THE RAVINE OF GOODBYE
Let's do it.
Kanako!
Sorry, but could you sign for a package I've got coming?
It's C.O.D
Sure.
Thanks .
A comment , please!
Just a few words!
She's putting something up!
- Ms Tachibana! - Give us a comment, please!
What is it?
It's just for a courier.
“Leave the package with Mrs. Ozaki next door.“
It's been two weeks now!
Somethings coming!
It's crazy out there.
Come here
Do you miss Megumu?
You were fond of him.
I wasn't all that fond of him.
Yes, you were.
Don't touch me!
Shut up!
Don't touch me!
Shut up!
We're in Mizunosate in suburban Tokyo.
Satomi Tachibana has just been arrested
for the murder of her little son Megumu.
The mother of the victim in the Mizunosato child murder case
has just been arrested at her home
and probably taken to Mizunosato Police Station.
Two weeks after the boy's body was found in Katsuragawa Ravine,
the arrest of his mother
suggests this drama will come to a tragic and horrifying close.
Reporters noted
unusual actions by the suspect the day the body was found,
and several' weird statements she has made,
as this tragedy has run its course.
I told the police everything
I have nothing to say to you.
Were you really at work?
Stop filming me, I said!
Get out of here!
They're showing her face.
A few days ago,
she was wondering why her face was always pixelated.
She's a bit strange, isn't she?
But now,
they're not doing it anymore,
becuase Satomi-san can't watch
I'll ask around a bit more before I go back.
What about the article? Do I have to write it again?
Come on , Kobayashi .
It's hot. Leave him to it.
Just what the hell is going on here?
Bye-
Mr. Ozaki, aren't you?
Yes.
It's quieted down .
Don't open the fridge in the dark. It's weird.
You're hungry now?
I'll warm it myself.
And I wash up, right?
I've been out working my ass off in all this heat!
So I should be grateful?
Give me a break!
I told you not to quit.
Even if they sent you to a factory out in the sticks.
You should've known, that once you got hurt,
you're off the company's rugby team
I'd still be working if I hadn't married you.
Now you're too broke to divorce.
Look over there.
Excuse me.
Sorry to bother you. You're Shunsuke Ozaki, right?
Yes.
Well...
We're police.
'Morning.
Watanabe!
I hope you interviewed the neighbor, did you?
What?
They're questioning him now.
They are?
Would I lie to you?
The police think he was getting it on with Satomi Tachibana.
You were watching them. Did you realize anything?
Did you ask around?
There was nothing between them.
Like hell there wasn't. Do your damn job!
Mr. Watanabe
Is the neighbor that guy Ozaki?
Find out more about him, please.
You got this resume already?
I made friends with a lady in the factory office where both of them work.
I thought I give it a try.
You're sure lucky.
I spend my time on these things.
Mr. Kato!
About Tachibana's part-time job...
OZAKI, SHUNSUKE
1997, WITHDREW FROM WATO UNIVERSITY
SHUNSUKE OZAKI + WATO UNIVERSITY
SHUNSUKE OZAKI: OUTSTANDING PLAYER
To put it bluntly, did you have a sexual relationship?
Why would we?
Answer the question .
Who said that?
You and Tachibana had a sexual relationship, right?
No.
Of course not.
You're a reporter?
Sorry to bother you.
Watanabe, Weekly Press.
What can I do for you?
Do you remember a player named Ozaki Shunsuke from 16 years ago?
No, I'm afraid I don't.
I'm told he was a pretty good pitcher.
All I ever really think about is the actual team.
I forget all the old stuff.
I see.
All right. Thanks.
Could I perhaps use your washroom?
Ah, excuse me, uh...
...would Shunsuke Ozaki be at work today?
I'm his wife.
What?
The police?
I see, all right.
Thank you very much.
AIM TO BE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
60 YEARS OF WATO BASEBALL
PITCHING ACE OZAKI FOR OUTSTANDING PLAYER
WATO BASEBALL: GRADUATES
OZAKI SHUNSUKE
RESIGNED
SAKURAGAWA SECURITIES
I'm busy, so make it quick.
You played baseball with Shunsuke Ozaki?
Then I got him a job here. It's who you know, right?
Then he quit.
A while later he called me, but all he said was “I'm sorry“.
He had great potential as a pitcher, didn't he?
Well, may be.
But he dropped out of university six months before graduation.
Why?
Three junior-year players quit the team, too.
Akasaka, Fujimoto, Suda.
Why did Ozaki and three players of the first-team quit together?
Did something happen that forced them to quit?
Was it an assault?
I was an athlete, too. I played rugby.
Were women involved?
Why do you have to dig this up now?
Your name won't come into it, Mr. Osugi
You know,
guys like you make me sick.
What you did .
Gang-raping a girl.
Huh?
Back already?
I heard the police took you in.
Who told you?
I saw your abandoned bike by the road
Don't tell me you were worried about me.
Wouldn't I be?
It's nothing.
That woman's been telling crazy thing again
Like what?
I don't know.
Read this, will you?
I'm not working late tonight.
I finally got a reservation at a Chinese health food restaurant.
A child murderer and a rapist. What a couple!
But why is it?
It's always either stories about model-athletes or about gang-rapists.
It's always either/or.
Hey, Mr. Watanabe, didn't you play rugby in school?
Uh-oh!
I'm not like him.
He has a wife, doesn't he?
I think so.
Do you think she knows her husband raped someone?
They wouldn't be together if she did.
Have a nice evening.
You're off work today?
I learned that the police questioned you about Satomi Tachibana.
I had nothing to do with that woman.
You played baseball, didn't you. At Wato University.
I was a rugby player
I made it to a corporate team.
Then I got hurt.
When you live for a sport and then you have to quit,
it's like your life empties out.
Mr. Ozaki,
I know what you did in university.
Excuse me!
Throw the ball, please!
- I can't go any further. - We're almost there.
It's too heavy! Please take it.
Excuse me!
What was your relationship with Satomi Tachibana, Mr. Ozaki?
- Were you really involved with her? - Please comment. - A word, please.
Pests.
Do they really think that's true?
They've got to look busy.
I'm exhausted .
I could make some soup.
No.
I'll do it.
Oh...
Do you think we should get a new rice cooker?
No.
Thanks .
What is it?
No! Stop it!
Don't!
No!
You're my wife!
Get out of here!
Get out!
Welcome!
It's been a long day.
You've really gone to town. You sure can eat.
Sorry.
- Have a drink. - A draft, please.
Ozaki was just a kid, you know.
So that sanctifies it?
The girl went with them of her own free will.
Well...
I've let myself get picked up just once.
So you say,
I should have expected to get raped?
I'm talking about the Ozaki case.
So am I.
When you look at Ozaki, all you see is a rapist.
And a victim, a poor girl we need to sympathize with.
I don't find it hard to sympathize with her.
It's not that black and white.
It's not a simple perpetrator and a simple victim.
They're human beings.
Both, Shunsuke Ozaki and Natsumi Mizutani.
Human beings, that's right.
Okay then.
This human being, Natsumi Mizutani
what do you know about her?
What do you mean?
For instance, she changed schools,
but the rumors followed her everywhere.
Her parents divorced
She started to work in a job and found a boyfriend there.
They were going to get married,
but his parents did a background check on her.
They did?
The rape incident came out, the marriage was cancelled.
That guy told his co-workers he hadn't known,
and that she'd deceived him.
She ended up leaving that job.
Then she went to work at a leasing company, met a guy there,
and married him.
But,
the next year she had a miscarriage.
Do you want to hear more about your “simple victim“?
Lay it on me.
After the miscarriage, her husband started to beat her up.
She was in and out of hospital, then moved back with her mother.
Once while she was moving, and once after that,
an ambulance was called.
Two suicide attempts.
Mr. Watanabe, that's why I don't understand, how you can take the rapist's side.
He did what he did, but now he's happily married,
and maybe even having an affair with the neighbor, too.
I'd like to kill him.
Eventually Natsumi Mizutani disappeared.
After two suicide attempts,
she's probably dead .
Hey...
Let's do it.
Hello?
I have something to tell you about Satomi Tachibana.
Natsumi Mizutani doesn't seem to have had a very good life.
Do you know what became of her?
She had trouble.
She went out with one jerk, and married another one.
Neither of them could handle what you guys did to her.
You think,
that if it was a woman you loved, you'd feel protective.
But maybe,
that's all just talk.
I'm not sure myself,
if I could ever think of a woman who was a victim of rape,
in the same way again.
Your wife doesn't know about it?
Well, it's not the sort of thing you'd want her to know, is it?
Natsumi Mizutani might be dead, you know.
Apparently she's been missing for more than six months now.
Your wife spoke with us.
We shouldn't really talk here.
Come on, get in.
Mr Ozaki!
Watch your head .
Mrs. Kanako Ozaki? I'm Watanabe, from Weekly Press.
Well, is it really true?
That your husband
And Satomi Tachibana
had an affair?
Is that what you told the police?
I find it hard to imagine it, let alone believe.
It's true!
Why... why would I lie about it?
It's just... I found it a little hard to believe.
Why's it hard to believe?
I've known all along. I just couldn't bring myself to say it.
Things weren't going well?
You know nothing about us.
That's true... it's just that to me,
you seemed to be getting along well.
Are you married?
How's it going with your wife?
You asked me these questions. Now answer mine.
Are you sure you didn't tell Tachibana you'd run away with her?
Then got her all worked up,
telling her the kid would be in the way?
Then she got on brooding on that and ended up killing her son?
You'd be as guilty as her.
Is that...
...what Kanako told you? -Yes.
Your own wife said it.
“He's capable of that,“ she said.
Whatever she once felt for you is gone.
Make it quick.
You're finished work?
I left early.
I see.
By the way...
That tofu in the fridge, its expiry date is today.
It's still there?
I think so.
I'll have it when I get home.
How about you? Are you eating?
I'm fine.
I'm eating.
I see
I'm glad.
Hurry it up!
Your underwear's showing!
- It is? - Don't look!
I'm not looking!
Me, neither.
I saw nothing!
Feel that.
Toilet.
I'm going to the toilet.
It's that way.
Hurry
My lifeline's not broken! Show me yours.
Yours is broken .
It's not!
Mr. Ozaki!
What's up?
Yeah , what?
You're over here all alone!
You're all drinking over there.
Cut it out.
That hurt!
Right in the shoulder!
Don't hit him there!
Scared you , huh?
Admit it! You were scared.
Hold her down!
Stop it!
No! Don't! Stop it!
Hurry it up!
I'm sorry to bother you. I'm Watanabe, from Weekly Press.
Is this a son-takes-over-story?
Mr. Fujimoto, you played baseball for Wato University?
Yes.
Do you remember why you quit playing?
That's why you're here?
Yes. I'm gathering information on Shunsuke Ozaki.
About the incident?
I wish you'd told me.
You were involved?
I sure was.
I used to see Ozaki a lot. He sold securities.
I'd buy stocks from him, and we'd go out drinking.
In university he raped a girl.
Me, too,
I was involved in it.
What a shame!
Smile!
He bought 10 million worth in stock!
Wanna try?
You know what?
I saw Natsumi Miztani a little while ago,
at the hospital my mother was in.
- That girl who got raped? - Yes.
She didn't look too good.
The poor girl!
But at least we're all happy now, aren't we?
Yeah! That's right!
Come on , Ozaki .
Make it easy on your wife and confess.
You're still young .
You can pay for your crime, and start over.
Your wife at least stuck it out with you.
Be grateful
Admit your crime... and atone for it.
Give me a break!
You were fucking her.
You were fucking the woman next door!
When's he going to talk?
Yes.
What did you say?
You've got to say it out loud and clear.
And in your own words.
It's like Kanako said.
That's it!
And then the child was in the way, right?
Great! Now you'll feel better.
Mrs. Ozaki! Any words for your husband?
A comment, please!
Mr. Watanabe!
Did Ozaki really confess?
Yes, he admitted a relationship with Tachibana.
The police want to charge him with incitement.
That's crazy!
I talked to the ex-husband of Natsumi Mizutani, the rape victim.
The guy who put her in hospital?
He sure didn't talk about that.
But, he did tell me something that was a relief.
What?
Natsumi Mizutani is alive.
I thought she disappeared.
Yes.
But Aoyagi, the ex-husband, says he saw her a few months ago.
Where?
In a department store in Tachikawa.
He was sure it was her.
And it looked to him, like she was having a good time,
with a man, a boyfriend or husband.
She wasn't all that well-dressed.
They were watching a baseball game on a TV in the Electronics department.
That's good, isn't it?
She's alive.
Ms. Kobayashi, did you ever see a photograph of her?
Yes, but only one from middle school
Then, have you met Ozaki's wife?
No.
But I've seen her picture.
Did they look alike?
Well...
Natsumi's was taken at a sports day, and she was tanned...
I've got a picture of the wife.
It can't be...
I sincerely regret, but she's not ready to have visitors yet.
I see.
Then...
Could you give her this?
I can't take the responsibility for...
Please
- But... - Please!
Are you all right?
Am I all right?
I mean...
Well...
You know...
She's living with someone, who abused her.
I don't understand that.
Perhaps...
it's because with Ozaki she doesn't need to worry.
She wouldn't always have to hide it.
But she'd be living with it all the time.
Tonight.
Can I stay with you?
Um...
When I...
...was in high school...
...there were...
...these boys...
...who forced me...
I...
It's okay
It's all right.
Mrs. Ozaki?.
Your real name is Natsumi Mizutani, isn't it?
Open the door, please.
Ms. Natsumi Mizutani, please open the door.
What are you doing?
What's this receipt for two?
A friend.
- Which friend? - Hitomi, a schoolfriend.
I bet it was a man.
Stop lying.
It's true
Look...
You think I'm a pansy.
Where are you going?
Come here!
Come here, I said!
You only listen to force, right?
Stop it! Stop it!
Right?
Don't!
Don't look so out of it!
You like it better when there's a whole bunch of guys?
You do, right?
You do.
You do, don't you.
You want a whole gang!
That was the first time Aoyagi hit me.
I started going into hospital.
Ozaki kept coming ...
...leaving letters for me.
Go away
Look, I'm really, really sorry about this.
I'm sorry
This isn't much, but...
Take it away!?
I am really sorry
And I really want you to go away!
I feel terrible about this.
Natsumi! Natsumi!
I'll call the police!
Hey!
What are you doing?
Hey!
A sofa there...
- Sounds good. - Yep.
Let's see the balcony.
Please, excuse me.
Do you like it?
- Is that the hospital? - Yes.
Hello?
Hello...
Ms. Mizutani?
Hello?
Lend me some money
Where are you'?
Where are you now'?
Ms. Mizutani!
I can't kill myself.
Don't touch me!
You'll do anything for me?
That's what you wrote.
You will, won'tyou?
Well?
Answer me.
Then be more miserable than me.
I want to see you suffer with my own eyes!
Your tickets, please
We're going on further.
Where to?
To the last stop.
Don't.
You're shivering.
Stop it!
I'll never forgive you.
If you'd be happier with me dead, then I never want to die!
If you'd be better off dead, I won't let you die!
It's never going to be over.
Coming.
A room?
Sign the register, please
The lady, too.
SHUNSUKE OZAKI KANAKO
The girl who left that night.
The girl who left. Her name was Kanako.
I wasn't there that night, because...
...Kanako had gone home.
You're following me.
Stop it.
But...
Why?
You don't have any money, do you.
I'm hungry.
Eat.
Not so fast.
Stop it.
What'll we eat?
- Sushi. - You want sushi?
That night...
...If not for you...
Stop following me!
For a second there... I thought you might jump.
You wanted me dead?
I'm sorry.
I thought then I'd feel better.
I thought you'd taken off on me.
But...
I hoped you'd come back.
Shall I drive?
I'm fine.
What will you write?
That the suspect Ozaki Shunsuke is a former baseball prospect,
who quit because of a rape case.
That's enough .
Wigs.
Hello?
What?
Yes...
All right
Mr. watanabe!
Mr. Watanabe! Wake up!
Ozaki has been released!
What?
Natsumi has contradicted her statement..
- Then they released him? - No.
Only after Satomi Tachibana denied they were involved.
This is the last.
Now you decide.
APARTMENT TO LET
I'll leave the rental contract here. Excuse me.
We'll need a kitchen cupboard.
No, we won't
We won't be here for long.
Say “kill yourself“.
I will.
I'm home.
Welcome back.
Are you hungry?
I can make some fried rice.
I'd like that.
- Been waiting long? - No.
Thank you .
Just before Megumu died...
...you were...
...throwing a ball way up in the air for him.
He never managed to catch it.
I wonder...
...If I could have done anything for him.
You haven't said anything.
It's my fault they took you in.
You're not angry?
While you were in jail,
I told that reporter Watanabe everything.
He kept asking if I was happy with how things turned out.
So I answered ...
...that happiness...
...wasn't the reason we were together.
I need to decide, right?
Hey...
I'm not leaving you.
So if you've got time off, clean up the place.
Shiori, come over here
I have to go.
Just come here.
What is it?
I'll see you.
Please stop!
It's been a while.
I come here a lot lately to cool off.
It's a nice spot.
I wish I'd found it sooner.
Is Kanako well?
A happened
Still on the story?
I didn't mean it that way.
Kanako's gone.
What?
All she left was a note.
It just said...
...“Goodbye.“
I see
We were getting to be too happy together.
That's why she left.
Why can't you be happy together?
We just can't.
We promised each other...
...that we'd never be.
And you don't mind that?
I bought a new table.
At a home center.
They're cheap there.
And a cupboard .
I'm going to find her.
I'll do whatever it takes...
...to find Kanako
Well...
...may I ask you one more question?
If you could choose between a life...
...where the incident didn't happen...
...and a life where you met Kanako...
...which one would you choose?
THE RAVINE OF GOODBYE
Natsumi/Kanako Yoko MAKI
Ozaki Shima ONISHI
Fujimoto Hirofumi ARAI Kobayashi Anne SUZUKI
Shiori Mayu TSURUTA
Watanabe Nao OMORI
Directed by Tatsushi OMORI
Special Thanks To ikeda69