Hole in One (穴)

DAIEI FILM CO. LTD.

HOLE IN ONE

Executive Producer: NAGATA Hidemasa

Planning: FUJII Hiroaki

Script Writer: HISAZATO Shitei

SIMOGAWARA Tomoo

Art Director:

Lighting:

YONEYAMA Isamu

Sound Recording:

WATANABE Toshikazu

KOBAYASHI Setsuo

Cinematography:

Continuity:

OHASHI Toshio

Art Design Asst.:

INOWUE Akira

Lighting Asst.:

CHISHINA Masaji

Music Asst.:

MINEO Takeshi

Cinematography Asst.:

ASAI Hirohiko

Music Director: AKUTAGAWA Yasushi

Song - 'DREAM' ISHIHARA Shintaro

Editor: NAKASHIZU Tatsuju

Executive Producer: KUMATA Asao

Assistant Director: INOUWE Yoshio

STARRING

KYO Machiko

SUGAWARA Kenji

FUNAKOSHI Eiji

KAWAKAMI Yasuko

YAMAMURA Sou

ISHII Ryuichi USHIO Mantaro MIAKE Bontarou HAMAGUCHI Yoshihiro HARUMOTO Fujio KITABAYASHI Tanie

HIDAKA Sumiko

HAYATA Yuuji

ISHIHARA Shintaro

Director . .

ICHIKAWA Kon

August 24 Savings Accounts Sect.

I'll be leaving now, Sir.

My eyes are bleary. I must be tired.

Not that young anymore... Manager.

Still, I love hunting, stalking game all day.

My body is still quite vigorous.

MUTSUI... why didn't you do it, man?

No large sums go in or out after the 25th, right?

I told you before this coward wouldn't do it.

You should have believed me.

We're managers and managers can't get away with bank theft.

Everything must carry on as usual.

We need the help of the clerk in charge of systems.

Hey, MUTSUI...

today we paid out 10 million Yen to Takahashi Industries.

If you had handled that transaction, a third of that...

333,333 Yen would have been yours.

That's right.

Only... I was too frightened.

The 3 of us analyzed thoroughly how we'd do it.

Just do what we agreed.

It's too late to leave the team.

Don't kill... don't kill me!

Calm down, calm down MUTSUI.

People like us would never murder someone.

There'll be another chance.

There it is. Good isn't it. - So that's it.

"Exposing Police Corruption," it says.

Did such a thing really happen?

Police inspector "S" could even be me.

I'm Inspector SARUMARU. My initial is "S".

That's it, they mean me!

Bungei Kouron's a first rate magazine. - So that makes it true?

I'm under the city boss's thumb?

Not you. This inspector "S".

"S" is the initial for SARUMARU.

So it must mean me.

Don't you see that?

They must have had inside information.

Otherwise how could they know such details.

I'll sue Bungei Kouron for slander.

No one's to read this.

POLICE CORRUPTION "Chief Insp. "S" Under City Boss's Thumb"

What's he going to do?

Good morning. - Ya!

BUNGEI KOURON

Go away. Don't disturb us.

BUNGEI KOURON EDITOR

Murder!

You're... a murderer!

Is that so urgent?

What to do now?

Enough Mr. OEDA.

Thanks for your help.

The instant of shooting and being shot...

I think I get it now.

It's like... feeling the existential weight of the gun.

Just don't be late for your deadline.

Who is this man? - A novelist we're promoting.

He's young and inexperienced...

that's why I had to act out the murder with him.

Anyway, who are you? - Me?

I am... - I don't think we've met before.

I'm very busy so please leave now.

So the Chief Editor of Bungei Kouron is you!

What is this?

The terrible corruption of Officer "G".

Likely from this month's edition. - That's right!

So you must be a policeman?

Chief Inspector "S" refers to me?

SARUMARU starts with "S", right?

So you are Chief Inspector Sarumaru.

Excuse me! Please have a seat.

Card, card, card...

This is my card. Pleased to meet you.

So... please...

These days, the world seems upside-down.

We really appreciate your hard work.

I too... am very busy... so I haven't had much time to read.

Excuse me a second.

Chief Inspector "S"...

like a Sengoku era warrior, he had black eye brows thick like a broom...

and an out-of-fashion moustache...

his body fit and well built...

taken all together, it could be no one except a policeman.

The typical classic policeman type... I see.

No mistake. It must mean you.

Has to be.

This article is a smash hit.

Thanks to you sales doubled.

I'll sue for defamation.

I guessed someone would come to shout about it like this.

We already felt responsible.

We fired the reporter yesterday.

Fired?

Yes, a first-class journalist.

I'll sue him. - Her.

A woman? - KITA Nagako.

KITA Nagako?

"Kita" as in "north". "Nagako" as in "long life".

What's KITA Nagako's address? - That's the problem.

The psychology of the public is very curious.

Even if you win the case...

you'll never lose the stigma of being corrupt.

I'm not a corrupt policeman!

Stay calm. What we're talking about here is public opinion.

Is there no way out?

Just one. - What's that?

You're also a human being.

We must show you as one.

You must write declaring your innocence.

If they feel your sincerity, they'll accept you warmly.

Then... they'll apologize. - I'm no writer.

I'm glad to help you. I'll publish it next month.

I won't do it!

I'm innocent.

Public opinion can eat shit !

You mustn't use such words.

With the public... foul words are taboo.

If you do, you'll be a social outcast.

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT -

1 2 3 4

Good afternoon.

Working?

Oh, the will again?

When you die give me this apartment.

My rooms get too much sun in the evening.

This time it's my final will.

Are you really going to die?

Wipe your tears.

This world is full of injustice.

Police are supposed to ensure justice. But for money, they don't.

The magazine made a fortune from my article and then fired me.

Today, for money, people would even kill their parents.

I tried to fight with my pen but now I give up.

Don't be so pessimistic. The public supports you.

Your so-called public is nowhere.

Every individual is unique, soul and body.

It's rude to lump them into a uniform bunch.

Greedy bosses make profits...

by casually creating a bogeyman... the 'public'.

Hey... you hungry?

I'm too upset to eat today.

Hunger will only make you more upset. Don't be silly. Take this.

But I didn't write lies.

The info was from TORIGAI, a cop in Jijo...

whose only good point is he's honest. So.

If they fire me, they should fire him too.

That fool... I'll get him fired. - Don't do it. Pity him.

I got fired. Can't you understand?

Unlike you, I don't have savings. - Have some more.

I probably won't find a new job.

You can write, no?

Take anything and write whatever people crave.

There's no point in writing.

In a small country like Japan where the police are powerful...

we think it's impossible for someone to completely disappear.

But every year more than 30 missing people go unfound.

Where do they hide? - That's just it!

The story of their days hiding is very thrilling.