I would not have come if I knew it.
It's all your fault.
Afraid of opening my eyes.
Afraid of closing my eyes, too.
Sorry...
A face?
It came all this way... It's really a miracle.
You are...
Long time no see.
This is impossible.
Yamada. Where've you been?
Professor Ueda is waiting you in your room.
I am too full.
That "Have one bowl" ramen store.
It's free if you finish 10 bowls in 30 minutes.
After I ate 10, I feel terrible.
Why are you here?
Have you heard of a weightless board?
Huh?
No matter what you put on it,
it can make that stuff weightless.
Let it float in the air.
No matter how heavy a thing is.
That's impossible.
I've brought one here.
So? It floats, right?
See! Floating in the air.
Take away your bag.
That pinned candle, you made it specially?
You were surprised, weren't you?
Now I'm talking about my point.
A person from Kisamura came to visit me.
I am the manager of the construction department in Kisamura station.
My name is Hashimoto.
Professor's book. I've read it.
Murasaki.
No. It's Kisamura.
So today I'm here to ask you a favor.
Murasaki. Kisamura.
At the moment, there are plans to build a freeway through our village.
From the health care city, through the fisherman village
and pass right in the middle of our Shiroki Forest.
to join the Shobinei free way.
But this Shiroki Forest. It has a little history.
That's good, isn't it?
Fascinating tango. Fascinating strings.
It's "history." That's "fascination." (iwaku) (miwaku)
How to say it...
People who enter this forest have never come back.
Long time ago a sorcerer (youjutsu) from the South Islands
came to our village.
Making circles, dancing
and holding festivals?
Please be more serious.
That's bojutsu! (using weapons for juggling & entertainment)
The sorcerer used many magic charms
to bewitch villagers.
And then made their treasures disappear.
There's a long preserved treasure of Kisamura amongst them.
A priceless pot which was called "Pot Eight."
The angry villagers
seemed to have chased the sorcerer into the forest and killed him there.
Yet the sorcerer used a special charm to resurrect himself.
It is said that he is still living in the Shiroki Forest.
You believe in this legend?
Please take a look.
On it are
the charms that were used by that sorcerer.
This is it.
Weightless board.
Mind Reading Rock.
A stone coffin to make dead alive.
That sorcerer seemed to use
those magic before the villagers.
No way!
What did you say? Did you listen to me?
If you want me to go with you, sorry, I refuse.
Leave now. I don't feel well.
Quick. Go.
Jump!
You don't have to be afraid.
I come from the island where your mother was born.
Look.
Naoko.
What are you doing?
The noodles will be cold.
Come here... Naoko.
Come here quick...
Yamada Naoko NAKAMA Yukie
Ueda Jiro ABE Hiroshi
Yabe Kenzo NAMASE Katsuhisa
Yamada Satomi NOGIWA Yoko
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YOU.
If you wanted to be with me, just say it up front.
Don't be shy!
Sorry.
Boss.
Welcome to Kisamura.
Boss?
I've been waiting you for a long time.
This way... this way!
This way...
Sorry to make you wait. The Boss is here.
Everybody.
Thank you, amidst your busy schedule,
for coming to join the fourth exploration team of Shiroki Forest.
Thank you very much.
Why do I say this is the fourth exploration team?
It's because from the first to the third,
no one has come back safely.
No... But please don't worry.
This time we have the best members.
First, the secret exploration team. Famous on TV and magazines.
Actor Aran lnoue's exploration team.
Nice meet you.
Meet you.
I'm Aran.
My Japanese is better than my English.
You can talk to me with ease.
Then he is Araki, and he is Kabaki.
Nice to meet you.
Good day.
He looks like Japanese anyway.
Then the arbiter of ethnology. He's been to everywhere in Japan.
Teacher Yanagita Kokuo.
Japanese are coconut fruit!
What does that mean?
Mr. Hyuga from Desperation construction company.
I'm Hyuga from Desperation construction company.
I'm glad to work on exploring the woods.
Hope that I can have contribution to this village's development.
So, everybody here can help to prove this woods is not cursed.
Right? This woods is not cursed.
I want to prove this point.
I'm full of confidence to serve all of you.
Let's go home. The point is
you just want to make money by building freeways.
What did you say? Stop... Please don't quarrel.
Be good to each other.
This is the explorer reporter, Komatsu Juko-san.
About the process of our exploration,
I decided to publish a book after I summarize them.
I'll mention things about you all.
Then thank you for your cooperation.
Ueda.
The last one is the professor who solved many mysteries in the past
from Japan's University off Science & Technology,
The author of "Come on over, Spiritual Phenomena," Ueda Jiro-sensei.
Come on over! Ha ha...
How about the lady beside you?
She's my assistant, Yamada.
Yamada...
This lady. You probably don't know her.
She is my wife.
We are going to explore the Forest.
So... You guys.
I prepared Cup Ramen for three days.
Then let's go.
I want to eat ramen...
Shut up! Go away.
You really want to go? Hashimoto.
Mayor...
I already advised you earnestly not to.
You're really something!
But if we can't deal with this forest,
our village can't develop.
All right. I see.
Since you insist of doing so, I won't stop you.
It's your business to bet your lives on.
However, once you've entered this forest,
if you are able to return easily,
that would be terrible.
Allegedly the sorcerer owns
the power to control people's mind.
Long time ago,
an exploration team that came out of the woods alive
caused a series of terrible events.
If you want to leave the forest,
you have to catch that sorcerer and bring him out with you.
Or...
Aim.
What kind of village is this?
You guys, stop.
You guys?
You are pretty bold.
Anyway it'll be fine if we can have a perfect explanation about
the strange phenomena that happens in this woods, right?
Right? "Come on over" professor?
You wouldn’t sneak out of here, would you?
Of course I wouldn’t. That's for sure.
Come on over!
Then there won't be any problems.
Let's go.
We're setting off...
Bad... bad...
Would be terrible...
Why are you pointing your guns at me?
All clear!
Yes.
Go! Yes.
Why not just walk normally?
What's that?
Don't be afraid. Go For It! Go.
Yes, Sir.
Too exaggerated...
The ground is sticky. So gross.
We've finally entered this forest.
How many people can leave this forest alive?
Our team members
all have no idea about their future.
What are you talking about?
Ah... Eerie feeling.
Everybody,
the trees around this area
were transplanted from the South.
Their sap and pollen
seem to cause rapid hair growth.
In the event
we are the little red riding hood who safely leaves the forest,
You can take it back as a present.
Ok... Let's go further. Please.
I'm glad to.
Raising hair? Grow hair, stupid.
What's that?
This rock...
The sorcerer can float it?
Take a close look,
it looks like Shiina Kippei.
Which part?
I say it's more like Watanabe Tetsu.
It really looks alike.
Human's strength is not enough to move it.
That sorcerer on the painting.
He put a weightless board under it,
therefore he could move it.
What are you talking about?
The weightless board should be somewhere in the woods.
Yanagita Kokuo. I feel I've heard this name before.
So good.
Ueda.
So good.
Eh?
Look there!
Maybe that's the sorcerer's hiding place.
Don't bullshit.
I'll go take a look.
Anybody home?
We are people from the village station.
If no one is in, please answer.
Probably someone is inside.
Hena island. Fure island.
These are data of islands in south.
What's this?
What happened here?
Professor Ueda. Yes.
Take a look at this.
This is very old stuff.
These are words of south islands.
Interesting. Really interesting.
This stuff here is my assistant's.
Kishimoto left them here...
Mr. Hashimoto. You know him, right?
Yes.
Half year ago, there was indeed a scholar named Kishimoto, who
came to our village.
He talked about revealing the truth of the sorcerer.
What happened to him?
Don't know. Never seen him after.
Then, probably, he's still somewhere in this Shiroki Forest.
That's impossible. Half a year passed and no food.
Mr. Yanagita. Do you know
the sorcerer's real identity?
He should be the offspring of those
who had mysterious power and lived in south islands.
Huh?
At all times, people more or less have
magic power that science can't explain.
Years after the Meiji period,
the power gradually weakened due to industrialization.
Yet according to legend, some people who live in south islands
still inherit the magic power.
Yanagita Kokuo.
I feel I've heard this name before. Now I remember.
People think you're the trickster scholar.
So you were exiled from the academic fields.
You are that teacher, right?
I'm not a trickster.
People who own magic power do exist now.
I see.
You want to bluff us here
and let us agree with your theory, right?
This is interesting.
As a reporter.
I'm so lucky to be here.
Teacher. Can I ask you a question?
Why don't you go back to academia open and aboveboard
to lecture your theory?
I don't want to answer your question.
Why?
Actually you don't have confidence, do you?
Can I have a word?
Please listen to me.
I just want to solve the mystery of this woods.
People, let's be nice.
What's that?
Mind reading Rock.
This looks like Shiina Kippei, too.
Which part? Nonsense.
Are you crazy?
If a liar put his hand in,
his hand will be on fire.
I'm Aran Jean Paul lnoue.
Hot!
I'm...
French.
Hot!
I...
hate salmon.
Strange.
I'm...
lnoue Konzo.
Japanese.
Why?
Did someone control it secretly?
Then let's have an experiment.
Professor Ueda. Can you come over here?
Firstly, everyone will face the other way, except Professor Ueda.
Professor Ueda, you will move the coins around, without anyone seeing it.
Once you're done, please hold one of the coins in your hand.
Next, you will say "heads" or "tails",
and put your hand...oh...
Use this stick as your hand,
and put it into the hole.
By the way,
This side with characters "Kan", "Ei", "Tsuu", "Hou"
is heads.
Whether Professor Ueda is telling the truth or not,
only he would know.
Therefore, no one should be able to control the fire correctly.
I see. This indeed an experiment.
Then please everybody, face the other way.
OK.
Then Professor Ueda.
Please put that stick into that hole.
Tails.
Sorry.
It's heads.
Amazing!
The sorcerer answers correctly.
Here?
A stone coffin to bring back the dead.
A small temple.
Should we open it?
You think someone is inside?
Possible.
The sorcerer came alive several times by using it.
But the dead becomes alive, basically it's impossible...
Then let me do it.
Teacher, you can't open it.
What if you play some tricks.
This coffin is very dangerous.
If inside is the sorcerer...
Then before you open it, I hope you can promise me...
if it's empty inside.
Teacher, please die.
What?
We'll be responsible to put your body into it.
Anyway, you'll be alive, so it should be ok, right?
Interesting. I've never seen such thing.
I can't stand you.
Do you want to run?
Please don't leave at will.
Teacher. Where do you want to go?
Shut up! The toilet.
Open the door.
Now we're going to open it.
If you're not with us, we'll be troubled.
Please answer my question, ok?
Let me try it.
I'll do it. Please back a little.
Mr. Hyuga.
Back.
What's that?
Haunted Mansion?
The dead alive.
Someone is screaming. Go check. Hurry.
Yes...
A strange person just ran out of my sight.
How can you open it without me?
The sorcerer came back to life.
We'll be killed.
Hair grows longer.
Song?
Seems to be singing "hair grows longer."
Hair grows...
Are you sure?
This is...
This is a legend.
At night,
the sorcerer's singing voice comes out from the deep of the woods.
Hair grows longer.
Grows longer...
Your nose hair...
Eh?
Your mustache.
Ear...
Sideburns.
What's on it?
I am alive now
to punish those who killed me.
Who wrote it?
What's this?
Take it down...
Tear it off.
Teacher. Can I ask you a question?
Can the south island you said be...
I don't know its exact position.
It's an island that not even on the map.
About 100 years ago,
some of them were banished from there.
From the Kokumontou they went to many places in Japan.
What's that?
I'm grading papers.
Being a professor is not easy.
Why do you bring papers here?
100 points!
Just the same with this answer. I can circle it, right?
Let me help you.
Q1: Explain the relation of gravity and fundamental particles.
Ans: So-called gravity is the power of attraction.
Just like Professor Ueda and I. We have a strong "Love attraction."
Ah... so embarrassing.
How can this answer get 100 points?
I feel so sorry...
Eh?
For bringing you here.
Why do you always say so after it happens?
What idiot would say it in advance?
Then you just solve the mysteries, find the Pot Eight,
and give me the money.
Tomorrow morning let's leave this forest.
Only two people
wouldn't be easy to be recognized by villagers.
Why are my sideburns itchy?
Why in this woods does
a part of our body grow hair?
What's wrong with you?
What?
Something making you feel strange?
You became strange after you got here.
If you have something...
Nothing.
Who is it?
My Jesus!
Mr. Hyuga.
So cold.
Dead.
The revived sorcerer did it.
This Watanabe Tetsu. How did he come here?
There was nothing here last night.
Nothing here.
It's Shiina Kippei!
Looks like Den Den, too.
What are you talking about?
Somebody's dead.
Hurry up and move that rock!
He used the weightless board.
There's no other way.
What do you think? Professor Ueda.
No. Theoretically that stuff is...
Then. Professor Ueda.
Can you explain it by using physics?
Who in what way moved this rock?
This is a very simple trick.
Actually the inside of this rock is empty.
It's light.
We can't move it is because now it's filled by water.
The criminal let water out and then moved it here
and pumped the water in again.
Excuse me, boss.
How did he move the water he let out?
What?
If he let out the water and moved the rock here,
then he would also have to move the water he let out to here.
It seems to need a lot of effort.
Actually Professor Ueda was just giving you a test.
This Shiina Kippei rock...
It's Watanabe Tetsu.
Den Den.
Shiina Kippei rock!
Inside it is indeed empty.
Though not heavy,
it is magnetized to the ground by something like an electromagnet.
Just turn off the power, then this rock can be moved with ease.
Right? Professor.
There must be a switch for the electromagnet.
This is an interesting explanation.
This is a magnet I found in the cottage.
If it can be magnetized by an electromagnet,
then this rock should be made of metal.
Things that can be magnetize by electromagnets are only metals.
Stone is impossible to magnetize.
This is taught in elementary school.
I say now since a person was killed,
let's talk to the head of this village first
and ask the police to come.
I'll be back after a 5 minutes rest.
This way.
Eh?
This mark.
We seem to have passed here not long ago.
Strange.
Are we walking in circles?
What's going on here?
What happened?
Is it to say we are unable to leave here?
How could this happen?
Well... About the criminal who killed Hyuga.
Who killed Hyuga?
Let's ask himself directly. What do you think?
Excuse me.
How can we ask a dead person?
How?
The stone coffin to make the dead alive.
We can use that to revive Hyuga.
Then let's open it after two hours.
At that time he should be alive.
Ok. Close it.
Yes, Sir.
Yamada-sensei. This way.
Please.
This is really my honor to
have you to come to our village.
That a sensei like you
would agree to come to inscribe for our village station.
I really can't imagine it even in my dreams.
I'm so pleased.
Now this village will be safe and peaceful forever.
Then please stroke your brush on it now.
You seem mistaken.
Indeed. Words have magic powers to change a person's fate.
However, its power is related with the heart of the person who uses it.
Forget it if you don't understand.
Please don't...
What? Sensei.
Do you mean honorarium?
How much should we give you?
We are bumpkins. We don't know much about the rules.
I'm not writing for money.
I'm really sorry.
Here's the price list for your reference.
If you don't pick one,
then I'll assume you've chosen the "executive" option.
Executive option?
Then, just write on it is ok?
Tea. Have tea here.
Iron bowl. Take the iron bowl.
Iron bowl?
This is the map of the south islands.
You know it?
Of course.
But this is not the real one, right?
You can tell?
There is a subtle difference in the brushwork.
Sensei, have you seen that name plate?
*Replica
Head, there are some policemen from Tokyo, who apologise for the short notice,
but they need to see you at once immediately.
At once immediately?
Seems to be an super VIP in the police administration department.
Super VIP?
It's almost time.
Do we really have to open it?
How can he possibly be revived?
Right? Professor.
Of course not.
Then professor. Please open it.
Eh?
Where is Mr. Hyuga?
Mr. Hyuga?
How come?
Seems like he's revived and left by himself.
Mr. Hyuga sure is unfriendly.
How can such thing happen?
Mr. Hashimoto.
Darling, where are you going?
I heard in this village, there's a long preserved priceless pot
called "Pot Eight," right?
Uh. I remember it was... In the Meiji period.
A sorcerer who came from overseas
took that pot away.
It has not been found since.
Actually about half a year ago,
someone seemed to trade that pot
at a black market art exhibition.
It's this pot, right?
It Looked like this pot.
But I've never seen it with my eyes.
That is to say about half a year ago,
someone found this pot,
and secretly sold it on the black market.
Head. Half a year ago, had anyone entered that forest?
Well... I remember... yes.
A scholar from Tokyo. Mr. Kishimoto.
I warned him it's dangerous. Very dangerous, very...
But he still entered and we haven't have hear from him since.
Missing?
Yes.
Who are you?
This room seems to have problems.
Too many fakes.
Fake paintings.
Fake religious stuff.
And...
Even if you cover it well,
if a person wears a fake, I can tell with one glance.
This is not fake. It grows from my head.
Sorry. Don't look too close.
Slipped.
Err...
A group of people went into the woods yesterday.
And have not come back since.
Of course I tried to stop them.
I told them it's very dangerous. Very dangerous, very...
I tried to stop them with my life.
But that "come on over Professor Ueda" is one of them.
So they said nothing bad will happen.
That Professor Ueda again.
He also had company.
A very insolent girl.
Idiot. I want to see what her parents look like.
If that idiot can't get out of there. It's not our business.
To worry about them here does not help.
If there's a hot spring hotel around here, please tell me.
If it's ok
I want to ask the police department to search the Shiroki Forest.
We are from the police department.
Once I wrote the doorplate for the administration department.
And made a friend in there.
It seems he is...
Mr. Sasaki in public security section.
Is there such a person in your department?
You know Mr. Sasaki? Excuse me, may I... your phone?
Sorry. We'll do our best to investigate.
Then why are you still here?
Yes.
Mr. Hashimoto's voice did come from this side.
To hell...
Darling.
Darling. What are you doing?
Darling. We still have loans to pay.
Calm down. Mr. Hashimoto.
This is just a body.
You're lying...
The hair in his ears still grows.
Mr. Hashimoto. Look carefully.
Mr. Hyuga doesn't have any sign of revival.
Someone secretly moved his body out and put it here.
Wait.
Mr. Hashimoto. Why do you want to kill Mr. Hyuga now?
Didn't you think he was alive again?
Then why did you want to kill him?
It doesn't make sense.
Or the one who killed Mr. Hyuga
and put him under the rock was... YOU.
Was it you?
No. It's not me.
The one who killed Mr. Hyuga
is the one who put him under the rock.
Who?
Do you know who did it?
It's Mr. Kishimoto.
Eh? Mr. Kishimoto.
Who is he?
Mr. Kishimoto died in this woods half year ago.
But he's alive again.
What are you talking about?
Actually half year ago
Mr. Yanagita's assistant, Mr. Kishimoto, entered this woods.
Mr. Hyuga and I then followed him here.
Mr. Kishimoto was here to reveal the truth of the sorcerer,
and we were here to find that pot.
The legendary Pot Eight.
After we were half way into this woods,
we started to feel confused by a strange feeling.
We felt like someone was following us,
and the hair on some part of our body started to grow.
We ignored these and kept going,
By chance, we found the legendary pot.
The Pot Eight.
This is the...
legendary pot.
Pot Eight.
But it's also the beginning of mischief.
How to deal with the pot we found?
Mr. Kishimoto and Mr. Hyuga started to quarrel.
Let's sell it and split the money.
How can we do that?
This is a priceless item for academic study.
We should take it to the academy.
What? I'm so surprised.
What are you talking about?
Do you know how much it's worth?
No is no.
Then Mr. Hyuga...
Mr. Kishimoto.
What have you done?
Calm down...
My hand was wrenched.
Now this pot belongs to us.
What happened here... Don't tell anybody.
You...
Shut up!
Sorry, I was too loud.
No one will be surprised about his death.
They will only think he's missing in the woods.
To prevent further happenings,
we hid Mr. Kishimoto's body in that small temple.
We thought no one would dare to open it, and we'll be safe.
But he did revive.
We then fled the forest,
but met the sorcerer somewhere.
Somehow, we managed to find our way to the exit.
And the pot was put in my locker at the village station temporarily.
Not for long, Mr. Hyuga sold it.
But it didn't end like that.
After that thing happened, I always feel like someone was watching me.
It was like living in hell.
(I know what you did.)
When Teacher suggested
to investigate this woods again.
Mr. Hyuga and I both felt worried.
What if the body of Mr. Kishimoto is found?
But we didn't have the courage to come back and move him.
Therefore, we joined this team
to come back to the woods.
You decided to hide the body somewhere else before we found it, right?
Yes.
I'll do it. Please back a little.
Mr. Hyuga
Back.
The person who ran out at that time must be Mr. Kishimoto.
Mr. Kishimoto is hiding somewhere in the woods.
Awaiting the time for revenge.
Wait...
We are from Tokyo's police department.
The one who took the legendary pot,
Pot Eight out from this woods
and sold it in the black market
is one of you.
Admit your guilt now.
Upside down.
Eh? Professor Ueda. You've grown sideburns?
Have I? What?
Don't play innocent.
Among you, there's someone who brought Pot Eight out of here.
What?
I admitted just then.
You did?
Uh.
What are you doing here?
What's important is he...
I'm really sorry.
The one you brought out is this, right?
Eh?
This and the pot we found
don't look quite the same.
The etchings are not so far apart.
Isn't this sound No and RE?
What's wrong with that?
Brother. We should have investigated more details.
I don't care about those trivia.
Come with us to the police station.
Come!
Maria.
My Maria.
I am sorry...
Darling.
from now on, our relationship's over.
Hey. You can't go out from that way.
That way?
Suppose... I say suppose
Mr. Hyuga revived.
How did he get out then?
Because after we put his body in,
we all waited here.
That's right.
There must be some hidden mechanism here.
Eh?
Let's go.
Yes.
I knew it.
The toilet is empty.
Somebody used this tunnel
and moved the body out.
Eh? Ueda-san?
Hey?
Ueda. Are you stuck in there?
Ueda?
Just as I thought. This is really the way out.
Didn't you follow me?
Without knowing what's inside, why should both of us enter?
You idiot, Ueda.
Eh? Why are you here?
Brother. We seem to have been here before.
Hey!
Your black hair seems increased.
Eh?
Naoko.
Professor Ueda.
Oh. You're chained here.
They tied me loosely. So I untied myself.
What's important is after I saw that fake pot, I found out
the truth of the sorcerer.
The sorcerer is...
Hold on...
1 o'clock after midnight. Wait for me beside the stone coffin.
Not yet... there's still 20 minutes to go.
What other complaints you got? Now you should know
there's indeed a sorcerer.
Kishimoto revived because of the sorcerer's magic.
But Mr. Kishimoto is your student.
Maybe you two are a party.
Are you suspecting me of being the murderer?
If they want to fight, why don't they just go outside?
If he's a bad guy,
I don't want to be his wife anymore.
Don't worry. I'll be with you.
Yes. Let me guess
your cell phone number.
OK.
Please enter the numbers after 090.
I won't peep. Ok... you can enter it now.
Finish? Yes.
Then times that number with 10000.
Finish? Yes.
Now add the last four digit number.
OK. Good. Give it to me. Good.
I didn't peep at all.
Miss Maria's cell phone number is 090...
Wow! You're amazing.
How do you know?
Is it fun?
I want to eat...
and that...
Where's the jumbo shrimp?
Ueda.
Eh?
Ueda?
Long time no see.
You wouldn't have forgotten me, right?
Just like you imagined.
We're the survivors
who'd been expelled from your mother's
homeland, Kokumontou 120 years ago.
What Kokumontou, that accepted western cultures, looks like now,
you should clearly know, right?
That island is going to its damnation.
We are the only survivors.
Come here.
Come here...
Shiina...Kippei.