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I'll check who stayed there,

and if there were any pirate broadcasts.

Wednesday, September 15

From the Izu bureau.

Thanks!

What are you going to do

with the cabin registry?

Sorry, but I just need to check something

by myself.

Was it you?

Did you do this?

Sorry I'm late.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

So, do you have any new information?

No one I phoned brought a tape

to the cabin.

And they all sounded normal,

not like they'd make a tape like this.

How about pirate stations?

There's no record of an illegal broadcast

anywhere in Izu.

Here's the copy.

Asakawa.

Have you ever seen this woman?

No.

This shot is strange.

From that angle,

the cameraman should be in the mirror.

What do you mean?

I don't know. You could fix it

with special effects, but...

"Eruption."

Which eruption?

You can't read it on a regular home TV.

Come in.

This is Takano. One of my students.

Asakawa. My ex-wife.

How do you do? I'm Takano.

I'm Asakawa.

The publisher wants your essay.

Why did they tell you that?

Because they couldn't reach you.

Ask for a week extension.

Me? Ask them yourself!

Okay, okay.

Not clear enough.

"Sada."

Is Yoichi all right alone?

He's used to it.

Whoever made this video

left a clue subconsciously.

The person wants to be found out.

Wait.

"Frolic in brine, goblins be thine."

It sounded like that.

What does it mean?

I'll check tomorrow.

...who says, "You will die in one week."

They say she appears

when you watch late-night shows on TV.

And then the phone rings.

Thursday, September 16

Late-night shows on TV? What channel?

I heard it was on a local channel

down in Izu.

- Izu?

- Yeah.

Hello?

I found it. Like I thought, it's a dialect.

It's about brine and goblins.

A dialect? From where?

Oshima Island, where there's a volcano,

Mt. Miharayama.

Hello, Yoichi?

I'll be late tonight.

Yeah.

Are you okay alone?

I'm sorry.

This is it, but it

happened a long time ago.

Mt. Miharayama Eruption

Alert To Local Residents

Did Local Woman Predict Eruption?

- What is it?

- Does the paper have a bureau in Oshima?

- I think there's a correspondent there.

- Get me the number. Tonight.

Why?

You only have four days left.

I'll handle it with your correspondent.

Please stay with Yoichi.

Grandpa!

Welcome!

Friday, September 17

- Yoichi wants to go fishing with you.

- Really?

- C'mon, let's go!

- Let's get ready and go fishing!

Yeah!

Right there.

- Now that way!

- Grandpa! You've got one!

We missed it!

You're not very good at this!

Okay, let's try it again.

Let's fish over here this time.

All right.

You're home.

Hello?

The correspondent in Oshima

did some research for us.

The woman who predicted the eruption

is probably the one in the video.

Her name was Yamamura Shizuko.

She threw herself into the volcano

40 years ago.

What do we do now?

I'll go down there.

I'll go to Oshima tomorrow.

Oshima? But I only have three days left!

I know. And I have four.

I'll call later.

What's wrong?

Nothing. Just doing my work.

Auntie.

Yoichi?

Yoichi! Did you bring this?

How dare you? Why?

Tomoko...

Tomoko told me to watch it.

I was careless.

I sensed something

when I visited your house.

But I thought it was the video.

It was Tomoko.

She's not Tomoko anymore.

Can Yoichi see her, too?

It's all my fault, isn't it?

It should have ended with Tomoko

and her friends.

I don't know.

Where did this story come from?

Nobody starts these kind of stories.

Whatever people feel anxious about

becomes rumor and starts to spread.

Anxious?

Or people start them,

hoping things will turn out like this.

Mr. Hayatsu?

Hello. Sorry you had to come

all the way out here.

This way.

Saturday, September 18

The Yamamuras in Sashikiji

used to run a big fishery.

But they sold most of their business.

Shizuko's cousin is still alive.

His son and daughter-in-law run an inn.

I've booked you there for tonight.

Why did Yamamura Shizuko

commit suicide?

I heard she went insane.

The papers had written

awful things about her.

She became famous all over the island

after her prediction of the eruption.

She had strange powers all her life.

She was what they call a seer.

After that, a professor showed up.

You've heard of him. Ikuma Heihachiro.

Wasn't he fired?

He brought Shizuko to Tokyo

and experimented on her.

He was trying to prove

the existence of ESP.

The papers praised him, then trashed him.

It was 40 years ago,

and the media still does the same thing.

I've heard this story.

If I'm not mistaken,

didn't someone die in the experiment?

Dr. Ikuma disappeared

after his university fired him.

I doubt he's still alive.

Even if we found him, what could we do?

They say Shizuko had a daughter.

Hello?

Hello.

Welcome.

I'll leave you here.

Please come in.

How many rooms?

- Two, please.

- Yes, sir.

This way, please.

Sir?

Please.

Wait!

- Please tell me about Shizuko!

- There's nothing to say.

What about her daughter?

She didn't have a daughter.

Not eating?

No.

When I die, stay with me.

Cut it out.

Please!

Please? And try to find a way

to save Yoichi!

Stop it!

The girl who was with Tomoko

lost her mind, huh?

I don't know what'll happen to me.

You'll be all right!

Because I'm not normal?

Maybe all three of us should just die.

Good idea! We shouldn't have had a kid

in the first place.

Stop it!

We still have two days left.

Excuse me.

Come in.

Did you want to know about Shizuko?

This is all that's left.

Is this Dr. Ikuma?

Yes. It was before I came here.

Good night.

Thank you.

Frolic in brine...

goblins be thine.

Sunday, September 19

You'd better leave this town.

There's a storm coming tonight.

What was Shizuko like?

She was a strange one.

She used to sit here all day long.

She'd just stare at the

sea every single day.

All the fishermen hated her.

The sea is ominous for us.

Every year some of us die in the sea.

But she just kept staring at it--

"Frolic in brine, goblins be thine."

if you play in the sea,

the goblins come to get you.

Shizuko was able to read people's minds,

wasn't she?

She must have known about things

which people hid deep inside their minds.

That must have been painful.

Go home!

I have similar abilities.

You were the one who spread a rumor

about Shizuko's abilities, weren't you?

- You also called Dr. Ikuma.

- Nonsense!

You thought

you could make money off of Shizuko.

You earned money

from the newspapers, too.

That's enough!

Tell me about her daughter!

What happened to her?

- I don't know!

- She should have been with Shizuko!

ESP Public Demonstration

You were there...

when Shizuko gave her demonstration.

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

This is a fraud!

This is just a magic show!

You can't fool me!

Dr. Ikuma, she's deceiving you, too!

Hey! What's wrong?

He's dead.

She's a monster!

Sadako! Did you do that?

Sadako?

Sada

Sadako killed him?

She could kill someone just by wishing?

She was a monster!

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