Let's go.
May the evil spirits be subdued...
Did you see anybody?
No.
There's no one on this side, too
The kitchen stove was on, though.
Maybe something happened while they were cooking.
So he was telling the truth....
Quiet
Do you hear something?
There must be something going on in this village.
Don't be ridiculous.
What is this sound then?
Look there.
Draw a card.
Nine of clubs.
You guessed it right.
You're awesome.
Looks can be deceiving.
These are all nine of clubs.
Call my cell phone from that public phone.
Hello?
Who is it?
Want to get it?
What do I do?
Nothing.
Just leave it connected.
Then wherever I call from this cell phone,
will connect to you.
Just answer "nine of clubs" to any question
that you are asked. Got it?
Thank you for waiting.
You're that girl!
What a coincidence!
Do you work here?
Have you given up on being a magician?
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Have you given up on being a magician?
Are you ready to order?
Sit down.
Are you ready to order?
Just sit down.
Didn't you say that there is no such thing
as supernatural powers?
I recently realized that I have telepathic powers.
And?
I can transmit my thoughts using the phone.
I'll show that to you.
Draw a card.
No, thanks.
Just draw a card!
You’re just a fraud!
Nine of clubs?
That's an unusual card.
Call anybody you want.
I'll send my thoughts over to that person
and have him guess the card that you just drew.
What're you doing?
Where are you going?
Just use this.
I feel bad.
Don't disturb the people in the restaurant!
Choose anybody in there.
Section chief Ito Kimiyasu.
He's with Public Peace.
You call him.
Hello? Is this Ito Kimiyasu?
Police Detective Yabe said he's going to send
his thoughts over.
Section Chief, this is Yabe speaking.
I've come to realize that I have telepathic powers.
I'll send an image of a certain card to you
using my telepathic powers.
When it reaches you, please tell me what it is.
Are you ready?
It went through.
Hello? What is the card that I drew?
He sounds very upset.
I dialed the wrong number the first time.
So I hung up and dialed again.
Tokyo is an intense place.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to bother you when you're busy.
Please have a seat.
I'm Section Chief of Public Peace, Ito Kimiyasu.
He's police officer, Otsuki.
We haven't released this to the media yet,
but we have a very mysterious case.
Mysterious?
An entire village has vanished.
What?
One day, all the people in the village disappeared.
As if they vanished into thin air.
I have a class to teach in the afternoon.
It's a small village.
Three day ago, an officer named Maeda went there
to replace a retired officer.
That day, we received a strange call from Maeda,
just after he got there.
Kumano-sho Station.
This is Maeda.
I was stationed to Homego village.
Isn't it a nice place?
Something is strange.
No one is here.
Not a single soul.
What kind of nonsense are you talking about?
Will you go check around?
Shortly afterwards, we got another call from him.
This village is cursed!
What're you talking about?
Anyway, I'm heading back.
When he arrived at the station, he was too
terrified to even talk.
Something frightening must've happend to him.
It was apparently true that the whole village vanished.
We tried calling every home in the village...
but no one answered.
So we sent an investigative squad over there.
Did you see anybody?
But no one came back.
They vanished, too.
I have to go to my class.
Can you think of a scientific explanation?
Just one.
Fleming's left-hand rule.
Motion, field and current.
Maybe there's lava flowing underground.
Thus creating a magnetic field.
If this is the direction of the magnetic field,
and there's a high-tension line passing near it,
causing a large-scale current to flow this way,
then the force will be driven up this way.
I get it!
So all the villagers were pulled up into the sky!
Exactly.
You're so smart!
But if that's the case, wouldn't the pots,
plates, and everything else have risen with them?
This is Maeda, the officer who fled from the village.
Don't go to the village.
Everyone will vanish.
Tell him what you told us.
He's still waiting.
The lad from Bangladesh is pretty nice.
He sends money back home and pays his rent on time.
I taught him a few Japanese songs.
Will you leave, if you have no business?
I'm here because I have business.
Will you leave anyway?
Have some tea.
Don't you want to hear about a real spiritualist?
What?
Miracle Mitsui?
Is he authentic?
He seems fake to me.
Officer Maeda claims he made a village disappear.
Maeda, the newly appointed officer there, noticed that
there was no one around, so he searched everywhere.
Then he met this man.
He has the power to make anything vanish in an instant.
I don't believe it.
That's what Maeda claims.
Do you seriously believe that?
There's another thing...
I had the police do some investigating...
Mitsui's from that village.
And he has a deep grudge against them.
He was born as the son of a temple priest.
He was supposed to become a priest, too,
but as he vigorously trained for it,
he realized he had mysterious powers.
When he chanted for something to vanish,
It would instantly vanish.
Not just things, but...
Pains, illnesses, and debts.
That's a good thing.
Have one.
He was a spiritualist at the village for a while
before he left for Tokyo.
He claimed there was another invisible world
and that he could transfer things between the two worlds.
He displayed that in front of the scientists and media.
But one day, his trick was exposed and
he was greatly humiliated in front of a huge crowd.
He disappeard after that.
Even the villagers turned against him and persecuted
him as a disgrace.
He made the villagers vanish to get back at them?
There's a possibility of that.
That sounds so fake!
What it comes down to is, you're just afraid to go
to that village alone.
Please leave.
I have flat breasts!
I have no breasts... Like a flattend pie.
What kind of song did you teach him?
So you came, after all.
I didn't want to stay in my apartment.
Sensei, thank you for helping us.
Maeda heard you were going, so he finally
agreed to go, too.
No!
Another person will be going as your assistant.
Thank you for the other time.
I'm honored to see you again.
Yabe possesses supernatural powers.
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If you sense danger, send him in first.
It's OK if he vanishes.
There you go again, with your jokes.
Yes, I'm joking.
But I do want you to disappear.
How have you been?
What're you doing here?
You can't resolve this with you stupid tricks.
Go away.
Yabe, don't cause him any trouble now.
Maybe they had a hide-and-seek contest on the
day Maeda arrived there.
Hide-and-seek contest?
Are you stupid?
What village would do such a stupid thing?
Where I'm from, we used to do it all the time.
Where are you from?
If that was the case, wouldn't the come out?
Why can't they still be found?
No one knows that the contest is over.
Don't you have any memories like that?
The game is over, but no one comes to tell you.
So you end up staying in hiding all alone.
Without ever being noticed by anybody?
When night falls, the others start wondering
where you are, and it causes a big commotion?
Then you feel bad about coming out and...
That's it!
Was that you?
There's a cow!
Cow? Where?
What is it?
Do you think it'll be sunny this Sunday?
Why?
Dad is going to take me to the beach.
Write "Make it a nice day."
If you put you heart into it, your wish will come true.
Is that true?
Written characters have mysterious strength
They make your wish come true and protect you from
the bad things.
Let's practice writing it.
It's me.
Mother, are you home?
What is it? I'm busy now.
I have a formal favor to ask you.
You can't marry Naoko.
I'll work on that later.
This is it.
Seta Kazuhiko's Campaign Office.
This is for a sign.
I brought a hinoki cypress wooden board.
Please write the name on it for me.
When I win the election, I promise to...
All right, all right.
I'll write it for you, when I'm in the mood.
Just leave it there.
Homego Village is beyond that bridge.
This is the only way to the village.
Let's go back. It's very dangerous.
Don't worry, Maeda.
The great Sensei will be with you.
Nothing will happen.
I'll be going now.
I have other cases to take care of.
My superiors just don't understand that!
You're kidding.
I'll come back for you later.
If the station calls for me, just tell them
that I disappeared.
Wait!
We'll be entering Homego Village now.
The first step!
This is getting to be fun.
No one told me about this mountain path.
There's the village!
Is anyone here?
Hey!
If you're not here, please say so!
If it was that easy, we wouldn't be here.
I wonder what these are.
I've been wondering about that, too.
I've seen them all over the village.
Excuse me! Is anybody home?
Excuse me... It's open.
I'm comming in!
Don't go in on your own.
I guess they didn't go on a trip.
The place looks messed up.
What's wrong?
I thought I sensed someone around.
I'll check out the village before it gets dark.
I'll go with you.
Excuse me!
If you're not here, please say so!
I'm not here...
What're you saying?
"Children are treasures."
"Bear a girl, then a boy."
This is interesting.
Look at this.
It's about how to conceive a baby girl.
It's from the Meiji period.
When the woman goes on top and does it vigorously
for a short period of time, there is a high possibility
of a girl being conceived.
I wonder if this is true.
My opinion is a bit different from that.
To conceive a girl...
They should both be in an upright position.
The woman should face the wall...
and the male should then pray, count to ten, and do it.
It's been proven.
I wonder what that is.
Are these some sort of ceremonial ruins?
This is...
An otamajakushi (tadpole)?
I get it.
The fact that there's an otamajakushi here means...
It's a school for frogs?
It's a woman's stomach.
It represents a woman's womb.
Wait.
What's wrong?
I saw a girl here.
What?
Help!
What happened?
Miracle Mitsui!
Yes, I am Miracle Mitsui.
He's the one who made the villagers vanish.
Please calm down.
I figured it out.
He's not capable of doing that.
What're you doing in that costume?
What happened in this village?
Will you tell us anything you know?
It's as he said.
I made the villagers vanish...
as punishment for persecuting me.
How did you do that?
I have the power...
to make anything vanish in an instant.
You're lying.
Look at this.
On this tape is a display of my powers,
which I showed to some scientists in the past.
There is another world besides the one we live in.
I can send anything over to that other world.
I am Miracle Mitsui!
I'll take you to a mysterious world tonight.
I'm sending this car to the other world tonight.
Please watch carefully.
Wait a minute. That's just a camera trick.
A pretty common one, too.
I was almost deceived by Miracle Mitsui.
There's a slight difference in the angle
of the car's shadow, before and after it disappeared.
Before the car vanished, the shadow extended
to the side, while after the car vanished,
the shadow extended to the front.
That serves as evidence that the camera was moved...
with the curtain.
It's a simple technique used in filming movies.
Someone else had told me the exact same
thing 15 years ago.
The day this scene was shot, it was very windy.
That must've been why the set's lighting moved,
changing the position of the shadow.
That's just an excuse!
That's what he said, too.
But where's your proof of that?
Thanks to his irresponsible statement, I was branded
as a fraud and my entire career was ruined.
If you can't believe in my powers,
I can demonstrate it to you right now.
I know... I'll make him vanish.
Stop this nonsense.
You'll soon see that it's not nonsense.
No! Don't do it!
Stop!
I'll tape it for you so that you won't think
of it as a dream
Don't do it!
Help!
Are you discontent with something?
It's no fun to just make him vanish, is it?
Let's erase his entire past, too, then.
There'll be no record of his existence.
No! Please stop him!
Don't do it!
What's going on here?
There doesn't appear to be a trap door.
Which means he really does possess
supernatural powers?
What did he mean by he'll erase Maeda's past?
Hello?
We have trouble here.
Miracle Mitsui showed up and made Maeda disappear.
So?
Yabe, get your butt down here!
I'm busy right now.
Call the police.
Check into Maeda's past records and come here.
As much as I'd like to keep you company...
I'm in the middle of an investigation now.
Yabe, what are you doing here?
I'm doing a decoy investigation.
That's strange.
What's wrong?
Maeda's personnel records are missing.
What's this?
You're right.
There's no record of him in here, either.
What's going on?
I need to borrow your towel...
Don't touch!
Don't touch my secret.
Good luck!
What?
What do you mean by that?
I'm not scared.
That's scary!
There will be no record of his existence.
No! Please stop him!
I don't see any trick.
What is it?
It might've been my father who ruined
Miracle Mitsui's life.
My father was a magician who couldn't excuse
fraudulent spiritualists.
He had accepted their challenges many times.
You've got the gall to claim you made it vanish.
The radio is right under that.
My father believed that there was a trick behind
every claim of spiritual power.
The one who killed your father is....?
There really are authentic spiritualists.
You'll meet one very soon.
You'll be killed by that person.
I'm not scared!
Don't come.
Or everybody will vanish.
I'm scared!
Oh, it's you.
You sure took long.
I got lost along the way.
You should've called.
I couldn't get through.
What?
He's right... The telephone line is out.
It was working earlier.
What?
A strange girl appeared before me, too.
A strange girl?
A girl that somewhat resembles Amuro Namie?
You saw her, too?
You must be popular.
You're young, handsome, and an asst. Professor.
I admire you.
You can't be too great in a relationship.
You might instead turn the other person off.
Or even hurt the person.
Mental problems can be a very sensitive issue.
It's not a mental problem for him, but
a physical problem.
Be quiet.
Good morning.
You've never shared a room with a man, have you?
What?
That's not true.
I have, many times.
Haven't they told you?
Told me what?
You talk in your sleep.
Me?
What did I say?
Toyama Kinsan had leg cramps during his trip,
lost the gold medal and bowed down to Suke-san
and Kaku-san. What kind of situation is that?
Ueda, get up!
If you sleep too much, it'll get bigger.
Sensei, it's time to eat.
We're having a special Chinese breakfast.
Maybe he rolled outside while he was sleeping.
What's this?
He must've been watching it all alone.
It's me, Miracle Mitsui.
Let me introduce you to my special guest tonight.
Today, I will attempt something new...
I will make a part of a human body disappear.
Look here.
That's impossible!
Don't worry. It's just another trick of his.
If you put a mirror in a slanted position in a box,
the inside of the box will be reflected in the mirror...
So from the front, it looks like there's nothing there.
See?
I get it!
It was just as I had thought.
I was expecting something more tricky.
I wonder where Mr.Ueda went, though.
I know!
Maybe he's hiding right here.
Mr.Ueda?
No!
I wonder where Mr.Ueda went.
I know!
Maybe...
He's in here.
Mr.Ueda?
No!