(June, 2004)
How long are you going to play that game?
But there's nothing to do.
- Then, help me get rid of the trash? - I don't wanna do such a thing.
Dad isn't coming.
If he does, I want you to hide under the counter.
I wanna go home.
I told you, didn't I? We're not going home anymore.
Where am I gonna sleep? What about school?
- I don't have my clothes and textbooks either. - I'll buy you new ones.
You can barely buy anything.
Mao.
It'll be fine. Don't worry.
I won't let you be scared anymore.
Because mommy will always protect you.
Come on, don't make that face.
I love you, Mao!
No~!
Please... Don't... I'm begging you!
(2004 Peculiar Incidents of Missing Persons)
Some people who were hiking have found it.
Dislodged by a mudslide caused by the everyday heavy rains.
Ideal place to dump a body huh.
Nothing but wildlife sanctuary for miles around.
Only witnesses are the birds and insects.
Thanks for the hard work.
- Hey. - Oh.
We got an I.D.?
Her license was in her clothes.
Ogawa Risa, 31 years old.
We received a search request for her in 2004.
She disappeared from her place of work. Last who saw her was her 11 year old daughter.
She took out the trash, and didn't come back.
Poor kid.
This was found in her chest cavity.
Slug... Bullet used for hunting.
Shot at close range, did a lot of damage.
Shattered her ribcage.
Hell of a bullet.
But there's no bullet hole in her clothes.
So the perp stripped off her clothes before shooting her?
Could be.
We know her name. And it seems we can identify the murder weapon.
Next question is...
Where did her head go?
Wabi-Sabi Subs Presents: COLD CASE "Door of Truth"
Case 4: "Orion"
Ogawa Risa, worked part-time at a convenience store along the national highway.
Where she disappeared on June 14, 2004.
Prime suspect at that time was her husband, Inui Kazuo.
A common-law marriage, no entry of marriage in the family registry.
Before Risa disappeared, she filed a domestic abuse report against Inui.
So maybe that had cost Risa her life?
Her daughter, Mao said that just before her mother disappeared...
...her father came to the store.
But she didn't check the face and voice. 'Cause she only saw the man's boots.
How come?
She did what her mom told her to do, hide under the counter when someone comes in the store.
They were scared of the dad, huh.
Inui's alibi seemed pretty solid at the time of the incident.
Maybe by now, some cracks have appeared.
(Kotobukicho, Naka Ward, Yokohama)
The night Risa disappeared...
...I was drinking at a standing bar in Kotobuki-cho. There were lotsa witnesses.
Should we believe the word of a bunch of drunks in a bar?
Then, go ask the proprietress. She didn't touch a drop.
Her head is missing. Someone who cuts off the head certainly harbored a helluva grudge.
You beat up your wife, didn't you?
That woman had it coming...
Welcome back.
Did you drink?
What? You got a problem with it?
No, not really.
Hey. Gimme my breakfast.
Sorry. I'm in a bit of a hurry...
Hey, aintcha workin the night shift?
The Children's Association has scheduled clam-hunting today, I'll be taking Mao there.
We won't make it if we don't get to the bus by 8:30...
Hey!
Which is more important? Your husband's meal or the brat's damn hobby. Huh?
Hey.
Who'd ya think pays for the food around here! Bitch!
Stop it. Okay, I'll make it...
- Hey! - Stop...
Come.
Sit down.
I'll make breakfast again. Wait a bit, okay?
But there's no time, right?
I'm sorry, Mao.
Let's not attend the Children's Association for today.
You're such a liar, mom. You always break your promises!
Don't sass your mother!
Mao!
Whatchu looking at, huh?
Don't you ever hit her again!
She left me there and then. I never saw her again.
That's not what your daughter said.
That lil shit...
She shoulda end up the same as her mother up in those woods.
What a strange thing to say, huh.
Mother and daughter, both were man-hating bitches.
Ah, I didn't kill her but wish I did.
I had hoped that, one day, I'll see my mom somewhere...
...alive.
Before your mother went missing from the convenience store, someone came, right?
What did you see?
I only saw his boots.
I was just a kid then, felt scared.
What kind of boots?
What you call those safety shoes?
The kind that's often worn by people in the same type of work as that person.
By "that person"... you mean your father?
What else do you remember?
This song...
I love you, Mao.
I stayed under there and waited but he never came back.
Neither did my mother.
Are you positive he was humming this song?
I've never forgotten that day.
Thank you for your cooperation.
After mom disappeared, I went back to my father.
Since he couldn't hit my mom anymore...
...he took it out on me.
Excuse me.
Hello?
What's up?
While doing routine sweep of the scene, the police dog uncovered these...
- How many bodies? - Eight.
No heads?
Every single one of them.
Out of the nine bodies, three have been identified.
First, Ogawa Risa, disappeared June of 2004.
Second body belonged to Inoue Airi, first year high school student, 16 years old.
Reported missing in 2011.
Third body is that of Matsumoto Toyoko, cleaning staff, 47 years old.
Disappeared June 2013.
They're working on the identities of the other bodies ASAP.
It can't be Inui who did this. He was imprisoned from 2010 to 2013.
All of them disappeared in June.
He strips off their clothes, probably rapes, and then shoots them.
What do they all have in common? I don't see anything similar about them.
- Their ages and professions are too varied. - Good point.
The custodian of the wildlife preserve seemed to have seen the perp near the crime scene.
- I'll go. - Are the victims' families coming?
Oh, we're notifying them...
Captain, I received your voice mail.
I'm sorry for not replying back.
Don't worry about such a thing...
Nine headless bodies?
That's a shocker.
I don't think you should go to such a scene right now...
Okay, tell me...
Where should I be then?
You guys go.
Yep.
Takagi.
Most people around here do not know what's going on in this preserve.
You think you heard gunshots in the early morning of June 2004, right?
June 15 to be exact. It was Parent's Day at my daughter's school, that's why I remember it well.
That's the morning after Ogawa Risa disappeared.
Hey! You there!
It's off-season for hunting right now!
Besides, this area around here is protected--
That guy sure gave me the creeps.
Around what time was that?
Maybe past 4 am? It was still dark.
Ogawa Risa was no longer in the convenience store, around 9 pm the previous night, right?
Then, what was he doing with her all night?
Thank you for coming.
I'm Matsumoto.
This way please.
It was the last time I saw my sister.
Matsumoto Toyoko saw you off at the bus stop at 4 pm, right?
Bye, I'll call again!
She had been wary ...ever since her purse got snatched...
Snatched?
Two months before my sister went missing...
...her purse got snatched.
Uh... that was in 2013, correct?
She was able to catch the thief.
It seems he had other crimes.
He's still in jail right now.
The last time you saw your daughter was around 5 pm?
She went for a jog in the nearby park.
- Oh, hey dad. - I'm home.
- I'll go running, okay? - Okay. See you later.
- Be careful, you hear? - Yeah.
She never came back again.
Could she have gone through a shortcut somewhere?
Not since a thug attacked her.
Thug?
He jumped her on a footbridge along the national highway.
She was able to spray...
...that guy's face with a self-defense spray.
What has become of the attacker?
The tear gas made him permanently blind.
Domestic violence, snatching, assault...
Ogawa Risa, Matsumoto Toyoko, Inoue Airi...
All three were victims of violent crimes before they went missing.
But each of the perpetrator in these cases isn't our serial killer.
At the time the victims went missing, each have reasons that make them impossible to have done the crime.
Maybe that's their common point.
The perp picks his targets by collecting information about them in the newspapers and news reports?
After the coroner has I.D.'d the other six bodies...
...check if they've been involved in violent crimes.
- Please do so first thing in the morning. - Yes.
I'll work on it now.
Then, you handle it.
Each of the nine women had filed a report.
They're all victims of violent crimes.
From robbery, rape, to assault, runs the gamut of violent crimes.
But all of them survived.
But were they really lucky? Makes you wonder.
When Ogawa Risa's husband hit their daughter, in outrage, she clocked him with a radio.
When Matsumoto Toyoko's purse was snatched...
...she punched the thief's face, breaking his nose.
And Inoue Airi used pepper spray...
All three fought back.
Could that be a new common point?
(Cocktails and Whiskey, Bar Three Martini)
Did you come here to drink, or to bitch at me?
Give me Vodka Orange. But hold the vodka.
You never did take after mom, huh.
Where are you staying?
First, at a capsule hotel... then, at a ladies sauna, and now at a manga cafe.
Here you go.
If you like, you can use the sofa bed, but the cat might fight you for it.
What changed your mind?
You can't go wandering about... Like some kinda...
Like some kinda what?
You don't know what's out there.
And you do?
More than I want to know... unfortunately.
According to the doctor's findings, there are no traces of sexual assault in all of the victims.
Then what was the perp doing with them all night?
Multiple lacerations were found on the soles of most of the victims' feet.
As well as torn ligaments.
Meaning?
I'm guessing they ran barefoot in the woods for hours.
So the perp could have been chasing after them in the woods.
I think so too.
- What type of gun was it? - A shotgun.
- Probably a shotgun that uses slugs. - Any finding on the bullets?
There's one firearms store in the prefecture, the shopowner says he may have some clues for us...
- I'm heading there right now. - I'll go, too.
Slug ammunition... He's only buying the same type of bullets.
The name is Furuki Masashi.
- Did you check his ID? - I had to.
I also checked his gun ownership license and gunpowder permit.
Maybe fake.
In 2011, he ordered an M40 and a canister.
The year Inoue Airi disappeared.
What was it?
M40 is a gas mask that US military use.
Excellent item for riot control... Great in filtering out tear gas.
How'd he know Inoue Airi used tear gas?
Did you see the guy's face?
Have trouble remembering his face...
Why?
Like he wasn't there, you know?
Thanks for waiting. Bullets and gas mask, right?
Taking precautions against nuclear accidents, are we?
Well, PM 2.5* is also scary. (*Dangerous level of inhalable particles in the air)
(Bargain Item, Used for Stuffing) Well, PM 2.5* is also scary. (*Dangerous level of inhalable particles in the air)
Oh, deer eyes*. (*For stuffing animal head trophies)
Go ahead. On me.
What was he laughing at?
That one.
I put it up there ever since I started this shop.
Orion, huh.
Astronomical observation was my father's hobby.
Orion comes from Greek myth, "The Great Hunter".
Is that why he made them run?
He was hunting them... in the forest!
He chases after them for hours, shoots them at dawn, and cuts off their heads.
Not deer or wild boars... but human prey.
How did this Furuki abduct his prey in broad daylight?
Maybe the victims know him?
- Furuki Masashi was a cop. - What?
A former cop from West Odawara Precinct.
Left the force in 2003.
Check all of his movements since 2003.
Also, request assistance for public safety.
Never expected he worked from the inside.
Let's quickly finish this disgusting case.
Just a thought but...
The victims were abducted during the day and before sunset, right?
But only Ogawa Risa was taken at night.
Maybe he wanted to get her earlier but couldn't...
Probably because she was with her child the whole day?
Maybe the daughter saw something.
I was riding in the car the whole day with my mom.
Did you see anyone, anywhere?
Like a policeman for instance.
Oh, there was one.
After my mom filed a DV report at the station...
...she headed for her work.
What does he want?
You're mad at me, right?
Not really.
He'll never hurt you again.
I'm going to be the best mom... and do things right.
I promise... I'll always protect you.
Can I help you, Officer?
What was that about?
Will you remember him, if you see his face again?
Sorry, I didn't get a good look at his face.
Don't worry about that, okay?
I dreamed about her earlier, for the first time in a long while.
Though I dreamed about her many times when I was small...
It wasn't your fault.
If I can go back to that time...
...I'll tell her for sure.
What is it?
That I love her, too.
Ishikawa-san, there's been a new development.
Excuse me.
They found a live one.
What do you mean?
A woman who was abducted by a policeman in 2007... and told to run away in the forest.
You mean a survivor?
Help me~!
That night, I went dancing at a club...
Then, in the parking lot at the back, I was...
Getting stoned?
I wasn't thinking back then, the blunders of youth, y'know...
I said I don't do that anymore.
Please continue?
Then some cop came...
...said, I was under arrest.
- Do you remember his face? - No, not at all.
I wasn't lucid... since I was pretty wasted that time.
But I did get his name...
Furu...-mi... Furuki or something like that.
He got me in his car...
Before I realized it, we were in the forest.
Where are we?
Don't... Please...
Run, Atalanta.
Help me!!
"Atalanta"?
Princess Atalanta.
A heroine from a myth.
You see, many years before that...
...I almost got raped.
I gave up on escaping... and was just lying there...
...waiting to die.
At that time, I remembered...
Princess Atalanta who was the fastest on the land...
Then, it gave me the courage...
And I escaped.
- Did you tell him that story? - Of course not.
I wonder how he knew...
Furuki Masashi is in Okinawa.
He started running a guest house in Miyakojima 12 years ago.
- You're certain of this? - Yes.
Seems he got in an accident while on duty, got tied to a wheelchair, and moved out of town.
Then it was a different person?
So our perp knew Furuki's situation, and stole his identity?
- Rotten bastard. - Then, it means our perp isn't a cop?
No, he's not.
The perp knew his victims were those who have put up a fight.
How they resisted were noted down in their reports.
Inoue Airi's pepper spray too.
What about the song that Ogawa Risa's daughter heard?
Risa told the police.
Says here, when Inui was beating her up, the song was playing on the radio.
What about the "Atalanta" thing?
- It was also noted here in her written statement. - That means...
...the perp had read the reports. - Even though he's not a police officer...
...he's someone who has access to the reports.
We want you to help us.
Me?
Sure. How can I be of service?
What's strange in this incident we're currently working on...
...is that the common point among the victims, was that they were all fighters.
Well, when it comes to strong women, the missus is enough, right?
The killer's way of thinking might be different.
Different how?
He hates women, because of his mother.
This type of criminal usually had a domineering mother.
It's basic knowledge, isn't it?
You read a lot of the records here, right?
Well, it's my job.
Do you read records of dead women all day?
Well, yes. It's better than fiction.
Nobody reads them. No one cares about them, except me.
Akamatsu-kun, there's something we'd like to ask you.
What is it?
Show us your place.
What he means is we'd like to examine your home.
You know what that means, right?
Be my guest.
Show me what you can do.
But you're not gonna get anything from my place.
- Nada. Not even a strand of hair. - No stains either on his clothes.
But he had to wash off the blood somewhere.
If the victims fought back, maybe we'll find something.
Man, can't even get any dust here.
- But he said he doesn't go hunting, right? - Yeah, never.
Take a look at this.
Just to set the record straight, this is not an interrogation, right?
Yeah. We're just chattin.
Then, I'm free to leave... whenever I want.
Most people don't know that, and talk their heads off.
Dumb civilians.
Not you, right?
I hope my inferences will be helpful to you.
What are your thoughts on our culprit?
Why did he take off their clothes and not rape them?
What's the point?
Initiative? Contempt?
The way their nipples pucker in the cold?
But it must be tough removing a woman's clothes off when she's not willing, right?
Tell me, how hard did they fight back?
Statistically speaking, victims rarely fight back when a firearm is used in the commission of the crime.
- Actually, I wouldn't know but... - You've got a great deal of knowledge, right?
I recommend you attend investigation training.
Why did he only pick strong women as prey?
Because it's challenging. That's obvious, isn't it?
When all of these women are being pursued by a gun-toting man in the woods...
...they'd be running from place to place.
Lots of thought would be running through their heads. About life.
Since there are many lessons to be learned... in the woods.
Here's what I think...
This perp... is probably a virgin.
I heard a while ago, that he doesn't know how to treat women.
The one I heard who has lady problems is you.
I haven't said my condolences yet, right?
Sorry for your loss. The water's pretty cruel, isn't it.
Turning her lovely skin... into something like that.
Takagi!
You too, Vice Chief...
You have problems with women as well, right?
What's your point?
After your divorce, you haven't spoken with your wife for ten years.
While your daughter doesn't really recognize you as a father.
But it can't be helped, right?
At a critical time in her life, the father that she loves...
Or should I say, the father that she had loved...
...didn't do anything to help her.
But your daughter is better than those who commit suicide.
What are you trying to say?
Suicide is the cutting off ties to the world.
A way of saying, "I never loved any of you, and you never loved me."
In short, they're a failure as human beings.
Calm down! Calm down...
Say that to my face one more time!!
- Takagi went postal? - Where's he now?
- Vice is having a talk with him. - What's with that guy...
We saw your place. You're one hell of a neat freak huh.
Why would a tidy guy like you be doing the dirty work of cutting off heads?
I didn't take anyone's head off.
I meant animals' heads.
You hunt for a hobby, right?
There's no challenge in chasing some dumb animal in the woods.
Do you like a challenge?
I get bored easily.
If the perp wants a challenge, why doesn't he hunt men?
Like athletes, or guys who go to the gym.
Why go for the doe? When the stag is much stronger, faster...
Because a woman...
...has more reason to cling to her life.
Like ones with kids... If he threatens to bring their kids into the woods...
...I bet they'd be screaming their heads off.
What a great hunter. An expert on women and kids too, huh.
And yet, he let one woman get away.
You mean that junkie?
She must be a full-blown crackhead by now.
How do you know who we're talking about?
Because I read the reports.
Your precious lead...
...will get thrown out in court because of her reputation, and become a bungled case.
Just like your sloppy mistakes, right?
What are you talking about?
You screwed up big time too, didn't you?
The assault incident with a homeless man two years ago...
...got your ass sued for that, right?
And then again with that bratty cop a while back.
Because of guys like you...
...the world sees the police as bird-brained, one-track minded Neanderthals.
- Try to reflect on your actions. - That's it.
Get up.
- I said get up now!! - Calm down, Tachikawa.
I can clearly see the fine line between humans and animals...
...when I look at you.
So tell us more about those animals.
They say that animals that are hunted down...
...desperately try to escape, even with fractured bones, and bloody soles.
Could it be worse than rape? Plus it goes on for hours.
Well said. You shouldn't do that to humans.
One of the victims was a promising student.
Promising student?
Daddy...
She was just a kid...
Not really.
A female will do anything...
...in exchange for her life.
You whose wife died at the love motel district along the national highway...
...would understand, right?
That's not gonna work on me. Sorry, pal.
I know... what kind of person your wife was.
She empathized with the hurt feelings of Princess Diana.
Don't forget... your deer eye.
Did you say "deer eye"?
How come you know it's a deer eye?
- You do taxidermy as a hobby? - I'm done talking.
- If you've never gone hunting, why do you have that at your place? - Done talking.
Next is the last one.
Just one admission will do.
A slip of the tongue that places him at the scene of the crime.
- I understand. - Excuse me.
Negative findings on his boots.
- Thanks. - You're welcome.
Not even a single strand of hair down the drains.
That bastard wipes down every damn inch of his home?
I need a tea break.
You ok?
Get him to confess.
Yes, sir.
How do you like this room? Having fun playing your games?
I have watched you... sometimes.
Really?
Really.
So you snuck into the wildlife preserve...
And played with your dick in the dark?
Girls shouldn't say such a thing.
Do you get hard when you're in the forest? Or maybe that doesn't work for you either.
Another of your boring provocation tricks.
Makes me wanna yawn.
Oh... it did make me yawn.
I'm just warming up.
- You still have something up your sleeve? - That's right.
Then, let me say something about you, Ishikawa Yuri.
What?
Why you became a detective.
What you never talked about, the terrible thing that happened to you when you were small...
A long long time ago.
You ever dream about it?
No. Never.
Keep telling yourself that.
Know your enemy. You've done your homework, huh.
Well, so did I.
Let's see here... Age 18... Failed the police academy entrance exam.
Age 20, you applied as a shopping mall... hah, security guard...
But failed the physical...
You didn't even make it as a security guard huh?
So here you are now, 40 years old...
Filing away pieces of paper, while having fun doing cosplay.
You're free to walk out, you know. I'm done with you.
Oh, right. There's one more thing.
Age 12...
...your mother was killed.
I wonder what kind of life you had when she was alive?
You ever dreamed about it?
No matter how much time passes, you can't grow out of it, right?
Wait!
We're not yet done talking. Don't just walk away from me.
He's a different person.
He's different where?
Inside the forest?
Tell me...
Who is he when he's inside the forest?
He is...
You. Who you are.
Who are you inside the forest?
God.
Please! Don't! I'm begging you!
I don't want to break anymore promises to my child...
I'm the only one who can protect her.
I'm the only one she has in this world...
I love you...
...Mao.
I'm done talking with you.
- What did you do with her head? - I already gave you my opinions.
We're just theorizing, right?
Tell me what you did with their heads!
Ask the culprit. I'm done here.
- No, we're not! So sit down. - No...
It's over.
- He's just gonna walk? - Nothing we can do.
Got no confession.
I'll be watching you.
I'll be out of town. Do some traveling.
In this country of ours, we got plenty of forests, right?
You ever go hunting?
No.
We should do it sometime. Together.
♫ No one knows what it's like to be the bad man
♫ To be the sad man Behind blue eyes
♫ And no one knows what's it's like to be hated
♫ To be fated To telling only lies
♫ But my dreams They aren't as empty
♫ As my conscience seems to be
♫ I have hours, only lonely
♫ My love is vengeance That's never free
♫ No one knows what it's like To feel these feelings
♫ Like I do
'Ishikawa Yuri' YOSHIDA YO
'Takagi Shinjiro' NAGAYAMA KENTO
'Tachikawa Daisuke' TAKITO KENICHI
[Case 4 Guests]
'Akamatsu' YUSUKE SANTAMARIA
'Ogawa Risa' - HIGASHI KANAKO 'Ogawa Mao' - FUKUDA MAYUKO
'Matsumoto Toyoko' - NARUSHIMA TOKO 'Inoue Airi' - KOSUGE REI 'Inui Kazuo' - ABE RYOHEI
'Shoko' - HAMAKAWA FUMIE 'Matsumoto Sumiko' - YAMAMOTO YUKO 'Inoue' - YABE KENJI
'Wildlife Preserve Custodian' - SHIMIZU SHIN 'Midori' - KAWAKAMI YURI 'Gunstore Owner' - YASHIRO TAKASHI
'Nakayama Chika' - FUJISAWA EMA 'Ishikawa Saya' - HIRATA KAORU
'Kaneko Toru' MITSUISHI KEN
'Motoki Hidetoshi' MIURA TOMOKAZU
Written by VEENA CARBREROS SUD
Screenplay: YOSHIDA YASUHIRO
Music: MURAMATSU TAKATSUGU
Photography: YAMADA KOSUKE
Lighting: NISHIMURA MASAYUKI
Recording: UEMURA TAKAHIRO
Art: HIRAI ATSURO
Decoration: YAMAMOTO NAOKI
Editing: HOGAKI JUNNOSUKE
Visual Effects: AKABANE SATOSH Scipter: HIROSE JUNKO
Music Selection: FUJIMURA YOSHITAKA
Case 4 Insert Songs: "Sakura" by KAWAGUCHI KYOGO "Jupiter" by HIRAHARA AYAKA "Sakuranbo" by OTSUKA AI "Take Me Out" by FRANZ FERDINAND "Behind Blue Eyes" by LIMPBIZKIT
Subtitles by WABI-SABI SUBS
JP-EN Translation / Subtitle Editing / Timing: EARTHCOLORS
Raw Provider: FURRANSU / WWWENDYWLLM3 / VAMPIREXxX
Producers: RICHARD BURRELL / OKANO MAKIKO / CHIKAMI TEPPEI
Director: HATANO TAKAFUMI
Production Cooperation: TELEPACK
A 2016 Production of: WARNER BROS. / WOWOW
This work is fictional, and does not depict any actual person or organization.
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