Changing my name was easy.
Changing my face was easy, too.
And so was getting away.
But...
if I got caught...
May I have your name?
I've been on the run from myself.
"I AM ICHIHASHI: Journal of A Murderer"
Police have arrested Tatsuya lchihashi
at a ferry dock in Osaka.
He is charged with murder
and abandoning a corpse in the death of a British woman
in lchikawa City.
He is said to have told police...
"I have no defence to offer."
"I have nothing to say at all."
He has said nothing of the 2 years, 7 months,
or 961 days he spent on the run.
His face altered through plastic surgery.
Could we have a word, please?
Downstairs!
Halt!
Tokyo Bay Radio Headline News.
Police in lchikawa
have found the body of a young woman
in a bathtub on the balcony of an apartment there.
She is thought to have been acquainted
with the man who lives there.
Police are trying to ascertain how she died.
The man's current whereabouts are unknown.
Police are assuming he has knowledge of the case
as they try to identify the woman.
Chiba Prefectural Police
have identified an English woman found dead March 26th
as a 22 year-old instructor at an English-conversation school.
The body was found nude buried in a bathtub
filled with potting soil.
She is believed to have been strangled.
Her right eye was swollen
and there were bruises on her arms and legs.
The plastic bathtub, centimeters wide and 69 deep...
Here's a song from Australia,
where Christmas comes in summer!
"I am lost in Shikoku"
Aomori, Shikoku, Okinawa, Osaka...
I never thought I'd be able
to interview you on the run like this.
Could I ask you your name again?
Why are you still running?
All right, why have you kept on running this long?
You've changed your face, and your name.
Are you that afraid of arrest?
You don't want to be put on show?
You don't want to take responsibility
for what you've done? Is that it?
No.
Radio Kochi Headline News.
Here is the news to this hour.
The family of the language teacher found murdered in lchikawa
has come to Japan to take possession of her body
from police in Chiba Prefecture.
It will be taken to Narita airport
and returned to her home near Coventry, England.
It was on the radio I first heard
the name of her home town.
What's that got to do with going from Aomori to Shikoku?
I'd heard walking the pilgrimage
of the 88 temples of Shikoku
in reverse order will bring the dead back to life.
You really thought that would bring her back?
I really thought so then.
Hook her life away from her.
"Wanted"
"Pilgrimage Route"
That's what you say,
but do you understand what you did?
Why didn't you let go
when she was struggling to breathe?
I don't know.
After you'd raped her,
she said she wouldn't report you,
and begged you to let her go.
I wanted to let her go.
Why didn't you?
I'd hither.
She had a black eye.
I couldn't let her go...
looking like that.
So you killed her, buried her, and ran.
How selfish can you get!
You had other choices.
Why that one?
It wasn't my fault.
Then whose fault was it?
Tell me.
If it wasn't yours, whose was it?
I don't know.
Was it lnoue?
Ueshima?
Or was it Ueda?
"Matsuyama-Naha Ferry"
Police have released a photograph
of murder suspect Tatsuya lchihashi
taken from a security camera in his building elevator
a few days before the crime.
Police are thought to have taken this step
as the trail grows cold.
As of April 7th, investigators had been contacted 433 times
without receiving any firm leads.
I fell down the stairs.
He didn't used to be like that.
He was nice then.
The 13:45 ferry to Naha, Okinawa,
is now ready to board.
Passengers with tickets, please proceed to Gate 2.
I really wonder...
where things went wrong.
"Shikoku"
"The Outer Islands of Okinawa"
"I am Ueshima in Okinawa"
You are listening to Ryukyu Wave.
Here is the news.
Today marks one month since a warrant was issued
for the arrest of Tatsuya lchihashi
for the murder of an English teacher outside of Tokyo.
Police have investigated 379 reported sightings of lchihashi
but he remains at large.
The investigation team will be
increased from 100 to 150 officers.
"Cosmetic Surgery: Costs"
The prosthetic method.
Artificial cartilage does not harm the body.
"Prosthetic nose: 600,000 yen"
I can't afford that!
You're working hard.
1.2 kilos, 120 yen.
And two at 700 grams...
That's 260 yen.
Thanks.
How do you assess this case, Mr. Nishio?
There are two things.
He's 26, out of university for two years,
still living off his parents.
A 'NEET', as it were.
Many criminals emerge from these people.
Those two years affect this case a great deal.
A distortion sets in.
He's like someone rowing a boat through fog.
Two years...
It's quite something.
What do you want to get out of me?
Nothing.
I want you to tell me what happened.
And as you ﬂee your own cowardice as well.
I want a proper end to this movie.
Mama, there's a strange man there.
Hello?
I'm looking for work.
I don't have any experience.
Yes...
My name is...
It must have been hard, Ueshima.
But there's lots in Okinawa who can't find work.
You're from Kanagawa?
I worked in Shinagawa.
Right in Tokyo, the next 'gawa' over.
Got papers?
Your family register.
You'll need a copy of that to work here.
Hello. Are you at the Karma Restaurant?
No, stupid! The welcome party.
Yeah, that's right. Okay.
Right, right...
Okay, thanks. Take care of it.
Okay, all right...
I'll introduce him.
28, high-school graduate, loner...
Prefectural school? Yes.
In Kanagawa?
They're everywhere.
Ten years out of school, then.
What's your name?
Yuuki Ueshima.
Right! Ueshima, 28.
Work hard.
Drink? Sorry...
In Okinawa, you have to drink.
Sorry. Drink!
Knock it back! Stop saying 'sorry'.
I wasn't just running.
I was trying to live.
You were trying to live
when you'd taken someone's life?
I've fixed it up so you can stay upstairs.
Don't drink too much.
I'm going.
Good luck, Ueshima.
Good night.
Nice to meet you! Cheers.
Higa! Ueshima needs food!
Go get him some.
Put your cell phone down.
Is there more beer? Here.
Another beer.
Can't you say 'thank you'?
Sorry. Leave him alone, Higa.
Eat up!
Next!
Let's all go and drink!
Where are we going?
Ueshima! Wait a minute.
Starting tomorrow, this guy will come for you.
See ya.
Come on, let's go.
Come on, Higa!
"Wanted"
You figured you'd be safe there?
They just didn't know you were Tatsuya lchihashi.
No!
Ueshima...
Watch it!
Sorry
Higa!
"Kanna Drive-in Restaurant"
"Kume Island"
"Oha Island"
"Hiking routes"
Ueshima!
Come here.
Good work.
Your overtime's in there, too.
Is the emergency number I have for you still good?
Yes.
I called it, but there's no 'Ueshima' there.
And you need ID to work.
Maybe not in some big-city slum
but this is Okinawa.
If you don't want to give it, you can always quit.
Go on.
Get back to work.
What?
Did she look like her?
Look like her? I don't know.
Did you want to tell someone what you'd done?
I...
Is this your first time with a hooker?
You scared me, grabbing my arm like that.
Why are you staring like that?
Are you in love?
You're not from here, are you?
People from here smell different.
I'm from Yokohama, myself.
I'm weak.
When I talk about it, I only end up making excuses.
I wanted to apologize.
But I couldn't.
I'm sorry we didn't make it all the way.
Come back again if you get lonely.
Three months after the murder...
with lchihashi still at large
the victim's family has begun internet distribution of T-shirts
bearing his picture.
The reward for information leading to his arrest
has also been raised to the maximum of 1 million yen
from the Police 'Special Investigation Fund'
that rewards informants in serious criminal cases.
New posters are being released
in an effort to strengthen the nation-wide search.
This has been Radio Hai Sai News.
Thank you!
The Radio Hai Sai Request Line is still open.
Hello! Okinawa Police.
Hello.
Could I change posters? Go ahead.
Hey, Loner!
Hi there, Higa!
Hi.
You're working for Mr. Kinjo? Yes.
Keeping your nose clean? Who says I'm not?
Keep it that way.
"Wanted: Tatsuya lchihashi"
Who's there?
Hold it, Ueshima!
Hold it!
You piss me off, you know that?
Ueshima!
Doesn't it get lonely on the run,
with no one to talk to?
I listened to the radio.
You needed human contact.
A man on the run can't have that.
I wanted a desert island.
A desert island?
Somewhere to ﬂee to.
But desert islands don't have water.
So you chose Oha Island.
What about surrendering?
Surrendering? I can't do that.
That won't reduce the sentence once a warrant's issued.
A reduced sentence? When you killed someone?
You do feel sorry for killing her, don't you?
I feel horrible!
But...
But?
Anyone would try to escape.
Anyone would.
Two photographs of the suspect have been released.
The 30,000 posters are bringing more than 20 calls per day.
A man resembling lchihashi
has been reported at a bar in Tokyo's Kabukicho area
frequented by cross-dressers.
A woman's wig and make-up were reportedly found in his home...
With police devoting vast resources to finding lchihashi
most reports are either mistaken identity or...
Police in Chiba have set up
life-sized cut-outs of the suspect
180 centimeters tall, they feature a switch
that plays a recording of his voice.
Pictures seized from lchihashi's computer...
It is one year today since the body of an English woman
was found in an lchikawa apartment.
At a press conference at the Japan Press Center in Tokyo,
her father said...
someone may be aiding lchihashi.
He said he hopes lchihashi is caught before he kills again.
Ichihashi has broken our hearts,
the woman's mother said, adding...
'Alone for your crime.'
Right.
"I am nobody in Oha Island"
How's your morning going?
Whether you're heading for work,
or you have the day off,
good morning!
This is 'Sunshine Morning' on Ryukyu Wave
brought to you by Gushiken Optical
and the makers of Red Taro Tarts.
And our first song request...
I always listen to you before I go to work.
Thank you!
My wife and I have just come back from Cambodia.
That sounds nice!
He says that pumpkins are called 'kabocha' in Japanese
because they came here from Cambodia.
Apparently they first reached here
aboard a Portuguese ship that landed at Oita in 1549.
I thought this was my place, mine alone.
Death by suffocation proceeds through four stages.
There are no symptoms in the first minute.
After two to three minutes,
labored breathing and incontinence.
Breathing stops and blood pressure
falls after three to four minutes.
After four to five minutes, the mouth moves,
but breathing has ceased.
After five minutes, the heart stops beating.
For more than five minutes
you hands were around her neck.
That is a fact
When she stopped moving,
you rolled her onto her back.
Her eyes were open, right?
Those unfocused eyes stared up at you.
Are you forgetting?
You're a murderer.
Will you end this, please?
There's nothing more to say.
You're on the run. There is no end.
Do you understand what it's like
watching how people look at you?
Whose fault is that?
Changing your name, shunning society
avoiding responsibility!
If you're going to be like that,
I'm not saying any more.
This is my place.
Get out of here!
Get out!
Believing Tatsuya lchihashi dead by suicide or misadventure
the Chiba Prefeciural Police
are scaling back their search for him.
The victim's family continues trying
to keep the case before the public.
Visiting Japan, distributing posters on street comers
and insisting 'we will not rests until lchihashi is caught.'
This is the only place I have.
You refuse to face this.
But you cannot erase it, can you?
It follows you forever.
I don't care.
No?
Then you leave me no choice.
It's too bad. I'd envisioned a different ending.
There is no more need to speak of the incident, then.
Or your life alone, on the run, under a false name.
You live only to ﬂee.
I flee only to live.
And who wishes you to be alive?
Everyone is hoping you're dead.
I'm not dead!
What if you were to satisfy their hopes?
Then you'd be at peace.
Or will you run from here as well?
In the eyes of the world,
a man who hides his name doesn't exist.
But I...
You just haven't realized that.
For you, killing someone else is easy.
So why isn't killing yourself?
I want to live!
Why won't you atone?
Or tell the truth?
Who are you?
Who? Why me?
Answer me, lnoue!
Ueshima! Who are you?
There was no choice!
We know all about you!
Even if you think not.
Who are you?
"I am Ueda in Nagoya"
Taking a life was easy.
Becoming someone else was easy, too.
And so was no longer being Ueshima.
Who am I, anyway?
We don't need your ID.
I'd prefer not having any photographs taken.
I can't operate without photographs, Mr. Ueda.
All set.
Mr. Ueda! It's only a picture.
This way.
Sit here, please.
Let's take off the glasses.
I'll take them.
And the jacket.
Good.
Look this way.
Hello.
Ichihashi! Hold it!
You won't get away! Halt!
Investigators have learned
he has had his nose surgically altered.
Police say a Nagoya hospital reported a man resembling lchihashi
who underwent surgery there October 27th.
A comparison of the position of eyes, ears, and nose
in before and after photographs
suggests that the man is lchihashi.
He does not have the thick lips
prominent in earlier photographs.
No...
It can't be.
Ueshima! Ueda!
No!
Are you alive?
I want to live.
"I am lnoue in Osaka"
"Application for Passport"
Are you still up?
Tomorrow's a busy day.
Did I interrupt?
No, it's okay.
What do you want to do, lnoue?
You can't go overseas without ID, you know.
But...
you know what?
I've been to America.
It's true.
See that?
Quiet, will you?
You've never been to America!
Not without a passport.
Passport? Who needs one!
Ichihashi's mother has told reporters
his parents have a duty to deliver him to the police
and that she does not know how he paid for surgery.
Inoue, get some sleep.
Hurry UP!
And that is headline news for this hour.
Hey, Inoue!!
So you're alive?
At least say 'good morning'.
Kitano! Move your arms, not your mouth!
What are you looking at, four-eyes?
What, you can't talk?
Okay... leave him!
I'll tell him the rules.
Has he got wax in his ears?
You need better manners.
Anyway, just hang in and collect your pay.
You're a good worker.
Next!
Oh, it's you.
I hear good things about you. Keep it up.
Inoue...
ls there something you're saving your money to do?
We're fine now,
but sometimes day laborers don't have work.
This is insurance for when you can't eat.
Watch.
Here!
Listen. I don't show this to everyone.
This is special.
Look at this. This'll do fine.
You won't like it at first, but get used to it.
It'll keep you alive.
I've had trouble, too. We help each other.
Any kindness you do will come back to you.
Unlike me and my family.
Hey, lnoue.
Find anything?
You'll find everybody's got their own stories.
The only thing you can do is live through it.
You alive, lnoue?
I want to live.
"Wanted: Tatsuya lchihashi"
Time for lunch! I'm starving!
Let's go!
Here you go.
Same thing!
Why did you spoil the surprise?
Police have raised the reward
from 1 million yen to 10 million yen
for information leading to the arrest of Tatsuya lchihashi.
Hey, wait a minute!
I've seen that guy before.
I know it!
Go find him, then!
Inoue.
I'm sorry. I turned you in.
Forgive me.
I needed the money.
Everything's wrong for me here.
But with the money, I could start over with my family.
I didn't kill anyone, right?
Right, Inuoe?
Police near Osaka have found passport-related documents
at a construction-company dormitory...
where Tatsuya lchihashi wanted for the March 2007 murder
of a British woman was working under an assumed name.
Co-workers said he was studying
a foreign language on his own
leading police to believe he is planning to ﬂee abroad.
Following press reports
that Tatsuya lchihashi has had plastic surgery.
The victim's parents have said
they are 'distressed' at the news.
"Which clinic carried out the work?"
"Why was nothing done?"
The family said in a statement
to the British newspaper "Daily Life".
How long were you lnoue?
When did you become Ueshima?
When did you leave Ueda behind?
Inoue, and Ueshima, and Ueda...
I killed them.
No!
Don't!
He'll me!
Why did you run?
No! Don't!
I'll follow you...
Who are you?
Till I get the truth.
Who are you?
Die.
You should know.
Who?
You're going to die.
I don't want to!
You're getting killed.
He'll me!
Who are you, anyway?
I'm you!
Don't kill me!
There's no escape.
On March 25th, about 10 P.M.,
she got into the elevator of my building.
When she entered my apartment,
I hugged her from behind.
She resisted, and I pushed her to the floor.
Of course I knew she wanted to get away.
She said to me...
'You want to kill me, don't you?'
I became irritated with her.
I struck her.
I knew I couldn't let her get away.
Then with her fist,
she hit me on the left temple.
My head hit the wall.
After that, I don't know what happened.
The bathtub had fallen over.
She was screaming, crawling around,
trying to get away.
I quickly reached out my left hand
and placed it over her jaw.
I brought up my right hand and pressed down harder.
Then her voice stopped.
"Osaka Nanko Ferry Terminal"
Changing my name was easy.
Changing my face was easy, too.
And so was getting away.
No.
If you hadn't run away...
If I hadn't run away that night...
All you'd accomplish is to change where you died.
I couldn't get away from myself.
"Ueda, Ueshima, lnoue, lchi"
Will you tell me your real name?
I am Tatsuya lchihashi.