointing.
The future is nothing special.

Are you insecure?

Hmm?

What are you insecure about?

I may not able to come back for a while.

Is that so?

It maybe for a week or two weeks...

I see.

I'll call you if I can come.

Yeah.

See you then.

All right.

Dr. Sakuma.

Please be ready for an operation.

I see. I'll be right there.

Please.

Doctor, we've received the anaesthetic
sedatives that we ordered.

Bring them over here.

Yes.

If you make an error in dosage, the symptoms
of a muscle relaxant will present.

Please be careful.

All right.

Dr. Sakuma!

There is a visitor waiting outside.

Have him wait.

I think it's your son.

It's rare for you to visit me
at my workplace.

What is it?

Just...

I'm tied up right now.
Can you wait at the cafeteria?

Well, can you get some syringes
that are left over?

What?

My upperclassman asked me, "If he is
a doctor, it must be easy to get it."

What for?

I have no idea.

How many do you need?

About a hundred.

What are you talking about?

You're going to throw them away,
aren't you?

It is ill*gal to give that kind
of syringe to the general public.

I owe that upperclassman some money.

No.

I see. That's okay then.

How much do you owe him?

It's $4,500.

That much?

Can you do something about it?

Give me some time, will you?

I need it now.

I'll talk with your mother about it
when I get home.

If you talk with her,
can you manage to give me money?

Not really.

I'm not going to ask you anymore then.

What are you doing?

Ouch!

g*dd*mn you!

What the fu...!

g*dd*mn you!

Thank you for your help.

Please contact Miyaji
at the Ariake Police Station.

The M. O. Is the same as that of the F18.

There is a strong possibility
it's a serial k*ller.

Yes, I understand.

- Will it be the same suspect?
- Yeah.

- A serial k*ller?
- Yeah.

There is a possibility that the information
was leaking

over the Internet so that
the same M.O. Was used for this.

- We've identified the victim.
- Yeah.

Yusuke Sakuma, 17, sophomore
at Meiwa High school.

He is a son of a doctor.

How did you identify him?

We've found the student ID card
in his jacket.

It's sloppy.

The suspect seems like
a completely different person

from the one in the previous case.

Please call them in.

I'd like to confirm the victim's identity
with his family.

His mother is too
mentally deranged to come.

How about his father?

He's a doctor, isn't he?

Yes, but he hasn't showed up
at work today.

They're panicking at the hospital.

They can't get in touch with him.

Oh, Sakurai.

The name of the important witness
is Shoichi Sakuma... 48 years old.

He is a surgeon
at Koutou Daiichi Hospital.

Be prepared for putting him
as a serial k*ller on the wanted list.

A serial k*ller... huh?

What?

If you have something you want
to say, just spit it out!

Nothing.

Excuse me, Mr. Yoshioka.

Yes.

Regarding the F18...

Have you found her identity?

Not yet. However, abrasions on her wrists
indicate that she'd been tied up.

Oh, yeah?

I've found a yellow paint stuck to them.

I see.

In other words the victim might've been
tied with yellow cords or something.

What do you think the yellow cords are?

Well, I don't know.
They're examining it at the lab.

Can you think of anything?

No.

Don't get close!

I'll jump off if you get closer.

You must be Shoichi Sakuma.

Don't!

What are you trying to do?

How come you stole my stuff?

They've got my fingerprints.

g*dd*mn you.

I'm in deep trouble because of you.

Are you serious or joking?

Which is it?

Why are you targeting me, huh?

Why me?

If you have a grudge against the police,

there are plenty
of arrogant assholes there!

Target them!

We've taken Shoichi Sakuma,
the important witness, into custody.

We had some resistance
during the execution of his duties.

The important witness suffered minor wounds,
but it won't be any problems.

All right, thank you very much.

You lost your temper, didn't you?

You'll have to take the blame
if the suspect has any broken bones.

However, it's well done,
I would say.

I wonder how you were able to locate
the suspect only by your intuition.

Miyaji, I'll be in charge of
questioning Sakuma, all right?

Yeah.

Don't pass it to others.

All right.

Mr. Sakuma...

You m*rder*d your own son, Yusuke.

Any objections to this?

No.

What was your motivation?

My motivation was...

To sum up...

That child was beyond
his parents' control.

I see.

Yusuke used to be a good son
until junior high school.

But...

Soon after he was admitted
to high school...

Suddenly he was
beyond our control.

I don't know what motivated him.

Probably

I failed to bring him up properly.

Even so, no need to k*ll him,
don't you think?

Yes.

I couldn't think of any way
to bring him back where he was before.

Where he was before?

What do you mean by that?

I would cancel out my responsibility
I owe my son.

That's impossible.

I know.

I should've k*lled myself too.

Unfortunately, you couldn't k*ll yourself.

Now you are about to be punished
by a court of law

for the m*rder of your son.

Yes.

It's painful, isn't it?

Yes.

If you were dead,
you would not have felt that pain.

That's a good thing
about being alive, right?

Mr. Sakuma, why did you use that M. O?

Well.

About the way you k*lled your son.

What about it?

Why did you take him to the reclaimed land
and have him drink salt water.

Why?

What about it?

Don't say what about it.

You've used the same M.O. Before,
haven't you?

You've m*rder*d a woman before,
haven't you?

You made her drink salt water, too.

One is your own son and
the other is an unrelated woman.

But you've used the same M.O.
It's strange, isn't it?

Detective...

Yes?

Who is that person?

Who?

That person in the corner.

Mr. Sakuma...

I'm asking you about the woman
you m*rder*d first.

It's Yusuke, huh?

Excuse me for a moment.

Forgive me, Yusuke.

Forgive me, Yusuke. Don't!

Stop it!

Don't get closer.

Do you think you'll be cleared
of suspicion for a series of murders

by acting like this?

Don't get close.

- Get a photo.
- What?

Get the photo of F18!

- Right now!
- Yes.

Mr. Sakuma, calm down.

Look at these photos.

Look at them!

Who is she?

The woman you m*rder*d.
Don't you remember her?

Who is she?

I'm asking the questions, not you.

I don't know her.

You must know her.

Mr. Yoshioka. Don't.

You'll be in trouble!

Who the hell are you?

Who are you? Don't get close.

Don't.

Stop!

Detective, please.

Please help me.

- Ask for psychiatric evaluation.
- Yes.

Thanks for your work.

I've submitted a request for Sakuma's
psychiatric evaluation.

Well,

I've taken this back from the lab.

The stuff you've recovered
from the scene of crime.

This kind of cords were often used for

electric wiring
in the old apartment buildings.

Yeah?

There are only a few apartments
remaining around here

where they still use this kind of cord.

Really.

Your apartment is one of those,
I believe.

It's true. So what?

It would be better not
to submit this to the lab.

Things may get complicated.

Are you suspicious of me?

That's not true.

I don't believe you.

You suspect me, don't you?

Because of my fingerprint the other day.

Not at all.

If I were the m*rder*r, why would I take
this evidence to the lab?

I know that.

Nobody suspects you.

Don't worry about it.

No worry?

What are you talking about?

What did I do?

I'm just doing my job, all right?

Something is wrong with you!

Probably.

Sorry about that.

I wanted to avoid causing any trouble.
That's it.

By the way, Yoshioka.

Why don't you try counseling once?

Counseling?

Everybody is doing it.

Everybody's under stress.

Actually I took one the other day.

They just listen to your complaints.

It will make you feel better.

I don't need it.

Who are you?

Who the hell are you?

It's me.

I don't know you.

- It's me.
- I don't know you.

Why

didn't you stay with me?

You and I are

destined to meet up someday for sure.

I always thought so.

I don't know you.

I really don't know you!

I'm delighted to see you

again.

While you are on duty

is there anything that makes you feel
uneasy or depressed?

Nothing.

How about the relationship
with your superiors or

stress from performing your duty?

Nothing.

How is your health?

In a normal state, I think.

How is your private life?

Normal.

Are you still single?

Yes.

How about marriage?

No idea.

Are you proud of your own occupation?

What?

As a legal gatekeeper?

I feel the responsibility.

I see.

There's nothing wrong in particular.

You're slightly stressed out.

Thank you for coming.

- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.

He's been sedated.

He had a panic attack
during our session.

What happened to him?

He is a young police officer
at the traffic department.

He's been distressed every night

by a ghost.

What?

By a ghost.

He said so.

Since he cleaned up the scenes
of a horrible car accident

the victims who were k*lled
have appeared in his dreams.

That ghost opens the mouth
and tries to talk to him,

but you can't hear the voice.

Are all the ghosts like that?

I don't know.

But the ghost who appeared
in his dream

is probably talking truthfully.

The voice of the truth?

Did he make some mistake

at the scene of the accident?

He's riddled with doubt.

Let's say,
through the voice of the dead

he is blamed; they say,
"You were wrong."

Really.

You have to get used to it.

To the ghost?

Oh, no.

To the voice of the truth.

Your duty is to investigate the crime
and let the laws take care of the rest.

That's the truth to you.

Nothing else. Right?

Yes.

Well...

Is it possible
for the voice of the truth

to talk to a wrong person?

What?

In short,

for the ghost make a mistake
to appear to the wrong person?

The truth is never wrong.

Of course, no?

I understand.

I must be leaving now.

Sorry. Did you wait?

Not really.

I couldn't finish my work on time.

Do you want to get a cup of tea?

You can talk to me here.

I don't have much time.

I see.

What do you want to talk to me about?

Well...

Harue,

would you like to go somewhere
with me?

What?

A life for the two of us...
somewhere far away...

I'm kidding.

I'm too selfish.
And too late now, isn't it?

Do you want to get away from Tokyo?

I don't know why.

It's too sudden, but...

I understand.

How about traveling?

It's not good enough
just to go traveling?

Go traveling?

Noboru...

Why don't you take a vacation
and go by yourself?

For a week or two weeks

Go somewhere faraway.

It may be good to go overseas.

I'll wait for you here.

Tell me all about

your travel.

You're the detective
on that case, aren't you?

Yeah.

It's awful around here.

They're not building nor tearing down.

We see things very clearly
from our views in the back.

Do you want to get on board?

You may able to see some unpleasant
scenes you don't want to remember.

Always...

I am...

close to you...

forever...

always...

Listen to me.

I don't know you.

I'm a total stranger to you.

Take a closer look at my face.

What did I do to you?

You k*lled me.

I didn't k*ll you.

You drowned me in
a puddle of sea water.

I didn't do it!

Stop it!

It was a long darkness.

I couldn't step outside for a moment.

I felt so Ionely for so long.

Since then, all my senses,

memories,

and emotions as a human

disappeared one by one

and only despair was left at the end.

I don't get it.

What do you want?

What

have I done

a long time ago?

What

have I done

lately?

Such a thing doesn't matter.

It has nothing to do with our relationship.

Isn't that right?

What happened in the past is all illusion.

It only confuses you.

Please take care of this.

President, we've received this.

Thank you.

Ms. Yabe, excuse me for a moment.

Yes.

Miyuki.

I'm leaving my wife.

I've already decided.

I see.

She won't complain
as long as I give her money.

It's settled.

Sorry to make you wait for so long.

But everything will be fine.

How about tonight?

I have some overtime work.

I'll wait here until you're done.

Excuse me now.

Wait.

I'm still working.

I've already found the condo for us.

Let's move in together there next month.

I put in the flooring you like.

It's the white tiles.

Let's go see furniture on the next holiday.

And...

I'd like to have three children.

It's up to you if they're girls or boys.

Yes.

Please come with me without any worries.

The victim is Seiji Onoda, 37.

The President of Onoda Trading Company.

The crime took place presumably
at about eight at night.

The M.O. Looks almost exactly like
the previous case.

Exactly. Sea water was used.

Tell the headquarters about that.

Hey, did you get hold of Yoshioka?

No, his cell phone was turned off.

What the hell is he doing?

The route for the coastal ferries
fifteen years ago?

Yes.

Well, I think it's probably
around this area.

A black building used to exist
somewhere by this route.

I don't know if I can find it.

It might be better to look
at a much older map, do you think?

Let me think.

Is this map before the w*r?

Yes.

What is this building by the bay?

This must be a sanitarium.

It's a hospital... for the brains.

I see.

They closed down
soon after the w*r ended.

But all the inmates
didn't want to leave that place.

They continued living there.

I see.

I remember one strange rumor.

At that sanitarium

they used to give corporal punishment
to those who broke the rules.

Corporal punishment?

Yes.

They pressed the heads into the washbowls
of sea water until they got suffocated.

What sort of punishment is it?

I don't know... it's only a rumor.

Yoshioka?

What are you doing here?

The coastal ferries?

What about them?

Something was disturbing me a bit.

What?

Why didn't you answer the phone?

Also...

Where were you last night?

What?

There was another m*rder,
using the same M.O.

Is that so?

Where were you at eight last night?

I was wandering about nearby.

Can you prove it?

I'm a suspect, huh?

Whatever you like.

Hey, wait!

Hello, Mr. Yoshioka.

I didn't know that you're in the station.

So what?

Well...

I have two things to report.

First, I've got new information
by an eyewitness...

...about the suspect
for the m*rder last night.

Go on!

Yes.

Right after eight o'clock last night,
a housewife in the neighborhood witnessed

someone running out of Onoda Trading
Company building.

It was a woman.

She must be Miyuki Yabe, who is in charge
of accounting for Onoda Company.

Hey, what do you think?

That woman may be
the one who did it.

Yeah... what's the second one?

Yes.

The F18 was identified.

They've requested that Hachiouji Police Station
to search for a missing woman this morning.

Her parents checked the photo of F18
and identified it as her daughter.

Reiko Shibata... 28 years old...

I don't know that woman.

Yoshioka, I'm sorry.

I suspected you back there.

It was reflexive.

Forgive me.

Reiko hadn't contacted us
for three months.

I felt something could be wrong.

Did your daughter go to
the coastal area often?

We have no idea.

She was a wild girl.

She didn't want full-time work.

She was living freely
with a part-time job.

Occasionally, she said
she was going traveling

or she was going to live
off her friend.

She sometimes didn't come home
for several weeks.

But...

We were the ones
who brought her up that way.

We always told her
to be independent,

and to do whatever she liked.

We regret what we said.

It's too late now.

Excuse me.

Who is it?

He was a year ahead of my daughter
when they were at high school.

I'm sorry.

Well... actually...

Reiko got engaged to him
once a long time ago.

Ultimately,

she broke off the engagement
at our request.

But he...

was seeing her on and off.

Occasionally, he comes to bother us
for money.

And he gets his way.

What a shame.

Excuse me for a moment.

Well, they're detectives...
came here for Reiko...

Hope you don't mind.

Mrs. Shibata, what's his name?

Shinya Ichikawa.

Miyaji! Call backup, please!

All right!

You're Shinya Ichikawa, aren't you?

Right?

We'll bring you in the police station
as an important eyewitness

for the m*rder of Reiko Shibata.

Ichikawa confessed now.

We also found hair of F18,

probably Reiko Shibata's, in his truck.

Once we get his DNA analysis, we can
send the case to the prosecutor's office.

He'll probably be found guilty.

One more thing.

They found a coat in Ichikawa's apartment
that was missing a button.

That is the one you found the other day.

It matched with that same button
of the coat.

He bought that coat at Citymart.

I see.

We also found this
underneath the seat in his truck.

We won't need to take this
to DNA analysis then.

Aren't you satisfied yet?

Ichikawa, your m*rder*r,
is now at the detention center.

Also, your ashes were returned
to your parents.

Isn't that enough?

You have no reason
to stay here any longer.

If you still have a grudge,
go talk to Ichikawa!

What else do you want me to do?

Don't tell me

you are

not Reiko Shibata.

Aren't you?

If you're not Reiko Shibata,

who are

you?

A long time ago

you saw me

and I saw you, too.

However,

everybody deserted me.

Are you that woman?

You must've seen me.

You must've known that.

What did you want me to do?

You must've had something
you could do.

Like what?

Did you know what happened to me
after then?

No.

I was there for many years.

I kept waiting.

Everyone forgot about me

and I died.

As you suspected, it turned out that
Sakuma and Ichikawa

used to use the same ferry route.

I see.

They are also looking into
Miyuki Yabe, who is still at large.

Really.

What the hell is happening?

Well...

You know something, don't you?

Tell me.

Don't give yourself airs.

I haven't the slightest clue.

Sorry about that.

I have no idea, either.

Harue, listen.

I don't know what's happening to me.

Let's leave here.

Yeah, traveling.

No.

We won't come back anymore.

You don't have to worry
about my work.

Yeah, far away.

It may be overseas.

Yeah.

Harue...

Please.

Don't ask me anything.

Who are you?

You must be Miyuki Yabe, right?

Detective...

Let me ask you one thing.

Did you see the woman in red, too?

Stop it.

I saw her, too.

What did you do after you saw her?

Recall it.

I saw her in the mirror.

And?

When I noticed her in the mirror,

it seems like she noticed me, too.

And then, what happened?

Her emotions started flowing into me.

Nobody notices me.

I'll be forgotten in this world.

People who are in front of me

won't see me at all.

Onoda was one of those people.

All the plans in the future
he was talking about are...

only for himself.

I wasn't there.

Suddenly, I wanted to call everything off.

That's why I k*lled him.

Go away!

Now!

I have no idea.

What does the woman
in your dream signify?

Probably, the memories
you had fifteen years ago

might have something
to do with this.

She told me that everybody
abandoned her.

What does it mean?

Maybe it surpassed some boundary.

Suppose...

there is someone else who saw her
in their dreams besides you.

One more person, two more...
and the number keeps growing.

That's impossible.
What am I talking about?

That's it.

You don't have to come here anymore.

Solve the rest on your own.

Thank you very much.

Go!

What?

Harue.

I'm sorry.

Please go now.

I'll catch up with you later

after I take care of this business.

Am I leaving alone?

That's right.

I promise I'll catch up with you.

Can I get on board?

Sure. Where are you going?

Oh, that.

That's been around for a long time.

Can you pull over there?

Yeah, sure.

You finally came for me.

I'll forgive

only you.

Harue.

Did I do this?

It doesn't matter now.

Now I remember.

Six months ago

I did... you...

It's over now.

It cannot be helped.

Don't you have a grudge
against me?

No.

Why not?

There is no use having a grudge
against you.

You have your own future.

Please forget about me.

Harue.

Hate me.

Just like that woman did.
Hate me.

I wish you hadn't remembered.

I had to.

I could not pretend

to be blind anymore.

I threw away my past.

That's a heavy responsibility.

Please don't.

Do you also forgive me?

How come

only me?

I have to go now.

What?

I'm leaving.

Wait!

Wait, Harue.

I need you after all.

Let's start all over again.

Forget about all in the past.

Let's just think about our future from now.

Harue, you think so too, right?

I know how to forget.

It's easy.

Let me try life with you
one more time, please.

Harue!

Where are you?

Harue.

One more time, Harue.

Once again.

I'm dead.

Please, I wish everybody
would die, too.

I'm dead.

Please, I wish everybody
would die, too.

I'm dead.

Please, I wish everybody
would die, too.

I'm dead.

Noboru Yoshioka
KOJI YAKUSHO

Harue Nimura
MANAMI KONISHI

Toru Miyaji
TSUYOSHI IHARA

Young Detective Sakurai
HIRO YUKI HIRABAYASHI

Shoichi Sakuma
IKUJI NAKAMURA

Man on a Workboat
RYO KASE

Miyuki Yabe
KAORU OKUNUKI

Seiji Onoda
HIRONOBU NOMURA

Psychiatrist Dr. Takagi
JO ODAGIRI

Woman in Red
RIONA HAZUKI

Executive Producers
KAZUYA HAMANA, YASUSHI KOTANI
RYUHEl CHIBA

Producer
TAKASHIGE ICHISE

Music Composed by
KUNIAKI HAISHIMA

Director of Photography
AKIKO ASHIZAWA

Casting by
MASASHI YAMAGUCHI

Production
OZ

Written and Directed by
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA