A Presentation of The Frame Production Group
Malice: the desire to cause others harm.
Hello, I'm Nakamura Atsuo.
Tonight we'll be talking about what our next guest...
...the much talked-about Hatoyama Kunio, is going to be doing next.
Welcome.
Thank you very much.
'The environment' is your slogan in the upcoming election for Tokyo Governor.
Has this always concerned you?
I've always loved living things...
I love butterflies... not 'Madame' butterflies...
...but real butterflies. Out in my vegetable garden I study them.
I love nature.
Yes, but 'the environment' as a political problem is something else again.
In Tokyo, it means things like air pollution...
I've looked at problems like dioxin and garbage.
But at their base...
...is the ecosystem.
Ecological mismanagement leads to problems like dioxin.
Further destruction of our ecosystem will leave Tokyo buried in concrete.
Look at him writing on his hand!
He wants to cut this off... he's going to end right on time!
Who let that woman take her tape back a minute before air-time?!
Get downstairs and get it back!
Akamatsu's with her. It's OK.
What's OK?! She leads the kid around by the nose!
What's going on, kid? How long do I tell the old man to stretch it out?
She says we'll be on time.
What's this re-editing a minute to air time?!
We got something new half an hour ago.
The wife may have cashed in a term deposit to pay someone...
...to kill her husband and daughter. It's a scoop!
We'll be back with 'Probe' after this.
Ms Endo! It's the last commercial! One minute!
Three days before it happened she withdrew a ¥2 million term deposit.
So you saw someone suspicious?
It was about 1 p.m.
I just caught a glimpse of the wife...
...letting a swarthy, kind of Southeast Asian guy into the house...
...as if she didn't want anybody to see.
The commercial's over!
Tonight '9 to 70' pursues a new lead in the 'professor's murder' case.
Please! Stretch it out!
Let's recap the details of the case.
You're done?
We're OK?
What's wrong, Ms Endo'?
Rewind the tape!
How much longer?
What?!
How long?
Just 30 seconds! We're out of time!
30 seconds? One more out, then.
I want to put this guy...
over her letting someone in.
We don't have that shot!
Yes, we do.
Where?!
What are you doing?
...letting a swarthy, kind of Southeast Asian guy into the house...
...as if she didn't want anybody to see.
Ms Endo, you can't do that!
I'll go!
Ms Endo's on her way!
Ms Endo! Take the elevator!
Quick!
OK? Roll it!
Now here's this week's edition of 'Probe'.
What's wrong?
Probe
Thank you, Gods!
Great!
You're going to give me a heart attack!
Some day I'll kill her!
Well done.
...as if someone inside were abetting the crime.
THE FRAME
Broadcasters' Award Best News Editing: Endo Yoko
Broadcasters' League Chairman Reprimands MBC
Professor's Wife Protests to MBC
" '9 to 10' Tramples on Human Rights!"
Professor's Wife Assaulted Following TV Broadcast
Wife Confesses In Hospital To Family's Murder
MEG Stands By '9 To 10' Claims It Helped Catch Criminal
'I am not saying the program's way of reporting is entirely correct.
'We in the media must take a lesson from this case...
'...and think once again of the role reportage plays in society.'
Hello?
Ms Endo Yoko?
That's right.
Ms Endo Yoko of MBC?
Speaking...
My name is Haruna. I work for the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications.
How did you get my number?
The Ministry has a list of media phone numbers.
I have a video tape I'd like you to see...
Metro Broadcasting Corporation
Good morning.
Here's today's stuff.
'Morning.
What the guy says about the vanishing funds.
Right now I don't want to show it to anyone I can't trust.
I need to meet you.
I watch 'Probe' every week.
I don't want to give this to anyone but you.
Can you show me that part again?
We can't use it.
All right?
Yes.
I'll wrap it up.
Some oil, too, please.
Fine.
Haruna Seiichi, Broadcast Department Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications
We should really talk after you've seen this.
What is it?
Inside information.
From your Ministry?
The lawyer for a citizens' group was found dead two weeks ago...
I know.
Police are not ruling out foul play in the death of Yoshimura Teruo...
...after an apparent fall last night from the roof of his condominium.
He was counsel to the 'Grassroots Ombudsman ' citizens 'group.
The police aren't saying anything...
...but Yoshimura was looking into a corruption case.
Eiwa University wants to set up a nationwide distance-learning system...
...using satellites and computers...
...and they've bought a TV station out in the country.
That represents a concentration of media ownership...
...that the Ministry doesn't like.
Kind of like our own Rupert Murdoch...
So the university's been lobbying us hard for approval.
So Eiwa's bribing someone in the Ministry'?
Yoshimura was looking into it...
...and getting a lot of trouble from Eiwa.
So you're saying...
...someone from Eiwa University killed him?
No.
That's not it.
I was ordered to watch Yoshimura.
That's what's on this tape.
We hoped to catch him doing something we could use against him.
But soon I realized...
...there was someone else tailing him, too.
I don't want to tell you his name. We work in the same department.
So the man Yoshimura was after was keeping a watch on him?
It seems like he was the conduit for the university bribe money.
He's got a reputation as someone the chief trusts with his dirty work.
When I heard Yoshimura was dead, I took my camera and hurried over.
He was there, too.
This is the limit of what I can do.
I have a wife and child. I don't want to end up like Yoshimura.
All I can do is give this tape anonymously to the media.
I can't decide anything myself.
I'll watch the tape and give it some thought.
Thank you very much.
Where can I contact you?
I'll write down my cell-phone number.
All I ask is that you don't phone me at work.
I understand.
This tape by itself might not be proof of anything.
But you have an instinct that cuts through appearances...
...to what's really going on.
We want to put that to work.
Figure out what's going on here.
Please.
Thank you.
Once more.
The criminal returns to the scene...
Yoshimura's funeral...
So one of them is the killer?
From his height, I'd say this one.
The police found out Yoshimura was investigating the Broadcast Department.
They questioned the people there who had contact with him.
Now watch this.
Look at him.
Look at him smiling!
What do you think?
He's in the clear, so he's happy.
That's not what I mean.
Does he look like he could take a bribe for his boss and kill a man?
Just from this tape?
Reporting is imagination and guts. Get everything together.
We can't take on the Ministry without getting the OK from upstairs!
We'll just say we're working on the lawyer murder.
Coffee Shop 'Tonboro'
Well?
A wonderful job of editing.
Thanks.
I know it's strange my asking, but do you really dare broadcast this?
It's true that no TV station wants the Ministry against it.
That's true.
With all respect, we might not be able to run this...
...without a background check to see if you're reliable.
No!
Then we may have to try to confirm this with other Ministry people.
Don't do that!
It wouldn't be just me in danger. It'd be my family!
Give the tape back, then.
More coffee?
No, thanks.
You're quite a guy, Haruna.
Out on a date in broad daylight! I hope no one tells your wife!
Hey!
You still don't get jokes, do you.
This guy is so serious!
He was so dense he was a virgin when he got married...at 30!
Look, this is something important! Go away!
OK, OK...
Take your time.
Sorry about that.
I'll see what I can do.
I'll get this tape on the air.
You will?
Yes.
You could get in trouble...
If I was afraid of that, I couldn't do this job.
Thank you!
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
Will the man in gray fade in to the gray from whence he came?
The Probe continues.
Amazing...let's break for a commercial.
OK, who didn't flush the toilet?
What?
Did I do something?
What was so funny?
What?
Why were you smiling?
I wasn't smiling...
What were you grinning at?!
Why were you smiling?
You, too?
Why were you?
You never smile in front of us when you come home.
Has Yumi's fever gone down?
Don't change the subject!
Mrs Maeda phoned...
...and told me what they'd said about you on TV.
Were you following that lawyer?
No.
Did you think you'd gotten away with it?
Give me a break, will you?
Answer me!
I don't know what's going on!
My Section Chief came to me...
...demanding to know why I was smiling.
It looks like I'm going to be posted...
...out to the Postal Savings Office in Utsunomiya.
My wife's taken our children to her parents'.
The police want to talk to me again.
My life has been wrecked, all because of something...
...that has no basis in fact!
You say it has no basis in fact.
The fact is that you were smiling when you came out of the police station.
There was a little girl playing in the parking lot.
I'd just come out of an interrogation, and she smiled at me.
My daughter's about the same age.
She made me feel better, so I smiled back at her!
I wasn't smiling because I'd convinced the police...
...that I wasn't a murderer!
Is that little girl on the tape?
I haven't seen the original.
Damn right she's there!
Where's the tape? Let's find out.
All right. I'll arrange it.
Just a minute, sir...
We should do that ourselves, to protect our informant...
No.
We'll see it with Mr Aso.
Please...
Let's see it.
First let's see if what we broadcast...
...portrays Mr Aso as a criminal.
Kurashina...
No problem. Let's get everything in the clear.
Probe
The Grassroots Ombudsman's Mysterious Fall
We can skip this part.
From here.
We obtained a tape from someone familiar with the Ministry.
And who was that?
He noticed someone tailing Mr Yoshimura...
...and took this video.
That's not me!
Sure, the hair looks like mine...
...but that day I was working late. You can check on that.
And this day?
That day I'd arranged to meet someone in a bar.
So that person can confirm your alibi?
He didn't show up. And the bar was closed as well.
There's no one who can confirm it.
Would you mind telling us the person's name'?
Him.
Someone from Yoshimura's office called saying he wanted to talk.
The Chief told me to see him and find out how much he knew.
I was going to meet him that night.
But he didn't show.
No one answered the phone at his office.
I waited out front for an hour and went home.
Then I heard on TV that he was dead. I was stunned.
But I had nothing to do with it!
I wasn't even at the funeral!
Police last week questioned some Ministry officials.
This was taken after wards, outside the police station.
Why is this man smiling?
Will the man in gray fade into the gray from whence he came?
The Probe continues.
Whatever way you look at it, the mystery man is the smiling man...
...and I look like a murderer!
Mr Aso, if we'd really suspected you of murder...
...we'd have put a mosaic over your face.
The fact that we showed you suggests...
Bullshit! Show me the damn tape you got!
That's her!
The girl in the yellow dress.
She smiled at me. Do you still think I'm lying?
Who cut this tape?!
Who cut out whatever didn't fit to frame me with?!
I don't need to tell you what the Ministry represents to a TV station.
Airing a tape with content like this...
...without the director or even the program editor screening it?
This is gross negligence!
Just a minute, sir.
She held the tape back till the very last minute so we wouldn't check it.
It's pure arrogance!
And Mr Kurashina says nothing.
She's shown an instinct for news.
I want to encourage that, so I leave her alone.
You're so nice to Ms Endo...
The anchorman doesn't like us to be wishy-washy...
...and the surveys show that 'Probe' being outspoken sends our ratings...
...up three points.
Where did you get the tape?
Still protecting your informant?
Someone from the Ministry...
You've wrecked a guy's job and his family...
You don't seem very bothered.
Aren't you interested in who set the trap'?
Trap?
Who was it called Aso out to meet Yoshimura at that bar?
Is the person who made Aso into a criminal...
...now saying she believes him?
How things change!
Are you interested or not?
Drop it.
Sir! Let us keep on this thing! There's something going on here!
Drop it, I said!
The subject is closed. If anyone opens it again, heads will roll!
I'm sorry I got you into this.
Read too much into things and you get carried away.
'Imagination and courage'... you taught me that.
I also taught you when to use them.
Who are we reporting for? And why?
As long as you understand.
Good night.
You're sure of this informant?
Go find him.
Hello.
Is the owner here?
That's me.
Then who was the man here last Monday?
Monday?
Oh, the party...
Party?
I'm closed Mondays.
Someone rented the place from me for a party.
Who?
I'd never seen him before.
He paid up front, said I didn't have to do anything...
Did you forget something here?
Ms Endo, I had our Ministry correspondent check.
There's no Haruna Seiichi there.
Someone from outside who knows the Ministry gave you that tape.
Come with me.
Look at this again.
We can't see his face. We want the cameraman to zoom In.
And what happens? He zooms in, and the guy turns away.
They're very well coordinated.
You mean they're together?
I can't believe we missed this... look when the light hits him.
An earphone!
The cameraman says, 'I'm zooming in,' and the man turns his head.
So this whole tape is a fake!
Haruna pretended he'd secretly taped someone he had tail Yoshimura.
He had someone hide out in the crowd gawking at Yoshimura's condo.
The men at the funeral were all probably extras.
And then he put it all together...
...to make it look like the man tailing Yoshimura...
...was Aso Kimihiko of the Broadcast Department.
So who's this man Haruna who used you to frame Aso'?
Who's got a quarrel with the Ministry?
The Ministry of International Trade & Industry.
They're fighting a turf war with Posts and Telecommunications...
...over new media.
Or maybe it's Eiwa University.
That's for Junya, you know...
I'll soften it up a little.
That's right...you played softball in school, didn't you.
Why couldn't Junya come today?
I'm supposed to be able to see him, remember?
I wanted to talk to you...
About what?
Nice throw.
What about?
I want you to stop seeing him.
He's getting a new mother.
What's-her-name?
No!
A ten year-old can't balance two mothers.
I was hoping you might watch over him...
...from a distance.
Does Junya know you're asking me this?
We talked.
And?
I asked him to try it a while.
He said it might be a good idea.
I know I was unfaithful...
...but when you left us saying you wanted to go back to work...
...I was sorry I ever sat you down in front of an editing console.
But I don't want you to be sorry.
I want you to be a woman who chose a career over a family.
Junya knows that better than anyone.
I'll give this to him.
And don't forget to play with him.
I will.
There's some oil with it.
If you soften up the glove, it cuts down on errors.
I'll tell him to phone you.
Congratulations.
It's me.
Thank you for the glove.
I guess Dad talked to you.
I'm sorry.
Good luck with your work, Mom.
I'll always be watching.
Goodbye.
It's me.
Thank you for the glove.
I guess Dad talked to you.
I'm sorry.
Good luck with your work, Mom.
I'll always be watching.
Goodbye.
Ms Endo Yoko?
So it was you...I knew it!
Why didn't you say it was you who framed my smiling face'?
I'm late for work.
I'm not going to Utsunomiya. I'm going way up to Hokkaido!
Further and further from my family! What are you doing to do'?
What's going on here?!
Your 'work' wrecked my whole life, you know!
Are you listening?!
Apologize to me!
I'll keep coming back until you do!
What's wrong with you?!
Hey!
How did he find out...
...that you edited that tape?
He works for the Ministry.
They've got sources in here.
You mean someone here told him?
Well, you do have enemies...
He's just blaming you for everything that's wrong with his life.
The clean air of Hokkaido will cheer him up.
Still haven't eaten?
If that's dinner, why not come and eat with me.
So all you do is get up and go to the station?
A life dedicated to work?
Endo Yoko, 34, divorced, son living with father, fighting her lonely battle...
...against a misogynist and patriarchal society...
...with instinct and technical skill.
If you've got time to hang around all day...
...why not go after whoever framed you?
I trust the police.
They'll find out I'm not the type to murder anyone.
It's you I'm after.
Someone once wrote that TV's like a store where you can shoplift.
The food may be rotten and past its sell-by date...
but since you can steal it, no one can complain.
No matter how bad the goods are, the clerks don't care.
That store's like TV in that it will never go out of business.
Well put, huh?
I don't understand.
As long as people don't care whether my smiling face is a fake or not...
...TV will come out the winner.
Move.
Apologize, Endo Yoko.
Move!
Say you're sorry.
Apologize.
Sorry.
Happy now?
Apologize!
Get over there now!
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Get going!
Ms Endo Yoko
Broadcast Department
Ms Endo! Over here.
What a surprise, you coming to see me!
Miyata, bring some coffee.
No, thank you.
'No, thank you.'
This is the lady who put me on TV!
Please.
Ever since that show, everyone treats me lake a criminal.
You'd think they'd just send me home and tell me to stay there...
...but no, the Chief's got me working right up until I leave.
What's on your mind?
What's this?
You may not be a suspect any more...
...but this might make the police change their mind.
I don't understand.
This is a threat.
A threat?
Ago!
My Chief. He sent me out to meet Yoshimura...
Aso!
To what do we owe a visit from MBC?
Mr Aso has been video-taping my private life.
Your private life? That I have to see!
If you like.
Is here all right?
Please.
With all respect, it's not much of a private life.
This is Mr Aso's response to our showing him on TV for two seconds.
Now you know what it's like.
This isn't just harassment. It's a threat.
That I don't understand. Where's the threat?
'Take this any further, and you'll end up like Yoshimura.'
'I'm watching you.'
wow!
Just a minute...
If MBC has a complaint, I'd like it in writing.
Why have you been following her?
I hoped I'd get an apology.
Would you leave, please?
Goodbye.
Ms Endo...
Ms Endo!
Ms Endo, the Station Manager's furious!
The Ministry phoned!
What are you doing?
Getting to the bottom of this case.
Wait! We've been told to drop that!
And the tape is a fake meant to frame Aso.
I'm the one being framed!
I underestimated Aso.
He's not following me out of protest.
He wants to stop me going any further.
Calm down!
We can't do any more with the material we've got, anyway!
But if we have more...
What?
If we had new material...
How? What can the two of us do?
What he can do, we can do.
How's the light?
Here he is.
Thank you for coming.
No, I wanted to talk to you alone.
Let's sit down.
As I said on the phone, this is off the record.
You're not taping it'?
Nothing will be left as evidence.
You're being very nice... why, Ms Endo?
Who do you think taped you in front of the police station?
The man who gave you the tape.
Someone who knows our ministry.
Any guesses as to who he might be?
Well, he guessed you'd be foaming at the mouth to air the tape...
After all, you're the one who solved the professor's murder.
In any event, we've both been used.
That's what I thought.
But I changed my mind when I saw you yesterday.
I think now that you are the murderer.
You did accuse me of threatening you...
Just as you planned, your two-second smile set me going.
I edited it to make you look guilty and put it on the air.
I complained...
And everyone saw your point.
You became a media victim.
Even if it emerges that Eiwa is bribing the Ministry...
...our hands are tied.
So you think that I gave you a video...
...making me look guilty, knowing that the suspicion would soon clear up?
The Ministry is using you...
...and the University is using the man who gave me the tape...
...as the conduit for bribe money.
Then who is that man?
I have some ideas.
You're so cute, Ms Endo.
That's an obvious bluff.
Where is it?
You didn't come empty-handed. Where's the camera?
You don't trust me!
No.
I can see how your mind works.
First you thought what a terrible thing you did to Mr Aso.
But then someone takes a video of you...
...and you go back to me being the criminal...
...because if I am...
...then you were right all along.
What's to trust?
You kept turning around on the street...
...terrified that maybe I was going to be there.
Does that please you?
Yes.
Do I turn you on?
What?!
I can't get you out of my mind.
I love you. It's mutual.
What ?!
You saw me in the video and fell in love...
...with that wonderful two-second smile. You just had to play with it.
You knew if you put me on TV I'd be sure to come and complain.
You used my smile just to meet me.
Oh, come on!
- How long have you been divorced? - What's it to you?
How many men have there been? Isn't it lonely'?
You lost your son!
No! I left him!
You bore him, then discarded him?
Just like you do at work.
Don't run away.
I like you! Come here!
You wanted to see me...
Stop that!
I knew it!
You get all that?
Are you OK?
I wonder...
What?
Look at this...
When you smile he zooms right in.
That could be love.
That way, to the right.
Thanks.
I'm home!
Here's the noon news.
Leave it there.
What the hell's going on'?
What?
You never leave in the middle of the day!
Is this about Aso?
Move.
Forget him!
Hello.
They gave me a going-away clock. You want it?
Thanks.
I'll have a beer, too.
It's strange...
What is?
I think I'd like to see you, and you appear.
It's mutual.
Here you go.
A toast.
To what?
To meeting again.
What did you learn following me?
My version of the truth, maybe.
Endo Yoko's truth? That I'd like to see.
I'll show you.
Did I tell you what my wife said?
No.
'That smile is you to a T.
'So what was on TV wasn't a fake.'
I'll take that as praise.
Both my wife and my boss wanted me out of their lives.
They had no reason, so they were both just keeping me on.
Then came you.
You gave them both a reason to get rid of me.
Me, too.
How?
The people I work with want a reason to get rid of me, too.
How many men would be happy if I screwed up again!
A mutual licking of wounds!
Thanks.
I'm grateful.
You showed me the way I am.
What's this?
Maybe you were smiling at the girl in the yellow dress...
...but the real you came out in the shots I put together.
That's the power of editing. Neither objectivity nor proof means a thing.
The image says it all.
You killed Yoshimura. I know it.
You took this...
...last night...
...didn't you.
Like on one of those quiz shows...
'What will the man do with the photo album?'
You were so proud of taping me going to work and sleeping.
You must feel pretty stupid now.
That's how a pro tapes someone.
Say something.
I'm going.
Wait.
Don't run away!
I'm not finished!
I feel sick. Very sick.
I want to throw up in your face!
Not kill me?
What do you think you're doing?
Who said you could come into my house and video-tape me?!
Who said you could?
What are you trying to do?!
An image on a tape...
...is as dangerous as a knife or a gun!
You make someone into a thing that you destroy!
I'm not the first! When are you people going to realize that?!
Quiet!
What do you know about the real world?
All you see is ten minutes on a bike from your house to the TV station!
What do you know?!
You'd know all about me, wouldn't you!
Do you see with your own eyes?
Or do you just sit in your little room at the TV station...
...cutting up what other people go out and see for you?!
What I saw was you!
Is that the best you can do? Tape me at home like some sneak thief?
I am in pain, that's all!
More pain than I can stand!
You see a man on the floor in pain...
...and you think you've seen through to the truth!
That's not true!
You paste together what serves you from the ruins of a person's life...
...and invent what you don't have. That's what you do!
You know nothing about it!
Who gives a damn what might be just outside the frame?
Truth? Objectivity? Who gives a shit!
You don't care about the truth.
The truth? What's that? You're not interested!
That's the story!
Shut up!
That editing you're so proud of...
...is nothing but a patchwork of lies you've cut up and sewn together!
Shut up!
Mr Aso?
Are you all right?
Sorry to call so late...it's me.
You sound strange. Are you drunk?
No.
What's up?
Could I talk to Junya for a minute?
I don't know...
Please! Just this once...
Hang on.
Sorry. He says no.
It's hard for him, too, you know.
Are you OK?
Yes.
I just wanted to hear his voice.
Good night.
Can you believe that guy's dead?
The police say he was at a bar after work, and on his way home...
He was drunk, and he slipped... so it was an accident...
Well, they say he wasn't alone.
Mr Akamatsu...this just arrived.
Thank you.
It was about 7:30.
What happened?
I heard a man shouting at someone out on the street.
So I shouted down.
Was he with a man or a woman?
From the voice?
Yes.
I couldn't really hear too well...
I had the feeling it was a woman.
What was he shouting?
'What are you trying to do?' , 'When are you going to realize ?'...things like that.
It was like he was talking to himself.
A drunk talking to himself.
But he died around 7 p.m. That's too early to be that drunk.
From the voice?
Yes.
I couldn't really hear too well...
I had the feeling it was a woman.
Where were you last night?
Get writing a script.
Your cell phone was off, and you weren't at home.
We want about 75 seconds?
Who were you with?
I couldn't really hear too well...
It was like he was talking to himself.
He says Mr Aso was with someone!
You just took that out.
He says it might have been a woman.
Why did you cut that?
That's for the police report.
Ms Endo!
We'll end with this shot.
Ms Endo, look at me!
Where's the script?
Ms Endo, please!
What's wrong?
I'm afraid.
Of what?
Can I trust you?
Mr Kurashina's on the phone.
Yes?
Can you come upstairs, please?
All right.
Where's Mr Kurashina?
Sit down.
I'm a suspect, aren't I.
The police made a statement.
They have testimony from the bar owner.
He described the woman with Aso.
Do you want to know?
It's started.
The body of Aso Kimihiko, of the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications...
...was found on a roadway in Setagaya Ward early this morning.
Police say a resident heard a man shouting yesterday evening...
...and are treating the case as a possible homicide.
I heard a man shouting at someone out on the street.
So I shouted down.
Was he with a man or a woman?
From the voice?
Yes.
I couldn't really hear too well...
I had the feeling it was a woman.
'What are you trying to do?' , 'When are you going to realize ?'...things like that.
What's this?!
We checked the tape you edited.
Without telling me?
You left some things out...
This isn't just about cooking a tape!
Give me a chance!
To do what?
I'll edit this tape for this week's 'Probe', and...
Oh, stop it!
Do you want to kill us?
The police will want to talk to you.
I just need a day. At least look at it!
Get me everything on Yoshimura, the Ministry, Eiwa University...
...and the TV station they're buying.
And bring me the Aso tape, too. It's for this week's 'Probe'.
Hurry!
They won't let us do it.
I'll do it. I'm the only one who can get at the truth!
Ms Endo!
All they want is ratings!
We'll get them ratings! We'll make it great! That's all you care about!
Did you change the tapes?
I did.
Akamatsu told me.
This was left at the Guard Room this morning.
It wasn't Aso who was taping you.
You know nothing about it!
Who gives a damn what might be just outside the frame?
Truth? Objectivity? Who gives a shit!
You don't care about the truth.
The truth? What's that? You're not interested!
That's the story!
Shut up!
That editing you're so proud of...
...is nothing but a patchwork of lies you've cut up and sewn together!
Shut up!
Mr Aso?
Are you all right?
You were arguing, and you pushed him from here?
Yes.
Good luck with your work, Mom.
I'll always be watching.
When you smile he zooms right in.
That could be love.
Mom...
Then you ran this way'?
That's right.
This way.
Look at her smiling!
KUROKI Hitomi
YAMASHITA Tetsuo
KAKEI Toshio
TATSUMI Takuro
NAKAO Akira
JINNAI Takanori
Produced by IWASHITA Takahiro
Project Planning INAGAKI Shizue Office Inagaki
Executive Producer OHIRA Yoshiyuki
Producers YAGI Kinya IGUCHI Kiichi
Adapted from his novel by NOZAWA Hisashi
Directed by ISAKA Satoshi