Dogra Magra

O fetus...

O fetus...

Why do you undulate?

Is it the knowing of

your mother's heart...

that fills you with dread?

Starring

Shijaku Katsura

Yoji Matsuda

Eri Misawa

Leo Morimoto

Jun Haichi

Kaori Kobayashi

Hideo Murota

Kyoko Enami

Based on the novel

"DOGRA MAGRA"

by Kyusaku Yumeno

Screenplay by

Toshio Matsumoto

Atsushi Yamatoya

Producers

Shuji Shibata

Kazuo Shimizu

Directed by

Toshio Matsumoto

Brother-in-law.

Brother.

It is me.

Please say something.

You're there, aren't you?

Why don't you answer?

Help me!

Someone please!

Anyone!

He's been extremely agitated.

He's asked where he is?

Yes.

Anything else?

He asked his name.

Of course we've said nothing.

So it's exactly as before?

Precisely, sir.

Do you remember anything?

Do you know who I am?

I see.

I am...

Excuse me.

My card.

Department of Psychiatry,

Kyushu University Hospital.

Professor Kyotaro Wakabayashi.

So this is...

Yes. Room #7 in the

psychiatric ward.

Psychiatric?

When our Dept. Head, Dr. Masaki

suddenly passed away...

a month ago.

I temporarily took over.

Does that mean that I'm insane?

Insane?

Why do you ask?

I remember nothing.

Not even my name, or yesterday...

Not even my face.

You've been through

a hideous incident.

Medically speaking, what

we term amnesic trauma.

A great shock?

Please tell me, doctor.

What happened?

Who am I?

That you'll have

to resolve yourself.

If your memory returns

things will become clear.

Please forgive me,

I was wrong.

Good morning.

Morning.

Forgive me.

I'm so sorry, my sister.

I betrayed you.

Do you know her name?

You remember her face?

Brother-in-law!

Why are you here?

Do you know him?

Calm yourself down.

It'll come back.

Now go to sleep.

In the reign of Emperor Hsuan Tsung.

There was a handsome young

painter named Wu Ching-hsiu.

The emperor was very fond of him. And

gave him in marriage Dai, maid to his consort.

Wu Ching-hsiu lived

a blissful dream...

with his beautiful bride Dai.

With his...

Sorry.

Now the Emperor was besotted by his consort,

Yang Kwei Fei and did whatever she suggested.

She surrounded him with her

foolish family...

and connived to banish all worthy

courtiers from his side.

When Ching-hsiu saw this and the ignoring

of portents, he worried greatly.

His painting was the only

way to show the emperor.

He explained as much

to his new bride.

"Will you lay down your life

for the good of the land?"

"For you, I do so gladly."

He journeyed to his secret mountain studio.

And drank a final cup with his bride.

"Let us meet again

in the next life."

He strangled her with

his bare hands...

then stripped the robes from her naked

body. Feverishly he began to sketch.

On a scroll,

he painted the body...

in various stages of putrefaction. His

first aim, to let the emperor know...

the intransigence of life.

But the human body

is quick to rot.

His brush could not

keep up with the decay.

Upset, Ching-hsiu realized he needed yet

another corpse. The madness was on him.

He killed another with a field mattock.

And carried her off to his studio.

The villagers surrounded,

then burnt his hideaway.

With that, he gave up.

He gathered up his unfinished scroll,

his wife's jewels, her coral comb,

some of her bones and

put them in his robe.

And ran for his life.

But when he arrived

back at his home,

his bride Dai, called

out then embraced him.

Alas, it was her sister,

the young Fen.

A lithe young wench.

"I know that it is wrong for

I cannot help but love you."

Said she, as she

passionately wooed him.

The now deranged Ching-hsiu

took her to his bed.

They fled the city

and wandered the land.

Their boat capsized in a storm.

Both thought that the end had come.

But a ship from Bohai did rescue

them. And they travelled to Japan.

One night Ching-hsiu either fell

or jumped to a watery grave.

The bereaved Fen

wanted to follow him.

But the child inside her

prevented such a course.

And she did bear

a boy child.

Fen wrote down all that

had transpired on the scroll...

and so it did pass down

from generation to generation.

Such is the tale.

That girl in room #6,

she's become the Fen

of 1,100 years ago.

So by sister she meant...

She's referring to Dai.

And brother-in-law

is Ching-hsiu.

Exactly.

So, she's crazy, then.

And thinks that I'm Ching-hsiu!

Hilarious.

It's not that simplistic.

Which means?

You're both direct descendants

of Ching-hsiu and Fen.

Ridiculous!

No, it's been documented.

The Wu family are direct

descendants of Ching-hsiu.

Professor Masaki spent years

validating the concept of...

- IPC, the Inherited Psychological Condition.

- Inherited psychological condition?

Yes.

According to his research,

the great shock felt

by your ancestors...

supersedes individual memories

and passes through the bloodline.

I can't believe it!

Take a look at this.

"Young medical student

strangles his bride-to-be."

"At Meinohama"

"Master Ichiro Kure"

"Night before the wedding"

"His bride-to-be"

"Moyoko Kure"

The hideous incident that you

referred to, isn't it?

Yes.

Five months ago, Ichiro Kure

a medical student,

on the night

before his wedding,

strangled to death

his cousin, Moyoko.

What do you mean?

You're not saying l...

Is it true, doctor?

You have to remember!

I'm not Ichiro Kure.

Why not?

He killed that Moyoko, right?

So she can't be the girl in #6.

Therefore, I'm not Ichiro!

I see.

Right? No connection at all.

Does this scene jog a memory?

"Dr. Masaki's Laboratory"

That's Dr. Masaki's

collection of specimens.

Please look at them.

Should one give you

the slightest hint,

perhaps it will

bring back your past.

Whatever's this?

That patient cut

his own arm off...

with that knife, there.

And this?

He tried to poison his entire family.

That cat was an ingredient.

What's this, sir?

A young university student

wrote it in one session.

A kind of novel.

Extremely valuable in our research.

"Dogra Magra."

What's it mean?

A chant used by a secret

christian sect in Nagasaki.

Preface.

O fetus, O fetus,

why do you undulate?

Is it knowing mother's heart

that fills you with dread?

It's quite bizarre.

Extremely so.

Modeled the story line on himself...

and wrote a mystery including

Dr. Masaki and myself.

Reading it is enough

to send one mad.

All jumbled, is it?

Not at all, it's

carefully planned.

Sit yourself here

and read for a spell.

No thanks.

This?

You found it.

That's Dr. Masaki.

The slide narration was his voice.

Pre-ordained, you

finding his photograph.

Picking up the

Dogra Magra novel.

Something's stimulated

your deepest memories.

Something made you stand here.

And the "Embryo's Dream"

you pick up...

became his graduation thesis!

Embryo's Dream?

Do they dream?

Of course they dream.

In the 10 months that

embryos gestate,

they experience

one long dream.

Think of it as the reason

for the gestation,

this 10 months long

dream they undergo.

During this 10 months,

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