Rasen

Synopsis: A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
 
IMDB:
5.3
NOT RATED
Year:
1998
97 min
91 Views


Hello?

Andou? You're sounding cheery as usual. It's coming up on two years now, you know.

Is there a reason you're calling first thing in the morning?

Look... It's Takayama Ryuji. He's dead.

Who?

Takayama Ryuji. You know, our classmate from medical school. Takayama Ryuji!

Cut the crap. If this is a joke, it's not funny.

Would I joke about something like this? They say it might even have been a suicide.

Suicide? Takayama Ryuji, kill himself?

Or it might be something else. It looks like they're gonna have to do a little more investigating. They've scheduled an administrative autopsy.

What are you saying?

The body that you're slated to autopsy today... it's Takayama Ryuji.

I'll see you at the hospital. Bye.

According to one of the pathologists there were no external injuries to speak of. The cause of death is still unknown, hence this administrative autopsy.

We're waiting on the results of your autopsy, but we have sufficient reason to believe that this was a homicide. If that's the case the court would order a second autopsy...

They're saying it's Sudden Death Syndrome.

Sudden Death...

They found the body at his place yesterday morning.

There's no mistake. It's Takayama Ryuji.

I've got it! You have to use a rendering of the amino acids in DNA.

You plug the numbers into this chart and then use the resulting abbreviation. Isn't that right?

Ripper.

"He who slices."

And what is that supposed to mean? Takayama?

Still don't get it, huh?

It's you.

Your future.

"Ripper"...

Let's get started.

Seeing some necrosis here on the left side of the heart.

There's arterial blockage.

Direct cause of death is heart attack brought on by blockage of the left pulmonary artery.

There's a small tumor in his throat.

Let's go ahead and take a sample.

OK.

You can't even slit your own wrist...

But you're pretty good at slicing up other people, huh?

Andou!

Dr. Andou? There was something strange in his stomach.

Takayama Ryuji. Lecturer at the Science and Technology Department of Kyouei University.

He would appear to have been something of a... strange man, wouldn't you agree?

His ex-wife, Asakawa Reiko.

That boy in the picture is their son.

Ryuji and his ex-wife never kept in touch with one another, but it looks like recently the two had been in close contact.

Is there some suspicion regarding his cause of death?

Asakawa Reiko entered Ryuji's apartment at about the time that the ambulance arrived.

But after that she returned home and retrieved her son. The two are now missing.

Missing?

And one of the ambulance crew saw her with a videotape taken from Mr. Takayama's aprtment.

A videotape?

Mr. Takayama placed a phone call to Asakawa Reiko just before he died.

But the first person to find his body was Mr. Takayama's girlfriend.

According to her she just happened to stop by his apartment, where she found him already dead. It'd be stranger to think that some sort of foul play was NOT involved.

But... he died from a heart attack, you know?

It doesn't make sense, does it?

Why not meet Mr. Takayama's girlfriend for yourself?

She's a gloomy one, though. Our questioning isn't going anywhere...

This is Dr. Andou, who was in charge of the autopsy. This is Takano Mai, the first person to discover the body.

Please tell us again about when you found the body. To the doctor, this time.

There was nothing to make us think it was suicide OR murder.

What I want to ask you about is Mr. Takayama's health.

His health?

His body didn't look like one that'd suddenly died from heart failure.

Did he ever mention anything to you about chest pains, or lack of energy?

...No.

Ms. Takano. Yesterday morning, what made you decide to suddenly go to Takayama Ryuji's apartment?

Asakawa Reiko took her son and disappeared to... where, I wonder?

Tell us what you can recall.

I don't know anything.

Please answer the question.

I don't know anything. I really don't.

Why won't you answer? Tell us what you know.

You knew that Takayama Ryuji was meeting with his ex-wife, didn't you?

Why won't you speak? You're not hiding something, are you?!

Tell me everything you know!

Talk!

Just a... Mr. Maekawa!

I know who you are, Mr. Andou.

I heard about you a month or so ago. From Dr. Takayama.

About me? What did you hear?

That when you were students everyone was into code-making.

We'd use our knowledge of various medical terminologies to come up with our codes...

But the ones that Takayama made were always the hardest to solve.

He was a pretty intelligent guy, wasn't he?

"Andou was the only one that ever broke my codes," he said.

Before he died... Dr. Takayama was investigating something with Reiko.

Investigating what?

A videotape.

A videotape?

Whoever watches it dies.

Whoever watches it dies?

Yes.

Four people have already watched it... and died.

That's simply not possible.

Mr. Andou?

Yes?

Dr. Takayama was... different from other people. You know that, don't you?

Yeah. He'd talk about things that would happen in the future, or what other people were thinking, and would be right on the mark. It was amazing.

You mean that?

He knew, didn't he? That you and I would meet like this.

Why? Why did he die and leave me alone?

This is stupid.

Professor?

Professor?

Professor?

Professor?

Professor!

Hey! What'd you find out?

Myocardial infarcation caused by a tumor.

A tumor?

Take a look at this.

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