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DVD you sent us. Do you mind if we film?

OK.

If it's going to be any kind of a problem,

we can blur your face or mask your voice.

No, it's all right.

Please come in.

This is the apartment my

brother lived in.

You've left everything as it was...

I'm sorry for your loss.

When did your brother

He came to Tokyo to be a musician.

I received a strange phone call from

him about a month ago.

I decided to come to see

if he was all right.

A strange call?

He was very pessimistic and seemed

to have lost hope.

He did a number of auditions, but he

didn't get anywhere with them.

He was always frail and had to see

a doctor regularly in Tokyo.

I'm sorry to ask...

but what was wrong with him?

It's OK. He suffered from

mild depression.

Can I assume that he was suicidal

from the start?

I was worried, so I stayed

with him for a while.

I went with him to the doctor and made sure

he followed the doctor's advice.

You're not supposed to try to cheer up

someone with depression,

so pretty much all I could do was

make sure he ate.

But when that DVD came,

he seemed to change.

He changed when he saw the DVD?

No, before that.

He seemed happier.

I thought it was just the medicine

My brother watched the DVD.

I was in the kitchen cooking.

Then, suddenly there was a strange sound.

My brother screamed. I was surprised and

came to look, but he was gone.

The entryway is right next to the kitchen,

and so I realized what had happened.

I looked out the window...

That's the window he jumped

out of, isn't it?

Do you blame yourself?

I did at first, but time passed.

We had the funeral.

On a hunch, I watched the DVD...

but the warning at the beginning frightened me,

and I turned it off.

I've set up the said DVD.

There are words streaming on the screen.

I'll read...

"This video will ensure suicide.

People who see it will die.

"However, the effect differs from

person to person.

"If you survive seeing it once,

please view it a second time...

"from the beginning to fulfill

your wish to die.

"Please view at your own discretion."

Did you report this to the police?

Yes, but they didn't take

me seriously.

How did you know about our company?

There are a lot of cable TV companies.

I don't know Tokyo very well.

I looked into it and sent letters,

but I didn't hear back from anyone.

My brother happened to have cable TV,

and so I knew their address.

I only had one copy of the DVD, so I knew it was

a gamble, but I sent it in to you.

Miss Nakagawa, our company is a

small affiliate of a cable operator.

We get paid to produce programs.

On top of that, we only do gourmet dining shows.

I'm not sure if we can help.

I just want to know the truth.

That's all.

I was right by his side

and he still died.

If it was the DVD that killed him,

it might help me get over that.

I'm not trying to blame the DVD,

but if it really does...

assist people in killing themselves -

that's just plain evil.

Where did he get it?

I don't know, but when it arrived,

I was the one who accepted it.

I guess he ordered it from somewhere.

Off the Internet?

Was your brother online a lot?

Mmmm

Can I take a look at your PC?

OK.

I'm going to have a look at it.

Your brother was looking at suicide-related

websites, wasn't he?

'Suicide websites'?

Websites especially for people

who want to die.

You can post on bulletin boards or look for

another person to kill yourself with.

Some people can't stand to die alone.

Sometimes you can find drugs or

poisons for sale on these sites

It's created a media stir recently.

No good; the site your brother

accessed is shut down.

Do you still have the envelope

the disc came in?

Yes.

Here it is.

No return address.

The Internet Provider won't

tell us anything.

Excuse me!

She's calling you.

By any chance,

did someone watch that DVD?

A young female A.D.

Shut up!

She saw it? What happened?

She died, didn't she?

I - I what's going on here?

It's not your fault.

I casually told her to watch it.

No one thought it would turn

out like it did.

She watched the DVD and

killed herself.

That's why we want to expose

the truth about it.

If the DVD really is the cause,

it's murder.

Let me help. Please! I want to.

Yes Yes, I know that.

Without intending to,

we got an accomplice.

Having no other leads,

we decided to go meet the brother's doctor.

Maybe it was just a DVD,

but something was behind it.

At that time, we had no idea that we were

being led by some unseen force...

In his case, his depression

wasn't that severe.

Frankly, I'm surprised to hear

he committed suicide.

If he was taking his medicine as prescribed,

there shouldn't have been any problems.

You saw him two days before he jumped.

Were there any kinds of signs

that something might be wrong?

On the contrary, he seemed better.

In cases such as these,

suicide isn't inconceivable

but for him the problem wasn't chemical,

it was stress-related.

He had a dream. It wasn't working out,

but he was still young.

An external stimulus - say an image -

could that trigger someone to commit suicide?

That's not my area of specialty.

You probably know more about it than me.

Maybe something subliminal...

I've heard of people going into

a trance from images,

but it was an old study and

didn't amount to much.

The more we searched,

the less we knew.

His depression wasn't severe...

and his jumping out the window

seemed to lead back to the DVD.

Like it did for Kayo.

As far as we knew,

Kayo had no reason to kill herself.

Talking to her friends from school,

most said she wasn't the type.

Having eliminated all possible motives,

all evidence pointed to the DVD.

I never believed such a thing was possible,

but now I was starting to feel the danger.

The one last thing for us to do was

watch to the DVD for ourselves...

After due consideration, I agreed to watch

the video together with the sister.

We had our doubts,

so Suzuki was on hand just in case.

It was... his idea not mine, that if

we tried to jump, he would stop us.

Mr. Suzuki, is everything OK?

I locked all the doors.

OK on this side.

I'll start the DVD...

Go ahead.

Ok, then, let's begin.

The warning is on the screen...

"This video will ensure suicide.

People who see it will die.

"However, the effect differs from

person to person.

"If you survive seeing it once,

please view it a second time...

"from the beginning, to fulfill

your desire to die.

"Please view at your own discretion."

The video started.

It's the roof of a building.

The image is spinning...

the image is fixed.

It's a nondescript, ordinary image.

It's probably a wide-angle lens.

At the center of a building in the center

of the screen, there's a cut red object.

That's the subject of this particular shot.

There's no change.

You can hear the sound of construction work.

I observe no change.

I have no sense of being in a trance.

How about you?

Nothing.

There was...

a sudden change in the audio.

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