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The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007)

Ken'ichi Suzumura: Mikiya Kokutou

The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1

Ken'ichi Suzumura credited as playing...

Mikiya Kokutou

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  • Shiki Ryogi: In short, multiple personality.
  • [Showing a paper where the names Shiki and SHIKI written in Japanese, which despite sounding the same way, are spelled differently]
  • Shiki Ryogi: I am SHIKI, and the girl you know is Shiki. but we are not two different people, Shiki Ryogi is always one person. the only difference between us is our priorities.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Priorities?
  • Shiki Ryogi: I just wanted to talk to you, Kokutou, is all, is something that Shiki did not want to do, so I'm doing that for her.
  • [to Mikiya]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Got it?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Mmm... kind of. But why are you telling me this?
  • Shiki Ryogi: I just could not keep hiding you for long.
  • [Takes a sip of juice]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Basically, I'm the rebellious impulse of Shiki. Be a rebel is what I do. But until now, there was no one I wanted to direct this impulse.
  • [Mikiya observes her surprised]
  • Shiki Ryogi: But don't worry. She and I may be different, but I'm still Shiki. I'm not gonna turn in a crazy one suddenly. But lately, we are not in harmony.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Hmm?
  • Shiki Ryogi: Well, Shiki controls her body no matter how hard I try, Now I know you just because Shiki agreed to. Well, probably she repents that later. Shiki never would say it's OK to go or hang out with you, right?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: You're right.
  • Shiki Ryogi: I like how do You think about that, but Shiki don't. And this is what I mean by not being in harmony.
  • [She gets up from her chair]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Well, that's all for today.
  • [Puts on her jacket and leaves a few coins on the bar]
  • Shiki Ryogi: See you.
  • [Turning away from Mikiya]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Hey, I like you, so we'll meet again.
  • [while he is walking through the bamboo forest]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice Over] When I was a child, I was afraid of ghosts. Shadows of bamboo trees looked like monsters, and frightened me. But now I fear to "Humans". I fear that someone is hiding behind the bamboo trees. When we realized that ghosts are simply unknown strangers? I could not pull out of my head the terrible premonition I had... Now that I think, Shiki said something about it.
  • [last lines]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [June 1998] Well, I'm leaving. I'll be back in two hours.
  • Touko Aozaki: Buy me something, Will ya?
  • [Mikiya leaves the Touko's office]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice Over] I'm going to visit the hospital every Saturday afternoon. I don't know what kind of pain afflicted her or what she was thinking about.
  • [He buys a bouquet of flowers in a tent]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: I don't know why she tried to kill me. But that slight smile that showed me in the last minute was more than enough. I remember Shiki standing in the glow of the Sunset after school. In the fiery sunset, shiki asked me What side of her do I believed so much. I will repeat what I said then: "I have no basis whatsoever, but probably still believe in you." "I like you, so, I want to keep believing in you."...
  • [while he is going to the hospital]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: She has not killed anyone. I'm sure. Because Shiki knows the suffering of murder. You are both victim and the aggressor, so You know how sad it is. That's why I believe in you. Shiki, who can't be hurt, and SHIKI, who knows only suffering. You were always so fragile, always close to get hurt.
  • [He goes across the corridors of the hospital]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: You were never able to speak from your heart, so full of sadness.
  • [Mikiya arrives to her room where he sees to Shiki lying in a coma state]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: April 1995, I've known her.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Smiling] You look so distant as usual, Shiki
  • Shiki Ryogi: The weather is nice right now, but I guess it will begin to cool soon.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Are you going to keep using that even in the winter?
  • Shiki Ryogi: Probably, but will be fine, because I put something else on top.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Smiling] Then there is something you can use over a kimono?
  • [Mikiya gets up from the chair]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Sure
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [as he leaves the classroom] Hey, What about a leather jacket?
  • Gakuto: Come on, tell me. Don't leave me disappointed.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: It is a misunderstanding, Shiki is just a friend, nothing more.
  • Gakuto: [Pushy] Shiki, huh? It is impossible for her to let a simple classmate like you address her in a so informal way.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: She asked me to. She does not like being called by his surname, or being called "Miss Shiki"
  • Gakuto: [Shocked] Really?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: She looked at me horribly one day when I called her "Miss Ryogi".
  • Gakuto: Wow, how scary.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Now do you understand?
  • Gakuto: Hey, but why Ryogi? No matter how you look, she seems of your type!
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Shiki is not scary
  • Gakuto: So... What happened with "She is nothing more than a friend"? She is a scary woman. If you can't realize it, that means you're in love.
  • [Mikiya looks at his watch, then yawns of boredom]
  • Shiki Ryogi: What's Up, Kokutou! Did you wait too long?
  • [Mikiya sees Shiki getting in to the mall using an orange kimono instead of her usual blue kimono, with a red leather jacket on top]
  • Shiki Ryogi: I'm sorry, I took time to get rid of Akitaka.
  • [Mikiya does not respond]
  • Shiki Ryogi: What? Are you upset because I was only an hour late? You're very impatient, Dude!
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Shocked] Um... You are Shiki, right?
  • Shiki Ryogi: Well, yeah.
  • [Pushy]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Do I look like something else? Anyway, we're wasting time here.
  • [Takes Mikiya's hand and takes him by force]
  • Shiki Ryogi: You choose where we go, Come on!
  • Shiki Ryogi: [as SHIKI] Kokutou, have you ever wanted to kill someone?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Until now... no.
  • Shiki Ryogi: I see, but is the only emotion I have. I'm responsible for the Shiki's repressed thoughts, so I've always killed my will. I have always been killing the darkness that is inside my being. I killed myself over and over again. I told you that people can only express the emotions they have, right?
  • [Mikiya nods]
  • Shiki Ryogi: You see, the only emotion I have experienced... is murder... So Kokutou...
  • [Approaching Mikiya]
  • Shiki Ryogi: ... the definition that Shiki has of murder is...
  • [Leaning towards Mikiya]
  • Shiki Ryogi: ... killing me. She tries to kill all that get me afloat. Shiki wants to kill all who attempt to raise her cover, in order to stay protected
  • [Shiki leaves, leaving Mikiya pretty confused]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: You look a little annoyed, Shiki.
  • Shiki Ryogi: [Angry] A LITTLE? I don't understand, but I get annoyed when you're around. I don't understand why do you get involved with me, and why your attitude has not changed after all I said.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: I don't know why. It's fun to be with you, but I don't know why it's fun. Well, it may be optimistic if we talk about what happened yesterday.
  • Shiki Ryogi: Kokutou, Do you understand that I'm a freak?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Yes, you're definitely not normal.
  • Shiki Ryogi: Right? Then you should accept that fact. I'm not someone you can relate in a normal way.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: It doesn't matter if you are normal or not.
  • Shiki Ryogi: But I can't be like you.
  • [Shiki raises her left arm, showing that carries the arm bandaged under the sleeve]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Shiki, that wound...
  • Shiki Ryogi: [Getting up fron the ground, while She's hiding the bandage] I did it during the last murder.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [as if the Shiki's words were a joke] Oh, come on...
  • Shiki Ryogi: If the SHIKI's words don't make you react, I'll tell you by myself. If we keep this up...
  • [Towards Mikiya]
  • Shiki Ryogi: ...Probably I end up killing you.
  • [Mikiya sees Shiki walking away]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice-Over] Gakuto was right. I should have realized that before... I'm mad about her.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Is about the serial killings?
  • Daisuke Akimi: Yes. Three days ago, they found the sixth victim.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Quite Surprised] But...
  • Daisuke Akimi: The information is being controlled. They decided it was not productive to increase the public concern.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: You said something about going to my school. What happened with that?
  • Daisuke Akimi: What? The last time you did not you sounded interested, but now it seems that you are very interested.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Come on, just tell me.
  • Daisuke Akimi: Well. We found a bit of skin that was in the nails of the victim. I assume that the victim strongly resisted.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Does it mean that the murderer is wounded?
  • Daisuke Akimi: Yes, laboratory equipment assumes that the murderer has a large cut around his or her elbow.
  • [Mikiya remembers have seeing to Shiki with a similar wound]
  • Daisuke Akimi: [Excited] We are doing blood tests, so we should soon have him or her cornered.
  • [Mikiya is in shock]
  • Daisuke Akimi: What happen, Mikiya? You look pale.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice Over] I had a premonition. A picture of her standing in front of a corpse...
  • Shiki Ryogi: Kokutou, you... In the night of February 3, you...
  • Mikiya Kokutou: [Interrupting her] Don't talk about it, nothing happened.
  • Shiki Ryogi: [Angrily] What do you mean nothing happened, Kokutou? Tell me, Why did not you tell nothing to the police?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Because I didn't see it. Coincidentally you were there, that was all I saw. So I decided to believe in you.
  • [Evasive]
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Is painful indeed, so I'm giving my best. I think I can hear your reasons when I'm more sure of myself. Let's don't talk about it right now.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Never thought you'd come talk to me. Are you going to stop ignoring me?
  • Shiki Ryogi: If I called you is because I can't keep doing that. You said I'm not a murderer.
  • [Rising from her chair]
  • Shiki Ryogi: Too bad. I'm a murderer, You saw the crime scene. So why are you ignoring that?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: I'm not ignoring nothing because you did nothing.
  • Shiki Ryogi: Despite the fact that I'm telling you?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: You can't do that. I'm sure of that.
  • Shiki Ryogi: [Walking towards a window] What you mean you're sure? What part of me do you understand?
  • [Looking at Mikiya]
  • Shiki Ryogi: What side of me do you believe so much?
  • Mikiya Kokutou: I have no basis whatsoever, but I probably still believe in you... You see, I like you, so, I want to keep believing in you.
  • Shiki Ryogi: [Elusive] You're a fool.
  • Mikiya Kokutou: Yes, people told me that many times.
  • Shiki Ryogi: [while she leaves the classroom] Hey, Kokutou... Will you come... tonight?
  • [Mikiya is surprised]
  • Shiki Ryogi: [as SHIKI, on top of Mikiya while is turning her knife on his neck] Kokutou... say something... KOKUTOU!
  • Mikiya Kokutou: I... I don't want to die
  • Shiki Ryogi: I want to kill you...
  • [Cut to black, the sound of a passing car is heard]

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