Take my car.
I'm from the old school. I don't under stand this.
I'll handle things here. Get going before the uniforms arrive.
Go!
Hey!
Are you OK?
What's wrong?
I'm sorry.
I failed to guide your souls.
What do you mean?
Soon I will vanish...
...because of that sword.
Vanish?
You are the Guardian now.
Me?
I can't do that!
Now you have all the wisdom you will need.
But nothing's changed!
You just haven't realized your power.
You can do it. Guide the souls of the dead...
...and guar d the gate.
But...
Look!
So I guess I got killed, huh?
I'd just got started!
"Got started"?
I fixed tea and made copies...
...until they finally let me write.
I got shouted at, chewed out...
This was my first by-line article.
And then my subject kills me.
I knew it was too good to be true.
I couldn’t save you...
It’s not your fault.
Tell me...
...what's more important, the past or the future?
I choose the future.
It’s stupid to hold the future hostage to an old grudge.
What's the point of living, any way?
The point?
We're all dead, you know.
We didn't live just to die.
I'm going.
I’m going to be reborn. Next time I'll do the things I should have done.
'Bye.
I want to have that kind of confidence in my own life.
I'm going to be reborn, too.
I've never thought about it...
...but I might have things to do as well.
"Things to do"?
Bring the man here, before it's too late.
Mother Shuho!
Lay down.
His heart had stopped...
It's beating now. An evil force had it in its grip.
This is a wraith.
Pure murderous intent.
If it's this clear, it must be very powerful.
That woman.
Her name is Rei.
What is she?
She lets a man named Kudo use her.
Use her?
She takes the lives of the sacrificial victims.
The one conducting the rite must not be defiled.
He's the one doing it!
Only according to the laws of man.
A spirit must bear the burden of its own actions.
He puts her up to it.
Does he?
To kill or not is her choice.
She has chosen to kill for him.
If she didn't, no one would die.
That doesn't make sense!
It’s an act of nature, like rain turning into a river.
Nature is not always fair.
What are they?
No longer human.
Their power grows as they kill...
...from the rites he performs.
His body holds superhuman power.
The forces of darkness sustain him.
This gun is of no use now.
And I know you intend to kill them, "Detective".
What do they want to do with this "rite" of theirs?
Kudo wishes to summon the Devil.
The Devil?
This way.
Tatsuya?
No.
I am Izuko.
Listen to me... this is not the world of the living.
You are ill.
You lay on a bed, connected to machines.
What?
Kudo and Rei are killing people... for your sake.
It’s true.
I am one of them.
Tatsuya's doing that?
So you...
...died for me?
I’m sorry.
Then I will go.
I thought if I waited I'd see Tatsuya again.
But my being here has led him into sin.
Do me this favour.
Tell him.
Eri is dead.
But don't worry.
If the rite succeeds...
...death is not a problem.
Just one more...
The "Book of Death" describes rites that will summon the departed.
Kudo has the same book?
Not exactly. His is from the West.
But it's much the same.
The Star of David!
That's one name.
Since King Solomon’s time it's been used to summon demons.
In Japan it's kagome, used in the study of Yin and Yang.
The hexagram.
"To summon the demon, form the hexagram".
"The mortal enemy of demons are the Guardians".
"At the six points, consecrate the hearts of their line".
"There display the corpses, to shame them."
"Their line"?
The reborn Guardians.
"Guardians"?
Those who die by accident or murder go to The Gate of Rage.
There they have three choices.
Paradise, then rebirth...
...return to this world as a ghost...
...or a fatal curse against one person, and descent into Hell.
And its Guardian instructs them?
Yes. And also watches to see the demons are kept sealed in.
So they're enemies.
And you can see all of this?
Why haven't you done anything?
What will happen cannot be changed. If it could, no one would ever die.
So we're wasting our time? We can't do anything?
These are elemental forces. You cannot stop a storm.
But you can prepare.
"When the six hearts are laid, the Gate of Rage is broken..."
"...and evil ones may be called forth from Hell."
"They will grant the wishes of those who summon them..."
"...and in return bring darkness upon the earth."
The end of the world?
Something like that.
That will happen when they sacrifice one more victim.
One more thing...
"A sacrifice must be made at each of the six points."
Here.
This is the concert hall where Sayuri was killed.
Right here!
They've come.
Yes.
I was a Guardian once.
Can you use this?
Yeah...
You two stay here.
Come on.
Stay here.
What will happen now is not for eyes such as yours to see.
Kudo!
I'll shoot!
Stay back!
I mean it!
Stay back!
I've come...
...for your heart.
It won't be that easy.
Some diseases are incurable.
My wife had one. She lay in a coma, waiting to die.
Doctors couldn't help her.
My money, my position, my research, all useless.
Her eyes wouldn't open.
If this is fate the Gods have decided, then I defy the Gods.
While I was trying to find a way to save her, I came upon a book.
A book about the laws of this world and the next.
The "Book of Death"...
Yes. Those who are summoned will grant any wish.
Very soon...
...I’ll be able to bring Eri back.
So you killed Mina...
...believing in that craziness?!
You only believe in what you can see and understand.
That's where we differ.
Eri was everything to me. I won't accept a world without her.
Crazy as it may be, if that's the only way to save her...
...I'll believe it!
You want revenge?
Go ahead.
Kill me and take my Book of Death!
Screw you!
To bring back your love...
...you'd do the same.
No?
To save the one I love, I’ll fight the entire world.
If you can't do that, you're a loser!
Get out!
Kill me and you go to Hell, too.
Shall we continue there, then?
For you...
...I'll do anything.
We don't need your heart.
I have one, too!
For the rite, you need the heart of one who was a Guardian.
Here is...
...your sixth heart.
Kudo...
If you hate me, shoot.
No!
He's not worth going to Hell for!
I killed your love.
Don't you want revenge?
No! You're a detective!
For love, I will make a hell of this world.
And you?
What will you do for love?
What will happen cannot be changed.
Kudo was fated to die here?
Yes.
But I'm amazed this woman offered her heart.
She was a Guardian?
Yes.
Some people, like me, are reborn still remembering the gate.
But before any connection from a previous life...
...she chose to help Kudo and her elder sister.
So is it over?
Not yet.
Those killed go to...
...The Gate of Rage.
Hey...
...we’ll meet...
...in our next life, won't we?
Yes.
I was expecting you.
So...
...you're the Guardian?
You can't run now.
I won't run. I will do those things I should.
You've changed.
What happened?
The question is meaningless.
Only actions have meaning.
Out of my way.
I curse the world that robbed me of Eri.
You don't have that choice.
The one I’m talking to...
...is behind the gate.
In return...
...I will have Eri back.
I am Izuko...
...Guardian of the Gate.
To summon the demon...
...you must go to the Gate of Rage.
That's why Kudo didn't do the killing.
It’s up to her now.
"Her"?
Mina. Now she is the Guardian of the Gate.
What?!
I'll go to the gate.
Shoot me.
Huh?
It’s the only way. I can stop Kudo.
Yes.
That is your choice?
What are you talking about? Are you both crazy?!
Crazy as it may be...
...if that's the only way to save Mina...
...then I'll go.
Take this.
Shoot me.
Don't!
Death is the end of everything!
Kishi! Don't!
I can't do it!
Kishi...
No!
Kanzaki!
The gate will open!
Kudo!
The evil...
...grows weaker.
I talked to Eri.
She has accepted her fate and gone to Paradise.
She left a message.
"Though our flesh may fail, and wherever our souls go..."
"...I will always..."
"...love you."
You have been purified.
You have three choices.
I lay...
...a curse on myself.
Go, then.
No!
I won't let you die!
Kanzaki! Please!
Sorry I'm late.
You shouldn't be here.
I came here for you!
If you've died for me, live for me now.
Let me stay.
I can't.
Mina...
I wanted to be with you.
But when my life was taken I realized how wonderful...
...it is to be alive.
Death isn't the end.
And that means you have to live life to the fullest.
You've...
...gotten stronger.
People change.
I can't...
...live without you.
You can change too, Kohei.
But...
...I'm dead.
It's all right. You can still be brought back.
Will I see you again?
Welcome to the Gate of Rage.
Go, then.
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura