Dogs (ドッグス)

Executive Producer: Koichi Omiya Producers: Nobuaki Sugimoto, Tomoko Izuta

Kaori Mizushima

Kenichi Endo Taro Suwa

Shinya Tsukamoto

Kazushi Hosaka

DOGS

Cinematography: Shigeru Honda Lighting: Toshihide Kosaka Audio: Hitoshi Yamada Art Direction: Yohei Taneda

Music: Toshinori Kondo Screenplay: Goro Nakajima, Keiko Sakurai, Shunichi Nagasaki

Stylist: Teruaki Hoshi Assistant Director: Akihiro Onodera

Directed by: Shunichi Nagasaki

He should be here any minute now.

This is where it all started...

There in that car...

...just another day on the job.

- Thanks. - Any word from the precinct?

Yes, the victim died.

Grand theft homicide, huh?

Inspector Jonouchi's star sure is rising.

I'm a recovering TV addict.

I took this job to get clean, and get out of the house.

Are you sure Usami's really in there?

Huh? We got a good lead, a kid...

...which doesn't free us from having to pound some pavement.

Hey, who are you rooting for?

- What? - Baseball, of course.

No one...

The woman is back.

Let's welcome her home.

Excuse me, this is the police. I'd like to ask you a few questions.

Drop your gun!

I'm not carrying one. I'm serious.

You can see for yourself.

Car 12 calling precinct, over.

I have discovered suspect Usami in Onomachi, fourth district.

He's got one female hostage and he's armed.

Detective Abukawa is negotiating with him now.

Please send back up immediately, over.

Shit! Fucking cops! I'll show 'em!

Car 12,calling precinct, over.

Hostage down! Please send medical assistance, over.

I remember seeing a movie the other day on TV.

An elementary school kid or something, was asking his dad,

"What does it mean when somebody dies?"

I remember liking his dad's answer.

But I don't remember what it was.

Are you all right? Are you all right?

This is Kasaya. I've lost Usami.

A bystander's car crashed in the chase. There are two wounded civilians.

I swear I didn't understand at first.

Are you all right?

I think it's nothing serious.

The ambulance is late.

Quite the bonfire...

Why didn't you just leave me?

Aren't you going to arrest me?

You saw me, right?

As I was pulling one out, I saw something spark. That's when the whole thing blew.

- What do you mean "something"? - A spark of some sort, maybe a short.

What about the other passenger?

He was on the other side. I couldn't reach him in time.

You're still here?

Jonouchi is having a fit about our losing him.

I've been taken off of the case for the time being.

I'm sorry.

Don't worry about it. It's because he goes on bad leads.

Nobody thought that we'd actually find Usami there.

Anyway, have a seat. I'm no good at this kind of thing.

We're short-handed around here. We'll be back in action soon enough.

- Well... - That's right.

I've got to make on the two in the accident...

The one who died in the fire's name was Shiraishi. He was in real estate.

The one you saved is Koichi Teranishi. He's in banking.

They were on their way to look at some property

when Usami leaped into the road.

Neither of them is related to the Usami case.

- Let's get something to eat. - Not right now, thanks.

Is that so?

Life is just a series of random coincidences.

Kasaya.

We'll get our payback. Don't worry about it.

Yeah.

Why wasn't I telling him about the guy in the car?

Kasaya...

You don't play "go" by any chance, do you?

Of course not.

Well, you're no fun, are you?

Why don't you go pay a hospital visit to the banker you saved?

Do you mind?

No, I'll go.

You're the one who saved his life, after all.

Come in.

- How are you feeling? - Well...

They tell me I'll be able to leave next week.

You don't need to...

But I was the cause of the accident.

You're also the one who saved my life.

Thank you.

Look, a raven.

Just kidding.

It was just a joke.

I suppose that this is not just a social visit?

Shiraishi's death was officially recorded as "accidental".

I'll let myself out.

What do you mean?

You know that I'm a banker, right?

Last year, I expropriated funds. I thought to make some money on the stock market.

It didn't work out.

After that, Shiraishi helped me get money for the cover-up.

Then, things started to turn ugly. He started asking for pay-offs.

They kept escalating.

Until I was really out of cash.

Next, he began making threats...

...saying that he'd ruin my sister's wedding.

He told my wife... She left me.

I probably had wanted to kill him for a long time.

And then that accident came my way...

Even though you knew I was watching.

At that point, I really don't care any more. The time had come to kill him.

Shiraishi's death was officially recorded as "accidental".

I only came here to report that to you.

Once I've been released, you'll be able to reach me via the bank.

I'm sure that we have nothing further to discuss. Have a good day.

A few days later, I was told that Teranishi had been released from the hospital.

I felt sure that we'd never meet again.

Car 21, everything as normal, over.

This better be good.

36 million yen, huh? Is 30 million yen the going rate?

- Excuse me? - Please sit down.

You're the one who took these, right?

I don't care if you do have the negatives. I don't have the money to pay for them.

What are you talking about?

You have a buddy on the force who shoots pictures while you pull in stooges?

You're mistaken.

- There's no mistaking these pictures. - I didn't take them.

- Then, how do you explain these? - I had no partner there. I thought we're alone.

Then, why didn't you arrest me?

- It must have been you. - You're wrong.

Say what you will. I'm declining your offer.

Tell me the time and place of the exchange.

I'll find out who's at the bottom of this.

Please tell me.

I was repulsed by the way he assumed that I, too, was trying to take him.

Not as a cop,

but because of my own pride.

You stay right there.

Where's the money?

Who are you?

- I said, "Where's the money"? - I don't have any.

Be my guest, go ahead and publish them.

Take the easy way out, ante up.

Police!

I'm arresting you on charges of blackmail.

I give up.

Your name. Give me your full name.

Detective, this man is guilty of murder. He incinerated a man named Shiraishi.

And your proof?

- Here are the negatives. - Let me have them.

That's enough!

- Did I kill him? - He's just unconscious.

These aren't the originals...

The original negatives aren't here.

Yuji Yasuhara... Do you know him?

I don't. He's a customer at my bank.

Let me go!

Hand over the negatives.

- I'll forget about the blackmail charge. - No way!

We've got to get out of here.

Hurry up!

Hurry up!

The thing I remember best about all of this...

...was that sound.

I had flipped a switch, somewhere, inside of me.

No one else could hear it...

But I had, for certain.

- I guess he's dead? - Perhaps.

They're gonna know that it wasn't an accident.

There ae marks on the roof from the struggle, things have been cleaned up...

It's only a matter of time before they figure out who he is.

Can you find out his identity from his cash card?

The police...

The police will get ahold of the negatives. After that, it should be easy.

Clean your face.

Yes, Kasaya speaking.

Yes.

Yes, so it was a murder, right?

Right, I'll be there in 30 minutes.

He's dead.

They'd already determined it as a murder.

I am to be the investigating officer.

Finding the negatives should be easy now.

How long will it take before we find his address?

What?

The cash card.

Before noon tomorrow...

He had that lighter gripped in his hand.

- Did you find out his address? - Yeah.

The film, where's the film?

- Kasaya speaking. - It's me, Abukawa.

We found out who the new stiff is.

There was a car hidden, not far from the crime scene.